You have to know SPARC hardware a little bit to know that that box is already infinitely outdated. I have many outdated sparc machines much newer and more powerful than that. I can't decide if that makes them better or worse as a place to store my ashes one day. Probably worse.
is 1080p still a movie industry mastering format? don't they master at 2k and 4k nowadays?
or 8K. For example Baraka on Blu-Ray was transferred at 8K. I just watched it last week after receiving my copy on Blu-Ray from Amazon. I am very happy with this mode of consumption and don't want to even think about the hassle time and expense of trying to download something like that.
Anyone know if the other two related stories are any good (Mono Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero)?
They are good, but as Gibson himself said Mona Lisa Overdrive was where he started to run out of material a little. Still they hold up much better than, say, the last couple of Dune books (in my opinion).
This looks like something I ought to buy.
If you want to follow the spirit of the book, find a copy of the text illegally on-line and download it to your phone!
Also, this is my first first post ever!
Welcome!
UNIX has evolved for a good reason. Only an academic would find this pursuit to be a reasonable use of time.
Oh thank God. If I ever have hobbies that are considered a reasonable use of time please just kill me...
kill, death
IBM buying Sun means the big-endian server landscape is in big trouble. One mega-vendor plus a bunch of small-fry. I have just written a report that recommends an urgent port over to little-endian platforms (well actually a port to be endian neutral) as a strategic precaution. No matter whether IBM was good or bad, owning AIX/POWER and SPARC/SOLARIS it would have too much power/dominance in big iron unix).
Ironically this could push people into using Windows server. If we really will end up with monopoly proprietary single-vendor lock-in, Windows on PC servers is just cheaper.
Windows is still maintained on Itanium; both it and the Alpha port could run x86 binaries at close to native (or, at one point in the Alpha's lifetime, faster.) I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I don't think they're stupid.
Alpha/NT could run x86 applications, but not x86 device drivers. One of the big problems with that version of NT was the drivers. They couldn't make it compelling the first time round. Now there are no chips available with the horsepower advantage to emulate x86 faster than native x86. Alpha is dead. Itanium is dying. Power is back to being an in-order design and even with all that cache, memory bandwidth and raw clock cycles probably still couldn't quite match a Nehalam running native x86 binaries.
I'd like some anti-Microsoft news that at least appears reputable, and not overly sensationalized "ZOMG Balmer blew up M$ eats babies" crap like the stuff I've seen here for the past few weeks.
You're new around here, aren't you?
Is it possible to also have the ethernet for this device go over the power lines like so many home networking devices? Then you could literally plug it and and have it running.
Yes.
or... actually no, not really.
You can connect this device to another ethernet device with a cable. If that other device is a powerline adapter then yes it's sort of doing what you want, however it can't receive ethernet signals over it's own power connectors, which I think is what you're really asking.
That's the Peter Principle
he lays the blame on PC developers (read: Microsoft) who kicked the time-honored waterfall model to the curb
The waterfall model is long-discredited and its downfall is nothing to do with Microsoft. Ian Sommerville in his Software Engineering book was discussing this in the early 90s. I recall a diagram of the spiral model which is very much like agile development, although we didn't call it that then.
the Fusion Render Cloud will be available as an online powerhorse
AMD also described NVIDIA's Quadroplex as more of an online My Little Pony.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
