aulou05 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I am impressed (Score 1) 173

by aulou05 on Thursday June 18, 2009 @09:57AM (#28373323) Attached to: EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete

I mean the internet is a very good example of what you just described. I daresay nothing came of it while govt. controlled it. Only when private sector got involved did things get interesting.

You're right. That's when we got um...err...Internet Explorer! And, uhh...Flash!

Hey wait a second! Get off my lawn!! ;)

Comment Re:The lesser of two evils... (Score 1) 393

by aulou05 on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24756445) Attached to: Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai

What if the building were owned by a corporation, all of the shareholders were occupants and all of the occupants were shareholders?

That would work out really well. In fact, it's already been done.

Submission + - Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mlimber on Monday December 17, 2007 @11:50AM

mlimber writes: The New York Times is running a story about multicore computing and the efforts of Microsoft et al. to try to switch to the new paradigm: "The challenges [of parallel programming] have not dented the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft, where executives are betting that the arrival of manycore chips — processors with more than eight cores, possible as soon as 2010 — will transform the world of personal computing.... Engineers and computer scientists acknowledge that despite advances in recent decades, the computer industry is still lagging in its ability to write parallel programs."

It mirrors what C++ guru and now Microsoft architect Herb Sutter has been saying in articles such as his "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." Sutter is part of the C++ standards committee that is working hard to make multithreading standard in C++.

Wii 'Popularity Bubble' to Burst? 426

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 12, 2007 @01:17PM from the it's-a-big-one dept.

A combination of industry and developer observations has prompted Tech.co.uk to wonder if the Wii's overwhelming popularity is due to end sometime soon. This is based on a report from Japanese business newspaper The Nikkei, which published an article recently entitled 'Software Houses Miscalculate Audience, Demand For Wii'. "The report goes on to discuss the likelihood that many Wiis are gathering dust in owners' cupboards, citing one software house president as saying, 'People bought it out of curiosity, and it's likely a lot of them haven't used it.' Given that September saw Wii sales fall sharply in Japan for the second consecutive month, it seems reasonable to speculate that the bubble inflated by the novelty factor is starting to deflate, but writing Nintendo off at any stage is a perilous course to steer." Is this just worrying, or is there validity to this?

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