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by paol 16y ago
If like me your reaction was "I can't believe it's pure CGI", you'll like this http://vimeo.com/8200251 and this too http://vimeo.com/8217700 I found the last video mesmerizing even though (or because) I can't understand 99% of what's g
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by paol 16y ago
It seems it mostly depends on whether FTL travel turns out to be possible or not. If not, contact between alien inteligences is going to be highly unlikely even in a universe relatively filled with life. Things are not looking very good at
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by paol 16y ago
Still, even finding non-intelligent alien life would make it much more likely that intelligent alien life exists somewhere. (Basically there are 2 probabilities we can't estimate now, other that they are != 0: the probability of life appear
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by paol 16y ago
The point is stated as clearly as seems possible in the first 4 lines of the post...
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by paol 16y ago
I still don't see a business case for it, though. Continuing to develop SPARC will cost a lot of money and won't buy them any extra lock-in. As far as DB apps are concerned Oracle is the platform, what it runs on is transparent. Edited to a
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by paol 16y ago
"a leading position among the Unixes": that's the position that it already occupied: the biggest fish in a rapidly drying pond. The killer combo of free Unixes on commodity (read x86) hardware cannibalized the proprietary Unix market. Where
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by paol 16y ago
My 2 cents: Oracle is going to drive Solaris into the ground (and OpenSolaris doubly so). It's days were already numbered, like all proprietary Unixes, but while before I was betting on Solaris to be the last one standind, now I think it wi
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by paol 16y ago
The link misses part 1. Start here: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/100724/swiss-banki...
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The really big one is "deterministic" static analysis of code. What I mean by deterministic is that in non-dynamic languages it's possible to find all references to variables, functions and classes with 100% certainty just by looking at the
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by paol 16y ago
Parallel collections are the most interesting development for 2.9. In a nutshell the idea is that collection operations like map, filter, etc can execute in parallel in a way that is transparent to the program. Check out the presentation fr