It strikes me as a little odd that a company got a patent in 1991 covering parallel processing of a form that seems to look suspiciously like the Inmos Transputer hardware from the 80's. They are now suing Sony for their cell architecture (hey, try suing IBM instead; they designed the damned thing). The patent in question is 5,056,000, Synchronized parallel processing with shared memory.
July 2007 Archives
It's one of those strange questions. I've paid my money, so I'm going to stick with this until the end. I can't seem to recall having ever walked out on a movie. I think good taste has prevented me from going to some awful turkeys that I ended up seeing 10 minutes of on DVD or on Satellite and just flicking it off.
Walked out on; no. Fell asleep during... yes. In no particular order and based on a faulty memory we have Star Wars : The Phantom Menace (midnight showing, a few pints on me), The Third matrix movie (good nap, crap movie) and Spiderman 3.
I went to see Transformers on Saturday and all I have to say is that it is a blown back in your seat action fest from start to finish. Well worth it for a flashback to my childhood.
Walked out on; no. Fell asleep during... yes. In no particular order and based on a faulty memory we have Star Wars : The Phantom Menace (midnight showing, a few pints on me), The Third matrix movie (good nap, crap movie) and Spiderman 3.
I went to see Transformers on Saturday and all I have to say is that it is a blown back in your seat action fest from start to finish. Well worth it for a flashback to my childhood.
I'm replaying network traffic at 1000 packets per second into a vmware client that's hosted on a vista machine. It's losing quite a few packets. the Vista OS does not appear to be losing the packets, they are simple missing on the guest operating system. This is a lot like crap, really.
There is a significantly higher proportion of Women departing from the train in Killarney tonight. I think it may be something to do with the Pink concert tomorrow. The weather forecast for the day is terrible - we're talking really, really wet.
Not always a problem. Except when I've got international characters in my filenames. Which seems to be quite common with the import albums I'm downloading.
Dang. There is a patcharound, but it's unsupported. Honestly, this backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass.
The next issue is cygwin/X. It's hanging on Vista. Seems to be related to dwm and the pretty aero effects and the occasional toggle to non-aero mode caused by some applications (not java 1.6, though).
Dang. There is a patcharound, but it's unsupported. Honestly, this backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass.
The next issue is cygwin/X. It's hanging on Vista. Seems to be related to dwm and the pretty aero effects and the occasional toggle to non-aero mode caused by some applications (not java 1.6, though).
Ah, well, it was a great holiday.
