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Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell
endersdouble writes "Ars Technica's Jon "Hannibal" Stokes, known for
his many articles on CPU technology, has posted a new article on IBM's new Cell processor. This one is the first part of a series, and covers the processor's approach to caching and control logic. Good read."
Let's get into the habit of doing this, please.
I am also against saving humans with stem cells or helping parents to have children, because I am a "pro-life" nut.
Works okay for me, I don't know what you're smoking.
motorola and IBM production problems are the main factors in the slow upgrade cycle of Macs, but macs have a much longer useful life. My old 600mhz g3 ibook runs panther, safari, quicktime, iphoto, itunes and everything else I need on a daily basis pretty well. Try saying that about a five year old PC.
sorry 'bout the mess...
The Wikimedia Foundation has an interesting piece on how they're planning on using the Cell processor to improve Wikipedia in the future.
This is not funny. I clicked it in a public library. I'm fucked now. I'm serious. They routinely check the logs. I'm fucked.
Fucking a. This is disgusting.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
So you support Stalinist controls of speech and press?
Fucking hitler.
How is it abuse? Abuse is a culturally relative term.
In Sweden, it is a crime to denounce homosexuality. In Germany, it is a crime to display symbols or profess values of the Nazi party.
Laws against child pornography are no different. They are based on cultural norms, not any actual harm.
In many countries, this behavior is normal, accepted, and even valued.
The above link contains pictures of underage girls in sexually obscene positions. Here is one of the pictures (converted to ASCII format), just in case you do not feel like clicking.
This picture is of a 7 year old girl named Amanda:
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But its okay when American familes feed McDonalds and Burger King down kids throats for dinner?
I don't see anyone getting their panties in a wad when they feed them the intellectual mush of American TV.
No wonder your kids are dumb. But, of course, its not abuse to feed your kids intellectually void programming and force them into a life of medocrity.
You yanks really are screwed up.
I'm a disgrace to humanity becuase I don't torture my kids' health with fatty, greasy, processed food?
I'm a disgrace to humanity because my 6 and 10 year old kids don't embrace your intellectually devoid cultural norms such as "Barney" when instead they are learning algebra, calculus, romance languages, Shakespeare, and physiscs?
You Americunts are happy to torture homosexuals by making them second class citizens, equalivent to the days of Jim Crow, decry loving consentual sex that doesn't fit your religious zealotry all while at the same time putting pure garbage into their bodies and minds.
Baffling!
The iBook 600 MHz is a budget-class laptop. Comparing it to the top of the line Pentium desktop of the time is inappropriate.
A budget-class PC laptop of that time might have been about 900 MHz to 1.1 GHz. I wouldn't consider such a laptop anything near useable. They tended to have poor quality sound systems that bottlenecked the processor and atrociously short battery times. The ibook was legendary for its excellent battery performance.
Moreover, a 600 MHZ iBook in use today is significantly faster than the day it was sold, because OS X has continued to get faster. I think you'll find a three year old PC laptop much slower than the day it was released with the continued layering of hardware driver applications, service packs, and firewalls/virus scanners. That's a *well-maintained* machine. A poorly maintained three year old PC laptop would be little more than a spambot doorstop. A poorly maintained iBook is just likely to have too many icons on the desktop.
Admit it, your VCR clock blicks 12:00, doesn't it? :) YOU STUPID FUCKING COCKSUCKING MACFAG!
Because all the playstation games would need to be rewritten.
Does the Mac have the ~EXACT SAME~ DVD drive at the PS2 does? Nope? Guess you'll have to rewrite the code.
Part of why consoles work so flawlessly is that they're designed to work with a very, ~VERY~ specific set of hardware.
Which can be emulated with software. Did you ever hear of the Virtual Game Station? It ran PS1 games on the Mac back in January of 1999? Ring any bells?
Sony didn't like it, and there was a bitter dispute eventually resolved when Sony just bought all rights to the software from the developer Connectix.
It's obvious that you know jack squat about emulators, so maybe you should chill with your CAPS, and stick the tildes back in your ass. Freakin' arcade games are emulated. Mame came out in 1997?
(Seriously, the tildes are fucking gay. This isn't #reacharound or #cocksmokers, it's slashdot. Use a tag or at the very least an --em-- quad. And I sincerely apologize to any homosexuals reading this for the hateful stereotypes in this parenthetical comment.)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.