Well, for starters, they could do it after school, rather than demanding that he skip what will probably be an entire school day. They could also have given him more than a day's notice, so that he could arrange to make up missed work and perhaps get notes for the material he has to miss.
Any compiler that can automatically use SSE3 and SSSE3 is probably good enough that adding SSE4 shouldn't be too hard. However, taking full advantage of the SSEx instructions will continue to require use of a well-written math library. Too many of those operations are too specialized, and the programmer would have to write the code in a certain style for the compiler to recognize the opportunity for using one of the more obscure instructions.
Well, Microsoft has had a monopoly for far longer than any free operating system has been on par with desktop features. In the early and mid 90's, Microsoft was a monopoly. Microsoft has retained that monopoly even in the face of competition by erecting artificial barriers to switching away from MS. Microsoft has abused their monopoly position by willfully making it harder for users to migrate their data (and, to a lesser extent, programs) to other systems.
Because Microsoft has control over the data formats and protocols their products use, they are able to unfairly take away consumer freedom of choice.
I don't quite know what those words mean, but I can guess about what really keeps him up at night: How can we let users access their data when their connection goes offline, and still get to keep all their data on our servers to use for advertising? A close second: How can we send ads to our users when they're disconnected from the web?
Power consumption and fan noise are the symptoms of an inefficient processor. The P4 was abandoned not because it couldn't perform, but because it put out so much heat that the cooling solutions necessary to get the P4 past 4Ghz were too expensive and/or loud for the majority of the market. Essentially, the P4 architecture could only be clocked up after a die shrink. The P-M architecture was the only alternative intel had, and it was not at all obvious at first that it would be able to clock up significantly. However, it turned out that Intel was able to make it reach much faster speeds, and so we now have the Core 2.
Most businesses have adapted to the point that no useful work can be done during a long email outage. Even when everybody does have a phone, the directory is stored online, not as paper phonebooks. Most of the communication that email is used for cannot be done effectively over the phone. Email is also the fastest method of business communication that is still precise enough for critical tasks.
Consider the effect when email goes down, as compared with other things you list. When an ordering system goes down, you postpone or lose a few sales, but the rest of the company keeps going. When manufacturing goes down, your supply chain starts to run dry and some people might get their product late. When payroll goes down for a few days, you hurry to make up for lost time and send out the paychecks asap. When email goes down, the entire organization goes on auto-pilot, which for most companies means that workers default to doing the dumbest things. This may lead to any number of further problems arising or going unresolved for too long.
I couldn't get as far as his discussion of parallax. I had to stop when it became evident that he doesn't want to understand what a reference frame is. His stuff seems comparable to trying to disprove the Pythagorean theorem by redefining the natural numbers to include the square root of 2.
All that really illustrates is that those under 50 are so productive that they can take the time to keep those over 50 alive just for sentimental reasons.
Yes, laptops are dominant, or more precisely, power efficiency now matters. That's why Intel threw away the NetBurst/P4 architecture and developed Core from the Pentium M architecture. Laptops are more profitable, and people are starting to care about noise and power consumption in desktops and HTPCs as well.
This seems to be a new pattern for Intel. The Core processors were all mobile oriented, and the Core 2 introduced desktop processors, too. The mobile processors are now being treated as the flagship products. And for good reason, too. Intel seems to be the best when it comes to laptop chips.
Hmmm.... That could offer some insight as to why IE is so bad. All their furniture is broken, and the walls have gaping holes from having desks and chairs thrown through them. Their light fixtures are probably in bad shape, too.
This cat has been let out of the bag, and the second amendment prevents the government from putting it back in the bag. As things stand now, even in redneck areas of Virginia owning and carrying a gun is frequently looked upon as somewhat barbaric. While I don't want to live in a world with guns waving all over and bullets flying every week, I do think that fewer gun restrictions are the way to go. We certainly can't go much further towards restricting weapons.
To look at things from the large scale, if most people own guns, then those who are liable to murder with them will probably be identified sooner, rather than waiting until they snap and go on a rampage. If somebody unstable owns a handgun and carries it, odds are that they will use it in a threatening and arrogant manner before they use it to kill a person. That will leave us with the opportunity to arrest or commit them before they can do harm on the scale of what happened today.
Also, don't make educational decisions for your son on the basis of this kind of issue. If he is ready for college, than American society will not have too much of a negative influence on him. Odds are very good that he won't be involved in a school shooting. You should be basing your/his decision on how good the education will be, and how good the academic community of a university is at open-minded critical thinking.
Ignoring the fact that those are codenames, how is that at all consistent with with apple's branding conventions? They only "extreme" products are the Airport Extreme (not eXtreme) and Quartz Extreme. There is also no evidence whatsoever that Apple will be extending the use of the "Extreme" modifier to many other products. Right now, apple- branding is on the rise, and i- and Mac- branding make up most of the rest of their product line. Have you been too busy trolling to notice the names of the products you bash?
I love how you dismiss intel's VT and then proceed to say that we can run windows in qemu. Wonderful. Also, the biggest reasons MMX was a dud were that it only operated on integers, and that it precluded the simultaneous use of the FPU. SSEx took care of both those problems, and are actually very widely used in all the applications that perform vectored math (which is basically anything dealing with multimedia or encoding or gaming).
In the future, when trolling like this, try to make it funny and/or grammatically correct. Both of those will increase the exposure your troll gets.
To be fair, try finding a popular OS9 app circa 2001 that was not updated with a PPC OS X binary. A lot, probably most, of the popular OS9 apps can still be run in one form or another on an intel mac, using only included and free software. For example, Starcraft got an OS X installer at some point, and it now runs better through Rosetta than the windows version does through wine. Myst III also got an OS X update after release, and now runs on my intel Mac.
Also, Microsoft has really been prioritizing backwards compatibility too much. There is no reason for current versions of Windows to still be able to run DOS apps outside of an emulator, and it is absurd to try to pass that off as a selling point or even a nice extra feature. We would be better off if microsoft were willing to forgo some of that compatibility so that the current operating systems could be made more secure and stable, and most importantly, so that they could spend more time developing new features that would offer users a compelling reason to upgrade.
Not all that many people care about expandability. Only the hardcore gamers and geeks who buy the latest-and-greatest cpus and graphics chips really have a use for the kind of expandability that you seem to want.
Most people don't know how or don't feel secure swapping their own cpu or graphics card. Even for those who do, it is hard to justify taking out and throwing away a perfectly functional cpu just because it is too old. It doesn't make economic sense. Just like people who buy a new car every other year.
The current Macs all have room to expand the RAM, and they can be bought with hard drives that are large enough for any normal consumer. As for the optical drives, the burners in Macs can write to any format that will be mainstream for the next several years.
To put it simply: for the vast majority of the computer market, the benefits of having a small and quiet computer completely outweigh the downside of not being able to expand it with pcie cards or extra hard drives.
UEFI makes it easier to do nasty things with a TPM, but it is not a guaranteed problem. The Intel Macs have EFI and TPMs, but all they use the TPM for is to enable OS X to confirm that it is on an Apple computer. The presence of the TPMs in intel Macs is probably just a sign that Apple didn't bother with making their own motherboard/chipset design from scratch, and instead just made the Intel designs fit their form factors.
We slashdotted RedHat a few weeks ago. Their headquarters is on Centennial Campus, and can't have a better connection than the.edu sites. Of course, it was the Technician that got hit this time, and they suck anyways.
Anyways, I think it is crazy that they are issuing John Doe lawsuits against a University. In the end, several of the claims will boil down to suits against the workstations in a computer lab. They won't be able to connect all of these suits to students.
It may be more that the iPhone is a new flagship product, and Leopard needs to be consistent with any new UI elements introduced in the iPhone. It wouldn't do for the iPhone to usher in a new generation of eye candy, followed by a Leopard with the old look. But that wouldn't be a technical reason for such a big delay.
Leopard probably has some new features that haven't yet been released to the public, and at least one of those features has serious performance problems. They are probably rewriting a back-end for something to make it fast enough to ship turned on by default.
Adding QA people at this stage is not a bad sign by any means. Apple knows that this will be their most-scrutinized product launch in a very long time. They can't afford to ship an iPhone with any easy to find bugs. It needs to be completely bug free as far as reviewers can tell.
The reassignment of developers is what is concerning. It may be that they are wanting to get more people familiar with the mobile OS X codebase so that they can be ready to fix the bugs that will surface when it hits the market. But that excuse is not enough. I would guess that they are either doing some major security auditing, or they have a very incomplete syncing solution. This is definitely too late to be adding any user-visible features.
In my experience, toshiba laptops have had several features that are windows-only, but they still do a great job of supporting Linux. What other manufacturer still has detailed specs online for 11 year old laptops?
You seem to have a very tame definition of "creek." For many of us, a creek is not worth paddling on unless there are deadly rapids. When that is the case, floating down the creek can result in getting caught in formations with a strong resemblance to a front-loading clothes washer. That is an easy way to drown and/or break bones.
I don't think the mods are too far out of line. Yes, civil liberties have been on the decline for more than seven years, but the decline has accelerated recently to the point that it is being noticed by most outsiders. That is a scary line we've crossed.
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Well, for starters, they could do it after school, rather than demanding that he skip what will probably be an entire school day. They could also have given him more than a day's notice, so that he could arrange to make up missed work and perhaps get notes for the material he has to miss.
Any compiler that can automatically use SSE3 and SSSE3 is probably good enough that adding SSE4 shouldn't be too hard. However, taking full advantage of the SSEx instructions will continue to require use of a well-written math library. Too many of those operations are too specialized, and the programmer would have to write the code in a certain style for the compiler to recognize the opportunity for using one of the more obscure instructions.
Well, Microsoft has had a monopoly for far longer than any free operating system has been on par with desktop features. In the early and mid 90's, Microsoft was a monopoly. Microsoft has retained that monopoly even in the face of competition by erecting artificial barriers to switching away from MS. Microsoft has abused their monopoly position by willfully making it harder for users to migrate their data (and, to a lesser extent, programs) to other systems.
Because Microsoft has control over the data formats and protocols their products use, they are able to unfairly take away consumer freedom of choice.
I don't quite know what those words mean, but I can guess about what really keeps him up at night: How can we let users access their data when their connection goes offline, and still get to keep all their data on our servers to use for advertising? A close second: How can we send ads to our users when they're disconnected from the web?
Power consumption and fan noise are the symptoms of an inefficient processor. The P4 was abandoned not because it couldn't perform, but because it put out so much heat that the cooling solutions necessary to get the P4 past 4Ghz were too expensive and/or loud for the majority of the market. Essentially, the P4 architecture could only be clocked up after a die shrink. The P-M architecture was the only alternative intel had, and it was not at all obvious at first that it would be able to clock up significantly. However, it turned out that Intel was able to make it reach much faster speeds, and so we now have the Core 2.
Most businesses have adapted to the point that no useful work can be done during a long email outage. Even when everybody does have a phone, the directory is stored online, not as paper phonebooks. Most of the communication that email is used for cannot be done effectively over the phone. Email is also the fastest method of business communication that is still precise enough for critical tasks.
Consider the effect when email goes down, as compared with other things you list. When an ordering system goes down, you postpone or lose a few sales, but the rest of the company keeps going. When manufacturing goes down, your supply chain starts to run dry and some people might get their product late. When payroll goes down for a few days, you hurry to make up for lost time and send out the paychecks asap. When email goes down, the entire organization goes on auto-pilot, which for most companies means that workers default to doing the dumbest things. This may lead to any number of further problems arising or going unresolved for too long.
I couldn't get as far as his discussion of parallax. I had to stop when it became evident that he doesn't want to understand what a reference frame is. His stuff seems comparable to trying to disprove the Pythagorean theorem by redefining the natural numbers to include the square root of 2.
All that really illustrates is that those under 50 are so productive that they can take the time to keep those over 50 alive just for sentimental reasons.
Yes, laptops are dominant, or more precisely, power efficiency now matters. That's why Intel threw away the NetBurst/P4 architecture and developed Core from the Pentium M architecture. Laptops are more profitable, and people are starting to care about noise and power consumption in desktops and HTPCs as well.
This seems to be a new pattern for Intel. The Core processors were all mobile oriented, and the Core 2 introduced desktop processors, too. The mobile processors are now being treated as the flagship products. And for good reason, too. Intel seems to be the best when it comes to laptop chips.
Open source projects have to write security advisories, too. They just have the option of including the patch with the advisory.
Hmmm.... That could offer some insight as to why IE is so bad. All their furniture is broken, and the walls have gaping holes from having desks and chairs thrown through them. Their light fixtures are probably in bad shape, too.
"Lighten up"? Maybe if your comment had been funny...
This cat has been let out of the bag, and the second amendment prevents the government from putting it back in the bag. As things stand now, even in redneck areas of Virginia owning and carrying a gun is frequently looked upon as somewhat barbaric. While I don't want to live in a world with guns waving all over and bullets flying every week, I do think that fewer gun restrictions are the way to go. We certainly can't go much further towards restricting weapons.
To look at things from the large scale, if most people own guns, then those who are liable to murder with them will probably be identified sooner, rather than waiting until they snap and go on a rampage. If somebody unstable owns a handgun and carries it, odds are that they will use it in a threatening and arrogant manner before they use it to kill a person. That will leave us with the opportunity to arrest or commit them before they can do harm on the scale of what happened today.
Also, don't make educational decisions for your son on the basis of this kind of issue. If he is ready for college, than American society will not have too much of a negative influence on him. Odds are very good that he won't be involved in a school shooting. You should be basing your/his decision on how good the education will be, and how good the academic community of a university is at open-minded critical thinking.
Ignoring the fact that those are codenames, how is that at all consistent with with apple's branding conventions? They only "extreme" products are the Airport Extreme (not eXtreme) and Quartz Extreme. There is also no evidence whatsoever that Apple will be extending the use of the "Extreme" modifier to many other products. Right now, apple- branding is on the rise, and i- and Mac- branding make up most of the rest of their product line. Have you been too busy trolling to notice the names of the products you bash?
I love how you dismiss intel's VT and then proceed to say that we can run windows in qemu. Wonderful. Also, the biggest reasons MMX was a dud were that it only operated on integers, and that it precluded the simultaneous use of the FPU. SSEx took care of both those problems, and are actually very widely used in all the applications that perform vectored math (which is basically anything dealing with multimedia or encoding or gaming).
In the future, when trolling like this, try to make it funny and/or grammatically correct. Both of those will increase the exposure your troll gets.
To be fair, try finding a popular OS9 app circa 2001 that was not updated with a PPC OS X binary. A lot, probably most, of the popular OS9 apps can still be run in one form or another on an intel mac, using only included and free software. For example, Starcraft got an OS X installer at some point, and it now runs better through Rosetta than the windows version does through wine. Myst III also got an OS X update after release, and now runs on my intel Mac.
Also, Microsoft has really been prioritizing backwards compatibility too much. There is no reason for current versions of Windows to still be able to run DOS apps outside of an emulator, and it is absurd to try to pass that off as a selling point or even a nice extra feature. We would be better off if microsoft were willing to forgo some of that compatibility so that the current operating systems could be made more secure and stable, and most importantly, so that they could spend more time developing new features that would offer users a compelling reason to upgrade.
Not all that many people care about expandability. Only the hardcore gamers and geeks who buy the latest-and-greatest cpus and graphics chips really have a use for the kind of expandability that you seem to want.
Most people don't know how or don't feel secure swapping their own cpu or graphics card. Even for those who do, it is hard to justify taking out and throwing away a perfectly functional cpu just because it is too old. It doesn't make economic sense. Just like people who buy a new car every other year.
The current Macs all have room to expand the RAM, and they can be bought with hard drives that are large enough for any normal consumer. As for the optical drives, the burners in Macs can write to any format that will be mainstream for the next several years.
To put it simply: for the vast majority of the computer market, the benefits of having a small and quiet computer completely outweigh the downside of not being able to expand it with pcie cards or extra hard drives.
UEFI makes it easier to do nasty things with a TPM, but it is not a guaranteed problem. The Intel Macs have EFI and TPMs, but all they use the TPM for is to enable OS X to confirm that it is on an Apple computer. The presence of the TPMs in intel Macs is probably just a sign that Apple didn't bother with making their own motherboard/chipset design from scratch, and instead just made the Intel designs fit their form factors.
We slashdotted RedHat a few weeks ago. Their headquarters is on Centennial Campus, and can't have a better connection than the .edu sites. Of course, it was the Technician that got hit this time, and they suck anyways.
Anyways, I think it is crazy that they are issuing John Doe lawsuits against a University. In the end, several of the claims will boil down to suits against the workstations in a computer lab. They won't be able to connect all of these suits to students.
It may be more that the iPhone is a new flagship product, and Leopard needs to be consistent with any new UI elements introduced in the iPhone. It wouldn't do for the iPhone to usher in a new generation of eye candy, followed by a Leopard with the old look. But that wouldn't be a technical reason for such a big delay.
Leopard probably has some new features that haven't yet been released to the public, and at least one of those features has serious performance problems. They are probably rewriting a back-end for something to make it fast enough to ship turned on by default.
Adding QA people at this stage is not a bad sign by any means. Apple knows that this will be their most-scrutinized product launch in a very long time. They can't afford to ship an iPhone with any easy to find bugs. It needs to be completely bug free as far as reviewers can tell.
The reassignment of developers is what is concerning. It may be that they are wanting to get more people familiar with the mobile OS X codebase so that they can be ready to fix the bugs that will surface when it hits the market. But that excuse is not enough. I would guess that they are either doing some major security auditing, or they have a very incomplete syncing solution. This is definitely too late to be adding any user-visible features.
In my experience, toshiba laptops have had several features that are windows-only, but they still do a great job of supporting Linux. What other manufacturer still has detailed specs online for 11 year old laptops?
You seem to have a very tame definition of "creek." For many of us, a creek is not worth paddling on unless there are deadly rapids. When that is the case, floating down the creek can result in getting caught in formations with a strong resemblance to a front-loading clothes washer. That is an easy way to drown and/or break bones.
He'd have to be an idiot to not be a democrat after what the republicans have done to the job market and poor people in general.
I don't think the mods are too far out of line. Yes, civil liberties have been on the decline for more than seven years, but the decline has accelerated recently to the point that it is being noticed by most outsiders. That is a scary line we've crossed.