One of the new dual-800MHz Apple Macintosh G4s would run rings around this
Your altivec optimezed CPU are playing in a different leage. UltraSparcs are for servers and are top of the line when it comes to 16 cpus. Something I have never seen on a mac.
Why don't you present some fact to back your statement up. Of course it's hard to find because Apples only bench Photoshop. Acording to specbench a 900mhz US-III is about as fast as an Athlon Tbird 1.2 on a shitty mobo with 133mhz mem. Of course mac/G4 benches are nowhere to find on that site.
I can not understand why you should compare compare one US-III to two G4. seems odd.
Nintendo as a software house makes games that kids under 12 absolutly love.
And there are us fulltime workers who needs an hour of relaxation now and then but don't have the time to dig into a 150 hour RPG. Nintondos games are cool easy and fun.
Seriously, IMHO Abrash is highly overrated. Nothing he wrote before 1997 really applies any more.
Abrash teaches you how to think when you are programming, to not make dumb mistakes, to think first and code later. There are not many other books on the subject, at least not with the humor Abrash has.
Of course the code may be outdated but that doesn't matter. It's still worth 1000 pages of black book reading. I say his littarature (Have only read black book) is a must for a library.
They benchmarked and compared P4 and Athlon and came to the conclusion that P4 has much greater memory bandwidth than Athlon
There is no need to benchmark what is a fact, that can be read from the specs.
Yes, RDRAM has more bandwith than DDR-SDRAM. DDR-SDRAM on the other hand has lower latencies then RDRAM.
Which is the winner in terms of real world performace is not clear as the P4 have yet to be tested with DDR-SDRAM, and of course different apps have different needs en terms of bandwith/latency.
In the area price/performace I have a heard time beliving RDRAM will ever beat SDRAM with Rambus running the show.
It's nice to see intel giving up on Rambus for the more open SDRAM but why do they bother with SDR? As seen on the Atlhon The P4 will be severly cripled with 133mhz mem sticks. The Atlhon doesn't scale very well with clockspeed over about 1.1ghz with only SDR mem so why should the P4 be different.
What I would like to see is a company, maybe Ximian put in the help menu of all Gnome programs as standard a "Pay this project" and in the submenu 1$, 5$, 10$ etc.
That way you always have it there ready to pay the developers when their program solved a particular problem of yours. Could work.
Of course Gnome is just an example (because it has an help menu) but you catch my drift here.
Of course there will be needed big infrastructure here and it will only work if it's really easy to use. Having to put money on paypal or similiar is probably to much effort to ask from the users.
Kylix itself is not GPL, thats borlands choice and they have the right to make it.
The libraries in the free-as-in-beer version is GPL and thats why you can only write GPL software with it. Just like QT is licenced.
So what are the disadvantages from GPLing the whole Kylix package? As long as they stay GPL on the libraries developers will have to pay for making other licenced programs.
Other than that I think it's great to see developers "wild enough" to put GPL and not LGPL on libraries. Gives some cash into Free Software. Good work.
A good reason to check compability before purchase. Possibly something the community should take more seriously with an easy to use webpage over compatible hardware that is updated with latest drivers, support forums etc.
What if it isn't Linux you are after, it may be all the nice emulators as in my case. Just think of it. Booting up Linux with about 1000 oldies from the arcades to choose from. Yummy! Not to mention Ice climber and super metroid. All on a nice 28" 100hz TV and comfortable PS2 gamepads. All booting up with a nice menu to choose games from. I can see you drooling already.
Of course the Legal aspects of this is another question.
"We heard this customer application was running some complex (software) code against 6.5 and was returning different results under different circumstances," he said. "We looked at it and offered to create a fix. No data was ever lost."
This is just so typical. Certanly noone else run complex code in a database environment.
Partly true as I see it. Maybe the kernel wasn't the best option to compile. But if you develop Linux/Unix apps you probably are not crosscompiling that often. A better benchmark should be to compile emacs or vi but not crosscompiling.
If it's going to be a realworld bench that is. For just comparing speed crosscompiling probably are better.
It's funny that the only thing that is even remotely understandable in the patent by just reading it is the background information. All else is yadayada refering to different claims, and there are quite a few of them.
25MB/sec. Is that an IDE disk. No shit. 30-35mb is all an top notch IDE-DISK/ATA100 will do. In the beginning of the disk that is. You better use SCSI RAID for your movies.
Microsoft have tried to win over the webserver market for a few years now and the fight have calmed down to a stall.
By now they know they can never get the 97% they where aiming for, apache with extensions is to hard even for them so they need a fresh start..NET that is. By making sure it can also run on Unixes they can later win over those admins if it turns out that MS.NET implementation actully is better than ximians.
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As always.
Your altivec optimezed CPU are playing in a different leage. UltraSparcs are for servers and are top of the line when it comes to 16 cpus. Something I have never seen on a mac.
Why don't you present some fact to back your statement up. Of course it's hard to find because Apples only bench Photoshop. Acording to specbench a 900mhz US-III is about as fast as an Athlon Tbird 1.2 on a shitty mobo with 133mhz mem. Of course mac/G4 benches are nowhere to find on that site.
I can not understand why you should compare compare one US-III to two G4. seems odd.
And there are us fulltime workers who needs an hour of relaxation now and then but don't have the time to dig into a 150 hour RPG. Nintondos games are cool easy and fun.
I'ts a big f**king mystery why they haven't gone after Adobe or Macromedia yet. When they do, bye bye.
Abrash teaches you how to think when you are programming, to not make dumb mistakes, to think first and code later. There are not many other books on the subject, at least not with the humor Abrash has.
Of course the code may be outdated but that doesn't matter. It's still worth 1000 pages of black book reading. I say his littarature (Have only read black book) is a must for a library.
It's a Peltier cooler for your cans. Looks more afordable as it runs on electrical power.
I am positive Brainf*ck will be on the podium.
First you have to convince everyone that (open != free download) altough most people here probably understand that.
Yes, RDRAM has more bandwith than DDR-SDRAM. DDR-SDRAM on the other hand has lower latencies then RDRAM.
Which is the winner in terms of real world performace is not clear as the P4 have yet to be tested with DDR-SDRAM, and of course different apps have different needs en terms of bandwith/latency.
In the area price/performace I have a heard time beliving RDRAM will ever beat SDRAM with Rambus running the show.
No thank you until DDR chipset/boards arive.
That way you always have it there ready to pay the developers when their program solved a particular problem of yours. Could work.
Of course Gnome is just an example (because it has an help menu) but you catch my drift here.
Of course there will be needed big infrastructure here and it will only work if it's really easy to use. Having to put money on paypal or similiar is probably to much effort to ask from the users.
The libraries in the free-as-in-beer version is GPL and thats why you can only write GPL software with it. Just like QT is licenced.
So what are the disadvantages from GPLing the whole Kylix package? As long as they stay GPL on the libraries developers will have to pay for making other licenced programs.
Other than that I think it's great to see developers "wild enough" to put GPL and not LGPL on libraries. Gives some cash into Free Software. Good work.
Of course, after reading this stuff I better stay singleplayer.
A good reason to check compability before purchase. Possibly something the community should take more seriously with an easy to use webpage over compatible hardware that is updated with latest drivers, support forums etc.
Of course the Legal aspects of this is another question.
This is just so typical. Certanly noone else run complex code in a database environment.
You are one of those persons who like to have playbuttons and stoplights on your servers, right?
What gives?
How much does Java and Flash have in common? Not much!
If it's going to be a realworld bench that is. For just comparing speed crosscompiling probably are better.
So.. If compiling code is what you do for living maybe you should take the X86 then. It isn't in any way invalid.
It's funny that the only thing that is even remotely understandable in the patent by just reading it is the background information. All else is yadayada refering to different claims, and there are quite a few of them.
25MB/sec. Is that an IDE disk. No shit. 30-35mb is all an top notch IDE-DISK/ATA100 will do. In the beginning of the disk that is. You better use SCSI RAID for your movies.
By now they know they can never get the 97% they where aiming for, apache with extensions is to hard even for them so they need a fresh start. .NET that is. By making sure it can also run on Unixes they can later win over those admins if it turns out that MS .NET implementation actully is better than ximians.
My 2 bits.
Dreamworks are Linuxusers too. Maybe they should think about GPL:ing or selling some of their software.