How's that? It would be great if it could be brought up to speed with compatibility with modern C++, and modern optimisations. No small task, of course.
I would say all theatres do not support such wholesale free speech as typically they'll play just a Hollywood blockbuster and not a movie produced by a 12 year old for a school art project.
No. You're just being silly. A cinema is a business, not your personal soapbox. What gets shown is up to the cinema owner, not you.
That's actually an interesting comparison, despite the idiotic way you raise it.
The confectioner didn't have any luck arguing that we don't bake gay cakes was merely a permissible 'discrimination on content' rather than against people.
Speaking of ye olde compilers, OpenWatcom seems to have ground to a halt in 2010. Can't tell if I think that's a shame, or if its time has come, or both.
Who cares about clock speeds? Even if the PS4 had a current-day top-of-the-line CPU, emulating a Cell processor with usable performance would be an enormous -- probably impossible -- task.
The Cell is quite exotic: it's radically different from most CPUs. I imagine it would be a nightmare for software emulation.
On top of that, you'd have to emulate the GPU, which would another enormous (maybe impossible) task.
A more practical alternative would be to set our sights lower, and for Sony to create tooling to simplify porting PS3 games onto the PS4.
Indeed, emulating a Cell with usable performance is a huge task. There's also the GPU. I imagine emulating the PS3's nVidia GPU would be quite a task. PS3 games use a low-level API to access the PS3's GPU, so it wouldn't be easy to map things across to the PS4's (totally different) GPU. (The PS4's GPU is by AMD, and of course GPU architectures have changed quite radically over the years anyway.)
the USERS removed it when they upgraded the firmware
And I fixed a bunch of security issues when I ran Windows Update this morning. Except that no, it's not really me that did that.
You're also conveniently failing to mention that firmware updates aren't exactly optional. Some PS3 software (games or apps) require the most recent firmware, giving you the choice between keeping OtherOS, or keeping your PS3 usable for other tasks.
US army
A minor point, but it was the USAF that built a PS3 cluster.
many butthurt morons were butthurt because they thought, incorrectly, that this "other os" feature allowed for piracy
Not that I've ever seen, no. It was about running Linux. It was tinkerers that used OtherOS, not pirates. Sony used the hypervisor to deliberately break GPU access, iirc, presumably to prevent gaming on OtherOS.
you have already shown yourself to be a blatant bigot and a hypocrite
Nope. I simply stated facts. Acknowledging facts doesn't make me a bigot.
Do you deny the facts that I pointed out (if you do, you'll need to provide a better source than the Pew studies), or do you just think I'm a bigot for mentioning them?
someone that has enough IQ points to realize that trying to justify your bigotry with blatant hypocrisy does not work when you are speaking with adults?
You do realise I was making a factual statement, and that I provided sources, right?
You seem to think that reasoning seriously about global Islam (and that means without the everything-is-lovely liberal blinders) is bigotry. Unfortunately this mind-set is rather widespread.
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I believe the 'modern, superior' solution involves XML and port 80.
Because web technologies are clearly the solution to everything, everywhere!
All you have to do is create yet another API, and use it to write shims for the other three!
Oh, there's already one of those available: libusb, for user-mode USB programming. Supports Mac/Win/Lin/Android/BSD/Haiku.
I've never done any USB programming of any form, but I get the impression libusb is a fairly serious library.
Ah, yes. The usual No you don't understand, he only did it to get rich! argument.
No, this is all very wide of the mark.
Free speech refers to government: that the government doesn't silence people for saying unpopular things.
A cinema refusing to show your video isn't an assault on free speech. That's simply their right.
You may not have bothered to go to any of them, but that does not make the idea silly.
I was quite clear, but again: what I was calling silly was your idea that a cinema that refuses to show your film is assaulting your freedom.
There may not be much left to change or update.
How's that? It would be great if it could be brought up to speed with compatibility with modern C++, and modern optimisations. No small task, of course.
I would say all theatres do not support such wholesale free speech as typically they'll play just a Hollywood blockbuster and not a movie produced by a 12 year old for a school art project.
No. You're just being silly. A cinema is a business, not your personal soapbox. What gets shown is up to the cinema owner, not you.
That's actually an interesting comparison, despite the idiotic way you raise it.
The confectioner didn't have any luck arguing that we don't bake gay cakes was merely a permissible 'discrimination on content' rather than against people.
Correct.
Speaking of ye olde compilers, OpenWatcom seems to have ground to a halt in 2010. Can't tell if I think that's a shame, or if its time has come, or both.
That was precisely my point. It doesn't make long-term sense for the company who owns the product.
And this is why we don't put exclamation-marks the name of a company or product. It just looks silly.
The product ships and we can forget about the code.
If you don't care about code-quality or maintenance, sure.
So? Just say your piece. It's never helpful to say "I might get downvoted".
This is probably not going to be a popular opinion here
Oh cut it out. It's not unusual for someone to qualify their comment with some faux-heroic this might not be popular, and it's always annoying.
I have a low view of developers who spend an hour writing code they could have copied off the internet
Unless you care about copyright. Better be careful.
Maybe there should be something in the rulebook about the government not screwing with people's right to religious freedom.
Heck, it should be the very first point in the rulebook, really.
Citation needed. Interesting if true though.
getting into the x86 architecture means they will have more x86 sensibility with respect to backwards compatibility moving forward
True, but if the games are using low-level graphics APIs, you're only half-way there.
No, it was the US Air Force, like I said.
What is At the very least meant to mean anyway?
Who cares about clock speeds? Even if the PS4 had a current-day top-of-the-line CPU, emulating a Cell processor with usable performance would be an enormous -- probably impossible -- task.
The Cell is quite exotic: it's radically different from most CPUs. I imagine it would be a nightmare for software emulation.
On top of that, you'd have to emulate the GPU, which would another enormous (maybe impossible) task.
A more practical alternative would be to set our sights lower, and for Sony to create tooling to simplify porting PS3 games onto the PS4.
Indeed, emulating a Cell with usable performance is a huge task. There's also the GPU. I imagine emulating the PS3's nVidia GPU would be quite a task. PS3 games use a low-level API to access the PS3's GPU, so it wouldn't be easy to map things across to the PS4's (totally different) GPU. (The PS4's GPU is by AMD, and of course GPU architectures have changed quite radically over the years anyway.)
This is all true, but it's slightly offset by the recent trend to re-release (and modernise) some of the more popular previous-gen games.
the USERS removed it when they upgraded the firmware
And I fixed a bunch of security issues when I ran Windows Update this morning. Except that no, it's not really me that did that.
You're also conveniently failing to mention that firmware updates aren't exactly optional. Some PS3 software (games or apps) require the most recent firmware, giving you the choice between keeping OtherOS, or keeping your PS3 usable for other tasks.
US army
A minor point, but it was the USAF that built a PS3 cluster.
many butthurt morons were butthurt because they thought, incorrectly, that this "other os" feature allowed for piracy
Not that I've ever seen, no. It was about running Linux. It was tinkerers that used OtherOS, not pirates. Sony used the hypervisor to deliberately break GPU access, iirc, presumably to prevent gaming on OtherOS.
you have already shown yourself to be a blatant bigot and a hypocrite
Nope. I simply stated facts. Acknowledging facts doesn't make me a bigot.
Do you deny the facts that I pointed out (if you do, you'll need to provide a better source than the Pew studies), or do you just think I'm a bigot for mentioning them?
someone that has enough IQ points to realize that trying to justify your bigotry with blatant hypocrisy does not work when you are speaking with adults?
You do realise I was making a factual statement, and that I provided sources, right?
You seem to think that reasoning seriously about global Islam (and that means without the everything-is-lovely liberal blinders) is bigotry. Unfortunately this mind-set is rather widespread.
I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make.