I'll restate this for the reasoning impaired: They're taking their money upfront on the console, rather than later on the games.
Better yet, they are taking advantage of the;pw [roce and availability of games to sell the consoles. If they sell 50 million consoles, Sony will make some good money.
My understanding is that Wine is not an emulator. Instead, they rewrote the Win32 API as a layer that called a set of X API functions to mimic the Win32 call.
Right, so that part is relatively easy, since there is a good X implementaion on OSX. A Quartz native port of WINE would be a huge amount of work, but would presumably be a lot more efficient (speedy).
Perhaps a combination of a IA-32 emulator and wine would be ok, but adding levels to emulation like that is just asking for slow-down.
The key to decent performance would be to have WINE running natively on OSX. Getting it running on top of X11 on OSX shouldn't be that tough. Then it is just the problem of executing the X86 code in each application. That could be done by X86 to PPC translation, either on-the-fly or staticly. Another alternative is X86 emulation, ala bochs or qemu.
The third, and in some ways most immediately usable method is to recompile Windows applications for PPC and WINE. It is a great way to test WINE on OSX and get some apps running while other translation/emulation methods are perfected.
...such that every BTU of existing liquid (fossil) fuels spent produces a 6 BTU return.
I don't think so. The article stated that there was a net gain of ~21,000 BTUs per gallon and that a gallon of gas contains ~125,000 BTUs. Assuming that ethanol and gasoline have the same number of BTUs/gallon, then you get 6 BTUs of output for every 5 BTUs of input.
Given all of the other problems with corn/ethanol, a 20% return looks pretty dubious.
If this holds for the galaxy as a whole, then 30 billion stars have planetary systems. To say that this implies an average of one Earth-sized planet per planetary system sounds like stretching the data. </quote>
Not necessarily. 10% of the surveyed systems contain gas giants. There may very well be many more systems that only have smaller planets. The planets in those systems are still undetectable with our current technology.
You know those 3 tones that you get when you dial a disconnected number, just before the recorded voice announcement. I've heard it a lot in the last few months. Dotcoms out of business.
If they can't hold their heads up high, but they have long necks, then thy must have been aquatic creatures. There is probably evidence that contradicts my conclusion, but I don't know about it.
Someone should patent a business process whereby a company patents somebody elses invention and then sells licenses on the patented invention. Yes, it has already been done, but I don't think anyone has patented the process, yet.
I wonder if anyone at USPTO would see the humor of it.
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Exactly. This, to me, sounds like a huge opportunity to learn what the heck is going on.
How much malware is produced by government/military organizations vs. criminals vs. corporations. There is probably plenty of overlap.
If somebody does actually invent a way to do this in the next 20 years, they are going to owe this guy royalties bigtime.
;-)
I got to get that lightsaber patent application in.
Johnny
Because "we" want to control space before China gets a foothold. If "we" can control space, "we" can control Earth. It's about global domination.
Better yet, they are taking advantage of the
JJ
Right, so that part is relatively easy, since there is a good X implementaion on OSX. A Quartz native port of WINE would be a huge amount of work, but would presumably be a lot more efficient (speedy).
Johnny
Based on the email I get, 99% of all MSN (and AOL, etc.) customers are spammers. Maybe my sampling method is flawed, but it bears examining.
Johnny
I knew you could. Minitel must be a gold mine of anti-internet-patent prior art.
Johnny
I don't think so. The article stated that there was a net gain of ~21,000 BTUs per gallon and that a gallon of gas contains ~125,000 BTUs. Assuming that ethanol and gasoline have the same number of BTUs/gallon, then you get 6 BTUs of output for every 5 BTUs of input.
Given all of the other problems with corn/ethanol, a 20% return looks pretty dubious.
Johnny
If this holds for the galaxy as a whole, then 30 billion stars have planetary systems. To say that this implies an average of one Earth-sized planet per planetary system sounds like stretching the data.
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Not necessarily. 10% of the surveyed systems contain gas giants. There may very well be many more systems that only have smaller planets. The planets in those systems are still undetectable with our current technology.
Johnny
... I thought he was talking about the CIA and FBI.
Johnny
This is one of those ads that's supposed to look like news, isn't it? It just doesn't seem newsworthy enough.
You know those 3 tones that you get when you dial a disconnected number, just before the recorded voice announcement. I've heard it a lot in the last few months. Dotcoms out of business.
Are you worried about the GPL "virus" forcing you to open your proprietary code?
If they can't hold their heads up high, but they have long necks, then thy must have been aquatic creatures. There is probably evidence that contradicts my conclusion, but I don't know about it.
Johnny
Someone should patent a business process whereby a company patents somebody elses invention and then sells licenses on the patented invention. Yes, it has already been done, but I don't think anyone has patented the process, yet.
I wonder if anyone at USPTO would see the humor of it.
Johnny