If Apple had released the Intel Macs the same day we heard about them, AMD would probably have been a better all around choice. I have an Athlon64 in my main box because for me, it's the best thing available.
Now, could you please take into account that the Mactels aren't out yet, and are planned based on the roadmaps. Also, who cares who made it to 1 GHz first? Who cares that Intels first 1 GHz chip was horrible, and removed from the market. It doesn't matter any more. It doesn't matter any more than the fact that the K-5 was not as good as Intel's chips at the time. It doesn't matter that AMD made the best 386's. When the Mactels are released, todays best will matter just as much as wh had the best 386. It won't be at all relevant to making a business decision in late 2006, because the only thing that will matter is who has the best chip in 2006.
You leave off a mouse. Good. Now, once you have the good keyboard, like a model M, and the good office chair, you will need a PC. I reccomend an MMX Pentium. This is modern enough to allow you to impliment and test optimised SIMD versions of your algorithms, but not so fast as to encourage really sloppy code. For an IDE, you will need vi on your favorite *nix. (BSD, Linux, whatever, so long as it is really vi, not some vim).
You will also need an SGI, an Alpha, an HPPA box, some of which should be SMP, so you can test for odd bugs which only show up on some platforms, or only in 64 bit platforms, or on architectures which are unkind to misaligned data, etc. Oh, and a Win64 box, because that shit is fucked up, and getting your well behaved code to run there will be an important test to demonstrate correctness.
I've seen Excel do similar things. Pisses me off royally. I said close the window. I MEANT IT. I would have closed the DOCUMENT if I wanted to, you know, close the document...
Of course, the whole concept of MDI has always seemed foolish to me. Let's make a giant opaque empty window, in which you have to fit all child windows. hooray. Heaven forbid we just... Make the child windows real windows.
No, if everybody worked together we wouldn't have a man on Mars soon. We'd have agigantic committe which was trying to schedule a meeting to vote about whether or not to take reccomendations about what to name the committee to send a man to Mars.
It took me a moment to get my bearings on that image as well. Compare the blood cells image with the very first shot at the opening side by side. On the blood cells image, the lightest rectangle, which starts about halfway across the image and runs to about 3/4 of the image horizontally, and vertically from about 3/4 up to the very bottom, only that part is the robot. It runs off the bottom of the image, so you can't see the distinctive round "steering flipper." Look for the distinctive long double stepped ridge along the side of the main body.
You can see that on the shortest axis it is clearly *less* than ten blood cells across, but in the longer axis it is naturally more. I'd guess about 25 blood cells from end to end in the longest dimension, which is in the right order of magnitude.
I wish I had the wit to ridicule this properly. Note the care taken to distinguish between plain or peanut M&Ms...
Come on now. If you had just stopped to think for a millifortnight, you would have realised that the obvious joke is to use the term "picovolkswagon" to describe the volume measure of the little bugger, pointing out the inutility of using plain M&M as a linear measure.
Yes, iPods can be accessed as a normal drive. Either HFS or Fat32. The only drawback is that they won't play music that is copied to them normally. You have to use a proper sync utility, or else copy the files manually into an annoying hidden folder in a very funky way. When the songs are synch'd to an iPod, they are given new file names which act as a unique ID, and some metadata files are updated with the playlist info.
My understanding is that you can boot from an iPod if your system supports booting from USB (or firewire, dependin on the model...) but this prevents booting the iPod itself in Linux, because you can't make a boot loader that will boot either a PC or the iPod itself.
I wonder if they have improved the access to the display on the nanos. I have doom on my iPod photo, but it runs very slowly. From what I understand, the iPod is fairly powerful (two 80 MHz ARM's, or something like that, which should be enough for very low res Doom), but the access to the LCD is just ot designed for intensive video, so it involves a lot of overhead. I haven't yet bothered to adequately educate myself on this, though.
Does anybody have any documentation about just what changed in the ABI and why? Or, are they just leaving it as some mysterious no-questions-asked type thing?
The comet becomes terribly afraid whenever anything is about to hit it. This natural "tensing up," it what allows us to study it effectively.
Also, moving at many thousands of kilometers per second means that you can impact almost anything and cause an explosion. If the probe gently touched down, it might well have settled into the comet very ently.
1 - Victor hugo's views were all in French. 2 - Not my story. I'm just a boring straight guy from Chicago. But, I doo have an acquaintance that is gay and adopted a child, so, yes, sort of.
Personally I'm 38, my kids were 11 when they played Windwaker, and I loved the emotive cartoon style. We haven't seen games that more gracefully bring across emotional reactions by the characters.
every person over the age of 25 that I've heard comment on the cell shading has been supportive of it. The only people complaining about the style not being sufficiently grown-up are 14 year old morons who have no sense of how not to bitch about things, and no idea of what adult actually means. They want the blood and guts style in an effort to seem macho. they have no concept of game development, art, or the technology. they just know that having a game with a lot of blood will impress their 14 year old friends.
Nintendo should release a cell shaded game where the main character is a persecuted homosexual who has to solve puzzles which refer to classical literature in order to avoid being lynched and attacked by a suspicious homophobic public. The goal is to be able to adopt a child in Missouri. Then, we can see what style is more grown up.
Because the length of the register has changed, and a lot of code assumes that long will hold a pointer. The whole idea of programming in a higher level language is that as new hardware becomes available, your code base will take advantage without a rewrite.
Given that you know how many pixels will have changed between any two successive frames, if you really want to be picky, just display the N most changed pixels in your compiled image. You may miss a few here and there, but in general, the shifts due to lossy compression should be less than the shift in the actual pixel color.
I am not going to bother(, because I didn't bother to note the exact second I downloaded my earliest image.):)
First off, OpenGL isn't a language. Second off, just because somebody leaves something out of a book, you think they should remove the feature?! So, if I write an introductory C++ book, but don't mention everything in the STL, the whole STL should be removed?
I would have rpefered Apple going with AMD opteron's or contracting one of their other beefy 64 bit chips. Why intel?
If Apple were releasing a server today, it would probably make sense to have Opteron in it. We don't know what Apple's first Intel based Mac will be, and it sure as hell isn't being released today. The Pentium-M derivative that will apparently run the first Intel Macs will, by all accounts, be 64 bit. It will also be dual core. What's more, it should be entirely competitive with what AMD has out at the time, and do it at very few watts.
Apple isn't stupid. It's not like they did this as some random guesswork based plan. They carefully considered the roadmaps that they could see. They looked at Cell. They looked at a lot of things. Intel simply had the best product in the time frame they were looking at.
I'm not argiung that AMD doesn't have superior chips to Intel right now. I have an Athlon64 in my own system, and I love it. I have been eyeing a dual-core/dual proc (quad core total) Opteron workstation as my next system if I can afford it. But, this time next year, it could well be that I am looking at Intel much more closely...
Or, maybe the motherboard design isn't finalised. They want the mod chip community to start taking notes, and coming up with prototype designs now, so that when the real-box comes out, they will have wasted lots of money and effort only to be able to mod the dev kits.
If Google is to retain its premier position in the search engine market, then it will very much so remain firmly connected to the existing Internet.
I agree that they will stay part of the existing internet, but what if they have a new Internet layered on top of it, which only their search engine will index, and which features adwords on every page because they control it. Free name.google domains in the new googlenet. This will help entrench the position of google's mindshare. "I get on googlenet, and go to google, and then I google for great web pages like linux.google, or slashdot.google, where I see some googlewords on the side of the page which advertise other googlesites on the googlenet. google google google."
I went to one of the Serenity sneak previews, and they actually said that anybody with a cell phone that rings would be thrown out, and everybody sitting near them would be *expected* to point at them to make it easier to find them. Damn near brought a tear to my eye. I just wish they would have that sort of service in all the shows, rather than just the occasional special sneak preview.
Having a real person come in, say a few words, and maybe give away a free T shirt or something in every show would be a great way to leverage the advantage of a movie theater : being in public, rather than all alone.
And yet, for some reason, I am modded higher than you... Mods must be on crack when my random incorrect talking-out-my-ass gets higher mods than your correction which is supported with external information.
No, to conform to the geneva convention, it just has to be powerful enough to kill you outright. The issue is blinding lasers. They would be classified as maiming weapons, and thus not really cricket. If it blows your head clear off, then it's all fine and dandy.
But, I really worry about this new system, at least for the next ten years, as it will encourage the worst kind of piracy
Indeed, it seems that the people pushing this are so incredibly terrified of somebody making a copy for their friend that they ignore any other issues. If there was no copy protection, then one kid at every school would buy a copy and burn some copies for his friends. With the copy protection, everybody waits a day until one guy buys it and rips it and uploads it, and then everybody downloads it off the internet because nobody at their school wants to bother to go through the hoops to copy it -- he just downloads it, too.
This seems like a poor expenditure of revenue, and a bad business model... Apparently, then plan is just to sue everybody into submission until your customer base is too afraid to download anything. That's a good way to earn fans!
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If Apple had released the Intel Macs the same day we heard about them, AMD would probably have been a better all around choice. I have an Athlon64 in my main box because for me, it's the best thing available.
Now, could you please take into account that the Mactels aren't out yet, and are planned based on the roadmaps. Also, who cares who made it to 1 GHz first? Who cares that Intels first 1 GHz chip was horrible, and removed from the market. It doesn't matter any more. It doesn't matter any more than the fact that the K-5 was not as good as Intel's chips at the time. It doesn't matter that AMD made the best 386's. When the Mactels are released, todays best will matter just as much as wh had the best 386. It won't be at all relevant to making a business decision in late 2006, because the only thing that will matter is who has the best chip in 2006.
I think you may need to add something like at the start, but yeah, that sounds a lot like what they did with MS Office.
You leave off a mouse. Good. Now, once you have the good keyboard, like a model M, and the good office chair, you will need a PC. I reccomend an MMX Pentium. This is modern enough to allow you to impliment and test optimised SIMD versions of your algorithms, but not so fast as to encourage really sloppy code. For an IDE, you will need vi on your favorite *nix. (BSD, Linux, whatever, so long as it is really vi, not some vim).
You will also need an SGI, an Alpha, an HPPA box, some of which should be SMP, so you can test for odd bugs which only show up on some platforms, or only in 64 bit platforms, or on architectures which are unkind to misaligned data, etc. Oh, and a Win64 box, because that shit is fucked up, and getting your well behaved code to run there will be an important test to demonstrate correctness.
I've seen Excel do similar things. Pisses me off royally. I said close the window. I MEANT IT. I would have closed the DOCUMENT if I wanted to, you know, close the document...
Of course, the whole concept of MDI has always seemed foolish to me. Let's make a giant opaque empty window, in which you have to fit all child windows. hooray. Heaven forbid we just... Make the child windows real windows.
No, if everybody worked together we wouldn't have a man on Mars soon. We'd have agigantic committe which was trying to schedule a meeting to vote about whether or not to take reccomendations about what to name the committee to send a man to Mars.
It took me a moment to get my bearings on that image as well. Compare the blood cells image with the very first shot at the opening side by side. On the blood cells image, the lightest rectangle, which starts about halfway across the image and runs to about 3/4 of the image horizontally, and vertically from about 3/4 up to the very bottom, only that part is the robot. It runs off the bottom of the image, so you can't see the distinctive round "steering flipper." Look for the distinctive long double stepped ridge along the side of the main body.
You can see that on the shortest axis it is clearly *less* than ten blood cells across, but in the longer axis it is naturally more. I'd guess about 25 blood cells from end to end in the longest dimension, which is in the right order of magnitude.
Come on now. If you had just stopped to think for a millifortnight, you would have realised that the obvious joke is to use the term "picovolkswagon" to describe the volume measure of the little bugger, pointing out the inutility of using plain M&M as a linear measure.
Yes, iPods can be accessed as a normal drive. Either HFS or Fat32. The only drawback is that they won't play music that is copied to them normally. You have to use a proper sync utility, or else copy the files manually into an annoying hidden folder in a very funky way. When the songs are synch'd to an iPod, they are given new file names which act as a unique ID, and some metadata files are updated with the playlist info.
My understanding is that you can boot from an iPod if your system supports booting from USB (or firewire, dependin on the model...) but this prevents booting the iPod itself in Linux, because you can't make a boot loader that will boot either a PC or the iPod itself.
I wonder if they have improved the access to the display on the nanos. I have doom on my iPod photo, but it runs very slowly. From what I understand, the iPod is fairly powerful (two 80 MHz ARM's, or something like that, which should be enough for very low res Doom), but the access to the LCD is just ot designed for intensive video, so it involves a lot of overhead. I haven't yet bothered to adequately educate myself on this, though.
Does anybody have any documentation about just what changed in the ABI and why? Or, are they just leaving it as some mysterious no-questions-asked type thing?
At current gas prices? Probably a private island.
The comet becomes terribly afraid whenever anything is about to hit it. This natural "tensing up," it what allows us to study it effectively.
Also, moving at many thousands of kilometers per second means that you can impact almost anything and cause an explosion. If the probe gently touched down, it might well have settled into the comet very ently.
1 - Victor hugo's views were all in French.
2 - Not my story. I'm just a boring straight guy from Chicago. But, I doo have an acquaintance that is gay and adopted a child, so, yes, sort of.
every person over the age of 25 that I've heard comment on the cell shading has been supportive of it. The only people complaining about the style not being sufficiently grown-up are 14 year old morons who have no sense of how not to bitch about things, and no idea of what adult actually means. They want the blood and guts style in an effort to seem macho. they have no concept of game development, art, or the technology. they just know that having a game with a lot of blood will impress their 14 year old friends.
Nintendo should release a cell shaded game where the main character is a persecuted homosexual who has to solve puzzles which refer to classical literature in order to avoid being lynched and attacked by a suspicious homophobic public. The goal is to be able to adopt a child in Missouri. Then, we can see what style is more grown up.
Because the length of the register has changed, and a lot of code assumes that long will hold a pointer. The whole idea of programming in a higher level language is that as new hardware becomes available, your code base will take advantage without a rewrite.
Given that you know how many pixels will have changed between any two successive frames, if you really want to be picky, just display the N most changed pixels in your compiled image. You may miss a few here and there, but in general, the shifts due to lossy compression should be less than the shift in the actual pixel color.
:)
I am not going to bother(, because I didn't bother to note the exact second I downloaded my earliest image.)
First off, OpenGL isn't a language. Second off, just because somebody leaves something out of a book, you think they should remove the feature?! So, if I write an introductory C++ book, but don't mention everything in the STL, the whole STL should be removed?
If Apple were releasing a server today, it would probably make sense to have Opteron in it. We don't know what Apple's first Intel based Mac will be, and it sure as hell isn't being released today. The Pentium-M derivative that will apparently run the first Intel Macs will, by all accounts, be 64 bit. It will also be dual core. What's more, it should be entirely competitive with what AMD has out at the time, and do it at very few watts.
Apple isn't stupid. It's not like they did this as some random guesswork based plan. They carefully considered the roadmaps that they could see. They looked at Cell. They looked at a lot of things. Intel simply had the best product in the time frame they were looking at.
I'm not argiung that AMD doesn't have superior chips to Intel right now. I have an Athlon64 in my own system, and I love it. I have been eyeing a dual-core/dual proc (quad core total) Opteron workstation as my next system if I can afford it. But, this time next year, it could well be that I am looking at Intel much more closely...
Or, maybe the motherboard design isn't finalised. They want the mod chip community to start taking notes, and coming up with prototype designs now, so that when the real-box comes out, they will have wasted lots of money and effort only to be able to mod the dev kits.
I agree that they will stay part of the existing internet, but what if they have a new Internet layered on top of it, which only their search engine will index, and which features adwords on every page because they control it. Free name.google domains in the new googlenet. This will help entrench the position of google's mindshare.
"I get on googlenet, and go to google, and then I google for great web pages like linux.google, or slashdot.google, where I see some googlewords on the side of the page which advertise other googlesites on the googlenet. google google google."
"Where do you keep the computers I can plug into my TV?"
"In the Viiv-section."
"The vivisection?!?!"
I went to one of the Serenity sneak previews, and they actually said that anybody with a cell phone that rings would be thrown out, and everybody sitting near them would be *expected* to point at them to make it easier to find them. Damn near brought a tear to my eye. I just wish they would have that sort of service in all the shows, rather than just the occasional special sneak preview.
Having a real person come in, say a few words, and maybe give away a free T shirt or something in every show would be a great way to leverage the advantage of a movie theater : being in public, rather than all alone.
And yet, for some reason, I am modded higher than you... Mods must be on crack when my random incorrect talking-out-my-ass gets higher mods than your correction which is supported with external information.
Oh well, I'm sorry.
No, to conform to the geneva convention, it just has to be powerful enough to kill you outright. The issue is blinding lasers. They would be classified as maiming weapons, and thus not really cricket. If it blows your head clear off, then it's all fine and dandy.
Indeed, it seems that the people pushing this are so incredibly terrified of somebody making a copy for their friend that they ignore any other issues. If there was no copy protection, then one kid at every school would buy a copy and burn some copies for his friends. With the copy protection, everybody waits a day until one guy buys it and rips it and uploads it, and then everybody downloads it off the internet because nobody at their school wants to bother to go through the hoops to copy it -- he just downloads it, too.
This seems like a poor expenditure of revenue, and a bad business model... Apparently, then plan is just to sue everybody into submission until your customer base is too afraid to download anything. That's a good way to earn fans!