Linux, at least, was created as a free alternative to UNIX. It had nothing to do with Microsoft products.
The GNU tools were also free alternatives to UNIX tools that wound up integrated into Linux (and others). Again, nothing to do with Microsoft.
At the same time though, OSS thrives on competition. MS can bring it on.
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The xbox does indeed have USB. All the controller ports are USB, but they've been physically altered so you can't hook up standard PC peripherals. An adapter would make short work of that problem.
As for the memory bus, it's not different at all. It's normal x86 DDR architecture. Some of it is just mapped as the framebuffer or used by devices.
The challenge would be in the drivers for the video/sound/network/etc subsystems using UMA, but it's not like it hasn't been done before (eg: Creative Labs emu10k, VIA ProSavage, 3Com VT8233C).
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Pretty much anything with on-board video and/or sound is using UMA. Hell, any PC with a SoundBlaster Live card is using at least partially UMA.
That sucker is such a cheap buy because it runs off your main memory and CPU.
A hardware hack a-la modchip may be required to get the xbox to read other media... but if they're actually using that HD in there for the OS, then it may just need a software hack once the fs is deciphered.
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Unified memory architecture actually aggravates memory bottleneck issues as now there's only one memory available for all devices to talk to. That bottleneck of getting information to a PC's graphics card isn't much of a bottleneck at all. It has the full AGP bus to itself and doesn't have to compete with the cpu or other devices for main memory bandwidth.
Unified memory is about cost. By having a common pool of memory, you need fewer electronics and you don't have to mirror sections of memory to other memory-bearing devices like video cards. You can also grow&shrink each device's usage depending on need to make more memory available for other uses.
Other consoles get emulated rather quickly, and they aren't nearly as similar to a standard PC as the xbox. The unified memory is probably the easiest thing to emulate; just remap memory accesses to the proper locations. I'd expect that it's DirectX doing all the actual work of handling the memory, though. In that case you'd need only remap the game's xbox DX API calls to the appropriate Windows DX APIs.
I wouldn't expect an xbox emulator to take long to surface.
I don't know what's worse... The fact that Tribes2 suffers unhandled exceptions so often, or the fact that they always seem to happen in the forums, of all places.
I get a UE maybe once every few days in the complex gaming environment with vehicles screaming by and weapons fire all around... but in something as simple as the forums, I can't go more than 20 minutes before the all-too-familiar UE dialog shows up.
Moz hasn't crashed on me in months, and I've been using the nightlies as my only browser. It's quite responsive.
Startup times are fine even without -turbo. IE would give me a window to look at pretty quickly, but it always chugged away doing its thing for a bit afterwards before I could start to use it (It would also go off grabbing and executing things without my permission, which really irks me, but that's another discussion entirely). Mozilla's splash screen would display for about that long before giving me an immediately-usable browser window.
I use the browser so much and have so much ram now that I just use -turbo. Load time is damn well instantaneous. Now if only I could get IE to stop loading itself into memory on startup when I never use it.
The new popup blocking feature rocks as well, btw.:)
Remember when the standard line was, you cannot get a virus just from reading a message? That is still true, but...
Actually, with the buffer overflow in Outlook's Date: field a while back, it ceased to be true. Virii could execute and proliferate the moment it hit your inbox wether you read the message or not, let alone execute an attachment.
I've already written the IPPD and my local representatives to oppose it. You should too.
The IPPD proposal (with e-mail address to send comments to) is here. The deadline for comments is the 15th, so hurry up.
If you would take this sitting down, you might as well move south.
Software designed for Win2000 or XP won't run on 9x/ME. Likewise a copy of MS Word 6.0 can't read a.doc from Word 97 or 2000.
A nice side-effect (for MS anyway) is that this forces upgades if you want to be able to keep exchanging documents.
What happens when a new MSWord (w/new.doc format) will only run on XP? You either upgrade your office suite [b]and[/b] operating system or you stop receiving documents.
The "facts" don't need updating. Just your interperetation of what the AC had to say.
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I've never seen that bug. I could have simply missed it, though... I use the nightly builds, updating to a new one every couple weeks.
Linux, at least, was created as a free alternative to UNIX. It had nothing to do with Microsoft products.
The GNU tools were also free alternatives to UNIX tools that wound up integrated into Linux (and others). Again, nothing to do with Microsoft.
At the same time though, OSS thrives on competition. MS can bring it on.
The xbox does indeed have USB. All the controller ports are USB, but they've been physically altered so you can't hook up standard PC peripherals. An adapter would make short work of that problem.
As for the memory bus, it's not different at all. It's normal x86 DDR architecture. Some of it is just mapped as the framebuffer or used by devices.
The challenge would be in the drivers for the video/sound/network/etc subsystems using UMA, but it's not like it hasn't been done before (eg: Creative Labs emu10k, VIA ProSavage, 3Com VT8233C).
Pretty much anything with on-board video and/or sound is using UMA. Hell, any PC with a SoundBlaster Live card is using at least partially UMA.
That sucker is such a cheap buy because it runs off your main memory and CPU.
A hardware hack a-la modchip may be required to get the xbox to read other media... but if they're actually using that HD in there for the OS, then it may just need a software hack once the fs is deciphered.
Unified memory architecture actually aggravates memory bottleneck issues as now there's only one memory available for all devices to talk to. That bottleneck of getting information to a PC's graphics card isn't much of a bottleneck at all. It has the full AGP bus to itself and doesn't have to compete with the cpu or other devices for main memory bandwidth.
Unified memory is about cost. By having a common pool of memory, you need fewer electronics and you don't have to mirror sections of memory to other memory-bearing devices like video cards. You can also grow&shrink each device's usage depending on need to make more memory available for other uses.
Other consoles get emulated rather quickly, and they aren't nearly as similar to a standard PC as the xbox. The unified memory is probably the easiest thing to emulate; just remap memory accesses to the proper locations. I'd expect that it's DirectX doing all the actual work of handling the memory, though. In that case you'd need only remap the game's xbox DX API calls to the appropriate Windows DX APIs.
I wouldn't expect an xbox emulator to take long to surface.
I don't know about you, but I think Tribes 2 and Max Payne certainly play well for games from a crippled industry.
MS didn't back off. Yesterday's builds of Mozilla as well as this morning's (2001102603) are still getting blocked if you don't spoof the UA string.
Hot damn. Last time I checked with 98lite, I couldn't get rid of IE without having a win95 CD around for the shell.
I'd mod this post up if I could.
I don't know what's worse... The fact that Tribes2 suffers unhandled exceptions so often, or the fact that they always seem to happen in the forums, of all places.
I get a UE maybe once every few days in the complex gaming environment with vehicles screaming by and weapons fire all around... but in something as simple as the forums, I can't go more than 20 minutes before the all-too-familiar UE dialog shows up.
Don't feed the trolls. :p
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Moz hasn't crashed on me in months, and I've been using the nightlies as my only browser. It's quite responsive.
Startup times are fine even without -turbo. IE would give me a window to look at pretty quickly, but it always chugged away doing its thing for a bit afterwards before I could start to use it (It would also go off grabbing and executing things without my permission, which really irks me, but that's another discussion entirely). Mozilla's splash screen would display for about that long before giving me an immediately-usable browser window.
I use the browser so much and have so much ram now that I just use -turbo. Load time is damn well instantaneous. Now if only I could get IE to stop loading itself into memory on startup when I never use it.
The new popup blocking feature rocks as well, btw.
Somehow I doubt he was the one seeking the interview.
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What's to say? Canned questions deserve canned answers, or worse, honest ones.
Unfortunately those robotic laws are a part of his fiction.
I'm not sure even the best sniper rifle made can do 2 miles mostly straight up. 9.8m/s^2 adds up very fast.
Remember when the standard line was, you cannot get a virus just from reading a message? That is still true, but...
Actually, with the buffer overflow in Outlook's Date: field a while back, it ceased to be true. Virii could execute and proliferate the moment it hit your inbox wether you read the message or not, let alone execute an attachment.
That would definitely cause an earth-shattering kaboom.
Left-handed people probably move the mouse to the right side too, because that's where the scrollbar is.
I've already written the IPPD and my local representatives to oppose it. You should too.
The IPPD proposal (with e-mail address to send comments to) is here. The deadline for comments is the 15th, so hurry up.
If you would take this sitting down, you might as well move south.
The DMCA wasn't.
Software designed for Win2000 or XP won't run on 9x/ME. Likewise a copy of MS Word 6.0 can't read a .doc from Word 97 or 2000.
.doc format) will only run on XP? You either upgrade your office suite [b]and[/b] operating system or you stop receiving documents.
A nice side-effect (for MS anyway) is that this forces upgades if you want to be able to keep exchanging documents.
What happens when a new MSWord (w/new
The "facts" don't need updating. Just your interperetation of what the AC had to say.
Who's to say all life here wasn't carried on a rock thrown up from mars?
If something could marginally live on a world like mars, it would probably flourish here.
It could just be melting frost or ice under the surface. Who's to say?
If I can drink booze to stave off the effects of caffeine, then logically there must be something to stave off the effects of the booze, and so on...
Hah! I'll take up every vice and live forever! =)
0.18 micron with copper interconnects but the internal traces are alluminum. It's going to be, in a word, a furnace.
That backbone isn't much help after it atrophies in space. ;)