Itanium will beat the 970 in floating-point performance, and if you need something with more than 2 processors the 970 is not an option.
I don't know how true the first point is, but the second point is false. The PPC970 is designed to have more than 2 processors. I don't know the limit, but it is greater than 4. Apple will probably have more that 2 processor machines soon enough.
It will be very interesting to see what happens to GTK now. I was just really starting to love some of GNOME's eye candy, but QT/Mac has the edge, I feel.
GTK > QT for commercial development. The reason is cost. GTK is LGPL, so you can link commercial stuff to it without a problem. QT is GPL, so you need to get a licence to use it commercially.
The Mac is a very commercial oriented platform, just like windows, so commercial development may well decide GTK is the way to go.
When I say I'm not so good with Obj C, I mean I'm not so good with Cocoa, and also not very good with Obj C's inheritence and object declarations. The methods are easy enough, and I've made one or two Cocoa wrappers around apps that I'd already written to update a blog using PostgreSQL on a remote server.
I'm still learning the Cocoa standard library for Mac OS X.
Is that KDE's KOffice suite has been ported to Mac OS X using QT/Mac. That means we have a free, good looking, and relatively feature full office suite on the Macintosh, and KDE may get even more help with the suite from Mac developers.
On a side note, I've been waiting for a good C++ development library for Mac OS X. Cocoa is nice, but I'm not so good with Obj C yet, and QT may be just the thing I'm looking for. It'll work on Windows and Linux as well, so that's an added bonus. I'd also like to see Cocoa bindings for C++
If I hear ONE MORE OLD FART telling me that the Beatles are "real music" and Techno is "bubblegum" I'm going to start throwing Molitov Cocktails.
I'm 20. The Beatles are real music, techno is bubblegum, pop is shit. There, I said it. There is good music produced today, it's just not jammed down your throats like the crap.
I remember hearing from a friend of mine a long time ago that Quake II uses "some modified form of Quake-C for scripting", so I thought I'd check it out. Turns out that it was just C++:)
There are a bunch at IBM's technical library, and also Motorola's tech library. The Linux ABI is well documented, as are the other BSDs, but not Darwin.
Here is one, "PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments for 32-Bit Microprocessors" Here is one that is PowerPC Linux specific.
How many people in Iowa have John Deere equipment in their house? I know that in Saskatchewan, (Canada's Iowa/Nebraska/pick a midwestern hick state) we don't have JD stuff in our house. Unless of course, by JD you mean Jack Daniels, but I digress.
No. The PowerPC archetechture is such that the 64 bit processors run the 32 bit code natively. So if you need to support both, just write for 32bit procs unless you need massive amounts of RAM.
Hey, Apple Canada DID lower their prices. The 12" PowerBook G4 Superdrive is now $2549, compare to $3219 earlier. That's a $670 difference. It's not on par with the american prices, we're still overpaying by $100, but it's a bigger drop than theirs.
I live in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province with a Crown owned telephone company called Sasktel. Their service is excellent, and cheap. So good and cheap, I don't know or care if others can't use their lines which they paid for. They have the largest fibre optic cabling network in the world.
Compare to when I lived in Calgary, in Alberta, with a private phone company called Telus, whose service was terrible. Cut off the phone with no notice for not paying a bill, that they were supposed to charge to the credit card every month, but neglected to do, 18 months after the fact. Then demanding 2 months service fee to get it activated again. Ick.
Anyhoo, that's the story. Crown in Saskachewan > Private in Alberta.
Mine was a 33Mhz w/16Meg of memory, I took it out of service because the harddisk failed, it's mobo and memory is still in storage. I wonder if you can still get a 25Mhz 80387 for it? would make a way cool nostalgia machine
Intel still makes the 386 series for embedded systems. It should be possible to buy one direct from Intel for much more than you'd pay on E-Bay. I don't know if they're compatible with what you got 15 years ago when you bought a 386 though.
(1/3 of a mile is pretty close to 0.5km, so with the signs as they are now, they'd only need to be repainted, rather than being moved.)
Or you could do what we in Saskatoon did, and just paint the signs with the metric equivalent.. 1/2 mile == 800m, 1/4 mile == 400m, 1/3 mile == 530m etc..
Have the Canadians stopped accepting the older, non-hologram currency?
Not officially, but the non-hologram currency in larger demoninations is rare. The $20, $50, and $100 have been hologram for a good 12 years now. The $10 and $5 are both hologram as of 2001 and 2002 respectivly. The non hologram $10 and $5 will be rare soon enough, and I haven't seen a $2 or $1 note in many, many years.
of course, a change of monarch would tend to mess that schedule up.
A change of monarch would only affect the $20 and the coins. Here's a list of who's on our currency in the current series:
$1, $2, $20: Queen Elizabeth II with $1 and $2 being out of print in favour of coins. $5: Wilfred Laurier $10: John A. MacDonald $50: William Lyon Mackenzie King $100: Robert Borden $1000: Queen Elizabeth II, out of print.
If you want a list of people on the older series' check out the Bank of Canada
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Itanium will beat the 970 in floating-point performance, and if you need something with more than 2 processors the 970 is not an option.
I don't know how true the first point is, but the second point is false. The PPC970 is designed to have more than 2 processors. I don't know the limit, but it is greater than 4. Apple will probably have more that 2 processor machines soon enough.
That, and every id game that I can think of after and including Wolf3D runs quite happily on the Mac.
Wolf3D, Doom(I,II,Final), Quake(I,II,III) and RTCW.
It will be very interesting to see what happens to GTK now. I was just really starting to love some of GNOME's eye candy, but QT/Mac has the edge, I feel.
GTK > QT for commercial development. The reason is cost. GTK is LGPL, so you can link commercial stuff to it without a problem. QT is GPL, so you need to get a licence to use it commercially.
The Mac is a very commercial oriented platform, just like windows, so commercial development may well decide GTK is the way to go.
When I say I'm not so good with Obj C, I mean I'm not so good with Cocoa, and also not very good with Obj C's inheritence and object declarations. The methods are easy enough, and I've made one or two Cocoa wrappers around apps that I'd already written to update a blog using PostgreSQL on a remote server.
I'm still learning the Cocoa standard library for Mac OS X.
I'd say that as a /.er with a girlfriend, he's doing very well for himself.
Is that KDE's KOffice suite has been ported to Mac OS X using QT/Mac. That means we have a free, good looking, and relatively feature full office suite on the Macintosh, and KDE may get even more help with the suite from Mac developers.
On a side note, I've been waiting for a good C++ development library for Mac OS X. Cocoa is nice, but I'm not so good with Obj C yet, and QT may be just the thing I'm looking for. It'll work on Windows and Linux as well, so that's an added bonus. I'd also like to see Cocoa bindings for C++
If I hear ONE MORE OLD FART telling me that the Beatles are "real music" and Techno is "bubblegum" I'm going to start throwing Molitov Cocktails.
I'm 20. The Beatles are real music, techno is bubblegum, pop is shit. There, I said it. There is good music produced today, it's just not jammed down your throats like the crap.
Is A/UX free as in beer like other old Apple operating systems? If so, do you know where one could aquire a copy of it?
The part that will score the points is where he lists "Microsoft Office".
I have Microsoft Office on my Mac.
Just because it's not a PC doesn't mean that it can't run popular apps.
Or, Quake-C from back in the day.
:)
I remember hearing from a friend of mine a long time ago that Quake II uses "some modified form of Quake-C for scripting", so I thought I'd check it out. Turns out that it was just C++
There are a bunch at IBM's technical library, and also Motorola's tech library. The Linux ABI is well documented, as are the other BSDs, but not Darwin.
Here is one, "PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments for 32-Bit Microprocessors"
Here is one that is PowerPC Linux specific.
What I really want is documentation on how to do Darwin system calls from assembly on the PowerPC.
I know that you fill certain registers and then use the "sc" call, but which registers do what?
How many people in Iowa have John Deere equipment in their house? I know that in Saskatchewan, (Canada's Iowa/Nebraska/pick a midwestern hick state) we don't have JD stuff in our house. Unless of course, by JD you mean Jack Daniels, but I digress.
Where outside the USA is "cheque" wrong?
Tell that to they guys at Canadian Tyre, so that when you shoplift there, and put the stuff you stole in the boot of your car, you don't go to gaol.
Sorry, but we mix and match where we see fit. I generally refer to the English used in Parliament, which is not British, nor is it American.
Spelling check "cheque" is different from what the average person expects. It is, therefore, wrong.
Simple rule: "Check" is a verb. "Cheque" is a noun referring to a bank note used for transferring currenecy to another person or corporation.
It's correct in every English speaking country outside the USA, and is therefore correct. Check is wrong here.
No. The PowerPC archetechture is such that the 64 bit processors run the 32 bit code natively. So if you need to support both, just write for 32bit procs unless you need massive amounts of RAM.
Hey, Apple Canada DID lower their prices. The 12" PowerBook G4 Superdrive is now $2549, compare to $3219 earlier. That's a $670 difference. It's not on par with the american prices, we're still overpaying by $100, but it's a bigger drop than theirs.
I live in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province with a Crown owned telephone company called Sasktel. Their service is excellent, and cheap. So good and cheap, I don't know or care if others can't use their lines which they paid for. They have the largest fibre optic cabling network in the world.
Compare to when I lived in Calgary, in Alberta, with a private phone company called Telus, whose service was terrible. Cut off the phone with no notice for not paying a bill, that they were supposed to charge to the credit card every month, but neglected to do, 18 months after the fact. Then demanding 2 months service fee to get it activated again. Ick.
Anyhoo, that's the story. Crown in Saskachewan > Private in Alberta.
Mine was a 33Mhz w/16Meg of memory, I took it out of service because the harddisk failed, it's mobo and memory is still in storage. I wonder if you can still get a 25Mhz 80387 for it? would make a way cool nostalgia machine
Intel still makes the 386 series for embedded systems. It should be possible to buy one direct from Intel for much more than you'd pay on E-Bay. I don't know if they're compatible with what you got 15 years ago when you bought a 386 though.
The American press converts values of other countries into US dollars when posting news in the USA. Just like in Canada, you'd see it as C$43 million.
Torque is N*m or Newton Metres. Newton being force and metre being measurement.
(1/3 of a mile is pretty close to 0.5km, so with the signs as they are now, they'd only need to be repainted, rather than being moved.)
Or you could do what we in Saskatoon did, and just paint the signs with the metric equivalent.. 1/2 mile == 800m, 1/4 mile == 400m, 1/3 mile == 530m etc..
Have the Canadians stopped accepting the older, non-hologram currency?
Not officially, but the non-hologram currency in larger demoninations is rare. The $20, $50, and $100 have been hologram for a good 12 years now. The $10 and $5 are both hologram as of 2001 and 2002 respectivly. The non hologram $10 and $5 will be rare soon enough, and I haven't seen a $2 or $1 note in many, many years.
of course, a change of monarch would tend to mess that schedule up.
A change of monarch would only affect the $20 and the coins. Here's a list of who's on our currency in the current series:
$1, $2, $20: Queen Elizabeth II with $1 and $2 being out of print in favour of coins.
$5: Wilfred Laurier
$10: John A. MacDonald
$50: William Lyon Mackenzie King
$100: Robert Borden
$1000: Queen Elizabeth II, out of print.
If you want a list of people on the older series' check out the Bank of Canada