I have only done some basic testing on PocketPC 2003. It felt slower to me, but I was using a pre-production beta version of the new HP iPaq. I heard that it should be much faster because Microsoft finally created an XScale-optimized build of the PocketPC OS. Before Microsoft was only building for generic Strongarm and forcing XScale vendors to run the Strongarm build.
Microsoft builds CE for about a dozen of differenct processors. Why would separating XScale from Strongarm be so much more work? Maybe part of the problem is that third-party developers and users have to understand the difference and why some XScale apps are not backwards compatible with older Strongarm PocketPCs.
I think that someone at Intel should be fired for releasing a 400 MHz XScale processor that is 2x SLOWER than the 206 MHz Strongarm!:-) I heard from someone at Intel that the problem is that pipeline stalls (for data loads) are 4x more expensive on the XScale.
Sadly, the 400 MHz XScale PocketPCs are about 2x SLOWER than the older 206 MHz Strongarm PocketPCs. I've done C development for both. One test case takes 15 minutes on the 206 MHz Strongarm PocketPC. On the 400 MHz XScale PocketPC, the same test case take 30 minutes. So the XScale is about 4x slower per MHz than the older Strongarm processor.
I even used a beta version of Intel XScale-optimizing compiler. The object code as larger yet slower!!?
Didn't GWB recently outsource his campaign emailing to a company in India? I can't find the news source at the moment, but would that exempt his campaign from these laws? It's also good to see he cares about US jobs.
The free market is (slowing) solving this problem more effectively than the US gub'mint. AOL and MSN are advertising its new kid-friendly services with spam filters. I don't want that, but they know there is a BIG demand for a "walled garden" away from the raw internet.
but what does Saddam gain from winning the "PR war"? He would still be captured and killed. Once the US started lobbing Tomahawks at Baghdad, he could be pretty certain that the US meant business. He could have used to WMD to take out Israel or Kuwait.
Why would Saddam wait to win the "PR war" and still be captured and imprisoned for live or given the death penalty? He could have used his WMD to waste Israel and become a great martyr for Arab history.
Don't forget that Iraq was threatening to start selling its oil only for euros instead of dollars. That would have been a nice coup for the EU and bad news for the US dollar.
If our universe is infinite, then there is no outside and God must live inside our universe. But where did God exist BEFORE he created our infinite universe?
If our universe is finite, then God could either live inside or outside our universe. So then who created the "outer universe" that contains our finite universe? If it was God, then where did God exist BEFORE he created the "outer universe"?
An interesting interpretation is that many non-religious-right GOP members are "South Park Republicans". I would call them Libertarians who don't know it. Maybe the Libertarian Party should buy some commercial airtime on Comedy Central during "South Park" and "Tough Crowd"?:-)
If Republicans are so different from mainstream America, then who voted for them? The nation has more Republican congressmen and state governors than any other political party, plus control of the White House.
The answer could very well be the "South Park Republicans." The name stems from the primetime cartoon "South Park" that clearly demonstrates the contrast within the party. The show is widely condemned by some moralists, including members of the Christian right. Yet in spite of its coarse language and base humor, the show persuasively communicates the Republican position on many issues, including hate crime legislation ("a savage hypocrisy"), radical environmentalism, and rampant litigation by ambitious trial lawyers. In one episode, industrious gnomes pick apart myopic anti-corporate rhetoric and teach the main characters about the benefits of capitalism.
The UN Security Council's "Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms" calls for a comprehensive program of worldwide gun control and praises the restrictive gun polices of Red China and France! The UN wants helpless citizens under the thumb of UN stormtroopers and Black Helicopters.
It is common knowledge that Windows 98 is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless Windows 98 is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which Windows 98 is the worst off of an admittedly suffering Windows 98 community. The numbers continue to decline for Windows but Windows 98 may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
All major marketing surveys show that Windows 98 has steadily declined in market share. Windows 98 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Windows 98 is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes Windows 98 is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
NVidia's linux drivers contain S3TC tecxture compression algorithms, which is patented and licenssed. It is not theirs.
Suppose NVidia really wants to open source their code, but they cannot open source the S3TC code they have licensed. They why doesn't NVidia distribute THEIR code as open-source (say BSD) and then include a smaller binary blob nv-s3tc.o or whatever?
Why does Thunderbird bother reinventing the wheel? If there are successful, modular, open-source spam filters (like POPFile or SpamBayes), why don't the Mozilla developers reuse them?
I use Comcast Cable internet. I don't subscribe to Comcast Cable TV, so they charge me an extra ~$10/month fee. That's ok because I went to Radio Shack, bought a splitter, and now I get free cable TV.:-)
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If IE supported PNG, then it would be widespread. chicken/egg?
Why did Congress need to pass a Constitutional ammendment to make alcohol illegal, but not need to do the same to make marijuana illegal??
The politicians write the rules. When you write the rules, they don't have to apply to you.
I have only done some basic testing on PocketPC 2003. It felt slower to me, but I was using a pre-production beta version of the new HP iPaq. I heard that it should be much faster because Microsoft finally created an XScale-optimized build of the PocketPC OS. Before Microsoft was only building for generic Strongarm and forcing XScale vendors to run the Strongarm build.
Microsoft builds CE for about a dozen of differenct processors. Why would separating XScale from Strongarm be so much more work? Maybe part of the problem is that third-party developers and users have to understand the difference and why some XScale apps are not backwards compatible with older Strongarm PocketPCs.
I think that someone at Intel should be fired for releasing a 400 MHz XScale processor that is 2x SLOWER than the 206 MHz Strongarm!
Sadly, the 400 MHz XScale PocketPCs are about 2x SLOWER than the older 206 MHz Strongarm PocketPCs. I've done C development for both. One test case takes 15 minutes on the 206 MHz Strongarm PocketPC. On the 400 MHz XScale PocketPC, the same test case take 30 minutes. So the XScale is about 4x slower per MHz than the older Strongarm processor.
I even used a beta version of Intel XScale-optimizing compiler. The object code as larger yet slower!!?
Didn't GWB recently outsource his campaign emailing to a company in India? I can't find the news source at the moment, but would that exempt his campaign from these laws? It's also good to see he cares about US jobs.
The free market is (slowing) solving this problem more effectively than the US gub'mint. AOL and MSN are advertising its new kid-friendly services with spam filters. I don't want that, but they know there is a BIG demand for a "walled garden" away from the raw internet.
but what does Saddam gain from winning the "PR war"? He would still be captured and killed. Once the US started lobbing Tomahawks at Baghdad, he could be pretty certain that the US meant business. He could have used to WMD to take out Israel or Kuwait.
Why would Saddam wait to win the "PR war" and still be captured and imprisoned for live or given the death penalty? He could have used his WMD to waste Israel and become a great martyr for Arab history.
China has WMDs? OMG!!
Don't forget that Iraq was threatening to start selling its oil only for euros instead of dollars. That would have been a nice coup for the EU and bad news for the US dollar.
Solaris X? Or maybe with all this talk about Sun's Solaris Express "rollout" program Solaris 10 will be called Solarix XP (eXPress).
Hmm kind of like
Conclusion: The earth was formed via Creation.
Now lets go get some facts!
Does God live inside or outside of our universe?
If our universe is infinite, then there is no outside and God must live inside our universe. But where did God exist BEFORE he created our infinite universe?
If our universe is finite, then God could either live inside or outside our universe. So then who created the "outer universe" that contains our finite universe? If it was God, then where did God exist BEFORE he created the "outer universe"?
An interesting interpretation is that many non-religious-right GOP members are "South Park Republicans". I would call them Libertarians who don't know it. Maybe the Libertarian Party should buy some commercial airtime on Comedy Central during "South Park" and "Tough Crowd"?
"South Park Republicans"
If Republicans are so different from mainstream America, then who voted for them? The nation has more Republican congressmen and state governors than any other political party, plus control of the White House.
The answer could very well be the "South Park Republicans." The name stems from the primetime cartoon "South Park" that clearly demonstrates the contrast within the party. The show is widely condemned by some moralists, including members of the Christian right. Yet in spite of its coarse language and base humor, the show persuasively communicates the Republican position on many issues, including hate crime legislation ("a savage hypocrisy"), radical environmentalism, and rampant litigation by ambitious trial lawyers. In one episode, industrious gnomes pick apart myopic anti-corporate rhetoric and teach the main characters about the benefits of capitalism.
sure, your wifi is "free" like your Canadian health care is "free".
women can do that sometimes..
"NRA may buy TV station: Would allow group to avoid limits on campaign financing"
The UN Security Council's "Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms" calls for a comprehensive program of worldwide gun control and praises the restrictive gun polices of Red China and France! The UN wants helpless citizens under the thumb of UN stormtroopers and Black Helicopters.
"Reject UN Gun Control" by by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Fact: Windows 98 is dying
It is common knowledge that Windows 98 is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless Windows 98 is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which Windows 98 is the worst off of an admittedly suffering Windows 98 community. The numbers continue to decline for Windows but Windows 98 may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
All major marketing surveys show that Windows 98 has steadily declined in market share. Windows 98 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Windows 98 is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes Windows 98 is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: Windows 98 is dying
NVidia's linux drivers contain S3TC tecxture compression algorithms, which is patented and licenssed. It is not theirs.
Suppose NVidia really wants to open source their code, but they cannot open source the S3TC code they have licensed. They why doesn't NVidia distribute THEIR code as open-source (say BSD) and then include a smaller binary blob nv-s3tc.o or whatever?
Why does Thunderbird bother reinventing the wheel? If there are successful, modular, open-source spam filters (like POPFile or SpamBayes), why don't the Mozilla developers reuse them?
thanks for the about:config and nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0 tip. It makes Firebird much faster for me!
I use Comcast Cable internet. I don't subscribe to Comcast Cable TV, so they charge me an extra ~$10/month fee. That's ok because I went to Radio Shack, bought a splitter, and now I get free cable TV.
but open source code is free. Why should I pay for it?