I can see where you're coming from, but this isn't just a case of not caring how code performs on your competitors hardware. A byte-by-byte memcpy on x86 is basically insane, and can only be described as willfully crippling non-intel CPUs.
Are British people just used to this sort of production value?
I suppose so. I prefer to think of it as valuing content over gloss; I honestly can't see how doubling the Mighty Boosh's budget would have made it any funnier. Anyway, the beeb's not shy about spendingcash on programmes that actually require it, so we get to see expensive shows too.
This is for marketing business lackeys, assume nothing
I hope none of these lackeys realise that if they make a show where "the success of any scheme or stratagem in the show" is zero, they'll an infinite funny-index.
Get ready for a slew of shows featuring actors completely failing to function as human-beings.
It depends on how you could 'installed base'. Three out of three next-gen consoles, plus one in the current gen isn't bad. Of course, if you start counting consumer devices then ARM rules the roost (last I looked anyway).
Note that 64bit addressing won't itself benefit many games; what x86-64 really brings to the party is that AMD also beefed up the ISA a little with x86-64, most notably by doubling the size of the previously pitifully small x86 register-file. This will give a nice performance boost to any app moving from x86 to x86-64.
There's a good gag about stupid phone features in "Nathan Barley" (UK TV) - the main guys phone flips open to reveal dual MP3 mixing decks and a business-card printer.
This is mentioned on their roadmap. On 3.0, you'll be able to fork a VM, let a luser loose on it, and then just throw it away along with all the crap they've managed to infect it with.
Actually, until recently Sony had always sold consoles at break-even price; even at launch it wasn't making a loss on the PS2. PSP is a break with this tradition but it remains to be seen which model PS3 follows.
They'll be cheap because Sony will take a loss on the console and make the money off of the games.
This makes even more sense when you consider the network effects - getting cells into as many households as possible will presumably encourage takeup of other cell devices.
I'm not sure I fully understand this distributed processing thing yet though. Could someone elighten me as to
- how a game console could distribute extremely time-sensitive tasks over a LAN
- how an HDTV would benefit from additional processing power
- why distributed computing needs hardware-level support in the first place
What I'm getting at is, consumer devices need to work properly as shipped, they can't rely on your toaster to provide additional horsepower. I don't much like the idea of Quake 7 dropping to 10fps whenever a housemate boils the cell-enabled kettle for a nice cup of tea.
Sharing CPU between household devices seems to make a lot less sense than selling surplus household CPU cycles to large customers for batch-type tasks.
And when my hope is gone and I've been wounded in the battle He is all the strength that I will ever need.
Best of luck with that mate, I'll be the one screaming "medic!" at the top of my lungs. Modern medicine may just be a theory but I reckon it's statistically a better bet than relying on His strength.
Now, who wants to start a campaign to sticker bibles? Kids should be aware that the contents of that book are just a theory, and a pretty poorly supported one at that...
Whenever force is required, the US military is the main part of any UN force.
No. The bulk of forces is almost always from places like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Zambia and so on. Countries eager to curry favour with the west basically. Countries that don't, as you put it, run away when the going gets tough (as the US did in Somalia).
If you're genuinely interested in the subject you might want to read "We Did Nothing" by Linda Polman.
And then blue-rinse the whole stinking mess - hand it off the the UN, and blame them when they somehow fali to conjure a health democracy out of thin air. Worked ok with Haita and Somalia anyway.
Anyway, what's with all this talk of the UN as if it were an independant organisation? It does what the security council tells it to.
I find newspaper fall-outs considerably more annoying that pop-ups - you can't just click on them and make them go away, or wear non-microsoft glasses that make them invisible.
SNAP! (the sound of an analogy stretched past breaking point)
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I can see where you're coming from, but this isn't just a case of not caring how code performs on your competitors hardware. A byte-by-byte memcpy on x86 is basically insane, and can only be described as willfully crippling non-intel CPUs.
Porting something to a different ISA is pretty trivial, excepting endian issues. It's switching OS and graphics/audio/input API that's the hard part.
Are British people just used to this sort of production value?
I suppose so. I prefer to think of it as valuing content over gloss; I honestly can't see how doubling the Mighty Boosh's budget would have made it any funnier. Anyway, the beeb's not shy about spending cash on programmes that actually require it, so we get to see expensive shows too.
Windows is also an ongoing cost; the upgrades from 95->98->ME->2K->XP aren't free you know.
This is for marketing business lackeys, assume nothing
I hope none of these lackeys realise that if they make a show where "the success of any scheme or stratagem in the show" is zero, they'll an infinite funny-index.
Get ready for a slew of shows featuring actors completely failing to function as human-beings.
And it's all thanks to the good work of ESR...
...and Intel is catering to theirs (Joe Six Pack who buys a Dell).
I've always wondered, is the Mr. Sixpack you mention so named because he works out a lot, or because he drinks a lot of beer?
It depends on how you could 'installed base'.
Three out of three next-gen consoles, plus one in the current gen isn't bad. Of course, if you start counting consumer devices then ARM rules the roost (last I looked anyway).
Oh, wait, I can't because I don't have a Fortune subscription. And here's me with 5 mod points but no way to mod down the retard who posted the story.
And not only that, but with a GBA flash cart and appropriate wifi card or $20 dongle, you can actually program the thing yourself!
a) they dont mind posting a dupe
Neither do Apple - "Scriptable Font Book" counts as two seperate features.
...the 2003 Reith lecture was also rather good.
There's a 64bit version of FarCry, I think.
Note that 64bit addressing won't itself benefit many games; what x86-64 really brings to the party is that AMD also beefed up the ISA a little with x86-64, most notably by doubling the size of the previously pitifully small x86 register-file. This will give a nice performance boost to any app moving from x86 to x86-64.
A better-established GCC competitor is Intel, whose compilers are recognized to be the gold standard for software running on x86 chips.
Is that actually true? Last time I tried a head-to-head comparison, the Intel compiler came a distant third to GCC and MSVC.
Heh, it's got it's own websitem l
http://www.nathanbarley.com/index_t12.ht
There's a good gag about stupid phone features in "Nathan Barley" (UK TV) - the main guys phone flips open to reveal dual MP3 mixing decks and a business-card printer.
This is mentioned on their roadmap. On 3.0, you'll be able to fork a VM, let a luser loose on it, and then just throw it away along with all the crap they've managed to infect it with.
What, because they all live in muddy clearings in the jungle? They have houses and stuff too, you know.
Actually, until recently Sony had always sold consoles at break-even price; even at launch it wasn't making a loss on the PS2. PSP is a break with this tradition but it remains to be seen which model PS3 follows.
They'll be cheap because Sony will take a loss on the console and make the money off of the games.
This makes even more sense when you consider the network effects - getting cells into as many households as possible will presumably encourage takeup of other cell devices.
I'm not sure I fully understand this distributed processing thing yet though. Could someone elighten me as to
- how a game console could distribute extremely time-sensitive tasks over a LAN
- how an HDTV would benefit from additional processing power
- why distributed computing needs hardware-level support in the first place
What I'm getting at is, consumer devices need to work properly as shipped, they can't rely on your toaster to provide additional horsepower. I don't much like the idea of Quake 7 dropping to 10fps whenever a housemate boils the cell-enabled kettle for a nice cup of tea.
Sharing CPU between household devices seems to make a lot less sense than selling surplus household CPU cycles to large customers for batch-type tasks.
And when my hope is gone and I've been wounded in the battle He is all the strength that I will ever need.
Best of luck with that mate, I'll be the one screaming "medic!" at the top of my lungs. Modern medicine may just be a theory but I reckon it's statistically a better bet than relying on His strength.
Now, who wants to start a campaign to sticker bibles? Kids should be aware that the contents of that book are just a theory, and a pretty poorly supported one at that...
Whenever force is required, the US military is the main part of any UN force.
No. The bulk of forces is almost always from places like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Zambia and so on. Countries eager to curry favour with the west basically. Countries that don't, as you put it, run away when the going gets tough (as the US did in Somalia).
If you're genuinely interested in the subject you might want to read "We Did Nothing" by Linda Polman.
Actually, you guys hadn't paid your dues in years; you stumped up the ~$1bn you owed just after 9/11, if memory serves.
And then blue-rinse the whole stinking mess - hand it off the the UN, and blame them when they somehow fali to conjure a health democracy out of thin air. Worked ok with Haita and Somalia anyway.
Anyway, what's with all this talk of the UN as if it were an independant organisation? It does what the security council tells it to.
I find newspaper fall-outs considerably more annoying that pop-ups - you can't just click on them and make them go away, or wear non-microsoft glasses that make them invisible.
SNAP! (the sound of an analogy stretched past breaking point)