VirtualCD works great for CDs, and supposedly does DVD's too (although haven't tried it).
The product works great, but isn't free. Although given you other equipment costs and the number of movies involved, I figure the cost would be negligable.
You can implement a standard countermeasure against replay attacks - one time passwords (e.g. OPIE, etc.). Then you just need some function that can turn it into the port combination.
Parent has interesting point, but it doesn't address the cache issue. 64-bit pointers will take twice as much space as 32-bit pointers. In a jump table situation, for instance, a 128-byte cache line (picking a reasonable number) could only hold 16 pointers instead of 32. Of course, as was also mentioned, when you have hardware that is designed to address more than 4 GB of memory, the amount of cache and main memory available is usually scaled up accordingly to deal with it. Bigger processor, bigger cache, more RAM, Moore's Law marches on.
So, basically, don't worry about it... it's the price of progress. Unless you're running a 64-bit platform on a pitifully small amount of RAM.
With 128 bits of address space, why not drop the port altogether? No more port assumptions when taking a DNS name plus a URI.
The big bonus: you can migrate services very easily, since a socket owns the whole address. Currently this is very kludgy in IPv4. Process migration would get much simpler with the network socket thing out of the picture.
Yahoo was a lot more important in my surfing habits back, say, 5-6 years ago. Google has that important niche in my surfing habits now, and I know that goes for a lot of people. How the submitter labeled this as some event possibly disastrous for Google is beyond me.
I hear a lot of talk about emulating x86 on this PPC in order to have backwards compatibility with XBox 1 games.
Remember, this is not the only viable option. Back in the days of NT4, DEC came up with FX!32 which would emulate, profile, and then selectively translate x86 code into the Alpha equivalent. I think that this approach may be quite viable given that the XBox has a HDD which could store this profiling data and translated code snippets.
For the first few runs, you notice some lag and missed frames, and then after 20 minutes of playing the game (after some profiling and translation kicks in) you're back up to full speed!
That would rock, and IBM and MS both have the brain power to pull such a thing off, no problem.
Tidbit: if you network mount your music from a fileserver (as I do and surely many others), it won't work. Copy the file to your desktop, and surprise surprise, it starts working. I'm not a win32 coder, so I won't speculate as to why this is the case, but it sucks.
The FDA determines the proper adult dose for a drug by giving increasingly higher doses to a bunch of rats until 50% of them die.
I know this because I was told about a supplement that tried to get FDA approval as a drug, but it failed because it could never kill the rats. Therefore it could only be approved as a food (having strange effects on the product's marketability).
So perhaps the FDA got some rats really drunk and they actually got half of them to die...
Well, isn't that amazing... that with Billions o' $$$ in their pockets, Microsoft can come up with somewhat more performant (for a specific task) than a project primarily developed by volunteers.
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Did anyone else read this as "laptop alarms stolen - without the laptop attached" ??
VirtualCD works great for CDs, and supposedly does DVD's too (although haven't tried it).
The product works great, but isn't free. Although given you other equipment costs and the number of movies involved, I figure the cost would be negligable.
You can implement a standard countermeasure against replay attacks - one time passwords (e.g. OPIE, etc.). Then you just need some function that can turn it into the port combination.
Parent has interesting point, but it doesn't address the cache issue. 64-bit pointers will take twice as much space as 32-bit pointers. In a jump table situation, for instance, a 128-byte cache line (picking a reasonable number) could only hold 16 pointers instead of 32. Of course, as was also mentioned, when you have hardware that is designed to address more than 4 GB of memory, the amount of cache and main memory available is usually scaled up accordingly to deal with it. Bigger processor, bigger cache, more RAM, Moore's Law marches on.
So, basically, don't worry about it... it's the price of progress. Unless you're running a 64-bit platform on a pitifully small amount of RAM.
Too many experts can beat it and too many amateurs get nervous and give false positives.
Amateurs... you mean, normal people?
Looks like Timex, Exxon, and McDonalds are on the cutting edge of the race towards the Mark of the Beast. Way to go, kids...
With 128 bits of address space, why not drop the port altogether? No more port assumptions when taking a DNS name plus a URI.
The big bonus: you can migrate services very easily, since a socket owns the whole address. Currently this is very kludgy in IPv4. Process migration would get much simpler with the network socket thing out of the picture.
Yahoo was a lot more important in my surfing habits back, say, 5-6 years ago. Google has that important niche in my surfing habits now, and I know that goes for a lot of people. How the submitter labeled this as some event possibly disastrous for Google is beyond me.
"What?!? That piece of shit!???!
Sorry, muscle spasm...
I hear a lot of talk about emulating x86 on this PPC in order to have backwards compatibility with XBox 1 games.
Remember, this is not the only viable option. Back in the days of NT4, DEC came up with FX!32 which would emulate, profile, and then selectively translate x86 code into the Alpha equivalent. I think that this approach may be quite viable given that the XBox has a HDD which could store this profiling data and translated code snippets.
For the first few runs, you notice some lag and missed frames, and then after 20 minutes of playing the game (after some profiling and translation kicks in) you're back up to full speed!
That would rock, and IBM and MS both have the brain power to pull such a thing off, no problem.
Yeah, so helpful.
Tidbit: if you network mount your music from a fileserver (as I do and surely many others), it won't work. Copy the file to your desktop, and surprise surprise, it starts working. I'm not a win32 coder, so I won't speculate as to why this is the case, but it sucks.
The FDA determines the proper adult dose for a drug by giving increasingly higher doses to a bunch of rats until 50% of them die.
I know this because I was told about a supplement that tried to get FDA approval as a drug, but it failed because it could never kill the rats. Therefore it could only be approved as a food (having strange effects on the product's marketability).
So perhaps the FDA got some rats really drunk and they actually got half of them to die...
Well, isn't that amazing... that with Billions o' $$$ in their pockets, Microsoft can come up with somewhat more performant (for a specific task) than a project primarily developed by volunteers.
who'd a thunk it????
Of course, this is the perfect place to advertise these 40 open positions!!!!
:)
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