If you went to the trouble of hand-optimising VMX code then I would say there's a fair chance that the code is very application-specific. Or in other words, you're not going to need or be in a hurry to upgrade the hardware - it would most probably be a processor-specific application as well.
But if you do the right thing and follow Apple's programming guidelines then you would have written your vector code using VecLib. VecLib is on every OS X system and is optimised for the specific processor model that computer is running. So if you've done that then updating your app is as simple as ticking the 'Build x86' checkbox.
People like you are why that little whiney, self-centred and vapid bitch act the way they do - because they know they can get away with it.
If she had taken a second to think that yapping on her phone would annoy other people watching the movie then it wouldn't have happened. She got exactly what was coming to her, even if it was legal or not.
Do you really think that if the cops were called they'd show up before the end of the movie? Do you think they'd give a shit? Do you think that the other people in the audience would have backed up the girl who was being an inconsiderate bitch or the man who had the balls to stand up and secure their enjoyment of the movie they'd paid good money to see?
IBM have dual-CPU blades. Haven't heard about them recently, but they have shown them off in the past and I believe they will be selling them, if they're not already.
About a month ago I went out looking for a HDD recorder with a DVD writer. They exist, but they're for analogue TV only.
There's one that records DVB broadcasts, but it doesn't have a DVD writer and the UI sucks. One redeeming feature is that it has a USB port and you can mod it with your own software plugins.
What I want to know is why no one has a DVB HDD recorder with a DVD writer or ethernet interface on the market? Is it too much to ask for, or is it the tentacles of the 'content industry' that are holding the consumer electronics manufacturers back?
Yeah, I could go roll my own MythTV box, but to tell you the truth I'm so over maintaining computers. (Which is why I bought a Mac and play console games.) I just want the thing to work and not have to bother with upgrading and keeping it patched, etc. It also costs a lot to build a silent system in a nice AV-style case - not that I'm really bothered by the cost of the hardware, it's all my time that I'd piss away building and maintaining the thing that's valuable.
This product seems to be exactly like what I want though! Pity it's Japan only. =[
I have a real dog - a kelpie. I don't have to worry about shedding hair and him sleeping on the furniture because he stays outside where he belongs. (Okay, he's allowed inside at night sometimes, but he has a rug to stick to.)
He not only requires less maintenance, but is also a lot smarter than any robot, has emotions, is nicer to pat, can go places that a robot dog never will (let's see a robot dog run up a steep hill, go for a swim or chase a rabbit through thick scrub) and does a lot better job keeping burglars away and detecting people approaching.
The other thing is that every dog has its own personality and most dogs seem to have an uncanny empathy with humans. Robots will never replace the utility and genuine companionship of a good dog.
Oh yeah, even a dog with pedigree papers is a lot less expensive than a robot!
Splitting Telstra into infrastructure wholesaling and service retailing companies is what I and many others have been advocating for years. Last year, the government made some progress towards this by ordering Telstra to separate their accounting. This is another step in that direction, however it doesn't go far enough.
This week Telstra announced a $4.5 billion profit, whilst the new yankee CEO had the audacity to demand the government a) chip in $5 billion to fix up the network and b) threaten to reduce spending on the network if they don't reduce regulations on them.
That $5 billion or more needs to urgently be spent to bring the network up to scratch is a slamming indictment on the former CEO, Ziggy Switkowski (who was forced out earlier this year). That man singlehandled pissed billions of Telstra dollars down the drain on stupid overseas ventures and buyouts of media companies. He sacked Telstra technicians and R&D people and reduced spending on network maintenance and upgrading. (One classic result of that being the sealant blunder - they thought they were getting a great deal on a sealant, but because they'd sacked all their R&D people they didn't trial it and later found out the sealant was destroying the lines and ended up spending more than double what they paid for the sealant to fix the problem!) Rather than re-investing the profits into ensuring the future success of the company, they spent it executive bonuses, shareholder dividends and share buybacks to prop up their share price. All the while, small upstart carriers have been slowly chipping away at them.
People like me could see the madness of Ziggy's ways, but the government denied there was a problem or impending crisis and even re-appointed him! (Telstra 'loaning' giant plasma screen TV's to key government ministers probably helped.) Telstra have also consistently played dirty to prevent competitors gaining a foothold in the market. (The best one is "we can't let you into the exchange to install your own equipment because we've lost the keys to it") History has shown that they simply cannot be trusted to maintain the national network - an asset paid for by the Australian tax-payer that is vital to national security.
It is overwhelmingly in the public interest to retain the local loop and back-haul in public ownership as a statutory body. Carriers would then be free to rent space in exchanges for their own equipment, rent local loops and rent back-haul or install their own. Profits from this would then be used to maintain and upgrade the local loop.
But of course, that runs counter to the Liberal's zealous privatisation ideology. I'm from South Australia and I know that privatisation of public utilities has delivered nothing more than decreased reliability and increased prices as companies cut back on maintenance to bump up profits. Public utility infrastructure should be publicly owned because it is for the benefit of all society and remote locations need to be cross-subsidised. It shouldn't make a profit, just enough to cover the cost of maintenance, upgrades and expansion.
Why waste my time doing something like that when I can just recommend watching something that I think presents a good argument and different take on the shit that people like Rupert Murdoch shove down everyone's throats day-in, day-out?
FWIW, the BBC isn't government funded. (So the poms here keep telling everyone who suggests otherwise.) And I trust them more than any American media outlet, seeing as they have the balls to criticise their government.
Public broadcasting is a wonderful thing. I wish the.au government would reverse the funding cuts they've been making to the ABC for the last decade.
But isn't a "dead" format what they'd want? If it's dead then people wouldn't be able to copy games. Just look at the Gamecube... pretty much no-one copies games for that.
Anyways, this is Microsoft PC mentality at its best - "You can always upgrade to get better performance!" Problem is, consoles are like Mac's - "they just work". As soon as a customer has to check when they buy a game that it'll work with their version of the console you've lost them. That's to say nothing of developers that are always going to go for the lowest common denominator version to keep their risk low. That will be especially important as development budgets continue to grow.
I've seen a good dozen HD trailers of complete or nearly so Xbox 360 games, where's the PS2 titles? Any killer apps yet? I haven't seen any.
PS3 devkits have only been available in extremely limited numbers for a couple of months. The ones that are out there are like pre-alpha systems.
Maybe developers are having problems dealing with a CPU that has terrible integer performance and a wacky memory system with too little local memory to do a few algorithms like say... collision detection on the SPEs?
Huh? It just seems to me that time-and-time again it's PC and Xbox developers who are complaining about the next-gen architectures.
The NewEgg price you quoted doesn't include express shipping.
AusPC Market prices all include express shipping, plus they're not the cheapest supplier around - from what I gather they tend to stock more 'enthusiast'/hard to find (low volume) things. Just take a look at their selection of cases for example.
I have no interest in them other than being a satisfied repeat customer.
I take it you're not familiar with the Chinese diplomat who's currently trying to defect to Australia - he claims that the Chinese government has an extensive spy network in Australia that is monitoring people and even abducting them and taking them back to China.
Quite the alarming allegation. It's on the level of North Korea sending submarines to Japan to abduct civilians during the night.
No, the removal of the media player EXE should not require the removal of all the codecs too. But why should microsft give you the codecs without the program that goes with them. If you want their codecs, use their software, otherwise, get your own codecs.
Then doesn't that defeat the purpose of shipping a media framework with the OS in the first place? What good is DirectShow or Video For Windows without any filters for decoding media formats?
Have you ever known anyone who's topped themselves?
Sadly, I knew three people who did and somewho who tried. Suicide is a terrible tragedy, and it has a very alarming rate of incidence amongst young men here in Australia.
One of my cousins threw himself off a cliff in front of his mates.
A friend from school had his dad hang himself in his shed. His mother found him, then a few years later he did the same thing in the same spot and his poor mother found him.
One of my mothers former colleagues hung herself.
Why don't you try telling their family, friends and lovers that they should have left them alone and that they should respect their decision to end it all, which will perhaps magically absolve them of their feelings of grief and wondering why they did it and what they might have done that could have contributed to it?
I really want to say FUCK YOU for holding such a selfish and ill-conceived view, but you really do need professional medical help. Suicidial depression isn't anything to be laughed at or treated in a blazae fashion, it's a serious disease.
Finally, what's the point of building a print server into a device that's meant to plug into your television? Anybody who wants to plug a printer into a wireless network can already buy either an AirPort Extreme base station or an AirPort Express, or any number of third-party wireless products.
Because you might like to plug a remote control into so you can change the channel or whatever, just like you can buy that remote for the AirPort Express to let you change the tracks. =]
So some 3rd world countries aren't happy that the US government controls the Internet?
Now, not being an American myself I still think this is bullshit and sour grapes.
Instead of bitching that the UN should control it so these little third world shitholes have just as much or more say over developed nations perhaps they could just start their own Internet?
As far as I understand, the Internet is just an agreement between the people who own networks on how to connect them together.
It's just like signing a contract - you don't like the conditions then don't sign it.
Spread that $11B out over the lifetime of the infrastructure - say 30 years.
Not much of a subsidy now, is it?
There's no way private enterprise would roll-out infrastructure like that themselves because at commodity prices like $30/mo it'll take them a couple of decades to get a return.
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If you went to the trouble of hand-optimising VMX code then I would say there's a fair chance that the code is very application-specific. Or in other words, you're not going to need or be in a hurry to upgrade the hardware - it would most probably be a processor-specific application as well.
But if you do the right thing and follow Apple's programming guidelines then you would have written your vector code using VecLib. VecLib is on every OS X system and is optimised for the specific processor model that computer is running. So if you've done that then updating your app is as simple as ticking the 'Build x86' checkbox.
Don't forget Antarctica too! That's a continent completely covered in ice... kilometres thick in many places!
People like you are why that little whiney, self-centred and vapid bitch act the way they do - because they know they can get away with it.
If she had taken a second to think that yapping on her phone would annoy other people watching the movie then it wouldn't have happened. She got exactly what was coming to her, even if it was legal or not.
Do you really think that if the cops were called they'd show up before the end of the movie? Do you think they'd give a shit? Do you think that the other people in the audience would have backed up the girl who was being an inconsiderate bitch or the man who had the balls to stand up and secure their enjoyment of the movie they'd paid good money to see?
IBM have dual-CPU blades. Haven't heard about them recently, but they have shown them off in the past and I believe they will be selling them, if they're not already.
About a month ago I went out looking for a HDD recorder with a DVD writer. They exist, but they're for analogue TV only.
There's one that records DVB broadcasts, but it doesn't have a DVD writer and the UI sucks. One redeeming feature is that it has a USB port and you can mod it with your own software plugins.
What I want to know is why no one has a DVB HDD recorder with a DVD writer or ethernet interface on the market? Is it too much to ask for, or is it the tentacles of the 'content industry' that are holding the consumer electronics manufacturers back?
Yeah, I could go roll my own MythTV box, but to tell you the truth I'm so over maintaining computers. (Which is why I bought a Mac and play console games.) I just want the thing to work and not have to bother with upgrading and keeping it patched, etc. It also costs a lot to build a silent system in a nice AV-style case - not that I'm really bothered by the cost of the hardware, it's all my time that I'd piss away building and maintaining the thing that's valuable.
This product seems to be exactly like what I want though! Pity it's Japan only. =[
I have a real dog - a kelpie. I don't have to worry about shedding hair and him sleeping on the furniture because he stays outside where he belongs. (Okay, he's allowed inside at night sometimes, but he has a rug to stick to.)
He not only requires less maintenance, but is also a lot smarter than any robot, has emotions, is nicer to pat, can go places that a robot dog never will (let's see a robot dog run up a steep hill, go for a swim or chase a rabbit through thick scrub) and does a lot better job keeping burglars away and detecting people approaching.
The other thing is that every dog has its own personality and most dogs seem to have an uncanny empathy with humans. Robots will never replace the utility and genuine companionship of a good dog.
Oh yeah, even a dog with pedigree papers is a lot less expensive than a robot!
Splitting Telstra into infrastructure wholesaling and service retailing companies is what I and many others have been advocating for years. Last year, the government made some progress towards this by ordering Telstra to separate their accounting. This is another step in that direction, however it doesn't go far enough.
This week Telstra announced a $4.5 billion profit, whilst the new yankee CEO had the audacity to demand the government a) chip in $5 billion to fix up the network and b) threaten to reduce spending on the network if they don't reduce regulations on them.
That $5 billion or more needs to urgently be spent to bring the network up to scratch is a slamming indictment on the former CEO, Ziggy Switkowski (who was forced out earlier this year). That man singlehandled pissed billions of Telstra dollars down the drain on stupid overseas ventures and buyouts of media companies. He sacked Telstra technicians and R&D people and reduced spending on network maintenance and upgrading. (One classic result of that being the sealant blunder - they thought they were getting a great deal on a sealant, but because they'd sacked all their R&D people they didn't trial it and later found out the sealant was destroying the lines and ended up spending more than double what they paid for the sealant to fix the problem!) Rather than re-investing the profits into ensuring the future success of the company, they spent it executive bonuses, shareholder dividends and share buybacks to prop up their share price. All the while, small upstart carriers have been slowly chipping away at them.
People like me could see the madness of Ziggy's ways, but the government denied there was a problem or impending crisis and even re-appointed him! (Telstra 'loaning' giant plasma screen TV's to key government ministers probably helped.) Telstra have also consistently played dirty to prevent competitors gaining a foothold in the market. (The best one is "we can't let you into the exchange to install your own equipment because we've lost the keys to it") History has shown that they simply cannot be trusted to maintain the national network - an asset paid for by the Australian tax-payer that is vital to national security.
It is overwhelmingly in the public interest to retain the local loop and back-haul in public ownership as a statutory body. Carriers would then be free to rent space in exchanges for their own equipment, rent local loops and rent back-haul or install their own. Profits from this would then be used to maintain and upgrade the local loop.
But of course, that runs counter to the Liberal's zealous privatisation ideology. I'm from South Australia and I know that privatisation of public utilities has delivered nothing more than decreased reliability and increased prices as companies cut back on maintenance to bump up profits. Public utility infrastructure should be publicly owned because it is for the benefit of all society and remote locations need to be cross-subsidised. It shouldn't make a profit, just enough to cover the cost of maintenance, upgrades and expansion.
Why waste my time doing something like that when I can just recommend watching something that I think presents a good argument and different take on the shit that people like Rupert Murdoch shove down everyone's throats day-in, day-out?
.au government would reverse the funding cuts they've been making to the ABC for the last decade.
FWIW, the BBC isn't government funded. (So the poms here keep telling everyone who suggests otherwise.) And I trust them more than any American media outlet, seeing as they have the balls to criticise their government.
Public broadcasting is a wonderful thing. I wish the
If you haven't already, you should download and watch the BBC documentary series "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear".
It has an interesting take on how basically, the cronies behind Bush have created the current situation.
After seeing the Panorama show "The War Party" I'm rather inclined to agree with it.
But isn't a "dead" format what they'd want? If it's dead then people wouldn't be able to copy games. Just look at the Gamecube... pretty much no-one copies games for that.
Anyways, this is Microsoft PC mentality at its best - "You can always upgrade to get better performance!" Problem is, consoles are like Mac's - "they just work". As soon as a customer has to check when they buy a game that it'll work with their version of the console you've lost them. That's to say nothing of developers that are always going to go for the lowest common denominator version to keep their risk low. That will be especially important as development budgets continue to grow.
Just look at the success of console add-ons.
I've seen a good dozen HD trailers of complete or nearly so Xbox 360 games, where's the PS2 titles? Any killer apps yet? I haven't seen any.
PS3 devkits have only been available in extremely limited numbers for a couple of months. The ones that are out there are like pre-alpha systems.
Maybe developers are having problems dealing with a CPU that has terrible integer performance and a wacky memory system with too little local memory to do a few algorithms like say... collision detection on the SPEs?
Huh? It just seems to me that time-and-time again it's PC and Xbox developers who are complaining about the next-gen architectures.
The NewEgg price you quoted doesn't include express shipping.
AusPC Market prices all include express shipping, plus they're not the cheapest supplier around - from what I gather they tend to stock more 'enthusiast'/hard to find (low volume) things. Just take a look at their selection of cases for example.
I have no interest in them other than being a satisfied repeat customer.
I take it you're not familiar with the Chinese diplomat who's currently trying to defect to Australia - he claims that the Chinese government has an extensive spy network in Australia that is monitoring people and even abducting them and taking them back to China.
Quite the alarming allegation. It's on the level of North Korea sending submarines to Japan to abduct civilians during the night.
Team Soho beat Google to it.
Go into your local game shop and pick up a copy of The Getaway for PS2 for a 3D map of London. =]
We better be packing BFG's when we land there. With dust devils now being confirmed there's bound to be a Cyberdemon or two lurking around there.
"Hey George, there's hellspawn on Mars... time to wage another crusade to rid the solar system of evil!"
Fat people are healthier than obese people. Who would have thought?
But that doesn't change the fact that you're still a disgusting fat slob.
Losing weight is as simple as making sure that energyIn < energyOut.
MR SPARKLE!!!!!!
Yeah, it's great now that non-ms programs can do video conferencing with the ms program.
But really, am I the only one that thinks that MSN's video conferencing quality is just absolutely friggen' shithouse?
Even on a 10mbit connection the frame-rate, image size and quality sucks balls!
No, the removal of the media player EXE should not require the removal of all the codecs too. But why should microsft give you the codecs without the program that goes with them. If you want their codecs, use their software, otherwise, get your own codecs.
Then doesn't that defeat the purpose of shipping a media framework with the OS in the first place? What good is DirectShow or Video For Windows without any filters for decoding media formats?
Have you ever known anyone who's topped themselves?
Sadly, I knew three people who did and somewho who tried. Suicide is a terrible tragedy, and it has a very alarming rate of incidence amongst young men here in Australia.
One of my cousins threw himself off a cliff in front of his mates.
A friend from school had his dad hang himself in his shed. His mother found him, then a few years later he did the same thing in the same spot and his poor mother found him.
One of my mothers former colleagues hung herself.
Why don't you try telling their family, friends and lovers that they should have left them alone and that they should respect their decision to end it all, which will perhaps magically absolve them of their feelings of grief and wondering why they did it and what they might have done that could have contributed to it?
I really want to say FUCK YOU for holding such a selfish and ill-conceived view, but you really do need professional medical help. Suicidial depression isn't anything to be laughed at or treated in a blazae fashion, it's a serious disease.
Finally, what's the point of building a print server into a device that's meant to plug into your television? Anybody who wants to plug a printer into a wireless network can already buy either an AirPort Extreme base station or an AirPort Express, or any number of third-party wireless products.
Because you might like to plug a remote control into so you can change the channel or whatever, just like you can buy that remote for the AirPort Express to let you change the tracks. =]
So some 3rd world countries aren't happy that the US government controls the Internet?
Now, not being an American myself I still think this is bullshit and sour grapes.
Instead of bitching that the UN should control it so these little third world shitholes have just as much or more say over developed nations perhaps they could just start their own Internet?
As far as I understand, the Internet is just an agreement between the people who own networks on how to connect them together.
It's just like signing a contract - you don't like the conditions then don't sign it.
Spread that $11B out over the lifetime of the infrastructure - say 30 years.
Not much of a subsidy now, is it?
There's no way private enterprise would roll-out infrastructure like that themselves because at commodity prices like $30/mo it'll take them a couple of decades to get a return.
I dunno...I think it says the average person, is an idiot.
What I found the most suprising is that this survey indicates that there are twice as many non-idiots than I thought there was.
Besides the fact that this is a blatant dupe, anyone who takes this article seriously is as big a dickhead as the author.
It's so full of shit and blatantly wrong that I don't know where to begin.