if i'm not mistaken, there isn't any support for powerpc. in an interview about a year ago, the freebsd core team went on record saying "if you want a stable and usable bsd system on powerpc, use MacOS X".
In Belgium at least, this is not such a big problem: the press laws give everyone that is being criticized in the press a certain "right of rebuttal", but the law states that the newspaper or magazine or whatever that published the critical article in the first place should only reserve as much space for the rebuttal as was reserved for the original article. So if your criticism is only half a page long, the newspaper is only obliged to publish a rebuttal of about the same length. If this policy is extended to web sites (which I expect), the logical extension would be to allow only a rebuttal up to the same amount of bytes as the original article. So the company can't force you to host 100Meg files or any such stuff:-)
in fact, i'm just reading it right now... it's a novel from 1997 that is based on the assumption that Huygens, when it descends to Titan, will actually find life based not on carbohydrogens but on ammonia and other stuff.
talk about a visionary novel: it opens with a scene aboard space shuttle Columbia, and during the first fifty pages of the book, Columbia gets destroyed in an accident during reentry in the earths atmosphere. Furthermore, Baxter mentions one contemporary dictator, and guess who it is: Saddam Hussein! Even more, he predicts a victory for a Republican president in the presidential elections, and one of the first things this president does in reinstate the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA Star Wars)... Sounds familiar?
The Dragonball used in almost all Palms up till now is in fact an M68k processor which is definitely a CISC chip! Yup, that's the same kind of processor used in the first macs and amigas...
And emulation of RISC chips is not difficult at all: ever tried building a cross-compilation GNU toolchain? GDB has simulators included for a _lot_ of architectures. (ARM, MIPS, SuperH,...)
Pay Tori to personally visit each reviewer with a guitar and play her songs.
mmmh... maybe you haven't thought about this, but Tori plays the piano, _not_ the guitar! It would be quite funny seeing her carrying around a whole piano though...
I used to be under the impression that the POWER processors from IBM used the same instruction set as the PowerPC processors. Is this correct? In that case, transforming the POWER4 into a PowerPC shouldn't be much of a hassle: more something of downscaling and cutting the really big-iron features.
I really hope Apple jumps on this bandwagon: it may be their only viable alternative for the future, regardless of all the mindless speculations about a transition to x86.
AFAIK Intel's at 0.13 micron for quite a while now, and even AMD has recently joined the fray: Thoroughbred cores have a feature size of 0.13 micron as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Intel were cranking out 0.10 chips at about the same time IBM finished building their new fab...
hey, i'm from europe myself and i can assure you, i'd rather have a subtitled movie than one in which the character's mouths are still moving while they've already stopped speaking... and it seems to me that anyone who is over seven years old should be able to read subtitles, and still enjoy all of the movie.
even more so, since most people in foreign countries (except for France and the Netherlands of course:) understand English, i guess most of the people who are interested in this flick wouldn't need subtitles or dubbing at all
Well, I can only comment on the Belgian situation, but I suppose it's almost the same as the american... Unless you are *REALLY* interested in hardware stuff (the "dirty work") you shouldn't pick Computer Engineering.
I'm caught up in CE because people told me "Well, it's actually the same as C.Sc, only you get to be an engineer and you will get a bigger paycheck". Needless to say, they were wrong! If you're in to programming and more abstract stuff like Information Theory, choose C.Sc. On the other hand, if you like to think for hours about whether or not some Bipolar Transistor is saturated or not, go ahead and pick CE
idunno, you might want to check out what *really* happens before you start pissing on Belgians...
IFPI Belgium has filed charges (sorry, dunno whether that's the correct term, i'm a stupid begian you know) against some 100 known Napster users, and as such, the police HAS to take action, after all in fact those Napster users are violating copyrights. The belgian police don't have a choice. But here's the nice part: our Minister (Secretary?) of Justice, Marc Verwilghen, known for actually trying to solve the dutroux case, has declared that the Napster users won't be sued, just because there are worse things than using Napster to download a song. so if u wanna piss on something, piss on the belgian music industry...
Oh BTW: belgian police let 1 child molester have his way, America allows children to carry guns and kill their classmates (Littleton remember?)... so are you pot-bellied americans REALLY that much better? at least we didn't elect a semi-Nazi president! Buffer overflow
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if i'm not mistaken, there isn't any support for powerpc. in an interview about a year ago, the freebsd core team went on record saying "if you want a stable and usable bsd system on powerpc, use MacOS X".
In Belgium at least, this is not such a big problem: the press laws give everyone that is being criticized in the press a certain "right of rebuttal", but the law states that the newspaper or magazine or whatever that published the critical article in the first place should only reserve as much space for the rebuttal as was reserved for the original article. So if your criticism is only half a page long, the newspaper is only obliged to publish a rebuttal of about the same length. If this policy is extended to web sites (which I expect), the logical extension would be to allow only a rebuttal up to the same amount of bytes as the original article. So the company can't force you to host 100Meg files or any such stuff :-)
in fact, i'm just reading it right now... it's a novel from 1997 that is based on the assumption that Huygens, when it descends to Titan, will actually find life based not on carbohydrogens but on ammonia and other stuff.
talk about a visionary novel: it opens with a scene aboard space shuttle Columbia, and during the first fifty pages of the book, Columbia gets destroyed in an accident during reentry in the earths atmosphere. Furthermore, Baxter mentions one contemporary dictator, and guess who it is: Saddam Hussein! Even more, he predicts a victory for a Republican president in the presidential elections, and one of the first things this president does in reinstate the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA Star Wars)... Sounds familiar?
The Dragonball used in almost all Palms up till now is in fact an M68k processor which is definitely a CISC chip! Yup, that's the same kind of processor used in the first macs and amigas...
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And emulation of RISC chips is not difficult at all: ever tried building a cross-compilation GNU toolchain? GDB has simulators included for a _lot_ of architectures. (ARM, MIPS, SuperH,
Pay Tori to personally visit each reviewer with a guitar and play her songs.
mmmh... maybe you haven't thought about this, but Tori plays the piano, _not_ the guitar! It would be quite funny seeing her carrying around a whole piano though...
I used to be under the impression that the POWER processors from IBM used the same instruction set as the PowerPC processors. Is this correct? In that case, transforming the POWER4 into a PowerPC shouldn't be much of a hassle: more something of downscaling and cutting the really big-iron features.
I really hope Apple jumps on this bandwagon: it may be their only viable alternative for the future, regardless of all the mindless speculations about a transition to x86.
AFAIK Intel's at 0.13 micron for quite a while now, and even AMD has recently joined the fray: Thoroughbred cores have a feature size of 0.13 micron as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Intel were cranking out 0.10 chips at about the same time IBM finished building their new fab...
yeah, i know, i was just kidding :) ik ben nu eenmaal een belg, dus een hollandermop op tijd moet eens kunnen he :)
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hey, i'm from europe myself and i can assure you, i'd rather have a subtitled movie than one in which the character's mouths are still moving while they've already stopped speaking... and it seems to me that anyone who is over seven years old should be able to read subtitles, and still enjoy all of the movie.
:) understand English, i guess most of the people who are interested in this flick wouldn't need subtitles or dubbing at all
even more so, since most people in foreign countries (except for France and the Netherlands of course
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Well, I can only comment on the Belgian situation, but I suppose it's almost the same as the american... Unless you are *REALLY* interested in hardware stuff (the "dirty work") you shouldn't pick Computer Engineering.
I'm caught up in CE because people told me "Well, it's actually the same as C.Sc, only you get to be an engineer and you will get a bigger paycheck". Needless to say, they were wrong! If you're in to programming and more abstract stuff like Information Theory, choose C.Sc. On the other hand, if you like to think for hours about whether or not some Bipolar Transistor is saturated or not, go ahead and pick CE
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idunno, you might want to check out what *really* happens before you start pissing on Belgians... IFPI Belgium has filed charges (sorry, dunno whether that's the correct term, i'm a stupid begian you know) against some 100 known Napster users, and as such, the police HAS to take action, after all in fact those Napster users are violating copyrights. The belgian police don't have a choice. But here's the nice part: our Minister (Secretary?) of Justice, Marc Verwilghen, known for actually trying to solve the dutroux case, has declared that the Napster users won't be sued, just because there are worse things than using Napster to download a song. so if u wanna piss on something, piss on the belgian music industry... Oh BTW: belgian police let 1 child molester have his way, America allows children to carry guns and kill their classmates (Littleton remember?) ... so are you pot-bellied americans REALLY that much better? at least we didn't elect a semi-Nazi president!
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