I am impressed with a technology behind Rosetta. Are ther any open source projects like that?
YES, exactly like Rosetta
QEMU lets you run Linux apps compiled for another CPU architechure. So you can run PowerPC Linux apps on your X86 Linux box. QEMU is nowhere near as seemless or fast as Rosetta, but QEMU does run in two modes: user-emulation where it works like Rosetta, and system-emulation where you can run another whole OS like VMWware.
Yes, the other factors are that the dev kits don't support any kind of special features. It's standard PC BIOS so it doesn't have to bother to search any of the many other places/buses a standard mac can boot from.
If your default boot disk is available then a normal Mac doesn't take anytime looking for other boot devices. These Intel dev Macs do support booting from USB drives so that is not the case anyway.
Also, since plugins cannot be emulated, there is no way for anyone to install kernel extensions that slow down the boot times of OS X.
OSX kernel extensions are very rare. Almost no program uses them except Norton products(anti-virus and disk doctor). I recommend staying away from Norton stuff for this reason and using Alsoft's Disk Warrior. Third party kernel extensions are a bad idea on any OS.
In other words, the speed these people think they're seeing are actually do to a horrific lack of features.
What features are lacking?? The Intel dev Macs have Firefox, iPhoto, iDVD, and Quicktime installed. The average user may install some extra dashboard widgets and a driver or two, but I doubt that would add more than a couple seconds to boot time.
Not only does your TV need to have internet access next to it, but it also should to be somewhat centrally located in your apartment. Simply moving your wifi router will fix A LOT of problems people have with them. My wifi router generally sits near my TV so it's not a problem for my apartment, but my parents house has only a couple locations where the whole house gets decent coverage. One large market for game systems is young guys who still live in their parents house.
You can get a little more life out of them by using the Unofficial Mozilla 1.3a for Mac OS9. It is MUCH better than 1.2.1, but alas is still very dated...
the increase of routers in the common household it may have been a deciding factor to not include this.
You may have hit the nail on the head. Also, the router would be tied to your TV, which would make it worthless in many situations. I'm still hoping the Revolution acts as a wifi router though.
We were RMA-ing about 2 per week for some time, we have had AT&T (Now Cingular) in our offices on at least four occasions to complain about the number of failures we have had on these devices.
Nintendo would probably only offer less popular games (like Dr. Mario) where not too many people would pay to play it.
Hey! Dr. Mario Kicks ass! I was just playing Dr. Wario(part of WarioWare) a couple minutes ago. Dr. Mario would sway what console I would put money down on. It would be interesting if Nintendo included Tetris with the Revolution like they did with the original GameBoy. I could see Tetris selling a CRAP load of Revolutions without cutting into their game disc profits at all.
The number of units shipped has little to do with the number sold.
It's likely Sony doesn't know exactly how many consoles/games were sold in each quarter. The PS2/PSP and even PS1 are still currently selling well: until demand decreases significantly the number of units shipped roughly equals number sold.
Yes, because a $2 billion loss (for a $8 billion profit on $36 billion revenue) last year is "bleeding out the company"....
And let's pretend that Sony didn't only make $0.8 billion profit last year on $71 billion revenue! What are they doing wrong over at Sony?
Nevermind that the $2 billion loss of their Xbox division would have made a nice tax writeoff.
That's not a tax writeoff, the only way this is going to save M$ on taxes is that you only have to pay taxes on your net income.
Come to think of it, Sony's not been particularly profitable recently, especially given the failure of the PSP - maybe they should give up too?
So are you saying:
That Sony should drop their electronics division? Which has been profitable and probably will recover...
That Sony should give up their lucrative console or movie businesses?
That Sony should drop the PSP before it's had ANY chance to prove itself?
Sony's troubles are NOTHING like Microsoft's. The original XBox was a financial failure and if the 360 doesn't generate profits in the next couple years then the whole division is going to be axed.
Quoting another analyst doesn't give your claims any more validity, it's WAY to early to be talking about console prices in any kind of absolutes. There is no way any of these analysts know what Sony or Microsoft are going to be getting their parts for, much less what they spend on the parts they manufacturer themselves. At best these analysts' predictions are educated guesses, at worst they are outright lies.
The $494 price tag was reached when Merrill Lynch Japan estimated that the PS3's main components( Cell chip, RSX, and BD-ROM drive) would cost about 11,000 yen ($101) each and the other components would make up the rest of the 54,000 yen . That was a rough estimate, which was probably very wrong. I can't find how the analysts at the UBS investment bank determined that the 360 was going to cost $375 to manufacter, but I imagine those estimates are even more bull shit than Merrill Lynch's figures.
Sony won't let themselves get priced out of the market. When the PS3 ships it will be priced at whatever the 360 is priced at. The $400 was predicted by an anylyst, the same ones that said the PSP would be $350. Given that the 360 is including a HD it's likely to cost more to produce.
I think Microsoft will only initially ship every 360 with a HD so that it will be able to play XBox1 games, then remove it to compete on price with Sony's PS3. The backwards compatability won't be so critical once MS has a library of 360 games.
Intel is still competitive on the desktop even if they currently don't have the "fastest" CPU today. Apple won't be in any worse situation than Dell on hardware and Apple has an OS to differentiate itself from all the other computer manufacturers.
AMD seems to think Apple was bullied into accepting Intel's offer. I know Intel has some very sketchy discount mechanisms... If this lawsuit is succesful maybe we will see AMD in Apple and Dell desktops.
Apple neeeds a new CPU for their laptop and Intel is curently spanking AMD soundly in low wattage CPUs. If Apple didn't need Intels laptop CPUs I wouldn't doubt they would have gone with AMD.
What is so much better about the PodBuddy that DLO would want to invest $23,000 + the cost of starting a new production line for it. I think Jack Campbell(DVForge) is being unrealistic here. He didn't bother to do any research in his only competition before investing in creating a nearly identical product.
From the article: "have offered him[DOL's CEO] all of our development work, prototypes, production tooling, intellectual property releases, several purchase orders we have here from national buyers, and, our entire list of email inquiries from folks like you. Our price to Jeff?... the $23,000 we have invested in just the hard injection mold tooling."
Jack Campbell admitted he was trying to sell our email addresses!! If anyone is asking for more lawsuits it's DVForge.
Actually if you wanted to write internationalization in a short easy to pronounce way you would write \u56fd\u969b\u5316\u3011 .
Since that is the kanji for internationalism in both Chinese and Japanese. I think that makes it much easier for the majority of the population to pronounce*.
There is a very sound reason to put Arabic numerals in the word, it's easy to pick out no matter what language(s) you read. This isn't anything like Prince's name where he just made up a totally new symbol to get out of contract obligations.
* I don't know literacy percentages, nor do I know any Japanese or Chinese.
I believe you missed the point a bit. More people in the world recognize Arabic numerals than Latin characters. i18n is just suposed to be a symbol that anyone in the word could recognize easily.
I was thinking the same thing. It would make a lot more sense if this was coming from Transgaming. I don't see what Codeweavers version of Wine will have that will have over the official Wine release. I'm happy Codweavers will be working on the OSX-X86 Wine port, but I just don't see what they will get out of it.
It's possible they are just planning on selling a polished installer with a couple of their extra DLLs, which would sell well to Mac users as long as it was under $20.
QEMU is getting quite good on Linux-X86 and is already ported to OSX. If the accelerator module gets ported to OSX-X86 then there will be little reason for a VirtualPC for OSX-X86.
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I am impressed with a technology behind Rosetta. Are ther any open source projects like that?
YES, exactly like Rosetta
QEMU lets you run Linux apps compiled for another CPU architechure. So you can run PowerPC Linux apps on your X86 Linux box. QEMU is nowhere near as seemless or fast as Rosetta, but QEMU does run in two modes: user-emulation where it works like Rosetta, and system-emulation where you can run another whole OS like VMWware.
Not only does your TV need to have internet access next to it, but it also should to be somewhat centrally located in your apartment. Simply moving your wifi router will fix A LOT of problems people have with them. My wifi router generally sits near my TV so it's not a problem for my apartment, but my parents house has only a couple locations where the whole house gets decent coverage. One large market for game systems is young guys who still live in their parents house.
I KNOW!!!!!
I just wish I could afford a Sony Librie and get my textbooks for it!!! I plunked down $150 for used textbooks for one accounting class this summer.
To me it would have made more sense to get the students $500 imported Sony Libries, than $850 laptops to goof off on...
You can get a little more life out of them by using the Unofficial Mozilla 1.3a for Mac OS9. It is MUCH better than 1.2.1, but alas is still very dated...
the increase of routers in the common household it may have been a deciding factor to not include this.
You may have hit the nail on the head. Also, the router would be tied to your TV, which would make it worthless in many situations. I'm still hoping the Revolution acts as a wifi router though.
Not even close.... yet.Apple has about 3% of the world's PC market and Dell has about 18% of the world's PC market.
Apple is probably counting on this deal to increase their volume of sales considerably.
Reasons:
We were RMA-ing about 2 per week for some time, we have had AT&T (Now Cingular) in our offices on at least four occasions to complain about the number of failures we have had on these devices.
What are you doing to the poor little things?
Nintendo would probably only offer less popular games (like Dr. Mario) where not too many people would pay to play it.
Hey! Dr. Mario Kicks ass! I was just playing Dr. Wario(part of WarioWare) a couple minutes ago. Dr. Mario would sway what console I would put money down on. It would be interesting if Nintendo included Tetris with the Revolution like they did with the original GameBoy. I could see Tetris selling a CRAP load of Revolutions without cutting into their game disc profits at all.
The number of units shipped has little to do with the number sold.
It's likely Sony doesn't know exactly how many consoles/games were sold in each quarter. The PS2/PSP and even PS1 are still currently selling well: until demand decreases significantly the number of units shipped roughly equals number sold.
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Yes, because a $2 billion loss (for a $8 billion profit on $36 billion revenue) last year is "bleeding out the company"....
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Nevermind that the $2 billion loss of their Xbox division would have made a nice tax writeoff.
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Come to think of it, Sony's not been particularly profitable recently, especially given the failure of the PSP - maybe they should give up too?
- That Sony should drop their electronics division? Which has been profitable and probably will recover...
- That Sony should give up their lucrative console or movie businesses?
- That Sony should drop the PSP before it's had ANY chance to prove itself?
Sony's troubles are NOTHING like Microsoft's. The original XBox was a financial failure and if the 360 doesn't generate profits in the next couple years then the whole division is going to be axed.And let's pretend that Sony didn't only make $0.8 billion profit last year on $71 billion revenue! What are they doing wrong over at Sony?
WHAT?!?!
The Windows monopoly is profitable?!?!?
To put Sony's numbers in context:
"Sony's electronics division, which accounts for approximately two-thirds of the Sony group's revenues, was in the red for its second straight year." Sony's gaming division posted a 407 million profit in 2004 while taking massive losses on the PSP introduction. Microsoft's Entertainment division was profitable for one quarter, that's it.
That's not a tax writeoff, the only way this is going to save M$ on taxes is that you only have to pay taxes on your net income.
So are you saying:
Nope - analysts predict a $75 loss per Xbox 360 sold at $300
Quoting another analyst doesn't give your claims any more validity, it's WAY to early to be talking about console prices in any kind of absolutes. There is no way any of these analysts know what Sony or Microsoft are going to be getting their parts for, much less what they spend on the parts they manufacturer themselves. At best these analysts' predictions are educated guesses, at worst they are outright lies.
The $494 price tag was reached when Merrill Lynch Japan estimated that the PS3's main components( Cell chip, RSX, and BD-ROM drive) would cost about 11,000 yen ($101) each and the other components would make up the rest of the 54,000 yen . That was a rough estimate, which was probably very wrong. I can't find how the analysts at the UBS investment bank determined that the 360 was going to cost $375 to manufacter, but I imagine those estimates are even more bull shit than Merrill Lynch's figures.
Sony won't let themselves get priced out of the market. When the PS3 ships it will be priced at whatever the 360 is priced at. The $400 was predicted by an anylyst, the same ones that said the PSP would be $350. Given that the 360 is including a HD it's likely to cost more to produce.
I think Microsoft will only initially ship every 360 with a HD so that it will be able to play XBox1 games, then remove it to compete on price with Sony's PS3. The backwards compatability won't be so critical once MS has a library of 360 games.
Intel is still competitive on the desktop even if they currently don't have the "fastest" CPU today. Apple won't be in any worse situation than Dell on hardware and Apple has an OS to differentiate itself from all the other computer manufacturers.
AMD seems to think Apple was bullied into accepting Intel's offer. I know Intel has some very sketchy discount mechanisms... If this lawsuit is succesful maybe we will see AMD in Apple and Dell desktops.
No go on my machine (Debian Sarge)
The installer failed with regular Wine, with WineX 3.3-1 it installed but still wouldn't run.
Since they are working on a Mac version I imagine they will also at least look into releasing a Linux port.
Apple neeeds a new CPU for their laptop and Intel is curently spanking AMD soundly in low wattage CPUs. If Apple didn't need Intels laptop CPUs I wouldn't doubt they would have gone with AMD.
What is so much better about the PodBuddy that DLO would want to invest $23,000 + the cost of starting a new production line for it. I think Jack Campbell(DVForge) is being unrealistic here. He didn't bother to do any research in his only competition before investing in creating a nearly identical product.
From the article: "have offered him[DOL's CEO] all of our development work, prototypes, production tooling, intellectual property releases, several purchase orders we have here from national buyers, and, our entire list of email inquiries from folks like you. Our price to Jeff?... the $23,000 we have invested in just the hard injection mold tooling."
Jack Campbell admitted he was trying to sell our email addresses!! If anyone is asking for more lawsuits it's DVForge.
it's perfectly pronouncable; its pronounced inter-nation-al-i-zation.
QEMU allows you to launch apps compiled for a different CPU on Linux. So it is probably technically possible to run HL2 on LinuxPPC.
Ooops, that made a mess of the unicode. But I guess Slashdot posters/reader can just use U+22269 U+38469 U+21270.
Actually if you wanted to write internationalization in a short easy to pronounce way you would write \u56fd\u969b\u5316\u3011 . Since that is the kanji for internationalism in both Chinese and Japanese. I think that makes it much easier for the majority of the population to pronounce*.
There is a very sound reason to put Arabic numerals in the word, it's easy to pick out no matter what language(s) you read. This isn't anything like Prince's name where he just made up a totally new symbol to get out of contract obligations.
* I don't know literacy percentages, nor do I know any Japanese or Chinese.
I believe you missed the point a bit. More people in the world recognize Arabic numerals than Latin characters. i18n is just suposed to be a symbol that anyone in the word could recognize easily.
The L33t spelling is just a bonus.....
I was thinking the same thing. It would make a lot more sense if this was coming from Transgaming. I don't see what Codeweavers version of Wine will have that will have over the official Wine release. I'm happy Codweavers will be working on the OSX-X86 Wine port, but I just don't see what they will get out of it.
It's possible they are just planning on selling a polished installer with a couple of their extra DLLs, which would sell well to Mac users as long as it was under $20.
QEMU is getting quite good on Linux-X86 and is already ported to OSX. If the accelerator module gets ported to OSX-X86 then there will be little reason for a VirtualPC for OSX-X86.