No need. The PowerPC 32bit ISA is a subset of the 64bit version. 32bit apps run in 32bit address space perfectly happily.
You only need to recompile if you need to see the full 64bit address space.
Oh, and don't worry about AltiVec. The AIM alliance jointly developed the Vector SIMD extensions. Apple calls the unit Velocity Engine, Moto uses AltiVec and IBM calls it VMX.
Digital Radio is already up and running in the UK, although very few people are listening to it!
I work for a large ILR station and whilst we now broadcast digitally, I don't think anyone is really interested in promoting the fact in the short term.
The cheapest standalone DAB radio is £99. I think there is a USB device for a PC which retails around £50. Most people have 5-6 radios to replace if they want to go digital! Plus there is no portable, battery powered solution right now.
Listening numbers may increase in the next couple of years as car manufacturers start to build DAB tuners in to the cars, as Ford will start doing shortly.
Most of the national digital radio broadcasters also get their channels carried on the Sky Digital TV platform otherwise they would have next to no listeners!
In Europe, we use a standard called Eureka 147, which is referred to as Digital Audio Broadcasting or DAB. This is incompatible with the system that is being proposed for the USA.
Then there's the content problem. Existing stations merely rebroadcast and most of the new specialist stations are automated so you may as well listen to your iPod anyway. The only group seem to be doing anything useful with the technology is the good old BBC.
iSync still uses Palm Desktop/HotSync Manager to sync to the Palm OS device. Apple has not written a new HotSync application. It's still up to Palm and/or your Palm OS device vendor to get your device supported in Palm Desktop.
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Sometimes they don't understand that they do, but it's just DHCP or pppoe.
Unfortunately in the world of ISP's, "supported" doesn't mean "it is possible for your computer to connect." It means when Grandma calls and she has problems checking her mail in Outlook, we'll look at a flip chart and talk her through it. Connecting using Linux is possible in the vast majority of cases, but it is usually an unsupported option.
That's fine for Apple's business, but it places it completely outside open standards or the open source world, and will probably limit its adoption.
But who, apart from Apple, needs to "adopt" Aqua? If you are referring to X apps, they can use a rootless X server. Apple doesn't want the industry to adopt Aqua as a GUI standard.
I'm actually a Mac user so would welcome any opportunity to get away from Windows! I'd prefer OpenGL since it has more serious uses aside from games.
However, my University is heavily Windows orientated, aside from a Linux lab the computing students have and some Macs in the art department.
In my 3rd year, I'll be coding a large project which will offer me platform choice. In the meantime it'd be useful to know how you got around the problem of demonstrating your apps/code when the tutor used a specific IDE and taught according to that IDE? (if that problem appeared for you)
I guess it's AppleShare IP running on Mac OS 9, probably bundled as part of a PowerMac G4 "Server" which used to be the only server type product you could buy from Apple before Xserve.
However, you're right in saying that there wasn't an OS called "Mac OS 9 Server"
Hey but you agreed to the EULA. That means that when the pants fall down, Microsoft reserves the right to bend you over and shove software up your ass without your further consent:-)
Microsoft has connected Snoopy to the Internet meaning that Hair Removal can be performed remotely. This is going to revolutionise the way Snoopy is used.
Tell me about it, the nearest one must be about 5,000 miles from me:-)
To make it worse, a good friend of mine is in NYC with his iBook and DV cam. He'll probably be popping along to the SoHo store sometime this weekend to buy an iPod...
Or do what they're going to do at my place of work...
Take one copy of Enterprise Ghost, one big ass NAS and five minutes every week.
Now Wake-On-LAN every desktop and ram a new image up their arse.
Reboot said workstation.
It's disgusting that ideas such as this are replacing any idea of a security policy, or for that matter a skilled sysadmin. Forget the solving the problem, just start fresh every week.
Erm no, most phones aren't locked. Prepay phones tend to be locked as you can so easily switch networks otherwise by just picking up a SIM for £10. Most contract phones aren't locked and even if they are, it's only around £35 for the code from the network.
And besides, what's your problem? The guy made his choice and you made yours and you are both happy.
I personally prefer a seperate PDA and phone as I think they need their own distinct user interfaces and input devices. Seemless integration between all my devices, as Apple is providing with iSync, is what I really want.
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It won't bug MS. They may lose money on a sale, but it's at least some money back instead of no sale at all.
Also, the greater number of installed users, the more developers they can attract and therefore they sell a greater number of expensive dev kits and licences.
From this side of the pond, it seems ordinary Americans are more aware of the close CCTV surveillance of their British friends rather than the bigger "invasion of privacy" that is going on under their noses right now in the name of piracy prevention.
If ordinary Americans aren't made aware of the restrictions are being imposed, by the time they do realise it will be too late.
In my own home, I am unable to take a CD that I purchased, make a copy of it on my own computer and transfer it to my own MP3 player unless I resort to marker pens or real time transfer from my CD player.
I realise that piracy is a bad thing even though I am a freeloading student:-) But surely someone must be able to come up with methods that prevent piracy but allow fair use?
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Head over to Ars where there's a good discussion running about this new processor, its intended market and the differences and similarities it has with existing the POWER and PowerPC ISA's including 32 bit code execution, AltiVec/SIMD implementation and such like:-)
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No need. The PowerPC 32bit ISA is a subset of the 64bit version. 32bit apps run in 32bit address space perfectly happily.
You only need to recompile if you need to see the full 64bit address space.
Oh, and don't worry about AltiVec. The AIM alliance jointly developed the Vector SIMD extensions. Apple calls the unit Velocity Engine, Moto uses AltiVec and IBM calls it VMX.
Digital Radio is already up and running in the UK, although very few people are listening to it!
I work for a large ILR station and whilst we now broadcast digitally, I don't think anyone is really interested in promoting the fact in the short term.
The cheapest standalone DAB radio is £99. I think there is a USB device for a PC which retails around £50. Most people have 5-6 radios to replace if they want to go digital! Plus there is no portable, battery powered solution right now.
Listening numbers may increase in the next couple of years as car manufacturers start to build DAB tuners in to the cars, as Ford will start doing shortly.
Most of the national digital radio broadcasters also get their channels carried on the Sky Digital TV platform otherwise they would have next to no listeners!
In Europe, we use a standard called Eureka 147, which is referred to as Digital Audio Broadcasting or DAB. This is incompatible with the system that is being proposed for the USA.
Then there's the content problem. Existing stations merely rebroadcast and most of the new specialist stations are automated so you may as well listen to your iPod anyway. The only group seem to be doing anything useful with the technology is the good old BBC.
Apple themselves are using it in Mac OS X. They've called it Inkwell
ASDA is one of the UK's biggest supermarket chains, 3rd I think behind Tesco and Sainsbury.
They were bought by WalMart a couple of years ago and some of their larger stores are now branded ASDA WalMart.
iSync still uses Palm Desktop/HotSync Manager to sync to the Palm OS device. Apple has not written a new HotSync application. It's still up to Palm and/or your Palm OS device vendor to get your device supported in Palm Desktop.
Unfortunately in the world of ISP's, "supported" doesn't mean "it is possible for your computer to connect." It means when Grandma calls and she has problems checking her mail in Outlook, we'll look at a flip chart and talk her through it. Connecting using Linux is possible in the vast majority of cases, but it is usually an unsupported option.
No need for this!
No, just that AltiVec(TM)*, the PPC SIMD engine, is shit hot.
*also referred to as VMX by IBM and Velocity Engine by Apple
But who, apart from Apple, needs to "adopt" Aqua? If you are referring to X apps, they can use a rootless X server. Apple doesn't want the industry to adopt Aqua as a GUI standard.
I'm actually a Mac user so would welcome any opportunity to get away from Windows! I'd prefer OpenGL since it has more serious uses aside from games.
However, my University is heavily Windows orientated, aside from a Linux lab the computing students have and some Macs in the art department.
In my 3rd year, I'll be coding a large project which will offer me platform choice. In the meantime it'd be useful to know how you got around the problem of demonstrating your apps/code when the tutor used a specific IDE and taught according to that IDE? (if that problem appeared for you)
I start back at Uni tomorrow, one of the first semester projects is to write a game with DirectX, so I guess games will be homework for me too.
I guess it's AppleShare IP running on Mac OS 9, probably bundled as part of a PowerMac G4 "Server" which used to be the only server type product you could buy from Apple before Xserve.
However, you're right in saying that there wasn't an OS called "Mac OS 9 Server"
Too late, Intel were running a stripped out and repainted NeXT Cube on their stand at ECTS, together with 1.8GHz P4, VFD display and perspex window.
Hey but you agreed to the EULA. That means that when the pants fall down, Microsoft reserves the right to bend you over and shove software up your ass without your further consent :-)
Microsoft has connected Snoopy to the Internet meaning that Hair Removal can be performed remotely. This is going to revolutionise the way Snoopy is used.
ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machines and was started when Acorn sent 4 engineers on a ASIC design course.
Acorn had the first desktop RISC machines out around 1987 IIRC.
ARM was then spun out of Acorn, Advanced RISC Machines was the new name, Apple put in some money as well as VLSI and the rest is history...
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Tell me about it, the nearest one must be about 5,000 miles from me :-)
To make it worse, a good friend of mine is in NYC with his iBook and DV cam. He'll probably be popping along to the SoHo store sometime this weekend to buy an iPod...
So unfair!
Or do what they're going to do at my place of work...
Take one copy of Enterprise Ghost, one big ass NAS and five minutes every week.
Now Wake-On-LAN every desktop and ram a new image up their arse.
Reboot said workstation.
It's disgusting that ideas such as this are replacing any idea of a security policy, or for that matter a skilled sysadmin. Forget the solving the problem, just start fresh every week.
Apple has recently removed all links between Inkwell and Newton in it's current marketing material for the technology.
Erm no, most phones aren't locked. Prepay phones tend to be locked as you can so easily switch networks otherwise by just picking up a SIM for £10. Most contract phones aren't locked and even if they are, it's only around £35 for the code from the network.
And besides, what's your problem? The guy made his choice and you made yours and you are both happy.
I personally prefer a seperate PDA and phone as I think they need their own distinct user interfaces and input devices. Seemless integration between all my devices, as Apple is providing with iSync, is what I really want.
It won't bug MS. They may lose money on a sale, but it's at least some money back instead of no sale at all.
Also, the greater number of installed users, the more developers they can attract and therefore they sell a greater number of expensive dev kits and licences.
Buying an XBox does not hurt Microsoft.
The Xserve motherboard is also blue, don't know of any significance though.
From this side of the pond, it seems ordinary Americans are more aware of the close CCTV surveillance of their British friends rather than the bigger "invasion of privacy" that is going on under their noses right now in the name of piracy prevention.
If ordinary Americans aren't made aware of the restrictions are being imposed, by the time they do realise it will be too late.
In my own home, I am unable to take a CD that I purchased, make a copy of it on my own computer and transfer it to my own MP3 player unless I resort to marker pens or real time transfer from my CD player.
I realise that piracy is a bad thing even though I am a freeloading student :-) But surely someone must be able to come up with methods that prevent piracy but allow fair use?
Head over to Ars where there's a good discussion running about this new processor, its intended market and the differences and similarities it has with existing the POWER and PowerPC ISA's including 32 bit code execution, AltiVec/SIMD implementation and such like :-)