No, there is an architecture, which includes the instruction set and the rules that determine how the processor will behave.
For instance, x86 processors allow unaligned memory access, which is one of the reasons that SMP on x86 is difficult. Most modern (non-x86) processors will raise an exception if you don't align memory access. Make an x86 processor that does that and it's no longer an x86 processor.
LOL, they belong in the "space age" because they exist at the same time as space is being explored. They have "moved" nowhere.
You have struck upon the cornerstone of modernism. The idea that one's civilisation is "modern" requires the discovery of less advanced civilisations. The "space age" is a classically modernist text offering and requiring unlimited progress away from the primitive cultures of the past.
I wonder what Dell will become if they escape from being Just Another Wintel vendor...
Dell isn't just a Wintel vendor, it's the vendor. Dell has the biggest slice of the market and is the only company besides Apple actually making money from selling consumer PCs.
So with this huge market share, what R&D has Dell contributed to the world? Absolutely nothing, except for their one invention: a tech support button on their machines which never worked properly and they longer support. Every single aspect of Dell's business is copied from other manufacturers. There is absolutely no innovation going on there.
Spam is worse than most other crimes. For example, murder is a particularly bad crime, but if it isn't you or anyone you know who's being murdered, it doesn't really affect you. Spam, on the other hand, is happening to you.
You are trying to claim that the CPU score is going up 40%? Considering that in CPU-intensive applications the operating system takes 2%...
I think you have the wrong end of the stick. Applications are loading and calling routines from the Cocoa and Carbon runtime libraries. Upgrading the OS means (inter alia) upgrading the libraries, hopefully delivering a 'CPU' improvement to all applications.
I'm a very happy Apple user having switched a little under half a year ago. Not true.
But this is such a non-story it shouldn't have even been posted here. True.
There are already CPUs in laptops today that can give the G5 a run for its money. Not true.
They may not have great battery life, but heat issues have been taken care of. Not true.
There's nothing unique about the G5 that makes it any more difficult to get into a laptop than any other CPU design. Not true.
That Apple is talking about a G5 laptop as if it's a big technical deal has me worried. Not true.
The newly released Powerbooks are already up to half as slow as their Centrino counterparts which sport similar or better battery life. Not true.
Perhaps the G5 Powerbook won't see the light of day until next fall when the G4 Powerbook will be tremendously outclassed. You can hope, you pointless troll.
Well, congratulations. You're a whining brit who thinks he's really interesting and smart. We always love to hear your opinions about the history of inventions.
You know what would be nice? If Apple made the entire keyboard/mouse assembly on the PowerBooks swappable with an alternate design (or several alternatives.)
Ah, the Mac Portable complete with lead-acid battery. You could swap out modular keyboard components like numpads, trackballs, even an ashtray module.
Strangely enough, the portable wasn't that weird for 1989. The way laptops look now - keyboard pushed back, trackpad front center, wrist-rest layout, along with using a trackpad in lieu of a trackball - was first done on the original PowerBooks. Everyone does it now, of course.
Huh, that's nothing. My mouse has ten buttons, precision crosshairs and has - in place of scrollwheels - a small mousepad on top complete with a tiny mouse that I operate with my little finger.
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IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
That would be like buying your ex-wife's car from her so you can trash it in revenge.
Is there really much need for so much desktop power? How many users will utilize the full potential of a dual G5? Keep in mind that if even slashdot users can't keep two procs going, the general public has little hope.
It's a fallacy to assume that "inexperienced" users need less power than "power users". If anything, newbies need more power to provide faster feedback. Remember that Macs come with iMovie, iDVD, etc, apps that (although consumer-friendly) still need serious processing power.
If you aren't actually making money developing these web sites, then why the hell go to all the effort of making them flashy enough to have rendering issues?
Okay let's do the introductions. Business Sense this is Web Development. Web Development, this is Business Sense.
This is from astronautix (the best site on spaceflight i've ever seen):
In many ways the Gemini design was ahead of that of the Apollo, since the project began two years later . The crew station layout was similar to that of the latest military fighters; the capsule was equipped with ejection seats, inertial navigation, the pilot's traditional 8-ball attitude display, and radar. The escape tower used for Mercury was deleted; the propellants used in the Titan II launch vehicle, while toxic, corrosive, poisonous, and self-igniting, did not explode in the manner of the Atlas or Saturn LOX/Kerosene combination. The ejection seats served as the crew escape method in the lower atmosphere, just as in a high-performance aircraft. The seats were also needed for the original landing mode, which involved deployment of a huge inflated Rogallo wing (ancestor of today's hang gliders) with a piloted landing on skids at Edwards Dry Lake. In the event, the wing could not be made to deploy reliably before flights began, so the capsule made a parachute-borne water landing, much to the astronauts' chagrin.
All around the Gemini was considered the ultimate 'pilot's spacecraft', and it was also popular with engineers because of its extremely light weight. The capsule allowed the recovery of a crew of two for only 50% more than the Mercury capsule weight, and half of the weight per crew member of the Apollo design. The penalty was obvious - it was christened the 'Gusmobile' since diminutive Gus Grissom was the only astronaut who was said to be able to fit into it.
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No, there is an architecture, which includes the instruction set and the rules that determine how the processor will behave.
For instance, x86 processors allow unaligned memory access, which is one of the reasons that SMP on x86 is difficult. Most modern (non-x86) processors will raise an exception if you don't align memory access. Make an x86 processor that does that and it's no longer an x86 processor.
LOL, they belong in the "space age" because they exist at the same time as space is being explored. They have "moved" nowhere.
You have struck upon the cornerstone of modernism. The idea that one's civilisation is "modern" requires the discovery of less advanced civilisations. The "space age" is a classically modernist text offering and requiring unlimited progress away from the primitive cultures of the past.
Organic integrated circuits are produced without using fertilizer or pesticide.
I agree. Using analogies on Slashdot is like comparing apples and oranges.
Analogies are like a box of chocolates; you never know if people are going to get it.
The japanese cars aspect is curious:
From the article: The company, which is based in Oregon House, is called MR2, for "Maximized Response Rate."
Mr in Japanese is the suffix "San". And "2" in Japanese is Ni.
So in Japanese their company is called Ni-san.
No, you're confusing "developing" with "watching someone else developing". Dell never invented anything; Sandia Labs invented the heat pipe.
And Dell's magnificent R&D spent some time trying to get their fans to be a bit quieter? That's really the best you can come up with?
I wonder what Dell will become if they escape from being Just Another Wintel vendor...
Dell isn't just a Wintel vendor, it's the vendor. Dell has the biggest slice of the market and is the only company besides Apple actually making money from selling consumer PCs.
So with this huge market share, what R&D has Dell contributed to the world? Absolutely nothing, except for their one invention: a tech support button on their machines which never worked properly and they longer support. Every single aspect of Dell's business is copied from other manufacturers. There is absolutely no innovation going on there.
the punishment for annoyance is death?
Spam is worse than most other crimes. For example, murder is a particularly bad crime, but if it isn't you or anyone you know who's being murdered, it doesn't really affect you. Spam, on the other hand, is happening to you.
You are trying to claim that the CPU score is going up 40%? Considering that in CPU-intensive applications the operating system takes 2%...
I think you have the wrong end of the stick. Applications are loading and calling routines from the Cocoa and Carbon runtime libraries. Upgrading the OS means (inter alia) upgrading the libraries, hopefully delivering a 'CPU' improvement to all applications.
So I'd say that they didn't hint that they weren't using the 7.0.1 G5 patch ;)
And I wouldn't not say that they didn't not hint that they didn't not choose to not use the patch.
Apple must have been using their time machine:
Powerbook: October 1991
ThinkPad: October 1992
The STacy has "the same form factor" in as much as it is a clamshell design, which had already been done by Toshiba.
I'm a very happy Apple user having switched a little under half a year ago.
Not true.
But this is such a non-story it shouldn't have even been posted here.
True.
There are already CPUs in laptops today that can give the G5 a run for its money.
Not true.
They may not have great battery life, but heat issues have been taken care of.
Not true.
There's nothing unique about the G5 that makes it any more difficult to get into a laptop than any other CPU design.
Not true.
That Apple is talking about a G5 laptop as if it's a big technical deal has me worried.
Not true.
The newly released Powerbooks are already up to half as slow as their Centrino counterparts which sport similar or better battery life.
Not true.
Perhaps the G5 Powerbook won't see the light of day until next fall when the G4 Powerbook will be tremendously outclassed.
You can hope, you pointless troll.
Well, congratulations. You're a whining brit who thinks he's really interesting and smart. We always love to hear your opinions about the history of inventions.
Here you go.
You know what would be nice? If Apple made the entire keyboard/mouse assembly on the PowerBooks swappable with an alternate design (or several alternatives.)
Ah, the Mac Portable complete with lead-acid battery. You could swap out modular keyboard components like numpads, trackballs, even an ashtray module.
Strangely enough, the portable wasn't that weird for 1989. The way laptops look now - keyboard pushed back, trackpad front center, wrist-rest layout, along with using a trackpad in lieu of a trackball - was first done on the original PowerBooks. Everyone does it now, of course.
My mouse has four buttons and two wheels.
Huh, that's nothing. My mouse has ten buttons, precision crosshairs and has - in place of scrollwheels - a small mousepad on top complete with a tiny mouse that I operate with my little finger.
IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
That would be like buying your ex-wife's car from her so you can trash it in revenge.
It's a trap!
Is there really much need for so much desktop power? How many users will utilize the full potential of a dual G5? Keep in mind that if even slashdot users can't keep two procs going, the general public has little hope.
It's a fallacy to assume that "inexperienced" users need less power than "power users". If anything, newbies need more power to provide faster feedback. Remember that Macs come with iMovie, iDVD, etc, apps that (although consumer-friendly) still need serious processing power.
If you aren't actually making money developing these web sites, then why the hell go to all the effort of making them flashy enough to have rendering issues?
Okay let's do the introductions. Business Sense this is Web Development. Web Development, this is Business Sense.
I fail to see the necessity to produce hundreds of windows-clone distros - isn't it win that we want to draw people away from?
Also by the time you've copied a feature from Windows, Microsoft has already copied something else from OS X.
The US spends around 3 to 4% of its GDP on defense.
table here
Yes You can go google all the above for yourself, why Because I'm a lazy critic.
You misspelled 'troll".
So which Native American tribe do you belong to?
This is from astronautix (the best site on spaceflight i've ever seen):
In many ways the Gemini design was ahead of that of the Apollo, since the project began two years later . The crew station layout was similar to that of the latest military fighters; the capsule was equipped with ejection seats, inertial navigation, the pilot's traditional 8-ball attitude display, and radar. The escape tower used for Mercury was deleted; the propellants used in the Titan II launch vehicle, while toxic, corrosive, poisonous, and self-igniting, did not explode in the manner of the Atlas or Saturn LOX/Kerosene combination. The ejection seats served as the crew escape method in the lower atmosphere, just as in a high-performance aircraft. The seats were also needed for the original landing mode, which involved deployment of a huge inflated Rogallo wing (ancestor of today's hang gliders) with a piloted landing on skids at Edwards Dry Lake. In the event, the wing could not be made to deploy reliably before flights began, so the capsule made a parachute-borne water landing, much to the astronauts' chagrin.
All around the Gemini was considered the ultimate 'pilot's spacecraft', and it was also popular with engineers because of its extremely light weight. The capsule allowed the recovery of a crew of two for only 50% more than the Mercury capsule weight, and half of the weight per crew member of the Apollo design. The penalty was obvious - it was christened the 'Gusmobile' since diminutive Gus Grissom was the only astronaut who was said to be able to fit into it.