sure they're usefull for emulating a completely different system (as long as it doesnt need as many system resources as the machine you're running it on) but whats the point of emulating x86 on x86...
the emulated system runs a lot slower than it would natively, as does the system doing the emulation, plus, you're not saving a whole lot of time... i mean, when you start the new system, the virtual bios has to start, then whatever os you're running has to boot before you can use it. so the only time you're saving is shutting down the currently running system...
plus, there's the performance issue. you cant just leave the thing running, and expect decent performance, so the only thing its really good for is compiling and testing on another os, but since it runs so much slower, the compile takes that much longer, probably longer than the time you would save not having to reboot. you also dont have the ability to test the program properly, because you dont know how fast the program will really run, nor can you properly determine the bare system your program requires...
so basically, the only thing its good for is being a neat toy for lazy bums with ultra-fast hardware...
Id have to say that i really doubt that this will cause the variety of cds to go down... the markup that the record company has is so large, this wont even put a dent in their profits...
in fact, this doesnt mention that the wholesale price is dropping, so the record companies are charging the same price they always have...
doesnt matter to me a whole lot anymore, ive pretty much stopped buying that mainstream crap, and i couldn't be happier... small labels are cheaper, and the musics better...
I know that the OS X api is written in Objective C (cause they stole it from NeXTStep), not C++, so you may have a few problems there, since classes are defined and implemented differently in Objective C
I took an AP programing course last year... we learned C++, but it was very basic. The last thing we learned was structs, and a lot of the class had trouble. However, at my school, we take the AP test at the end of our second year in the programing course, and i havent gotten there yet
so its my fault that adobe charges $500+ for their software? or how about any other "high end" software? i saw an autodesk ad in a 3d magazine that simply stated "please dont pirate our software" it didnt even say what they sold.
if they dont want me to pirate their software, sell it at a reasonable price
think about it... how much do you pay for cable... for your radio... why do we have to pay for domain names and bandwidth... there is no such thing as a free lunch
Apperently you havent been in high school since this school shooting scare has come around. I have a close friend who was almost arrested at the end of last year because he made a joke about killing cheerleaders almost a year before. He asumed that the joke was absurd enough not to be taken seriously, but he was aperently wrong, since the cheerleader he was joking to turned him in last year because she thought he was going to shoot up the school. And now we have had even more privacy striped away since the school installed video survielince cameras in the halls... I'm sorry, but mandatory parent-teacher meetings about substance abuse are nothing...
relating to their modifications to the device so that it cannot be modified, has anybody tried hacking it by putting Linux on the Flash ROM. Linux could be crammed into 16 MB. Or could it be used as a diskless X or console terminal?
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sure they're usefull for emulating a completely different system (as long as it doesnt need as many system resources as the machine you're running it on) but whats the point of emulating x86 on x86...
the emulated system runs a lot slower than it would natively, as does the system doing the emulation, plus, you're not saving a whole lot of time... i mean, when you start the new system, the virtual bios has to start, then whatever os you're running has to boot before you can use it. so the only time you're saving is shutting down the currently running system...
plus, there's the performance issue. you cant just leave the thing running, and expect decent performance, so the only thing its really good for is compiling and testing on another os, but since it runs so much slower, the compile takes that much longer, probably longer than the time you would save not having to reboot. you also dont have the ability to test the program properly, because you dont know how fast the program will really run, nor can you properly determine the bare system your program requires...
so basically, the only thing its good for is being a neat toy for lazy bums with ultra-fast hardware...
in fact, this doesnt mention that the wholesale price is dropping, so the record companies are charging the same price they always have...
doesnt matter to me a whole lot anymore, ive pretty much stopped buying that mainstream crap, and i couldn't be happier... small labels are cheaper, and the musics better...
I know that the OS X api is written in Objective C (cause they stole it from NeXTStep), not C++, so you may have a few problems there, since classes are defined and implemented differently in Objective C
this isnt going to run on those machines though, only on win32/mac...
i dont know why everyone seems to think it is, 'cause i dont, perhaps someone could enlighten us...
The NeXT was, and still is, a great machine...
My father still uses one as a mail and file server where he works... In ten years he's only had to reboot it after power outages...
I took an AP programing course last year...
we learned C++, but it was very basic. The last thing we learned was structs, and a lot of the class had trouble. However, at my school, we take the AP test at the end of our second year in the programing course, and i havent gotten there yet
so its my fault that adobe charges $500+ for their software? or how about any other "high end" software? i saw an autodesk ad in a 3d magazine that simply stated "please dont pirate our software" it didnt even say what they sold.
if they dont want me to pirate their software, sell it at a reasonable price
think about it... how much do you pay for cable... for your radio... why do we have to pay for domain names and bandwidth... there is no such thing as a free lunch
Actually, this is a pretty widely used program...
Apperently you havent been in high school since this school shooting scare has come around. I have a close friend who was almost arrested at the end of last year because he made a joke about killing cheerleaders almost a year before. He asumed that the joke was absurd enough not to be taken seriously, but he was aperently wrong, since the cheerleader he was joking to turned him in last year because she thought he was going to shoot up the school. And now we have had even more privacy striped away since the school installed video survielince cameras in the halls... I'm sorry, but mandatory parent-teacher meetings about substance abuse are nothing...
relating to their modifications to the device so that it cannot be modified, has anybody tried hacking it by putting Linux on the Flash ROM. Linux could be crammed into 16 MB. Or could it be used as a diskless X or console terminal?