For what it is worth, the Airport also uses a low end 486 processor.
Also, there are plenty of other vendors for ARM chips besides Intel.
It seems to me that IBM/PPC has won the race for games console chips. XBox, Revolution and PS3 are all using some PPC variant or other. The Cell processor is very exciting and the dual core 970s will surely deliver Apple a powerful high end quad processor machine. On the other hand, the Mac Mini looks like a success. It is probably the nearest thing Apple has to a machine designed for "switchers". The key thing about a switcher is that they don't have legacy Mac software that would be made reundant by a switch to x86. Equally, they DO have software that might run well in a compatibility environment on x86.
If this is true, my guess is that this is for low end, poor expandability devices. In the same way that the iPod has become vector for Mac purchases, how about a low cost x86 based Mac Mini that can run Windows software at near native speeds ? With the intention of 'bringing the "Mac-way" to more Windows users.'
Depends upon who the recipient of the letter is. My experience of a lawsuit is not one that I would wnat to repeat. Despite winning and getting all the damages I asked for. I'm sure the story would be of interest to third parties. I'm not sure that drunkenbatman enjoys getting - even frivolous - letters from lawyers.
Can you substantiate that figure ? More than one in ten people on earth bought a new cell phone last year ? I don't doubt it was a lot, but if that's true: wow.
This guy's mistake is thinking that BT gives a damn about his attempt at public revenge. You are right, the story here is that there was a fault on the line and the landlord/prior tenant didn't cancel some services they should have. It took a bit of time to sort it out. Has he ever been to the RMV, or called his HMO ?
Sounds to me like he has a FAR wider range of options for broadband than I have in the US, at prices that look pretty reasonable: UKP29/m for 8Mbit ( US$60) including telephone service - wow !?!?
Short version: "I'm American, and I want it now ! Whaddya mean there's a problem - didn't I tell you I'm American ? Stupid beaurocratic Brits. Bwa wa wa, I'm telling..."
Just think of it as Karma for all the times you moved into an apartment in the US and got free cable.
The Old Testament was indeed largely written in Hebrew, but the New Testament was written in Aramaic and Greek.
On the otherhand, the language of the Roman Catholic Church and the bulk of the Bibles in use was Latin. Use of Latin was mandatory. Use of other languages prior to the reformation was illegal and punishable by death. Gutenberg's first book was, of course, a Latin Bible. (Trivia: Gutenberg was born 'Gensfleisch' meaning goose-flesh.) Luther translated the Greek-Latin New Testament of Erasmus into German, and this was considered absolutely heretical by the Roman Church. Shortly after this, Tyndale in England used the same source to create an English Language version. (Although there had been earlier handwritten translations.) Interestingly enough, here was a classic case of censorship working in favour of a book. The text was banned, destroyed and burned creating a massive interest in the text. At the time you could be burned alive if found in possesion of the book. That didn't stop Henry VIII from publically condemning the book, but privately keeping a copy in his bedroom.
Before Gutenberg, Bibles were very expensive and only available from licensed scribes. Gutenberg distributed his copies of the Bible without respecting the copyright owners. And, we all know where that ended up: Bibles available in languages BESIDES latin...shudder. I've heard that people sharing these copies are getting visits from the Spanish Inquisition, so be warned.
writing high quality high compression codecs more so. It takes PhDs, time and money. They don't spring fully formed from the breasts of crooks. Who is the genius behind this ? No doubt he or she very well known in the SIGGRAPH crowd.
I'm pretty sure he means Linux, not GNU/Linux since he uses 'Linux' to refer to the kernel alone and 'GNU/Linux' for the operating system as a whole. This contretemps is about the use of Bitkeeper for kernel development.
Apparently God has the right to inspect my thoughts at any time. I'm not allowed to hum or whistle any music that I do not have the appropriate rights for. Reverse engineering is a big NO, unless I am Norweigian. The good news is that I don't see any restrictions on interfacing with other minds, although non-consensual port scans will be construed as hostile.
The problem is that SEC rules forbid from offering a deal to 51% of the shareholders and not the remaining 49%. This is a basic protection to the smaller shareholder: without this protection, all the small shareholders become irrelevant and their shares intrinsically less valuable that those belonging to the large (likely institutional) shareholders.
Surely the sea change happened with the new PowerBooks. They support a magic gesture that mimics a scroll wheel. I submit that this marks the public announcement of Apple's change of corporate mind. If Apple can ship a PB that does this, then why not a mouse ?
Perhaps it is the same reason that all name-brand bread is foul oversweetened dry sponge. I think I miss European bread more than I miss European chocolate. I'll say one thing: the beer situation is infinitely better than it was 15 years ago. There are plenty of readily available excellent brews.
Uh ? When did that happen ? Slightly better than Hershey's perhaps. Far more expensive and flashy packaging certainly. Well executed marketing, positioning themselves as 'The gift to bring back from SF' without doubt.
Actually I take a bit of that back. Ghiradelli's cocoa powder is definitely worth buying. It's only their eating chocolate that sucks.
it will be lacking deep pipelines, caches and other bits
And that is the whole point of this processor. The G5 NEEDS those pipelines and caches in order to feed the multiple execution units, reorder instructions and avoid reading slow host memory.
The CELL on the otherhand will have the instruction ordering done in software. All those 'bits' you describe are replaced with software: a much smarter compiler.
Yes this processor will perform poorly with today's code. With appropriately written code it will scream.
This chip is not going to compete with other general purpose CPUs. It's going to compete with custom ASICs and FPGAs.
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For what it is worth, the Airport also uses a low end 486 processor.
Also, there are plenty of other vendors for ARM chips besides Intel.
It seems to me that IBM/PPC has won the race for games console chips. XBox, Revolution and PS3 are all using some PPC variant or other. The Cell processor is very exciting and the dual core 970s will surely deliver Apple a powerful high end quad processor machine. On the other hand, the Mac Mini looks like a success. It is probably the nearest thing Apple has to a machine designed for "switchers". The key thing about a switcher is that they don't have legacy Mac software that would be made reundant by a switch to x86. Equally, they DO have software that might run well in a compatibility environment on x86.
If this is true, my guess is that this is for low end, poor expandability devices. In the same way that the iPod has become vector for Mac purchases, how about a low cost x86 based Mac Mini that can run Windows software at near native speeds ? With the intention of 'bringing the "Mac-way" to more Windows users.'
-S
is better than all of these !l
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~jcorneli/a/elisp/nero.e
Can I have your sister's telephone number ?
Depends upon who the recipient of the letter is. My experience of a lawsuit is not one that I would wnat to repeat. Despite winning and getting all the damages I asked for. I'm sure the story would be of interest to third parties. I'm not sure that drunkenbatman enjoys getting - even frivolous - letters from lawyers.
Then I'll say it: "wow." Forget Apple Tablets, that's the most startling thing I learned today. Thank you.
Can you substantiate that figure ? More than one in ten people on earth bought a new cell phone last year ? I don't doubt it was a lot, but if that's true: wow.
This guy's mistake is thinking that BT gives a damn about his attempt at public revenge. You are right, the story here is that there was a fault on the line and the landlord/prior tenant didn't cancel some services they should have. It took a bit of time to sort it out. Has he ever been to the RMV, or called his HMO ?
Sounds to me like he has a FAR wider range of options for broadband than I have in the US, at prices that look pretty reasonable: UKP29/m for 8Mbit ( US$60) including telephone service - wow !?!?
Short version: "I'm American, and I want it now ! Whaddya mean there's a problem - didn't I tell you I'm American ? Stupid beaurocratic Brits. Bwa wa wa, I'm telling..."
Just think of it as Karma for all the times you moved into an apartment in the US and got free cable.
The Old Testament was indeed largely written in Hebrew, but the New Testament was written in Aramaic and Greek.
On the otherhand, the language of the Roman Catholic Church and the bulk of the Bibles in use was Latin. Use of Latin was mandatory. Use of other languages prior to the reformation was illegal and punishable by death. Gutenberg's first book was, of course, a Latin Bible. (Trivia: Gutenberg was born 'Gensfleisch' meaning goose-flesh.) Luther translated the Greek-Latin New Testament of Erasmus into German, and this was considered absolutely heretical by the Roman Church. Shortly after this, Tyndale in England used the same source to create an English Language version. (Although there had been earlier handwritten translations.) Interestingly enough, here was a classic case of censorship working in favour of a book. The text was banned, destroyed and burned creating a massive interest in the text. At the time you could be burned alive if found in possesion of the book. That didn't stop Henry VIII from publically condemning the book, but privately keeping a copy in his bedroom.
I always thought they were Greek letters and MS had finally shipped the mythical Cairo O/S:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicrosoftCairo
it's sex on legs. Then again, name a console that is sexy ? PSP is maybe the closest, but that's not saying much.
Before Gutenberg, Bibles were very expensive and only available from licensed scribes. Gutenberg distributed his copies of the Bible without respecting the copyright owners. And, we all know where that ended up: Bibles available in languages BESIDES latin...shudder. I've heard that people sharing these copies are getting visits from the Spanish Inquisition, so be warned.
writing high quality high compression codecs more so. It takes PhDs, time and money. They don't spring fully formed from the breasts of crooks. Who is the genius behind this ? No doubt he or she very well known in the SIGGRAPH crowd.
I'm pretty sure he means Linux, not GNU/Linux since he uses 'Linux' to refer to the kernel alone and 'GNU/Linux' for the operating system as a whole. This contretemps is about the use of Bitkeeper for kernel development.
Apparently God has the right to inspect my thoughts at any time. I'm not allowed to hum or whistle any music that I do not have the appropriate rights for. Reverse engineering is a big NO, unless I am Norweigian. The good news is that I don't see any restrictions on interfacing with other minds, although non-consensual port scans will be construed as hostile.
I think you can guarantee that it will be on DVD Media. I believe that a DVD drive is now a prerequisite.
It's a while since I played, but isn't the hospital where you get teleported to when you die ?
The problem is that SEC rules forbid from offering a deal to 51% of the shareholders and not the remaining 49%. This is a basic protection to the smaller shareholder: without this protection, all the small shareholders become irrelevant and their shares intrinsically less valuable that those belonging to the large (likely institutional) shareholders.
A truly nerdy response, however, this was my favourite nerdy response:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140685&cid=
Surely the sea change happened with the new PowerBooks. They support a magic gesture that mimics a scroll wheel. I submit that this marks the public announcement of Apple's change of corporate mind. If Apple can ship a PB that does this, then why not a mouse ?
-S
The Atari console, erm, original pong game, shipped with a scroll wheel. The mouse functionality was rather primitive however.
BTW, I doubt that machines will actually ship with a >1 button mouse. They'll be an upgrade if I know Apple at all.
'Retarded ibook mouse' ? Eh ? It came with a trackpad.
-S
Perhaps it is the same reason that all name-brand bread is foul oversweetened dry sponge. I think I miss European bread more than I miss European chocolate. I'll say one thing: the beer situation is infinitely better than it was 15 years ago. There are plenty of readily available excellent brews.
-S
Uh ? When did that happen ? Slightly better than Hershey's perhaps. Far more expensive and flashy packaging certainly. Well executed marketing, positioning themselves as 'The gift to bring back from SF' without doubt.
Actually I take a bit of that back. Ghiradelli's cocoa powder is definitely worth buying. It's only their eating chocolate that sucks.
-S
How do you rate productivity on a particular platform ?
Simple: does the platform support BBEdit ?
BBEdit still doesn't suck. I write code on both the Mac and XP. I often mount a Windows share on my Mac so that I can edit the Windows code in BBEdit.
-S
/etc/hosts is only used very early in the boot process on Mac OS X. So you can't actually use it to block addresses. You have to use netinfo instead
it will be lacking deep pipelines, caches and other bits
And that is the whole point of this processor. The G5 NEEDS those pipelines and caches in order to feed the multiple execution units, reorder instructions and avoid reading slow host memory.
The CELL on the otherhand will have the instruction ordering done in software. All those 'bits' you describe are replaced with software: a much smarter compiler.
Yes this processor will perform poorly with today's code. With appropriately written code it will scream.
This chip is not going to compete with other general purpose CPUs. It's going to compete with custom ASICs and FPGAs.
-S