It's one thing to emulate a CPU, it's quite another to emulate a CPU and all of the peripherals that are attached to it. It's also another stretch to get all of them configured in such a way that what you're emulating is binary compatible with the host firmware. Especially if you have peripherals sitting on the same die as the ARM processor running off of asynchronous clock domains.
I think there's a company that managed to develop a software emulator for TI omap chips...I never had a chance to try it and see if it works.
There seem to be two main criticisms of Bush: that he is a total moron, and that he is guilty of successfully conspiring to turn the government into some sort of facism. These two are almost certainly mutually exclusive to me, and I tend to agree with the latter. I believe the reason he comes across as incompetent as he does is because that's how he courts the voters who actually vote for him.
But he can't be a diabolical mastermind and an idiot.
The other thing that pisses me off is that OpenBSD doesn't have a millionaire patron. But they do have Sun, Cisco, etc shipping their software (OpenSSH) withouth even bothering to contribute to the foundation.
*Snicker* Maybe you guys should switch to a GPL license to prevent big companies from selling all that hard work and giving back nothing.
I joke. I'm glad that the OpenBSD team sticks to their idea of software freedom even when they appear to get taken advantage of.
I think Apple has stated that their next target will be 3g...but I doubt they really want to market that point, since it would encourage people to wait on buying their iPhone until it's 3g.
Yeah, you make a point, but you're country isn't turning into a 1984-esque dystopic nightmare like mine is. Hence, I'd be more scared to go out on the streets if the cops were the *only* ones with guns.
I don't think I'm arguing against gun control so much as I'm convincing myself I should move abroad...
There is a horrifying reason for that--Country A is scared of Counry C's growing economy. The best way to stifle an economy is to limit their access to cheap energy.
This is true. Knowing a bit of ARM assembly teaches me that this:
count = max_value;
while(count--) {/* Do stuff */
}
is generally better than this:
for(count = 0; count max_value; count++) {/* Do stuff */
}
(but it only really matters in tight, frequent loops). Also, you learn to avoid multiplying and dividing on certain architectures without multiply or divide instructions--or you try and use powers of two as much as possible (since you can mult/divide a power of two by bitshifting).
This is just one example of many.
I use that at work--complete crap. Whenever I have lots of items on the taskbar and I switch desktops, the items are nearly always completely out of order. There's no way to seemingly add a hotkey to move the active window to a different desktop, or make a window sticky. Also, some application's Windows get all messed up (the widget packing gets completely gross) whenever you leave their desktop and come back. I have to minimize those windows I know will screw up before changing desktops. UGH!
I'm not disagreeing with your (very fair) rebutall to the comment that Windows doesn't have virtual desktops, but the MSVM implementation really blows.
If the taxes are going in to a "Fossil Fuel Cleanup Fund" then I think such a tax is justified.
However, if I know governments at all, it may as well be spent on tootsie roll pops. When the disaster strikes and people go 'crying to the government,' the governments will likely just borrow more money for the cleanups and then raise taxes afterwards to cover it.
In an ideal society, we wouldn't need government here, because the majority of people would make the right decisions. When the majority of the people don't make the right decisions, can we even claim that 'majority rule' is an effective paradigm for government?
Today, there are devices in almost every class that have free Linux drivers. If we were to make binary-only drivers easy to make, a lot more companies that provide free drivers today could provide closed-source drivers tomorrow.
At least I can put together a system with nothing but free software and use all the peripherals I want. If Linux were more accomodating to binary-only drivers, those of us that actually care about freedom might be screwed.
I know that the iSight built in to the Macbook and Macbook Pro works in Linux (iirc, with a firmware upgrade), and there's a piece of software called 'ekiga' (formerly GnomeMeeting) which integrates in Gnome nicely.
I think you've been trolled. I liked your post--but you should just filter out those comments.
The signal to noise ratio here on/. gets worse and worse every year, though.
Yeah, but I think the parent was arguing that responsible, hard working citizens don't *need* Social Security.
I won't argue whether or not that is true. I think we can all agree, though, that those who are willing to invest in their own retirement have room to be a bit irked about having to shoulder the financial burden brought by those who don't make the best choices.
Not saying that justifies throwing out Social Security, but it is an understandable sentiment.
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Actually, a really sizeable chunk of those people probably do not have the technical know-how. Most Indian resume's I've seen never match their actual credentials. I've talked with a lot of people involved with Indian outsourcing, and they seem to consistently report that most jobs that would take one person here in the US take at least 3 in India, simply because there are so many there that don't know what they're doing.
From what I've seen first hand, China's education system seems to produce a lot of highly technically qualified people.
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I think there's a company that managed to develop a software emulator for TI omap chips...I never had a chance to try it and see if it works.
But he can't be a diabolical mastermind and an idiot.
The other thing that pisses me off is that OpenBSD doesn't have a millionaire patron. But they do have Sun, Cisco, etc shipping their software (OpenSSH) withouth even bothering to contribute to the foundation.
*Snicker* Maybe you guys should switch to a GPL license to prevent big companies from selling all that hard work and giving back nothing.
I joke. I'm glad that the OpenBSD team sticks to their idea of software freedom even when they appear to get taken advantage of.
I think Apple has stated that their next target will be 3g...but I doubt they really want to market that point, since it would encourage people to wait on buying their iPhone until it's 3g.
Yeah, you make a point, but you're country isn't turning into a 1984-esque dystopic nightmare like mine is. Hence, I'd be more scared to go out on the streets if the cops were the *only* ones with guns.
I don't think I'm arguing against gun control so much as I'm convincing myself I should move abroad...
There is a horrifying reason for that--Country A is scared of Counry C's growing economy. The best way to stifle an economy is to limit their access to cheap energy.
This is true. Knowing a bit of ARM assembly teaches me that this: count = max_value; while(count--) { /* Do stuff */
}
is generally better than this:
for(count = 0; count max_value; count++) { /* Do stuff */
}
(but it only really matters in tight, frequent loops). Also, you learn to avoid multiplying and dividing on certain architectures without multiply or divide instructions--or you try and use powers of two as much as possible (since you can mult/divide a power of two by bitshifting).
This is just one example of many.
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Your comment had enough English words in it there so sort of convince my brain it had a chance in hell of sort of parsing it towards the end.
I use that at work--complete crap. Whenever I have lots of items on the taskbar and I switch desktops, the items are nearly always completely out of order. There's no way to seemingly add a hotkey to move the active window to a different desktop, or make a window sticky. Also, some application's Windows get all messed up (the widget packing gets completely gross) whenever you leave their desktop and come back. I have to minimize those windows I know will screw up before changing desktops. UGH!
I'm not disagreeing with your (very fair) rebutall to the comment that Windows doesn't have virtual desktops, but the MSVM implementation really blows.
However, if I know governments at all, it may as well be spent on tootsie roll pops. When the disaster strikes and people go 'crying to the government,' the governments will likely just borrow more money for the cleanups and then raise taxes afterwards to cover it.
In an ideal society, we wouldn't need government here, because the majority of people would make the right decisions. When the majority of the people don't make the right decisions, can we even claim that 'majority rule' is an effective paradigm for government?
At least I can put together a system with nothing but free software and use all the peripherals I want. If Linux were more accomodating to binary-only drivers, those of us that actually care about freedom might be screwed.
I believe H.264 is what Ekiga is designed to support out of the box.
I know that the iSight built in to the Macbook and Macbook Pro works in Linux (iirc, with a firmware upgrade), and there's a piece of software called 'ekiga' (formerly GnomeMeeting) which integrates in Gnome nicely.
I think you've been trolled. I liked your post--but you should just filter out those comments. The signal to noise ratio here on /. gets worse and worse every year, though.
A lot of people applying for certain technical jobs really don't know *anything* -- personal references help prove that you're not one of the BS'ers.
Yeah, but I think the parent was arguing that responsible, hard working citizens don't *need* Social Security.
I won't argue whether or not that is true. I think we can all agree, though, that those who are willing to invest in their own retirement have room to be a bit irked about having to shoulder the financial burden brought by those who don't make the best choices.
Not saying that justifies throwing out Social Security, but it is an understandable sentiment.
Are you? Is the parent? What the hell do any of us know about it?
Actually, this new paypal style service could actually make the google video thing work.
Since 14 hex is 20 decimal, you could say "all I've got is a zero-ecks-14 dollar bill."
It's a joke. Laugh :P
It wouldn't be 'tho damn 'thexy if it were uthed all the time, 'mmkay?
Seriously.
From what I've seen first hand, China's education system seems to produce a lot of highly technically qualified people.