In a day and age where kids are walking into schools and killing classmates I don't think that allowing parents to know where their kids are at all times is too much to ask.
So you want to raise an alarm if your kid goes to a school?
"John Siracusa, professional nagger and user-interface-purist, attends to Panther and disects it in the usual Arstechnica manner. On 14 long, eye-cancer causing white-on-black pages (why does he never get aroused over that?) [...]" (my translation).;-)
Shall we have put all AIDS patience on an island, after all, better to be safe than sorry right?
No, we shall use the neo-conservative tactic of just ignoring AIDS, fully knowing that it will just go away if we do. Oh, wait, that doesn't work either.... but at least we didn't waste any money actually doing something that might never work.
Sure, you can buy graphics cards for the PC that you can't buy for the Mac - yet. Not that most of the hyped features are actually used even by the latest games - and infact won't be until the card is an old hat on the Mac. Nor can you buy Daikatana for the Mac, nor Winmodems, nor a cheap Soundblaster16 compatible card. I feel so left out.
All this doesn't prove that the 970 can't effectively emulate a x86 processor, nor that it doesn't have the little-endian access described in the PPC docs. Just that Connectix used it in a way they maybe shouldn't have (namely the "virtual" mode that isn't part of the PPC spec), depending on it always working that . Which just happens to be my other point in this thread.
Not Windows Visual Basic programmers, Windows device driver programmers from MS. They programmed a timing loop depending on a certain x86-instruction, which AMD had made several times faster on the K6-2 than on Pentiums. At 350+MHz, they got time of zero for the loop - bada-bing, division by zero.
Well, there could be problems with instruction timing. The beauty of coders depending on specific hardware. Who remembers the problems with >350 MHz K6-2s and Windows? - all because AMD made one instruction faster than Intel. I'm sure most Xbox games would act weird if run on a P4 core chip.
I have yet to see anything substantiating that claim. Heck, there never was a "virtual little endian mode". When somebody (esp. Microsoft) invents new names for something to prove they don't exist (anymore), I feel uneasy.
3.1.4 PowerPC Byte Ordering
The PowerPC architecture supports both big and little-endian byte ordering. The default byte ordering is bigendian.
However, the code sequence used to switch from big to little-endian mode may differ among processors.
The PowerPC architecture defines two bits in the MSR for specifying byte ordering--LE (little-endian mode)
and ILE (exception little-endian mode). The LE bit specifies the endian mode in which the processor is
currently operating and ILE specifies the mode to be used when an exception handler is invoked. That is,
when an exception occurs, the ILE bit (as set for the interrupted process) is copied into MSR[LE] to select the
endian mode for the context established by the exception. For both bits, a value of 0 specifies big-endian
mode and a value of 1 specifies little-endian mode.
The PowerPC architecture also provides load and store instructions that reverse byte ordering. These instructions
have the effect of loading and storing data in the endian mode opposite from that which the processor is
operating. See Section 4.2.3.4 Integer Load and Store with Byte-Reverse Instructions for more information on
these instructions.
I have yet to see anything by IBM saying that there were changes in that behaviour in the 970.
Apart from all other objections - the US numbers do not include fraud, counterfeit, drug offences and non-rape sex offences. So what do you want to prove?
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It's not like dishwashers don't come in different sizes ;-)
So you want to raise an alarm if your kid goes to a school?
Argh! Octopi, not octopii.
Sure, as soon as Fox News retracts at least 1% of the lies they put forth.
You do know that GDP is the equivalent of MIPS?
"Arewethereyet arewethereyet arewethereyet arweth..."
"Shut up, or we'll talk about the situation in Iraq again."
The bumbling fool is Shrubya, the criminal masterminds are the cabal behind him. What are you, blind, stupid or in on it?
"John Siracusa, professional nagger and user-interface-purist, attends to Panther and disects it in the usual Arstechnica manner. On 14 long, eye-cancer causing white-on-black pages (why does he never get aroused over that?) [...]" (my translation). ;-)
Well, I'm not getting a Dell - they lied!
You mean there were some cheaply hacked together computers using Alphas - which still were more expensive than Macs at the time.
They are all still dead from the last eclipse.
And get in trouble with Rupert Murdoch?
Certainly not X86 - I hope.
No, we shall use the neo-conservative tactic of just ignoring AIDS, fully knowing that it will just go away if we do. Oh, wait, that doesn't work either.... but at least we didn't waste any money actually doing something that might never work.
But then, London's houses weren't made of feet thick concrete.
He-heh, Tony's scared!
Sure, you can buy graphics cards for the PC that you can't buy for the Mac - yet. Not that most of the hyped features are actually used even by the latest games - and infact won't be until the card is an old hat on the Mac. Nor can you buy Daikatana for the Mac, nor Winmodems, nor a cheap Soundblaster16 compatible card. I feel so left out.
All this doesn't prove that the 970 can't effectively emulate a x86 processor, nor that it doesn't have the little-endian access described in the PPC docs. Just that Connectix used it in a way they maybe shouldn't have (namely the "virtual" mode that isn't part of the PPC spec), depending on it always working that . Which just happens to be my other point in this thread.
Not Windows Visual Basic programmers, Windows device driver programmers from MS. They programmed a timing loop depending on a certain x86-instruction, which AMD had made several times faster on the K6-2 than on Pentiums. At 350+MHz, they got time of zero for the loop - bada-bing, division by zero.
Well, there could be problems with instruction timing. The beauty of coders depending on specific hardware. Who remembers the problems with >350 MHz K6-2s and Windows? - all because AMD made one instruction faster than Intel. I'm sure most Xbox games would act weird if run on a P4 core chip.
Then buy a 1 GHz one and underclock it.
why Even Microsoft wants G5s - and doesn't want Intel to know ;-)
Apart from all other objections - the US numbers do not include fraud, counterfeit, drug offences and non-rape sex offences. So what do you want to prove?
So you admit you are wrong.