I think the latest Power series will give any Intel CPU a run for it's money as well the latest Sparc.
Yes, they will. But those chips are designed with a target price of thousands of dollars and without anywhere near as much concern about heat.
Power has a 128 KB L1 cache (64 KB on Core 2), 4 MB L2 cache per core (4 MB L2 shared on Core 2), and a 32 MB L3 cache (none on Core 2). If you're willing to pay for that, x86 would be a lot faster.
Oh, don't forget that Power chips run really really hot. Hotter than Pentium 4's. The market has made it clear that lower power usage / heat generation is a priority now.
Oh yeah? What about the honesty of the people who are counting those paper votes.
Every voting system's weakness is the people who read the results. The best you can do is make it hard for them to get away with reporting the wrong results.
Most non open source software licenses have a clause like that. It's just a "it's not my fault if something really bad happens" thing. Unlike the GPL, the MS EULA doesn't go quite as far as to disclaim all warranty and responsibility - just most of it.
Because of these changes (which are not applicable to terrestrial or satellite radio broadcasters),
Keep in mind that both XM and Sirius have contracts with the RIAA that requires them to pay a percentage of subscription fees. So no, they're not paying the same fee, but they do pay a significant fee.
The PS3 is the Blu-Ray player of choice everywhere. Without it, Blu-Ray player sales would be near zero. However, PS3 isn't selling well anywhere, so, Blu-Ray sales still are barely noticable.
I know it's possible to build reliable AMD-based systems, but it seems to be harder work, and probably involves going with an Opteron on a Tyan or Supermicro board in order to be able to use an AMD chipset, rather than one of the third-party (e.g. VIA, SiS, ALI) chipsets.
You do it the same way you build a reliable Intel one. Go with a motherboard from one of the larger brands and toss in some Crucial or Kingston RAM. I don't think AMD has made a chipset since the original Athlon launched. Generally you want to go with an NVidia chipset. To keep things simple, you probably want an NVidia video card as well, as every now and then an NVidia chipset and ATI graphics card will be a pain to get working together.
Of course, once AMD & ATI have been merged long enough for it to have actually affected product development, this will probably change.
You are still probably paying Microsoft for that box, Microsft may charge by number of units sold with or without the OS, so Dell could get a discount on the OS.
Microsoft used to do that. That's the reason we all use Windows today instead of one of the other half dozen better choices that came out at the same time as Win3.0 Anyway, Clinton stepped in around 95 or so and got the wonderful agreement out of MS that said "We're not admitting we did anything wrong, but we won't do that ever again."
The fact that Spiderman's ingenious web shooters were totally absent, and he instead shot web... out of his wrists! elude you? That, alone, for any self-acclaimed Spiderman fan should have been enough to trounce any thought that it was pure and true to the source. Even Stan Lee commented on this part with regret.
The comments I saw after the first movie came out had Stan Lee agreeing with that change. He thought it would've taken up too much screen time to have him invent the web shooters.
You think there'd be a more humane way of killing any animal than to insert (i.e. shoot) a bomb inside its body.
You're trying to kill something that weighs over 100 tons and can easily outmaneuver you. The other traditional approach is to jab it with a spear with a long rope attached (and hope it doesn't dive deeper than the length of the rope) and then jab it repeatedly with spears hoping to hit a vital organ.
Got any other ideas on how to kill it? Remember, it survived one of these exploding bullets once before, so even that isn't always enough to get the job done.
Bars tend to have books with pictures of all the state licenses and details on how to detect fakes. So that's at least one place the security details are used other than by law enforcement.
WinNT 4.0 shares all hard drives by default. If you don't set a machine level password (not just account password), anyone can get in. The share name is the drive letter followed by a dollar sign.
Yes, WinNT is really old, but it is a mainstream OS that shared your files by default.
RTF isn't an open format. It's another MS format, slightly more documented than DOC is. It's mostly ASCII, so it's easier for a person to understand, but otherwise, it's not that different from DOC. You can still get random undocumented ActiveX objects in the file, except this time they're MIME (or similar) encoded instead of binary.
But I don't understand how this works with a pure software product. If you give it away to the world, then someone else is just going to take the code and make a derivative product from it that does the same thing but is free. The way I see it, the only thing authors of free software can sell is support./I/ wouldn't invest in a new product where I couldn't make any money selling the actual product but only support for it. What if everyone wants your product but no one needs or wants support? You've just invented the perfect software - but it's worthless to you.
To make money off free software, it mostly comes down to finding a niche that businesses find important. If you get a lot of users, a small percentage will be large businesses that like buying expensive support contracts.
Office 97 kinda came out of nowhere and instantly took over. Before that, there was a lot more variety in Office software, and the programs were significantly different.
Now, we've got a few programs to choose from, and they all do bad copycat jobs of the Office UI, which isn't very good to begin with. (Hint: Sticking almost everything under either Format or Insert doesn't make things easy to find).
I haven't used Office 2007 myself, but I saw a little of someone ranting about how great Excel 2007 was. All the things he went crazy over were just things that were really easy to do in anything older than Office 97. One of the biggies was viewing multiple spreadsheets in the same application window...
The old old Apple Disk First Aid program was interesting...
Invalid File System Entry. [Fix] [Ignore] -> Fix Unable to fix problem. [Try Again] [Ignore] -> Try Again Problem fixed.
And then there was Norton Disk Doctor. You got the nice animations of the doctor looking at your disk, and even got his recommendations on what to do when a problem was found. Of course, I never saw a recommendation other than "You should choose to fix this problem."
However, it seems that if 64 bit operations were implemented as calls to a global table, the cost wouldn't be unreasonably high. It would certainly be slower than code actually tuned for 32-bit CPUs, and it would also have some impact on the performance on 64-bit code running on 64-bit CPUs.
When running 64 bit code, it typically means you're doing (mostly) 32 bit math and using 64 bit memory addresses. You're going to be accessing a memory address at least once every couple of instructions. All you can do to run that on a 32 bit system is emulate the code, which will be brutal on speed.
And if you're doing mostly 64 bit math and using 64 bit memory, you know you need 64 bit and don't even want to think about trying to force it to run on a 32 bit system.
What would be REALLY COOL is if the PS2 rendered at a higher resolution, i.e. transform and render all data into 1080p graphics buffer rather than upscaling a smaller one. It wouldn't do much for bitmaps and textures but polygons would be gorgeous at 1080p. Some of the screenshots [pcsx2.net] from the PCSX2 emulator show how lovely it could look. Unfortunately PCSX2 runs like a dog, but perhaps the PS3 has the capabilities to actually pull this off, at least for some games.
See Ocarina of Time on the GameCube for an example. It's the N64 rom rendering at 640x480 instead of 320x240. End result is the polygon edges all look a lot sharper, but the sketchy textures (vines in particular) don't look any better. It's nothing to go crazy over, but certainly a noticeable improvement.
That's a tad optimistic. The standards are a huge pain in the ass, and no browser gets them perfect. IE just gets so much scorn because it gets a lot more wrong than the other major browsers.
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I think the latest Power series will give any Intel CPU a run for it's money as well the latest Sparc.
Yes, they will. But those chips are designed with a target price of thousands of dollars and without anywhere near as much concern about heat.
Power has a 128 KB L1 cache (64 KB on Core 2), 4 MB L2 cache per core (4 MB L2 shared on Core 2), and a 32 MB L3 cache (none on Core 2). If you're willing to pay for that, x86 would be a lot faster.
Oh, don't forget that Power chips run really really hot. Hotter than Pentium 4's. The market has made it clear that lower power usage / heat generation is a priority now.
Oh yeah? What about the honesty of the people who are counting those paper votes.
Every voting system's weakness is the people who read the results. The best you can do is make it hard for them to get away with reporting the wrong results.
Most non open source software licenses have a clause like that. It's just a "it's not my fault if something really bad happens" thing. Unlike the GPL, the MS EULA doesn't go quite as far as to disclaim all warranty and responsibility - just most of it.
Because of these changes (which are not applicable to terrestrial or satellite radio broadcasters),
Keep in mind that both XM and Sirius have contracts with the RIAA that requires them to pay a percentage of subscription fees. So no, they're not paying the same fee, but they do pay a significant fee.
He was selling modded consoles with pirated games already loaded on the hard disk. There's no doubt about what the intentions were there.
The PS3 is the Blu-Ray player of choice everywhere. Without it, Blu-Ray player sales would be near zero. However, PS3 isn't selling well anywhere, so, Blu-Ray sales still are barely noticable.
I know it's possible to build reliable AMD-based systems, but it seems to be harder work, and probably involves going with an Opteron on a Tyan or Supermicro board in order to be able to use an AMD chipset, rather than one of the third-party (e.g. VIA, SiS, ALI) chipsets.
You do it the same way you build a reliable Intel one. Go with a motherboard from one of the larger brands and toss in some Crucial or Kingston RAM. I don't think AMD has made a chipset since the original Athlon launched. Generally you want to go with an NVidia chipset. To keep things simple, you probably want an NVidia video card as well, as every now and then an NVidia chipset and ATI graphics card will be a pain to get working together.
Of course, once AMD & ATI have been merged long enough for it to have actually affected product development, this will probably change.
You are still probably paying Microsoft for that box, Microsft may charge by number of units sold with or without the OS, so Dell could get a discount on the OS.
Microsoft used to do that. That's the reason we all use Windows today instead of one of the other half dozen better choices that came out at the same time as Win3.0 Anyway, Clinton stepped in around 95 or so and got the wonderful agreement out of MS that said "We're not admitting we did anything wrong, but we won't do that ever again."
The fact that Spiderman's ingenious web shooters were totally absent, and he instead shot web ... out of his wrists! elude you? That, alone, for any self-acclaimed Spiderman fan should have been enough to trounce any thought that it was pure and true to the source. Even Stan Lee commented on this part with regret.
The comments I saw after the first movie came out had Stan Lee agreeing with that change. He thought it would've taken up too much screen time to have him invent the web shooters.
There's this little thing called sarcasm...
but even if MS put a full schematic in the box, it wouldn't help 99% of their customers make an educated decision.
That depends. Is the schematic under the GPL ? If it is, then obviously all problems would be identified and solved immediately by the community.
You think there'd be a more humane way of killing any animal than to insert (i.e. shoot) a bomb inside its body.
You're trying to kill something that weighs over 100 tons and can easily outmaneuver you. The other traditional approach is to jab it with a spear with a long rope attached (and hope it doesn't dive deeper than the length of the rope) and then jab it repeatedly with spears hoping to hit a vital organ.
Got any other ideas on how to kill it? Remember, it survived one of these exploding bullets once before, so even that isn't always enough to get the job done.
Bars tend to have books with pictures of all the state licenses and details on how to detect fakes. So that's at least one place the security details are used other than by law enforcement.
WinNT 4.0 shares all hard drives by default. If you don't set a machine level password (not just account password), anyone can get in. The share name is the drive letter followed by a dollar sign.
Yes, WinNT is really old, but it is a mainstream OS that shared your files by default.
Programs that suck on all platforms are clearly ideal, provided that the suckage is equal everywhere.
DRAM needs to be refreshed many times per second or it loses its contents.
Not sure the interval between refreshes, but it's probably in the order of hundreds or even thousands of times per second.
By the time you get the RAM out of the socket, the contents are long, long gone.
RTF isn't an open format. It's another MS format, slightly more documented than DOC is. It's mostly ASCII, so it's easier for a person to understand, but otherwise, it's not that different from DOC. You can still get random undocumented ActiveX objects in the file, except this time they're MIME (or similar) encoded instead of binary.
Using GCC places limits on how tightly they can integrate the compiler with XCode.
But I don't understand how this works with a pure software product. If you give it away to the world, then someone else is just going to take the code and make a derivative product from it that does the same thing but is free. The way I see it, the only thing authors of free software can sell is support. /I/ wouldn't invest in a new product where I couldn't make any money selling the actual product but only support for it. What if everyone wants your product but no one needs or wants support? You've just invented the perfect software - but it's worthless to you.
To make money off free software, it mostly comes down to finding a niche that businesses find important. If you get a lot of users, a small percentage will be large businesses that like buying expensive support contracts.
Office 97 kinda came out of nowhere and instantly took over. Before that, there was a lot more variety in Office software, and the programs were significantly different.
Now, we've got a few programs to choose from, and they all do bad copycat jobs of the Office UI, which isn't very good to begin with. (Hint: Sticking almost everything under either Format or Insert doesn't make things easy to find).
I haven't used Office 2007 myself, but I saw a little of someone ranting about how great Excel 2007 was. All the things he went crazy over were just things that were really easy to do in anything older than Office 97. One of the biggies was viewing multiple spreadsheets in the same application window...
The old old Apple Disk First Aid program was interesting...
Invalid File System Entry. [Fix] [Ignore]
-> Fix
Unable to fix problem. [Try Again] [Ignore]
-> Try Again
Problem fixed.
And then there was Norton Disk Doctor. You got the nice animations of the doctor looking at your disk, and even got his recommendations on what to do when a problem was found. Of course, I never saw a recommendation other than "You should choose to fix this problem."
However, it seems that if 64 bit operations were implemented as calls to a global table, the cost wouldn't be unreasonably high. It would certainly be slower than code actually tuned for 32-bit CPUs, and it would also have some impact on the performance on 64-bit code running on 64-bit CPUs.
When running 64 bit code, it typically means you're doing (mostly) 32 bit math and using 64 bit memory addresses. You're going to be accessing a memory address at least once every couple of instructions. All you can do to run that on a 32 bit system is emulate the code, which will be brutal on speed.
And if you're doing mostly 64 bit math and using 64 bit memory, you know you need 64 bit and don't even want to think about trying to force it to run on a 32 bit system.
What meeting between a startup and Microsoft doesn't result in the startup getting screwed?
What would be REALLY COOL is if the PS2 rendered at a higher resolution, i.e. transform and render all data into 1080p graphics buffer rather than upscaling a smaller one. It wouldn't do much for bitmaps and textures but polygons would be gorgeous at 1080p. Some of the screenshots [pcsx2.net] from the PCSX2 emulator show how lovely it could look. Unfortunately PCSX2 runs like a dog, but perhaps the PS3 has the capabilities to actually pull this off, at least for some games.
See Ocarina of Time on the GameCube for an example. It's the N64 rom rendering at 640x480 instead of 320x240. End result is the polygon edges all look a lot sharper, but the sketchy textures (vines in particular) don't look any better. It's nothing to go crazy over, but certainly a noticeable improvement.
That's a tad optimistic. The standards are a huge pain in the ass, and no browser gets them perfect. IE just gets so much scorn because it gets a lot more wrong than the other major browsers.