So what is one to do? Well it depends on the result you want:
-- if you always use GCC 3.3 to compile your high speed apps and want to know which CPU GCC 3.3 works best for, then apple's (Veritest's) results are perfect for you. However, those results really say more about how good GCC is at optimizing for the separate architectures, rather than anything about the merits of the architectures themselves.
So, in other words, Apple is pressuring Intel (and, slightly, AMD) to improve its GCC performance.
How is this bad for Intel users?
You should be thanking Apple for highlighting GCC, KHTML, etc. Maybe Intel will push out some non-proprietary improvements to GCC then?
forget this, howsabout UWB over copper?
on
150 Mbit/s DSL.
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check Cringely's latest posting.. UWB over copper, which survives conversion from copper to fiber and back.. If it's as good as promised, it'll bury DSL..
Bah humbug, the SonyEricsson P800 pisses all over these so-called smartphones.
Apple QT6.3's.3gp support lets me make decent copies of my divx rips, and even without 3gpp explicit support the P800 will play 192x144 @ 15fps MPEG4/MPEG4 video.
but 3gpp comes to about 13MB for 29mins of video, good enough for a subway ride.
Also, iSync finally syncs addressbooks for it (calendar info "coming soon").
Its jot HWR is not as good as Newton's, but it understands my printing, once I figured out why writing on the top of the screen was in all uppercase and on the bottom was lowercase.
Mame works, without sound it is tolerable, with sound it is sl-l-o-o-o-w. The games are pretty good IMHO, particularly the driving ('Hard Drivin'-like) game.
The only nasty flaw is its use of memory stick duo, which is a hard-to-find proprietary format. It goes up to 128mb, but still it's an annoyance.
Range is a smidge better than T68, which is another caveat.
It doesn't seem to know how to do SMTPS properly, and you run either imap/pop and smtp over ssl, or none over ssl.
Geez, when this nonsense first broke, who _DIDN'T_ think it was a buyout ploy?
Strange courtship ritual though.. I'm sure McBride has a hefty golden parachute setup, since there's NO WAY any of the 'responsible' leadership would survive a buyout..
with that installed, (and for an additional $99--which is a mild crock of shit)
Considering that an additional piece of hardware to handle the streaming of photos and videos would cost more and do less, it's actually a pretty good deal.
Also, consider that you don't have to buy a new model with this built in, that they're supporting the 'older' S2 boxes (the S1s don't have the oomph to handle this stuff with its little worm of a CPU), I wouldn't begrudge them the $99.
(oh, and that's no dis on the slimp3, by all means if you don't have a TV hooked to your stereo or want something elegant it's perfectly cool. I particularly like the VFD. It's just that if you already have a tivo hooked into your system, HoMO's a better option.)
PS: the lack of digital audio in/out on TiVo is a bit disappointing, but given the limited audience (people with digital cable, SDTV OTA or satellite with spdif connectors on their converter) it's not surprising. We'll probably see it on a series 3 or 4, with DVI or component video in/outs.
PPS: Kramer sells an amplified S-video splitter, for those of you who want a clean dual-hookup from your S-video source into your TV/receiver AND Tivo, so you can watch the converter out via your receivers DBS in using digital audio (5.1 surround on many channels at various times, zero analog hiss) while giving Tivo a S-video feed and the analog sound-outs on the converter. IIRC it's the model PT-102S.
That post has got to be the most incoherent, non-sequitorious attempt at an honest 'rebuttal' I've ever seen on slashdot, and my UID is below 5000.
Out of the box, which is how at least 75% of Tivo owners will operate their systems for as long as they own their system (or live, which is as long as most Tivo owners I know say they'll be Tivo owners), you merely connect it to your TV, phone and tuner box and go. Setup is braindead simple, on par with Apple, and that is a magically glorious and wonderful thing, something to be cherished and adored.
You pull 'arguments' out of your ass that are not really 'arguments' at all, but instead are testaments to the flexibility and goodness of Tivo. Tivo uses linux, but my mom or joe blow would NEVER know that except by reading the back of one of the manuals, where you will find the entire text of GPL v2 printed. That's a Good Thing(tm). You can expand and hack your Tivo (and btw series 2 uses USB instead of PCI for network capability, and IIRC doesn't have a PCI slot) but you don't HAVE to. It's a CHOICE. Choice is GOOD.
Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies. The fact that it's so hackable and uses Linux merely reduces naysayer count further, into privacy crank and ignorant geek territory.
30 second skip is SO much better than this, when combined with the 10-second backtrack button..
Commercial breaks are now 4-8 skip presses with at most 3-4 backtrack presses. Or, they're actual _breaks_ for me to put the milk in the fridge or take a leak, with backtracks ro skips as necessary.
Can't beat it.
Also, the home media option RAWKS. I spool my macs' iTunes and iPhoto archives and it works great, especially for a 1.0 release. It may have cost $99, but the way I look at it, I would've gone and gotten a dedicated gateway (such as SliMP3) thingy to do the same thing but paid more and had a more difficult-to-use thing. Now I essentially get remote programming of shows for free!
Clearly there are things I'd like to see added (such as skip tracks fwd/back, screen effects, etc) but HoMO is great!
Use WEP and MAC locks on DHCP, and make unauthorized forging of MAC addresses just that: forgery.
Perhaps this is a first step in addressing fedgov's 'issues' with open wireless networks, making net operators responsible for those networks' security and liable for illegal things happening on their (criminally) insecure net?
... I'm pleased with the AAC support and the iPod update (maybe even LONGER battery life than 1.2.6), but this freshening isn't terribly innovative or interesting..
Music service? Hmm. There needs to be a 'grab bag' discount, an Audible-style subscription (20 tracks/mo for $10 is about right), et al.
Perhaps the new docking station is step 1 in the ongoing struggle in audio integration, eventually leading to a Car CD changer emulator.
And someday, a video iPod. Who needs a remote control if you have a touchscreen? DVD menus are designed for use on PCs anyway, sometimes abominably so, and worst case you can put a T68-style joystick on it..
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Use the best compiler you can find for both systems.
No. Improve the GCC compiler for your platform and give it away for free.
So what is one to do? Well it depends on the result you want:
-- if you always use GCC 3.3 to compile your high speed apps and want to know which CPU GCC 3.3 works best for, then apple's (Veritest's) results are perfect for you. However, those results really say more about how good GCC is at optimizing for the separate architectures, rather than anything about the merits of the architectures themselves.
So, in other words, Apple is pressuring Intel (and, slightly, AMD) to improve its GCC performance.
How is this bad for Intel users?
You should be thanking Apple for highlighting GCC, KHTML, etc. Maybe Intel will push out some non-proprietary improvements to GCC then?
check Cringely's latest posting.. UWB over copper, which survives conversion from copper to fiber and back.. If it's as good as promised, it'll bury DSL..
Bah humbug, the SonyEricsson P800 pisses all over these so-called smartphones.
.3gp support lets me make decent copies of my divx rips, and even without 3gpp explicit support the P800 will play 192x144 @ 15fps MPEG4/MPEG4 video.
Apple QT6.3's
but 3gpp comes to about 13MB for 29mins of video, good enough for a subway ride.
Also, iSync finally syncs addressbooks for it (calendar info "coming soon").
Its jot HWR is not as good as Newton's, but it understands my printing, once I figured out why writing on the top of the screen was in all uppercase and on the bottom was lowercase.
Mame works, without sound it is tolerable, with sound it is sl-l-o-o-o-w. The games are pretty good IMHO, particularly the driving ('Hard Drivin'-like) game.
The only nasty flaw is its use of memory stick duo, which is a hard-to-find proprietary format. It goes up to 128mb, but still it's an annoyance.
Range is a smidge better than T68, which is another caveat.
It doesn't seem to know how to do SMTPS properly, and you run either imap/pop and smtp over ssl, or none over ssl.
TIAFN..
... but I've been too busy converting video to mp4 format to play on my new P800 fone..
(and playing MAME with the sound off, and running up my GPRS bills, and downloading MIDP/CLDC doccys...)
Geez, when this nonsense first broke, who _DIDN'T_ think it was a buyout ploy?
Strange courtship ritual though.. I'm sure McBride has a hefty golden parachute setup, since there's NO WAY any of the 'responsible' leadership would survive a buyout..
That's a good list to start with..
Right now I'm into Tacitus, Suetonius, Pynchon's 'Mason & Dixon', and 'Godel Escher Bach'.. Gotta love mass transit!
with that installed, (and for an additional $99--which is a mild crock of shit)
Considering that an additional piece of hardware to handle the streaming of photos and videos would cost more and do less, it's actually a pretty good deal.
Also, consider that you don't have to buy a new model with this built in, that they're supporting the 'older' S2 boxes (the S1s don't have the oomph to handle this stuff with its little worm of a CPU), I wouldn't begrudge them the $99.
(oh, and that's no dis on the slimp3, by all means if you don't have a TV hooked to your stereo or want something elegant it's perfectly cool. I particularly like the VFD. It's just that if you already have a tivo hooked into your system, HoMO's a better option.)
PS: the lack of digital audio in/out on TiVo is a bit disappointing, but given the limited audience (people with digital cable, SDTV OTA or satellite with spdif connectors on their converter) it's not surprising. We'll probably see it on a series 3 or 4, with DVI or component video in/outs.
PPS: Kramer sells an amplified S-video splitter, for those of you who want a clean dual-hookup from your S-video source into your TV/receiver AND Tivo, so you can watch the converter out via your receivers DBS in using digital audio (5.1 surround on many channels at various times, zero analog hiss) while giving Tivo a S-video feed and the analog sound-outs on the converter. IIRC it's the model PT-102S.
btw, the 3.x ,#401 trick does not work with wireless USB dongles. At least not the recommended WUSB11 from Linksys.
However, once 4.0 is on it works flawlessly and FAST. And, the HoMO is fantastic, particularly if you run OS X.
It's just so splendid it makes me feel all warm and contented.
perfection is blasphemy.
self-improvement is masturbation.
time is an illusion.
lunchtime doubly so.
that is all.
That post has got to be the most incoherent, non-sequitorious attempt at an honest 'rebuttal' I've ever seen on slashdot, and my UID is below 5000.
Out of the box, which is how at least 75% of Tivo owners will operate their systems for as long as they own their system (or live, which is as long as most Tivo owners I know say they'll be Tivo owners), you merely connect it to your TV, phone and tuner box and go. Setup is braindead simple, on par with Apple, and that is a magically glorious and wonderful thing, something to be cherished and adored.
You pull 'arguments' out of your ass that are not really 'arguments' at all, but instead are testaments to the flexibility and goodness of Tivo. Tivo uses linux, but my mom or joe blow would NEVER know that except by reading the back of one of the manuals, where you will find the entire text of GPL v2 printed. That's a Good Thing(tm). You can expand and hack your Tivo (and btw series 2 uses USB instead of PCI for network capability, and IIRC doesn't have a PCI slot) but you don't HAVE to. It's a CHOICE. Choice is GOOD.
Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies. The fact that it's so hackable and uses Linux merely reduces naysayer count further, into privacy crank and ignorant geek territory.
30 second skip is SO much better than this, when combined with the 10-second backtrack button..
Commercial breaks are now 4-8 skip presses with at most 3-4 backtrack presses. Or, they're actual _breaks_ for me to put the milk in the fridge or take a leak, with backtracks ro skips as necessary.
Can't beat it.
Also, the home media option RAWKS. I spool my macs' iTunes and iPhoto archives and it works great, especially for a 1.0 release. It may have cost $99, but the way I look at it, I would've gone and gotten a dedicated gateway (such as SliMP3) thingy to do the same thing but paid more and had a more difficult-to-use thing. Now I essentially get remote programming of shows for free!
Clearly there are things I'd like to see added (such as skip tracks fwd/back, screen effects, etc) but HoMO is great!
... to have the goddamn video iPod I've been whining about for a year now...
... if the definition is 'wasted a semester of my education on it', I'd have to say Netrek or Civ would qualify.
Games like Civ and SimCity definitely affected my worldview though.
Use WEP and MAC locks on DHCP, and make unauthorized forging of MAC addresses just that: forgery.
Perhaps this is a first step in addressing fedgov's 'issues' with open wireless networks, making net operators responsible for those networks' security and liable for illegal things happening on their (criminally) insecure net?
Do you own any real estate?
;)
Then again, you don't need much for a shotgun shack
(seriously, I'd LOVE to retire to the Gunstock area.. Someday..)
Works for me...
:/)
(Too bad there aren't any tech jobs in NH
Yeah right. AAC support on MP3 players? Since when? Can you point out one player?
As a matter of fact, I can.
Hey, what the fuck is an Ogg?
This is.
*DOOSH!!*
... I'm pleased with the AAC support and the iPod update (maybe even LONGER battery life than 1.2.6), but this freshening isn't terribly innovative or interesting..
Music service? Hmm. There needs to be a 'grab bag' discount, an Audible-style subscription (20 tracks/mo for $10 is about right), et al.
Perhaps the new docking station is step 1 in the ongoing struggle in audio integration, eventually leading to a Car CD changer emulator.
And someday, a video iPod. Who needs a remote control if you have a touchscreen? DVD menus are designed for use on PCs anyway, sometimes abominably so, and worst case you can put a T68-style joystick on it..
That, plus a decent-sized HDD would make this a compelling little linux box & mplayer...
I say...
1)Where is it?
2)When will I get at least 11 megapixels for under $500?
Let me know when question/requirement 2 is satisfied...
For US$1500 you can get 3CCDs and a Leica lens...
http://ww1.onecall.com/PID_18256.htm
Not interchangeable, but also not $2500..
Chairface Chippendale.
Is there something wrong with me if that gives me wood?
900KB/s hentai porn streams?
Domo arigato, baby..