At the picture sizes I work with, just about any task in pshop (except loading, rrr) is just about instantaneous. Photoshop is also more heavily optimized on the mac platform then it is on the PC.
Even then, I'd be willing to bet Photoshop on a high end dual Athlon system would be faster then a high end Mac. Perhaps you have some actual benchmarks to prove otherwise? I doubt it.
So, what you're saying is you can detect 'roughness' in a process cycling billions of times per second, using a display device that runs dozons of times per second (60-120 or so).
There's also been rumors of Apple showing interest in AMD's native 64 bit mode of the Hammer/Operton line, which wouldn't be a terribly stupid move if they're going to up and move.
Ok, but then you say:
Going to Pentium (x86) would be a step backward, into a braindead and inefficient architecture, and probably cause a riot among developers
Um, you do realize, right, that AMD's 64bit architecture is basically just an extension to x86 in the same way Intel's 32bit architecture introduced with 386 was an extension of the 16 x86 from before (from the 8086, 8088, 80286, etc)
I don't see how you can call moving to a 64bit extension of x86 a good idea while calling x86 itself "braindead and inefficient". Unless, of course, you don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, while you can certanly say that x86 code is backwards (it's big endian and all!), I don't see how you can call a chip that run code faster then what apple currently uses 'inefficient'.
That was going to be Nintendo AND Sony's venture until Sony STOLE the entire thing behind Nintendo's back.
Don't you mean, until Nintendo told them to fuck off?
The orgional PS was a pretty shitty deal for nintendo anyway, and they did the right thing in rebuffing sony. (Sony would get all the rights to CD game licenses, etc.)
Yes, there are some stupid lawsuits listed there, but I don't see anything comparable to enforced DRM,
Nintendo has always called emmulation illegal, and all nintendo systems have had DRM like technology to prevent people from making games without a license
abuse of monopoly power against software companies,
Remember when nintendo had a monopoly. You didn't make games unless you got permission from nintendo
abuse of monopoly power against hardware manufacturers,
Well, no one made the hardware but nintendo.
undocumented routines built into the OS to cripple applications from competitors, etc.
You were either with Nintendo, or your software wouldn't even run.
Only if terrorists are distributed over all demographic groups with equal frequency, which is obviously not the case.
except, you're wrong. al-quada could have 10,000 arabs, and only one white guy, and they could use the system (as long as the white guy didn't get caught hanging out with them..)
As I pointed out when Bruce Schneier made this claim, this assumes that terrorists have a pool of every possible demographic group that can be sent on missions, which is not the case.
How the fuck would you know? Should I be reporting you to TIPS?
Seriously though. If Al-Quaeda had 5,000 saudi men between 18 and 26, and 3-4 'regular' americans, this system would work.
I know of at least two 'regular' americans that have been caught. Would you be willing to risk your life betting that there are no more?
I saw on 60 minutes that 2 reports brought in low grade Uranium!! And listen to this? The coast guard used radiation detectors and it was not detected!
It wasn't "low grade" uranium, it was depleted uranium. You know why it wasn't detected?
BECAUSE DEPLEATED URANIUM IS NOT RADIOACTIVE, IDIOT!
I'd like you to tell that to El Al security and then report back to the crowd what they say and do to you - as much as we all hate to say it (and the constitution bans it) properly-done racial profiling works. El Al is everyone's favourite case study bacsue they're so hard-core about it.
oh, I had no idea that racial profiling was El-Al's only tool. The dudes with submachine guns on the plane probably don't have anything to do with it...
On a more basic level, Israel's got 60 million people and one airline
It may not be nice to say it, but it's true that a Yemeni fundamentalist Moslem is more likely to be a member of al-Qaeda and its member groups than, say, a Bavarian beer brewer.
Or like a Mexican thug, or a so-cal middle class white, boy who likes rap music?
er wait, both of those guys were al-Qaeda. oops. (allegedly, anyway)
It only takes one guy to smuggle the equipment in. Al-quada might be mostly Arab, but if they have a few non-Arab, non profile matching, these systems will make their chances of success GREATER not less.
Yeah, basicaly. Seriously though, there is enough physical security for airlines these days. With angry passengers, Air marshials, and the eventual shooting-down possiblity. All of this bullshit is just totaly overboard.
Why don't you do it, and then get back to us. I mean, it's pretty obvious you're not a cop, and that you've never asked one. If you had, you would be telling us I'm sure. Why are you so positive you're right?
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just try photoshop on both platforms
At the picture sizes I work with, just about any task in pshop (except loading, rrr) is just about instantaneous. Photoshop is also more heavily optimized on the mac platform then it is on the PC.
Even then, I'd be willing to bet Photoshop on a high end dual Athlon system would be faster then a high end Mac. Perhaps you have some actual benchmarks to prove otherwise? I doubt it.
I find that RISC chip run smoother then CISC do.
Run smoother!?
So, what you're saying is you can detect 'roughness' in a process cycling billions of times per second, using a display device that runs dozons of times per second (60-120 or so).
I'm impressed!
Go back to law school. Or alternatively, read the DMCA.
There's also been rumors of Apple showing interest in AMD's native 64 bit mode of the Hammer/Operton line, which wouldn't be a terribly stupid move if they're going to up and move.
Ok, but then you say:
Going to Pentium (x86) would be a step backward, into a braindead and inefficient architecture, and probably cause a riot among developers
Um, you do realize, right, that AMD's 64bit architecture is basically just an extension to x86 in the same way Intel's 32bit architecture introduced with 386 was an extension of the 16 x86 from before (from the 8086, 8088, 80286, etc)
I don't see how you can call moving to a 64bit extension of x86 a good idea while calling x86 itself "braindead and inefficient". Unless, of course, you don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, while you can certanly say that x86 code is backwards (it's big endian and all!), I don't see how you can call a chip that run code faster then what apple currently uses 'inefficient'.
It would be quite a feat to buy a compan with a $4 billion dollar bank account for 2.5 billion.
a specialy modified version
That was going to be Nintendo AND Sony's venture until Sony STOLE the entire thing behind Nintendo's back.
Don't you mean, until Nintendo told them to fuck off?
The orgional PS was a pretty shitty deal for nintendo anyway, and they did the right thing in rebuffing sony. (Sony would get all the rights to CD game licenses, etc.)
Yes, there are some stupid lawsuits listed there, but I don't see anything comparable to enforced DRM,
Nintendo has always called emmulation illegal, and all nintendo systems have had DRM like technology to prevent people from making games without a license
abuse of monopoly power against software companies,
Remember when nintendo had a monopoly. You didn't make games unless you got permission from nintendo
abuse of monopoly power against hardware manufacturers,
Well, no one made the hardware but nintendo.
undocumented routines built into the OS to cripple applications from competitors, etc.
You were either with Nintendo, or your software wouldn't even run.
Jet. Set. Radio. Future. For. Xbox.
:P
I paid $300 for a console I hate just to play that game
Do you really think Rare came up with donkey kong?
He's been with us since the begining, and is a product of the same mind that came up with mario, zelda, and many of the orgional nintendo characters.
How would postgres stack up? I tend to put on in the "DB2/Oracle" side of things, but I'm definetly not an expert.
it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative.
Perhaps the problem is that mysql, like, sucks?
So, thats why the concord didn't explode after being hit by a peice of an exploding tire a few months ago, right?
Only if terrorists are distributed over all demographic groups with equal frequency, which is obviously not the case.
except, you're wrong. al-quada could have 10,000 arabs, and only one white guy, and they could use the system (as long as the white guy didn't get caught hanging out with them..)
As I pointed out when Bruce Schneier made this claim, this assumes that terrorists have a pool of every possible demographic group that can be sent on missions, which is not the case.
How the fuck would you know? Should I be reporting you to TIPS?
Seriously though. If Al-Quaeda had 5,000 saudi men between 18 and 26, and 3-4 'regular' americans, this system would work.
I know of at least two 'regular' americans that have been caught. Would you be willing to risk your life betting that there are no more?
I saw on 60 minutes that 2 reports brought in low grade Uranium!! And listen to this? The coast guard used radiation detectors and it was not detected!
It wasn't "low grade" uranium, it was depleted uranium. You know why it wasn't detected?
BECAUSE DEPLEATED URANIUM IS NOT RADIOACTIVE, IDIOT!
It isn't in any way dangerous.
Let anyone who wants to carry a gun.
Sit in the right seat, shoot the gastank in the wing. say good by to 300 people.
These cities where cultural meccas that could easily compare with the cultural capitals of Europe much later in history.
Like Mecca, for example.
I dunno, maybe because human beings are worth more then peices of fucking SPAM?!
Just a theory.
I'd like you to tell that to El Al security and then report back to the crowd what they say and do to you - as much as we all hate to say it (and the constitution bans it) properly-done racial profiling works. El Al is everyone's favourite case study bacsue they're so hard-core about it.
oh, I had no idea that racial profiling was El-Al's only tool. The dudes with submachine guns on the plane probably don't have anything to do with it...
On a more basic level, Israel's got 60 million people and one airline
6 man, isreal has 6 million people, not 60.
It may not be nice to say it, but it's true that a Yemeni fundamentalist Moslem is more likely to be a member of al-Qaeda and its member groups than, say, a Bavarian beer brewer.
Or like a Mexican thug, or a so-cal middle class white, boy who likes rap music?
er wait, both of those guys were al-Qaeda. oops. (allegedly, anyway)
It only takes one guy to smuggle the equipment in. Al-quada might be mostly Arab, but if they have a few non-Arab, non profile matching, these systems will make their chances of success GREATER not less.
You mean the Air Force will shoot them down?
Yeah, basicaly. Seriously though, there is enough physical security for airlines these days. With angry passengers, Air marshials, and the eventual shooting-down possiblity. All of this bullshit is just totaly overboard.
cell.PutIn(p). Makes more sense to me, and, how can you put something in something that's been thrown away?
You do know that your fingerprints (and that of everyone else in the United States) are on file in the town in which you were born, right?
Wtf are you talking about?
Why don't you do it, and then get back to us. I mean, it's pretty obvious you're not a cop, and that you've never asked one. If you had, you would be telling us I'm sure. Why are you so positive you're right?