It is a hack which points to the short filename, that has been done for the sake of backward compatibility and back then it was an issue. Btw. the 8.3 naming convention was copied from cpm... speaking of stealing instead of innovating!
Since Windows is not their preferred os it probably does not really matter which processor they take. ARM currently is really the logical choice for netbook like devices if you dont need Windows. Their is absolutely no reason outside of needing some uncompilable legacy applications to go with Windows not even hd videos which can be covered by embedded gpus like nvidias offerings way better than to offload it onto the cpu! The currently probably best netbook design would be an ultra slim convertible design with ARM processor and Nvidia netbook GPU! No one has that yet, but I will be one of the first to buy such a thing once it is available!
I am sure they didnÂt they tried to get in bet with Intel, all Intel did was to steal their designs and reuse their ideas for the classmate PC... One of the reasons why they went with AMD... You can read that up on the net, they were pretty pissed. They wanted to make a difference for the children in the world, Intel wanted to fill its pockets again more on back of the children of the world... One of the reasons why the classmate PC didnÂt take off as it should was the plunder by Intel, they went into any country with the stolen design and promoted their machine as alternative to the OLPC... They never ever will probably team up with Intel again! Intel in this regard is like Microsoft they will push a knife in your back as soon as they can gain a personal profit. My only hope is that it one day will come down back on them and then really hard. Intel deserves it!
ARM chips use less power, and cost less, but at the expense of VASTLY less computational horsepower. Just fine if you need low-end apps, and don't mind waiting for Firefox to slowly render a web page, but aren't going to handle much multimedia playback, and the like
Newer arms do especially dedicated codec processors for hd also are out. Problem with the x86 architecture is that they try to do anything brute force and that sucks a lot of power. Do not underestimate the horsepower of arm, it currently is somewhere in between atom and the normal notebook processors, hd playback can be achieved probably better with dedicated gpu hardware like nividia has it in the pipeline. Overall the cost wont be higher than with Intels offering but with way less power drain and a real working hibernation and instant on! (Arm has done that for ages)
Arm has a lot of advantages over x86, especially for netbooks, the newer ARMs definitely are as fast if not faster than the ATOM processors, the power consumption is way less, and power saving works as expected... Their only problem and Intel knows that simply is they do not run x86 code natively... which makes it impossible to run Windows decently and that is what 70% of all buyers of netbooks want (face it... the netbooks have grown out of a nieche market into the mainstream) I would love to see a decent arm based convertible netbook (sort of a gigabyte 912mx without the heating issues this machine has)
good by then they will switch to ie7 while other browsers are on CSS4 and Microsoft will probably be on ie15...
Dont get me wrong, but I am somewhat bitter, due to the fact that sometimes I even get the complaint that IE5.5 support is a must and IE6 support and even 7 seems like dragging a dead cow along... And nowadays it is not even the private users anymore who wont upgrade most of them have, it is mostly banks and corporations!
For passing acid 3 they have to fully support svg... which probably will happen, around 2015... And untill all the bastart coporate it departements from hell will have switched away from ie6 it will be 2020
Well in my last page i did, i basically did a full dhtml web2.0 version for any browser except ie, ie just got a plain html rendering and it still needed several non standard css hacks (IE6 that is) to get the proper behavior regarding position fixed and right and bottom positions... But i think in the end this is the way to go, make it as painful as possible for ie6 users without sacrificying content and your time!
But it has at least onhashchange which is not implemented by any other browser which have to rely on rather evil hacks to get this up and running (iframes, timers in endless loops for polling)
Well there is a lot of things going wrong with ie6 but this thing they have gotten right!
Problem I see if you just need a good editor and code insight anything decent can do it. I use for instance intellij for coding the pages and its code insight features and refactoring do the job more than perfectly... Wyiwyg is out of the question, but having all the css attributes, being able to refactor css and having graphical tools for color selection within css etc... can go miles!
Afair in windows it was an endless loop which had to dispatch the events, but it has been a long time! So basically you had to program the loop yourself. There are rumourse that the first versions of windows had lots of apple code in it, which Apple failed to prove since they could not get the jugde to order Microsoft to open the code for them in the court trial! Anyway the win32 api is really nothing anybody should be proud of, on the contrary!
Well opening a dialog was something along the lines of the showDialog function, the problem was when you had to do more than doing a dialog you ran into an oo api with c but with the creators did only have half a clue what makes oo so great and did not hide anything but forced you into pushing lots of defaults and then initializing the request queue yourself etc.... Microsoft is hardly to blame there they just copied the apple code over in the early 80s (which of course still is a rumour since apple failed to have the windows 3.0 code opened in the court trial)
The crippling thing was for both dat and md that it had no digital out and sony was way late to the game for the 3.5 inch floppy disk replacement. No digital out was unberabale at the moment the first cheap cdr drives came out, and as a floppy disk replacement they were way too late and too expensive, first Iomega wept their floors with their miserable drives which however were cheap and could be bought around the corner and later CD rewritables wept the last remnants of the mini disk away and later cheap mp3 players put the final nail into its coffin. It took sony however several years to realize that MP3 has won and then it was too late, the walkman brand was dead and wiped out by Apple (The iPod came before Sony stopped crippeling MP3 in their players)
Well the last stund they did was to remove PS2 backward compatibility from the PS3 basically smacking 110 mio potential customers in the head with a grin and the words "We make you our bitch, suck it down":-)
If I had that install base, I would probably spend a fortune to give those users a reason to upgrade. Well Sony didnt!
Well cell was the logical choice for Sony. The PS2 had a similar architecture, it basically was two mips processors with added vector units taking over. The design is basically rather straight forward from the PS2, problem is that sony intended to have the cell doing anything including 3d but the 3d processors in the meantime had become such powerhouses that the cell would have looked old doing 3d rendering, so they added another nividia gpu now the cell is degraded to do something nobody really can figure out what to do with it except doing physics, and add to that it is a really slow general purpose processor... So you end up with following architecture, mediocre gpu, way to few ram, slow as molasses general purpose computing and powerhouse of simd units you have to figure out yourself what to do with it. On the PS2 the machine hat a big enough market saturation so dev studios had enough time to find ways to untap the resources outside of the slow mips core, but the PS3 is a different issue you have to be crossplatform so tapping special resources is a no go, and for the rest you have to fight with the limits of the machine. It is always funny to read posts like above when obviously a fanboy talks about how it will evolve the next ten years. From a technical standpoint the PS3 does not have ten years, the simd units on modern graphics cards are way beyound what a PS3 can deliver. The entire 3d area is moving towards voxel engines as we speak (real voxels not the 2d voxel maps of the 90s) so ram is a huge issue there, and that is one of the areas the ps3 severely lacks behind. User adoption is limited by the fact that sony basically pissed 110mio customers on the head by cutting down the ps2 compatibility to zero so the uptake is not as it could be. No there wont be a ten years lifespan only in Sonys wet dreams!
I have been living in the dynamic space for quite a while and this statement is pure bullshit. The issue is not the language the issue is the tooling. What made visual basic so great (which was copied by the nextstep interface builder which used objective c btw...) was not that you had a certain language underneath it simply was the tooling. Delphi was also not a dynamic language but for most apps sufficient enough. The issue with JEE is it is pattern hell combined with a lack of good visual tooling. The main issue is that the entire JEE is not that bad per se and has good ideas, but it lacks a load of good frontend tooling to combine all this together. Netbeans has quite a few good approaches on how things should be done but falls short on bugs! VB also would have been hard if you had to deal with all the configuration bindings yourself instead of having the tools take over everything!
Funny thing is I dont have crashes on fallout 3 (I had three so far), could it be the graphics card, the xbox uses ATI, I have an ATI card, so go figure that it might have something to do with it.
Funny thing is most games coming from the xbox are very stable, GTA4 is the exception not the rule. I have seen a huge rise in quality of gaming on the pc especially the last two years. Dont get me wrong but as far as I have read most of the problems on the PC gta 4 stem from drm code which was introduced for the pc version only. Basically drm code which shut down parts of the game dynamically! So the porting was not at fault there!
The whole thing is like the playground bully trying to beat the teacher, those guys they are suing probably have more funds than the RIAAs annual budget for legal defense! What this means is the RIAA is in for a severe beating. Speaking of stupidity well applied this is the perfect example! It is one thing going after people who do not have the funds to defent themselves and another thing trying to anger the big boys. The first thing is morally wrong and may the rot in hell, the second thing is going into a club of sadists and crying for beating, or applying for a cell in Guantanamo Bay, you can see it from that side as well:-)
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It is a hack which points to the short filename, that has been done for the sake of backward compatibility and back then it was an issue. Btw. the 8.3 naming convention was copied from cpm... speaking of stealing instead of innovating!
Since Windows is not their preferred os it probably does not really matter which processor they take. ARM currently is really the logical choice for netbook like devices if you dont need Windows. Their is absolutely no reason outside of needing some uncompilable legacy applications to go with Windows not even hd videos which can be covered by embedded gpus like nvidias offerings way better than to offload it onto the cpu!
The currently probably best netbook design would be an ultra slim convertible design with ARM processor and Nvidia netbook GPU!
No one has that yet, but I will be one of the first to buy such a thing once it is available!
I am sure they didnÂt they tried to get in bet with Intel, all Intel did was to steal their designs and reuse their ideas for the classmate PC...
One of the reasons why they went with AMD...
You can read that up on the net, they were pretty pissed. They wanted to make a difference for the children in the world, Intel wanted to fill its pockets again more on back of the children of the world...
One of the reasons why the classmate PC didnÂt take off as it should was the plunder by Intel, they went into any country with the stolen design and promoted their machine as alternative to the OLPC...
They never ever will probably team up with Intel again! Intel in this regard is like Microsoft they will push a knife in your back as soon as they can gain a personal profit. My only hope is that it one day will come down back on them and then really hard. Intel deserves it!
ARM chips use less power, and cost less, but at the expense of VASTLY less computational horsepower. Just fine if you need low-end apps, and don't mind waiting for Firefox to slowly render a web page, but aren't going to handle much multimedia playback, and the like
Newer arms do especially dedicated codec processors for hd also are out. Problem with the x86 architecture is that they try to do anything brute force and that sucks a lot of power. Do not underestimate the horsepower of arm, it currently is somewhere in between atom and the normal notebook processors, hd playback can be achieved probably better with dedicated gpu hardware like nividia has it in the pipeline. Overall the cost wont be higher than with Intels offering but with way less power drain and a real working hibernation and instant on!
(Arm has done that for ages)
Arm has a lot of advantages over x86, especially for netbooks, the newer ARMs definitely are as fast if not faster than the ATOM processors, the power consumption is way less, and power saving works as expected...
Their only problem and Intel knows that simply is they do not run x86 code natively... which makes it impossible to run Windows decently and that is what 70% of all buyers of netbooks want (face it... the netbooks have grown out of a nieche market into the mainstream)
I would love to see a decent arm based convertible netbook (sort of a gigabyte 912mx without the heating issues this machine has)
good by then they will switch to ie7 while other browsers are on CSS4 and Microsoft will probably be on ie15...
Dont get me wrong, but I am somewhat bitter, due to the fact that sometimes I even get the complaint that IE5.5 support is a must and IE6 support and even 7 seems like dragging a dead cow along...
And nowadays it is not even the private users anymore who wont upgrade most of them have, it is mostly banks and corporations!
html forms would be enough....
no browser supports it for now!
it is possible to a certain degree, but conditional css includes for ie are a must in any case...
For passing acid 3 they have to fully support svg...
which probably will happen, around 2015...
And untill all the bastart coporate it departements from hell will have switched away from ie6 it will be 2020
Well in my last page i did, i basically did a full dhtml web2.0 version for any browser except ie, ie just got a plain html rendering and it still needed several non standard css hacks (IE6 that is) to get the proper behavior regarding position fixed and right and bottom positions...
But i think in the end this is the way to go, make it as painful as possible for ie6 users without sacrificying content and your time!
But it has at least onhashchange which is not implemented by any other browser which have to rely on rather evil hacks to get this up and running (iframes, timers in endless loops for polling)
Well there is a lot of things going wrong with ie6 but this thing they have gotten right!
Wake me up when IE8 does more than 20% on acid3 ...
Most slashdotters probably having gotten from not getting laid because they cant get a girl to not getting laid because the baby is crying :-)
Problem I see if you just need a good editor and code insight anything decent can do it. I use for instance intellij for coding the pages and its code insight features and refactoring do the job more than perfectly...
Wyiwyg is out of the question, but having all the css attributes, being able to refactor css and having graphical tools for color selection within css etc... can go miles!
I forgot:
Apple: I will push you no matter what, but with style and charge you a fortune for the pole I will use to achieve my job
Microsoft: Where do you want me to push you today...
Sony: Shut the fuck up and let me push you into the direction I want you to go today...
Actually no, last year they brought out disaster day of crisis one of those excellent games no one played!
Afair in windows it was an endless loop which had to dispatch the events, but it has been a long time!
So basically you had to program the loop yourself. There are rumourse that the first versions of windows had lots of apple code in it, which Apple failed to prove since they could not get the jugde to order Microsoft to open the code for them in the court trial!
Anyway the win32 api is really nothing anybody should be proud of, on the contrary!
Well opening a dialog was something along the lines of the showDialog function, the problem was when you had to do more than doing a dialog you ran into an oo api with c but with the creators did only have half a clue what makes oo so great and did not hide anything but forced you into pushing lots of defaults and then initializing the request queue yourself etc.... Microsoft is hardly to blame there they just copied the apple code over in the early 80s (which of course still is a rumour since apple failed to have the windows 3.0 code opened in the court trial)
The crippling thing was for both dat and md that it had no digital out and sony was way late to the game for the 3.5 inch floppy disk replacement.
No digital out was unberabale at the moment the first cheap cdr drives came out, and as a floppy disk replacement they were way too late and too expensive, first Iomega wept their floors with their miserable drives which however were cheap and could be bought around the corner and later CD rewritables wept the last remnants of the mini disk away and later cheap mp3 players put the final nail into its coffin. It took sony however several years to realize that MP3 has won and then it was too late, the walkman brand was dead and wiped out by Apple (The iPod came before Sony stopped crippeling MP3 in their players)
Well the last stund they did was to remove PS2 backward compatibility from the PS3 basically smacking 110 mio potential customers in the head with a grin and the words "We make you our bitch, suck it down" :-)
If I had that install base, I would probably spend a fortune to give those users a reason to upgrade. Well Sony didnt!
Well cell was the logical choice for Sony. The PS2 had a similar architecture, it basically was two mips processors with added vector units taking over.
The design is basically rather straight forward from the PS2, problem is that sony intended to have the cell doing anything including 3d but the 3d processors in the meantime had become such powerhouses that the cell would have looked old doing 3d rendering, so they added another nividia gpu now the cell is degraded to do something nobody really can figure out what to do with it except doing physics, and add to that it is a really slow general purpose processor... So you end up with following architecture,
mediocre gpu, way to few ram, slow as molasses general purpose computing and powerhouse of simd units you have to figure out yourself what to do with it. On the PS2 the machine hat a big enough market saturation so dev studios had enough time to find ways to untap the resources outside of the slow mips core, but the PS3 is a different issue you have to be crossplatform so tapping special resources is a no go, and for the rest you have to fight with the limits of the machine.
It is always funny to read posts like above when obviously a fanboy talks about how it will evolve the next ten years. From a technical standpoint the PS3 does not have ten years, the simd units on modern graphics cards are way beyound what a PS3 can deliver. The entire 3d area is moving towards voxel engines as we speak (real voxels not the 2d voxel maps of the 90s) so ram is a huge issue there, and that is one of the areas the ps3 severely lacks behind. User adoption is limited by the fact that sony basically pissed 110mio customers on the head by cutting down the ps2 compatibility to zero so the uptake is not as it could be. No there wont be a ten years lifespan only in Sonys wet dreams!
I have been living in the dynamic space for quite a while and this statement is pure bullshit. The issue is not the language the issue is the tooling. What made visual basic so great (which was copied by the nextstep interface builder which used objective c btw...) was not that you had a certain language underneath it simply was the tooling. Delphi was also not a dynamic language but for most apps sufficient enough. The issue with JEE is it is pattern hell combined with a lack of good visual tooling. The main issue is that the entire JEE is not that bad per se and has good ideas, but it lacks a load of good frontend tooling to combine all this together. Netbeans has quite a few good approaches on how things should be done but falls short on bugs!
VB also would have been hard if you had to deal with all the configuration bindings yourself instead of having the tools take over everything!
Funny thing is I dont have crashes on fallout 3 (I had three so far), could it be the graphics card, the xbox uses ATI, I have an ATI card, so go figure that it might have something to do with it.
Funny thing is most games coming from the xbox are very stable, GTA4 is the exception not the rule. I have seen a huge rise in quality of gaming on the pc especially the last two years. Dont get me wrong but as far as I have read most of the problems on the PC gta 4 stem from drm code which was introduced for the pc version only. Basically drm code which shut down parts of the game dynamically!
So the porting was not at fault there!
The whole thing is like the playground bully trying to beat the teacher, those guys they are suing probably have more funds than the RIAAs annual budget for legal defense! :-)
What this means is the RIAA is in for a severe beating. Speaking of stupidity well applied this is the perfect example!
It is one thing going after people who do not have the funds to defent themselves and another thing trying to anger the big boys. The first thing is morally wrong and may the rot in hell, the second thing is going into a club of sadists and crying for beating, or applying for a cell in Guantanamo Bay, you can see it from that side as well