not to mention the fact that a 1.8 Ghz G4 and a 1.8 Ghz G5 should be fairly comparable. Other than that damned bus speed. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel... the dual core should have a RadidIO bus finally ridding us of that horrible constraint!...
this is going to be an interesting marketing conundrum to Apple when it happens because how are they going to sell us this new G4 which in all respects is as good as a G5 (sans 64Bit) and possibly better (cooler running, better FPU/SIMD performance (and I say this because the G4 has seperate units the G5s as I recall are combined in some way)) maybe:
Say hello to the G4.5
This isn't strictly true. You could easily put the mouse input code into a seperate thread which can respond to the mouse input as soon as it comes in, and could take this input and turn it into a vector/percentage/somethingelse, which the game engine working at 60hz would read from.
This is just one solution, there are plenty more I'm sure.
what happened to people who had amazing ideas BEFORE lightbulbs were invented?
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FYI, I have run OS9, but that was the past, this is the present, and the present is OSX, And since this desk appears to be new (it was designed for the flat-panel iMac).
OS9 had 2 forms of multitasking, it had the co-operative multitasking that you got by default in the OS8 and prior environment, it also had(has?) a preemptive system. The main OS (the cooperative part) worked as a thread of the preemtable system, which is kind of wierd, but also irrelevent since OS9 should be consigned to the dustbin of any respectible establishment, and my home.
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The lady in the pictures can lounge around because she finished all her work hours ago, while her linux counterparts are still trying to get their XConfig working.
Thats because when you dont have to fight with the OS to get anything done, you are a lot more productive.
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In this Nancy Drew mystery, Nancy goes to the beach and gets sand trapped in her shoe.
This could explain how you got it trapped in your vagina!
I'm serious, if that sand in your vagina doesn't get released, you could become a walking timebomb...
you do realise a patent has to be published so everyone can see it, which is why the formula for cocacola has never been patented.
I think what you mean is trade secrets, like a certain optimization there, and another here. which if given to the competitors would allow them to improve their graphics chips.
The streaming nature of PCIExpress makes it ideal for graphics use, since most graphics operations are either command buffers, or texture data (the biggest use of bandwidth), commands can be coalesced into a aggregate size and sent in a command packet to the graphics card, the card can send requests for texture data it doesn't have in texture memory back across the reply link (which has the same bandwidth as the send link and has no turnaround time), which can then be streamed directly from main memory to the card. Since PCIExpress links can be combined as/when necessary, if theres no other accesses going on, you could theoretically get 16 or 32 channels streaming to the card.
This is especially relevent given that Longhorn (and already OSX) are moving away from traditional 2d graphics and are moving towards a system where windows are simply textures painted onto polygons.
also note, both ATI and nVidia have PCIExpress parts on their 2004 roadmaps.
of course you totally miss the point of Quartz Extreme.
When (not if) graphics chipsets are powerful enough to render display PDF into a texture then all the graphics drawing and compositing will be taken care of on the hardware, completely alleviating the CPU of all the donkey work.
I can see apple taking this route as soon as its viable with the hardware, infact I wouldn't be surprised if thats sooner than anyone expects.
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not to mention the fact that a 1.8 Ghz G4 and a 1.8 Ghz G5 should be fairly comparable. Other than that damned bus speed. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel... the dual core should have a RadidIO bus finally ridding us of that horrible constraint!...
this is going to be an interesting marketing conundrum to Apple when it happens because how are they going to sell us this new G4 which in all respects is as good as a G5 (sans 64Bit) and possibly better (cooler running, better FPU/SIMD performance (and I say this because the G4 has seperate units the G5s as I recall are combined in some way)) maybe:
Say hello to the G4.5
That page has been like that for years. I remember looking up the history of Zarch and finding it. Still waiting on that announcement.
And they'd forget it the very next episode when the same solution would probably save them from some vaporous space alien nebula combo.
One day I'm going to release a piece of software just called 'i'.
That should confuse the hell out of everyone...
'oh I use i'
'uh i what?'
'just i'.
Also they can't point hubble within 20degrees of the moon as I seem to remember...
I think you mean Amiga....
Thats because most of them did the voices to the radio show. which is where the books came from I believe.
This isn't strictly true. You could easily put the mouse input code into a seperate thread which can respond to the mouse input as soon as it comes in, and could take this input and turn it into a vector/percentage/somethingelse, which the game engine working at 60hz would read from.
This is just one solution, there are plenty more I'm sure.
I've read that, there were spots that were bad, but overall it was a smooth, if slightly large, read...
but what about that infernal stutter, it would be nearly as annoying as clippy....
more importantly,
what happened to people who had amazing ideas BEFORE lightbulbs were invented?
FYI, I have run OS9, but that was the past, this is the present, and the present is OSX, And since this desk appears to be new (it was designed for the flat-panel iMac).
OS9 had 2 forms of multitasking, it had the co-operative multitasking that you got by default in the OS8 and prior environment, it also had(has?) a preemptive system. The main OS (the cooperative part) worked as a thread of the preemtable system, which is kind of wierd, but also irrelevent since OS9 should be consigned to the dustbin of any respectible establishment, and my home.
[warning, blantant troll] The lady in the pictures can lounge around because she finished all her work hours ago, while her linux counterparts are still trying to get their XConfig working.
Thats because when you dont have to fight with the OS to get anything done, you are a lot more productive.
In this Nancy Drew mystery, Nancy goes to the beach and gets sand trapped in her shoe.
This could explain how you got it trapped in your vagina!
I'm serious, if that sand in your vagina doesn't get released, you could become a walking timebomb...
you do realise a patent has to be published so everyone can see it, which is why the formula for cocacola has never been patented.
I think what you mean is trade secrets, like a certain optimization there, and another here. which if given to the competitors would allow them to improve their graphics chips.
I'm still waiting for my 4 simultaneous streams of HDTV amiga promised me about 4 years ago.
sorry, but both you and the parent are wrong.
The streaming nature of PCIExpress makes it ideal for graphics use, since most graphics operations are either command buffers, or texture data (the biggest use of bandwidth), commands can be coalesced into a aggregate size and sent in a command packet to the graphics card, the card can send requests for texture data it doesn't have in texture memory back across the reply link (which has the same bandwidth as the send link and has no turnaround time), which can then be streamed directly from main memory to the card. Since PCIExpress links can be combined as/when necessary, if theres no other accesses going on, you could theoretically get 16 or 32 channels streaming to the card.
This is especially relevent given that Longhorn (and already OSX) are moving away from traditional 2d graphics and are moving towards a system where windows are simply textures painted onto polygons.
also note, both ATI and nVidia have PCIExpress parts on their 2004 roadmaps.
yeah, and jesus got up on a cross to save his followers, how many christians would do the same nowadays?
of course you totally miss the point of Quartz Extreme.
When (not if) graphics chipsets are powerful enough to render display PDF into a texture then all the graphics drawing and compositing will be taken care of on the hardware, completely alleviating the CPU of all the donkey work.
I can see apple taking this route as soon as its viable with the hardware, infact I wouldn't be surprised if thats sooner than anyone expects.
why isn't this insightful piece of commentry modded up?
technically it would be us plummeting towards it....
what happens when the battery in your laptop runs down in the middle of the desert
don't you mean a map and a compass?
what use is a laptop when you dont know where you're going?
no, because then you sound like someone from east london.
If I DO get a AMD chip in my apple in June you'll be getting my therapy bill.....