X86 was originally just a vertual machine, but as slow as Bochs is, you can imagine that on a VAX. So eventually they broke down and came out with the 8088.
I would say a computer doing video playback is quite likely to be be doing another processor intenisve task - recording some other video stream.
And often enough my son is sitting at the computer playing a game while I'm in the living room watching the video playing, and looking at slashdot (or something) on a browser running on that machine while displaying remotely on my laptop (which is also the remote control for video replay).
My Celeron 850 can already do all of this, but it does drop some frames, and I'd like to capture/replay at higher resolution and record a second video stream simultaneously.
THOUGHTS: Early reports based on those who own the Toshiba e740 Pocket PC 2002 device are telling us that XScale at 400 MHz performs slower than a StrongARM at 206 MHz on some tasks. This came as a surprise to many people.
SUWANJINDAR: "We are aware that PXA250 (XScale)-based devices are not demonstrating the huge performance gains that were anticipated. That said, Pocket PCs continue to offer the best performance and the richest functionality vs. other handhelds on the market today."
THOUGHTS: Some of those same analysts have said it will be 2004 until there's an OS that can use the XScale CPU properly. Is that an accurate estimate?
SUWANJINDAR: "It's too early to talk about the next version of our software. That said, we're committed to delivering best-in-class functionality and performance while providing a foundation that enables our developer community to continue to innovate and build successful businesses on our platform.
I find this sort of talk simply insulting. Couldn't he even find some irrelevant facts to spin in support of his cause? How stupid do they think we are?
Derailing a train with nuclear material isn't going to cause the release of any nuclear material. Besides, the "dumbasses" will never know which trains are carrying it.
Conventional wisdom holds that marketing and strategy are the keys to success in business, and that technical excellence is a relatively minor factor. Yet google seems to have come out of nowhere to dominate an already crowded market for search engines - without Superbowl ads, a mascot, or (unless I'm mistaken) an IPO.
To what do you credit the popularity of google? Do you consider google a "success," or are you holding out for thousands of employees and billions in cash flow?
It may or may not be more economical to live in a cheaper house. If your house is in a nice area, you may make a lot of money when you sell that nice house. Nothings guaranteed, of course, but it's not like buying a nice car, clothes, or food, where you KNOW you'll never see your money again.
People waste a lot of time learning things by trial and error because they don't have the discipline to press through comprehensive instruction. Then they are perfectly happy to spend hours looking for elusive bugs, re-inventing the wheel, and optimizing code that's fundamentally flawed. All because it feels more productive and requires less concentration to hammer away on the keyboard.
The Web is full of tidbits - answers to little questions and "how-to's" on specific topics. A good book progresses logically and covers a topic comprehensively. Breaking into a new subject by scavaging the Web is a waste of time.
It's a free country until rich, powerful interests like Disney and the MPAA throw you in jail for using a contraband A/D converter. Disney's legislative efforts are precisely about forcing their values down everyone's throats. So it seems the real threat is not from Socialist Utopians at all.
As to the person to whom you're responding, you're both just bashing the strawman who believes that Disney has seen the light and converted to Open Source.
This announcement doesn't make Disney good or evil - they're as evil as ever. So what? It's still a credit to Linux to be chosen for its functionality, freedom from legal hassles, and economy.
If anything, Disney is now more evil for accepting the gracious gifts of others while demanding ever-more government enforcement of their own greed. Regardless, this is decision a credit to Linux.
I'm under the impression that there's a connection between frequency and directionality, and of course penetration. So what is the 70-95 GHz spectrum like? How well can it reach through clounds and dust? Is it directional, or is everybody sharing? Thanks for any info.
You've just propped up the strawman again with nothing other than hot air, Just like Joel.
I bet you can't find even a handful of slashdot comments to the effect that IBM is backing Linux from the goodness of their hearts - let alone enough to justify your assertion of this being a "mainstream" view on Slashdot. Feel free to prove me wrong (and I don't mean simply re-asserting your strawman argument.)
What's *really* mainstream on Slashdot are self-aggrandizing efforts to "burst somebody's bubble" with the cold, hard facts that only you are man enough to face objectively. (Cue soundbyte: "bandwidth isn't free" and "business exist to increase shareholder value.")
So how do we tell "Genuine Microsoft Quality Products" from "Shoddy Software Created By Third Parties And Put Out By Microsoft"? Is the hologram a different color or something?
No, you do not understand it. Event-driven programs are just good old procedural programs with a higher-level abstraction on top. Some frameworks emphacise the difference by hiding the outer loop from you. But event-driven programming is at least as old as select().
And, yes, Windows programs have a 'main', it's called WinMain. It *does* recieve the command-line string (though not tokenized like in Unix, and it also recieves some other stuff).
If you believe that argument is valid, then "megapixels" is a completely arbitrary number and we'll have to invent a new word for "the number of sensor readings contributing to the image."
Many digital cameras do something about as bad. They quote the number of elements in the sensor, even though the elements near the edges are "dead" and never used at all. So for instance a consumer might think a 2.4 megapixel camera is better than a 2.1 megapixel camera when they both output exactly the same max sized image.
Finally, all consumer digital cameras are somewhat deceptive in that they do not take 3.1 million (or whatever) color samples. They only measure intensity at each point, with different colored filters in some pattern over the sensor array. (This is like how your eye works, with 3 different types of monochromatic sensors responding to different wavelengths).
The opshot of this is that a non-lossy format like.tif has a whole lot of redundant information because it stores a full three-component color at each point.
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X86 was originally just a vertual machine, but as slow as Bochs is, you can imagine that on a VAX. So eventually they broke down and came out with the 8088.
"Spammers"? You don't think e-bay should allow advertising things for sale?
So, you answered the question by rephrasing it. Except you forget to rephrase it.
And often enough my son is sitting at the computer playing a game while I'm in the living room watching the video playing, and looking at slashdot (or something) on a browser running on that machine while displaying remotely on my laptop (which is also the remote control for video replay).
My Celeron 850 can already do all of this, but it does drop some frames, and I'd like to capture/replay at higher resolution and record a second video stream simultaneously.
*Actual clock speed 400 mhz
What, do US tax dollars really fund research at MIT? I thought the ridiculous undergrad tuition paid for everything.
What is your point? That we should all self-censor for fear of the almighty lawyers? Why?
Derailing a train with nuclear material isn't going to cause the release of any nuclear material. Besides, the "dumbasses" will never know which trains are carrying it.
So rephrase the question to something very similar that *does* have an answer, such as "where on earth did the asteroid come closest to hitting?"
To what do you credit the popularity of google? Do you consider google a "success," or are you holding out for thousands of employees and billions in cash flow?
I agree, personal liability for the corrupt humans would be much better.
It may or may not be more economical to live in a cheaper house. If your house is in a nice area, you may make a lot of money when you sell that nice house. Nothings guaranteed, of course, but it's not like buying a nice car, clothes, or food, where you KNOW you'll never see your money again.
People waste a lot of time learning things by trial and error because they don't have the discipline to press through comprehensive instruction. Then they are perfectly happy to spend hours looking for elusive bugs, re-inventing the wheel, and optimizing code that's fundamentally flawed. All because it feels more productive and requires less concentration to hammer away on the keyboard.
The Web is full of tidbits - answers to little questions and "how-to's" on specific topics. A good book progresses logically and covers a topic comprehensively. Breaking into a new subject by scavaging the Web is a waste of time.
As to the person to whom you're responding, you're both just bashing the strawman who believes that Disney has seen the light and converted to Open Source.
This announcement doesn't make Disney good or evil - they're as evil as ever. So what? It's still a credit to Linux to be chosen for its functionality, freedom from legal hassles, and economy.
If anything, Disney is now more evil for accepting the gracious gifts of others while demanding ever-more government enforcement of their own greed. Regardless, this is decision a credit to Linux.
I'm under the impression that there's a connection between frequency and directionality, and of course penetration. So what is the 70-95 GHz spectrum like? How well can it reach through clounds and dust? Is it directional, or is everybody sharing? Thanks for any info.
I bet you can't find even a handful of slashdot comments to the effect that IBM is backing Linux from the goodness of their hearts - let alone enough to justify your assertion of this being a "mainstream" view on Slashdot. Feel free to prove me wrong (and I don't mean simply re-asserting your strawman argument.)
What's *really* mainstream on Slashdot are self-aggrandizing efforts to "burst somebody's bubble" with the cold, hard facts that only you are man enough to face objectively. (Cue soundbyte: "bandwidth isn't free" and "business exist to increase shareholder value.")
So how do we tell "Genuine Microsoft Quality Products" from "Shoddy Software Created By Third Parties And Put Out By Microsoft"? Is the hologram a different color or something?
And, yes, Windows programs have a 'main', it's called WinMain. It *does* recieve the command-line string (though not tokenized like in Unix, and it also recieves some other stuff).
What are the differences? Why are there 2 new fighter planes coming out?
If you believe that argument is valid, then "megapixels" is a completely arbitrary number and we'll have to invent a new word for "the number of sensor readings contributing to the image."
Many digital cameras do something about as bad. They quote the number of elements in the sensor, even though the elements near the edges are "dead" and never used at all. So for instance a consumer might think a 2.4 megapixel camera is better than a 2.1 megapixel camera when they both output exactly the same max sized image.
Finally, all consumer digital cameras are somewhat deceptive in that they do not take 3.1 million (or whatever) color samples. They only measure intensity at each point, with different colored filters in some pattern over the sensor array. (This is like how your eye works, with 3 different types of monochromatic sensors responding to different wavelengths).
The opshot of this is that a non-lossy format like .tif has a whole lot of redundant information because it stores a full three-component color at each point.