Hmmm, I find that to be true. I was sitting here giggling to myself, thinking how little the Americans know about other langugages. But the bizarre fact is that the Britains are worse.
Still, I can understand it, and would probably have done the same thing myself, if I was born in an english speaking country. Why use so much time learning another language, when it's not necessary ? But the worst example is France. They really expect you to speak french if you visit France, and they don't bother learning english. They like to imagine themselves that french is just as universial as english, even if they have no reason to do so.
Who the hell speaks french outside France anyway? A few Canadians and some poor pygmees deep in the African jungle I would say.
Last year I was in Cambodia, and met 3 chainsmoking french girls. It was like they were pissed of because the former french speaking Cambodians now spoke english instead! Yuck, french sucks, and it doesn't sound good either.
Isn't the Apple OS X driver similar enough to the XFree86 driver that a common codebase should be possible ?
I assume that the OS X driver is bug free...
"If you do much with floating point ops - you loose a lot if your numbers aren't very near each other in significant digits. With 64-bit FP, you can retain higher accuracy with larger data sets and multiple operations on the same number - even if you still only need a 32-bit result"
I'm no microprocessor guru, but isn't the existing x86 fp stack 80 bits internally ? Hence the new Opteron wont' give you increased accuracy. Maybe loading a double (64 bit number) from the new 64 bit registers to the fp stack will be faster than before. (I'm curious to how this is done today with the existing 32 bit registers, say that you want use registers, instead of memory, and you want to multiply two doubles, they must somehow be split across 2 registers each, resulting in 4 load operations ? )
This is what I've been waiting for. This proves that Linux is ready for prime time. Why ?
The (mechanical) engineering market is huge. Take all the different software companies, and add up their value. Pro/Engineer, UGS/Sdrc(Unigraphics, Solid Edge, I-Deas), Autodesk(Autocad, 3Dstudio), Bentley(Microstation), Dassault Systemes(Catia, Solidworks), etc. Combined, they're one of the largest segments of the IT world. It's also got some of the most demanding customers. By releasing Pro/E for Linux, they're forcing everyone else to follow. It's just a matter of time before UGS launches Unigraphics for Linux.
And what's next ? Imagine a large car manufacturer, like GM, or BMW. What's stopping them from running Linux on all their PC's ? Nothing. SAP is already there, FEM (Nastran) is there. Staroffice is ready. The way is paved for Linux from top to bottom. The irony of it is that it's not so long ago that these companies finished their transition from UNIX to windows, and now their going back !
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Hmmm, I find that to be true. I was sitting here giggling to myself, thinking how little the Americans know about other langugages. But the bizarre fact is that the Britains are worse. Still, I can understand it, and would probably have done the same thing myself, if I was born in an english speaking country. Why use so much time learning another language, when it's not necessary ? But the worst example is France. They really expect you to speak french if you visit France, and they don't bother learning english. They like to imagine themselves that french is just as universial as english, even if they have no reason to do so. Who the hell speaks french outside France anyway? A few Canadians and some poor pygmees deep in the African jungle I would say. Last year I was in Cambodia, and met 3 chainsmoking french girls. It was like they were pissed of because the former french speaking Cambodians now spoke english instead! Yuck, french sucks, and it doesn't sound good either.
Isn't the Apple OS X driver similar enough to the XFree86 driver that a common codebase should be possible ? I assume that the OS X driver is bug free ...
I'm no microprocessor guru, but isn't the existing x86 fp stack 80 bits internally ? Hence the new Opteron wont' give you increased accuracy. Maybe loading a double (64 bit number) from the new 64 bit registers to the fp stack will be faster than before. (I'm curious to how this is done today with the existing 32 bit registers, say that you want use registers, instead of memory, and you want to multiply two doubles, they must somehow be split across 2 registers each, resulting in 4 load operations ? )
This is what I've been waiting for. This proves that Linux is ready for prime time. Why ? The (mechanical) engineering market is huge. Take all the different software companies, and add up their value. Pro/Engineer, UGS/Sdrc(Unigraphics, Solid Edge, I-Deas), Autodesk(Autocad, 3Dstudio), Bentley(Microstation), Dassault Systemes(Catia, Solidworks), etc. Combined, they're one of the largest segments of the IT world. It's also got some of the most demanding customers. By releasing Pro/E for Linux, they're forcing everyone else to follow. It's just a matter of time before UGS launches Unigraphics for Linux. And what's next ? Imagine a large car manufacturer, like GM, or BMW. What's stopping them from running Linux on all their PC's ? Nothing. SAP is already there, FEM (Nastran) is there. Staroffice is ready. The way is paved for Linux from top to bottom. The irony of it is that it's not so long ago that these companies finished their transition from UNIX to windows, and now their going back !