I'm sorry, but Darwin's XNU Kernel is open source. You can compile it yourself, if you really have to. Get the source from Apple or from the opendarwin project - or perhaps from the gnu-darwin project?
And if you really want the choice for whatsoever, you can use Darwin w/o Quartz and use that X11-thingamabob only instead.
I'm sorry, but Access is NOT a relational database. It may use a crippled SQL-dialect, but that's it. Ever heard of ACID? There are no transactions in Access. Hell, not even database functions! And the Integer is 16 Bit long! *argl*
"If someone has your computer, they *can* get the data."
I doubt that. It may take several billion years to decrypt the stuff from harddisk. That's long enough to call it impossible - at least for human purposes.
Here in the US, we can go anywhere in a nation the size of the EU, as well as most of Canada, without having to speek any other language than English.
I'm sorry, but the EU is currently the third largest 'country' in the world - after India and China. Without the new countries joining in 2004, there are currently 379 Million citizens. And it keps growing. The U.S. & Canada together have 312 Million.
Check http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union#Exten sion_of_the_EU and have a look yourself.
It would be a pity to scrap all languages spoken in Europe*: Think about all the poems and novels that have been created in them! Reading Goethe in German, cursing in French, etc.... makes much more fun!
*) that of course also holds true for languages native outside Europe
Interesting comparison with the units/metric system;
the metric system is more thought through, but many people stay with units as they are used to it...
Much like Linux and Windows - many people stay with Windows as they are used to it and haven't yet recognized the superiority of Linux beeing open source.
o.k.: Which compiler generated your OS-binaries? gcc or VS7? Propably not the Intel C-Compiler. So measuring with hypothetic data is a bit unfair. You also need to take into account that Intel is heavily tweaking its compiler for the SPEC-Suite - the gcc-guys are not (in general Intel compiler is faster, no doubt). The Opteron is aimed at the Server/Workstation market - have a look at the AMD-homepage. The Athlon64 will be for Opteron whats G5 for the Power4. And Athlon64 will be worse at the SPEC as it wont have a 128bit memory-bus. You also have to take into account that the goodies of the Opteron will only be available with rewritten code - PowerPC always had a 32/64bit compatibility, where AMD is now struggeling for support. The G5 is competing with the P4 as a desktop processor, not with the Opteron in the Server. Please go an compare the Operton to the Power4. We all now that all this "fastest ever"-bla is marketing-babble. Try to be happy that there is a new interesting and blazing fast Desktop-CPU available! (If you dont like PowerPC or OS-X, enjoy the competition driving your favorite architecture)
There is an article about coffeine in the latest "Spektrum der Wissenschaft", the german "Scientific American". The author Bruno Sicard claims, that there is no strong addiction to coffeine, as is to Alcohol, Nicotin, Marihuana or worse. Coffein even slows down Parkinson's Desease. Statistically, people drinking coffee get Parkinson less often. But you can overdo it, getting coffeinism (?), showing with shiver, angst, nervosity. (Women do suffer from coffeinism easier than men do)
nope, sorry but this wont work; a program is always compiled for a specific architecture. The binary needs to know about instructions, registers and stuff of the processor; otherwise you need a virtual machine, emulator or something. So to answer your question: There will never be a mobo with a x86 and a PowerPC running in SMP Mode; (async MP machines would be possible)
The PowerPCs aint twice as fast as modern x86 like the Athlon or P4; I've found a (est.) spec-value for the G3 750FX that comes in the most recent iBooks: http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techli b.nsf/tec hdocs/2FF4861D6755A6CA87256BB1006B1DE6/$file/PPC75 0FX_PB.PDF
if you compare this to other values from spec it lets the powerpc look rather bad:( but the G3 is an awesome mobile-processor: my iBook doesnt make much noise and has battery for over 4 hours working time. Dont play WC3 on your iBook - a x86 Notebook with comparable qualities would look just as bad; you also have to remember that all Apple Computers have to be compared to a Dell or IBM PC, not a homebrew low budget one...
But Motorola really should double the speed of the G4 and also speed up its FSB to at least 133MHz DDR!
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I'm sorry, but Darwin's XNU Kernel is open source. You can compile it yourself, if you really have to.
Get the source from Apple or from the opendarwin project - or perhaps from the gnu-darwin project?
And if you really want the choice for whatsoever, you can use Darwin w/o Quartz and use that X11-thingamabob only instead.
If you want to develop a non-opensource program for KDE, you'll have to pay Trolltech for a non-GPL QT lib;
in case of e. g. Gnome the core-libs are LGPL... guess why Sun prefers Gnome over KDE for Solaris?
I'm sorry, but Access is NOT a relational database. It may use a crippled SQL-dialect, but that's it. Ever heard of ACID? There are no transactions in Access. Hell, not even database functions! And the Integer is 16 Bit long! *argl*
Thank god that Access does NOT run on MacOS!!!
come on, that should be
#!/usr/bin/env perl
"If someone has your computer, they *can* get the data."
I doubt that. It may take several billion years to decrypt the stuff from harddisk. That's long enough to call it impossible - at least for human purposes.
I'm sorry, but this seems to be a polo player on is horse with the ball flying in from the left...
They could have even built binaries that ran across both platforms without recompiling.
Fat binaries, anyone? This already didn't work for NeXT.
Here in the US, we can go anywhere in a nation the size of the EU, as well as most of Canada, without having to speek any other language than English. I'm sorry, but the EU is currently the third largest 'country' in the world - after India and China. Without the new countries joining in 2004, there are currently 379 Million citizens. And it keps growing. The U.S. & Canada together have 312 Million. Check http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union#Exten sion_of_the_EU and have a look yourself.
It would be a pity to scrap all languages spoken in Europe*: Think about all the poems and novels that have been created in them! Reading Goethe in German, cursing in French, etc. ... makes much more fun!
*) that of course also holds true for languages native outside Europe
Interesting comparison with the units/metric system; the metric system is more thought through, but many people stay with units as they are used to it... Much like Linux and Windows - many people stay with Windows as they are used to it and haven't yet recognized the superiority of Linux beeing open source.
Haha! Apple thought of this!
Its a feature that you cant erase your mother-in-law's visit from the calendar.
o.k.: Which compiler generated your OS-binaries? gcc or VS7? Propably not the Intel C-Compiler. So measuring with hypothetic data is a bit unfair. You also need to take into account that Intel is heavily tweaking its compiler for the SPEC-Suite - the gcc-guys are not (in general Intel compiler is faster, no doubt).
The Opteron is aimed at the Server/Workstation market - have a look at the AMD-homepage. The Athlon64 will be for Opteron whats G5 for the Power4. And Athlon64 will be worse at the SPEC as it wont have a 128bit memory-bus. You also have to take into account that the goodies of the Opteron will only be available with rewritten code - PowerPC always had a 32/64bit compatibility, where AMD is now struggeling for support.
The G5 is competing with the P4 as a desktop processor, not with the Opteron in the Server. Please go an compare the Operton to the Power4.
We all now that all this "fastest ever"-bla is marketing-babble. Try to be happy that there is a new interesting and blazing fast Desktop-CPU available! (If you dont like PowerPC or OS-X, enjoy the competition driving your favorite architecture)
afaik IBM is planning to build an G3 with Altivec (as the G3 in your iBook is already from IBM) - that would be fine for our beloved iBooks;
the G3 (750FX) here in my iBook is from IBM... ;-)
There is an article about coffeine in the latest "Spektrum der Wissenschaft", the german "Scientific American".
The author Bruno Sicard claims, that there is no strong addiction to coffeine, as is to Alcohol, Nicotin, Marihuana or worse. Coffein even slows down Parkinson's Desease. Statistically, people drinking coffee get Parkinson less often.
But you can overdo it, getting coffeinism (?), showing with shiver, angst, nervosity. (Women do suffer from coffeinism easier than men do)
nope, sorry but this wont work; a program is always compiled for a specific architecture.
The binary needs to know about instructions, registers and stuff of the processor;
otherwise you need a virtual machine, emulator or something.
So to answer your question:
There will never be a mobo with a x86 and a PowerPC running in SMP Mode; (async MP machines would be possible)
The PowerPCs aint twice as fast as modern x86 like the Athlon or P4;i b.nsf/tec hdocs/2FF4861D6755A6CA87256BB1006B1DE6/$file/PPC75 0FX_PB.PDF
:(
I've found a (est.) spec-value for the G3 750FX that comes in the most recent iBooks:
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techl
if you compare this to other values from spec it lets the powerpc look rather bad
but the G3 is an awesome mobile-processor: my iBook doesnt make much noise and has battery for over 4 hours working time.
Dont play WC3 on your iBook - a x86 Notebook with comparable qualities would look just as bad;
you also have to remember that all Apple Computers have to be compared to a Dell or IBM PC, not a homebrew low budget one...
But Motorola really should double the speed of the G4 and also speed up its FSB to at least 133MHz DDR!