This is slightly inaccurate. We aren't running out of memory to link Firefox, we're running out of memory to run Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) on Firefox.
PGO looks at what is actually executed during a given workload and optimizes based on that. It can be a pretty big win — 30% in some workloads —so we work pretty hard to keep it going.
Unfortunately, PGO needs to have not only all the code, but all the intermediate representations and other metadata about the code in memory at one time. (That's why we're running out of memory.)
Unfortunately, MSVC doesn't support producing a 32-bit binary using their 64-bit compiler.
(FWIW, Chrome has *always* been too big to use PGO.)
Couldn't you just use E=mc^2 to derive the kilogram from the joule?
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Two Weeks with the Wii
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I absolutely loved Super Monkey Ball 1 for the Gamecube, and so Super Monkey Ball Wii was one of the two games (along with Zelda) I picked up when I first got my Wii. I wanted a decent single-player game along with the joy of multiplayer that Super Monkey Ball had been for my friends and me in the past.
In short, Super Monkey Ball Wii is not even close to as good as Rayman. (More on Rayman later). The reason I know this is that I tried to enjoy it for about a week before trying it with friends, and discovering that it was basically not fun anymore. Even Monkey Target, which was the best of the best back on the 'Cube, isn't any fun on the Wii. It seems like they never thought of the game as an experience, but instead just threw together a bunch of tech demos and put the same interface on each of them. There's no quick way to retry a minigame. There are no settings on minigames. (That means there's also no stage selection on Monkey Target - it's a one-stage wonder.) You have to enter your name using a bizzare wheel of letters instead of the Wii keyboard used in the interface. In short, it's very disappointing in many ways. I even found the single-player game disappointingly difficult to control, and at the same time way too easy (due probably in part to the jumping ability they added). I am planning on trading in Super Monkey Ball to get Trauma Centre this weekend.
Rayman, on the other hand, is so utterly off-the-wall, incredibly funny - and fun, at the same time - that I can without hesitation recommend it to everyone, especially over Super Monkey Ball. I picked it up just before playing Super Monkey Ball in a gathering of friends, and we went to it - and stayed with it - for as long as we could before we had to leave. The controls are great and the minigames are fun, funny and highly varied, so it never gets boring. The only downside is that you have to unlock all the minigames in single-player mode before playing it multiplayer. This is really only a downside if, like me, you play it for the first time in a gathering of friends. Unlock everything, put your saved game on an SD card, and you'll be able to bring your game everywhere with you.
I think I can sum up my feelings on the situation like this: When I started playing Rayman on my own, I said to my fiance "I really like this game." I had to push myself to even play Super Monkey Ball. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Further, I've heard a lot of people griping about (for example) the OMAP processor in the Nokia 770, which runs at 220 MHz -- saying "My xscale runs at 400 MHz, this is seriously underpowered." Sadly, this is far from the case.
The fact is that Intel royally screwed up the xscale processor - in a past life, I worked at an embedded Linux company, and once we'd switched from a 200 MHz OMAP chip to probably a 300 MHz XScale, our performance went way down. I/O, in particular, was atrocious on the XScale.
Add to that the fact that TI is legendary in the industry for low power consumption, and you end up with the net result that TI tends to win embedded sockets more often than not.
Remember: Megahertz is not processing speed. You can't compare the 4 MHz z80 inside the original game boy to the new ARM7 and ARM9 cores. They're totally different beasts, with thousands of man-years of research and development separating them. If you could somehow crank up a z80 to 66 MHz, it would still be blown away (in terms of performance) by the ARM cores in the DS.
Thus, yes, we can probably assume that the DS has enough processing power to emulate the game boy.
By the way, MHz is not a measure of CPU speed; it's a measure of clock frequency only. Saying "This computer is faster than this one because it's 100 MHz and that one is 33 MHz" is like saying "This car is faster than that one because it's going at 6000 RPM and that one is going at 3000 RPM." Remember: there's a lot more to CPU speed than clock speed.
It's not just a "fair point," it's completely true. The clock rate of a processor means NOTHING with regard to speed comparisons. Absolutely nothing.
The only time you can compare clock rate is when you're comparing two processors of the same architecture. That means Pentium 4 vs Pentium 4, PowerPC 970 vs PowerPC 970. Everything else is completely and utterly meaningless.
(I've speculated that I could probably spec out a (super, super, superscalar) processor that ran at 10 MHz that outperformed the latest 3 GHz processors. That's probably wrong--I'd be killed by branch misprediction--but the point remains.)
All copyright levies are collected by an independent group called the Canadian Private Copying Collective. Money started being distributed to copyright holders in 2003:
CPCC began making payments early in 2003. In January, CPCC carried out the first of a series of payments being made from the over $28 million in private copying royalties available for distribution from 2000 and 2001. 2003 will also see payment from the additional $26 million available from 2002.
According to the article, the law doesn't include any text about MP3 players, so collecting levies on them isn't allowed. As in many decisions, it has been left to Parliament to make the final choice.
The short of it is that if lobbyists get their way, the levy will be back on MP3 players; all that's needed is for an amendment to the Copyright Act to be drafted and passed.
I own a couple of your albums I bought from CD Baby, but I'd really rather buy them from the iTunes Music Store.
This was going to be a post saying "Do you know if CD Baby's music will be on the international iTunes Music Stores," but I just used VNC to search for m/n/m/l on iTunes, and it showed up. This wasn't the case when it first opened on Wednesday night. This is awesome. It's too bad that CD Baby artists don't show up when browsing the store (using the "browse" eye button in the top-right-hand corner of iTunes).
As a personal aside to you: I was really reminded of your music when I heard "On the Run" by Pink Floyd, from Dark Side of the Moon. Were you inspired by them?
How does Canonical plan on making money? Ubuntu seems to be completely and utterly free, in both senses of the word. In my mind at least, the 'services will pay for development' business plan for Free Software went out of style when the dot-com bubble burst. How will your company be different?
To switch tabs in Firefox, try CTRL-Tab, which I believe is the same on both OS X, Windows and Linux.
What bothers me about the browsers in OS X is that there isn't a standard set of keybindings: what's switch tabs in one browser isn't in the next; similarly for back and forward, stop, etc. (This is really strange, too, because Mac apps are usually so good for standardized key bindings.)
My G3 iBook failed four times (well, the fourth time was a botched repair) before its first year anniversary. I don't know whether that is indicative of a trend, but all the people talking about replacements and repairs indicates to me that your blanket statement "Most... started faling after about 1 year" should be called into question.
And yes, I did get a replacement G4 iBook which has been running fine since.
The whole point of IDLE is that it's meant to be implemented in a non-polling way. On Linux, Courier-IMAP uses FAM; when a file changes, the IMAP daemon is informed. There is no polling.
Actually, antiperspirant contains aluminum; deodorant is by definition free of these chemicals. It makes sense if you look at the names: antiperspirant stops you from sweating (by whatever means, which involve aluminmum salts), while deodorant just stops you from smelling.
On a separate note, it's getting increasingly difficult for people who want to avoid antiperspirant on (perhaps ill-founded) fears of aluminum damage to one's body. Particularly for women; my girlfriend literally can't find any deodorants for women any more.
I was aware of that, but it's pretty old data. I was actually interested in seeing whether the rise of Kazaa and its kin was correlated in any way with record sales.
I doubt that you'd be able to prove causation in this case, due to the sheer logistics of the problem, but I'd be impressed if someone had even had any decent numbers.
There are two problems with what you propose:
1. The musicians have signed contracts with the record labels. Those are legally binding.
2. Lots of musicians already have 'got their act together.' You can buy their music at CD Baby, among other places.
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Actually, the problem on Linux is also PGO.
I'm a Firefox developer.
This is slightly inaccurate. We aren't running out of memory to link Firefox, we're running out of memory to run Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) on Firefox.
PGO looks at what is actually executed during a given workload and optimizes based on that. It can be a pretty big win — 30% in some workloads —so we work pretty hard to keep it going.
Unfortunately, PGO needs to have not only all the code, but all the intermediate representations and other metadata about the code in memory at one time. (That's why we're running out of memory.)
Unfortunately, MSVC doesn't support producing a 32-bit binary using their 64-bit compiler.
(FWIW, Chrome has *always* been too big to use PGO.)
Couldn't you just use E=mc^2 to derive the kilogram from the joule?
I absolutely loved Super Monkey Ball 1 for the Gamecube, and so Super Monkey Ball Wii was one of the two games (along with Zelda) I picked up when I first got my Wii. I wanted a decent single-player game along with the joy of multiplayer that Super Monkey Ball had been for my friends and me in the past.
In short, Super Monkey Ball Wii is not even close to as good as Rayman. (More on Rayman later). The reason I know this is that I tried to enjoy it for about a week before trying it with friends, and discovering that it was basically not fun anymore. Even Monkey Target, which was the best of the best back on the 'Cube, isn't any fun on the Wii. It seems like they never thought of the game as an experience, but instead just threw together a bunch of tech demos and put the same interface on each of them. There's no quick way to retry a minigame. There are no settings on minigames. (That means there's also no stage selection on Monkey Target - it's a one-stage wonder.) You have to enter your name using a bizzare wheel of letters instead of the Wii keyboard used in the interface. In short, it's very disappointing in many ways. I even found the single-player game disappointingly difficult to control, and at the same time way too easy (due probably in part to the jumping ability they added). I am planning on trading in Super Monkey Ball to get Trauma Centre this weekend.
Rayman, on the other hand, is so utterly off-the-wall, incredibly funny - and fun, at the same time - that I can without hesitation recommend it to everyone, especially over Super Monkey Ball. I picked it up just before playing Super Monkey Ball in a gathering of friends, and we went to it - and stayed with it - for as long as we could before we had to leave. The controls are great and the minigames are fun, funny and highly varied, so it never gets boring. The only downside is that you have to unlock all the minigames in single-player mode before playing it multiplayer. This is really only a downside if, like me, you play it for the first time in a gathering of friends. Unlock everything, put your saved game on an SD card, and you'll be able to bring your game everywhere with you.
I think I can sum up my feelings on the situation like this: When I started playing Rayman on my own, I said to my fiance "I really like this game." I had to push myself to even play Super Monkey Ball. Don't make the same mistake I did.
The fact is that Intel royally screwed up the xscale processor - in a past life, I worked at an embedded Linux company, and once we'd switched from a 200 MHz OMAP chip to probably a 300 MHz XScale, our performance went way down. I/O, in particular, was atrocious on the XScale.
Add to that the fact that TI is legendary in the industry for low power consumption, and you end up with the net result that TI tends to win embedded sockets more often than not.
Supporting both deb and rpm formats isn't that big a deal - Debian itself supports both, through both rpm itself and alien.
Thus, yes, we can probably assume that the DS has enough processing power to emulate the game boy.
By the way, MHz is not a measure of CPU speed; it's a measure of clock frequency only. Saying "This computer is faster than this one because it's 100 MHz and that one is 33 MHz" is like saying "This car is faster than that one because it's going at 6000 RPM and that one is going at 3000 RPM." Remember: there's a lot more to CPU speed than clock speed.
The only time you can compare clock rate is when you're comparing two processors of the same architecture. That means Pentium 4 vs Pentium 4, PowerPC 970 vs PowerPC 970. Everything else is completely and utterly meaningless.
(I've speculated that I could probably spec out a (super, super, superscalar) processor that ran at 10 MHz that outperformed the latest 3 GHz processors. That's probably wrong--I'd be killed by branch misprediction--but the point remains.)
According to the article, the law doesn't include any text about MP3 players, so collecting levies on them isn't allowed. As in many decisions, it has been left to Parliament to make the final choice.
The short of it is that if lobbyists get their way, the levy will be back on MP3 players; all that's needed is for an amendment to the Copyright Act to be drafted and passed.
This was going to be a post saying "Do you know if CD Baby's music will be on the international iTunes Music Stores," but I just used VNC to search for m/n/m/l on iTunes, and it showed up. This wasn't the case when it first opened on Wednesday night. This is awesome. It's too bad that CD Baby artists don't show up when browsing the store (using the "browse" eye button in the top-right-hand corner of iTunes).
As a personal aside to you: I was really reminded of your music when I heard "On the Run" by Pink Floyd, from Dark Side of the Moon. Were you inspired by them?
How does Canonical plan on making money? Ubuntu seems to be completely and utterly free, in both senses of the word. In my mind at least, the 'services will pay for development' business plan for Free Software went out of style when the dot-com bubble burst. How will your company be different?
What bothers me about the browsers in OS X is that there isn't a standard set of keybindings: what's switch tabs in one browser isn't in the next; similarly for back and forward, stop, etc. (This is really strange, too, because Mac apps are usually so good for standardized key bindings.)
And yes, I did get a replacement G4 iBook which has been running fine since.
Actually, it looks a whole lot like the G5s used in the new Power Mac are 90 nm.
The whole point of IDLE is that it's meant to be implemented in a non-polling way. On Linux, Courier-IMAP uses FAM; when a file changes, the IMAP daemon is informed. There is no polling.
<innocents></innocents>
<enemies>
- <hooker id="1" skankiness="3"
/>
</enemies><pimp><bitches>1</bitches></pimp>
etc.
That's probably because debian-installer beta 3 doesn't support powerpc due to bugs found at the last minute.
On a separate note, it's getting increasingly difficult for people who want to avoid antiperspirant on (perhaps ill-founded) fears of aluminum damage to one's body. Particularly for women; my girlfriend literally can't find any deodorants for women any more.
I believe your objection deserved a better treatment than I could give it on Slashdot, so I did so on my own site. Read it here.
I doubt that you'd be able to prove causation in this case, due to the sheer logistics of the problem, but I'd be impressed if someone had even had any decent numbers.
There are two problems with what you propose:
1. The musicians have signed contracts with the record labels. Those are legally binding.
2. Lots of musicians already have 'got their act together.' You can buy their music at CD Baby, among other places.
I can't believe the moderators on this post. Went from 3, Informative to -1, Flamebait in 30 minutes. Slashdot mods really love their stolen music.