OS X is already portable. Supporting 4 bit/ISA combinations isn't much of an incremental cost over 3.
The testing part of this is a killer however. To fully test OSX on another platform is much harder than changing a compiler switch and standing back for the new executable to pop-out.
And don't forget all the applications also need to be 32 and 64-bit compatible. How many companies will just make a 32-bit Intel product since it will run on both systems, and give up on an optimized 64-bit variant? 32-bit PhotoShop forever?
So why are we even talking about it now? This isn't going to change anybody's life (unless you've trying to get on the standards committee) today, tomorrow, or likely this year. How about this be reopened when some working silicon (or whatever material it's going to take to operate at this speed) is up and working in the lab? Then it might have some relevance.
don't think for a moment that apple didn't know what was in IBM's pipeline...the market is heavy towards laptops and the G5 series didn't provide the necessary performance
And two and a half months after Job's April switch IBM announces a reasonable mobile G5, as well as dual processor chips. Did Job's know what was in IBM's pipeline?
Apple was VERY unhappy for a while with the rate IBM produced PPC processors and their rather poor chip yields.
And IBM was VERY unhappy dealing with Steve Job's demands for special features, small orders placed for new chips, the whole just-in-time mentality at Apple, and reports that Jobs deliberately fudged his orders by not ordering enough while blaming IBM each time Apple failed to forecast demand properly. Not to mention Jobs trying to score the rest of the chips in the production run at fire sale prices because IBM's production batches were typically larger than Job's initial orders.
Let Intel deal with all that now. The big "I" has already pissed off their biggest customer (Dell) by letting Apple announce Core Duo notebooks first. Intel may find that the price for buying off their biggest critic (Jobs) is higher than they'd anticipated. If so, they deserve it.
What nobody deserves are 32-bit Core Duo Apples in a 64-bit world!
I think we get better and cheaper Apple boxes out of the x86 move.
Oh really? I have yet to see cheaper Intel boxes with Apple logos on them. Faster yes, but they'd be faster now with PPC processors as well if Apple was going with the latest there instead.
You'll know Apple is keeping their options open if they extend the life of their current G5 PPC machines by bringing out new models. Sure it will be explained as, "Some of our customers can't/won't switch to Intel yet so we're continuing to support their demands." (If Dell actually supported their own customer's demands, they'd be selling AMD64 processors long since.)
So that's what to watch for. Any extension of the G5 line. Anything so much as a bump in processor speeds will give Intel some well-deserved heartburn.
And remember, the only Apple Intel machines currently available are 32-bit models. And it looks to stay this way until at least mid-year. For the life of me I cannot understand why Apple wants to support both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel machines in addition to 32-bit and 64-bit PPC machines. That's a huge drain on resources -- especially when you are not only not nearly the biggest player in the field, but won't be anytime soon. And all your software partners are also going to be required to support 32/64 as well. I'm surprised SJ hasn't been assassinated by his own operating system engineers by now.
I'm thinking of buying an HDCP decoder so I can build my own DVR using the cable box anyway. But those decoders are still about 400 euros.
I wasn't aware that an HDCP decoder was available to the public at any price. Just a few dozen of those running around out in the wild and the entire HDCP infrastructure falls flat on its face because it only takes one person to rip and post a HD torrent and the anyone who wants it can have it.
I figured some day there would be a DIY project to take an HDCP monitor apart to the point where you can extract the decrypted signal, but I figured that was still a long ways away.
I'd wager that nearly everyone who acts like Blizzard is not anywhere near in the wrong, are likely the first people complaining about Google allowing its search to be restricted in China.
We are very concerned that Blizzard's policy, as expressed in the foregoing statement, discriminates against LGBT gamers. Although preventing harassment is an admirable goal, a requirement that LGBT people remain invisible and silent is not an acceptable means of reaching that goal.
And since when does one have the right to play LBBT characters in a role playing game for heaven's sake? If you don't like the rules, then leave. Not liking the rules is not an excuse for demanding that anyone else has to change to meet your own standards. Blizzard was at least trying to create a conflict -- make that harassment -- free area for everyone to play in. Some people just have to go push things wherever they are, and then we get a big mess for everyone else.
Some deserts sit in huge aquifers. They're only dry on top. And consider a river like the Colorado River that is this streak of beautiful blue through an otherwise desert. Getting the necessary feed water is hardly what's stopping this idea.
put into action a system where by people will have to pay a licence fee to use the name in the hope of cutting down on adware distribution.
Most of the big spammers and adware purveyors seems to have lots more money than I do, and than Open Source developers do. Sounds to me like the fee will hit the wrong people.
I think it would make more sense to put solar cells out in the desert (there's lots of square miles of desert) near water and existing natural gas pipelines. Use the sunlight to make hydrogen, oxygen, and heavy water. Ship the hydrogen through the natural gas system (yes you can do this) as a substitute for natural gas. Take the oxygen away in tanker trucks for industrial use, and sell the heavy water to the government. There is no pollution, demand peaks, or major changes necessary to make use of this resource.
Then pay me my commission on this idea that I never hear talked about otherwise in any serious manner.
f disallowing that sort of group placates more people than it displeases and helps keep a steady stream of revenue coming in, then that's the choice they need to make.
And if finding a home for both points of view keeps all players happy, it would be a great move on their part.
GLBT marriage = BAD! Someone sending Blizzard monthly payments might get offended and quit sending money, or someone might hurt the feelings of the GLBT player who was open enough to come out of the virtual closet and they might quit sending Blizzard money (or sue them in England).
The Politically Correct thing to do is allow this behavior on a couple of servers only for starters, and increase the number of servers if these become over crowded.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine what those server names should be.
Hey, it's all 1's and 0's in WoW. And you can't have 1's consorting with other 1's while 0's consort with other 0's. Why if that happened the first time a big, nasty XOR came along everything would become nothing, and then where would you be?
French cinema and music trading associations together with rock stars such as Johnny Hallyday have spoken out against the law, arguing it would kill their work.
Yeah, right. As long as P2P is around nobody can sing a song, compose lyrics, record a song, perform at your local coffee shop, write a screenplay, make a movie, or do anything else creative at all. You're all dead in your tracks.
overtaken by MyDoom and Netsky variants, which have been around for a number of years.
I, for one, would favor a slightly smarter Internet that simply filtered out known threats, stopping any further spread once they're identified. The fact that attacks continue to run years after they're first known is just plain stupid!
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Wow. Program for a while, then take a break playing the latest PS3 game -- all without leaving the confines of your own terminal into the system.
Sounds like a job for the Cell processor. And I bet you could build it for less than $6M in the process.
The testing part of this is a killer however. To fully test OSX on another platform is much harder than changing a compiler switch and standing back for the new executable to pop-out.
And don't forget all the applications also need to be 32 and 64-bit compatible. How many companies will just make a 32-bit Intel product since it will run on both systems, and give up on an optimized 64-bit variant? 32-bit PhotoShop forever?
So why are we even talking about it now? This isn't going to change anybody's life (unless you've trying to get on the standards committee) today, tomorrow, or likely this year. How about this be reopened when some working silicon (or whatever material it's going to take to operate at this speed) is up and working in the lab? Then it might have some relevance.
Who would do something like this if they couldn't boast about it afterwards? It's no fun otherwise.
And two and a half months after Job's April switch IBM announces a reasonable mobile G5, as well as dual processor chips. Did Job's know what was in IBM's pipeline?
And IBM was VERY unhappy dealing with Steve Job's demands for special features, small orders placed for new chips, the whole just-in-time mentality at Apple, and reports that Jobs deliberately fudged his orders by not ordering enough while blaming IBM each time Apple failed to forecast demand properly. Not to mention Jobs trying to score the rest of the chips in the production run at fire sale prices because IBM's production batches were typically larger than Job's initial orders.
Let Intel deal with all that now. The big "I" has already pissed off their biggest customer (Dell) by letting Apple announce Core Duo notebooks first. Intel may find that the price for buying off their biggest critic (Jobs) is higher than they'd anticipated. If so, they deserve it.
What nobody deserves are 32-bit Core Duo Apples in a 64-bit world!
Oh really? I have yet to see cheaper Intel boxes with Apple logos on them. Faster yes, but they'd be faster now with PPC processors as well if Apple was going with the latest there instead.
So that's what to watch for. Any extension of the G5 line. Anything so much as a bump in processor speeds will give Intel some well-deserved heartburn.
And remember, the only Apple Intel machines currently available are 32-bit models. And it looks to stay this way until at least mid-year. For the life of me I cannot understand why Apple wants to support both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel machines in addition to 32-bit and 64-bit PPC machines. That's a huge drain on resources -- especially when you are not only not nearly the biggest player in the field, but won't be anytime soon. And all your software partners are also going to be required to support 32/64 as well. I'm surprised SJ hasn't been assassinated by his own operating system engineers by now.
I wasn't aware that an HDCP decoder was available to the public at any price. Just a few dozen of those running around out in the wild and the entire HDCP infrastructure falls flat on its face because it only takes one person to rip and post a HD torrent and the anyone who wants it can have it.
I figured some day there would be a DIY project to take an HDCP monitor apart to the point where you can extract the decrypted signal, but I figured that was still a long ways away.
And this makes sense how?
And since when does one have the right to play LBBT characters in a role playing game for heaven's sake? If you don't like the rules, then leave. Not liking the rules is not an excuse for demanding that anyone else has to change to meet your own standards. Blizzard was at least trying to create a conflict -- make that harassment -- free area for everyone to play in. Some people just have to go push things wherever they are, and then we get a big mess for everyone else.
Some deserts sit in huge aquifers. They're only dry on top. And consider a river like the Colorado River that is this streak of beautiful blue through an otherwise desert. Getting the necessary feed water is hardly what's stopping this idea.
Bait and Switch?
Exactly. My new client is The Program That Used To Be Known As BitTorrent.
Most of the big spammers and adware purveyors seems to have lots more money than I do, and than Open Source developers do. Sounds to me like the fee will hit the wrong people.
Don't know about where you live but in my state diesel costs on average 30 cents/gallon more than 87 octane.
Then pay me my commission on this idea that I never hear talked about otherwise in any serious manner.
Wow (not WoW)! My tax dollars at work. I am so thrilled now!
And if finding a home for both points of view keeps all players happy, it would be a great move on their part.
Interspecies marriage = ???
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine what those server names should be.
Hey, it's all 1's and 0's in WoW. And you can't have 1's consorting with other 1's while 0's consort with other 0's. Why if that happened the first time a big, nasty XOR came along everything would become nothing, and then where would you be?
Yeah, right. As long as P2P is around nobody can sing a song, compose lyrics, record a song, perform at your local coffee shop, write a screenplay, make a movie, or do anything else creative at all. You're all dead in your tracks.
I, for one, would favor a slightly smarter Internet that simply filtered out known threats, stopping any further spread once they're identified. The fact that attacks continue to run years after they're first known is just plain stupid!