Actually it is not the same OS. The underlying hardware is different and the operating system has to be modified to work with it. Similar yes, but unmodified OS-X will not run on the PPC 970, so the development tree has forked for the new processor. It's the applications that can run unmodified, although specific optimizations for the PPC 970 can improve performance there as well.
The questions are:
1: How long can Apple afford to update an operating system for 32-bit hardware rapidly becoming obsolete?
2: Why would you even consider running a 32-bit operating system on your 64-bit hardware any longer than necessary?
Does this portend the end of the 32-bit OS-X? Unlike Windows systems, Apple can force the migration to the PPC 970 simply by not selling anything else. They can continue a G4 PowerBook but not offer OS updates except for bugfixes. As long as there are both PPC 970 based desktops and notebooks, why spend double the money maintaining two parallel operating systems?
one of two statements are true.
#1: Your citizens are weakminded, foolish, and easily swayed.
#2: Your hold on power is tenuous, and you cannot handle the slightest challenge to your authority.
My money is on #2.
I wouldn't be so quick to rule out #1. After all, they have allowed the government to be put in place over them that fears #2.
Egyptain religions beliefs are weak beyond belief...
...if they can be brought down by a single movie.
Of course, I remember when there were those in America preaching the end of the world would arrive if The Last Temptation of Christ ever made it to the theaters.
Wonder why those people weren't interviewed about those statements afterwards.
it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.
Excuse me, BUT can anybody name the three religions that all Egyptains respect and believe? Last time I counted there was only one, and it was out to exterminate the rest of them.
the 3DMark authors could render all this stuff in software so they'll know exactly what SHOULD be rendered by a video card and then have a new section in their benchmarks that compares what should have been rendered to what actually was.
EXCELLENT SUGGESTION. I'd mod you up if I only had points.
Sounds like a JIT compiler applied to graphics, and somewhat akin -- in a very general way -- to Transmeta's approach to x86 of being slow the first time and faster later.
What will change the DMCA will be a successful application of it against the corporations.
I agree. I'd love to see the day Microsoft gets sued for reverse-engineering competitors products just so they can figure out how to break them in the next operating system release.
in the mainframe and paper tape days, I wrote my own version of the ever popular Star Trek game
I wrote a couple of those too. For a good while, my STARTREK VERSION 4 was the most popular game on the California State University state-wide timesharing system. And nobody sued me either.
Maybe finally we have something ridiculous enough to finally overturn or rewrite the DMCA.
That's usually what it takes -- an application of the law so abusrd that even Joe Average realizes it's a bad law. Remember the Life Begins at Conception laws where people started claiming their unborn children on tax returns for the year where they were in the womb, and female prisoners claiming that their unborn children were unlawfully imprisoned because the mother was?
Call it the Law of Unintended Consequences Applied to Law Law.
You are clearly not familiar with most buyouts. The buyout is contingent on an identified number of key people remaining with the company, usually for set periods of time. Buyouts can be reduced, or cancelled entirely, if enough key people refuse to sign-on to the new company. (Btw, being a key person in a buyout is a great place to be.)
Furthermore, top people are often contracted to remain for a set number of years. These are usually the people who are getting the bulk of the buyout money to start with. No doubt in my mind that Justin had to remain with Nullsoft for a long period of time...
...unless something like this comes up, that is.
I'm sure Justin isn't wanting for money these days. Freedom yes, now that he can afford it. I just wonder about the scope of his non-compete agreement and his lack of ability (these are also parts of buyouts) to hire away anyone else he already likes working with to any new company he forms for some long set period of time.
Buyouts are seldom, if ever, you get the money and can then go and do as you wish with it.
Think of it like this. I trust Bob, so I let Bob connect. Bob trusts Cathy, so I can get a network of trust relationships going. Obviously, somewhere, someone could break that trust chain, but the existence of the trust chain is a new thing that hasn't been implemented yet. Combine it with encryption to prevent sniffing the network or at least make it way too difficult, and I can build a trusted network over which anything can be shared, *and* know that nobody is hacking my clients on either the software or hardware level
Excuse me, but doesn't Nullsoft's W.A.S.T.E. (see/. a couple days ago) already accomplish this without special handware -- and without Microsoft?
the security features of Palladium could be used to create P2P networks that are more resistant to attacks from content owners.
Excuse me, but isn't it already illegal to attack computers you don't own, even if you are the content owner? Nor, except for a few fake files, is it even happening?
So it will be harder to do something that already is illegal, and already isn't happening.
Boy, I just can't wait to upgrade my processor and OS to get all those benefits.
B.S. has only just gone out and done the one thing certain to draw more attention to herself and that picture than anything else she could have possibly managed.
Of course, to a celebrity there is no such thing as bad publicity -- or is that just more BS?
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Actually it is not the same OS. The underlying hardware is different and the operating system has to be modified to work with it. Similar yes, but unmodified OS-X will not run on the PPC 970, so the development tree has forked for the new processor. It's the applications that can run unmodified, although specific optimizations for the PPC 970 can improve performance there as well.
The questions are:
1: How long can Apple afford to update an operating system for 32-bit hardware rapidly becoming obsolete?
2: Why would you even consider running a 32-bit operating system on your 64-bit hardware any longer than necessary?
Does this portend the end of the 32-bit OS-X? Unlike Windows systems, Apple can force the migration to the PPC 970 simply by not selling anything else. They can continue a G4 PowerBook but not offer OS updates except for bugfixes. As long as there are both PPC 970 based desktops and notebooks, why spend double the money maintaining two parallel operating systems?
All I want is...
EVERYTHING...
and would you mind making it essentially free.
While you're at it, would you mind getting me a Rolls Royce for the price of the ignition key?
I don't believe America shoves its movies on anyone. People are not rounded up on the streets and herded at gunpoint into the theaters.
People make their own choices to see movies -- unless that choice is preemptively taken away.
#1: Your citizens are weakminded, foolish, and easily swayed.
#2: Your hold on power is tenuous, and you cannot handle the slightest challenge to your authority.
My money is on #2.
I wouldn't be so quick to rule out #1. After all, they have allowed the government to be put in place over them that fears #2.
Of course, I remember when there were those in America preaching the end of the world would arrive if The Last Temptation of Christ ever made it to the theaters.
Wonder why those people weren't interviewed about those statements afterwards.
Excuse me, BUT can anybody name the three religions that all Egyptains respect and believe? Last time I counted there was only one, and it was out to exterminate the rest of them.
Funny how that question never seems to be asked, or answered, in these articles.
You know, if the Kingdom of God and Heaven could be brought down by a movie, we'd of been standing in the shards of it long since.
26 years of that "][" typo.
1. Cork driver for performance.
2. If caught, claim it was only a practice driver sent in for benchmarking by mistake.
3. Profit!
EXCELLENT SUGGESTION. I'd mod you up if I only had points.
Sounds like a JIT compiler applied to graphics, and somewhat akin -- in a very general way -- to Transmeta's approach to x86 of being slow the first time and faster later.
Can I have your old cards? Pretty please!!
So suspend them for 8 games, unless they are a big superstar and appeal.
And go back in the archives to see if they ever said, "You can test me for steriods any time -- except right now, of course."
Coming in second is being the first loser, so what is coming in third?
I agree. I'd love to see the day Microsoft gets sued for reverse-engineering competitors products just so they can figure out how to break them in the next operating system release.
I wrote a couple of those too. For a good while, my STARTREK VERSION 4 was the most popular game on the California State University state-wide timesharing system. And nobody sued me either.
That's usually what it takes -- an application of the law so abusrd that even Joe Average realizes it's a bad law. Remember the Life Begins at Conception laws where people started claiming their unborn children on tax returns for the year where they were in the womb, and female prisoners claiming that their unborn children were unlawfully imprisoned because the mother was?
Call it the Law of Unintended Consequences Applied to Law Law.
You are clearly not familiar with most buyouts. The buyout is contingent on an identified number of key people remaining with the company, usually for set periods of time. Buyouts can be reduced, or cancelled entirely, if enough key people refuse to sign-on to the new company. (Btw, being a key person in a buyout is a great place to be.)
Furthermore, top people are often contracted to remain for a set number of years. These are usually the people who are getting the bulk of the buyout money to start with. No doubt in my mind that Justin had to remain with Nullsoft for a long period of time...
I'm sure Justin isn't wanting for money these days. Freedom yes, now that he can afford it. I just wonder about the scope of his non-compete agreement and his lack of ability (these are also parts of buyouts) to hire away anyone else he already likes working with to any new company he forms for some long set period of time.
Buyouts are seldom, if ever, you get the money and can then go and do as you wish with it.
Because, unlike most other programs, W.A.S.T.E. has the potential to change the world.
To cross my metaphores, Justine probably didn't want to sell sugar water for the rest of his life.
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Excuse me, but doesn't Nullsoft's W.A.S.T.E. (see /. a couple days ago) already accomplish this without special handware -- and without Microsoft?
Excuse me, but isn't it already illegal to attack computers you don't own, even if you are the content owner? Nor, except for a few fake files, is it even happening?
So it will be harder to do something that already is illegal, and already isn't happening.
Boy, I just can't wait to upgrade my processor and OS to get all those benefits.
Isn't that putting it a bit strongly?
Of course, to a celebrity there is no such thing as bad publicity -- or is that just more BS?