No, attempting to emulate x86 on RISC was a disaster.
I used to run Word on a 40MHz SPARC. It was not a problem.
CPU-intensive apps will suck in an emulator, but many desktop apps spend 99% of the time waiting for user input, so it doesn't matter if that app that uses 1% of the CPU on a 3GHz i5 requires 20% of the CPU on a 1GHz ARM.
I am disgusted to discover that a politician would hire people to say nice things about them and bad things about their opponents. This must stop at once.
I'm baffled by America's continuing war on stamping out communists.
Could be something to do with, you know, murdering tens of millions of people in the last century and wanting to destroy everything that America stands for.
From police statistics it is proven that people that speed have a higher risk of accidents. It's a simple as that.
Higher than what?
I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but in the UK speeding is only the primary cause of a small percentage of accidents and most of them are extreme speeding (e.g. 60mph in a 30) rather than people doing 10mph above the limit.
And numerous studies have shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed. They're certainly safer than those who mindlessly drive at the speed limit because they're unable to determine the safe speed for the conditions by themselves.
lower speed makes roads safer
Yet out here in the real world, motorways are the safest roads in Britain, and the speed limits are the highest and pretty much everyone routinely breaks them. Many of the accidents seem to be caused by speed-limited truck drivers falling asleep from the boredom of crawling along a road for hours where they could be driving much faster than they are.
I remember reading an article a while back by a retired USAF pilot where he wrote about the time spent making sure that all the manuals and other paperwork were up to date and the trouble he could get into if it wasn't when someone inspected the aircraft. So I'm guessing that could save more than $1.2 million dollars of aircrew time.
They aren't mutually exclusive you know. I'd love to see you tell the story of Harry Potter without "fancy effects" and I doubt you can say that story isn't character based.
It's a bunch of kids in a school waving wands around. If Ealing Studios had made it in the 50s it would have cost less than a million dollars in today's money even with Alec Guinness playing one of the leads.
Heck, I've seen at least one TV show with a very similar plot and I guarantee you they didn't have a multi-million dollar budget for each episode.
To pick one of my favorite bits of modern culture, do you think you can bring Harry Potter onto the big screen without the resources of big budget movie studio?
You could try not paying actors $20,000,000 for a few weeks' work.
And, frankly, a future where movies were based more on characters and story than fancy effects wouldn't be a bad one.
Whether Google can continue to innovate is one thing.
I would be far more likely to continue using Google if they'd stopped 'innovating' their search a couple of years ago when it mostly just worked. The 'smarter' they make it, the more annoying it becomes.
A while back I read some interesting discussions between satellite engineers about the tradeoffs between space qualified and not space qualified chips. From what I remember you gain resistance to radiation, but lose in other areas such as resistance to physical damage (e.g. a solder joint coming loose due to launch vibrations) because they're so far behind the state of the art that you may have to put a lot more chips on the same circuit board.
So it doesn't seem a clear-cut choice... rebooting the computer when it crashes is typically easier than fixing a solder joint when it's fifty million miles from Earth.
DVDs use 4:2:0 subsampling, so there is only row of samples for every two scanlines (and for interlaced content, the result can be a mess), whereas VHS retains the full vertical resolution.
Of course DVDs have several times the horizontal chroma resolution, which is why VHS colors bleed like crazy.
"Compared to this, NASA is small potatoes, and will probably get severely cut as it is "low hanging fruit." "
But if you cut all of NASA's funding it would barely pop a pimple on the butt of the budget deficit.
If you're not going to slash the big programs, you might as well just party on to bankruptcy... a few billion here and there would only delay it a week or two.
Aerobatic maneuvers are useless. It's all about seeing first and shooting first.
That's what they said when they designed the F-4 Phantom without a cannon.
Back in the real world, we design fighters to shoot aircraft they can't see... and then impose rules of engagement which require a positive ID before they fire.
So if everything dealing with your vehicle, license and insurance is in order you have nothing to worry about, correct?
Yes, if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide, comrade.
And it's a silly system for the UK as insurance covers drivers, not vehicles. I was insured to drive any vehicle I didn't own as well as the two that I did, hence I could be stopped for driving a vehicle perfectly legally.
"Mark my words, and I can't believe I'm even saying this, but Windows Phone, will soon be considered the best mobile platform, due to it's unification with the desktop, and XBOX."
So Windows 8 Phones will have an integrated keyboard, mouse and Xbox controller?
Yes, but the difference is that the Republican party is a divided party.
Unlike the Democrat party, which is an alliance between three million special 'victim' groups who all want their 'rights' paid for with other people's money. It's particularly problematic for them with stuff like SOPA, since their supporters include both Hollywood fat-cats and kids who like to download stuff (or OWS, with support from the fat-cat bankers and the smell hippies).
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No, attempting to emulate x86 on RISC was a disaster.
I used to run Word on a 40MHz SPARC. It was not a problem.
CPU-intensive apps will suck in an emulator, but many desktop apps spend 99% of the time waiting for user input, so it doesn't matter if that app that uses 1% of the CPU on a 3GHz i5 requires 20% of the CPU on a 1GHz ARM.
No smartphones or smartphone-derived tablets currently have any real quantities of desktop-replacement apps.
I totally want to run Word on my phone.
Exactly. It's legacy software that's tied mainstream computing to the x86 architecture for two decades.
It's legacy software that's tied people to Windows for two decades. Break the compatibility and no-one needs Windows any more.
I am disgusted to discover that a politician would hire people to say nice things about them and bad things about their opponents. This must stop at once.
Our rabbit prefers the taste of gold-plated cables to plain old copper.
I'm baffled by America's continuing war on stamping out communists.
Could be something to do with, you know, murdering tens of millions of people in the last century and wanting to destroy everything that America stands for.
Just a thought.
From police statistics it is proven that people that speed have a higher risk of accidents. It's a simple as that.
Higher than what?
I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but in the UK speeding is only the primary cause of a small percentage of accidents and most of them are extreme speeding (e.g. 60mph in a 30) rather than people doing 10mph above the limit.
And numerous studies have shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed. They're certainly safer than those who mindlessly drive at the speed limit because they're unable to determine the safe speed for the conditions by themselves.
lower speed makes roads safer
Yet out here in the real world, motorways are the safest roads in Britain, and the speed limits are the highest and pretty much everyone routinely breaks them. Many of the accidents seem to be caused by speed-limited truck drivers falling asleep from the boredom of crawling along a road for hours where they could be driving much faster than they are.
I remember reading an article a while back by a retired USAF pilot where he wrote about the time spent making sure that all the manuals and other paperwork were up to date and the trouble he could get into if it wasn't when someone inspected the aircraft. So I'm guessing that could save more than $1.2 million dollars of aircrew time.
They aren't mutually exclusive you know. I'd love to see you tell the story of Harry Potter without "fancy effects" and I doubt you can say that story isn't character based.
It's a bunch of kids in a school waving wands around. If Ealing Studios had made it in the 50s it would have cost less than a million dollars in today's money even with Alec Guinness playing one of the leads.
Heck, I've seen at least one TV show with a very similar plot and I guarantee you they didn't have a multi-million dollar budget for each episode.
To pick one of my favorite bits of modern culture, do you think you can bring Harry Potter onto the big screen without the resources of big budget movie studio?
You could try not paying actors $20,000,000 for a few weeks' work.
And, frankly, a future where movies were based more on characters and story than fancy effects wouldn't be a bad one.
Whether Google can continue to innovate is one thing.
I would be far more likely to continue using Google if they'd stopped 'innovating' their search a couple of years ago when it mostly just worked. The 'smarter' they make it, the more annoying it becomes.
A while back I read some interesting discussions between satellite engineers about the tradeoffs between space qualified and not space qualified chips. From what I remember you gain resistance to radiation, but lose in other areas such as resistance to physical damage (e.g. a solder joint coming loose due to launch vibrations) because they're so far behind the state of the art that you may have to put a lot more chips on the same circuit board.
So it doesn't seem a clear-cut choice... rebooting the computer when it crashes is typically easier than fixing a solder joint when it's fifty million miles from Earth.
Ah... that explains a lot. So Gnome 3 is Red Hat's plan to destroy the Linux desktop?
DVDs use 4:2:0 subsampling, so there is only row of samples for every two scanlines (and for interlaced content, the result can be a mess), whereas VHS retains the full vertical resolution.
Of course DVDs have several times the horizontal chroma resolution, which is why VHS colors bleed like crazy.
But this is exactly like that. The PC can run any number of operating systems.
Don't worry: 'Secure Boot' solves that problem.
"Compared to this, NASA is small potatoes, and will probably get severely cut as it is "low hanging fruit." "
But if you cut all of NASA's funding it would barely pop a pimple on the butt of the budget deficit.
If you're not going to slash the big programs, you might as well just party on to bankruptcy... a few billion here and there would only delay it a week or two.
"Lots of people have ideas."
And not many have rockets. SpaceX does, NASA doesn't.
Aerobatic maneuvers are useless. It's all about seeing first and shooting first.
That's what they said when they designed the F-4 Phantom without a cannon.
Back in the real world, we design fighters to shoot aircraft they can't see... and then impose rules of engagement which require a positive ID before they fire.
So if everything dealing with your vehicle, license and insurance is in order you have nothing to worry about, correct?
Yes, if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide, comrade.
And it's a silly system for the UK as insurance covers drivers, not vehicles. I was insured to drive any vehicle I didn't own as well as the two that I did, hence I could be stopped for driving a vehicle perfectly legally.
"Mark my words, and I can't believe I'm even saying this, but Windows Phone, will soon be considered the best mobile platform, due to it's unification with the desktop, and XBOX."
So Windows 8 Phones will have an integrated keyboard, mouse and Xbox controller?
"Memory Leaks in Java are not objects that are not freed, but dangling references to data/objects that are no longer needed"
In Java terms that _is_ an 'object that has not been freed'.
Sadly the Cult Of Garbage Collection has made many Java programmers far too lax about ensuring that everything is freed when it's no longer required.
Unfortunately the Tea Part also showed its utter lack of understanding of government with the debt ceiling fiasco.
What's the point of a 'debt ceiling' if you just raise it every time you reach it?
Yes, but the difference is that the Republican party is a divided party.
Unlike the Democrat party, which is an alliance between three million special 'victim' groups who all want their 'rights' paid for with other people's money. It's particularly problematic for them with stuff like SOPA, since their supporters include both Hollywood fat-cats and kids who like to download stuff (or OWS, with support from the fat-cat bankers and the smell hippies).
Ask the Romans what they thought of violent games in huge arena's.
When they start releasing lions and rhinos on the pitch during NFL games, I might actually start watching them.
Genuinely curious, because it seems to me that regulating treatment for a medical condition like this would fall within the FDA's jurisdiction.
Now you just need to explain how the FDA gets the power to do that from the Constitution.