In fact, the internal structures of the OS were never even designed for multitasking of ANY sort - even what they did manage to implement was an ugly hack that makes Windows 3.1 look amazingly modern and elegant. And, yes, they did band-aid it. Didn't do all that much good. Would've been better if, say, at the PPC transition, they took advantage of the fact that they were emulating 68k code, put all the 68k stuff in separate single-tasking process spaces, and ran the ARM stuff on a modern kernel.
ARM isn't even an ordinary fabless company, they sell their designs to other companies (sometimes even other fabless companies) to integrate into SoCs.
From TFA, they've got 6 licensees listed publicly, and another 6 confidential, for this particular design. Plus, they license the ISA - Qualcomm has their own ARMv7 implementation.
FX!32 is what was being referred to, and it was most definitely emulation of x86 on Alpha.
That said... when Alpha had rough IPC parity, and double the clock speed or more of the best x86 CPUs... of course it's gonna be competitive even in emulation, even with as much as a 50% hit.
But, a 50% hit on a CPU that has IPC parity with the worst IPC modern x86 CPU that Intel still sells, and not much faster clock (and the Intel CPU in question is considered slow...) it's gonna be ugly.
Technically, some of the Intel IOP processors (XScale-based, so they're left in the dust on performance) have PCIe controllers. They're meant for storage applications, but the IOP321 was used in a desktop. (You're stuck with the nVidia card in that thing, though, IIRC.)
And back then, Christianity may well have been a dangerous cult.
It certainly was during the time of the crusades...
Signs that your religion or sect of your religion is actually a dangerous cult:
1. Requiring that you cease communication with those that refuse to join the religion (Scientology's disconnection policy, anyone?) 2. Requiring a constant stream of money to stay in the good graces of the religion (Scientology's auditing fees, tithing in Christianity...) 3. Having a militaristic organization (Sea Org? And Christianity has plenty of examples of this in history.) 4. Violence against those that oppose the religion condoned by higher-ups within the religion.
Thing is, all the carriers in the US (simultaneously, too) went from unlimited to 5 GB (and I'm pretty sure that's base 10, too, not GiB) per month. So it's not unlimited. Of course, there's no overage charges - the penalty is possibly being cut off.
Except Apple's hardware is just commodity PC hardware, but with EFI (which is an Intel standard, BTW) instead of BIOS. Yes, they're designing their own hardware, but with the same parts everyone else is using.
Also, have you used a WinMo phone? While some GUI elements aren't the most finger-friendly, it's not just the Windows UI dumped on a handheld device, and it hasn't been since 2000 or so. (Actually, only devices sold as having WinCE had that UI - Handheld PCs and Palm-size PCs. The PocketPC (which became the Windows Mobile PocketPC, which is what (via PocketPC Phone Edition) became the current high-end WinMo devices, now known as Windows Mobile Professional (and PocketPCs are now WinMo Classic) has its own UI. And that's not even talking about WinMo smartphones.)
Anyway, my Windows Mobile phone, out of the box, lets me install whatever apps I want, and there's not even a kill switch.
With changing two registry keys, it lets me tether for free, and even without doing that, it's available as a plan option.
I have full root access to the device out of the box, too.
And, most other OSes are a similar way about applications (although I believe WinMo is the only one that still gives root access - Palm OS is dead, so...)
Android allows installation of unsigned apps after changing one option. webOS, after entering Developer Mode (and the first thing that gets installed is a homebrew app catalog that no longer needs Developer Mode to install apps.) Symbian has a website where, if you're a user and have an app that you need signed for your own use, you can get it rubberstamped. Blackberry OS allows you to get a developer key for $20, and sign whatever you want yourself, it's for after-the-fact malware control, rather than approval.
Also, this does still hurt consumers, even if they don't realize it - in fact, partially BECAUSE they don't realize it, if they realized it, they may know to give other platforms a better look.
let them do their own things in private, don't shout from the rooftops about how they're all a bunch of f****'ers, etc...
Except when the group in question is a dangerous cult, and you don't want people to join them, and want their existing members to leave them, for their own welfare. Then, shouting it from the rooftops is probably a good idea - for example, protesting their churches wearing Guy Fawkes masks, and taking public transportation (in the wrong direction) to your car that's miles away so they can't track you down effectively.
I don't have the exact numbers, and I didn't watch CPU temps closely, but playing the same Flash video stream (a particular UStream stream,) I got 10-35% CPU load on IE and ~73 C GPU temperatures, and 50% CPU load on Opera, and about ~68 C GPU temperatures.
(Laptop is a ThinkPad T60p with a Core Duo 2.0 GHz and an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200.)
Very simple experiment - obtain a temperature monitor that can show you CPU and GPU temperatures. (This usually needs discrete graphics, although some integrated graphics systems hide the northbridge temperature as the "PCI" temperature.) Monitor CPU load, as well.
Start a flash video in IE. Note what happens to all temperatures - CPU load will be low, CPU temps won't change much, GPU temps will rise.
Now, start a flash video in any other browser (that isn't IE-based.) CPU load will be (comparatively) high, and CPU temps will rise. GPU temps will stay steady, or at most climb a couple degrees just because of being heated by the CPU.
First off, US fuel economy numbers were made "more accurate," but in the real world, the numbers are now amazingly low, except for hybrids.
Second, your regional Google site probably translated to imperial gallons, not US gallons, which are smaller.
Third, just because it was a "big Mercedes-Benz" doesn't mean that it didn't have a 4-cylinder and a manual, although I am assuming you're in Europe. Here in the US, a car the size of the Taurus would have a V6 and an automatic by default - and in this case, it's a 3.5 L V6.
I've had trouble with their rendering even before the change, using various versions of Opera.
Before the layout change, the shipping info/bottom bid field was supposed to be immediately below the item description. However, about 80% of the time, there would be 3-4 pages of blank space between the end of the item description and the shipping info. About 10% of the time, there wouldn't be that white space... but there would be what looked like a 2 column table, with the shipping info NEXT TO the item description.
After the layout change, it generally works, but there is still the white space, EVERY time now.
Although I did see the blank description problem the other day on Opera Mobile 9.5... (Yes, I know, eBay has a mobile site. It's also horribly crippled.)
I could see one (admittedly very specialized, but still) use... driving an IBM T221 pre-DG5 at 3840x2400, 41 Hz. At that res, the monitor is treated as four separate monitors by the card, which the monitor then stitches together.
Currently, the best and cheapest way to do so is a 3 year old nVidia quad-head card, using an ancient XP-only driver. Did I mention that it sucks at 3D, too? (X has ways of sidestepping the quad-view issue that recent nVidia drivers have, so Linux users can use it or any newer quad-head nVidia card, IIRC.)
This card having support for addressing multiple monitors as one will help a lot. (Of course, you'll also need DisplayPort to DVI adapters, but I digress.)
Slashdot Mirror
And I meant PPC there, of course. (I had ARM on my mind, and was thinking of RISC OS for this story, too.)
In fact, the internal structures of the OS were never even designed for multitasking of ANY sort - even what they did manage to implement was an ugly hack that makes Windows 3.1 look amazingly modern and elegant. And, yes, they did band-aid it. Didn't do all that much good. Would've been better if, say, at the PPC transition, they took advantage of the fact that they were emulating 68k code, put all the 68k stuff in separate single-tasking process spaces, and ran the ARM stuff on a modern kernel.
WOW was for 16-bit applications on 32-bit OSes, IIRC.
You're thinking of FX!32, and I don't think it is all that related.
Well, PPC is just IBM and Motorola.
ARM isn't even an ordinary fabless company, they sell their designs to other companies (sometimes even other fabless companies) to integrate into SoCs.
From TFA, they've got 6 licensees listed publicly, and another 6 confidential, for this particular design. Plus, they license the ISA - Qualcomm has their own ARMv7 implementation.
FX!32 is what was being referred to, and it was most definitely emulation of x86 on Alpha.
That said... when Alpha had rough IPC parity, and double the clock speed or more of the best x86 CPUs... of course it's gonna be competitive even in emulation, even with as much as a 50% hit.
But, a 50% hit on a CPU that has IPC parity with the worst IPC modern x86 CPU that Intel still sells, and not much faster clock (and the Intel CPU in question is considered slow...) it's gonna be ugly.
Technically, some of the Intel IOP processors (XScale-based, so they're left in the dust on performance) have PCIe controllers. They're meant for storage applications, but the IOP321 was used in a desktop. (You're stuck with the nVidia card in that thing, though, IIRC.)
EFI has provisions for having the graphics driver provided by the card, and having the OS just make calls to that, IIRC...
And back then, Christianity may well have been a dangerous cult.
It certainly was during the time of the crusades...
Signs that your religion or sect of your religion is actually a dangerous cult:
1. Requiring that you cease communication with those that refuse to join the religion (Scientology's disconnection policy, anyone?)
2. Requiring a constant stream of money to stay in the good graces of the religion (Scientology's auditing fees, tithing in Christianity...)
3. Having a militaristic organization (Sea Org? And Christianity has plenty of examples of this in history.)
4. Violence against those that oppose the religion condoned by higher-ups within the religion.
And that's not an exhaustive list.
Actually, a Pre has the hardware to roam in Japan - KDDI uses CDMA850.
Thing is, all the carriers in the US (simultaneously, too) went from unlimited to 5 GB (and I'm pretty sure that's base 10, too, not GiB) per month. So it's not unlimited. Of course, there's no overage charges - the penalty is possibly being cut off.
Except Verizon is legendary for crippling phones so that USB is useless, and bluetooth only works for headsets.
Except Apple's hardware is just commodity PC hardware, but with EFI (which is an Intel standard, BTW) instead of BIOS. Yes, they're designing their own hardware, but with the same parts everyone else is using.
Also, have you used a WinMo phone? While some GUI elements aren't the most finger-friendly, it's not just the Windows UI dumped on a handheld device, and it hasn't been since 2000 or so. (Actually, only devices sold as having WinCE had that UI - Handheld PCs and Palm-size PCs. The PocketPC (which became the Windows Mobile PocketPC, which is what (via PocketPC Phone Edition) became the current high-end WinMo devices, now known as Windows Mobile Professional (and PocketPCs are now WinMo Classic) has its own UI. And that's not even talking about WinMo smartphones.)
And 35,000 of those are fart apps.
Anyway, my Windows Mobile phone, out of the box, lets me install whatever apps I want, and there's not even a kill switch.
With changing two registry keys, it lets me tether for free, and even without doing that, it's available as a plan option.
I have full root access to the device out of the box, too.
And, most other OSes are a similar way about applications (although I believe WinMo is the only one that still gives root access - Palm OS is dead, so...)
Android allows installation of unsigned apps after changing one option. webOS, after entering Developer Mode (and the first thing that gets installed is a homebrew app catalog that no longer needs Developer Mode to install apps.) Symbian has a website where, if you're a user and have an app that you need signed for your own use, you can get it rubberstamped. Blackberry OS allows you to get a developer key for $20, and sign whatever you want yourself, it's for after-the-fact malware control, rather than approval.
Also, this does still hurt consumers, even if they don't realize it - in fact, partially BECAUSE they don't realize it, if they realized it, they may know to give other platforms a better look.
let them do their own things in private, don't shout from the rooftops about how they're all a bunch of f****'ers, etc...
Except when the group in question is a dangerous cult, and you don't want people to join them, and want their existing members to leave them, for their own welfare. Then, shouting it from the rooftops is probably a good idea - for example, protesting their churches wearing Guy Fawkes masks, and taking public transportation (in the wrong direction) to your car that's miles away so they can't track you down effectively.
I don't have the exact numbers, and I didn't watch CPU temps closely, but playing the same Flash video stream (a particular UStream stream,) I got 10-35% CPU load on IE and ~73 C GPU temperatures, and 50% CPU load on Opera, and about ~68 C GPU temperatures.
(Laptop is a ThinkPad T60p with a Core Duo 2.0 GHz and an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200.)
Correct, the guidelines changed for all cars.
The point is, they used to be roughly accurate for gas cars, lower than real world for diesel, and higher than real world for hybrids.
Now they're only accurate for hybrids, and lower than real world for everything else.
Meanwhile, my "dozens of tiny little buttons" allow me to use my phone much more productively. And they don't get crap stuck beneath them, either.
Oh, and WinMo hasn't had a desktop UI since long before it was actually called WinMo.
Very simple experiment - obtain a temperature monitor that can show you CPU and GPU temperatures. (This usually needs discrete graphics, although some integrated graphics systems hide the northbridge temperature as the "PCI" temperature.) Monitor CPU load, as well.
Start a flash video in IE. Note what happens to all temperatures - CPU load will be low, CPU temps won't change much, GPU temps will rise.
Now, start a flash video in any other browser (that isn't IE-based.) CPU load will be (comparatively) high, and CPU temps will rise. GPU temps will stay steady, or at most climb a couple degrees just because of being heated by the CPU.
FOR HYBRIDS.
Before the rating changes, diesel cars got slightly better than sticker, gas cars got about sticker, and gas/electric hybrids got worse than sticker.
Now, gas/electric hybrids get about sticker, gas cars get better than sticker, and diesel cars get significantly better than sticker.
Source: http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/420r06017.pdf Page 16 of the PDF. Current label is the pre-change, MPG-based label is post-change.
And that is why IE8 has the best battery life - the IE version of the Flash player is hardware accelerated.
Imperial or US gallons?
And, how big is that car? The Taurus is approaching the size of a Mercedes S-class, and has a 3.5 L V6.
Also, US fuel economy estimates for everything but hybrids are lower than real world fuel economy.
First off, US fuel economy numbers were made "more accurate," but in the real world, the numbers are now amazingly low, except for hybrids.
Second, your regional Google site probably translated to imperial gallons, not US gallons, which are smaller.
Third, just because it was a "big Mercedes-Benz" doesn't mean that it didn't have a 4-cylinder and a manual, although I am assuming you're in Europe. Here in the US, a car the size of the Taurus would have a V6 and an automatic by default - and in this case, it's a 3.5 L V6.
I've had trouble with their rendering even before the change, using various versions of Opera.
Before the layout change, the shipping info/bottom bid field was supposed to be immediately below the item description. However, about 80% of the time, there would be 3-4 pages of blank space between the end of the item description and the shipping info. About 10% of the time, there wouldn't be that white space... but there would be what looked like a 2 column table, with the shipping info NEXT TO the item description.
After the layout change, it generally works, but there is still the white space, EVERY time now.
Although I did see the blank description problem the other day on Opera Mobile 9.5... (Yes, I know, eBay has a mobile site. It's also horribly crippled.)
Thing is, the users are loading fresh pages from eBay when they look up items they haven't looked up before.
I could see one (admittedly very specialized, but still) use... driving an IBM T221 pre-DG5 at 3840x2400, 41 Hz. At that res, the monitor is treated as four separate monitors by the card, which the monitor then stitches together.
Currently, the best and cheapest way to do so is a 3 year old nVidia quad-head card, using an ancient XP-only driver. Did I mention that it sucks at 3D, too? (X has ways of sidestepping the quad-view issue that recent nVidia drivers have, so Linux users can use it or any newer quad-head nVidia card, IIRC.)
This card having support for addressing multiple monitors as one will help a lot. (Of course, you'll also need DisplayPort to DVI adapters, but I digress.)