I believe that the FCC requires that even basic cable carry HD locals unscrambled. Many don't, but you can call them on it.
A QAM tuner will pick it up from your bare cable. For PC's a QAM tuner is often about $100 (FusionHDTV 3 or 5 PCI cards for instance) but are often buggy. Standalone QAM tuners I haven't looked into.
The market for lasting bubbles is the same as the market for clear bubbles: elementary-school kids. If an inventor could somehow add color, though, suddenly adults might have reason to start blowing again.
With shaking hands I buy a bottle for my wife... please... oh, please...
CISC-on-RISC emulation has a long successful history, e.g.:
Connectix' Virtual PC x86 emulator on PowerPC, bought by Microsoft (in part for XBOX360 no doubt)
Apple's 68k emulator on PowerPC Macs
Front end decoding hardware in modern Intel x86 CPUs
as does CISC-on-CISC:
Basilisk II emulating 68k Mac OS
There's a reason--you can often decompose CISC instructions into a set of simpler, more primitive RISC instructions, and you can cache those decompositions by instruction. Also, there's been more market pressure to do it (e.g, running more ubiquitous OS (Windows) on less ubiquitous one (Mac OS) rather than the opposite, backwards compatibility with older CISC instruction sets, etc).
As far as RISC-on-CISC: harder. You need to build up more complicated instructions from a stream of primitive ones and depend on lots of redundant, cache-able sets of contiguous instructions, that will vary at run time. Not so much demand for it either up to now, but some partial success. PearPC can do it, but it was really slow last time I checked.
That's why I was kind of surprised when reports came in that Rosetta actually does a reasonable job of it.
I wish we had some clearer system where we would just say a number before the month/day to indicate how many away it was for small numbers. So instead of next january meaning the first january after this we could say 'the first january' and the next one would be 'the second january'.
This will just lead to off-by-one errors since you haven't allowed for "the zero-th january." Which I use regularly, by the way.
One good side effect of users uploading photos to labs is that joe consumer discovers his upload bandwidth limit. Very few other joe-consumer activities on a computer reveal it. When he goes to upload the photos from the 8 megapixel camera the boy at best buy convinced him he needed, why does it feel like dialup when comcast told him he gets 3Mbps? Hopefully he demands more upload bandwidth if he can figure out that is the reason. Then the internet might not turn into TV all over again, after all.
The best Mac emulator for PC I know of is Basilisk II
It emulates 68k code though, not PPC, so you are stuck with MacOS 8.1 max, but on a fast PC you can run 68k code faster than any Motorola 68k processor ever did! You will need the ROM from a Quadra 650 (68040) for best results.
I was using it to run REALbasic REALbasic 3.5.2 -- the last 68k version. REALbasic can create Windows apps, but you have to run the IDE on the Mac-- that is, until version 5 which just came out but which you have to pay for all over again so I probably won't get it.
One cool thing is to access a Mac network from the PC-- the good old chooser running on Windows!
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I believe that the FCC requires that even basic cable carry HD locals unscrambled. Many don't, but you can call them on it. A QAM tuner will pick it up from your bare cable. For PC's a QAM tuner is often about $100 (FusionHDTV 3 or 5 PCI cards for instance) but are often buggy. Standalone QAM tuners I haven't looked into.
With shaking hands I buy a bottle for my wife... please ... oh, please ...
as does CISC-on-CISC:
There's a reason--you can often decompose CISC instructions into a set of simpler, more primitive RISC instructions, and you can cache those decompositions by instruction. Also, there's been more market pressure to do it (e.g, running more ubiquitous OS (Windows) on less ubiquitous one (Mac OS) rather than the opposite, backwards compatibility with older CISC instruction sets, etc).
As far as RISC-on-CISC: harder. You need to build up more complicated instructions from a stream of primitive ones and depend on lots of redundant, cache-able sets of contiguous instructions, that will vary at run time. Not so much demand for it either up to now, but some partial success. PearPC can do it, but it was really slow last time I checked.
That's why I was kind of surprised when reports came in that Rosetta actually does a reasonable job of it.
One good side effect of users uploading photos to labs is that joe consumer discovers his upload bandwidth limit. Very few other joe-consumer activities on a computer reveal it. When he goes to upload the photos from the 8 megapixel camera the boy at best buy convinced him he needed, why does it feel like dialup when comcast told him he gets 3Mbps? Hopefully he demands more upload bandwidth if he can figure out that is the reason. Then the internet might not turn into TV all over again, after all.
I always thought COM would spell the beginning of the end for us humans...
It emulates 68k code though, not PPC, so you are stuck with MacOS 8.1 max, but on a fast PC you can run 68k code faster than any Motorola 68k processor ever did! You will need the ROM from a Quadra 650 (68040) for best results.
I was using it to run REALbasic REALbasic 3.5.2 -- the last 68k version. REALbasic can create Windows apps, but you have to run the IDE on the Mac-- that is, until version 5 which just came out but which you have to pay for all over again so I probably won't get it.
One cool thing is to access a Mac network from the PC-- the good old chooser running on Windows!