if what you're saying were true, we ought to expect to see OS X's market share decrease after the clones were killed; the inverse is true. the primary reason for PowerPC's failure to remain competitive on performance in the desktop or laptop markets is that it simply wasn't the focus of the main designer and manufacturer, IBM.
No. The PPC clones were killed way before OS X even came to the market. Apple continuously sent mixed signals and screwed Motorola and IBM over to the point they figured out it wasn't worth the effort. Mac OS Classic was stale at that time anyway, its a wonder how the machines even got sold. Even Windows 95 was better.
i.e. it would take a 68k like Pentium Pro to change people back to 68k at the time. That would be an effort akin to making a PPC and giving it a 68k front-end. I guess they thought they didn't need to make the effort to have backwards compatibility, since they had transitioned before from 6800 to 68k. Motorola also dabbled with that 88k monstrosity before setting with PPC.
Sun got SPARC. I doubt they would have used Motorola 68k series regardless if it continued or not, given the extra performance of RISC architectures at that time. It took the Pentium Pro to change the game. Even then, Pentium Pro only was good at integer, rather than FP, where RISC processors continued to have an edge for some time.
One reason for PowerPCs market failure was when Apple killed the Mac clones by refusing to sell the OS to those vendors. Without a desktop OS for it, the machines themselves were pretty much useless and the platform dwindled ever since. Apple did this because they were taking heavy losses, since the cloners (e.g. Power Computing) did better machines than Apple themselves did.
Not all fuel cells use platinum either. There are more designs than PEM fuel cells. SOFC fuel cells are made of ceramics. Even solar panels can be made from other stuff than Indium. Which is not that rare anyway.
And you have discovered how to advance the technology enough for it to be buildable within the
available open space, without destroying habitats
and greenspaces that are protected?
Guess what? The sunniest places on Earth are deserts! Plenty of open space there.
The solar energy concentration is not sufficient to convert the amount of energy we need with the technology we have without bulldozing half of the available landmass.
This argument is similar to the (thankfully abortive) ethanol argument, which had Brazil contemplating how much of the rain forest they could knock down to grow corn without destroying the world's oxygen supply.
Eh? Brazil gets its ethanol from sugar cane, which is much more efficient than corn.
The kernel is GPLed. The legality of binary kernel drivers is pretty thin and rests only on the fact that the developers aren't in the mood to sue anyone for doing it. WTF should they care about someone who is doing something against the (quite liberal) license anyway?
Every modern Linux distro I have seen includes ALSA. I have not seen a distro use OSS for years now.
As for APIs, you forgot OpenAL. Here is a list of games using it:
Doom 3, Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Quake 4, Prey, Unreal 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3, Postal, America's Army, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Freedom Fighters, Hitman, Psychonauts, Colin McRae: DiRT, Penumbra: Black Plague, Race Driver: GRID.
The same is true in Windows. Many games use OpenAL, FMOD, Miles Sound System, rather than DirectSound.
The faulty chips assumption is pretty much true. Even NVIDIA caved in to evidence eventually. 3D glasses... I still remember 10 years ago last time they used to be cool. Thing is, few games or whatever had support for it, and many people get nausea or headache when using such devices (I did). ATI was much faster at a time. As for CUDA, I don't like it either, but it beats the software solutions AMD was offering at the time. I still thing it will end up being a dead-end proprietary technology like Cg though.
Actually, Japan has a pretty large military R&D spending (Type 90 Tank, Type 89 IFV. They may not be a nuclear power, but that is because they do not want to be one. They have the missile technology (M-V solid fuel rocket launcher) and enough plutonium to separate.
Japan is ranked 6th in military spending, right after Russia. Sure they don't spend as much as the USA, but then again, no one else does.
Actually, socialists talk about "equal pay for equal work". Capitalists talk about pay for output: which is pretty different. One person might work his ass off and produce something with low market value, while another might work less and produce something which is more desirable.
Uh no wonder you think it is buggy. Windows 98 was based on Windows 95 code. Ever since Microsoft went to NT kernel based operating systems as the common baseline (Windows 2000) the operating system is much better.
It is my understanding that nationally, in the United States, 80% of the electricity generated is done so using coal.
Goodness gracious no. Just nuclear alone does 19.3% of the electric generation. Coal does 48.2% of generation. Before claiming everyone else is doing failed calculations try revising your own.
We are talking about near and mid term solutions to the transportation problem here. Things that may be practical in the next 10 years. I never claimed currently sold electrics are economic. FWIW I own a diesel car. Considered gasoline-hybrid but it makes no sense here due to fuel prices.
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It would be as universal as the world series is... uh. Miss universe is... uh. What were we talking about again?
That must be why the human body didn't come with a vaccine for smallpox either. Oh wait...
Uh, in case you are not aware, I Am Legend is a work of FICTION.
I guess he meant 'propellant' rather than fuel. Such an engine was traditionally called LACE.
if what you're saying were true, we ought to expect to see OS X's market share decrease after the clones were killed; the inverse is true. the primary reason for PowerPC's failure to remain competitive on performance in the desktop or laptop markets is that it simply wasn't the focus of the main designer and manufacturer, IBM.
No. The PPC clones were killed way before OS X even came to the market. Apple continuously sent mixed signals and screwed Motorola and IBM over to the point they figured out it wasn't worth the effort. Mac OS Classic was stale at that time anyway, its a wonder how the machines even got sold. Even Windows 95 was better.
i.e. it would take a 68k like Pentium Pro to change people back to 68k at the time. That would be an effort akin to making a PPC and giving it a 68k front-end. I guess they thought they didn't need to make the effort to have backwards compatibility, since they had transitioned before from 6800 to 68k. Motorola also dabbled with that 88k monstrosity before setting with PPC.
Sun got SPARC. I doubt they would have used Motorola 68k series regardless if it continued or not, given the extra performance of RISC architectures at that time. It took the Pentium Pro to change the game. Even then, Pentium Pro only was good at integer, rather than FP, where RISC processors continued to have an edge for some time.
They did, for a time. It was called the 68060 and had Pentium like features. But it was too late and they didn't bother raising clock speed later on.
One reason for PowerPCs market failure was when Apple killed the Mac clones by refusing to sell the OS to those vendors. Without a desktop OS for it, the machines themselves were pretty much useless and the platform dwindled ever since. Apple did this because they were taking heavy losses, since the cloners (e.g. Power Computing) did better machines than Apple themselves did.
The original Itanium was shit. That was why it went down in flames. It was worse than the end-lined processors it was meant to replace.
It doesn't take a lot of mental capacity to buy computers from Taiwan. Which is what Dell does...
Not all fuel cells use platinum either. There are more designs than PEM fuel cells. SOFC fuel cells are made of ceramics. Even solar panels can be made from other stuff than Indium. Which is not that rare anyway.
And you have discovered how to advance the technology enough for it to be buildable within the available open space, without destroying habitats and greenspaces that are protected?
Guess what? The sunniest places on Earth are deserts! Plenty of open space there.
The solar energy concentration is not sufficient to convert the amount of energy we need with the technology we have without bulldozing half of the available landmass.
Bollocks. Look at page 15 of this talk.
This argument is similar to the (thankfully abortive) ethanol argument, which had Brazil contemplating how much of the rain forest they could knock down to grow corn without destroying the world's oxygen supply.
Eh? Brazil gets its ethanol from sugar cane, which is much more efficient than corn.
The kernel is GPLed. The legality of binary kernel drivers is pretty thin and rests only on the fact that the developers aren't in the mood to sue anyone for doing it. WTF should they care about someone who is doing something against the (quite liberal) license anyway?
As for APIs, you forgot OpenAL. Here is a list of games using it: Doom 3, Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Quake 4, Prey, Unreal 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3, Postal, America's Army, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Freedom Fighters, Hitman, Psychonauts, Colin McRae: DiRT, Penumbra: Black Plague, Race Driver: GRID.
The same is true in Windows. Many games use OpenAL, FMOD, Miles Sound System, rather than DirectSound.
The faulty chips assumption is pretty much true. Even NVIDIA caved in to evidence eventually. 3D glasses... I still remember 10 years ago last time they used to be cool. Thing is, few games or whatever had support for it, and many people get nausea or headache when using such devices (I did). ATI was much faster at a time. As for CUDA, I don't like it either, but it beats the software solutions AMD was offering at the time. I still thing it will end up being a dead-end proprietary technology like Cg though.
How about PCChips and ECS?
Actually AMD has been doing hardware x86-emulation since the K5. Cyrix started it all, with the 5x86.
AMD has given X86-64 licenses to just about anyone in the past including Transmeta and Via.
Perhaps. But it also means there will be less people with money to buy their products. In the mid-term everyone loses.
Japan is ranked 6th in military spending, right after Russia. Sure they don't spend as much as the USA, but then again, no one else does.
One more die shrink and less batteries would lower the price considerably, I am sure. That could take less than a year.
Actually, socialists talk about "equal pay for equal work". Capitalists talk about pay for output: which is pretty different. One person might work his ass off and produce something with low market value, while another might work less and produce something which is more desirable.
Uh no wonder you think it is buggy. Windows 98 was based on Windows 95 code. Ever since Microsoft went to NT kernel based operating systems as the common baseline (Windows 2000) the operating system is much better.
Goodness gracious no. Just nuclear alone does 19.3% of the electric generation. Coal does 48.2% of generation. Before claiming everyone else is doing failed calculations try revising your own.
We are talking about near and mid term solutions to the transportation problem here. Things that may be practical in the next 10 years. I never claimed currently sold electrics are economic. FWIW I own a diesel car. Considered gasoline-hybrid but it makes no sense here due to fuel prices.