I don't know about that. Keep in mind that Darwin is a hybrid of Mach and BSD. This page about Mach describes early attempts at such a union and characterizes the performance as "absymal". Understand, I'm not saying gcc isn't the culprit. I'm only saying it isn't unreasonable to wonder if Apple's kernel might have a hand.
Update! I just found de Icaza's blog entry. Check it out
here (that's google's cache) under the title "Mono and MacOS X". It turns out that the faster Mac was a desktop and the slower pc was a laptop.
In what way could OLEDs be unsuited for desktop and laptop environments? Everything I've read about this technology qualifies it to replace every display technology we have today excepting movie screens. Even that last could go by the wayside eventually given the zeal for inkjet litho.
Hollywood showed us this device in the movie Red Planet.
That was one of the coolest sci-fi visions of future technology I've seen. Not only was the display rollable, it had variable translucency so they could look through it while the computer diagrammed the landscape. Very slick.
The parent wasn't being funny. OLEDs have lifetime problems. They lose luminance. IIRC, blue has been a big problem. I don't know if it is strictly related to current (so it only wears out when you use it), or if it has to do with exposure to oxygen and water (so it wears out no matter what). That last problem is apparently pretty tough to combat. Oxygen and water will try to creep through anything. In any event, it's a good question to ask as the article claims Samsung wants to put this panel on the market next year. Presumably they've done something to address that hangup in the technology.
It would be fraud because he didn't send the item described in the auction.
This exchange was less formal than selling a used microwave via post-it note on the lunchroom bulletin board. The scammer contacted MyNameIsJeff on his own after the eBay auction ended.
Anyone care to explain why Bike Messengers have a penchant for fixed gear bikes without so much as a front handbrake? This seems to be cool in San Francisco of all places. Could there really anything more than ego to this?
Does Relativity pose a problem here for defining an absolute measure of time? Is it (at least mathematically, if not practically) possible to use the speed of light and the Planck length to get an absolute measure of time?
... it's a lot easier to snap a twig to the length of my foot than it is to measure the distance from the north pole to the equator and divide by 1,000, which is what a meter is...
Wow! No wonder Santa can get so much done when he needs to. He can circle the Earth in 4 kilometers.
All kidding aside, I think the meter is defined in terms of the speed of light now.
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I take it you like dyne:bolic?
Update! I just found de Icaza's blog entry. Check it out here (that's google's cache) under the title "Mono and MacOS X". It turns out that the faster Mac was a desktop and the slower pc was a laptop.
Well, presumably Miguel was using gcc on both platforms. I would blame a laptop hardrive before I blame the compiler.
"Only shallow people do not judge by appearances."
In what way could OLEDs be unsuited for desktop and laptop environments? Everything I've read about this technology qualifies it to replace every display technology we have today excepting movie screens. Even that last could go by the wayside eventually given the zeal for inkjet litho.
That's a good point. A manufacturer could make a display twice as bright as the market desires and limit it to operating at half capacity.
The difference is that you can replace a dead backlight.
That was one of the coolest sci-fi visions of future technology I've seen. Not only was the display rollable, it had variable translucency so they could look through it while the computer diagrammed the landscape. Very slick.
The parent wasn't being funny. OLEDs have lifetime problems. They lose luminance. IIRC, blue has been a big problem. I don't know if it is strictly related to current (so it only wears out when you use it), or if it has to do with exposure to oxygen and water (so it wears out no matter what). That last problem is apparently pretty tough to combat. Oxygen and water will try to creep through anything. In any event, it's a good question to ask as the article claims Samsung wants to put this panel on the market next year. Presumably they've done something to address that hangup in the technology.
It's emissive, so there should be no ghosting problems.
Zikes Scooby! A /. post has been moderated +5 Troll.
You know, he could get his tubes tied (reversibly) if you're not ready to tie your own.
Wouldn't that be worse for her partner?
Whoops! You're right. My bad. It's more like the scammer wanted to arrange his own "Buy it Now" deal.
I'm partial to the "@" == "What?!!" myself, though "Safari Internet Adventure" has it's charms...
No doubt. IIRC, the Nigerian government has publicly stated that part of the blame for 419 spam lays in "the greed of foreigners."
And yet he ended up with a "dear wife". Truly, the Internet is a magical wonderland.
This exchange was less formal than selling a used microwave via post-it note on the lunchroom bulletin board. The scammer contacted MyNameIsJeff on his own after the eBay auction ended.
Isn't that how Bruce Lee's son died?
He was being facetious.
Anyone care to explain why Bike Messengers have a penchant for fixed gear bikes without so much as a front handbrake? This seems to be cool in San Francisco of all places. Could there really anything more than ego to this?
So long as he gives that velveeta a squared, bricklike shape (what's the 3D version of a rectangle?) the math is basic.
Does Relativity pose a problem here for defining an absolute measure of time? Is it (at least mathematically, if not practically) possible to use the speed of light and the Planck length to get an absolute measure of time?
Wow! No wonder Santa can get so much done when he needs to. He can circle the Earth in 4 kilometers.
All kidding aside, I think the meter is defined in terms of the speed of light now.
I think your surfing particle metaphor is very cool. It's a great way to look at wave-particle duality.