Except that one of the examples sited was that AMD processors run a gauranteed compatible chunk of code that uses no MMX instructyions. The compiler simply doesn't recognise it and defaults to code that will run on anything, which means it can't use MMX registers, etc.
As for
"At the very least Intel compiler users who run on AMD should feel slighted if Intel did not bother to optimize code everywhere it could do so safely simply to protect its CPU business."
I guess I would say to those people use another compiler. Or if you really want to use the Intel compiler use the Intel chips. I am glad that Intel did not waste time supporting other peoples chipsand instead made theirs as fast as possible.
Actually this fine article says
"it executes a different code path
that will degrade the program's performance or cause it to crash."
but gives no example. Just like SCO claims IBM infringed on it. However I doubt it causes it to crash on purpose or we would hear lots of people complaining about programs not working on thier AMD's. Compilers are tricky.
Actually it says right on the compiler that it only optimises for Intel CPU's.
And lets set the point straight there is a difference between using a generic method of doing something that works on every cpu, and detectnig an "AuthenticAMD" cpuid and filling your code with things that wasted time. If they really wanted to be evil they could have porposly put out code filled with delay loops and other annoying stuff.
That is the entire point. They don't want to have to check does this chip have mmx, well what about double word alignment, etc etc. So if you are running on one of the select cpu's its optimized for its going to put out code that can run on ANYTHING, from a brand new AMD to an 8086.
This is exactly what I would hope it would do. I don't want things the not work just because AMD wants it to be spiffy. If you aren't targeting intel processors don't use Intel's compiler.
This is different then MS because Intel does not have a monopoly on compilers. And it is not using that monopoly to force other people to use Intel chips.
If AMD has a problem with this maybe they should make there own compiler.
But don't you need special equipment around the transformers on BPL. That makes it useless in Rural America because the power companies still won't see much profit out there.
Actually I guess it depends on where you live. Here in Nebraska I can get 10 Banquet TV dinners for $10. They may not be the best food in the world but they make for cheap lunches.
I'm more interested in seeing what the numbers say in a year or so. SOE is about games that take a long time, a LOT of people are already getting board with WOW and leaving.
However it is also incredibly boring. How many times can the same game expect me to go through the newbie levels with one character? With FFXI its three. I just could not stand killing any more crabs in groups with people who even though they were working on gainig levels with a subjob and therefore should know what they were doing were just horrible.
And that is exactly the point I was trying to make. Both sides are guilty of it. I don't like Bush. I live in Nebraska, no Democrat has won our electoral votes in my life.
Having said that its funny listening to people around here telling me how all Liberals are soulless jerks bound for hell. One of my best friends is a Southern Babtist. We can have very interesting conversations because we don't assume that people with apposing view points are worthless individuals. This is something we need to spread, just because many people out ther are bigots does not give us an excuse to be, which is exactly what you just said, so I guess I am saying we all need to work to bring back the civil days.
Some people are very ashamed of what they look like. If they felt they were going to be seen naked by some airport security dude they would be unable to fly. Some people fear "having stuff shoved up your butt" if they had to in order to fly the would not be able to.
Why is one group of people more important than another?
Actually all democracy does is change what makes a person strong and a person weak. Now instead of military might it is campaign dollars and persuasive personalities.
As a note my candidate lost the last election. Does that mean I want democracy thrown out? No. Though I do believe in a stronger force than any temporary president. I believe in the constitution and the rights it grants me. Would I give my life to protect the people in power, no. I would if I believed it was needed to protect the rights of our people.
Of course it doesn't help that we are being conditioned to see the world as red and blue. That if you are not with me you are the enemy and we share NO common ground. Our system of government only works well if both sides can work together. What angers me right now is the way the people in power are willing to steam roller over those who they don't like. In the long term this is incredibly stupid, but for the short term the rewards are great.
The problem is that if freenet gives you the ablity to block arbitrary files based on content you could become liable for not blocking them. Then again IANAL but I would guess that if you had the ablility to block, say mp3 files and you did not the RIAA might be able to take you to court. Its hard to say, on one hand I like the fact that anyone can say anything on freenet, on the other hand I don't really like that kind of stuff on my computer.
We have proof for evolution, we can see it in the fossil record and in things that reproduce quickly enough you can even watch it (what do you think antibiotic resistant bacteria are? They are backteria that have evolved to be immune to antibiotics).
There is my proof for evolution, now where is yours for god?
As a long time Sony customer I have to ask, what did they do to you to make you cancel? I always here about SOE's horribly customer service but I never get a good example.
Because that is not how the goverment works. If it was I would gladly take the chunk of my taxes going to things I think are stupid and redirect them to Nasa. However noone asked me.
Then gee I don't know, don't shop at SAM's club. If you do not like the way a bussiness treats its customers vote with your money. I don't shop at Walmart because I consider them to be fairly scummy and I think they treat the neighborhood they are in poorly. If you feel someplace is treating you like a criminal go somewhere else.
Except of course that social security will be fine for a very long time. There is nothing wrong with Social Security according to all but the most dire predictions. Even if the most dire predictions were true all that would need to be done is raise the cap on Social Security taxable earnings. Ya see right now if you make over $100,000 a year you don't pay social security tax on anything over that $100,000 if this cap was rtaised to say $200,000 then Social Security should remain solvent for at least the next 100 years (That is all the farther they run predictions).
I was debating not putting the DNC link up there because I know it will get attacked. So if you have a problem with it, ignore it and pay attention to the Washington Post and MSNBC.
The same reasons game companies keep releasing expansions that cost money. Most people buy games from stores. If you want to put a game on store shelves you must charge money for it (best buy doesn't like giving stuff away). Why do you think that most games that give away there client are seen as failing or minor games?
That is NO excuse. If they have so many users they should have plenty of money to fix it. OR they should not have sold so many boxes if they didn't have the servers to back it up. Its not like some gnome keeps making the WoW boxes to sell.
Plutonium has killed no one. Are you arguing cars have killed no one? A car is much worse for the environment (has a 100% chance of poluting the environment vs a launch accident)
Thats what I thought you were saying, so in effect as a high level character you cannot get Light Leather without mowing down hundreds of bunnies making it much harder for level apropriate people to find bunnies to kill. I suppose it makes sense if you need to protect the economy.
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Except that one of the examples sited was that AMD processors run a gauranteed compatible chunk of code that uses no MMX instructyions. The compiler simply doesn't recognise it and defaults to code that will run on anything, which means it can't use MMX registers, etc.
As for
"At the very least Intel compiler users who run on AMD should feel slighted if Intel did not bother to optimize code everywhere it could do so safely simply to protect its CPU business."
I guess I would say to those people use another compiler. Or if you really want to use the Intel compiler use the Intel chips. I am glad that Intel did not waste time supporting other peoples chipsand instead made theirs as fast as possible.
Actually this fine article says "it executes a different code path that will degrade the program's performance or cause it to crash." but gives no example. Just like SCO claims IBM infringed on it. However I doubt it causes it to crash on purpose or we would hear lots of people complaining about programs not working on thier AMD's. Compilers are tricky.
Actually it says right on the compiler that it only optimises for Intel CPU's.
And lets set the point straight there is a difference between using a generic method of doing something that works on every cpu, and detectnig an "AuthenticAMD" cpuid and filling your code with things that wasted time. If they really wanted to be evil they could have porposly put out code filled with delay loops and other annoying stuff.
Instead Intel just put out generic code.
That is the entire point. They don't want to have to check does this chip have mmx, well what about double word alignment, etc etc. So if you are running on one of the select cpu's its optimized for its going to put out code that can run on ANYTHING, from a brand new AMD to an 8086.
This is exactly what I would hope it would do. I don't want things the not work just because AMD wants it to be spiffy. If you aren't targeting intel processors don't use Intel's compiler.
This is different then MS because Intel does not have a monopoly on compilers. And it is not using that monopoly to force other people to use Intel chips.
If AMD has a problem with this maybe they should make there own compiler.
But don't you need special equipment around the transformers on BPL. That makes it useless in Rural America because the power companies still won't see much profit out there.
Actually I guess it depends on where you live. Here in Nebraska I can get 10 Banquet TV dinners for $10. They may not be the best food in the world but they make for cheap lunches.
GO BIG RED!
I'm more interested in seeing what the numbers say in a year or so. SOE is about games that take a long time, a LOT of people are already getting board with WOW and leaving.
Which is why you would scale them down once, on your development machines, and send them out to the PSP in the scalled down quality.
However it is also incredibly boring. How many times can the same game expect me to go through the newbie levels with one character? With FFXI its three. I just could not stand killing any more crabs in groups with people who even though they were working on gainig levels with a subjob and therefore should know what they were doing were just horrible.
And that is exactly the point I was trying to make. Both sides are guilty of it. I don't like Bush. I live in Nebraska, no Democrat has won our electoral votes in my life.
Having said that its funny listening to people around here telling me how all Liberals are soulless jerks bound for hell. One of my best friends is a Southern Babtist. We can have very interesting conversations because we don't assume that people with apposing view points are worthless individuals. This is something we need to spread, just because many people out ther are bigots does not give us an excuse to be, which is exactly what you just said, so I guess I am saying we all need to work to bring back the civil days.
Some people are very ashamed of what they look like. If they felt they were going to be seen naked by some airport security dude they would be unable to fly. Some people fear "having stuff shoved up your butt" if they had to in order to fly the would not be able to.
Why is one group of people more important than another?
Actually all democracy does is change what makes a person strong and a person weak. Now instead of military might it is campaign dollars and persuasive personalities.
As a note my candidate lost the last election. Does that mean I want democracy thrown out? No. Though I do believe in a stronger force than any temporary president. I believe in the constitution and the rights it grants me. Would I give my life to protect the people in power, no. I would if I believed it was needed to protect the rights of our people.
Of course it doesn't help that we are being conditioned to see the world as red and blue. That if you are not with me you are the enemy and we share NO common ground. Our system of government only works well if both sides can work together. What angers me right now is the way the people in power are willing to steam roller over those who they don't like. In the long term this is incredibly stupid, but for the short term the rewards are great.
I would sugesst using this then:
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=138
Its a MSI package for firefox and is able to do silent installs and upgrades (you can even deploy it via AD).
The problem is that if freenet gives you the ablity to block arbitrary files based on content you could become liable for not blocking them. Then again IANAL but I would guess that if you had the ablility to block, say mp3 files and you did not the RIAA might be able to take you to court. Its hard to say, on one hand I like the fact that anyone can say anything on freenet, on the other hand I don't really like that kind of stuff on my computer.
We have proof for evolution, we can see it in the fossil record and in things that reproduce quickly enough you can even watch it (what do you think antibiotic resistant bacteria are? They are backteria that have evolved to be immune to antibiotics).
There is my proof for evolution, now where is yours for god?
Because once again if one group of slashdotters believe that P2P piracy is AOK it means that noone on slashdot can support property rights.
As a long time Sony customer I have to ask, what did they do to you to make you cancel? I always here about SOE's horribly customer service but I never get a good example.
Because that is not how the goverment works. If it was I would gladly take the chunk of my taxes going to things I think are stupid and redirect them to Nasa. However noone asked me.
Then gee I don't know, don't shop at SAM's club. If you do not like the way a bussiness treats its customers vote with your money. I don't shop at Walmart because I consider them to be fairly scummy and I think they treat the neighborhood they are in poorly. If you feel someplace is treating you like a criminal go somewhere else.
Except of course that social security will be fine for a very long time. There is nothing wrong with Social Security according to all but the most dire predictions. Even if the most dire predictions were true all that would need to be done is raise the cap on Social Security taxable earnings. Ya see right now if you make over $100,000 a year you don't pay social security tax on anything over that $100,000 if this cap was rtaised to say $200,000 then Social Security should remain solvent for at least the next 100 years (That is all the farther they run predictions).
w .democrats.org/news/200501120002.html. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A556 66-2005Feb1.html
Of course you don't havbe to take my word for it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6827519/
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I was debating not putting the DNC link up there because I know it will get attacked. So if you have a problem with it, ignore it and pay attention to the Washington Post and MSNBC.
The same reasons game companies keep releasing expansions that cost money. Most people buy games from stores. If you want to put a game on store shelves you must charge money for it (best buy doesn't like giving stuff away). Why do you think that most games that give away there client are seen as failing or minor games?
That is NO excuse. If they have so many users they should have plenty of money to fix it. OR they should not have sold so many boxes if they didn't have the servers to back it up. Its not like some gnome keeps making the WoW boxes to sell.
Plutonium has killed no one. Are you arguing cars have killed no one? A car is much worse for the environment (has a 100% chance of poluting the environment vs a launch accident)
Thats what I thought you were saying, so in effect as a high level character you cannot get Light Leather without mowing down hundreds of bunnies making it much harder for level apropriate people to find bunnies to kill. I suppose it makes sense if you need to protect the economy.