As todays generation is raised on computers, you could easily have 10 buttons on a mouse, that each did something different, and in 20, 30 years from now, most of the population will have no problem with it.
Then in 100 years... this is a stupid discussion altogether... that is if we even use Mice anymore.
According to a military friend of mine who recently rode jump-seat in a commercial 737 flight (united airlines passenger plane), they do land on auto-pilot.
My friend actually requested of them to manually land the plane instead of using auto-pilot to land, and they did, it was quite a bit rougher than a "normal" (autopilot) landing:-).
>> WINE's job is just to implement all the Win32 API calls that they make.
Well, then wine is an emulator. It is emulating WINDOWS so that Windows applications can run in Linux.
It is not a translation layer, it is a windows API emulator.
WINdows Emulator is true.. CPU Emulation no.
An emulator can emulate anything, it doesn't have to be CPU/Hardware, it can emulate the Windows API.
[Dictionary.com] emulate Audio pronunciation of "emulate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (my-lt) tr.v. emulated, emulating, emulates
1. To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulated.
2. To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with.
3. Computer Science. To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.
I can fit an infinite amount of video in one bit of storage space.... Here is the bit stream that represents every video ever made: 1
See... now the resolution is pretty low and there is no audio stream (haven't figured out how to compress audio yet, might need another bit), but the video is all there! enjoy.
Note: I own a copyright and patent on this technology. I call it 'one-bit-video' compression. Use it and I'll sue you for all you're worth.
This wasn't possible historically primarily because of "hacking" that occured among programmers.
Being "one of them". I used to throw in bits of assembler and hacks to hide things here or there. "Peek and Poke" (inp/outp) to ports in various places to get the hardware to do what I wanted it to do. Hide some memory on a floppy disk controller then use it later for something.
This kind of activity makes it very very difficult to do what these guys claim they did.
BUT... In the modern programming world, look at an assembler dump from MSVC in a Win32 EXE and you'll see no funny business anymore. No hiding memory, or peek/poke/inp/outp anymore. Just mostly straight forward code with calls to the OS and thats it!
A C compiler generally doesn't take C code, then convert it straight to (YOUR_CPU_HERE) e.g. x86 op codes and dump out a binary.. no... What they generally do is convert C code into an intermediate language. Bear with me as I don't know the proper name for this, but its almost like an assembler language (very low in nature and very simple codes) that is independant of architecture. Then this intermediate code has two options, it can go to the assembler for your CPU or it can go to the optimizer, which will optimize THIS intermediate code then go to the assembler (which can further optimize for the current CPU).
What I am trying to get at, is if you can take a Win32 binary, or a Mac binary, and convert it BACK into this intermediate platform/cpu independant intermediate code, then you can feed it back into the optimizer/assembler again for a different CPU.
There of course is alot of magic around this, but I beleive this is the general idea.
If you can accomplish this, then you have just wrote a translator that can translate one CPU's opcodes into another CPU's opcodes and reoptimize the opcodes for the target platform. The end result would be VERY VERY FAST translated binarys for the target CPU/OS that would perform almost as good, or even better than the original binary on the original CPU/platform (this is if you could say CPU-Apple = CPU-Orange performance wise).
Anyways... I am rambling, but hope they pulled it off and its not vaporware as it would be really cool!
Most cell phones, for example, Nokia's are largely uniform as far as aerodynamics are concerneed.
Put a 8lbs bowling ball and a 16lbs bowling ball in inside a larger container that is aerodyanmically uniform.. Try using a long cardboard box that resembles a Nokia cell phone. See what happends... I bet you gravity doesn't care which side is heavier, and I since the rectangular box is... well, rectangular and uniform, it'll land without bias twoards the heavier bowling ball.
I didn't realize your cell phone has a dart-tail connected to it.
Most cell phones e.g. Nokia's have shapes that are symetrical and largely unaffected by aerodynamics.
If one end of the cell phone is heavy and the other is light, but the shape is uniform and material around the cell phone is more or less uniform, it will fall without necessarily turning mid-air just because one end of the cell phone is heavier than the other side.
GIVE IT A TRY.
This is... Unless your cell phone has a dart-tail connected to it.... If so, then my bad.
Almost every night, I come home from work and my damn DirecTivo is locked up displaying the same image, but the audio continues to play.
Every recorded movie/show for that day is f*cked, there is audio but no video.
It is becomming really anoying, and I will start bitching at DirecTV if they don't fix it soon.
I never realized that DirecTV's new DVR's were now based on the TIVO-2.. So whats the difference between my old Philips DVR-6000 and the new DirecTivo-2?
Whats the most effective way of getting DirecTv to give me a free upgrade to the DirecTivo-2 if they don't fix this freeze bug?
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Gigabit bandwidth to every dorm room, all sharing a single 56k modem connected at 28.8k (bad line quality).
Hey, at least they can send porn and mp3 files around quickly to eachother!
DVI specification doesn't really support 1920x1200 either... Apple performed a hack to DVI (data in vblank signal) to get more information packed into the cable.
Given this, there is a good chance DVI switchers actually CAN support 1920x1200 even though they "officially" can't claim they do.
It only wipes the hard disk out if you have a specific firewall software package installed. So, this means the whole world helps spread it, and those with the firewall software get to stop booting their computer...
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As todays generation is raised on computers, you could easily have 10 buttons on a mouse, that each did something different, and in 20, 30 years from now, most of the population will have no problem with it.
Then in 100 years... this is a stupid discussion altogether... that is if we even use Mice anymore.
One is: http://www.findnot.com ($6.21/mo)
Then you can do whatever you want, and tell the chinese goverment to fuck right off... but don't say that outloud, they might hear you.
infact, disregard this message entirely.. ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Mod parent up! Itr right!
http://sipipe.com
Transfer 20-25Gb/s from chip to chip easily, and 1-Gb/s per channel (wire/copper).
Seriously.
According to a military friend of mine who recently rode jump-seat in a commercial 737 flight (united airlines passenger plane), they do land on auto-pilot.
:-).
My friend actually requested of them to manually land the plane instead of using auto-pilot to land, and they did, it was quite a bit rougher than a "normal" (autopilot) landing
>> WINE's job is just to implement all the Win32 API calls that they make.
Well, then wine is an emulator. It is emulating WINDOWS so that Windows applications can run in Linux.
It is not a translation layer, it is a windows API emulator.
WINdows Emulator is true.. CPU Emulation no.
An emulator can emulate anything, it doesn't have to be CPU/Hardware, it can emulate the Windows API.
[Dictionary.com]
emulate Audio pronunciation of "emulate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (my-lt)
tr.v. emulated, emulating, emulates
1. To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulated.
2. To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with.
3. Computer Science. To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.
Sounds like an emulator to me.
Since when does Cooling something (besides water), cause expansion?
Not everyone is poor, some people actually have tons of money and $265.00 is NOTHING to them.
Its not uncommon to have $10,000,000.00+ in the bank if you made it rich in the DOT-COM era in 1999.
To some people $265.00 is less money than they can find in their couch cushions.
Wow, Microsoft is really hated in Japan, or the USA is, or both are which doesn't suprise me.
XBox is superior hardware, and good gaming library, why is it doing so poorly if not the "We hate the USA" argument, "Stupid americans".
Sorry to tell you this bub, but the emergency brake in most cars is significantly weaker than the main breaks powered by a master cyclinder.
I've tried it in many cars, including my '04 BMW M3.
Emergency break is pretty weak even pulled all the way up, on a dozen brand new cars I have purchased in my life time.
I can fit an infinite amount of video in one bit of storage space.... Here is the bit stream that represents every video ever made: 1
See... now the resolution is pretty low and there is no audio stream (haven't figured out how to compress audio yet, might need another bit), but the video is all there! enjoy.
Note: I own a copyright and patent on this technology. I call it 'one-bit-video' compression. Use it and I'll sue you for all you're worth.
This wasn't possible historically primarily because of "hacking" that occured among programmers.
Being "one of them". I used to throw in bits of assembler and hacks to hide things here or there. "Peek and Poke" (inp/outp) to ports in various places to get the hardware to do what I wanted it to do. Hide some memory on a floppy disk controller then use it later for something.
This kind of activity makes it very very difficult to do what these guys claim they did.
BUT... In the modern programming world, look at an assembler dump from MSVC in a Win32 EXE and you'll see no funny business anymore. No hiding memory, or peek/poke/inp/outp anymore. Just mostly straight forward code with calls to the OS and thats it!
A C compiler generally doesn't take C code, then convert it straight to (YOUR_CPU_HERE) e.g. x86 op codes and dump out a binary.. no... What they generally do is convert C code into an intermediate language. Bear with me as I don't know the proper name for this, but its almost like an assembler language (very low in nature and very simple codes) that is independant of architecture. Then this intermediate code has two options, it can go to the assembler for your CPU or it can go to the optimizer, which will optimize THIS intermediate code then go to the assembler (which can further optimize for the current CPU).
What I am trying to get at, is if you can take a Win32 binary, or a Mac binary, and convert it BACK into this intermediate platform/cpu independant intermediate code, then you can feed it back into the optimizer/assembler again for a different CPU.
There of course is alot of magic around this, but I beleive this is the general idea.
If you can accomplish this, then you have just wrote a translator that can translate one CPU's opcodes into another CPU's opcodes and reoptimize the opcodes for the target platform. The end result would be VERY VERY FAST translated binarys for the target CPU/OS that would perform almost as good, or even better than the original binary on the original CPU/platform (this is if you could say CPU-Apple = CPU-Orange performance wise).
Anyways... I am rambling, but hope they pulled it off and its not vaporware as it would be really cool!
- Voxel
Most cell phones, for example, Nokia's are largely uniform as far as aerodynamics are concerneed.
Put a 8lbs bowling ball and a 16lbs bowling ball in inside a larger container that is aerodyanmically uniform.. Try using a long cardboard box that resembles a Nokia cell phone. See what happends... I bet you gravity doesn't care which side is heavier, and I since the rectangular box is... well, rectangular and uniform, it'll land without bias twoards the heavier bowling ball.
Have fun.
I didn't realize your cell phone has a dart-tail connected to it.
Most cell phones e.g. Nokia's have shapes that are symetrical and largely unaffected by aerodynamics.
If one end of the cell phone is heavy and the other is light, but the shape is uniform and material around the cell phone is more or less uniform, it will fall without necessarily turning mid-air just because one end of the cell phone is heavier than the other side.
GIVE IT A TRY.
This is... Unless your cell phone has a dart-tail connected to it.... If so, then my bad.
>> Except for a few scuffs (mostly on the battery, it must be the heaviest part)
Do we really have to go over this again?... Drop a 8 lbs bowling ball, drop a 16 lbs bowling ball... which hits the ground first?
Do they have any proof that this works? Or is this just vaporware?
Almost every night, I come home from work and my damn DirecTivo is locked up displaying the same image, but the audio continues to play.
Every recorded movie/show for that day is f*cked, there is audio but no video.
It is becomming really anoying, and I will start bitching at DirecTV if they don't fix it soon.
I never realized that DirecTV's new DVR's were now based on the TIVO-2.. So whats the difference between my old Philips DVR-6000 and the new DirecTivo-2?
Whats the most effective way of getting DirecTv to give me a free upgrade to the DirecTivo-2 if they don't fix this freeze bug?
Gigabit bandwidth to every dorm room, all sharing a single 56k modem connected at 28.8k (bad line quality).
Hey, at least they can send porn and mp3 files around quickly to eachother!
So they just telemarket you on friday night, saturday and sunday :-).
At 60hz DVI spec doesn't go over 1600x1200. You can run 3840x2400 if you are at around 15hz I beleive.
DVI specification doesn't really support 1920x1200 either... Apple performed a hack to DVI (data in vblank signal) to get more information packed into the cable.
Given this, there is a good chance DVI switchers actually CAN support 1920x1200 even though they "officially" can't claim they do.
Yeah... thats simple.. How much documentation and months of learning do I need to know just to make it so Gentoo will install the latest Gimp...
What has the world come to when you have "Professional Linux Installer" on your business card?
It only wipes the hard disk out if you have a specific firewall software package installed. So, this means the whole world helps spread it, and those with the firewall software get to stop booting their computer...
Phase 1: Stop selling film cameras.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!!!
- Voxel