I wonder how the creationists will deal with this idea...
IANAC, but let's face facts:
A) God is everywhere
B) God can do anything
A & B => God can launch bacteria-laden meteorites at Earth in order to start life on Earth, all within the space of the week. Note that some of these details were left out of Genesis. They will, however, be included in the book of MattJB;)
No you haven't because OS X doesn't support 64-bit in any meaningful manner. Apple like's to claim that it's a 64-bit system because they can handle 64-bit integers through their math libraries, but that does not make it a 64-bit operating system (or 64-bit application)
The instructions in the app itself, and the math libraries are 64 bit. So it's a 64 bit application, but many of the calls (for my purposes, the ones I don't care about) are 32 bit. If I cared I'd run Linux on it.
Are the moderators on crack? That's not informative, it's wrong!
The only "piece" of OSX that is 64 bit is the memory access - to allow a G5 to use up to 8 GB of ram.
No, the math libraries and kernel support 64 bit goodness too.
While the G5 chip is fully 64 bit, OSX is taking each 64 bit instruction (from 64 bit apps like Photoshop, for example) and breaking it into two 32 bit instructions which it sends one after the other to the CPU.
No, it runs as a single 64 bit instruction through the chip!IBM is working to provide Apple with a much optimized PPC970 compiler tailored for the G5 - this is expected to give a large performance gain for this platform.
This I agree with, in fact it should be pointed out that the compiler is available now as a beta on IBM's web site.
They don't say, therein lies one of the many problems with the benchmark. They could have been using the 64-bit patches for photoshop, though one assumes not.
I suggested running 64-bit linux on both, just to be supremely fair, but I think that it wouldn't be much different from 64-bit amd64 and 32-bit darwin.
It should be noted that 32-bit darwin runs 64 bit apps just fine (and fast!:)
I'm sorry if I don't use the metric system, a system that requires conversion when dealing with anything related to hard drive storage, not just my blasphemous non-metric computer.
Well, Christmas is all about forgiveness. Or is that Easter? One of those pagan festivals, anyway;)
Yet again, that is the metric or decimal way of looking at things. When your computer shows you MB, it isnt showing you 1,000,000 or 10^6 bytes it is showing you 1,048,576 bytes or 2^20
You were the one using the wrong prefixes in trying to tell me I was wrong, you're not a computer. Further, parts of GNU/Linux use the metric system now.
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-Someone set us up the mp3s
Yeah, let's not talk about Palm ME :)
There are no crack investigative journalists working for slashdot
There are, however, "investigative" journalists on crack working for slashdot.
You meanlike slashdot?
I wonder how the creationists will deal with this idea...
;)
IANAC, but let's face facts:
A) God is everywhere
B) God can do anything
A & B => God can launch bacteria-laden meteorites at Earth in order to start life on Earth, all within the space of the week. Note that some of these details were left out of Genesis. They will, however, be included in the book of MattJB
What is a forrest ?
It's like a box of chocolates.
Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
So now MS is promoting a return to command line interfaces?
I beg to differ. "Doctor" is a qualification, "Professor" is merely a job title.
In the Australian higher education system, one usually has to have a PhD to become a professor, this is different to the US system.
They will band together and form the penis party
Finally, a party for the small people!
Political spam isn't top much different from unsolicited political phone calls.
:)
and we know how to deal with unsolicited phone calls!
here, or search on www.ibm.com for "XLC OS X beta" without the quotes.
No you haven't because OS X doesn't support 64-bit in any meaningful manner. Apple like's to claim that it's a 64-bit system because they can handle 64-bit integers through their math libraries, but that does not make it a 64-bit operating system (or 64-bit application)
The instructions in the app itself, and the math libraries are 64 bit. So it's a 64 bit application, but many of the calls (for my purposes, the ones I don't care about) are 32 bit. If I cared I'd run Linux on it.
Are the moderators on crack? That's not informative, it's wrong!
The only "piece" of OSX that is 64 bit is the memory access - to allow a G5 to use up to 8 GB of ram.
No, the math libraries and kernel support 64 bit goodness too. While the G5 chip is fully 64 bit, OSX is taking each 64 bit instruction (from 64 bit apps like Photoshop, for example) and breaking it into two 32 bit instructions which it sends one after the other to the CPU.
No, it runs as a single 64 bit instruction through the chip!IBM is working to provide Apple with a much optimized PPC970 compiler tailored for the G5 - this is expected to give a large performance gain for this platform.
This I agree with, in fact it should be pointed out that the compiler is available now as a beta on IBM's web site.
Right now OS X *cannot* run 64-bit code so the test would have had to have been 32-bit.
OS X can run 64 bit code. I've compiled and run 64 bit apps just fine.
The G5 was running in 32-bit mode as well.
They don't say, therein lies one of the many problems with the benchmark. They could have been using the 64-bit patches for photoshop, though one assumes not.
More here. I suspect that Apple's developer pages have more info on the trickery.
I suggested running 64-bit linux on both, just to be supremely fair, but I think that it wouldn't be much different from 64-bit amd64 and 32-bit darwin.
:)
It should be noted that 32-bit darwin runs 64 bit apps just fine (and fast!
Malicious user ruins families turkey
Microwave corrects Slashdot reader's grammar.
There was a geek who had some toys, E I E I O
a shockwave flash seen by a billion nerds
;)
Nice contradiction
No, the official NASA drink is "7 up"
I'm sorry if I don't use the metric system, a system that requires conversion when dealing with anything related to hard drive storage, not just my blasphemous non-metric computer.
;)
Well, Christmas is all about forgiveness. Or is that Easter? One of those pagan festivals, anyway
Yet again, that is the metric or decimal way of looking at things. When your computer shows you MB, it isnt showing you 1,000,000 or 10^6 bytes it is showing you 1,048,576 bytes or 2^20
You were the one using the wrong prefixes in trying to tell me I was wrong, you're not a computer. Further, parts of GNU/Linux use the metric system now.
Ummm, guess again.
Why don't uou
No, 1kb = 1000 bits, 1kB = 1000 bytes, 1 kiB = 1024 bytes.