ARM doesn't have any errata, in fact it has no errors whatsoever. When an anomaly is found the behaviour is simply marked as 'unspecified' in the ARM architecture reference manual (the ARM ARM, got it?).
Just for the record. Idoru did not suck total balls. It is a really good book with an incredibly interesting storyline and lots of subtle remarks about a development our own society are progressing towards.
Idoru is definately not Neuromancer, and it should not be. I appreciate Neuromancer mostly because its dark and futuristic setting which I have yet to find in the work of another author. Idoru is another story altogether and if Gibson had created four blueprints of Neuromancer up until Idoru I would have been greatly disappointed.
John Carmack obviously agrees, since he wrote something along the lines: If I find a graphics error I blame the drivers, unless it is Nvidia's where I probably have done something wrong myself.
For those of you who feel like taking a shot at generating some military secrets or just next year's Xbox hit title, calls to rand() is way faster than generating pi digits. It will come up with the same data as well (every message, that is), in a little more than two shakes of a lambs tail.
Everyone seems to be talking about how nice one of these would fit in his iPAQ/Palm/whatever. The truth is, unfortunately, that harddrives sucks battery life really fast from handhelds, which makes them in reality unuseable. I tried an iPAQ with an IBM microdrive, and playing MP3s from it emptied a fully charged battery in about 10 minutes.
Well, wouldn't you know, but not only email virus checkers alert on this one. I was quite astonished when norton antivirus threw a window at me, declaring that this _web page_ contained the virus "Unix Penguin".
Absolutely no disrespect for Insight's efforts with Delphi.
One can get an awful lot done using PERL and GTK+-bindings. This combined with UI-designer programs like Glade is pretty powerful. After some practice I can fire up a working prototype of an application in about an hour. Perl and friends is already installed on most recent Linux systems.
I think this is a perfect example of how people without good knowledge of a subject tend to belivie in media, which leads to media controlling the majoritys opinion. The importance of controlling media in one way or another is growing faster than anyone would have predicted, and if we (as a community, as people in general, choose yourself) don't realize this, we will be an easy prey for the big players in media. We have seen a number of examples of this already, and this article is just the latest. The only reason it was pulled is that the facts and (in my opinion) blatant lies was not subtle enough. All this makes me even more scared of the recent Warner/AOL merger, since few people realize the almost unimaginable power this new company has.
I think we have stop trusting arbitrary media, and stick with a few good ones as primary source of information.
I ordered some stuff from Amazon, and I can be nothing but impressed of the swift service. I chose the cheapest method of shipping (which, for Sweden, isn't cheap at all), and 2 weeks delivery should be expected. 5 days later the books came, in nice gift wrapping.
Some of the contestants from the Swedish show last year actually killed and eat a rat, in prime time. Animal rights activists were moderately upset and got some media attention.
What is really interesting about the Swedish orginal show is that it was a massive success. I believe that last years sesaon finale drew about 2.5 million viewers (the population of Sweden is only 8.5).
Many viewers reacted to the cruel nature of the show, but it was widely held that this was exactly what made it so popular.
The US version is probably going to be a hit as well, unless the reactions get much stronger than in Sweden.
Is it anyone else than me who have noticed that some encoders (I've tested Radium enhanced FhG) use a lot more time encoding "difficult" songs, like jazz music, than when encoding less complex music.
My P2-233 easily encodes in realtime when encoding a Underworld disc, but it does a lot worse when encoding a Charlie Parker disc.
I mean, if I buy a cd, I am able to record it to other medias, such as minidisc, without loosing quality. Mp3 should be used for music sold over the net for the same reason.
And also, imagine buying a song that could only be played in windows, with programs from ms.
I'm sorry to take away your imaginary image of BE, but if you seriously think that it scales so well that it will run applications twice or three times as fast as windows or linux. John Carmack (of quake fame) recently stated that he expected Quake 3 to run 70% (best case, but I assume you are too talking about that) faster on 2 processors with x MHz than on one. No OS could ever make an application more than 100% faster on 2 processors than on one, and even that seems very unlikely with a single memory bus. Now Carmack's 70% faster is what is actually possible using Linux. Assuming that your fantastic BE actually makes your application use the second processor to the full extent, Q3 would still only run 17% faster on BE than on Linux.
As much as I respect your opinions on NT as a workstation, I beg you differ. I'm actually using NT daily (NT4SP4, at work), and it has to be rebooted at least 3 or 4 times a week. Not because of crashes mind you, I find NT as stable as my Linux 2.2 system, but because of the amount of memory the kernel taks. I'm not using any extravaganza funky applications, but rather mostly MS office suite and Visual Studio, but after two 8h days of usage, the kernel takes almost 100M of my 128M memory, which is almost unusable. This problem has nothing to with bloat in the applications, but rather somewhere deep inside the kernel.
Being able to remember commands using the up arrow is in fact a feature of MSDOS (5 and upwards I think). Remember DOSKEY?
Admittedly, both the shareware shell 4DOS and DRDOS does the job a lot better than plain vanilla MSDOS with DOSKEY.
My experience with OpenDOS is that while it has nice taskswitching features, it is a bitch to code serious DOS stuff using it (demos using protected mode for example).
Well AMD would certainly be fools if they didn't make sure that some good dual processor m/b's hit the market soon. That's one of the K7's strongest points in my opinion.
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The name Guybrush comes from that they called the file with the then-unnamed player guy.brush, because all SCUMM characters are called brushes.
"The Hz unit is a measure of sound quality."
..and if you're the driver, you definately want to avoid collisions!
ARM doesn't have any errata, in fact it has no errors whatsoever. When an anomaly is found the behaviour is simply marked as 'unspecified' in the ARM architecture reference manual (the ARM ARM, got it?).
Seriously, they actually do that.
Just for the record. Idoru did not suck total balls. It is a really good book with an incredibly interesting storyline and lots of subtle remarks about a development our own society are progressing towards.
Idoru is definately not Neuromancer, and it should not be. I appreciate Neuromancer mostly because its dark and futuristic setting which I have yet to find in the work of another author. Idoru is another story altogether and if Gibson had created four blueprints of Neuromancer up until Idoru I would have been greatly disappointed.
John Carmack obviously agrees, since he wrote something along the lines: If I find a graphics error I blame the drivers, unless it is Nvidia's where I probably have done something wrong myself.
For those of you who feel like taking a shot at generating some military secrets or just next year's Xbox hit title, calls to rand() is way faster than generating pi digits. It will come up with the same data as well (every message, that is), in a little more than two shakes of a lambs tail.
Everyone seems to be talking about how nice one of these would fit in his iPAQ/Palm/whatever. The truth is, unfortunately, that harddrives sucks battery life really fast from handhelds, which makes them in reality unuseable. I tried an iPAQ with an IBM microdrive, and playing MP3s from it emptied a fully charged battery in about 10 minutes.
Well, wouldn't you know, but not only email virus checkers alert on this one. I was quite astonished when norton antivirus threw a window at me, declaring that this _web page_ contained the virus "Unix Penguin".
Absolutely no disrespect for Insight's efforts with Delphi.
One can get an awful lot done using PERL and GTK+-bindings. This combined with UI-designer programs like Glade is pretty powerful. After some practice I can fire up a working prototype of an application in about an hour. Perl and friends is already installed on most recent Linux systems.
I think this is a perfect example of how people without good knowledge of a subject tend to belivie in media, which leads to media controlling the majoritys opinion.
The importance of controlling media in one way or another is growing faster than anyone would have predicted, and if we (as a community, as people in general, choose yourself) don't realize this, we will be an easy prey for the big players in media.
We have seen a number of examples of this already, and this article is just the latest. The only reason it was pulled is that the facts and (in my opinion) blatant lies was not subtle enough.
All this makes me even more scared of the recent Warner/AOL merger, since few people realize the almost unimaginable power this new company has.
I think we have stop trusting arbitrary media, and stick with a few good ones as primary source of information.
I ordered some stuff from Amazon, and I can be nothing but impressed of the swift service. I chose the cheapest method of shipping (which, for Sweden, isn't cheap at all), and 2 weeks delivery should be expected. 5 days later the books came, in nice gift wrapping.
Way to go, Amazon!
Some of the contestants from the Swedish show last year actually killed and eat a rat, in prime time. Animal rights activists were moderately upset and got some media attention.
What is really interesting about the Swedish orginal show is that it was a massive success. I believe that last years sesaon finale drew about 2.5 million viewers (the population of Sweden is only 8.5).
Many viewers reacted to the cruel nature of the show, but it was widely held that this was exactly what made it so popular.
The US version is probably going to be a hit as well, unless the reactions get much stronger than in Sweden.
Is it anyone else than me who have noticed that some encoders (I've tested Radium enhanced FhG) use a lot more time encoding "difficult" songs, like jazz music, than when encoding less complex music.
My P2-233 easily encodes in realtime when encoding a Underworld disc, but it does a lot worse when encoding a Charlie Parker disc.
I think this is really good news.
I mean, if I buy a cd, I am able to record it to other medias, such as minidisc, without loosing quality. Mp3 should be used for music sold over the net for the same reason.
And also, imagine buying a song that could only be played in windows, with programs from ms.
I'm sorry to take away your imaginary image of BE, but if you seriously think that it scales so well that it will run applications twice or three times as fast as windows or linux. John Carmack (of quake fame) recently stated that he expected Quake 3 to run 70% (best case, but I assume you are too talking about that) faster on 2 processors with x MHz than on one. No OS could ever make an application more than 100% faster on 2 processors than on one, and even that seems very unlikely with a single memory bus. Now Carmack's 70% faster is what is actually possible using Linux. Assuming that your fantastic BE actually makes your application use the second processor to the full extent, Q3 would still only run 17% faster on BE than on Linux.
Think.
As much as I respect your opinions on NT as a workstation, I beg you differ. I'm actually using NT daily (NT4SP4, at work), and it has to be rebooted at least 3 or 4 times a week. Not because of crashes mind you, I find NT as stable as my Linux 2.2 system, but because of the amount of memory the kernel taks.
I'm not using any extravaganza funky applications, but rather mostly MS office suite and Visual Studio, but after two 8h days of usage, the kernel takes almost 100M of my 128M memory, which is almost unusable.
This problem has nothing to with bloat in the applications, but rather somewhere deep inside the kernel.
Being able to remember commands using the up arrow is in fact a feature of MSDOS (5 and upwards I think). Remember DOSKEY?
Admittedly, both the shareware shell 4DOS and DRDOS does the job a lot better than plain vanilla MSDOS with DOSKEY.
My experience with OpenDOS is that while it has nice taskswitching features, it is a bitch to code serious DOS stuff using it (demos using protected mode for example).
Well AMD would certainly be fools if they didn't make sure that some good dual processor m/b's hit the market soon. That's one of the K7's strongest points in my opinion.
You might be interested in this guy, who has a working X server for voodoo 3 / banshee. No 3D yet, but according to his site, it's on the way.