The test was conducted using UltraCompare, a standard tool for application comparison. The test used CherryOS 1.2 and PPC 0.4 Pre as the basis for comparison. The UltraCompare test works by running through every possible process of the application. The results show the matching number of bytes and gives a consensus on whether the core architectures of the two products are the Same, Similiar or Different. As you will see from the results below, CherryOS and PearPC are radically different products.
apparently running "diff pearPC.exe cherryOS.exe" is all you need to do. ironically, the screenshot included on the page appears to me to be more evidence that they include similarities. something that, in the binary, is even more damning.
and no, the UltraCompare site shows no evidence that it can "[run] through every process of the application"
I don't think anyone would be complaining about Lucas redoing Star Wars if the original had been released on DVD. People are upset that their familiar movie hasn't been released the way they remember it in a modern format. Jackson can redo LOTR all he wants because I can get a high quality copy of the film right now. I'm sure in a few years we'll all be clamoring for a 3D cut of LOTR, but only if it's 3D from the original print. Just like people want an enhanced and cleaned up version of Star Wars on DVD, but without the changes that went into the Special, etc Editions.
now wouldn't THAT be interesting! if Microsoft producing the XBox leads to less of a reliance on a computer for games and Apple fills the gap. Not that it seems all that likely, but it's enough of a possibility that it could have a slight impact.
while that limitation was probably part of the reason for set top boxes, it doesn't tell the whole story. TVs now can go up as high as they need to so the boxes should be optional. If your TV can go high enough, it shouldn't need the box. Cable Companies got all paranoid about stealing cable and providing premium services. As has been said before, the box now also descrambles protected signals and provides interactive guides. It also acts as a tuner, which makes the tuner already in your TV somewhat redundant.
The CableCard should bring us back to the days of 2-13. An encrypted signal will come into your home, be decoded by the CableCard box and be available to any device in your home as an unencrypted stream. You can now split the signal as many times as is feasible. Each split can be independantly tuned, viewed, recorded.
The set top box is a mostly ridiculous concept at this point. Sure it provides an interactive guide, but that could easily be provided directly to the TV. Plus they can suck outright (my old Cox cable box [old as in different provider. Cox still provides the same sucky box] would take a full second to change channels)
Tilt games using ball bearings need to be developed as soon as possible to make use of this.
The pBook is light enough to make it feasible for a little while anyway. My only concern would be causing the drive heads to park to often due to "agressive" playing. The article implies that you can disable the head parking, but then I'd be worried about disk damage.
Then do some research and learn that the Xerox PARC trip where Jobs and others saw the Xerox GUI was part of a technology exchange. Also PARC was an R&D house. The GUI and many of the other projects demoed there were research only. Xerox had no intention of developing the system.
Let's say you see robot sitting in a trashcan. you look it over, the owner comes out and talks to you about the ideas that went into it and you both walk away. Is it stealing to go off and build your own robot?
No.
Nothing was stolen.
In general read this http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
just like all those big antennas on hand held gps devices. oh wait... and as others have pointed out, lo jack exists and works without worries of being tracked.
So you can add them to your portable computer, compile a best movies HDD or compressed DVD, or make a copy so you can take the copy with you in the car or on the plane so the original doesn't get messed up, or whatever...
Distribution should work in that you successfully receive most of a product and then search for the rest of it? I prefer to get all of a product. Or do you mean that your torrent was incomplete? I doubt the RIAA, or any other artist, is all that interested in a distribution method that works how you've proposed.
Dilbert may have used it but it dates back to the belief of certain cultures (Native Americans, etc) that were unfamiliar with photography when it first debuted and thought that the camera would steal their soul. Even knowing how the technology works I can understand this feeling. It's like being upset that someone is sniffing your packets when you can't use ssl to protect yourself.
One summer at camp there was a kid that would only agree to be in the cabin photo if he wasn't forced to look at the camera. He later threatened to eat me, but that's beside the point.
in all seriousness, you could buy around 8 of these for the same price as one of the higher end PowerMacs. get them all connected via wireless and you've got quite the set up for some xCode shared compiling.
If these don't sell like hotcakes, I'll be very surprised.
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straight from the horses mouth
the link even includes reference to the software used for the comparison.
The test was conducted using UltraCompare, a standard tool for application comparison. The test used CherryOS 1.2 and PPC 0.4 Pre as the basis for comparison. The UltraCompare test works by running through every possible process of the application. The results show the matching number of bytes and gives a consensus on whether the core architectures of the two products are the Same, Similiar or Different. As you will see from the results below, CherryOS and PearPC are radically different products.
apparently running "diff pearPC.exe cherryOS.exe" is all you need to do.
ironically, the screenshot included on the page appears to me to be more evidence that they include similarities. something that, in the binary, is even more damning.
and no, the UltraCompare site shows no evidence that it can "[run] through every process of the application"
"When the hard drive threw away all its data inexplicably, it was not worth staying with the Mac. I moved on."
holy crap it's neal stephenson!
oh c'mon, that's funny. one of the few times I've found one of these jokes to be so.
I don't think anyone would be complaining about Lucas redoing Star Wars if the original had been released on DVD. People are upset that their familiar movie hasn't been released the way they remember it in a modern format. Jackson can redo LOTR all he wants because I can get a high quality copy of the film right now. I'm sure in a few years we'll all be clamoring for a 3D cut of LOTR, but only if it's 3D from the original print. Just like people want an enhanced and cleaned up version of Star Wars on DVD, but without the changes that went into the Special, etc Editions.
now wouldn't THAT be interesting! if Microsoft producing the XBox leads to less of a reliance on a computer for games and Apple fills the gap. Not that it seems all that likely, but it's enough of a possibility that it could have a slight impact.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?summary =nethack
fink is your friend
well that's just retarded
I'd expect though that there will be this sort of house wide decryption, US market or not.
while that limitation was probably part of the reason for set top boxes, it doesn't tell the whole story. TVs now can go up as high as they need to so the boxes should be optional. If your TV can go high enough, it shouldn't need the box. Cable Companies got all paranoid about stealing cable and providing premium services. As has been said before, the box now also descrambles protected signals and provides interactive guides. It also acts as a tuner, which makes the tuner already in your TV somewhat redundant.
The CableCard should bring us back to the days of 2-13. An encrypted signal will come into your home, be decoded by the CableCard box and be available to any device in your home as an unencrypted stream. You can now split the signal as many times as is feasible. Each split can be independantly tuned, viewed, recorded.
The set top box is a mostly ridiculous concept at this point. Sure it provides an interactive guide, but that could easily be provided directly to the TV. Plus they can suck outright (my old Cox cable box [old as in different provider. Cox still provides the same sucky box] would take a full second to change channels)
yeah, something about video killing its star.
ah, right. I remember trying this out a while back. This is a perfect example of something that could take advantage of the AMS capabilities.
Tilt games using ball bearings need to be developed as soon as possible to make use of this.
The pBook is light enough to make it feasible for a little while anyway. My only concern would be causing the drive heads to park to often due to "agressive" playing. The article implies that you can disable the head parking, but then I'd be worried about disk damage.
I wonder what the threshold is for head parking?
well somebody ate their Wheaties this morning.
Then do some research and learn that the Xerox PARC trip where Jobs and others saw the Xerox GUI was part of a technology exchange. Also PARC was an R&D house. The GUI and many of the other projects demoed there were research only. Xerox had no intention of developing the system.
Let's say you see robot sitting in a trashcan. you look it over, the owner comes out and talks to you about the ideas that went into it and you both walk away. Is it stealing to go off and build your own robot?
No.
Nothing was stolen.
In general read this http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
I'd go with Mass Sharing and File Trade
hammer down
c - mmm, those pesky federal offenses are meaningless
just like all those big antennas on hand held gps devices. oh wait...
and as others have pointed out, lo jack exists and works without worries of being tracked.
So you can add them to your portable computer, compile a best movies HDD or compressed DVD, or make a copy so you can take the copy with you in the car or on the plane so the original doesn't get messed up, or whatever...
what is your confusion again?
Distribution should work in that you successfully receive most of a product and then search for the rest of it? I prefer to get all of a product. Or do you mean that your torrent was incomplete? I doubt the RIAA, or any other artist, is all that interested in a distribution method that works how you've proposed.
In soviet russia, jokes overuse you
Dilbert may have used it but it dates back to the belief of certain cultures (Native Americans, etc) that were unfamiliar with photography when it first debuted and thought that the camera would steal their soul. Even knowing how the technology works I can understand this feeling. It's like being upset that someone is sniffing your packets when you can't use ssl to protect yourself.
One summer at camp there was a kid that would only agree to be in the cabin photo if he wasn't forced to look at the camera. He later threatened to eat me, but that's beside the point.
why the heck would you keep them in the shrinkwrap? they're not exactly going to go through the roof in value you know. what a waste of money.
open and watch them!
bwahaha
that is awesome
in all seriousness, you could buy around 8 of these for the same price as one of the higher end PowerMacs. get them all connected via wireless and you've got quite the set up for some xCode shared compiling.
If these don't sell like hotcakes, I'll be very surprised.
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word up K-Dawg