Maybe they'll do ARM core that can run x86 instructions, Jazelle style. I.e. the most common 90% would map to ARM instructions via an extra pipeline stage, the rest would fault into an emulator.
Aló Presidente (English: Hello President) is a talk show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez which is broadcast on Venezuelan state television and radio stations every Sunday at 11:00 AM.
It features Chávez addressing topics of the day and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active. There is no official end time — the show continues until Chávez is ready to stop, and often lasts about five hours. The first broadcast was made on May 23, 1999 (about three months after Chávez took office) on radio. Since then, over 330 shows have aired
Format
Government ministers are required to attend the program. They may be questioned by the president about anything, and sometimes policy — even military plans — are made on the show. During the March 2, 2008 airing, Chávez ordered a top general to send ten battalions of troops to the border with Colombia in response to a bombing by Colombian forces inside Ecuador which killed Raúl Reyes, a top member of FARC. (The battalions were not deployed; see also 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis.)
The president counts former Cuban leader Fidel Castro among his heroes, and nearly every week asks "How are you, Fidel?" For unknown reasons, the greeting is normally in English.
Additionally it would be good to note that nokia is seen as "lamer's choice" by only one crowd - the hip people who look at ANYONE not wearing certain brands, going to certain restaurants, etc as "lame".
This hasn't changed in any way for last couple of decades, other then the fact that the crowd got as passionate about phones as it was before about clothes, fashion, accessories and cars. It also doesn't change the fact that this crowd is, and always will be a very small minority at best.
"My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
There's something to be said for VGA if you visit other companies. The projector there will always support VGA, so it's well worth the few square cm on the back of a laptop for a VGA connector.
VGA has been around for ages and virtually everything supports it. In the meantime we've had DVI-A, DVI-D, HDMI, Light Peak and HD Base T.
It actually seems like if I had a notebook without VGA I'd need to carry a converter with me. And HDMI to VGA for example is painful because the converter needs to support HDCP and also do D-A conversion. I.e. it would probably require power.
They'd help consumers since they'd be able to choose a replacement power adapter from a large range of manufacturers instead of just one and would thus save money. They wouldn't help Sony since they wouldn't be able to overcharge for that replacement adapter.
The most expensive part is the video card and prices there have dropped more than I like to think about, I bought an 8800gtx OC when they were new for nearly $600 (ya ya, but I'm still using it too) Now, the gts 250 has about 6 more stream processors, the same clock speed and memory for around 90 bucks, 60 on sale.
The top o the line AMD 4 core unlocked CPU, was like $350 -$400, the 6 cores came out and the 4 core is now around $175, less if you are lucky.
Yeah but the cheapest XBox 360 is only $149 for the whole system
I'm no fan of consoles, but it does seem like they are cheaper than PCs. Of course you'd expect that because console hardware is quite a bit behind PC hardware and consoles are not meant to be profitable on their own. Only the combination of the games and the console makes money.
I think they make a loss on hardware but make it up on the fat margins on games when the console is launched. Now they've finally reached the point where both the console and the games are profitable.
Probably the XBox360 is profitable too.
Which makes you wonder if the Sony and Microsoft couldn't just both agree to not launch any new consoles since that would put them back in the position of selling at a loss again.
They should have called the ACTA BACTA® to confuse the EFF. After all, Bacta kept Luke Skywalker alive in the Empire Strikes Back so geeks are predisposed to be in favour of them. Plus bacta® is trademarked by Lucasfilm so they can sue or prior restrain people who discuss it on the internet other than in conjunction with Lucasfilm licensed merchandise like the Extra Special Limited Bacta® Edition Empire Strikes Back pack which comes with life size Bacta® tank, only $199,999.99 (Bacta® not included)
> who cares about intel supporting vp8? Their graphics capability is so shitty that they barely handle H264 at 1080P.
Intel have H264 in hardware. The fact that VP8 can't be supported with the same hardware tells you that the hardware is not that flexible.
> AMD and Nvidia? Probably could support it quite easily, and (strictly a guess here) are probably already preparing to do so.
Intel is the only one to announce possible support - and Intel integrated graphics have by far the highest market share in PC compatible platforms that actually need acceleration like Atom based netbooks. Most current notebooks and desktops can probably manage to decode H.264 in software even if hardware support is not available.
Video decoding is done in the GPU, not in the DSP. The GPU might be programmable or it might have great gobs of fixed function logic. There's no guarantee that a GPU that supports H.264 will support VP8.
In fact Intel have said they will wait and see if VP8 becomes popular before adding support for it in hardware.
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Maybe they'll do ARM core that can run x86 instructions, Jazelle style. I.e. the most common 90% would map to ARM instructions via an extra pipeline stage, the rest would fault into an emulator.
Here's a nickel kid, go get yourself a real computer.
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Their complaint about Microsoft implementing it was based on anti trust, not PDF being a non open standard.
Submitting it to ISO doesn't change this.
Yes, they can
http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft,-Adobe-squabble-over-PDF/2100-1012_3-6079320.html
I wonder where people could possibly get the impression that Chavez is a Castro like dictator?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alo_Presidente
Aló Presidente (English: Hello President) is a talk show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez which is broadcast on Venezuelan state television and radio stations every Sunday at 11:00 AM.
It features Chávez addressing topics of the day and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active. There is no official end time — the show continues until Chávez is ready to stop, and often lasts about five hours. The first broadcast was made on May 23, 1999 (about three months after Chávez took office) on radio. Since then, over 330 shows have aired
Format
Government ministers are required to attend the program. They may be questioned by the president about anything, and sometimes policy — even military plans — are made on the show. During the March 2, 2008 airing, Chávez ordered a top general to send ten battalions of troops to the border with Colombia in response to a bombing by Colombian forces inside Ecuador which killed Raúl Reyes, a top member of FARC. (The battalions were not deployed; see also 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis.)
The president counts former Cuban leader Fidel Castro among his heroes, and nearly every week asks "How are you, Fidel?" For unknown reasons, the greeting is normally in English.
Additionally it would be good to note that nokia is seen as "lamer's choice" by only one crowd - the hip people who look at ANYONE not wearing certain brands, going to certain restaurants, etc as "lame".
This hasn't changed in any way for last couple of decades, other then the fact that the crowd got as passionate about phones as it was before about clothes, fashion, accessories and cars. It also doesn't change the fact that this crowd is, and always will be a very small minority at best.
In Sweden hipsters are called "brats"
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1600/bratsb.jpg
"Scratch their cars, pinch their 3G mobiles, crash their parties and drink their booze. Tell them that icing sugar is cocaine. Short change them"
Ooh goody! Two people terminal but mutually incompatible strains of self righteous entitlement are fighting. This is what I love about the Internet.
I dunno about that, but he does like Macs.
What about if other manufacturers made oil cooled laptops that were also useable as deep fat fryers?
"My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
There's something to be said for VGA if you visit other companies. The projector there will always support VGA, so it's well worth the few square cm on the back of a laptop for a VGA connector.
VGA has been around for ages and virtually everything supports it. In the meantime we've had DVI-A, DVI-D, HDMI, Light Peak and HD Base T.
It actually seems like if I had a notebook without VGA I'd need to carry a converter with me. And HDMI to VGA for example is painful because the converter needs to support HDCP and also do D-A conversion. I.e. it would probably require power.
Leave VGA Aloooone!
We've warned you about the punishment for heresy before.
signed
Grand Inquisitor
The IT Department.
And take down that picture of Galileo. It's not funny.
Open standards help EVERYBODY!
They'd help consumers since they'd be able to choose a replacement power adapter from a large range of manufacturers instead of just one and would thus save money. They wouldn't help Sony since they wouldn't be able to overcharge for that replacement adapter.
The most expensive part is the video card and prices there have dropped more than I like to think about, I bought an 8800gtx OC when they were new for nearly $600 (ya ya, but I'm still using it too) Now, the gts 250 has about 6 more stream processors, the same clock speed and memory for around 90 bucks, 60 on sale.
The top o the line AMD 4 core unlocked CPU, was like $350 -$400, the 6 cores came out and the 4 core is now around $175, less if you are lucky.
Yeah but the cheapest XBox 360 is only $149 for the whole system
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16868105037
I'm no fan of consoles, but it does seem like they are cheaper than PCs. Of course you'd expect that because console hardware is quite a bit behind PC hardware and consoles are not meant to be profitable on their own. Only the combination of the games and the console makes money.
Even worse it's much easier to pirate games on an open platform like a PC than a console where only signed code can be run.
It's the combination of sky high prices for gaming GPUs and easy piracy that makes me think the future is consoles.
More's the pity really. Games that originated on consoles seem to be a bit disappointing to me compared to ones that originated on PCs.
What the difference between a Mac fanboy and a bicycle?
Slap a chain on a bicycle and it doesn't blog endlessly about how being chained up is an improvement.
Probably they want the same Lawful Intercept powers that the US and European governments have.
Yeah but we've set up a call centre for complaints about racism.
I think they make a loss on hardware but make it up on the fat margins on games when the console is launched. Now they've finally reached the point where both the console and the games are profitable.
Probably the XBox360 is profitable too.
Which makes you wonder if the Sony and Microsoft couldn't just both agree to not launch any new consoles since that would put them back in the position of selling at a loss again.
We have yet to find a way computationally or mathematically to make intrinsically serialized problems into parallel ones.
We just need to get more people working on the problem!
Raaah! I'm rude to strangers on the Internet to demonstrate my masculinity!
Fixed that for you.
...How long until all porn is CG? Or at least performance capture ~ digital makeup (Avatar style)?
In the future, all porn will be furry porn?
They should have called the ACTA BACTA® to confuse the EFF. After all, Bacta kept Luke Skywalker alive in the Empire Strikes Back so geeks are predisposed to be in favour of them. Plus bacta® is trademarked by Lucasfilm so they can sue or prior restrain people who discuss it on the internet other than in conjunction with Lucasfilm licensed merchandise like the Extra Special Limited Bacta® Edition Empire Strikes Back pack which comes with life size Bacta® tank, only $199,999.99 (Bacta® not included)
> who cares about intel supporting vp8? Their graphics capability is so shitty that they barely handle H264 at 1080P.
Intel have H264 in hardware. The fact that VP8 can't be supported with the same hardware tells you that the hardware is not that flexible.
> AMD and Nvidia? Probably could support it quite easily, and (strictly a guess here) are probably already preparing to do so.
Intel is the only one to announce possible support - and Intel integrated graphics have by far the highest market share in PC compatible platforms that actually need acceleration like Atom based netbooks. Most current notebooks and desktops can probably manage to decode H.264 in software even if hardware support is not available.
Video decoding is done in the GPU, not in the DSP. The GPU might be programmable or it might have great gobs of fixed function logic. There's no guarantee that a GPU that supports H.264 will support VP8.
In fact Intel have said they will wait and see if VP8 becomes popular before adding support for it in hardware.