"It was found that cell phone signals, specifically those in the 800-900 MHz range, did interfere with unshielded cockpit instrumentation. Because older aircraft with unshielded wiring can be affected, and because of the possible problems that may arise by having many airborne cell phones "seeing" multiple cell phone towers, the FCC (via enforcement through the FAA) still deems it best to stay on the safe side and prohibit the use of cell phones while airborne." -Wikipedia
If direct access to the RISC backend is faster and simpler to program people will naturally migrate to it... All of the arguments you put forth are weak.
It would be nice if we could have direct, or semi-direct, access to the RISC backend in modern x86 chips.
The problem is that then they would end up with a second legacy ISA that they would have to support forever.
If we could interact directly with the RISC backend we would not need the x86 frontend. The RISC backend becomes the frontend, leaving the backend open for reimplementation.
The problem is that then they would end up with a second legacy ISA that they would have to support forever.
If we could interact directly with the RISC backend we would not need the x86 frontend. The RISC backend becomes the frontend, leaving the backend open for reimplementation.
Would it be possible to make a legacy free x86 chip? i.e. remove from the processor die real, unreal, VM86, and 16-bit protect modes as well as all traces of the ISA bus, the BIOS, and anything else you can think of? Porting *NIX and Windows to this new platform architecture would be effortless and it would not change userland compatibility.
We don't need to support 30 years of backwards compatibility!
"How dare you! Linux *is* a religion, the heathens shall repent!"
Yep that about sums up why I use BSD instead. IIRC the saying goes something like... "Linux Is for People Who Hate Microsoft, BSD Is for People Who Love UNIX"
I'd love to see common driver abstraction layer implemented so the BSD projects can share drivers without reimplementation, this would free up a lot of developers to do real kernel work.
How can I see what EMI albums are available on ITunes?... I'd like to restrict purchases to non-drm music, with all the drm crap filtered out? Can this be done?
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WTF... as in wtf is the boycottroland tag?
TI is coming out with a new calculator this fall, called the Nspire...
http://www.ti-nspire.com/tools/nspire/index.html
* 320x240 Gray Scale LCD
* CAS Functions.
* 16MB RAM
* 20MB Flash
Busted... i.e. The plane won't fall out of the sky if you use your cell phone.
Back in season 3:
l phones_on_plane.html
"It was found that cell phone signals, specifically those in the 800-900 MHz range, did interfere with unshielded cockpit instrumentation. Because older aircraft with unshielded wiring can be affected, and because of the possible problems that may arise by having many airborne cell phones "seeing" multiple cell phone towers, the FCC (via enforcement through the FAA) still deems it best to stay on the safe side and prohibit the use of cell phones while airborne." -Wikipedia
You can read more about it here: http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/episode_49_cel
You say that now but just wait till you need to sharpen it... In the middle of a test... with sharpen in sight.
If direct access to the RISC backend is faster and simpler to program people will naturally migrate to it... All of the arguments you put forth are weak.
HOOAH?
HOOAH?
It would be nice if we could have direct, or semi-direct, access to the RISC backend in modern x86 chips.
Would it be possible to make a legacy free x86 chip? i.e. remove from the processor die real, unreal, VM86, and 16-bit protect modes as well as all traces of the ISA bus, the BIOS, and anything else you can think of? Porting *NIX and Windows to this new platform architecture would be effortless and it would not change userland compatibility.
We don't need to support 30 years of backwards compatibility!
I'd love to see common driver abstraction layer implemented so the BSD projects can share drivers without reimplementation, this would free up a lot of developers to do real kernel work.
How can I see what EMI albums are available on ITunes?... I'd like to restrict purchases to non-drm music, with all the drm crap filtered out? Can this be done?
Yeah well I hear Apple is coming out with the iPod pie rad k.
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2. Tools > Add-ons > Slashdotter > Options.
3. Click on styles tab, than change 'Default style'.
4. ???
5. OMG!!! Ponies!!!
So if your lose megahertz's wouldn't that screw up the RTC calculations?
I want omgponies. Who's julianne moore? I want omgponies.
Only on slashdot could a stooge come along and screw up a +5 troll rating.
Yeah but can you get modded +5 troll?
Only on slashdot could a stooge come along and screw up a +5 troll rating.
Mod the parent underrated, I want to see a +5 troll!
"Why would you expect Vista to increase"?
Because two months after XP came out it had 9% market share, Vista currently has less then 2%.