The "Power line" of chips are variants of the PowerPC (or you could say the PowerPC is a variant of the "Power line"). You couldn't put one in a PowerMac G4 or anything, but the assembly language is similar.
I've seen a couple posts from people excited about the possibility of setting up their own radio station and playing music they like. Unfortunately, you can't just play your CDs on the air like that. CDs contain copyrighted material, and broadcasting the music over the air constitutes a copyright violation.
Radio stations are licensed (probably by the RIAA or a similar group) to play CDs on the air. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for a single person to get such a license.
The best you can do is play material from small, local bands that you or they have recorded themselves. If a band has a CD produced by some production company, then the band doesn't have the right to authorize you to play those CD's (yes, it's the band's music, but the production company owns that particular recording). You'll need to get an original recording of the band, and in many cases, the band has signed an agreement with the label which prevents them from recording their songs for someone else, so you're back to square one.
Yeah, it's screwy, but there's a reason for it. All of these restrictions are intended to prevent a band from releasing their songs with two different labels.
Yes, you are way off-base. A few years ago, MS purchased $150M of non-voting Apple stock. Because it's non-voting, they have no say in what Apple does. It was purely a financial investment (that has so far paid off handsomely) for MS.
Not only that, but Illustrator and Photoshop are Adobe applications, not Apple applications, and they were available on the Mac long before they were available on Windows.
I want to post this before people waste their time wondering why someone would buy Corel Draw when Gimp is already available for free.
Corel Draw is illustration software, and The Gimp is image manipulation software. CD is for artists to draw images - you can draw circles, lines, curves, etc, and they're all resolution independent. Gimp lets you modify a bitmap - it's heavily resolution dependent.
Corel Draw is like Adobe Illustrator, and The Gimp is like Adobe Photoshop. Of course, CD and Illustrator do have bitmap capabilities, but nowhere near as powerful as PS or Gimp.
The presenter is glossing over the details, so it's hard to say exactly how it works, but apparently the chip translates the x86 instructions into VLIW instructions. There's no decoding hardware, so the "Code Morphing" software (which most people would call firmware) does the translation.
It's really hard to figure out what he's talking about, because he's using a mix of manager-speak and techie-speak, which means neither managers nor techies can understand.
The CPU does on-the-fly translations. No real revelations. But he's using terms like, "the processor only translates the part of the program you're using, not the entire program." Well, duh! That's because translating the whole program would be more difficult!!!
And he claims to be an engineer, too. I guess his tie is constricting the blood flow too his brain.
In the meantime, I've noticed that Slashdot has been slashdotted. Oh, and it appears that Crusoe can slow itself down when it's doing somehthing non CPU-intensive. It can reduce the MHz and voltage dynamically to adjust for lower CPU usage.
This guy makes me sick. He keeps saying that in order to be "compatible with the Internet", then that's the same thing as being x86 compatible. In other words, non-x86 CPU's are incompatible with the Internet. His reasoning? You need to have x86 compatibility in order to run all the web browser plugins.
Can someone tell me if there's a a non-trivial web browser plug-in that's not available for Macs? I can't think of any.
I've heard a lot of people say that Linus is biased against the PowerPC chips. I guess he feels right at home with Transmeta.
The great irony is they have agreements with IBM and their semiconductor technology. The only CPUs that IBM makes now are PowerPC chips.
If you're a CS major and you hate college, then you're obviously going to the wrong school. It's not college that you hate, it's YOUR college that you hate. And there's nothing wrong with that. For centuries people like you have been having these kinds of problems.
Dropping out is NOT the answer. To do so would show poor judgement on your part.
What you need to do is go to a better college, one that is on par with your abilities. In the meantime, I suspect that life will improve greatly once you move out and into your own apartment (with roommates that you choose).
I had a roommate in grad school once who absolutely refused to believe that the "OK" and "CONNECT" messages that he saw in his serial communications program (you know, the terminal thingy you use to talk to a modem) came from the modem. He thought his software generated it. I just could not convince him that these were messages that the modem was sending to the computer.
What made it more frustrating for me was that I was a computer science major and he was a mechanical engineering major. You would think that that the ME major would trust a CS major to know more about computers.
And that's exactly the reason my spam filter automatically deletes all email from aol.com and msn.com. I have to temporarily disable that whenever I sell stuff on eBay, but otherwise it's a great filter.
Like most Slashdotters, I also dislike stupid patents. I also wish that software patents were not allowed, because then my boss wouldn't require me to file three patents every year, whether or not I've done anything patentable. However, the truth is that software patents are allowed, and you can't blame Amazon for that. They have the right to do it, their competitors are doing it, and so they have to pursue software patents if they can. They're not exactly a super-profitable company, so any competitive advantage that is LEGALLY given to them needs to be maintained.
Software patents are not like slavery - they may be a dumb idea, but comparing the two belittles the horror of slavery. The people who make that sort of comparison should be ashamed of themselves.
I think Amazon's patent on one-click is VALID and FAIR. It IS a unique idea, unlike most of the bogus software patents mentioned on Slashdot. Amazon has had one-click for a long time now (by the Internet's standard, at least), and B&N should not be allowed to copy it.
Between that and the fact that I think RMS is a fruitcake, I have to decided to INCREASE my purchases from Amazon.com. I recently purchased two books, and I'll be looking to buy more after Christmas.
It pains me to recommend a Microsoft product, but this one is really cool. It's an optical mouse that does not need an optical mouse pad! You can move it over any surface. It works amazingly well.
It's only about $50 and it comes as both a USB and PS/2 mouse (there's a USB-PS/2 adapter in the box), so it's compatible with everything but non-USB Mac's. And since it's relatively inexpensive and easy-to-find, your non-geek friends/family can buy it for you. Just make sure they check for the "IntelliEye".
This puppy is on my Christmas list. And since I have 5 computers, it's okay if I get more than one!
This was a great article, something you almost never find on other news sites. It's really a shame, though, that articles like this make a small minority of Slashdot's offerings. I get frustrated when I read about such-and-such hardware or software that's going to have Linux support, because it's so insignificant.
Slashdot needs to grow beyond Linux, not only because not every uses Linux, but also because if Rob et al concentrated on articles like this one, Slashdot would really stand out among other news sites.
I mean, look at some of the stuff posted recently: Suse and VA Linux Partnership - New ATi 3D Chip - HowTo on booting Linux on iMac DV's. This stuff is just so mundane, and it makes Slashdot look like any of the other thousand Linux advocacy sites that all say the same things.
Simplicity by Data Representations is a Java development environment written in Java. Not only that, but it includes its own JVM, also written in Java. What does this mean? It means that it can run on any Java platform (like OS/2, Mac, and non-x86 Linux).
It also has one very cool feature: it can actually execute your program while your editing it - the running program gets updated in real time as you type it in! It's freakin' amazing! If your app displays a dialog box with some text in, and you edit the corresponding line of code, the dialog box changes while your editing that code, character by character!
Not only that, but the company really likes alternate computing platforms. They had a booth at Warpstock a few weeks ago, and they had a PC running OS/2 and an iMac, both running Simplicity.
I've been programming for over 20 years, and very little surprises me these days. But when I saw the Simplicity demo last year, my jaw dropped. It is that cool!.
Could you please explain that? Most people who use OS/2 consider Warp 4 to be much better than Warp 3. W4 has more features and a better UI than W3 does. There are some applications (like Netscape) which will run on W4 but not W3. The opposite is not true.
I'll concede that W4 needs more resources than W3 does, but that's mostly because it has more features (e.g. it includes networking support). But I've never heard anyone who says that W4 is horrible compared to W3. Those are pretty strong words and they are not the consensus, so I think you should explain your reasoning.
Project Odin (formerly Win32-OS/2) is the OS/2 equivalent of WINE. In fact, it's using a lot of WINE code, although it previously was using Open32, which is a subset of the Win32 API as found on OS/2 Warp 4. There's quite a bit of development going on, although you wouldn't know just by looking at the web pages.
Unlike WINE, Project Odin actually converts the Windows app into a native OS/2 application. The EXE and DLL's are modified so that OS/2 can load them, and a Win32 equivalent of the DLL's is provided. Odin also has a very cool feature where it intercepts the loader and actually convers a Windows EXE/DLL into an OS/2 EXE/DLL on the fly. This lets you run your Windows apps under OS/2 in a truly seamless fashion. It's very cool stuff, and I recommend that everyone check it out.
Looks to me like she should be using OS/2. It has the world's most powerful (and very intuitive) user interface, runs Windows 3.1 apps really well, and has great support for older hardware. She can install her Windows apps onto an HPFS partition, so her disk I/O will skyrocket. She can also run any or all of her Windows 3.1 apps in separate processes, so that if one of them crashes, it won't take the others with it. She can also run the apps seamlessly on the desktop, so that she won't have to run the Program Manager but can launch them directly from the WPS.
As for WINE, well, it's being ported to OS/2 and merged with Project Odin (formerly Win32-OS/2). The OS/2 version has a special feature that lets you run Windows binaries directly from the command line or desktop, because the EXE loader has been enhanced to load Win32 apps and convert them to OS/2 apps on the fly.
Well, some Aureal cards at least. They were released quite a while ago, so I suspect that there are some newer cards which aren't supported under OS/2.
If you're looking for an alternative operating system that will probably never have the problem of being too mass market, then consider OS/2. Yeah, it's not open source, but there's quite a bit of source code and easily-expandable published interfaces for it. Plus, almost every Unix/Linux app will compile under it with only minor changes.
Most people use coins, 35 cents in most places. Lots of people use credit cards. Stores sell "pre-paid" cards which have like $10 or $20 worth of calls on them. And then there's the collect call services like 1-800-COLLECT.
He's just a really good hacker. He doesn't care much about software politics. He prefers free software, because he gets annoyed at not being able to fix bugs.
And that, my friend, is exactly why most people consider him to be a rebel.
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Illegal to use cell phones on the road? Since when?
The "Power line" of chips are variants of the PowerPC (or you could say the PowerPC is a variant of the "Power line"). You couldn't put one in a PowerMac G4 or anything, but the assembly language is similar.
Radio stations are licensed (probably by the RIAA or a similar group) to play CDs on the air. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for a single person to get such a license.
The best you can do is play material from small, local bands that you or they have recorded themselves. If a band has a CD produced by some production company, then the band doesn't have the right to authorize you to play those CD's (yes, it's the band's music, but the production company owns that particular recording). You'll need to get an original recording of the band, and in many cases, the band has signed an agreement with the label which prevents them from recording their songs for someone else, so you're back to square one.
Yeah, it's screwy, but there's a reason for it. All of these restrictions are intended to prevent a band from releasing their songs with two different labels.
Not only that, but Illustrator and Photoshop are Adobe applications, not Apple applications, and they were available on the Mac long before they were available on Windows.
Corel Draw is illustration software, and The Gimp is image manipulation software. CD is for artists to draw images - you can draw circles, lines, curves, etc, and they're all resolution independent. Gimp lets you modify a bitmap - it's heavily resolution dependent.
Corel Draw is like Adobe Illustrator, and The Gimp is like Adobe Photoshop. Of course, CD and Illustrator do have bitmap capabilities, but nowhere near as powerful as PS or Gimp.
The idea is to use both together.
It's really hard to figure out what he's talking about, because he's using a mix of manager-speak and techie-speak, which means neither managers nor techies can understand.
The CPU does on-the-fly translations. No real revelations. But he's using terms like, "the processor only translates the part of the program you're using, not the entire program." Well, duh! That's because translating the whole program would be more difficult!!!
And he claims to be an engineer, too. I guess his tie is constricting the blood flow too his brain.
In the meantime, I've noticed that Slashdot has been slashdotted. Oh, and it appears that Crusoe can slow itself down when it's doing somehthing non CPU-intensive. It can reduce the MHz and voltage dynamically to adjust for lower CPU usage.
Can someone tell me if there's a a non-trivial web browser plug-in that's not available for Macs? I can't think of any.
I've heard a lot of people say that Linus is biased against the PowerPC chips. I guess he feels right at home with Transmeta.
The great irony is they have agreements with IBM and their semiconductor technology. The only CPUs that IBM makes now are PowerPC chips.
Dropping out is NOT the answer. To do so would show poor judgement on your part.
What you need to do is go to a better college, one that is on par with your abilities. In the meantime, I suspect that life will improve greatly once you move out and into your own apartment (with roommates that you choose).
What made it more frustrating for me was that I was a computer science major and he was a mechanical engineering major. You would think that that the ME major would trust a CS major to know more about computers.
And that's exactly the reason my spam filter automatically deletes all email from aol.com and msn.com. I have to temporarily disable that whenever I sell stuff on eBay, but otherwise it's a great filter.
Software patents are not like slavery - they may be a dumb idea, but comparing the two belittles the horror of slavery. The people who make that sort of comparison should be ashamed of themselves.
I think Amazon's patent on one-click is VALID and FAIR. It IS a unique idea, unlike most of the bogus software patents mentioned on Slashdot. Amazon has had one-click for a long time now (by the Internet's standard, at least), and B&N should not be allowed to copy it.
Between that and the fact that I think RMS is a fruitcake, I have to decided to INCREASE my purchases from Amazon.com. I recently purchased two books, and I'll be looking to buy more after Christmas.
It pains me to recommend a Microsoft product, but this one is really cool. It's an optical mouse that does not need an optical mouse pad! You can move it over any surface. It works amazingly well.
It's only about $50 and it comes as both a USB and PS/2 mouse (there's a USB-PS/2 adapter in the box), so it's compatible with everything but non-USB Mac's. And since it's relatively inexpensive and easy-to-find, your non-geek friends/family can buy it for you. Just make sure they check for the "Intelli Eye ".
This puppy is on my Christmas list. And since I have 5 computers, it's okay if I get more than one!
Slashdot needs to grow beyond Linux, not only because not every uses Linux, but also because if Rob et al concentrated on articles like this one, Slashdot would really stand out among other news sites.
I mean, look at some of the stuff posted recently: Suse and VA Linux Partnership - New ATi 3D Chip - HowTo on booting Linux on iMac DV's. This stuff is just so mundane, and it makes Slashdot look like any of the other thousand Linux advocacy sites that all say the same things.
Not really. I thought it was fast enough on an average PC.
It also has one very cool feature: it can actually execute your program while your editing it - the running program gets updated in real time as you type it in! It's freakin' amazing! If your app displays a dialog box with some text in, and you edit the corresponding line of code, the dialog box changes while your editing that code, character by character!
Not only that, but the company really likes alternate computing platforms. They had a booth at Warpstock a few weeks ago, and they had a PC running OS/2 and an iMac, both running Simplicity.
I've been programming for over 20 years, and very little surprises me these days. But when I saw the Simplicity demo last year, my jaw dropped. It is that cool!.
Still not quite right. They killed the OS/2 client as well. So it looks like the Mac and Windows clients are the only ones left.
I'll concede that W4 needs more resources than W3 does, but that's mostly because it has more features (e.g. it includes networking support). But I've never heard anyone who says that W4 is horrible compared to W3. Those are pretty strong words and they are not the consensus, so I think you should explain your reasoning.
Unlike WINE, Project Odin actually converts the Windows app into a native OS/2 application. The EXE and DLL's are modified so that OS/2 can load them, and a Win32 equivalent of the DLL's is provided. Odin also has a very cool feature where it intercepts the loader and actually convers a Windows EXE/DLL into an OS/2 EXE/DLL on the fly. This lets you run your Windows apps under OS/2 in a truly seamless fashion. It's very cool stuff, and I recommend that everyone check it out.
Looks to me like she should be using OS/2. It has the world's most powerful (and very intuitive) user interface, runs Windows 3.1 apps really well, and has great support for older hardware. She can install her Windows apps onto an HPFS partition, so her disk I/O will skyrocket. She can also run any or all of her Windows 3.1 apps in separate processes, so that if one of them crashes, it won't take the others with it. She can also run the apps seamlessly on the desktop, so that she won't have to run the Program Manager but can launch them directly from the WPS.
As for WINE, well, it's being ported to OS/2 and merged with Project Odin (formerly Win32-OS/2). The OS/2 version has a special feature that lets you run Windows binaries directly from the command line or desktop, because the EXE loader has been enhanced to load Win32 apps and convert them to OS/2 apps on the fly.
I'd say that OS/2 is just what she needs.
Well, some Aureal cards at least. They were released quite a while ago, so I suspect that there are some newer cards which aren't supported under OS/2.
If you're looking for an alternative operating system that will probably never have the problem of being too mass market, then consider OS/2. Yeah, it's not open source, but there's quite a bit of source code and easily-expandable published interfaces for it. Plus, almost every Unix/Linux app will compile under it with only minor changes.
J Street Mailer is a 100% Pure Java application. It's now available for free.
Most people use coins, 35 cents in most places. Lots of people use credit cards. Stores sell "pre-paid" cards which have like $10 or $20 worth of calls on them. And then there's the collect call services like 1-800-COLLECT.
And that, my friend, is exactly why most people consider him to be a rebel.