The main developer of x264, for example, has stated that SSE4 offers basically no useful instructions whatsoever. Yeah, but it's not there just for video codecs. Maybe someone'll find a use for it to speed up crypto.
Personal preference, I guess. It's like the difference between using Ubuntu and LFS -- you want other people to do all the hard work for you, but someone else might want to know exactly what their code's doing.
1. DirectPC: There's no excuse to not get satellite Internet Access. Yes latency sucks, but surfing and many aspects of Interneting will be much faster. If you're telling me you can't get it because some tree is in the way, well heck dude, cut the tree - you live in a forest, one tree isn't going to make a difference. RTFS. He's got a mountain in the way.
That's a great idea - by the time the W3C produces a finished standard, we won't have to worry about it being flawed because the universe will have died a heat death!
One thing I noticed after installing Ubuntu on an old ex-XP desktop is that it loads approximately 400 modules by default, most of which are for nonexistent hardware. Not counting the services: two print servers, three cron daemons and god knows what else.
I think the people trying to micro-optimise the scheduler are looking in the wrong place.
Not trying to defend Molnar here, but this Roman Zippel does sound like an egotistical attention whore. Most of his emails seem to be whining about irrelevant side-details instead of addressing the flaws being pointed out in his code (a gigantic, uncommented patch file).
There was an article a while back where they tried to boot XP in a multi-socket mobo with 1 single core and 1 dual core. It was about as stable as WinME and declared unusable, so there's a chance this setup might actually not run Vista.:)
If they keep their word, great - I'll buy a Radeon when they get it working. Until then I'll also have fully functional graphics which I won't need to throw away when I do get a faster card. Everyone wins.
If you're using an internet-facing Windows XP to run mission-critical systems, let us know which ones - so I can make a mental note never to use your services.
Similar thing happened to me when I installed SP2. One forced reboot later and I was rewarded for my loyalty by a BSOD right after the splash screen. I gave it 3 tries and a safe mode before giving up and setting the partition type to 83.
And updating every user's stats? Unless we all have 1000mbit internet connections, I don't think we even have enough bandwidth. That's as wrong as saying 3D games will never work because no video card is fast enough to render every polygon in the entire map at a decent framerate.
I haven't bothered testing it with numbers, but I've definitely noticed the improvements since 2.6.0. Back then, skipping sound happened just by dragging windows around. In 2.6.22, the only time I've had that happen is when something else in my system went berserk and ate all my ram+swap up, or a full-on crash.
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It could be on the same 60000-computer NAT for all they know.
Oh come on, that's just nasty.
At least do it till they're sterile.
Personal preference, I guess. It's like the difference between using Ubuntu and LFS -- you want other people to do all the hard work for you, but someone else might want to know exactly what their code's doing.
Isn't the PS3 being sold at a huge loss to inflate sales? Shouldn't that make it illegal too?
I guess some mobile providers cheap out on their marketing as much as they do on providing the actual service.
Same reason they use words like "Genuine Advantage", or "doubleplusungood".
Or maybe it's a sign that everyone genuinely couldn't care less about the PS3 at this point?
Those are some nice numbers, but you missed a few:
(600000 PS3s * 200W * 6 hours a day) + 0 results * 6 years
It'll never happen on a Nintendo console. The company is far too xenophobic.
The 360 has more of a chance, but I doubt MS would let it on their hardware unless it's making them money.
That's a great idea - by the time the W3C produces a finished standard, we won't have to worry about it being flawed because the universe will have died a heat death!
IMO Penny Arcade nailed it better.
That's funny, all of those minus the 3D windows are in my version of compiz-fusion.
One thing I noticed after installing Ubuntu on an old ex-XP desktop is that it loads approximately 400 modules by default, most of which are for nonexistent hardware. Not counting the services: two print servers, three cron daemons and god knows what else.
I think the people trying to micro-optimise the scheduler are looking in the wrong place.
Not trying to defend Molnar here, but this Roman Zippel does sound like an egotistical attention whore. Most of his emails seem to be whining about irrelevant side-details instead of addressing the flaws being pointed out in his code (a gigantic, uncommented patch file).
There was an article a while back where they tried to boot XP in a multi-socket mobo with 1 single core and 1 dual core. It was about as stable as WinME and declared unusable, so there's a chance this setup might actually not run Vista. :)
I'd much prefer they added the physics stuff as part of SSE6 or whatever than a proprietary add-in card.
No drivers required is far better than no drivers available.
Because it's more profitable that way?
If they keep their word, great - I'll buy a Radeon when they get it working. Until then I'll also have fully functional graphics which I won't need to throw away when I do get a faster card. Everyone wins.
I'll believe that when I see it.
My next graphics hardware will be Intel.
If you're using an internet-facing Windows XP to run mission-critical systems, let us know which ones - so I can make a mental note never to use your services.
Similar thing happened to me when I installed SP2. One forced reboot later and I was rewarded for my loyalty by a BSOD right after the splash screen. I gave it 3 tries and a safe mode before giving up and setting the partition type to 83.
Qt takes a long time to compile, but wxWidgets is worse (and it's just an add-on to GTK+!).
It just so happens I've got to update all three right now, so I may as well time them...
I haven't bothered testing it with numbers, but I've definitely noticed the improvements since 2.6.0.
Back then, skipping sound happened just by dragging windows around. In 2.6.22, the only time I've had that happen is when something else in my system went berserk and ate all my ram+swap up, or a full-on crash.