They get paid for the stickers. What annoy me more are the 1 million and 1 slightly different models; I would have preferred a slightly inferior but well supported (by the community as well as the company) model like the 700 was in the past.
If they block all incoming connections, block all outgoing ports except 80 and 443, and use an HTTP proxy on port 80, DSi and PSP multiplayer games won't work.
I've used Remote Desktop from my cellphone @ Burger King. I think that's port 3389.
The 'poke you in the eye' effect needs to be there I think. If you make the 3D the same as "the real world" it will just be "normal" - you might not even notice it.
Biggest problem though is the need for 120Hz. 3D has to get really popular for them to go down in price, I'm getting a headache just thinking about buying one of those:-)
But I'm too glad the tech is out there, even if I've never seen it.
Remember the Nintendo Virtual Boy? It got one display for each eye and still gave you headaches. I suspect that the problem has to do with head movements: Just like how we unconsciously move our heads to determine the direction of sound we may be moving our head to determine distance of objects.
When I wrote free I referred to the price, not that it is open source. I suspect most folks look at the price separately regardless of what a product scores, which is why I don't think the price should be baked into the score of a product.
but crawled onto second place for being free. I think cost should be kept out of reviews, instead tell what you think of the product - as it is - then the reader can decide for himself if the price is worth the extras.
That probably only tells you that in Scandinavia the prospect of dying from hunger is so remote that it doesn't even occur to Scandinavians that you need a right for that.
I remember this story about a visiting dignitary from Kenya. They talked about Norway in WW2 and how terrible it was during war due to starvation. He was surprised that there had been a starvation in Norway and they went on about how they had to eat bread baked with phloem because they couldn't get corn. The Kenyan then said "that's not a starvation, that's not having your favorite food."
That's not so wrong. If you look at these numbers, you can see that Mac lost.15%, Windows stayed the same, and Linux gained.04%. So, about 25% of Mac's loss was Linux's gain. The rest seems to have been made up by mobile phones (but not the iphone, which also lost.01%).
I suspect these numbers are only meaningful on a year by year basis. 0.15% just does not seem significant enough to make any kind of judgment on. It certainly possible that some users migrated away from 10.5, but it's no less likely that Mac users spent a little less time on the net in November.
Good to see Windows 7 selling and XP dropping though. XP has become the IE6 of operation systems (as far as application devs are concerned).
dispatching them on what is effectively a pretty-close to traditional RISC execution pipeline
Note sure what a "traditional RISC execution pipeline" is but the one in Core CPUs reminds me more of VLIW (instructions being bundled together). Core CPUs have internal "read modify write" instructions which is a CISCisim thing and while the inner instructions are pipelined and "fixed width", I think it wrong to say the innards are "RISC" for what exactly is RISC? Fixed width instructions that are scheduled? Load/Store? Single cycle instructions? I've heard all those explanations.
ARM Thumb instructions aren't variable length; they're fixed-width at 16 bits. Whether to read 32-bit or 16-bit instructions is determined by a processor mode, not by the instruction encoding.
My knowledge about ARM is lacking, but AFAIK an ARM application can freely switch CPU mode at any time. That means that when ARM fetches a bundle of instructions it needs some mechanism to search through the bundle and treat all instructions after a "mode switch" differently. Depending on how fast the implementation needs to be you can end up with something not that different from a decode stage, i.e. slips the 32-bit instructions through and expands the 16-bit instructions.
I'd say it's more the other way around. Even in systems with a CISC ISA (e.g. x86), you tend to find that under the hood the CISC instructions are translated into a series of microops that are then dispatched in a system that is somewhat RISC-like.
Keep in mind that even the ancient 8086 had microcode (aka. instructions that were broken up into simpler instructions) and IIRC the latest Core chips executes more instructions on a 1-to-1 basis than any earlier x86 chips, which arguably makes it more CISC than ever before. There is no clear definition on what CISC is though, it's more like CISC is "not RISC" and RISC is whatever pulls ARM/PPC/MIPS/ALPHA/!x86 under the same umbrella.
To muddle matters the PPC970 chip cracks up instructions and ARM (with thumb) got variable length instructions - just like any good CISC... no wait:-)
Odd, my nForce 2 worked happily with Vista (I don't use suspend though). When I had a T-bird CPU instead of a Athlon XP I had odd issues since Nvidia drivers and some software behave oddly on systems without SSE (no error message telling me in need SSE, just odd behavior and BSODs - bastards).
Try DosBox. Though if you're like me you'll find those games have gotten too hard. It would be more fun if one could reduce the number of UFOs so that the game could be finished within 10-20 missions... and no boats... and less MC... with one big alien base at the end. Yeah.
The BIOS isn't some seperate autonomous entity running in the background on some special CPU reserved for it.
My Abit mobo actually had a micropossesor dedicated to controlling the fans. It was called uguru and worked much better than my current MSI P55-GD65 mobo's fan control. *Sad that Abit keeled over*
Anyway, the BIOS can use system management mode to run code behind the operation system's back. That's how they implement "legacy keyboard" support, and I believe they can use it for controlling fans and other stuff too.
In the last decade x86 code got a lot more complicated too, though.
Not really. The trick DEC used was that FX!32 only emulated usermode code (just like Apple's Rosetta) so it could get by without having to emulate the memory management unit. But you'll need a native version of the operation system to handle kernel mode and the memory management.
Did April really die when she was stabbed and fell into the water? Did Zoe really die when her mother, Helena, injected her with poison as she slept? Does that traitorous bitch Na'ane get what's coming to her? What happened to Crow?
I rather liked the ending of Dreamfall. That the game ended shortly after the girl's story was told underlined that despite everything that was going on, a little girl died... and it was her story that mattered.
Nevertheless, it's pretty well known fact that MS took their implementation of TCP from BSD which apparently doesn't have the problem. More than that they took fresh implementation from FreeBSD relatively recently for 2003 Server.
The deadline is looming, I can't spend much more time on this. So, I did the unthinkable -- I packed the controller id into the pointer parameter. I marked it as a horrible hack in a 4-line all-caps comment, and checked it in.
Does not sound so horrible, just make sure the 1,2,3,4 pointers never point at anything "free()"able and it'll work fine.
The/3GB switch intrigues me - surely there must have been some sensible reason why processes were limited to 2GB (presumably with the kernel taking 2GB). Do you lose anything by applying the switch?
Besides the kernel's address space being shrunk and some drives crapping out, no. Apps, however, must have a bit set in the executable to get at that extra memory. You can use an app like "CFF Explorer" to set that bit, which also works for 32-bit apps in 64-bit Windows (and can be helpful on stuff like older 32-bit photoshops). OF course, not all apps works with this bit set - presumably because they use signed ints to store pointers.
My PC got some code in flash memory that's needed for it to start up. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case for ipods too.
Also my Game Boy's screen have rotted despite not being used for years and years (It's 19 years old come to think if it). The GB still works but an MP3 player might have some component that limits its lifetime even if unused.
To make matters worse, today's hard drives use flash to store their firmware. Hmm. Troublesome
Some have suggested disabling various hardware items such as bluetooth and running the screen at half brightness but XP doesn't require me to do this and still gives a reasonable battery life
Are you sure? My netbook dims the screen when I pull the power cord on both XP and Win7... though it might be the BIOS doing that.
Anyway my suggestion is checking if ACPI works as it should. AFAIK laptops are notorious for buggy ACPI implementations that are only tested with Windows. Linux now pretends to be Windows XP when doing ACPI stuff, before that they noped out some part of the BIOS to make it work with Linux but that wasn't reliable. Look into if you can change how Linux does ACPI and try that.
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Flash games like Farmville on Facebook
Gave my sister an 2.4 Ghz E6600 to tackle that game but it still runs like a dog.
They get paid for the stickers. What annoy me more are the 1 million and 1 slightly different models; I would have preferred a slightly inferior but well supported (by the community as well as the company) model like the 700 was in the past.
If they block all incoming connections, block all outgoing ports except 80 and 443, and use an HTTP proxy on port 80, DSi and PSP multiplayer games won't work.
I've used Remote Desktop from my cellphone @ Burger King. I think that's port 3389.
The 'poke you in the eye' effect needs to be there I think. If you make the 3D the same as "the real world" it will just be "normal" - you might not even notice it.
:-)
Biggest problem though is the need for 120Hz. 3D has to get really popular for them to go down in price, I'm getting a headache just thinking about buying one of those
But I'm too glad the tech is out there, even if I've never seen it.
Perhaps 3D will save the cinema? I got this impression that cinema is dying and 3D might just be enough to make me go on big action filled releases.
Remember the Nintendo Virtual Boy? It got one display for each eye and still gave you headaches. I suspect that the problem has to do with head movements: Just like how we unconsciously move our heads to determine the direction of sound we may be moving our head to determine distance of objects.
Anyone getting tired from reading 3D comics?
Free has nothing to do with cost.
When I wrote free I referred to the price, not that it is open source. I suspect most folks look at the price separately regardless of what a product scores, which is why I don't think the price should be baked into the score of a product.
but crawled onto second place for being free. I think cost should be kept out of reviews, instead tell what you think of the product - as it is - then the reader can decide for himself if the price is worth the extras.
Sorry, you have been dethroned by the australians.
I have. Pissed me off.
That probably only tells you that in Scandinavia the prospect of dying from hunger is so remote that it doesn't even occur to Scandinavians that you need a right for that.
I remember this story about a visiting dignitary from Kenya. They talked about Norway in WW2 and how terrible it was during war due to starvation. He was surprised that there had been a starvation in Norway and they went on about how they had to eat bread baked with phloem because they couldn't get corn. The Kenyan then said "that's not a starvation, that's not having your favorite food."
Probably an urban legend though.
That's not so wrong. If you look at these numbers, you can see that Mac lost .15%, Windows stayed the same, and Linux gained .04%. So, about 25% of Mac's loss was Linux's gain. The rest seems to have been made up by mobile phones (but not the iphone, which also lost .01%).
I suspect these numbers are only meaningful on a year by year basis. 0.15% just does not seem significant enough to make any kind of judgment on. It certainly possible that some users migrated away from 10.5, but it's no less likely that Mac users spent a little less time on the net in November.
Good to see Windows 7 selling and XP dropping though. XP has become the IE6 of operation systems (as far as application devs are concerned).
dispatching them on what is effectively a pretty-close to traditional RISC execution pipeline
Note sure what a "traditional RISC execution pipeline" is but the one in Core CPUs reminds me more of VLIW (instructions being bundled together). Core CPUs have internal "read modify write" instructions which is a CISCisim thing and while the inner instructions are pipelined and "fixed width", I think it wrong to say the innards are "RISC" for what exactly is RISC? Fixed width instructions that are scheduled? Load/Store? Single cycle instructions? I've heard all those explanations.
ARM Thumb instructions aren't variable length; they're fixed-width at 16 bits. Whether to read 32-bit or 16-bit instructions is determined by a processor mode, not by the instruction encoding.
My knowledge about ARM is lacking, but AFAIK an ARM application can freely switch CPU mode at any time. That means that when ARM fetches a bundle of instructions it needs some mechanism to search through the bundle and treat all instructions after a "mode switch" differently. Depending on how fast the implementation needs to be you can end up with something not that different from a decode stage, i.e. slips the 32-bit instructions through and expands the 16-bit instructions.
I'd say it's more the other way around. Even in systems with a CISC ISA (e.g. x86), you tend to find that under the hood the CISC instructions are translated into a series of microops that are then dispatched in a system that is somewhat RISC-like.
Keep in mind that even the ancient 8086 had microcode (aka. instructions that were broken up into simpler instructions) and IIRC the latest Core chips executes more instructions on a 1-to-1 basis than any earlier x86 chips, which arguably makes it more CISC than ever before. There is no clear definition on what CISC is though, it's more like CISC is "not RISC" and RISC is whatever pulls ARM/PPC/MIPS/ALPHA/!x86 under the same umbrella.
To muddle matters the PPC970 chip cracks up instructions and ARM (with thumb) got variable length instructions - just like any good CISC... no wait :-)
Odd, my nForce 2 worked happily with Vista (I don't use suspend though). When I had a T-bird CPU instead of a Athlon XP I had odd issues since Nvidia drivers and some software behave oddly on systems without SSE (no error message telling me in need SSE, just odd behavior and BSODs - bastards).
Try DosBox. Though if you're like me you'll find those games have gotten too hard. It would be more fun if one could reduce the number of UFOs so that the game could be finished within 10-20 missions... and no boats... and less MC... with one big alien base at the end. Yeah.
"British children have higher levels of gender-bending chemicals in their blood"
HAHA
The BIOS isn't some seperate autonomous entity running in the background on some special CPU reserved for it.
My Abit mobo actually had a micropossesor dedicated to controlling the fans. It was called uguru and worked much better than my current MSI P55-GD65 mobo's fan control. *Sad that Abit keeled over*
Anyway, the BIOS can use system management mode to run code behind the operation system's back. That's how they implement "legacy keyboard" support, and I believe they can use it for controlling fans and other stuff too.
In the last decade x86 code got a lot more complicated too, though.
Not really. The trick DEC used was that FX!32 only emulated usermode code (just like Apple's Rosetta) so it could get by without having to emulate the memory management unit. But you'll need a native version of the operation system to handle kernel mode and the memory management.
Did April really die when she was stabbed and fell into the water? Did Zoe really die when her mother, Helena, injected her with poison as she slept? Does that traitorous bitch Na'ane get what's coming to her? What happened to Crow?
I rather liked the ending of Dreamfall. That the game ended shortly after the girl's story was told underlined that despite everything that was going on, a little girl died... and it was her story that mattered.
Nevertheless, it's pretty well known fact that MS took their implementation of TCP from BSD which apparently doesn't have the problem. More than that they took fresh implementation from FreeBSD relatively recently for 2003 Server.
Um, no. They took a streams BSD stack for Windows NT 3.1, but they didn't like streams for some reason and implemented their own a sockets based stack for NT3.5. See: http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357
The deadline is looming, I can't spend much more time on this. So, I did the unthinkable -- I packed the controller id into the pointer parameter. I marked it as a horrible hack in a 4-line all-caps comment, and checked it in.
Does not sound so horrible, just make sure the 1,2,3,4 pointers never point at anything "free()"able and it'll work fine.
BTW, is that Wolf 360 game out?
The /3GB switch intrigues me - surely there must have been some sensible reason why processes were limited to 2GB (presumably with the kernel taking 2GB). Do you lose anything by applying the switch?
Besides the kernel's address space being shrunk and some drives crapping out, no. Apps, however, must have a bit set in the executable to get at that extra memory. You can use an app like "CFF Explorer" to set that bit, which also works for 32-bit apps in 64-bit Windows (and can be helpful on stuff like older 32-bit photoshops). OF course, not all apps works with this bit set - presumably because they use signed ints to store pointers.
The good old basic iPods have always used HDDs
My PC got some code in flash memory that's needed for it to start up. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case for ipods too.
Also my Game Boy's screen have rotted despite not being used for years and years (It's 19 years old come to think if it). The GB still works but an MP3 player might have some component that limits its lifetime even if unused.
To make matters worse, today's hard drives use flash to store their firmware. Hmm. Troublesome
Some have suggested disabling various hardware items such as bluetooth and running the screen at half brightness but XP doesn't require me to do this and still gives a reasonable battery life
Are you sure? My netbook dims the screen when I pull the power cord on both XP and Win7... though it might be the BIOS doing that.
Anyway my suggestion is checking if ACPI works as it should. AFAIK laptops are notorious for buggy ACPI implementations that are only tested with Windows. Linux now pretends to be Windows XP when doing ACPI stuff, before that they noped out some part of the BIOS to make it work with Linux but that wasn't reliable. Look into if you can change how Linux does ACPI and try that.