Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Jan 2010 20:21 UTC
And yet another item on the iPad? Are we serious? Yes, we are, since this one is about something that even geeks who aren't interested in the iPad itself should find intriguing. Steve Jobs said yesterday that the iPad is powered by an Apple A4 processor, but contrary to what many seem to think - it wasn't designed in-house at all.
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RE[4]: windows 7 on ARM?
by lemur2 on Fri 29th Jan 2010 09:01
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Member since:2007-02-17
" When they opt to purchase any Windows machine, people expect to be able to use all this software.
People won't be able to use any of this type of software if they purchase a new machine which runs Windows on ARM. So people will have to switch to a new set of applications if they are going to buy an ARM-based device.
If they are switching to a new set of applications anyway, this represents an ideal time for people to just ditch Windows and finally be rid of all the problems and encumberances it brings.
People won't be able to use any of this type of software if they purchase a new machine which runs Windows on ARM. So people will have to switch to a new set of applications if they are going to buy an ARM-based device.
If they are switching to a new set of applications anyway, this represents an ideal time for people to just ditch Windows and finally be rid of all the problems and encumberances it brings.
This is true for other OSs as well. For example, most comercial software available for Linux is x86 only.
So unless you have very general use cases, like most home users do, you are not going to migrate to other processor architectures. "
It is true to some extent for Linux. Only on Linux, of all current desktop OSes, however, can you get a comprehensive set of applications for any architecture. There are upwards of 25,000 packages in Linux open source repositories.
One of the few applications that is commercial ONLY for Linux would be Varicad:
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/
Although there are other Linux CAD packages, Varicad is AFAIK the only one which can process .dwg files.
Having noted that, however, it should also be pointed out that high-end commercial-only applications such as these aren't really in the picture when it comes to tablets and netbooks. One just isn't realistically going to be running Autocad or Varicad under Windows 7 on ARM, either.
Everything else ... every lightweight application class that one might actually WANT to run on a low-power ARM machine ... already exists as open source and is already ported to ARM for Linux.
Edited 2010-01-29 09:08 UTC
RE[5]: windows 7 on ARM?
by boldingd on Fri 29th Jan 2010 20:13
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Member since:2009-02-19
Do recall that, some years ago, most major Linux distributions where available in x86 and PPC versions - Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian where, and I think Fedora and Debian still are? Simple fact is, Linux (and open-source OS's and software in general) are much more amenable to being shifted from one platform to another than closed-source ones are - and this can be shown to be the case by simple example.
RE[4]: windows 7 on ARM?
by bert64 on Fri 29th Jan 2010 15:40
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Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Google added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 12:06 UTC
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People won't be able to use any of this type of software if they purchase a new machine which runs Windows on ARM. So people will have to switch to a new set of applications if they are going to buy an ARM-based device.
If they are switching to a new set of applications anyway, this represents an ideal time for people to just ditch Windows and finally be rid of all the problems and encumberances it brings.
This is true for other OSs as well. For example, most comercial software available for Linux is x86 only.
So unless you have very general use cases, like most home users do, you are not going to migrate to other processor architectures.