Posts by randian

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin One interesting thing at CES is how NVidia announced they are making ARM CPUs now. That will be an interesting move along with Microsoft's ARM compatibility in the OS. Look at how good the 1GHz...

Sandy Bridge has hardware video encoding, but it remains to be seen how good the quality is. As anybody who has seen a bad DVD or Blu-ray can attest, having the right encoder can make all the difference between a reference-quality...

Quote: Originally Posted by rob_06 My guess is they both could be dead or simply on hold. With iwallet they have a couple of twitter id's which may help get some further info if they still use them. Those Twitter accounts seem active...

I use ForkLift myself. Why hasn't anybody else mentioned it?

Both have been stuck at their current versions for at least a year. iWallet: last version 4.2, Dream Apps The product web page is still there, but iWallet no longer appears on their main page (pointed to by the Products link) and the...

Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac But that's not what you said. Let me refresh your memory:"One of the reasons Apple doesn't go with huge numbers of cores is because OSX itself is (or at least was a couple of years ago) a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Outsider I was wondering how someone could be so ignorant on GCD and OS X, then I looked at the post count. D'oh Grand Central is a parallel computation framework. Please, do explain how it fixes...

One of the reasons Apple doesn't go with huge numbers of cores is because OSX itself is (or at least was a couple of years ago) a dog at multithreading. It has serious bottlenecks above 4 cores or so that made running larger core counts...

I have a 21.5" iMac that I never let sleep because of the long-time belief that desktop hard drives are most reliable when spinning 24/7, and that spin-up/spin-down cycles caused by sleeping or shutdowns stresses them and causes...

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. In modern times, the architecture is just as important as the clockspeed. Architecture was always as important as clock speed. The RISC boys (MIPS, SPARC, etc) were regularly kicking Intel's butt...