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Need good, free content management system — #1

Hi, I'm looking for a good, free content managment system that would allow users to rate objects. Think of how NetFlix.com lets you rate movies, or Adiumxtras.com lets you rate var…
MacNN Troubleshooting by itistoday Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 14:35

AltiVec sucks — #6

One of the project I worked on last year was very CPU intensive. Without going into the gory details, I optimized the code to determine at runtime what kind of system it's on. The …
MacNN PowerPC by starman Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 12:51

AltiVec sucks — #5

Quote: Originally Posted by macintologist Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS? …
MacNN PowerPC by SVass Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 12:44

AltiVec sucks — #4

1. You certainly don't need to write in assembly to call AltiVec when programming on a Macintosh. Apple makes it VERY easy to code. 2. As a real life scientist, I use single prec…
MacNN PowerPC by Ganesha Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 12:40

AltiVec sucks — #3

Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS?
MacNN PowerPC by macintologist Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 11:32

AltiVec sucks — #2

I don't believe that the speed increases Altivec promised have been realized.
MacNN PowerPC by Eriamjh Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 10:28

AltiVec sucks — #1

http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85 Quote: AltiVec (a.k.a. Velocity Engine and VMX) is a steaming pile of doggy doo. It is a real pain in the ass to use, and u…
MacNN PowerPC by macintologist Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

AltiVec sucks — #18

iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode a…
MacNN PowerPC by sek929 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

AltiVec sucks — #19

Quote: Originally Posted by sek929 iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode at 4x. The AltiVec enhanceme…
MacNN PowerPC by ReggieX Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

AltiVec sucks — #20

Add me to the list of users who have recoded scientific apps and achieved significant performance gains over scalar code. The original rant is of dubious merit, even childish. -…
MacNN PowerPC by audiffred Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

AltiVec sucks — #21

Well, there are a few mistakes right off the bat:he is focused on floating point operations only. A single Altivec unit will work on a vector of 4 (single precision) floating point…
MacNN PowerPC by larkost Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

AltiVec sucks — #22

Quote: Originally Posted by sek929 iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, b…
MacNN PowerPC by Mister Elf Sat, 23 Apr 2005 - 07:16

Favourite iPod colour! — #16

Quote: Originally Posted by StonedRose WOuldn't it be good to see a "surf/skate" style iPod. Vans Checkered Old Skool That would be kinda cool.
MacNN Software by Zimphire Fri, 22 Apr 2005 - 21:35
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