[ydl-gen] YDL on PB17

[Warren Nagourney]

Sorry, I didn't mean to precipitate a flame war. I am using YDL  
because it supports the only interesting (to me) architecture out  
there: PowerPC. After reading some IBM docs, I have become very  
excited by the Cell - it seems to be ideal for some of my scientific  
apps and it is delightful that a modestly-priced game console maker  
is making a Cell system with fast graphics available to the general  
public with the support of a well-thought-of linux distribution.  All  
of this might flop - it is too early to say. I am at present  
cautiously optimistic, though (and I'm fed up with Apple and OSX,  
thought the latter works reasonably well on my various machines).

-wn


On Oct 31, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:

> Huh?!
>
> --- Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Ah... so... you have a dual consciousness as well as a dual and/or
>>
>> multiple skills.
>> That's great!  My enthusiasm doesn't allow me to share your vision.
>>
>> PR is not my primary skill; perhaps it's a skill I just absorbed as
>> a
>> result of being an average life-long resident of NYC.
>> My enthusiasm for YDL is not balanced by the training and skills
>> which you have.  I guess you're also saying that my reasoning is
>> not
>> very reasonable when compared to what's happened not only because
>> of
>> decisions by TSS, but also Apple.  Remember they did dump the
>> PowerPC
>> chip.
>>
>> I know you well understand better than I, that business strategies
>>
>> regarding what is maintained, supported, etc. has a logic which
>> appears counter-intuitive or counter-sanity for the average person.
>>
>> Consider the Ford Taurus!  How could a company shut-down the most
>> continuously reliable and produced car!  There are lots of examples
>>
>> of puzzling and confusing decisions throughout business in various
>>
>> industries.  And lot's of people are caught, by being either in the
>>
>> midst of these decisions or being affected by them.
>>
>> There is no evil being committed here, Norberto.  Only hard
>> realities
>> considering the best use of limited skills and resources involved
>> which you nor I are directly responsible to make -- although for
>> you,
>> when you finally are ready you may have to make similar choices
>> based
>> on realities few people will comprehend.
>>
>> May you have the foresight and wisdom to do what should be done,
>> when
>> your time comes.
>>
>> Derick.
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>>
>>> Derick,
>>>
>>> *I'm starting to think you're getting paid by TSS to be a PR
>> schlep.
>>> Let's not forget the drop off of people on this list when TSS
>> made
>>> 4.0
>>> I see an even bigger drop off of people with the switch to 5.0.
>>> Anyone who has the money to buy new hardware isn't going to run
>> YDL,
>>> they're going to run OSX.*.*, it comes with their new computer.*
>>>
>>> *These comments come from the inner entrepreneur with an MBA
>> inside
>>> me, not the YDL hack who loves YDL 4.0 on my beige G3 and
>> 6500/250
>>> with 128mbs ram.
>>>
>>
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