ArsTechnica Compares the P4 and G4e: Part II

Deffexor writes "It looks like Hannibal of ArsTechnica fame has put Part 2 of his original comparison article between Intel's P4 and the Apple/Motorola G4e. In a nutshell, this second article covers the execution core, the AltiVec unit and SSE2, as well as a myriad of other interesting factoids. An interesting read, if not a little technically intense for those of us with less than a CE/EE degree. Have at it boys!"

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Slashdot Troll Awards 2001!

[Slashdot Troll Award]

It has come to my attention that many years of constant moderation and sexy, sexy metamoderation have caused many of you to develop a brainwashed state that causes you to gain a small sexual thrill from the act of voting. I'm not saying this isn't something for you all to be ashamed of; frankly, I think you're all a bunch of twisted fucked-up weirdos. I know you were all jacking off in voting booths for George W. Bush, and I know that the three months it took to bring that election to the correct conclusion brought you all as close as you'll ever get to a female orgasm, both conceptually and in terms of physical proximity.

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Re:Slashdot Troll Awards 2001!

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone's gotta keep the wannabes down. --Slashdot Troll Awards

ouch

[stoopidguy]

Arse give me headache. Headache bad :/

"a myriad of"...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to play grammar police, but "a myriad of" is the same as saying "a many of".

Myriad is a direct replacement for the word "many". It's greek for "10 thousand". Would you say "we have a 10,000 of stupidass stories on slashdot"? No, you'd say we have 10,000.

Re:"a myriad of"...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to play grammar police

So what are you playing?

Also, Greek has a capital "g", and why don't you consider learning some punctuation rules to employ around the " marks?

Re:"a myriad of"...

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought the same, but the American Heritage Dictionary (see dictionary.com) says that myriad of is okay:

Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word murias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun murias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective murias was used only in poetry.

fucked up link

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone's gotta keep the wannabes down.

--Slashdot Troll Awards

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:"a myriad of"... Actually..

[Uberminky]

From www.m-w.com:

Etymology: Greek myriad-, myrias, from myrioi countless, ten thousand
Date: 1555
1 : ten thousand
2 : a great number

Close, but it seems "a myriad of" is fine..

Re:Ars better than /.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pros and cons of AT:

Pros:
They are able to use a spellchecker.
Quality articles (no stupid Star Trek/Anime, etc)
No Jon Katz

Cons:
You can't get a big laugh with the Trolls

Well, nothing is perfect I guess.

Sincerely, Mike Bouma

Who let this one out of his cage?

[Uttles]

Tell me about it, I do have more then CE, two letters even, namely MCSE and even I had to stop when they started throwing around the heavy stuff

So an MCSE is more than a degree in Computer Engineering? Right. Listen, I know Devry has nice commercials, but don't beleive everything you see on TV.

I mean, A = A + B is supposed to make sense even if B isn't equal to zero.

OK, I understand that to get an MCSE you only have to have a 3rd grade math level, so I'll try and keep this simple. The author was referring to computer instructions, not chalkboard equations, therefore A=A+B means "Store in A the result of the addition of the previous A and B." This is the convoluted way x86 does things, ie: add a,b

Re:Who let this one out of his cage?

[cc bcc]

And I live to intend forever. So far so good...

Re:Maybe pointlessly detailed

[well_jung]

Will whomever modded the parent post "Insightful" please cue me into the insight?

Using paragraphs is not insightful.

pointless

[SpacePunk]

The whole comparison is completely pointless. The majority of machines running Intel processors are running Windows. The majority running Motorola processors are running some version of the Mac OS. Might as well have Car and Driver running a comparison of a Jaguar S-type and a 10-ton dumptruck. (which processor is the equiv of a Jag is left as an excercise for the reader)

Re:technically intense..

[Phrogz]

...I do have more then CE, two letters even, namely MCSE...
A = A + B is supposed to make sense even if B isn't equal to zero

That doesn't apply. The important formula here is that A>=A+B if and only if B is non-negative. MCSE-CE = MS, and since you didn't understand the full article, this implies that the addition of MS to a title actually reduces knowledge, not increases it.

:)

Re:Maybe pointlessly detailed

[the_2nd_coming]

ok, ;-)

Re:G5 is coming soon

[Anonymous Coward]

First, MOSR has repeatedly been 'trolled' by Apple and outsiders. There's lots of evidence that he prints whatever is sent to him.

Second, I've e-mailed him a couple times in the past, and it's pretty clear that he's clueless. For example:

MOSR Rumor: Microsoft is porting Windows 98 to Macs.
Me: Win98 is full of x86 asm and isn't portable, besides NT already runs on PowerPC - if this was based in fact they would use that.
MOSR guy: NT is only for servers and doesn't have a decent GUI or any software. My reliable sources say 98.
Me: Okeeey.