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The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing?
Miss Muis writes "After reading once again that Moore's Law will become obsolete, I amused myself thinking back to all the predictions, absolutes and impossibles in computing that have been surpassed with ease. In the late 80s I remember it being a well regarded popular 'fact' that 100MHz was the absolute limit for the speed of a CPU. Not too many years later I remember much discussion about hard drives for personal computers being physically unable to go much higher than 1GB. Let's not forget "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" from the chairman of IBM in 1943, and of course 'Apple is dying...' (for the past 25 years). What are your favorite beliefs-turned-on-their-heads in the history of computing?"
Wrong...he did say, it was quoted on Today, and many other TV shows..and it stopped being funny about the same day we discovered "hanging chads" was just as funny... get your facts straight....
is that Linux is a decent operating system
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I was one of the naive fools who actually believed that Microsoft would follow the terms of any of their antitrust settlements.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Holy crap! You're right. None of us would be using the internet if it wasn't for Al Gore. So I guess in every practical sense, Al Gore did create the Internet!
Oh, hold on a minute....yeah thats right; thats a load of horseshit - nevermind.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives
Sounds like PHB babble or resume-padding thereWhy doesn't anyone ever call Gore an idiot for saying nonsense like that? That's as bad as any Bush-ism I've heard!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
And you're obviously an idiot. A Dell or IBM SERVER is not a DESKTOP, regardless of whether it's 32 or 64-bit.
And if you're paying OEM retail for memory, you're an even bigger idiot. Haven't you ever heard of Crucial?
I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you.
Nope, not funny. The definition of Professional is "participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs." I've made several hundred thousand dollars writing and selling software that runs on Windows Professional. Wheras your average GPL programmer does it for free...
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shut up... jesus. how long is this sorta stupid talk gonna go on. use what you like and shut yo' mouf
Ah, you either work for intel or HP. I see. You're a wee bit behind the times. Or will a cut-down itanic make its way into the PeeCee market in the next 12 months?
And 64 bit arithmetic takes twice as long in the hardware and 2-4 times the electricity as 32 bit arithmetic.
Funny that. Whose processors today consume the most electricity? c.f. the 64-bit ones that have been about for a decade (and the new AMD64). Poor old itanic doesn't do very well in that case, does it? I suppose you could under-clock it to, say, 500MHz and make it run a bit cooler.
Oh well. The assembly language looks intersting from a esoteric point of view. I believe in the late 80's signal processors had similar instruction sets? Of course, nowadays these are relegated to very specialist embedded niches.
Anyway, what do I know. I'm just an enthusuastic ammateur.
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And the Amiga will come back...
(Go ahead, mod me down, I said Amiga)
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Dude, go read your original post... and it's peripherials.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.