All the data towers are doing the same shit. They could be standardized, funded by tax money directly (instead of a 100 billion handout that just disappears). If the spectrum belongs to the people then let us just have it completely. Dedicate a bandwidth for cellular use according to the people's demand, then saturate it with capability to provide service. The access could be leased to the carriers, and our devices could frequency hop to whatever chanel was noise free. New competitors could lease the access at the comparative prices to existing carriers. Need more towers in a given region? Gee, that exactly matches the population density. Huh. Telcos could lobby for more towers in a given area if they think they need them, and they'd all be on the same side instead of competing with incompatible protocols.
Governments should own the backbone, or mandate it be shared. Look at the energy market for a workable solution: Power brokers opened up competitive prices for the little guys. If it'll work for poles with wires on them, it'll work for wireless poles too.
That'll never happen though because of the "Free Market", and "regulatory capture", and [insert whatever other corruption you want to throw in]. Protip: In a true free market, whomever could afford the biggest antenna would always win by drowning out the little guys.
I was looking for that socket wrench I lost on Skylab 2...
"Lost" Haha. Suuuuure, because tethers don't exist. It must have been an "accident".
You don't have to hide your allegiance, you're among friends here. We of the Sovereignty of Sealab have our operatives everywhere.
Down With Space! Up with SeaLabia!
Imagine if it were? Imagine further that space forensic scientists identified the platform of origin of said bolt. There's not currently any international liability laws for space trash, but there should be, IMO... Fine whoever does blatantly harmful things like when China shot an orbiting satellite. Although, without a planet-wide currency I wonder how well fines would work on national scales? Those fined would just reduce the national debt owed to them?
Space junk is, IMO, one of the most serious problems humans need to address if they plan on coping with the next big rock that is heading their way right now (it's only a matter of time == your days are numbered). To use the local parlance: Get a few eggs out of the one basket, or instead of safe you'll just be sorry, i.e. extinct. Any man made hindrance to said progress should be punished most severely, or at least avoided at all costs -- Won't someone think of your children's children?
Like small larva who are constantly fixated by ever newer and shinier things as they dull their current toys with their digestive juices, humans have left their nest a cluttered mess. Time to grow up and learn to clean up for yourself. No one is going to do it for you anymore. This is a trial by fire you must face yourself -- We don't want dangerous litter bugs out among the stars. Fortunately, it's a self correcting problem: Fledgling space faring races either learn to cope with orbital debris or they're grounded to their homeworlds until their sun(s) explode...
This could be abused. Create a website taylored to appeal only to a particular social or political group your dislike, and hide somewhere an image tag - display size 1px by 1px, but actually referencing a two-gigabyte jpeg. While your victims are on your site browsing whatever you put up there, it's draining their credit with a ridiculously huge background download.
Just make that a picture of child pornography, then you'll actually have described some website defacing I've cleaned up multiple times before... Which is why it shouldn't be illegal to have 1's and 0's of any configuration "in your possession". Having bits doesn't even mean you've seen them.
You don't need a 2gig data file. A 3meg file is a "HD" JPEG, and serves the same purpose -- Just reload a new image each time the "onload" event of the element fires, which is what I observed the XSS exploit doing.
To the poster saying you'll blow the cap on your own server's bandwidth: The vandals don't care, that's the point. Also, the data source doesn't have to be your own server -- You can point it at a child porn site, for example.
Ever been to a website? Oh! You have? How do you know your cache isn't full of regularly accessed kiddie porn? You don't.
White chicks don't really need to tan on the beach either.
I prefer the fish-belly white look, myself.
Sashimi is okay, but I wouldn't make a habit of it -- it's unsanitary. I prefer mine slow cooked over decades in a global warming convection oven. The tricky part is convincing them to cook themselves! Fortunately, you can get humans to do anything with enough wealth tokens... as this story proves.
I don't want to fund research on gun violence either.
The problem ISN'T guns. It's the culture of people. We have a culture of violence in the US as much as we woud like to deny it. We glorify it in so many ways -- in the media, the movies, TV shows and pop music. Without that culture, the interest in guns would decrease with the exception of those who use them as intended -- as tools and defense. And without guns, the violence would change adjust.
I have to words for you moron: PROVE IT
Oh, you don't want any research -- you just want to put forth unfounded assertions without a leg to stand on and just claim they're true? Oh, you'd rather just argue back and forth for decades without any progress rather than have a logical way forward based on sound evidence and observation? Fuck You.
I agree we need guns and that they get an undeservedly bad wrap, but I'm a scientist, not an ignorant ass (operative word there being ignore), so I'd like some research results I can use to back up my claims and actually affect change. Get bent fool.
How about each individual reduced their emissions by getting more efficient cars (electic car + wind/solar/hydro?) and making minor detour from trips you do anyway.
Why waste efficiency by converting the energy to electricity? If you have a wind powered car you can't help but make minor detours as you zig zag along.
There's only so many times you can lather, rinse and repeat in a given time period before someone points out that you're insane.
Some folks might think I'm saying switch to Linux instead of just creating a fresh patch of systems to be virused. Smarter folks would realize that VMs with automated image rollouts would be a much better (and even OS agnostic) investment in the long run.
Is that PC hitting public facing stuff, or does it allow users to bring their own data? Then it should be hosted via VM then unless you're focusing on 3D graphics applications.
Next time they do a Hardware upgrade, you just roll out the VMs again and save virtually all the "support" cost of the rollout. Pays for itself after one or two upgrades. Doubly so if you've got a nasty malware infection since you already have the re-imaging process in place. With hardware supported virtualization standard now, it's kind of dumb to even not be using it...
I'm glad he's laughing all the way to the bank. Gives me room for my new buzz-word compliant technology: Hardware Optimized for Software Systems (HOSS)
The name is derived from Lucifer, the root of which means 'light-bearer' (lucem ferre).
Wait... So, God allegedly says "Let there be light", and it's Satan that makes the Sun? The single most important object of this corner of the Universe? Not just one of them, but he's apparently done such a good job of the "light bringing" that there are billions upon billions of suns to chose from -- variety being the spice of life, and all that. Yeah, I'd be pissed at my boss too if he ignored the beauty of that master piece and instead went all gushy over a bunch of insignificant ungrateful chemical reactions on a single wet rock; That's like giving the GUI designer praise for a stable kernel and file system. Oh, hey, I know, Let's cast the insubordinate angel down into the thing he hates most -- Nevermind him having the power to create Stars, all of 'em -- instead of oh, I don't know, giving him his own different wet rock and saying, "Well if you're so damn smart then let's see YOU make some life"; No, the prickish boss of the Universe wouldn't want to give anyone else the chance to outshine them, eh?
Seems to me Satan's just under appreciated, and the fact the world still exists would point to a god-like degree of restraint or at least pity for said mentally midgetized primates -- I mean, it's not their fault they exist. I can't fault the guy for tripping up the little hairless apes whenever the opportunity presents itself to point out just how fickle and stupid they are -- I mean, what the fuck else did God expect to happen? Seems a bit of a dumb thing to do, IMO, unless you WANT the humans to wind up on the short end of the morality stick.
Well, I guess you can't blame the writers since they hadn't invented the terms "plot hole" or "antagonist sympathy" yet and thus had to rely on the oldest plot-hook in the book, "irrational demonization". No wonder new UFO religions are springing up; I mean, if there's a market for origin stories this bad then ANYONE could weave a more believable tale and make a fortune.
when they pry the planet Pluto from my cold, dead hands.
Eris is 27% more massive than Pluto. You can have Pluto as a Planet if you're willing to agree humans are all blind as bats because they didn't see THE OTHER PLANET that was hovering about your star, even after all those centuries looking, you only just spotted it 8 years ago...
Or, you can just de-list Pluto and save some of your pathetic face, human. Hell, you wouldn't even raise an eyebrow if there were thousands of colony ships just sitting right in your back yard, gravitationally maneuvering a small moon into just the right orbit to create a nice warm magma-world where you sit now... You study such small patches of the sky at great distances, and ignore the much nearer and real threat of assured extinction. "It's not a question of 'if', It's only a matter of time" I hear your broadcasts say about repeating the events that destroyed the previous dominant life on your planet. Oh, but what if the next time is worse? It could be MUCH worse for you, indeed. How many dwarf planets are left unseen, unnamed, right in your own solar system? Wouldn't you like to know?! No, obviously not.
You had your chance: You made it to the closest easiest target, but then parked your waste-holes for over 40 stellar orbits. Had you shown promise, been prodigiously diligent or at least sensible enough to expend the small cultural effort to develop the tech to colonize beyond your planet's safe magnetosphere then maybe things would have worked out differently for you... The Universe has neither love nor sympathy for lazy complacent races such as yours.
"Cold, dead hands" -- Ha! They might as well be for all the good you've done with them.
No, it was blown up by Young Darth Vader in an odd shaped Death Star. The names were changed to protect the innocent. That was just a practice round to prove to Disney that the director was capable of making Star-Wars movies.
That doesn't make sense. You are taxed on any gains when you sell shares of a company - does this mean that you should be able to pay your taxes with stocks?
No, this means you should be able to pay them with the equivalent of World of Warcraft loot though. I'm keeping all my actual wealth as diamonds buried out back in my Minecraft server. Ha! Try auditing that shit Tax man. You'll never get past the creepers and the redstone avalanches.
What about flour + air = bomb? Got any plans to replace grain with a more stable material?
What about all those ammunition dumps? Got any plans to share the technology for how you keep large caches of explosives from creating chain explosions?
I mean, yeah, just don't put it all in one big pile, and space it out a bit -- But if you can't even teach Texans how to do this simple thing, isn't it all rather hopelessly ineffectual and expensive for no reason? Wouldn't the money be better spent elsewhere, like, oh, I don't know, actual planetary defenses against big rocks?
Surprisingly, much of the US Navy's job is to advertise,... it's just this time the shipbuilder foolishly thinks that the advertising being done is "buy our stuff"... I'd not be surprised if the Freedom hasn't already got orders for the North China Sea to "advertise" to the DPRK...
"They try shoot OUS! What re do?!"
"Juss ack natro, it only a advertisement. Do note look at camrah."
Awe crap. Atom? Seriously? Fuck. Don't get me wrong, I do still write some machince code in hex, and ASM code too (for fun, a 'hobby' OS from scratch project -- when I need to blow off steam from BS in high level languages, I can cuddle right up to the warm CPU and whisper sweet nopcodes in its ears...) -- for that x86-64 is great, but from a practical perspective x86 and friends are bloated and less efficient than ARM. ARM can be licensed by anyone, and it's trimmed down and efficient. Geared for compilers, not overly cluttered with useless instructions you've got to emulate. I mean, under the hood it's all microcode, would it hurt to use a better API?
I would love to jump in and say how languages and chipsets don't matter because at the end of the day we're running highlevel code with abstractions atop them to insulate us from the underpinnings... But that's a fallacy. The truth is that I'll be writing my high level code once then testing it everywhere, on each platform, then making optimisations around bottlenecks -- business as usual. I experience less problems and fewer new bottlenecks in code compiled and executed (even JIT) across platforms with the same instruction sets. Completely ignoring the hardware is a sin, platform independence is a fine goal, but ultimately an illusion.
Come on Intel. x86 was great when we had to write op-codes by hand, but that's not the case anymore. Let's move on. x86 was so pervasive for so long because of the binary compatibility of applications. Take a hint from your own business -- Android is a new playground. It's time to adopt ARM and kick everyone's asses with your bad-ass fabrication tech. Otherwise, when we get down to the nuts and volts, your more complex chipset will always be less efficient than a more streamlined chipset could be, and on cheap Android systems, efficiency counts again.
I've got some ARM optimized native code in some of my Android code where needed. Yep, I've included a compatible bytecode version for platform 'independence', and that unoptimized crap is what'll execute on your Atom chip because the tiny fraction of market share of Android that's powered by Atom isn't enough to warrant me re-writing specific code just for it. In otherwords: You're pissing away your amazing feats in engineering just because of the BS instruction set -- My apps will run worse on a similarly spec'd Atom (or x86 desktop CPU -- yep, I multi-boot w/ an Android x86 port). I mean, Android is a new platform with new applications -- You don't have to be tied to x86 opcodes anymore!
Is it just a pride thing? Hell, if so, then come up with an even better set of instructions than x86(-64) or ARM and blow everyone away. No, Itanium wasn't it, besides HP originated that... Come on, I know you can do better than this -- but you keep trying to prove me wrong.
Oh, wait. Nevermind. I see the Microsofties you mentioned there. So, Android is basically just a threat to get a better volume license deal from MS? Android is a bargaining chip? You don't care if it runs apps like shite and you're actually hoping Windows will seem faster by comparrison to drive sales? Sad times...
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If the sound system doesn't give you involuntary bowel movements, it's not a real sound system.
Is that a "true sharts, man" argument?
All the data towers are doing the same shit. They could be standardized, funded by tax money directly (instead of a 100 billion handout that just disappears). If the spectrum belongs to the people then let us just have it completely. Dedicate a bandwidth for cellular use according to the people's demand, then saturate it with capability to provide service. The access could be leased to the carriers, and our devices could frequency hop to whatever chanel was noise free. New competitors could lease the access at the comparative prices to existing carriers. Need more towers in a given region? Gee, that exactly matches the population density. Huh. Telcos could lobby for more towers in a given area if they think they need them, and they'd all be on the same side instead of competing with incompatible protocols.
Governments should own the backbone, or mandate it be shared. Look at the energy market for a workable solution: Power brokers opened up competitive prices for the little guys. If it'll work for poles with wires on them, it'll work for wireless poles too.
That'll never happen though because of the "Free Market", and "regulatory capture", and [insert whatever other corruption you want to throw in]. Protip: In a true free market, whomever could afford the biggest antenna would always win by drowning out the little guys.
I was looking for that socket wrench I lost on Skylab 2...
"Lost" Haha. Suuuuure, because tethers don't exist. It must have been an "accident".
You don't have to hide your allegiance, you're among friends here. We of the Sovereignty of Sealab have our operatives everywhere.
Down With Space! Up with SeaLabia!
Lucky this wasn't a bolt through the window...
Imagine if it were? Imagine further that space forensic scientists identified the platform of origin of said bolt. There's not currently any international liability laws for space trash, but there should be, IMO... Fine whoever does blatantly harmful things like when China shot an orbiting satellite. Although, without a planet-wide currency I wonder how well fines would work on national scales? Those fined would just reduce the national debt owed to them?
Space junk is, IMO, one of the most serious problems humans need to address if they plan on coping with the next big rock that is heading their way right now (it's only a matter of time == your days are numbered). To use the local parlance: Get a few eggs out of the one basket, or instead of safe you'll just be sorry, i.e. extinct. Any man made hindrance to said progress should be punished most severely, or at least avoided at all costs -- Won't someone think of your children's children?
Like small larva who are constantly fixated by ever newer and shinier things as they dull their current toys with their digestive juices, humans have left their nest a cluttered mess. Time to grow up and learn to clean up for yourself. No one is going to do it for you anymore. This is a trial by fire you must face yourself -- We don't want dangerous litter bugs out among the stars. Fortunately, it's a self correcting problem: Fledgling space faring races either learn to cope with orbital debris or they're grounded to their homeworlds until their sun(s) explode...
This could be abused. Create a website taylored to appeal only to a particular social or political group your dislike, and hide somewhere an image tag - display size 1px by 1px, but actually referencing a two-gigabyte jpeg. While your victims are on your site browsing whatever you put up there, it's draining their credit with a ridiculously huge background download.
Just make that a picture of child pornography, then you'll actually have described some website defacing I've cleaned up multiple times before... Which is why it shouldn't be illegal to have 1's and 0's of any configuration "in your possession". Having bits doesn't even mean you've seen them.
You don't need a 2gig data file. A 3meg file is a "HD" JPEG, and serves the same purpose -- Just reload a new image each time the "onload" event of the element fires, which is what I observed the XSS exploit doing.
To the poster saying you'll blow the cap on your own server's bandwidth: The vandals don't care, that's the point. Also, the data source doesn't have to be your own server -- You can point it at a child porn site, for example.
Ever been to a website? Oh! You have? How do you know your cache isn't full of regularly accessed kiddie porn? You don't.
Darned right it doesn't pass the sniff test.
SnnnnnooooooooOORT!
ahhhhhhh... Woo!
Maybe you're just doing the wrong kind?
White chicks don't really need to tan on the beach either.
I prefer the fish-belly white look, myself.
Sashimi is okay, but I wouldn't make a habit of it -- it's unsanitary. I prefer mine slow cooked over decades in a global warming convection oven. The tricky part is convincing them to cook themselves! Fortunately, you can get humans to do anything with enough wealth tokens... as this story proves.
I don't want to fund research on gun violence either.
The problem ISN'T guns. It's the culture of people. We have a culture of violence in the US as much as we woud like to deny it. We glorify it in so many ways -- in the media, the movies, TV shows and pop music. Without that culture, the interest in guns would decrease with the exception of those who use them as intended -- as tools and defense. And without guns, the violence would change adjust.
I have to words for you moron: PROVE IT
Oh, you don't want any research -- you just want to put forth unfounded assertions without a leg to stand on and just claim they're true? Oh, you'd rather just argue back and forth for decades without any progress rather than have a logical way forward based on sound evidence and observation? Fuck You.
I agree we need guns and that they get an undeservedly bad wrap, but I'm a scientist, not an ignorant ass (operative word there being ignore), so I'd like some research results I can use to back up my claims and actually affect change. Get bent fool.
And if you are shopping for a family, cycling isn't an option because of the load you have to haul back.
Only if you have to worry about hills. I mean, bike trailers exist.
How about each individual reduced their emissions by getting more efficient cars (electic car + wind/solar/hydro?) and making minor detour from trips you do anyway.
Why waste efficiency by converting the energy to electricity? If you have a wind powered car you can't help but make minor detours as you zig zag along.
There's only so many times you can lather, rinse and repeat in a given time period before someone points out that you're insane.
Some folks might think I'm saying switch to Linux instead of just creating a fresh patch of systems to be virused. Smarter folks would realize that VMs with automated image rollouts would be a much better (and even OS agnostic) investment in the long run.
Is that PC hitting public facing stuff, or does it allow users to bring their own data? Then it should be hosted via VM then unless you're focusing on 3D graphics applications.
Next time they do a Hardware upgrade, you just roll out the VMs again and save virtually all the "support" cost of the rollout. Pays for itself after one or two upgrades. Doubly so if you've got a nasty malware infection since you already have the re-imaging process in place. With hardware supported virtualization standard now, it's kind of dumb to even not be using it...
Of course no corporation would ever do something like that, no one is that evil, right?
Rewatch The Matrix: We are already at war with the amoral intangible thought machines -- Corporations.
I'm glad he's laughing all the way to the bank. Gives me room for my new buzz-word compliant technology: Hardware Optimized for Software Systems (HOSS)
Shhhh, it's just ASIC in sheep's clothing.
"Our motto is ... if we save the life of one child, it's a miracle to that child and everyone that child touches."
If they were true to their motto they should have dropped the project and donated their funding to a children's hospital 10 years ago.
To be fair, prevention is better than treatment in any medical situation.
Depends on how many people you grow up to kill.
When compared to the other leading online guide to everything... It's a riot.
$1 says the AC poster has a financial stake in hitckwiki from the phrasing of the post.
Are you insinuating that the GP's link is trying to help hitchhike traffic from here to there? Ridiculous!
The name is derived from Lucifer, the root of which means 'light-bearer' (lucem ferre).
Wait... So, God allegedly says "Let there be light", and it's Satan that makes the Sun? The single most important object of this corner of the Universe? Not just one of them, but he's apparently done such a good job of the "light bringing" that there are billions upon billions of suns to chose from -- variety being the spice of life, and all that. Yeah, I'd be pissed at my boss too if he ignored the beauty of that master piece and instead went all gushy over a bunch of insignificant ungrateful chemical reactions on a single wet rock; That's like giving the GUI designer praise for a stable kernel and file system. Oh, hey, I know, Let's cast the insubordinate angel down into the thing he hates most -- Nevermind him having the power to create Stars, all of 'em -- instead of oh, I don't know, giving him his own different wet rock and saying, "Well if you're so damn smart then let's see YOU make some life"; No, the prickish boss of the Universe wouldn't want to give anyone else the chance to outshine them, eh?
Seems to me Satan's just under appreciated, and the fact the world still exists would point to a god-like degree of restraint or at least pity for said mentally midgetized primates -- I mean, it's not their fault they exist. I can't fault the guy for tripping up the little hairless apes whenever the opportunity presents itself to point out just how fickle and stupid they are -- I mean, what the fuck else did God expect to happen? Seems a bit of a dumb thing to do, IMO, unless you WANT the humans to wind up on the short end of the morality stick.
Well, I guess you can't blame the writers since they hadn't invented the terms "plot hole" or "antagonist sympathy" yet and thus had to rely on the oldest plot-hook in the book, "irrational demonization". No wonder new UFO religions are springing up; I mean, if there's a market for origin stories this bad then ANYONE could weave a more believable tale and make a fortune.
when they pry the planet Pluto from my cold, dead hands.
Eris is 27% more massive than Pluto. You can have Pluto as a Planet if you're willing to agree humans are all blind as bats because they didn't see THE OTHER PLANET that was hovering about your star, even after all those centuries looking, you only just spotted it 8 years ago...
Or, you can just de-list Pluto and save some of your pathetic face, human. Hell, you wouldn't even raise an eyebrow if there were thousands of colony ships just sitting right in your back yard, gravitationally maneuvering a small moon into just the right orbit to create a nice warm magma-world where you sit now... You study such small patches of the sky at great distances, and ignore the much nearer and real threat of assured extinction. "It's not a question of 'if', It's only a matter of time" I hear your broadcasts say about repeating the events that destroyed the previous dominant life on your planet. Oh, but what if the next time is worse? It could be MUCH worse for you, indeed. How many dwarf planets are left unseen, unnamed, right in your own solar system? Wouldn't you like to know?! No, obviously not.
You had your chance: You made it to the closest easiest target, but then parked your waste-holes for over 40 stellar orbits. Had you shown promise, been prodigiously diligent or at least sensible enough to expend the small cultural effort to develop the tech to colonize beyond your planet's safe magnetosphere then maybe things would have worked out differently for you... The Universe has neither love nor sympathy for lazy complacent races such as yours.
"Cold, dead hands" -- Ha! They might as well be for all the good you've done with them.
It's been blown up by the Romulans, remember?
No, it was blown up by Young Darth Vader in an odd shaped Death Star. The names were changed to protect the innocent. That was just a practice round to prove to Disney that the director was capable of making Star-Wars movies.
What is a Chameleon?
That doesn't make sense. You are taxed on any gains when you sell shares of a company - does this mean that you should be able to pay your taxes with stocks?
No, this means you should be able to pay them with the equivalent of World of Warcraft loot though. I'm keeping all my actual wealth as diamonds buried out back in my Minecraft server. Ha! Try auditing that shit Tax man. You'll never get past the creepers and the redstone avalanches.
What about flour + air = bomb? Got any plans to replace grain with a more stable material?
What about all those ammunition dumps? Got any plans to share the technology for how you keep large caches of explosives from creating chain explosions?
I mean, yeah, just don't put it all in one big pile, and space it out a bit -- But if you can't even teach Texans how to do this simple thing, isn't it all rather hopelessly ineffectual and expensive for no reason? Wouldn't the money be better spent elsewhere, like, oh, I don't know, actual planetary defenses against big rocks?
Surprisingly, much of the US Navy's job is to advertise, ... it's just this time the shipbuilder foolishly thinks that the advertising being done is "buy our stuff" ... I'd not be surprised if the Freedom hasn't already got orders for the North China Sea to "advertise" to the DPRK ...
"They try shoot OUS! What re do?!"
"Juss ack natro, it only a advertisement. Do note look at camrah."
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.
cheers,
His eyes widened as he made the sudden horrific realization, "My, what a cavernous bum you have!" said little brown posting hood...
Awe crap. Atom? Seriously? Fuck. Don't get me wrong, I do still write some machince code in hex, and ASM code too (for fun, a 'hobby' OS from scratch project -- when I need to blow off steam from BS in high level languages, I can cuddle right up to the warm CPU and whisper sweet nopcodes in its ears...) -- for that x86-64 is great, but from a practical perspective x86 and friends are bloated and less efficient than ARM. ARM can be licensed by anyone, and it's trimmed down and efficient. Geared for compilers, not overly cluttered with useless instructions you've got to emulate. I mean, under the hood it's all microcode, would it hurt to use a better API?
I would love to jump in and say how languages and chipsets don't matter because at the end of the day we're running highlevel code with abstractions atop them to insulate us from the underpinnings... But that's a fallacy. The truth is that I'll be writing my high level code once then testing it everywhere, on each platform, then making optimisations around bottlenecks -- business as usual. I experience less problems and fewer new bottlenecks in code compiled and executed (even JIT) across platforms with the same instruction sets. Completely ignoring the hardware is a sin, platform independence is a fine goal, but ultimately an illusion.
Come on Intel. x86 was great when we had to write op-codes by hand, but that's not the case anymore. Let's move on. x86 was so pervasive for so long because of the binary compatibility of applications. Take a hint from your own business -- Android is a new playground. It's time to adopt ARM and kick everyone's asses with your bad-ass fabrication tech. Otherwise, when we get down to the nuts and volts, your more complex chipset will always be less efficient than a more streamlined chipset could be, and on cheap Android systems, efficiency counts again.
I've got some ARM optimized native code in some of my Android code where needed. Yep, I've included a compatible bytecode version for platform 'independence', and that unoptimized crap is what'll execute on your Atom chip because the tiny fraction of market share of Android that's powered by Atom isn't enough to warrant me re-writing specific code just for it. In otherwords: You're pissing away your amazing feats in engineering just because of the BS instruction set -- My apps will run worse on a similarly spec'd Atom (or x86 desktop CPU -- yep, I multi-boot w/ an Android x86 port). I mean, Android is a new platform with new applications -- You don't have to be tied to x86 opcodes anymore!
Is it just a pride thing? Hell, if so, then come up with an even better set of instructions than x86(-64) or ARM and blow everyone away. No, Itanium wasn't it, besides HP originated that... Come on, I know you can do better than this -- but you keep trying to prove me wrong.
Oh, wait. Nevermind. I see the Microsofties you mentioned there. So, Android is basically just a threat to get a better volume license deal from MS? Android is a bargaining chip? You don't care if it runs apps like shite and you're actually hoping Windows will seem faster by comparrison to drive sales? Sad times...