I like your use of "necessarily." I'll need to work that into my daily usage;-) But I respectfully suggest you're neglecting history.
CISC comes from an age of assembly-language. It got so extreme some had polynomial evaluation as an instruction.
RISC comes from an age of compilers. It is a refinement of CISC, based on observing which instructions actually get used and how.
Please note that I don't mean that compilers didn't exist before RISC, it's just that in the late 70s when x86 was designed, a hell of a lot of stuff was done with assembly. Also, Jimmy Carter was President and the Bee Gees were selling millions of albums a year.
I'm sure you know all this, thus your clever "necessarily." But I'll continue for the benefit of any youngsters;-)
CISC can have dozens of addressing modes. "Load indexed scaled adjusted and postincrement the index" and every imaginable permutation. Your CPU would suffer as it slogged through all the decoding.
It turns out that to get speed, people just did all the indexing and scaling and whatnot explicitly. The CISC processor was being fed a stream of simple instructions which it didn't have to chew on.
So folks started making chips that ditched all the complex stuff, and we got RISC, which have less than a handful of addressing modes. Effective address calculation was done explicitly, just like all the smart kids were driving their CISC chips anyway.
Turns out that sometimes it's good to have a little complexity. For instance, if it doesn't hurt anything to have a complex multiply+add instruction instead of a multiply followed by an add, and you sell into markets that can use such a tweak, why not?
Motorola's AltiVec is a further example of "enhanced RISC."
Thus was born "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC," or POWER. Apple needed a RISC chip, enacted a shotgun menage-a-trois with IBM and Moto, and we got PowerPC.
A POWER architecture is two stages of refinement past CISC. Add to this the fact that x86 is pretty much the worst CISC architecture ever -- 68000 was so superior -- PowerPC is a much better, more refined chip than any x86.
If only Moto didn't suck at building PowerPC! What is wrong with their fabs? There's something seriously bad going on there, such a shame since Moto has proven design genius with 68000 and AltiVec.
In more fairness to the Dark Side, x86 vendors no longer directly execute the crufty x86 ISA. They translate the instruction stream to something that gets executed by a much better architecture than x86, "micro-ops" for a "core." In these cores, they've been able to incorporate a lot of RISC-like improvements, scalar-ness and whatnot.
Whenever a big piece of military hardware is decommissioned, install it somewhere on this Orion ship. Sidewinders, old A-10 guns that fire depleted uranium,...
Sidewinders are little bitty short-range missiles. If you want decom'd big AAM (SSM?), shop for Phoenix! Bring lots of money.
Also, the best use of an old A-10 gun would be in a new A-10, but fat chance....
Apple's Text to Speech technology rules. Now my Mac talks to me when certain events occur, "Mutha Fucka! E-Mail Server Down!", "Some asshole is NMAPn' me!!!".
I've taught my iBook to speak Sanskrit, so it's a Porta-Lama (use Bruce voice, slow speed (or Bubbles, I don't care)):
From the centruhl realm, Gana vie oo huh.
The Bood huh Vie rocana.
Shines bryetest white.
From the eastern realm, Ah birati.
The Bood huh, Ackshobe yuh.
Shines bryetest blue.
From the southern realm, Shree maht.
The Bood Huh, Raht nah Sambhava.
Shines bryetest gold.
From the western realm Sue kha vati.
The Bood huh, Ah mee tah buh.
Shines bryetest red.
From the northern realm Prakuta.
The Bood huh, Amoghasiddhi.
Shines bryetest green.
I like how some words just work without mangling!
Then speed up the voice for Pure Land fun,
Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh
Notice how the voice will pause to catch its breath! How cool.
Part of the problem is that "proprietary" has become a meaningless buzzword. Like its abuse in Dell commercials, as if anyone could make a Xeon or something with NetBurst architecture and not get sued to death by Intel. We have a generation of Idiot Technology know-nothings who call plugging cards into a backplane "building a computer." Intel and Microsoft have done a wonderful job of dumbing-down these folks so much they don't even know the meaning of the word "proprietary" that they sling around as if it was a curse.
OSX is a classic example of how companies add lots of useless features just to make a product more screen-shot worthy (i.e., animations, glassy effects, the whole Aqua appearance), despite the fact that those features don't really offer any advantages to the user.
Oh, horseshit. The drop shadows are great, and they replace pixel-wasting window frames. Once they're drawn, they just sit there. They don't use CPU. The animations do, but only when they're animating. I run on 300MHz G3s, so I'm very (but not too painfully) aware of exactly when the UI uses the CPU, I can see it.
You only have one mouse, how many windows can you resize, apps do you set a-hoppin' in your dock at a time?
Now, I hate the "lined" appearance. Looks awful, and I've heard it causes headaches. Toolbars get the same dumb lines as title bars, yuck. But the drop shadows are wonderful, and animations only hog when they're alive. I'll just live with the lines.
Could someone please point me at some gigaflops numbers for x86 chips?
I'm on my fifth Google "pentium gigaflop" and so on, telling it to ignore pages with "G4" and "Apple" because there are so many G4 worship pages, and I can't find squat about x86 floating-point performance.
I'm tempted to wonder aloud if x86 has any floating-point performance to speak of, but that would be trolling;-)
If he personally is caught, he just gets sent to a minimum security country club for a few months.
Did you happen to see "Nachman" on PMSNBC last night? He got all weepy over the fate of a friend of his who was in a low-security prison. Nachman said that it was not a "country club," and that life was hard because the inmates did not have a choice of where to eat for breakfast.
I've got to wonder, with their employees flying cover like this -- just how many trillions of dollars of fraud Microsoft is responsible for. Wouldn't want to see Gates get pounded in the ass, would we?
You need to spray with pesticides as you're now growing a monoculture Western-style.
There ain't no damn "monoculture" in "Western" agriculture. There is crop rotation, and fallowing of fields. If you need Latinate words to help you feel intelligent, you could call those practices "polyculture" and "omniculture." In the rural US, people are taught this from birth.
All your other points are wrong, too.
Get your dumb ass out of the brainless leftist college classrooms and talk to an aggie.
Which United States do you live in? Last month at the G8 summit, the topic of discussion for the second day was to be aid for Africa, and investment in Africa. All Pres. Bush wanted to discuss was getting support from the G8 to bomb Iraq into a new stone age.
Prime Minister Cretien commited to $150 million in aid and development, plus increasing trade with Africa, but Bush wouldn't commit to anything.
The PM doesn't want to give them the proverbial fish, he wants to teach them to fish, and promises to buy those fish later. Sending these people corn won't solve their problems (corrupt governments), there needs to be a long term solution, which the U.S. won't commit to.
Because no matter what long term solution the United States is involved in, some stupid twerp will complain that all the US wants to do is "bomb them into a new stone age."
- USPS has very strict government regulations regarding privacy. Less distribution of your email address.
- USPS is non-profit. Less *motivation* to sell your email address. We wouldn't get more spam... instead, we'd be reasonably sure that if we never gave out our email addresses, we'd never get *any* spam. Not so with many (most?) of today's ISPs.
You have got to be kidding. USPS delivers kilotons of JUNK MAIL (yes I'm yelling) each and every day. Worse than spam, much, much, much worse.
Of course there are mac users that always log in as root
root login is disabled in Mac OS X unless the user turns it on with NetInfo. Your statement is probably still true, but it's also true people who do "have asked for it!"
1. What is the "core team"?
2. How long has JKH been on the core?
3. Where does JKH currently work?
4. Will JKH be replaced? Where on the net can you find procedures detailing this process?
5. Do some research. How many people have been removed from the core? How many people have resigned from the core? What happens when a person quits the core team?
But what does any of that have to do with a rhetorical request to
I got one of those 1998 K6-II's that didn't run Linux. Have heard of similar problems with AMD's latest. The re-warmed disco-era garbage that is x86-64 is disappointing beyond belief.
I suppose I'll have to wait for EPIC to upgrade my little toy computer.
As reparations for breaking the law, force them to issue free copies of software to schools in poor neighborhoods,
The problem with simple solutions is that they are wrong. The educational market is one of the few where MS doesn't have a monopoly, and your "solution" is for MS to dump cheap crap on schools.
look at what happenned to the baby bells
The breakup of AT&T lead to widespread use of the Internet.
A proper punishment for the criminal Microsoft can lead to similar boons.
The set decorator could have gone through thrift stores in Austin, TX looking for cheap software and finding those old classics.
That's probably what it is. My friend's handwriting appears on a box in the movie. He works for The State (of Texas, is there any other?) and they throw away lots of boxes, and some of them ended up in Office Space.
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If they weren't so stupid, the 'cheap hardware' idiots would realize they are comparing a disposable Bic to a Zippo.
And, that PeeCee would not run Linux until I painfully admitted that AMD is shit. My Mac offered more OS choices.
To stay on PeeCee for seven years means replacing it 3 times.
Of course, most of these 'cheap hardware idiots' aren't much more than seven years old themselves.
I like your use of "necessarily." I'll need to work that into my daily usage ;-) But I respectfully suggest you're neglecting history.
CISC comes from an age of assembly-language. It got so extreme some had polynomial evaluation as an instruction.
RISC comes from an age of compilers. It is a refinement of CISC, based on observing which instructions actually get used and how.
Please note that I don't mean that compilers didn't exist before RISC, it's just that in the late 70s when x86 was designed, a hell of a lot of stuff was done with assembly. Also, Jimmy Carter was President and the Bee Gees were selling millions of albums a year.
I'm sure you know all this, thus your clever "necessarily." But I'll continue for the benefit of any youngsters ;-)
CISC can have dozens of addressing modes. "Load indexed scaled adjusted and postincrement the index" and every imaginable permutation. Your CPU would suffer as it slogged through all the decoding.
It turns out that to get speed, people just did all the indexing and scaling and whatnot explicitly. The CISC processor was being fed a stream of simple instructions which it didn't have to chew on.
So folks started making chips that ditched all the complex stuff, and we got RISC, which have less than a handful of addressing modes. Effective address calculation was done explicitly, just like all the smart kids were driving their CISC chips anyway.
Turns out that sometimes it's good to have a little complexity. For instance, if it doesn't hurt anything to have a complex multiply+add instruction instead of a multiply followed by an add, and you sell into markets that can use such a tweak, why not?
Motorola's AltiVec is a further example of "enhanced RISC."
Thus was born "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC," or POWER. Apple needed a RISC chip, enacted a shotgun menage-a-trois with IBM and Moto, and we got PowerPC.
A POWER architecture is two stages of refinement past CISC. Add to this the fact that x86 is pretty much the worst CISC architecture ever -- 68000 was so superior -- PowerPC is a much better, more refined chip than any x86.
If only Moto didn't suck at building PowerPC! What is wrong with their fabs? There's something seriously bad going on there, such a shame since Moto has proven design genius with 68000 and AltiVec.
In more fairness to the Dark Side, x86 vendors no longer directly execute the crufty x86 ISA. They translate the instruction stream to something that gets executed by a much better architecture than x86, "micro-ops" for a "core." In these cores, they've been able to incorporate a lot of RISC-like improvements, scalar-ness and whatnot.
Sidewinders are little bitty short-range missiles. If you want decom'd big AAM (SSM?), shop for Phoenix! Bring lots of money.
Also, the best use of an old A-10 gun would be in a new A-10, but fat chance....
I've taught my iBook to speak Sanskrit, so it's a Porta-Lama (use Bruce voice, slow speed (or Bubbles, I don't care)):
From the centruhl realm, Gana vie oo huh.
The Bood huh Vie rocana.
Shines bryetest white.
From the eastern realm, Ah birati.
The Bood huh, Ackshobe yuh.
Shines bryetest blue.
From the southern realm, Shree maht.
The Bood Huh, Raht nah Sambhava.
Shines bryetest gold.
From the western realm Sue kha vati.
The Bood huh, Ah mee tah buh.
Shines bryetest red.
From the northern realm Prakuta.
The Bood huh, Amoghasiddhi.
Shines bryetest green.
I like how some words just work without mangling!
Then speed up the voice for Pure Land fun,
Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh Ah mee tah buh
Notice how the voice will pause to catch its breath! How cool.
Lipstick + Pig = Supermodel, eh?
Part of the problem is that "proprietary" has become a meaningless buzzword. Like its abuse in Dell commercials, as if anyone could make a Xeon or something with NetBurst architecture and not get sued to death by Intel. We have a generation of Idiot Technology know-nothings who call plugging cards into a backplane "building a computer." Intel and Microsoft have done a wonderful job of dumbing-down these folks so much they don't even know the meaning of the word "proprietary" that they sling around as if it was a curse.
Oh, horseshit. The drop shadows are great, and they replace pixel-wasting window frames. Once they're drawn, they just sit there. They don't use CPU. The animations do, but only when they're animating. I run on 300MHz G3s, so I'm very (but not too painfully) aware of exactly when the UI uses the CPU, I can see it.
You only have one mouse, how many windows can you resize, apps do you set a-hoppin' in your dock at a time?
Now, I hate the "lined" appearance. Looks awful, and I've heard it causes headaches. Toolbars get the same dumb lines as title bars, yuck. But the drop shadows are wonderful, and animations only hog when they're alive. I'll just live with the lines.
They all use Windows because its too scary to step into unix.
I really do worry about this when I'm driving across bridges.
Single-precision is fine for AV -- any accumulated error gets erased with the next keyframe ;-) And handtuning vector code is my idea of "fun."
I'm on my fifth Google "pentium gigaflop" and so on, telling it to ignore pages with "G4" and "Apple" because there are so many G4 worship pages, and I can't find squat about x86 floating-point performance.
I'm tempted to wonder aloud if x86 has any floating-point performance to speak of, but that would be trolling ;-)
That would mean that the incumbents pay for the campaigns. So nobody new would ever get in.
Anyway, "the people" are the ones paying for the campaigns right now. Corporations are (made of) "the people."
Just require full disclosure so we can see who the Senators from WorldCom are.
Did you happen to see "Nachman" on PMSNBC last night? He got all weepy over the fate of a friend of his who was in a low-security prison. Nachman said that it was not a "country club," and that life was hard because the inmates did not have a choice of where to eat for breakfast.
I've got to wonder, with their employees flying cover like this -- just how many trillions of dollars of fraud Microsoft is responsible for. Wouldn't want to see Gates get pounded in the ass, would we?
There ain't no damn "monoculture" in "Western" agriculture. There is crop rotation, and fallowing of fields. If you need Latinate words to help you feel intelligent, you could call those practices "polyculture" and "omniculture." In the rural US, people are taught this from birth.
All your other points are wrong, too.
Get your dumb ass out of the brainless leftist college classrooms and talk to an aggie.
Prime Minister Cretien commited to $150 million in aid and development, plus increasing trade with Africa, but Bush wouldn't commit to anything.
The PM doesn't want to give them the proverbial fish, he wants to teach them to fish, and promises to buy those fish later. Sending these people corn won't solve their problems (corrupt governments), there needs to be a long term solution, which the U.S. won't commit to.
Because no matter what long term solution the United States is involved in, some stupid twerp will complain that all the US wants to do is "bomb them into a new stone age."
- USPS is non-profit. Less *motivation* to sell your email address. We wouldn't get more spam... instead, we'd be reasonably sure that if we never gave out our email addresses, we'd never get *any* spam. Not so with many (most?) of today's ISPs.
You have got to be kidding. USPS delivers kilotons of JUNK MAIL (yes I'm yelling) each and every day. Worse than spam, much, much, much worse.
Not all businesses are run by predatory immoral bastards.
Evidently some are run and populated by sanctimonious shit-heads.
Leftists aren't being compared to Nazis, so Godwin's Leftist/Fascist Apologetic is not needed.
It took this long for you to figure it out? ;-)
because the Supreme Court ruled today that executing retards is cruel and unusual.bb
Snort -- faux Objectivist committing collectivist computing.
root login is disabled in Mac OS X unless the user turns it on with NetInfo. Your statement is probably still true, but it's also true people who do "have asked for it!"
2. How long has JKH been on the core?
3. Where does JKH currently work?
4. Will JKH be replaced? Where on the net can you find procedures detailing this process?
5. Do some research. How many people have been removed from the core? How many people have resigned from the core? What happens when a person quits the core team?
But what does any of that have to do with a rhetorical request to
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Jordan Hubbards
Yours as well?
I got one of those 1998 K6-II's that didn't run Linux. Have heard of similar problems with AMD's latest. The re-warmed disco-era garbage that is x86-64 is disappointing beyond belief.
I suppose I'll have to wait for EPIC to upgrade my little toy computer.
The problem with simple solutions is that they are wrong. The educational market is one of the few where MS doesn't have a monopoly, and your "solution" is for MS to dump cheap crap on schools.
look at what happenned to the baby bells
The breakup of AT&T lead to widespread use of the Internet. A proper punishment for the criminal Microsoft can lead to similar boons.
That's probably what it is. My friend's handwriting appears on a box in the movie. He works for The State (of Texas, is there any other?) and they throw away lots of boxes, and some of them ended up in Office Space.