(3) Almost all ARM based designs end up with more discrete parts for comparable functionality x86 designs, due to lack of an ISA for ARM leading to something similar to the x86 ISA's common bridge chipset functionality
I had to look it up since avian anatomy isn't common knowledge aside from which piece is which in a bucket o' KFC.
It's the part of their esophagus that can store food for later regurgitation to their chicks. So basically they throw it up. Wikipedia also describes it as looking like "pale yellow cottage cheese".
Only by accident. If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead.
Except for the minor difference that a Soyuz has a parachute. As I recall, the main problem was that the launch failed to go high enough. They likely could have separated the crew module and fired the parachutes.
The US suffered some catastrophic tragedies with Columbia and Challenger, losing 7 astronauts per incident.
The root cause of the Columbia and Challenger incidents can be blamed on putting the crew vehicle on the side of the rocketry rather than on top. (We're not planning to do that again.) Other than that we only lost three on the ground from failing to understand how fire works, and avoided losing three more in space to an actual accident.
it would likely be easier to bodge one on to an x86 motherboard
Sure, if you could find one with a proper FSB to interface with the bridge chips, instead of the vendor-specific SoC garbage you usually get. Your I/O bandwidth wouldn't be great (like Apple in the G3/G4 era when Motorola/Freescale couldn't do better than 133-166MHz FSB), but performance wouldn't really be a goal.
a full x86 laptop that can also run an embedded ARM simultaneously
Now there's a losing bet. Never in the history of personal computing has a hybrid-processor system had any long-term success*, only in video game consoles where the manufacturer forced it on developers (with the promise of manufacturing that identical system for multiple years).
However, I will admit that there has been some minor success with a hybrid GPU system. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop that can automatically switch between on-board Intel graphics and a proper GPU. But GPU stuff goes through enough abstraction layers that it basically doesn't matter what GPU you use.
*FWIW, I once worked with an Ohio Scientific C3P that was only used to run 6502 BASIC for two users.
Those are merely a subclass of the ARM PC retards. They're in the Linux community, too. Had one recently griping that the Straberry Pi didn't have a PCI Express slot. While I think it would be cool to have an ARM CPU with a PC I/O system, most ARM are SoC and even when they have external Flash and SDRAM interfaces, they still don't have a general FSB. When they do have a PCI interface, the general intent is for them to be on a daughtercard.
More to the point, however, if these flocks can start usefully communicating with the humans that they interact with, there will be very strong evolutionary pressure to improve the communication. That is what I see as the real significance here.
Great. Now instead of pigeons keeping to themselves and waiting for people to throw bread at them, we'll get urban parrots running up to us screeching "Awwwk! Gimme some bread, man!"
Because I have yet to find their music for sale here in the USA on a store shelf. If I do, it will be an immediate purchase. Physical CD copies only, please, I don't buy "music store" MP3s, nor do I do mail order.
You're not in the USA, are you? Over here we have "fairness" in our schools such that the victim is given equal punishment to the agressor for fighting back just a little bit. (Yes, it's stupid.)
I wouldn't call this "trolling". When you're baiting random people, even a group of like-minded people, that's trolling. That's why it's called trolling, as in trolling for fish/newbies/etc.
When you're targeting one specific person, that's called "harassment".
The people who make such lame music these days that I don't even want to pirate it, that's who. That basically leaves me with one Wierd Al disc every few years, though I do buy used CDs from time to time.
When I download music, it's mostly from JASRAC artists, and a bit of whatever Germany's group is. (I love me some Eisbrescher.)
Back in the day I used a Polapulse battery to power a TRS-80 Model 100, partly because I was too cheap to burn AAs in the thing, partly because I was too cheap to just throw away the Polapulse batteries, and mostly because it was such a cool idea. The only problem was that I never could get a reliable enough connection to those contacts, so I switched to lugging around a 6V lantern battery instead. Years later I got a solar cell pack (about 100 sq in) for a Powerbook 145. It used the exact same plug with opposite polarity, so I made an adaptor cable and the Model 100 could run completely off of the solar cell.
I hope TIP gets their chemistry right soon, the SX-70 was some brilliant technology for its day.
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...and that was apparently due to a fault in the engines.
A380 has 5000-ft cabin pressure, 787 has 6000-ft cabin pressure
Well, duh, that's because the A380 uses PAL and the 787 uses NTSC.
It's those Italian particle drivers.
So... read old password, change password, create root shell via sudo, change password back, make me some sandwiches?
(3) Almost all ARM based designs end up with more discrete parts for comparable functionality x86 designs, due to lack of an ISA for ARM leading to something similar to the x86 ISA's common bridge chipset functionality
You keep using that word. I don't think you know what that word means.
I apparently messed the link to crop.
I had to look it up since avian anatomy isn't common knowledge aside from which piece is which in a bucket o' KFC.
It's the part of their esophagus that can store food for later regurgitation to their chicks. So basically they throw it up. Wikipedia also describes it as looking like "pale yellow cottage cheese".
Yum.
...and if you have to move to a different IP address, just post the new address on slashdot!
But will the EPA let you get away with storing large quantities of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
I had to use a compiler. But at least it only had to compile to platform-independent byte codes.
proff raeding
WOOOSH!
That was the sound of the joke flying over your head at 500 MPH.
Only by accident. If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead.
Except for the minor difference that a Soyuz has a parachute. As I recall, the main problem was that the launch failed to go high enough. They likely could have separated the crew module and fired the parachutes.
The US suffered some catastrophic tragedies with Columbia and Challenger, losing 7 astronauts per incident.
The root cause of the Columbia and Challenger incidents can be blamed on putting the crew vehicle on the side of the rocketry rather than on top. (We're not planning to do that again.) Other than that we only lost three on the ground from failing to understand how fire works, and avoided losing three more in space to an actual accident.
it would likely be easier to bodge one on to an x86 motherboard
Sure, if you could find one with a proper FSB to interface with the bridge chips, instead of the vendor-specific SoC garbage you usually get. Your I/O bandwidth wouldn't be great (like Apple in the G3/G4 era when Motorola/Freescale couldn't do better than 133-166MHz FSB), but performance wouldn't really be a goal.
a full x86 laptop that can also run an embedded ARM simultaneously
Now there's a losing bet. Never in the history of personal computing has a hybrid-processor system had any long-term success*, only in video game consoles where the manufacturer forced it on developers (with the promise of manufacturing that identical system for multiple years).
However, I will admit that there has been some minor success with a hybrid GPU system. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop that can automatically switch between on-board Intel graphics and a proper GPU. But GPU stuff goes through enough abstraction layers that it basically doesn't matter what GPU you use.
*FWIW, I once worked with an Ohio Scientific C3P that was only used to run 6502 BASIC for two users.
Those are merely a subclass of the ARM PC retards. They're in the Linux community, too. Had one recently griping that the Straberry Pi didn't have a PCI Express slot. While I think it would be cool to have an ARM CPU with a PC I/O system, most ARM are SoC and even when they have external Flash and SDRAM interfaces, they still don't have a general FSB. When they do have a PCI interface, the general intent is for them to be on a daughtercard.
More to the point, however, if these flocks can start usefully communicating with the humans that they interact with, there will be very strong evolutionary pressure to improve the communication. That is what I see as the real significance here.
Great. Now instead of pigeons keeping to themselves and waiting for people to throw bread at them, we'll get urban parrots running up to us screeching "Awwwk! Gimme some bread, man!"
Because I have yet to find their music for sale here in the USA on a store shelf. If I do, it will be an immediate purchase. Physical CD copies only, please, I don't buy "music store" MP3s, nor do I do mail order.
"Free speech" does not give you the right to harass another individual person, or to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre.
You're not in the USA, are you? Over here we have "fairness" in our schools such that the victim is given equal punishment to the agressor for fighting back just a little bit. (Yes, it's stupid.)
I wouldn't call this "trolling". When you're baiting random people, even a group of like-minded people, that's trolling. That's why it's called trolling, as in trolling for fish/newbies/etc.
When you're targeting one specific person, that's called "harassment".
Dammit, I've got to stop posting at 6AM when I'm too slow at seeing the full context. Top of thread is yet another "ARM PC" retard.
You are deluded if you think a Core i7 is going to come remotely close to touching an ARM in low power usage.
Who is stopping you from buying RIAA music?
The people who make such lame music these days that I don't even want to pirate it, that's who. That basically leaves me with one Wierd Al disc every few years, though I do buy used CDs from time to time.
When I download music, it's mostly from JASRAC artists, and a bit of whatever Germany's group is. (I love me some Eisbrescher.)
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
Back in the day I used a Polapulse battery to power a TRS-80 Model 100, partly because I was too cheap to burn AAs in the thing, partly because I was too cheap to just throw away the Polapulse batteries, and mostly because it was such a cool idea. The only problem was that I never could get a reliable enough connection to those contacts, so I switched to lugging around a 6V lantern battery instead. Years later I got a solar cell pack (about 100 sq in) for a Powerbook 145. It used the exact same plug with opposite polarity, so I made an adaptor cable and the Model 100 could run completely off of the solar cell.
I hope TIP gets their chemistry right soon, the SX-70 was some brilliant technology for its day.
It sounds like what 4chan /tv/ does every Monday night when there's a new House episode on.