I'm actually from the UK but live in the US as my wife is American. I pay taxes to the US, I live in the US, and abide by its rules. I also have to sign up for the draft to go fight for the US, yet I can't vote to determine who controls all of that.
Personally, I would vote for Bush, simply because I want Gore out. I'm sick of paying taxes to fund Gore / Clinton's latest 'project' for Deaf Blind Eskimo's in the US or whatever.
Gore/Clinton are firm in the belief that everyone should be equal, and try to balance it out by taxing the hard workering people to give to those that don't bother. Yet in all of this 'equality' I don't see Gore doing too badly for himself. Likewise with Clinton. They hiked taxes so much, and then he goes and doubles the presidents salary from $250K to $500K!!!! Yet at the same time he considers a family with an income of over $50K to be upper class! When Gore says he will cut taxes for middle class Americans, he is not talking about most of the people here (I am classifying most people here as employed IT people earning $50K). Even though most of us would consider ourselves to be middle class, the democrats would brand us upper class high wage earners, and tax us a lot more to fund their favorite federal run charity for the lazy-ass.
However, that said, I am no fan of Bush, but as always its a case of 'worst of two evils'. Overiall, I would like to see Nader have a good run, with the Democrats not winning, therefore, the only resolution to that end would be the Republicans winning.
Firstly, to tackle the issue of unlimited registers. I am guessing that you don't need to use unlimited registers, and the registers you create are assigned to actually physical registers as needed.
However, say you were working on a 68000 platform with 8 data registers, and 8 address registers. There would be nothing to stop your from only declaring those 16 registers, and nothing more. This is of course assuming that the compiler is intelligent enough to have those values constantly mapped.
The fact that the rest of the language is not proper ASM would cause problems because it would require the use of particular registers in order to carry out the function. So, you would not be able to perform nice functions like loading often used values in a procedure into the regaisters because its very likely that the higher level / macro type functions will remove them.
What I would LOVE to see (and I am sure a lot of people would agreement) is a whole new platform altogether. A brand new processor, a new OS, new apps built from the ground up from what we know is required today, and with what we know will be required tomorrow.
I could see something like this being a hobbyist machine for the longest time, and relatively expensive, but given the open source movement working in a brand new arena would attract people, and as a result, attract applications.
The Amiga was earth shattering when it came along, in a day when a new platform could be released and obtain market share. The idea of just using VM's is nothing new, and from most point of views, not too efficient. I'd kill to get some new platform, and new development tools, and hack away like the old days.........
aaahhhhh........
As soon as someone comes out with scientific proof of something, you may as well plan for them reversing the decision down the line....
For years, we have had scares over beef, eggs, nutrasweet, alcohol, butter, greenhouse gases, the rising temperatures, playing video games, swimming within an hour of eating etc...All of which have been disproved to some degree or other.
Its the same with new technology, like the processors made out of 2 single molecules, or a slugs fart or whatever. 'Don't expect these devices anytime soon'...Sorry, but I was waiting for Satan himself to go buy some ice skates before I see those devices.
I'm off to go fly my kite near some power lines while sucking some sticks of butter followed by a nice evening of saying 'bloody mary' 3 times in the mirror constantly.
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, I would vote for Bush, simply because I want Gore out. I'm sick of paying taxes to fund Gore / Clinton's latest 'project' for Deaf Blind Eskimo's in the US or whatever.
Gore/Clinton are firm in the belief that everyone should be equal, and try to balance it out by taxing the hard workering people to give to those that don't bother. Yet in all of this 'equality' I don't see Gore doing too badly for himself. Likewise with Clinton. They hiked taxes so much, and then he goes and doubles the presidents salary from $250K to $500K!!!! Yet at the same time he considers a family with an income of over $50K to be upper class! When Gore says he will cut taxes for middle class Americans, he is not talking about most of the people here (I am classifying most people here as employed IT people earning $50K). Even though most of us would consider ourselves to be middle class, the democrats would brand us upper class high wage earners, and tax us a lot more to fund their favorite federal run charity for the lazy-ass.
However, that said, I am no fan of Bush, but as always its a case of 'worst of two evils'. Overiall, I would like to see Nader have a good run, with the Democrats not winning, therefore, the only resolution to that end would be the Republicans winning.
Firstly, to tackle the issue of unlimited registers. I am guessing that you don't need to use unlimited registers, and the registers you create are assigned to actually physical registers as needed. However, say you were working on a 68000 platform with 8 data registers, and 8 address registers. There would be nothing to stop your from only declaring those 16 registers, and nothing more. This is of course assuming that the compiler is intelligent enough to have those values constantly mapped. The fact that the rest of the language is not proper ASM would cause problems because it would require the use of particular registers in order to carry out the function. So, you would not be able to perform nice functions like loading often used values in a procedure into the regaisters because its very likely that the higher level / macro type functions will remove them. What I would LOVE to see (and I am sure a lot of people would agreement) is a whole new platform altogether. A brand new processor, a new OS, new apps built from the ground up from what we know is required today, and with what we know will be required tomorrow. I could see something like this being a hobbyist machine for the longest time, and relatively expensive, but given the open source movement working in a brand new arena would attract people, and as a result, attract applications. The Amiga was earth shattering when it came along, in a day when a new platform could be released and obtain market share. The idea of just using VM's is nothing new, and from most point of views, not too efficient. I'd kill to get some new platform, and new development tools, and hack away like the old days......... aaahhhhh........
As soon as someone comes out with scientific proof of something, you may as well plan for them reversing the decision down the line.... For years, we have had scares over beef, eggs, nutrasweet, alcohol, butter, greenhouse gases, the rising temperatures, playing video games, swimming within an hour of eating etc...All of which have been disproved to some degree or other. Its the same with new technology, like the processors made out of 2 single molecules, or a slugs fart or whatever. 'Don't expect these devices anytime soon'...Sorry, but I was waiting for Satan himself to go buy some ice skates before I see those devices. I'm off to go fly my kite near some power lines while sucking some sticks of butter followed by a nice evening of saying 'bloody mary' 3 times in the mirror constantly.