You make no point. Hughes is winning this on a technical front. I personally root for them to be these hackers. "Right to the airwaves" my ass. What kind of idiotic argument is "it doesn't cost them anything" - do you think Hughes is getting these commercial fees for free? You're an idiot, and your argument is pathetic. Go ahead - try to decrypt it "since it's in the air". And Hughes will hopefully outsmart you and make the signal impossible to decode illegally.
It's not a fad, it's been around for decades, it's been used to develop countless professional grade applications.
I have a suspicion this article was written by TopMind (a semi-kook who posts to comp.object). He's not without his points, and OO isn't perfect in every situation, but this article was just plain silly.
I'm reading a lot of ridiculous comments, most of them centered around how the PIV handles current code. Fine - don't buy one yet.
But you're neglecting what appears to be Intel's strategy. For now, push the PIII. Probably until mid next year. By that time, the compilers will be ready and PIV will probably be at 2.0Ghz. Considering the fact that with optimized code the PIV outperforms anything out there (yes, including AMD) in many benchmarks _now_, I'd say unless AMD comes up with something fast they'll be WAY behind the performance curve by then.
The shrink to.13 will help tremendously, as well.
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You make no point. Hughes is winning this on a technical front. I personally root for them to be these hackers. "Right to the airwaves" my ass. What kind of idiotic argument is "it doesn't cost them anything" - do you think Hughes is getting these commercial fees for free? You're an idiot, and your argument is pathetic. Go ahead - try to decrypt it "since it's in the air". And Hughes will hopefully outsmart you and make the signal impossible to decode illegally.
It's not a fad, it's been around for decades, it's been used to develop countless professional grade applications.
I have a suspicion this article was written by TopMind (a semi-kook who posts to comp.object). He's not without his points, and OO isn't perfect in every situation, but this article was just plain silly.
"It's a fad." Yeah. Sure.
I'm reading a lot of ridiculous comments, most of them centered around how the PIV handles current code. Fine - don't buy one yet. .13 will help tremendously, as well.
But you're neglecting what appears to be Intel's strategy. For now, push the PIII. Probably until mid next year. By that time, the compilers will be ready and PIV will probably be at 2.0Ghz. Considering the fact that with optimized code the PIV outperforms anything out there (yes, including AMD) in many benchmarks _now_, I'd say unless AMD comes up with something fast they'll be WAY behind the performance curve by then.
The shrink to