"Counting on". Get a grip!
The UK's claim to Sealand is at least as strong as its claim on the Malvinas, or whatever the Imperialistic Brits calls it. The UK has _no_ history of good international behaviour. Not one decade has passed without some offensive that has caused a moral outcry.
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It's always been impolite, or bad etiquette, to forward emails in full or in part.
I'd be tempted to say that it always has been illegal, due to the fact that the original author has copyright whether or not he/she explicitly says so. Any legal sharps out there conform or deny that?
However, will they make eating peas by shovelling them onto your fork illegal next?
There's nothing stop any platform from implementing an OpenGL driver, so I don't understand how anything can be _more_ cross platform.
OpenGL ain't broken, we don't need a third 'standard', surely?
Indeed.
One thing that most people overlook is that Moore's Law is _not_ about processor speed, or throughput, but is actually about _gate density_.
Therefore we should hope to see the functional blocks become smaller as time progresses, so that their output is still available before the next clock edge where it will be routed to the next functional unit in the pipeline.
Note - frequencies have increased faster than densities, so at the moment it looks like it's a losing battle, however, this will simply force chip designers to come up with more fine-grained functional units (and possibly to expect mutiple clock tick latencies between some of the functional units). For example, DEC in their Alpha chips were looking at this kind of design, and AFAIR they were the first people to demonstrate the >1GHz general purpose CPU _many_ years ago (not a production system, a specially cooled unit as proof of principle), which bears out the correlation. (OK, it (the 21164) never reached production at that speed, but what the hell, they had newer chip designs to work on instead).
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"Counting on". Get a grip!
The UK's claim to Sealand is at least as strong as its claim on the Malvinas, or whatever the Imperialistic Brits calls it. The UK has _no_ history of good international behaviour. Not one decade has passed without some offensive that has caused a moral outcry.
THL
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It's always been impolite, or bad etiquette, to forward emails in full or in part.
I'd be tempted to say that it always has been illegal, due to the fact that the original author has copyright whether or not he/she explicitly says so. Any legal sharps out there conform or deny that?
However, will they make eating peas by shovelling them onto your fork illegal next?
THL
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There's nothing stop any platform from implementing an OpenGL driver, so I don't understand how anything can be _more_ cross platform.
OpenGL ain't broken, we don't need a third 'standard', surely?
THL
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Indeed.
One thing that most people overlook is that Moore's Law is _not_ about processor speed, or throughput, but is actually about _gate density_.
Therefore we should hope to see the functional blocks become smaller as time progresses, so that their output is still available before the next clock edge where it will be routed to the next functional unit in the pipeline.
Note - frequencies have increased faster than densities, so at the moment it looks like it's a losing battle, however, this will simply force chip designers to come up with more fine-grained functional units (and possibly to expect mutiple clock tick latencies between some of the functional units). For example, DEC in their Alpha chips were looking at this kind of design, and AFAIR they were the first people to demonstrate the >1GHz general purpose CPU _many_ years ago (not a production system, a specially cooled unit as proof of principle), which bears out the correlation. (OK, it (the 21164) never reached production at that speed, but what the hell, they had newer chip designs to work on instead).
THL
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If you can make 99.999998% pure gallium arsenide, why can't you make other things so pure?
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