Actually, it isn't. The microcontroller is an Atmel AVR. The Arduino project is the processor, plus some standard hardware boards, plus a C++ programming environment that actually shields you from the bare metal.
Exactly. And when you have a big filesystem implementation in assembler, and you notice it's kinda slow because of some linear searches, you won't be tempted to rip out all the linear stuff, and replace it with a faster B-tree implementation, because it's too much work. Whereas in C, that would be a lot easier to do.
Yes, so we agree there's no point of writing the OS in assembly. And nobody in their right mind is going to write a modern standards compliant web browser in assembly. And it wouldn't even help, because it would still have to run bloated javascript.
But yet, you aren't using MenuetOS instead. And that's because it doesn't support the features you care about. And if somebody were to add all those features, it would take many years, and you'd end up with the same shit, plus some more bugs and memory leaks.
Memory has grown, and program memory usage has grown linearly with memory, or greater.
Because people want more features, not because they were written in a higher language.
now you have 16GB of RAM and you're swapping around 10GB of data; but swapping is not now 500 times faster, and so the bloat has slowed the machine.
I have 8GB of RAM in my PC, and 2GB of swap, none of which is currently used. And compared to my 486 with 16MB, everything is a lot faster, despite the bloat.
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and the Germans still paid more then they would with a more generous early bailout because they had to repeat the process
A more generous early bailout would have meant that the Greeks spent it even faster.
The ECB is threatening to stop providing "liquidity assistance" to Greek banks. Banks not the government
When the banks loan that money back to the government, it's the same.
No amount of pointing out that what we're seeing now is a repeat of innumerable previous changes
Please explain what is causing the changes we're seeing now. Magic ?
If it isn't, I'd be really cautious before trying to engineer the planet.
Depends on what that means. If it means reducing CO2 output to the same level it was a few decades ago, the risks are minimal.
It doesn't take much CPU power to saturate 100Mbps with static pages.
Arduino is a microcontroller, not a processor.
Actually, it isn't. The microcontroller is an Atmel AVR. The Arduino project is the processor, plus some standard hardware boards, plus a C++ programming environment that actually shields you from the bare metal.
Exactly. And when you have a big filesystem implementation in assembler, and you notice it's kinda slow because of some linear searches, you won't be tempted to rip out all the linear stuff, and replace it with a faster B-tree implementation, because it's too much work. Whereas in C, that would be a lot easier to do.
Rotating spindles may be real time, but probably not very fast, meaning that you have plenty of slack.
Yes, so we agree there's no point of writing the OS in assembly. And nobody in their right mind is going to write a modern standards compliant web browser in assembly. And it wouldn't even help, because it would still have to run bloated javascript.
But yet, you aren't using MenuetOS instead. And that's because it doesn't support the features you care about. And if somebody were to add all those features, it would take many years, and you'd end up with the same shit, plus some more bugs and memory leaks.
I don't know what you're doing, but I rarely see the OS use more than 1% of the CPU.
Doesn't help if you spend 99.9% of the time in user space, dealing with TBs of data on a disk.
Or a $10 ARM chip, programmed in C.
It's mostly faster because they left out all the things that were too hard in assembly.
Memory has grown, and program memory usage has grown linearly with memory, or greater.
Because people want more features, not because they were written in a higher language.
now you have 16GB of RAM and you're swapping around 10GB of data; but swapping is not now 500 times faster, and so the bloat has slowed the machine.
I have 8GB of RAM in my PC, and 2GB of swap, none of which is currently used. And compared to my 486 with 16MB, everything is a lot faster, despite the bloat.
Presumably they're thinking of some super-low footprint embedded devices, but still this seems like a lot more of a fun project than a viable product.
Memory is too cheap to write stuff in assembler.
- long term radiation effects outside the Earth's magnetosphere.
You die.
What would be to point of sending mice to Mars?
Because it's hard to type in a space suit.
but 'nerdy men' who are not sexist bitter asshats have no particular problem with women
Unless they're on the autism spectrum, which is pretty common among nerdy men.
Can't you just post a direct link ?
While few will have the tremendous insights of an Einstein, most people can observe, record, and _verify_ data
Dealing with customer bug reports, it has become very clear to me that most people are terrible observers.
You're actually the first the bring it up. Now add some content, and it will be a perfect post.
It's evolution in action. Men who don't "chase skirt" are not as likely to produce offspring, so that group has the tendency to stay small.
The global warming religious crowed needs to come to the realization that the earth IS affected by the sun
Yes, that's well understood. But the problem is that the sun has actually slightly decreased in average brightness since the '80s.
Here's a study dedicated to finding that out: http://darksnowproject.org/