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  1. Yes, it is true ..... on Amazon: Linux Saved Us Millions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    free is always cheaper! Awx

  2. DON'T F*CK WITH THE WEB DESIGNER ! on From Gang Bangers to Web Developers? · · Score: 1

    If your company hire such a web designer, no one will ever complain about it or it might be its last complain .... If you own a company and want to run the perfect network, hire one of this guyz : no one will ever complain. No complains => no prob => perfect network :)

  3. Re:Double-check your assumptions on More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer · · Score: 1

    My grand grand father's first car had only one gear : forward. Right now, he owns a car with 6 speeds gear box but he is stucking using the first one : why change the "good old driving method" ? You can tell me that automatic gear shifting does exist but why are those car racers using manual gear box ? to gain weight on the car ? Right now we are using automatic gearshifting, can't we go farther ? If computing is not about going faster and faster, why bother building new CPUs ?

  4. Point of view from a electronic/computing engineer on More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had to do a review of IA64 and I wanted to know what was AMD's response to Intel 64bit CPU and what was behind the "old" generations.

    Currently, 2/3 of a CPU is used to analyse/understand/reschedule the code send to the CPU. This part is very important and AMD seams to be better at this game than Intel. The code has to be reschedule so the different parts of the CPU that can work at the same time are efficiently loaded ....

    OK, let stop right now : why isn't the code already efficient ? Because the compiler does NOT care about the inner structure of the CPU so the CPU has to do all the real work.
    By keeping with the "good old architecure", AMD is trying to do in hard and in real time what a software (let's say a compiler:)) can do much more easily in a very long time. And a CPU can't see more than a few operations ahead whereas the compiler can see the WHOLE code.

    So, by removing all the optimisation crap from the CPU and showing the compiler what's reallly inside, Intel is on the right way. In current CPU, you have more than 40 registers, but you can access only 8 of them and the CPU has to "guess" what could be the best use of them.

    So, I think Intel's approch is the right one. Just recompile all your software : to run old stuff, use old hardware.

    I have datasheets and documents to comment about this and I would glady do it.