It doesn't do any good to just keep talking about how we are getting screwed by the media corporations and their bought-and-paid-for senators and house representatives. We must organize ourselves and work as a single over-whelming force against these greedy bastards.
Okay... sounds like you are telling everybody that they don't know what they are talking about and that YOU do...
The whole idea behind the continuing x86 line since the early 1980's has been to preserve software investments. This idea has carried through well and was a main selling point put out by Intel itself. There is nothing particularly wonderful about the Itanium instruction set over the x86 set. Any new or rehashed ways of performing a function in one instruction set can just as easily be implemented in the other and extensions to the x86 set can always be added.
Intel's bright idea of going against all previous logic and making its' new flagship processor 100% non-backwards compatible with current software makes no sense. The guys at Intel that thought this one up should have their heads examined.
Your argument about the Opteron memory controller onboard is a non-issue. Hey at least it works which is more than can be said about some of Intel's latest solutions.
ZDNet was just a high priced bulletin board for the likes of Microsoft, Intel, and the other big guns. No real input, only BS. The reader feedback sections were ran by ZDNet trolls catering to its' advertisers. Good riddance ZDNet, you won't be missed.
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It doesn't do any good to just keep talking about how we are getting screwed by the media corporations and their bought-and-paid-for senators and house representatives. We must organize ourselves and work as a single over-whelming force against these greedy bastards.
Okay... sounds like you are telling everybody that they don't know what they are talking about and that YOU do... The whole idea behind the continuing x86 line since the early 1980's has been to preserve software investments. This idea has carried through well and was a main selling point put out by Intel itself. There is nothing particularly wonderful about the Itanium instruction set over the x86 set. Any new or rehashed ways of performing a function in one instruction set can just as easily be implemented in the other and extensions to the x86 set can always be added. Intel's bright idea of going against all previous logic and making its' new flagship processor 100% non-backwards compatible with current software makes no sense. The guys at Intel that thought this one up should have their heads examined. Your argument about the Opteron memory controller onboard is a non-issue. Hey at least it works which is more than can be said about some of Intel's latest solutions.
ZDNet was just a high priced bulletin board for the likes of Microsoft, Intel, and the other big guns. No real input, only BS. The reader feedback sections were ran by ZDNet trolls catering to its' advertisers. Good riddance ZDNet, you won't be missed.