Impressive NEC managed avoided a mention here (except indirectly, within the Pioneer LaserActive. I guess the PC-FX was excluded because it never made it to our shores, but what about the SuperGrafx?
There was also that PC Engine laptop which I believe weighed 20 pounds and sold for $15,000.
Oops, my mistake about the addressing amount. Dunno where I got 2 TB from...:/ Anyway, I wasn't saying that 32 bits is enough, but it will be a little while longer before any but the most freakish of *personal* computers addresses more then 4 GB of RAM. But in my opinion, whether 32 or 64 bits, this is a long-overdue update.
As for hard drives, in x86 boxes there's worse technologies holding them back then lack of address space. I'd rather see the pain and inefficiency named EIDE be disposed of.
However, in real life, resupply isn't a matter of picking up extra rockets off your enemies that are somehow the correct caliber and design to fit in your weapon.
Consequentially, you tend to save high-powered ammunition for the situations that require them.
64-bit processing allows the system to address larger amounts of data. It doesn't matter much to consumers yet, as 32 bits are enough to handle a couple terabytes' worth. In fact, 64-bit is actually slightly more error-prone then 32-bit processing (but the other improvements should offset this.)
What does matter to consumers is that AMD's 64-bit mode adds extra registers and makes existing ones larger, significantly widening one of the worst bottlenecks of the x86 architecture.
You don't like the X system of copy/pasting? Wow. I couldn't live without it... sure, it's not as foolproof, but it's most definately easier on my hands.
Ever heard the phrase "tyranny of the majority"?
Cruel and blatantly odd laws would exist, they'd just be created by the voters rather then the corporations.
It's quite possible that we would still have slavery, lynchings, child labor and even worse institutions if the average person could change the law rather then have to open his mind. (Which is just what corporations do.)
/* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up... */
linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:
while ((h = get_next_corpse(kill, data)) != NULL) { /* Time to push up daises... */ if (del_timer(&h->ctrack->timeout)) death_by_timeout((unsigned long)h->ctrack); /*... else the timer will get him soon. */ ip_conntrack_put(h->ctrack);
linux/drivers/net/ eepro.c:
printk(KERN_INFO "eepro_init_module: Auto-detecting boards (May God protect us...)\n");
linux/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:
#ifndef I_WISH_WORLD_WERE_PERFECT
/* It is not:-( All the routers (except for Linux) return only 8 bytes of packet payload. It means, that precise relaying of ICMP in the real Internet is absolutely infeasible.
Moreover, Cisco "wise men" put GRE key to the third word in GRE header. It makes impossible maintaining even soft state for keyed GRE tunnels with enabled checksum. Tell them "thank you".
Well, I wonder, rfc1812 was written by Cisco employee, what the hell these idiots break standrads established by themself???
Don't forget to grep the source for "borken" - did they typo alone or were aliens involved?
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Impressive NEC managed avoided a mention here (except indirectly, within the Pioneer LaserActive. I guess the PC-FX was excluded because it never made it to our shores, but what about the SuperGrafx? There was also that PC Engine laptop which I believe weighed 20 pounds and sold for $15,000.
Well, it's natural, isn't it? You're more likely to make a mistake writing 64 digits instead of 32, and so is a computer.
Oops, my mistake about the addressing amount. Dunno where I got 2 TB from... :/ Anyway, I wasn't saying that 32 bits is enough, but it will be a little while longer before any but the most freakish of *personal* computers addresses more then 4 GB of RAM. But in my opinion, whether 32 or 64 bits, this is a long-overdue update.
As for hard drives, in x86 boxes there's worse technologies holding them back then lack of address space. I'd rather see the pain and inefficiency named EIDE be disposed of.
However, in real life, resupply isn't a matter of picking up extra rockets off your enemies that are somehow the correct caliber and design to fit in your weapon. Consequentially, you tend to save high-powered ammunition for the situations that require them.
Oh my. I might have gone bald and gotten unattractive sores on my flaccid member instead of dying slowly and painfully of massive sepsis. The horror.
64-bit processing allows the system to address larger amounts of data. It doesn't matter much to consumers yet, as 32 bits are enough to handle a couple terabytes' worth. In fact, 64-bit is actually slightly more error-prone then 32-bit processing (but the other improvements should offset this.)
What does matter to consumers is that AMD's 64-bit mode adds extra registers and makes existing ones larger, significantly widening one of the worst bottlenecks of the x86 architecture.
Clueless : Informed
Not really. There's a difference between "open for view" and "open for compilation and use" here...
You don't like the X system of copy/pasting? Wow. I couldn't live without it... sure, it's not as foolproof, but it's most definately easier on my hands.
Well, posting headlines from Wired is an improvement over posting headlines that came out of the editor's a**es.
The penguins, dammit.
Wrong. If you read the CVS logs you'll see that's only a draft of the announcement.
Also, the average CS player is refreshingly intelligent, direct and coherent compared to our country's leaders.
You can chew tandoori chicken-flavored gum.
Ever heard the phrase "tyranny of the majority"? Cruel and blatantly odd laws would exist, they'd just be created by the voters rather then the corporations. It's quite possible that we would still have slavery, lynchings, child labor and even worse institutions if the average person could change the law rather then have to open his mind. (Which is just what corporations do.)
linux/arch/mips/kernel/sysirix.c:
:
/* Time to push up daises... */
/* ... else the timer will get him soon. */
:-( All the routers (except for Linux) return only
/* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up... */
linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c
while ((h = get_next_corpse(kill, data)) != NULL) {
if (del_timer(&h->ctrack->timeout))
death_by_timeout((unsigned long)h->ctrack);
ip_conntrack_put(h->ctrack);
linux/drivers/net/ eepro.c:
printk(KERN_INFO "eepro_init_module: Auto-detecting boards (May God protect us...)\n");
linux/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:
#ifndef I_WISH_WORLD_WERE_PERFECT
/* It is not
8 bytes of packet payload. It means, that precise relaying of
ICMP in the real Internet is absolutely infeasible.
Moreover, Cisco "wise men" put GRE key to the third word
in GRE header. It makes impossible maintaining even soft state for keyed
GRE tunnels with enabled checksum. Tell them "thank you".
Well, I wonder, rfc1812 was written by Cisco employee,
what the hell these idiots break standrads established
by themself???
Don't forget to grep the source for "borken" - did they typo alone or were aliens involved?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of anti-BSD trolls. In Soviet Russia... BSD trolls YOU! 1) Post comment: "BSD is dead you morons." 2) ??? 3) PROFIT!!!