The fact that you are looking for an excuse, any LAME excuse to justify your slurs against Obama means that it is you who has the issue here.
My slurs? I'm an observer in this, looking across the atlantic and seeing Bush and Obama receive the same slurs and one being laughed at one being decried as racist.
It would be very revealing if you were to decry the nasty, unnecessary invective. Instead, you look over at someone else and cry "but HE did it first!!!"
What nasty unnecessary invective? They were both compared to chimps. Chimps are our closest relatives. Making humans look like chimps is childish humour, but it can still be funny. It seems to be some US thing that says 'you can't call a black person a chimp because that's racist, but you can call a white person a chip, even though it's equally funny in both cases' (well, okay, the Bush one was more funny because he looked more like a chimp to start with).
The cyrix was actually considerably better than intel at integer
Clock for clock, yes, but Cyrix played stupid marketing games and sold, for example, their 133MHz part as a 6x86 PR166, and it was generally slightly slower than a P166 and a lot slower in floating point. I think that's what killed the brand: if they'd called it a 133MHz part, everyone would have thought it was faster than a Pentium (and it was cheaper than a 133MHz Pentium).
And what are we all using now? Dual core pentium III's with extra stuff bolted on
Only if you're still using a Core Solo / Core Duo. The Core 2 and later chips were all a completely different microarchitecture. And one of the things that was bolted on to the Pentium III to make the earlier one was... the Pentium 4's branch predictor.
And, arguably, the AMD64 CPUs were a solution in search of a problem for the first few years; they were good in servers, but there was no real need for 64-bit desktop systems until 2008-2010 when they regularly started hitting 4GB RAM limits.
x86-64 had a lot of other advantages besides the 64-bit address space: The 64-bit mode let them break binary compatibility, so you also got (among other things):
SSE guaranteed so you could always emit SSE instead of x87 stuff for floating point (huge win for anything float-heavy)
More GPRs.
Fewer restrictions in the registers that could be used with certain instructions
RIP-relative addressing so you didn't need crazy tricks to make position-independent code work.
This gave you a typical 10-20% speedup when recompiling code in 64-bit mode. It also meant that '64-bit is faster' got propagated as a general truth, when it's often false on other architectures.
I just bought an AMD chip for the first time in years. They aren't doing great in the server, but compare what you can get in a fanless CPU from Intel and AMD and there's no competition. There would be, if Intel didn't intentionally cripple Atom to stop it from competing with the i3, but they do.
I dropped them from the RSS feeds I subscribe to about a week ago. I'd only clicked on a couple of articles since Jon Stokes left, and before then his were about the only ones worth reading. I did occasionally enjoy the Chris Forman Mac articles, but only to see if I could spot at least one major inaccuracy per page...
What was the difference in context in the Celebrity Chimps case? They took a picture of President Bush and his wife, made them look like chimps (not hard in Bush's case) and posted it on a web site. Some years later, they took a picture of President Obama and his wive, made them look like chimps, and posted it on the same web site. Yet the second case received loud shouts of racism, the first did not.
The only difference between the two was that one was a white person and one was a black person. How on earth do you say that it's racist to say something about a black person but not racist to say exactly the same thing about a white person.
Having different standards for black and white people is practically the definition of racism.
from the same guys carrying around pictures of him and his family with chimpanzee heads pasted on
I love the fact that everyone was forwarding the pictures comparing Bush to a chimp, but anyone who compares Obama to a chimp is a racist. The celebrity chimps website was shut down over accusations of racism, even though most of the celebrities that they turned into chips were white.
And Viacom, you allow to watch me Colbert Report for free on your own damn website. With ads.
They don't allow me to watch it, because I'm not in the USA. But if I watched it on some other site then I would still count towards their however-many-billion statistic of people watching it illegally. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are both things I'd probably pay to be able to stream / download (without ads or DRM), but Viacom would rather bitch about piracy and try to get laws passed to make it even more illegal than it already is than sell me what I want. Their video made the point that content is a product - perhaps someone should point out that you only make money from products if you're willing to sell it to potential customers...
I hope I'm not the only one who was gravely disappointed with these "nuh-uh!"-style counterpoints
The video was very disappointing. It alternated between 'truth annotation' and commentary at random, so it was difficult to tell which things were meant to be translations of what the person was saying and which were comments on what the person was saying.
Probably because it didn't lose them anything. Few people would be stupid enough to run Windows on IA64 when you can run it on Xeons for less money, more performance, and binary compatibility with all of your legacy software. People probably still are buying Itanium systems to run Linux / HP-UX / VMS and Oracle...
I'm not sure how much effort it is for Oracle to keep developing for the Itanium. If their code compiles on x86 and SPARC64 it should be a simple recompile to make it work on Itanium. After all, they never promised to make it fast on Itanium. And they can always charge four times as much per socket for Itanium as per SPARC...
TheAMD64 is not a "pure" 64-bit chip. It is a chip that operates in 64-bits but has an internal architecture that has not significantly changed since the days of the 4040
Wow, so in one article you've shown that you know nothing about compilers or architecture. A few 'insignificant' changes since the 4004 that are present in any modern x86 CPU.
Another problem was Intel making their own compiler instead of improving gcc
Intel did improve GCC, although GCC at the time of the Itanium release was completely useless at optimisation. Modern GCC is still a joke at optimisation compared even to something like Open64, and Itanium needs more effort than any other target architecture, yet gets far less manpower because no one cares about it. LLVM dropped the Itanium back end a few months ago because no one wanted to maintain it (and the few people who might have been vaguely interested didn't have access to the hardware).
Intel didn't 'come up with this crazy VLIW idea'. Itanium was the second VLIW x86-killer from Intel. Someone senior at Intel in the late '80s to '90s seemed to have been absolutely convinced that VLIW was the future. Probably a hardware person, since hardware people always seem convinced that any problem can be fixed by more complex software (software people, in contrast, know that problems can always be solved by more hardware).
If they weren't convinced that IA64 would succeed, they'd have made their own 64-bit extensions to x86 first and pushed IA64 into the high-availability niche. If they'd done this, then they could have designed x86-64 to be easy to emulate on Itanium, so that a future convergence would have been easy.
Tell me, did the little Slashdot logo by your name come with a contractual obligation not to check your sources, or did was it just an existing ability of yours that qualified you for the job?
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy - I haven't even owned a Windows machine for almost a decade - but I've read Gates' autobiography. Jobs biography hasn't been out long, but I may read it.
Similarly, bacteria have yet to evolve a defence against incineration, in spite of the fact that billions of them are incinerated every day. Neither have humans, for that matter...
No, but the underpaid gas station attendant who borrowed money from a loan shark and has until friday to pay it back or have his legs broken and has access to the database is.
But do you think self-education is going to be as good being taught by professors?
Yes, absolutely, if the person is sufficiently motivated. There are two problems with being self taught. The first is in knowing what to learn - this is much easier now that places like MIT put their curriculum and lectures online. The second is being sufficiently motivated to do the required work without someone telling you that you'll fail if you don't. This is no easier now than it was 100 years ago, but if you can find the motivation then you can learn as well by yourself as with a professor - often better because you can easily set the pace of learning.
If you use antibiotics, you will get resistant organisms. Same thing with siRNA, bacteriophages or whatnot
Only if your antibiotic or replacement only kills most of the bacteria. We haven't seen bacteria become resistant to neat chlorine, for example. Evolution isn't magic.
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The fact that you are looking for an excuse, any LAME excuse to justify your slurs against Obama means that it is you who has the issue here.
My slurs? I'm an observer in this, looking across the atlantic and seeing Bush and Obama receive the same slurs and one being laughed at one being decried as racist.
It would be very revealing if you were to decry the nasty, unnecessary invective. Instead, you look over at someone else and cry "but HE did it first!!!"
What nasty unnecessary invective? They were both compared to chimps. Chimps are our closest relatives. Making humans look like chimps is childish humour, but it can still be funny. It seems to be some US thing that says 'you can't call a black person a chimp because that's racist, but you can call a white person a chip, even though it's equally funny in both cases' (well, okay, the Bush one was more funny because he looked more like a chimp to start with).
In other words, you're pathetic.
Are you Michael Kristopeit?
The cyrix was actually considerably better than intel at integer
Clock for clock, yes, but Cyrix played stupid marketing games and sold, for example, their 133MHz part as a 6x86 PR166, and it was generally slightly slower than a P166 and a lot slower in floating point. I think that's what killed the brand: if they'd called it a 133MHz part, everyone would have thought it was faster than a Pentium (and it was cheaper than a 133MHz Pentium).
And what are we all using now? Dual core pentium III's with extra stuff bolted on
Only if you're still using a Core Solo / Core Duo. The Core 2 and later chips were all a completely different microarchitecture. And one of the things that was bolted on to the Pentium III to make the earlier one was... the Pentium 4's branch predictor.
And, arguably, the AMD64 CPUs were a solution in search of a problem for the first few years; they were good in servers, but there was no real need for 64-bit desktop systems until 2008-2010 when they regularly started hitting 4GB RAM limits.
x86-64 had a lot of other advantages besides the 64-bit address space: The 64-bit mode let them break binary compatibility, so you also got (among other things):
This gave you a typical 10-20% speedup when recompiling code in 64-bit mode. It also meant that '64-bit is faster' got propagated as a general truth, when it's often false on other architectures.
I just bought an AMD chip for the first time in years. They aren't doing great in the server, but compare what you can get in a fanless CPU from Intel and AMD and there's no competition. There would be, if Intel didn't intentionally cripple Atom to stop it from competing with the i3, but they do.
I dropped them from the RSS feeds I subscribe to about a week ago. I'd only clicked on a couple of articles since Jon Stokes left, and before then his were about the only ones worth reading. I did occasionally enjoy the Chris Forman Mac articles, but only to see if I could spot at least one major inaccuracy per page...
That's not really fair. I would say 'still' rather than 'again'...
Okay, who gave mod points to an illiterate?
What was the difference in context in the Celebrity Chimps case? They took a picture of President Bush and his wife, made them look like chimps (not hard in Bush's case) and posted it on a web site. Some years later, they took a picture of President Obama and his wive, made them look like chimps, and posted it on the same web site. Yet the second case received loud shouts of racism, the first did not.
The only difference between the two was that one was a white person and one was a black person. How on earth do you say that it's racist to say something about a black person but not racist to say exactly the same thing about a white person.
Having different standards for black and white people is practically the definition of racism.
The rate of inflation on the US dollar is around 3.5% at the moment, so an increase of 2% is a cut in real terms.
from the same guys carrying around pictures of him and his family with chimpanzee heads pasted on
I love the fact that everyone was forwarding the pictures comparing Bush to a chimp, but anyone who compares Obama to a chimp is a racist. The celebrity chimps website was shut down over accusations of racism, even though most of the celebrities that they turned into chips were white.
And Viacom, you allow to watch me Colbert Report for free on your own damn website. With ads.
They don't allow me to watch it, because I'm not in the USA. But if I watched it on some other site then I would still count towards their however-many-billion statistic of people watching it illegally. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are both things I'd probably pay to be able to stream / download (without ads or DRM), but Viacom would rather bitch about piracy and try to get laws passed to make it even more illegal than it already is than sell me what I want. Their video made the point that content is a product - perhaps someone should point out that you only make money from products if you're willing to sell it to potential customers...
I hope I'm not the only one who was gravely disappointed with these "nuh-uh!"-style counterpoints
The video was very disappointing. It alternated between 'truth annotation' and commentary at random, so it was difficult to tell which things were meant to be translations of what the person was saying and which were comments on what the person was saying.
Probably because it didn't lose them anything. Few people would be stupid enough to run Windows on IA64 when you can run it on Xeons for less money, more performance, and binary compatibility with all of your legacy software. People probably still are buying Itanium systems to run Linux / HP-UX / VMS and Oracle...
I'm not sure how much effort it is for Oracle to keep developing for the Itanium. If their code compiles on x86 and SPARC64 it should be a simple recompile to make it work on Itanium. After all, they never promised to make it fast on Itanium. And they can always charge four times as much per socket for Itanium as per SPARC...
TheAMD64 is not a "pure" 64-bit chip. It is a chip that operates in 64-bits but has an internal architecture that has not significantly changed since the days of the 4040
Wow, so in one article you've shown that you know nothing about compilers or architecture. A few 'insignificant' changes since the 4004 that are present in any modern x86 CPU.
Of course none of those are engineering...
Another problem was Intel making their own compiler instead of improving gcc
Intel did improve GCC, although GCC at the time of the Itanium release was completely useless at optimisation. Modern GCC is still a joke at optimisation compared even to something like Open64, and Itanium needs more effort than any other target architecture, yet gets far less manpower because no one cares about it. LLVM dropped the Itanium back end a few months ago because no one wanted to maintain it (and the few people who might have been vaguely interested didn't have access to the hardware).
Intel didn't 'come up with this crazy VLIW idea'. Itanium was the second VLIW x86-killer from Intel. Someone senior at Intel in the late '80s to '90s seemed to have been absolutely convinced that VLIW was the future. Probably a hardware person, since hardware people always seem convinced that any problem can be fixed by more complex software (software people, in contrast, know that problems can always be solved by more hardware).
If they weren't convinced that IA64 would succeed, they'd have made their own 64-bit extensions to x86 first and pushed IA64 into the high-availability niche. If they'd done this, then they could have designed x86-64 to be easy to emulate on Itanium, so that a future convergence would have been easy.
Windows XP was 2003
Tell me, did the little Slashdot logo by your name come with a contractual obligation not to check your sources, or did was it just an existing ability of yours that qualified you for the job?
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy - I haven't even owned a Windows machine for almost a decade - but I've read Gates' autobiography. Jobs biography hasn't been out long, but I may read it.
Similarly, bacteria have yet to evolve a defence against incineration, in spite of the fact that billions of them are incinerated every day. Neither have humans, for that matter...
No, but the underpaid gas station attendant who borrowed money from a loan shark and has until friday to pay it back or have his legs broken and has access to the database is.
But do you think self-education is going to be as good being taught by professors?
Yes, absolutely, if the person is sufficiently motivated. There are two problems with being self taught. The first is in knowing what to learn - this is much easier now that places like MIT put their curriculum and lectures online. The second is being sufficiently motivated to do the required work without someone telling you that you'll fail if you don't. This is no easier now than it was 100 years ago, but if you can find the motivation then you can learn as well by yourself as with a professor - often better because you can easily set the pace of learning.
If you use antibiotics, you will get resistant organisms. Same thing with siRNA, bacteriophages or whatnot
Only if your antibiotic or replacement only kills most of the bacteria. We haven't seen bacteria become resistant to neat chlorine, for example. Evolution isn't magic.
Yay! Welcome back Dr Bob! Slashdot just hasn't been the same without you - we've had to make do with lame racist trolls...