Actually, you're almost completely wrong. All things being the same (clock speed, on chip cache, etc) 64-bit computing should be measurably slower than 32bits.
WTF???
Yes, you heard right... slower.
More bits per instruction means
more thrash-in-your-cache
more RAM bandwidth used just sucking down instructions
And that's without even beginning to go into mega details of advanced CPU design.
Repeat after me 64-bits does not magically change anything.
The reasons these chips will most likely run apps faster is due to
faster clock speed
more cache ram
wider system bus
generally better CPU design
This is basic real world physics and engineering here, not Wizards of Might and Magic.
And like most other good Vs (eg V8 and to some extent V6) it'll cost more than most people are prepared to pay.
Especially considering that to date the HUMONGOUS push by Intel to rev up dem CPUs hase done nothing more than prove beyond any shadow of unertainty that high-RPM engines do not necessarily give the best performance.
Anyone here old enough to remember the trend towards "turbo charged" engines not so long ago? How many of them are still around?
Except of course you're ignoring the fact that Joe Random Stranger would no valid legitimate reason for wandering in and perusing your wonderful collection. Whereas, on the other hand, there *are* perfectly valid, legal and legitimate reasons for wanting to RIP music off a CD into MP3 format. (for example, as mentioned above, portable personal digital music players)
Your example would be more correct if you asked whether doors should be made illegal because someone might open yours and steal everything you have. Of course, not having any doors is a major inconvenience in a house. In fact, you could even argue that in purchasing a house, it's perfectly reasonable for you to expect there to be doors, fully functional working under any and all circumstances doors, even.
Being a girl myself and just out of curiosity, I'd like to know how oral sex administered by a beautiful chick differs from that given by an average girl?
Good point!
Being a single male reader of slashdot, I too would like to know..... Care to help me out in the pursuit of science?
I don't know what planet you're on, but I'm struggling to find these mythical "lower prices" I hear rumored.
Yesterday I saw
at a retail music store
an actual current release album
with one CD (ie not a 2 or 3 CD set)
for (australian) $39 and change (for the USians out there, that translates to ~$30 US at current exchange rates)
To my amazement I found that:
it was not diamond encrusted
it was not made of solid gold
it did not include oral sex from the cute chick at the counter
I for one am struggling to find the value-for-money in this proposed transaction, so The Music Industry should not in any way be surprised to see "lower than expected sales" when they pitch suck LOONEY prices.
As much as I disgree with prople infringing on copyright (ie breaking the law) here's my personal take in the situation.
----- Don't flame me, I'm posing a moral question here -----
There are countries where The Music Industry has pressured The Government to apply a FEE to all and sundry users of a Particular Recording Medium (eg the CDRs in Canada).
The Music Industry argues "*ALL* users of this recording medium are PIRATES, therefore they ALL should pay ME money".
Ok, so if I've done the time, then looking at this from a purely moral standpoint, why should I not do the crime?
I've *already* "paid for" the criminal act of pirating music, so why should I not go out and perform the criminal act itself?
----- It only stands to reason.
On the other hand,if they want to treat me with the assumption that I'm basically a good law abiding citizen, that I want to rip my music to MP3 for my own private listening, and that I use CDRs for storing backups of my own personal original digital photography, then why do they need to impose a *blanket* CDR fee *as well as* doing their best to technologically prevent me from riping CDs on my computer.
---------------
You ask "does it matter?" I say yes it does because the Music Industry Associations are arguing from a "morally right" standpoint (eg infringing on copyright hurts the artists), even though they're very clearly morally wrong (ie by assuming that *all* CDR sales are for piracy , and that *anyone* who rips music to MP3 is always/only doing so for the purposes of piracy).
Because the corporate machine that is the RIAA is lying to you, the customer.
All the time.
Every Day.
And if that isn't bad enough for you, they want to stop legitimate use.
Specifically, you might want to rip and encode that Music CD you purchased in order to listen to it on your MP3 player (a reasonable expectation) - but the RIAA will do *anything* to stop you from doing that.
WHY do they want to do that? because
people ONLY rip and encode to MP3 in order to pirate music
music piracy decreases sales
decreasing sales hurts artists
hurting artists will produce less music
Of course, it's been shown in many/most cases that only #4 is true
Some People rip and encode to MP3 for legitimate private use, not for piracy
in many cases Music Piracy is in actual fact encouraging people to broaden their music tastes (ie buy stuff they'd not previously consider)
decreasing sales are often a myth, or at best "decreasing sales of actual CDs" (ie because there's STRONG UPTAKE in legal and legitimate digital downloadable music sales)
The RIAA already screw most if not all artists as hard as they can, so who are the RIAA to whine about "save the hurting artists"?
Technically, if you buy all the parts, hand them to your local geek, and pay him cash to assemble it for you, then he's not "selling a fully assembled device".
He's renting you the skills and time to assemble it.
Same as if you bought a kit RC helicopter, and then paid the geek to build it.
You didn't buy the kit from him You didn't buy an assembled product from him You merely contracted his labor to assemble the device.
I don't know why you'd need 200 of these for personal use, and if you're an educational institution who wants the devices fully assembled, I'm dead-set certain they'd be interested in hearing from you directly.
Of course you've just completely ignored the core problem with SPAM.
By the time I've received an email, ie downloaded it to my local machine, it has just polluted (ie stolen/consumed the resources of)
my cpu
my disk
my bandwidth
the ISP mailserver cpu
the ISP mailserver disk
the ISP bandwidth
the ISP bandwidth of every ISP it transits to get across 'the internet' to me
So, tell me again how your "solution" actually solves *any* problem?
Repeat after me the problem with spam is *NOT* that we're unable to recognise it for the SPAM that it is.
The problem with SPAM is the resources it steals from me and all the ISPs.
Face it people, SPAM is THEFT, inbound SPAM steals resources from me, and resources from my ISP. In the end, I (the consumer) pay for that theft (eg increased internet access costs etc).
Why not go visit the great-outdoors? Take yourself camping for a few days
see the outdoors
breathe the fresh air
get yourself physically away from the readily-available caffeinated products
have some exercise (ideally, get yourself exhausted by the end of the day)
pack nothing but good wholesome food
bring along some kind of headache remedy, but keep in mind some of them have CAFFEINE added
And no I'm not a tree-hugger, just recomending a "get yourself where caffeine is impossible" solution if you choose to go the "zero caffeine intake" route.
Back in the day, I would drink up to 3 StarBux Tripple-Venti-Lattes daily. Although (for some reason) I never had the 'addiction' issues/symptoms. On the flipside, I once went caffeine cold-turkey for an entire month, just for the hellavit. No headache/etc, nor was I more irritable than my usual self (apparently).
Ahem! Meanwhile back to the point I was making which you so blithely ignored.
You can sue the Engineer because he's wholely and solely responsible for the design, said design being a thing entirely and completely seperate from the implementation. That's essentially the definition of his position the person who is personally accountable for all aspects of the design.
A programmer is (more often than not) neither wholely nor solely responsible for the design (management tells him at least some of the design direction).
Also, as you mention, design and implementation blur their boundaries in the programming universe.
How on earth are you going to identify exactly and in all cases that "such and such program" was insecure by design, as opposed to some funky issue as a result of implementation (eg compiler bug, core screwy-ness in some [other, third-party-provided] linked library, etc).
But really, why should we care. Ths will *never* become reality.
They'd have to either (a) fire all Microsoft Programmers
(b) certify all Microsoft Programmers --- and have them re-write ALL the software at Microsoft.
Oh, I dunno about that - quite often I like grabbing a digit from around the thirtieth decimal of PI and beating it around the head and shoulders with a large red herring for an hour or so.
Much better than pulling a gun in the midst of road-rage later in the day.
Moritz suggested that a sort of class system of programmers might emerge, with those creating the mission-critical applications needing to be licensed and perhaps even bonded, but also more highly paid. Those licensed professionally would be held accountable for their work, such as for security breaches to critical systems.
"We license civil engineers to have confidence their bridges will support a certain amount of weight over a certain period of time. But is it bomb-proof? We need to define software in those terms," Moritz explained.
Ok, an interesting point, except that there's NO commonality between the two situations
A civil engineer is responsible for the design
a programmer is always responsible for the implementation of software, and not necessarily the design
You would sue the engineer for bad design. Engineers don't actually physically build anything. They design things for construction workers to build.
If the implementation failed, but wasn't built to his design, it's not his fault.
Moritz specifically named programmers. When was the last time your job as a programmer was 100% design and 0% implementation.
However you're completely ignoring the fact that even after giving you a UI, XP is still working its guts out trying to finish loading the other "less imperative" system drivers/services/what-have-you.
Yeah, to most "users" it "feels like" it's finished booting, but you know - some OSs have actually finished loading all services and system drivers by the time they load the UI, and the ONLY thing they're loading, are UI specific drivers/services/applications.
And they STILL beat the pants of Windows in a boot-race.
Is this simply a case of 're-inventing the wheel' (ie given that California has already done something that seems to be the same thing)?... Sorry, not enough technical detail in the article to really know.
Not that I'm encouraging governments in suchlike pursuits, but wouldn't we all be generally better off if they dropped their "Not Invented Here" attitudes, and came up with some standards and combined research into such methodologies.
Governments in general and as a whole want to infringe on our privacy in the interests of retaining their power/national security. Given their common goals, surely they could do some common reasearch and save us all some money?
Even if all they do is line their own pockets with it.
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WTF???
Yes, you heard right... slower.
More bits per instruction means
- more thrash-in-your-cache
- more RAM bandwidth used just sucking down instructions
And that's without even beginning to go into mega details of advanced CPU design.Repeat after me 64-bits does not magically change anything.
The reasons these chips will most likely run apps faster is due to
This is basic real world physics and engineering here, not Wizards of Might and Magic.
For you and I, JimBob and JoeBlow, a good fast 32-bit system will kick much 64-bit arse. At least until
And like most other good Vs (eg V8 and to some extent V6) it'll cost more than most people are prepared to pay.
Especially considering that to date the HUMONGOUS push by Intel to rev up dem CPUs hase done nothing more than prove beyond any shadow of unertainty that high-RPM engines do not necessarily give the best performance.
Anyone here old enough to remember the trend towards "turbo charged" engines not so long ago? How many of them are still around?
Well done.
Except of course you're ignoring the fact that Joe Random Stranger would no valid legitimate reason for wandering in and perusing your wonderful collection. Whereas, on the other hand, there *are* perfectly valid, legal and legitimate reasons for wanting to RIP music off a CD into MP3 format. (for example, as mentioned above, portable personal digital music players)
Your example would be more correct if you asked whether doors should be made illegal because someone might open yours and steal everything you have. Of course, not having any doors is a major inconvenience in a house. In fact, you could even argue that in purchasing a house, it's perfectly reasonable for you to expect there to be doors, fully functional working under any and all circumstances doors, even.
Being a girl myself and just out of curiosity, I'd like to know how oral sex administered by a beautiful chick differs from that given by an average girl?
Good point!
Being a single male reader of slashdot, I too would like to know..... Care to help me out in the pursuit of science?
I don't know what planet you're on, but I'm struggling to find these mythical "lower prices" I hear rumored.
Yesterday I saw
- at a retail music store
- an actual current release album
- with one CD (ie not a 2 or 3 CD set)
- for (australian) $39 and change (for the USians out there, that translates to ~$30 US at current exchange rates)
To my amazement I found that:- it was not diamond encrusted
- it was not made of solid gold
- it did not include oral sex from the cute chick at the counter
I for one am struggling to find the value-for-money in this proposed transaction, so The Music Industry should not in any way be surprised to see "lower than expected sales" when they pitch suck LOONEY prices.Keep in mind, people....
As much as I disgree with prople infringing on copyright (ie breaking the law) here's my personal take in the situation.
----- Don't flame me, I'm posing a moral question here -----
There are countries where The Music Industry has pressured The Government to apply a FEE to all and sundry users of a Particular Recording Medium (eg the CDRs in Canada).
The Music Industry argues "*ALL* users of this recording medium are PIRATES, therefore they ALL should pay ME money".
Ok, so if I've done the time, then looking at this from a purely moral standpoint, why should I not do the crime?
I've *already* "paid for" the criminal act of pirating music, so why should I not go out and perform the criminal act itself?
----- It only stands to reason.
On the other hand,if they want to treat me with the assumption that I'm basically a good law abiding citizen, that I want to rip my music to MP3 for my own private listening, and that I use CDRs for storing backups of my own personal original digital photography, then why do they need to impose a *blanket* CDR fee *as well as* doing their best to technologically prevent me from riping CDs on my computer.
---------------
You ask "does it matter?" I say yes it does because the Music Industry Associations are arguing from a "morally right" standpoint (eg infringing on copyright hurts the artists), even though they're very clearly morally wrong (ie by assuming that *all* CDR sales are for piracy , and that *anyone* who rips music to MP3 is always/only doing so for the purposes of piracy).
All the time.
Every Day.
And if that isn't bad enough for you, they want to stop legitimate use.
Specifically, you might want to rip and encode that Music CD you purchased in order to listen to it on your MP3 player (a reasonable expectation) - but the RIAA will do *anything* to stop you from doing that.
WHY do they want to do that? because
- people ONLY rip and encode to MP3 in order to pirate music
- music piracy decreases sales
- decreasing sales hurts artists
- hurting artists will produce less music
Of course, it's been shown in many/most cases that only #4 is trueTechnically, if you buy all the parts, hand them to your local geek, and pay him cash to assemble it for you, then he's not "selling a fully assembled device".
He's renting you the skills and time to assemble it.
Same as if you bought a kit RC helicopter, and then paid the geek to build it.
You didn't buy the kit from him
You didn't buy an assembled product from him
You merely contracted his labor to assemble the device.
I don't know why you'd need 200 of these for personal use, and if you're an educational institution who wants the devices fully assembled, I'm dead-set certain they'd be interested in hearing from you directly.
By the time I've received an email, ie downloaded it to my local machine, it has just polluted (ie stolen/consumed the resources of)
- my cpu
- my disk
- my bandwidth
- the ISP mailserver cpu
- the ISP mailserver disk
- the ISP bandwidth
- the ISP bandwidth of every ISP it transits to get across 'the internet' to me
So, tell me again how your "solution" actually solves *any* problem?Repeat after me the problem with spam is *NOT* that we're unable to recognise it for the SPAM that it is.
The problem with SPAM is the resources it steals from me and all the ISPs.
Face it people, SPAM is THEFT, inbound SPAM steals resources from me, and resources from my ISP. In the end, I (the consumer) pay for that theft (eg increased internet access costs etc).
God, I love coffee.
I guess then you'll be very much looking forward to the recently announced 70% Reduced Caffeine GM Coffee Plant
- see the outdoors
- breathe the fresh air
- get yourself physically away from the readily-available caffeinated products
- have some exercise (ideally, get yourself exhausted by the end of the day)
- pack nothing but good wholesome food
- bring along some kind of headache remedy, but keep in mind some of them have CAFFEINE added
And no I'm not a tree-hugger, just recomending a "get yourself where caffeine is impossible" solution if you choose to go the "zero caffeine intake" route.Back in the day, I would drink up to 3 StarBux Tripple-Venti-Lattes daily. Although (for some reason) I never had the 'addiction' issues/symptoms. On the flipside, I once went caffeine cold-turkey for an entire month, just for the hellavit. No headache/etc, nor was I more irritable than my usual self (apparently).
Ahem! Meanwhile back to the point I was making which you so blithely ignored.
You can sue the Engineer because he's wholely and solely responsible for the design, said design being a thing entirely and completely seperate from the implementation.
That's essentially the definition of his position the person who is personally accountable for all aspects of the design.
A programmer is (more often than not) neither wholely nor solely responsible for the design (management tells him at least some of the design direction).
Also, as you mention, design and implementation blur their boundaries in the programming universe.
How on earth are you going to identify exactly and in all cases that "such and such program" was insecure by design, as opposed to some funky issue as a result of implementation (eg compiler bug, core screwy-ness in some [other, third-party-provided] linked library, etc).
But really, why should we care. Ths will *never* become reality.
They'd have to either (a) fire all Microsoft Programmers (b) certify all Microsoft Programmers --- and have them re-write ALL the software at Microsoft.
US top Search: Terrorist
Spanish Top Search: Terra ISP
Abuse of significant digits is another irritant.
Oh, I dunno about that - quite often I like grabbing a digit from around the thirtieth decimal of PI and beating it around the head and shoulders with a large red herring for an hour or so.
Much better than pulling a gun in the midst of road-rage later in the day.
"We license civil engineers to have confidence their bridges will support a certain amount of weight over a certain period of time. But is it bomb-proof? We need to define software in those terms," Moritz explained.
Ok, an interesting point, except that there's NO commonality between the two situations
- A civil engineer is responsible for the design
- a programmer is always responsible for the implementation of software, and not necessarily the design
You would sue the engineer for bad design. Engineers don't actually physically build anything. They design things for construction workers to build.If the implementation failed, but wasn't built to his design, it's not his fault.
Moritz specifically named programmers. When was the last time your job as a programmer was 100% design and 0% implementation.
- A software developer (ie a programmer) gets licensed
- works on a project for (name some large company)
- company management provides direction for the programming efforts (as they do)
- software is iunsecure by design, due to management decisions (happens now, and the plan changes nothing here)
- software is finished
- ....marketed
- ....purchased
- ....deploy
e d - ....ends up killing over 10 thousand people for some trivial reason
- programmer takes 100% of the blame; firing squad at dawn
- company/management who made the decisions which introduced the lack of security get off Scott Free; zero legal consequences of their stupidity
Or am I misunderstanding the whole point of the exercise?YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Article was not much more than an advertisement for Valence and their new Battery Technology.
(sigh)Lucky for us they didn't require us to pay for that crap.
You could even go as far as saying that they have a checkered past (myxomatosis, rabbits, australia).
I'm not sure whether I should
boots in a small fraction of the time
If by "boot" you mean "starts the GUI", then yes.
However you're completely ignoring the fact that even after giving you a UI, XP is still working its guts out trying to finish loading the other "less imperative" system drivers/services/what-have-you.
Yeah, to most "users" it "feels like" it's finished booting, but you know - some OSs have actually finished loading all services and system drivers by the time they load the UI, and the ONLY thing they're loading, are UI specific drivers/services/applications.
And they STILL beat the pants of Windows in a boot-race.
I, for one, welcome our new doublespeak-ing overlords.
Lest we forget.
George Orwell - and he was only 20 years early.
Is this simply a case of 're-inventing the wheel' (ie given that California has already done something that seems to be the same thing)? ... Sorry, not enough technical detail in the article to really know.
Not that I'm encouraging governments in suchlike pursuits, but wouldn't we all be generally better off if they dropped their "Not Invented Here" attitudes, and came up with some standards and combined research into such methodologies.
Governments in general and as a whole want to infringe on our privacy in the interests of retaining their power/national security. Given their common goals, surely they could do some common reasearch and save us all some money?
Even if all they do is line their own pockets with it.
Dude! Automotive Tractor Beams? Government control of private vehicles! That is SO 1984. {rolleyes}
er, now that I've gotten your attention
WTF?
How about mod parent down, user too brainless to post JPGs, uses PDFs with embedded images
Geez, WHAT A MORON.