Want to know how the Qin Chinese managed to do a population boom? They basically forced teenagers out of their parent's houses and the state provided them with land to build a house if they married. Guess what's bleeping expensive right now.
Between expensive houses and needing to study longer to get a decent job its unsurprising people don't bother really.
Exactly. When you're using Linux or one of the BSDs, most of the apps you want to run are FLOSS, and it's just a question of recompiling them. With Windows, most of the applications you'll want to run are X86 binaries which will have to be translated (i.e. slow) to run on ARM and will be probably buggy. It's dead on arrival.
Perhaps Microsoft could use it internally on Azure but I don't see this having much impact.
Atom was working fine on cheap netbooks and HTPCs until Intel decided it had to compete on smartphones and tablets and then it failed. In addition they didn't invest as much on new designs as they should and they get outclassed by current top ARM processors as well.
Yeah but XScale started out as StrongARM from DEC. Intel basically got the design team when they bought some of the remains of DEC. They basically applied some of the chip design ideas from the Alpha for an ARM core. Eventually Intel sold that business to Broadcom I think. They still have an ARM license but I'm not aware of them using it for anything right now.
The directory eventually got too large and it became too hard to find anything in it. It might have worked while the amount of websites available was small but it collapsed afterwards. Mind you there were search engines before Altavista (e.g. Lycos) but yeah they kinda sucked.
Sure but it wasn't 3dfx which killed SGI's core business. 3dfx's hardware couldn't run OpenGL applications worth a damn. What killed SGI was Intergraph, Windows NT, Pentium Pro, and eventually NVIDIA.
Want to know my theory? With women working now, 2x as many people are in the labor pool, so salaries are half of what they used to be. Supply and demand.
Dunno about that. It looks to me like UAC is kind of like an umbrella company on top of the old structure and that the old structure is still pretty much in place.
Well you could find that critique in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (IMO a much better written book) which predates it. Das Kapital is a turgid piece of crap. The only interesting quote from that book is the bit where he talks about "precious stones" and how they're basically junk in terms of basic materials and that they could one day be manufactured and priced like dirt. Then again Atlas Shrugged is just as bad a read with lots and lots of random pointless dialogue.
My advice: read The Wealth of Nations and skip those two.
I don't know if there is any difference between calling conventions, but the mere fact you would have to write your own headers in Pascal seems pretty significant to me.
Remember Das Kapital? It was written around the time when the Industrial Revolution was constantly creating and destroying jobs. I'm still wondering when the next similar movement will show up. We already have anti-globalization movements, eventually we'll have those too.
I wouldn't call a modern GPU that constrained really. The only thing they lack is memory protection. It's also a lot easier to program on a GPU ever since the SIMT paradigm came out (i.e. CUDA, OpenCL). Also plenty of modern processors come with a GPU on the same die as the CPU. Like nearly all smartphones for example.
Pascal usage quickly shrank. I'm not quite sure why, it was a fairly decent compiler-based language.
I am pretty sure why. More modern operating systems came up and nearly invariably they were all C based. If you wanted to call the OS libraries you were better off using C. That's why Pascal died off.
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Want to know how the Qin Chinese managed to do a population boom? They basically forced teenagers out of their parent's houses and the state provided them with land to build a house if they married. Guess what's bleeping expensive right now.
Between expensive houses and needing to study longer to get a decent job its unsurprising people don't bother really.
Not really. I was thinking it was something about C++ AMP. But no. Why is it they only expanded the acronym at the end of the summary.
Thx. That was more explicit than the technobabble and platitude ridden "summary".
Exactly. When you're using Linux or one of the BSDs, most of the apps you want to run are FLOSS, and it's just a question of recompiling them. With Windows, most of the applications you'll want to run are X86 binaries which will have to be translated (i.e. slow) to run on ARM and will be probably buggy. It's dead on arrival.
Perhaps Microsoft could use it internally on Azure but I don't see this having much impact.
Too much competition and too little profit in ARM to bother.
Atom was working fine on cheap netbooks and HTPCs until Intel decided it had to compete on smartphones and tablets and then it failed. In addition they didn't invest as much on new designs as they should and they get outclassed by current top ARM processors as well.
Yeah but XScale started out as StrongARM from DEC. Intel basically got the design team when they bought some of the remains of DEC. They basically applied some of the chip design ideas from the Alpha for an ARM core. Eventually Intel sold that business to Broadcom I think. They still have an ARM license but I'm not aware of them using it for anything right now.
Intel has enough money they could throw 2-3 teams on it if they wanted to. One of them would succeed.
Nintendo's always been known for cheap hardware. So I can't figure out why this is surprising...
The directory eventually got too large and it became too hard to find anything in it. It might have worked while the amount of websites available was small but it collapsed afterwards. Mind you there were search engines before Altavista (e.g. Lycos) but yeah they kinda sucked.
Sure but it wasn't 3dfx which killed SGI's core business. 3dfx's hardware couldn't run OpenGL applications worth a damn. What killed SGI was Intergraph, Windows NT, Pentium Pro, and eventually NVIDIA.
Never heard of IRC chat rooms or private chat I guess.
Want to know my theory? With women working now, 2x as many people are in the labor pool, so salaries are half of what they used to be. Supply and demand.
Dunno about that. It looks to me like UAC is kind of like an umbrella company on top of the old structure and that the old structure is still pretty much in place.
You're assuming that said person wasn't born into the connections like Trump was. Or Gore for that matter, his father was in politics too.
Well you could find that critique in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (IMO a much better written book) which predates it. Das Kapital is a turgid piece of crap. The only interesting quote from that book is the bit where he talks about "precious stones" and how they're basically junk in terms of basic materials and that they could one day be manufactured and priced like dirt. Then again Atlas Shrugged is just as bad a read with lots and lots of random pointless dialogue.
My advice: read The Wealth of Nations and skip those two.
The worst bots are the ones trolling Wikipedia with 'citation needed' spam and deleting pages for 'not being notable enough'. Seriously.
Sounds more to me like someone writing "Clean me!" with their finger on the grime of a car windshield or something like that.
Any CGA monitor will work with an Amiga. I used to have a Philips CM8833-II monitor on mine.
I don't know if there is any difference between calling conventions, but the mere fact you would have to write your own headers in Pascal seems pretty significant to me.
Sure, the EU 'parliament' basically has veto power and can make recommendations. It's not a legislature.
What? You mean like ARM and SAP? Those American companies?
Remember Das Kapital? It was written around the time when the Industrial Revolution was constantly creating and destroying jobs. I'm still wondering when the next similar movement will show up. We already have anti-globalization movements, eventually we'll have those too.
I wouldn't call a modern GPU that constrained really. The only thing they lack is memory protection. It's also a lot easier to program on a GPU ever since the SIMT paradigm came out (i.e. CUDA, OpenCL). Also plenty of modern processors come with a GPU on the same die as the CPU. Like nearly all smartphones for example.
Pascal usage quickly shrank. I'm not quite sure why, it was a fairly decent compiler-based language.
I am pretty sure why. More modern operating systems came up and nearly invariably they were all C based. If you wanted to call the OS libraries you were better off using C. That's why Pascal died off.