People forget that the vast majority of the installed base of PowerPC chips is in embedded systems. Apple is a relatively small buyer of PowerPC chips. Linux is a great product for purposes such as those.
The problem is that Itanium is a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture, meaning in executes multiple independent instructions at the same time without any extra work by the processor. This sounds like a beautiful idea, but the problem is finding four (in the case of Itanium) independent instructions to put in each IW, otherwise those extra slots are just wasted. It requires a huge jump in compiler technology and I have to believe this is where a lot of the R&D funds are going in Intel.
More and more often for me (and especially since the terrorist attacks) I've been getting my real news from the net. I find the television version of CNN, ABC, and the rest to be havens for so-called "experts" who talk and talk and talk but never say anything. Meanwhile, the net versions of the news networks have thorough stories that actually give the facts of what's going on. Give me the online version of CNN over the TV version any day.
Just wondering if Crayon is a registered trademark of Crayola, or if it's just a general English word. If so, I have a feeling somebody's going to get a nastgram about changing the KOffice paint program (Krayon).
The differences between CS and CprE depend on the college. I attend Iowa State and major in Computer Engineering. Here, I would say that Computer Engineering is closer to Computer Science than Electrical Engineering. We have a little more emphasis on the underlying hardware than CS, but the vast majority of my classes are software project based. Hell, even my hardware classes (such as my processor architecture class) ended up being very software based because our semester project implemented a processor using Verilog.
You also need to look at the Computer Science department and find what their focus is. Iowa State's CS department is more theory based, and a lot of students that come in here don't realize that. They expect it to be closer to Software Engineering, and think they will learn how to write huge programs in Visual C++. It doesn't happen. A lot end up switching majors when they start hitting the discrete math courses.
So, the short answer is, check out each of the colleges and find out what the focus of each major is. And don't worry too much about not liking your initial choice. These days it's rare to find an engineering student (or CS for that matter) that gets out of college in 4 years.
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People forget that the vast majority of the installed base of PowerPC chips is in embedded systems. Apple is a relatively small buyer of PowerPC chips. Linux is a great product for purposes such as those.
The problem is that Itanium is a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture, meaning in executes multiple independent instructions at the same time without any extra work by the processor. This sounds like a beautiful idea, but the problem is finding four (in the case of Itanium) independent instructions to put in each IW, otherwise those extra slots are just wasted. It requires a huge jump in compiler technology and I have to believe this is where a lot of the R&D funds are going in Intel.
More and more often for me (and especially since the terrorist attacks) I've been getting my real news from the net. I find the television version of CNN, ABC, and the rest to be havens for so-called "experts" who talk and talk and talk but never say anything. Meanwhile, the net versions of the news networks have thorough stories that actually give the facts of what's going on. Give me the online version of CNN over the TV version any day.
Just wondering if Crayon is a registered trademark of Crayola, or if it's just a general English word. If so, I have a feeling somebody's going to get a nastgram about changing the KOffice paint program (Krayon).
The differences between CS and CprE depend on the college. I attend Iowa State and major in Computer Engineering. Here, I would say that Computer Engineering is closer to Computer Science than Electrical Engineering. We have a little more emphasis on the underlying hardware than CS, but the vast majority of my classes are software project based. Hell, even my hardware classes (such as my processor architecture class) ended up being very software based because our semester project implemented a processor using Verilog. You also need to look at the Computer Science department and find what their focus is. Iowa State's CS department is more theory based, and a lot of students that come in here don't realize that. They expect it to be closer to Software Engineering, and think they will learn how to write huge programs in Visual C++. It doesn't happen. A lot end up switching majors when they start hitting the discrete math courses. So, the short answer is, check out each of the colleges and find out what the focus of each major is. And don't worry too much about not liking your initial choice. These days it's rare to find an engineering student (or CS for that matter) that gets out of college in 4 years.