The minimum number of instructions is one - Subtract, Branch if Negative. It is almost as easy to program in as it is to convice a girl to go out with me.
For a class last semester I designed a simple 16bit VVVRISC (very very very reduced instruction set) processor, did full layout (n-dope here, metal there), timing sims, assembly language, the whole schebang.
At one point I was deciding whether or not to put a multiplier in. Mind you, ever decent processor on the planet has AT LEAST one, but this was a one man effort. Adding this function would slow my clock by a factor of x10. The circuitry to multiply is just a whole lot deeper. I chose instead to implement multiply in my assembly using shifts and adds. It made my multiply instruction 3x slower than if I had circuited it, but it made all my other instructions hellafasta.
I know my example was bad, but it is how I grew to understand the difference.
The point is, RISC means the slower, less often used functions don't slow down the rest of the process. So lets say a CISC processor implements several multimedia happy functions, and makes them 3x faster in doing so. Now lets say the algorithm changes, and wants a slightly different function. Now the software must either do it the RISC way or do it the CISC+software_patch way.
RISC to me feels cleaner, and probably allows for more elegant pipelines - simple instructions often can use the same silicon (my ALU used parts of the adder to do XOR/AND/OR/etc, multiplier would have been off to the side).
Lets see how much his trademark protects him from my super stealth ninja stealth strike force of stealthfully stealthy doom.
Seriously, it is stuff like this that make America useless. Sometimes, the lawyer speak needs to end and the playground speak has to start: The closest playground analogy would be Stoller as the whiny spoilt kid complaining that it was his kick ball because he dibsed it in september, so no one can now play kick ball ever again. That kid is going to get his butt reeducated with some foot action.
Don't get me wrong - I think the laws are great. I just think that there should be some way of telling idiots like Stoller to shove it.
u r gey. u no wot i say, y u all n3rd out wit da big werds.
There is a place for all of us who don't like to read those sentences. It is called the xForums - xForums.net Basically, we are an online community who put letter in words, words in sentences, and then we even put the sentences into paragraphs! OMG gr4mm4r h4X!
I run gaim with fonts and colors disabled. I don't respond to anything with "u r", and I do try to get most of my words right. I'm naturally poor with spelling, but I figure that if I at least try, perhaps the rest of the world will as well.
Just a quick comment on the wirelessness of controllers: DON'T DO IT. I like my wires. They work. ALWAYS. Sure, they are in some ways more convenient: You can't get tripped by them, you can move around more easily, and they allow you to produce golden eggs when you defecate. However, it is a pain in my gold producer to find a lost wireless controller and re battery it. I hate batteries. I just hate them. This may be because of that one time I wired 72v of Latern Cell's to my tongue, but I want all of my electricity to come out of mr Happy Face on the wall. If you can make the console recharge the controllers, AND find them for me, I will love you forever.
I believe Google is infringing on prior art on the whole "Earth" thing. They are attempting to rebrand it, push it as an original and then patent it away from the original creator - God.
God will soon be unable to continue providing his "competing" Earth service due to rigorous patent laws, and everyone will PERISH - All because Google has the legal power to take a page from MS's book and assert that it was their idea in the first place.
Please contact your local congress(wo)man today and let hir know of this nefarious plot.
The consumer may only have two ears, but their neighbors have many more. 13 speakers + 1 woofer cranked -> 2 block radius -> 200 angry neighbors -> 402 ears for 14 speakers.
On the Contrary. AI is just statistics on crack (gross simplification). All of the values in my AIs are floating point so they can be sort of true, sort of false, mostly true, etc... I guess I could scale it to integers, but that would be a conceptual pain in the ass - I'd rather just program it in a way that makes sense and throw more TFLOPS at it.
I'm writing a neural net that can learn its own weight update rules genetically. That requires more floating point operations than I can shake a stick at - sigmoids EVERYWHERE.
Apple's main point of sale is Job's salesmanship. Don't get me wrong - they have great products. But great products don't sell themselves (Which RIO is explicitly trying to do). The iPod is the shit because Job's wants you to believe it is. You can't beat that with a sack of wet noodles (aka better products).
Lasting 40 days and 40 nights, and hopefully a bit longer.
I hope this is for real - I'm more than capable of setting this stuff up for myself, but I can't set it up for my sisters without driving home and spending my valuable home time in front of a computer. I hope this will help us hit the newb audience better.
"CNN is reporting that the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith trailer will make its debut on none other than the f0x's OC12. The article is candid in pointing out that 'as an avid video pirate host, Abusebox, the main server on "The OC", would likely relish the event.' The trailer will air on March 10, at sometime between 8 and 9PM EST, at which point it will be a smoldering slashdotted heap of silicon. The article also makes note for those not wishing to steal his bandwidth that "the new trailer will be re-released on all other major channels beginning March 11.""
BBN has developed a quantum router. (www.bbn.com). These are the same folk who invented the internet. It does unfortunately require trusting the router. Therefore, you are partially correct - quantum encrypted information is only as secure as its routing points.
Computers do not make use of quantum mechanics. I repeat - COMPUTERS DO NOT MAKE USE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. What they do make use of is the "whoa, wouldn't it be hot if it were smaller and faster and OH MY GOD WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT" princible. Quantum mechanics are why we can not (currently) make chips infinitely small. Transistors pipe many many electrons at once, and they hope that none of them are entangled or doing any other wierd stuff.
I hear that after they take out Java and.Net, they are going for every X linux app, because they ask for help from the X server. After that is done, Anything that asks the kernel for help is toast as well. God save us when they get the BIOS.
*Wishes he had Kodak stock right now*
Apple releases their next next generation iPod - a notecard painted pretty. Just write the title of the song with your iPencil and you are good to go, no batteries necessary!
At the same time, Apple also releases their next next generation computers - beowulf clusters of Dell JukeBoxes.
I consistently get about an extra mile per gallon than the EPA says I am supposed to. Unfortunately that does not make up for the fact that the last 3 times I filled up cleaned my wallet out entirely.
In boston, there are no street signs. Street names change without warning, and drivers are constantly pushing you around. As a non-native, I am hopelessly lost driving in that city. Anything that would reduce that feeling would be very welcome.
This will probably lead to removal of these chemicals from the processing, because humans don't like dieing while they click. Arguably more important is the world health benefits:
The process that creates the nasty chemicals most likely pumps out more nasty chemicals into the environment. Greener output usually means greener process.
I for one welcome our new green computing overlords.
Now we can drive with one knee, eat with one hand and watch/.-The Movie at 90mph.
There is a race in technology : Things That Distract Drivers vs Things That Replace Drivers (TTDDvTTRD). If automatic nav doesn't catch up, we will all be victims of our own entertainment.
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The minimum number of instructions is one - Subtract, Branch if Negative. It is almost as easy to program in as it is to convice a girl to go out with me.
For a class last semester I designed a simple 16bit VVVRISC (very very very reduced instruction set) processor, did full layout (n-dope here, metal there), timing sims, assembly language, the whole schebang.
At one point I was deciding whether or not to put a multiplier in. Mind you, ever decent processor on the planet has AT LEAST one, but this was a one man effort. Adding this function would slow my clock by a factor of x10. The circuitry to multiply is just a whole lot deeper. I chose instead to implement multiply in my assembly using shifts and adds. It made my multiply instruction 3x slower than if I had circuited it, but it made all my other instructions hellafasta.
I know my example was bad, but it is how I grew to understand the difference.
The point is, RISC means the slower, less often used functions don't slow down the rest of the process. So lets say a CISC processor implements several multimedia happy functions, and makes them 3x faster in doing so. Now lets say the algorithm changes, and wants a slightly different function. Now the software must either do it the RISC way or do it the CISC+software_patch way.
RISC to me feels cleaner, and probably allows for more elegant pipelines - simple instructions often can use the same silicon (my ALU used parts of the adder to do XOR/AND/OR/etc, multiplier would have been off to the side).
All the porn and warez my employees have been so diligently finding for me?
I can't think of any Linux distributions that get rebuilt every single time the kernal or an application within it gets patched.
Gentoo? Or am I wrong - there are ways of reading that for either side.
Lets see how much his trademark protects him from my super stealth ninja stealth strike force of stealthfully stealthy doom.
Seriously, it is stuff like this that make America useless. Sometimes, the lawyer speak needs to end and the playground speak has to start: The closest playground analogy would be Stoller as the whiny spoilt kid complaining that it was his kick ball because he dibsed it in september, so no one can now play kick ball ever again. That kid is going to get his butt reeducated with some foot action.
Don't get me wrong - I think the laws are great. I just think that there should be some way of telling idiots like Stoller to shove it.
Just ask Atlas - he ought to be painfully aware of the Earth's mass by now.
u r gey. u no wot i say, y u all n3rd out wit da big werds. There is a place for all of us who don't like to read those sentences. It is called the xForums - xForums.net Basically, we are an online community who put letter in words, words in sentences, and then we even put the sentences into paragraphs! OMG gr4mm4r h4X! I run gaim with fonts and colors disabled. I don't respond to anything with "u r", and I do try to get most of my words right. I'm naturally poor with spelling, but I figure that if I at least try, perhaps the rest of the world will as well.
Just a quick comment on the wirelessness of controllers: DON'T DO IT. I like my wires. They work. ALWAYS. Sure, they are in some ways more convenient: You can't get tripped by them, you can move around more easily, and they allow you to produce golden eggs when you defecate. However, it is a pain in my gold producer to find a lost wireless controller and re battery it. I hate batteries. I just hate them. This may be because of that one time I wired 72v of Latern Cell's to my tongue, but I want all of my electricity to come out of mr Happy Face on the wall. If you can make the console recharge the controllers, AND find them for me, I will love you forever.
I believe Google is infringing on prior art on the whole "Earth" thing. They are attempting to rebrand it, push it as an original and then patent it away from the original creator - God.
God will soon be unable to continue providing his "competing" Earth service due to rigorous patent laws, and everyone will PERISH - All because Google has the legal power to take a page from MS's book and assert that it was their idea in the first place.
Please contact your local congress(wo)man today and let hir know of this nefarious plot.
The consumer may only have two ears, but their neighbors have many more. 13 speakers + 1 woofer cranked -> 2 block radius -> 200 angry neighbors -> 402 ears for 14 speakers.
See? Extra channels for extra ears.
Ours goes up to 11.
On the Contrary. AI is just statistics on crack (gross simplification). All of the values in my AIs are floating point so they can be sort of true, sort of false, mostly true, etc... I guess I could scale it to integers, but that would be a conceptual pain in the ass - I'd rather just program it in a way that makes sense and throw more TFLOPS at it.
I'm writing a neural net that can learn its own weight update rules genetically. That requires more floating point operations than I can shake a stick at - sigmoids EVERYWHERE.
Apple's main point of sale is Job's salesmanship. Don't get me wrong - they have great products. But great products don't sell themselves (Which RIO is explicitly trying to do). The iPod is the shit because Job's wants you to believe it is. You can't beat that with a sack of wet noodles (aka better products).
Lasting 40 days and 40 nights, and hopefully a bit longer.
I hope this is for real - I'm more than capable of setting this stuff up for myself, but I can't set it up for my sisters without driving home and spending my valuable home time in front of a computer. I hope this will help us hit the newb audience better.
"CNN is reporting that the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith trailer will make its debut on none other than the f0x's OC12. The article is candid in pointing out that 'as an avid video pirate host, Abusebox, the main server on "The OC", would likely relish the event.' The trailer will air on March 10, at sometime between 8 and 9PM EST, at which point it will be a smoldering slashdotted heap of silicon. The article also makes note for those not wishing to steal his bandwidth that "the new trailer will be re-released on all other major channels beginning March 11.""
BBN has developed a quantum router. (www.bbn.com). These are the same folk who invented the internet. It does unfortunately require trusting the router. Therefore, you are partially correct - quantum encrypted information is only as secure as its routing points.
Computers do not make use of quantum mechanics. I repeat - COMPUTERS DO NOT MAKE USE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. What they do make use of is the "whoa, wouldn't it be hot if it were smaller and faster and OH MY GOD WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT" princible. Quantum mechanics are why we can not (currently) make chips infinitely small. Transistors pipe many many electrons at once, and they hope that none of them are entangled or doing any other wierd stuff.
I'll do it this afternoooon. Yes mother... no mother... Mom! I'll do it later!
good thing we have a quarter of a century to slack off, I was falling behind in my slacking with finals and all.
I hear that after they take out Java and .Net, they are going for every X linux app, because they ask for help from the X server. After that is done, Anything that asks the kernel for help is toast as well. God save us when they get the BIOS.
*Wishes he had Kodak stock right now*
Whats wrong with giving smallpox to script kiddies?
I certainly wouldn't mind having less spam.
Apple releases their next next generation iPod - a notecard painted pretty. Just write the title of the song with your iPencil and you are good to go, no batteries necessary!
At the same time, Apple also releases their next next generation computers - beowulf clusters of Dell JukeBoxes.
An iPod is an iPod after all.
I consistently get about an extra mile per gallon than the EPA says I am supposed to. Unfortunately that does not make up for the fact that the last 3 times I filled up cleaned my wallet out entirely.
In boston, there are no street signs. Street names change without warning, and drivers are constantly pushing you around. As a non-native, I am hopelessly lost driving in that city. Anything that would reduce that feeling would be very welcome.
Way to ruin EVERYTHING.
/. parades our top secret passcodes around the world for all to see?
How are we supposed to keep one step ahead of the enemy hackers when
Now ehere are we going to find something as secure as 'superman'?
This will probably lead to removal of these chemicals from the processing, because humans don't like dieing while they click. Arguably more important is the world health benefits:
The process that creates the nasty chemicals most likely pumps out more nasty chemicals into the environment. Greener output usually means greener process.
I for one welcome our new green computing overlords.
Now we can drive with one knee, eat with one hand and watch /.-The Movie at 90mph.
There is a race in technology : Things That Distract Drivers vs Things That Replace Drivers (TTDDvTTRD). If automatic nav doesn't catch up, we will all be victims of our own entertainment.
Cheers!