Things really turned around with the 68K and PPC; They have a ton of registers and pipelines.
The 68K had a generalized set of eight data and eight address registers (one of which was the program counter), as well as two stack pointers. It also had a 3-stage fetch, decode, execute pipeline. This CPU was a dream to write assembly for.
The registers and arithmetic were 32bit, but the address bus and ALU were 16bit. 16bit instruction words did make code more compact and faster, though.
The PPC, I haven't written asm for so I'm not entirely sure about it beyond the fact that it has an enormous register set that completely dwarfs Intel's.
Israeli companies also makea lot offraudulentclaims. If all claims were to be believed, then the Israelis have had optical and quantum computers for half a decade, can break any encryption, have unbreakable encryption, and an AI in junior high.
I have no doubt that some Israeli companies do develop interesting innovations, but not every sensational technology press release that finds its way on to Slashdot is entirely honest.
I replaced IE with Mozilla on my roomate's computer without his knowledge. I used an IE skin and disabled the Mozilla splash screen. He has noticed that he has stopped getting advertisement and software installation pop-ups/pop-unders, but he doesn't know or care why. He just thinks he's lucky.
Over a month now and he has no idea he's not using IE anymore. I was expecting him to notice within a few hours.
There is no way to detoxify them until they decay on their own
Actually, you can hasten the decay of radioactive materials by concentrating them and bombarding them with neutrons... but that's a lot of work and it's beside the point. You're missing quite a bit about coal waste.
Coal waste is ash. It has already been incinerated, and organic toxins that can be easily broken down are no longer the problem. Toxins in coal ash such as arsenic, lead and mercury are elements. You can't break them down, nor is the technology available to fuse them. You can only contain them, and you must do so indefinitely as they do not decay.
One more feature of coal that you may not have realised is that it contains heavily radioactive elements such as thorium and uranium (among other things). It has also been shown that heavier isotopes of plutonium (239, 240) are present in the ash, possibly naturally created from uranium content during burning. Needless to say, coal waste is rather dangerous in the quantities used by power plants.
Due to the sheer mass of coal required to produce the same amount of electrical energy as a given mass of uranium (over 2 tons vs. 1 ounce), a coal-fired power plant produces much more radioactive waste in a year than an equivalent nuclear plant.
Then there is the great deal of CO2 and the veritable cornucopia of toxic gasses coal plants are better known for. Amongst those gaseous toxins will be trace amounts of many different radioactive materials. Ironically, living near a coal plant will cause you to sustain 3-4 times the radiation dose per year than you would receive living near a nuclear plant (the radiation dose is negligable in both cases, but it bears mentioning).
Coal is the worst of both worlds; it produces extravagant amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. Most of the radioactive waste buried in the desert from power generation is from coal-fired plants, not fission.
That doesn't matter because of a loophole in the USB 2 specification. A device can be USB 2 compliant and have the logo, yet lack the faster 480Mbs transfer rate.
You're rooting for criminals. They're somehow good as long as they're serving your purpose? Your post isn't insightful; it's terribly misguided.
Using blacklists is the choice of the people receiving the e-mail, and it's not your place to tell law-abiding citizens what they can and can not do with their own e-mail servers.
Authoring worms and viruses, and attacking other hosts on the Internet are serious crimes. These people do not need to be rooted for. They need to be reviled and brought to justice.
Super Smash Bros: Melee is an absolute riot with four players. Everyone cracks up when someone gets the donkey kong hammer. Complete mayhem. Come to think of it, a lot of Nintendo's games tend to be in that same boat. Mario Party 4, F-Zero GX, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Mario Kart: Double Dash... They're all primarily social games.
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Things really turned around with the 68K and PPC; They have a ton of registers and pipelines.
The 68K had a generalized set of eight data and eight address registers (one of which was the program counter), as well as two stack pointers. It also had a 3-stage fetch, decode, execute pipeline. This CPU was a dream to write assembly for.
The registers and arithmetic were 32bit, but the address bus and ALU were 16bit. 16bit instruction words did make code more compact and faster, though.
The PPC, I haven't written asm for so I'm not entirely sure about it beyond the fact that it has an enormous register set that completely dwarfs Intel's.
The X-Box is close enough to a PC internally anyway, so I submit that the ORAC project is one such vastly superior clear mod.
This reminds me of the unicycles in The Venus Wars (aka Uinasu senki).
Israeli companies also make a lot of fraudulent claims.
If all claims were to be believed, then the Israelis have had optical and quantum computers for half a decade, can break any encryption, have unbreakable encryption, and an AI in junior high.
I have no doubt that some Israeli companies do develop interesting innovations, but not every sensational technology press release that finds its way on to Slashdot is entirely honest.
I replaced IE with Mozilla on my roomate's computer without his knowledge. I used an IE skin and disabled the Mozilla splash screen. He has noticed that he has stopped getting advertisement and software installation pop-ups/pop-unders, but he doesn't know or care why. He just thinks he's lucky.
Over a month now and he has no idea he's not using IE anymore. I was expecting him to notice within a few hours.
This was supposed to be a prank.
There is no way to detoxify them until they decay on their own
Actually, you can hasten the decay of radioactive materials by concentrating them and bombarding them with neutrons... but that's a lot of work and it's beside the point. You're missing quite a bit about coal waste.
Coal waste is ash. It has already been incinerated, and organic toxins that can be easily broken down are no longer the problem. Toxins in coal ash such as arsenic, lead and mercury are elements. You can't break them down, nor is the technology available to fuse them. You can only contain them, and you must do so indefinitely as they do not decay.
One more feature of coal that you may not have realised is that it contains heavily radioactive elements such as thorium and uranium (among other things). It has also been shown that heavier isotopes of plutonium (239, 240) are present in the ash, possibly naturally created from uranium content during burning. Needless to say, coal waste is rather dangerous in the quantities used by power plants.
Due to the sheer mass of coal required to produce the same amount of electrical energy as a given mass of uranium (over 2 tons vs. 1 ounce), a coal-fired power plant produces much more radioactive waste in a year than an equivalent nuclear plant.
Then there is the great deal of CO2 and the veritable cornucopia of toxic gasses coal plants are better known for. Amongst those gaseous toxins will be trace amounts of many different radioactive materials. Ironically, living near a coal plant will cause you to sustain 3-4 times the radiation dose per year than you would receive living near a nuclear plant (the radiation dose is negligable in both cases, but it bears mentioning).
Coal is the worst of both worlds; it produces extravagant amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. Most of the radioactive waste buried in the desert from power generation is from coal-fired plants, not fission.
Take the winxp kernel, ditch the explorer/GUI and re-write it from scratch.
You mean litestep?
I for one would really like to have backups of my games. I've had too many close calls with those little discs.
That doesn't matter because of a loophole in the USB 2 specification. A device can be USB 2 compliant and have the logo, yet lack the faster 480Mbs transfer rate.
You're rooting for criminals. They're somehow good as long as they're serving your purpose? Your post isn't insightful; it's terribly misguided.
Using blacklists is the choice of the people receiving the e-mail, and it's not your place to tell law-abiding citizens what they can and can not do with their own e-mail servers.
Authoring worms and viruses, and attacking other hosts on the Internet are serious crimes. These people do not need to be rooted for. They need to be reviled and brought to justice.
Super Smash Bros: Melee is an absolute riot with four players. Everyone cracks up when someone gets the donkey kong hammer. Complete mayhem.
Come to think of it, a lot of Nintendo's games tend to be in that same boat. Mario Party 4, F-Zero GX, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Mario Kart: Double Dash... They're all primarily social games.