That's just a load of bunk. Let's see, how many ARM based 32 bit microprocessor were made last year? -- Over 500 Million, kind of puts x86 sales to shame. They saw 278 Million units in sales in one quarter last year. If you think everythings x86, you've just got your head in the sand.
Judging from the responses to the article, the article was already written at a level that was too high to be understandable for a sizeable portion of the slashdot crowd. Many of them
do not appear to understand what dataflow computing is.
The 'branch prediction' problem isn't a matter of predicting whether or not a branch will occur, it's predicting which of the outcomes the branch will take. The problem occurs in CPUs that are pipelined. In essence when one instruction is just completing, the processor has already started working on 5 or more subsequent instructions. Now the problem is that in order to this, it must 'predict' the outcome of a branch instruction. If it gets this prediction wrong, the work thats been done on those subsequent instructions that were already started has to be thrown away, and it's got to start working on the instructions from the correct branch.
Interesting you should say that. I just read an article about engineering enrollment in the local University's daily rag. It had some Undergraduate Engineering enrollment figures for about the last 20 years for Michigan State University. They showed a drop in enrollment of about 25% over the last 5 or 6 years, from just over 4000 to just over 3000. That's quite a drop.
Iowa State Daily
Psychologists have studied this, and have discovered that happiness is directly correlated with income. Wealthy people are happy people, generally speaking, and poor people are miserable people, again generally speaking. So that 'contemporary organizational behaviour' theory is a load of cow dung.
Two words: Sony Betamax
Back when VCR's (video cassette recorders) were just out, there were two competing formats. One of these was Betamax. Technically, it was superior. However Sony wanted large license fees from those companies that wanted to produce products that used this format. The competing technology, VHS, had licensing terms that were considerably more reasonable for those interested in producing VCRs.
So while dozens of companies bought licenses to produce VCRs using the VHS format, only three or four companies made VCRs that used the Betamax tape. Naturally VHS came to dominate the market.
So here we have, in essence, an example of a superior product(Betamax) that was not successful. This happens all the time. It's the best marketed product that wins, not necessarily the product that uses the best technology.
After reading through the article, I didn't find much in the way of information. What specifically was the problem here? Microsoft still bundling? What are they being accused of bundling this time?
You might not need it, but you might find abstract algebra interesting and it might help your analysis abilities. Being that 2/3 of the EE, Cptr E, and CS profs at ISU are foreign, I can understand you're problems getting one that is easy to understand.
You're quite right. Taking a square root of an integer is not really much more difficult than dividing, when it comes to writing the proceedure in assembly language.
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Are you planning on purchasing any Opteron systems? I'm sure those folks at Dell would be interested in knowing. Their other story is that customers aren't demanding AMD processors in products.
maybe Apple just plain didn't want to deal with "No really! AMD chips are faster than Intel chips!"
Well they'll actually be trying to proclaim "No really, Intel chips are faster than AMD chips". At the high end, I see AMD being in the lead for at least two more years.
But, really, Apple's decision is based on the availability of processors for the notebook market. Here's where Intel still leads. The Pentium M is the chip to beat at the current time. When 65nm processing is introduced, Intel still will be leading.
always mention that even a whiff of the vapor (should it escape) could kill you.
A whiff is not likely to kill you, but it's not particularly good for the lungs in any case. It tends to produce a burning sensation. You'll definitely know it when you breath some of the stuff in.
Back in the day when it was less regulated, we'ld have to pump the stuff from a bulk tank into the tank on the fertilizer applicator. You'ld take a big breath of air, go over to the tanks, connect the hose from the bulk tank to the other, open the valves, start the pump, etc. Then you'ld run upwind 80 feet from the tanks and you could breath again.
being that the article mentioned that the Seagate drive used only slightly more power than the 4200 RPM Hitachi drive, I think you can deduce that heat will be no more of a problem with the Seagate than a normal drive.
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Parent is a troll.
Clearer - yes. Faster - probably not.
I refuse to install that flash trash. If you're site requires it, I don't visit your site. Plain and simple.
make that 780 million ARM processors, with 80% of cell phones using them. I belive they're on their way to 1 billion this year.
That's just a load of bunk. Let's see, how many ARM based 32 bit microprocessor were made last year? -- Over 500 Million, kind of puts x86 sales to shame. They saw 278 Million units in sales in one quarter last year. If you think everythings x86, you've just got your head in the sand.
Judging from the responses to the article, the article was already written at a level that was too high to be understandable for a sizeable portion of the slashdot crowd. Many of them do not appear to understand what dataflow computing is.
The 'branch prediction' problem isn't a matter of predicting whether or not a branch will occur, it's predicting which of the outcomes the branch will take. The problem occurs in CPUs that are pipelined. In essence when one instruction is just completing, the processor has already started working on 5 or more subsequent instructions. Now the problem is that in order to this, it must 'predict' the outcome of a branch instruction. If it gets this prediction wrong, the work thats been done on those subsequent instructions that were already started has to be thrown away, and it's got to start working on the instructions from the correct branch.
Yes, it's called SMAD - Stupid Meaningless Acronym Deficiency.
They haven't bough me one yet.
The article has been archived here. The link in the parent no longer contains the article.
Interesting you should say that. I just read an article about engineering enrollment in the local University's daily rag. It had some Undergraduate Engineering enrollment figures for about the last 20 years for Michigan State University. They showed a drop in enrollment of about 25% over the last 5 or 6 years, from just over 4000 to just over 3000. That's quite a drop. Iowa State Daily
Ward, don't you think Beaver is spending too much time on the computer?
Psychologists have studied this, and have discovered that happiness is directly correlated with income. Wealthy people are happy people, generally speaking, and poor people are miserable people, again generally speaking. So that 'contemporary organizational behaviour' theory is a load of cow dung.
And you didn't have to have a set of earplugs or headphones to listen to the TR-1
Back when VCR's (video cassette recorders) were just out, there were two competing formats. One of these was Betamax. Technically, it was superior. However Sony wanted large license fees from those companies that wanted to produce products that used this format. The competing technology, VHS, had licensing terms that were considerably more reasonable for those interested in producing VCRs.
So while dozens of companies bought licenses to produce VCRs using the VHS format, only three or four companies made VCRs that used the Betamax tape. Naturally VHS came to dominate the market.
So here we have, in essence, an example of a superior product(Betamax) that was not successful. This happens all the time. It's the best marketed product that wins, not necessarily the product that uses the best technology.
After reading through the article, I didn't find much in the way of information. What specifically was the problem here? Microsoft still bundling? What are they being accused of bundling this time?
How much for building a doomed city?
There's a former boss that should have one named after him.
You might not need it, but you might find abstract algebra interesting and it might help your analysis abilities. Being that 2/3 of the EE, Cptr E, and CS profs at ISU are foreign, I can understand you're problems getting one that is easy to understand.
You're quite right. Taking a square root of an integer is not really much more difficult than dividing, when it comes to writing the proceedure in assembly language.
Are you planning on purchasing any Opteron systems? I'm sure those folks at Dell would be interested in knowing. Their other story is that customers aren't demanding AMD processors in products.
Well they'll actually be trying to proclaim "No really, Intel chips are faster than AMD chips". At the high end, I see AMD being in the lead for at least two more years.
But, really, Apple's decision is based on the availability of processors for the notebook market. Here's where Intel still leads. The Pentium M is the chip to beat at the current time. When 65nm processing is introduced, Intel still will be leading.
A whiff is not likely to kill you, but it's not particularly good for the lungs in any case. It tends to produce a burning sensation. You'll definitely know it when you breath some of the stuff in.
Back in the day when it was less regulated, we'ld have to pump the stuff from a bulk tank into the tank on the fertilizer applicator. You'ld take a big breath of air, go over to the tanks, connect the hose from the bulk tank to the other, open the valves, start the pump, etc. Then you'ld run upwind 80 feet from the tanks and you could breath again.
You may find you change your mind after trying Prolog, Haskell, or APL.
being that the article mentioned that the Seagate drive used only slightly more power than the 4200 RPM Hitachi drive, I think you can deduce that heat will be no more of a problem with the Seagate than a normal drive.