Okay, you had a high-end SMP PowerPC facing off against a laptop x86 part... running PowerPC code. Yeah. That's a fair comparison.
Now, let's compare a laptop G4 to a quad Xeon from the same period with a benchmark running x86 code!
G5's aren't incredibly slow, but nor are they particularly fast. The clock speed bump over the G4 meant the loss of some performance per cycle, and the amount of heat those things put out is obscene.
A reasonably clocked C2D or any Nehalem should be vastly faster than a G5.
The FSB is approximately a third of the total KGB capability, with the FSO and SVR being the other legs of the triumvirate. The FSB, being the replacement for the former First Chief Directorate, is mostly responsible for internal security (counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, action against dissenters.) I don't see how this deal with Microsoft could possibly threaten the US or US interests, except possibly in a peripheral way.
Ah, yes. Rodney King. A horribly mistreated young man who decided it was a good idea to lunge at a police officer carrying out a legal arrest while out of his mind on narcotics. Just out of curiosity, how do you think the police should have handled that situation? And do you think the subsequent torching of large parts of Los Angeles was an acceptable reaction?
The line about "majority of American debt" is utter horrible bullshit. A large majority of US government debt is domestic (probably about 70%.) Even when you consider foreign debt only, the PRC is roughly tied with Japan and makes up a pretty small minority of the total, with 23.4% of US foreign debt.
The new UI is terrible, and appears to be trying to (badly) emulate Chrome. The worst part is that, by default, minimize/maximize/close buttons are not present, which hurts usability badly. The good news is that this can be restored to the previous UI with a few clicks... I hope that options remains present in the final release.
Me either. I don't understand why the general public seems to prefer lethal injection to hanging or firing squad as a method, given that the latter two are far, far more dignified. With lethal injection we have things like a condemned man being strapped to a gurney for hours as the personnel search for the correct vein, frequently with very painful results. With a properly-conducted hanging or firing squad, it's quick, relatively painless, dignified, and ends fast.
It said nothing about black people. It referred to persons bound to labor, which SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH included a large number of white indentured servants (and IIRC some outright slaves.) Nice try though.
Nope. More like CPC connections, which then enable you to get capital. The PRC is possibly a hybrid system rather than Communism, but it sure as hell isn't capitalist.
They didn't "purchase the company Rosetta." Rosetta was licensed from a company called Transitive that was later bought by IBM. The same technology is used by SGI to run IRIX programs under Linux for Itanium and by IBM to run x86 programs under AIX/POWER.
A lot of the appeal of AIX and i is the support for virtualization (#4 on your list.) Seriously, the LPAR system and other virtualization bits are the absolute best available, and they blow away everything else on the market. AIX may be a weird-ass UNIX with a lot of strange and occasionally unpleasant quirks, but there are perfectly good reasons why IBM is #1 on UNIX hardware, and the speed of POWER processors isn't the only one.
QNX is quite possibly the best operating system available. The tools are great, and the OS itself can do some pretty ridiculous things. To start with, it's extremely fast - even with the Photon GUI (another great feature) loaded, it only consumes something like 25MB of RAM on x86, and slightly less on ARM. That's impressive. Then let's go into the clustering features - if they're turned on, then processes are automatically and transparently distributed among any QNX machines on the local network.
On the other hand, I haven't been that impressed with the way QNX Systems has been handling the platform lately. Momentics can't even self-host anymore, and the UI has gotten a lot worse in my opinion. That being said, I hope RIM doesn't do an IBM-style acquisition where they just take the bits of the victim company that they like and kill everything else.
Okay, here's a scenario for you. The US and the CIS go to war. CIS starts losing conventionally, and pulls out their chemical arsenal, which is the most advanced in the world (look up the Novichok Agents.) US sustains massive casualties. Now what? Once upon a time, we would just retaliate with chemical or nuclear weapons, but now we can't... so the CIS has a free force-multiplier with no consequences. Great.
I am getting sick and tired of the "war between nations is obsolete" rhetoric. It makes no fucking sense, and there is no evidence for it. Russia/CIS, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea are all powerful states with a bone to pick with the United States that have been modernizing their military arsenal and conventional forces. Just because the US is currently involved in a counterinsurgency does NOT make symmetric conflicts obsolete, and we have to be prepared for them or the likelihood of their occurrence increases. In that spirit, I find this new doctrine to be very scary. "No first use against NPT-compliant states" means that if one of the US's enemies uses chemical weapons against us, we have no non-conventional means to retaliate, since the US has no meaningful chemical arsenal and we're now forbidden to use nukes in that situation, as previous doctrine would dictate. POTUS is naive.
Exactly. Approximately 85% of Itanium servers are running HP-UX or OpenVMS. Windows and Linux are roughly split on the remaining 15%. Itanium faces challenges, but they're from POWER and SPARC, not from Microosoft killing Windows.
This is not 1/1000 as bad as the Year of OMGPOnies. Figure approximately 120 stories, all in a horrible pink color scheme and done with a stereotypical valley-girl dialect. About half were ThinkGeek advertisements, and the other half ridiculous april fool stories.
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Okay, you had a high-end SMP PowerPC facing off against a laptop x86 part... running PowerPC code. Yeah. That's a fair comparison. Now, let's compare a laptop G4 to a quad Xeon from the same period with a benchmark running x86 code!
G5's aren't incredibly slow, but nor are they particularly fast. The clock speed bump over the G4 meant the loss of some performance per cycle, and the amount of heat those things put out is obscene. A reasonably clocked C2D or any Nehalem should be vastly faster than a G5.
The FSB is approximately a third of the total KGB capability, with the FSO and SVR being the other legs of the triumvirate. The FSB, being the replacement for the former First Chief Directorate, is mostly responsible for internal security (counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, action against dissenters.) I don't see how this deal with Microsoft could possibly threaten the US or US interests, except possibly in a peripheral way.
How is "groovy is compiled" a misleading statement?
Ah, yes. Rodney King. A horribly mistreated young man who decided it was a good idea to lunge at a police officer carrying out a legal arrest while out of his mind on narcotics. Just out of curiosity, how do you think the police should have handled that situation? And do you think the subsequent torching of large parts of Los Angeles was an acceptable reaction?
The line about "majority of American debt" is utter horrible bullshit. A large majority of US government debt is domestic (probably about 70%.) Even when you consider foreign debt only, the PRC is roughly tied with Japan and makes up a pretty small minority of the total, with 23.4% of US foreign debt.
The new UI is terrible, and appears to be trying to (badly) emulate Chrome. The worst part is that, by default, minimize/maximize/close buttons are not present, which hurts usability badly. The good news is that this can be restored to the previous UI with a few clicks... I hope that options remains present in the final release.
It's being confused with the N8-00, which was (for obvious and sane purposes) renamed the N8. It's the flagship Symbian^3 device.
Me either. I don't understand why the general public seems to prefer lethal injection to hanging or firing squad as a method, given that the latter two are far, far more dignified. With lethal injection we have things like a condemned man being strapped to a gurney for hours as the personnel search for the correct vein, frequently with very painful results. With a properly-conducted hanging or firing squad, it's quick, relatively painless, dignified, and ends fast.
Early adopters will pay for continued R&D, which will then make this affordable for most people down the line. It's how these things work.
It said nothing about black people. It referred to persons bound to labor, which SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH included a large number of white indentured servants (and IIRC some outright slaves.) Nice try though.
Probably the fact that it was and is the supreme law of the United States.
Nope. More like CPC connections, which then enable you to get capital. The PRC is possibly a hybrid system rather than Communism, but it sure as hell isn't capitalist.
It's also an A8, not an A9 as has occasionally been claimed. Apple fans will do anything to hype their fairly weak chip, it seems.
Why the fuck is this modded troll?
They didn't "purchase the company Rosetta." Rosetta was licensed from a company called Transitive that was later bought by IBM. The same technology is used by SGI to run IRIX programs under Linux for Itanium and by IBM to run x86 programs under AIX/POWER.
A lot of the appeal of AIX and i is the support for virtualization (#4 on your list.) Seriously, the LPAR system and other virtualization bits are the absolute best available, and they blow away everything else on the market. AIX may be a weird-ass UNIX with a lot of strange and occasionally unpleasant quirks, but there are perfectly good reasons why IBM is #1 on UNIX hardware, and the speed of POWER processors isn't the only one.
QNX is quite possibly the best operating system available. The tools are great, and the OS itself can do some pretty ridiculous things. To start with, it's extremely fast - even with the Photon GUI (another great feature) loaded, it only consumes something like 25MB of RAM on x86, and slightly less on ARM. That's impressive. Then let's go into the clustering features - if they're turned on, then processes are automatically and transparently distributed among any QNX machines on the local network.
On the other hand, I haven't been that impressed with the way QNX Systems has been handling the platform lately. Momentics can't even self-host anymore, and the UI has gotten a lot worse in my opinion. That being said, I hope RIM doesn't do an IBM-style acquisition where they just take the bits of the victim company that they like and kill everything else.
Okay, here's a scenario for you. The US and the CIS go to war. CIS starts losing conventionally, and pulls out their chemical arsenal, which is the most advanced in the world (look up the Novichok Agents.) US sustains massive casualties. Now what? Once upon a time, we would just retaliate with chemical or nuclear weapons, but now we can't... so the CIS has a free force-multiplier with no consequences. Great.
I am getting sick and tired of the "war between nations is obsolete" rhetoric. It makes no fucking sense, and there is no evidence for it. Russia/CIS, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea are all powerful states with a bone to pick with the United States that have been modernizing their military arsenal and conventional forces. Just because the US is currently involved in a counterinsurgency does NOT make symmetric conflicts obsolete, and we have to be prepared for them or the likelihood of their occurrence increases. In that spirit, I find this new doctrine to be very scary. "No first use against NPT-compliant states" means that if one of the US's enemies uses chemical weapons against us, we have no non-conventional means to retaliate, since the US has no meaningful chemical arsenal and we're now forbidden to use nukes in that situation, as previous doctrine would dictate. POTUS is naive.
Exactly. Approximately 85% of Itanium servers are running HP-UX or OpenVMS. Windows and Linux are roughly split on the remaining 15%. Itanium faces challenges, but they're from POWER and SPARC, not from Microosoft killing Windows.
Xbox 360 is the easiest console to do indie development for. Just look at XNA.
This is not 1/1000 as bad as the Year of OMGPOnies. Figure approximately 120 stories, all in a horrible pink color scheme and done with a stereotypical valley-girl dialect. About half were ThinkGeek advertisements, and the other half ridiculous april fool stories.
No, the mainland is an autonomous, rebel area controlled by Communist bandits. Taiwan is the seat of the Chinese government.
This is primarily being pushed by Chuck Schumer, a liberal Democrat.