I can't think of very many situations where having a four-instruction decoder in front of two four-issue cores would be a good idea, unless you're doing something weird like issuing nothing but vector ops. Additionally, cache latency is through the roof compared to everything else in that space right now, including previous-gen parts.
Bulldozer is a bad design, and AMD's current roadmap (10-15% improvement per year) doesn't look very reassuring. Still, I'd like to see them get their shit back together, because having Intel as the only high-end commodity manufacturer is bad.
I'd like to see some citation for those statements about ARM not having the desktop mode. Microsoft has stated that the two architectures will have identical builds, and demo'd Office for ARM running in desktop mode.
And "everyone knows it" or links to unsubstantiated rumors are silly.
A 10-core Westmere-EX vs a 12-core Magny-Cours is much more than a "small percentage higher" - probably 30 or 40%, potentially higher depending on workload.
Wait, because Microsoft makes a repackaged Firefox with Bing as the default, it somehow ruins your enjoyment of Firefox itself, with defaults to Google? What the fuck?
Corporations have been considered legal persons for hundreds of years in jurisdictions based on British law. I don't understand why there's this meme that the Citizens United decision created that...
The PPC 460 family is common for AmigaOS boards, but it's pretty slow and products with it always end up extravagantly priced ($1k vicinity for a board that doesn't reliably outperform the Atom) purely by virtue of it being sold to nostalgia-crazed hobbyists. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up the same way.
Of course. Because illegally using a long-EOL OS (or using an immature alpha open-source clone of the same EOL OS) in a shipping product is a wonderful idea...
You've never used a full-sized Blackberry (Bold, Tour), have you? The keyboard on my Bold is the best of any cell phone I've ever used, including Droid2, N810, and various virtual ones.
You call the French Revolution (several years of fratricidal infighting, followed by ~15 years of Napoleon's military dictatorship) "working out okay"?
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I can't think of very many situations where having a four-instruction decoder in front of two four-issue cores would be a good idea, unless you're doing something weird like issuing nothing but vector ops. Additionally, cache latency is through the roof compared to everything else in that space right now, including previous-gen parts.
Bulldozer is a bad design, and AMD's current roadmap (10-15% improvement per year) doesn't look very reassuring. Still, I'd like to see them get their shit back together, because having Intel as the only high-end commodity manufacturer is bad.
C# is an open standard, as is part of the .NET standard library.
I'd like to see some citation for those statements about ARM not having the desktop mode. Microsoft has stated that the two architectures will have identical builds, and demo'd Office for ARM running in desktop mode.
And "everyone knows it" or links to unsubstantiated rumors are silly.
A cheap board with an ARM11 and 128MB of RAM for $25. Cute, cheap, but slow.
Android isn't free if you want your device to access the Market - which most smart OEM's do.
Until Intel made their CPU's (2500k, for example) cheap, and Bulldozer turned out to be garbage.
A 10-core Westmere-EX vs a 12-core Magny-Cours is much more than a "small percentage higher" - probably 30 or 40%, potentially higher depending on workload.
I'm assuming Windows depends on IE. The new Metro stuff is largely HTML/Javascript, and it would make sense if it ran on the IE rendering engine.
Wait, because Microsoft makes a repackaged Firefox with Bing as the default, it somehow ruins your enjoyment of Firefox itself, with defaults to Google? What the fuck?
IE9's rendering engine is pretty good, but the new UI is strange and (imho) not very good. It's kind of a pity, because it's reasonably fast.
Corporations have been considered legal persons for hundreds of years in jurisdictions based on British law. I don't understand why there's this meme that the Citizens United decision created that...
Ignoring VAT... nice.
SPARC T1/T2 is also single-issue.
Actually, the first Windows NT release was Windows NT 3.1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1
The PPC 460 family is common for AmigaOS boards, but it's pretty slow and products with it always end up extravagantly priced ($1k vicinity for a board that doesn't reliably outperform the Atom) purely by virtue of it being sold to nostalgia-crazed hobbyists. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up the same way.
You mean like how at the top of this page, it says "Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook"?
How about 3.0, which was released almost a year ago?
Of course - because 2.3 and 4.0 are equivalent.
Of course. Because illegally using a long-EOL OS (or using an immature alpha open-source clone of the same EOL OS) in a shipping product is a wonderful idea...
RIM has said that it will primarily use native code and existing open-source libraries. Doesn't sound so bad.
It's not UNIX-based. It has a degree of UNIX compatibility and a UNIX-like shell, but that's not the same thing.
You've never used a full-sized Blackberry (Bold, Tour), have you? The keyboard on my Bold is the best of any cell phone I've ever used, including Droid2, N810, and various virtual ones.
An unannounced phone with rumored specs? Going to buy an iPhone 5 too?
You call the French Revolution (several years of fratricidal infighting, followed by ~15 years of Napoleon's military dictatorship) "working out okay"?
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