The customers don't even care. Most of them don't know how many GHz or how much memory their machine has! They don't give a damn about whoever built their hard disk.
That's why they buy a Dell: plug it in, and Windows runs! And at lower CPU prices for an AMD, the customers would even be happy.
The only reason Dell rejects AMDs, is their (corrupt?) relationship with Intel. When two CEOs share a bed, other companies don't stand a chance.
!foo means just: foo == 0, and the compiler has to check the value anyway, since most CPU architectures can only branch on a flag in the condition register.
Don't worry, just use whatever is clear. I prefer "if (!foo) error", but that is a matter of taste. Just be consistent.;)
I know several people who have a legal copy of Win XP Pro, but chose to install a registration-free company version of XP, because they don't like the hassle, or that they have to call MS when they want to install the software...
Ogg is better, as AAC unfortunately doesn't have VBR, i.e. long silences compress to long bitsequences (big files)!
It's sad that Apple doesn't even allow info to make people create an OGG plugin for the iPod. Some of my music collection is ogged, so that's why I refuse to pay $200+ for an iPod.
MP3 is good at 192kb, but then you waste disk space.
If Apple ever does VBR for AAC, I probably would switch...
x86 has gotten 32bit extensions, protected mode, MMX, 3DNow, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, 64bit extensions (+ some new registers), and now another special-purpose instruction set (?) enhancement.
PPC, on the other hand, has been a 64bit instruction set from the beginning (of the '90s, that is); has had one SIMD instruction set (Altivec) that many claim to be superior to all that SSE stuff; and it has lots of nice registers and cool instructions that are much more fun to use for any compiler than the Intel crap.
Oh, and PPC hasn't changed through all those years, so you don't have to learn new instruction sets all the time (and program that damn chip in assembly, because compilers don't know the extensions, yet!).
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I've never ever read this news two days before.
The customers don't even care. Most of them don't know how many GHz or how much memory their machine has! They don't give a damn about whoever built their hard disk.
That's why they buy a Dell: plug it in, and Windows runs! And at lower CPU prices for an AMD, the customers would even be happy.
The only reason Dell rejects AMDs, is their (corrupt?) relationship with Intel. When two CEOs share a bed, other companies don't stand a chance.
!foo means just: foo == 0, and the compiler has to check the value anyway, since most CPU architectures can only branch on a flag in the condition register.
;)
Don't worry, just use whatever is clear. I prefer "if (!foo) error", but that is a matter of taste. Just be consistent.
I know several people who have a legal copy of Win XP Pro, but chose to install a registration-free company version of XP, because they don't like the hassle, or that they have to call MS when they want to install the software...
Ogg is better, as AAC unfortunately doesn't have VBR, i.e. long silences compress to long bitsequences (big files)! It's sad that Apple doesn't even allow info to make people create an OGG plugin for the iPod. Some of my music collection is ogged, so that's why I refuse to pay $200+ for an iPod. MP3 is good at 192kb, but then you waste disk space. If Apple ever does VBR for AAC, I probably would switch...
So it goes on and on...
x86 has gotten 32bit extensions, protected mode, MMX, 3DNow, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, 64bit extensions (+ some new registers), and now another special-purpose instruction set (?) enhancement.
PPC, on the other hand, has been a 64bit instruction set from the beginning (of the '90s, that is); has had one SIMD instruction set (Altivec) that many claim to be superior to all that SSE stuff; and it has lots of nice registers and cool instructions that are much more fun to use for any compiler than the Intel crap.
Oh, and PPC hasn't changed through all those years, so you don't have to learn new instruction sets all the time (and program that damn chip in assembly, because compilers don't know the extensions, yet!).
I agree that Open Standards are much more important than (and distinct from) Open Source.
We all use the Internet, but some use GNU-Linux, some use a Mac, some use Windows.
There no reason to force everything into open source (yes, mod me down for this). Allow some room for private competition.
This is as much a portable "PC" as all the Zauruses before it.