for solving some problems that's true, but x86 is even further from being able to go in that direction as the baby steps taken by some competitors like IBM's Cell
no, you're assuming that problems can be solved by throwing x dollars at it. Today we could have abundant limitless cheap energy if we didn't waste our time on needless sidetracks such as fusion for commercial power. We could have had thorium breeder reactors with sufficient reserves for centuries, and be burning our spent fuel from older reactor designs in them to boot. but no, let's waste our money on pipe dreams and continue the big oil/big corp oligarchy.
we're no closer to practical commercial fusion now than in 1970, and it will be that way for another 50 years at least. Meanwhile, the big fusion reactor in the sky already puts more energy in one year into deserts and wastelands than we use in 10 years.
not to worry, the number of chips produced by a successful product line grows at a rate that more than covers the growing cost (sucks to have be the ones making an Itanium, doesn't it, Intel). The 486 is still a hot seller in embedded industry
a new architecture every fifteen years wouldn't be so bad, staying in this essentially i386 + some bolt-ons rut is getting tiresome. Look at the cool things Sun is doing with the new T2 chip because sparc is somewhat less constipated than i386. Now imagine a chip designed from the ground up to be massively multi-core / SMP.
and really, if one carefully makes an.rpm or.deb GUI app it's possible to then run on all the most common desktop distros out there, I've plopped such rpm into my 7.04 Kubuntu (like Citrix client and oracle 10 client wares) that weren't designed with my distro in mind and things are fine. Or use Java or python bytecode and pick from a few standard cross platform gui libraries.
that's because he's running on 0.1 of one CPU of a crappy power pc box and thus hit the submit buttons multiple times thinking slashdot was bogged down
I like that link even better, it shows he made SOLID STATE LEDs whereas from the main article I was left wondering if he made light emitting vacuum tubes (with a more controllable glow or something). That's huge, as is his equation for voltage drop relating to frequency which is in all LED texts but I've never before seen properly attributed.
ah, I remember that stuff about "backwards masking" when I was young in church. The pastors claimed you could hear satanic messages and occult beliefs when playing hard rock backwards. The hoot was, just play for example an Iron Maiden song *forwards*
that was the wrong two alternatives in the original post. The right choice would be between goofing off at work posting on slashdot compared to goofing off at work having realistic virtual sex.
yup, that link shows what the problem is with LISP. In ivory tower theory, a beautiful and indeed the most powerful possible computer language. In practice, the real world implementations that people can get and use suck, especially CL. Sad really.
right, binary star systems no big deal and they could have planets. But those trinary systems, that's a whole different matter, every 22 years the habitable planets around them really, really suck. Unless you're a darkness loving carnivorous boogey-creature, then it's happy hour.
no screw up, he made the license absolute with the removal of the "later version" clause, and didn't foul it with any equally vague and open-ended replacement. Developers and corporations loved the existing license and made Linux the most successful open source project on the planet. Whether the new GPL3 (which doesn't exist yet at any rate) will solve problems or introduce some legally fatal bug remains to be seen. Linus doesn't have to be in any hurry to adopt it, why should he be the first guinea pig?
the answers for these exams will be on testking and other cheat sites. which will be great as it will then enable thousands of coders to be certified to write secure code, and we'll never have insecure code again. Soon the SAN SW Security Institute can make exams for bug-free code and perfect IT architecture. I'll get all those certs so everything I do will be perfect.
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for solving some problems that's true, but x86 is even further from being able to go in that direction as the baby steps taken by some competitors like IBM's Cell
no, you're assuming that problems can be solved by throwing x dollars at it. Today we could have abundant limitless cheap energy if we didn't waste our time on needless sidetracks such as fusion for commercial power. We could have had thorium breeder reactors with sufficient reserves for centuries, and be burning our spent fuel from older reactor designs in them to boot. but no, let's waste our money on pipe dreams and continue the big oil/big corp oligarchy. we're no closer to practical commercial fusion now than in 1970, and it will be that way for another 50 years at least. Meanwhile, the big fusion reactor in the sky already puts more energy in one year into deserts and wastelands than we use in 10 years.
not to worry, the number of chips produced by a successful product line grows at a rate that more than covers the growing cost (sucks to have be the ones making an Itanium, doesn't it, Intel). The 486 is still a hot seller in embedded industry
a new architecture every fifteen years wouldn't be so bad, staying in this essentially i386 + some bolt-ons rut is getting tiresome. Look at the cool things Sun is doing with the new T2 chip because sparc is somewhat less constipated than i386. Now imagine a chip designed from the ground up to be massively multi-core / SMP.
and really, if one carefully makes an .rpm or .deb GUI app it's possible to then run on all the most common desktop distros out there, I've plopped such rpm into my 7.04 Kubuntu (like Citrix client and oracle 10 client wares) that weren't designed with my distro in mind and things are fine. Or use Java or python bytecode and pick from a few standard cross platform gui libraries.
that's because he's running on 0.1 of one CPU of a crappy power pc box and thus hit the submit buttons multiple times thinking slashdot was bogged down
but MFMC says we have five and a half years (my f-ing Mayan Calendar)
I like that link even better, it shows he made SOLID STATE LEDs whereas from the main article I was left wondering if he made light emitting vacuum tubes (with a more controllable glow or something). That's huge, as is his equation for voltage drop relating to frequency which is in all LED texts but I've never before seen properly attributed.
not just any dog, but the Nevaeh Ni Dog
ah, I remember that stuff about "backwards masking" when I was young in church. The pastors claimed you could hear satanic messages and occult beliefs when playing hard rock backwards. The hoot was, just play for example an Iron Maiden song *forwards*
Also the external Iridium antennas look like dildos. can you set the phone to vibrate instead of ring? That would explain the extensive use
oh, so you think the ACLU has magic Harry Potter power.
"even allow students to post questions and pay for answers" ah, an excellent skill for upper level executives, put your kid on the fast track today!
a mimetic polyalloy
that was the wrong two alternatives in the original post. The right choice would be between goofing off at work posting on slashdot compared to goofing off at work having realistic virtual sex.
indeed, and since most of us don't code in assembler who cares about the stinky x86 "interface" to the high performance guts
yup, that link shows what the problem is with LISP. In ivory tower theory, a beautiful and indeed the most powerful possible computer language. In practice, the real world implementations that people can get and use suck, especially CL. Sad really.
no problem, I'll pay the standard 10%
that's you. are ya gonna do the "protesting Buddhist monk self immolation with a can of gasoline and match" trick? Need a light?
right, binary star systems no big deal and they could have planets. But those trinary systems, that's a whole different matter, every 22 years the habitable planets around them really, really suck. Unless you're a darkness loving carnivorous boogey-creature, then it's happy hour.
yes, and it's even developing it's own emotional responses .
no screw up, he made the license absolute with the removal of the "later version" clause, and didn't foul it with any equally vague and open-ended replacement. Developers and corporations loved the existing license and made Linux the most successful open source project on the planet. Whether the new GPL3 (which doesn't exist yet at any rate) will solve problems or introduce some legally fatal bug remains to be seen. Linus doesn't have to be in any hurry to adopt it, why should he be the first guinea pig?
the answers for these exams will be on testking and other cheat sites. which will be great as it will then enable thousands of coders to be certified to write secure code, and we'll never have insecure code again. Soon the SAN SW Security Institute can make exams for bug-free code and perfect IT architecture. I'll get all those certs so everything I do will be perfect.
and they said it so very loud you heard it after they hung up. That's one big-ass exclamation point.
were you kissing cousins?