Except RiscOS only had cooperative multitasking whereas Menuet OS uses preemptive multitasking. Also Menuet OS has memory protection whereas RiscOS mostly doesn't.
As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.
Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.
OK. So what exactly will you move on to next then? Mac OS X with the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Other Linux/BSD distributions that also have the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Or are you just going to forgo all that and use the command-line exclusively?
I delete all my cookies automatically every time I close Firefox. I run Firefox via a script such that all the Flash cookies (yes Flash cookies) are also deleted.
And also a doubling of the size of every pointer, meaning an inflation in the size of every instruction, causing an increase in the number of cache misses and an increase in the size of application binaries which means greater memory usage.
64-bit is *not* a panacea. It's better in some cases, worse in others, and which is better, 32-or 64-bit, depends entirely on workload.
Intel describes a netbook as a platform for playing media and a notebook as a platfrom for creating media. So what Windows 7 is aimed for? Play or create media? If you put both for a netbook, you just waste lots of cpu power for bloat you add in order to create new media.
It's marketing drivel. Don't give it anymore consideration than that. I use my Acer Aspire One to do video encoding, and I don't give a damn what the marketing people say.
Because you can just go out and grab a $300 netbook with 6GB of RAM, right? Even if you could, not all of the Atom processors support EMT64, though the most-popular ones do.
32-bit is still faster for a lot of things, too. The i486 has been around for 20 years now, amd64 not so long. The compilers haven't quite caught up.
To Microsoft's credit, they are requiring 64-bit for a lot of their enterprise products now. IIRC, Exchange 2007 and SQL 2008 both require either 2k3 or 2k8 64-bit.
I disagree. At least on x86-64 there's almost a doubling of the number of registers (twice the number of general purpose and SIMD FP registers). This greatly reduces the register pressure for compilers, which have been keeping up with processors thus far. For example, I use Povray a lot. I can guarantee you that a custom compiled 64-bit binary will definitely render faster than a custom compiled 32-bit binary on the same system.
Well not quite. There are 64-bit Atom processors. However, they're currently not being used in the mini-notebooks. Those are currently use the N series of chips which are 32-bit only.
Most people with decent hearing find TV aisles uncomfortable - it's either too many random TVs putting out the same audio minutely out of synch, or the high-pitched squeal that comes from any CRT being multiplied by a couple dozen. The EMF signals are hardly the most irritating thing that a TV can put out.
O RLY? I guess you haven't sat through an episode of 'Fringe' then?
What I meant was that you can also load your phone with Java apps without paying anyone (at least the phones I've owned thus far from AT&T are like that).
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And can I keep the hard disks???
Looks like someone beat you to it!
Except RiscOS only had cooperative multitasking whereas Menuet OS uses preemptive multitasking. Also Menuet OS has memory protection whereas RiscOS mostly doesn't.
Not quite. They only own a small stake now.
As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.
Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.
OK. So what exactly will you move on to next then? Mac OS X with the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Other Linux/BSD distributions that also have the same number of upgrades and pointless eye candy? Or are you just going to forgo all that and use the command-line exclusively?
No, the suggestion is that most of the paper money in America has been in contact with cocaine users.
Either they've served their debt to society or keep them in jail. This half-assed "you're out of jail but you can only do X" is ridiculous.
For my money, I'd rather have one of IBM's Power6 systems. The least expensive one is only about $5.5k, less than the OQO.
OEMs get volume discounts. I'm sure if you were willing to buy 1000s of copies, you might get a discount too.
Now why didn't I think of that??? Someone mod this guy up!
I delete all my cookies automatically every time I close Firefox. I run Firefox via a script such that all the Flash cookies (yes Flash cookies) are also deleted.
And also a doubling of the size of every pointer, meaning an inflation in the size of every instruction, causing an increase in the number of cache misses and an increase in the size of application binaries which means greater memory usage.
64-bit is *not* a panacea. It's better in some cases, worse in others, and which is better, 32-or 64-bit, depends entirely on workload.
While true, on x86-64, the the positives tend to outweigh the negatives. However, on architectures where 64-bit was not an afterthought, the negatives seem to outweigh the positives.
Can you provide a link? I'm having trouble finding a Nano-based Lenovo computer.
Intel describes a netbook as a platform for playing media and a notebook as a platfrom for creating media. So what Windows 7 is aimed for? Play or create media? If you put both for a netbook, you just waste lots of cpu power for bloat you add in order to create new media.
It's marketing drivel. Don't give it anymore consideration than that. I use my Acer Aspire One to do video encoding, and I don't give a damn what the marketing people say.
Because you can just go out and grab a $300 netbook with 6GB of RAM, right? Even if you could, not all of the Atom processors support EMT64, though the most-popular ones do.
32-bit is still faster for a lot of things, too. The i486 has been around for 20 years now, amd64 not so long. The compilers haven't quite caught up.
To Microsoft's credit, they are requiring 64-bit for a lot of their enterprise products now. IIRC, Exchange 2007 and SQL 2008 both require either 2k3 or 2k8 64-bit.
I disagree. At least on x86-64 there's almost a doubling of the number of registers (twice the number of general purpose and SIMD FP registers). This greatly reduces the register pressure for compilers, which have been keeping up with processors thus far. For example, I use Povray a lot. I can guarantee you that a custom compiled 64-bit binary will definitely render faster than a custom compiled 32-bit binary on the same system.
Well not quite. There are 64-bit Atom processors. However, they're currently not being used in the mini-notebooks. Those are currently use the N series of chips which are 32-bit only.
to 1 TB since you can put 2.5" hard drives in there.
Sure, fine and all that, but I still want man portable fusion cells... Or maybe pocket antimatter. >^_^
I'm not sure I like where this is going:
Woman: "Is that pocket antimatter or are you just happy to see me?"
Me: "Why yes it is poc..." *cue large matter-antimatter explosion*
Most people with decent hearing find TV aisles uncomfortable - it's either too many random TVs putting out the same audio minutely out of synch, or the high-pitched squeal that comes from any CRT being multiplied by a couple dozen. The EMF signals are hardly the most irritating thing that a TV can put out.
O RLY? I guess you haven't sat through an episode of 'Fringe' then?
Wow, that really is a bad analogy (and long one too)!
We salute you, Mr. Uses-three-pairs-of-sunglasses-to-look-at-the-solar-eclipse guy!
My computers can't even saturate 802.11g.
What I meant was that you can also load your phone with Java apps without paying anyone (at least the phones I've owned thus far from AT&T are like that).
No kidding. Most phones can run Java programs. Sun even lets you download the SDK for mobile development for free!
For anyone else who was confused:
*I think, although really should be WOAR.