I don't understand why you were modded troll. Basically, people were treated first class prior to deregulation, but they also payed first class fares too.
What are you talking about? The Concorde was one of the biggest money losers for Air France and British Airways. Sure you can fly from New York to London really fast, but you're burning so much more fuel in the process.
Right now, the name of the game is efficiency in terms of passengers and fuel. And fuel efficiency is going up.
No, it's the market and economies of scale. Microsoft did make the original Windows NT run on PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc. the problem was that no one bought those versions because an x86 computer was a lot cheaper than using anything with PPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc.
The performance is dramatic actually. My WRT 54g router has a 200 MHz MIPS processor. I put OpenWRT on it, compiled a CPU benchmark, and it ran a magnitude slower than my old Pentium 200. Granted, the MIPS is optimized for energy usage and the Pentium was optimized for performance. But that's what the majority of ARM and MIPS processors are optimized for.
Actually AMD has been doing hardware x86-emulation since the K5. Cyrix started it all, with the 5x86.
Close, but not quite. NexGen was the first with an x86-RISC decoder with their Nx586 processor. The Cyrix 5x86 actually executed x86 instructions directly.
How did you get modded up? America is still a manufacturing powerhouse (we're #1 in the world in manufactured goods ). However, we employ less people due to automation and other efficiencies.
You mean this site? Overall, murders are very rare.
USA: 5/100,000 people Utah: 2/100,000 people Iowa: 1/100,000 people
Iowa has more people than Utah and doesn't have such draconian moral restrictions. In fact, they're much more liberal than Utah. Does that mean liberalism has concrete benefits in terms of murder rates?
You want to know why? Microsoft eats babies and worships the devil! That makes them EVIL! Ergo, whatever they and anyone else associated with them does anything, it must be spun negatively no matter what.
Not necessarily. Intel seems to do pretty well with x86-64, better than AMD even. Apple has finally brought Unix(tm) to the masses. Fujitsu's processors are better than Sun's.
We play "God" all the time. It's called "modern medicine." Someone has a minimally invasive colon cancer. Aren't the doctor's "playing God" when they perform surgery to take out the malignancy?
We humans are God's only children. That's why there's no one else in the universe. And the universe was created 6k years ago. Duh! Scientists... what useful things have they ever done other than bring up heresy?
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I don't understand why you were modded troll. Basically, people were treated first class prior to deregulation, but they also payed first class fares too.
What are you talking about? The Concorde was one of the biggest money losers for Air France and British Airways. Sure you can fly from New York to London really fast, but you're burning so much more fuel in the process.
Right now, the name of the game is efficiency in terms of passengers and fuel. And fuel efficiency is going up.
No, it's the market and economies of scale. Microsoft did make the original Windows NT run on PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc. the problem was that no one bought those versions because an x86 computer was a lot cheaper than using anything with PPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc.
x86 also has a lot of instructions that take 1 cycle. You can write your assembly programs to use only 1 cycle x86 instructions.
The performance is dramatic actually. My WRT 54g router has a 200 MHz MIPS processor. I put OpenWRT on it, compiled a CPU benchmark, and it ran a magnitude slower than my old Pentium 200. Granted, the MIPS is optimized for energy usage and the Pentium was optimized for performance. But that's what the majority of ARM and MIPS processors are optimized for.
I think I'd get one of these Alpha 400 MIPS netbooks although I'd prefer more memory.
Apocalypse Ponies!
I wonder if that means we can install things like HP-UX on non-HP hardware?
Actually AMD has been doing hardware x86-emulation since the K5. Cyrix started it all, with the 5x86.
Close, but not quite. NexGen was the first with an x86-RISC decoder with their Nx586 processor. The Cyrix 5x86 actually executed x86 instructions directly.
But the people who would use this probably don't care about these things anyway. Or if they do, they'll turn off their phone.
How did you get modded up? America is still a manufacturing powerhouse (we're #1 in the world in manufactured goods ). However, we employ less people due to automation and other efficiencies.
You mean this site? Overall, murders are very rare.
USA: 5/100,000 people
Utah: 2/100,000 people
Iowa: 1/100,000 people
Iowa has more people than Utah and doesn't have such draconian moral restrictions. In fact, they're much more liberal than Utah. Does that mean liberalism has concrete benefits in terms of murder rates?
They also limit the alcohol content of beer below a certain percentage. It's a rather strange state.
You want to know why? Microsoft eats babies and worships the devil! That makes them EVIL! Ergo, whatever they and anyone else associated with them does anything, it must be spun negatively no matter what.
Not necessarily. Intel seems to do pretty well with x86-64, better than AMD even. Apple has finally brought Unix(tm) to the masses. Fujitsu's processors are better than Sun's.
I'd be interested to know what that is in non-layman's terms!
Well, okay, but Congress also doesn't necessarily have to do what the president asks either.
Congress is the one doing this, not the president.
The same could be said of other companies:
1) If Google didn't sell ads, the rest of their products wouldn't be able to keep GOOG afloat.
2) If Intel didn't have microprocessors, the rest of their products wouldn't be able to keep INTC afloat.
3) If Exxon didn't have oil, the rest of their products wouldn't be able to keep XOM afloat.
Well, it's either have the earthquake now or have it later. Take your pick.
How is that standard ridiculous? In any event, it's what Christian Science followers adhere to as well.
Additionally, your car is not alive.
We play "God" all the time. It's called "modern medicine." Someone has a minimally invasive colon cancer. Aren't the doctor's "playing God" when they perform surgery to take out the malignancy?
We humans are God's only children. That's why there's no one else in the universe. And the universe was created 6k years ago. Duh! Scientists... what useful things have they ever done other than bring up heresy?
Yeah, but now we'll start seeing VTEC and Type-R badges too...
Russell Tice found dead by apparent "suicide" in his residence.