Gah! Another one trying to fit the computer market into a mathematical model! Worse, his arguments are more based on opinion that hard facts. When will the pain stop!!!
Even RISC processors, like the fabled G5, have decode stages these days (i.e. translating instructions). I speculate that separating the inner workings of the CPU from the ISA simplifies the design somewhat.
From the article:
"There's no reason whatsoever why the Intel architecture remains so complex," said XenSource Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby. "There's no reason why they couldn't ditch 60 percent of the transistors on the chip, most of which are for legacy modes."
(Emphasis mine)
Ehe, according to the latest in depth articles, the legacy cruft take less than 10% of the chip. A far cry from Crosby's claim of 60 percent, and that from a Chief Technology Officer no less:p
4. Price / performance. A segment the x86 have done well in.
5. Security. Will my x86 progs be supported in 20 years? The answer: yes.
6. Availability. Hmm... Intel, I'd like to 1 000 000 CPUs. Intel: Sure thing.
7. Good will. What should we buy, Intel or PPC. PPC? What's that? Go Intel! Yes boss. (Just look how far Itanium got on Intel's name, alone.)
The only people I've met that have anything bad to say about OS X are, incidentally, OS X users. If you believe otherwise, you have probably been trolled.
I honestly don't see the problem. If someone wants to use an inferior, of for that sake superior, measuring system - more power to them. It's not like it affects the quality of life.
Lately I've received spam with images displayed in Outlook Express, despite said feature being blocked. The image links look like these: mhtml:mid://00000088/!cid:003e01c7342e$d54bc0c0@Lo calHost
You assume, of course, that an ambulance/phone is available. Personally I don't drink ever (never have, never will), but I fear the day machines start second guessing us humans.
The x86 ISA is, irregardless of the propaganda you've eaten up from RISC vendors, not that bad. In Integer arithmetic (the most important performance characteristics of a desktop CPU) x86 CPUs have a good track record. Currently the fastest Integer CPU in the world is your boring run-of-the-mill x86, and it has never trailed long after this competition.
This is not only because of Intel money, as Cyrix, AMD, NextGen, Centaur, Rise, and others have proven, but simply because the x86 ISA has never been as bad as RISC vendors whish it to be. On top of that, FPU performance have increased tremendously (relative to RISC) in the later years - and that is probably the reasons you're seeing the traditional RISC machines on the retreat.
Cell is hardly as amazing as you make it out to be. A GPU can already accelerate task 'the cell' is good at, and do not need a radically different programming model. At the same time, there are numerous algorithms that 'the cell' never will be good at - although it might be good enough. In any case, there is little 'the cell' offers to a desktop environment (even with cell friendly coding) and don't forget that Mr. x86 has no intention of standing still.
Just think of how many different architectures Linux has been ported to, if DOS/Windows was built in a similar way you'd be able to choose between any architecture you wanted and still be able to run any program you wanted.
If you do anything other than x86 Linux you'll hit onto various speed bumps, i.e. applications not working quite like they should. If you're willing to deal with those little annoyances - great for you, but most prefer to get an IA-32 box and call it a day.
The reason for this is because various Instruction Set Architectures have subtle differences that an application can become dependent on. There's memory alignment, byte order, 32/64-Bit and various other oddities creating bugs that can be tricky, to say the least, to track down.
You do not _have_ to purchase the cheapest NIC or the lowest-cost USB controller and with today's tendency to integrate everything into the mobo the problem might eventually solve itself.
You said, early versions, so was cars with those versions ever on sale? A quick Google and Wikipedia did not turn up anything about this bit of trivia, except for a claim that it is not Windows CE.
The game I enjoyed the most was Dreamfall. I'm probably the only person that was satisfied by the ending, as it didn't take away from the little girl's death.
The biggest disappointment for me this year was probably FF-XII; neither the models, story nor music clinched for me. Thou, I've only played it a little-bit on a PC emulator (not out here yet), it might get better further into the game.
$6,000 does not sound like a whole lot; hell £6,000 does not sound like a whole lot. Here in the old world $6,000 is bellow minimum wage, way bellow, so with $6,000 they would probably have to live in a tent and do their 'management' from internet cafés.
This will be great, iTunes rivals at our fingertips! Slow news day, d/l an iTunes rival. Bored, d/l an iTunes rival. The big question is then, will it be possible to resell the iTunes rivals when they start to drag profits down in the red?
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Gah! Another one trying to fit the computer market into a mathematical model! Worse, his arguments are more based on opinion that hard facts. When will the pain stop!!!
Even RISC processors, like the fabled G5, have decode stages these days (i.e. translating instructions). I speculate that separating the inner workings of the CPU from the ISA simplifies the design somewhat.
From the article:
:p
"There's no reason whatsoever why the Intel architecture remains so complex," said XenSource Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby. "There's no reason why they couldn't ditch 60 percent of the transistors on the chip, most of which are for legacy modes."
(Emphasis mine)
Ehe, according to the latest in depth articles, the legacy cruft take less than 10% of the chip. A far cry from Crosby's claim of 60 percent, and that from a Chief Technology Officer no less
4. Price / performance. A segment the x86 have done well in.
:D
5. Security. Will my x86 progs be supported in 20 years? The answer: yes.
6. Availability. Hmm... Intel, I'd like to 1 000 000 CPUs. Intel: Sure thing.
7. Good will. What should we buy, Intel or PPC. PPC? What's that? Go Intel! Yes boss. (Just look how far Itanium got on Intel's name, alone.)
Legal spying is called 'observing'.
The only people I've met that have anything bad to say about OS X are, incidentally, OS X users. If you believe otherwise, you have probably been trolled.
Linux, take that!
I honestly don't see the problem. If someone wants to use an inferior, of for that sake superior, measuring system - more power to them. It's not like it affects the quality of life.
Does that include the ability to only run on Vista?
Have Firefox implemented email yet?
Anyone know what this is about?
You assume, of course, that an ambulance/phone is available. Personally I don't drink ever (never have, never will), but I fear the day machines start second guessing us humans.
I'm sure you'll be happy for that feature the day you need to drive your wife/girlfriend/daughter to the hospital while drunk.
They can trademark look&feel, but I'm not sure they can do this. Abode did get a patent on their color selector thou.
This is not only because of Intel money, as Cyrix, AMD, NextGen, Centaur, Rise, and others have proven, but simply because the x86 ISA has never been as bad as RISC vendors whish it to be. On top of that, FPU performance have increased tremendously (relative to RISC) in the later years - and that is probably the reasons you're seeing the traditional RISC machines on the retreat.
Cell is hardly as amazing as you make it out to be. A GPU can already accelerate task 'the cell' is good at, and do not need a radically different programming model. At the same time, there are numerous algorithms that 'the cell' never will be good at - although it might be good enough. In any case, there is little 'the cell' offers to a desktop environment (even with cell friendly coding) and don't forget that Mr. x86 has no intention of standing still.
Just what I always needed! No wait, I'll rather take a top of the line Core Duo any day.
If you do anything other than x86 Linux you'll hit onto various speed bumps, i.e. applications not working quite like they should. If you're willing to deal with those little annoyances - great for you, but most prefer to get an IA-32 box and call it a day. The reason for this is because various Instruction Set Architectures have subtle differences that an application can become dependent on. There's memory alignment, byte order, 32/64-Bit and various other oddities creating bugs that can be tricky, to say the least, to track down.
As long as their not CPU hogging flash ads I'd opt-in on advertisements. Hey, it would give me a clear conscience for not donating.
You do not _have_ to purchase the cheapest NIC or the lowest-cost USB controller and with today's tendency to integrate everything into the mobo the problem might eventually solve itself.
You said, early versions, so was cars with those versions ever on sale? A quick Google and Wikipedia did not turn up anything about this bit of trivia, except for a claim that it is not Windows CE.
Sorry about that, didn't think at the time of posting.
The biggest disappointment for me this year was probably FF-XII; neither the models, story nor music clinched for me. Thou, I've only played it a little-bit on a PC emulator (not out here yet), it might get better further into the game.
Of course, silly me. I for some reason thought it was a yearly deal.
$6,000 does not sound like a whole lot; hell £6,000 does not sound like a whole lot. Here in the old world $6,000 is bellow minimum wage, way bellow, so with $6,000 they would probably have to live in a tent and do their 'management' from internet cafés.
This will be great, iTunes rivals at our fingertips! Slow news day, d/l an iTunes rival. Bored, d/l an iTunes rival. The big question is then, will it be possible to resell the iTunes rivals when they start to drag profits down in the red?