Comment Bubble memory (Score 1) 147
Remember bubble memory?
I wonder if that would have kept up with Moore's Law a lot better.
Remember bubble memory?
I wonder if that would have kept up with Moore's Law a lot better.
Here at McDonalds we run Power PC machines and enforce the in order execution of I/O.
I like the way you thunk.
Linux has been historically considered a good OS for servers, where uptime and stability are very important. Don't forget the Debian project goes back really far, 1993 or so if I'm not mistaken.
Once you have a server running that many people depend on, you become change-averse to it, because change = risk. So having mature, well-tested, stable software is more important than having the latest and greatest.
That judge is going to find himself in hot water pretty soon
RISC also had a shitload of registers, far before amd64 architecture decided to tack some on to various registers all blessed for specific purposes by various instructions.
RISC has been about treating RAM as an I/O device instead of another set of registers, as much as it has been about simplifying the ISA. x86 goes back to that archaic time when RAM was as fast as storing things in a local register. With layer upon layer of cache, instruction reordering, register renaming, branch prediction, etc. quite an illusion is kept up. Interestingly, 6502 was built around that concept with its very limited number of general-purpose registers.
My theory is to avoid paying royalties to Microsoft for implementing the FAT32 format, which would be pretty much necessary as people would expect to be able to shove the SD card into their Windows system and access files.
Microsoft may be wanting to grind the OEMs into the ground to get rid of them by appearing as a stupid company instead of an evil monopolistic company. When that happens, it can produce hardware on its own, with any restrictions it wants, without fear a competitor will do the same.
Of course, the whole problem with "iPad"-izing the PC experience is that some software vendors are just too big to be browbeaten into doing everything through Microsoft's App Store. AutoDesk, Bentley, Adobe, and others. We just haphazardly rolled out Autodesk's Building Design Suite 2013 to various users in our firm. We had to ship flash drives because it's way faster than shipping 48GB over our WAN. I don't see things like that ever working through the App Store.
This.
Microsoft has never been a cool brand to the "unwashed masses"
Microsoft also is too dependent on their monopoly of the desktop. And the reason why this came to be is that the same "unwashed masses" didn't really differentiate between the OS and the computer. I would propose that many non-technical people (the majority who use PCs) don't understand that you can install a different OS.
Microsoft also has a problem with branding. Look at MSN Passport, Windows Live,
Microsoft doesn't know what to do now and really doesn't know how to act any other way. They are very used to dictating terms to OEMs. Hard to say this will be their downfall since they have so much money.
What about
- HPA
- DCO
- possible remnants of data in the drive's cache RAM
Actually, he does. Of course, he may get sued, or jailed. But he can choose to disobey the law. That's the reason why "willfully" appears in the text of many laws.
I won't believe that support for sample rates that can record frequency ranges above 20KHz are for any other reason than to embed watermarking data streams in the inaudible ranges - think something like Cinava. Same thing with any color depth over 24 bit.
Disclaimer: The above is a joke.
But maybe I really want to record a song with parts listenable only by my dog or pet bats.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
