Comment Damn, I thought it was a game (Score 1) 2
Damn, I thought it was a game. I was thinking I could go hang with Gopher and Isaac at the lido deck lounge then try to bag Julie the cruise director.
On the plus side ARM might manage to surpass AMD in IPC but they re-hired the K8 guy, so it looks like that plan might be in the shitter.
Keep in mind that while arm may have just beat AMD in IPC. The number of instructions it takes to do something with ARM is higher than it is on an x86
How so? ARM processors are quite plentiful and support several operating systems already. Perhaps you're just not very familiar with them. Not to worry. There's plenty of material available.
I've designed embedded computers and written boot rom code and ported kernels to arm and other processors. While arm has a more intelligent design to it than an x86 its still far behind other processors with its 16 registers (MIPS,PowerPC,etc have 32 plus a few dedicated ones). It also lacks in the fact that it must have its address space split in half to support I/O. The only thing arm does well is conserve power.
So in order for a website to remain free for the users use, they will need to post more advertisements to make up for it.
If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's. Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.
I oppose personal targeted adds and tracking adds. Click bot networks defeat this ad model. Positioned adds on articles that people who might buy a product based on the fact that a certain demographic reads these type of articles I have no problem with and in fact encourages production of good articles to attract adds and readers.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
