When you say H-1B salaries you mean the salaries that the person working gets paid with or the money Microsoft pays to some Indian intermediary company that actually pays the person doing the job much less?

Plus how much of the money Microsoft pays that Indian company gets back to the people at Microsoft doing the hiring as kickbacks?

Plus how much does Microsoft pay in an H-1B if they want to lay him off?

etc.

Blech. Not a fan. Too verbose.

I will admit there were some interesting concepts in Modula-2 and the later languages like separation of interfaces from implementation but programming in those languages felt a lot like using a straitjacket.

WWI was a mess because they wanted to use Napoleonic War era infantry tactics at a time where armies had machine guns.

All infantry soldiers back then were treated like disposable crap to feed the machine guns and artillery. It had nothing to do with where they came from.

A lot of it is due to geography and some is due to scale. After WWII and the breakup of the European Colonial Empires no European nation could have the economic muscle to compete against the US. The exception was the USSR which, at the time, had about the same population and a lot more natural resources.

Expenses with the Vietnam War followed by the Oil Crisis of the 1970s.

China and India also had utterly obsolete technology sectors and by consequence obsolete armies. China's military today is increasingly less and less obsolete.

Assuming they do wind down without new ones starting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Some architectures (including ARM versions 3 and above, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC, SuperH SH-4 and IA-64) feature a setting which allows for switchable endianness in data segments, code segments or both. This feature can improve performance or simplify the logic of networking devices and software. The word bi-endian, when said of hardware, denotes the capability of the machine to compute or pass data in either endian format.

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A lot of modern processors have this feature. I am still not convinced. Mixed mode is often sold as a way to improve source level compatibility yes. But it is not sold as a way to improve binary level compatibility which is what we are talking about here. Processors like the original Itanium had actual hardware emulation for certain x86 instructions. Godson also emulates some x86 instructions. However PowerPC has no such thing. Another argument I could make is that IBM, Apple, or Motorola had no reason at all to even waste effort trying to attempt x86 emulation. As for 68k Motorola ended up making a replacement architecture called ColdFire afterwards precisely because PowerPC was not hardware compatible with 68k.

X86 has BSWAP too. Still not convinced.

Try eating an apple first thing in the morning. The first thing you eat after getting up.

Then try eating an apple after having a slice of bread. You'll notice a difference.

Of course it does exist. It was discovered by Dr. Cavor and is sold as Cavorite(TM).

PowerPC had good performance for several years. When the 603 and 604 were around they had better performance than x86 did. The problems started when the Pentium Pro came out. Even then it was not manufactured in enough numbers to be a real issue. Then the Pentium II came out...

So please elaborate where is the hardware support in PowerPC to emulate 68k and x86.

Good luck.

Apple got some good emulation software but it had zilch to do with PowerPC being designed with emulation of those architectures as a goal.

The Wikipedia page says Nokia has 91 K employees. This layoff number seems mostly arbitrary. It is the typical management rack em up tactic of firing 10% of employees when the company is losing ground.