I think that is unfair because Visual Studio can be used for a lot of different things. Why would anyone using VS to develop Windows Apps for example need to have knowledge of Expression Studio?

If a potential customer does n't even know that the product exists, especially one who uses their other development tools thats a big massive fail in my book.

I'd like to see what happens when the sellers stop fulfilling orders. Plus how long before someone brings out a sniping tool for customers to purchase items when at the bottom of the curve?

Those hardly used instructions probably use less than 0.1% of the CPU die, that is because they are microcoded instructions and run hideously slow.

This is n't the case, the only x86 processor that converted x86 instructions to RISC instructions was the AMD K5. Infact even in a RISC architecures the instruction decode stage expands out the instruction and this is what happens on a modern x86 processor.

The complexity in a modern processor is not in the instruction decode, but the multiple execution units.

I doubt it would add that much considering you already have to implement Tomasulo to go superscaler, it could be added onto that relatively easily. Of course it will add more circuitry and I agree Intel will have problems making something as low power as the current crop of ARM chips however when we get to something that is say the midpoint between an A9 and i3, Intel will be able to compete easily and also have its process advantage. It could easily be a case of ARM winning the battle and losing the war.

And how much money do you think ARM makes on that $10 part?

And there are far more 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs that use CISC instruction sets than ARM chips. The quantities mean nothing, it is who is making the most money and Intel certainly won that one.

Any superscaler processor is going to be doing instruction conversion, this includes RISC instruction set processors. The micro-ops in Intel processors convert to are less than RISC instructions. Once you start implementing things like Tomasulo the traditional advantages of RISC are eroded. If this was n't the case Intel would have never been able to leverage their process advantage to get better performance whilst retaining the x86 instruction set.

In a high performance processor instruction set is irrelavant since 80%+ of the die area is cache any way.

After finding out there are people buying spell casting services overy ebay in their thousands this is not surprising at all. A fool and his/her money is quickly seperated.

This is called business, using whatever advantage you have to compete against a competitor. Last time I checked Intel was a business.

Wow sounds very secure, hopefully they did n't decide to go with ROT-13 twice.

Even 0.5mm overhead projector film is pretty hard stuff, silicon gel is very low density compared to plastic films as is card. I would expect a rolled diameter to be around 25-30cm which is fine for the 167", but a bit much for the small 30" versions.