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17y ago
Of course there is the official Apple solution. http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2010/03/wozniak-carries...
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17y ago
Who wants to beat them? Those $Bn corporations put tins of tuna, different beans, tomatoes on store shelves for pennies. They even go to the trouble of coloring the good value cans differently for me. The same corps deliver basics foods lik
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17y ago
Sparc vs Intel? Which is your desktop running? It might be a slightly different answer at your web host!
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17y ago
Yes and in practice ARM isn't really RISC and x86 isn't really CISC, with VLIW and pipelines and caches it's more complex. But the original RISC research was in a time when neither CPU clocks nor memory bandwidth was anywhere near physical
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17y ago
Yes, they just have to invest in all the scanning and storage costs and then go to the authors guild and ask for a license. But there is no reason for the guild to give them a better deal than they gave to Google, or if Google offered enoug
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17y ago
The RISC/CISC things is a little simplified. One reason RISC has never caught on in the desktop is memory speed hasn't kept up with CPU speed (and can't - with the laws of physics). So if a RISC cpu takes 10 instructions to do what a CISC c