For a fascist there is nothing better than the feeling of being attacked. And if there aren't any attacks, then why not make them up to make the fellow fascists eh patriots feel good? Even better if you can get some publicity out of it, attack your opponents and beg for more money at the same time...
I wonder whether anyone who votes for the BNP has any idea what these convicted criminals would do if they did get into power.
Tony, there was no need to spread more FUD about ARM - Intel is doing a great job already...
Julian is right - ARM CPUs are far more compatible than x86 cores. For example AMD and Intel CPUs don't even support the same set of instructions. A large amount of effort is required to get applications to run across the numerous x86 cores. Of course much of this is hidden by gigabytes of BIOS, OS and driver code.
In fact it is x86, not ARM, where you need to maintain several different versions of the same application (for example if you want to use one of the many SSE variations).
Intel is spreading a lot of FUD on Atom vs ARM. They compare it against 6 year old ARMs running at 1/4 of the MHz and conclude Atom is faster - wow! The fact is Atom is slower than the latest ARMs, and it's power consumption is way too high to be feasible for a mobile phone. Even when sleeping it uses 100mW, which drains a battery rather quickly (recharge every 24 hours if no calls are made). Most ARMs use less power when running near their maximum frequency than an Atom doing nothing at all...
I don't understand why people think it is a good idea to put an x86 core in a mobile phone. You're not going to be able to run Vista on it anyway, nor would anyone want to run any of the bloated Windows applications. So when you specially adapt applications, why not compile for ARM to get code that is smaller, runs faster and uses far less power than the x86 equivalent?
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They confirm it is a propaganda stunt by the BNP:
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/article:1226-If-you-tell-a-lie-big-enough-…
For a fascist there is nothing better than the feeling of being attacked. And if there aren't any attacks, then why not make them up to make the fellow fascists eh patriots feel good? Even better if you can get some publicity out of it, attack your opponents and beg for more money at the same time...
I wonder whether anyone who votes for the BNP has any idea what these convicted criminals would do if they did get into power.
A lot of FUD
Tony, there was no need to spread more FUD about ARM - Intel is doing a great job already...
Julian is right - ARM CPUs are far more compatible than x86 cores. For example AMD and Intel CPUs don't even support the same set of instructions. A large amount of effort is required to get applications to run across the numerous x86 cores. Of course much of this is hidden by gigabytes of BIOS, OS and driver code.
In fact it is x86, not ARM, where you need to maintain several different versions of the same application (for example if you want to use one of the many SSE variations).
Intel is spreading a lot of FUD on Atom vs ARM. They compare it against 6 year old ARMs running at 1/4 of the MHz and conclude Atom is faster - wow! The fact is Atom is slower than the latest ARMs, and it's power consumption is way too high to be feasible for a mobile phone. Even when sleeping it uses 100mW, which drains a battery rather quickly (recharge every 24 hours if no calls are made). Most ARMs use less power when running near their maximum frequency than an Atom doing nothing at all...
I don't understand why people think it is a good idea to put an x86 core in a mobile phone. You're not going to be able to run Vista on it anyway, nor would anyone want to run any of the bloated Windows applications. So when you specially adapt applications, why not compile for ARM to get code that is smaller, runs faster and uses far less power than the x86 equivalent?