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There's a significant part of me that wants to disagree with you on this score, but I really can't. The flat memory addressing scheme beyond 4GB and the extra kernel potential there (depending on how your OS is structured) is about the only major benefit of going beyond 32bit in practice, and honestly, how necessary is it?
I think it's fair to argue that it's nice to be able to address huge memory windows beyond 4GB for many reasons, even if it's not physically backed by RAM, but again at the end of the day, it's not necessary.
The only problem with ignoring that is that it increases the cost of such software by making it necessarily more complicated - now you have to use segmented addressing of some kind.
I guess at the end of the day the engineers and bean counters came together and felt it was a necessary advancement.
So while I agree with you, I can see the other end of this too. There's definitely room for 64 bit systems. Maybe they don't need to be as ubiquitous though.
If I had to bet, I'd say 32bit isn't going away for the forseeable future.
Real programmers use butterflies
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That may be true, but I'm not just talking about desktops and laptops - I'm talking about CPUs broadly, including embedded
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I want my dishwasher and washing machine to have 64 bits so they can wash more faster with less soap!
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We live in an era of stupid consumers.
I say that because people think they need $100-$300 sneakers - just like a pro; and titanium golf clubs (Expensive substitute for aluminum unless you're making fighter-jets) and any number of other "pro" level (in price, at least) items because they need that edge - so they can win in the Olympics, I suppose.
The main advantage of the larger address sizes is to allow larger amounts of directly accessible data (max. amount data/file -> max no. records in table -> and so on). Very large calculations with very large number. For such purposes it is useful to have 64bits, but only for a very few. IP and MAC addresses need to have ever larger sizes available, but in most aspects of your claim I agree: everyone seems to think they need to buy a system that is designed for needs they won't have - but it makes the feel good to think they need it.
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jsc42 wrote: I thought O2K19 Pro was only available in 64 bit.
Nope.
All products in the Office 2019 are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
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Quote: Staying Entertained… Hornily
Well, that escalated quicky quickly
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ZurdoDev wrote: Let's move on.
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So - it turns out it's the Police FORCE we have to worry about now, too?
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
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The Force that uses the Force will have the Force used on it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The sign said no Federation starship parking, not no Imperial starship parking.
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Catch one without hearing precedent (8)
catch one without hearing precedent
president
Trump
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catch one notrump
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modified 18-May-20 9:50am.
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TestCase??
cheers,
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Hi Greg no one is ever going to solve these sort of clues - you have to play by a set of rules and you shouldn't need specific knowledge of anything to solve it ( bridge in this case ) ( if no one solves your clue you have failed as a clue setter )
A globally acceptable way to write your clue could be
Formal agreement to reduce (8)
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@GregUtas
I assume you won on Friday? The Lounge[^] Pompey boy didn't say, but ... someone is up, and I'm reasonably sure it's not me ...
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It's so horribly pertinent.
Probably always was. Probably always will be.
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Sounds like every politician who's ever lived.
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Favouritism - artificial intelligence in bullshit (4)
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BIAS
AI (inverted, as is right!) inside BS
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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