alanschu

32-bits = 2^32 which is roughly 4 billion or 4,000,000,000 unique numbers, which means you can easily jump to 4 billion different bytes in memory. 64-bits = 2^64 which is roughly 18,000,000,000,000,000,000. Assuming we still use bytes as our smallest unit (which I don't think will ever really change), that's about 18 ExaBytes (18 EB) of data that can be addressed in main memory.

I always did enjoy it when people made those accusations.

You don't think programs will every consistently use more than 4 GB of RAM?

What's the the fact that it was in the past have to do with anything? Especially considering it was less than a year ago!

I don't think it was necessarily the people at the disaster site that were complaining.

Even if something is comatose, it's still alive.

He says he wants to be in office though. While at the same time holding the opinion that one man can't make a difference. Ding ding ding.

Though things like SIMDs have more bits to perform multple instructions with. The biggest advantage IMO is memory.

Another excellent point. I have played about 100 hours in that game. But I could have played 200+ or more if they made the war last longer. EDIT: Why did metadigital edit Nick's post?

Holy strawman Batman. I'm not sure about you, but I haven't committed any murders, nor child molestations, nor rapes. But hey, like Llyranor said, let's just kill everyone.

Well, people got pissed off at them when they came to help out during Katrina.

Yes, absolutely.

I imagine it was the Kwik Shop one.

You had the foresight to even think about what type of gun it was?

Since this topic has been derailed, I guess I'll leave. If you have no problem executing innocent people Hades, then that's your perogative.

Excellent point!

Doom doom doom doom!

Okay Hades, if you as a civilian come face to face with Al-Zarqawi, and have the option of either killing him, or letting him go (and just to make sure the waters are clear, if you don't shoot him, he will get away and he will not be arrested. You also have the benefit of precognition and know that this is the case)...what do you do? Do you sacrifice your own life?

Actually it was a trick question. It's first degree murder. EDIT: D'OH. Not anymore in some states

Wouldn't that be first degree murder? It doesn't seem like a heat of the moment type thing.

Here's an interesting scenario. Guy tries mugging someone. The guy getting mugged decides to fight back. Mugger ends up being overwhelmed, and in his own defense, shoots the guy. Is this self-defence, or second degree murder?

No doubt resulting in a lower legal drinking age ^_^

So you'll be executing people for being dishonest now? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was actually just thinking of prison terms, not a death sentence...should have elaborated better, but if the person dies because of that withheld evidence or purposeful negligence on the part of the lawyer, then what do you propose happens to that lawyer? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What if the lawyer actually didn't mean to overlook it, but because of the large amount of evidence it ends up getting missed or whatever? The only way I'd be content to have the death sentence is if human beings were infalliable.

But it is the place of the government to execute that type of justice? How exactly is that different?

Hehehe. As long as they don't think about charging for it like the initially were doing with Direct3D, I won't care a whole lot. If they do, I wouldn't be surprised to see Doom take off. A real advantage of OpenGL though is that other operating systems support it.