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~NOBODY~
The One And Only
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
Posts: 1824
Location: Vivec, Jobasha's Rare Books |
C'est la vie, mon ami. Car dealers need money as well.
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By using 32 bits your processor can represent numbers from 0 to 4,294,967,295 while a 64-bit machine can represent numbers from 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. Obviously this means your computer can do math with larger numbers, and be more efficient with smaller numbers. Cool, huh?
Close, but it's more about processing, rather than representation. The length of a number a machine represents is only limited by memory, so 64-bit numbers are often represented on 32-bit machines. However, all core operations on the 64 ones use 8 bytes at a time, so you don't need to emulate 32+ bit operations by software.
Q: Which usually falls faster, a Polar Bear, or a Brown one, if they're the same weight and size? |
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Roach
SBR Belfry Bat
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 3233
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Depends on which one flaps its arms faster.
Why does Microsoft Internet Explorer need so many security updates when Firefox needs so few, yet keeps out so much spyware that IE just lets through? |
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:20 am |
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Toaster
Bread Alert
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 5475
Location: Sweden |
Partly because IE is much wider used, and therefore more attractive to attack, and partly because it's so integrated in the OS, so an attack can do much greater damage in IE than in Firefox. And because it allows ActiveX-protocols.
Why doesn't more people change from Intel to AMD and from IE to Firefox, when the latter ones nowadays are in many ways superior to the former?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:27 pm |
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
Humans live in herds and follow certain rules that are unwritten but accepted by the entire herd. Humans don't easily change when the rest of the herd isn't, because they are afraid of being banned for being "different".
What would happen when the Flood came and washed the lands, would we be able to make enough submarines on time?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:09 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Doubtful. We'd need a lot of submarines for the billions of people currently inhabiting the planet.
@~NOBODY~: You just asked for the technical difference. That is the difference. One processor can count higher than the other one. End of story. 
What is the chance of catching a fly ball in a major league baseball game?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:44 pm |
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pink-hippo
Counselor of the King
Joined: 21 Apr 2005
Posts: 351
Location: Val's hairy legs |
0%, because balls don't have wings.
Why does a newbie like me feel hopeless when facing a computer? |
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:37 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Issues with inadequacy.
Why do dogs bark at everything?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:44 pm |
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pink-hippo
Counselor of the King
Joined: 21 Apr 2005
Posts: 351
Location: Val's hairy legs |
Because it won't make sense if they meow at everything.
Why do all those teachers make us write only in black or blue ink? |
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:48 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Because it's easier to read.
What's the difference between Coke and Pepsi?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:53 pm |
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pink-hippo
Counselor of the King
Joined: 21 Apr 2005
Posts: 351
Location: Val's hairy legs |
The former contains too much carbonic acid; the latter has too much sugar.
How can we make our toe nail look nicer, like our fingernails? |
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:57 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Get a pedicure.
Which villian do you want to see in the next X-men movie: Dark Phoenix and the Hellfire Club or the Sentinels?
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Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:23 pm |
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weirdo2590
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 09 Jun 2005
Posts: 251
Location: Look behind you |
Sentinals, although for some nonaparent reason magneto kills himself so th bad guys win.
should we be ruled by super inteligent squirrels led by foamy?
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:35 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Sure, Foamy is the Lord and Master after all.
Do you wear hats? If so, what kind? If not, why?
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:38 pm |
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pink-hippo
Counselor of the King
Joined: 21 Apr 2005
Posts: 351
Location: Val's hairy legs |
No, because the hat will mess up my haircut. I don't want to spend another hour to remake it. D:
Why do Koreans always put wasabi between the fish and the riceball? |
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Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:15 am |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
To irritate you!
Who is the lamest villian ever, in your opinion, and why?
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