For analogy, I think the car analogy may have just lacked elaboration and isn't lame (do you want flame wars? just decently say you don't appreciate the provided example and move on with your life beyond the confines of your computer).
Here's my understanding of Mr. Gestre's car analogy: Granted the 32-bit can be taken as a 2-lane road, and the 64-bit as the 4-lane road; that is: each lane doubled the width. In effect, there are more cars getting thru the road (this could be an analogy of the I/O bus interface). We haven't yet reached the data processing part yet, in the road and car analogy, the appropriate data processing counterpart would be that more cars reach their destination but not necessarily faster, and depends on whether the width of the 64-bit road is saturated with cars (data) and mishaps happen along the way (ironically termed 'cache miss' in CPU terminology). Can we spare the original poster's time and give him the facts and keep this list community friendly? It's one thing to know about something more than their neighbor, and it's another to spark indifference with uncalled for insults and cuss words. If you know something valuable, just share it. Richard Stallman didn't start the community by insulting everybody else's intelligence, he delivered by practicing what he preached and shared what he has. If you can't get past beyond your ego, are you sure you belong to this community? On Nov 29, 2007 1:06 AM, franz A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow. are you mad? yea, i have a better idea than your lame analogy. goto -> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#32_vs_64_bit . > > > > On Nov 28, 2007 11:02 PM, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 28, 2007 3:12 PM, franz A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > wow, that's really lame analogy.. you should post that in 64bit > computing for dummies forums .. > > > > > > The OP said that he's ignorant when it comes to hardware so that's why the > simple analogy, if you have a better idea then let him know! Put your money > where your mouth is! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 27, 2007 3:57 PM, jan gestre < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 26, 2007 9:45 PM, Danny Ching < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, Linux Users! > > > > > > > > > > I'm a software guy, so pardon my ignorance in hardware. > > > > > > > > > > I know that 64bit can access more memory, and that 64bit is supposed > to make > > > > > multimedia processing faster. My question is: What advantage does 64 > bit > > > > > CPU's like the Intel Core 2 Duos, or AMD x2's have over vanilla 32 > bit CPU's > > > > > (if both have say 2GB of RAM)? Will there be a noticeable difference > if all > > > > > I do is browse, and use office apps? How about gimp (does it have to > be an > > > > > extremely large project to be able to notice the difference)? > > > > > > > > > for analogy purposes, imagine the car as human, 64bit machine as a 4 > > > > lane road and a 32bit machine as a 2 lane road, having more lanes > > > > doesn't necessarily mean the car can go faster, right? It will still > > > > depend on the car on how fast it can go. 32bit machines are going to > > > > be obsolete sooner or later so if I were you I'll go for the 64bit > > > > machine, but that's just me. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://jangestre.wordpress.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://jangestre.wordpress.com > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
