If you think theres no compelling difference between the CPU-bound USB 3.0 and what is essentially an external PCIe connector, you need to go back and do some more research. LightPeak/Thunderbolt is just plain better than USB3.0; downsides do include lack of backwards compatibility, and that may prove to be its biggest obstacle, but to argue that "USB3.0 is good enough" is just wrong.
As for price, USB3.0 has been out for about a year now, with Thunderbolt only having rolled off the shelves-- and this, only in Apples computers so far-- a few months ago. Right now, on newegg, im only seeing USB3.0 on highend multi-hundred-dollar motherboards, so it seems to be a wash in that regard.
Its way too early to tell, and anyone saying otherwise is full of it.
Actually he made several valid points. For the most part, only a select few would see any noticeable difference between USB3 and Thunderbolt today. The fact that USB3 is CPU bound is pointless for todays consumers. Every single motherboard sold today with USB3 will most definitely have a multi-core CPU on it. You would physically have to be one of the select few I mentioned earlier to ever actually even notice the USB3 CPU use. (ie, high end graphics users)
USB3 is cheaper, and backwards compatible with all of the accessories you have now. If you don't have a specific need for Thunderbolt, there no need to pay for it. That is what will be Thunderbolt's downfall will be.
At some point a technology like Thunderbolt will come out and be the new standard, but when it does. It will have to be dirt cheap just like USB was when it became a computer main stay.
yes, about two years ago. Thunderbolt is EXACTLY like LightPeak, as they are the same thing. LightPeak was the project codename, Thunderbolt is the formal product name.
No, Thunderbolt is an offshoot of LightPeak. LightPeak actually used light (fiber), Thunderbolt is LightPeak over copper with some other differences. Thunderbolt was created because fiber switching is way to expensive for consumer use.
If they hide the URL bar, most people (as many already do) will search Google for a site they already know the URL of. A lot of the users of our site type our URL into Google's search and then click the top link. Google doing this, just makes them serve up more search results ending up in more revenue for Google.
I will say that the translation of my voice mails is terrible. Although, how can you tell if it is translated correctly if you don't listen to it? You can look for proper English, but even some of my translations are proper English yet still incorrect. (names, etc come out wrong.) Though most of the time it it's just a jumbled mess that I can't deduce the actual meaning of.
What should be illegal is a company's contract blocking your legal recourse if they screw you over. This is what Paypal did too and pretty much robbing their own customers who could not sue them in return because of the same type of garbage.
Because like Fiber channel over ethernet, they try to charge a lot more for it yet it isn't all that much different. Fiber channel over ethernet should be as cheap as iSCSI, but it's not. It's a marketing gimmick to charge more money.
If they wanted BluRay to become the new standard, they would price it equal to DVDs. If they did that, DVDs would go away. They are just trying to squeeze more money out of their customers.
If you brought your own server into my network, you would be taking that right back home with you. That is an absolute no, no with me.
I don't even allow people to bring their own monitors, memory or speakers. (I'm not so strict on mice and keyboards though)
Assets management can be an issue. Especially when people leave/get terminated and they have brought their own hardware/software. If you need/want something. Get it approved and we will buy it. Don't bring your own.
And Flash is garbage on every platform. You don't need an agenda to see that. Just powers of observation.
While I don't use Flash very often, I have yet to have a problem with it. (Nexus One)
I'm sure there are things that it really sucks at, but I only use it to view specific Flash websites. There aren't many that I actually enable it for though. I will say this, I damn happy I can use it when I need too.
You can hate Flash all you want, it doesn't change the fact that it exists and people do use it....and at times you may need to have support for it.
Isn't that double jeopardy in taxes? I mean they already tax you for the gas you used to travel those miles. Not to mention if you have a gas guzzler, you pay a gas guzzler tax when you buy the car. That would mean you were triple taxed.
Probably what happen was Oracle said pay me million and millions of dollars or I'll stop development for Itanium. Intel said no and Leisure Suit Larry followed through with his threat.
From all my dealings with Google (Nexus One, and Google Apps Premier) their customer service and tech support is either painfully slow and at times practically non-existent.
You are taking the comment out of context. Of course you can get MySQL free, but sometimes in some cases, you don't run it for free. (and for good reason)
Any developer that writes an app that requires admin rights on the desktop should be beaten and stabbed. (yes, you should be able to disable auto-updating)
Apple is trying to make up for shrinking margins due to competition. They already understate their earnings all the time so they get a "surprise" when earnings come out. Sooner or later they won't be able to do that. Only thing they can do to prolong it is increase margins. How do they do it? First the lowered the quality that the iPhone was made from to increase margins, now they are bilking publishers.
I wonder what Apple will say if publisher in turn charge more on their app store to make up the difference. Apple has some big nads strong arming content providers. I mean they already have a huge threat to their business from Android who in turn does not do that to publishers.
For reading books, I prefer e-Ink anyhow. (backlit displays are harder on the eyes when reading over long periods of time) They don't display magazines that well though, though I really only read one magazine (Linux Journal) and I get that one in print.
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There's no "up" when the connector is sideways, dumbass.
Actually, yes there is. The port only connect one way.
If you think theres no compelling difference between the CPU-bound USB 3.0 and what is essentially an external PCIe connector, you need to go back and do some more research. LightPeak /Thunderbolt is just plain better than USB3.0; downsides do include lack of backwards compatibility, and that may prove to be its biggest obstacle, but to argue that "USB3.0 is good enough" is just wrong.
As for price, USB3.0 has been out for about a year now, with Thunderbolt only having rolled off the shelves-- and this, only in Apples computers so far-- a few months ago. Right now, on newegg, im only seeing USB3.0 on highend multi-hundred-dollar motherboards, so it seems to be a wash in that regard.
Its way too early to tell, and anyone saying otherwise is full of it.
Actually he made several valid points. For the most part, only a select few would see any noticeable difference between USB3 and Thunderbolt today. The fact that USB3 is CPU bound is pointless for todays consumers. Every single motherboard sold today with USB3 will most definitely have a multi-core CPU on it. You would physically have to be one of the select few I mentioned earlier to ever actually even notice the USB3 CPU use. (ie, high end graphics users)
USB3 is cheaper, and backwards compatible with all of the accessories you have now. If you don't have a specific need for Thunderbolt, there no need to pay for it. That is what will be Thunderbolt's downfall will be.
At some point a technology like Thunderbolt will come out and be the new standard, but when it does. It will have to be dirt cheap just like USB was when it became a computer main stay.
yes, about two years ago. Thunderbolt is EXACTLY like LightPeak, as they are the same thing. LightPeak was the project codename, Thunderbolt is the formal product name.
No, Thunderbolt is an offshoot of LightPeak. LightPeak actually used light (fiber), Thunderbolt is LightPeak over copper with some other differences. Thunderbolt was created because fiber switching is way to expensive for consumer use.
If they hide the URL bar, most people (as many already do) will search Google for a site they already know the URL of. A lot of the users of our site type our URL into Google's search and then click the top link. Google doing this, just makes them serve up more search results ending up in more revenue for Google.
I will say that the translation of my voice mails is terrible. Although, how can you tell if it is translated correctly if you don't listen to it? You can look for proper English, but even some of my translations are proper English yet still incorrect. (names, etc come out wrong.) Though most of the time it it's just a jumbled mess that I can't deduce the actual meaning of.
Start lining up to sue all the app developers too.
What should be illegal is a company's contract blocking your legal recourse if they screw you over. This is what Paypal did too and pretty much robbing their own customers who could not sue them in return because of the same type of garbage.
If every app you download does it, the phone might as well too!
Because like Fiber channel over ethernet, they try to charge a lot more for it yet it isn't all that much different. Fiber channel over ethernet should be as cheap as iSCSI, but it's not. It's a marketing gimmick to charge more money.
If they wanted BluRay to become the new standard, they would price it equal to DVDs. If they did that, DVDs would go away. They are just trying to squeeze more money out of their customers.
If you brought your own server into my network, you would be taking that right back home with you. That is an absolute no, no with me.
I don't even allow people to bring their own monitors, memory or speakers. (I'm not so strict on mice and keyboards though)
Assets management can be an issue. Especially when people leave/get terminated and they have brought their own hardware/software. If you need/want something. Get it approved and we will buy it. Don't bring your own.
Everyone has an agenda. Everyone.
And Flash is garbage on every platform. You don't need an agenda to see that. Just powers of observation.
While I don't use Flash very often, I have yet to have a problem with it. (Nexus One)
I'm sure there are things that it really sucks at, but I only use it to view specific Flash websites. There aren't many that I actually enable it for though. I will say this, I damn happy I can use it when I need too.
You can hate Flash all you want, it doesn't change the fact that it exists and people do use it. ...and at times you may need to have support for it.
Reading the story, that guy appears to have an agenda. I can't take him as a credible source.
If you want to help it return, kill all patent trolls.
Isn't that double jeopardy in taxes? I mean they already tax you for the gas you used to travel those miles. Not to mention if you have a gas guzzler, you pay a gas guzzler tax when you buy the car. That would mean you were triple taxed.
Probably what happen was Oracle said pay me million and millions of dollars or I'll stop development for Itanium. Intel said no and Leisure Suit Larry followed through with his threat.
From all my dealings with Google (Nexus One, and Google Apps Premier) their customer service and tech support is either painfully slow and at times practically non-existent.
You are taking the comment out of context. Of course you can get MySQL free, but sometimes in some cases, you don't run it for free. (and for good reason)
I'm not sure it isn't that Zuckerberg doesn't get it. I think it's more that he is paid millions and millions of dollars to *not* get it.
This would be news if he was using a blackberry. ;)
I can't confirm that Google has released OTA updates for the Nexus One anywhere.
That was creepy to read. I'm guessing a few of you will understand what I mean.
Any developer that writes an app that requires admin rights on the desktop should be beaten and stabbed. (yes, you should be able to disable auto-updating)
Apple is trying to make up for shrinking margins due to competition. They already understate their earnings all the time so they get a "surprise" when earnings come out. Sooner or later they won't be able to do that. Only thing they can do to prolong it is increase margins. How do they do it? First the lowered the quality that the iPhone was made from to increase margins, now they are bilking publishers.
I wonder what Apple will say if publisher in turn charge more on their app store to make up the difference. Apple has some big nads strong arming content providers. I mean they already have a huge threat to their business from Android who in turn does not do that to publishers.
For reading books, I prefer e-Ink anyhow. (backlit displays are harder on the eyes when reading over long periods of time) They don't display magazines that well though, though I really only read one magazine (Linux Journal) and I get that one in print.
Now, Wikipedia says some nostalgic people still use gopher, but the last person I remember using the finger protocol was John Carmack at ID Software.
Skype is like ICQ was. Every software release gets horrible worse. Today I no longer use ICQ and tomorrow, I will no longer use Skype.