Seriously, if the Mac ever went to a store only system like the iPhone I'll just stop buying macs and just start buying more PCs again. At least in that case I have a choice of either Windows or Linux and can install or sell what I want without having to go through an approval process first.
They got rid of Auction House because of RMT farmers and such. This game is yes bad, but most mmos I've played at release have been buggy as hell. If you look at some of the things they are implementing from now until the end of the year it should be somewhat more playable.
I think I've seen a lot more interesting games from the indie scene these days compared to some of the crap being released from large companies like EA. Some games from large companies are still good like Starcraft II for instance but, these days release cycles like that are long and few. Also, a great deal of the good old franchises have been either killed or like Capcom does with this franchises milk it to death and then milk it some more.
Probably one of the best things that has been done for the gaming community was when Microsoft released XNA allowing any john or jane doe to release their own game with a unique game lay experience for both PC and the XBox 360. If anything Sony and Nintendo should be following suit maybe then I'll consider buying a PS3 and hooking up my Wii again.
Google should have targeted Wave more as a collaboration and document sharing system like microsoft sharepoint in the first place. Heck if it also had its own SVN/CVS management service like source forge it would probably make a killer open/closed source collaboration tool for development. Maybe the original wave already did that and I was too ignorant to notice. Still that's how Google should have made Wave to be. Besides, we already have too many standard social networking sites as it is like facebook and myspace.
Agreed, if I was NASA I probably would have kept sinking cash into the X-33 and X-37 projects although from a budget standpoint NASA also gets the short end of the stick. True, the X-33 had design challenges that would take a long time to be worked out but, to me SSTO spacecraft is the most logical next step after the shuttle.
A wacom digitizer input on the screen with capacitive touch.
A full version of OSX instead of a beefer iPhone OS.
The iPad is a very nice product but, for me it's just not good enough. Perhaps the next iteration will have the wacom input I want most.
Although I was interested in buying Tesla stock when their IPO occurs, I think I would rather short it or not even touch it now. This company feels like it has "Scam" written all over it. Don't get me wrong I think they make great products, but this company reminds me of a dotcom where its all PR and no actual progress.
If publishers won't publish a story what is stopping an author from using booksurge or lulu? I'm surprised these two outlets haven't taken off yet for print and e-book media.
... we can upload our conciseness to a cybernetic brain, although I don't anything against this project, I wonder if I can also be used to improve a normal humans cognitive ability.
VHDL is used by defense contractors still. Although its ADA based, it requires strong typing, making it less prone to error. Although its hard to learn at first, you eventually notice its a lot like working with a virtual breadboard of sorts. Verilog is used in mostly consumer devices, and ASIC design. Intel, AMD, and other chip companies use verilog to design their newer architectures, although it can be more prone to bugs than VHDL, neither language is absolutely perfect. This is why we have verification and test engineers write test benches for the code to find any errors in the design.
In this day and age, its best to know both languages. They are pretty much alike, just that some of the keywords and syntax is different. Most FPGA design tools come with soft processors made in VHDL or verilog, and the user will typically use C to create the for the processor to run your task, this alone also makes knowing C a requirement. VHDL and verilog in such projects would be then used to special tasks, like fast image or audio processing, since the VHDL or verilog module would be tuned for that task and be able to complete it in a very short order of time compared to a general purpose processor. If I can make any recommendations, the sites http://www.asic-world.com/ and http://www.fpga4fun.com/ are two places I would look to first when start learning about verilog and VHDL.
You could drink 3 or more rockstars a day and then have a stroke at the age of 23. I knew someone like that, thankfully he stopped drinking them afterwards.
...wake me up when someone comes out with a color ink ereader that can also zoom and pan pdf files, I don't really care about wireless features right now.
..like what the phantom would have been if all the intensive stuff was ran on a server. Interestesting, but I would rather have an actual console to play my games. This would be fun for xbox arcade like games but, nothing really 3d intensive.
Yes it can run standard linux like ubuntu. Angstrom is a more popular distro for processors like ARM Cortex-A8, but can be a real pain in the neck to get up and running. To make standard linux run on an ARM you just have to recompile it for ARM arch. Take a look at the beagleboardhttp://www.beagleboard.org/ and the pandora handheld console, and you'll see what ARM is now truly capable of doing in the near future for mass consumers.
I don't remember, everyone working on a time share based system like back in the mainframe dark ages. Can we find the people who make these dumb ideas and make them be the first to be put against the wall when the revolution comes?
Its probably smart for AMD to leave this segment for now. VIA and ARM will have control of the ultramobile market for a while. Both companies offer high performance while keeping TDP extremely low. However, I can also see Intel being a major player in this segment in the future but, certainly not as big as ARM will be, especially if you look at some of the new ARM based OMAP processors Texas Instruments are comming out with. As for VIA, they initially sold their low power processors for embedded industrial systems, and have been moving to the consumer market ever since. Although not the most feature rich platform, it is still offers alot for its price, helping make VIA be here for a long time.
Honestly in this day and age, no one should buy a extremely powerful processor. That is unless you are a data center or need to crunch numbers at a fast pace.
Today I would rather see I/O bottlenecks get smaller and a smaller thermal footprint than pay for a faster, higher performance processor that has a TDP of 100W+ and costs $300 or more.
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Will it be nothing but bones? Was war were declared?
Seriously, if the Mac ever went to a store only system like the iPhone I'll just stop buying macs and just start buying more PCs again. At least in that case I have a choice of either Windows or Linux and can install or sell what I want without having to go through an approval process first.
They got rid of Auction House because of RMT farmers and such. This game is yes bad, but most mmos I've played at release have been buggy as hell. If you look at some of the things they are implementing from now until the end of the year it should be somewhat more playable.
I think I've seen a lot more interesting games from the indie scene these days compared to some of the crap being released from large companies like EA. Some games from large companies are still good like Starcraft II for instance but, these days release cycles like that are long and few. Also, a great deal of the good old franchises have been either killed or like Capcom does with this franchises milk it to death and then milk it some more.
Probably one of the best things that has been done for the gaming community was when Microsoft released XNA allowing any john or jane doe to release their own game with a unique game lay experience for both PC and the XBox 360. If anything Sony and Nintendo should be following suit maybe then I'll consider buying a PS3 and hooking up my Wii again.
Google should have targeted Wave more as a collaboration and document sharing system like microsoft sharepoint in the first place. Heck if it also had its own SVN/CVS management service like source forge it would probably make a killer open/closed source collaboration tool for development. Maybe the original wave already did that and I was too ignorant to notice. Still that's how Google should have made Wave to be. Besides, we already have too many standard social networking sites as it is like facebook and myspace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgQFOOr7ug
I'm pretty sure DoD will want a few.
..and I enjoy my new Evo 4G so much more than my WM6.1 piece of crap.
...until BP is declared an enemy of the state?
Agreed, if I was NASA I probably would have kept sinking cash into the X-33 and X-37 projects although from a budget standpoint NASA also gets the short end of the stick. True, the X-33 had design challenges that would take a long time to be worked out but, to me SSTO spacecraft is the most logical next step after the shuttle.
"Cosmic rays zapping mah space probe!"
A wacom digitizer input on the screen with capacitive touch. A full version of OSX instead of a beefer iPhone OS. The iPad is a very nice product but, for me it's just not good enough. Perhaps the next iteration will have the wacom input I want most.
Although I was interested in buying Tesla stock when their IPO occurs, I think I would rather short it or not even touch it now. This company feels like it has "Scam" written all over it. Don't get me wrong I think they make great products, but this company reminds me of a dotcom where its all PR and no actual progress.
If publishers won't publish a story what is stopping an author from using booksurge or lulu? I'm surprised these two outlets haven't taken off yet for print and e-book media.
... we can upload our conciseness to a cybernetic brain, although I don't anything against this project, I wonder if I can also be used to improve a normal humans cognitive ability.
Interoperability is a great thing to have, and might even spur more everyday people to adopt Linux in the future.
VHDL is used by defense contractors still. Although its ADA based, it requires strong typing, making it less prone to error. Although its hard to learn at first, you eventually notice its a lot like working with a virtual breadboard of sorts. Verilog is used in mostly consumer devices, and ASIC design. Intel, AMD, and other chip companies use verilog to design their newer architectures, although it can be more prone to bugs than VHDL, neither language is absolutely perfect. This is why we have verification and test engineers write test benches for the code to find any errors in the design.
In this day and age, its best to know both languages. They are pretty much alike, just that some of the keywords and syntax is different. Most FPGA design tools come with soft processors made in VHDL or verilog, and the user will typically use C to create the for the processor to run your task, this alone also makes knowing C a requirement. VHDL and verilog in such projects would be then used to special tasks, like fast image or audio processing, since the VHDL or verilog module would be tuned for that task and be able to complete it in a very short order of time compared to a general purpose processor. If I can make any recommendations, the sites http://www.asic-world.com/ and http://www.fpga4fun.com/ are two places I would look to first when start learning about verilog and VHDL.
You could drink 3 or more rockstars a day and then have a stroke at the age of 23. I knew someone like that, thankfully he stopped drinking them afterwards.
...wake me up when someone comes out with a color ink ereader that can also zoom and pan pdf files, I don't really care about wireless features right now.
Super-secure windows = having the the power cord unpluged.
..like what the phantom would have been if all the intensive stuff was ran on a server. Interestesting, but I would rather have an actual console to play my games. This would be fun for xbox arcade like games but, nothing really 3d intensive.
Wake me up when we have a suit using muscle wires.
Yes it can run standard linux like ubuntu. Angstrom is a more popular distro for processors like ARM Cortex-A8, but can be a real pain in the neck to get up and running. To make standard linux run on an ARM you just have to recompile it for ARM arch. Take a look at the beagleboardhttp://www.beagleboard.org/ and the pandora handheld console, and you'll see what ARM is now truly capable of doing in the near future for mass consumers.
I don't remember, everyone working on a time share based system like back in the mainframe dark ages. Can we find the people who make these dumb ideas and make them be the first to be put against the wall when the revolution comes?
Its probably smart for AMD to leave this segment for now. VIA and ARM will have control of the ultramobile market for a while. Both companies offer high performance while keeping TDP extremely low. However, I can also see Intel being a major player in this segment in the future but, certainly not as big as ARM will be, especially if you look at some of the new ARM based OMAP processors Texas Instruments are comming out with. As for VIA, they initially sold their low power processors for embedded industrial systems, and have been moving to the consumer market ever since. Although not the most feature rich platform, it is still offers alot for its price, helping make VIA be here for a long time.
Honestly in this day and age, no one should buy a extremely powerful processor. That is unless you are a data center or need to crunch numbers at a fast pace. Today I would rather see I/O bottlenecks get smaller and a smaller thermal footprint than pay for a faster, higher performance processor that has a TDP of 100W+ and costs $300 or more.