Not necessarily; a general-purpose CPU will always be less efficient than a processor optimized for certain tasks. Thus the really high numbers you get from nVidia and ATi.
Not saying the CPU and GPU cannot be combined onto the same die, but at a logical level they are two separate pieces.
Not really; ARM has SIMD instructions and a lot of these complex features you're talking about are multimedia-related and should be offloaded to the GPU anyway.
Even more so, someone skimming the article would not have noticed that, in page 2, it revealed that Google had previously scuppered Microsoft's takeover bid for Yahoo.
I'd certainly prefer a Google-Yahoo collaboration to an outright takeover by a known monopolist, but even so, the article seems overly paranoid and one-sided.
Indeed; this is just like the Internet -- it originated from the government/academia (DARPANET); there are commercial networks (AOL, CompuServe, etc.) but they were walled gardens.
Interoperability is where the government steps in, for better or worse -- only the most ideological libertarian would deny that such a role exists.
I'm surprised they didn't already have three planes. They procured the current VC-20s, what, during the height of the Cold War? The extra spending would not be that significant.
They closed the diploma? alas. I was mixing up the two, because when I was there (9 years ago), the diploma is the same course as a separate part II offered to non-CS students.
Apart for making part II harder for undergrads, as all those BA-wielding mathematicians boost the expectation for what the students are capable of!
There is, presumably, a separate Part II for people who have taken CS Part Ia and Ib, naturally.
Lucky you! Is Martin Richards (of BCPL fame) still teaching the C class (forgot what the official title is, it's the one where he talks about BCPL, C (mostly its warts and under-specified standard) and related languages.
Forgot to mention that. I was an international student so I took that for granted anyway -- and since American students are fee-paying in their own country (though less if they go to a state university in their own state), presumably they are more prepared for that.
Another possibility, actually, is the Netherlands. Tanenbaum (of the OS fame) is in Vrije University, which charges tuition of only 3000 euro per annum, last time I checked.
... and adopted by the Arab states hook, line and sinker as it suited their needs just neatly. I believe a documentary, claiming the fake as "factual", airs on Egyptian state TV every year.
... Edinburgh, Imperial College, or perhaps Manchester (they have one of the earliest electronic computer, still in working order). There's also Canada -- Waterloo has a renowned engineering program.
Not sure if Cambridge does exchange programs, but if you're abroad for a year instead of a semester, their Part II CS tripos is quite gruelling; it's basically a complete undergrad education done in one year, usually taken by people who already have a degree in related fields (e.g. math or physics).
In the UK, my rule of thumb is: if they teach a functional language then they are decent. Edinburgh is where Standard ML was written (and Phil Wadler is in the faculty) -- oh, and is really good for Artificial Intelligence research too, so naturally, they're quite heavily into Prolog too. Cambridge also uses ML; York uses Scheme and Haskell. Warwick -- ML, I guess.
There's also the location to consider. Imperial is in London -- good place to be, but accomodation might be tough. Edinburgh is in, well, Edinburgh -- lovely place, a bit cold in winter, but not as bad as the northern parts of the US. York is on the east coast line, so it's less than three hours from either London or Edinburgh by fast train. Warwick, despite the name, is not in the quaint mediaeval town of Warwick, but in nearby Coventry (they obviously thought naming it the University of Coventry would not be good for business). Not far from London and Birmingham, though.
With Leopard, that's arguable, at least until 10.5.4. It's the first OS X release that does not provide for a painless upgrade experience; if you try to upgrade from Tiger, you will end up with repeated chkdsk-induced boot failures until you reformat the hard drive clean.
It's *not* Java -- the virtual machine design is based on different principles (register vs. stack). It does present a Java-like interface to developers, but the Java bytecode is then converted to Dalvik bytecode.
One wonders whether customers could actually have an ally in the plane manufacturers in this case (and similar ones). Surely Airbus would be quite interested in defending the safety of their planes, and so would be on the record saying their planes are safe from EM interference from customer electronics?
If Qantas is only laying the blame on Airbus, rather than coming up with the same excuse for their Boeing planes too, then this is ground for a libel suit. Airbus stands to lose a lot of customers if this misperception takes hold, more than they would by losing Qantas as a customer.
IIRC, VMware is working on virtualizing OS X on OS X. Will be interesting to see if Apple would allow them to release it for their other products as well, perhaps as an (expensive) add-on.
The Mac premium is ridiculous. VMware Workstation and Server are free products; Fusion is not. Not to mention the video cards, as other posters have noted. And what with making new SDKs and Java releases only work on the latest OS?
Not sure the sales rep knows what (s)he's talking about; all the reviews so far seem to indicate that the laptop is fully upgradable (though you can't put a hard drive as there's not enough space for it).
The packages that Linpus (or Acer) customized for their laptops really ought to have an epoch-bump, so that they do not get replaced by newer packages from the Fedora repos.
That commits Linpus and Acer to provide security updates for those packages, naturally.
Um, then are you saying that every single drive in every single Dell laptop has the exact same image?
Not Dell, but incidentally, Lenovo might be doing that on their current Thinkpad line-up. A pristine, newly-restored installation would spend at least 15 minutes on first boot in customizing the current configuration!
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Not necessarily; a general-purpose CPU will always be less efficient than a processor optimized for certain tasks. Thus the really high numbers you get from nVidia and ATi.
Not saying the CPU and GPU cannot be combined onto the same die, but at a logical level they are two separate pieces.
Not really; ARM has SIMD instructions and a lot of these complex features you're talking about are multimedia-related and should be offloaded to the GPU anyway.
Even more so, someone skimming the article would not have noticed that, in page 2, it revealed that Google had previously scuppered Microsoft's takeover bid for Yahoo.
I'd certainly prefer a Google-Yahoo collaboration to an outright takeover by a known monopolist, but even so, the article seems overly paranoid and one-sided.
My opinion of AMD has gone down considerably due to this. Applying for worthless patents is bad enough -- selling them to a patent-trolling company?
Shame on you, AMD.
Copy-and-pasting is problematic too, because the pasted code might (in fact, is likely to) end up at the wrong indentation level.
Indeed; this is just like the Internet -- it originated from the government/academia (DARPANET); there are commercial networks (AOL, CompuServe, etc.) but they were walled gardens.
Interoperability is where the government steps in, for better or worse -- only the most ideological libertarian would deny that such a role exists.
I'm surprised they didn't already have three planes. They procured the current VC-20s, what, during the height of the Cold War? The extra spending would not be that significant.
They closed the diploma? alas. I was mixing up the two, because when I was there (9 years ago), the diploma is the same course as a separate part II offered to non-CS students.
Apart for making part II harder for undergrads, as all those BA-wielding mathematicians boost the expectation for what the students are capable of!
There is, presumably, a separate Part II for people who have taken CS Part Ia and Ib, naturally.
Lucky you! Is Martin Richards (of BCPL fame) still teaching the C class (forgot what the official title is, it's the one where he talks about BCPL, C (mostly its warts and under-specified standard) and related languages.
Forgot to mention that. I was an international student so I took that for granted anyway -- and since American students are fee-paying in their own country (though less if they go to a state university in their own state), presumably they are more prepared for that.
Another possibility, actually, is the Netherlands. Tanenbaum (of the OS fame) is in Vrije University, which charges tuition of only 3000 euro per annum, last time I checked.
... and adopted by the Arab states hook, line and sinker as it suited their needs just neatly. I believe a documentary, claiming the fake as "factual", airs on Egyptian state TV every year.
... Edinburgh, Imperial College, or perhaps Manchester (they have one of the earliest electronic computer, still in working order). There's also Canada -- Waterloo has a renowned engineering program.
Not sure if Cambridge does exchange programs, but if you're abroad for a year instead of a semester, their Part II CS tripos is quite gruelling; it's basically a complete undergrad education done in one year, usually taken by people who already have a degree in related fields (e.g. math or physics).
In the UK, my rule of thumb is: if they teach a functional language then they are decent. Edinburgh is where Standard ML was written (and Phil Wadler is in the faculty) -- oh, and is really good for Artificial Intelligence research too, so naturally, they're quite heavily into Prolog too. Cambridge also uses ML; York uses Scheme and Haskell. Warwick -- ML, I guess.
There's also the location to consider. Imperial is in London -- good place to be, but accomodation might be tough. Edinburgh is in, well, Edinburgh -- lovely place, a bit cold in winter, but not as bad as the northern parts of the US. York is on the east coast line, so it's less than three hours from either London or Edinburgh by fast train. Warwick, despite the name, is not in the quaint mediaeval town of Warwick, but in nearby Coventry (they obviously thought naming it the University of Coventry would not be good for business). Not far from London and Birmingham, though.
With Leopard, that's arguable, at least until 10.5.4. It's the first OS X release that does not provide for a painless upgrade experience; if you try to upgrade from Tiger, you will end up with repeated chkdsk-induced boot failures until you reformat the hard drive clean.
HFS+ needs to die. Now.
Perhaps they would then start prosecuting spammers more seriously, if spamming is perceived to be a DDOS against a government-run service.
Parent poster happens to be from the UK -- check his website.
It's *not* Java -- the virtual machine design is based on different principles (register vs. stack). It does present a Java-like interface to developers, but the Java bytecode is then converted to Dalvik bytecode.
One wonders whether customers could actually have an ally in the plane manufacturers in this case (and similar ones). Surely Airbus would be quite interested in defending the safety of their planes, and so would be on the record saying their planes are safe from EM interference from customer electronics?
If Qantas is only laying the blame on Airbus, rather than coming up with the same excuse for their Boeing planes too, then this is ground for a libel suit. Airbus stands to lose a lot of customers if this misperception takes hold, more than they would by losing Qantas as a customer.
Ah yes. Got my products a bit mixed up.
IIRC, VMware is working on virtualizing OS X on OS X. Will be interesting to see if Apple would allow them to release it for their other products as well, perhaps as an (expensive) add-on.
The Mac premium is ridiculous. VMware Workstation and Server are free products; Fusion is not. Not to mention the video cards, as other posters have noted. And what with making new SDKs and Java releases only work on the latest OS?
So OS X on white box is just like Solaris. Good OS, poor driver availability. The difference is that Sun actually *wants* you to use Solaris.
Not sure the sales rep knows what (s)he's talking about; all the reviews so far seem to indicate that the laptop is fully upgradable (though you can't put a hard drive as there's not enough space for it).
The packages that Linpus (or Acer) customized for their laptops really ought to have an epoch-bump, so that they do not get replaced by newer packages from the Fedora repos.
That commits Linpus and Acer to provide security updates for those packages, naturally.
Don't worry, GNOME is not a window manager.
Looks like Dell and Apple disagree on which color scheme is more desirable.
Not Dell, but incidentally, Lenovo might be doing that on their current Thinkpad line-up. A pristine, newly-restored installation would spend at least 15 minutes on first boot in customizing the current configuration!