The better per-thread performance of the competing Haswell part may keep them away, though(unless the increased cache makes up for it). Games make better use of additional cores than they used to; but they still don't tend to go as far in that direction as server or some workstation loads.
Maybe some gamers shut down everything on their desktop when they are playing. Personally leave all my apps open, sometimes even playing music or videos on another screen. So regardless of a game making full use of a CPU, any spare capacity can be used to service the rest of the desktop.
The Telegraph is emulating the Daily Mail's model for attracting hits - writing wildly inaccurate and inflammatory articles about topics which inflame the senses of their right wing, middle class readers. Immigrants, gays, science, local councils, the EU. The usual hit list.
It's very hard to figure where the hell this story came from since it's wildly inaccurate in every way. If there were speed advisors in cars it would obviously not apply to existing cars any more than rules about ABS, airbags etc. do. If a limiter were mandatory then it would be in new models and would probably apply to heavy vehicles more than cars.
It would also not be done by reading road signs either for obvious reasons. More likely it would be radio signals or similar in the same way as some roads have auto tolls.
And if the UK were to object to limiters then all they need do is not plant the limiting information into the roads and bingo, no limiter. But the entire purpose of the exercise is to save lives and make roads safer which I assume British road safety groups would be keen to do. But apparently this is something the Telegraph and it's idiot readership object to because it "violates" their freedoms.
There is no reason to suppose the car has to read a sign with a camera. The car could pick up the speed limit instruction from anywhere - a device on the side of the road, mounted to signs or overpasses, even embedded into the road surface. Probably the latter. They could plant them in each lane at 500m intervals or less at junctions and so on.
Also, just because the speed limit says 70 doesn't mean the limiter should be pegged exactly to 70. Perhaps it's to 85 for example. The advisor might beep, vibrate the peddle or otherwise notify the user (in a somewhat annoying way) at 70 and become more urgent as the speed surpasses that. The limiter (assuming there was one at all), could kick in at 80 or 85mph.
Earthquakes are still occur in Ireland, the UK and Scandinavia from glacial rebound. They are very minor quakes in modern times but they're still frequent events. I assume that Greenland would experience quakes and possibly quite violent ones to begin with.
The 3DS is not "beefed up" DS hardware. It has all new firmware, a dual core ARM processor and PICA200 graphics processor. It may be backwards compatible and share a similar form factor but it's basically a new device.
Sure. Assuming there is a standard protocol where vehicles are capable of polling every other vehicle in their immediate vicinity for their intention, negotiating the order and extricating themselves in a coordinated fashion. And assuming there are no human drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, obstacles, natural flows of traffic etc. to complicate the issue into an almost intractable problem. And that's just one scenario of many that happens every single day.
People who believe self driving cars could cope by themselves with those conditions are living in cloud cuckoo land. I'm quite prepared to believe that they could work on main roads and motorways. I'm quite prepared to believe that they could fall back to a driver assisted mode for other times. But they would require an unimpaired driver at the wheel and I don't see that changing any time soon. And sure as hell not by 2020.
Define what "greater awareness of their surroundings" even means. I might as a human know the person standing on the kerb is waiting for the bus and not likely to step out onto the road, and thus I have no reason to modify my speed. The self drive car might slow down because it has no idea. Conversely I might see a young kid running along the pavement who I think *might* run into the road and therefore I slow down when the self drive is oblivious and might remain oblivious due to the kid running out suddenly at the last moment from between cars..
That doesn't mean the human is better btw, and it's easy to envisage a driver assisted mode that ensures greater safety than driver alone. e.g. if I'm driving on a motorway perhaps the car automatically regulates my speed and distance for me. But neither does it mean that self drive cars are the ultimate in safety either. Some of the assumptions of what they will be capable of are frankly ludicrous.
Many traffic jams are the result of screwed up traffic control systems.
My commute takes me through a set of lights at a crossroads. They were broken for about 3 weeks and in that time there was virtually no queues to pass through the lights. Drivers proceeded very gingerly, making lots of eye contact with other drivers, used hand signs and gestures to determine priority and edged very slowly until it was clear who was next. But there was no delays. As soon as the council fixed the lights I could be stuck there for 5 minutes in a long queue because the system wasn't smart enough to cope with empty roads.
It's interesting to think how an auto drive car would function in such a scenario. I expect it would fail miserably (how would it even know the lights were out for example?), and even if it knew it could end up nudging out into the road until several cars were intractibly stuck in the middle (since all the cars would be acting the same), or it would act like a total asshole disregarding priority or right of way. And that's just one scenario where it might screw up and cause delays.
It's why some of the talk surrounding self driving cars is so laughably optimistic. I can easily see their use on well marked, well travelled roads like motorways where there is a certain uniformity and where self drive cars would be likely to make good progress and function properly. I don't see that being the case at all an urban environments. It's more likely that it would require manual intervention even if there was a driver assist mode which slammed on the brakes, or vehicle distance management or otherwise intervened to ensure safety.
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Yes it could have been fine and I've done my fair share of complaining. But that's water under the bridge. The issue now is how MS fix things as they are now and ensure the next release is the best it can be.
The same situation happened in Vista where people were complaining it wasn't enterprise ready, that it used too much memory etc. Microsoft responding with a release which was essentially more of the same but which addressed the issues. The refinements were enough to turn a hated version into one of the most popular versions ever.
Personally I use Windows 8 on a home laptop and it's not a bad OS. It's very fast, very stable. It's major annoyance is that fucking metro and the lack of concession to desktop users with large monitors, keyboards and mice. These are not insurmountable problems to solve, but MS have to knuckle down and do it. The 8.1 release, offers some improvements but I think it'll take version 9 for things to improve enough to remove most of the gripes.
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I think Windows 8 will be fine after another iteration. It's clear that the world was turning to tablets and they HAD to get something out regardless of it being something that interested enterprises. I expect after they refine it, and as hardware catches up with touch screens etc. that enterprises will drop their resistance (just like they did when Windows 7 fixed Vista) and some normality may return.
But the bigger issue is why it took them so long to realise they needed to get onto tablets, why they wouldn't or couldn't make any concession to existing desktop users, why their recent history is so littered with failed products and what were all the inter divisional battles that formed the backdrop to that.
It's so common for futurists & AI researchers to predict something to happen in 20-25 years or "in my lifetime" that people have actually made a study of the phenomena.
Not that Slashdot readers are any better, e.g. some of the comments about self driving cars (that supposedly we'll all driving in the millions by 2035) were ridiculously optimistic.
LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) suffers a death by a thousand cuts. Lots of niggling nuisance behaviours, lack of refinement, lack of usability all make it a chore to use. They really need to make a concerted push at usability and performance.
Instead of fighting each other they should be looking at the big picture and fighting the horrific usability that holds both branches back.
I'm using Impress at the moment to knock together a presentation and it's frustrating how many annoyances it has in comparison to Powerpoint - text rendering which jiggles kerning & spacing between chars depending on a box being in focus or not, highly irritating capitalization behaviour (JGit becomes Jgit even when I've added the spelling to the dictionary), numbering which puts the text way to close to the number such that they overlap, bullet boxes that can overflow instead of dynamically resizing, lack of intellisense (e.g. seeing a * or a 1. and knowing begin a bullet / number section), orphan bullets which are left there instead of cleaned up, "New Slide" buried buried in the tool bar when it would be more useful in the slide bar. It just goes on and on.
Both forks should stop back and look at themselves and their usability and dedicate an entire major release to improving it. Hundreds of little things which in themselves are merely annoying but in total sink the product.
Well it's like this. Someone's name being real or not has no bearing on the point being made. I asked if it mattered and you said it only mattered "if you think it does", i.e. it doesn't matter except to the person reading.
If you still don't understand (and your non sequitur demonstrates that you probably never will), then there is no hope for you.
I'm not afraid of self drive cars, it's called realism. My "pathetic examples" and "imaginary scenarios" are actual things that happened on the day I cited them, things that a self drive car would suck at or fail to cope with at all. But feel free to drink the Kool Aid. Did you know that AI futurists tend to pick 15-25 years the most for their outlandish predictions? People have written papers on the phenomena. Unsurprisingly this prediction fits right in with that.
Yeah I'm just one massive ignoramus aren't I? That or I'm a person with a sense of what is possible and not possible in the space of 20 years.
And if you can extricate yourself from your pathetic tirade for a second you might note that I never said once that I was the best driver, or even that humans were capable of reacting to situations as fast as a driver assisted car might. But neither does it mean cars are going to be autonomous, self driving (to the extent they can drive off and park themselves) and capable of coping with situations that happen every single day. Not now. Not in 20 years from now.
Anyone who has bothered to follow AI for the last 50 years would know the ground is littered with false predictions of the kind you appear to have bought into.
I don't buy that for a second. In my commute to work today:
I saw a pothole which I manoeuvred to avoid. Better hope the self drive car could sense a depression (even one hidden by a puddle) in the road before it fucks up your suspension and tyres.
Likewise a dead animal. I wonder if the car would slam the brakes on, swerve or run straight over it.
I saw a pedestrian waiting to cross. Since I am a human I could infer her intention and slow down and wave her over. The self drive car would just be an asshole and drive straight by. Maybe it would slow down a bit making her think she could cross and then jerk to a sudden halt instead when she did, frightening everyone. Or maybe it would wing her.
I saw a dump truck maneuvering behind the open doors of a van and slowed in case it came into the road. The self drive car would be totally blind to that hazard until it sped past and received a giant gouge as the truck poked out from seemingly nowhere.
I navigated a cross roads where the lights were malfunctioning. Drivers had to cross gingerly, honouring the order they arrived. The self drive car, being the asshole it is would nudge push out even though it wasn't it's turn, and it had better hope it didn't meet other self drive cars since it would probably end up with them all being stuck.
I drove down a narrow road where there is only room for one car to pass in either direction and where it is frequently necessary to drive up on pavements to make way and make progress. I'm sure the self drive car would just get stuck especially when encountering it's equally brain dead counterpart coming the other way.
I could go on. The point being that self drive is probably viable in controlled conditions - motorways, special roads. Places where there are predictable widths and markings and exits. As soon as it hits urban areas it would be a disaster. I very much doubt that minor roads can be improved in most towns where frequently they're already as wide as they can go.
I am sure that cars would come with some form of driver assistance, e.g. maintaining distance from the car in front, emergency braking response but that's not the same thing as self drive. And it sure as hell wouldn't be likely that cars could just drive off and park themselves with nobody there which was what was originally written.
I know there are tablets out there already. Personally I'm hanging back for another iteration of software and hardware.
Anyway they don't run *that* terribly. These atom processors are more powerful than those that powered netbooks with the benefit of faster GPUs and hardware accelerated video decoders. I still find an N450 powered netbook useful for short breaks and these things are about 2.5x the speed of that with SSDs. I'm sure they would be perfectly fine for the form factor as long as you don't expect more of it than browsing, casual gaming, email etc. If you want something more I'm sure the top end will fill out with haswell based devices.
Aside from that, the conversion is not from USD to EUR but from JPY and I expect an amount of currency hedging informs those figures. I also expect they'll round up at a drop of a hat if they think they can get away with it.
Well don't buy it day-0. It's not like there will be a huge range of titles for it anyway. Same for the XBox One. If they sell well I'm sure Sony / Microsoft will make more of them.
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Maybe some gamers shut down everything on their desktop when they are playing. Personally leave all my apps open, sometimes even playing music or videos on another screen. So regardless of a game making full use of a CPU, any spare capacity can be used to service the rest of the desktop.
Still really annoying but somewhat less impressive than if it actually buckled the car, or the heat set the thing on fire.
It's very hard to figure where the hell this story came from since it's wildly inaccurate in every way. If there were speed advisors in cars it would obviously not apply to existing cars any more than rules about ABS, airbags etc. do. If a limiter were mandatory then it would be in new models and would probably apply to heavy vehicles more than cars.
It would also not be done by reading road signs either for obvious reasons. More likely it would be radio signals or similar in the same way as some roads have auto tolls.
And if the UK were to object to limiters then all they need do is not plant the limiting information into the roads and bingo, no limiter. But the entire purpose of the exercise is to save lives and make roads safer which I assume British road safety groups would be keen to do. But apparently this is something the Telegraph and it's idiot readership object to because it "violates" their freedoms.
Also, just because the speed limit says 70 doesn't mean the limiter should be pegged exactly to 70. Perhaps it's to 85 for example. The advisor might beep, vibrate the peddle or otherwise notify the user (in a somewhat annoying way) at 70 and become more urgent as the speed surpasses that. The limiter (assuming there was one at all), could kick in at 80 or 85mph.
Earthquakes are still occur in Ireland, the UK and Scandinavia from glacial rebound. They are very minor quakes in modern times but they're still frequent events. I assume that Greenland would experience quakes and possibly quite violent ones to begin with.
The 3DS is not "beefed up" DS hardware. It has all new firmware, a dual core ARM processor and PICA200 graphics processor. It may be backwards compatible and share a similar form factor but it's basically a new device.
People who believe self driving cars could cope by themselves with those conditions are living in cloud cuckoo land. I'm quite prepared to believe that they could work on main roads and motorways. I'm quite prepared to believe that they could fall back to a driver assisted mode for other times. But they would require an unimpaired driver at the wheel and I don't see that changing any time soon. And sure as hell not by 2020.
That doesn't mean the human is better btw, and it's easy to envisage a driver assisted mode that ensures greater safety than driver alone. e.g. if I'm driving on a motorway perhaps the car automatically regulates my speed and distance for me. But neither does it mean that self drive cars are the ultimate in safety either. Some of the assumptions of what they will be capable of are frankly ludicrous.
My commute takes me through a set of lights at a crossroads. They were broken for about 3 weeks and in that time there was virtually no queues to pass through the lights. Drivers proceeded very gingerly, making lots of eye contact with other drivers, used hand signs and gestures to determine priority and edged very slowly until it was clear who was next. But there was no delays. As soon as the council fixed the lights I could be stuck there for 5 minutes in a long queue because the system wasn't smart enough to cope with empty roads.
It's interesting to think how an auto drive car would function in such a scenario. I expect it would fail miserably (how would it even know the lights were out for example?), and even if it knew it could end up nudging out into the road until several cars were intractibly stuck in the middle (since all the cars would be acting the same), or it would act like a total asshole disregarding priority or right of way. And that's just one scenario where it might screw up and cause delays.
It's why some of the talk surrounding self driving cars is so laughably optimistic. I can easily see their use on well marked, well travelled roads like motorways where there is a certain uniformity and where self drive cars would be likely to make good progress and function properly. I don't see that being the case at all an urban environments. It's more likely that it would require manual intervention even if there was a driver assist mode which slammed on the brakes, or vehicle distance management or otherwise intervened to ensure safety.
The same situation happened in Vista where people were complaining it wasn't enterprise ready, that it used too much memory etc. Microsoft responding with a release which was essentially more of the same but which addressed the issues. The refinements were enough to turn a hated version into one of the most popular versions ever.
Personally I use Windows 8 on a home laptop and it's not a bad OS. It's very fast, very stable. It's major annoyance is that fucking metro and the lack of concession to desktop users with large monitors, keyboards and mice. These are not insurmountable problems to solve, but MS have to knuckle down and do it. The 8.1 release, offers some improvements but I think it'll take version 9 for things to improve enough to remove most of the gripes.
But the bigger issue is why it took them so long to realise they needed to get onto tablets, why they wouldn't or couldn't make any concession to existing desktop users, why their recent history is so littered with failed products and what were all the inter divisional battles that formed the backdrop to that.
Not that Slashdot readers are any better, e.g. some of the comments about self driving cars (that supposedly we'll all driving in the millions by 2035) were ridiculously optimistic.
LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) suffers a death by a thousand cuts. Lots of niggling nuisance behaviours, lack of refinement, lack of usability all make it a chore to use. They really need to make a concerted push at usability and performance.
I'm using Impress at the moment to knock together a presentation and it's frustrating how many annoyances it has in comparison to Powerpoint - text rendering which jiggles kerning & spacing between chars depending on a box being in focus or not, highly irritating capitalization behaviour (JGit becomes Jgit even when I've added the spelling to the dictionary), numbering which puts the text way to close to the number such that they overlap, bullet boxes that can overflow instead of dynamically resizing, lack of intellisense (e.g. seeing a * or a 1. and knowing begin a bullet / number section), orphan bullets which are left there instead of cleaned up, "New Slide" buried buried in the tool bar when it would be more useful in the slide bar. It just goes on and on.
Both forks should stop back and look at themselves and their usability and dedicate an entire major release to improving it. Hundreds of little things which in themselves are merely annoying but in total sink the product.
If you still don't understand (and your non sequitur demonstrates that you probably never will), then there is no hope for you.
Exactly and now you understand why your point was complete bollocks.
Is that your real name? Does it even matter when considering your point?
I'm not afraid of self drive cars, it's called realism. My "pathetic examples" and "imaginary scenarios" are actual things that happened on the day I cited them, things that a self drive car would suck at or fail to cope with at all. But feel free to drink the Kool Aid. Did you know that AI futurists tend to pick 15-25 years the most for their outlandish predictions? People have written papers on the phenomena. Unsurprisingly this prediction fits right in with that.
I'd vastly prefer a Windows 8 convertible to the Asus Transformer I have now. But as I said I'm comfortable to wait another iteration.
Yeah I'm just one massive ignoramus aren't I? That or I'm a person with a sense of what is possible and not possible in the space of 20 years. And if you can extricate yourself from your pathetic tirade for a second you might note that I never said once that I was the best driver, or even that humans were capable of reacting to situations as fast as a driver assisted car might. But neither does it mean cars are going to be autonomous, self driving (to the extent they can drive off and park themselves) and capable of coping with situations that happen every single day. Not now. Not in 20 years from now. Anyone who has bothered to follow AI for the last 50 years would know the ground is littered with false predictions of the kind you appear to have bought into.
I could go on. The point being that self drive is probably viable in controlled conditions - motorways, special roads. Places where there are predictable widths and markings and exits. As soon as it hits urban areas it would be a disaster. I very much doubt that minor roads can be improved in most towns where frequently they're already as wide as they can go.
I am sure that cars would come with some form of driver assistance, e.g. maintaining distance from the car in front, emergency braking response but that's not the same thing as self drive. And it sure as hell wouldn't be likely that cars could just drive off and park themselves with nobody there which was what was originally written.
Anyway they don't run *that* terribly. These atom processors are more powerful than those that powered netbooks with the benefit of faster GPUs and hardware accelerated video decoders. I still find an N450 powered netbook useful for short breaks and these things are about 2.5x the speed of that with SSDs. I'm sure they would be perfectly fine for the form factor as long as you don't expect more of it than browsing, casual gaming, email etc. If you want something more I'm sure the top end will fill out with haswell based devices.
Yes it's all so obvious now. I'm part of a vast conspiracy.
Aside from that, the conversion is not from USD to EUR but from JPY and I expect an amount of currency hedging informs those figures. I also expect they'll round up at a drop of a hat if they think they can get away with it.
Well don't buy it day-0. It's not like there will be a huge range of titles for it anyway. Same for the XBox One. If they sell well I'm sure Sony / Microsoft will make more of them.