How about I name a few names for you: Todd Akin, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum... A quick google search of some of their quotes will tell you immediately why women and gays vote for any party they are not a part of. Being treated like a human being should be something everyone can expect from a politician they're going to vote for. Blacks have voted democrat for ages, it's not a new development due to Obama being on the ticket. And Mitt "flip flop" Romney and his "wait till I get elected, I'll tell you my plans then" sell just didn't move many people who might have voted red. Better the devil you know and all that jazz.
Maybe you should go back to grade school and learn the meanings of words like "tolerance" and "silencing". My assertion is that there is are reasons why blacks, gays and women are not voting for conservative candidates, and these reasons are not attached to any sort of "librul media propaganda". Maybe they think being treated like full human beings is worth more than getting tax cuts for rich people?
Also, given the results of the election, it would seem these "minorities" aren't so "minor" after all. Maybe the GOP planners and leaders will realize there are more human beings in the USA than just the white straight male ones.
The most interesting subgroup, however, are generally referred to as the "sensibles". These are often younger Republicans who are generally completely against the craziness of the religious fundamentalists, against the domestically-harmful warmaking of the neoconservatives, and who generally have a more relaxed view than the paleoconservatives or the libertarians.
Well, tell these "sensibles", if they even exist in significant numbers (I'm pretty sure the majority of such people either swung Democrat or refused to vote after the platform of rape and homophobia being promoted in the last election), that maybe the GOP needs to stop putting up with people like Akin and company. They shouldn't expect to be believed when they say "I'm only economically conservative, not socially conservative!" while at the same time voting for and promoting human waste like Akin, Bachmann and others.
And if those people worked for free, it would have covered what, 30 yearly salaries of union workers without benefits? Lets pad it a bit and say 60 worker's salaries. 60 out of 18,000- A nice bitching point when your mad, but a pretty pointless point to complain about what someone else is making for a living when the scale is so huge.
No, it's not just the gross numbers and how much the raises would cost the company in dollars, but also in morale. Do you think the workers morale and trust in the company improved when they found out high level executives were getting raises while their pay was being cut? Even if they have minimal fiscal impact, they have symbolic impact that affects the outcome of worker actions.
Chances are they're either historically an Apple only shop, started by ex-Apple employees (some excellent stuff from here), or started as an iOS shop first. Nobody targeting the desktop would skip Windows and target Apple-only unless they're historically deep within the Apple ecosystem anyway.
Oh I don't disagree that there are certain hardwired differences between males and females, just that they're not the same for every child, and we have no way of knowing what's naturally different, and what differences we've exaggerated or even made up just by rearing the two genders so differently. And of course, there are those kids who don't map to their biological gender, or who display traits of both.
And Richard Dawkins might not win with true believers because he's not having the same conversation they are having. Of course I agree with Dawkins about evolution and atheism, I just don't think whatever he's saying is convincing any of those mouthbreathers he's debating with.
It's much more subtle than I make it sound, and I've noticed it with a lot of parents, with boys you see it with their fathers, girls, their mothers. Gender policing is something innate and automatic to most people, and many people don't realize they're doing it, they just think their children magically acquire these traits out of the ether, and so jump to conclusions about gender that don't have all the data.
Kids are gendered from birth onwards. I have a little cousin being reared in the house next to mine, and he's treated roughly (not painfully, just roughly) because "he's a boy and he needs to be tough". He's only 6 months old. If that's the kind of conditioning he's receiving, of course he'll be a rough and tumble terror when he's a toddler. He's also encouraged, at 6 months old, to exert himself and roughly handle/break things. I don't think he'd be encouraged to do such things if he were a female.
It's interesting to note that the Razr M reviewed had LTE, while the Razr i does not. I wonder how that affected battery life between otherwise identical phones... Engadget is good for news and rumours, but they're not the best reviewers out there. I've read much more detailed reviews and write-ups about Medfield, and it DOES suck down the power compared to equivalent ARM SoCs. It's a very good showing, but still not there. Anandtech and Tom's Hardware both had a look at the Medfield prototypes and that Orange phone, and they seem to agree that Medfield is more power hungry. Also, Medfield's GPU is underpowered, and the next generation had better be a big improvement if they want to have any hopes of getting a design win for devices with retina-like displays.
It's not just the decoder that makes x86 inefficient, it's all the little design decisions that led them into the server room and into workstations. It took Intel several tries before they put out a decent laptop CPU.
The only thing the Razr i beats the Razr M on is the Sunspider benchmark, which has been optimized for x86 processors since it's inception. By every other metric it is inferior. Not embarrassingly so, but enough to let Qualcomm and nVidia executives sleep soundly at night. "x86 is horribly power inefficient because of a huge decoder" is not just a meme, it's also true. Intel's plan of attack is to shrink their process nodes faster than the competition can keep up, using the power and heat shaved off by the shrinks to make up for a less efficient architecture. Intel needs to ramp their process size down as quickly as possible, ARM needs to ramp up their design's power and IPC as quickly as possible. It's an interesting time in the tech market.
What are you talking about? Only Samsung has it's own fabs as far as I am aware of, and TI has given up on the smartphone market. Most of them use TSMC, which AMD already has a relationship with since that's what manufactures their GPUs. Once again, I think you're seriously overestimating the ARM pool's strength. Qualcomm and nVidia, the two ARM makers making the most waves recently, are both fabless.
Given that AMD has committed to designing ARM chips for servers, something that it's managed to beat Intel at several times in the past, and it's ARM competitors have little to no experience with, are you sure it's ARM competitors are inherently stronger? There's always the chance AMD will fumble, but there's also a chance it can show the ARM makers what competing in the x86 market for 30 years can teach a company.
What makes you so sure the ARM manufacturers are going to be able to "gobble AMD up"? AMD has been in the CPU business for a lot longer than most of the ARM chip makers, and they spent that time competing against a much larger and nastier opponent. Also, these ARM chip makers have little to no experience making non-mobile high performance server chips, which is what AMD has announced they're making. In my view the ARM market is more crowded with weaker competition, a good thing for AMD's chances, not a bad thing.
Of course Intel could price AMD out of existence. But why would they? What could they possibly gain by doing that? A few years of shitty profits, then the courts stepping on their necks when AMD goes belly up. Intel has a history of doing vicious and illegal things when AMD has an advantage (bribing OEMs during K8 vs Netburst), letting their superior marketing and industry connections work for them when AMD is on par (Wintel coziness, Intel compiler being standard for so many proprietary apps, etc) , and taking the pedal off the gas when AMD is behind, which has been the case in the high performance X86 game since 2008 or so.
ARM is putting pressure on Intel in the mobile arena, but not on the server, and not on the desktop/laptop, and they (Intel) might have a good answer for mobile parts soon, if their roadmap delivers what it promises.
It's been said before on this thread, but I'll say it again. AMD remaining solvent while competing against Intel for 30 years is a lot more impressive than most people realize, especially considering they competed using Intel's own ISA. It's too soon to tell now, but it's reasonable to expect that AMD (being in Intel's weight class) could plausibly compete with most of the current ARM manufacturers. I'd certainly expect their 64 bit server chip efforts to be a lot more interesting than what the cell phone chip makers have been putting out from a performance perspective.
Firefox requires 2.3, not 4.x. Quite a lot of 2.2 devices can upgrade to 2.3 but not 4.x, so it's available on quite a lot more Android devices than Chrome, they do have quite a bit of this captive audience.
Have you used it on a Gingerbread device? Because it's head and shoulders better than any other browser available for Gingerbread. I've been using it on an old (released in 2010) tablet and even with it's higher system requirements, I won't go back to Opera, Dolphin or stock. Firefox has always moved pretty slowly, it just seemed quicker because for quite a long time during it's rise in popularity it was competing (on windows) against IE 6, which stayed still in the water for years.
Actually capitalist forces are what is making them so popular. If you want a computing platform to be popular and SECURE then it needs a TPM to provide such security to the computer-illiterate masses. If you want commodity hardware at commodity prices, suck it up and by stuff with TPMs. If you don't then prepare for either obscure unsupported geek tech or pay out the ass for something more expensive. Stop expecting the mass market, whom many geeks regularly deride for their lack of "l33t h@x0rr skills", to subsidize your niche requirements.
Well yes actually. Ensuring everybody is driving cars in tip top condition sounds amazing. I understand that cars have a special cultural significance in the USA, but in other parts of the world, they're just machines you use to transport you from place to place.
My own country in the Pacific has horrible road and car safety standards, and they're getting stricter, much to the horror of all the drivers of junkers around here. In a country like Japan with one of the best public transportation systems in the world, I don't think rates of car ownership mean the same thing as they do in the US.
Just curious, are mechanics in Japan as (un)trustworthy as mechanics everywhere else?
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How about I name a few names for you: Todd Akin, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum... A quick google search of some of their quotes will tell you immediately why women and gays vote for any party they are not a part of. Being treated like a human being should be something everyone can expect from a politician they're going to vote for. Blacks have voted democrat for ages, it's not a new development due to Obama being on the ticket. And Mitt "flip flop" Romney and his "wait till I get elected, I'll tell you my plans then" sell just didn't move many people who might have voted red. Better the devil you know and all that jazz.
Maybe you should go back to grade school and learn the meanings of words like "tolerance" and "silencing". My assertion is that there is are reasons why blacks, gays and women are not voting for conservative candidates, and these reasons are not attached to any sort of "librul media propaganda". Maybe they think being treated like full human beings is worth more than getting tax cuts for rich people?
Also, given the results of the election, it would seem these "minorities" aren't so "minor" after all. Maybe the GOP planners and leaders will realize there are more human beings in the USA than just the white straight male ones.
Yeah, that's why so many gays, blacks and females voted for the right-wing candidates! Riiiiight...
The most interesting subgroup, however, are generally referred to as the "sensibles". These are often younger Republicans who are generally completely against the craziness of the religious fundamentalists, against the domestically-harmful warmaking of the neoconservatives, and who generally have a more relaxed view than the paleoconservatives or the libertarians.
Well, tell these "sensibles", if they even exist in significant numbers (I'm pretty sure the majority of such people either swung Democrat or refused to vote after the platform of rape and homophobia being promoted in the last election), that maybe the GOP needs to stop putting up with people like Akin and company. They shouldn't expect to be believed when they say "I'm only economically conservative, not socially conservative!" while at the same time voting for and promoting human waste like Akin, Bachmann and others.
And if those people worked for free, it would have covered what, 30 yearly salaries of union workers without benefits? Lets pad it a bit and say 60 worker's salaries. 60 out of 18,000- A nice bitching point when your mad, but a pretty pointless point to complain about what someone else is making for a living when the scale is so huge.
No, it's not just the gross numbers and how much the raises would cost the company in dollars, but also in morale. Do you think the workers morale and trust in the company improved when they found out high level executives were getting raises while their pay was being cut? Even if they have minimal fiscal impact, they have symbolic impact that affects the outcome of worker actions.
Chances are they're either historically an Apple only shop, started by ex-Apple employees (some excellent stuff from here), or started as an iOS shop first. Nobody targeting the desktop would skip Windows and target Apple-only unless they're historically deep within the Apple ecosystem anyway.
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Libertarian, right? Fan of Ron Paul? Ayn Rand follower maybe?
The Nexus 10 uses a Samsung made A15 based processor. A15s are showing up in consumer hardware.
And Richard Dawkins might not win with true believers because he's not having the same conversation they are having. Of course I agree with Dawkins about evolution and atheism, I just don't think whatever he's saying is convincing any of those mouthbreathers he's debating with.
It's much more subtle than I make it sound, and I've noticed it with a lot of parents, with boys you see it with their fathers, girls, their mothers. Gender policing is something innate and automatic to most people, and many people don't realize they're doing it, they just think their children magically acquire these traits out of the ether, and so jump to conclusions about gender that don't have all the data.
Kids are gendered from birth onwards. I have a little cousin being reared in the house next to mine, and he's treated roughly (not painfully, just roughly) because "he's a boy and he needs to be tough". He's only 6 months old. If that's the kind of conditioning he's receiving, of course he'll be a rough and tumble terror when he's a toddler. He's also encouraged, at 6 months old, to exert himself and roughly handle/break things. I don't think he'd be encouraged to do such things if he were a female.
It's interesting to note that the Razr M reviewed had LTE, while the Razr i does not. I wonder how that affected battery life between otherwise identical phones... Engadget is good for news and rumours, but they're not the best reviewers out there. I've read much more detailed reviews and write-ups about Medfield, and it DOES suck down the power compared to equivalent ARM SoCs. It's a very good showing, but still not there. Anandtech and Tom's Hardware both had a look at the Medfield prototypes and that Orange phone, and they seem to agree that Medfield is more power hungry. Also, Medfield's GPU is underpowered, and the next generation had better be a big improvement if they want to have any hopes of getting a design win for devices with retina-like displays.
It's not just the decoder that makes x86 inefficient, it's all the little design decisions that led them into the server room and into workstations. It took Intel several tries before they put out a decent laptop CPU.
The only thing the Razr i beats the Razr M on is the Sunspider benchmark, which has been optimized for x86 processors since it's inception. By every other metric it is inferior. Not embarrassingly so, but enough to let Qualcomm and nVidia executives sleep soundly at night. "x86 is horribly power inefficient because of a huge decoder" is not just a meme, it's also true. Intel's plan of attack is to shrink their process nodes faster than the competition can keep up, using the power and heat shaved off by the shrinks to make up for a less efficient architecture. Intel needs to ramp their process size down as quickly as possible, ARM needs to ramp up their design's power and IPC as quickly as possible. It's an interesting time in the tech market.
What are you talking about? Only Samsung has it's own fabs as far as I am aware of, and TI has given up on the smartphone market. Most of them use TSMC, which AMD already has a relationship with since that's what manufactures their GPUs. Once again, I think you're seriously overestimating the ARM pool's strength. Qualcomm and nVidia, the two ARM makers making the most waves recently, are both fabless.
Given that AMD has committed to designing ARM chips for servers, something that it's managed to beat Intel at several times in the past, and it's ARM competitors have little to no experience with, are you sure it's ARM competitors are inherently stronger? There's always the chance AMD will fumble, but there's also a chance it can show the ARM makers what competing in the x86 market for 30 years can teach a company.
What makes you so sure the ARM manufacturers are going to be able to "gobble AMD up"? AMD has been in the CPU business for a lot longer than most of the ARM chip makers, and they spent that time competing against a much larger and nastier opponent. Also, these ARM chip makers have little to no experience making non-mobile high performance server chips, which is what AMD has announced they're making. In my view the ARM market is more crowded with weaker competition, a good thing for AMD's chances, not a bad thing.
Of course Intel could price AMD out of existence. But why would they? What could they possibly gain by doing that? A few years of shitty profits, then the courts stepping on their necks when AMD goes belly up. Intel has a history of doing vicious and illegal things when AMD has an advantage (bribing OEMs during K8 vs Netburst), letting their superior marketing and industry connections work for them when AMD is on par (Wintel coziness, Intel compiler being standard for so many proprietary apps, etc) , and taking the pedal off the gas when AMD is behind, which has been the case in the high performance X86 game since 2008 or so. ARM is putting pressure on Intel in the mobile arena, but not on the server, and not on the desktop/laptop, and they (Intel) might have a good answer for mobile parts soon, if their roadmap delivers what it promises.
It's been said before on this thread, but I'll say it again. AMD remaining solvent while competing against Intel for 30 years is a lot more impressive than most people realize, especially considering they competed using Intel's own ISA. It's too soon to tell now, but it's reasonable to expect that AMD (being in Intel's weight class) could plausibly compete with most of the current ARM manufacturers. I'd certainly expect their 64 bit server chip efforts to be a lot more interesting than what the cell phone chip makers have been putting out from a performance perspective.
You need to try out Firefox for Android. It beats the shit out of Opera and leaves it on the kerb.
Firefox requires 2.3, not 4.x. Quite a lot of 2.2 devices can upgrade to 2.3 but not 4.x, so it's available on quite a lot more Android devices than Chrome, they do have quite a bit of this captive audience.
Have you used it on a Gingerbread device? Because it's head and shoulders better than any other browser available for Gingerbread. I've been using it on an old (released in 2010) tablet and even with it's higher system requirements, I won't go back to Opera, Dolphin or stock. Firefox has always moved pretty slowly, it just seemed quicker because for quite a long time during it's rise in popularity it was competing (on windows) against IE 6, which stayed still in the water for years.
He's an MRA troll. Check his comment history, anything to do with women degenerates into a crazy screed against the "Monstrous Regiment of Women".
Actually capitalist forces are what is making them so popular. If you want a computing platform to be popular and SECURE then it needs a TPM to provide such security to the computer-illiterate masses. If you want commodity hardware at commodity prices, suck it up and by stuff with TPMs. If you don't then prepare for either obscure unsupported geek tech or pay out the ass for something more expensive. Stop expecting the mass market, whom many geeks regularly deride for their lack of "l33t h@x0rr skills", to subsidize your niche requirements.
Well yes actually. Ensuring everybody is driving cars in tip top condition sounds amazing. I understand that cars have a special cultural significance in the USA, but in other parts of the world, they're just machines you use to transport you from place to place. My own country in the Pacific has horrible road and car safety standards, and they're getting stricter, much to the horror of all the drivers of junkers around here. In a country like Japan with one of the best public transportation systems in the world, I don't think rates of car ownership mean the same thing as they do in the US. Just curious, are mechanics in Japan as (un)trustworthy as mechanics everywhere else?
I still don't understand why a single thing you said is a bad thing.