Hmmm... Those are desktop parts, and AMD is focusing their APUs primarily as a mobile part. While it's dismaying that AMD can't seem to stand up to Intel in performance OR value on the desktop front, the APUs are definitely changing how laptops are priced/targeted. Decent gaming (and battery) performance on a sub USD$500 laptop? It couldn't be done before Llano and Brazos arrived. OK, this is the last post I shall make on this article... I'm beginning to sound like a fanboy. I'm just trying to give people used to hugely powerful workstations and towers a different perspective when it comes to mobile gear. Aarrgh, I'll shut up, I promise.
They don't because integrated graphics are historically horrible. Llano and Trinity are beginning to change that. They offer near midrange performance at a much lower price and better battery life.
Compute laptops (which is the other use for an i7) usually don't need high-performance graphics.
Please read up on that thing... You know, GPGPU and all that jazz. The way nVidia and AMD are promoting it in apps (and even Intel with Quicksync), they're beginning to make a difference between a system without a (decent) GPU and a system that has one.
What happens when people are complaining about AMD's linux support and praising nVidia, is that they miss an important piece of the narrative. AMD releases their hardware specs/references (whatever, I forgot what their called, and am too tired to google), while nVidia does not. The Nouveau (OSS nVidia driver) is a huge effort of reverse engineering that STILL does not support 3d acceleration while the radeonhd drivers support legacy cards (and reasonably mature gear) with reasonable 3d performance (compared to Catalyst on windows). HOWEVER, the nVidia binary drivers are a world ahead of the AMD drivers. If someone thought "Moar performance!", then nVidia's binary driver is king. But if they think "Stability and transparency are important", then radeonhd drivers are awesome. Saying that, I wish someone would come up with a driver that would allow A-series APUs to run Linux reliably without graphical issues. Yeah, and the binary frglx drivers suck ass.
the thing is, an cheap Intel CPU + cheap dedicated GPU is faster and cheaper then anything AMD can provide.
The thing is, this new CPU+GPU is already dead.
There is a reason that AMD is releasing these things as laptop parts before they get to the desktop parts, and that's because while you are quite right about desktop use cases, for laptops these things are very persuasive. Near discrete performance (in Trinity's case, VERY near discrete mobile performance) for much better battery life and a much lower price than a discrete solution.
If you'd go to the next page on that review, where they then compare the two GPUs across 16 different games (also a much more relevant sample than the 7 for the "value" benchmark), Trinity wipes the floor with the HD 4000 on 13 out of the 16 titles. Also, the games that the HD 4000 beat Trinity on are games that AMD GPUs typically to badly at (nVidia and AMD both exert quite a bit of influence on getting game engine makers to "optimize" for their hardware, but honestly it just seems like they cripple the competitors' gear).
Trinity is an extremely persuasive proposition for value laptops that are expected to be jacks-of-all-trades. Prospective buyers could include students of all stripes and wallets, and budget conscious laptop buyers who want competent graphics and for whom middling x86 performance (middling for 2012 that is) is not a big deal. Remember that better graphics in a laptop package come with reduced battery life (or in the case of switchable graphics, linux unfriendliness).
Isn't this roughly the same as the 2 year contracts for those high end Android-device-du-jour or iPhone-latest? This includes a subscription to some multiplayer gold whatsit which makes it roughly analogous to the phone plan thingie. They're just trying to see if there's a market of consumers who are sensitive to the cash outlay to buy a console upfront but would buy it if initial payment seems smaller.
1) I never said that everyone in a Fortune anything company should use PDF for all their presentations.
Well, you said something close:
1) MS-Office Presentations: If you saved your presentation in PDF format, then it will display properly on ANY computer system connected to the projector. The only thing you lose are pretty transitions.
1. One loses the ability to embed basically everything and the kitchen sink into presentations (such as video). There might be ways I am not aware of, but certainly "In Open/LibreOffice" it's not such a simple endeavor. YMMV on whether this is a good thing or not, but choice is a good thing, last I heard from the FOSS movement.
2. Also lost is the ability to easily edit the presentation right up until the last few minutes before the show. On a virus prone windows install however, this may be a boon?
3. Adobe might be an even worse company (software quality wise) than Microsoft, and I wouldn't trust myself to the tender mercies of differing Adobe Reader versions on PCs that are not my own.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The opening credits have an awesome joke where they promise to sack the people responsible, then they promise to sack the people who were supposed to do the previous round of sackings...
I don't know about taking a course, but I have friends who work in Dubhai, and I've grown up with muslim people, and they seem a bit misogynist to me, especially the whole deal about women not being allowed into the mosque because they'll profane it, and the whole "honour killing" crap. What kind of religion/culture gives a man the idea that he can totally kill his sister if she "embarrasses" the family by getting raped? That's right, Arabic Islam, as it is practiced wherever there is sharia law. I realize that there are millions of "moderate" or "safe" or "whatever term you want to use" muslims out there, like in Indonesia, but seriously, can you honestly say that the crazy sharia-law pushing, adultress-stoning, women-not-allowed-to-drive law passing bullshit is NOT supported by their Quran, and thus is not merely taking what is written to their logical extremes? Y'know, like the Westboro Baptists, except with way more money and power?
Geek from Fiji here, undoing my moderations just to reply to this. Fiji is a tropical island with an abundance of water, and a water treatment and supply system that's considered very good for a third world country (Water comes from catchment areas in the mountains in the main islands). The only time there are water shortages are due to infrastructure being damaged due to natural disasters (like the flooding that struck parts of fiji a few weeks ago), or in crowded urban areas where water supply is rotated around suburbs to allow everyone limited access. The Fiji Water Company uses a very productive spring in a relatively remote part of Fiji (Yaqara) to bottle their water from, and has no bearing at all on the water supply of the rest of the country.
On a side note, I have relatives who work for FW, and have holidayed with them at the executive housing they have nearby the bottling plant, and the water piped into the house for drinking, washing, flushing the toilet is the same that goes into a bottle sold so expensively overseas. So I can say I've flushed my shit with Fiji Water! lol lol
What the papers say is that dinosaurs went through different size classes throughout their lives that caused them to compete in different ecological niches. Because their whole life cycle was dependent upon two or more different ecosystem places (eg, tiny dinosaur stage A eats small plants, medium dinosaur stage B eats shrubs, and huge ass dinosaur stage C eats lots and lots of swamp ferns and tree leaves). So if any of these niches were disturbed due to the meteor event, the life cycle could not complete itself into adulthood, and thus the dinosaurs wouldn't be able to mate and repopulate the continents... So if the meteor event killed lots of large trees (that would take decades if not centuries to grow back) then adult dinosaur sized herbivores were screwed, repercussions echo up the food chain, etc. In modern times, large african and asian mammals are very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change in ways small animals are not.
Well, does that mean you don't eat shellfish, stone adulterers in your community, and display tokens of your daughters virginity in public the day after the wedding night?
I'm sick of christian apologists condemning something because there is a law about it in the OT, then backtracking by saying "Jesus represents a NEW covenant" when confronted with slavery, murder and the rest of that bronze age morality that modern society considers evil.
No they actually put implemented it in silicon (which is WHY they ere granted a patent). Because they are not a commercial company, they didn't mass produce it (which the Ars article seems to take as meaning they didn't implement it).
A lot of FOSS projects have Windows ports, they just don't get a lot of love (like the Audacious Music Player mentions previously). Whatever your feelings about Windows as a platform or as a product of Microsoft, the huge userbase gains should be reason enough to put a lot of love into the Windows port.
Another key feature of most of the successful FOSS projects GP mentioned is that they are all cross platform. If you don't have a Windows port, you're not going to be successful (this is considering only desktop apps). If only KDE had taken the time to port KOffice to Windows. They'd be miles ahead of LibreOffice and associated application now. But because they kept it exclusive to *NIX until quite recently, and even now have an awkward installation process, noticeable foreign looking window theming and tons of bugs, they'll never get traction against project with larger install bases. The more widely distributed your application is, the more users are using your app and promoting the features they like, more bugs are experienced and reported, more developers are likely to notice your project and want to help out, and more people are likely to hear about it, eventually the momentum snowballs into a Mozilla Firefox, or Apache Server or some other popular FOSS project. Refusing to port to Windows is a sign of either bad initial design decisions, or a dev team that doesn't realize the benefits of a huge userbase.
No, the XX/XY system of sex determination is just one of the many types used in nature, mostly by mammals. Some animals use the XX(female)/X0(male) system, like ants and bees, while reptiles, birds and some other use the ZZ(male)/ZW(female) system. As you can see, in birds and reptiles (not crocodilians or turtles those have a temperature based sex determination mechanism) the ZZ chromosome configuration (the default) is male, while the ZW configuration causes female development.
However, back to the disappearing Y chromosome, it is the fastest mutating chromosome in the human genome (and in all mammalian genomes) because it does not recombine with an analogue chromosome, the way two X chromosomes would. However, just because genes are "lost" does not mean it is shrinking, and research stated here shows it to be the case.
Who the fuck mods this insightful? How about this for a little perspective: the countless explorers in those previous eras who gave their lives to the crucible of progress, were working with almost no data. Remember that old cliche about "Here Be Dragons"? Not so false in those days when cartography was more of an interpretive art than a useful field. When it comes to space exploration, and especially NASA's efforts, "rocket science" as we like to call it, the physical, mathematical and logistical knowledge from thousands of years of the scientific method and western (and other) civilizations were put to bear on the problem. Any deaths that could have been avoided, such as the Challenger fiasco this brave whistle blower tried to warn NASA about, are UNACCEPTABLE!
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Hmmm... Those are desktop parts, and AMD is focusing their APUs primarily as a mobile part. While it's dismaying that AMD can't seem to stand up to Intel in performance OR value on the desktop front, the APUs are definitely changing how laptops are priced/targeted. Decent gaming (and battery) performance on a sub USD$500 laptop? It couldn't be done before Llano and Brazos arrived. OK, this is the last post I shall make on this article... I'm beginning to sound like a fanboy. I'm just trying to give people used to hugely powerful workstations and towers a different perspective when it comes to mobile gear. Aarrgh, I'll shut up, I promise.
Gaming laptops don't use integrated graphics.
They don't because integrated graphics are historically horrible. Llano and Trinity are beginning to change that. They offer near midrange performance at a much lower price and better battery life.
Compute laptops (which is the other use for an i7) usually don't need high-performance graphics.
Please read up on that thing... You know, GPGPU and all that jazz. The way nVidia and AMD are promoting it in apps (and even Intel with Quicksync), they're beginning to make a difference between a system without a (decent) GPU and a system that has one.
What happens when people are complaining about AMD's linux support and praising nVidia, is that they miss an important piece of the narrative. AMD releases their hardware specs/references (whatever, I forgot what their called, and am too tired to google), while nVidia does not. The Nouveau (OSS nVidia driver) is a huge effort of reverse engineering that STILL does not support 3d acceleration while the radeonhd drivers support legacy cards (and reasonably mature gear) with reasonable 3d performance (compared to Catalyst on windows). HOWEVER, the nVidia binary drivers are a world ahead of the AMD drivers. If someone thought "Moar performance!", then nVidia's binary driver is king. But if they think "Stability and transparency are important", then radeonhd drivers are awesome. Saying that, I wish someone would come up with a driver that would allow A-series APUs to run Linux reliably without graphical issues. Yeah, and the binary frglx drivers suck ass.
the thing is, an cheap Intel CPU + cheap dedicated GPU is faster and cheaper then anything AMD can provide.
The thing is, this new CPU+GPU is already dead.
There is a reason that AMD is releasing these things as laptop parts before they get to the desktop parts, and that's because while you are quite right about desktop use cases, for laptops these things are very persuasive. Near discrete performance (in Trinity's case, VERY near discrete mobile performance) for much better battery life and a much lower price than a discrete solution.
If you'd go to the next page on that review, where they then compare the two GPUs across 16 different games (also a much more relevant sample than the 7 for the "value" benchmark), Trinity wipes the floor with the HD 4000 on 13 out of the 16 titles. Also, the games that the HD 4000 beat Trinity on are games that AMD GPUs typically to badly at (nVidia and AMD both exert quite a bit of influence on getting game engine makers to "optimize" for their hardware, but honestly it just seems like they cripple the competitors' gear). Trinity is an extremely persuasive proposition for value laptops that are expected to be jacks-of-all-trades. Prospective buyers could include students of all stripes and wallets, and budget conscious laptop buyers who want competent graphics and for whom middling x86 performance (middling for 2012 that is) is not a big deal. Remember that better graphics in a laptop package come with reduced battery life (or in the case of switchable graphics, linux unfriendliness).
Isn't this roughly the same as the 2 year contracts for those high end Android-device-du-jour or iPhone-latest? This includes a subscription to some multiplayer gold whatsit which makes it roughly analogous to the phone plan thingie. They're just trying to see if there's a market of consumers who are sensitive to the cash outlay to buy a console upfront but would buy it if initial payment seems smaller.
1) I never said that everyone in a Fortune anything company should use PDF for all their presentations.
Well, you said something close:
1) MS-Office Presentations: If you saved your presentation in PDF format, then it will display properly on ANY computer system connected to the projector. The only thing you lose are pretty transitions.
1. One loses the ability to embed basically everything and the kitchen sink into presentations (such as video). There might be ways I am not aware of, but certainly "In Open/LibreOffice" it's not such a simple endeavor. YMMV on whether this is a good thing or not, but choice is a good thing, last I heard from the FOSS movement.
2. Also lost is the ability to easily edit the presentation right up until the last few minutes before the show. On a virus prone windows install however, this may be a boon?
3. Adobe might be an even worse company (software quality wise) than Microsoft, and I wouldn't trust myself to the tender mercies of differing Adobe Reader versions on PCs that are not my own.
Signed, A Fedora/Windows 7 dual-booter.
Yeah, after a lifetime! Electoral cycles are shorter than that.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The opening credits have an awesome joke where they promise to sack the people responsible, then they promise to sack the people who were supposed to do the previous round of sackings...
Note: I'm NOT the GP.
I don't know about taking a course, but I have friends who work in Dubhai, and I've grown up with muslim people, and they seem a bit misogynist to me, especially the whole deal about women not being allowed into the mosque because they'll profane it, and the whole "honour killing" crap. What kind of religion/culture gives a man the idea that he can totally kill his sister if she "embarrasses" the family by getting raped? That's right, Arabic Islam, as it is practiced wherever there is sharia law. I realize that there are millions of "moderate" or "safe" or "whatever term you want to use" muslims out there, like in Indonesia, but seriously, can you honestly say that the crazy sharia-law pushing, adultress-stoning, women-not-allowed-to-drive law passing bullshit is NOT supported by their Quran, and thus is not merely taking what is written to their logical extremes? Y'know, like the Westboro Baptists, except with way more money and power?
Geek from Fiji here, undoing my moderations just to reply to this. Fiji is a tropical island with an abundance of water, and a water treatment and supply system that's considered very good for a third world country (Water comes from catchment areas in the mountains in the main islands). The only time there are water shortages are due to infrastructure being damaged due to natural disasters (like the flooding that struck parts of fiji a few weeks ago), or in crowded urban areas where water supply is rotated around suburbs to allow everyone limited access. The Fiji Water Company uses a very productive spring in a relatively remote part of Fiji (Yaqara) to bottle their water from, and has no bearing at all on the water supply of the rest of the country. On a side note, I have relatives who work for FW, and have holidayed with them at the executive housing they have nearby the bottling plant, and the water piped into the house for drinking, washing, flushing the toilet is the same that goes into a bottle sold so expensively overseas. So I can say I've flushed my shit with Fiji Water! lol lol
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Titpics or it didn't happen! #obligatorysexism
What the papers say is that dinosaurs went through different size classes throughout their lives that caused them to compete in different ecological niches. Because their whole life cycle was dependent upon two or more different ecosystem places (eg, tiny dinosaur stage A eats small plants, medium dinosaur stage B eats shrubs, and huge ass dinosaur stage C eats lots and lots of swamp ferns and tree leaves). So if any of these niches were disturbed due to the meteor event, the life cycle could not complete itself into adulthood, and thus the dinosaurs wouldn't be able to mate and repopulate the continents... So if the meteor event killed lots of large trees (that would take decades if not centuries to grow back) then adult dinosaur sized herbivores were screwed, repercussions echo up the food chain, etc. In modern times, large african and asian mammals are very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change in ways small animals are not.
he upheld the entire law verbatim,
Well, does that mean you don't eat shellfish, stone adulterers in your community, and display tokens of your daughters virginity in public the day after the wedding night?
I'm sick of christian apologists condemning something because there is a law about it in the OT, then backtracking by saying "Jesus represents a NEW covenant" when confronted with slavery, murder and the rest of that bronze age morality that modern society considers evil.
US nationalists who are all like "PATENTS ARE TEH EVULZ!" or "FUCK OZTRALIER!": 2% #justjoking
But could the modem operate at high speeds in your house when you turned on the microwave or TV? CSIRO's could.
No they actually put implemented it in silicon (which is WHY they ere granted a patent). Because they are not a commercial company, they didn't mass produce it (which the Ars article seems to take as meaning they didn't implement it).
A lot of FOSS projects have Windows ports, they just don't get a lot of love (like the Audacious Music Player mentions previously). Whatever your feelings about Windows as a platform or as a product of Microsoft, the huge userbase gains should be reason enough to put a lot of love into the Windows port.
Another key feature of most of the successful FOSS projects GP mentioned is that they are all cross platform. If you don't have a Windows port, you're not going to be successful (this is considering only desktop apps). If only KDE had taken the time to port KOffice to Windows. They'd be miles ahead of LibreOffice and associated application now. But because they kept it exclusive to *NIX until quite recently, and even now have an awkward installation process, noticeable foreign looking window theming and tons of bugs, they'll never get traction against project with larger install bases. The more widely distributed your application is, the more users are using your app and promoting the features they like, more bugs are experienced and reported, more developers are likely to notice your project and want to help out, and more people are likely to hear about it, eventually the momentum snowballs into a Mozilla Firefox, or Apache Server or some other popular FOSS project. Refusing to port to Windows is a sign of either bad initial design decisions, or a dev team that doesn't realize the benefits of a huge userbase.
But if 9 women are gestating, with a 20% likelihood of a miscarriage, then at least 7 of them should deliver succesfully.
Why is the parent modded offtopic? Because of the black self-description? This would probably be +5 funny without that... Way to go slashdot...
No, the XX/XY system of sex determination is just one of the many types used in nature, mostly by mammals. Some animals use the XX(female)/X0(male) system, like ants and bees, while reptiles, birds and some other use the ZZ(male)/ZW(female) system. As you can see, in birds and reptiles (not crocodilians or turtles those have a temperature based sex determination mechanism) the ZZ chromosome configuration (the default) is male, while the ZW configuration causes female development. However, back to the disappearing Y chromosome, it is the fastest mutating chromosome in the human genome (and in all mammalian genomes) because it does not recombine with an analogue chromosome, the way two X chromosomes would. However, just because genes are "lost" does not mean it is shrinking, and research stated here shows it to be the case.
Who the fuck mods this insightful? How about this for a little perspective: the countless explorers in those previous eras who gave their lives to the crucible of progress, were working with almost no data. Remember that old cliche about "Here Be Dragons"? Not so false in those days when cartography was more of an interpretive art than a useful field. When it comes to space exploration, and especially NASA's efforts, "rocket science" as we like to call it, the physical, mathematical and logistical knowledge from thousands of years of the scientific method and western (and other) civilizations were put to bear on the problem. Any deaths that could have been avoided, such as the Challenger fiasco this brave whistle blower tried to warn NASA about, are UNACCEPTABLE!
Because the 'H' was really a lamb! It spreads the lotion on it's skin, or it gets A SLAP!
Oh shit....