You mean the privacy oriented Google+ product? The one that has a user interfaces that forces users to manage their privacy, and enables them to do it well?
I've had chrome use 14gb of ram (only thing to make swapping an issue on my computer), measured by change in available RAM after killing it. I would say I find Chrome's runnaway resource problems a bigger issue, only slightly mitigated by the ability to individually kill tabs.
Yes. And the guy who made pulseaudio said: "if you need a low latency sound server with lots of manual routing control: use jack" (read that in an article somewhere). If you really want to you can even run pulse on top of jack (I just use pasuspender when I'm running my keyboard through jack/ardour/linuxsampler).
Meanwhile pulseaudio:
Just works (jack DOES NOT just work)
Lets me control multiple volume sources (I can hear skype ringing all over the house, but my music/movies doesn't leave the room)
Lets me get hear sound from my virtual machines, and my server downstairs in the basement
Doesn't even break the top five tasks on top for me. when playing audio and having my machine largely idle.
Times have changed, mocking pulse makes no sense today. Jack and pulse have different design goals, get used to it.
Other, only one. We see that 50-60% was pretty normal for the gaming benchmarks, it was just the workstation benchmark that suffered, probably due to low interest (high performance workstation activities lie outside the scope of "good enough for most"). And there is a relative % improvement over the performance of the 5000 series (using that "old driver" you mentioned), which I think is very notable.
Really? I'm from Alberta - in the small town I grew up in, the farmers had wireless 10 mbits/s internet, for $80/month, before the dsl and cable providers offered such deals. That was 6 years ago.
Since then in other rural areas I have met crappier internet providers in terms of bandwidth caps ($10/GB overage charges, 20GB max, no we won't sell you a better plan. A camp I was involved with was spending over $1000/mo on internet in the summer), but speed has always been really good with antenna equipment.
Yeah, but from my use of Google+ (and it's integration via the Google bar with other gStuff) I think they really want direct messaging to go back to just plain email. A move I support.
In 24 hours I've gotten half (7) of my friends to add Google+ to the other Google services they use. Since notifications are shown above their email, I know they will get them regardless of how much they use Google+, and soon I will be able to start ignoring facebook:)
Precisely, for companies the cost of the software is trivial.
If your employees are 25% faster using product B instead of product A, even if you have product A you buy product B.
And I would like to the availability of Linux is a significant part of the reason it has pushed traditional unixes out of business computing, and holds onto the lions share of internet facing servers. You may notice that the majority of people coming out of college don't know what Linux is, they use Windows. Those who know Linux only a portion of CS grads, who then go and work in serving people who want windows. And I'm not sure about you, but I've increasingly had to support clients running OS X on all new purchases, so I think the "I want to use at work what I'm used to" does play into the business OS market.
Agreed. I probably could have used a more impartial source, but it's still true that Nvidia and VIA both left
I think Via leaving is no big deal. I've actually bought a few of their boards for simple projects (can't find an atom board with two onboard NIC's to save my live), and while they don't suck they're certainly nothing to write home about.
But Nvidia leaving is a big deal. And anyone claiming that ION/atom or Fusion don't beat the crap out of Atom user experience wise has simply not been a user experiencing those platforms.
I will admit that the article's quality can certainly be qualified as "drivel," but as other sources have independently confirmed that Nvidia has left, I don't see why that matters.
Immaterial, if all I am using the article for is to reference the fact that Nvidia & Via left as well. Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, I don't care what "marketing" department I'm presently using as a source.
I knew that Via & Nvidia left, and Googled the first reference that popped up. So what? You're not questioning my facts, so I don't give a damn.
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Link in the summary is to the print page. Thanks jfruhlinger!
Mod parent up. Very informative reply by google.
Proper link
Yeah, but on those grounds their terms are similar to facebook, except they WON'T license your work to third parties.
But then their mobile division wouldn't make any money :P
I think you could have seen them developing a mobile OS when the bought the mobile OS company that was making android...
You mean the privacy oriented Google+ product? The one that has a user interfaces that forces users to manage their privacy, and enables them to do it well?
I've had chrome use 14gb of ram (only thing to make swapping an issue on my computer), measured by change in available RAM after killing it. I would say I find Chrome's runnaway resource problems a bigger issue, only slightly mitigated by the ability to individually kill tabs.
Meanwhile pulseaudio:
Times have changed, mocking pulse makes no sense today. Jack and pulse have different design goals, get used to it.
Mod ac above 'informative'
Other, only one. We see that 50-60% was pretty normal for the gaming benchmarks, it was just the workstation benchmark that suffered, probably due to low interest (high performance workstation activities lie outside the scope of "good enough for most"). And there is a relative % improvement over the performance of the 5000 series (using that "old driver" you mentioned), which I think is very notable.
Would love to see that number readjusted for "Americans who have jobs"
Actually, these benchmarks are for the 6000 series Radeons. So, 6 months after they started making them.
Really? I'm from Alberta - in the small town I grew up in, the farmers had wireless 10 mbits/s internet, for $80/month, before the dsl and cable providers offered such deals. That was 6 years ago.
Since then in other rural areas I have met crappier internet providers in terms of bandwidth caps ($10/GB overage charges, 20GB max, no we won't sell you a better plan. A camp I was involved with was spending over $1000/mo on internet in the summer), but speed has always been really good with antenna equipment.
Yeah. They don't call the California fire department.
Yeah, but from my use of Google+ (and it's integration via the Google bar with other gStuff) I think they really want direct messaging to go back to just plain email. A move I support.
:)
In 24 hours I've gotten half (7) of my friends to add Google+ to the other Google services they use. Since notifications are shown above their email, I know they will get them regardless of how much they use Google+, and soon I will be able to start ignoring facebook
Actually, when you install chrome it asks if you want to use yahoo, Bing, or Google. Last time I used it yahoo was the first suggestion.
Precisely, for companies the cost of the software is trivial.
If your employees are 25% faster using product B instead of product A, even if you have product A you buy product B.
And I would like to the availability of Linux is a significant part of the reason it has pushed traditional unixes out of business computing, and holds onto the lions share of internet facing servers. You may notice that the majority of people coming out of college don't know what Linux is, they use Windows. Those who know Linux only a portion of CS grads, who then go and work in serving people who want windows. And I'm not sure about you, but I've increasingly had to support clients running OS X on all new purchases, so I think the "I want to use at work what I'm used to" does play into the business OS market.
Edmonton also has Mobilicity!
(What? Regional rivalry with Calgary? Ridiculous)
Agreed. I probably could have used a more impartial source, but it's still true that Nvidia and VIA both left
I think Via leaving is no big deal. I've actually bought a few of their boards for simple projects (can't find an atom board with two onboard NIC's to save my live), and while they don't suck they're certainly nothing to write home about.
But Nvidia leaving is a big deal. And anyone claiming that ION/atom or Fusion don't beat the crap out of Atom user experience wise has simply not been a user experiencing those platforms.
I will admit that the article's quality can certainly be qualified as "drivel," but as other sources have independently confirmed that Nvidia has left, I don't see why that matters.
Other sources of Nvidia quiting.
Um... from the GP, "It's a system benchmark not a CPU benchmark"
Immaterial, if all I am using the article for is to reference the fact that Nvidia & Via left as well. Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, I don't care what "marketing" department I'm presently using as a source.
I knew that Via & Nvidia left, and Googled the first reference that popped up. So what? You're not questioning my facts, so I don't give a damn.
Nvidia and Via quit too.
What if your 4 year old desktop is a dual-quad core (8 core) machine? Sure, it benches slower than some i7's, but it's as good as an i5.
I wonder how many people are going to check your uid...