This is very insightful. Clearly, the problem here is the Linux devs simply aren't working hard enough. And it has nothing to do with whether hardware manufacturers are willing to volunteer the necessary specs for their implementation. This clearly explains the situation with nvidia and AMD as well.
I suppose AMD can't do much about their situation with the fabs, and it would be interesting to see what Bulldozer derivatives can do when they get down to the ~22nm process. But I think IPC is more important than you're giving it credit for. Taking laptops for example, it's unfortunate that we don't have any options that rival anything i5 or above. Trinity is decent on the low-end, ie. the i3/Celeron range, but imagine if they tried to put Bulldozer on a laptop - you'd have to settle for either Celeron-comparable performance or Pentium 4-comparable efficiency and then you're left asking what's the point of a laptop with 30 minutes battery life.
I wish like nothing else that AMD would improve their per-core efficiency. Cramming more cores stopped being impressive in 2006 and the continued success of the Phenom II chips is proof of that. I suppose it'll get better with each iteration of Bulldozer, but the next generation really needs to come up with something new to achieve better efficiency. And by then, they'll probably be behind the curve again.
AMD are not very good engineers. But at the absolute, very least, they provide value chips which, though significantly behind the curve, still force Intel to keep their prices fairly honest. Yes, AMD is significantly behind the curve, but at least they're trying new things and hopefully something will stick.
And on an irrelevant side note, let's not forget that Intel was wildly successful with their antitrust actions. They must have made 10x in profit what they got fined in the lawsuit....
Who knows if this will be successful or not, but a world with AMD is a world with one more innovator bringing fresh, new ideas to the table and trying things that the members of a smaller oligopoly wouldn't.
How does that compare to the Nexus 10 at $499? The only drawback is that it maxes out at 32GB (probably Google trying to force users to put stuff in the cloud). And only $399 for 16GB. At that price you could easily replace that stand and keyboard. Office? Great, there's Google Docs. And before people start complaining about how Office has more capabilities than Docs, realize that it's gonna be on a more limited platform, so that somewhat waters down that point.
But to be honest, I still see no compelling reason to buy a tablet when a moderately equipped laptop (even an ultrabook, whatever those are) gives you the exact same thing, minus a little battery life (plus a replaceable battery). I don't live in the Windows world, but if you want a thin monitor with Office and a keyboard, why not just get a Core i3 ultrabook with Win7 (a superior OS)?
Just because the system is thoroughly broken legally does NOT give you a moral right to abuse that breakage. If you think the legal process the final word on whether you should be able to do something or not, well, I have a German dictator to introduce you to.
Agree with sibling. The US will be 'eating shit' for 4 years regardless of whether Obama or Romney is elected. The only difference between the two is how they serve it; my general impression is that Romney would feel no guilt from throwing it in your face with a cannon while Obama would prefer to slip it in while no one's looking while saying he's doing the opposite.
If the two main candidates weren't so terrible, it wouldn't be necessary to vote for a third party in the first place. Voting for someone because he or she is the lesser of two evils is what's really shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to be proud of your democracy and proud of your country, you should put your vote into someone that you actually care about. I definitely agree though that election reform would be great, but do you really trust an average American to bring that about given their reproachful lack of values and reason? What makes you think the two parties in office are going to institute some legitimate and fair election reform when they're the ones that are the problem itself?
I think what really needs to be resolved is the general fact that the average American voter is too uninformed and misguided to make a good decision when the elections come around. If you improve the quality of the electorate, you get a better quality government. But until then, try taking stand, even a losing stand, rather than riding with the flow of users who are complicit in the current state of affairs.
In fact, it worked out great this way. Remember all the cool stuff that people used to do with their PS3s? Building clusters, and all sorts of other great things? Now they can do it in perpetuity. As people start to get rid of their old PS3s, they can be repurposed for all the great things that they were being used for before Sony fucked everyone over.
I also took a stroll over to the wiki and found that even the PS2 is still around. Now it's not inconceivable that the PS3 would receive EOL before the PS2, but at best, the PS4 will probably be competing with the PS3 in terms of computing power, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that the PS3 will still be getting a bit of attention.
And regardless, the PS4 is still not out and may not be for a while, and with all the video game retail that comes at the end of the year, there's still time for this to become a thorn in Sony's side... which I'm sure no good human could complain about.
The tipping point would come if the voters would realize that there is value in voting for third party candidates. Suppose a candidate lost an important state because that extra 1% of votes he needed to win went to a third party candidate. They will see where they are losing votes and why. Even if your candidate loses, it's enough of a message, especially if it costs a candidate a close election.
Or how's this for a cliche inspirational message: the problem isn't gonna solve itself until people start to do something about it. Sometimes the only way to make something improbable happen is to be really stubborn about it until you get it. I mean, it works for my kids and they aren't half as juvenile as the average American (though sometimes I wonder...)
If it were about patent disputes, then Samsung could have cut the cord a while ago. Why did they wait until now?
I'm firmly on Samsung's side of the patent dispute, but Samsung seems to simply do what's best for Samsung. Judging by their actions, I can't see any reason why they'd be doing this to make a point.
Problem with that is that if you end up swapping a lot, it's gonna kill the SSD with all those repeated writes and rewrites. Not sure how well SSDs fare on that point these days, but would it really be worth it if you had to replace your >$100 SSD every couple years?
who wants to bet said FCC people have coushy jobs lined up at some major cable company.
Pretty much. This is the same reason why I decided against building one for me parents.
In any case, this just gives me more reason to empathize with, even cheer for file-sharers. The system is so fucking corrupt. The content companies buy the policies they want, and the citizens ignore them. I guess you could say it evens out.
A driving recod like that would probably rank in the top decile of all drivers in America. Stop spreading FUD (seriously, what did autonomous cars ever do to you?).
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This is very insightful. Clearly, the problem here is the Linux devs simply aren't working hard enough. And it has nothing to do with whether hardware manufacturers are willing to volunteer the necessary specs for their implementation. This clearly explains the situation with nvidia and AMD as well.
There's just one reason why that wouldn't be very helpful:
Retina display MacBook Pro does not play nicely with Linux ...
I can tell you're not so much of a glass-half-full kinda guy ;-)
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I suppose AMD can't do much about their situation with the fabs, and it would be interesting to see what Bulldozer derivatives can do when they get down to the ~22nm process. But I think IPC is more important than you're giving it credit for. Taking laptops for example, it's unfortunate that we don't have any options that rival anything i5 or above. Trinity is decent on the low-end, ie. the i3/Celeron range, but imagine if they tried to put Bulldozer on a laptop - you'd have to settle for either Celeron-comparable performance or Pentium 4-comparable efficiency and then you're left asking what's the point of a laptop with 30 minutes battery life.
I wish like nothing else that AMD would improve their per-core efficiency. Cramming more cores stopped being impressive in 2006 and the continued success of the Phenom II chips is proof of that. I suppose it'll get better with each iteration of Bulldozer, but the next generation really needs to come up with something new to achieve better efficiency. And by then, they'll probably be behind the curve again.
AMD are not very good engineers. But at the absolute, very least, they provide value chips which, though significantly behind the curve, still force Intel to keep their prices fairly honest. Yes, AMD is significantly behind the curve, but at least they're trying new things and hopefully something will stick.
And on an irrelevant side note, let's not forget that Intel was wildly successful with their antitrust actions. They must have made 10x in profit what they got fined in the lawsuit....
Competition drives innovation.
Who knows if this will be successful or not, but a world with AMD is a world with one more innovator bringing fresh, new ideas to the table and trying things that the members of a smaller oligopoly wouldn't.
- too expensive
Compared to what?
How does that compare to the Nexus 10 at $499? The only drawback is that it maxes out at 32GB (probably Google trying to force users to put stuff in the cloud). And only $399 for 16GB. At that price you could easily replace that stand and keyboard. Office? Great, there's Google Docs. And before people start complaining about how Office has more capabilities than Docs, realize that it's gonna be on a more limited platform, so that somewhat waters down that point.
But to be honest, I still see no compelling reason to buy a tablet when a moderately equipped laptop (even an ultrabook, whatever those are) gives you the exact same thing, minus a little battery life (plus a replaceable battery). I don't live in the Windows world, but if you want a thin monitor with Office and a keyboard, why not just get a Core i3 ultrabook with Win7 (a superior OS)?
They're doing the work of God - civics be damned, this is far more important!
Just because the system is thoroughly broken legally does NOT give you a moral right to abuse that breakage. If you think the legal process the final word on whether you should be able to do something or not, well, I have a German dictator to introduce you to.
Agree with sibling. The US will be 'eating shit' for 4 years regardless of whether Obama or Romney is elected. The only difference between the two is how they serve it; my general impression is that Romney would feel no guilt from throwing it in your face with a cannon while Obama would prefer to slip it in while no one's looking while saying he's doing the opposite.
If the two main candidates weren't so terrible, it wouldn't be necessary to vote for a third party in the first place. Voting for someone because he or she is the lesser of two evils is what's really shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to be proud of your democracy and proud of your country, you should put your vote into someone that you actually care about. I definitely agree though that election reform would be great, but do you really trust an average American to bring that about given their reproachful lack of values and reason? What makes you think the two parties in office are going to institute some legitimate and fair election reform when they're the ones that are the problem itself?
I think what really needs to be resolved is the general fact that the average American voter is too uninformed and misguided to make a good decision when the elections come around. If you improve the quality of the electorate, you get a better quality government. But until then, try taking stand, even a losing stand, rather than riding with the flow of users who are complicit in the current state of affairs.
In fact, it worked out great this way. Remember all the cool stuff that people used to do with their PS3s? Building clusters, and all sorts of other great things? Now they can do it in perpetuity. As people start to get rid of their old PS3s, they can be repurposed for all the great things that they were being used for before Sony fucked everyone over.
I also took a stroll over to the wiki and found that even the PS2 is still around. Now it's not inconceivable that the PS3 would receive EOL before the PS2, but at best, the PS4 will probably be competing with the PS3 in terms of computing power, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that the PS3 will still be getting a bit of attention.
And regardless, the PS4 is still not out and may not be for a while, and with all the video game retail that comes at the end of the year, there's still time for this to become a thorn in Sony's side... which I'm sure no good human could complain about.
The tipping point would come if the voters would realize that there is value in voting for third party candidates. Suppose a candidate lost an important state because that extra 1% of votes he needed to win went to a third party candidate. They will see where they are losing votes and why. Even if your candidate loses, it's enough of a message, especially if it costs a candidate a close election.
Or how's this for a cliche inspirational message: the problem isn't gonna solve itself until people start to do something about it. Sometimes the only way to make something improbable happen is to be really stubborn about it until you get it. I mean, it works for my kids and they aren't half as juvenile as the average American (though sometimes I wonder...)
If it were about patent disputes, then Samsung could have cut the cord a while ago. Why did they wait until now?
I'm firmly on Samsung's side of the patent dispute, but Samsung seems to simply do what's best for Samsung. Judging by their actions, I can't see any reason why they'd be doing this to make a point.
Shared folder on the host/network. Or alternatively, periodic snapshot backups
Problem with that is that if you end up swapping a lot, it's gonna kill the SSD with all those repeated writes and rewrites. Not sure how well SSDs fare on that point these days, but would it really be worth it if you had to replace your >$100 SSD every couple years?
Well, they shouldn't even be using it anyways
who wants to bet said FCC people have coushy jobs lined up at some major cable company.
Pretty much. This is the same reason why I decided against building one for me parents.
In any case, this just gives me more reason to empathize with, even cheer for file-sharers. The system is so fucking corrupt. The content companies buy the policies they want, and the citizens ignore them. I guess you could say it evens out.
You forgot to mention the part where they (attempt to) sue anyone else who dares enter the same market back out.
Mod this up. He basically defined pure capitalism. America (that is, the people who run them) tries to step closer towards this every day.
Yes, I remember making a sandwich in 1995 with rounded corners. Does that count as prior art?
They have well over 300k miles.
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300k miles.
1 (non at-fault) accident.
A driving recod like that would probably rank in the top decile of all drivers in America. Stop spreading FUD (seriously, what did autonomous cars ever do to you?).
I've been thinking lately that at some point in the future, I might buy a big, high-res TV and mount it to the wall for use as my monitor...
Ah, the irony...
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/30/2012249/apple-rejects-drone-strike-app
And how would you defend the overlords you worship on that one?
Well this is a scary thought...