Then buy the bluetooth version for the the f'n iPad you schmuck. Then when you don't want to take your keyboard with you and just your iPad you can, but I doubt the reason you don't want one has more to do with some buttsore attitude towards Apple and not the lack of a physical keyboard.
You must not work in Parallel Programming, doing any heavy engineering analysis/modeling. Taking advantage of all those threads and cores within Bulldozer and utilizing it with OpenCL along with the GPGPUs is a dream come true. More and more modeling environments are leveraging all that this architecture offers, but to you if your game doesn't presently use it it's worthless. To each their own.
The Man who created QuickTime? Really? The guy was gone by 1990. He brought WebTV thanks to Keith Ohlfs and other technologists to a market no one wanted and sold it ironically to Microsoft for bank and that was a write off for them. He's perfect as a VC guy--incubate, hype up, sell for unjustifiable value, dump and repeat.
From his wiki page: ``In 2011 Perlman announced that he and colleagues at Rearden have invented distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) technology, which a Wired article claimed to be "an experimental wireless communications system that could render cellular connections obsolete".
Someone should shoot the Wired writer for such a bs claim.
The man's all hype and no results.
Is this more a conviction of Open Homosexuality?
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The latent hypocrisy from the Lords where homosexuality/bisexuality throughout the ages was rampant to turn away from this man's genetic makeup and therefore cite they can't undo a wrong now truly goes to the real cause--Alan flaunted his sexuality and forced their hands. It was better for whispers and to hold high station with leverage over your fellow Trinity alumni who had their young men trists than to go out and live that life style. The number of famous authors who alluded to bisexual tendencies in their writings is quite numerous. I suppose they just chose to codeify it instead of throwing it in the establishment's face and thus that protected them from being convicted of what we all [at least most of us heterosexuals agree upon] is part of the distributed nature of human sexuality. Perhaps Turing didn't heed warnings from the power brokers and so they destroyed him in the process. I find it a disgrace that they cannot undo and pardon all the individuals whom they convicted back then. It would show a sign of evolution of the human spirit, but clearly these guys preferred the closeted approach to living.
I'm a college freshman so I remember high school very well. Teachers put a slide up with all the info on it and waited for students to copy everything down before advancing. They trained students to copy everything they see instead of evaluating what needs to be copied.
There is this service called, ``lecture notes'' that my university sold on a per course basis freeing one up from wasting a single moment writing notes so you could listen to the professor. Extend this today to digital retrieval of notes in PDF format available by the Professor at his web site and guess what? They still produce similar, if not idential distribution curves when they took notes by hand versus not taking notes at all with their test scores. The biggest change needs to not be in how students interact in lectures but how curriculums adapt to the concepts of project grades versus test grades. You don't take tests in the real world. Your work is team oriented and the results are economically driven. Learning to work in teams and to actually thrive against other businesses should be taught at Universities so that practical application of theory gets ingrained into every student.
Well at the basic level Certified just means you can pass the test.
Do you know how old she was when she passed it? She was 9.
You may not be impressed by that fact, but I am.
The tragedy is that she was a young girl in the prime of life and seeing her life taken too soon, not because she was labeled a Microsoft Certified recipient and thus labeled a child prodigy for doing so.
``Can you imagine this in any other engineering discipline?''
It's not an Engineering Discipline, no matter how many universities label it and the industry entitles it. It's Computer Science for a reason. Engineering disciplines are founded in Laws of Science. There is a reason Bill Joy has wished Software Programming could become an Engineering Discipline [he cited Mechanical Engineering specifically]--he's tired of the amount of wasted energy that the Art brings. That same Art brings a lot of creativity, but with a lot of undisciplined results and crappy code.
As if they need a technical restriction, when they're so heavy handed with the legislative restrictions.
I'd never buy, for example a phone, that didn't have a micro USB charger, or a stereo that had a wacky propitiatory interface like an "ipod dock".
It shouldn't be legal to block or tax 3rd party accessory makers, and what's needed is more forced standards for consumer screwing companies like Apple.
It's only an Apple Tax (same as a Microsoft Tax) if you go that way.
Every time you buy into some proprietary technology you sell a little piece of your soul.
Get your facts straight. Fossil fuels are never subsidized, but instead heavily taxed by the governments.
Solar and wind power however are only possible with enormous subsidies yet still can't produce energy on their own and require 100% backup capacity by conventional plants.
Leave the parent comment a 5 so everyone can see what a complete lunatic it is for being factually absurd.
To use the trademarks and get access to the market you need Google's blessing. They can easily demand stuff like this.
Google wants Manufacturers without having to invest in being a hardware giant. Sorry, but their contracts go much further than the public declarations you cite. Android is nothing without Samsung and HTC pumping out this crap.
I love how every release never seems to finish the ``feature plan'' list always listing a large portion as `in progress.' You might want to clean up those Release Plans to what has been actually accomplished in a cumulative list and what still needs to be done and then the final, ``future plans.''
By the way, it's all about the Apps and as usual most of these apps that are good are just the utility apps like Kate or GwenView with the rare Digikam or Gimp/Inkscape for GNOME/GTK+. When in the hell is the core of KDE or GNOME going to bring their apps up to a level that consumers would take a serious look at Linux/FreeBSD?
At this rate the Desktop Environments will continue to be 4 years behind Windows and OS X and the pile of professional apps will be even farther behind.
The big Pile of Crap in the equation is X-Windows/XOrg Server. It's junk and it's mainly due to it being ductaped with functionality well beyond it's design thus the need for Wayland.
The closed drivers have serious quality issues with major regressions seemingly every other release.
The open drivers are making great strides, but the performance isn't there yet for newer cards. If you are using a pre-HD series card, you'll find pretty decent performance that often beats the closed driver.
Based on the progress I've seen over the last year, I would expect the performance for this new series of cards to be acceptable in a year or so for the simple fact that as they finish the code for older cards, much of the code base will help improve performance for newer ones.
Ah yes, the great myth of myths. The Open Source version with zero 3D acceleration, OpenCL support and much more are great! The proprietary version with all support SUCK! This is getting very old.
How many factories does Microsoft own? And, what physical products do they sell? In view of their vast financial empire, they own very few physical assets, and produce even fewer. The vast majority of Microsoft's "products" are Imaginary Property. Or, what elitists tend to refer to as "Intellectual Property".
I say MS is a patent troll, along with Apple, and a lot of other companies. They aren't quite as repulsive as some of those east Texas companies that have never marketed a damned thing in their history, but they are still patent trolls.
If you had half a brain and read Jobs Biography you'd discover that Apple has paid and built factories in China to have their products manufactured. How that does or does not validate their research is still your own idea of what is or is not engineering. Whip out your credentials and your patent portfolio or shut the hell up.
Apart from just rooting for different companies as if they were in a horse race, which seems to be a popular pastime in the press and blogosphere, the summary omits any reason why we might care about Intel's new offering. In what way is it different from the prevailing ARM chip? The answer is buried on page 2 of TFA:
Intel has tested its reference handset against a handful of the leading phones on sale today. It says these tests show that Medfield offers faster browsing and graphics performance and lower power consumption than the top three, says Smith.
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"Medfield is based on 32-nanometer technology, while the biggest fabs making ARM-based processors are today shipping either 40 or 45 nanometers," he says.
So it looks like a bit of incremental leapfrog (if that), not some kind of breakthrough. Meh.
The statement about faster graphics is bull shit. ARM doesn't make GPGPUs. ImgTec makes them and sorry but Intel's OpenCL and OpenGL graphics against the VR tech from ImgTec version 6 is nowhere near their 600 series that has OpenCL 1.1/2.x and OpenGL 3.2 full support. That's right up there with Intel claiming it's graphics support compares to Nvidia and AMD. It's a crock of shit.
Your envy clouds your judgement. It's not a walled garden and the PC is dead. It's that the driver of PC growth today is the Mac with OS X whose child, iOS is owning the next generation of personal consumption. Building the cheapest disposable PC and/or Workstation only favors Microsoft whose OEM license is paid whether HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc., sell $1000, $2000, $3,000, $4K+ systems.
No one but Apple controls the entire end-to-end solution. Not Microsoft, not anyone else. OS X sales continues to steadily expand and iOS steadily expands times ten. When Microsoft starts to dip down to 80% of the Desktop market it'll be due to Apple's OS X and it's child, iOS. It won't be due to FreeBSD, Linux, or any other UNIX flavored OS using cheap clone hardware.
You want a third big box OS for consumers to desire you'll have to control the end-to-end solution, not just the Server Market.
Nothing is guaranteed and desire to evolve into new paradigms is up to any start-up or large conglomerate to seize. If not, they'll become the next IBM who is completely out of the Consumer space.
You are correct. Computer Science is not an Engineering Discipline. Only the bridge, Computer Engineering is classified [albeit a stretch] as Engineering because it's requirement of more than a minor in Electrical Engineering.
And if this idjit is still there, I know I am voting THEM out. What a maroon.
You're not getting it. They realize costs for consulting and IT have blown out states budgets and the return on investment is not a 1:1 or n:1 (n >=1) relationship so it's a loss. They can't dictate costs of product but they will start changing contracts for 3rd parties by the only way they can--in law. Sorry, but there are waves of semi-competent consultants in most industries getting paid far beyond their talents and it's either stops or people actually realize deficits will never curtail.
No we don't have a higher standard of living, on average, than the richest Kings. That's truly rich. The serfdom were paid in left-overs and the Kings were drinking the wealth out of solid gold goblets. They owned tens of millions of acres of land and since the means of wealth creation was extremely limited you may think today's average person is wealthier--not by a long shot. Pass that land down today and you're a multi-billionaire for doing nothing. Try again.
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Apple sells 62% of all the tables sold. So, no, not 'everyone is buying iPads. The majority? sure.
Do you prefer, ``Apple owns about 95% of the profits in the tablet market'' then?
I want a keyboard.
Then buy the bluetooth version for the the f'n iPad you schmuck. Then when you don't want to take your keyboard with you and just your iPad you can, but I doubt the reason you don't want one has more to do with some buttsore attitude towards Apple and not the lack of a physical keyboard.
You must not work in Parallel Programming, doing any heavy engineering analysis/modeling. Taking advantage of all those threads and cores within Bulldozer and utilizing it with OpenCL along with the GPGPUs is a dream come true. More and more modeling environments are leveraging all that this architecture offers, but to you if your game doesn't presently use it it's worthless. To each their own.
The Man who created QuickTime? Really? The guy was gone by 1990. He brought WebTV thanks to Keith Ohlfs and other technologists to a market no one wanted and sold it ironically to Microsoft for bank and that was a write off for them. He's perfect as a VC guy--incubate, hype up, sell for unjustifiable value, dump and repeat.
From his wiki page: ``In 2011 Perlman announced that he and colleagues at Rearden have invented distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) technology, which a Wired article claimed to be "an experimental wireless communications system that could render cellular connections obsolete".
Someone should shoot the Wired writer for such a bs claim.
The man's all hype and no results.
The latent hypocrisy from the Lords where homosexuality/bisexuality throughout the ages was rampant to turn away from this man's genetic makeup and therefore cite they can't undo a wrong now truly goes to the real cause--Alan flaunted his sexuality and forced their hands. It was better for whispers and to hold high station with leverage over your fellow Trinity alumni who had their young men trists than to go out and live that life style. The number of famous authors who alluded to bisexual tendencies in their writings is quite numerous. I suppose they just chose to codeify it instead of throwing it in the establishment's face and thus that protected them from being convicted of what we all [at least most of us heterosexuals agree upon] is part of the distributed nature of human sexuality. Perhaps Turing didn't heed warnings from the power brokers and so they destroyed him in the process. I find it a disgrace that they cannot undo and pardon all the individuals whom they convicted back then. It would show a sign of evolution of the human spirit, but clearly these guys preferred the closeted approach to living.
I'm a college freshman so I remember high school very well. Teachers put a slide up with all the info on it and waited for students to copy everything down before advancing. They trained students to copy everything they see instead of evaluating what needs to be copied.
There is this service called, ``lecture notes'' that my university sold on a per course basis freeing one up from wasting a single moment writing notes so you could listen to the professor. Extend this today to digital retrieval of notes in PDF format available by the Professor at his web site and guess what? They still produce similar, if not idential distribution curves when they took notes by hand versus not taking notes at all with their test scores. The biggest change needs to not be in how students interact in lectures but how curriculums adapt to the concepts of project grades versus test grades. You don't take tests in the real world. Your work is team oriented and the results are economically driven. Learning to work in teams and to actually thrive against other businesses should be taught at Universities so that practical application of theory gets ingrained into every student.
Nokia and RIM should read and weep. This should have been them.
Says, who? You? They don't have the technical expertise to match Apple, period.
Well at the basic level Certified just means you can pass the test.
Do you know how old she was when she passed it? She was 9.
You may not be impressed by that fact, but I am.
The tragedy is that she was a young girl in the prime of life and seeing her life taken too soon, not because she was labeled a Microsoft Certified recipient and thus labeled a child prodigy for doing so.
Well at the basic level Certified just means you can pass the test.
Do you know how old she was when she passed it? She was 9.
You may not be impressed by that fact, but I am.
Mozart was composing single draft sonatas at an earlier age. What's your point?
It's not an Engineering Discipline, no matter how many universities label it and the industry entitles it. It's Computer Science for a reason. Engineering disciplines are founded in Laws of Science. There is a reason Bill Joy has wished Software Programming could become an Engineering Discipline [he cited Mechanical Engineering specifically]--he's tired of the amount of wasted energy that the Art brings. That same Art brings a lot of creativity, but with a lot of undisciplined results and crappy code.
As if they need a technical restriction, when they're so heavy handed with the legislative restrictions. I'd never buy, for example a phone, that didn't have a micro USB charger, or a stereo that had a wacky propitiatory interface like an "ipod dock".
It shouldn't be legal to block or tax 3rd party accessory makers, and what's needed is more forced standards for consumer screwing companies like Apple.
It's only an Apple Tax (same as a Microsoft Tax) if you go that way.
Every time you buy into some proprietary technology you sell a little piece of your soul.
Spare me. You wreak of a Stallman acolyte.
Get your facts straight. Fossil fuels are never subsidized, but instead heavily taxed by the governments. Solar and wind power however are only possible with enormous subsidies yet still can't produce energy on their own and require 100% backup capacity by conventional plants.
Leave the parent comment a 5 so everyone can see what a complete lunatic it is for being factually absurd.
Perhaps everyone is too stoned from Christmas but 28nm stamping is already approved with GlobalFoundries, TSMC and Samsung.
http://arm.com/about/newsroom/globalfoundries-and-arm-deliver-optimized-soc-solution-based-on-arm-cortex-a-series-processors.php
http://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsArchivesAction.do?action=detail&newsid=6181&language=E
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=1254
To use the trademarks and get access to the market you need Google's blessing. They can easily demand stuff like this.
Google wants Manufacturers without having to invest in being a hardware giant. Sorry, but their contracts go much further than the public declarations you cite. Android is nothing without Samsung and HTC pumping out this crap.
I love how every release never seems to finish the ``feature plan'' list always listing a large portion as `in progress.' You might want to clean up those Release Plans to what has been actually accomplished in a cumulative list and what still needs to be done and then the final, ``future plans.''
By the way, it's all about the Apps and as usual most of these apps that are good are just the utility apps like Kate or GwenView with the rare Digikam or Gimp/Inkscape for GNOME/GTK+. When in the hell is the core of KDE or GNOME going to bring their apps up to a level that consumers would take a serious look at Linux/FreeBSD?
At this rate the Desktop Environments will continue to be 4 years behind Windows and OS X and the pile of professional apps will be even farther behind.
The big Pile of Crap in the equation is X-Windows/XOrg Server. It's junk and it's mainly due to it being ductaped with functionality well beyond it's design thus the need for Wayland.
The closed drivers have serious quality issues with major regressions seemingly every other release.
The open drivers are making great strides, but the performance isn't there yet for newer cards. If you are using a pre-HD series card, you'll find pretty decent performance that often beats the closed driver.
Based on the progress I've seen over the last year, I would expect the performance for this new series of cards to be acceptable in a year or so for the simple fact that as they finish the code for older cards, much of the code base will help improve performance for newer ones.
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
Ah yes, the great myth of myths. The Open Source version with zero 3D acceleration, OpenCL support and much more are great! The proprietary version with all support SUCK! This is getting very old.
...if most PC games weren't just shitty console ports these days. If you spend over $150 on a graphics card you're an idiot.
This idiot needs those parallel units for OpenCL/OpenGL and it's many applications with Mechanical Engineering.
How many factories does Microsoft own? And, what physical products do they sell? In view of their vast financial empire, they own very few physical assets, and produce even fewer. The vast majority of Microsoft's "products" are Imaginary Property. Or, what elitists tend to refer to as "Intellectual Property".
I say MS is a patent troll, along with Apple, and a lot of other companies. They aren't quite as repulsive as some of those east Texas companies that have never marketed a damned thing in their history, but they are still patent trolls.
If you had half a brain and read Jobs Biography you'd discover that Apple has paid and built factories in China to have their products manufactured. How that does or does not validate their research is still your own idea of what is or is not engineering. Whip out your credentials and your patent portfolio or shut the hell up.
Apart from just rooting for different companies as if they were in a horse race, which seems to be a popular pastime in the press and blogosphere, the summary omits any reason why we might care about Intel's new offering. In what way is it different from the prevailing ARM chip? The answer is buried on page 2 of TFA:
and
So it looks like a bit of incremental leapfrog (if that), not some kind of breakthrough. Meh.
The statement about faster graphics is bull shit. ARM doesn't make GPGPUs. ImgTec makes them and sorry but Intel's OpenCL and OpenGL graphics against the VR tech from ImgTec version 6 is nowhere near their 600 series that has OpenCL 1.1/2.x and OpenGL 3.2 full support. That's right up there with Intel claiming it's graphics support compares to Nvidia and AMD. It's a crock of shit.
Your envy clouds your judgement. It's not a walled garden and the PC is dead. It's that the driver of PC growth today is the Mac with OS X whose child, iOS is owning the next generation of personal consumption. Building the cheapest disposable PC and/or Workstation only favors Microsoft whose OEM license is paid whether HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc., sell $1000, $2000, $3,000, $4K+ systems.
No one but Apple controls the entire end-to-end solution. Not Microsoft, not anyone else. OS X sales continues to steadily expand and iOS steadily expands times ten. When Microsoft starts to dip down to 80% of the Desktop market it'll be due to Apple's OS X and it's child, iOS. It won't be due to FreeBSD, Linux, or any other UNIX flavored OS using cheap clone hardware.
You want a third big box OS for consumers to desire you'll have to control the end-to-end solution, not just the Server Market.
Nothing is guaranteed and desire to evolve into new paradigms is up to any start-up or large conglomerate to seize. If not, they'll become the next IBM who is completely out of the Consumer space.
You are correct. Computer Science is not an Engineering Discipline. Only the bridge, Computer Engineering is classified [albeit a stretch] as Engineering because it's requirement of more than a minor in Electrical Engineering.
And if this idjit is still there, I know I am voting THEM out. What a maroon.
You're not getting it. They realize costs for consulting and IT have blown out states budgets and the return on investment is not a 1:1 or n:1 (n >=1) relationship so it's a loss. They can't dictate costs of product but they will start changing contracts for 3rd parties by the only way they can--in law. Sorry, but there are waves of semi-competent consultants in most industries getting paid far beyond their talents and it's either stops or people actually realize deficits will never curtail.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding either of power conversion, or of prudent safety practices. You should change your username.
Agreed.
No we don't have a higher standard of living, on average, than the richest Kings. That's truly rich. The serfdom were paid in left-overs and the Kings were drinking the wealth out of solid gold goblets. They owned tens of millions of acres of land and since the means of wealth creation was extremely limited you may think today's average person is wealthier--not by a long shot. Pass that land down today and you're a multi-billionaire for doing nothing. Try again.