GCD is a nice library with an elegant API. Unfortunately it is not portable, because it requires a compiler which supports a non-standard extension to the C language.
OpenCL is not GPU dependent. It's agnostic. OpenCL using Multi-cores and GPGPU cores from Nvidia and Intel to PowerVR and more will be in extensive use this year, not just in Engineering fields.
But instead, Google went off into a corner, created their own solution behind closed doors that nobody in the kernel community likes and now it can't go upstream.
No one in their right mind is going to start a lengthy debate with kernel developers when they have a deadline to meet and a product to ship.
In the industry, getting things done on time is priority #1. Google's implementation may not have been ideal, but it was delivered.
It seems to me you have a choice. Deal with the policy seeing as you aren't in charge or write your own damn operating system. Fork Linux and see just how that works out for you. Come one Google. Can't write your own OS?
Still the three best. By far the Golden Age of Comics Strips.
Bloom County, Far Side and C&H in that order for me.
Here, here. Having Larson as a fellow alumni is a point of pride. Bloom County and C&H were vital for a kid who grew up in the 70s/80s and after Gary Larson retired I gave up on comic strips all together.
Erm, no. It's been Steve Job's and Apple's stance for a long time that DRM is a bad thing, even before Amazon sold music. The problem is that publishers want DRM on their products and when they enter into agreements they usually insist on DRM as part of the deal. Do you see any other major player offering DRM-free movies?
If only Steve Jobs had some influence with movie studios like Pixar, he could persuade them to make their movies available DRM-free...
This is horrible. This is so GOOG can monitor ALL of your web activity, all the time.
If you ever use Google, or see adwords anywhere, they already have your ip--all 4 octets.
With this DNS extension, they can see what sites buckets of people are visiting when they're NOT on google sites or where goog ads are being served. It's not resolved down to the user, but it's bucketed, and over time, they can guess what's happening.
This proposal is absolutely about google getting more data about your internet habits, and more data about the market spaces they don't (yet) control.
This approach they are taking reminds me of grocery stores ala Albertsons, Safeway and much more which give you "discounts" for your personal shopping habits. Then you start getting targeted for specific deals. The only reason anyone signs up for those cards is the fact they want the discount that no longer exists since these stores and brands yanked Coupons from the market.
Doesn't even Ubuntu try to mimic this in some respects with its downloader?
I'd rather say that Apple is "mimicking" what Linux distributions have been doing for a decade.
However, Apple doesn't have to restrict the ability to install software from other sources; that is a typical Apple-restriction.
Wrong. The dpkg/apt-get comparison or Redhat's package manager are not like Apple's. Apple's package manager comes from NeXTStep, which PREDATES them both.
Microsoft would KILL to do this. Honestly, they would literally go out and kill puppies, kittens and baby seals all day long if it would allow them to control everything you install.
If apple get's away with it, you know they will follow in their footsteps.
We'd love to kill this fallacious analogy. Microsoft owns the content on the XBox. Microsoft's OS owns 3rd party PC OEMs. Apple doesn't. Get it?
Apple really isn't that innovative, they are simply 6-18 months earlier shipping something. They can get away with that because they can charge a premium. So, you get a $800 iPad with OS X today, or a $300 Chrome OS pad next year.
There is a large segment of the book reading public that do not care about battery consumption. They read at home or where there are power outlets. For them, LCD is superior to eInk in just about every way.
Except, e-ink displays are reported to be easier on the eyes to read, because they are a reflective surface and not an illuminated one.
Having read books on my computer screen, the only advantage is that it scrolls relatively smoothly. Otherwise, my eyes felt like they'd been sucked out Gollumn-style after 4 hours of reading. I'd much rather read on an e-ink display, even if I were near an outlet. I am also unlikely to try and read in the dark, where an LCD screen would be more visible.
I spend 10 hours a day before my HP LP2475w H-IPS panel. My eyes don't bulge at all and I've got contacts.
no camera, no microphone, I don't see you ditching your iphone any time soon... or at least they haven't shown either up to now
Bluetooth headset eliminates the need for a microphone, so you could skype, I suppose.
This site continues to show, like the parent you responded to how come they never see the storm behind Apple that is a Cash Cow. 3rd party opportunities for customization is high.
That's literally a couple of clicks, ie. two. On Ars Technica the comment thread was full of nerd rage about a change that takes a single second to undo. Even if they did change it on every upgrade it wouldn't be a big deal (though annoying).
Note that the engine WILL change to Yahoo when you upgrade to 10.04 IF you are currently using Google, ie. if you are using the 10.04 default provider. In that case it will upgrade from one default to the next default. Once you are using a custom search provider, it supposedly won't touch it later.
How technically savvy can these nerds be if they are up in arms with this change?
Absolutely. I live in Japan, and I often regale my Japanese friends with tales of the tales I was told of Japan growing up--which ended up with me living here (it's a nice place to live, if you speak/read the language). People laugh outloud, because they grew up in those days and know what it was really like.
That being said, the US economy collapsed, while my salary-in-yen is worth more dollars than I've ever seen. It's awesome when I go back home to see the folks, but shit when I remember that the bulk of my savings is in US banks.
However, the big difference here is that Japan is a small country--geographically and demographically. China is neither. I fully expect us to have our asses handed to us. The US is over. Japan is even more over.
Since when is approximately 128 Million people on a geographically tiny island small? It's the tenth largest, just behind Russia. If were judging by Population you'd expect the control of the world's economies to be a sparring match between India and China. China either expands economically at the current rate of ~ 8% or its system will crash. The US has solid growth when it reaches 3 to 4%, year over year. China isn't going to be these IP haven people believe it will become. People will demand a bigger piece of the pie for their research and will find friendlier shores abroad.
Yeah, given recent SCOTUS decisions, the government is now available to the highest bidder. Expect to see the power and privileges of multi-national corporations skyrocket, while the little guys get the shaft. I expect that Disney will buy up all our national parks. Everything will be privatized, and the uber-corps will make sure all public services are illegal. Private police forces, fire departments, roads: everything. And if you can't pay, don't expect help. Those who can't pay will be expected to starve to death, like stray dogs in the streets.
The funny thing is that some people on the right still think Obama is a socialist. He's the opposite of that. He's going to make sure health care reform dies a messy and painful death, and he's going to sell off the government to the highest bidders. He showed his real colors when he kowtowed to Wall Street.
Gawd I can't decide whether you missed out on the 60s or fully understand the separate but co-equal three branches of government where the US Congress just got told to get off it's collective ass and explicitly define language about Campaign reform if they truly want to be serious about it. They now have a shot at doing it correctly and not the bulls***, watered down crap called McCain/Feingold.
I personally think SETI is misguided, even though its aims are commendable. There probably is intelligent life out there, but it is a possibility that earth could have been the first planet on which it developed.
But I see two very great problems with SETI.
First is the limited range; nobody more than around 150 light years away would be able to detect intelligent life on earth.
If we do find them they're likely to be more intelligent than us, they may turn out to be hostile, and they may discover that we are tasty, or good speceship fuel, etc. They may be intelligent enough that we don't even appear sentient to them. I'm not sure I want us to find intelligent extraterrestrials.
How the hell does that make one ounce of rational sense? We are able to now measure the Universe at billions of years older than Earth and yet Earth is possibly the first planet to have intelligent life developed on it? You cannot be serious.
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He probably wasn't born to see the movie when it first aired back in the days when our cable boxes were rotary dials.
1.17 billion transistors into a die that's approximately 240mm sq
That's a big chip.
That's small. What's big is the pin housing that surrounds it.
GCD is a nice library with an elegant API. Unfortunately it is not portable, because it requires a compiler which supports a non-standard extension to the C language.
LLVM
I'll take the 19 year olds, thanks! : ) They can quickly learn to do all the MILF tricks and teaching is fun.
Plus the 19 year olds usually have more energy.
Ever slept with a woman reaching her prime sexually? They aren't 19 years of age.
OpenCL is not GPU dependent. It's agnostic. OpenCL using Multi-cores and GPGPU cores from Nvidia and Intel to PowerVR and more will be in extensive use this year, not just in Engineering fields.
But instead, Google went off into a corner, created their own solution behind closed doors that nobody in the kernel community likes and now it can't go upstream.
No one in their right mind is going to start a lengthy debate with kernel developers when they have a deadline to meet and a product to ship.
In the industry, getting things done on time is priority #1. Google's implementation may not have been ideal, but it was delivered.
It seems to me you have a choice. Deal with the policy seeing as you aren't in charge or write your own damn operating system. Fork Linux and see just how that works out for you. Come one Google. Can't write your own OS?
Still the three best. By far the Golden Age of Comics Strips.
Bloom County, Far Side and C&H in that order for me.
Here, here. Having Larson as a fellow alumni is a point of pride. Bloom County and C&H were vital for a kid who grew up in the 70s/80s and after Gary Larson retired I gave up on comic strips all together.
If only Steve Jobs had some influence with movie studios like Pixar, he could persuade them to make their movies available DRM-free...
Legal conflict of interest. Next.
Battery life is a big point....I recharge my kindle every few weeks of constant use. Make sure you iPad is charged daily or you'll be sol.
Just like any portable device used constantly that has actually graphics and a CPU to pull something more than print text on a screen.
This is horrible. This is so GOOG can monitor ALL of your web activity, all the time.
If you ever use Google, or see adwords anywhere, they already have your ip--all 4 octets.
With this DNS extension, they can see what sites buckets of people are visiting when they're NOT on google sites or where goog ads are being served. It's not resolved down to the user, but it's bucketed, and over time, they can guess what's happening.
This proposal is absolutely about google getting more data about your internet habits, and more data about the market spaces they don't (yet) control.
This approach they are taking reminds me of grocery stores ala Albertsons, Safeway and much more which give you "discounts" for your personal shopping habits. Then you start getting targeted for specific deals. The only reason anyone signs up for those cards is the fact they want the discount that no longer exists since these stores and brands yanked Coupons from the market.
Doesn't even Ubuntu try to mimic this in some respects with its downloader?
I'd rather say that Apple is "mimicking" what Linux distributions have been doing for a decade.
However, Apple doesn't have to restrict the ability to install software from other sources; that is a typical Apple-restriction.
Wrong. The dpkg/apt-get comparison or Redhat's package manager are not like Apple's. Apple's package manager comes from NeXTStep, which PREDATES them both.
You start out with credibility and fall right off the cliff calling any OS X kernel system a Toy.
Microsoft would KILL to do this. Honestly, they would literally go out and kill puppies, kittens and baby seals all day long if it would allow them to control everything you install.
If apple get's away with it, you know they will follow in their footsteps.
We'd love to kill this fallacious analogy. Microsoft owns the content on the XBox. Microsoft's OS owns 3rd party PC OEMs. Apple doesn't. Get it?
Apple really isn't that innovative, they are simply 6-18 months earlier shipping something. They can get away with that because they can charge a premium. So, you get a $800 iPad with OS X today, or a $300 Chrome OS pad next year.
None too swift about Patents I see.
Except, e-ink displays are reported to be easier on the eyes to read, because they are a reflective surface and not an illuminated one.
Having read books on my computer screen, the only advantage is that it scrolls relatively smoothly. Otherwise, my eyes felt like they'd been sucked out Gollumn-style after 4 hours of reading. I'd much rather read on an e-ink display, even if I were near an outlet. I am also unlikely to try and read in the dark, where an LCD screen would be more visible.
I spend 10 hours a day before my HP LP2475w H-IPS panel. My eyes don't bulge at all and I've got contacts.
better resolution that iPhone
Actually it has a WORSE resolution than the iPhone (132ppi Vs 163ppi), the screen is just bigger, but not as sharp.
And your laptop resolution is less than them both. The larger screen at 132ppi will pop to people currently used to laptops and desktops.
no camera, no microphone, I don't see you ditching your iphone any time soon... or at least they haven't shown either up to now
Bluetooth headset eliminates the need for a microphone, so you could skype, I suppose.
This site continues to show, like the parent you responded to how come they never see the storm behind Apple that is a Cash Cow. 3rd party opportunities for customization is high.
WRONG!
ESPN, Hulu, YouTube [Google] and many others are moving to H.264 backends w/o Flash. Check out the licensee list for H.264 for a reference.
Nope.
Wi-fi versions are $499, $599, $699 for 16/32/64GB versions, respectively.
3G versions are $629, $729, $829, respectively.
$120 for 3G? Now just.. wtf? And does it even have both then, or is it either one that you choose?
3G is for outside. Wifi is for inside use. ffs.
3G + GPS
That's literally a couple of clicks, ie. two. On Ars Technica the comment thread was full of nerd rage about a change that takes a single second to undo. Even if they did change it on every upgrade it wouldn't be a big deal (though annoying).
Note that the engine WILL change to Yahoo when you upgrade to 10.04 IF you are currently using Google, ie. if you are using the 10.04 default provider. In that case it will upgrade from one default to the next default. Once you are using a custom search provider, it supposedly won't touch it later.
How technically savvy can these nerds be if they are up in arms with this change?
Forget global warming. Your SUV is causing universal warming!
Whose to say we're just not experiencing the reversible cycle?
Absolutely. I live in Japan, and I often regale my Japanese friends with tales of the tales I was told of Japan growing up--which ended up with me living here (it's a nice place to live, if you speak/read the language). People laugh outloud, because they grew up in those days and know what it was really like.
That being said, the US economy collapsed, while my salary-in-yen is worth more dollars than I've ever seen. It's awesome when I go back home to see the folks, but shit when I remember that the bulk of my savings is in US banks.
However, the big difference here is that Japan is a small country--geographically and demographically. China is neither. I fully expect us to have our asses handed to us. The US is over. Japan is even more over.
Since when is approximately 128 Million people on a geographically tiny island small? It's the tenth largest, just behind Russia. If were judging by Population you'd expect the control of the world's economies to be a sparring match between India and China. China either expands economically at the current rate of ~ 8% or its system will crash. The US has solid growth when it reaches 3 to 4%, year over year. China isn't going to be these IP haven people believe it will become. People will demand a bigger piece of the pie for their research and will find friendlier shores abroad.
Last I checked, the nerd/jock dualism doesn't exist in college.
You were clearly never an engineering, applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc., university student.
Yeah, given recent SCOTUS decisions, the government is now available to the highest bidder. Expect to see the power and privileges of multi-national corporations skyrocket, while the little guys get the shaft. I expect that Disney will buy up all our national parks. Everything will be privatized, and the uber-corps will make sure all public services are illegal. Private police forces, fire departments, roads: everything. And if you can't pay, don't expect help. Those who can't pay will be expected to starve to death, like stray dogs in the streets.
The funny thing is that some people on the right still think Obama is a socialist. He's the opposite of that. He's going to make sure health care reform dies a messy and painful death, and he's going to sell off the government to the highest bidders. He showed his real colors when he kowtowed to Wall Street.
Gawd I can't decide whether you missed out on the 60s or fully understand the separate but co-equal three branches of government where the US Congress just got told to get off it's collective ass and explicitly define language about Campaign reform if they truly want to be serious about it. They now have a shot at doing it correctly and not the bulls***, watered down crap called McCain/Feingold.
I personally think SETI is misguided, even though its aims are commendable. There probably is intelligent life out there, but it is a possibility that earth could have been the first planet on which it developed.
But I see two very great problems with SETI.
First is the limited range; nobody more than around 150 light years away would be able to detect intelligent life on earth.
If we do find them they're likely to be more intelligent than us, they may turn out to be hostile, and they may discover that we are tasty, or good speceship fuel, etc. They may be intelligent enough that we don't even appear sentient to them. I'm not sure I want us to find intelligent extraterrestrials.
How the hell does that make one ounce of rational sense? We are able to now measure the Universe at billions of years older than Earth and yet Earth is possibly the first planet to have intelligent life developed on it? You cannot be serious.