Respectively: Web surfing - a proper keyboard is a must if you are doing anything more serious than hanging around in Facebook, multitouch touchpads aren't new, BTW. Gaming - I haven't looked around, but I think you can do a tad better than Intel Graphics My Ass for that money, though I may be wrong. I think the interface is more important - and a trackpad is still better that a touchscreen, add in a trackpoint, and you are golden. Not to mention the keyboard - again. An 8" might be findable, but whatever. Ever since consumer electronics came in, men switched from arguing "mine's bigger" to "mine's smaller" - with the same usefulness. Tablets may not need switchable batteries, but they are quite useful in a laptop. And frankly, I think it's more of a market issue - no technical problem stuffing an over-sized battery in a laptop - actually easier than in a tablet - but no manufacturer is arsed to do it apparently.
Except one - being Turing complete - you can't run what you want on an iPad, and that's a dealbreaker if you want to compete with the laptop industry, as it has PC traditions in it.
Better idea - no discrimination between phone models and makes, full stop. What is required for one phone on the network, goes with the others. I'd like to see them try to charge for a dataplan for a feature phone. They will, and will fail, badly. And will get rid of the stupid requirement. Best case - free data for all!
Not to be rude, but you are wrong on all counts, except for the first, and frankly nobody gives a fuck up about screwing with Wi-Fi. The feds included. And not it can't screw with other frequencies, if the hardware passed FFC approval at all. Except for channel 14, which is okay for other reasons. The signaling stack is usually on another CPU, or run under a hypervizor with full protection. You can screw with interrupts if you want, but you cant screw with the radio. At least, not in such a way to endanger the network. Masked ID? The SIM is a full blown smartcard. Private keys and all. No reasonable way of screwing with ID.
May I remind you that the MMU in itself is not a performance issue - switching CPU state is. Which means that multiple switchable register files and stacks for the CPU would solve the problem, as well as lazy state switching, incrementally writing out state to cache/memory. Though AID tagged caches and TLB is must.
Hardware bugs are not non-existent, and a VM can be smaller and simpler than those used today, creating a similar attack surface, and no one said it can't be hardware accelerated. Not to mention that the VMem code in the kernel is a layer of complexity in itself.
Apparently all of you guys are either constantly typing drunk, or are using off center, shallow, coarse, and placed way too close to the keyboard touchpads. They are probably insensitive as a middle-aged Japanese woman on meth. Get yourself a decent laptop (though I always considered Lenovo to be grade A quality), and learn to rest your hands appropriately. Hell, I have issues with tying my shoelaces, yet keep a steady 80 wpm on this old but nice FSC AMILO.
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Why cover the road - special charging sections, with RFID billing would do the trick. They would be god sent at red lights.
And that is where the stickers come in: as legal disclaimers.
A well designed flywheel is much safer.
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Internally, it is Turing complete, but the state machine presented to the user, is not.
I know there are Java based OSes, but Java is not what one would normally consider a system programming language.
Respectively:
Web surfing - a proper keyboard is a must if you are doing anything more serious than hanging around in Facebook, multitouch touchpads aren't new, BTW.
Gaming - I haven't looked around, but I think you can do a tad better than Intel Graphics My Ass for that money, though I may be wrong. I think the interface is more important - and a trackpad is still better that a touchscreen, add in a trackpoint, and you are golden. Not to mention the keyboard - again.
An 8" might be findable, but whatever. Ever since consumer electronics came in, men switched from arguing "mine's bigger" to "mine's smaller" - with the same usefulness.
Tablets may not need switchable batteries, but they are quite useful in a laptop. And frankly, I think it's more of a market issue - no technical problem stuffing an over-sized battery in a laptop - actually easier than in a tablet - but no manufacturer is arsed to do it apparently.
A sub $300 SSD ought to fix that. Apples and oranges.
*hug* It's okay - it's a bad meme anyway.
Except one - being Turing complete - you can't run what you want on an iPad, and that's a dealbreaker if you want to compete with the laptop industry, as it has PC traditions in it.
Keyboard with no tactile response? Do not want. Something like a an overpowered Commodore 64 - foldable, with microprojector ought to do better.
How is any of that relevant to the GPP?
Touchscreen + rotating hinge = tablet/laptop
Wonder if manufacturers will catch on.
Better idea - no discrimination between phone models and makes, full stop. What is required for one phone on the network, goes with the others. I'd like to see them try to charge for a dataplan for a feature phone. They will, and will fail, badly. And will get rid of the stupid requirement. Best case - free data for all!
Not to be rude, but you are wrong on all counts, except for the first, and frankly nobody gives a fuck up about screwing with Wi-Fi. The feds included. And not it can't screw with other frequencies, if the hardware passed FFC approval at all. Except for channel 14, which is okay for other reasons. The signaling stack is usually on another CPU, or run under a hypervizor with full protection. You can screw with interrupts if you want, but you cant screw with the radio. At least, not in such a way to endanger the network. Masked ID? The SIM is a full blown smartcard. Private keys and all. No reasonable way of screwing with ID.
http://blog.llvm.org/2010/06/tce-project-co-design-of-application.html
May I remind you that the MMU in itself is not a performance issue - switching CPU state is. Which means that multiple switchable register files and stacks for the CPU would solve the problem, as well as lazy state switching, incrementally writing out state to cache/memory. Though AID tagged caches and TLB is must.
Hardware bugs are not non-existent, and a VM can be smaller and simpler than those used today, creating a similar attack surface, and no one said it can't be hardware accelerated. Not to mention that the VMem code in the kernel is a layer of complexity in itself.
Code to the standard and submit your whole game as a test case for the relevant bug.
How is this better than a touchpad?
Apparently all of you guys are either constantly typing drunk, or are using off center, shallow, coarse, and placed way too close to the keyboard touchpads. They are probably insensitive as a middle-aged Japanese woman on meth. Get yourself a decent laptop (though I always considered Lenovo to be grade A quality), and learn to rest your hands appropriately. Hell, I have issues with tying my shoelaces, yet keep a steady 80 wpm on this old but nice FSC AMILO.
A touchpad can beat both any day of the week.
Ballmer peak, anyone...
Wrong, he was into opiates.
Describe to cause and effect here, as if to a first grader. Would you?