If you have a home network of less than 14 hosts, just fill the host section with any letter from a to b. eg, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB, etc. Label each host A, B, etc:D
You do realise just how many IP addresses we have with IPv6? Even if they had only 34 bits for the network part, thats about 2-3 networks (of 2^94 possible hosts) for every man, woman and child on the planet.
If that runs out, we can go to NAT, which plenty of the 'tards seem so reluctant to give up.
Micro USB i'll give you, but for many myself included the battery/sd slot are "meh" features I'll never use. And without retention mechanisms to fall off/break and consume internal space - the space can be better used for more battery.
I know some software for Android is written against the NDK but lots of it is not, is it fair to compare that against all the iPhone apps that are native?
As far as the end user is concerned, whether it is native code or not is irrelevant. The available apps should be compared. If they run fast, that's all the user cares about. Some theoretical e-peen contest about "oh my smartphone has a quad core CPU that is way faster" doesn't matter if the software available consumes far more resources and doesn't run as fast.
No but there are plenty of apps that could be run with say, a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and an external display. Thus nullifying many user's need for a traditional PC in addition to the tablet. And there are other apps that could be adapted to have a scalable UI (like MS is/attempting/ to do with Win8).
None have had cases. In my experience it all depends very much on the luck of the draw - how they land. The 3g-s was dropped at least 10-15 times, often onto bitumen, tiles, concrete, etc. It had a crack in the screen after about drop number 3 (bad luck drop!), but it was still fine. Eventually it died when it fell out of my pocket onto CARPET whilst ferretting around under a desk. I suspect the ribbon cable came loose to the screen.
The 3g was dropped almost as much, and i just passed it off to someone else (company phone) when I upgraded after 12 months.
The 4s has been dropped multiple times onto tiles, and has a small dent in one corner. Screen is fine. It has a quirk where it will randomly do "volume up" whenever it feels like it, but other than that, it is fine.
To get one to die after drop #1, you need to be exceedingly unlucky. Between my 3 phones they've had over 30-50 drops onto various hard surfaces from 2-4 feet high - plenty more onto carpet, and I've only actually killed one of them.
Anecdotal of course... but that's my personal experience.
Yes, they're used in high end servers and mainframes. Where power consumption isn't as important.
There is no real suitable PPC processor on the market for laptops. The potential market share is not there to justify the effort to develop one, either.
I bet that Apple did not make the decision based on technical grounds, it was probably a business decision.
Actually it was both; the great irony is that Apple ditched PPC and went to x86 because of better power consumption with the new intel gear. The core onwards CPUs, in terms of performance per watt, have been awesome and were far and away leaps and bounds better than anything IBM/Motorola could offer with the RISC powerPC processors. If apple didn't go x86 and tried to stick with PPC, they would have been slaughtered in the notebook market, which is/was the fastest growing personal computer segment. Neither IBM or Motorola gave a crap about making a CPU to cater to apples 10% of the portable computer market.
There's a lot of "RISC is so much better for power!" crap floating around, and maybe in theory it is. However in practice when you take into account real world applications and the "race to sleep", having a more powerful, CISC based core with an instruction set that provides many many functions in hardware can help offset the "in theory" better power consumption of the RISC competition. That and the fact that intel has the world's best fabs.
The only advantages x86 has over ARM are performance and the ability to run closed source x86-only binaries...
Performance is generally less important than power consumption in an embedded device,
2 things: with the advent of smartphones that play 3d games - CPU performance is becoming more important. Also, that ability to run closed source x86 binaries is huge.
In terms of performance per watt, intel is doing pretty well. Phones and tablets are becoming less about absolute minimum consumption, and more about performance per watt. Intel also have the best fabs in the world. Yes, x86 is an ugly bastard hack of an architecture, but people have been trying to kill it off since the 80s. All have failed.
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They're modding you down because you don't know what you're talking about.
Well the customer has a choice of sticking with the brain damage (and running ipv4 only), or fixing it in transition.
Network administration: you're doing it wrong.
Hasn't been a way of blocking windows this easily since running on high TCP ports that 16 bit winsock can't support :D
Bind config hard? You obviously don't remember the days of sendmail before M4.
If you have a home network of less than 14 hosts, just fill the host section with any letter from a to b. eg, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB, etc. Label each host A, B, etc :D
You do realise just how many IP addresses we have with IPv6? Even if they had only 34 bits for the network part, thats about 2-3 networks (of 2^94 possible hosts) for every man, woman and child on the planet.
If that runs out, we can go to NAT, which plenty of the 'tards seem so reluctant to give up.
Or, you know... you could do it properly and use DNS. If your DNS is broken you have more serious issues.
You're doing it wrong.
Yeah, eventually my 3g-s developed some slight cracks. But it was 2 versions old by that point and I went to the 4-s.
Because calculating Pi is the primary criteria people look for in a mobile CPU.
Whether you can or not is irrelevant. The apps that matter are the ones out there available to install.
Micro USB i'll give you, but for many myself included the battery/sd slot are "meh" features I'll never use. And without retention mechanisms to fall off/break and consume internal space - the space can be better used for more battery.
Because it is actually true, and demonstrably so.
As far as the end user is concerned, whether it is native code or not is irrelevant. The available apps should be compared. If they run fast, that's all the user cares about. Some theoretical e-peen contest about "oh my smartphone has a quad core CPU that is way faster" doesn't matter if the software available consumes far more resources and doesn't run as fast.
No but there are plenty of apps that could be run with say, a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and an external display. Thus nullifying many user's need for a traditional PC in addition to the tablet. And there are other apps that could be adapted to have a scalable UI (like MS is /attempting/ to do with Win8).
Maybe they're less nerdy and go outside and do stuff. :D
I've been through 3 iphones - a 3g, 3g-s and 4-s.
None have had cases. In my experience it all depends very much on the luck of the draw - how they land. The 3g-s was dropped at least 10-15 times, often onto bitumen, tiles, concrete, etc. It had a crack in the screen after about drop number 3 (bad luck drop!), but it was still fine. Eventually it died when it fell out of my pocket onto CARPET whilst ferretting around under a desk. I suspect the ribbon cable came loose to the screen.
The 3g was dropped almost as much, and i just passed it off to someone else (company phone) when I upgraded after 12 months.
The 4s has been dropped multiple times onto tiles, and has a small dent in one corner. Screen is fine. It has a quirk where it will randomly do "volume up" whenever it feels like it, but other than that, it is fine.
To get one to die after drop #1, you need to be exceedingly unlucky. Between my 3 phones they've had over 30-50 drops onto various hard surfaces from 2-4 feet high - plenty more onto carpet, and I've only actually killed one of them.
Anecdotal of course... but that's my personal experience.
2003 called, and wants it's laptop form factor back.
You missed the "per watt" part. PPC has not been designed for mobile. The potential mobile market to run PPC software is non-existent.
Yes, they're used in high end servers and mainframes. Where power consumption isn't as important.
There is no real suitable PPC processor on the market for laptops. The potential market share is not there to justify the effort to develop one, either.
Actually it was both; the great irony is that Apple ditched PPC and went to x86 because of better power consumption with the new intel gear. The core onwards CPUs, in terms of performance per watt, have been awesome and were far and away leaps and bounds better than anything IBM/Motorola could offer with the RISC powerPC processors. If apple didn't go x86 and tried to stick with PPC, they would have been slaughtered in the notebook market, which is/was the fastest growing personal computer segment. Neither IBM or Motorola gave a crap about making a CPU to cater to apples 10% of the portable computer market.
There's a lot of "RISC is so much better for power!" crap floating around, and maybe in theory it is. However in practice when you take into account real world applications and the "race to sleep", having a more powerful, CISC based core with an instruction set that provides many many functions in hardware can help offset the "in theory" better power consumption of the RISC competition. That and the fact that intel has the world's best fabs.
2 things: with the advent of smartphones that play 3d games - CPU performance is becoming more important. Also, that ability to run closed source x86 binaries is huge.
In terms of performance per watt, intel is doing pretty well. Phones and tablets are becoming less about absolute minimum consumption, and more about performance per watt. Intel also have the best fabs in the world. Yes, x86 is an ugly bastard hack of an architecture, but people have been trying to kill it off since the 80s. All have failed.
I predict clover trail will be a roaring success.
Yup, we have a fleet of iphones, been buying them since the 3G. You know how many antenna/reception complaints we had? Zero.