If you don't have voting machines, how can you get assistance from the manufacturer to rig the election? I recall in the 2004 election (?) that exit polls for a couple of states reflected the opposite to the final count. There is zero need for machines to do this, the lack of transparency makes it far too easy to manipulate the vote.
There are plenty of people who download kernel code from mirror sites without checking the hash matches. The kernel code for OS X is open too. It's called darwin.
My reason for it is because my laptop is a desktop replacement. This time around, I haven't bothered to upgrade my desktop hardware - Laptop hardware is powerful enough these days to plug into AC when at a desk and heavy lifting is required, and still be able to take the machine on the road with me - getting decent battery life for the low-processing stuff while mobile, and getting all the horsepower when i get to an AC outlet.
LAN gaming session? No monitor to lug around, no big case to carry in from the car in 2 trips, no mess of cables everywhere, no syncing, no issues with "oh crap, that's on my other machine", etc.
I also get free battery backup.
As far as I'm concerned, desktop hardware is mostly dead. This is beginning to be reflected in hardware sales of portable vs desktop machines. Sure, there are a few niches where you can get better performance (extreme high end gaming, etc.), but for the most part, laptop hardware now is plenty to run just about any consumer application out there.
Shitty consumer oriented hardware not suitable for enterprise class data integrity and retention.
If you need data integrity and cache, you need a battery backed up IO controller and UPS for a start. If you're relying on the fact that turning cache off on the drive is going to ensure that your writes complete before the power goes out to the drive, you've already set sail for fail.
Oh don't get me wrong, i don't transcode on battery. But its just an illustration of how far we have to go with regards to power consumption vs. throughput.
I think they'll still sell cores by default. If you think software hasn't kept up, the real laggard is IO bandwidth.
To get the faster IO, you need a new motherboard. Which uses the new socket, and the new CPU.
And yeah, writing multithreaded software is pretty hard, but apple is headed in the right direction with grand central. There's plenty of software I run on my macbook that makes use of all 8 threads. Increasing use of sandboxing/virtualisation on the desktop will consume more cores as well.
But I agree, software hasn't kept up in general. There are still big gains from the new CPUs in the niche workloads that you typically wait a long time for to complete though (transcoding, compiling, etc). And really, any less waiting I do, the better.
The mobile space also has a long way to go. At the moment, it is all about race to sleep. The CPU in my machine for example (core i7 2720QM) is blisteringly fast, but when pressed consumes a huge amount of battery and generates a large amount of heat. Actually pushing the machine whilst on battery (e.g., handbrake) can drain it totally in 45 minutes or so. The faster it can get a job done and get back to sleep, the better.
If we can get similar performance with lower power draw and thermal output - or faster cores that can simply "race to sleep" faster, there's a win for mobile.
The other thing they can sell is higher core/thread counts. I'm not sure if you've compared IPC of a core2 vs sandy bridge, but depending on the processing being done, there can be several order of magnitude speed improvement. AES in hardware for example is 30x faster on the Core i series.
There is some way to go software wise for thread counts to scale effectively, but we are getting there. Most of the bulk batch jobs that end users do are embarassingly parallel in any case (transcoding being a big one).
My entire media library is 750gb. I'm going to need to pick what to sync, and anywhere near 32gb is going to be several days of continuous music before repeat...
I play games. Just not games better suited to a dedicated console or PC. Yes, the only games on my iphone are likely under 100 meg each to kill 5 minutes at a time.
The killer feature is the (potentially) microsoft eco-system (much like apple gear, if you play entirely within the apple world it all works together seamlessly). If MS can make Windows mobile 8 seamlessly sync with Windows (no iTunes!), be managed easily via Windows Server for the enterprise and perform as well as an iPhone (native code!) they could have a good product on their hands.
Companies like apple and microsoft "patent troll" because if they don't, under the US legal system others will troll them.
That said Samsung was totally taking the piss. There was no need to copy the packaging, store decor, promo material, icons, dock connector, etc.
They deserve the legal smack down imho. That lawsuit isn't about any single individual feature (it's not round rects ffs), its about large scale cloning of all of those features in a single device.
If they can make email and web browsing work well on this phone, it has the potential to sell like hotcakes to the enterprise.
The enterprise is tolerating iphones despite the lack of good tools included with Exchange / Windows to manage them, and the lack of both mac hardware and developers on staff to write apps for them. And also despite the lack of ability to easily manage data leakage (who owns the corporate data stored in the Apple ID's icloud account?), enterprise application deployment, the need for an Apple ID, etc.
If Windows mobile can provide something as good at web browsing and email, with an easy to use development kit, and full enterprise support for the device in exchange and other active directory tools, it will make a killing.
And I say that as a happy iPhone user / Mac fan - I'm an enterprise admin by day, and managing either iOS or Android on the corporate network is nowhere near as easy as it should be.
Apple "get away" with the lack of an SD card slot because most normal people don't actually care. I had a heap of phones with SD card slots before my iPhone, and you know how many times I swapped/upgraded cards from the supplied one? Never.
Meanwhile, there was a socket, retention mechanism, etc to hold the card in the phone that could have been eliminated to make the device smaller, or consumed by more battery space.
If you have enough storage on the device (personally 16gb is plenty for me, i would guess 32gb is plenty for most others), all a slot does is waste space and provide another mechanism to break.
Yes, there is a niche for people who want a slot. But I doubt it is worth compromising other areas of the phone (size, battery, durability) for the other 90% of users who do not care about that feature.
Yup, aware of that. However concorde used it as a heat sink (pretty sure it was an integral part of the air conditioning system), rather than to reduce combustion temps in the engine.
I agree, full immersion cooling sounds retarded. Far better to do with radiators (to dissipate actually the heat transferred into the oil), a pump and less liquid. Oil is heavy. Filling the entire case with it, even if it does work fine, will just turn your 30kg rack mount machine into a 50-60kg rack mount machine.
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7 inch tablets were dead on arrival. apple making one that works won't change that.
actually, i am a geek (just slightly more jaded in terms of security than a lot of others) and for me the sandbox is a feature.
Agreed. But I suspect Ive may be the guy. He's non-technical, but knows what he wants aesthetically / UI wise.
It would be revolutionary.
Developers! Developers! Developers! /throw chair
If you don't have voting machines, how can you get assistance from the manufacturer to rig the election? I recall in the 2004 election (?) that exit polls for a couple of states reflected the opposite to the final count. There is zero need for machines to do this, the lack of transparency makes it far too easy to manipulate the vote.
I've run Windows on the desktop (along with Linux and OS X) and have yet to get an infection on any OS since 2001. What's your point?
Muppet administrator = risk, regardless of OS.
There are plenty of people who download kernel code from mirror sites without checking the hash matches. The kernel code for OS X is open too. It's called darwin.
Because NSA / CIA haven't cracked 2048 bit yet, silly.
My reason for it is because my laptop is a desktop replacement. This time around, I haven't bothered to upgrade my desktop hardware - Laptop hardware is powerful enough these days to plug into AC when at a desk and heavy lifting is required, and still be able to take the machine on the road with me - getting decent battery life for the low-processing stuff while mobile, and getting all the horsepower when i get to an AC outlet.
LAN gaming session? No monitor to lug around, no big case to carry in from the car in 2 trips, no mess of cables everywhere, no syncing, no issues with "oh crap, that's on my other machine", etc.
I also get free battery backup.
As far as I'm concerned, desktop hardware is mostly dead. This is beginning to be reflected in hardware sales of portable vs desktop machines. Sure, there are a few niches where you can get better performance (extreme high end gaming, etc.), but for the most part, laptop hardware now is plenty to run just about any consumer application out there.
Shitty consumer oriented hardware not suitable for enterprise class data integrity and retention.
If you need data integrity and cache, you need a battery backed up IO controller and UPS for a start. If you're relying on the fact that turning cache off on the drive is going to ensure that your writes complete before the power goes out to the drive, you've already set sail for fail.
Oh don't get me wrong, i don't transcode on battery. But its just an illustration of how far we have to go with regards to power consumption vs. throughput.
If you can't cite the sources, then it is just pure opinion / speculation on the part of the author.
"according to sources", Steve Ballmer has taken over Steve Jobs' position at apple. With no mention of sources, its just FUD.
I think they'll still sell cores by default. If you think software hasn't kept up, the real laggard is IO bandwidth.
To get the faster IO, you need a new motherboard. Which uses the new socket, and the new CPU.
And yeah, writing multithreaded software is pretty hard, but apple is headed in the right direction with grand central. There's plenty of software I run on my macbook that makes use of all 8 threads. Increasing use of sandboxing/virtualisation on the desktop will consume more cores as well.
But I agree, software hasn't kept up in general. There are still big gains from the new CPUs in the niche workloads that you typically wait a long time for to complete though (transcoding, compiling, etc). And really, any less waiting I do, the better.
The mobile space also has a long way to go. At the moment, it is all about race to sleep. The CPU in my machine for example (core i7 2720QM) is blisteringly fast, but when pressed consumes a huge amount of battery and generates a large amount of heat. Actually pushing the machine whilst on battery (e.g., handbrake) can drain it totally in 45 minutes or so. The faster it can get a job done and get back to sleep, the better.
If we can get similar performance with lower power draw and thermal output - or faster cores that can simply "race to sleep" faster, there's a win for mobile.
The other thing they can sell is higher core/thread counts. I'm not sure if you've compared IPC of a core2 vs sandy bridge, but depending on the processing being done, there can be several order of magnitude speed improvement. AES in hardware for example is 30x faster on the Core i series.
There is some way to go software wise for thread counts to scale effectively, but we are getting there. Most of the bulk batch jobs that end users do are embarassingly parallel in any case (transcoding being a big one).
My entire media library is 750gb. I'm going to need to pick what to sync, and anywhere near 32gb is going to be several days of continuous music before repeat...
I play games. Just not games better suited to a dedicated console or PC. Yes, the only games on my iphone are likely under 100 meg each to kill 5 minutes at a time.
The killer feature is the (potentially) microsoft eco-system (much like apple gear, if you play entirely within the apple world it all works together seamlessly). If MS can make Windows mobile 8 seamlessly sync with Windows (no iTunes!), be managed easily via Windows Server for the enterprise and perform as well as an iPhone (native code!) they could have a good product on their hands.
Companies like apple and microsoft "patent troll" because if they don't, under the US legal system others will troll them.
That said Samsung was totally taking the piss. There was no need to copy the packaging, store decor, promo material, icons, dock connector, etc.
They deserve the legal smack down imho. That lawsuit isn't about any single individual feature (it's not round rects ffs), its about large scale cloning of all of those features in a single device.
If they can make email and web browsing work well on this phone, it has the potential to sell like hotcakes to the enterprise.
The enterprise is tolerating iphones despite the lack of good tools included with Exchange / Windows to manage them, and the lack of both mac hardware and developers on staff to write apps for them. And also despite the lack of ability to easily manage data leakage (who owns the corporate data stored in the Apple ID's icloud account?), enterprise application deployment, the need for an Apple ID, etc.
If Windows mobile can provide something as good at web browsing and email, with an easy to use development kit, and full enterprise support for the device in exchange and other active directory tools, it will make a killing.
And I say that as a happy iPhone user / Mac fan - I'm an enterprise admin by day, and managing either iOS or Android on the corporate network is nowhere near as easy as it should be.
Apple "get away" with the lack of an SD card slot because most normal people don't actually care. I had a heap of phones with SD card slots before my iPhone, and you know how many times I swapped/upgraded cards from the supplied one? Never.
Meanwhile, there was a socket, retention mechanism, etc to hold the card in the phone that could have been eliminated to make the device smaller, or consumed by more battery space.
If you have enough storage on the device (personally 16gb is plenty for me, i would guess 32gb is plenty for most others), all a slot does is waste space and provide another mechanism to break.
Yes, there is a niche for people who want a slot. But I doubt it is worth compromising other areas of the phone (size, battery, durability) for the other 90% of users who do not care about that feature.
Yup, aware of that. However concorde used it as a heat sink (pretty sure it was an integral part of the air conditioning system), rather than to reduce combustion temps in the engine.
I agree, full immersion cooling sounds retarded. Far better to do with radiators (to dissipate actually the heat transferred into the oil), a pump and less liquid. Oil is heavy. Filling the entire case with it, even if it does work fine, will just turn your 30kg rack mount machine into a 50-60kg rack mount machine.
Most of the big ones on 2003 currently that I'm aware of are upgrading to 2007 / 2010 in the next 6 months.
Yup, that lack of SD slot sure killed the iPhone. And the iPod.