The CPU in Llano is 2 generations back... with Athlon II. Beating the pants off Bulldozer is easy for Intel: just find a benchmark optimized for single threads, compiled with ICC, or weights the single threaded result. One of the major new features, the random number generator, wasn't even tested. Monte Carlo benchmarks, where are you?
These decisions hopefully aren't being made lightly. I can't tell if you were let go subtlely (company is heading in a different direction) or if you really had so little to do with the decision making process and your division was making so little money that the change was being made. I bring this up because open source software is primarily used, not advertised. Sure, it'll be advertised by your department so the clients understand the base features, but I wouldn't expect to see a Drupal or Django advertisement on the TV anytime soon.
Assuming the change really was your decision, open source is everywhere, like Java. Wait, Java is open source, so everywhere x2, like some kind of open-souce-ception.
The EPA exists to protect businesses from lawsuits.
No. Environmental services companies exist to protect businesses from lawsuits caused by EPA noncompliance. In addition, the EPA is yet another underfunded government regulatory agency, so they don't have the resources to patrol the discharges of every industrial and commercial company in the area (but they did sell them the permit, if they have one).
The legal limit just protects them from the EPA. If someone suffered harm from the discharge, the harmed could sue. I would expect a reasonable judge would get the company for all they're worth. Most people avoid doing things that would be obviously bad for them so people swimming in concentrated industrial discharge are few or already earned a darwin award.
So if libertarians had their way, Gamber's ruin would cause a greater imbalance in the distribution of wealth: the people with fewer resources would not have the government (EPA) to protect them, and the people with more resources could buy people that can fix their problems.
Apple also contributes back - they made so much improvements into KDE's browser that KDE just basically re-absorbed back in the entire webkit, among other things.
Webkit is not KHTML. They are still seperate, and Konqueror doesn't use it as the default backend. Reconq, however, does.
MP3s have been un-DRM"ed for quite a few years now - Apple was the one pushing for it, but of course, OP conveniently forgets that.
Amazon was selling it DRM-free September 2008 while Apple was pushing it (until 6 Jan 2009). Before these, Walmart on Aug. 2007, and others never used it. Note that Walmart was selling PlaysForSure WMAs and switched to MP3s.
The #1 tedious job that this machine is working towards is brickwork. You'd need an extra machine trailing to place the bricks and fill the gap between bricks, but I'm thinking the ideal case would be that after the foundation, get the entire outside wall placed and pointed overnight.
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He's older than that. You have some powerfully tinted rose-colored goggles if you want OS X to look like OS 9.
Back then, the Mac desktop was filled up with aliases, you didn't default copy things from disk (you just made 'links'), and the dock was more like a control panel with advertising for whatever you installed. Although his argument could apply to OS 10.7, a user can turn the extra features off.
With Windows, the 'classic' Windows 7 theme is a lot less usable than a 'tuned' Aero Windows 7 theme. Aero has better notification, better window management, and buttons that cram more usefullness out of limited screen real estate.
What is condescending in Windows, and most graphical interfaces, is the requirement of using a program like AutoHotkey to do custom keyboard shortcuts. When touch devices start to wear out (or when the mouse pointer goes mad), (i)OS X and Windows don't have an alternative, fast method for an experienced user to navigate the system, but Ubuntu Unity does.
It is ludricrious to send and receive documents without Windows and Office as it means unprofessionalism and lost sales.
And the rest of us that open ODF files in Google Docs or Wordpad are just fine. FWIW, businesses upgrade to the most recent version of Office when they upgrade the systems, because you can't get the depreciation tax deduction on fully depreciated hardware (assuming your company is profitable enough to want the deduction).
I fail to see how Mozilla and Google are competitors. For one, Google doesn't offer a stand-alone email client, they just use the browser. Another obvious note is Google Summer of Code regularly funds things that they have internal projects on, i.e. pidgin vs. gtalk. It's easy to assume that Google is a software company behaving like a software company since that's what we've seen before. But Google is a services company that deals in software that uses those services. A car analogy: Google built a highway that is so smooth that you don't have to care what tires you're using -- Google's radials or Mozilla's -- because Google just wants to collect the tolls.
The advantage of Google having Chrome is that people that haven't heard of Mozilla and are wary of software they don't have to pay for can see a big professional name that is occasionally on TV. In addition, it allows in-house projects to be tested on an in-house platform to prevent snafus on release.
Roger Williams founded Providence Plantation which, with the Royal Charter of 1663, became Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Following the charter, many persecuted religions, notably Quakers and Jews, settled there.
One element has me curious about how these benchmarks were prepared: Is the benchmark software compiled on the target platform/cpu combination with all available optimisations of that platform?
Although/. has many haters for the site (ads everywhere), phoronix.com is the only benchmark site I've found that not only tells you, but tests out suggestions & rumors. The link compares AMD's Open64 compiler and gcc4.7 on an FX8150.
I want to believe that the FX series isn't inferior to everything it gets put up against because it is the first CPU with SSE4.1 & SSE4.2 AMD made, and was hoping _some_ benchmark software actually uses it.
rive at 70mph with your engine revving and hitting the brake pedal to stay at that speed
This is similar to driving with the emergency brake partially engaged. Although the brakes are slowing the vehicle, the brakes will eventually fail at no fault of the manufacturer.
The UA argument is a hypothetical event where the engine is full throttle because the brake petal is pressed. I've gotten this to occur somewhat when driving like crap (flooring the gas causing the automatic transmission to shift down and rpms to kick up, and then slam on the brakes before the clutch disengages) but the vehicle still slows properly.
Because of where it was happening, I assumed the drivers thought the world revolved around them: when vehicles around them slowed down faster then they were, they thought they were speeding up.
This release was motivated by the fact that access to
386BSD has not been provided to all interested parties on a
timely basis by the University or other sources, as we had
originally intended.
I'd rather work with software than a university bureaucracy.
it is still cheaper to burn a $0.10 - $0.17 CD, $0.20 - $0.32 DVD+R or a $0.75 DVD+RW than it is to trade a flash drive or flash card at $1/GB. Even at 5.8MB/s (4x DVD+RW) it's faster than the cheapest Class 2 SD card on newegg.
The SDXC standard for high capacity SD cards even requires exFAT support.
Which is why I don't understand why the extremely common UDF file format isn't used for everything at this point. 16EB is big enough for any simple disk system.
It is not the stove's fault that it is hot, rather it is the operator's fault. Fool me twice, nuke the stove from orbit; or to save money on expensive nuking materials, avoid the stove at all costs.
Easy [simple] isn't the same as hot. The challenge of conquering complex things is self-inflicted, the challenge of conquering hot things is mostly preparation.
In addition, Crysis was the topic when showing that PhysX is not optimized for x87, even though x87 is part of the Crytek system requirements. Although one may think that "it works on one graphics card but not the other" is a hardware deficiency, the software/game may rely on a bug or error elsewhere in the OS to operate correctly. The only way to be certain is to compile it from source.
OS X is what Linux on the desktop would look like. Developers using common libraries, accessing common APIs, extending the features of the UI to prevent odd workflow behavior, scripting to automate repetitive tasks, and a command line that allows tuning.
I used Linux for about 2 years before OS X released. From a desktop non-hardcore-user perspective, very little has changed for OS X, they still have many more similarities to NeXT/OpenSTEP spec than OS 9. The Linux desktop (and very much Solaris desktop, since they developed together) has gone from Gnome 1.4 (which had many CDE & RISCOS-like behaviors) to Gnome 3 & Ubuntu Unity which use (proven) ideas from the OLPC project. And you can't ignore XFCE (which uses GTK), LxDE, WindowMaker, and Enlightenment on a refrigerator , which show that these all are practical ways to administrate a Linux computer. Mac OS X doesn't have the ability to do that because it decided where desktop computing ends and server administration begins.
The article writer missed 2 points of the device he was criticizing - in principle a tablet proves that the limited feature set doesn't cripple usability, and practically the iPad 2 is $270 worth of components.
Put it this way: the iPad has audio input/output, optical input/output, physical input, network connectivity, and peripheral connectivity (bluetooth & dock). There is no physical limitation* preventing someone from using the device as a thin-client desktop, capable of everything the X20 can do. The only thing crippling the device, like all tablets, is the software.
A quick wikipedia search indicates the CUDA SDK came out Feb 2007 and the Streams SDK v1 came out Dec 2007. Following links from Streams gets you to BrookGPU, an ATI project using the Close-to-Metal programming interface who's last major release was 2004.
Microsoft is only an innovator where it has a monopoly.
With the discontinuation of the Flix engine, this marks the end of support for a Flash 8 codec. I imagine a few Wii owners that use Flash 8 to serve their media library will be largely apathetic.
I also doubt Nintendo will contract Opera to support WebM (VP8/vorbis), but one can hope.
Google does a pretty good job at figuring out where the interest is. FFMPEG is where Joe User is getting his free encoder, so good support in what's preferred can get your standards into the other browsers. FCP is sufficiently advanced and the iP[a-z] has enough market penetration that Apple doesn't have to care.
Google and Apple just told the DISA to talk to the integrators. They aren't getting special treatment which makes sense: as big as the DoD is, they are still smaller and more specialized than the general public which the devices were meant to serve.
This is a job for a small, tight-knit development company developing under NDA, i.e. integrator.
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The CPU in Llano is 2 generations back... with Athlon II. Beating the pants off Bulldozer is easy for Intel: just find a benchmark optimized for single threads, compiled with ICC, or weights the single threaded result. One of the major new features, the random number generator, wasn't even tested. Monte Carlo benchmarks, where are you?
These decisions hopefully aren't being made lightly. I can't tell if you were let go subtlely (company is heading in a different direction) or if you really had so little to do with the decision making process and your division was making so little money that the change was being made. I bring this up because open source software is primarily used, not advertised. Sure, it'll be advertised by your department so the clients understand the base features, but I wouldn't expect to see a Drupal or Django advertisement on the TV anytime soon.
Assuming the change really was your decision, open source is everywhere, like Java. Wait, Java is open source, so everywhere x2, like some kind of open-souce-ception.
The EPA exists to protect businesses from lawsuits.
No. Environmental services companies exist to protect businesses from lawsuits caused by EPA noncompliance. In addition, the EPA is yet another underfunded government regulatory agency, so they don't have the resources to patrol the discharges of every industrial and commercial company in the area (but they did sell them the permit, if they have one).
The legal limit just protects them from the EPA. If someone suffered harm from the discharge, the harmed could sue. I would expect a reasonable judge would get the company for all they're worth. Most people avoid doing things that would be obviously bad for them so people swimming in concentrated industrial discharge are few or already earned a darwin award.
So if libertarians had their way, Gamber's ruin would cause a greater imbalance in the distribution of wealth: the people with fewer resources would not have the government (EPA) to protect them, and the people with more resources could buy people that can fix their problems.
Apple also contributes back - they made so much improvements into KDE's browser that KDE just basically re-absorbed back in the entire webkit, among other things.
Webkit is not KHTML. They are still seperate, and Konqueror doesn't use it as the default backend. Reconq, however, does.
MP3s have been un-DRM"ed for quite a few years now - Apple was the one pushing for it, but of course, OP conveniently forgets that.
Amazon was selling it DRM-free September 2008 while Apple was pushing it (until 6 Jan 2009). Before these, Walmart on Aug. 2007, and others never used it. Note that Walmart was selling PlaysForSure WMAs and switched to MP3s.
The #1 tedious job that this machine is working towards is brickwork. You'd need an extra machine trailing to place the bricks and fill the gap between bricks, but I'm thinking the ideal case would be that after the foundation, get the entire outside wall placed and pointed overnight.
He's older than that. You have some powerfully tinted rose-colored goggles if you want OS X to look like OS 9.
Back then, the Mac desktop was filled up with aliases, you didn't default copy things from disk (you just made 'links'), and the dock was more like a control panel with advertising for whatever you installed. Although his argument could apply to OS 10.7, a user can turn the extra features off.
With Windows, the 'classic' Windows 7 theme is a lot less usable than a 'tuned' Aero Windows 7 theme. Aero has better notification, better window management, and buttons that cram more usefullness out of limited screen real estate.
What is condescending in Windows, and most graphical interfaces, is the requirement of using a program like AutoHotkey to do custom keyboard shortcuts. When touch devices start to wear out (or when the mouse pointer goes mad), (i)OS X and Windows don't have an alternative, fast method for an experienced user to navigate the system, but Ubuntu Unity does.
It is ludricrious to send and receive documents without Windows and Office as it means unprofessionalism and lost sales.
And the rest of us that open ODF files in Google Docs or Wordpad are just fine. FWIW, businesses upgrade to the most recent version of Office when they upgrade the systems, because you can't get the depreciation tax deduction on fully depreciated hardware (assuming your company is profitable enough to want the deduction).
I fail to see how Mozilla and Google are competitors. For one, Google doesn't offer a stand-alone email client, they just use the browser. Another obvious note is Google Summer of Code regularly funds things that they have internal projects on, i.e. pidgin vs. gtalk. It's easy to assume that Google is a software company behaving like a software company since that's what we've seen before. But Google is a services company that deals in software that uses those services. A car analogy: Google built a highway that is so smooth that you don't have to care what tires you're using -- Google's radials or Mozilla's -- because Google just wants to collect the tolls.
The advantage of Google having Chrome is that people that haven't heard of Mozilla and are wary of software they don't have to pay for can see a big professional name that is occasionally on TV. In addition, it allows in-house projects to be tested on an in-house platform to prevent snafus on release.
Actually, it took Johannes Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible.
Roger Williams founded Providence Plantation which, with the Royal Charter of 1663, became Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Following the charter, many persecuted religions, notably Quakers and Jews, settled there.
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
~Neils Bohr
Into Cerberon: http://www.chmodoplusr.com/IntoCerberon/
One element has me curious about how these benchmarks were prepared: Is the benchmark software compiled on the target platform/cpu combination with all available optimisations of that platform?
Although /. has many haters for the site (ads everywhere), phoronix.com is the only benchmark site I've found that not only tells you, but tests out suggestions & rumors. The link compares AMD's Open64 compiler and gcc4.7 on an FX8150.
I want to believe that the FX series isn't inferior to everything it gets put up against because it is the first CPU with SSE4.1 & SSE4.2 AMD made, and was hoping _some_ benchmark software actually uses it.
rive at 70mph with your engine revving and hitting the brake pedal to stay at that speed
This is similar to driving with the emergency brake partially engaged. Although the brakes are slowing the vehicle, the brakes will eventually fail at no fault of the manufacturer.
The UA argument is a hypothetical event where the engine is full throttle because the brake petal is pressed. I've gotten this to occur somewhat when driving like crap (flooring the gas causing the automatic transmission to shift down and rpms to kick up, and then slam on the brakes before the clutch disengages) but the vehicle still slows properly.
Because of where it was happening, I assumed the drivers thought the world revolved around them: when vehicles around them slowed down faster then they were, they thought they were speeding up.
The guiding line when implementing linux was: get it working fast.
Linux 0.01 was released into the Internet before 386BSD 0.0 (although you could get the sources out of DDJ).
From the 386BSD 0.0 Release:
This release was motivated by the fact that access to 386BSD has not been provided to all interested parties on a timely basis by the University or other sources, as we had originally intended.
I'd rather work with software than a university bureaucracy.
it is still cheaper to burn a $0.10 - $0.17 CD, $0.20 - $0.32 DVD+R or a $0.75 DVD+RW than it is to trade a flash drive or flash card at $1/GB. Even at 5.8MB/s (4x DVD+RW) it's faster than the cheapest Class 2 SD card on newegg.
The SDXC standard for high capacity SD cards even requires exFAT support.
Which is why I don't understand why the extremely common UDF file format isn't used for everything at this point. 16EB is big enough for any simple disk system.
It is not the stove's fault that it is hot, rather it is the operator's fault. Fool me twice, nuke the stove from orbit; or to save money on expensive nuking materials, avoid the stove at all costs.
Easy [simple] isn't the same as hot. The challenge of conquering complex things is self-inflicted, the challenge of conquering hot things is mostly preparation.
But unlike William Randolph Hurst, his publications aren't yellow.
In addition, Crysis was the topic when showing that PhysX is not optimized for x87, even though x87 is part of the Crytek system requirements. Although one may think that "it works on one graphics card but not the other" is a hardware deficiency, the software/game may rely on a bug or error elsewhere in the OS to operate correctly. The only way to be certain is to compile it from source.
OSX is what Linux wants to be when it grows up.
OS X is what Linux on the desktop would look like. Developers using common libraries, accessing common APIs, extending the features of the UI to prevent odd workflow behavior, scripting to automate repetitive tasks, and a command line that allows tuning.
I used Linux for about 2 years before OS X released. From a desktop non-hardcore-user perspective, very little has changed for OS X, they still have many more similarities to NeXT/OpenSTEP spec than OS 9. The Linux desktop (and very much Solaris desktop, since they developed together) has gone from Gnome 1.4 (which had many CDE & RISCOS-like behaviors) to Gnome 3 & Ubuntu Unity which use (proven) ideas from the OLPC project. And you can't ignore XFCE (which uses GTK), LxDE, WindowMaker, and Enlightenment on a refrigerator , which show that these all are practical ways to administrate a Linux computer. Mac OS X doesn't have the ability to do that because it decided where desktop computing ends and server administration begins.
The article writer missed 2 points of the device he was criticizing - in principle a tablet proves that the limited feature set doesn't cripple usability, and practically the iPad 2 is $270 worth of components.
Put it this way: the iPad has audio input/output, optical input/output, physical input, network connectivity, and peripheral connectivity (bluetooth & dock). There is no physical limitation* preventing someone from using the device as a thin-client desktop, capable of everything the X20 can do. The only thing crippling the device, like all tablets, is the software.
*the X20 does have a high-speed data bus
A quick wikipedia search indicates the CUDA SDK came out Feb 2007 and the Streams SDK v1 came out Dec 2007. Following links from Streams gets you to BrookGPU, an ATI project using the Close-to-Metal programming interface who's last major release was 2004.
Microsoft is only an innovator where it has a monopoly.
With the discontinuation of the Flix engine, this marks the end of support for a Flash 8 codec. I imagine a few Wii owners that use Flash 8 to serve their media library will be largely apathetic.
I also doubt Nintendo will contract Opera to support WebM (VP8/vorbis), but one can hope.
Google does a pretty good job at figuring out where the interest is. FFMPEG is where Joe User is getting his free encoder, so good support in what's preferred can get your standards into the other browsers. FCP is sufficiently advanced and the iP[a-z] has enough market penetration that Apple doesn't have to care.
Google and Apple just told the DISA to talk to the integrators. They aren't getting special treatment which makes sense: as big as the DoD is, they are still smaller and more specialized than the general public which the devices were meant to serve.
This is a job for a small, tight-knit development company developing under NDA, i.e. integrator.