do you have any idea of how many people die yearly because of cars / mobile phones / lollipops / bathtubs /... ? should we ban all those graver dangers first ?
your broad and false generalization of how things are set up in Europe is so over-reaching and uninformed it boggles the mind.
for example, in France, universities are (kinda) free, and open to anyone. there's also a bunch of private schools, and more selective Grandes Ecoles. each European country has its own system, i wouldn't know how others' are set up.
Apparently, the cores are about 1/2 of the die (the rest being cache and interfaces). I'm not sure how much of the cores would be trimmed down by getting rid of the x86 compatibility layer (both Intel and AMD have been using non-native x86 processing cores for a while, x86 machine code is actually converted to different micro-ops). Assuming you're just talking bout moving x86 compatibility out of the hardware and off to software, while keeping the same hardware unist (SSE-x...), my guess would be 1/3 of the cores tops, so 1/6th of the whole chip. Not much, probably not worth the effort.
I object to your characterization of Apple's experience as a "garden". It's not, it's a "playpen": you're under constant supervision, can't bring anything not censored and approved first, can't do anything sexual...
yes, but in that case, less weight comes because there's less stuff in a tablet. they're not using special batteries, casings, chips, screens... just the same ones as netbooks (except maybe for a couple of tweaks). the lower weight is mainly because there are fewer components (keyboard, HD, ports, CPU/GPU, RAM...), not because there are more, but lighter and more expensive, ones.
I'm not saying a tablet are bad, i'm saying the extra 2 to 3x (several hundred $) extra they cost compared to netbooks, does not seem explainable by materials cost, nor, really, design costs, so current tablets smell of a rip-off, or severe capacity constraints.
not really: you flip the screen, and get a thick and heavy tablet, with a sucky OS.
Which does not invalidate may argument that netbooks include much more hardware than tablets, yet cost a lot less. Convertible netbooks are not quite as light, thin, and touch-friendly, yet they are cheaper even though their hardware is miles ahead, features- and performance-wise.
Yep. But is it so much better, and so much more expensive, than a keyboard + touchpad + optional USB mouse to justify the price difference ? there are even touchscreen netbooks less expensive than tablets.
I have no clue why tablets are so much more expensive than netbooks. Netbooks have the same or better guts (RAM, CPU, GPU, HD, battery...), richer interfaces (keyboard, touchpad, ports). I don't think the tablet's touchscreen can account for $300-$500 extra, ie 2x to 3x a netbook's price ? I get that tablets fulfill different needs than netbooks, but the materials bill for them is lower... I'd feel screwed if I paid more for a tablet than a netbook, especially several times, and several hundred bucks, more.
I get that R&D and scarcity add to the tablets' price, but still... Anything more expensive than an iPad or Netbook is too expensive for me, and I want to avoid Apple's walled playpen. So I'm biding my time until sanity returns.
Looking at probably independent sites (the tech report, tom's...), you have to get fairly high in the end for Intel platforms (ie, CPU+Chipset+motherboard) to be cost-competitive at a given level of performance, at that's for PCs heavily skewed towards the Gamer and Enthusiast market.
My feeling is AMD is competitive all the way up to, but excluding, the 5-10% of the market that can be called "high-end". They have OK and cheaper CPUs, better IGPs, cheaper MBs with about the same features.
The cheapest M-ATX AM3 board is 50 euros, the 1156 is 85. A cheap dual-core to plug into that is 55€ (AMD) or 90€ (Intel] (source: www.materiel.net). That's 70€ extra for a comparable Intel build. Adding 500 GB disk, 4GB RAM, KBMS and case is about 40 +40 + 20 + 60 = 160€, so Intel works out a quarter more expensive (335-265=70, 70/265= 26%). That's significant.
If you go a bit more high-end, with a Gigabyte board, and a quad core, there's still a 20€ difference on the boards, and... 100€ difference on the cheapest quad-cores. Enough to buy a second display, a huge hard drive...
My concern would be more about what being a Dell subsidiary might do to AMD: lost OEMs, maybe lost focus...
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Why should Nokia care ? The guy seems to think he's still working for MS ! Having proven they can't pout together an mobile OS, Nokia should try and leveraage their installed base into an ecosystem. They should go the HTC way and have their fingers in as many OS pies as possible, as long as all those pies are gateways to the OVI store.
- irreplaceable "live" files, backed up daily (about 200 megs): files I created myself, ie mails, docs, code... It's the "My Documents" folder. - irreplaceable archives, backed up monthly to dvd (about 4 gigs): mainly photos and home videos: "My Pictures" and "\Archives", plus my "live" files. - everything, backed up monthly to an external HD: mainly my painstakingly ripped CDs and DVDs, plus all of the above. "Flacs", "MP3s", "Films", "Series", "XXX"
We need apps that truly are "content", the same way text, sound, and video are.. ie, playable pretty much anywhere. If Android can be that "format", we're saving a lot of sweat and tears.
I'm wondering by what magical way an OS would not fragment. Apart from knowing beforehand which files will get written and deleted, how can this be done ? Actually, you also need to know which files will be read, 'coz any good defragger will put those in the speediest parts of the drive.
If it's a background process that does the defragging, I wouldn't really count this as a file system feature ?
QEMM ! and DesqView ! I remember fondly multitasking DOS stuff and having access to oodles of RAM thanks to DEVICEHIGH and LOADHIGH. I felt so powerful !
I think with Win7, MS has finally managed to become as reliable as DesqView.
it's not the best "technology" has to offer. It's the business "business" and "the law" want to offer us for now. It isn't hard to imagine a standardized, normalized, maybe even syndicate- or government-run DRM scheme that would free us from being beholden to a single company.
No it's not: you become beholden to your DRM certificates' provider. What happens when you want to use non-Apple hardware/software 10 years from now ? or even next year ?
a match made in heaven. both are obtuse things dominated by assholes who think very highly of themselves and never had to live with the crap they're making.
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do you have any idea of how many people die yearly because of cars / mobile phones / lollipops / bathtubs / ... ? should we ban all those graver dangers first ?
Who cares about your travel plans ? You have time to amend them. People may be getting sick as we speak over there ...
you are too self-centered.
your broad and false generalization of how things are set up in Europe is so over-reaching and uninformed it boggles the mind.
for example, in France, universities are (kinda) free, and open to anyone. there's also a bunch of private schools, and more selective Grandes Ecoles.
each European country has its own system, i wouldn't know how others' are set up.
is someone who can differentiate white, rose, and red wine.
My, oh my.
not a walled garden: a walled playpen. In a garden, you can have sex et bring what you like.
read the sig !
http://pcper.com/images/reviews/608/02.jpg
Apparently, the cores are about 1/2 of the die (the rest being cache and interfaces). I'm not sure how much of the cores would be trimmed down by getting rid of the x86 compatibility layer (both Intel and AMD have been using non-native x86 processing cores for a while, x86 machine code is actually converted to different micro-ops). Assuming you're just talking bout moving x86 compatibility out of the hardware and off to software, while keeping the same hardware unist (SSE-x...), my guess would be 1/3 of the cores tops, so 1/6th of the whole chip. Not much, probably not worth the effort.
high performance ?
I object to your characterization of Apple's experience as a "garden". It's not, it's a "playpen": you're under constant supervision, can't bring anything not censored and approved first, can't do anything sexual...
yes, but in that case, less weight comes because there's less stuff in a tablet. they're not using special batteries, casings, chips, screens... just the same ones as netbooks (except maybe for a couple of tweaks). the lower weight is mainly because there are fewer components (keyboard, HD, ports, CPU/GPU, RAM...), not because there are more, but lighter and more expensive, ones.
I'm not saying a tablet are bad, i'm saying the extra 2 to 3x (several hundred $) extra they cost compared to netbooks, does not seem explainable by materials cost, nor, really, design costs, so current tablets smell of a rip-off, or severe capacity constraints.
not really: you flip the screen, and get a thick and heavy tablet, with a sucky OS.
Which does not invalidate may argument that netbooks include much more hardware than tablets, yet cost a lot less. Convertible netbooks are not quite as light, thin, and touch-friendly, yet they are cheaper even though their hardware is miles ahead, features- and performance-wise.
Asus's entry: http://gigaom.com/mobile/asus-499-touchscreen-netbook-arriving-soon-in-u-s/
Yep. But is it so much better, and so much more expensive, than a keyboard + touchpad + optional USB mouse to justify the price difference ? there are even touchscreen netbooks less expensive than tablets.
I have no clue why tablets are so much more expensive than netbooks. Netbooks have the same or better guts (RAM, CPU, GPU, HD, battery...), richer interfaces (keyboard, touchpad, ports). I don't think the tablet's touchscreen can account for $300-$500 extra, ie 2x to 3x a netbook's price ? I get that tablets fulfill different needs than netbooks, but the materials bill for them is lower... I'd feel screwed if I paid more for a tablet than a netbook, especially several times, and several hundred bucks, more.
I get that R&D and scarcity add to the tablets' price, but still... Anything more expensive than an iPad or Netbook is too expensive for me, and I want to avoid Apple's walled playpen. So I'm biding my time until sanity returns.
Looking at probably independent sites (the tech report, tom's...), you have to get fairly high in the end for Intel platforms (ie, CPU+Chipset+motherboard) to be cost-competitive at a given level of performance, at that's for PCs heavily skewed towards the Gamer and Enthusiast market.
My feeling is AMD is competitive all the way up to, but excluding, the 5-10% of the market that can be called "high-end". They have OK and cheaper CPUs, better IGPs, cheaper MBs with about the same features.
The cheapest M-ATX AM3 board is 50 euros, the 1156 is 85. A cheap dual-core to plug into that is 55€ (AMD) or 90€ (Intel] (source: www.materiel.net). That's 70€ extra for a comparable Intel build. Adding 500 GB disk, 4GB RAM, KBMS and case is about 40 +40 + 20 + 60 = 160€, so Intel works out a quarter more expensive (335-265=70, 70/265= 26%). That's significant.
If you go a bit more high-end, with a Gigabyte board, and a quad core, there's still a 20€ difference on the boards, and ... 100€ difference on the cheapest quad-cores. Enough to buy a second display, a huge hard drive...
My concern would be more about what being a Dell subsidiary might do to AMD: lost OEMs, maybe lost focus...
Why should Nokia care ? The guy seems to think he's still working for MS ! Having proven they can't pout together an mobile OS, Nokia should try and leveraage their installed base into an ecosystem. They should go the HTC way and have their fingers in as many OS pies as possible, as long as all those pies are gateways to the OVI store.
- irreplaceable "live" files, backed up daily (about 200 megs): files I created myself, ie mails, docs, code... It's the "My Documents" folder.
- irreplaceable archives, backed up monthly to dvd (about 4 gigs): mainly photos and home videos: "My Pictures" and "\Archives", plus my "live" files.
- everything, backed up monthly to an external HD: mainly my painstakingly ripped CDs and DVDs, plus all of the above. "Flacs", "MP3s", "Films", "Series", "XXX"
We need apps that truly are "content", the same way text, sound, and video are.. ie, playable pretty much anywhere. If Android can be that "format", we're saving a lot of sweat and tears.
I have a 20 yo ZX81 and it's never had fragmentation either !
But, in the real world, usage might have a tiny impact on fragmentation ? like deleting and writing files ? disk saturation ?
Anecdote is not the singular of data.
I'm wondering by what magical way an OS would not fragment. Apart from knowing beforehand which files will get written and deleted, how can this be done ? Actually, you also need to know which files will be read, 'coz any good defragger will put those in the speediest parts of the drive.
If it's a background process that does the defragging, I wouldn't really count this as a file system feature ?
QEMM ! and DesqView ! I remember fondly multitasking DOS stuff and having access to oodles of RAM thanks to DEVICEHIGH and LOADHIGH. I felt so powerful !
I think with Win7, MS has finally managed to become as reliable as DesqView.
I'm actually unsure. Isn't it like saying format info is like the text it formats, or maybe even that a program is like the data it accesses ?
Not the iPhone either Oh, wait....
it's not the best "technology" has to offer. It's the business "business" and "the law" want to offer us for now. It isn't hard to imagine a standardized, normalized, maybe even syndicate- or government-run DRM scheme that would free us from being beholden to a single company.
No it's not: you become beholden to your DRM certificates' provider. What happens when you want to use non-Apple hardware/software 10 years from now ? or even next year ?
a match made in heaven. both are obtuse things dominated by assholes who think very highly of themselves and never had to live with the crap they're making.