If you actually RTFAd, would realize this is actually an "efficiency" launch for AMD, with quite lower costs (and prices) for only slightly lower performance.
It's because the competition sucks so much. The general public want PCs that look nice and just work. It's not just design, it's also.. design.
- most hardware is fugly, or as overpriced as apple stuff - other OSes and Apps are screwier than Apple's. My WinMob 6.5 phone can't synch mail with my Win7 desktop, and never will... no wonder Apple sounds so polished...
Computers are today's cars... nerds pretend they're looking for cool tech stuff. In truth, they're looking for social recognition and a comfort zone. Apple is getting better at providing that.
Yep, you'll like your raid a lot when you get a virus, a fire, your stuff stolen, deleted by mistake, suffer a big OS bug, app bug, a power surge, a RAID board/PSU failure...
OTOH, a couple of off-line, off-site 3GB disks, and you're safe. Fewer bragging rights, though.
It's robber barons time again: society stands to benefit a lot from building a new infrastructure, which naturally some companies and individuals are trying to hijack, monopolize...
I'm wildly guessing, but I seem to remember, for example, the iPhone handling either wi-fi or 3g data keep-alive in a weird way, like not keeping connections alive but requesting orders of magnitude more connects/disconnects than other phones.
I'm certain there are perfectly standard-compliant ways to do something stupid or malevolent and overload one specific stage of a perfectly well configured and sized network.
do you know where the bottleneck was at ? backhaul ? servers ? airwaves ? interconnections ? was it a bandwidth issue (at which stage ?) or a processing issue (same question).
i can show you how to send an extremely fast server into a tailspin over a very fast connection, or a verly slow one... it's a variation on 10 goto 10
Any specific reason why this has to be NOW, not 50 years ago, not 50 years in the future ? Are you selling a book, or buying too many of *those* books ?
that's a good exercise for a techie: you now have to sell the OSS solution you like to your management. A couple of pointers:
1- Are you sure it *is* a good solution to the issue at hand ? why ? 2- What do you think Management will like about it ? 3- What do you think Management will *not* like about it ? 4- What are the advantages of your solution management is overlooking ? 5- What pedagogical approach can you adopt to not try and force your solution down management's throat, but make them ask for it ?
Hint: most of your arguments must *not* be technical in nature, probably not even functionnal, but financial and political. Talk references, money, interoperability, uptime...
I never switched to Firefox because without extensions, it does too little, and with extensions, firefox is a mess of incompatibilities, leaks, and security concerns. I *like* that Opera does almost everything I need (bookmark synch, mouse gestures, adblocking...) right out of the box, with no flaky extensions.
I'm depressed that you think cynical is the contrary of optimistic. But then again, I should have known not to expect any better. I'm just gonna get trolled now anyway.
ratzinger has been in the church all his life, he had plenty of opportunities to act against abuses BEFORE the police came knocking on his door. he didn't seize any of them.
"better" is a bit of a stretch... "less worse" maybe, though i'm not convinced. both are doing their utmost to keep a large swathe of humanity in the philosophical, scientific and spiritual - and probably social, too- dark ages.
the pope is just being petty because the bible and religious stuff used to be the equivalent of soap operas and concerts, and now it's being out-entertained into oblivion. Used to be the only book in a house wwas the bible, the only music, at church, and te main social outing, sunday church. times change.
well, html5 local storage is one more venue where sites, advertizers and trackers can store data. Not different in theory from browser and flash cookies, but still, in practice, yet another mechanism open to the abuses i listed ?
1- Browsers not enforcing restrictions, or bugs allowing short-circuiting them, so even if only originating sites "should" see their own databases, maybe they won't, in reality. What really happens when a page loads an ad frame which launches a Flash applet that tries some HTML 5 gimmicks ?
2- Ad servers and web sites collaborating to circumvent restrictions. I activated Opera's "only accept cookies from the site I'm visiting", I've been getting somehow flaky behavior from some sites. Will there be the same option regarding other locally-stored content, especially databases ? Will web sites be "encouraged" to provide interfaces from the local storage they created on visitors' computers to advertisers/trackers ?
3- Remote tracking. I've read on/. that it's frequently possible to identify a visitor only by combing trough easily available info (IP, OS, browser, timezone...). If trackers really try hard, a few mistakes will let them link even different PCs/OSs/Browsers to one single person.
There's theory, and then there's practice. I think several possible factors may be negatively impacting schooling:
1- a much larger part of the population is trying at it, which means people with less advantages (intellectual, social...) stay in the system, which who have moved on to other things, making the average level lower, while the absolute level may well be higher. When 80% of a generation go on studying vs 10% a few decades back, should we evaluate those 80% vs that 10% or, today's top 10% vs yesterday's top 10 ? 2- there's no merit system for teachers, nor for education systems , in most countries, which ensures bad teachers remain teaching, and bad systems remain in place. 3- there may be societal changes devaluing studying vs leisure, both within the schools (easier grades, "softer" courses) and outside ("popularity" vs "nerdiness", less parental supervision, help and authority...)
And I'm sure several other factors that explain that, even though we could teach and learn much more effectively today than 100 years ago, we don't.
The human brain has changed a lot in the past 100 years. In the most important ways. Because we now understand it so much better: cognitive processes, biological rythms and cycles, learning disabilities, attention spans, knowledge and skills creation and assimilation, etc... I'm fairly sure a brain specialist from 100 years ago is further apart from a current brain specialist, than a current men-on-the-street is.
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If you actually RTFAd, would realize this is actually an "efficiency" launch for AMD, with quite lower costs (and prices) for only slightly lower performance.
Nice rant, though.
I don't know if Nintendo is buyable, but it seems like a good fit: complementary products, lots of possible synergies, same-ish markets.
It's because the competition sucks so much. The general public want PCs that look nice and just work. It's not just design, it's also.. design.
- most hardware is fugly, or as overpriced as apple stuff
- other OSes and Apps are screwier than Apple's. My WinMob 6.5 phone can't synch mail with my Win7 desktop, and never will... no wonder Apple sounds so polished...
Computers are today's cars... nerds pretend they're looking for cool tech stuff. In truth, they're looking for social recognition and a comfort zone. Apple is getting better at providing that.
Yep, you'll like your raid a lot when you get a virus, a fire, your stuff stolen, deleted by mistake, suffer a big OS bug, app bug, a power surge, a RAID board/PSU failure...
OTOH, a couple of off-line, off-site 3GB disks, and you're safe. Fewer bragging rights, though.
good business, though, plenty of 3.0gb compatible sales coming your way !
Same as only when the Atom can compete with the i970x in terms of performance, stability, and features, will Intel sell any Atoms ?
Or only when bicycles compete with Feraris on ...
Or only when boats compete with planes on ...
It's robber barons time again: society stands to benefit a lot from building a new infrastructure, which naturally some companies and individuals are trying to hijack, monopolize...
that's kind of rewarding bad behavior... I don't like what your club is doing, so I'll join it. WOudl you have advocated that for nazis, too ?
so DDOS attacks are the servers' fault ?
I'm wildly guessing, but I seem to remember, for example, the iPhone handling either wi-fi or 3g data keep-alive in a weird way, like not keeping connections alive but requesting orders of magnitude more connects/disconnects than other phones.
I'm certain there are perfectly standard-compliant ways to do something stupid or malevolent and overload one specific stage of a perfectly well configured and sized network.
until they started selling .. internet access ?
do you know where the bottleneck was at ? backhaul ? servers ? airwaves ? interconnections ? was it a bandwidth issue (at which stage ?) or a processing issue (same question).
i can show you how to send an extremely fast server into a tailspin over a very fast connection, or a verly slow one... it's a variation on
10 goto 10
Any specific reason why this has to be NOW, not 50 years ago, not 50 years in the future ? Are you selling a book, or buying too many of *those* books ?
that's a good exercise for a techie: you now have to sell the OSS solution you like to your management. A couple of pointers:
1- Are you sure it *is* a good solution to the issue at hand ? why ?
2- What do you think Management will like about it ?
3- What do you think Management will *not* like about it ?
4- What are the advantages of your solution management is overlooking ?
5- What pedagogical approach can you adopt to not try and force your solution down management's throat, but make them ask for it ?
Hint: most of your arguments must *not* be technical in nature, probably not even functionnal, but financial and political. Talk references, money, interoperability, uptime...
I never switched to Firefox because without extensions, it does too little, and with extensions, firefox is a mess of incompatibilities, leaks, and security concerns. I *like* that Opera does almost everything I need (bookmark synch, mouse gestures, adblocking...) right out of the box, with no flaky extensions.
I'm depressed that you think cynical is the contrary of optimistic. But then again, I should have known not to expect any better. I'm just gonna get trolled now anyway.
ratzinger has been in the church all his life, he had plenty of opportunities to act against abuses BEFORE the police came knocking on his door. he didn't seize any of them.
"better" is a bit of a stretch... "less worse" maybe, though i'm not convinced. both are doing their utmost to keep a large swathe of humanity in the philosophical, scientific and spiritual - and probably social, too- dark ages.
the pope is just being petty because the bible and religious stuff used to be the equivalent of soap operas and concerts, and now it's being out-entertained into oblivion. Used to be the only book in a house wwas the bible, the only music, at church, and te main social outing, sunday church. times change.
depends on wether you're looking for philosphy or science. both are valid approaches to the subject, not really not playing in the same dimension.
well, html5 local storage is one more venue where sites, advertizers and trackers can store data. Not different in theory from browser and flash cookies, but still, in practice, yet another mechanism open to the abuses i listed ?
html5 local storage IS html5 specific :-p
My guess would be
1- Browsers not enforcing restrictions, or bugs allowing short-circuiting them, so even if only originating sites "should" see their own databases, maybe they won't, in reality. What really happens when a page loads an ad frame which launches a Flash applet that tries some HTML 5 gimmicks ?
2- Ad servers and web sites collaborating to circumvent restrictions. I activated Opera's "only accept cookies from the site I'm visiting", I've been getting somehow flaky behavior from some sites. Will there be the same option regarding other locally-stored content, especially databases ? Will web sites be "encouraged" to provide interfaces from the local storage they created on visitors' computers to advertisers/trackers ?
3- Remote tracking. I've read on /. that it's frequently possible to identify a visitor only by combing trough easily available info (IP, OS, browser, timezone...). If trackers really try hard, a few mistakes will let them link even different PCs/OSs/Browsers to one single person.
I support that. given how little backbone other institutions have had, we sorely need some of those.
Detention without representation nor charges.. what's next, property seizures without court decisions ? where do they think they are ? the US ?
There's theory, and then there's practice. I think several possible factors may be negatively impacting schooling:
1- a much larger part of the population is trying at it, which means people with less advantages (intellectual, social...) stay in the system, which who have moved on to other things, making the average level lower, while the absolute level may well be higher. When 80% of a generation go on studying vs 10% a few decades back, should we evaluate those 80% vs that 10% or, today's top 10% vs yesterday's top 10 ?
2- there's no merit system for teachers, nor for education systems , in most countries, which ensures bad teachers remain teaching, and bad systems remain in place.
3- there may be societal changes devaluing studying vs leisure, both within the schools (easier grades, "softer" courses) and outside ("popularity" vs "nerdiness", less parental supervision, help and authority...)
And I'm sure several other factors that explain that, even though we could teach and learn much more effectively today than 100 years ago, we don't.
The human brain has changed a lot in the past 100 years. In the most important ways. Because we now understand it so much better: cognitive processes, biological rythms and cycles, learning disabilities, attention spans, knowledge and skills creation and assimilation, etc... I'm fairly sure a brain specialist from 100 years ago is further apart from a current brain specialist, than a current men-on-the-street is.