You are missing the whole point of the article. The point is that AMD went to great lengths in designing a new architecture and in advertising it as the Next Big Thing yet there is no benefit anywhere to be seen, the old architecture with as many cores would provide the exact same server performance and better desktop performance. That is the point. You are misreading the article by letting your bias colour it.
Atleast Microsoft Security Essentials has been a great antivirus in my experience: it's fast, it really does try its best to avoid harassing users, and in all the reviews I've read it does find just as many viruses and malware installations as the other popular choices if not even slightly more. My own experiences are of course subjective, but I find it a lot lighter on resources than its competitors, plus I have yet to see it cause any issues whereas I just had to repair two computers that were rendered inoperable because of F-Secure screwing things up in a major way.
A few years back I wouldn't have believed the words coming out of my mouth but... I do support the decision of including MS's own AV in Windows 8.
Bad people are the problem. Start hunting down and exterminating bad people. If the prize for hacking into a water plant is 15 minutes of fame followed by an early grave we'll see the population of scumhackers nosedive.
Wow, you must be horribly short-sighted and ignorant. First of all, there is no universal definition of "bad" when talking about people. Different cultures, religions and even different kinds of families can have very different views on what it means to be "bad", and as such what would you do if someone just went to your mother's house, shot her, and said that she was deemed "bad" and that's why she was put down. And then the person who shot her was free to go. Would you then feel it was such a great idea?
If you want an example that is not just a theoretical one, well, think of the Crusades: non-Christian people were deemed "bad", and they were killed in MILLIONS. And why? Because the Christian church decided that one definition of "bad" is that a person is a pagan.
It is a terribly slippery slope you're aiming for, I'd choose some much safer slope myself.
There's an even easier test. Look at your kid's birthday. Now look at the cutoff date between age brackets for each sport. Now pick the one where your kid will always be the oldest player on the field. More physical development = wins more = gets more practice AND likes the sport more = positive skill-building feedback loop.
I know of an EVEN easier test: ask your kid. Yes, look at your child and literally ASK what the child would like to do, not what you'd want the child to do.
I personally equate the enjoyment and fulfillment of doing something as success, not the position on some ranking system and as such I couldn't give a flying f*ck about how good a ranking my child gets, I just want the child to enjoy doing whatever it is that (s)he wants to do.
Of course drinking water (from the tap of from bottles) prevents you from getting dehydrated... if you are an otherwise healthy person.
Actually, no. You can still drink too much, and that again leads to dehydration. As such that claim is already false. You could say that drinking water MAY prevent or postpone certain forms of dehydration, but it also MAY lead to other forms of it.
It's not as if "x86" means much from an architectural standpoint. It is a choice in instruction set and is a good choice for new products given your (5) above -- what's got better payoff, making a new instruction set or reusing an existing one that is supported exceedingly well? Intel's 386 and AMD's 64-bit conventions are common ground for many wildly different CPU architectures.
Actually yes, "x86" does mean a lot even from an architectural standpoint. For example it means you have to carry along all the instructions and their related mechanisms concerning 8086 Real Mode, and 80286 Extended Real Mode, plus all the horribly clumsy register types. That means you'll be wasting die space just to support stuff that isn't even used anymore, not to mention the time wasted on actual hardware design. With a completely new processor design you can just scrap all that, add much more flexible registers plus more of them, and get a more efficient CPU as a result. Every little bit of space saved is meaningful on a processor aimed for mobile devices, and it does help on desktops, too, if not as much.
I really don't get the enormous amount of new music services that have arrived the last few years. Doesn't everybody who cares about music have his favorite stuff on his computer & phone already? What's the use of yet another service that plays everything you already have on all of your devices already?
How about the fact that you don't anymore need to upload the music to all your devices, you can just stream them, meaning that you don't have to keep the collection up-to-date in more than one place and you're not wasting storage space? Or the fact that usually these services makes it easy to find more bands that you might like, basing the recommendations on what you've listened to before or what you have uploaded? Atleast I found literally dozens of new bands to listen to once I started using last.fm again. That said, last.fm doesn't allow streaming to my android tablet so I need another service for that and that's where Google Music sounds pretty much ideal. But again, Google Music isn't available in my country, so I'm yet again left looking for the next new music service.
I smell sarcasm, though I'm not entirely certain if it's coming from your comment or if I should change my underwear.
Anyways, I've played games for 16 years now and I still haven't gotten anything like that from them. Sure, I can visualize stuff if I want to, but then again, I have a vivid imagination. But I've never wanted to pick up weapons and start killing people, or start pickpocketing people, or run around at full speed 24/7 or anything like that. Then again, I'm not usually influenced easily. Some people are simply naturally influenced more easily than others, and the media in use doesn't matter; people have ALWAYS been influenced by whatever is taking place around them, be it speech, written text, images, high-speed sequences of images..
God damn if they actually get away with this. It's already ridiculous how corporations can do all kinds of crap and only gets a slap on the wrist, but imagine if you went around infringing so many sound recordings that you'd net a $50 million fine, would your insurer be willing to pay that? I sure hope that they don't get away with this, would be fun watching the squirming with the bill.
Obviously, you're not to going to perceive a great difference between 256kbps and lossless D&B music when you're playing through a iPod that's got an analog connection to a cassette adapter to a car stereo with small paper cones in the speakers. If you're listening to jazz or classical or even live rock recordings, a person doesn't need golden ears to hear what compression does to a cymbal roll. For the last time, if you can't hear the difference, then you have no idea what the you're not hearing.
Well, he is only ordering the couple to brake the TOS, he isn't giving any order to Facebook itself. So now the wife can give the password to the husband, then call Facebook that she has broken the TOS and request her account to be removed. Then just wait for this thing to be over with and create a new account.
Perhaps I just happen to always get my hands on with hardware that doesn't play nice with Linux or something, but e.g. my Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion does work under Linux but is missing several features that I really do not wish to lose. Similarly, on my laptop there's 2 internal GPUs: one that uses very little battery but is also terribly slow, and one that uses a lot of battery but is also sufficiently powerful. Under Linux I cannot switch between them on-the-fly whereas under Windows I can. It's stuff like that that makes me avoid using Linux.
And now, before someone starts flaming me I gotta say that I am not blaming Linux devs or such, I am just stating facts as they stand. It doesn't matter whose fault it is as long as it doesn't work.
As for software side: I atleast always kept running into things breaking every patch, X configuration getting f*cked over for god-knows-why, applications being crashy and whatnot. Again, perhaps I'm just unlucky, but that's how it was for almost 10 years.
With Win7 I haven't had to manually scour the web for drivers, most of the updates are just silently installed in the background and don't require constant rebooting (like certain Windows-bashers like to claim. Sure, it applied to WinXP, but we're quite way past that..) and so far I haven't any issues with it.
I was on Mac (2001-2008, then Linux (2008-2010), but then my linux buddy switched back to Windows 7. I was skeptical at first, but his glowing reviews that "everything just worked on the desktop - graphics card, drivers, audio, sleep/restore, etc every time. No more configuring random crap to try and get it to work until a real patch was released. He and I still deploy Linux for work servers, but on day to day desktop, I've seen the light, and it's Windows 7. I installed Win7 in ~Sept 2010 and haven't had any configuration problems since then. It's super speedy and all my games work with it.
Similar is my story: I was a Linux user for almost 10 years, but then sometime after Win7 was released I finally got tired with the constant need to fix or tweak this or that to keep things working and tried Win7. Haven't looked back since, 7 just works and it works well. Not to mention that I can actually use all the features my hardware supports whereas I'd be missing some very important features if I went back to Linux. I only use it on my server where it works fine.
Sure, I am an F/OSS supporter and I really do wish F/OSS philosophy was even more widespread than it already is, but.. well, I don't want to constantly have to fix things getting broken and I want to be able to fully utilize whatever hardware I have and Linux just doesn't fit the bill.
So what would the use case for this be? Just cause there are better options, doesn't mean it couldn't be used like that.
Of course, feel free to do as you please. I only explained why using a H.264 stream as a VNC-replacement would be a generally stupid idea. But if you e.g. just want to show a game or some content where there aren't lots of small details that you need to be able to read then sure, it could work, provided you have powerful enough hardware to encode the stream fast enough.
Stop watching TV and cancel all magazine subscriptions. When you block these big-money ad channels, you'll find you want less things than you used to.
Ads are all about making you want stuff you didn't want before. Or even knew about before.
Piracy doesn't matter anymore; it's about useless stuff we can live without. Try it yourself if you don't believe me. Toss that TV and cancel all newspaper and mag subs.
If you're that easily swayed by ads then the issue is you yourself.
However, it would let turn a laptop or tablet into a 2nd monitor, which could be rather useful at times if you don't normally have a dual screen setup.
You didn't read anything I wrote, did you? There are better solutions for such kind of stuff, a H.264 stream is too computationally-expensive if done on CPU. See for example http://dmx.sourceforge.net/
This even in 1997 with Windows 95. When a modern desktop doesn't let you do what ordinary users casually did with Windows 95 YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
That does not a compelling argument make. Sometimes leaving redundant features out is actually useful, and sometimes including some features doesn't make any sense at all. As such you cannot just make such an all-encompassing claim like that.
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You are missing the whole point of the article. The point is that AMD went to great lengths in designing a new architecture and in advertising it as the Next Big Thing yet there is no benefit anywhere to be seen, the old architecture with as many cores would provide the exact same server performance and better desktop performance. That is the point. You are misreading the article by letting your bias colour it.
Atleast Microsoft Security Essentials has been a great antivirus in my experience: it's fast, it really does try its best to avoid harassing users, and in all the reviews I've read it does find just as many viruses and malware installations as the other popular choices if not even slightly more. My own experiences are of course subjective, but I find it a lot lighter on resources than its competitors, plus I have yet to see it cause any issues whereas I just had to repair two computers that were rendered inoperable because of F-Secure screwing things up in a major way.
A few years back I wouldn't have believed the words coming out of my mouth but... I do support the decision of including MS's own AV in Windows 8.
Bad people are the problem. Start hunting down and exterminating bad people. If the prize for hacking into a water plant is 15 minutes of fame followed by an early grave we'll see the population of scumhackers nosedive.
Wow, you must be horribly short-sighted and ignorant. First of all, there is no universal definition of "bad" when talking about people. Different cultures, religions and even different kinds of families can have very different views on what it means to be "bad", and as such what would you do if someone just went to your mother's house, shot her, and said that she was deemed "bad" and that's why she was put down. And then the person who shot her was free to go. Would you then feel it was such a great idea?
If you want an example that is not just a theoretical one, well, think of the Crusades: non-Christian people were deemed "bad", and they were killed in MILLIONS. And why? Because the Christian church decided that one definition of "bad" is that a person is a pagan.
It is a terribly slippery slope you're aiming for, I'd choose some much safer slope myself.
There's an even easier test. Look at your kid's birthday. Now look at the cutoff date between age brackets for each sport. Now pick the one where your kid will always be the oldest player on the field. More physical development = wins more = gets more practice AND likes the sport more = positive skill-building feedback loop.
I know of an EVEN easier test: ask your kid. Yes, look at your child and literally ASK what the child would like to do, not what you'd want the child to do.
I personally equate the enjoyment and fulfillment of doing something as success, not the position on some ranking system and as such I couldn't give a flying f*ck about how good a ranking my child gets, I just want the child to enjoy doing whatever it is that (s)he wants to do.
Of course drinking water (from the tap of from bottles) prevents you from getting dehydrated ... if you are an otherwise healthy person.
Actually, no. You can still drink too much, and that again leads to dehydration. As such that claim is already false. You could say that drinking water MAY prevent or postpone certain forms of dehydration, but it also MAY lead to other forms of it.
So now we can train bugs to say no to drugs, next step is to move to animals and then finally humans!
It's not as if "x86" means much from an architectural standpoint. It is a choice in instruction set and is a good choice for new products given your (5) above -- what's got better payoff, making a new instruction set or reusing an existing one that is supported exceedingly well? Intel's 386 and AMD's 64-bit conventions are common ground for many wildly different CPU architectures.
Actually yes, "x86" does mean a lot even from an architectural standpoint. For example it means you have to carry along all the instructions and their related mechanisms concerning 8086 Real Mode, and 80286 Extended Real Mode, plus all the horribly clumsy register types. That means you'll be wasting die space just to support stuff that isn't even used anymore, not to mention the time wasted on actual hardware design. With a completely new processor design you can just scrap all that, add much more flexible registers plus more of them, and get a more efficient CPU as a result. Every little bit of space saved is meaningful on a processor aimed for mobile devices, and it does help on desktops, too, if not as much.
I really don't get the enormous amount of new music services that have arrived the last few years. Doesn't everybody who cares about music have his favorite stuff on his computer & phone already? What's the use of yet another service that plays everything you already have on all of your devices already?
How about the fact that you don't anymore need to upload the music to all your devices, you can just stream them, meaning that you don't have to keep the collection up-to-date in more than one place and you're not wasting storage space? Or the fact that usually these services makes it easy to find more bands that you might like, basing the recommendations on what you've listened to before or what you have uploaded? Atleast I found literally dozens of new bands to listen to once I started using last.fm again. That said, last.fm doesn't allow streaming to my android tablet so I need another service for that and that's where Google Music sounds pretty much ideal. But again, Google Music isn't available in my country, so I'm yet again left looking for the next new music service.
I smell sarcasm, though I'm not entirely certain if it's coming from your comment or if I should change my underwear.
Anyways, I've played games for 16 years now and I still haven't gotten anything like that from them. Sure, I can visualize stuff if I want to, but then again, I have a vivid imagination. But I've never wanted to pick up weapons and start killing people, or start pickpocketing people, or run around at full speed 24/7 or anything like that. Then again, I'm not usually influenced easily. Some people are simply naturally influenced more easily than others, and the media in use doesn't matter; people have ALWAYS been influenced by whatever is taking place around them, be it speech, written text, images, high-speed sequences of images..
They're people only when it suits them.. :S
...that the law to disconnect copyright infringers from the internet would have gone through.
There'd be a small clause somewhere saying that it can only apply to individual people, not corporations.
God damn if they actually get away with this. It's already ridiculous how corporations can do all kinds of crap and only gets a slap on the wrist, but imagine if you went around infringing so many sound recordings that you'd net a $50 million fine, would your insurer be willing to pay that? I sure hope that they don't get away with this, would be fun watching the squirming with the bill.
Obviously, you're not to going to perceive a great difference between 256kbps and lossless D&B music when you're playing through a iPod that's got an analog connection to a cassette adapter to a car stereo with small paper cones in the speakers. If you're listening to jazz or classical or even live rock recordings, a person doesn't need golden ears to hear what compression does to a cymbal roll. For the last time, if you can't hear the difference, then you have no idea what the you're not hearing.
My GOD, I'm INSULTED!
....I'd never use an iPod!
Can you really tell the difference between an AAC/MP3 file encoded at 256kb/s and a FLAC file?
No, he can't. He just likes to pretend to so he'd appear to be "above " normal people.
Well, he is only ordering the couple to brake the TOS, he isn't giving any order to Facebook itself. So now the wife can give the password to the husband, then call Facebook that she has broken the TOS and request her account to be removed. Then just wait for this thing to be over with and create a new account.
Wait a second, I don't have to fix or tweek anything and Linux works great for me.
And that somehow negates the point that some people do?
I wonder why a lot of these high voted comments that don't just say "...games" seem to have the distinct stink of shill-baggery on them?
The stink is just you, my dear.
Perhaps I just happen to always get my hands on with hardware that doesn't play nice with Linux or something, but e.g. my Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion does work under Linux but is missing several features that I really do not wish to lose. Similarly, on my laptop there's 2 internal GPUs: one that uses very little battery but is also terribly slow, and one that uses a lot of battery but is also sufficiently powerful. Under Linux I cannot switch between them on-the-fly whereas under Windows I can. It's stuff like that that makes me avoid using Linux.
And now, before someone starts flaming me I gotta say that I am not blaming Linux devs or such, I am just stating facts as they stand. It doesn't matter whose fault it is as long as it doesn't work.
As for software side: I atleast always kept running into things breaking every patch, X configuration getting f*cked over for god-knows-why, applications being crashy and whatnot. Again, perhaps I'm just unlucky, but that's how it was for almost 10 years.
With Win7 I haven't had to manually scour the web for drivers, most of the updates are just silently installed in the background and don't require constant rebooting (like certain Windows-bashers like to claim. Sure, it applied to WinXP, but we're quite way past that..) and so far I haven't any issues with it.
Remember to try and get a little fresh air over the next few weeks.
I will get plenty! I can almost feel the cold, northern breeze on my face as I trek across the mountains..!
I was on Mac (2001-2008, then Linux (2008-2010), but then my linux buddy switched back to Windows 7. I was skeptical at first, but his glowing reviews that "everything just worked on the desktop - graphics card, drivers, audio, sleep/restore, etc every time. No more configuring random crap to try and get it to work until a real patch was released. He and I still deploy Linux for work servers, but on day to day desktop, I've seen the light, and it's Windows 7. I installed Win7 in ~Sept 2010 and haven't had any configuration problems since then. It's super speedy and all my games work with it.
Similar is my story: I was a Linux user for almost 10 years, but then sometime after Win7 was released I finally got tired with the constant need to fix or tweak this or that to keep things working and tried Win7. Haven't looked back since, 7 just works and it works well. Not to mention that I can actually use all the features my hardware supports whereas I'd be missing some very important features if I went back to Linux. I only use it on my server where it works fine.
Sure, I am an F/OSS supporter and I really do wish F/OSS philosophy was even more widespread than it already is, but.. well, I don't want to constantly have to fix things getting broken and I want to be able to fully utilize whatever hardware I have and Linux just doesn't fit the bill.
So what would the use case for this be? Just cause there are better options, doesn't mean it couldn't be used like that.
Of course, feel free to do as you please. I only explained why using a H.264 stream as a VNC-replacement would be a generally stupid idea. But if you e.g. just want to show a game or some content where there aren't lots of small details that you need to be able to read then sure, it could work, provided you have powerful enough hardware to encode the stream fast enough.
Oh, come on! Using actual physics and common sense is just HARSH, people are trying to have a good bashing over completely non-realistic fears here!
Shame on you, next time leave any common sense back home when you're venturing to ./
Stop watching TV and cancel all magazine subscriptions. When you block these big-money ad channels, you'll find you want less things than you used to.
Ads are all about making you want stuff you didn't want before. Or even knew about before.
Piracy doesn't matter anymore; it's about useless stuff we can live without. Try it yourself if you don't believe me. Toss that TV and cancel all newspaper and mag subs.
If you're that easily swayed by ads then the issue is you yourself.
It's similar to situation with lightbulbs; pretty soon we're going to have to buy $7 mecury-filled lightbulbs
I'm sorry, but you totally dropped the ball right there.
However, it would let turn a laptop or tablet into a 2nd monitor, which could be rather useful at times if you don't normally have a dual screen setup.
You didn't read anything I wrote, did you? There are better solutions for such kind of stuff, a H.264 stream is too computationally-expensive if done on CPU. See for example http://dmx.sourceforge.net/
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This even in 1997 with Windows 95. When a modern desktop doesn't let you do what ordinary users casually did with Windows 95 YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
That does not a compelling argument make. Sometimes leaving redundant features out is actually useful, and sometimes including some features doesn't make any sense at all. As such you cannot just make such an all-encompassing claim like that.