Scrolling to the bottom on discussion of performance/watt, Intel's Broadwell 6950 is ahead by ~15% compared to Ryzen 1800. Intel's Skylake and upcoming Coffee Lake represent an incremental update in transistor and computer architecture, and may be expected to further improve efficiency. Haven't seen any Threadripper numbers though.
Speeding up/slowing down isn't the issue; it's the ~70 dB noise floor of driving that makes anything quiet in the music impossible to hear (without going deaf during the loud parts). The simplest technical solution, which the industry has adopted, is to normalize the loudness in the track. No special music playback hardware required, works for all makes & models & years of cars/whatever playback device. Sure there may be better technical ways to do it, but cost and adoption will be a problem.
Songs with high dynamic range are annoying to listen to in a lot of everyday situations, such as in a car or while working out at the gym, as volume has to constantly be adjusted. Not everyone listens to music in an underground bunker with perfect noise isolation, $10000 speakers, etc. Also, I doubt anyone here can truly differentiate between a lossless audio file and a reasonable MP3/AAC, most of you are just full of yourselves (many blind AB tests out there that people tend to ignore due to bias). Most people really just care about the music; sound quality is secondary. Heck, people can't even differentiate between a modern violin and a Stradivarius, let alone the difference between MP3/lossless.
Audi A6/S6 is kind of an outlier with unusually low insurance rates for me, so admittedly I cherry picked that one (even A4/S4 is more expensive). Also never have been in a crash/no speeding ticket (though I did get a ticket for going too slow a year back... a different story). I did find that Geico has a lot lower cost than others in my area, not sure why. Just quoted a 2017 Miata and it's $80/mo with full coverage... even a new Prius would be more expensive... I don't get insurance rates.
Just ran a quote for a new Tesla Model S 70 on Geico and it comes out to $270/mo, ouch. My few years old Subaru is only $75/mo with full coverage. Even a new Audi S6 would run me a far more reasonable $130/mo.
Another difference is that people *need* medical technology. You can get by just fine without a big TV. Since your life would depend on the technology, the opportunities for price inflation are much stronger.
I agree; notice in the article, they only say something about his high school grades. Not his college. Maybe he passed with a 2.0 GPA, and has no real skills. All the successful engineers I know were passionate about the subject, did things outside of school, had internships, etc.
And thus begins the consolidation of smart watch companies. We saw that Basis was killed off a few months ago by Intel. At least Intel was so kind as to offer full refunds for all of the watches.
For me: looking at the wrist is easier than taking out the phone. I can easily tell if a notification is important enough for me to take out the phone or not, saving me a step. Secondary function is to monitor heart rate/calorie consumption, which may not matter to the average/. user who sits in front of a computer all day. I'll easily pay $100 for a device that does this.
Not entirely a fair comparison since they are probably comparing an older android phone to a newer iPhone. However, their experience showed that Android is glitchy, and the perception is that iOS is more stable than Android, hence motivating the switch. New Android hardware may not fix any stability issues in this case.
TV remote filters are the opposite, they block out visible light and allow IR to pass (if they blocked IR, they would fail to work). Developed film can be used as an IR pass through filter.
Sounds like a poor company culture to me. I'm in a Fortune 50 company, and new hires are getting nice high resolution 27" monitors, while we stick with our 5 year old 24" screens, without a complaint. Heck, we're all in cubicles, VPs included.
Both our Toyota and Subaru has keyless ignition and it constantly yells/beeps at you telling you the key is not in the car. Did you not notice, or did Mazda forget to put such an obvious alert?
Plenty of GPU power for casual games, and similar GPU performance to high end cards from ~2008, which will still enable you to play quite a bit of games with decent visual quality.
These sort of comparisons are pointless when just looking at base salary. Equity awards and bonuses can easily exceed base for these types of positions. I mean, senior developers easily make $150k-$175k in total comp, even in inexpensive cities.
How's about some full text for reference? FAA can still legally regulate quadcopters in certain situations, i.e. you are within 5 miles of an airport (I am) and don't notify the controller (who would?)
Section 336 also prohibits the FAA from promulgating “any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft” if the following statutory requirements are met:
the aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;
the aircraft is operated in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization;
the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds unless otherwise certified through a design, construction, inspection, flight test, and operational safety program administered by a community-based organization;
the aircraft is operated in a manner that does not interfere with and gives way to any manned aircraft; and
when flown within 5 miles of an airport, the operator of the aircraft provides the airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower with prior notice of the operation.
At work they had an Oculus VR demo this past week and I got the chance to test one (I don't know the full specs of that particular unit). My experience and comments from the 5 min demo:
- Very first thing I noticed when I wore the headset was that the resolution seemed low, and the screen wasn't that bright. - I had no control over the motion of the demo; as a result during panning, I could feel a twinge of motion sickness. Don't know what the framerate/latency was. - It is a bit disconcerting to look at your virtual self, and while you move your real legs/arms, you don't see your virtual legs/arm move. - The overall experience is very interesting and I think VR could be quite an enjoyable entertainment medium, but it definitely needs some work.
Slashdot Mirror
One, now older benchmark: http://semiaccurate.com/2017/0...
Scrolling to the bottom on discussion of performance/watt, Intel's Broadwell 6950 is ahead by ~15% compared to Ryzen 1800. Intel's Skylake and upcoming Coffee Lake represent an incremental update in transistor and computer architecture, and may be expected to further improve efficiency. Haven't seen any Threadripper numbers though.
Just like Flash!
Speeding up/slowing down isn't the issue; it's the ~70 dB noise floor of driving that makes anything quiet in the music impossible to hear (without going deaf during the loud parts). The simplest technical solution, which the industry has adopted, is to normalize the loudness in the track. No special music playback hardware required, works for all makes & models & years of cars/whatever playback device. Sure there may be better technical ways to do it, but cost and adoption will be a problem.
Songs with high dynamic range are annoying to listen to in a lot of everyday situations, such as in a car or while working out at the gym, as volume has to constantly be adjusted. Not everyone listens to music in an underground bunker with perfect noise isolation, $10000 speakers, etc. Also, I doubt anyone here can truly differentiate between a lossless audio file and a reasonable MP3/AAC, most of you are just full of yourselves (many blind AB tests out there that people tend to ignore due to bias). Most people really just care about the music; sound quality is secondary. Heck, people can't even differentiate between a modern violin and a Stradivarius, let alone the difference between MP3/lossless.
Audi A6/S6 is kind of an outlier with unusually low insurance rates for me, so admittedly I cherry picked that one (even A4/S4 is more expensive). Also never have been in a crash/no speeding ticket (though I did get a ticket for going too slow a year back... a different story). I did find that Geico has a lot lower cost than others in my area, not sure why. Just quoted a 2017 Miata and it's $80/mo with full coverage... even a new Prius would be more expensive... I don't get insurance rates.
EM in Cu is a problem, but who's to say future chips are going to still use Cu?
Just ran a quote for a new Tesla Model S 70 on Geico and it comes out to $270/mo, ouch. My few years old Subaru is only $75/mo with full coverage. Even a new Audi S6 would run me a far more reasonable $130/mo.
Another difference is that people *need* medical technology. You can get by just fine without a big TV. Since your life would depend on the technology, the opportunities for price inflation are much stronger.
I agree; notice in the article, they only say something about his high school grades. Not his college. Maybe he passed with a 2.0 GPA, and has no real skills. All the successful engineers I know were passionate about the subject, did things outside of school, had internships, etc.
Well yeah, the CEO of Disney sits on Apple's board. Of course there will be that sort of influence and exemptions.
According to slashdot, the iPhone 7 should have failed, just like the iPod.
Apple, the company that has been slowly dying since 1997. With their current cash reserves alone, they can sustain their operations for decades.
And thus begins the consolidation of smart watch companies. We saw that Basis was killed off a few months ago by Intel. At least Intel was so kind as to offer full refunds for all of the watches.
For me: looking at the wrist is easier than taking out the phone. I can easily tell if a notification is important enough for me to take out the phone or not, saving me a step. Secondary function is to monitor heart rate/calorie consumption, which may not matter to the average /. user who sits in front of a computer all day. I'll easily pay $100 for a device that does this.
Not entirely a fair comparison since they are probably comparing an older android phone to a newer iPhone. However, their experience showed that Android is glitchy, and the perception is that iOS is more stable than Android, hence motivating the switch. New Android hardware may not fix any stability issues in this case.
TV remote filters are the opposite, they block out visible light and allow IR to pass (if they blocked IR, they would fail to work). Developed film can be used as an IR pass through filter.
For the application in this article, something like this would be appropriate:
http://www.hoyafilter.com/hoya...
Companies like Apple patent things left and right, regardless of whether they would actually use the ideas or not.
On the other hand, I absolutely love my BT headphones for exercise. Freedom from the cable is great in this circumstance.
Sounds like a poor company culture to me. I'm in a Fortune 50 company, and new hires are getting nice high resolution 27" monitors, while we stick with our 5 year old 24" screens, without a complaint. Heck, we're all in cubicles, VPs included.
Apparently it's good, according to critics and users?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...
Both our Toyota and Subaru has keyless ignition and it constantly yells/beeps at you telling you the key is not in the car. Did you not notice, or did Mazda forget to put such an obvious alert?
Plenty of GPU power for casual games, and similar GPU performance to high end cards from ~2008, which will still enable you to play quite a bit of games with decent visual quality.
These sort of comparisons are pointless when just looking at base salary. Equity awards and bonuses can easily exceed base for these types of positions. I mean, senior developers easily make $150k-$175k in total comp, even in inexpensive cities.
How's about some full text for reference? FAA can still legally regulate quadcopters in certain situations, i.e. you are within 5 miles of an airport (I am) and don't notify the controller (who would?)
https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/...
Section 336 also prohibits the FAA from promulgating “any rule or regulation
regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft” if the
following statutory requirements are met:
the aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;
the aircraft is operated in accordance with a community-based set
of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide
community-based organization;
the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds unless otherwise
certified through a design, construction, inspection, flight test, and
operational safety program administered by a community-based
organization;
the aircraft is operated in a manner that does not interfere with and
gives way to any manned aircraft; and
when flown within 5 miles of an airport, the operator of the aircraft
provides the airport operator and the airport air traffic control
tower with prior notice of the operation.
At work they had an Oculus VR demo this past week and I got the chance to test one (I don't know the full specs of that particular unit). My experience and comments from the 5 min demo:
- Very first thing I noticed when I wore the headset was that the resolution seemed low, and the screen wasn't that bright.
- I had no control over the motion of the demo; as a result during panning, I could feel a twinge of motion sickness. Don't know what the framerate/latency was.
- It is a bit disconcerting to look at your virtual self, and while you move your real legs/arms, you don't see your virtual legs/arm move.
- The overall experience is very interesting and I think VR could be quite an enjoyable entertainment medium, but it definitely needs some work.