Transferring files between computers on a typical home network these days, I think the one gigabit per second network limitation is going to be the bottleneck for many people.
Real world calling, most home networks have gone wireless and most use laptops, tablets or other portable devices that don't get plugged in more than they need to. Even if you have a family server or one of the kids is a gamer with a desktop it still won't go any faster. The GigE cap is only if you need to move huge amounts of data between two wired - or at least plugged in for the occasion - boxes in the same house, which is quite rare. That anybody feels speed is a limitation is rarer still, cables are more reliable, always work at close to rated speed rather than "up to" wireless and there's no need for setting up encryption and typing in access keys but ~10 seconds per gigabyte is a BluRay in less than ten minutes. You need that down to less than one a minute? What I'd like is GigE Internet to my GigE home network, 10G doesn't really do anything for me.
Not much, except that all modern Linux software already does this because X is utterly obsolete as a drawing toolkit. Wayland is pretty much the answer to "If we assume the toolkits look at X like a dumb framebuffer, how much of X can we throw away? And fix some deep design issues in a process." That's it, nothing more. It's not an either-or, nothing prevents you from building an overlay that talks geometry to clients and pixels to Wayland, if you can get any traction for that. But then you're probably going to compete with similar functionality in GTK+, Qt, wxWidgets, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, SDL and so on that all like to render pixels. Unless you can force developers to use one library like Windows and OS X can you'll be just another library clamoring for support. But they all need something to render on and that's Wayland.
That's not the real issue, the real issue is that developing new code is fun while maintaining and reworking it is boring. You build a house and things are a bit rough all around but instead of polishing it until it's the best house it can be you've already jumped on building your new house that will become even better while the old house is left abandoned. It's pretty tough to resist when you don't have a boss who'll tell you enough is enough and just leave it be already.
Best way is if you can "drift" from existing skills to related ones. I started out as an implementation consultant, customers wanted custom reports so I got experience doing that. Using that I got a job managing a reporting solution, which had a back-end consolidating databases. That lead to another job in data warehousing and cube solutions, which led me to take the MSBI cerification (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS). That lead to another job where I'm now doing mostly data flow packages in Integration Services, not related to reporting or data warehousing. That's in ~10 years. Not really sure where I'm going from here but I doubt I'll do exactly the same for too long, if you get too narrow you get trapped by it. Like you've been a SAP consultant for 10 years and now nobody will hire you at a decent rate for anything but SAP consulting. Not going to happen to me.
No, Fermat's last theorem says a^n + b^n = c^n for n > 2 has no solutions. Here's it says a^x + b^y = c^z for x,y,z > 2 only have solutions when they have a common factor. Example: 3^3 + 6^3 = 3^5.
Maybe not misinformation, but lack of information - if they are going to claim 25 hour battery life, they should include the weight, size and price of the battery.
You can lie by omission but I don't see what you're complaining about here, they say it's a sheet battery accessory. It obviously has a weight, bulk and a price tag even if it's not stated. The point of a press release is to reach people who go "Hey, a 25 hour battery life sounds like something I could need... maybe I should check it out" to your selling points, the rest you can tell them about later. I know/. hates marketing and sales with a vengeance, but really... first you have to get them interested in what you're offering in the first place, then you can start talking specs and prices.
You're looking at this from an enthusiast perspective. But if I'm building a system for someone who mostly does web surfing, Office, and occasionally some light gaming like WoW and The Sims, then an AMD APU starts to look a lot better from a price/performance perspective. You assume that as long as the performance per dollar stays high, the buyer is willing to spend as much as necessary, but that's simply not true for most users. Probably 90% of users will never even hit the maximum limit of an A10-6800K, so for these people, Haswell is overkill.
For gaming the graphics part is most important, but otherwise as a general rule light usage is poorly threaded and heavy usage well threaded. Often the "snappiness" of the computer is based on the performance of a single thread. So for the non-gamer I'd go with high single thread performance, for the gamer I'd suggest a discrete card but for the right level of casual gamer I guess an APU is what serves them best.
Well there's three things: 1) Ability to upgrade 2) Ability to mix/match motherboard/CPU 3) Replacement cost if it fails out of warranty
On the other hand, if you buy a new motherboard/CPU combo you have a working old machine to sell or re-purpose, if you upgrade just the CPU is a low end CPU with no motherboard will usually be a complete write-off. The BGA package is cheaper, which might offset the lack of choice and most the functionality is now on the processor or chipset anyway. The repair cost is pretty real, but if you found a cheap motherboard or CPU to repair with in the past now you'll be looking for a cheap combo instead.
Remember that PCs overall are seeing a slump, desktops have long been in decline, non-OEM desktops are a small part of the desktop market and people are not whining about this on laptops which by far outships desktops, nor or smartphones or tablets so most of the market is already used to this being one piece of hardware. If anything maybe you'll see a small revival of the expansion card market where you get "just" the standard CPU/chipset features on the motherboard and the rest as extras on daughterboards. Overall a lot of drama and not that much reality...
Haswell has launched. They could have made a socket for the R-series, but it couldn't have been the same socket as the other processors. The socket is LGA1150, not 1550. No Intel part uses GDDR, it's all eDRAM + system memory (DDR3). I guess we'll see when Intel releases their sub-$300 line, so far it's only been the top models on display. Personally I ordered an i7-4665T for a fanless build, looks to pack an awful lot of power in a 35W TDP.
Imagine you stand in front of a house door, the police arrives with a warrant and ask you to open the door. You say "It's not my house, break the door if you like, but I don't have keys to let you in". There is no doubt that the police has the right to get in. But opening the door would prove that you have access to the house, so if the police doesn't know that, opening the door would be self incriminating. Not so if you are _inside_. The police would know that you have access, so opening the door is not self incriminating. Giving the police access to the evidence inside doesn't count as "self incriminating" and isn't protected by the fifth amendment.
Ah, but the same logic would apply further to objects and compartments as well, for example just recently some students here found a secret crawlspace used during WWII that nobody was aware of, not even the owner. Right now I rent an apartment where some things belong to the landlord, if you found a lockbox hidden in one of them it wouldn't be mine. Maybe you have an on-and-off partner that doesn't formally live there but who has things stored at your place and that you let use your computer. Maybe you're the victim of a conspiracy and the evidence is planted there. Granted, you're chasing slivers of reasonable doubt here but by compelling you to decrypt it they force you to revea it with certainty.
"But that is the origin, when somebody says: "I take the fifth", what they mean is that they will not testify against themselves. But to testify against yourself you have to be a suspect, you have to be the one on trial, that's why Lois Lerner, the IRS director [cnn.com] "taking the fifth" makes no sense, she wasn't on trial."
Will your testimony as a witness be admissable as evidence in a future trial against you? Yes it will, which means you can invoke the 5th unless you've been granted immunity.
As someone who had to re-type a 80 page document because the company stopped using the software the document was created on, and didn't have a licence for it an no converter found online worked - I can say this does happen.
I'm rather surprised that with todays VM/emulation solutions companies haven't figured this one out, unless you've sold the licenses or just leased/rented them in the first place keep at least one license of your old technical platform. That way you should at least be able to get a copy-pasted version or OCR a copy written to PDF.
Oh please, the essential mechanics of most genres have been the same for decades. What differentiates a great game from a "lather, rinse, repeat" game is whether it got you engaged by the game or not, running around collecting weapons and ammo to shoot random monsters a hundred FPS games can give you. But if you got no story, no characters to get engaged in, no enemies with any personality I'll guarantee you'll get bored quickly even if the gameplay is fine. It's just a grind to reach the next level of more grind and essentially it's all grind. Better weapons, better armor, new levels, new abilities, higher stats, sounds like every RPG I've played. And yet if done right it's fun, you also feel like you're progressing through a story and you're shaping your own character. It's not the engine that does that for you, not at all.
Norway is a terrible country for cell coverage. I still come across areas that isn't even 1G permeated where people live in clusters of five. Imagine having to drive 15 minutes before you can dial 911 (or 113). There was live copper in those places up until 1-2 years ago.
They can't shut down an area without literally every permanent resident having coverage, there is regulation in place to ensure delivery so that live copper is going to be replaced with a mini-tower of sorts. They put up something like that near the cabin of an uncle of mine, it serves probably five permanent residents tops (cabins and such have no delivery promises) and is really just a standard wooden pole next to the power line. There's just power no data cable, wireless point-to-point transmission to the nearest "proper" tower. They've also said that some places might have legacy copper a little longer by scavenging parts from networks being shut down, but nothing new is built and the old will likely be replaced rather than repaired when necessary. As a bonus cell phone coverage will get a big boost for everyone else.
I can't speak for the US, but here in Norway copper is going away because all the profitable areas have disappeared since in all densely populated areas people get faster and better broadband elsewhere or have switched to cell phones. The phone network that once had 2.6 million subscribers is now down to 800.000 and in rapid decline. What they're left with is a need to maintain a huge copper network more and more sparely populated and mainly with the elderly that don't use any expensive services. By 2017 they expect basic phone service to be gone, either they're pulling fiber or going wireless. The first pilot county is switching now 31st of August this year, after that the phones are literally dead.
P.S. As a substitute for the elderly they are offering phones that look like the old landlines, but that are really cell phones in drag, as far as I know they also contain a decent size battery (hey, you got the space right?) so as long as they can keep the cell towers up and running - or bring in mobile replacements - things should be pretty reliable.
Yes, and the same thing about weekend surgeries. If it can't wait until Monday it means it's critical and life-threatening, which of course is highly correlated with dying. If you want real stats you have to go procedure by procedure and compare similar cases, like acute [whatever] operated immediately on a weekday compared to the same condition, same operation on a weekend.
Back in the real world, how much would you think the asking price of the first copy of Photoshop or Lord of the Rings should be? And if your answer to that is to put it on Kickstarter, I'm going to laugh. If you want custom development it's going to be $50+ a day at minimum wage, many hundred dollars a day if you want it to actually work (if that's not a requirement you can put it on rent-a-coder too) and nobody's going to "take one for the team". And you've got no guarantee you'll get what you wanted unless you have an iron-clad contract listing exact deliveries with no cure, no pay conditions - and you still have to fight the developer over it. Hell, if any of those methods worked open source would already have taken over since you could hire people to work on it for you today, without changing the law.
People in general don't want that risk, plain and simply. I don't want to fund an author that is looking to write a book or even pay chapter by chapter if I feel there's a risk he'll just leave me hanging in the middle. I'd like him to write it, then I can choose to buy it or not. That is your analogy fail, I want to walk the proverbial isles of the app store the same way I walk in the grocery store, I want to see the finished product on offer and either pay or pass it up. That's how "every other labor industry does" but in your world everything in the store should then be free, because all the work is already done. Real world goods have overhead too, it's not like the price of a pound of beef is literally all cost attached to that pound, there were probably lots of fixed cost that'd be paid if that cow was there or not. But that overhead was spread across all pounds of beef the way a developer spreads his overhead (that is, actually writing it) across all the copies.
Or the TL;DR version: I think $1 for Angry Birds was a bloody good deal and don't see it happening without copyright to organize the "pooling".
Sounds like you should check your fan, my CPU was hitting 99C under load and the reason was that the cheap plastic attaching it to the motherboard had failed from fatigue and the fan was loose on one side but still marginally attached to the processor, providing enough cooling for light loads. No properly attached cooler should have a problem with a 77W processor, not even the cheap OEM ones. The reason I noticed was because it was getting slightly unstable, so since I didn't want to do any more thermal damage to it I got a big 80mm push-pull fan that keeps it very cool. Seems to work so far.
Intel fanboys never want to discuss price, at least not really. Sometimes they pretend, but never want to make an honest price bin comparison.
So let's compare single threaded CPU performance at equal price points then shall we. No? Ah right, the comparison of choice lately has been gaming performance at equal price points. Choose the scenario where you win and pretend it's the only scenario that matters, it's a powerful form of self-delusion. But that aside, they don't compete directly just yet but Intel just proved they have an integrated graphics solution that is faster and uses less power than anything AMD can come up with. That is what most people would call "technical superiority" where you can extract tons of profit by offering products your competitors can't. Intel has a lot of that, AMD just lost one of the last strong cards in their deck.
Take a grounded reality check - is AMD's pricing because they're this undiscovered treasure chest of excellent processors or because they're selling inferior solutions they won't sell any other way? I think you can certainly rule out that it's a strategic plan from AMD's side, given how their latest financial statements look. Intel is not pricing Haswell aggressively at all, if anything they're increasing prices so that maybe AMD can manage to not go bankrupt and get Intel in all sorts of scrutiny over their x86 monopoly. And still AMD is failing, really if they can't manage to undersell Intel at the prices Intel have now maybe AMD doesn't deserve to be in business. Sad for the consumer, but true.
That said the only article I saw there was comparing a $650 chip vs a $130 AMD A10 chip.
So far, because that chip: 1) Trounces AMD in CPU performance 2) Uses less than half the power 3) Is a fully featured mobile chip where 4) Is somewhat faster in graphics is only a small detail.
The interesting chip here is the i7-4770R, OEM only and no reviews yet but the same graphics will come to the desktop somehow. I expect it will be sold as motherboards with CPU soldered on for DIY builds, like the Atom boards.
Anandtech tested it, idle power is down probably due to the new voltage regulator (FIVR) but active power.... 113% the performance for 111.8% so performance per watt is essentially unchanged. If what you need is CPU power then you're better off waiting for a IVB-E hex-core in Q3, in threaded applications a quad-core Haswell won't touch a hex-core Ivy Brigde - it's trailing Sandy Bridge hex-cores as well. If you're not interested in the graphics or battery life, it's a giant yawn.
That said, the GT3e graphics for mobile looks to carve out a solid niche in the notebook market, the R-series desktop processors (GT3e graphics, BGA only) is probably compelling for AIOs that don't have room for graphics upgrades anyway and the lower idle wattage should be good for all laptops with Haswell graphics. None of the processors launched now have the new idle states for ultramobile/tablets, so the effect of those we'll have to wait to see. Anandtech tested the i7-4950HQ and it was impressive how a 47W mobile chip consistently beat AMDs A10-5800 100W desktop APU in gaming benchmarks. Of course it's going to sell in a price range of its own, but AMD just lost the crown here.
As a CPU in a regular tower with discrete graphics it's at best incremental but I think the full launch lineup hit all of Intel's main competitors - it's threatening AMD and nVidia's low end discrete card sales, it's threatening AMDs APU sales and the lower idle power is promising for their lower power parts that will compete with ARM. They're just not winning much against the i7-3770K but then they're also fighting against themselves in that market, the FX-8350 is not even close. The 8-series chipset finally brings 6 SATA3 ports, so the main AMD advantage chipset-wise also disappeared.
They probably already seem innocuous in context, because it seems to me all legally operating porn sites are extremely paranoid of being associated in any way with underage content. The suggestions are quite frankly bizarre and counterproductive, a registration requirement for being allowed to search for porn? With the implication that this'll be a huge red flag on you since the border between legal and illegal sexual images is nothing but a thin red line rather than the difference between a healthy, fun and common recreational activity between consenting adults and child abuse. What it in practice will do is make more people use the unofficial and anonymous channels, drowning out any signal to noise ratio of the really illegal material.
One of the greatest challenges of any system is the stigma of running it, sure downloading Justin Bieber and Game of Thrones via torrents isn't exactly legal but nobody really bats an eye at that anymore than admitting you were speeding on the interstate. And every male teen will understand why you'd want to torrent Asa Akira or Jenna Haze too, if you can't find them on Google. But if you start talking about things like BitCoin and TOR more will start wondering if you're involved with drugs, money laundering, terrorism, kiddie porn or you're a tinfoil hat nutter. Like, what does any "normal" person need it for and by that I don't mean law abiding. Drive porn underground and being underground will become socially accepted.
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Other people don't understand WTF you're talking about either, they're just better at faking it.
Transferring files between computers on a typical home network these days, I think the one gigabit per second network limitation is going to be the bottleneck for many people.
Real world calling, most home networks have gone wireless and most use laptops, tablets or other portable devices that don't get plugged in more than they need to. Even if you have a family server or one of the kids is a gamer with a desktop it still won't go any faster. The GigE cap is only if you need to move huge amounts of data between two wired - or at least plugged in for the occasion - boxes in the same house, which is quite rare. That anybody feels speed is a limitation is rarer still, cables are more reliable, always work at close to rated speed rather than "up to" wireless and there's no need for setting up encryption and typing in access keys but ~10 seconds per gigabyte is a BluRay in less than ten minutes. You need that down to less than one a minute? What I'd like is GigE Internet to my GigE home network, 10G doesn't really do anything for me.
Not much, except that all modern Linux software already does this because X is utterly obsolete as a drawing toolkit. Wayland is pretty much the answer to "If we assume the toolkits look at X like a dumb framebuffer, how much of X can we throw away? And fix some deep design issues in a process." That's it, nothing more. It's not an either-or, nothing prevents you from building an overlay that talks geometry to clients and pixels to Wayland, if you can get any traction for that. But then you're probably going to compete with similar functionality in GTK+, Qt, wxWidgets, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, SDL and so on that all like to render pixels. Unless you can force developers to use one library like Windows and OS X can you'll be just another library clamoring for support. But they all need something to render on and that's Wayland.
That's not the real issue, the real issue is that developing new code is fun while maintaining and reworking it is boring. You build a house and things are a bit rough all around but instead of polishing it until it's the best house it can be you've already jumped on building your new house that will become even better while the old house is left abandoned. It's pretty tough to resist when you don't have a boss who'll tell you enough is enough and just leave it be already.
Best way is if you can "drift" from existing skills to related ones. I started out as an implementation consultant, customers wanted custom reports so I got experience doing that. Using that I got a job managing a reporting solution, which had a back-end consolidating databases. That lead to another job in data warehousing and cube solutions, which led me to take the MSBI cerification (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS). That lead to another job where I'm now doing mostly data flow packages in Integration Services, not related to reporting or data warehousing. That's in ~10 years. Not really sure where I'm going from here but I doubt I'll do exactly the same for too long, if you get too narrow you get trapped by it. Like you've been a SAP consultant for 10 years and now nobody will hire you at a decent rate for anything but SAP consulting. Not going to happen to me.
No, Fermat's last theorem says a^n + b^n = c^n for n > 2 has no solutions. Here's it says a^x + b^y = c^z for x,y,z > 2 only have solutions when they have a common factor. Example: 3^3 + 6^3 = 3^5.
Maybe not misinformation, but lack of information - if they are going to claim 25 hour battery life, they should include the weight, size and price of the battery.
You can lie by omission but I don't see what you're complaining about here, they say it's a sheet battery accessory. It obviously has a weight, bulk and a price tag even if it's not stated. The point of a press release is to reach people who go "Hey, a 25 hour battery life sounds like something I could need... maybe I should check it out" to your selling points, the rest you can tell them about later. I know /. hates marketing and sales with a vengeance, but really... first you have to get them interested in what you're offering in the first place, then you can start talking specs and prices.
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You're looking at this from an enthusiast perspective. But if I'm building a system for someone who mostly does web surfing, Office, and occasionally some light gaming like WoW and The Sims, then an AMD APU starts to look a lot better from a price/performance perspective. You assume that as long as the performance per dollar stays high, the buyer is willing to spend as much as necessary, but that's simply not true for most users. Probably 90% of users will never even hit the maximum limit of an A10-6800K, so for these people, Haswell is overkill.
For gaming the graphics part is most important, but otherwise as a general rule light usage is poorly threaded and heavy usage well threaded. Often the "snappiness" of the computer is based on the performance of a single thread. So for the non-gamer I'd go with high single thread performance, for the gamer I'd suggest a discrete card but for the right level of casual gamer I guess an APU is what serves them best.
Well there's three things:
1) Ability to upgrade
2) Ability to mix/match motherboard/CPU
3) Replacement cost if it fails out of warranty
On the other hand, if you buy a new motherboard/CPU combo you have a working old machine to sell or re-purpose, if you upgrade just the CPU is a low end CPU with no motherboard will usually be a complete write-off. The BGA package is cheaper, which might offset the lack of choice and most the functionality is now on the processor or chipset anyway. The repair cost is pretty real, but if you found a cheap motherboard or CPU to repair with in the past now you'll be looking for a cheap combo instead.
Remember that PCs overall are seeing a slump, desktops have long been in decline, non-OEM desktops are a small part of the desktop market and people are not whining about this on laptops which by far outships desktops, nor or smartphones or tablets so most of the market is already used to this being one piece of hardware. If anything maybe you'll see a small revival of the expansion card market where you get "just" the standard CPU/chipset features on the motherboard and the rest as extras on daughterboards. Overall a lot of drama and not that much reality...
Haswell has launched. They could have made a socket for the R-series, but it couldn't have been the same socket as the other processors. The socket is LGA1150, not 1550. No Intel part uses GDDR, it's all eDRAM + system memory (DDR3). I guess we'll see when Intel releases their sub-$300 line, so far it's only been the top models on display. Personally I ordered an i7-4665T for a fanless build, looks to pack an awful lot of power in a 35W TDP.
Imagine you stand in front of a house door, the police arrives with a warrant and ask you to open the door. You say "It's not my house, break the door if you like, but I don't have keys to let you in". There is no doubt that the police has the right to get in. But opening the door would prove that you have access to the house, so if the police doesn't know that, opening the door would be self incriminating. Not so if you are _inside_. The police would know that you have access, so opening the door is not self incriminating. Giving the police access to the evidence inside doesn't count as "self incriminating" and isn't protected by the fifth amendment.
Ah, but the same logic would apply further to objects and compartments as well, for example just recently some students here found a secret crawlspace used during WWII that nobody was aware of, not even the owner. Right now I rent an apartment where some things belong to the landlord, if you found a lockbox hidden in one of them it wouldn't be mine. Maybe you have an on-and-off partner that doesn't formally live there but who has things stored at your place and that you let use your computer. Maybe you're the victim of a conspiracy and the evidence is planted there. Granted, you're chasing slivers of reasonable doubt here but by compelling you to decrypt it they force you to revea it with certainty.
"But that is the origin, when somebody says: "I take the fifth", what they mean is that they will not testify against themselves. But to testify against yourself you have to be a suspect, you have to be the one on trial, that's why Lois Lerner, the IRS director [cnn.com] "taking the fifth" makes no sense, she wasn't on trial."
Will your testimony as a witness be admissable as evidence in a future trial against you? Yes it will, which means you can invoke the 5th unless you've been granted immunity.
As someone who had to re-type a 80 page document because the company stopped using the software the document was created on, and didn't have a licence for it an no converter found online worked - I can say this does happen.
I'm rather surprised that with todays VM/emulation solutions companies haven't figured this one out, unless you've sold the licenses or just leased/rented them in the first place keep at least one license of your old technical platform. That way you should at least be able to get a copy-pasted version or OCR a copy written to PDF.
Oh please, the essential mechanics of most genres have been the same for decades. What differentiates a great game from a "lather, rinse, repeat" game is whether it got you engaged by the game or not, running around collecting weapons and ammo to shoot random monsters a hundred FPS games can give you. But if you got no story, no characters to get engaged in, no enemies with any personality I'll guarantee you'll get bored quickly even if the gameplay is fine. It's just a grind to reach the next level of more grind and essentially it's all grind. Better weapons, better armor, new levels, new abilities, higher stats, sounds like every RPG I've played. And yet if done right it's fun, you also feel like you're progressing through a story and you're shaping your own character. It's not the engine that does that for you, not at all.
Norway is a terrible country for cell coverage. I still come across areas that isn't even 1G permeated where people live in clusters of five. Imagine having to drive 15 minutes before you can dial 911 (or 113). There was live copper in those places up until 1-2 years ago.
They can't shut down an area without literally every permanent resident having coverage, there is regulation in place to ensure delivery so that live copper is going to be replaced with a mini-tower of sorts. They put up something like that near the cabin of an uncle of mine, it serves probably five permanent residents tops (cabins and such have no delivery promises) and is really just a standard wooden pole next to the power line. There's just power no data cable, wireless point-to-point transmission to the nearest "proper" tower. They've also said that some places might have legacy copper a little longer by scavenging parts from networks being shut down, but nothing new is built and the old will likely be replaced rather than repaired when necessary. As a bonus cell phone coverage will get a big boost for everyone else.
4chan is only a threat to your sanity, and there's good reason to lock up insane people so I'm sure Erdogan would approve.
I can't speak for the US, but here in Norway copper is going away because all the profitable areas have disappeared since in all densely populated areas people get faster and better broadband elsewhere or have switched to cell phones. The phone network that once had 2.6 million subscribers is now down to 800.000 and in rapid decline. What they're left with is a need to maintain a huge copper network more and more sparely populated and mainly with the elderly that don't use any expensive services. By 2017 they expect basic phone service to be gone, either they're pulling fiber or going wireless. The first pilot county is switching now 31st of August this year, after that the phones are literally dead.
P.S. As a substitute for the elderly they are offering phones that look like the old landlines, but that are really cell phones in drag, as far as I know they also contain a decent size battery (hey, you got the space right?) so as long as they can keep the cell towers up and running - or bring in mobile replacements - things should be pretty reliable.
Yes, and the same thing about weekend surgeries. If it can't wait until Monday it means it's critical and life-threatening, which of course is highly correlated with dying. If you want real stats you have to go procedure by procedure and compare similar cases, like acute [whatever] operated immediately on a weekday compared to the same condition, same operation on a weekend.
Back in the real world, how much would you think the asking price of the first copy of Photoshop or Lord of the Rings should be? And if your answer to that is to put it on Kickstarter, I'm going to laugh. If you want custom development it's going to be $50+ a day at minimum wage, many hundred dollars a day if you want it to actually work (if that's not a requirement you can put it on rent-a-coder too) and nobody's going to "take one for the team". And you've got no guarantee you'll get what you wanted unless you have an iron-clad contract listing exact deliveries with no cure, no pay conditions - and you still have to fight the developer over it. Hell, if any of those methods worked open source would already have taken over since you could hire people to work on it for you today, without changing the law.
People in general don't want that risk, plain and simply. I don't want to fund an author that is looking to write a book or even pay chapter by chapter if I feel there's a risk he'll just leave me hanging in the middle. I'd like him to write it, then I can choose to buy it or not. That is your analogy fail, I want to walk the proverbial isles of the app store the same way I walk in the grocery store, I want to see the finished product on offer and either pay or pass it up. That's how "every other labor industry does" but in your world everything in the store should then be free, because all the work is already done. Real world goods have overhead too, it's not like the price of a pound of beef is literally all cost attached to that pound, there were probably lots of fixed cost that'd be paid if that cow was there or not. But that overhead was spread across all pounds of beef the way a developer spreads his overhead (that is, actually writing it) across all the copies.
Or the TL;DR version: I think $1 for Angry Birds was a bloody good deal and don't see it happening without copyright to organize the "pooling".
Sounds like you should check your fan, my CPU was hitting 99C under load and the reason was that the cheap plastic attaching it to the motherboard had failed from fatigue and the fan was loose on one side but still marginally attached to the processor, providing enough cooling for light loads. No properly attached cooler should have a problem with a 77W processor, not even the cheap OEM ones. The reason I noticed was because it was getting slightly unstable, so since I didn't want to do any more thermal damage to it I got a big 80mm push-pull fan that keeps it very cool. Seems to work so far.
Intel fanboys never want to discuss price, at least not really. Sometimes they pretend, but never want to make an honest price bin comparison.
So let's compare single threaded CPU performance at equal price points then shall we. No? Ah right, the comparison of choice lately has been gaming performance at equal price points. Choose the scenario where you win and pretend it's the only scenario that matters, it's a powerful form of self-delusion. But that aside, they don't compete directly just yet but Intel just proved they have an integrated graphics solution that is faster and uses less power than anything AMD can come up with. That is what most people would call "technical superiority" where you can extract tons of profit by offering products your competitors can't. Intel has a lot of that, AMD just lost one of the last strong cards in their deck.
Take a grounded reality check - is AMD's pricing because they're this undiscovered treasure chest of excellent processors or because they're selling inferior solutions they won't sell any other way? I think you can certainly rule out that it's a strategic plan from AMD's side, given how their latest financial statements look. Intel is not pricing Haswell aggressively at all, if anything they're increasing prices so that maybe AMD can manage to not go bankrupt and get Intel in all sorts of scrutiny over their x86 monopoly. And still AMD is failing, really if they can't manage to undersell Intel at the prices Intel have now maybe AMD doesn't deserve to be in business. Sad for the consumer, but true.
That said the only article I saw there was comparing a $650 chip vs a $130 AMD A10 chip.
So far, because that chip:
1) Trounces AMD in CPU performance
2) Uses less than half the power
3) Is a fully featured mobile chip
where
4) Is somewhat faster in graphics
is only a small detail.
The interesting chip here is the i7-4770R, OEM only and no reviews yet but the same graphics will come to the desktop somehow. I expect it will be sold as motherboards with CPU soldered on for DIY builds, like the Atom boards.
Anandtech tested it, idle power is down probably due to the new voltage regulator (FIVR) but active power.... 113% the performance for 111.8% so performance per watt is essentially unchanged. If what you need is CPU power then you're better off waiting for a IVB-E hex-core in Q3, in threaded applications a quad-core Haswell won't touch a hex-core Ivy Brigde - it's trailing Sandy Bridge hex-cores as well. If you're not interested in the graphics or battery life, it's a giant yawn.
That said, the GT3e graphics for mobile looks to carve out a solid niche in the notebook market, the R-series desktop processors (GT3e graphics, BGA only) is probably compelling for AIOs that don't have room for graphics upgrades anyway and the lower idle wattage should be good for all laptops with Haswell graphics. None of the processors launched now have the new idle states for ultramobile/tablets, so the effect of those we'll have to wait to see. Anandtech tested the i7-4950HQ and it was impressive how a 47W mobile chip consistently beat AMDs A10-5800 100W desktop APU in gaming benchmarks. Of course it's going to sell in a price range of its own, but AMD just lost the crown here.
As a CPU in a regular tower with discrete graphics it's at best incremental but I think the full launch lineup hit all of Intel's main competitors - it's threatening AMD and nVidia's low end discrete card sales, it's threatening AMDs APU sales and the lower idle power is promising for their lower power parts that will compete with ARM. They're just not winning much against the i7-3770K but then they're also fighting against themselves in that market, the FX-8350 is not even close. The 8-series chipset finally brings 6 SATA3 ports, so the main AMD advantage chipset-wise also disappeared.
They probably already seem innocuous in context, because it seems to me all legally operating porn sites are extremely paranoid of being associated in any way with underage content. The suggestions are quite frankly bizarre and counterproductive, a registration requirement for being allowed to search for porn? With the implication that this'll be a huge red flag on you since the border between legal and illegal sexual images is nothing but a thin red line rather than the difference between a healthy, fun and common recreational activity between consenting adults and child abuse. What it in practice will do is make more people use the unofficial and anonymous channels, drowning out any signal to noise ratio of the really illegal material.
One of the greatest challenges of any system is the stigma of running it, sure downloading Justin Bieber and Game of Thrones via torrents isn't exactly legal but nobody really bats an eye at that anymore than admitting you were speeding on the interstate. And every male teen will understand why you'd want to torrent Asa Akira or Jenna Haze too, if you can't find them on Google. But if you start talking about things like BitCoin and TOR more will start wondering if you're involved with drugs, money laundering, terrorism, kiddie porn or you're a tinfoil hat nutter. Like, what does any "normal" person need it for and by that I don't mean law abiding. Drive porn underground and being underground will become socially accepted.