Sure that gets a +5 but replace $desktop with $distro and say "I tried Linux, it sucked" then you'll get a bunch of people expecting you to have that time. Likewise the people that dismiss your opinion as worthless because you tried it a year ago, expecting people to try a application/distro/OS they don't use every six months or less to see if there's less suckage to have a "valid" opinion which naturally means they're preaching to the choir of current active users. Been there, wasted too much time concluding "No, it's still a turd and your nose is still defective". And when you've been oversold too many times you get a "boy who cried wolf" effect, you don't believe them when they really have made major progress. Been there a few times, discovered "Hey this is great why didn't anyone tell me?" and I realize they did, it just got lost in the noise.
That's also why I don't watch cable TV: It's encrypted and I can't record it. I can't go back and watch it again, and it may never be available again. With pirated content, I know exactly when it'll be available once I have it: Forever.
I'm not against the idea of subscriptions as opposed to sales, like for example if I pay for a month's access on Spotify or Netflix or WoW and I stop my subscription it's gone and that's fair. It's only pretending to sell me something on a permanent basis that is yanked or made useless because you kill the mothership that pisses me off. There's a reason we have sales, the full and permanent passing of property. Today the trend is more and more that we "sell" you things, but with all sorts of strings attached we can yank at any moment. That sucks.
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The vast majority of professions would be better learned "on the job" or perhaps in a hybrid apprenticeship with some (probably minor) academic component. (...) The problem these days is that neither employees nor employers feel any loyalty toward each other, so a company wouldn't want to take a risk training high-school grads only to have them jump ship after they actually know what they are doing
The nature of the learning curve typically means you'll "owe" the company and then work it back and that's a fairly ugly position for the employee to be in, you can be quite abused if you can't quit and find another job without some massive penalty fee. My goals and their goals are typically not the same because they're probably better off offloading all their tedious, repetitive work on the newbie to free up time for their highly experienced and productive employees. It's far better for me to make that investment in myself and go to a dedicated institution with a curriculum and exams that is widely known and recognized than some in-house training that may or may not have sucked. That and past employers aren't objective. Either they might be tight lipped as a clam, your and your ex-boss might be buddies so he'll sing praises to you or he hates you because you left.
It's not going to be your degree that makes or breaks your job application, but people still look at it for different things than your work experience. It's the last somewhat objective assessment of your skills they got - assuming it's an institution they know and have a relationship to, or at least can be found in any school rankings for that subject. The only thing that's silly is that they can't look at a high school diploma and decide this is a smart kid we ought to hire, he needs to have a degree. If he comes back later with a degree and the accumulated debt of not working and tuition, he's going to come back asking for higher pay. It's strange that companies don't ask themselves whether they're getting a bad deal too.
I did like the fact that FOSS has two large desktop kits competing each other - that is a neat luxury - but the hype about Gnome I couldn't understand. The only thing Gnome really had going for it, compared to KDE or generic custom WM setups like a WindowMaker environment, in my opinion, was that you could, back then in 2001, with a litte work, get your desktop look totally different and awesome compared to anything else on the planet.
It's pretty much the license all the way. First it was LGPL vs QPL (which started the whole thing back in 1996-1997) then LGPL vs GPL + commercial (2000-2009) which may not have mattered much to the open source community but everyone looking to put proprietary software on top of Linux of course preferred LGPL over GPL. Now (2009-) both Qt and GTK+ are LGPL so there's really no difference there but there's also the language divide between C and C++. Writing anything that is a shared component between GNOME and KDE is an exercise in frustration because they both use their own variety of an object system and message passing. They integrate a little via DBUS but that's pretty much it.
Also outside that little turf war the fact is both C and C++ are getting long in the tooth. I'd hazard a wager that most people that write end user software that will run on a Linux-based kernel today do it in Java for Android. People who want to write for Apple learn Objective-C, those who write for Microsoft C#, I know there's many existing C/C++ developers today but what's the recruitment like? If you can get performance enough out of subset-of-Java-on-Dalvik to run on a cell phone, you for sure can do the same on the desktop. I think any OSS desktop environment that wants to have a future needs to invite in all the Android developers to write software for it. That means Java as the language, not C or C++. Of course everybody hates that idea but I think both GNOME or KDE are too late to ever go mainstream with C/C++ applications.
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
Yeah. Are the people with the components you need even going to talk to you? I doubt Qualcomm is interested in selling you 10 LTE chips. Even if you could find all the parts you need and they already have drivers in Android, do a custom PCB layout and put it your own chassis it'll probably look and work like a cheap Chinese knock-off at a price higher than the "real thing". Forget patents, forget the FCC, is it even feasible to get a prototype up and running at a reasonable cost?
That's a false comparison, though. If users mostly ran benchmarks 24x7, that would be a good test of efficiency. The reality, however, is that CPUs mostly sit idle, so to compute average efficiency, you have to factor that in.
Your efficiency of not doing work is like measuring the MPG you get idling in your driveway. Laptops have been either off or in sleep/suspend, they haven't had an "active idle" mode like cell phones waiting for calls/texts/emails because they've never needed one. It's like having a huge office building with only floor switches, cell phones have had a single light for the night receptionist and laptop chips haven't because it's been lights out when they sleep. Now they need one and will get one with Haswell for a 20x improvement for that one narrow use case. It's a lot easier for Intel to deliver efficient idling than for ARM to deliver efficient performance...
Isn't part of the lack of competition in the HDD market due to the fact that many companies see SSD as being the long-term future, and therefore wouldn't want to get into, or want to get out of, the HDD market, nor invest money in something they perceive as having no long-term future?
I don't think HDDs are going away for all the people that need bulk storage - and there's a *lot* of corporations, organizations and individuals building huge digital archives. I think it's more that for the most part these people don't care about performance nor marginal differences in reliability, they have a RAID and expect to swap disks from time to time. What they care about is cost, cost and cost. It's like selling cheap toilet paper, yes people need it and they're not going to stop buying it but you'll never make good margins on it because it's obvious the market you cater to won't ever pay a premium for it.
That's what people guilty of tax evasion always say. If the IRS find out you've been in receipt of undeclared income (e.g. you are a drug dealer driving a Ferrari who claims to be unemployed) why the fuck shouldn't they presume you are guilty?
But that's not how it works in practice, I know a person who did some petty drug crime with some petty income to go with it. The government practically robbed him blind because anything he couldn't pull up a receipt for, anything he couldn't track back to a purchase from his checking account, they took. Anything bought second hand, gifts from friends and family, anything he'd bought cash in store and thrown away or lost the receipt, they took everything and far more than he ever made being a small-time drug peddler.
The more "official" source is probably IDG, but they only provide yearly figures. For 2011 they listed AMD as having a 5.5% server market share, and Bulldozer isn't going to improve that for 2012 but still a few months until you get those numbers... Oh yeah and that is x86 servers, not all servers just the Intel-AMD turf war.
Is there a good reason Intel doesn't get more serious about graphics hardware?
Well, I'd say that the biggest reason they wouldn't is because then they'd have a problem "explaining" why they use up your CPU die for an IGP. Intel wants your GPU to be something that comes with your CPU, because that's obviously a huge advantage for Intel. That's why they've made real effort to improve Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell promises to take this even further. Reportedly their fastest IGP configuration GT3 is supposed to have 40 EUs compared to 16 in IVB, obviously it's unreleased yet but Intel claims to achieve same FPS on Skyrim at 1920x1080 on high quality as the HD4000 did at 1368x768 on medium quality. They're looking to win over the mass market laptops, the high end graphics cards are increasingly a niche for FPS gamers. There's a lot of WoW addicts that don't need anywhere near a GTX 680 to get their kicks.
You really should care more about their stock which is 25% of their high.
I'm guessing you mean their 52-week high? They've had a stock price of over 40 both in 2000 and 2006, since Intel introduced their Core micro-architecture they've lost over 95% of their value.
The server market, usually Linux-based, appears to be AMD's most stable market. Opterons are very often preferred over Xeons for a variety of reasons.
If all you read is slashdot, yes. Actually AMD's server market share has been in big decline from 15% in 2007 to below 5% today. They're quite well represented in the TOP500 as apparently they give good quantity discounts for the PR, but mainstream companies are >95% Intel now. And with AMD now betting on ARM servers that's certainly not going to improve in the short term.
Exactly. It occurred to me the other day: Did the Founding Fathers intend for there to be so many exceptions to the plainly written rules in the Constitution?
Well, it's one page long - literally, this is the actual document. The first amendment doesn't say anything about death threats or shouting fire in a crowded theater, but I very much doubt they intended those to be legal. I really doubt they expected that 200+ years later people would try to divine the small implementation details from what is an extremely high level summary, even vital rights are covered by about half a sentence. To take the 4th, I'm pretty sure a 1790s sheriff would search a person that's under arrest and that's as intended but it's not explicit but is considered a "reasonable" search. I think you're forgetting what the alternative here was, which was to have no bill of rights at all. The point was to have something short and sweet that said the government can't search anyone and any place they want, any time.
I know that Iceland has been working on a new constitution using a very open and modern process with public input and their section on human rights covers about 6.5 pages and I'd say even that one could be spelled out in more explicit detail, because most articles end up with stating a right then saying the government can curb it anyway. But it's kind of hard to catch all the "EXCEPT if your religion requires human sacrifice, EXCEPT if you want to print kiddie porn, EXCEPT if your peaceful assembly on public ground is blocking any ambulances from reaching/leaving the hospital" and so on. Almost no rights are total absolutes that under no circumstances can be restricted in any way. Like the ten commandments may say "You shall not kill" but I'm pretty sure most would kill in their own or their family's defense. But there's no exceptions stated.
People using Macs are designers, programmers and heavy users.
And what I heard was small, small and small parts of the total desktop/laptop market. What if Apple thinks big? Make a low-cost ARM laptop, apps only from app store like for iPhones/iPads, do a reverse Win8 and call it iOS 7 so nobody expects their old OS X applications to work. Make the screen a touch-screen so all your iOS applications will work, throw in a good office suite and see how many casual users that needed a laptop, not a tablet yet found the $1000 MacBook Air was overkill that you can snag away from a $400-800 Windows laptop. Intel's processors are damn good but not cheap, beef up the A6X and Apple could have their own budget processor (for them, you'll still be paying boutique prices).
Well, as long as h4rr4r (612664) says Linux on the desktop works fine I don't see any reason why we should listen to what the 99% that don't use Linux think. Clearly they're all wrong and h4rr4r is right.
Well, maybe. But I saw a documentary on when McDonald's started super sizing meals (no, not "Supersize me") and when you first had the store, staff, equipment, procurement, cleaning etc. delivering extra fries actually cost them very little. I imagine it's quite the same for an ISP, to take my own as an example for 22% more in cost I get 140% more bandwidth compared to the tier below mine. So if delivering super fast broadband is dirt cheap they'll want to push me to another crazy fast tier for money I didn't really intend to use on broadband. Maybe they'll turn a bigger profit selling $100/mo 1 Gbps broadband than $80/mo 100 Mbit broadband and then that's what they'll do, because people won't spend $100/mo for anything less. Even a monopoly can't price gouge beyond what people are willing to pay.
Well, people take flights every day in airliners that at (at least, part of the way) being flown by computers via autopilot - but no one seems to be very concerned. I think, when we talk about self-driving vehicles, people are getting the impression that these vehicles are going to be driving around with absolutely no human intervention whatsoever. Is that really the case, or are we actually talking about something like engaging an autopilot once the car has left the driveway or local streets?
For a flight take-off and landing are the two most dangerous parts of the flight, cruising on autopilot at altitude is very safe. For cars it's pretty much the opposite, sure you can bruise a bumper in your driveway but pretty much all the nasty accidents happen underway.
A lot of people said that even if self-driving cars were proven to have a fraction of the accident rate of human drivers, people still wouldn't trust them because of those few times something *could* go wrong.
Many if not most accidents are caused by someone being careless, stupid, tired, distracted, drunk or high. That means most people most of the time think they're driving much safer than average, either because they're not any of the things above or think they're not - that particularly applies to careless and stupid. To gain public acceptance you must beat "idealized" humans, that even if you're cautious, forward thinking, well rested, alert, sober and in every way fit to drive a car an AI has 360 degree vision, millisecond reaction time and all sorts of advantages that you can't beat. You're not competing against the actual accident rate, you're fighting people's perceived - and often imaginary - risk of an accident.
If you put it out in Windows Phone's format and we assume even a generous 50% growth caused by Windows phone 8, which would exceed every recent new version of Windows for Mobile phones, then it will run on about 3% of phones.
Not to mention I'd look into who's buying Windows phones and why. While it's anecdotal the people I've talked to that have been interested in it have mainly been business users who want better integration with other Microsoft products. Of course those people will buy apps too, but I'd say if one of your primary interests is third party apps you're not getting a Win8 phone in the first place, you're getting an Android or an iPhone. It would at least be foolish to assume that your sales are going to distribute the same way as the market share.
Focus needs to be on how to get these candidates electable - how to show most Americans that it does not *have* to be a two-party system.
As long as the election system is the way it is, it will be a two party system. Even if through some extraordinary circumstances a third party were to get support - like say uncovering that one of the existing parties is a satanic baby raping cult, because that's roughly the level of extraordinary you'd need - they'll either replace one of the existing two parties or return to obscurity, any three-way race is an extremely unstable constellation. And the only ones who can change that is Congress by a 2/3rds majority in both the House and the Senate or 2/3rds of the states calling a congressional convention. Would you care to wager on the odds of a bipartisan constitutional amendment to end their power duopoly? I think the chances are better for me winning the lottery each week for the rest of my life. Until then, the game is rigged for third parties to lose.
Except the "dirty little secret" of the industry is its NOT the cells dying that gets you, the controller dying is what bites you in the ass. if it was just the cells since when a cell fails it just ends up read only that wouldn't be so bad, but when the controller fails you flip the switch and...nothing. Not even the BIOS/UEFI detects the thing, its just gone.
You forget that in a file system you typically write to more than one cell to store some data, what happens when some writes succeed and others fail? Major file system corruption and fast. I've managed to wear out one of the original OCZ Vertex drives - don't know how, I wrote maybe 5 TB to it and ideally it should take 1200 TB @ 10k writes/cell but SMART data was pretty clear. I had a broken file system and each run of fsck made everything worse, I had to stop trying to fix it, mount the thing read-only and salvage what I could. Even that failure mode is not graceful.
In the construction world there are carpenters, builders and architects. The architects are the artists at the top. The craft is below.
If you're designing the Sydney Opera, you're creating a work of art. If you're doing the n'th residential house so it'll blend in with the neighborhood and comply with all the regulatory standards but otherwise little boxes all the same (cue Weeds theme) then you're doing a craft. Like with houses, there's a lot more craftsmanship than artwork to be done. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of skill that goes into making it well but unless you consider every highly skilled worker to be an artist there's not much art. Particularly in software I have the impression it's much more about making sure all the i's are dotted and t's crossed because the computer has zero tolerance for sloppiness. That kind of rigidity is hardly what most people associate with art.
From 1999 to 2003, AMD's Athlon was a moderately superior CPU to Intel's Pentium III competitor. More most of that time I felt that success was limited by AMD's lack of high quality motherboards to place the CPUs in.
Avoid all things VIA and you were pretty good, I had AMDs in that period and they were excellent bang for the buck. No doubt that AMD was gaining momentum in that period, remember the first Pentium IV was released in November 2000, this is what Anandtech wrote at its release:
It's amazing at how quickly the industry can turn from being dominated almost completely by a single CPU manufacturer over to a point where the underdog is now in a position to lead the market into the 21st century. Over the past 12 - 18 months we have seen this very situation occur right in front of our own eyes. Intel, a manufacturer never associated with delays or processor shortages and AMD, a manufacturer that was associated with sub-par performance and an inability to deliver on time, essentially switched roles in the past year alone.
I hate to break it to you but for each individual boss you've had and will ever have, the odds are probably greater than 50% that they have sex. Smaller odds are that it might involve whipped cream, video equipment, or other add-ons. Your reaction to that is your problem, not theirs.
Oh please, you wouldn't have any problem accepting your boss in a position of authority barking orders if you've seen her butt naked covered in whipped cream? It's like learning that the tough kid at school actually wears pink bunny slippers and still sleeps with a teddy bear, it's nothing wrong as such but you'll never take him seriously as a tough kid ever again. His reaction seems pretty human to me...
I hope I'm still solving little puzzles like that when I'm 50 but I also solved those when I was 25. There's nothing wrong with that, but if that's all you do then you're probably going to be at the same point career and pay grade-wise at 50 as at 25. If you've become the CEO of SAS, that's probably because you're solving a lot of other issues that you couldn't solve as a 25 year old. If you have experience, you have to find positions where that gives you leverage and not all of them are like that. It doesn't matter if you've been flipping burgers for 30 years and perfected your burger flipping technique, you're still very replaceable by a newbie. If you want to be a coder specialist, make sure it's a specialist job and not just writing your average glue code. It's easy enough for the CEO to say that, he can pick whatever problem he finds complex and interesting to do as a hobby, the actual employees don't have that luxury. Unless you're talking about working on an OSS or pet project outside of work.
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No one has time for this.
Sure that gets a +5 but replace $desktop with $distro and say "I tried Linux, it sucked" then you'll get a bunch of people expecting you to have that time. Likewise the people that dismiss your opinion as worthless because you tried it a year ago, expecting people to try a application/distro/OS they don't use every six months or less to see if there's less suckage to have a "valid" opinion which naturally means they're preaching to the choir of current active users. Been there, wasted too much time concluding "No, it's still a turd and your nose is still defective". And when you've been oversold too many times you get a "boy who cried wolf" effect, you don't believe them when they really have made major progress. Been there a few times, discovered "Hey this is great why didn't anyone tell me?" and I realize they did, it just got lost in the noise.
That's also why I don't watch cable TV: It's encrypted and I can't record it. I can't go back and watch it again, and it may never be available again. With pirated content, I know exactly when it'll be available once I have it: Forever.
I'm not against the idea of subscriptions as opposed to sales, like for example if I pay for a month's access on Spotify or Netflix or WoW and I stop my subscription it's gone and that's fair. It's only pretending to sell me something on a permanent basis that is yanked or made useless because you kill the mothership that pisses me off. There's a reason we have sales, the full and permanent passing of property. Today the trend is more and more that we "sell" you things, but with all sorts of strings attached we can yank at any moment. That sucks.
The vast majority of professions would be better learned "on the job" or perhaps in a hybrid apprenticeship with some (probably minor) academic component. (...) The problem these days is that neither employees nor employers feel any loyalty toward each other, so a company wouldn't want to take a risk training high-school grads only to have them jump ship after they actually know what they are doing
The nature of the learning curve typically means you'll "owe" the company and then work it back and that's a fairly ugly position for the employee to be in, you can be quite abused if you can't quit and find another job without some massive penalty fee. My goals and their goals are typically not the same because they're probably better off offloading all their tedious, repetitive work on the newbie to free up time for their highly experienced and productive employees. It's far better for me to make that investment in myself and go to a dedicated institution with a curriculum and exams that is widely known and recognized than some in-house training that may or may not have sucked. That and past employers aren't objective. Either they might be tight lipped as a clam, your and your ex-boss might be buddies so he'll sing praises to you or he hates you because you left.
It's not going to be your degree that makes or breaks your job application, but people still look at it for different things than your work experience. It's the last somewhat objective assessment of your skills they got - assuming it's an institution they know and have a relationship to, or at least can be found in any school rankings for that subject. The only thing that's silly is that they can't look at a high school diploma and decide this is a smart kid we ought to hire, he needs to have a degree. If he comes back later with a degree and the accumulated debt of not working and tuition, he's going to come back asking for higher pay. It's strange that companies don't ask themselves whether they're getting a bad deal too.
I did like the fact that FOSS has two large desktop kits competing each other - that is a neat luxury - but the hype about Gnome I couldn't understand. The only thing Gnome really had going for it, compared to KDE or generic custom WM setups like a WindowMaker environment, in my opinion, was that you could, back then in 2001, with a litte work, get your desktop look totally different and awesome compared to anything else on the planet.
It's pretty much the license all the way. First it was LGPL vs QPL (which started the whole thing back in 1996-1997) then LGPL vs GPL + commercial (2000-2009) which may not have mattered much to the open source community but everyone looking to put proprietary software on top of Linux of course preferred LGPL over GPL. Now (2009-) both Qt and GTK+ are LGPL so there's really no difference there but there's also the language divide between C and C++. Writing anything that is a shared component between GNOME and KDE is an exercise in frustration because they both use their own variety of an object system and message passing. They integrate a little via DBUS but that's pretty much it.
Also outside that little turf war the fact is both C and C++ are getting long in the tooth. I'd hazard a wager that most people that write end user software that will run on a Linux-based kernel today do it in Java for Android. People who want to write for Apple learn Objective-C, those who write for Microsoft C#, I know there's many existing C/C++ developers today but what's the recruitment like? If you can get performance enough out of subset-of-Java-on-Dalvik to run on a cell phone, you for sure can do the same on the desktop. I think any OSS desktop environment that wants to have a future needs to invite in all the Android developers to write software for it. That means Java as the language, not C or C++. Of course everybody hates that idea but I think both GNOME or KDE are too late to ever go mainstream with C/C++ applications.
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
Yeah. Are the people with the components you need even going to talk to you? I doubt Qualcomm is interested in selling you 10 LTE chips. Even if you could find all the parts you need and they already have drivers in Android, do a custom PCB layout and put it your own chassis it'll probably look and work like a cheap Chinese knock-off at a price higher than the "real thing". Forget patents, forget the FCC, is it even feasible to get a prototype up and running at a reasonable cost?
That's a false comparison, though. If users mostly ran benchmarks 24x7, that would be a good test of efficiency. The reality, however, is that CPUs mostly sit idle, so to compute average efficiency, you have to factor that in.
Your efficiency of not doing work is like measuring the MPG you get idling in your driveway. Laptops have been either off or in sleep/suspend, they haven't had an "active idle" mode like cell phones waiting for calls/texts/emails because they've never needed one. It's like having a huge office building with only floor switches, cell phones have had a single light for the night receptionist and laptop chips haven't because it's been lights out when they sleep. Now they need one and will get one with Haswell for a 20x improvement for that one narrow use case. It's a lot easier for Intel to deliver efficient idling than for ARM to deliver efficient performance...
Isn't part of the lack of competition in the HDD market due to the fact that many companies see SSD as being the long-term future, and therefore wouldn't want to get into, or want to get out of, the HDD market, nor invest money in something they perceive as having no long-term future?
I don't think HDDs are going away for all the people that need bulk storage - and there's a *lot* of corporations, organizations and individuals building huge digital archives. I think it's more that for the most part these people don't care about performance nor marginal differences in reliability, they have a RAID and expect to swap disks from time to time. What they care about is cost, cost and cost. It's like selling cheap toilet paper, yes people need it and they're not going to stop buying it but you'll never make good margins on it because it's obvious the market you cater to won't ever pay a premium for it.
That's what people guilty of tax evasion always say. If the IRS find out you've been in receipt of undeclared income (e.g. you are a drug dealer driving a Ferrari who claims to be unemployed) why the fuck shouldn't they presume you are guilty?
But that's not how it works in practice, I know a person who did some petty drug crime with some petty income to go with it. The government practically robbed him blind because anything he couldn't pull up a receipt for, anything he couldn't track back to a purchase from his checking account, they took. Anything bought second hand, gifts from friends and family, anything he'd bought cash in store and thrown away or lost the receipt, they took everything and far more than he ever made being a small-time drug peddler.
Care to provide a citation with that?
If Google doesn't work on your machine, sure.
"AMD is aware that these very chips Intel produces are found in around 95.5% of servers around the world, as per Mercury Research. AMDâ(TM)s share of the server processor market is around a dismal 5%."
Graph at bottom shows AMD at 4.5%
"AMD lost server processor unit market share (now down to just about 5%)"
"The Intel x86 architecture has clearly won the server segment, and within the x86, Intel has 95% market share and AMD has 5% market share and is declining."
The more "official" source is probably IDG, but they only provide yearly figures. For 2011 they listed AMD as having a 5.5% server market share, and Bulldozer isn't going to improve that for 2012 but still a few months until you get those numbers... Oh yeah and that is x86 servers, not all servers just the Intel-AMD turf war.
Is there a good reason Intel doesn't get more serious about graphics hardware?
Well, I'd say that the biggest reason they wouldn't is because then they'd have a problem "explaining" why they use up your CPU die for an IGP. Intel wants your GPU to be something that comes with your CPU, because that's obviously a huge advantage for Intel. That's why they've made real effort to improve Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell promises to take this even further. Reportedly their fastest IGP configuration GT3 is supposed to have 40 EUs compared to 16 in IVB, obviously it's unreleased yet but Intel claims to achieve same FPS on Skyrim at 1920x1080 on high quality as the HD4000 did at 1368x768 on medium quality. They're looking to win over the mass market laptops, the high end graphics cards are increasingly a niche for FPS gamers. There's a lot of WoW addicts that don't need anywhere near a GTX 680 to get their kicks.
You really should care more about their stock which is 25% of their high.
I'm guessing you mean their 52-week high? They've had a stock price of over 40 both in 2000 and 2006, since Intel introduced their Core micro-architecture they've lost over 95% of their value.
The server market, usually Linux-based, appears to be AMD's most stable market. Opterons are very often preferred over Xeons for a variety of reasons.
If all you read is slashdot, yes. Actually AMD's server market share has been in big decline from 15% in 2007 to below 5% today. They're quite well represented in the TOP500 as apparently they give good quantity discounts for the PR, but mainstream companies are >95% Intel now. And with AMD now betting on ARM servers that's certainly not going to improve in the short term.
Exactly. It occurred to me the other day: Did the Founding Fathers intend for there to be so many exceptions to the plainly written rules in the Constitution?
Well, it's one page long - literally, this is the actual document. The first amendment doesn't say anything about death threats or shouting fire in a crowded theater, but I very much doubt they intended those to be legal. I really doubt they expected that 200+ years later people would try to divine the small implementation details from what is an extremely high level summary, even vital rights are covered by about half a sentence. To take the 4th, I'm pretty sure a 1790s sheriff would search a person that's under arrest and that's as intended but it's not explicit but is considered a "reasonable" search. I think you're forgetting what the alternative here was, which was to have no bill of rights at all. The point was to have something short and sweet that said the government can't search anyone and any place they want, any time.
I know that Iceland has been working on a new constitution using a very open and modern process with public input and their section on human rights covers about 6.5 pages and I'd say even that one could be spelled out in more explicit detail, because most articles end up with stating a right then saying the government can curb it anyway. But it's kind of hard to catch all the "EXCEPT if your religion requires human sacrifice, EXCEPT if you want to print kiddie porn, EXCEPT if your peaceful assembly on public ground is blocking any ambulances from reaching/leaving the hospital" and so on. Almost no rights are total absolutes that under no circumstances can be restricted in any way. Like the ten commandments may say "You shall not kill" but I'm pretty sure most would kill in their own or their family's defense. But there's no exceptions stated.
People using Macs are designers, programmers and heavy users.
And what I heard was small, small and small parts of the total desktop/laptop market. What if Apple thinks big? Make a low-cost ARM laptop, apps only from app store like for iPhones/iPads, do a reverse Win8 and call it iOS 7 so nobody expects their old OS X applications to work. Make the screen a touch-screen so all your iOS applications will work, throw in a good office suite and see how many casual users that needed a laptop, not a tablet yet found the $1000 MacBook Air was overkill that you can snag away from a $400-800 Windows laptop. Intel's processors are damn good but not cheap, beef up the A6X and Apple could have their own budget processor (for them, you'll still be paying boutique prices).
Well, as long as h4rr4r (612664) says Linux on the desktop works fine I don't see any reason why we should listen to what the 99% that don't use Linux think. Clearly they're all wrong and h4rr4r is right.
Well, maybe. But I saw a documentary on when McDonald's started super sizing meals (no, not "Supersize me") and when you first had the store, staff, equipment, procurement, cleaning etc. delivering extra fries actually cost them very little. I imagine it's quite the same for an ISP, to take my own as an example for 22% more in cost I get 140% more bandwidth compared to the tier below mine. So if delivering super fast broadband is dirt cheap they'll want to push me to another crazy fast tier for money I didn't really intend to use on broadband. Maybe they'll turn a bigger profit selling $100/mo 1 Gbps broadband than $80/mo 100 Mbit broadband and then that's what they'll do, because people won't spend $100/mo for anything less. Even a monopoly can't price gouge beyond what people are willing to pay.
Well, people take flights every day in airliners that at (at least, part of the way) being flown by computers via autopilot - but no one seems to be very concerned. I think, when we talk about self-driving vehicles, people are getting the impression that these vehicles are going to be driving around with absolutely no human intervention whatsoever. Is that really the case, or are we actually talking about something like engaging an autopilot once the car has left the driveway or local streets?
For a flight take-off and landing are the two most dangerous parts of the flight, cruising on autopilot at altitude is very safe. For cars it's pretty much the opposite, sure you can bruise a bumper in your driveway but pretty much all the nasty accidents happen underway.
A lot of people said that even if self-driving cars were proven to have a fraction of the accident rate of human drivers, people still wouldn't trust them because of those few times something *could* go wrong.
Many if not most accidents are caused by someone being careless, stupid, tired, distracted, drunk or high. That means most people most of the time think they're driving much safer than average, either because they're not any of the things above or think they're not - that particularly applies to careless and stupid. To gain public acceptance you must beat "idealized" humans, that even if you're cautious, forward thinking, well rested, alert, sober and in every way fit to drive a car an AI has 360 degree vision, millisecond reaction time and all sorts of advantages that you can't beat. You're not competing against the actual accident rate, you're fighting people's perceived - and often imaginary - risk of an accident.
If you put it out in Windows Phone's format and we assume even a generous 50% growth caused by Windows phone 8, which would exceed every recent new version of Windows for Mobile phones, then it will run on about 3% of phones.
Not to mention I'd look into who's buying Windows phones and why. While it's anecdotal the people I've talked to that have been interested in it have mainly been business users who want better integration with other Microsoft products. Of course those people will buy apps too, but I'd say if one of your primary interests is third party apps you're not getting a Win8 phone in the first place, you're getting an Android or an iPhone. It would at least be foolish to assume that your sales are going to distribute the same way as the market share.
Focus needs to be on how to get these candidates electable - how to show most Americans that it does not *have* to be a two-party system.
As long as the election system is the way it is, it will be a two party system. Even if through some extraordinary circumstances a third party were to get support - like say uncovering that one of the existing parties is a satanic baby raping cult, because that's roughly the level of extraordinary you'd need - they'll either replace one of the existing two parties or return to obscurity, any three-way race is an extremely unstable constellation. And the only ones who can change that is Congress by a 2/3rds majority in both the House and the Senate or 2/3rds of the states calling a congressional convention. Would you care to wager on the odds of a bipartisan constitutional amendment to end their power duopoly? I think the chances are better for me winning the lottery each week for the rest of my life. Until then, the game is rigged for third parties to lose.
Except the "dirty little secret" of the industry is its NOT the cells dying that gets you, the controller dying is what bites you in the ass. if it was just the cells since when a cell fails it just ends up read only that wouldn't be so bad, but when the controller fails you flip the switch and...nothing. Not even the BIOS/UEFI detects the thing, its just gone.
You forget that in a file system you typically write to more than one cell to store some data, what happens when some writes succeed and others fail? Major file system corruption and fast. I've managed to wear out one of the original OCZ Vertex drives - don't know how, I wrote maybe 5 TB to it and ideally it should take 1200 TB @ 10k writes/cell but SMART data was pretty clear. I had a broken file system and each run of fsck made everything worse, I had to stop trying to fix it, mount the thing read-only and salvage what I could. Even that failure mode is not graceful.
In the construction world there are carpenters, builders and architects. The architects are the artists at the top. The craft is below.
If you're designing the Sydney Opera, you're creating a work of art. If you're doing the n'th residential house so it'll blend in with the neighborhood and comply with all the regulatory standards but otherwise little boxes all the same (cue Weeds theme) then you're doing a craft. Like with houses, there's a lot more craftsmanship than artwork to be done. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of skill that goes into making it well but unless you consider every highly skilled worker to be an artist there's not much art. Particularly in software I have the impression it's much more about making sure all the i's are dotted and t's crossed because the computer has zero tolerance for sloppiness. That kind of rigidity is hardly what most people associate with art.
From 1999 to 2003, AMD's Athlon was a moderately superior CPU to Intel's Pentium III competitor. More most of that time I felt that success was limited by AMD's lack of high quality motherboards to place the CPUs in.
Avoid all things VIA and you were pretty good, I had AMDs in that period and they were excellent bang for the buck. No doubt that AMD was gaining momentum in that period, remember the first Pentium IV was released in November 2000, this is what Anandtech wrote at its release:
It's amazing at how quickly the industry can turn from being dominated almost completely by a single CPU manufacturer over to a point where the underdog is now in a position to lead the market into the 21st century. Over the past 12 - 18 months we have seen this very situation occur right in front of our own eyes. Intel, a manufacturer never associated with delays or processor shortages and AMD, a manufacturer that was associated with sub-par performance and an inability to deliver on time, essentially switched roles in the past year alone.
I hate to break it to you but for each individual boss you've had and will ever have, the odds are probably greater than 50% that they have sex. Smaller odds are that it might involve whipped cream, video equipment, or other add-ons. Your reaction to that is your problem, not theirs.
Oh please, you wouldn't have any problem accepting your boss in a position of authority barking orders if you've seen her butt naked covered in whipped cream? It's like learning that the tough kid at school actually wears pink bunny slippers and still sleeps with a teddy bear, it's nothing wrong as such but you'll never take him seriously as a tough kid ever again. His reaction seems pretty human to me...
I hope I'm still solving little puzzles like that when I'm 50 but I also solved those when I was 25. There's nothing wrong with that, but if that's all you do then you're probably going to be at the same point career and pay grade-wise at 50 as at 25. If you've become the CEO of SAS, that's probably because you're solving a lot of other issues that you couldn't solve as a 25 year old. If you have experience, you have to find positions where that gives you leverage and not all of them are like that. It doesn't matter if you've been flipping burgers for 30 years and perfected your burger flipping technique, you're still very replaceable by a newbie. If you want to be a coder specialist, make sure it's a specialist job and not just writing your average glue code. It's easy enough for the CEO to say that, he can pick whatever problem he finds complex and interesting to do as a hobby, the actual employees don't have that luxury. Unless you're talking about working on an OSS or pet project outside of work.