The 18 core Xeons run at a significantly lower clock rate than the 12 core versions. Although they will be better for a typical server work load they are probably inferior to the 12 core versions for VR and gaming. Stepping down further to an 8 core Xeon and its even higher clock rate might be better still for VR.
In any case, it doesn't matter. Oculus isn't complaining about the lack of computing power in Apple's offerings; the lack of sufficient GPU power is the problem. Apple simply isn't offering anything in the class of SLI GTX980s or CrossFire R9 Furys, which is what you really want to make the Oculus sing. Heck, they aren't offering anything that measures up to ONE of those cards.
Back when Apple still sold the original Mac Pro tower, it was possible to put top of the line gaming video cards into a Mac Pro even if Apple didn't offer them. You can still do that with those systems if you still have one. For example, there is a site that offers to put Mac-compatible firmware into a GTX 980: http://www.macvidcards.com/sto... If you prefer an AMD solution they will also flash an R9 290X.
But now that they have gone to the circular tower with proprietary everything you no longer have that option. The all-in-one iMac systems never did offer state of the art video cards.
Chromebooks run Linux. So do Android phones. Linux is alive and well as an end user OS in those forms. It's just the typical GNU/Linux desktop that has failed to break out of the enthusiast niche.
University president pay might be higher than CEO pay on average. But that factoid ignores two important things. First, that average CEO pay includes a lot of small companies that don't pay their executives much; it's the huge payouts at large companies that are the issue. There has been no public outcry about the pay of CEOs at companies with ten employees.
More importantly, salary is a small part of the total compensation of a CEO at a large corporation. The bulk comes in the form of stock options that are often worth many millions of dollars. University presidents do not get anything comparable, though they often receive free on-campus housing.
But those cracked copies of new Blu-Ray titles will begin to dry up now. The people who created them were probably using AnyDVD to make them, or perhaps DVDFab which is sure to be the next target of the AACS. (Actually DVDFab has already been targeted; they were forced to modify the version sold to US customers to remove the ability to actually copy Blu-Ray discs.
Windows 7 may not even work on some new laptops because of limited support for new processors and chipsets. Or the new laptops may have devices that have no Windows 7 driver.
With the antennas of a router (with external antennas) in the usual configuration (all pointing up), the radiation pattern of a router will be more like a torus (shaped like a doughnut). It will radiate equally well in all directions on the router's plane, with reduced signal off-axis up or down. There will be very little signal directly above or below the router. The weak radiation up and down is one reason that multistory houses often need more than one access point. If the router has more than one antenna, people sometimes change the orientation of some of them to make the coverage area more like a sphere; that works reasonably well with 802.11b and g routers because the extra antennas are used for diversity reception, but less well for MIMO systems (801.11n and ac) because the multiple antennas are used simultaneously to increase the data rate.
In the real world, the coverage of a router antenna will not be a perfect torus. The presence of the body of the router, the other antennas if the router has more than one, and other nearby metallic objects will all change the antenna pattern.
The FCC is not mandating that firmware be locked down. A mechanism that allowed the use of open source firmware but still made it impossible to use the router on a channel that is not authorized in the US would be fine with them. But most router manufacturers will take the path of least resistance, which is to lock down the whole thing.
It's not in the name of security in the sense that most people would think that means. It's about preventing the router from generating harmful interference to other radio services. Routers with open source firmware can often be set to operate on channels that are not allocated to WiFi in the US and thus interfere with the services that are licensed for those channels, but the FCC has not presented evidence that significant numbers of users are doing that or that harmful interference has actually occurred.
Setting a router to operate on a non-US channel is rather useless for most US users, because the devices that attempt to connect to the router do not allow use of the non-standard channel and thus will be unable to connect. There are two notable exceptions. One is if the user device is also using open source software or was brought in from another country. The other is that the router is being used to make a wireless bridge connection to another open source router.
I'm sure that this is partly because they're clearing out the old ones to make way for the new. But it's still a deal if you need a drive right now and don't need the performance irmprovement of the next generation.
It's better than the previous collection of icons. You can also edit it or hide it. And it takes up less screen real estate than the Ribbon does. Still too cluttered for some tastes (but remember you can edit it) but not bad all in all.
The amount of money they are asking for is way out of line. The amount of revenue that they get from ads from one user is probably around $1/YEAR, not $1/week. And the ads are far too intrusive.
Give me a site with quiet ads - no Flash, no auto-play video, no sound, no pop-overs, no interstitials - and I'll think about unblocking it. Until then, bye-bye.
I think a big part of that is the compilers. Open benchmarks are mostly compiled with GCC which has optimization that is well tuned for AMD processors, especially if you are compiling 64 bit code. Closed benchmarks are likely to be compiled with either Visual Studio (not great for AMD) or ICC (downright terrible for AMD), except for Mac benchmarks which are usually compiled with LLVM/Clang.
I'd give the credit or blame for little endian to the PDP-11, not to Datapoint. The 11 shipped a year before the Datapoint 2200, and it was very popular (notably being the first platform on which Unix was widely used) so it's probably far more influential.
We might see an actual 32 core chip. It will be an Opteron that is optimized for running large numbers of servers in a single box. The clock rate of the cores will be relatively low for thermal reasons and the chip will have no graphics processors.
Adblock is pretty much a garbage plugin, everyone knows how to defeat it easily and make users turn it off , and that's by using it's own ad blocking rules against it. Put the entire content in a css container called "ad" and you'll be forced to turn off ad block to view the site.
Any site that tries to make me turn off Adblock is a site I stop visiting. Hasta la vista, Forbes.
No. But they were running it on a system with an eight core CPU and 16GB RAM. The memory usage of Linux has increased over time, so testing on a system with less memory might favor older releases.
The new ones will probably be more powerful; they can use a modern engine with multiple intake valves, full computer engine control, and other modern goodies. The lackluster handling will remain as the rest of the car is unchanged. They are being hand-built by a small company that has been refurbishing DeLoreans for years, so the fit and finish will probably be better than the 80s production cars were.
At the price they will be asking for them, it's a niche market. But they're only planning to make around 300 per year and they can probably sell that many.
I thought they had only been refurbishing old cars, not building completely new ones. To build new ones they have to comply with current emission standards, thus the 21st century engine.
He must have used some sort of old-school oil-based paint. Any water-based paint would be completely dry, at least visually, long before the ten hours were up, so there would really be nothing to see for the majority of the film.
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The 18 core Xeons run at a significantly lower clock rate than the 12 core versions. Although they will be better for a typical server work load they are probably inferior to the 12 core versions for VR and gaming. Stepping down further to an 8 core Xeon and its even higher clock rate might be better still for VR.
In any case, it doesn't matter. Oculus isn't complaining about the lack of computing power in Apple's offerings; the lack of sufficient GPU power is the problem. Apple simply isn't offering anything in the class of SLI GTX980s or CrossFire R9 Furys, which is what you really want to make the Oculus sing. Heck, they aren't offering anything that measures up to ONE of those cards.
Back when Apple still sold the original Mac Pro tower, it was possible to put top of the line gaming video cards into a Mac Pro even if Apple didn't offer them. You can still do that with those systems if you still have one. For example, there is a site that offers to put Mac-compatible firmware into a GTX 980: http://www.macvidcards.com/sto... If you prefer an AMD solution they will also flash an R9 290X.
But now that they have gone to the circular tower with proprietary everything you no longer have that option. The all-in-one iMac systems never did offer state of the art video cards.
Cape Wind is a wind project that has faced exactly these problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yahoo is unlikely to close. It will just muddle along, becoming increasingly irrelevant. After all, Lycos (remember them?) still exists.
Chromebooks run Linux. So do Android phones. Linux is alive and well as an end user OS in those forms. It's just the typical GNU/Linux desktop that has failed to break out of the enthusiast niche.
University president pay might be higher than CEO pay on average. But that factoid ignores two important things. First, that average CEO pay includes a lot of small companies that don't pay their executives much; it's the huge payouts at large companies that are the issue. There has been no public outcry about the pay of CEOs at companies with ten employees.
More importantly, salary is a small part of the total compensation of a CEO at a large corporation. The bulk comes in the form of stock options that are often worth many millions of dollars. University presidents do not get anything comparable, though they often receive free on-campus housing.
But those cracked copies of new Blu-Ray titles will begin to dry up now. The people who created them were probably using AnyDVD to make them, or perhaps DVDFab which is sure to be the next target of the AACS. (Actually DVDFab has already been targeted; they were forced to modify the version sold to US customers to remove the ability to actually copy Blu-Ray discs.
Windows 7 may not even work on some new laptops because of limited support for new processors and chipsets. Or the new laptops may have devices that have no Windows 7 driver.
More range though. The most common variety of Bluetooth only has a 10 meter range.
With the antennas of a router (with external antennas) in the usual configuration (all pointing up), the radiation pattern of a router will be more like a torus (shaped like a doughnut). It will radiate equally well in all directions on the router's plane, with reduced signal off-axis up or down. There will be very little signal directly above or below the router. The weak radiation up and down is one reason that multistory houses often need more than one access point. If the router has more than one antenna, people sometimes change the orientation of some of them to make the coverage area more like a sphere; that works reasonably well with 802.11b and g routers because the extra antennas are used for diversity reception, but less well for MIMO systems (801.11n and ac) because the multiple antennas are used simultaneously to increase the data rate.
In the real world, the coverage of a router antenna will not be a perfect torus. The presence of the body of the router, the other antennas if the router has more than one, and other nearby metallic objects will all change the antenna pattern.
The FCC is not mandating that firmware be locked down. A mechanism that allowed the use of open source firmware but still made it impossible to use the router on a channel that is not authorized in the US would be fine with them. But most router manufacturers will take the path of least resistance, which is to lock down the whole thing.
It's not in the name of security in the sense that most people would think that means. It's about preventing the router from generating harmful interference to other radio services. Routers with open source firmware can often be set to operate on channels that are not allocated to WiFi in the US and thus interfere with the services that are licensed for those channels, but the FCC has not presented evidence that significant numbers of users are doing that or that harmful interference has actually occurred.
Setting a router to operate on a non-US channel is rather useless for most US users, because the devices that attempt to connect to the router do not allow use of the non-standard channel and thus will be unable to connect. There are two notable exceptions. One is if the user device is also using open source software or was brought in from another country. The other is that the router is being used to make a wireless bridge connection to another open source router.
You can't buy the Trion 150 anywhere yet. But meanwhile the street price of the previous generation has hit $70: http://www.microcenter.com/pro... And if you want more capacity, how about the 960GB version for $220: http://www.microcenter.com/pro...
I'm sure that this is partly because they're clearing out the old ones to make way for the new. But it's still a deal if you need a drive right now and don't need the performance irmprovement of the next generation.
The toolbars are editable. You can add or remove icons from them or hide one or more of them completely.
It's better than the previous collection of icons. You can also edit it or hide it. And it takes up less screen real estate than the Ribbon does. Still too cluttered for some tastes (but remember you can edit it) but not bad all in all.
The amount of money they are asking for is way out of line. The amount of revenue that they get from ads from one user is probably around $1/YEAR, not $1/week. And the ads are far too intrusive.
Give me a site with quiet ads - no Flash, no auto-play video, no sound, no pop-overs, no interstitials - and I'll think about unblocking it. Until then, bye-bye.
I think a big part of that is the compilers. Open benchmarks are mostly compiled with GCC which has optimization that is well tuned for AMD processors, especially if you are compiling 64 bit code. Closed benchmarks are likely to be compiled with either Visual Studio (not great for AMD) or ICC (downright terrible for AMD), except for Mac benchmarks which are usually compiled with LLVM/Clang.
I'd give the credit or blame for little endian to the PDP-11, not to Datapoint. The 11 shipped a year before the Datapoint 2200, and it was very popular (notably being the first platform on which Unix was widely used) so it's probably far more influential.
We might see an actual 32 core chip. It will be an Opteron that is optimized for running large numbers of servers in a single box. The clock rate of the cores will be relatively low for thermal reasons and the chip will have no graphics processors.
Adblock is pretty much a garbage plugin, everyone knows how to defeat it easily and make users turn it off , and that's by using it's own ad blocking rules against it. Put the entire content in a css container called "ad" and you'll be forced to turn off ad block to view the site.
Any site that tries to make me turn off Adblock is a site I stop visiting. Hasta la vista, Forbes.
No. But they were running it on a system with an eight core CPU and 16GB RAM. The memory usage of Linux has increased over time, so testing on a system with less memory might favor older releases.
Mostly they are expensive because what they are building amount to hand built cars rather than mass produced ones.
The new ones will probably be more powerful; they can use a modern engine with multiple intake valves, full computer engine control, and other modern goodies. The lackluster handling will remain as the rest of the car is unchanged. They are being hand-built by a small company that has been refurbishing DeLoreans for years, so the fit and finish will probably be better than the 80s production cars were.
At the price they will be asking for them, it's a niche market. But they're only planning to make around 300 per year and they can probably sell that many.
I thought they had only been refurbishing old cars, not building completely new ones. To build new ones they have to comply with current emission standards, thus the 21st century engine.
He must have used some sort of old-school oil-based paint. Any water-based paint would be completely dry, at least visually, long before the ten hours were up, so there would really be nothing to see for the majority of the film.
True. They issue U (for Universal) ratings. They mean the same thing as the MPAA G (General Audience) ratings.