Except that it's a hoax. The video is the entire campaign. From speedbandits.dk (translated to English by Google):
"Speedbandits was a campaign from 2006, the Road Safety Council put entrepreneurs to get young drivers to slow down. The campaign consisted exclusively of a video clip, located on, among other things, Youtube. This phenomenon is called viral marketing.
The film is produced by a news report on a non-existent television station and shows the Danish population's alleged new, which should improve road safety: Topless girls standing by the roadside and holding signs with the speed limit."
One real problem on Windows nowadays is the number of things running in the background just to check for updates. A typical PC is likely to have the Adobe Flash updater, the Oracle Java updater, the Apple QuickTime updater, the updater for the user's choice of browser (Firefox and/or Chrome), an antivirus updater, a vendor-specific updater, and many more. All of these chew up memory and CPU time; not a lot for each one but collectively they add up.
The model used by Linux distributions is much better. You have ONE updater that can draw from all the software repositories (it can add repos for programs that don't use the official repository) and you're done. Much cleaner. Microsoft needs to step up to the table with a comparable solution; Windows Update is halfway there but it doesn't cover most non-Microsoft applications or some device drivers.
Unless you live in Colorado and are only growing a small amount. At least so far as the state is concerned; the federal authorities are another matter.
The jury is still out on Windows 8, and it will certainly sell a bunch of copies because of new computer sales. (Even if enterprise users take advantage of their downgrade rights and install Windows 7 instead, Microsoft will still count those as sales of Windows 8.) I'm skeptical about Windows 8 because I think the fundamental idea of a unified UI for desktop and touch is flawed, and I don't think the desktop is even close to dead. (It's just not the whole computing story any more.) But it's possible I could be wrong.
ARM isn't competitive with high end x86 chips... yet. The A57 core will partly close that gap, and ARM will likely continue to move up the performance ladder with future devices.
The current discussion is about Opteron parts, which are mostly used in datacenters. They DO buy 12 and 16 core CPUs, not to make ONE person's Facebook page load faster but to make a whole bunch of people's Facebook pages load faster. (I don't know whether Facebook actually uses any AMD-based servers, but the principle holds.)
In a discussion on the desktop Piledriver parts, somebody noted that these shared FPUs are 256 bits wide. If you're working on more common number sizes they can do more than one operation in parallel, so there are enough FPU resources to go around in nearly all real-world use cases.
The main problem with the 6300 parts, like the 6200 series that preceded them, will be effective scheduling to maximize the efficiency of the half-cores and their shared resources. It's mostly a solved problem for data centers running Linux; the Linux scheduler has been updated to use the new AMD parts well. Windows 8 also has an improved scheduler for Bulldozer and Piledriver; I haven't heard about Windows Server 2012 but it probably also has the improvements.
The classic enthusiasts coming up behind you are screwed no matter what happens with this law. Currently it's possible to keep a 100 year old car on the road. 100 years from now that will be impossible, as the electronics necessary to keep that car running will be unobtainable; nobody will have made the necessary parts for 75 years.
It's not clear whether Tesla's path to the masses will ever involve ramping up production to that extent. It might instead involve licensing technology to companies that are already in the business of mass production of cars.
A Nissan Leaf is closer to what you're asking for. Only 75-100 mile range and not nearly as sporty as the Tesla S, but also half the price (about $30,000 after the tax credit). In a few years it should be possible to sell a car like the Leaf for $20K (or whatever is the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $20K) as mass production drives down the price of the batteries. The electric drive train of the Leaf probably costs less to manufacture (leaving out the battery cost and the R&D) than the drive train in a $20K gas-powered car, so that kind of price point will be achievable someday.
Having a Zipcar down the street can also solve the "ready to go 24/7" problem; if your need for an extra car is occasional it's much cheaper than owning another car. Especially since if you live in the kind of urban area where there is a Zipcar down the street, insurance is expensive even for a car that is rarely driven.
Although it's easy enough to get lethal doses of various poisons, the drugs that lead to an easy painless death (mostly opiates) are carefully controlled and require a prescription.
The deal that would really make sense for Google to make would be a full cross-licensing agreement with Apple. That would, of course, end all the suits against Android so I don't expect to see Apple agree to one.
You don't need a Google account to use it as a phone. Like any Android device, you need a Google account to use a lot of the apps that come with the phone. If you use the default Chrome browser your searches will be sent to Google, but you can install Firefox and set it as your default browser. And as others have already mentioned, you need a Google account to use the Google Play store but you can get apps elsewhere.
PC games are written for people using their PCs connected to desktop monitors, because that's what 95% of the user population has. People who connect their PCs to an HDTV are a very small fraction of the PC market, and so developers don't believe there is a significant market for games with features designed specifically for that setup. Of course it's a chicken and egg problem; people don't attach PCs to their HDTV because there is no content that justifies it, and people don't develop content that would justify it because people don't attach PCs to their HDTV.
Reports are that the Windows RT OS on the Surface takes up 10GB of flash. That's a much larger number than the space used by iOS 6 and its preinstalled apps. So comparing versions with the same amount of storage isn't entirely fair because the Surface will have less space available to the user.
Sadly, it doesn't. What it means is that the taxi driver is a sharecropper who struggles to make a living while most of the profits go to the rich medallion owner.
The 8150 does better in Linux benchmarks than it does on Windows, because the Linux scheduler has been fixed to be aware of it. I'm curious to see how much of an improvement the 8350 will turn out to be.
They bleach flour because it makes it whiter.
In the Olden Daisies, white flour was a sign of prosperity. Only the rich people got it; the peasants had to make do with whole wheat or other grains such as rye and barley. Because whiteness of baked goods was a signifier of wealth, people tried to make them as white as possible. Besides bleaching, adulterants were sometimes added to make the finished product look more white.
Now that whole grains are the in thing and white bread is declassé there is no longer any reason to bleach flour. I recommend King Arthur to readers from New England; it's a very high quality unbleached flour that is favored by all the serious bread bakers I know, including the commercial artisan bakeries. (KA is a high gluten flour that is very nice for bread, though perhaps not ideal for some other baked goods such as cakes.)
There are mixed reports on whether there will be a Google Maps app for iOS. News stories have Google both developing and not developing one.
A bigger problem is that there is no assurance that Apple will allow such an app to be sold even if Google develops it. iOS developers are always at the mercy of Apple. Apple has been known to capriciously refuse to authorize apps and to rescind authorization for apps that are already on the market, and developers on iOS have no recourse. Apple has the power to destroy the business of a company that sells iOS apps, which is one reason I will never get into the business of developing them.
If you don't believe that Apple will destroy a company after inviting it into their market, just ask Power Computing. Oh wait, you can't; Apple destroyed them years ago.
Adding heat? Not worth mentioning. Modern CPUs and APUs can power down parts of the chip that you are not using.
Sucking up die space? Guilty as charged. But the Intel integrated GPUs are pretty small.
The doctor who brings in more revenue can also be 3. a specialist who performs expensive procedures. Top surgeons make a lot of money because they're good at what they do, charge top dollar for that thing, and do a lot of it. A medical practice can't be made entirely of people like that; somebody has to do the unglamorous work like routine checkups, but those doctors will never make as much money as the specialists.
Exactly. The person who got the company off the ground should be treated well in some way. That might involve a nice exit package. Or it might a position in the company that doesn't involve being CEO if the founder is willing to take such a post; that's even better when you can do it because you keep the vision alive without having the founder mess up day to day management.
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Yes, it is, for three reasons:
1. Ubuntu is free. Installing the latest upgrade costs no money.
2. Ubuntu upgrades work better than Windows upgrades. Fewer things break.
3. You can opt out of the 6 month cycle by installing an LTS release.
On the downside, the continually changing UI in Ubuntu makes the Windows UI look stable. Well, it did until Windows 8.
Except that it's a hoax. The video is the entire campaign. From speedbandits.dk (translated to English by Google):
"Speedbandits was a campaign from 2006, the Road Safety Council put entrepreneurs to get young drivers to slow down. The campaign consisted exclusively of a video clip, located on, among other things, Youtube. This phenomenon is called viral marketing.
The film is produced by a news report on a non-existent television station and shows the Danish population's alleged new, which should improve road safety: Topless girls standing by the roadside and holding signs with the speed limit."
One real problem on Windows nowadays is the number of things running in the background just to check for updates. A typical PC is likely to have the Adobe Flash updater, the Oracle Java updater, the Apple QuickTime updater, the updater for the user's choice of browser (Firefox and/or Chrome), an antivirus updater, a vendor-specific updater, and many more. All of these chew up memory and CPU time; not a lot for each one but collectively they add up. The model used by Linux distributions is much better. You have ONE updater that can draw from all the software repositories (it can add repos for programs that don't use the official repository) and you're done. Much cleaner. Microsoft needs to step up to the table with a comparable solution; Windows Update is halfway there but it doesn't cover most non-Microsoft applications or some device drivers.
You can spell the reason it won't happen in three lettters: O-I-L.
Unless you live in Colorado and are only growing a small amount. At least so far as the state is concerned; the federal authorities are another matter.
The jury is still out on Windows 8, and it will certainly sell a bunch of copies because of new computer sales. (Even if enterprise users take advantage of their downgrade rights and install Windows 7 instead, Microsoft will still count those as sales of Windows 8.) I'm skeptical about Windows 8 because I think the fundamental idea of a unified UI for desktop and touch is flawed, and I don't think the desktop is even close to dead. (It's just not the whole computing story any more.) But it's possible I could be wrong.
ARM isn't competitive with high end x86 chips... yet. The A57 core will partly close that gap, and ARM will likely continue to move up the performance ladder with future devices.
The current discussion is about Opteron parts, which are mostly used in datacenters. They DO buy 12 and 16 core CPUs, not to make ONE person's Facebook page load faster but to make a whole bunch of people's Facebook pages load faster. (I don't know whether Facebook actually uses any AMD-based servers, but the principle holds.)
In a discussion on the desktop Piledriver parts, somebody noted that these shared FPUs are 256 bits wide. If you're working on more common number sizes they can do more than one operation in parallel, so there are enough FPU resources to go around in nearly all real-world use cases.
The main problem with the 6300 parts, like the 6200 series that preceded them, will be effective scheduling to maximize the efficiency of the half-cores and their shared resources. It's mostly a solved problem for data centers running Linux; the Linux scheduler has been updated to use the new AMD parts well. Windows 8 also has an improved scheduler for Bulldozer and Piledriver; I haven't heard about Windows Server 2012 but it probably also has the improvements.
The classic enthusiasts coming up behind you are screwed no matter what happens with this law. Currently it's possible to keep a 100 year old car on the road. 100 years from now that will be impossible, as the electronics necessary to keep that car running will be unobtainable; nobody will have made the necessary parts for 75 years.
It's not clear whether Tesla's path to the masses will ever involve ramping up production to that extent. It might instead involve licensing technology to companies that are already in the business of mass production of cars.
A Nissan Leaf is closer to what you're asking for. Only 75-100 mile range and not nearly as sporty as the Tesla S, but also half the price (about $30,000 after the tax credit). In a few years it should be possible to sell a car like the Leaf for $20K (or whatever is the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $20K) as mass production drives down the price of the batteries. The electric drive train of the Leaf probably costs less to manufacture (leaving out the battery cost and the R&D) than the drive train in a $20K gas-powered car, so that kind of price point will be achievable someday.
Having a Zipcar down the street can also solve the "ready to go 24/7" problem; if your need for an extra car is occasional it's much cheaper than owning another car. Especially since if you live in the kind of urban area where there is a Zipcar down the street, insurance is expensive even for a car that is rarely driven.
Although it's easy enough to get lethal doses of various poisons, the drugs that lead to an easy painless death (mostly opiates) are carefully controlled and require a prescription.
The deal that would really make sense for Google to make would be a full cross-licensing agreement with Apple. That would, of course, end all the suits against Android so I don't expect to see Apple agree to one.
You don't need a Google account to use it as a phone. Like any Android device, you need a Google account to use a lot of the apps that come with the phone. If you use the default Chrome browser your searches will be sent to Google, but you can install Firefox and set it as your default browser. And as others have already mentioned, you need a Google account to use the Google Play store but you can get apps elsewhere.
PC games are written for people using their PCs connected to desktop monitors, because that's what 95% of the user population has. People who connect their PCs to an HDTV are a very small fraction of the PC market, and so developers don't believe there is a significant market for games with features designed specifically for that setup. Of course it's a chicken and egg problem; people don't attach PCs to their HDTV because there is no content that justifies it, and people don't develop content that would justify it because people don't attach PCs to their HDTV.
Reports are that the Windows RT OS on the Surface takes up 10GB of flash. That's a much larger number than the space used by iOS 6 and its preinstalled apps. So comparing versions with the same amount of storage isn't entirely fair because the Surface will have less space available to the user.
Sadly, it doesn't. What it means is that the taxi driver is a sharecropper who struggles to make a living while most of the profits go to the rich medallion owner.
The 8150 does better in Linux benchmarks than it does on Windows, because the Linux scheduler has been fixed to be aware of it. I'm curious to see how much of an improvement the 8350 will turn out to be.
They bleach flour because it makes it whiter. In the Olden Daisies, white flour was a sign of prosperity. Only the rich people got it; the peasants had to make do with whole wheat or other grains such as rye and barley. Because whiteness of baked goods was a signifier of wealth, people tried to make them as white as possible. Besides bleaching, adulterants were sometimes added to make the finished product look more white. Now that whole grains are the in thing and white bread is declassé there is no longer any reason to bleach flour. I recommend King Arthur to readers from New England; it's a very high quality unbleached flour that is favored by all the serious bread bakers I know, including the commercial artisan bakeries. (KA is a high gluten flour that is very nice for bread, though perhaps not ideal for some other baked goods such as cakes.)
There are mixed reports on whether there will be a Google Maps app for iOS. News stories have Google both developing and not developing one.
A bigger problem is that there is no assurance that Apple will allow such an app to be sold even if Google develops it. iOS developers are always at the mercy of Apple. Apple has been known to capriciously refuse to authorize apps and to rescind authorization for apps that are already on the market, and developers on iOS have no recourse. Apple has the power to destroy the business of a company that sells iOS apps, which is one reason I will never get into the business of developing them.
If you don't believe that Apple will destroy a company after inviting it into their market, just ask Power Computing. Oh wait, you can't; Apple destroyed them years ago.
Adding heat? Not worth mentioning. Modern CPUs and APUs can power down parts of the chip that you are not using. Sucking up die space? Guilty as charged. But the Intel integrated GPUs are pretty small.
The doctor who brings in more revenue can also be 3. a specialist who performs expensive procedures. Top surgeons make a lot of money because they're good at what they do, charge top dollar for that thing, and do a lot of it. A medical practice can't be made entirely of people like that; somebody has to do the unglamorous work like routine checkups, but those doctors will never make as much money as the specialists.
Exactly. The person who got the company off the ground should be treated well in some way. That might involve a nice exit package. Or it might a position in the company that doesn't involve being CEO if the founder is willing to take such a post; that's even better when you can do it because you keep the vision alive without having the founder mess up day to day management.