in AMD land you get some minor screen tearing but on all displays. At least that is my experience with a 4200HD (on board) and a dedicated 6850HD. It isn't a showstopper though and thus I haven't tried to fix it. The above goes for all driver editions radeon, fglrx, mesa-dri-[a-z]{3,8}-exp.*
exactly what I wanted to point out. At first I thought "Hey this Lightning looks almost too bright and quite high alt" but then some reading made it all clear.
Well, that's true. JS introduces a hell of a lot of overhead in pretty much anything you might do. But I still have to say that webGL has impressed me. I haven't had a chance to seriously hack on it myself but from what I see being done with it i believe that you can do some pretty serious stuff. OTOH webGL is offloading stuff to the gpu so why would I want to use a plugin to offload stuff to the cpu? GPUs (for their bang) are more efficient than cpus anyway. BTW, I can't believe no one mentioned webGL up to this point.
Think at the bright side! this will bring nerds to the outsides! Except for those who will do the obvious and use 400 lightbulbs to drive their new light powered® computer and drive their electricity costs up 70000%.
mobile sales guys, and busy executives that are mostly consuming reports
s/consuming/presenting and You are on the money. That's exactly the niche where pads are useful and at some places that is much much more than a measly 18% I was once contracted by a company that existed 94% out of those guys.
And to face the cold hard facts here, there are many, many jobs that are in the field/mobile and only consist of presenting/consuming structured data. So I believe that combined with the lifestyle, personal mobility and fashion statement segments you do have a pretty big market. The only thing office integration does is promote the integrated product (tablets) to personal life.
OTOH if you actually have to create something at work please do yourself a favor and ask for a netbook/laptop or workstation or at least a tablet keyboard, depending on needs.
Look you asshole, it's just a preview, everything will be fixed when it ships!:-P
Joke aside I totally agree with you. win7 went well (and not only moderately imo) because the market needed a fresh, stable and reliable desktop and because the masses just can't handle linux for varying reasons (let's just face that as a fact). I am not an expert on OS economics but I think the pushing of win8 is just some haste. It has been less than two years since win7 has become main version of windows on the market. Also I don't think that win8 does provide changes enough to justify a dedicated release. Yes it's nice to have a new UI paradigm for the desktop ( but xmonad is better ) but as I look close into it I can't but notice that half baked smell of a rushed product. What microsoft is effectively trying to do with metro is put their veil on web apps. Which is just wrong. I hate to say it but the whole ui could just be an extention to the gecko. That way microsoft could for once be actually compliant to some standards and have a competing interface in th os world.
D@mn, I knew I still had something to write while pushing submit!
So giving crackers a layer between the OS and the metal means that it will be even harder to detect/remove by uneducated users or sw, why not give them the whole processor from blueprint? That will stop them from trying to get into your machines!
this isn't an anti root-kit, that's for sure. the über root-kit maybe but not anti. Information security is created in two layers: 1) create a safe I/O environmet (OS) 2) educate the user not to be stupid.
In retrospect maybe it is a bit unrealistic to believe you can out-educate stupidness but an Input safe OS I still am baffled why we don't have. Even linux with SElinux enabled can be made to self mutilate if you concentrate a bit.
Have used rackspace cloud on some occasions. Runs very smooth indeed. Actually I stilll have some web apps over there. But is it just me or did they introduce a new low tier? I can remember running 512MB instances for about 12€/month about a year ago... I have started experimenting with scale engine lately. They could actually be better for the cluster thing the author wants since they can deliver more computing power/$ I don't know how easy it will be to setup the distributed computing on them but it could be a good solution.
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Ohh, I see the apple brand now has a patent on minimalistic design right?
in AMD land you get some minor screen tearing but on all displays. At least that is my experience with a 4200HD (on board) and a dedicated 6850HD.
It isn't a showstopper though and thus I haven't tried to fix it.
The above goes for all driver editions radeon, fglrx, mesa-dri-[a-z]{3,8}-exp.*
exactly what I wanted to point out. At first I thought "Hey this Lightning looks almost too bright and quite high alt" but then some reading made it all clear.
BTW: what is the yellow arc/layer in the video?
No, that was robin hood.
Pirates became famous for relieving people of their jewelry, warez, wifes, etc... Like politicians.
Isn't it weird?
Historically pirates wanted to relive you of your warez and now they distribute them for no apparent profit...
you know what is worse than that? :-)
having a CEO called Löscher (german for eraser)
Though if you accidentally change pages, your own comment didn't have your attention; why should we give it any attention? ;)
Why isn't this post a +5 insightfull?
No pesticides where used for the production of those apples ;-)
my nokia 8210 disagrees with everything
Well, that's true. JS introduces a hell of a lot of overhead in pretty much anything you might do. But I still have to say that webGL has impressed me. I haven't had a chance to seriously hack on it myself but from what I see being done with it i believe that you can do some pretty serious stuff.
OTOH webGL is offloading stuff to the gpu so why would I want to use a plugin to offload stuff to the cpu? GPUs (for their bang) are more efficient than cpus anyway.
BTW, I can't believe no one mentioned webGL up to this point.
my hp mini 210 disagrees with all your points
well, user accounts can be inherited right?
no man, that's the microsoft tablet OS developing department he is talking about
I think all functional langs do that
...sexualism is on it's way out? ;-)
Bravo Microsoft for consistently beeing out of touch with trends
The first calculators I got to use plugged into wall sockets for power.
Hah! the first calculator I got to use was full of people!
joke aside you are right that is seems just logical for processor developers to find more and more energy efficient designs but I never expected the main manufacturers (Intel|AMD) to come up with it. Not with the never ending Flop fever© of the computer industry.
Think at the bright side!
this will bring nerds to the outsides! Except for those who will do the obvious and use 400 lightbulbs to drive their new light powered® computer and drive their electricity costs up 70000%.
AFAIK win8 is desktop centered just because its system reqs are astronomical units away from what a handheld can provide....
mobile sales guys, and busy executives that are mostly consuming reports
s/consuming/presenting and You are on the money. That's exactly the niche where pads are useful and at some places that is much much more than a measly 18% I was once contracted by a company that existed 94% out of those guys.
And to face the cold hard facts here, there are many, many jobs that are in the field/mobile and only consist of presenting/consuming structured data. So I believe that combined with the lifestyle, personal mobility and fashion statement segments you do have a pretty big market. The only thing office integration does is promote the integrated product (tablets) to personal life.
OTOH if you actually have to create something at work please do yourself a favor and ask for a netbook/laptop or workstation or at least a tablet keyboard, depending on needs.
Look you asshole, it's just a preview, everything will be fixed when it ships! :-P
Joke aside I totally agree with you. win7 went well (and not only moderately imo) because the market needed a fresh, stable and reliable desktop and because the masses just can't handle linux for varying reasons (let's just face that as a fact). I am not an expert on OS economics but I think the pushing of win8 is just some haste. It has been less than two years since win7 has become main version of windows on the market. Also I don't think that win8 does provide changes enough to justify a dedicated release. Yes it's nice to have a new UI paradigm for the desktop ( but xmonad is better ) but as I look close into it I can't but notice that half baked smell of a rushed product. What microsoft is effectively trying to do with metro is put their veil on web apps. Which is just wrong. I hate to say it but the whole ui could just be an extention to the gecko. That way microsoft could for once be actually compliant to some standards and have a competing interface in th os world.
just my 1c
D@mn, I knew I still had something to write while pushing submit!
So giving crackers a layer between the OS and the metal means that it will be even harder to detect/remove by uneducated users or sw, why not give them the whole processor from blueprint? That will stop them from trying to get into your machines!
this isn't an anti root-kit, that's for sure.
the über root-kit maybe but not anti. Information security is created in two layers: 1) create a safe I/O environmet (OS) 2) educate the user not to be stupid.
In retrospect maybe it is a bit unrealistic to believe you can out-educate stupidness but an Input safe OS I still am baffled why we don't have. Even linux with SElinux enabled can be made to self mutilate if you concentrate a bit.
Have used rackspace cloud on some occasions. Runs very smooth indeed. Actually I stilll have some web apps over there. But is it just me or did they introduce a new low tier? I can remember running 512MB instances for about 12€/month about a year ago...
I have started experimenting with scale engine lately. They could actually be better for the cluster thing the author wants since they can deliver more computing power/$
I don't know how easy it will be to setup the distributed computing on them but it could be a good solution.
I think major cancer research groups (and HIV research groups) are all Pharmaceutical driven so that's why he wouldn't get any acceptance from them.
Oh and in the parentheses you obviously meant past right? Right???
Well, there is posting a pro microsoft comment and there is plain shameless attention whoring. ggp isobviously the latter :-P
Joke aside I spun the preveiw up in a VM and it wouldn't install. But that might be me messing up virtualbox...
pornhub?