When taken as a single entity, sure, but a thousand objects queued processed in parallel to each other, will greatly outperform a thousand entities queued in serial, even given overheads of thread contention, cache thrashing, etc. Set your granularity high enough and the cost overheads cease to matter. Statistically or otherwise.
As a senior software engineer, currently gainfully employed, I disagree. This one of many painfully simple operations that could be made parallel by anyone halfway competent.
This is actually a pretty simple task-oriented problem. Have a queue of objects that need to path to a new location. Each object is a self contained task, referencing outside information, but modifying information only inside the object (therefor needing no locking or contention of threads). For a thread in a pool of worker threads, pull the next object off the queue, find the path, store the path inside the object, place it in the queue of done objects. Loop.
Not excessively difficult.
I agree, I assume he's breaking some DMCA law. Stupidly, he put his company affiliation on his profile, which is going to reflect massively badly on him.
Nokia also has a huge "act ethically" policy as well, which will work against him.
I'd be really really surprised if he didn't cop major repurcussions because of this.
Screw map parts, you can download map countries with Nokia's mapping solution, not just the current "navigation".
The big differentiator with Nokia maps is the ability to operate without a data connection. Android can't do that yet (even with the saving feature).
You really didn't even pay attention to the summary, let alone the article did you? The core use here is for super-sampling with dedicated hardware that produces superior 5MP & 8MP images. So... they agree with you! They have created a better sensor. It just so happens that you can also use it in non-super-sampling mode if you really really must.
I think in some ways the UK police are as bad as anything the US can bring. Note the OC mentions kettling. This is a very distinctly European (and especially London/British) police behaviour and terminology.
Except that Apple are actively stiffling cross-licensing, while freely using others IP without paying until dragged to court. Nokia is a perfect example. Nokia's lawyers tried many times to get Apple to cross license. No deal.
This is exactly the tactics that Apple are using. The lawyers of nokia many many times tried to cross-licence with apple, as apple seems to be totally fine using others IP with a free hand. No ball, until it went to court. Many courts in many countries.
When it's stupid and logical things like multi-touch, then this court-based stifling of innovation and usage is killing the industry slowly.
Anyone who doesn't believe it, try youtubing from a company other than one of the majors. Moving recently to Germany has highlighted just how little there is that isn't claimed by the big 4.
Seriously, 7/10 videos I click through to display "Unfortunately, this -music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights.". In this case, it was UMG. Surprise surprise. On of all things, a Rammstein video. What?!
Yes I know I'm feeding the troll here. Sure, go ahead and "report me". Nokia actually has a quite open social media policy. So long as we don't talk about unanounced products, then nokia as a company is perfectly fine with their employees "connecting" with the greater world around us.
Ahh, but putting in the effort on the other hand, shows that you do give a shit about customers.
Prime example, nokia just released an updated web browser for the nokia 5800. Would you call that a bloat? Or something actually useful to punters out there that may actually still have working handsets after all this time?
Seriously, how can this be seen as anything but a clearing of work-area? 7000 engineers that couldn't build a killer product?! Even meego was more pipe-dream than real product.
People seem to forget that nokia has a multi-pronged strategy going on. It's not just the microsoft deal going on, there's also the Next Billion project, and Rich Green's Disruptive Technologies.
I think this move has been nothing but necessary.
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... when you forget to login.
"Beauregard Wattigney" Even a google image search confirms this...
Did you try turning it on first? I heard that really helps usability. ;)
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Noqia? ;)
When taken as a single entity, sure, but a thousand objects queued processed in parallel to each other, will greatly outperform a thousand entities queued in serial, even given overheads of thread contention, cache thrashing, etc. Set your granularity high enough and the cost overheads cease to matter. Statistically or otherwise.
As a senior software engineer, currently gainfully employed, I disagree. This one of many painfully simple operations that could be made parallel by anyone halfway competent.
This is actually a pretty simple task-oriented problem. Have a queue of objects that need to path to a new location. Each object is a self contained task, referencing outside information, but modifying information only inside the object (therefor needing no locking or contention of threads). For a thread in a pool of worker threads, pull the next object off the queue, find the path, store the path inside the object, place it in the queue of done objects. Loop. Not excessively difficult.
I agree, I assume he's breaking some DMCA law. Stupidly, he put his company affiliation on his profile, which is going to reflect massively badly on him. Nokia also has a huge "act ethically" policy as well, which will work against him. I'd be really really surprised if he didn't cop major repurcussions because of this.
Screw map parts, you can download map countries with Nokia's mapping solution, not just the current "navigation". The big differentiator with Nokia maps is the ability to operate without a data connection. Android can't do that yet (even with the saving feature).
At least it showed that they weren't all Thumbs.
Number of phones Nokia shipped in 2011: 417 million Just sayin'...
@Thiago, you know you can talk in first person, right? :)
I don't agree, if you average the input of 8 pixels, you reduce the error that you would get by sampling from one. Pretty basic statistics.
You really didn't even pay attention to the summary, let alone the article did you? The core use here is for super-sampling with dedicated hardware that produces superior 5MP & 8MP images. So... they agree with you! They have created a better sensor. It just so happens that you can also use it in non-super-sampling mode if you really really must.
I think in some ways the UK police are as bad as anything the US can bring. Note the OC mentions kettling. This is a very distinctly European (and especially London/British) police behaviour and terminology.
Qt's not dead. https://qt.gitorious.org/qt -> Activities https://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator "The Qt Project" == the robot pushing changes out from paid Nokia developers.
Except that Apple are actively stiffling cross-licensing, while freely using others IP without paying until dragged to court. Nokia is a perfect example. Nokia's lawyers tried many times to get Apple to cross license. No deal.
This is exactly the tactics that Apple are using. The lawyers of nokia many many times tried to cross-licence with apple, as apple seems to be totally fine using others IP with a free hand. No ball, until it went to court. Many courts in many countries. When it's stupid and logical things like multi-touch, then this court-based stifling of innovation and usage is killing the industry slowly.
Anyone who doesn't believe it, try youtubing from a company other than one of the majors. Moving recently to Germany has highlighted just how little there is that isn't claimed by the big 4. Seriously, 7/10 videos I click through to display "Unfortunately, this -music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights.". In this case, it was UMG. Surprise surprise. On of all things, a Rammstein video. What?!
Yes I know I'm feeding the troll here. Sure, go ahead and "report me". Nokia actually has a quite open social media policy. So long as we don't talk about unanounced products, then nokia as a company is perfectly fine with their employees "connecting" with the greater world around us.
Ahh, but putting in the effort on the other hand, shows that you do give a shit about customers. Prime example, nokia just released an updated web browser for the nokia 5800. Would you call that a bloat? Or something actually useful to punters out there that may actually still have working handsets after all this time?
Nope, just an employee. Not afraid to be anonymous either.
Like Apple, we care about legacy handsets. There are still updates coming out for Symbian 9.5 handsets.
Seriously, how can this be seen as anything but a clearing of work-area? 7000 engineers that couldn't build a killer product?! Even meego was more pipe-dream than real product. People seem to forget that nokia has a multi-pronged strategy going on. It's not just the microsoft deal going on, there's also the Next Billion project, and Rich Green's Disruptive Technologies. I think this move has been nothing but necessary.