Oh, sure, the graphics on these chips is worlds better than previous generations, and the power savings is great. BUT, if you can run their drivers without constant crashes and kernel panics it's not really a step forward. Most of the U series laptops and tablets our there are having a myriad of problems - hue shifts, sleep power drain, failure to wake up, driver crash/restarts and - yes - straight up kernel panics/BSOD that require a reboot. It looks like they hires a bunch of amateurs to code this round of drivers.
I mean, if you bought a 3.5GHz chip and it didn't perform as fast as an Intel 3.5GHz it must be misleading marketing, right? We all know that clock speed is all that matters when you compare a chip. And, I've been told, that they may be reducing clock speed dynamically when the processor isn't fully loaded - basically cheating you out of the speed you PAID for. I hear AMD also ran over your cat.
It's hard to take a stand when Comcast is the sole broadband provider. Or when an alternate provider actually costs MORE than the uncapped, business class service Comcast offers.
I had a local co-op approach me about putting in a line as they expanded into our area. I told them I though ti sounded great. Except they were only offering T1 service at $150/mo. Now, I'm all for the reliability of a T1 line, but getting 1/30 the download speed and 1/10 the upload speed for twice the cost makes it very hard to "send a message" to Comcast.
OTOH, it does open the door to a data cap, because you can just photocopy the AT&T patent application and write in "on the internet" after each claim. It seems to have passed the "novel and non-obvious" test every other time!
I mentioned this in a story a few days ago, but this brings it back to the forefront. The fastest SSDs have sequential write speeds about an order of magnitude slower than typical DDR3/DDR4 SDRAM. Increasing SSD speeds to be on par with DDR means you may actually need far less RAM than you did in the past because swap operations have very little cost. If endurance ticks up three orders of magnitude (as claimed), you might start considering dropping DRAM entirely for low end computers, perhaps with an increase in CPU cache sizes to reduce misses.
Now that seems ridiculous, but so did having video processing on the CPU a decade ago. And yet the Iris and Iris Pro that Intel is putting on the Skylake chips are on par with lower end dedicated video cards that can run even current AAA games at reasonable resolutions and framerates.
In aggregate, it's probably true. Now, I'm sure *your* servers are more secure.
To make a transportation analogy, it is far safer to fly somewhere on a commercial airline than it is to fly a private plane. Heck, It's even safer to fly commercial than it is to drive. And yet I know a lot of people who are terrified of flying.
Don't get me wrong...someone is going to die in a commercial plane crash this year. And if you fly a private aircraft, your chances of dying in a crash of your own plane are exceptionally small - you'll probably never die in a plan crash if you fly yourself, tbh. But, from a statistical standpoint, you're still better off flying commercial.
More importantly, where are the 4:3 screens for business and science works. 16:9 is useful only if you want to watch a movie, or if you're talking about replacing a 24-30" screen with a 40-45" (essentially trading up to two 8:9 "square" work areas below toolbars). On a small screen, the vertical dimension is too shallow, especially give that app toolbars and OS taskbars take even more space from the top and bottom.
You say it like 20% is dog slow. We ran servers off of DDR200 (or perhaps it was 400) just a few years ago. It served all the data for my engineering firm, which was running 3-4 CAD stations. And, TBH, our CAD files haven't changed much. Heck, one of my contract drafters still uses the CAD version and workstation he was using back in 2007.
Again - it's not up to snuff, but it seems to be gaining.
Yeah, the SP is one of those things that's hard to compare to anything "one for one". It's expensive enough in power configurations everyone wants to put it up against 4.5-5lb desktop replacement machines with quad core processors and discrete graphics cards. It's too powerful - and runs a full OS - to make a fair comparison to even the iPad Pro that comes out next month...and yet the surface + type cover weighs four ounces *less* than the iPad Pro and its cover.
Nobody really knows what to make of it. But if it lives up to its hype, it will be the perfect way for me to replace some of my gear. I'm going to run it in parallel with my desktop for a month...if it's great, I'll keep it. If it's close I'll send it back and get the i7 model. If it doesn't work *sigh* I'm going to be pretty bummed, though I may still end up getting the m3 version to replace my 5-6yo single core laptop.
I have three computers I updated to 10. 2 work flawlessly - it's like we never upgraded, though neither of those users do much more than light wordprocessing. 1 seems really, really laggy. It turns out that, for whatever reason, malwarebytes and dropbox - neither of them MS programs, decided that they should always be using 80% or more of the processor. And I only have one core and one thread on that old celeron. So it was back to W7. It may be better by now, but that may not matter as the old laptop is getting retired soon.
There are all sorts of ways to cause pain without permanent physical damage. You could be there for quite a long, long time.
Of course, that requires walking a finer line, as we don't want you to *actually* forget your password. We might just torture innocent people and make you watch. That's not as good as your own flesh and blood, but it truly takes a heartless human being to watch someone suffer, let them beg you personally for relief, and then watch them suffer again.
It's, admittedly, quite an outside case. But then again, you're worrying about someone actually using the data in your phone against you for some reason that has greater value than someone else's life. We're already talking strawmen here.
Nearly everyone I know carries a personal beacon which broadcasts an uniquely identifiable signature every few seconds. I suppose this is for the people who took the batteries out of their phones before going to the tin foil hat store.
Don't get me wrong - we're not there yet, for write endurance or for absolute speed. Not many people are going to consider a warranty of 800 write cycles sufficient for RAM usage.
Still, transfer speeds on DDR3 are in the 12GB/s range (at 1600MHz), and recent testing shows DDR4 speed isn't really providing a huge benefit to actual computing. Sequential writes, as I would mostly expect moving from SDRAM to a swapfile, is within an order of magnitude of DDR3 speeds, and more like 1:5 for reads where responsiveness matters.
Are we going to get to the point in the next 3-5 years where most people are scaling back to 2-4GB of RAM in favor of using the swapfile on a PCIe SSD? Might we see low power machines eschewing SDRAM except for graphics memory and zero page, as many dropped discrete graphics for onboard GPUs half a dozen years ago?
I wasn't aware that they were letting Average Men into the Rangers nowadays. And I've only seen reports from the mainstream press, but the women vying for Ranger spots do not seem particularly average, either.
It's still expensive, and the upgrades are premium prices.
That said, it's the only game out there if you want a sub-2lb machine (okay, 2.25 with the keyboard) and a digitzer pen. Everyone has a device that is cheaper than a surface, but none of them are tablet-able, have a pen, and weight less than 2.25 lbs with the keyboard.
I had a Sony Flip 15 because I wanted a pen, a dGPU, and I didn't think a 12" screen would be big enough and thought that . What I found was that I rarely used the GPU, a 16x9 screen is a pretty lousy form factor for taking notes, I really need something that can handle medium usage for 6 hours, and 5 pounds is just to freaking heavy for a tablet (or any computer I'm going to go "mobile" with). And while the 15" screen was nice, it still was so far from the 3-head setup I have at my desk it was almost as limited at the 11.6" laptop I had previously (Which was 3lb and lasted 6-8 hours on a charge). So I'm getting a SP4, and hoping it will do what I need. *fingers crossed*
I suspect it's because it's sort of niche hardware. There are a very small number of active digitizer tablets, and even fewer that can be considered convertable to laptop-like usage. It leads to Apple-like devotion, if not because of the actual benefits but because - for them - there simply isn't anything else out there that's comparable. Pen, regular ULV processors (vs m series or Atom), integratable keyboard, all day(-ish) battery, and under 2 lbs. It's a pretty small product space so I think people tend to get defensive.
I'm surprised they stayed with Marvell for wifi, given the complaints and mediocre speeds (though the ac, tbh, is as fast as my server can push data). The dock has changed (no more kbd interference), the keyboards have been vastly improved if the reviews are to be believed, and W10 works a lot like W7 (that may or may not be an improvement depending on your opinion of W7).
Plex on a win box, 12TB of storage on a linux box, some combination of rokus, firesticks, ATVs, Chromecasts, and portable devices strewn about the house willy nilly.
Plex managed to out-Apple Apple on the just works front. Just works at home. Just works on the road (okay - not quite, my LG G3 on Verizon stutters annoyingly, but everybody elses shit works fine). I spend almost zero time managing it.
So, to be honest, there are a diminishingly small number of humans I would entrust to transport my small child. That's mainly because of the need to care for the child and the possible contingencies which occur when dealing with a child who is not able to negotiate all typical every day tasks, not necessarily the safety of the ride.
Would I put my 4 or 5 year old in an autonomous vehicle? No. Would I accompany my 4 or 5 year old in an autonomous vehicle? Sure.
Riding in an autonomous vehicle is, imho, akin to living without a firearm. There are, no doubt, edge cases where owning a fire arm might result in an increased survivability, but the dangers associated with them outweigh (or the necessary safety measures cancel out) the use cases.
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Oh, sure, the graphics on these chips is worlds better than previous generations, and the power savings is great. BUT, if you can run their drivers without constant crashes and kernel panics it's not really a step forward. Most of the U series laptops and tablets our there are having a myriad of problems - hue shifts, sleep power drain, failure to wake up, driver crash/restarts and - yes - straight up kernel panics/BSOD that require a reboot. It looks like they hires a bunch of amateurs to code this round of drivers.
I mean, if you bought a 3.5GHz chip and it didn't perform as fast as an Intel 3.5GHz it must be misleading marketing, right? We all know that clock speed is all that matters when you compare a chip. And, I've been told, that they may be reducing clock speed dynamically when the processor isn't fully loaded - basically cheating you out of the speed you PAID for. I hear AMD also ran over your cat.
It's hard to take a stand when Comcast is the sole broadband provider. Or when an alternate provider actually costs MORE than the uncapped, business class service Comcast offers.
I had a local co-op approach me about putting in a line as they expanded into our area. I told them I though ti sounded great. Except they were only offering T1 service at $150/mo. Now, I'm all for the reliability of a T1 line, but getting 1/30 the download speed and 1/10 the upload speed for twice the cost makes it very hard to "send a message" to Comcast.
OTOH, it does open the door to a data cap, because you can just photocopy the AT&T patent application and write in "on the internet" after each claim. It seems to have passed the "novel and non-obvious" test every other time!
I mentioned this in a story a few days ago, but this brings it back to the forefront. The fastest SSDs have sequential write speeds about an order of magnitude slower than typical DDR3/DDR4 SDRAM. Increasing SSD speeds to be on par with DDR means you may actually need far less RAM than you did in the past because swap operations have very little cost. If endurance ticks up three orders of magnitude (as claimed), you might start considering dropping DRAM entirely for low end computers, perhaps with an increase in CPU cache sizes to reduce misses.
Now that seems ridiculous, but so did having video processing on the CPU a decade ago. And yet the Iris and Iris Pro that Intel is putting on the Skylake chips are on par with lower end dedicated video cards that can run even current AAA games at reasonable resolutions and framerates.
Most drivers consider themselves to be above average. Why would that not extend to server operators?
In aggregate, it's probably true. Now, I'm sure *your* servers are more secure.
To make a transportation analogy, it is far safer to fly somewhere on a commercial airline than it is to fly a private plane. Heck, It's even safer to fly commercial than it is to drive. And yet I know a lot of people who are terrified of flying.
Don't get me wrong...someone is going to die in a commercial plane crash this year. And if you fly a private aircraft, your chances of dying in a crash of your own plane are exceptionally small - you'll probably never die in a plan crash if you fly yourself, tbh. But, from a statistical standpoint, you're still better off flying commercial.
Re-Archtitected? Architected isn't even a word.
No. Just....no.
" Given the monopoly power of the schools...they could ask for your first-born child as well."
That's what tuition is for. Textbooks are just a side racket.
Live on the entire top floor.
The only catch is that you have to be rich. That's not going to be a problem, is it?
No, we should just have a trillion grains delivered to his house.
More importantly, where are the 4:3 screens for business and science works. 16:9 is useful only if you want to watch a movie, or if you're talking about replacing a 24-30" screen with a 40-45" (essentially trading up to two 8:9 "square" work areas below toolbars). On a small screen, the vertical dimension is too shallow, especially give that app toolbars and OS taskbars take even more space from the top and bottom.
You say it like 20% is dog slow. We ran servers off of DDR200 (or perhaps it was 400) just a few years ago. It served all the data for my engineering firm, which was running 3-4 CAD stations. And, TBH, our CAD files haven't changed much. Heck, one of my contract drafters still uses the CAD version and workstation he was using back in 2007.
Again - it's not up to snuff, but it seems to be gaining.
Yeah, the SP is one of those things that's hard to compare to anything "one for one". It's expensive enough in power configurations everyone wants to put it up against 4.5-5lb desktop replacement machines with quad core processors and discrete graphics cards. It's too powerful - and runs a full OS - to make a fair comparison to even the iPad Pro that comes out next month...and yet the surface + type cover weighs four ounces *less* than the iPad Pro and its cover.
Nobody really knows what to make of it. But if it lives up to its hype, it will be the perfect way for me to replace some of my gear. I'm going to run it in parallel with my desktop for a month...if it's great, I'll keep it. If it's close I'll send it back and get the i7 model. If it doesn't work *sigh* I'm going to be pretty bummed, though I may still end up getting the m3 version to replace my 5-6yo single core laptop.
I have three computers I updated to 10. 2 work flawlessly - it's like we never upgraded, though neither of those users do much more than light wordprocessing. 1 seems really, really laggy. It turns out that, for whatever reason, malwarebytes and dropbox - neither of them MS programs, decided that they should always be using 80% or more of the processor. And I only have one core and one thread on that old celeron. So it was back to W7. It may be better by now, but that may not matter as the old laptop is getting retired soon.
There are all sorts of ways to cause pain without permanent physical damage. You could be there for quite a long, long time.
Of course, that requires walking a finer line, as we don't want you to *actually* forget your password. We might just torture innocent people and make you watch. That's not as good as your own flesh and blood, but it truly takes a heartless human being to watch someone suffer, let them beg you personally for relief, and then watch them suffer again.
It's, admittedly, quite an outside case. But then again, you're worrying about someone actually using the data in your phone against you for some reason that has greater value than someone else's life. We're already talking strawmen here.
Nearly everyone I know carries a personal beacon which broadcasts an uniquely identifiable signature every few seconds. I suppose this is for the people who took the batteries out of their phones before going to the tin foil hat store.
The good news is you could have a 80Gb/s Raid 0. The bad news is that it would be bottlenecked by a 6Gb/s transfer bus.
Don't get me wrong - we're not there yet, for write endurance or for absolute speed. Not many people are going to consider a warranty of 800 write cycles sufficient for RAM usage.
Still, transfer speeds on DDR3 are in the 12GB/s range (at 1600MHz), and recent testing shows DDR4 speed isn't really providing a huge benefit to actual computing. Sequential writes, as I would mostly expect moving from SDRAM to a swapfile, is within an order of magnitude of DDR3 speeds, and more like 1:5 for reads where responsiveness matters.
Are we going to get to the point in the next 3-5 years where most people are scaling back to 2-4GB of RAM in favor of using the swapfile on a PCIe SSD? Might we see low power machines eschewing SDRAM except for graphics memory and zero page, as many dropped discrete graphics for onboard GPUs half a dozen years ago?
I wasn't aware that they were letting Average Men into the Rangers nowadays. And I've only seen reports from the mainstream press, but the women vying for Ranger spots do not seem particularly average, either.
It's still expensive, and the upgrades are premium prices.
That said, it's the only game out there if you want a sub-2lb machine (okay, 2.25 with the keyboard) and a digitzer pen. Everyone has a device that is cheaper than a surface, but none of them are tablet-able, have a pen, and weight less than 2.25 lbs with the keyboard.
I had a Sony Flip 15 because I wanted a pen, a dGPU, and I didn't think a 12" screen would be big enough and thought that . What I found was that I rarely used the GPU, a 16x9 screen is a pretty lousy form factor for taking notes, I really need something that can handle medium usage for 6 hours, and 5 pounds is just to freaking heavy for a tablet (or any computer I'm going to go "mobile" with). And while the 15" screen was nice, it still was so far from the 3-head setup I have at my desk it was almost as limited at the 11.6" laptop I had previously (Which was 3lb and lasted 6-8 hours on a charge). So I'm getting a SP4, and hoping it will do what I need. *fingers crossed*
I suspect it's because it's sort of niche hardware. There are a very small number of active digitizer tablets, and even fewer that can be considered convertable to laptop-like usage. It leads to Apple-like devotion, if not because of the actual benefits but because - for them - there simply isn't anything else out there that's comparable. Pen, regular ULV processors (vs m series or Atom), integratable keyboard, all day(-ish) battery, and under 2 lbs. It's a pretty small product space so I think people tend to get defensive.
I'm surprised they stayed with Marvell for wifi, given the complaints and mediocre speeds (though the ac, tbh, is as fast as my server can push data). The dock has changed (no more kbd interference), the keyboards have been vastly improved if the reviews are to be believed, and W10 works a lot like W7 (that may or may not be an improvement depending on your opinion of W7).
Cut off one of your child's fingers every hour until you unlock it.
How hard was that?
Plex on a win box, 12TB of storage on a linux box, some combination of rokus, firesticks, ATVs, Chromecasts, and portable devices strewn about the house willy nilly.
Plex managed to out-Apple Apple on the just works front. Just works at home. Just works on the road (okay - not quite, my LG G3 on Verizon stutters annoyingly, but everybody elses shit works fine). I spend almost zero time managing it.
So, to be honest, there are a diminishingly small number of humans I would entrust to transport my small child. That's mainly because of the need to care for the child and the possible contingencies which occur when dealing with a child who is not able to negotiate all typical every day tasks, not necessarily the safety of the ride.
Would I put my 4 or 5 year old in an autonomous vehicle? No.
Would I accompany my 4 or 5 year old in an autonomous vehicle? Sure.
Riding in an autonomous vehicle is, imho, akin to living without a firearm. There are, no doubt, edge cases where owning a fire arm might result in an increased survivability, but the dangers associated with them outweigh (or the necessary safety measures cancel out) the use cases.