from the sounds of it -- I would need to buy (or borrow) an older AM4 CPU just to flash the latest BIOS to the motherboard.
I don't know why you would think that. I have build two Ryzen machines recently, an R 1700 in a Gigabyte AB350 and an R 1600 in a MSI X370 MB. I did not reflash either until after completing the install.
You will need that GPU because there is otherwise no graphics, not even VGA. That is, except for the new R 2200/2400G parts that reportedly turn in better GPU performance than some low end PCI GPUs. With current sky-high GPU prices, I can see some builders going that route just to wait out the GPU shortage, maybe end the drought with Navi.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
I have a pricey Macbook Air sitting here that spontaneously developed bright spots all over the screen, apparently a common issue that Apple tries to blame on customer mishandling, but there is no shortage of evidence that it is just crap quality control. WTF?
Li-ion is not going to "catch fire" in this segment any time soon. Rather, NiMH is the standard because of cost, charging characteristics, and safety. That said, have you tried walking the walk yourself? I do, and I will say, you need to be organized about it. You will end up with piles of batteries sitting around, you need some system for keeping track of which are charged and which are discharged. You need to keep track of charge cycles per battery because they all die eventually. For devices that take multiple batteries (most of them) you want to use batteries of similar age. You need to recharge discharged NiMH cells promptly so they don't sit around in discharged state and lose life faster. Life with disposables is so much simpler, if somewhat more expensive and considerably more damaging to the environment.
Eventually, your rechargeables will die and you will just have to suck it up and toss them out. Of course you will recycle, not sneak them into the general landfill, right? Because you cared enough to make this lifestyle change in the first place.
Wow, your post is an example of what makes Slashdot worth reading. I never coded for QNX myself, and appreciate your perspective, it has the ring of truth.
I just took a look at some of the internal apis for Magenta and it is clear that a kernel built around clunky glue like that can't be anything other than a dog. Will there somehow be a flash of genius to make it magically fast? Don't count on it.
Leaving aside for a moment the crap headline that implies the opposite of what Zuckerberg actually said, the key point here is the claim that something changed at Facebook to enable it to police itself effectively. A bit late for that now. Do business like a monopoly, get regulated like a monopoly.
I've been a fan of Woz's ever since I bought my first Apple ][, but, really? Only now are you realising that FB makes its money from your data?
Obviously this has been no secret for a long time, he was likely motivated to take a public position on it by revelations of Facebook's involvement in the election hacking.
My facebook page is under a ficticious name and I was born in 1901 and I work at Initech. Have fun scraping useful data from me.
Roughly the same as me, plus I haven't used even the fake account in years. Can't say my life is enormously worse for missing all those vacation stories and cat videos.
Anybody who has the facebook app on their phone should remove or disable it immediately (don't forget the force kill) unless of course you are ok with Zuck snooping your calls, texts, contacts, and who knows what else.
Modern ARM cpus that are actually supposed to be "competitive" with x86 parts like Atoms
Modern ARM cpus overtook Atom some time ago and are closing in on Intel's Core architecture. These are highly superscalar, unlike Atom, which continues to disappoint. E.g. Cortex A75 can issue 8 micro-ops per cycle. These are now being evaluated realistically as server chips. Not quite there yet in per-core throughput but arguably ahead in core count. Only low end ARMs should be compared to Atom these days. Increasingly, Intel's performance edge will just be the FPU. In time that will go away too, just as it did with AMD.
Apple has a lot to gain by avoiding the Intel tax on PC-class processors, there is no theoretical reason why the ARM architecture cannot match Intel/AMD superscalar performance, and the days when customers cared about type of processor are long gone. That said, "as early as 2020" seems wildly optimistic. ARM is closing in on high end processor throughput, but is not quite there yet. For the time being, this rumour smells like a negotiating tactic to hammer down Intel's price point, if it has any substance at all. Maybe the next one will be, Apple is switching to AMD?
The more they keep censoring, the more I don't care about them or their services.
The more they keep censoring, the more they become responsible for their content and can be held legally liable for it. Censorship is a dangerous rabbit hole for Google to scurry into.
Modern server side Java is pretty fast, relatively usable, reasonably expressive with vast library and build tooling support.
And is rapidly losing ground to Go, which meets or beats Java in all those categories, is considerably less cumbersome, and does not have a litigation cloud over its head.
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from the sounds of it -- I would need to buy (or borrow) an older AM4 CPU just to flash the latest BIOS to the motherboard.
I don't know why you would think that. I have build two Ryzen machines recently, an R 1700 in a Gigabyte AB350 and an R 1600 in a MSI X370 MB. I did not reflash either until after completing the install.
You will need that GPU because there is otherwise no graphics, not even VGA. That is, except for the new R 2200/2400G parts that reportedly turn in better GPU performance than some low end PCI GPUs. With current sky-high GPU prices, I can see some builders going that route just to wait out the GPU shortage, maybe end the drought with Navi.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
I have a pricey Macbook Air sitting here that spontaneously developed bright spots all over the screen, apparently a common issue that Apple tries to blame on customer mishandling, but there is no shortage of evidence that it is just crap quality control. WTF?
Li-ion is not going to "catch fire" in this segment any time soon. Rather, NiMH is the standard because of cost, charging characteristics, and safety. That said, have you tried walking the walk yourself? I do, and I will say, you need to be organized about it. You will end up with piles of batteries sitting around, you need some system for keeping track of which are charged and which are discharged. You need to keep track of charge cycles per battery because they all die eventually. For devices that take multiple batteries (most of them) you want to use batteries of similar age. You need to recharge discharged NiMH cells promptly so they don't sit around in discharged state and lose life faster. Life with disposables is so much simpler, if somewhat more expensive and considerably more damaging to the environment.
Eventually, your rechargeables will die and you will just have to suck it up and toss them out. Of course you will recycle, not sneak them into the general landfill, right? Because you cared enough to make this lifestyle change in the first place.
That's getting up there.
Atlas V thrust (2018): 3,827 kN
Saturn V thrust (1967): 35,100 kN
I have no phone. This is bullshit.
They evidently feel that you, as a member of the PC-using minority, are expendable.
I'm not so sure it's worth upgrading if you already have a Ryzen 7.
True, but it's a no-brainer vs Intel for a new build.
The kernel formerly known as magenta, and I feel more stupid after reading your post, much less replying to it.
while Ogg and Matroska are perfectly functional, they never became the dominant forms used in their sectors
Overlooking your terminology abuse... Ogg Vorbis is the standard for game audio now.
Wow, your post is an example of what makes Slashdot worth reading. I never coded for QNX myself, and appreciate your perspective, it has the ring of truth.
I just took a look at some of the internal apis for Magenta and it is clear that a kernel built around clunky glue like that can't be anything other than a dog. Will there somehow be a flash of genius to make it magically fast? Don't count on it.
The ability to predict the big picture of the future seemed off to me.
Suspend your disbelief, you will enjoy the tale more.
QNX
Leaving aside for a moment the crap headline that implies the opposite of what Zuckerberg actually said, the key point here is the claim that something changed at Facebook to enable it to police itself effectively. A bit late for that now. Do business like a monopoly, get regulated like a monopoly.
Steve Wozniak has a bigger megaphone that you do and is unlikely to be concerned about your indignation about his indignation.
I've been a fan of Woz's ever since I bought my first Apple ][, but, really? Only now are you realising that FB makes its money from your data?
Obviously this has been no secret for a long time, he was likely motivated to take a public position on it by revelations of Facebook's involvement in the election hacking.
My facebook page is under a ficticious name and I was born in 1901 and I work at Initech. Have fun scraping useful data from me.
Roughly the same as me, plus I haven't used even the fake account in years. Can't say my life is enormously worse for missing all those vacation stories and cat videos.
Anybody who has the facebook app on their phone should remove or disable it immediately (don't forget the force kill) unless of course you are ok with Zuck snooping your calls, texts, contacts, and who knows what else.
Says the guy who has never been relevant.
Facebook employed detected.
Modern ARM cpus that are actually supposed to be "competitive" with x86 parts like Atoms
Modern ARM cpus overtook Atom some time ago and are closing in on Intel's Core architecture. These are highly superscalar, unlike Atom, which continues to disappoint. E.g. Cortex A75 can issue 8 micro-ops per cycle. These are now being evaluated realistically as server chips. Not quite there yet in per-core throughput but arguably ahead in core count. Only low end ARMs should be compared to Atom these days. Increasingly, Intel's performance edge will just be the FPU. In time that will go away too, just as it did with AMD.
I think the point is that Linux at heart is a Server OS.... Windows on the other hand, is a Workstation/Desktop OS in its core.
At core, you are woefully uninformed. Windows at heart is Windows NT, a server OS designed by Dave Cutler along the lines of VMS, a server OS.
is this a late April Fools on Bloomberg?
Apple has a lot to gain by avoiding the Intel tax on PC-class processors, there is no theoretical reason why the ARM architecture cannot match Intel/AMD superscalar performance, and the days when customers cared about type of processor are long gone. That said, "as early as 2020" seems wildly optimistic. ARM is closing in on high end processor throughput, but is not quite there yet. For the time being, this rumour smells like a negotiating tactic to hammer down Intel's price point, if it has any substance at all. Maybe the next one will be, Apple is switching to AMD?
The more they keep censoring, the more I don't care about them or their services.
The more they keep censoring, the more they become responsible for their content and can be held legally liable for it. Censorship is a dangerous rabbit hole for Google to scurry into.
(sarc)Trading the Gilded cage in the embassy for a British jail cell? Yea, he's "free" to choose. (/sarc)
That is what happens to people who jump bail.
What confuses me is, the penalty for skipping bail is not particularly extreme. So why not just take his lumps and be done with it?
server side Java and embedded Java is an enormous market
Oracle is doing everything they can to put an end to that.
Modern server side Java is pretty fast, relatively usable, reasonably expressive with vast library and build tooling support.
And is rapidly losing ground to Go, which meets or beats Java in all those categories, is considerably less cumbersome, and does not have a litigation cloud over its head.
Ah, I meant Meltdown of course, not Spectre.