But if it's blocked on user input the vast majority of the time, then the backlight runs either way. If I'm typing a Slashdot comment into a text area in Firefox, even a five-year-old Atom N450 can more than keep up.
My main desktop PC is nearly ten years old. It typically sits at 3-5% CPU, with only the case fan even running. For most users, who use their PCs to check email and read Facebook, anything even 5-10 years old will do just fine.
Is SpeedStep on Pentium or Core i good enough to scale down to Atom-class power consumption nowadays?
Actually you need to reverse that quote, for most of its lifetime standard (not mobile) Atom had pretty much nonexistent power management: C-states? Nope (well, C1, which doesn't really count). Idle states? Nope. Demand-based switching? Nope. Speedstep? Nope. It's only the most recent versions that have started to add this. Sure, the base CPU may only consume 10W, but you can't get it much lower than that. When I wanted to build a noiseless, low-power media PC I went through three different Atom-based ones before I finally switched to a mobile Celeron, which gave me the quiet, low-power operation that an Atom (at that time) couldn't. They've finally fixed this in the embedded E3800 series, but then I don't know whether those aren't just rebadged Celerons (64-bit, multi-core, ECC memory, AES instructions, that's not an Atom any more).
You still have to turn pages manually, I had expected they would have automated that (well, perhaps better if you still want to return the book to the library later).
Any digital camera on a tripod can do the same thing.
In theory, yes, in the same way that anyone can build their own home from raw materials. Scanners like this have been around for awhile, and if you can afford the five-figure price tag they do a good job. What these guys have done is lowered the cost from five figures to three. If it works as advertised (in other words as well as a $50,000 equivalent), it's a pretty amazing piece of technology. I'd really like to see some independent, third-party reviews of how well it performs before I go out and buy one though, just something like curvature correction is a major task in image processing when you have to deal with things like line diagrams.
They'd pretty much have to buy an existing product/company if they wanted to bring it to market in any reasonable amount of time, and buying Qualcomm ($80B market cap) as the subject line suggests probably isn't feasible. A better option would be a strategic partnership with one of the smaller, more flexible Asian manufacturers, perhaps Allwinner, which is losing market share to MTK and Rockchip and may be more amenable to having Google get their hooks into them (besides, Rockchip is already tied up with Intel, and MTK is probably big enough that they don't need it).
My sold-in-the-US smart phone has a MTK chipset. My previous sold-in-the-US smart phone had a MTK chipset. Several friends of mine with sold-in-the-US smart phones have MTK chipsets. Other sold-in-the-US brands using MTK chipsets are Acer, Alcatel, Cubot, Gigabyte, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Philips, Oppo, and ZTE (among others). You may have heard of some of those multibillion-dollar companies,.
Thank you for your well-thought-out, insightful comments though.
Why do they need Qualcomm? Just use MediaTek. The story itself is pretty misleading, implying that there's only one solution, and that's QCOM:
If youâ(TM)re using a relatively recent, non-Apple, sold-in-the-US smartphone, odds are good that it contains some kind of Qualcomm SoC.
No, actually, vast numbers of non-Apple phones (why not just come out and say "Android" there) use MTK chipsets (and others, AllWinner, etc).
Another thing they conveniently forget to mention is just how hard it is to design a full mobile phone SoC. It's not like you can get a bunch of enthusiastic coders, lock them in a room for a few months, and a full-featured mobile phone SoC drops out. It's going to take years and years of engineering effort to get something to market, and the first offerings will pretty much suck while they spend time tuning and tweaking to get things going in the real-world environment.
... other Android phone vendors have also responded to these vulnerabilities by informing their customers to keep buying new phones every few months and checking whether they contain updated firmware that may fix some of the problems.
(Dedicated Android user here, but damn, sometimes I envy the iOS blue pill).
WTF is "positivism"? It sounds like a drug advertised during football games.
It's taken from the word "to posit", meaning "put forward for consideration", as in "I posit that no-one will give a toss about an attempt to resuscitate a decades-old 32-bit-only non-SMP OS for modern 64-bit SMP hardware".
They also got the translation wrong in the original article, "Ministerium fuer Staatssicherheit" is translated as Ministry for State Security, not Ministry for Internet Safety and Security as the article calls it.
Numerous friends of mine have been a victim of a similar botnet, the massive WindowsUpdate botnet, that installed Windows 10 on their machines when they were perfectly happy with Windows 7. Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7, but its still a worrying development. I've heard that as of early next year, the botnet will get even more aggressive in pushing out its malware.
And after buggering up HP so bad as to cause this split, that CEO is now running for president.
Who knows, maybe she'll do the same for the US when she's El Presidenta after overseeing a disastrous loss of market share to China PLC. You could make the split roughly north/south, say along the Mason-Dixon line.
When I learnt Boolean logic, it was called Boolean algebra. I think I can still remember most of the rules.
And when you've had too much logic, visit Congress, or any local establishment where politicians congregate. That's been a fully logic-free zone since at least the 19th century.
I'm not aware of the politics in this, are they saying the systemd people are rude, or that they just refuse to make their code compatible?
They indent using four spaces, and also apply this indentation to the braces at the start of a function. Spaces! Four of them! Not tabs, spaces! And they indent their braces!
Removal from Busybox is too good for them, they should be exiled from the planet!
You're very welcome. Unfortunately I discovered it far too late, I finished school being able to do calculus to some extent, but never really understanding it. That's the problem with too many modern texts, they create an ability to follow mathematical rules, but don't create understanding.
How much does Linear Algebra change from year to year?
That's what amazes me about the $180 text the rent-seekers are forcing him to use, it's in what, its fourth edition now? The only reason for new editions is to kill the second-hand book market.
The best book on calculus I've ever encountered, beating any modern prescribed text by a country mile in terms of how it explains things, is Sylvanus Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy". I own a relatively recent copy, dating from the 1940s. The original was published over a century ago. The author was born when there were 30 US states, before the Crimean War. The book is a vast improvement over any of its successors.
I see a personal defense round (9mm), a varmit hunting round (5.56) and a good deer round (7.62x54mmR). Is there something wrong with those?
I've always seen it as 12,7x109 for self-defence (I love my Dushka), 20x110 Hispano for varmits (they may be in deep underground burrows), and maybe 37x155 for the deer (because I like jerked venison). Is that so wrong?
A Mosin Nagant? A bolt action rifle that was designed over a century ago gives you a problem? A rifle that makes most modern hunting rifles look like the space shuttle in comparison?
It's not like you're talking about a Dreyse needle gun here, this is a Mosin Nagant! You don't even need to hit your target with it, you just knock it over with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange. Your sight adjustment goes out to 12 miles. You use it to shoot deer in the neighbouring county and have the carcasses mailed back to you. You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in the Ukraine and it works just fine.
Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in.
I've got a Chinese phone that typically gets mistaken for a larger Galaxy S5, which cost me just over $100. On the off chance that it breaks, I can get a new one, and still have enough left over to buy several more of them, for the cost of a single S5/S6. OK, the one downside is that it'll never get the OS updated, but then most other Android phones don't either, and for a $100 phone you can just get a newer model with a current OS release if you really need it.
I just put Stephanie Myers dustcovers on my books, then people can't return them to me fast enough. In fact, most people don't even want to borrow them any more.
That was my response too, if you want to see how not to do it, look at the US. For a country like China (socialist, centrally-controlled), look at countries in Scandinavia for your model on successful healthcare.
Here we have 100 bombers delivered under contract for the cost of developing the F-35 with no aircraft delivered. I wonder if it will actually happen tho...
What'll actually happen is that after 20 years, a cost equivalent to the F-35 program, and no bombers delivered, everyone'll still be flying BUFFs, just as they are today.
It's interesting to note that in every war where serious bombing needs to be done (which, admittedly, in the US case seems to be "all of them"), they do a few token missions with B1s and B2s to justify their existence, but all the real work is done by B52s. For a fraction of the cost of any new bomber program they could finally replace the creaky 1950s-vintage TF33's with, heck, any generic modern high-bypass turbofan, and be done with it.
Upgrading the workhorse B52 fleet just isn't as sexy as new high-tech (pipedream) toys though...
And Oracle, of all companies, is the one to be providing this "security" solution. Given their track record, I wouldn't trust Oracle to secure an honesty box...
Slashdot Mirror
But if it's blocked on user input the vast majority of the time, then the backlight runs either way. If I'm typing a Slashdot comment into a text area in Firefox, even a five-year-old Atom N450 can more than keep up.
My main desktop PC is nearly ten years old. It typically sits at 3-5% CPU, with only the case fan even running. For most users, who use their PCs to check email and read Facebook, anything even 5-10 years old will do just fine.
Is SpeedStep on Pentium or Core i good enough to scale down to Atom-class power consumption nowadays?
Actually you need to reverse that quote, for most of its lifetime standard (not mobile) Atom had pretty much nonexistent power management: C-states? Nope (well, C1, which doesn't really count). Idle states? Nope. Demand-based switching? Nope. Speedstep? Nope. It's only the most recent versions that have started to add this. Sure, the base CPU may only consume 10W, but you can't get it much lower than that. When I wanted to build a noiseless, low-power media PC I went through three different Atom-based ones before I finally switched to a mobile Celeron, which gave me the quiet, low-power operation that an Atom (at that time) couldn't. They've finally fixed this in the embedded E3800 series, but then I don't know whether those aren't just rebadged Celerons (64-bit, multi-core, ECC memory, AES instructions, that's not an Atom any more).
You still have to turn pages manually, I had expected they would have automated that (well, perhaps better if you still want to return the book to the library later).
Any digital camera on a tripod can do the same thing.
In theory, yes, in the same way that anyone can build their own home from raw materials. Scanners like this have been around for awhile, and if you can afford the five-figure price tag they do a good job. What these guys have done is lowered the cost from five figures to three. If it works as advertised (in other words as well as a $50,000 equivalent), it's a pretty amazing piece of technology. I'd really like to see some independent, third-party reviews of how well it performs before I go out and buy one though, just something like curvature correction is a major task in image processing when you have to deal with things like line diagrams.
I am posting as AC because I am an 'illegal' immigrant and I want to get pregnant.
Send photos, vital stats, and recent health certificate, some of us may be able to help you out there...
They'd pretty much have to buy an existing product/company if they wanted to bring it to market in any reasonable amount of time, and buying Qualcomm ($80B market cap) as the subject line suggests probably isn't feasible. A better option would be a strategic partnership with one of the smaller, more flexible Asian manufacturers, perhaps Allwinner, which is losing market share to MTK and Rockchip and may be more amenable to having Google get their hooks into them (besides, Rockchip is already tied up with Intel, and MTK is probably big enough that they don't need it).
My sold-in-the-US smart phone has a MTK chipset. My previous sold-in-the-US smart phone had a MTK chipset. Several friends of mine with sold-in-the-US smart phones have MTK chipsets. Other sold-in-the-US brands using MTK chipsets are Acer, Alcatel, Cubot, Gigabyte, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Philips, Oppo, and ZTE (among others). You may have heard of some of those multibillion-dollar companies, .
Thank you for your well-thought-out, insightful comments though.
Why do they need Qualcomm? Just use MediaTek. The story itself is pretty misleading, implying that there's only one solution, and that's QCOM:
If youâ(TM)re using a relatively recent, non-Apple, sold-in-the-US smartphone, odds are good that it contains some kind of Qualcomm SoC.
No, actually, vast numbers of non-Apple phones (why not just come out and say "Android" there) use MTK chipsets (and others, AllWinner, etc).
Another thing they conveniently forget to mention is just how hard it is to design a full mobile phone SoC. It's not like you can get a bunch of enthusiastic coders, lock them in a room for a few months, and a full-featured mobile phone SoC drops out. It's going to take years and years of engineering effort to get something to market, and the first offerings will pretty much suck while they spend time tuning and tweaking to get things going in the real-world environment.
From TFS
They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 and the SMP kernel.
That's the /. version of the summary. The original says:
Work on correcting SMP support, among other features, is also planned.
That sounds an awful lot like "don't hold your breath".
... other Android phone vendors have also responded to these vulnerabilities by informing their customers to keep buying new phones every few months and checking whether they contain updated firmware that may fix some of the problems.
(Dedicated Android user here, but damn, sometimes I envy the iOS blue pill).
WTF is "positivism"? It sounds like a drug advertised during football games.
It's taken from the word "to posit", meaning "put forward for consideration", as in "I posit that no-one will give a toss about an attempt to resuscitate a decades-old 32-bit-only non-SMP OS for modern 64-bit SMP hardware".
They also got the translation wrong in the original article, "Ministerium fuer Staatssicherheit" is translated as Ministry for State Security, not Ministry for Internet Safety and Security as the article calls it.
Numerous friends of mine have been a victim of a similar botnet, the massive WindowsUpdate botnet, that installed Windows 10 on their machines when they were perfectly happy with Windows 7. Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7, but its still a worrying development. I've heard that as of early next year, the botnet will get even more aggressive in pushing out its malware.
And after buggering up HP so bad as to cause this split, that CEO is now running for president.
Who knows, maybe she'll do the same for the US when she's El Presidenta after overseeing a disastrous loss of market share to China PLC. You could make the split roughly north/south, say along the Mason-Dixon line.
When I learnt Boolean logic, it was called Boolean algebra. I think I can still remember most of the rules.
And when you've had too much logic, visit Congress, or any local establishment where politicians congregate. That's been a fully logic-free zone since at least the 19th century.
I'm not aware of the politics in this, are they saying the systemd people are rude, or that they just refuse to make their code compatible?
They indent using four spaces, and also apply this indentation to the braces at the start of a function. Spaces! Four of them! Not tabs, spaces! And they indent their braces!
Removal from Busybox is too good for them, they should be exiled from the planet!
wtf is atom?
A somewhat rudimentary slashvertised text editor that reports what you're doing back to Google.
You're very welcome. Unfortunately I discovered it far too late, I finished school being able to do calculus to some extent, but never really understanding it. That's the problem with too many modern texts, they create an ability to follow mathematical rules, but don't create understanding.
How much does Linear Algebra change from year to year?
That's what amazes me about the $180 text the rent-seekers are forcing him to use, it's in what, its fourth edition now? The only reason for new editions is to kill the second-hand book market.
The best book on calculus I've ever encountered, beating any modern prescribed text by a country mile in terms of how it explains things, is Sylvanus Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy". I own a relatively recent copy, dating from the 1940s. The original was published over a century ago. The author was born when there were 30 US states, before the Crimean War. The book is a vast improvement over any of its successors.
I see a personal defense round (9mm), a varmit hunting round (5.56) and a good deer round (7.62x54mmR). Is there something wrong with those?
I've always seen it as 12,7x109 for self-defence (I love my Dushka), 20x110 Hispano for varmits (they may be in deep underground burrows), and maybe 37x155 for the deer (because I like jerked venison). Is that so wrong?
Great! On which place was security updates? That is my most sought out feature!
Security updates? You want an update, you buy a new phone, that's how the Android ecosystem works.
(I realise that Motorola are better, in the sense of "less awful", than most, but I'm still waiting for my Moto G upgrade via my carrier).
A Mosin Nagant? A bolt action rifle that was designed over a century ago gives you a problem? A rifle that makes most modern hunting rifles look like the space shuttle in comparison?
It's not like you're talking about a Dreyse needle gun here, this is a Mosin Nagant! You don't even need to hit your target with it, you just knock it over with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange. Your sight adjustment goes out to 12 miles. You use it to shoot deer in the neighbouring county and have the carcasses mailed back to you. You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in the Ukraine and it works just fine.
Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in.
(Some of that courtesy Ezra Coli).
I've got a Chinese phone that typically gets mistaken for a larger Galaxy S5, which cost me just over $100. On the off chance that it breaks, I can get a new one, and still have enough left over to buy several more of them, for the cost of a single S5/S6. OK, the one downside is that it'll never get the OS updated, but then most other Android phones don't either, and for a $100 phone you can just get a newer model with a current OS release if you really need it.
I just put Stephanie Myers dustcovers on my books, then people can't return them to me fast enough. In fact, most people don't even want to borrow them any more.
That was my response too, if you want to see how not to do it, look at the US. For a country like China (socialist, centrally-controlled), look at countries in Scandinavia for your model on successful healthcare.
Here we have 100 bombers delivered under contract for the cost of developing the F-35 with no aircraft delivered. I wonder if it will actually happen tho...
What'll actually happen is that after 20 years, a cost equivalent to the F-35 program, and no bombers delivered, everyone'll still be flying BUFFs, just as they are today.
It's interesting to note that in every war where serious bombing needs to be done (which, admittedly, in the US case seems to be "all of them"), they do a few token missions with B1s and B2s to justify their existence, but all the real work is done by B52s. For a fraction of the cost of any new bomber program they could finally replace the creaky 1950s-vintage TF33's with, heck, any generic modern high-bypass turbofan, and be done with it.
Upgrading the workhorse B52 fleet just isn't as sexy as new high-tech (pipedream) toys though...
And Oracle, of all companies, is the one to be providing this "security" solution. Given their track record, I wouldn't trust Oracle to secure an honesty box...