Linux provides good software for servers. Ubuntu even has released Ubuntu-server for ARM.
As far as performance per Watt, that's the key point and it is missing from the article. A pity.
That said, what makes an architecture successful? I think it's the amount of R&D that everyone puts in it. x86 has seen obscene amounts of R&D (as compared with other platforms). ARM is getting a fair share with all the smartphones and tablets nowadays. So in my view, it is much much much better to bet on ARM for the future rather than unearth a dead platform.
You wouldn't expect them to pick ARM for current MS Windows PCs and workstations, now would you?
No, but for Android/ChromeOS/iOS/WebOS ? And Apple has been known for their ability to change platforms, so an ARM version of OSX is far from being impossible.
To put that in context, I was answering someone that claimed that 32GB would be enough for an install of Windows 7. I was merely pointing out that this was most likely not true, while at the same time sharing an anecdote that happened at home.
But rest assured that your most insightful wisdom will be remembered.
I have a media center at home. I installed Vista about 4 years ago. I let it run and update itself automatically. All data was on other drives (music, pics, recorded TV, etc...). C: was a 30GB partition. I was under the assumption that this was more than enough.
One day, toughly 3 years after install, the thing displayed a whole lot of error messages and whatnot. I decided to reboot it. The same error messages were displayed, do I dived in.
C: had filled up entirely. 0 bytes available. So I looked up on the internet and cleaned up what was not necessary - namely all packages and updates ever received through the net were still there and everything that was patched was also backed up. I freed about 18GB in 5 minutes of worthless files.
As a matter of fact, I just checked my HDD while writing this post. To make sure the size was correct. I only have about 400MB of free space on C:. Time to garbage collect, but this time, I think Vista will be part of the garbage and will be collected as well.
At some point you fanboys will have to admit that Android is outselling Iphones.
Does anyone question that? For me it was clear from day one that Android would outsell iPhones, and I am actually surprised it took that long. Which doesn't really say anything over the quality of each platform.
But the sheer strategy of Apple, with its walled garden, closed platform, and "one phone to rule them all" strategy makes them by definition unable to grab a majority of the market. Now if they keep the quality of their product on par (and that's a big IF) they'll probably end up at 15-20% of the market. With most likely 60% of the profits, but that's another discussion.
I would be tempted to say that if you can't speed anymore, then the device has done its job. Supposedly, speed limits are here for the good of the people.
Now, if only those speed limits were defined in a sensible fashion. How many times have I seen 2x 3 lanes highway limited at 50kph ? (I live in France)
I'm sure in the US there are also those places where the speed limits are just... insanely ridiculous.
So, when it was down to getting caught by the occasional police officer hidden in the bushes, the game was fair. If those automated radars become commonplace, then for the game to remain fair, they *must* revisit speed limits in most places. Because if we have to respect those speed limits *everywhere*, driving is going to become a PITA pretty soon. And nobody will benefit from this.
Given that 98% of the world is using MSOffice for their spreadsheets, words processing and presentation needs, being able to interoperate means being able to spit out a document that MSOffice understands. And being able to understand a document in the MSOffice format.
I know there is a theological sense to interopreability that this is completely oblivious to, but in real life, interoperability means being able to share stuff with other people. That means being able to communicate with people running MSOffice.
Even if you're going through one of their proxies, they would need to have their own CA and you'd need to have their certificate in your browser for them to be able to do that (without the https warning).
I don't think what we're talking about in here is being counted as being "location data or usage data". So without further information I will assume your browser sends every letter you type in the address bar or search bar to Google and every URL you visit too.
So to you, claiming out loud a "suspicious" activity of an app when most apps in that category do the same, without actually trying to get any sort of information as to why it is done is an acceptable "journalism behavior"?
I see what you're doing on slashdot, but I'm wondering more and more what I'm doing here.
Actually, if you had proof of that in the general case, then you'd be inline for something like the nobel for economics (yes, not a real nobel, I know). See: Giffen Goods, Veblen Goods.
Do you mean to say that there is somewhere someone doubting that slashing the price by 80% on an existing product does raise the sales number?
Does this count as irrefutable proof that $500 is more than most people are willing to spend for a tablet, but $100-200 is perfectly reasonable? Perhaps not irrefutable, but still, maybe some other tech companies will take notice.
Hmm, not at all. It's proof that the cheaper, the more you sell. But we didn't really need proof of that now, did we?
The smart phone prototype [..] has the gadget world buzzing with ideas about future products, and how exactly this product would enter the market. It is hard to imagine a phone that requires both your hands’ focus to control
Sure, because one can operate an iphone with just one hand.
Hmm, yes, actually one can. And I do it on a pretty regular basis. This was even an argument invoked by Apple for not making a bigger screen iPhone, because the Galaxy S II for example *cannot* be operated with one hand as the screen is too large.
Granted, it's more comfortable with both hands but it does work and is useable with one hand. I'm sure all Android phones with a screen smaller or equal than an iPhone (Nexus one for example) can as well be operated with one hand.
I'd think it'd be pretty hard to accurately aim a laser pointer at a moving aircraft. I'm surprised it's such an issue.
The bigger question is how much of a problem is this really? Out of these "incidents", how many resulted in permanent harm or loss of life? That seems to be gleamed over while throwing numbers in the thousands around...
You think we should wait for a plane to crash before doing anything?
While you are mostly right on this issue, in this case however DJRumpy (the GP) is spouting so much crap and lies about iTunes and iPods in general that it's hard to take him/her seriously.
Anyone that has ever owned an iPod or iPhone knows for sure that everything he said is a blatant lie.
There are gazillion of salesmen all around earth that didn't do as well as Jobs did. There must be something more to him than just that. As a matter of fact, if you'd heard about him more than twice, you'd know what it is.
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Kinect does not look like stagnation.
That's because you have to jump all around and gesticulate while using it. But stop for a minute and you'll stagnate allright.
Oh dear, I think I invoked Poe's law...
Kung Fu Panda? What does Po has to do with Vegans?
Wait...
Linux provides good software for servers. Ubuntu even has released Ubuntu-server for ARM.
As far as performance per Watt, that's the key point and it is missing from the article. A pity.
That said, what makes an architecture successful? I think it's the amount of R&D that everyone puts in it. x86 has seen obscene amounts of R&D (as compared with other platforms). ARM is getting a fair share with all the smartphones and tablets nowadays. So in my view, it is much much much better to bet on ARM for the future rather than unearth a dead platform.
(...) What made them pick this for servers? (...)
You wouldn't expect them to pick ARM for current MS Windows PCs and workstations, now would you?
No, but for Android/ChromeOS/iOS/WebOS ? And Apple has been known for their ability to change platforms, so an ARM version of OSX is far from being impossible.
Hmmm. Thanks for your invaluable insight.
To put that in context, I was answering someone that claimed that 32GB would be enough for an install of Windows 7. I was merely pointing out that this was most likely not true, while at the same time sharing an anecdote that happened at home.
But rest assured that your most insightful wisdom will be remembered.
I have a media center at home. I installed Vista about 4 years ago. I let it run and update itself automatically. All data was on other drives (music, pics, recorded TV, etc...). C: was a 30GB partition. I was under the assumption that this was more than enough.
One day, toughly 3 years after install, the thing displayed a whole lot of error messages and whatnot. I decided to reboot it. The same error messages were displayed, do I dived in.
C: had filled up entirely. 0 bytes available. So I looked up on the internet and cleaned up what was not necessary - namely all packages and updates ever received through the net were still there and everything that was patched was also backed up. I freed about 18GB in 5 minutes of worthless files.
As a matter of fact, I just checked my HDD while writing this post. To make sure the size was correct. I only have about 400MB of free space on C:. Time to garbage collect, but this time, I think Vista will be part of the garbage and will be collected as well.
At some point you fanboys will have to admit that Android is outselling Iphones.
Does anyone question that? For me it was clear from day one that Android would outsell iPhones, and I am actually surprised it took that long. Which doesn't really say anything over the quality of each platform.
But the sheer strategy of Apple, with its walled garden, closed platform, and "one phone to rule them all" strategy makes them by definition unable to grab a majority of the market. Now if they keep the quality of their product on par (and that's a big IF) they'll probably end up at 15-20% of the market. With most likely 60% of the profits, but that's another discussion.
You can't even turn the damn thing on without first seeing the USB cable and itunes icon with an arrow.
Not true anymore.
I would be tempted to say that if you can't speed anymore, then the device has done its job. Supposedly, speed limits are here for the good of the people.
Now, if only those speed limits were defined in a sensible fashion. How many times have I seen 2x 3 lanes highway limited at 50kph ? (I live in France)
I'm sure in the US there are also those places where the speed limits are just... insanely ridiculous.
So, when it was down to getting caught by the occasional police officer hidden in the bushes, the game was fair. If those automated radars become commonplace, then for the game to remain fair, they *must* revisit speed limits in most places. Because if we have to respect those speed limits *everywhere*, driving is going to become a PITA pretty soon. And nobody will benefit from this.
Yeah! Let's get back to the smartphone flame war!!
Yeah! Apple Sucks/rul3z.
Pick yours and let's fight!!!
Well, your not going to get that with MS either!
Given that 98% of the world is using MSOffice for their spreadsheets, words processing and presentation needs, being able to interoperate means being able to spit out a document that MSOffice understands. And being able to understand a document in the MSOffice format.
I know there is a theological sense to interopreability that this is completely oblivious to, but in real life, interoperability means being able to share stuff with other people. That means being able to communicate with people running MSOffice.
LibreOffice is well and good, but if what you need is interoperability, you're just screwed.
Maybe we should hack some random server and leave a file behind saying "Anonymous 2.0". That'll scare the hell out of them ;-)
Even if you're going through one of their proxies, they would need to have their own CA and you'd need to have their certificate in your browser for them to be able to do that (without the https warning).
I don't think what we're talking about in here is being counted as being "location data or usage data". So without further information I will assume your browser sends every letter you type in the address bar or search bar to Google and every URL you visit too.
So to you, claiming out loud a "suspicious" activity of an app when most apps in that category do the same, without actually trying to get any sort of information as to why it is done is an acceptable "journalism behavior"?
I see what you're doing on slashdot, but I'm wondering more and more what I'm doing here.
Actually, if you had proof of that in the general case, then you'd be inline for something like the nobel for economics (yes, not a real nobel, I know). See: Giffen Goods, Veblen Goods.
Do you mean to say that there is somewhere someone doubting that slashing the price by 80% on an existing product does raise the sales number?
I've been using it on my iPhone since day one and it works great.
Remains the Windows 6.5 sucks part, but there's nothing new about it.
Does this count as irrefutable proof that $500 is more than most people are willing to spend for a tablet, but $100-200 is perfectly reasonable? Perhaps not irrefutable, but still, maybe some other tech companies will take notice.
Hmm, not at all. It's proof that the cheaper, the more you sell. But we didn't really need proof of that now, did we?
FTA:
The smart phone prototype [..] has the gadget world buzzing with ideas about future products, and how exactly this product would enter the market. It is hard to imagine a phone that requires both your hands’ focus to control
Sure, because one can operate an iphone with just one hand.
Hmm, yes, actually one can. And I do it on a pretty regular basis. This was even an argument invoked by Apple for not making a bigger screen iPhone, because the Galaxy S II for example *cannot* be operated with one hand as the screen is too large.
Granted, it's more comfortable with both hands but it does work and is useable with one hand. I'm sure all Android phones with a screen smaller or equal than an iPhone (Nexus one for example) can as well be operated with one hand.
I think the number one reason I like Android is the convenience of entering my contacts into google, and they just automagically appear on my phone.
You know Google sync supports the Exchange protocol and is freely available for all phones (all devices actually) out there since Feb 9, 2009?
Android may have a slightly sleaker interface, but adding a contact to my gmail account automatically pushes it to my phone (which is not an android.)
I'd think it'd be pretty hard to accurately aim a laser pointer at a moving aircraft. I'm surprised it's such an issue.
The bigger question is how much of a problem is this really? Out of these "incidents", how many resulted in permanent harm or loss of life? That seems to be gleamed over while throwing numbers in the thousands around...
You think we should wait for a plane to crash before doing anything?
While you are mostly right on this issue, in this case however DJRumpy (the GP) is spouting so much crap and lies about iTunes and iPods in general that it's hard to take him/her seriously.
Anyone that has ever owned an iPod or iPhone knows for sure that everything he said is a blatant lie.
I have a suitcase that is at least 30 years old. It has two knobs on either side of it. You slide them and, surprise surprise, the briefcase unlocks.
We gotta end this "different cause it's on a computer" bullshit.
No, no, it is different because on your suitcase there are TWO knobs. Come on, you knew that!
There are gazillion of salesmen all around earth that didn't do as well as Jobs did. There must be something more to him than just that. As a matter of fact, if you'd heard about him more than twice, you'd know what it is.