The client computer market (think desktop, Laptop, workstation, gamers, ultrabook, etc) is ripe for consolidation. Only Dell, HP Ink and apple, have decent margings there (tow of them because economies of scale, the other because is able to charge a premium for the product, this written on a Macbook Air).
A consolidatation of players is long overdue. In japan, is already happened. NEC sold its client computer arm to Lenovo. Fujitsu separated their PC arm (which itself was the merger of fujitsus and Siemes client computing arm), So did toshiba. Sony divested the Vaio Group (low sales and earnings) and that was acquired by a private equity group which in turn tried to merge the three of them to no avail. Fujistu tired of waiting and flogged the whole thing to Lenovo...
Asus shoud follow suit and merge, perhaps with arch-nemesis Acer. God knows both companies need the economies of scale to make this work.
Failing that, any other of the top 7 companies will do. in the Client PC game, economies of scale are one of the most important factors, and short of Dell, HP and Lenovo, no one has enough economies of scale to do good in that game. Either merge on your own volition, or be absorved after a Chapter 7 , chapter 11 or administration proceedings
Huawei has a "rotating CEO" structure. The current CEO is locked in Cananda, with a pending extradition request to the USoA.
As Desler pointed out, RIM had that sort of structure for decades, and is not uncommon in the CEO/COO structure, ho have them work as CO-CEOs for all intent and purposes.
How that works out deoends on the company culture and the people they choose as CO-CEOs, not as the CO-CEO structure per se.
... from now we will be reading an article saying that "The supremacy of *Korean* cars has been 40 years in the making", and in 30 to 40 years from now, we will be reading an article titled "The supremacy of Chinese cars has been 40 years in the making"
that is the cycle of such things. Happened with cars, consumer electronics, tvs and monitors, computer components, appliances, the works.
I was born in late 1972, and I do remember a lot of things...
Remember the the 70's when japan was the place were cheapo-low-quality plastic toys and shoody appliances were made? everyone wanted a Zenith or GE, or RCA TV. No stinking toshibas, or Hitachis! And cars, everyone wanted a chevy or a ford (or a european). Japanese cars were a synonym of cheapo-low quality.
Remember the 80s when having a "Samtron" monitor in your computer was a sign of low quality? Rember in the 80's, when no one in their right mind would buy a Hyundai car? Nope, everyone wanted a toyota then, and a trinitron TV, or a NEC monitor. Samsung and Lucky Goldstar TVs were for loosers!
Remember the '90s and early 00's, when no one in their right mind would buy a Chery or a Geely car? Or a Haier TV or appliance? What now, GE appliances is a wholy owned subsidiary of Haier, which is the bigest Appliance manufacturer worldwide, while Geely owns both volvo and Lotus, and chery is assembling jaguars and land rovers for the chinese market.
So, countries upend other countries. do not dismiss them on the base of "percieived" quality (it will improve) or "perceived lack of innovation" (for they will innovate). Just take solace in that, just like in Japan, the chinese juggernaut will stop, and be upended by someone else...
Your question has two parts. For the first part, if you want to go the Model M route, *do not* go for ebay or craigslist... I second the motion of LuckyTroll, go for Unicom. Those keyboards are USB, are built with good quality, and kinda-sorta of original tooling (see below). Also, they make model M keyboards with mac, linux and other configurations.
Pre-built configurations (including english-us mac) are available, but if unsure, you can use their keyboard configuration tool. Here: https://www.pckeyboard.com/pag...
Please remember, unicom uses the machines and tooling from LATTER IBM/Lexmark Model M keyboards. There are some (small) differences between those and the early (and more well regarded) Model M's...
As for me, I have 2 model M (1992) keyboards, and used them extensively from 2001 (when pay grade allowed purchase) until 2008. Even flew one to spain during my masters). But when I moved to mac, I had to switch, due to the lack of Command-Key equivalent in the model M. I moved to a USB keyboard salvaged from a PA-RISC Workstation, Is not mechanical, but is not bad either, and the Key between CTRL and Alt has a cool pictogram, neither the windows logo, nor the flower, but something different. And comming from a PA-RISC workstation (from a Nokia NMS-2000, google that), is has some sort of nerd-street-creed.
But, if I had to buy a keyboard nowadays, I would not buy from unicom out of nostalgia. Rather, I would buy something modern with Cherry MX switches and extra (like more than 104) keys - and customizable macro keys for play/work....
Those bay are guys... Why that compulsion to re-invent the Wheel? We'll never know.
SCTP is available now, is well understood, HTTP(S) already runs on it. Is more resilient than TCP, does not have Head-of-Line issues... What's not to like?
Oh, you can not write new papers on a protocol that already exists? Ah, and was Not-Invented-Here? Ok then...
Yes, kids these days have tablets and all that, but the tablet is distracting, the kid could be gaming instead of watching the catalog and drooling over the toys, which is the whole point.
So, that's why the catalog is for toys, and toys alone, not some sort of "best of amazon" catalog.
For my english speaking friends, this is a double pun in spanish. His last name _soltero_, means non-married (single), while _casado_ means married, and _cansado_ means tired. The sound of casado and cansado in spanish is *very* similar.
The northbridge is BACK BABY!!!!!!! Party like it is the early 00's all over again!!!!!!
On a more serious note:
I think that AMD's Integrated northbridge is so big not only because is manufactured in 14nm, but also because it houses not only IO and Memory controller, but also a combination of L3 Cache and Integrated graphics.
I foresee that this northbridge will have two families. One with all L3 and no graphics for Epyc and Threadripper, and one with less L3 and integrated graphics for Ryzen and the APUs. Each family of northbridges will have different sizes of L3, speeds of graphics, number of graphics cores and TDPs depending on target market.
I'll ask my contact if the northbridge will be manufactured by Glofo, Samsung or TSMC.
And believe me I am still alive I'm doing science and I'm still alive I feel fantastic and I'm still alive While you're dying I'll be still alive And when you're dead I will be still alive Still alive, still alive
Actually, it was October of 2017 when the 2200U, 2500U, and 2700U were released. The Pro versions are the ones that came out in May.
Correct! Thanks for the correction. I was thinking of APUs with Vega parts for laptops, and got all confused with old APUs for laptops, and new APUs for low end desktops. That's what happens when one quotes from memory. Your dates are the correct ones.
But the rationale still stands. It takes 18 months to design a cellphone. Suposing that a laptop or all-in-one is easier because there is more space, and no RF cell modem, it would take something like a year to desing, produce and put in the stores a laptop or all-in-one (if you reused screen, shell and keyboard from an already existing model).
So, it will take a while before there are computers with AMD inside competing with intel in most niches of the market...
As for servers, those are also slow to transition from intel to AMD, but that is a very different affaire...
Opteron sold pretty well for a long time, friendo.
Yes, Opteron sold pretty well for a long time. It was in the early 00's. I was there.
It took AMD from the release of the K8 with AMD64 in April 2003 until april 2006 to achieve a quite high market share in servers (22%). So, a full 3 years from introduction to peak.
Yes, intel did some less-than-legal moves to prevent AMD from prospering that they (hopefully) can not do now due to higher scrutiny... But at that time, replacement cycles were faster both on user computers and servers, and in servers, consolidation of the high end market (PA-RISC, Alpha, MIPS, Power and Sparc were still relevant then) was at play, allowing the oportunities to forklift upgrades to AMD, and the P4 was CRAP.
But this is 2018...
Epyc debuted in May 2017. If the past predicts the future, we still need to wait a while before AMD becomes important in servers...
Nowadays, replacement cycles are longer, hypervisors do not support their full features on AMD processors (yet), and the high end market is pretty much X86 now, except for some holdouts like Power and Sparec which are much smaller than what they were in the 00's (i.e., no forklift upgrades).
So, some goods for AMD (EPYC being an EXCELENT product, intel not being able to play nasty tricks, intel security woes, and intel production problems), and some bads for AMD (longer replacement cycles, no rip and replace upgrades, Intel product is not crap, ecosystem not yet fully ready for AMD, server people a very conservative bunch).
And do not get me wrong, I want AMD and VIA (nowadays Zhaoxin) to grow, and move the X86/AMD64 market from a near-monopoly to a 3-way oligopoly, but this will take time and effort. It will not happen overnight.
And extrapolating what hapens in the DIY-desktop market to the whole market, or living of past glories, will only set people up for disapointment....
Laptops and all All in Ones are the best selling computers nowadays. They are also the fastest growing (or the slowest shrinking) segments of end user iX86-AMD64 computing. For a Tower, Desktop or NUC, things are so standard, that just geting a premade mobo from the ussual suspects and slapping in in a case is enough. Even the OEMs that design their own computers, like HP or lenovo, are known to use mobos from third parties, like MSI in a pinch, if needed be. So, for Towers/Desktops/NUCs, a switch to AMD is quite easy. And it seems that most of the slashdot audience is stuck in that mindset, and on top of that, in a Build-your-own-computer type of mentality, which is still more uncommon nowadays.
For the bulk of the market, moving to AMD is not so easy:
For laptops and all in ones, things are not so easy, there are no standard parts. The motherboards need to be designed from scratch, for every device family (that is to say, a set of models that have the same shell mobo and cooling, and only differ in certain features like clock speed and fetures).
Being that AMD laptop type APUs (the most ussual type of processor used in Laptops and All in Ones) were anounced just in May this year, is logical that there has not been enough time to design a plethora of models that can be comparable to the plethora of intel based alternatives available in every niche of those markets. Until that is the case, companies will need intel parts, and will pay a premium for the priviledge. Not huge premiums, mind you, but a premium nonetheless...
So, the intel shortages in the entry level of the market will be in the "Hurt Me Plenty" mode for a long while (the Big OEMs are calculating 6 months at least)
As for servers, those are also slow to transition from intel to AMD, but that is a very different affaire...
Yes, of course I am aware that they fired most of the QA department.
What I wanted to emphasize was that:
If on top of firing most (if not all) of the QA department, they do not follow their own procedures and jump over their own defined user testing rings (internal own dog food ring, ultra fast insider user ring, normal insider user ring, slow insider user ring, general release, pro with defered updates, enterprise), then things like this are bound to keep happening....
The process was supposed to be to hunt for bugs (the data munching bug was reported by insiders).
Even if they missed those reports, as well as the intel audio bug,they would have had a second opportunity to catch it, because the process was to release to "Windows Insider Release Preview" ring before general availability.
But they decided to NOT follow procedure and just skip that...... and here we are.
If you have a process follow it. If you feel the need to change the process, announce the change, change it, and then follow the changed process. Do not just arbitrarily d things in a diufferent way "just because"...
In Vienna, they have a small screen on the back of each seat, and you chose the language of the subtitles (spanish in my case).
But reading the subtitles in the back in the seat in front of you means less time looking at the stage.
In other places, if they have just one set of subtitles, is in a screen at the very top of the stage, again, reading subtitless, less time looking at the actros and decors.
With this, one can have the cake and eat it too...
But with only one processor, put in there just one Graphics card.
when the time to upgrade comes, instead of buying new processor+memory+mobo+graphics card, add a second processor, a second graphics card with NVLink or xFire, or more memory as needed, depending on bottle-neck.
More money upfront, but less money and hassle on the long run, and better support, to boot.
So, what's Microsoft's endgame here? A custom branded version of Android with Microsoft extensions? I'm not really seeing a lot of profit in that.
the idea is not to get a custom branded version of android.
Is convincing all those guys making AOSP devices (and maybe some end users with Google Play android as well), to preinstall/use microsoft launcher and services instead of the hodgepodge set of services and delerict APIs they are using now (with very variable results).
If you are in an emerging market (full disclosure, I am in Venezuela), compare side by side any AOSP device with a Google one of similar price and see.
If you live in a developed market (for example USoA or any other of the five eyes), it may be harder to find an ASOP phone, so compare an Android tablet with an Amazon fire tablet (which is AOSP, by the way) of similar price and see...
If they can get half of that 27% of the AOSP smartphone market using their services (like bing, the microsoft-AOL ad network, outlook.com and onedrive, for example) that gives them a significantly better position than what they were able to reach with their own OS.
Maybe not a lot of profit (not losses either), but a significant strategic gain.
- Other: 1% % do not add up due to rounding errors
So, phase 1, embrace Google's Android, while mantaining compatibility with AOSP.
Phase 2: Extend AOSP, giving it functional equivalents to the functions Google keeps behind the Google Play Services, that have either no equivalents in AOSP, or Delerict APIs
Phase 3: I hope they do not extinguish Google's Android, but at least lessen Alphabet's grip on the mobile market. This monoculture is as bad (or worse) for us than the Windows desktop and browser monopoly was in the 90's and 00's.
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I do not agree with all that Tomi wites, and I do not like his writting style, but I give it to him, he has the best publicly available numbers, and I thank him for give them away for free.
We did not get this info when WiFi was called 802.11letter(letter) , and we will not get this info now thast is called WiFi#.
This only makes it easier to discern that 802.11ac is better than 802.11n, not to discern if, say, netgear WiFi5 model "whatevur" V2 is better than Linksys WiFi5 model "whatevurelse" v2 or netgear WiF5 model "whatevur" V4
Of course consumer WiFi is crap, if you want pro features (like AP roaming) get pro or semipro gear. This is like complaining that when you connect a Harddrive to your consumer AP it does not give you an iSCSI share. If you want iSCSI, you buy a semipro box like a Synology or Qnap (and not precisely the ARM based ones). Same with APs, if you want advanced features, go ubiqui, or some other semipro.
The consumer APs are tought for people with just one AP in the middle of the house. All the rest, is a gamble.
WiFi 802.11a , b and g DO NOT get a version number. WiFi 1 , 2 and 3 DO NOT EXIST. TFS does not state this. WiFi 802.11n will be retconed as WiFi 4.
WiFi 802.11ac will be retconed as WiFi 5 as TFS clearly states, and WiFi 802.11ax will be WiFi 6. (due early next year).
This will help with compatibility issues (WiFi a is not compatible with b or-g (pun intended) ). Yes compatibility between n and a is optional, not mandatory, but I guess this guys had to start somewhere, and pretty much all 802.11n routers on sale nowadays are dualband...
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The client computer market (think desktop, Laptop, workstation, gamers, ultrabook, etc) is ripe for consolidation. Only Dell, HP Ink and apple, have decent margings there (tow of them because economies of scale, the other because is able to charge a premium for the product, this written on a Macbook Air).
A consolidatation of players is long overdue. In japan, is already happened. NEC sold its client computer arm to Lenovo. Fujitsu separated their PC arm (which itself was the merger of fujitsus and Siemes client computing arm), So did toshiba. Sony divested the Vaio Group (low sales and earnings) and that was acquired by a private equity group which in turn tried to merge the three of them to no avail. Fujistu tired of waiting and flogged the whole thing to Lenovo...
Asus shoud follow suit and merge, perhaps with arch-nemesis Acer. God knows both companies need the economies of scale to make this work.
Failing that, any other of the top 7 companies will do. in the Client PC game, economies of scale are one of the most important factors, and short of Dell, HP and Lenovo, no one has enough economies of scale to do good in that game. Either merge on your own volition, or be absorved after a Chapter 7 , chapter 11 or administration proceedings
Just my two cents.
Huawei has a "rotating CEO" structure. The current CEO is locked in Cananda, with a pending extradition request to the USoA.
As Desler pointed out, RIM had that sort of structure for decades, and is not uncommon in the CEO/COO structure, ho have them work as CO-CEOs for all intent and purposes.
How that works out deoends on the company culture and the people they choose as CO-CEOs, not as the CO-CEO structure per se.
... from now we will be reading an article saying that "The supremacy of *Korean* cars has been 40 years in the making", and in 30 to 40 years from now, we will be reading an article titled "The supremacy of Chinese cars has been 40 years in the making"
that is the cycle of such things. Happened with cars, consumer electronics, tvs and monitors, computer components, appliances, the works.
I was born in late 1972, and I do remember a lot of things...
Remember the the 70's when japan was the place were cheapo-low-quality plastic toys and shoody appliances were made? everyone wanted a Zenith or GE, or RCA TV. No stinking toshibas, or Hitachis! And cars, everyone wanted a chevy or a ford (or a european). Japanese cars were a synonym of cheapo-low quality.
Remember the 80s when having a "Samtron" monitor in your computer was a sign of low quality? Rember in the 80's, when no one in their right mind would buy a Hyundai car? Nope, everyone wanted a toyota then, and a trinitron TV, or a NEC monitor. Samsung and Lucky Goldstar TVs were for loosers!
Remember the '90s and early 00's, when no one in their right mind would buy a Chery or a Geely car? Or a Haier TV or appliance? What now, GE appliances is a wholy owned subsidiary of Haier, which is the bigest Appliance manufacturer worldwide, while Geely owns both volvo and Lotus, and chery is assembling jaguars and land rovers for the chinese market.
So, countries upend other countries. do not dismiss them on the base of "percieived" quality (it will improve) or "perceived lack of innovation" (for they will innovate). Just take solace in that, just like in Japan, the chinese juggernaut will stop, and be upended by someone else...
Thanks anon, I'll think about it.
All my macs thus far have been laptops (docked, most of the time), and the layout change can be a hassle.
But the next mac is going to be a mini, so, is an option... Maybe I'll get the main model M back from the storage.
Your question has two parts. For the first part, if you want to go the Model M route, *do not* go for ebay or craigslist... I second the motion of LuckyTroll, go for Unicom. Those keyboards are USB, are built with good quality, and kinda-sorta of original tooling (see below). Also, they make model M keyboards with mac, linux and other configurations.
Pre-built configurations (including english-us mac) are available, but if unsure, you can use their keyboard configuration tool. Here:
https://www.pckeyboard.com/pag...
Please remember, unicom uses the machines and tooling from LATTER IBM/Lexmark Model M keyboards. There are some (small) differences between those and the early (and more well regarded) Model M's...
As for me, I have 2 model M (1992) keyboards, and used them extensively from 2001 (when pay grade allowed purchase) until 2008. Even flew one to spain during my masters). But when I moved to mac, I had to switch, due to the lack of Command-Key equivalent in the model M. I moved to a USB keyboard salvaged from a PA-RISC Workstation, Is not mechanical, but is not bad either, and the Key between CTRL and Alt has a cool pictogram, neither the windows logo, nor the flower, but something different. And comming from a PA-RISC workstation (from a Nokia NMS-2000, google that), is has some sort of nerd-street-creed.
But, if I had to buy a keyboard nowadays, I would not buy from unicom out of nostalgia. Rather, I would buy something modern with Cherry MX switches and extra (like more than 104) keys - and customizable macro keys for play/work....
Oh wait, if they did that, that would mean al LOT LESS WORK for the Project Zero guys... so no! Performance it is!
Those bay are guys... Why that compulsion to re-invent the Wheel? We'll never know.
SCTP is available now, is well understood, HTTP(S) already runs on it. Is more resilient than TCP, does not have Head-of-Line issues... What's not to like?
Oh, you can not write new papers on a protocol that already exists? Ah, and was Not-Invented-Here? Ok then...
What is this barcode abomination I Hear about? Cues is the way to go for the full retro feeling.
That would have been a wonderfull excuse to get my 5 :cuecats out of storage and party like it is 2000 all over again!
Yes, kids these days have tablets and all that, but the tablet is distracting, the kid could be gaming instead of watching the catalog and drooling over the toys, which is the whole point.
So, that's why the catalog is for toys, and toys alone, not some sort of "best of amazon" catalog.
For my english speaking friends, this is a double pun in spanish. His last name _soltero_, means non-married (single), while _casado_ means married, and _cansado_ means tired. The sound of casado and cansado in spanish is *very* similar.
So he either got married or got tired.
Anyhow, sorry for the stoopid joke.
Would perform as swift.
Paraphrazing the Bard*
The northbridge is BACK BABY!!!!!!!
Party like it is the early 00's all over again!!!!!!
On a more serious note:
I think that AMD's Integrated northbridge is so big not only because is manufactured in 14nm, but also because it houses not only IO and Memory controller, but also a combination of L3 Cache and Integrated graphics.
I foresee that this northbridge will have two families. One with all L3 and no graphics for Epyc and Threadripper, and one with less L3 and integrated graphics for Ryzen and the APUs. Each family of northbridges will have different sizes of L3, speeds of graphics, number of graphics cores and TDPs depending on target market.
I'll ask my contact if the northbridge will be manufactured by Glofo, Samsung or TSMC.
* "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Or switch to suze
And believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying I'll be still alive
And when you're dead I will be still alive
Still alive, still alive
Actually, it was October of 2017 when the 2200U, 2500U, and 2700U were released. The Pro versions are the ones that came out in May.
Correct! Thanks for the correction. I was thinking of APUs with Vega parts for laptops, and got all confused with old APUs for laptops, and new APUs for low end desktops. That's what happens when one quotes from memory. Your dates are the correct ones.
But the rationale still stands. It takes 18 months to design a cellphone. Suposing that a laptop or all-in-one is easier because there is more space, and no RF cell modem, it would take something like a year to desing, produce and put in the stores a laptop or all-in-one (if you reused screen, shell and keyboard from an already existing model).
So, it will take a while before there are computers with AMD inside competing with intel in most niches of the market...
As for servers, those are also slow to transition from intel to AMD, but that is a very different affaire...
Opteron sold pretty well for a long time, friendo.
Yes, Opteron sold pretty well for a long time. It was in the early 00's. I was there.
It took AMD from the release of the K8 with AMD64 in April 2003 until april 2006 to achieve a quite high market share in servers (22%). So, a full 3 years from introduction to peak.
Yes, intel did some less-than-legal moves to prevent AMD from prospering that they (hopefully) can not do now due to higher scrutiny... But at that time, replacement cycles were faster both on user computers and servers, and in servers, consolidation of the high end market (PA-RISC, Alpha, MIPS, Power and Sparc were still relevant then) was at play, allowing the oportunities to forklift upgrades to AMD, and the P4 was CRAP.
But this is 2018...
Epyc debuted in May 2017. If the past predicts the future, we still need to wait a while before AMD becomes important in servers...
Nowadays, replacement cycles are longer, hypervisors do not support their full features on AMD processors (yet), and the high end market is pretty much X86 now, except for some holdouts like Power and Sparec which are much smaller than what they were in the 00's (i.e., no forklift upgrades).
So, some goods for AMD (EPYC being an EXCELENT product, intel not being able to play nasty tricks, intel security woes, and intel production problems), and some bads for AMD (longer replacement cycles, no rip and replace upgrades, Intel product is not crap, ecosystem not yet fully ready for AMD, server people a very conservative bunch).
And do not get me wrong, I want AMD and VIA (nowadays Zhaoxin) to grow, and move the X86/AMD64 market from a near-monopoly to a 3-way oligopoly, but this will take time and effort. It will not happen overnight.
And extrapolating what hapens in the DIY-desktop market to the whole market, or living of past glories, will only set people up for disapointment....
Laptops and all All in Ones are the best selling computers nowadays. They are also the fastest growing (or the slowest shrinking) segments of end user iX86-AMD64 computing. For a Tower, Desktop or NUC, things are so standard, that just geting a premade mobo from the ussual suspects and slapping in in a case is enough. Even the OEMs that design their own computers, like HP or lenovo, are known to use mobos from third parties, like MSI in a pinch, if needed be. So, for Towers/Desktops/NUCs, a switch to AMD is quite easy. And it seems that most of the slashdot audience is stuck in that mindset, and on top of that, in a Build-your-own-computer type of mentality, which is still more uncommon nowadays.
For the bulk of the market, moving to AMD is not so easy:
For laptops and all in ones, things are not so easy, there are no standard parts. The motherboards need to be designed from scratch, for every device family (that is to say, a set of models that have the same shell mobo and cooling, and only differ in certain features like clock speed and fetures).
Being that AMD laptop type APUs (the most ussual type of processor used in Laptops and All in Ones) were anounced just in May this year, is logical that there has not been enough time to design a plethora of models that can be comparable to the plethora of intel based alternatives available in every niche of those markets. Until that is the case, companies will need intel parts, and will pay a premium for the priviledge. Not huge premiums, mind you, but a premium nonetheless...
So, the intel shortages in the entry level of the market will be in the "Hurt Me Plenty" mode for a long while (the Big OEMs are calculating 6 months at least)
As for servers, those are also slow to transition from intel to AMD, but that is a very different affaire...
Yes, of course I am aware that they fired most of the QA department.
What I wanted to emphasize was that:
If on top of firing most (if not all) of the QA department, they do not follow their own procedures and jump over their own defined user testing rings (internal own dog food ring, ultra fast insider user ring, normal insider user ring, slow insider user ring, general release, pro with defered updates, enterprise), then things like this are bound to keep happening....
I guess that explains my RealDoll delivery this afternoon, but GoogleMind seriously udder-estimated my obsession with big breasts.
There, fixed that for you.
If you have a process, follow the process.
The process was supposed to be to hunt for bugs (the data munching bug was reported by insiders).
Even if they missed those reports, as well as the intel audio bug,they would have had a second opportunity to catch it, because the process was to release to "Windows Insider Release Preview" ring before general availability.
But they decided to NOT follow procedure and just skip that... ... and here we are.
If you have a process follow it. If you feel the need to change the process, announce the change, change it, and then follow the changed process. Do not just arbitrarily d things in a diufferent way "just because"...
Is ISO-9000 101 for dummies Satya...
Especialy in international teaters.
In Vienna, they have a small screen on the back of each seat, and you chose the language of the subtitles (spanish in my case).
But reading the subtitles in the back in the seat in front of you means less time looking at the stage.
In other places, if they have just one set of subtitles, is in a screen at the very top of the stage, again, reading subtitless, less time looking at the actros and decors.
With this, one can have the cake and eat it too...
Great. Hope it gets to my area soon enough!
But with only one processor, put in there just one Graphics card.
when the time to upgrade comes, instead of buying new processor+memory+mobo+graphics card, add a second processor, a second graphics card with NVLink or xFire, or more memory as needed, depending on bottle-neck.
More money upfront, but less money and hassle on the long run, and better support, to boot.
So, what's Microsoft's endgame here? A custom branded version of Android with Microsoft extensions? I'm not really seeing a lot of profit in that.
the idea is not to get a custom branded version of android.
Is convincing all those guys making AOSP devices (and maybe some end users with Google Play android as well), to preinstall/use microsoft launcher and services instead of the hodgepodge set of services and delerict APIs they are using now (with very variable results).
If you are in an emerging market (full disclosure, I am in Venezuela), compare side by side any AOSP device with a Google one of similar price and see.
If you live in a developed market (for example USoA or any other of the five eyes), it may be harder to find an ASOP phone, so compare an Android tablet with an Amazon fire tablet (which is AOSP, by the way) of similar price and see...
If they can get half of that 27% of the AOSP smartphone market using their services (like bing, the microsoft-AOL ad network, outlook.com and onedrive, for example) that gives them a significantly better position than what they were able to reach with their own OS.
Maybe not a lot of profit (not losses either), but a significant strategic gain.
Only time will tell.
The real competition for android is AOSP.
Last time I saw the numbers* for Mobile OS market share:
Android total: 81%
- Google's Android: 55%
- AOSP Android: 27%
- iOS Total: 18%
- Other: 1%
% do not add up due to rounding errors
So, phase 1, embrace Google's Android, while mantaining compatibility with AOSP.
Phase 2: Extend AOSP, giving it functional equivalents to the functions Google keeps behind the Google Play Services, that have either no equivalents in AOSP, or Delerict APIs
Phase 3: I hope they do not extinguish Google's Android, but at least lessen Alphabet's grip on the mobile market. This monoculture is as bad (or worse) for us than the Windows desktop and browser monopoly was in the 90's and 00's.
* Numbers come from here:
http://communities-dominate.bl...
Sorry for not posting the full link, /. threw a filter error
I do not agree with all that Tomi wites, and I do not like his writting style, but I give it to him, he has the best publicly available numbers, and I thank him for give them away for free.
We did not get this info when WiFi was called 802.11letter(letter) , and we will not get this info now thast is called WiFi#.
This only makes it easier to discern that 802.11ac is better than 802.11n, not to discern if, say, netgear WiFi5 model "whatevur" V2 is better than Linksys WiFi5 model "whatevurelse" v2 or netgear WiF5 model "whatevur" V4
Of course consumer WiFi is crap, if you want pro features (like AP roaming) get pro or semipro gear. This is like complaining that when you connect a Harddrive to your consumer AP it does not give you an iSCSI share. If you want iSCSI, you buy a semipro box like a Synology or Qnap (and not precisely the ARM based ones). Same with APs, if you want advanced features, go ubiqui, or some other semipro.
The consumer APs are tought for people with just one AP in the middle of the house. All the rest, is a gamble.
WiFi 802.11a , b and g DO NOT get a version number. WiFi 1 , 2 and 3 DO NOT EXIST. TFS does not state this.
WiFi 802.11n will be retconed as WiFi 4.
WiFi 802.11ac will be retconed as WiFi 5 as TFS clearly states, and WiFi 802.11ax will be WiFi 6. (due early next year).
This will help with compatibility issues (WiFi a is not compatible with b or-g (pun intended) ). Yes compatibility between n and a is optional, not mandatory, but I guess this guys had to start somewhere, and pretty much all 802.11n routers on sale nowadays are dualband...
Again, this is a positive move, and long overdue.