What sucks is Google's attitude in refusing to provide a way to actually terminate an application on the theory that Android knows when to do that better than you.
I got a new Acer PC for my mother for $499. I was floored by the specs: 4 core, 1 Gig mem, 1 TB disk, discrete Radeon graphics. Except for Windows Home which is unspeakably lame, it is wonderful.
Incidentally, judging by my mother's reaction to Windows Home, this will be her last Windows machine ever. She hates the way the window menu commands disappeared, replaced by a band of blur. She now judges KDE on Linux to be "more compatible" with her skills than Windows Home. The problem was slightly fixed by putting in Eudora instead of "Windows Live Mail" which she really hates, and open office instead of the lame thing that passes for a text processor. Oh, and she now has Firefox and Chrome instead of the IE icon, which I removed to slow down the malware onslaught. Next obvious step is an operating system transplant.
"could we be seeing ultra-low power hardware in high-end PCs and consoles soon?"
Not soon, but inevitably. The equation is: better power efficiency equates to more stream cores. The number of stream cores tends to increase to compensate, so discrete graphics card power consumption stays about the same, near the maximum of what typical cooling systems can accommodate. This somewhat obscures the ongoing trend to lower power designs. However, power consumption per stream unit governs the maximum practical throughput (aka heat dissipation) of high end discrete cards. Therefore it is only a matter of time before ultra-low power design becomes dominant at the high end as well as low.
In two years, PS3-like graphics will be insufficient for the desktop and console market, and we will be in the same situation.
No we won't. PS3-level graphics will still be perfectly satisfactory for all but the hard core, a small part of the game market. We will therefore be in a position to dump both Microsoft and Sony in favor of a new gaming ecosystem revolving around inexpensive and power efficient ARM class devices.
To restate the prediction I made earlier: this generation is the last hurrah for the "big console". In future, dedicated console hardware cannot possibly be competitive on price with commodity graphics available on general purpose consumer devices.
Perhaps we can avoid a post-exhaustion future of NAT-upon-NAT and use restrictions.
Sorry, the post exhaustion NAT future already happened, and entirely because of the IPv6 design cock-up. If IPv6 had been designed for maximum compatibility with IPv4 we would have completed the transition decades ago.
I'm afraid it's going to get worse from here, too. The big question is, what use is IPv6 when there are next to no web sites serving it?
Absolutely, seconded. Join a great open source project as a volunteer. Pace yourself at work. Until such time as you land a job that allows you to express it, save your creativity for your own time. An hour or two a day, log on to your own computer and do what you really love to do. The satisfaction possible is hard to put into words. You may find yourself taking a whole new attitude to yourself, your life, your family, just because you are putting time of your own accord into something you do well and that helps you grow.
Of course you should do your job competently and cheerfully. But if creativity is not allowed or rewarded at work, don't beat your head against that wall. Think about changing jobs, perhaps leveraging new skills gained through working on a community project.
I have spent a fair bit of time with an iPad 2 because my mother has one. She got it because a couple of macheads pressed her aggressively to get it. Roughly 99% of what she uses it for is playing "bookworm". She tried to use it for web surfing but it is pathetic, with text a big pain to enter, squinty little text fields, buttons that do not respond, pages that take ages to load while loading instantly on my Xoom. She tried to use it for email but again, text entry is just pathetic, and gmail responds way too slowly. She tried to use it for watching videos but there are strange lag issues with Youtube, ranging into the minutes. The iPad really loves to resize the view automatically in various completely inappropriate ways.
Except for text entry (where Android at least has a better onscreen keyboard) none of these issues occur with the Xoom. My personal experience with the iPad 2 is that, every time I use it I get a nearly irresistible urge to break it in half against the edge of a table, about once a minute. It is beyond me why people buy these things and claim to be happy. Maybe something about pride? Color me stumped.
One thing I have noticed about macheads is that they tend to respond aggressively to criticism.
I have spent a fair bit of time with an iPad 2 because my mother has one. She got it because a couple of macheads pressed her aggressively to get it. Roughly 99% of what she uses it for is playing "bookworm". She tried to use it for web surfing but it is pathetic, with text a big pain to enter, squinty little text fields, buttons that do not respond, pages that take ages to load while loading instantly on my Xoom. She tried to use it for email but again, text entry is just pathetic, and gmail responds way too slowly. She tried to use it for watching videos but there are strange lag issues with Youtube, ranging into the minutes. The iPad really loves to resize the view automatically in various completely inappropriate ways.
Except for text entry (where Android at least has a better onscreen keyboard) none of these issues occur with the Xoom. My personal experience with the iPad 2 is that, every time I use it I get a nearly irresistible urge to break it in half against the edge of a table, about once a minute. It is beyond me why people buy these things and claim to be happy. Maybe something about pride? Color me stumped.
As far as I'm concerned Intel went straight from Pentium 2 to Core 2. Whatever that crap was in between, it sure wasn't the product of an industry leader.
PIII is the basis of Intel's "core" architecture including Core 2.
Its a lost cause, apart from 2-3 geeky distributions everybody else is macifying or windowsifying linux to such a degree that it is nauseous.
It's hard to express the degree of stupidity required to tie the network bringup to the GUI so that if the GUI goes down so does the network, yet that is exactly what NetworkManager does. Another brilliant Fedora idea I believe.
If I want to publish an Android app, I write it this week, and it's in the Market next week. This is because my app will run in a jail where it can only find the files it really needs, in it's own application directory.
No, that has nothing to do with it. It is because everything has been carefully set up for you by legions of Google gnomes. Have you actually looked at the structure of the Android SDK? It's a huge hairball,and I do mean huge. Have you looked at the structure of Java classlib? What a monument to something. Hey, here's a great idea: put all the Java class files in the same directory, why should there be so many directories? Makes about the same amount of sense.
Sure 10-20 years ago when trying to fix the server required minimal booting into root partition, fixing things and then gradually fixing and mounting the other parts required some basic programs hence the reason for/bin.
That is the same way you fix a shiny new desktop machine today, or perhaps you have never tried fixing a sick computer. Oh right, we've reached the age of disposable computers, haven't we? If it won't boot, it's landfill.
This sure seems like a bad idea, are there really people who are complaining about this? Seems like it could lead to a backlash of unity-proportions.:-)
True, now that you put it that way. The Fedora guys should definitely throw caution to the wind and do it, then maybe we will be a step closer to being rid of Fedora entirely.
Bump. I can hardly think of a more irresponsible and disruptive thing to do. If Redhat people wants to do something useful then get busy cutting down the daemon bloat please, both in userspace and kernel. And please stop treating fds as if they are free. And how about reducing the stupid number of dbus sockets.
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What sucks is Google's attitude in refusing to provide a way to actually terminate an application on the theory that Android knows when to do that better than you.
I got a new Acer PC for my mother for $499. I was floored by the specs: 4 core, 1 Gig mem, 1 TB disk, discrete Radeon graphics. Except for Windows Home which is unspeakably lame, it is wonderful.
Incidentally, judging by my mother's reaction to Windows Home, this will be her last Windows machine ever. She hates the way the window menu commands disappeared, replaced by a band of blur. She now judges KDE on Linux to be "more compatible" with her skills than Windows Home. The problem was slightly fixed by putting in Eudora instead of "Windows Live Mail" which she really hates, and open office instead of the lame thing that passes for a text processor. Oh, and she now has Firefox and Chrome instead of the IE icon, which I removed to slow down the malware onslaught. Next obvious step is an operating system transplant.
A few words for you: Global illumination, path-tracing, trillions of particles, atom worlds, AI
Nice, but I would actually prefer better game play.
I was addressing the question at the end:
"could we be seeing ultra-low power hardware in high-end PCs and consoles soon?"
Not soon, but inevitably. The equation is: better power efficiency equates to more stream cores. The number of stream cores tends to increase to compensate, so discrete graphics card power consumption stays about the same, near the maximum of what typical cooling systems can accommodate. This somewhat obscures the ongoing trend to lower power designs. However, power consumption per stream unit governs the maximum practical throughput (aka heat dissipation) of high end discrete cards. Therefore it is only a matter of time before ultra-low power design becomes dominant at the high end as well as low.
In two years, PS3-like graphics will be insufficient for the desktop and console market, and we will be in the same situation.
No we won't. PS3-level graphics will still be perfectly satisfactory for all but the hard core, a small part of the game market. We will therefore be in a position to dump both Microsoft and Sony in favor of a new gaming ecosystem revolving around inexpensive and power efficient ARM class devices.
To restate the prediction I made earlier: this generation is the last hurrah for the "big console". In future, dedicated console hardware cannot possibly be competitive on price with commodity graphics available on general purpose consumer devices.
...If IPv6 had been designed for maximum compatibility with IPv4 we would have completed the transition decades ago....
Excuse me, a decade ago, although IPv6 has been around roughly two decades now. Two words: epic fail.
Perhaps we can avoid a post-exhaustion future of NAT-upon-NAT and use restrictions.
Sorry, the post exhaustion NAT future already happened, and entirely because of the IPv6 design cock-up. If IPv6 had been designed for maximum compatibility with IPv4 we would have completed the transition decades ago.
I'm afraid it's going to get worse from here, too. The big question is, what use is IPv6 when there are next to no web sites serving it?
Absolutely, seconded. Join a great open source project as a volunteer. Pace yourself at work. Until such time as you land a job that allows you to express it, save your creativity for your own time. An hour or two a day, log on to your own computer and do what you really love to do. The satisfaction possible is hard to put into words. You may find yourself taking a whole new attitude to yourself, your life, your family, just because you are putting time of your own accord into something you do well and that helps you grow.
Of course you should do your job competently and cheerfully. But if creativity is not allowed or rewarded at work, don't beat your head against that wall. Think about changing jobs, perhaps leveraging new skills gained through working on a community project.
I have spent a fair bit of time with an iPad 2 because my mother has one. She got it because a couple of macheads pressed her aggressively to get it. Roughly 99% of what she uses it for is playing "bookworm". She tried to use it for web surfing but it is pathetic, with text a big pain to enter, squinty little text fields, buttons that do not respond, pages that take ages to load while loading instantly on my Xoom. She tried to use it for email but again, text entry is just pathetic, and gmail responds way too slowly. She tried to use it for watching videos but there are strange lag issues with Youtube, ranging into the minutes. The iPad really loves to resize the view automatically in various completely inappropriate ways.
Except for text entry (where Android at least has a better onscreen keyboard) none of these issues occur with the Xoom. My personal experience with the iPad 2 is that, every time I use it I get a nearly irresistible urge to break it in half against the edge of a table, about once a minute. It is beyond me why people buy these things and claim to be happy. Maybe something about pride? Color me stumped.
One thing I have noticed about macheads is that they tend to respond aggressively to criticism.
Hey, it was Apple who came up with the "Think different" slogan.
What should I read into the fact that Apple's slogan is grammatically incorrect?
I have spent a fair bit of time with an iPad 2 because my mother has one. She got it because a couple of macheads pressed her aggressively to get it. Roughly 99% of what she uses it for is playing "bookworm". She tried to use it for web surfing but it is pathetic, with text a big pain to enter, squinty little text fields, buttons that do not respond, pages that take ages to load while loading instantly on my Xoom. She tried to use it for email but again, text entry is just pathetic, and gmail responds way too slowly. She tried to use it for watching videos but there are strange lag issues with Youtube, ranging into the minutes. The iPad really loves to resize the view automatically in various completely inappropriate ways.
Except for text entry (where Android at least has a better onscreen keyboard) none of these issues occur with the Xoom. My personal experience with the iPad 2 is that, every time I use it I get a nearly irresistible urge to break it in half against the edge of a table, about once a minute. It is beyond me why people buy these things and claim to be happy. Maybe something about pride? Color me stumped.
As far as I'm concerned Intel went straight from Pentium 2 to Core 2. Whatever that crap was in between, it sure wasn't the product of an industry leader.
PIII is the basis of Intel's "core" architecture including Core 2.
Its a lost cause, apart from 2-3 geeky distributions everybody else is macifying or windowsifying linux to such a degree that it is nauseous.
It's hard to express the degree of stupidity required to tie the network bringup to the GUI so that if the GUI goes down so does the network, yet that is exactly what NetworkManager does. Another brilliant Fedora idea I believe.
If I want to publish an Android app, I write it this week, and it's in the Market next week. This is because my app will run in a jail where it can only find the files it really needs, in it's own application directory.
No, that has nothing to do with it. It is because everything has been carefully set up for you by legions of Google gnomes. Have you actually looked at the structure of the Android SDK? It's a huge hairball,and I do mean huge. Have you looked at the structure of Java classlib? What a monument to something. Hey, here's a great idea: put all the Java class files in the same directory, why should there be so many directories? Makes about the same amount of sense.
Sure 10-20 years ago when trying to fix the server required minimal booting into root partition, fixing things and then gradually fixing and mounting the other parts required some basic programs hence the reason for /bin.
That is the same way you fix a shiny new desktop machine today, or perhaps you have never tried fixing a sick computer. Oh right, we've reached the age of disposable computers, haven't we? If it won't boot, it's landfill.
This sure seems like a bad idea, are there really people who are complaining about this? Seems like it could lead to a backlash of unity-proportions. :-)
True, now that you put it that way. The Fedora guys should definitely throw caution to the wind and do it, then maybe we will be a step closer to being rid of Fedora entirely.
what GNU/Linux fork isn't busy screwing with how things have been?
Debian.
FHS is deprecated IMO
Says who?
Bump. I can hardly think of a more irresponsible and disruptive thing to do. If Redhat people wants to do something useful then get busy cutting down the daemon bloat please, both in userspace and kernel. And please stop treating fds as if they are free. And how about reducing the stupid number of dbus sockets.
Stay away from my /sbin kaythx.
Is this just an attempt to rescue Bill Gates' besmirched reputation as an technical visionary?
Google knows exactly how many Android phones have been activated. Something over 400,000/day last I heard.
Christ. I can't believe this never-ending stream of fanboy nonsense from SuperKendall still gets modded up.
Bump.
Macheads with mod points seem to be scurrying around tonight.
Maybe if it was a little more up to date.
Christ. I can't believe this never-ending stream of fanboy nonsense from SuperKendall still gets modded up.
Bump.