My guess is that the partners have become more powerful, and convinced Google that they should have a competitive advantage over the clone manufacturers in China.
Or Google's trustworthiness and responsibility to the community is declining.
Could IPv6 have been designed to be more like IPv4 and thus easier to adopt? In retrospect, would it have been better to restrict design changes to the minimum required to support larger addresses?
Or just don't let Windows anywhere near deadly weapons, how about. Never has been secure, never will be, not in any real, shipping form, except according to cynical apologists with their hands in the cookie jar.
Looks like I will be putting Phenom II X6 chips in my existing systems and sitting tight for a year or two.
With you on that. I'm looking at my X4 power consumption sitting consistently around 80 watts from the wall full system including disks and color me happy. I'll buy Phenom II again, and I'll wait for the Bulldozer shrink. Meanwhile, Brazos is likely to find its way in here one way or another.
Your point being? The license is irrelevant. AMD, as the presumed owner of the Radeon source, could make the Radeon GPU driver for Windows Embedded closed source even if it was released GPL.
That would be impractical. It would not include publicly contributed bug fixes for one thing, which would all have to be done over. Missing a few of course, and it degenerates from there.
The implication is apparently that since it was only the ground control system, not the flight control system, there was no danger of the aircraft control being compromised. This is false. The ground control system is in fact in complete control of the aircraft, if it so chooses. The bottom line is, somebody should be put in the brig for allow Windows anywhere near a UAV.
It depends upon how it's written, or are you unaware of the tests showing Java beating C++ by a large margin?
I am absolutely unaware of such tests. I know that long ago (more than ten years) Hotspot was actually able to generate better code than gcc in some situations, but that is ancient history.
I am certain that Java is slow on servers compared to C++ (gcc). I have measured this in detail, and determined at least some of the reasons.
Your points about Java robustness certainly have merit, however my point is that if you care about the fastest, most compact, lowest latency software possible you better not use Java.
Compared to C++ or C, Java is slow. How slow depends on the workload. Anywhere from a few percent to a large multiple, the latter being fairly easy to trigger by hitting the JIT just the way it doesn't like.
If you care about performance or latency, Java is the wrong language. But it's faster than Python.
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I used to have an idealistic belief that the walled garden was a bad thing too, that user convenience and security should not take precident over a locked-down infrastructure. But as I've gotten older that belief has withered away.
I wear sweats or shorts when I work from home - so what? What's wrong with being comfortable?
Proper style is to wear a suit jacket on top during videocon. Of course nobody will realize you're otherwise still in your boxers, just be careful not to stand up until the call is over.
This particular logical fallacy is called Fallacy of false cause. The mistake is in assuming that telecommuting causes people to work one hour per day in their pajamas. In fact: 1) I have observed people working considerably less than an hour per day, on site, at Google among other places, and 2) I have observed people working on site in their pajamas.
The bottom line is, if someone is determined to dissipate their productivity, it does not matter where they are physically located, they will be successful at it.
AFAIK, Radeon cards have the edge in performance at the moment, at any given price point, and run cooler. Nearly all Radeon here, and significantly better quality of life for me than in my NVidia days. My experience with NVideo Quadros, very strange behavior that can be quite frustrating. Like requiring a hard power cycle, not just a reset, to function properly in some situations. And not displaying text after switching to the text console. Mind you, I appreciate and respect NVidia, they are a worthy competitor. I would be sad if they started to lag far behind. They contribute a lot to the OpenGL community for one thing (thanks Mark).
Also, the open source Radeon driver (from a few months back courtesy of slow Ubuntu updates) is quite pleasant to use, even if lacking some features and performance. I use it for heavy 3D development and its shortcomings are not enough to motivate me to futz around installing the binary driver. The latter works just fine, impressive even, but I don't need the extra headaches at upgrade time.
My understanding is that AMD is cheaper but normally requires more power and cores to an Intel chip. Electricity costs then offset any price difference...
OK, that does it. I shut down my 4 way Phenom II box and put my killawatt[tm] on it. Right now, posting to Slashdot under the latest and greatest KDE... 79 watts from the wall. I challenge you to make the same measurement with your four way Intel box.
See, AMD and Intel both claim similar power draw. From what I have seen, only one of them tells the truth. Please correct me if your actual measurements indicate otherwise.
And by the way, I'm running AMD on the desktop right now, way more machine for my money than Intel, cool and quiet too. The way things are shaping up it seems likely to be AMD on the desktop for the next generation as well. Lots and lots of cores, just serve 'em up please:-)
The previous four generations before Phenom II were all Intel for me so it's not like I'm an AMD fanboy.
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My guess is that the partners have become more powerful, and convinced Google that they should have a competitive advantage over the clone manufacturers in China.
Or Google's trustworthiness and responsibility to the community is declining.
Could IPv6 have been designed to be more like IPv4 and thus easier to adopt? In retrospect, would it have been better to restrict design changes to the minimum required to support larger addresses?
I'm genuinely confused by NeXT's failures.
In a word: optical disk. Crippled it. Made it useless.
Otherwise, it was a workmanlike workstation. Not really great. OS/2 was way better for multiple reasons.
It would also be arrogant to say simply switching operating systems will magically fix their problems.
Even more arrogant to deny that it would be a good start.
Or just don't let Windows anywhere near deadly weapons, how about. Never has been secure, never will be, not in any real, shipping form, except according to cynical apologists with their hands in the cookie jar.
Looks like I will be putting Phenom II X6 chips in my existing systems and sitting tight for a year or two.
With you on that. I'm looking at my X4 power consumption sitting consistently around 80 watts from the wall full system including disks and color me happy. I'll buy Phenom II again, and I'll wait for the Bulldozer shrink. Meanwhile, Brazos is likely to find its way in here one way or another.
Your point being? The license is irrelevant. AMD, as the presumed owner of the Radeon source, could make the Radeon GPU driver for Windows Embedded closed source even if it was released GPL.
That would be impractical. It would not include publicly contributed bug fixes for one thing, which would all have to be done over. Missing a few of course, and it degenerates from there.
The implication is apparently that since it was only the ground control system, not the flight control system, there was no danger of the aircraft control being compromised. This is false. The ground control system is in fact in complete control of the aircraft, if it so chooses. The bottom line is, somebody should be put in the brig for allow Windows anywhere near a UAV.
Scuse me, but that should read "Jobs, Gates, Torvalds".
Oh wow, modded to -1 by Macheads, how scientology of you.
It depends upon how it's written, or are you unaware of the tests showing Java beating C++ by a large margin?
I am absolutely unaware of such tests. I know that long ago (more than ten years) Hotspot was actually able to generate better code than gcc in some situations, but that is ancient history.
I am certain that Java is slow on servers compared to C++ (gcc). I have measured this in detail, and determined at least some of the reasons.
Your points about Java robustness certainly have merit, however my point is that if you care about the fastest, most compact, lowest latency software possible you better not use Java.
Compared to C++ or C, Java is slow. How slow depends on the workload. Anywhere from a few percent to a large multiple, the latter being fairly easy to trigger by hitting the JIT just the way it doesn't like.
If you care about performance or latency, Java is the wrong language. But it's faster than Python.
I used to have an idealistic belief that the walled garden was a bad thing too, that user convenience and security should not take precident over a locked-down infrastructure. But as I've gotten older that belief has withered away.
Sucks to be you.
Scuse me, but that should read "Jobs, Gates, Torvalds".
Apparently you need a roomfull of 8 way Phenoms with 128 gig per to do Rage mods.
My dual-Arm Xoom outpowers a fair number of the desktop machines I see in current use, both in processor power and graphics.
I'm still puzzled why Microsoft+Nokia still pisses people off.
It doesn't, it makes them go "RIP Nokia" and go buy a Android or Iphone.
Oh, and I do not doubt that Linux does a better job in all areas, including areas "protected" by Microsoft patents[1].
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[1] According to Microsoft.
Ha ha, good point.
Does not change the fact that Microsoft is running an arguably illegal protection racket.
I wear sweats or shorts when I work from home - so what? What's wrong with being comfortable?
Proper style is to wear a suit jacket on top during videocon. Of course nobody will realize you're otherwise still in your boxers, just be careful not to stand up until the call is over.
Why does it matter if we stay in our pajamas? How am I less effective if I spend my time working rather than grooming?
Speak for yourself. My pajamas are always well groomed.
This particular logical fallacy is called Fallacy of false cause. The mistake is in assuming that telecommuting causes people to work one hour per day in their pajamas. In fact: 1) I have observed people working considerably less than an hour per day, on site, at Google among other places, and 2) I have observed people working on site in their pajamas.
The bottom line is, if someone is determined to dissipate their productivity, it does not matter where they are physically located, they will be successful at it.
AFAIK, Radeon cards have the edge in performance at the moment, at any given price point, and run cooler. Nearly all Radeon here, and significantly better quality of life for me than in my NVidia days. My experience with NVideo Quadros, very strange behavior that can be quite frustrating. Like requiring a hard power cycle, not just a reset, to function properly in some situations. And not displaying text after switching to the text console. Mind you, I appreciate and respect NVidia, they are a worthy competitor. I would be sad if they started to lag far behind. They contribute a lot to the OpenGL community for one thing (thanks Mark).
Also, the open source Radeon driver (from a few months back courtesy of slow Ubuntu updates) is quite pleasant to use, even if lacking some features and performance. I use it for heavy 3D development and its shortcomings are not enough to motivate me to futz around installing the binary driver. The latter works just fine, impressive even, but I don't need the extra headaches at upgrade time.
Mod parent up, it's all that need be said.
My understanding is that AMD is cheaper but normally requires more power and cores to an Intel chip. Electricity costs then offset any price difference...
OK, that does it. I shut down my 4 way Phenom II box and put my killawatt[tm] on it. Right now, posting to Slashdot under the latest and greatest KDE... 79 watts from the wall. I challenge you to make the same measurement with your four way Intel box.
See, AMD and Intel both claim similar power draw. From what I have seen, only one of them tells the truth. Please correct me if your actual measurements indicate otherwise.
And by the way, I'm running AMD on the desktop right now, way more machine for my money than Intel, cool and quiet too. The way things are shaping up it seems likely to be AMD on the desktop for the next generation as well. Lots and lots of cores, just serve 'em up please :-)
The previous four generations before Phenom II were all Intel for me so it's not like I'm an AMD fanboy.