OS X used to be the go to for graphics and rendering, now it's what? Table-top hood ornaments?
Was that during the era of the Power Macs? Looks like one can't have both: if one wants to go to a CPU that does a good job in energy saving, which was the whole point of abandoning the PowerPC in favor of the x64 (not that it applies here, on the Xeon), then one will lose the performance. Although I have no idea why Apple doesn't prefer NVIDIA's video cards.
Honestly, I think Apple should migrate its entire line to its A* CPUs, so that it has a single uniform architecture that can be leveraged from the NVIDIA cores that deliver good graphics performance, to the ones from themselves that deliver good power consumption.
IMO, the trashcan thing is great. Internally, I think they could improve the cooling if they had 6 boards instead of 3, connected like an equilateral hexavon. For an equilateral triangle, it's likely that the cooling doesn't reach the vertices or the connecting points of the boards
Have the Kaby Lake processes reached the Xeon? If not, there's the answer - of why they're not yet refreshing the Mac Pro.
Those websites would do well to have plenty of mirrors - something that could be provided by cloud services. That way, if I want to connect to a friend's computer, or for that matter, to his site, it would be easy, regardless of how busy the rest of internet traffic is. All this should be easier now w/ IPv6, where we can have back authentic peer to peer networking
A better idea would have been having an overpass going right over or around the city, w/ appropriate exits. It would have left Greenwich village as well as the ground in Manhattan untouched. Or even an overpass w/o exits, so that people wanting to drive directly from Queens to NJ could do so w/o having to go through or around Manhattan.
Biggest issue, though, would remain the bi-directional tolls, which is what causes much of the congestion
Or Venezuela. He can be president Maduro's tech czar, and make Venezuela a test bed for all his libre software. Once he turns all of Venezuela's programmers into slaves, forcibly converted to the church of St iGNUtious
As the Buddha said, anything in moderation is okay. As long as this DRM is there in moderation in HTML5, it's fine. If there is excessive DRM, then there's a problem.
One potential solution: have XHTML DRM free, so that creators can choose the platform they wanna build under/upon.
The other aspect of this is that not every smartphone owner is an Android or iPhone user. There are still people who use Blackberries, Lumias and other phones out there.
I think that for this to work, any payment technology would have to work not only w/ the leading platforms - iOS & Android - but also w/ as many legacy platforms - older Android versions that can't be upgraded, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone 8 & above, and so on. And if possible, 2G phones as well. Only then can this move away from cash succeed. Or else, this will be like the move to digital TV. Unlike TV, which everybody does not have to have, money ain't that optional, so governments can't force people to migrate to the platforms of their choice.
I believe that the governments would have already taken care of payment platforms and made sure that something like this is a must have for phones tablets, almost like the emergency calling
Also, how would China be ahead of India in this regard? India started last year by getting rid of its biggest denomination notes, and the public, rather than risk seeing their money rendered worthless, quickly jumped on the e-money bandwagon. All India needs to do is phase out their remaining denominations - 100 & lower - and they'd have beaten China in all this
Too bad Microsoft didn't see it worthwhile to include a Windows 7 mode under VirtualPC and then make it available to Windows 8 & 10 users. Had they done that, there'd have been a lot less howls in the industry over the upgrades. In fact, Microsoft could make good money selling something like VirtualPC w/ support for every legacy Microsoft OS - from Windows 95 to Windows 7, and make sure it runs on Windows 8, 10 and Server.
I did the latter - created a local copy. Actually, when I download OneDrive from the Windows Store and run it, it creates that for me in File Explorer. I work on files directly from there, and so at the end of my session, the OneDrive file is what gets updated. So no manual sync'ing of the file
And when I was really cramped for storage, I set it up so that the SkyDrive download was on the SD card. Actually, that one was a bit of a fiasco, when I had that WinBook. Initially, I could save it on the SD card, but later, Microsoft did an update that would force one to have the shadowed copy on the C:\ itself. So I stopped using that, but when I got the laptop w/ 500GB, I had no issues giving OneDrive the C:\ space it wanted.
I'm guessing that once they deploy 5G, all the phones on their network would have to be VoLTE enabled to use it, right? Else, it would defeat the purpose.
Reminds me of MacOS emulation for powerpc/m68k. Sounds good in theory but becomes extremely slow in practice.
This is not just emulating API calls like Wine or containing supervisor mode like most virtualization systems, this is machine language translation on the fly (mame).
Binary translation has always been slow and unreliable, with the sole exception of arcade games in mame.
Now if they were trying to emulate ARM on Intel, that would be much more interesting, especially if Intel got involved and provided microcode to directly run ARM machine code..... can't do that in ARM.
MacOS emulation was a temporary solution, while Apple's engineers continued porting as much of the OS as possible to PowerPC. It was never something meant to last forever. And once OS-X was out (before the 'next' (pun intended) migration to x86), PowerMacs had their completely native OS.
That's different from this saga. We had Windows RT, which ran only native apps. Unfortunately, Microsoft never allowed developers to make apps available for this platform outside their Windows Store, which was why it bombed. Now, they're going the emulation route. Emulation is always an interim solution, never a long term one.
The best example of how emulation works w/ Windows can be seen w/ Windows NT on RISC, such as the Alpha or the MIPS. DEC had fx!32, which was supposed to emulate and dynamically translate software, making things faster every time they were run. But emulation just sapped the legendary performance of the Alpha. Had Microsoft seriously supported Windows NT on RISC in the 90s, they'd have had not just an OS as portable as Linux or NetBSD, but also a 64 bit OS long before x64 came along.
Also, given the death of the Lumia line of phones, I don't get the point. I have Windows 10 Mobile on my Lumia 550, and it has more native apps than Windows 10 from the Windows Store (not counting legacy win32 or even Windows 7 type win64 apps). Apps like Yelp!, Fandango, Groupme, et al. Yet Microsoft has stopped promoting phones in their store, other than the HP Elite. So what's the point in bringing in a capability to a line that they've discontinued?
Talking of clipboards, my favorite one was the one in KDE, which could store different copied strings, so that I could select the one that I wanted to paste. Unfortunately, I don't notice that under Lumina, but I haven't looked.
My reading of this was it being a continuous live backup of work you are doing, so that if you need to access it from another computer (or phone), you can.
PDFs being opened w/ Edge is the stupidest default Microsoft could have designed. Since all the PDF documents I'm usually interested in is offline, and in case there is an online PDF that I need, I download it and then access it. Microsoft could have made either their Reader the default, or allowed Adobe Acrobat to be the default if and once it was downloaded.
I don't want any application to open Edge, unless I go to Edge myself for normal web browsing, not the 'masquerade as an app' service.
Wouldn't Mac users automatically go w/ iCloud? I use OneDrive for my iPhone backups, but only b'cos I have 1TB there as a result of my Office 365 license.
The sort of idiot that would like to have a remote backup that they don't lose. Yeah, you can suggest 'Buy a separate external 1TB drive and put all your files there', and I've done that as well. But excavating it from somewhere, and then copying it is a lot more time consuming than logging into an online storage account and restoring data from there. And if it's Microsoft that one is paranoid about, one can always use Dropbox, iCloud, or any number of other services.
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OS X used to be the go to for graphics and rendering, now it's what? Table-top hood ornaments?
Was that during the era of the Power Macs? Looks like one can't have both: if one wants to go to a CPU that does a good job in energy saving, which was the whole point of abandoning the PowerPC in favor of the x64 (not that it applies here, on the Xeon), then one will lose the performance. Although I have no idea why Apple doesn't prefer NVIDIA's video cards.
Honestly, I think Apple should migrate its entire line to its A* CPUs, so that it has a single uniform architecture that can be leveraged from the NVIDIA cores that deliver good graphics performance, to the ones from themselves that deliver good power consumption.
IMO, the trashcan thing is great. Internally, I think they could improve the cooling if they had 6 boards instead of 3, connected like an equilateral hexavon. For an equilateral triangle, it's likely that the cooling doesn't reach the vertices or the connecting points of the boards
Have the Kaby Lake processes reached the Xeon? If not, there's the answer - of why they're not yet refreshing the Mac Pro.
Didn't Elbrus use a SPARC, or some proprietary VLIW instruction set?
Do they still make the Cyrix/Centaur/Winchip CPUs that they once did? What was the last point at which it developed - did it ever go 64-bit?
Any Android platform - Honeycomb, Jellybean, Nougat, Lollypop... Cockroach would just LOVE those
Would it use Terminix libraries? And more importantly, can it be hosted on a RAID?
Uh, Mongoloid is an East Asian race - one that includes Mongols, Chinese, Koreans & Japanese.
Those websites would do well to have plenty of mirrors - something that could be provided by cloud services. That way, if I want to connect to a friend's computer, or for that matter, to his site, it would be easy, regardless of how busy the rest of internet traffic is. All this should be easier now w/ IPv6, where we can have back authentic peer to peer networking
A better idea would have been having an overpass going right over or around the city, w/ appropriate exits. It would have left Greenwich village as well as the ground in Manhattan untouched. Or even an overpass w/o exits, so that people wanting to drive directly from Queens to NJ could do so w/o having to go through or around Manhattan.
Biggest issue, though, would remain the bi-directional tolls, which is what causes much of the congestion
Or Venezuela. He can be president Maduro's tech czar, and make Venezuela a test bed for all his libre software. Once he turns all of Venezuela's programmers into slaves, forcibly converted to the church of St iGNUtious
As the Buddha said, anything in moderation is okay. As long as this DRM is there in moderation in HTML5, it's fine. If there is excessive DRM, then there's a problem.
One potential solution: have XHTML DRM free, so that creators can choose the platform they wanna build under/upon.
The other aspect of this is that not every smartphone owner is an Android or iPhone user. There are still people who use Blackberries, Lumias and other phones out there.
I think that for this to work, any payment technology would have to work not only w/ the leading platforms - iOS & Android - but also w/ as many legacy platforms - older Android versions that can't be upgraded, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone 8 & above, and so on. And if possible, 2G phones as well. Only then can this move away from cash succeed. Or else, this will be like the move to digital TV. Unlike TV, which everybody does not have to have, money ain't that optional, so governments can't force people to migrate to the platforms of their choice.
I believe that the governments would have already taken care of payment platforms and made sure that something like this is a must have for phones tablets, almost like the emergency calling
Also, how would China be ahead of India in this regard? India started last year by getting rid of its biggest denomination notes, and the public, rather than risk seeing their money rendered worthless, quickly jumped on the e-money bandwagon. All India needs to do is phase out their remaining denominations - 100 & lower - and they'd have beaten China in all this
Too bad Microsoft didn't see it worthwhile to include a Windows 7 mode under VirtualPC and then make it available to Windows 8 & 10 users. Had they done that, there'd have been a lot less howls in the industry over the upgrades. In fact, Microsoft could make good money selling something like VirtualPC w/ support for every legacy Microsoft OS - from Windows 95 to Windows 7, and make sure it runs on Windows 8, 10 and Server.
That's b'cos the typical x64 configuration has several times more memory, CPU, storage than the typical ARM configuration.
Right - under fx!32
I did the latter - created a local copy. Actually, when I download OneDrive from the Windows Store and run it, it creates that for me in File Explorer. I work on files directly from there, and so at the end of my session, the OneDrive file is what gets updated. So no manual sync'ing of the file
And when I was really cramped for storage, I set it up so that the SkyDrive download was on the SD card. Actually, that one was a bit of a fiasco, when I had that WinBook. Initially, I could save it on the SD card, but later, Microsoft did an update that would force one to have the shadowed copy on the C:\ itself. So I stopped using that, but when I got the laptop w/ 500GB, I had no issues giving OneDrive the C:\ space it wanted.
I'm guessing that once they deploy 5G, all the phones on their network would have to be VoLTE enabled to use it, right? Else, it would defeat the purpose.
The 90s called. DEC would like a word w/ you re: Windows NT running win32 applications on the Alpha
Reminds me of MacOS emulation for powerpc/m68k. Sounds good in theory but becomes extremely slow in practice. This is not just emulating API calls like Wine or containing supervisor mode like most virtualization systems, this is machine language translation on the fly (mame). Binary translation has always been slow and unreliable, with the sole exception of arcade games in mame. Now if they were trying to emulate ARM on Intel, that would be much more interesting, especially if Intel got involved and provided microcode to directly run ARM machine code..... can't do that in ARM.
MacOS emulation was a temporary solution, while Apple's engineers continued porting as much of the OS as possible to PowerPC. It was never something meant to last forever. And once OS-X was out (before the 'next' (pun intended) migration to x86), PowerMacs had their completely native OS.
That's different from this saga. We had Windows RT, which ran only native apps. Unfortunately, Microsoft never allowed developers to make apps available for this platform outside their Windows Store, which was why it bombed. Now, they're going the emulation route. Emulation is always an interim solution, never a long term one.
The best example of how emulation works w/ Windows can be seen w/ Windows NT on RISC, such as the Alpha or the MIPS. DEC had fx!32, which was supposed to emulate and dynamically translate software, making things faster every time they were run. But emulation just sapped the legendary performance of the Alpha. Had Microsoft seriously supported Windows NT on RISC in the 90s, they'd have had not just an OS as portable as Linux or NetBSD, but also a 64 bit OS long before x64 came along.
Also, given the death of the Lumia line of phones, I don't get the point. I have Windows 10 Mobile on my Lumia 550, and it has more native apps than Windows 10 from the Windows Store (not counting legacy win32 or even Windows 7 type win64 apps). Apps like Yelp!, Fandango, Groupme, et al. Yet Microsoft has stopped promoting phones in their store, other than the HP Elite. So what's the point in bringing in a capability to a line that they've discontinued?
Talking of clipboards, my favorite one was the one in KDE, which could store different copied strings, so that I could select the one that I wanted to paste. Unfortunately, I don't notice that under Lumina, but I haven't looked.
My reading of this was it being a continuous live backup of work you are doing, so that if you need to access it from another computer (or phone), you can.
PDFs being opened w/ Edge is the stupidest default Microsoft could have designed. Since all the PDF documents I'm usually interested in is offline, and in case there is an online PDF that I need, I download it and then access it. Microsoft could have made either their Reader the default, or allowed Adobe Acrobat to be the default if and once it was downloaded.
I don't want any application to open Edge, unless I go to Edge myself for normal web browsing, not the 'masquerade as an app' service.
Wouldn't Mac users automatically go w/ iCloud? I use OneDrive for my iPhone backups, but only b'cos I have 1TB there as a result of my Office 365 license.
The sort of idiot that would like to have a remote backup that they don't lose. Yeah, you can suggest 'Buy a separate external 1TB drive and put all your files there', and I've done that as well. But excavating it from somewhere, and then copying it is a lot more time consuming than logging into an online storage account and restoring data from there. And if it's Microsoft that one is paranoid about, one can always use Dropbox, iCloud, or any number of other services.