If you buy web hosting from a cheap cpanel-based provider, you get MySQL for free and it's hard to set up anything else. Moreover, a moderately skilled web developer can get a database-driven site set up in just a couple of minutes with PHP+MySQL.
MySQL+PHP is popular for the same reason VB6 used to be popular. It's quick and easy and it gets stuff done. Elite computer scientists look down upon both because they are perceived as quick and dirty hacks. But that doesn't matter; for many applications, a quick and dirty hack is good enough.
For companies and users who are on Windows 7, this isn't that big of a deal. IE10 may not be quite as good as Chrome or Firefox, but it's a modern browser that works reasonably well. The problem is for users who are still on XP. Since XP only supports IE8, a decent browser experience requires either Chrome Frame or switching to Chrome or Firefox. And many businesses will allow plugins, but not alternate browsers.
Yes, I know that XP is officially supposed to end support in mid-2014. But I don't believe that is actually going to happen. There are just too many people still on XP, both large corporations and inexperienced home users. The corporations (and some governments!) will lean very hard on MS to keep providing security patches, and the home users (there are still a LOT of these with XP) are going to be very angry when they find that their systems are now impossible to keep safe. I believe that ending support for XP will be politically impossible. And I don't mean office politics; I mean actual Congressional-level politics. I think there is a good chance that the world's governments will not let MS stop patching XP because it is just too important to the world economy.
ed Hat doesn't include anything that could potentially infringe upon patents. The reason why fonts in Windows and OS X look good is because a lot of man-hours went into developing them, so companies like Microsoft got a patent for things like ClearType. That said, if you need better Linux fonts, look into Infinality.
All font rendering on Linux sucks. This includes Infinality. You don't notice it much on phones or tablets, because of the high DPI, but with a standard low-DPI monitor or TV set, it's painful.
The only completely open-source solution I've seen that provides acceptable results on a low-DPI screen is Anti-Grain Geometry. But as far as I can tell, this was never incorporated into any actual distribution, and has remained just a tech demo.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned that the server has a window manager at all.
Some functions are better performed from the command line, and some from a GUI. Insisting that servers be command line only is just pointless obscurantism.
Yeah, this poisonous trend is baked deeply into the school of "UI design". It is now an article of faith among UI designers that letting the users choose is a bad thing. It should be the designers making a choice, and that should not only be the default setting, but the only setting. This article, written by Joel Spolsky way back in 2000, gives some insight into what these people are thinking when they take choices away from users.
Obviously they can't handle Java, they just don't know what to do with it. Suggestion: pull your heads out of your asses and if you can't handle this asset, give it up. Sell it or hand it over to Apache foundation, whatever. The more you DO the worse you LOOK because you are dumbshits.
They don't care about Java, just the underlying patents. The only reason Oracle bought Sun was so they could use their patents to hassle Google and other companies.
When you have stock holders putting pressure to "create" revenue streams out of bullshit DRM practices, you KNOW you're doing something wrong.
The problem is that Sony, as currently constituted, is a giant conglomerate that contains both an "entertainment" division (movie studio and music publisher) and a consumer electronics division. This means that the executives, full of buzzwords from their MBA classes, will push for "synergy" between the branches – and that means DRM shoved down our throats to increase profits. (And the kind of people who run media companies are incredibly paranoid – every time sales go down, they think it's because of "pirates".)
Fortunately, a major stockholder (Daniel Loeb, whose hedge fund currently owns 6% of Sony shares) has been pushing for the entertainment division to be spun off into a separate company. If this happens (and the company is taking the suggestion seriously), then the media division can go off and be evil on their own, and will no longer be able to contaminate Sony's consumer electronics division with their wickedness. The consumer electronics division will then have incentives to serve the customers, not the media industry (which they will no longer be part of).
I'm not sure I trust Sony not to be an asshole regarding DRM. It doesn't have that good a track record. It is a good bet the moment the marketing hype dies down, and the stock holders start pressing, they will tighten their DRM.
Sony is currently seriously considering a stockholder-driven proposal to spin off its music and film divisions. If this was done, it would mean that Sony the consumer electronics company would no longer have the conflict of interest that currently causes it to push DRM on equipment and media.
It offers 72 PCIExpress lanes. Thunderbolt works fine for drive arrays but it will fall flat for things like GPU compute cards like the Tesla or high end video cards.This board also supports 8 memory slots and two socket 2011 chips... BTW that means it will support Ivy Bridge e when it it ships.
This Mac Pro already has an Ivy Bridge-E CPU (the Xeon version if I'm not mistaken, with ECC) and two high-end FirePro video cards.
This is a workstation, not a file server. You're supposed to keep your data on a file server or NAS device (or "in the cloud", I suppose, if you like the NSA trawling through it). One advantage of separating file storage from individual workstations is that if a workstation crashes or just needs to be replaced, you don't risk losing any important data.
It doesn't, and the thing we've noted is they're using workstation graphics, which is good for workstations but bad for those of us who just wanted a high quality, high end PC. I've been happily using my macbook pro but I really want a machine that I can play games on, and that has apple's high quality.
It's not clear which FirePro graphics card is being used (or even if it's one of AMD's standard offerings at all), but reviews show that the FirePro W7000 and W9000 actually handle games pretty well.
If designed right (and it sounds like a custom-designed 6" impeller fan) 1 big high-quality fan would be a lot more reliable than 4-5 small, crappy OEM fans found in most PCs.
Sounds like they took some design cues from SilverStone. They have been using their 180mm "Air Penetrator" fans in a wide variety of applications, and it works pretty well. The FT02 has three of them on the bottom, blowing upward, over a motherboard rotated 90 degrees. (The ports stick out the top and there is a secondary cover to hide the wire routing out a hole in the back.) Even when they're turned to low speed, it has some of the best thermals of any case, and quite reasonable noise levels. The SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E uses a single 180mm intake fan and is one of the best Micro-ATX cases currently available. So the design of using one large, good-quality intake fan blowing upward over components certainly sounds like it's viable – similar designs have worked well on the PC side of things.
Many of X's recent "everything as pixels" shortcomings and network bottlenecks came to be because the exact same developers who are pushing to abondon X11 tried to make it into iPhone graphics. That didn't work very well and so they decided to abandon it in favor of the Wayland rewrite. Which is ok, fine, they can work on whatever they like. But when the same exact developers justify thier work with the statement that X is broken, and they're the bloody ones that broke it and abandoned it what way in the first place, it just pisses me off.
Translation: X11 works fine if you're willing to party like it's 1985, with bitmap fonts and non-anti-aliased Bresenham lines.
That might work if you're administering a server, but for a desktop environment in the modern world, it's a sick joke.
No, they don't know any better or are any smarter than the decades of programmers that came before them culminating in the cumulative end product known as X. They want their pet desktop-as-a-iPhone use case to work perfectly at the expense of all that other stuff they don't personally use. Classic case of young developers only thinking of their own needs and lacking the imagination or experience to see past themselves.
First of all, the people working on Wayland are in many cases the same people working on X11. It's not that they are necessarily smarter now, but they are more experienced. X11 was written in a different time, for different systems, to solve a different set of problems than what we have now.
And regarding your accusations, I'd suggest looking in the mirror – your willingness to tolerate 1980s-level graphics is a lot more of a "pet" use case than what Wayland is attempting to provide.
I have been witnessing the failure of vector-based toolkits. Even as this brave new world rolls on, it has forgotten something, and that is vector-based toolkits produce abysmally bad font rendering on low-DPI monitors.
That's one way of putting it. Another way to describe the same issue: rendering decent text on low-DPI monitors requires a bunch of atrocious hacks (hinting, subpixel antialiasing, etc.). Therefore, low-DPI monitors suck, and we should work to get rid of them as soon as possible.
My light sensitivities are way not-normal, and anti-aliasing just looks wrong to me on anything less than a retina display. Ugly and usable is so much better than messing with my eyes.
In the next couple of years, the price of "retina" (>200 PPI) displays will go down. Before long it will make more sense for you to get a retina-type display than to subject programmers to the atrocious BS currently needed for scalable UI design.
That's 20 years since linux was created. 20 years and the only widely adoptd alternative to X is on Android, and i dont even know what its' called.
Hold on there, cowboy – you can't just hand-wave away Android, since Android deployments outnumber desktop X11 deployments by several orders of magnitude! Android is succeeding at end-user adoption where X11 has failed miserably for your "20 years", so you should be looking at Android for guidance, not dismissing it as a blip.
By the way, when Linux is used in an embedded system like a media player, they usually use DirectFB or something similar (if they're not using Android) – not X11. The truth is that X11 is utterly, completely unsuitable for anything a non-technical end user ever sees.
The article answers that question on the very first page. (Scroll down to the bottom.)
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Most desktop users won't want to install this release.
How many people run FreeBSD on their desktop? (No, I'm not counting OSX.) The big selling point of FreeBSD is its robust support for ZFS, which makes it great for a file storage server. But it's an extremely marginal and weird choice for a desktop environment.
This isn't nearly as complicated as the self-interested "consultants" are making it out to be. Strip away the marketdroid-speak and the cloud-hype verbiage, and all it's really saying is that IT will have to pay more attention to actual business needs. Anyone with their eyes open has already known that for years.
Yes, the stereotypical BOFH doesn't have much of a future. Good riddance. In fact, BOFHs are already almost extinct, because they don't add much value to the business. Successful companies work with IT to find ways that IT resources can be used to make the company better and more productive, rather than having IT as a roadblock or setting them up as the "computer janitors". You don't really need an expensive consultant to tell you any of this (though in poorly-run companies, you might need one to get the management to listen).
Brilliant move! De-emphasize the divisions that bring in the big bucks *and* have a unique advantage over competitors for legacy reasons, while placing even more emphasis on the divisions that lose money and have mediocre market share.
Seriously, this move by Ballmer is about the direct opposite of what a business in transition should do. I wonder how much longer before the stockholders finally kick him out.
To a first approximation, Microsoft *is* Windows and Office. That's what keeps everyone locked in. That's what brings in the big volume licenses. Cede that, and the rest of the edifice collapses entirely. Ballmer might not like it, but Microsoft is a software company and lives or dies on desktop software. The truth is that they have to transition to a more mature company model, paying dividends and making a lot fewer splashes. They aren't ever going to be hip and cool and revolutionary. And their customers don't want them to be.
The military has bigger guns, but the members of the military are citizens too. Asking the military to kill their friends and family and neighbors is not so simple a task as you might think.
That's true, but it also means that private firearm ownership is essentially irrelevant.
Why do they always focus on eye candy? The browser is in a need of some serious overhaul for memory usage, memory leakage, crashes, threading, multi core and some serious basic core fixes.
Because the eye candy is easier and more fun to implement. This is a chronic problem with OSS development: difficult but necessary tasks get pushed back, while developers advance work on the features they want to work on.
Can I at least opt out of this crap? I still have my installation of Firefox set up to use the classic menus and no tabs. I'm not going to be a happy camper at all if they start breaking that layout.
If the current trends with Firefox development keep up, it might be time to create a "Firefox Classic" fork, with the traditional UI, traditional status bar, and traditional address bar so you don't have to grub around for add-ons to get it to work the way we're used to.
Richland's GPU is at best about 20% faster than the intentionally-midrange HD-4600 GPU in Haswell. Add in any form of desktop GPU, including midrange models from 2011, and Haswell wins by a landslide.
Yes, if you buy a $250-$350 CPU and then add a $100 video card, it will outperform a $150 all-in-one unit. No shit.
At CPU, I recall seeing delightfully hilarious graph where a 6800K overclocked to 5GHz had exactly half the score of the (stock clocked) 4770K. Before we get to the usual "But AMD is cheap!" argument, when you take into account the $150 price of the 6800K and the $350 price of the 4770K, AMD only wins on price/performance if you intentionally buy the most expensive Haswell model available and intentionally don't overclock it while also overclocking the crap out of the 6800K.
You're looking at this from an enthusiast perspective. But if I'm building a system for someone who mostly does web surfing, Office, and occasionally some light gaming like WoW and The Sims, then an AMD APU starts to look a lot better from a price/performance perspective. You assume that as long as the performance per dollar stays high, the buyer is willing to spend as much as necessary, but that's simply not true for most users. Probably 90% of users will never even hit the maximum limit of an A10-6800K, so for these people, Haswell is overkill.
Funilly enough this is a similar solution to the AMD chip that will be in the xbox one (Chip on package edram).. When will AMD bring that tech to their PC part line?
Huh? The front-side bus hasn't existed in years. AMD abolished it way back in 2003 when they moved the Athlon 64's memory controller on-die. Intel did the same thing with Nehalem in 2008.
Perhaps you just meant that there isn't enough memory bandwidth to use the GPU to its full potential with games? The good news is that AMD's upcoming Kaveri will have GDDR5 support, with a homogenous memory architecture similar to the new consoles.
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If you buy web hosting from a cheap cpanel-based provider, you get MySQL for free and it's hard to set up anything else. Moreover, a moderately skilled web developer can get a database-driven site set up in just a couple of minutes with PHP+MySQL.
MySQL+PHP is popular for the same reason VB6 used to be popular. It's quick and easy and it gets stuff done. Elite computer scientists look down upon both because they are perceived as quick and dirty hacks. But that doesn't matter; for many applications, a quick and dirty hack is good enough.
For companies and users who are on Windows 7, this isn't that big of a deal. IE10 may not be quite as good as Chrome or Firefox, but it's a modern browser that works reasonably well. The problem is for users who are still on XP. Since XP only supports IE8, a decent browser experience requires either Chrome Frame or switching to Chrome or Firefox. And many businesses will allow plugins, but not alternate browsers.
Yes, I know that XP is officially supposed to end support in mid-2014. But I don't believe that is actually going to happen. There are just too many people still on XP, both large corporations and inexperienced home users. The corporations (and some governments!) will lean very hard on MS to keep providing security patches, and the home users (there are still a LOT of these with XP) are going to be very angry when they find that their systems are now impossible to keep safe. I believe that ending support for XP will be politically impossible. And I don't mean office politics; I mean actual Congressional-level politics. I think there is a good chance that the world's governments will not let MS stop patching XP because it is just too important to the world economy.
ed Hat doesn't include anything that could potentially infringe upon patents. The reason why fonts in Windows and OS X look good is because a lot of man-hours went into developing them, so companies like Microsoft got a patent for things like ClearType. That said, if you need better Linux fonts, look into Infinality.
All font rendering on Linux sucks. This includes Infinality. You don't notice it much on phones or tablets, because of the high DPI, but with a standard low-DPI monitor or TV set, it's painful.
The only completely open-source solution I've seen that provides acceptable results on a low-DPI screen is Anti-Grain Geometry. But as far as I can tell, this was never incorporated into any actual distribution, and has remained just a tech demo.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned that the server has a window manager at all.
Some functions are better performed from the command line, and some from a GUI. Insisting that servers be command line only is just pointless obscurantism.
Yeah, this poisonous trend is baked deeply into the school of "UI design". It is now an article of faith among UI designers that letting the users choose is a bad thing. It should be the designers making a choice, and that should not only be the default setting, but the only setting. This article, written by Joel Spolsky way back in 2000, gives some insight into what these people are thinking when they take choices away from users.
Obviously they can't handle Java, they just don't know what to do with it. Suggestion: pull your heads out of your asses and if you can't handle this asset, give it up. Sell it or hand it over to Apache foundation, whatever. The more you DO the worse you LOOK because you are dumbshits.
They don't care about Java, just the underlying patents. The only reason Oracle bought Sun was so they could use their patents to hassle Google and other companies.
When you have stock holders putting pressure to "create" revenue streams out of bullshit DRM practices, you KNOW you're doing something wrong.
The problem is that Sony, as currently constituted, is a giant conglomerate that contains both an "entertainment" division (movie studio and music publisher) and a consumer electronics division. This means that the executives, full of buzzwords from their MBA classes, will push for "synergy" between the branches – and that means DRM shoved down our throats to increase profits. (And the kind of people who run media companies are incredibly paranoid – every time sales go down, they think it's because of "pirates".)
Fortunately, a major stockholder (Daniel Loeb, whose hedge fund currently owns 6% of Sony shares) has been pushing for the entertainment division to be spun off into a separate company. If this happens (and the company is taking the suggestion seriously), then the media division can go off and be evil on their own, and will no longer be able to contaminate Sony's consumer electronics division with their wickedness. The consumer electronics division will then have incentives to serve the customers, not the media industry (which they will no longer be part of).
I'm not sure I trust Sony not to be an asshole regarding DRM. It doesn't have that good a track record. It is a good bet the moment the marketing hype dies down, and the stock holders start pressing, they will tighten their DRM.
Sony is currently seriously considering a stockholder-driven proposal to spin off its music and film divisions. If this was done, it would mean that Sony the consumer electronics company would no longer have the conflict of interest that currently causes it to push DRM on equipment and media.
It offers 72 PCIExpress lanes. Thunderbolt works fine for drive arrays but it will fall flat for things like GPU compute cards like the Tesla or high end video cards.This board also supports 8 memory slots and two socket 2011 chips... BTW that means it will support Ivy Bridge e when it it ships.
This Mac Pro already has an Ivy Bridge-E CPU (the Xeon version if I'm not mistaken, with ECC) and two high-end FirePro video cards.
This is a workstation, not a file server. You're supposed to keep your data on a file server or NAS device (or "in the cloud", I suppose, if you like the NSA trawling through it). One advantage of separating file storage from individual workstations is that if a workstation crashes or just needs to be replaced, you don't risk losing any important data.
It doesn't, and the thing we've noted is they're using workstation graphics, which is good for workstations but bad for those of us who just wanted a high quality, high end PC. I've been happily using my macbook pro but I really want a machine that I can play games on, and that has apple's high quality.
It's not clear which FirePro graphics card is being used (or even if it's one of AMD's standard offerings at all), but reviews show that the FirePro W7000 and W9000 actually handle games pretty well.
If designed right (and it sounds like a custom-designed 6" impeller fan) 1 big high-quality fan would be a lot more reliable than 4-5 small, crappy OEM fans found in most PCs.
Sounds like they took some design cues from SilverStone. They have been using their 180mm "Air Penetrator" fans in a wide variety of applications, and it works pretty well. The FT02 has three of them on the bottom, blowing upward, over a motherboard rotated 90 degrees. (The ports stick out the top and there is a secondary cover to hide the wire routing out a hole in the back.) Even when they're turned to low speed, it has some of the best thermals of any case, and quite reasonable noise levels. The SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E uses a single 180mm intake fan and is one of the best Micro-ATX cases currently available. So the design of using one large, good-quality intake fan blowing upward over components certainly sounds like it's viable – similar designs have worked well on the PC side of things.
Many of X's recent "everything as pixels" shortcomings and network bottlenecks came to be because the exact same developers who are pushing to abondon X11 tried to make it into iPhone graphics. That didn't work very well and so they decided to abandon it in favor of the Wayland rewrite. Which is ok, fine, they can work on whatever they like. But when the same exact developers justify thier work with the statement that X is broken, and they're the bloody ones that broke it and abandoned it what way in the first place, it just pisses me off.
Translation: X11 works fine if you're willing to party like it's 1985, with bitmap fonts and non-anti-aliased Bresenham lines.
That might work if you're administering a server, but for a desktop environment in the modern world, it's a sick joke.
No, they don't know any better or are any smarter than the decades of programmers that came before them culminating in the cumulative end product known as X. They want their pet desktop-as-a-iPhone use case to work perfectly at the expense of all that other stuff they don't personally use. Classic case of young developers only thinking of their own needs and lacking the imagination or experience to see past themselves.
First of all, the people working on Wayland are in many cases the same people working on X11. It's not that they are necessarily smarter now, but they are more experienced. X11 was written in a different time, for different systems, to solve a different set of problems than what we have now.
And regarding your accusations, I'd suggest looking in the mirror – your willingness to tolerate 1980s-level graphics is a lot more of a "pet" use case than what Wayland is attempting to provide.
I have been witnessing the failure of vector-based toolkits. Even as this brave new world rolls on, it has forgotten something, and that is vector-based toolkits produce abysmally bad font rendering on low-DPI monitors.
That's one way of putting it. Another way to describe the same issue: rendering decent text on low-DPI monitors requires a bunch of atrocious hacks (hinting, subpixel antialiasing, etc.). Therefore, low-DPI monitors suck, and we should work to get rid of them as soon as possible.
My light sensitivities are way not-normal, and anti-aliasing just looks wrong to me on anything less than a retina display. Ugly and usable is so much better than messing with my eyes.
In the next couple of years, the price of "retina" (>200 PPI) displays will go down. Before long it will make more sense for you to get a retina-type display than to subject programmers to the atrocious BS currently needed for scalable UI design.
That's 20 years since linux was created. 20 years and the only widely adoptd alternative to X is on Android, and i dont even know what its' called.
Hold on there, cowboy – you can't just hand-wave away Android, since Android deployments outnumber desktop X11 deployments by several orders of magnitude! Android is succeeding at end-user adoption where X11 has failed miserably for your "20 years", so you should be looking at Android for guidance, not dismissing it as a blip.
By the way, when Linux is used in an embedded system like a media player, they usually use DirectFB or something similar (if they're not using Android) – not X11. The truth is that X11 is utterly, completely unsuitable for anything a non-technical end user ever sees.
Why not fix X?
The article answers that question on the very first page. (Scroll down to the bottom.)
Most desktop users won't want to install this release.
How many people run FreeBSD on their desktop? (No, I'm not counting OSX.) The big selling point of FreeBSD is its robust support for ZFS, which makes it great for a file storage server. But it's an extremely marginal and weird choice for a desktop environment.
This isn't nearly as complicated as the self-interested "consultants" are making it out to be. Strip away the marketdroid-speak and the cloud-hype verbiage, and all it's really saying is that IT will have to pay more attention to actual business needs. Anyone with their eyes open has already known that for years.
Yes, the stereotypical BOFH doesn't have much of a future. Good riddance. In fact, BOFHs are already almost extinct, because they don't add much value to the business. Successful companies work with IT to find ways that IT resources can be used to make the company better and more productive, rather than having IT as a roadblock or setting them up as the "computer janitors". You don't really need an expensive consultant to tell you any of this (though in poorly-run companies, you might need one to get the management to listen).
Brilliant move! De-emphasize the divisions that bring in the big bucks *and* have a unique advantage over competitors for legacy reasons, while placing even more emphasis on the divisions that lose money and have mediocre market share.
Seriously, this move by Ballmer is about the direct opposite of what a business in transition should do. I wonder how much longer before the stockholders finally kick him out.
To a first approximation, Microsoft *is* Windows and Office. That's what keeps everyone locked in. That's what brings in the big volume licenses. Cede that, and the rest of the edifice collapses entirely. Ballmer might not like it, but Microsoft is a software company and lives or dies on desktop software. The truth is that they have to transition to a more mature company model, paying dividends and making a lot fewer splashes. They aren't ever going to be hip and cool and revolutionary. And their customers don't want them to be.
The military has bigger guns, but the members of the military are citizens too. Asking the military to kill their friends and family and neighbors is not so simple a task as you might think.
That's true, but it also means that private firearm ownership is essentially irrelevant.
Why do they always focus on eye candy? The browser is in a need of some serious overhaul for memory usage, memory leakage, crashes, threading, multi core and some serious basic core fixes.
Because the eye candy is easier and more fun to implement. This is a chronic problem with OSS development: difficult but necessary tasks get pushed back, while developers advance work on the features they want to work on.
Can I at least opt out of this crap? I still have my installation of Firefox set up to use the classic menus and no tabs. I'm not going to be a happy camper at all if they start breaking that layout.
If the current trends with Firefox development keep up, it might be time to create a "Firefox Classic" fork, with the traditional UI, traditional status bar, and traditional address bar so you don't have to grub around for add-ons to get it to work the way we're used to.
Richland's GPU is at best about 20% faster than the intentionally-midrange HD-4600 GPU in Haswell. Add in any form of desktop GPU, including midrange models from 2011, and Haswell wins by a landslide.
Yes, if you buy a $250-$350 CPU and then add a $100 video card, it will outperform a $150 all-in-one unit. No shit.
At CPU, I recall seeing delightfully hilarious graph where a 6800K overclocked to 5GHz had exactly half the score of the (stock clocked) 4770K. Before we get to the usual "But AMD is cheap!" argument, when you take into account the $150 price of the 6800K and the $350 price of the 4770K, AMD only wins on price/performance if you intentionally buy the most expensive Haswell model available and intentionally don't overclock it while also overclocking the crap out of the 6800K.
You're looking at this from an enthusiast perspective. But if I'm building a system for someone who mostly does web surfing, Office, and occasionally some light gaming like WoW and The Sims, then an AMD APU starts to look a lot better from a price/performance perspective. You assume that as long as the performance per dollar stays high, the buyer is willing to spend as much as necessary, but that's simply not true for most users. Probably 90% of users will never even hit the maximum limit of an A10-6800K, so for these people, Haswell is overkill.
Funilly enough this is a similar solution to the AMD chip that will be in the xbox one (Chip on package edram).. When will AMD bring that tech to their PC part line?
In the second half of 2013.
Huh? The front-side bus hasn't existed in years. AMD abolished it way back in 2003 when they moved the Athlon 64's memory controller on-die. Intel did the same thing with Nehalem in 2008.
Perhaps you just meant that there isn't enough memory bandwidth to use the GPU to its full potential with games? The good news is that AMD's upcoming Kaveri will have GDDR5 support, with a homogenous memory architecture similar to the new consoles.