With cores it's a little bit different than RAM in that you're physically limited by how many you can squeeze in a certain size.
So the addressing may be limited to 16, 32, 64, whatever cores, but physically you may not quite be able to get 16 in that space so they might say max out at 14 and then get a few dead ones here and there so end up selling 8, 10's and 12's with the rare perfect 14's being used for some special customers.
Now with the 50 cores, you might actually have 53 or so actually WORKING cores but the extra 3 are turned off just so they sell a nice pretty round number like 50 and not 51.
Wish Pixar would learn something from Apple and stop announcing their movies 4 years in advance. Only takes Dreamworks about a year to churn out their knock-offs.
Would be nice if tablets came with that OLPC XO screen that switched between color with a backlight and black and white reflective for using outdoors. The black and white mode also had 3x the resolution, wonder how it would compare to an e-ink or iPhone 4 retina display for reading text.
Alrightie, quick question for you since you clearly have been doing this longer than I have.
Back in 1996 when I was learning C it was pointed out many times that gets() was dangerous and should not be used. It was common knowledge by then.
So when and who started making a big fuss out of gets and the danger of buffer overflows? I find it strange that a teenager back then knew of them when Microsoft apparently didn't think it was a problem.
Right, and when Microsoft added ActiveX to the browser, nobody warned them it would be a security issue... why remote execution was still seen as a feature in those days.
When the browser was embedded into the OS, nobody imagined it could one day be a problem... the geeks were thrilled at the wonderful new design innovations occurring at Microsoft, security wasn't even on the radar back then.
I definitely meant ADD and autism. There's a group of people that for whatever reason seem to have aspects of both. The Amen clinic calls these "over focused ADD" while others consider it a case of having an overlap of two conditions.
Perhaps it's something else like mild autism mixed with bipolar or another strange combo. Diagnosing mental conditions can be quite tricky when someone doesn't seem to entirely fit the usual symptoms for something.
"Healing ADD" By Daniel Amen. He uses spect scans to look at brain activity comparing scans while at rest and concentrating. His clinic regularly uses spect scans and seems to have evidence of clear patterns of overactivity or under activity in various parts of the brain which correlate with different types of ADD.
He doesn't really mention Aspergers much except that it's often confused with what he calls over focused ADD types. These patients exhibit typical ADD behaviors as well as the tendency to fixate and obsess with objects or ideas. The key to determining if someone would be Aspergers or ADD would involve looking at their overall behavior patterns, such as Asperger's doesn't usually incline one to high risk and self-destructive behavior
Dr. Amen divides up ADD into 6 types based on their behaviors and spect scans. While there's certainly much more to be learned about brain disorders I appreciate his goal of building empirical evidence and bringing more science into diagnosis. Simple interviews can be too subjective to correctly diagnose many patients. His techniques have been controversial as many psychiatrists don't feel a brain scan is useful for diagnosis.
Here's a totally unrelated page I found googling "ADD aspergers overlap" describing confusion in diagnosis caused by similar behaviors.
The chart is a bit tricky to read. I see the original iPhone going all the way to the right edge and it looks like "Still supported with major OS" which is now iOS 5.
What it's trying to convey is that 3 years from original launch, the iPhone 2G could up upgraded to OS 3 which was the most up to date OS at that time. The bar for each phone ends when it is no longer being sold so the Android phone bars are shorter overall given their higher churn rate.
Basically it's saying with iPhones as long as they're sold you have the latest OS, and they're generally up to date to about 3 years past initial release. What they're not saying is "Just don't buy at the end of the sales cycle."
I wonder though what happens to all those iPhone 3GS users who are still picking them up when it's getting long in the tooth. Does it perform okay with iOS 5? Are they going to feel shafted if they just bought it and all the sudden the iPhone 5 comes out and iOS 6 follows? At least with the iPhone 2G and 3G they only sold about a year and the next update was after it was discontinued so you felt like you got good value out of it.
My favorite thing to see in old publications are some of the whack ideas and how completely obvious they were considered. Like this gem from Alexander Ross against Sir. Thomas Brown.
So may he doubt whether in cheese and timber worms are generated; or if beetles and wasps in cows' dung; or if butterflies, locusts, grasshoppers, shellfish, snails, eels, and such like, be procreated of putrefied matter, which is apt to receive the form of that creature to which it is by formative power disposed. To question this is to question reason, sense and experience. If he doubts of this let him go to Egypt, and there he will find the fields swarming with mice, begot of the mud of Nylus, to the great calamity of the inhabitants
Lest you think I'm anti-science, it was empirical evidence that finally showed the error of such beliefs. I'm just amazed how much people take for granted even in their own area of expertise.
Also a lot of fun is the guy who believed all humans were born with tails that the midwives cut off to hide the truth from the general population. But I don't think anybody agreed with him.
There's game engines written in it. I can't remember right now but there's been a few big ones that used it for their assets and scripts, you could mod them easily.
Early apple ipods wouldn't even play mp3s, Apple decided everyone had to use another format.
The first iPods indeed did play mp3s, all of them have been able to. You must be thinking of the Sony players of that time that came with ATRAC and SonicStage which wrapped mp3 files in DRM before copying to the player.
I don't know about the icons, but most laptops these days are glossy because that's what people tend to buy. This isn't something that started with tablets.
He's talking about the shine on the icons themselves. First used with the iPhone, icons have a light swooping shadow / shine applied to them by the OS. The app developer can turn it off if they desire by setting a property that says the icon already has a shine applied to it's image.
It makes them look like 3 dimensional rounded buttons and is recommended for consistency unless your icon has a non-reflective surface represented on it such as paper or leather. I'm not sure if anyone else applied gloss or shine effects to icon surfaces before Apple.
Looking at some Samsung icons I only see the Photos app using an identical shine, the Phone icon uses a shine but it's diagonal and not curved. The other icons are flat without shine.
Here. Check out that link, it's a very nice design document that gives great examples, I've learned a lot about interface design reading Apple's docs.
He died in 1954 at the age of 41. AIDS was first discovered ca. 1979, so he would've been 66. Do you know a lot of 66-year-olds who have lots of sex? Especially with multiple partners? Neither do I.
Actually ummm... I saw a research study done on this before and old people get it on plenty. Especially in rest homes where it's easy to socialize and find new partners. I'd cite something but...
Which Google will add to Chrome once enough cross-compiled apps are out there. Then they get a huge speed boost and it forces everyone else to add a dart runtime to their browsers or lose the benchmark wars.
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What's a shame is it got modded redundant.
Wonder if the mod heard a *WOOOSH* sound as they clicked the moderate button.
Sure, click here if you'd like a rim job too.
Yeah I was a spoiled brat.
Oh yeah baby... back with my VLB Diamond Viper 4MB of VRAM... and a 486DX-2 66 with 16MB I was styling'. The chicks just couldn't stay away.
I saw a study once that showed all you have to do is keep the goats out of an area in Israel and in a year it's completely green.
Sounds like a good business plan.
1) Buy a huge piece of worthless land.
2) Build a fence around it.
3) Wait...
4) Sell it as farm land.
With cores it's a little bit different than RAM in that you're physically limited by how many you can squeeze in a certain size.
So the addressing may be limited to 16, 32, 64, whatever cores, but physically you may not quite be able to get 16 in that space so they might say max out at 14 and then get a few dead ones here and there so end up selling 8, 10's and 12's with the rare perfect 14's being used for some special customers.
Now with the 50 cores, you might actually have 53 or so actually WORKING cores but the extra 3 are turned off just so they sell a nice pretty round number like 50 and not 51.
It's so they can rip off Pixar stories faster.
Wish Pixar would learn something from Apple and stop announcing their movies 4 years in advance. Only takes Dreamworks about a year to churn out their knock-offs.
I'll never forgive them for killing Newt.
Could PETA secretly be behind the Facebook porn / gore hack? It actually sounds plausible.
With this and the other posts, you just pwned this article.
Squid dude has his day.
Would be nice if tablets came with that OLPC XO screen that switched between color with a backlight and black and white reflective for using outdoors. The black and white mode also had 3x the resolution, wonder how it would compare to an e-ink or iPhone 4 retina display for reading text.
Alrightie, quick question for you since you clearly have been doing this longer than I have.
Back in 1996 when I was learning C it was pointed out many times that gets() was dangerous and should not be used. It was common knowledge by then.
So when and who started making a big fuss out of gets and the danger of buffer overflows? I find it strange that a teenager back then knew of them when Microsoft apparently didn't think it was a problem.
Right, and when Microsoft added ActiveX to the browser, nobody warned them it would be a security issue... why remote execution was still seen as a feature in those days.
When the browser was embedded into the OS, nobody imagined it could one day be a problem... the geeks were thrilled at the wonderful new design innovations occurring at Microsoft, security wasn't even on the radar back then.
Right.
I definitely meant ADD and autism. There's a group of people that for whatever reason seem to have aspects of both. The Amen clinic calls these "over focused ADD" while others consider it a case of having an overlap of two conditions.
Perhaps it's something else like mild autism mixed with bipolar or another strange combo. Diagnosing mental conditions can be quite tricky when someone doesn't seem to entirely fit the usual symptoms for something.
"Healing ADD" By Daniel Amen. He uses spect scans to look at brain activity comparing scans while at rest and concentrating. His clinic regularly uses spect scans and seems to have evidence of clear patterns of overactivity or under activity in various parts of the brain which correlate with different types of ADD.
He doesn't really mention Aspergers much except that it's often confused with what he calls over focused ADD types. These patients exhibit typical ADD behaviors as well as the tendency to fixate and obsess with objects or ideas. The key to determining if someone would be Aspergers or ADD would involve looking at their overall behavior patterns, such as Asperger's doesn't usually incline one to high risk and self-destructive behavior
Dr. Amen divides up ADD into 6 types based on their behaviors and spect scans. While there's certainly much more to be learned about brain disorders I appreciate his goal of building empirical evidence and bringing more science into diagnosis. Simple interviews can be too subjective to correctly diagnose many patients. His techniques have been controversial as many psychiatrists don't feel a brain scan is useful for diagnosis.
Here's a totally unrelated page I found googling "ADD aspergers overlap" describing confusion in diagnosis caused by similar behaviors.
Steve more likely had the ADD/Aspergers overlap than being only an Aspy.
There's sometimes misdiagnosis with ADD and Aspergers as certain types can look very similar while having completely different root causes.
The chart is a bit tricky to read. I see the original iPhone going all the way to the right edge and it looks like "Still supported with major OS" which is now iOS 5.
What it's trying to convey is that 3 years from original launch, the iPhone 2G could up upgraded to OS 3 which was the most up to date OS at that time. The bar for each phone ends when it is no longer being sold so the Android phone bars are shorter overall given their higher churn rate.
Basically it's saying with iPhones as long as they're sold you have the latest OS, and they're generally up to date to about 3 years past initial release. What they're not saying is "Just don't buy at the end of the sales cycle."
I wonder though what happens to all those iPhone 3GS users who are still picking them up when it's getting long in the tooth. Does it perform okay with iOS 5? Are they going to feel shafted if they just bought it and all the sudden the iPhone 5 comes out and iOS 6 follows? At least with the iPhone 2G and 3G they only sold about a year and the next update was after it was discontinued so you felt like you got good value out of it.
My favorite thing to see in old publications are some of the whack ideas and how completely obvious they were considered. Like this gem from Alexander Ross against Sir. Thomas Brown.
Lest you think I'm anti-science, it was empirical evidence that finally showed the error of such beliefs. I'm just amazed how much people take for granted even in their own area of expertise.
Also a lot of fun is the guy who believed all humans were born with tails that the midwives cut off to hide the truth from the general population. But I don't think anybody agreed with him.
There's game engines written in it. I can't remember right now but there's been a few big ones that used it for their assets and scripts, you could mod them easily.
The first iPods indeed did play mp3s, all of them have been able to. You must be thinking of the Sony players of that time that came with ATRAC and SonicStage which wrapped mp3 files in DRM before copying to the player.
Not to mention it's much easier to drop a pipe in the ground and cement it in place than building a square shaft.
He's talking about the shine on the icons themselves. First used with the iPhone, icons have a light swooping shadow / shine applied to them by the OS. The app developer can turn it off if they desire by setting a property that says the icon already has a shine applied to it's image.
It makes them look like 3 dimensional rounded buttons and is recommended for consistency unless your icon has a non-reflective surface represented on it such as paper or leather. I'm not sure if anyone else applied gloss or shine effects to icon surfaces before Apple.
Looking at some Samsung icons I only see the Photos app using an identical shine, the Phone icon uses a shine but it's diagonal and not curved. The other icons are flat without shine.
Here. Check out that link, it's a very nice design document that gives great examples, I've learned a lot about interface design reading Apple's docs.
Actually ummm... I saw a research study done on this before and old people get it on plenty. Especially in rest homes where it's easy to socialize and find new partners. I'd cite something but...
Do you REALLY want to google that??
Hmmm...
Pensive Penguin
or
Parsimonious Penguin
I can't quite choose.
Which is why I said "a few years ago".
Which Google will add to Chrome once enough cross-compiled apps are out there. Then they get a huge speed boost and it forces everyone else to add a dart runtime to their browsers or lose the benchmark wars.