That is why the pyramid structure. I agree about basic education but the basics are taught in elementary school. Once a child has a good foundation of reading, math, science, history, and English you can then build on that. As you said we need to make sure that the overwhelming majority of students are taught the basic skills. Those skill will be taught in the very small elementary schools and the medium "small by most of today's standards" middle and jr. High Schools. Just off the top of my head I would picture elementary as k-5 and having no more than 300 students and ideally no more than 150 students. The ideal size IMHO would be right around 120 students total. So one or two classes per grade and 25 students per class max. "Thirty at the outside but that is too large". The middle school with would be grades six and seven would have around 400 to 500 students and the jr High school maybe the same. At that point you would transition to a high school that maybe 1500 two 2000 students or more. I feel part of the problem with education is that kids are not allowed to find their passion. You always do best when you find something that you a passion for. That is one of the great things about the internet. When I was a kid I had a real passion for airplanes, space, and science in general. Once I read the 6 airplane books, two rocket books, and 12 science books in my school library I was stuck. When I got to my county library I found maybe 10 more space books and four aircraft books. I was lucky that my parents where well to do and could buy me books and subscribe to magazines but I got to find my class work boring. High School wasn't any better. A single subject may help a young person find what they want to do in life or at least find a joy in learning. So yes I do feel that a large selections of options at the 10-12th grade year is the best plan. Also it will introduce them to more people and hopefuly expand their circle of friends to people with different points of views.
I don't think everyone hates Gnome and Unity. Back when I got my first Amiga I showed it to a friend and he hated it. He thought it look unproffesional. Real computers had green or amber letters on a black screen. Who needed a mouse or colors or stereo sound? And you don't need to run more than one program at a time.
Too many people fall into the trap that New=Bad. I have not tried Unity yet but I bet I will not find it all that terrible.
ummm... There is a lot of lithium and we are talking about very small amounts of He-3 If we got a a few Kilograms of He3 that would probably be about 1000 time more than we have on Earth now and also probably about a years production from the moon if we mined it there. So the using up of Li for the production of He3 really doesn't amount to a anything. And when I say kilograms I am talking about mass at one g not weight.
I don't think that is a good thing. I see it more as a pyramid. You have a lot of small elementary schools, many middle/jr.High schools, and a few or one High School. As the person grows in maturity and knowledge you expand their circle of friends since they are more mobile. You also expand their educational options. A tiny High school may not have the resources to offer a robotics class, a drama class, a choir class, band, honors chemistry, and honors physics. You could offer specialized high schools which is done now but then what if you have student that loves music and robotics? Do you make them pick which one interests them most at such an early age? I see the ideal system for the majority of students as a ramping up. Also you never know what my spark a persons passion for learning. Or course part of the idea is that you never really break the connection to community. So maybe your home room instead of being by alphabetical order like it was in my High School would be by your Elementary school. Plus the Elementary school would be the bus stop for the students moving up to the more distant bigger schools.
Yes the point of the letter was that it is stupid to protect the budget of prisons while cutting the education budget. I have told people time and time again you have two choices. You can pay for better schools or bigger prisons. I also think a good start would be two reverse the old actions of desegregation at the Elementary school level. Ideally I feel that small Elementary schools and they should serve students within a small radius is the correct structure for elementary aged education. The elementary school could then be the center of the neighborhood. They play ground would double as a park on the weekend and over the summer. The library could stay open over the summer and be a children's branch library for the library system. That way kids can be build friendships with children near where they live and parents can know each other. Community is a lot of what is missing these days. Of course as they move up then they move into bigger and bigger schools and more diverse communities of students. The trick is to keep the quality high across the different schools but there has got to be a better way than shipping first graders around to balance the books based on the color of their skin. In may community at least that isn't a problem since it is really diverse but yet we still have huge elementary schools with hundreds of students in them. Some of the K-8s "also a bad idea" look like high schools.
Except they kind of have too. Superman and Batman would both be what? 80 or 90 years old now? Iron Man would be at least 60 or 70. Green Arrow would be in his 50s or 60s. You would need new people for each role and a new backstory for them For some like Superman you could just make immortal but for and some like Batman and and Green Arrow would be possible but other with super powers you would have problems with. Do they get married and have kids and pass it down or what?
Not really or as reliable. Since this was the 1960s or 70s you would have had lead acid batteries which suck. Also think of the size of a surge that you would have to have to destroy a large electric motor. The system used a large flywheel, generator, motor, and a diesel generator. When the power failed a after a short time a clutch engaged and the fly wheel started the diesel. These where all industral sized system and where super reliable.
They where also used as a suppressor and UPS on mainframes. Some mainframes uses a big electric motor to turn a flywheel that was hooked to a generator to act as a voltage regulator. Very effective for brown outs and spikes. And yea I remember reading about them in PopSci in the 70s right down to the magnetic bearings, carbon fiber, and vacuum chamber. Also some pretty spectacular pictures of failures as well.
And there are still people making PDP-11s and using Vax systems. PC will not die completely but the software issue is a lot smaller now than when Microsoft tired this with Windows NT back in the day. Very little software is written in assembly anymore on the PC. That means for many companies all they will have to do is recompile their code. Of course I am talking about for Windows8 for people on Android that will not be an issue at all. Next back in the day people bought software at a store. They still do sometimes but the internet and App stores have made that less common. With digital distributions you don't need to worry about getting the "wrong version" of a program or about warehousing different versions. For many programs they may just use fat binaries that offer both an ARM and X86 code segment. For most software the code is really small it is things like help files, data, and images and sound recourses that take up the most space and those wouldn't change based on ISA. Or the App store would just download the correct version to your device. If the Program is written in.Net than that is less of an issue since it uses CLR as the ISA. So let's forget the hard categories for a second. We will not see SolidWorks or Call of Duty 8 right away on ARM. So what can we expect on Windows on ARM at Launch? I would expect most Microsoft products. Office and Visual Studio for sure. I would also expect a good number of their game catalog. I would also expect a lot of FOSS. If they are already supporting both Linux and Windows they will probably hop on Windows on ARM as well. FireFox I think is a sure thing and probably GIMP OpenOffice will also be their eventually. I also expect Google to support it with Chrome. Adobe Flash is a sure bet and I would bet that other Adobe consumer products would be recompiled. Nothing is a sure thing but If I was Intel I would be very worried. Maybe Intel does need to make a cruft free X86 but that would break a lot of older software and it would be hard to tell what would and would not run. That could really tick some people off. They could create a new ISA for mobile but they have not done well in that task in the past. What I am really sad about is that Alpha is dead. Intel owns the IP from Alpha so I have to wonder could the Alpha be reborn as a competitor to ARM? It has a wonderful ISA and was a really good product.
I would say part Google and part twitter. Google for directed knowledge and Twitter for breaking news. Twitter uses a massive distributed organic super computer as it's user agent.
They are selling lower unit costs and higher power just in that segment. The I3 is the first target and then the I5. Most customers are using integrated graphics and want good enough speed with long battery life. The fact is that most people want the best bang for the buck. The top end will always be served best by discrete GPUs. AMDs best stuff is every bit as good as nVidia in the graphics space and Intel doesn't even play in that space. AMD does well in the CPU space where they compete but Intel does have the lead with the current Sandy Bridge in the I5 high end I3 class but for the average users AMDs better GPU performance makes up for it. RIght now the money is in notebooks and not in the high end.
True because it matures over time. Part of that is when you try to mark a curve of technology you often only are mapping one aspect of the performance of the technology. That can be misleading since the actual performance of any technology tends to have may attributes. Take aircraft for instance. For airliners from 1940 to around 1969 you went from 200 MPH to over 1000 MPH. But other aspects of performance kept growing while speed actually went down. Cost per seat mile, emissions, noise, and safety all improved while speed went down. The same will probably happen with computers soon as we see smaller, and less power hungry systems that are fast enough replace older systems. I think even that curve is misleading because often the increased performance shifts to a different aspect of a device over time. Most often effency of the device.
Of course it isn't the best GPU with the Best CPU. It is a good CPU with a good GPU in a small low power package. It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU. That price point is in an area where their are few buyers.
Fusions first target is going to be in small notebooks and nettops. The machines that many people buy for every day use. GPGPU's mainstream uses are going to be things like video transcoding, and other applications that are going to be more and more useful to the average user. For the big GPGPU power house just look to high end discrete cards just as high end audio users still want desecrate DSP based audio cards. I am waiting to see AMD use Hyperchannel as the CPU GPU connection in the future for really high end GPGPU systems like supercomputing clusters.
But they also released usernames and passwords. And the reason why they did it was intimidation of a news outlet. This act is anti freedom of speech and anti freedom of the press. If they felt this show was not factual they should have made a blog post or a webpage with their view and not attack PBS. I mean come on this is Freaking PBS Frontline. and they attacked it for no other reason than they didn't like what was said. Yea if someone goes up to a reporter and throws a bucket of paint on them that is assault and is a crime. If they did it because they didn't like the tone of the news they where reporting you would probably classify them as a crack pot that needs to get treatment before he really hurts someone. Calling them Hacktivists is just going to cheer them on to greater and greater acts of evil. Worst of all is that this is feeding the people that really want to crackdown on any kind of "hacking" by showing just how bad they are.
They have. I am not even saying they will not get cheaper and cheaper to a point. It is just the mythical 5 year prediction I have problems with. Right now the problem with solar is cheap natural gas which the power companies love. It is cheap and really clean burning at their end and plentiful. I have a friend that works for FPL in their renewable division. You still have all the problems of throttling solar and wind. Right now to manage the grid for every MW of solar and wind you build you must have a MW of Natural Gas Peaking plant to back it up when it is cloudy or the wind gets to low or too high.Solar and wind are not good for Base load and they are not good for peaking. Until those issues can be resolved and that will take a huge investment in research, development, and deployment of power storage systems and a massive smart grid Solar and Wind will always be five years from now.
You see that is the problem. I do not think he did a great job. I had an interesting discussion about this with a friend at work. She is in her 50s and grew up in the USSR. What she had to say was, "The problem with people is that they didn't grow up in Russia." She went on to say that in Russia they understand these things. You can not have the members of the Military deciding that they can just disobey a governments orders. Even when it starts out good it will always end up very bad. I fear that you are hopping for the wrong thing. I am betting that you want Manning to get off. That would be a terrible thing for democracy as a whole unless he was disobeying an illegal order. Frankly the orders he was obeying where not illegal from what I have seen. When are are dealing with things like laws, the military, and life and death there are procedures and rules for a very good reason. As I said if had give the data to a senator or congress person that would have been one thing. To hand it over to a foreign national is something very different. Even when breaking the rules does no harm this time and I am not sure that is even the case now you have to look at what breaking the same rules in the future could bring. As my friend said, "It never ends good".
I use a Mac and Linux but they are really only barley making a dent in the PC market. The question will be what is going to happen to laptops. Mobile devices are good but limited. You need a keyboard to do any real communication or content creation. So will the market go to tablets that dock to a keyboard like the ASUS Transformer? Will they mo6ve to mobile devices that dock with a notebook like frame like the AtrixII? Microsoft will still be making money for a very long time and keep doing very well for a long time IMHO. I am not a Microsoft fanboy at all but they are well established and very solid. Long term I would worry more about Intel than Microsoft. I can tell that for a fact in 1982 if you told people that Intel would make a PC faster than a CRAY and that someday the worlds fastest computer would use the x86 instruction set that people would have laughed in your face. Right up with telling them in 1986 that Compaq would someday buy the giant DEC or that Vaxes, PDP, and Eclipses would be replaced by X86 machines. What happened it the X86 just kept creeping up and up and economies of scale made them closer and closer to the leading edge of technology and speed. Now they have filled the entire ecosystem of computing from embedded devices to the biggest systems. At the top they only really have to compete with IBMs Power line and sort of with SPARC. I see ARM doing the exact same thing. They are going to keep getting faster and faster and pushing into the X86 markets from the bottom up. Here Intel has a problem because they do not want to sell fewer high price CPUs just to fight ARM but ARM would love to push up market. A faster more expensive ARM will not reduce profits for ARM makers but a cheaper good enough X86 will hurt Intel's bottom line. In the end it will not matter if the X86 is faster as long as ARM is fast enough, cheap enough, and runs cool enough, and long enough on a battery, ARM will win.
Slashdot Mirror
That is why the pyramid structure. I agree about basic education but the basics are taught in elementary school. Once a child has a good foundation of reading, math, science, history, and English you can then build on that. As you said we need to make sure that the overwhelming majority of students are taught the basic skills. Those skill will be taught in the very small elementary schools and the medium "small by most of today's standards" middle and jr. High Schools.
Just off the top of my head I would picture elementary as k-5 and having no more than 300 students and ideally no more than 150 students. The ideal size IMHO would be right around 120 students total. So one or two classes per grade and 25 students per class max. "Thirty at the outside but that is too large".
The middle school with would be grades six and seven would have around 400 to 500 students and the jr High school maybe the same. At that point you would transition to a high school that maybe 1500 two 2000 students or more.
I feel part of the problem with education is that kids are not allowed to find their passion. You always do best when you find something that you a passion for. That is one of the great things about the internet. When I was a kid I had a real passion for airplanes, space, and science in general. Once I read the 6 airplane books, two rocket books, and 12 science books in my school library I was stuck. When I got to my county library I found maybe 10 more space books and four aircraft books. I was lucky that my parents where well to do and could buy me books and subscribe to magazines but I got to find my class work boring. High School wasn't any better. A single subject may help a young person find what they want to do in life or at least find a joy in learning. So yes I do feel that a large selections of options at the 10-12th grade year is the best plan. Also it will introduce them to more people and hopefuly expand their circle of friends to people with different points of views.
My Android phone will be protected from this feature because Apple has a patient on it. So only iPhones will get to use this.
This is wonderful.
get Chrome or Opera
This why I feel the story is messed up. This isn't a privacy issues as much as a fame issue. It is not something new.
I don't think everyone hates Gnome and Unity. Back when I got my first Amiga I showed it to a friend and he hated it. He thought it look unproffesional. Real computers had green or amber letters on a black screen. Who needed a mouse or colors or stereo sound?
And you don't need to run more than one program at a time.
Too many people fall into the trap that New=Bad.
I have not tried Unity yet but I bet I will not find it all that terrible.
ummm... There is a lot of lithium and we are talking about very small amounts of He-3
If we got a a few Kilograms of He3 that would probably be about 1000 time more than we have on Earth now and also probably about a years production from the moon if we mined it there.
So the using up of Li for the production of He3 really doesn't amount to a anything.
And when I say kilograms I am talking about mass at one g not weight.
I don't think that is a good thing. I see it more as a pyramid. You have a lot of small elementary schools, many middle/jr.High schools, and a few or one High School.
As the person grows in maturity and knowledge you expand their circle of friends since they are more mobile. You also expand their educational options. A tiny High school may not have the resources to offer a robotics class, a drama class, a choir class, band, honors chemistry, and honors physics. You could offer specialized high schools which is done now but then what if you have student that loves music and robotics? Do you make them pick which one interests them most at such an early age? I see the ideal system for the majority of students as a ramping up. Also you never know what my spark a persons passion for learning.
Or course part of the idea is that you never really break the connection to community. So maybe your home room instead of being by alphabetical order like it was in my High School would be by your Elementary school. Plus the Elementary school would be the bus stop for the students moving up to the more distant bigger schools.
Yes the point of the letter was that it is stupid to protect the budget of prisons while cutting the education budget. I have told people time and time again you have two choices. You can pay for better schools or bigger prisons. I also think a good start would be two reverse the old actions of desegregation at the Elementary school level.
Ideally I feel that small Elementary schools and they should serve students within a small radius is the correct structure for elementary aged education. The elementary school could then be the center of the neighborhood. They play ground would double as a park on the weekend and over the summer. The library could stay open over the summer and be a children's branch library for the library system. That way kids can be build friendships with children near where they live and parents can know each other. Community is a lot of what is missing these days. Of course as they move up then they move into bigger and bigger schools and more diverse communities of students. The trick is to keep the quality high across the different schools but there has got to be a better way than shipping first graders around to balance the books based on the color of their skin. In may community at least that isn't a problem since it is really diverse but yet we still have huge elementary schools with hundreds of students in them. Some of the K-8s "also a bad idea" look like high schools.
They could but it is really hard to do that over and over again. Plus fans might hat that more.
Sorry not a big Green Arrow fan of frankly comics in general. Thanks for the correction I thought he was a 60s creation.
Except they kind of have too. Superman and Batman would both be what? 80 or 90 years old now? Iron Man would be at least 60 or 70. Green Arrow would be in his 50s or 60s. You would need new people for each role and a new backstory for them For some like Superman you could just make immortal but for and some like Batman and and Green Arrow would be possible but other with super powers you would have problems with. Do they get married and have kids and pass it down or what?
Thanks that is the most import part of the story.
Not really or as reliable. Since this was the 1960s or 70s you would have had lead acid batteries which suck. Also think of the size of a surge that you would have to have to destroy a large electric motor. The system used a large flywheel, generator, motor, and a diesel generator. When the power failed a after a short time a clutch engaged and the fly wheel started the diesel. These where all industral sized system and where super reliable.
They where also used as a suppressor and UPS on mainframes. Some mainframes uses a big electric motor to turn a flywheel that was hooked to a generator to act as a voltage regulator. Very effective for brown outs and spikes. And yea I remember reading about them in PopSci in the 70s right down to the magnetic bearings, carbon fiber, and vacuum chamber. Also some pretty spectacular pictures of failures as well.
And there are still people making PDP-11s and using Vax systems. PC will not die completely but the software issue is a lot smaller now than when Microsoft tired this with Windows NT back in the day. Very little software is written in assembly anymore on the PC. That means for many companies all they will have to do is recompile their code. Of course I am talking about for Windows8 for people on Android that will not be an issue at all. Next back in the day people bought software at a store. They still do sometimes but the internet and App stores have made that less common. With digital distributions you don't need to worry about getting the "wrong version" of a program or about warehousing different versions. For many programs they may just use fat binaries that offer both an ARM and X86 code segment. For most software the code is really small it is things like help files, data, and images and sound recourses that take up the most space and those wouldn't change based on ISA. .Net than that is less of an issue since it uses CLR as the ISA.
Or the App store would just download the correct version to your device. If the Program is written in
So let's forget the hard categories for a second. We will not see SolidWorks or Call of Duty 8 right away on ARM. So what can we expect on Windows on ARM at Launch?
I would expect most Microsoft products.
Office and Visual Studio for sure.
I would also expect a good number of their game catalog.
I would also expect a lot of FOSS. If they are already supporting both Linux and Windows they will probably hop on Windows on ARM as well.
FireFox I think is a sure thing and probably GIMP
OpenOffice will also be their eventually.
I also expect Google to support it with Chrome.
Adobe Flash is a sure bet and I would bet that other Adobe consumer products would be recompiled.
Nothing is a sure thing but If I was Intel I would be very worried. Maybe Intel does need to make a cruft free X86 but that would break a lot of older software and it would be hard to tell what would and would not run. That could really tick some people off. They could create a new ISA for mobile but they have not done well in that task in the past.
What I am really sad about is that Alpha is dead. Intel owns the IP from Alpha so I have to wonder could the Alpha be reborn as a competitor to ARM? It has a wonderful ISA and was a really good product.
These are new computers so XP isn't an issue. MacOS does but they only run Intel for now. Linux we will see.
I would say part Google and part twitter. Google for directed knowledge and Twitter for breaking news. Twitter uses a massive distributed organic super computer as it's user agent.
Yes it will. Most web browsers now use hardware acceleration.
They are selling lower unit costs and higher power just in that segment. The I3 is the first target and then the I5. Most customers are using integrated graphics and want good enough speed with long battery life. The fact is that most people want the best bang for the buck. The top end will always be served best by discrete GPUs. AMDs best stuff is every bit as good as nVidia in the graphics space and Intel doesn't even play in that space. AMD does well in the CPU space where they compete but Intel does have the lead with the current Sandy Bridge in the I5 high end I3 class but for the average users AMDs better GPU performance makes up for it.
RIght now the money is in notebooks and not in the high end.
True because it matures over time. Part of that is when you try to mark a curve of technology you often only are mapping one aspect of the performance of the technology.
That can be misleading since the actual performance of any technology tends to have may attributes.
Take aircraft for instance. For airliners from 1940 to around 1969 you went from 200 MPH to over 1000 MPH. But other aspects of performance kept growing while speed actually went down. Cost per seat mile, emissions, noise, and safety all improved while speed went down.
The same will probably happen with computers soon as we see smaller, and less power hungry systems that are fast enough replace older systems. I think even that curve is misleading because often the increased performance shifts to a different aspect of a device over time. Most often effency of the device.
Of course it isn't the best GPU with the Best CPU. It is a good CPU with a good GPU in a small low power package. It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU. That price point is in an area where their are few buyers.
Fusions first target is going to be in small notebooks and nettops. The machines that many people buy for every day use.
GPGPU's mainstream uses are going to be things like video transcoding, and other applications that are going to be more and more useful to the average user.
For the big GPGPU power house just look to high end discrete cards just as high end audio users still want desecrate DSP based audio cards. I am waiting to see AMD use Hyperchannel as the CPU GPU connection in the future for really high end GPGPU systems like supercomputing clusters.
But they also released usernames and passwords. And the reason why they did it was intimidation of a news outlet. This act is anti freedom of speech and anti freedom of the press.
If they felt this show was not factual they should have made a blog post or a webpage with their view and not attack PBS. I mean come on this is Freaking PBS Frontline. and they attacked it for no other reason than they didn't like what was said. Yea if someone goes up to a reporter and throws a bucket of paint on them that is assault and is a crime. If they did it because they didn't like the tone of the news they where reporting you would probably classify them as a crack pot that needs to get treatment before he really hurts someone.
Calling them Hacktivists is just going to cheer them on to greater and greater acts of evil. Worst of all is that this is feeding the people that really want to crackdown on any kind of "hacking" by showing just how bad they are.
They have. I am not even saying they will not get cheaper and cheaper to a point. It is just the mythical 5 year prediction I have problems with. Right now the problem with solar is cheap natural gas which the power companies love. It is cheap and really clean burning at their end and plentiful.
I have a friend that works for FPL in their renewable division. You still have all the problems of throttling solar and wind. Right now to manage the grid for every MW of solar and wind you build you must have a MW of Natural Gas Peaking plant to back it up when it is cloudy or the wind gets to low or too high.Solar and wind are not good for Base load and they are not good for peaking. Until those issues can be resolved and that will take a huge investment in research, development, and deployment of power storage systems and a massive smart grid Solar and Wind will always be five years from now.
You see that is the problem. I do not think he did a great job. I had an interesting discussion about this with a friend at work. She is in her 50s and grew up in the USSR. What she had to say was, "The problem with people is that they didn't grow up in Russia." She went on to say that in Russia they understand these things. You can not have the members of the Military deciding that they can just disobey a governments orders. Even when it starts out good it will always end up very bad. I fear that you are hopping for the wrong thing. I am betting that you want Manning to get off. That would be a terrible thing for democracy as a whole unless he was disobeying an illegal order. Frankly the orders he was obeying where not illegal from what I have seen. When are are dealing with things like laws, the military, and life and death there are procedures and rules for a very good reason. As I said if had give the data to a senator or congress person that would have been one thing. To hand it over to a foreign national is something very different. Even when breaking the rules does no harm this time and I am not sure that is even the case now you have to look at what breaking the same rules in the future could bring. As my friend said, "It never ends good".
I use a Mac and Linux but they are really only barley making a dent in the PC market. The question will be what is going to happen to laptops. Mobile devices are good but limited. You need a keyboard to do any real communication or content creation. So will the market go to tablets that dock to a keyboard like the ASUS Transformer? Will they mo6ve to mobile devices that dock with a notebook like frame like the AtrixII?
Microsoft will still be making money for a very long time and keep doing very well for a long time IMHO. I am not a Microsoft fanboy at all but they are well established and very solid.
Long term I would worry more about Intel than Microsoft. I can tell that for a fact in 1982 if you told people that Intel would make a PC faster than a CRAY and that someday the worlds fastest computer would use the x86 instruction set that people would have laughed in your face. Right up with telling them in 1986 that Compaq would someday buy the giant DEC or that Vaxes, PDP, and Eclipses would be replaced by X86 machines. What happened it the X86 just kept creeping up and up and economies of scale made them closer and closer to the leading edge of technology and speed. Now they have filled the entire ecosystem of computing from embedded devices to the biggest systems. At the top they only really have to compete with IBMs Power line and sort of with SPARC.
I see ARM doing the exact same thing. They are going to keep getting faster and faster and pushing into the X86 markets from the bottom up. Here Intel has a problem because they do not want to sell fewer high price CPUs just to fight ARM but ARM would love to push up market. A faster more expensive ARM will not reduce profits for ARM makers but a cheaper good enough X86 will hurt Intel's bottom line. In the end it will not matter if the X86 is faster as long as ARM is fast enough, cheap enough, and runs cool enough, and long enough on a battery, ARM will win.