But I hope it does change and I get to have a crack at it!
Heh... End of month, possibly first part of next, the hackers get a crack at the Raspberry PI's to start forming some of the concepts and possibly even helping form some of the advanced concept portions of an ICT/beginning college curriculum with the R-Pi (Some are contemplating GPGPU ideas and others are thinking cluster computing and similar as a teaching the concepts idea...I'm part of the clustering crowd over in their forums. It's not going to make a blazing cluster without something GPGPU to tie into the fairly powerful mobile GPU as a co-processor- but it's going to be able to allow people to understand how varying cluster models work and be able to tinker with them on the cheap.) I'm hoping that the R-Pi Foundation does succeed. It's a win for as many as that takes this, what is basically a gift to the world, and runs with it.
Ah, but that doesn't change the reality of the GP poster's remarks. As long as it will do faceplant and pr0n, many, if not most users will never notice.
And at least some seem to be doing that with the current crop of Android tablets, citing that it does all of what they need while travelling when a keyboard's added either by dock or by bluetooth. And, I'd have to agree. There's two differing products that do good for what Office does on Android. There's several Facebook-centric apps, and a whole host of others that do well and the browser works for many of the other things. There's even Flash, though that's still lackluster (more because Adobe's not figured out how to make their toy fast...). Doesn't matter if it's a modular laptop or tablet (I've viewed the tablets as modular laptops anyhow...don't need the keyboard? WHY drag it along with it's extra power consumption? Don't need the CD/DVD drive? Why drag it along?)? I'm thinking not.
Only in the sense of trying to get Windows on to it in the desktop context. ARM's not going away any time soon- it's used all over the place, just not in desktops and notebooks right at the moment.
No, probably more along the lines of business tablets that need X86 and some warped version of Windows. Medfield allegedly has an idle power that is 2-2.5 times higher than the peak for a dual-core A9 configuration typically used in phones. If that's really the case, it's going suck seriously with only about a 2-4 max idle lifespan for the devices using them.
There's tons more quoting Microsoft officials on this- ZDNet's the only one that says what you're saying. Reality is, in order to accomplish what you're talking about there, you're going to need a bit more oomph as emulation of the X86 on ARM's not exactly what one would call "stellar" and you're going to need that to make what you're talking to work. It might be doable if you were talking 2+ GHz A15's- but we don't have those yet and at that level, you're actually better off moving on to something else.
Uh, hate to disillusion you... Android's nothing more than the Android app framework sitting on Linux with an Android themed directory structure. WebOS was nothing more than the same story with WebOS being replacing "Android" in that statement. Tizen's the same thing as WebOS in that respect. If Google had skipped using Bionic and used glibc, many would have got this a bit better. If it helps think in terms of Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Mandriva, and Gentoo (and a whole host of others...)- those are all considered "Linux". What makes any of the aforementioned any different?
Not to mention that it fails upon the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection Under the Law) and the 5th Amendment (Due Process Requirement).
Yeah, I know...they don't give a damn. The thing is...those Amendments...they're not automatic things. They require a belligerent Citizen DEMANDING that they be upheld. You can't plead the Fifth without you there to do it in a Trial, your Attorney CAN'T do it for you. Same goes for a demand that all evidence and the case get tossed due to violations of the Fourth Amendment. Same goes for pretty much ANY of the BoR.
You all want your rights upheld? You're going to have to start pushing back, folks, instead of hoping and relying upon them doing it for you- because they're not obligated and won't.
The Prius is probably the only Hybrid where the reality of what a Hybrid MIGHT be meets the pavement. It's got engines that are roughly equal in capability, horsepower-wise, and similar thinking about it. The only negatives for the Prius is that the batteries are a problem that offsets IT'S gains on being "green". Most of the other Hybrids are as the author claims things right at the moment. And a wall-plug model of the Prius is actually MORE polluting than the gasoline only model- you cause more pollution (it's just not nearby you...) by pulling juice from the grid- where it's Gas and Coal fired plants making the electricity. It's just more economical...right now...to do that.
And there you go. It's not green. It's just a nicer ride. I've driven a Prius and they're amazing. They're just not the "good for the environment" thing or the "efficient thing" that people make them out to be. What you should note in your case, though, is that the author IS right- once the battery is depleted, the gas engine kicks in and won't shut off until it's caught back up. Your usage allows it to catch back up. I suspect that if you were driving all throughout the hills all day long instead of driving up to them and then descending, you'd find your fuel efficiency would plummet to that 15 you see going up the hill.
They could've accomplished all of the things you talk to with modern engines without the Hybrid. Hybrids are interesting and have much potential- but they're not the green thing that people make them out to be right now. They could be- but they're not.
Heh... The thing is... I'm less concerned with the cost (though in reference to what I'm about to say...it adds to the issue...).
The biggest problem with Hybrids being touted as "green" is that they're NOT. Sure, they produce less vehicle emissions. But what about the batteries. Yes, you can recycle them, but there's still left-over pollution as a result of those batteries- and it's actually worse than the emissions from the cars right now (Which are more due to the dinking around with fuels trying to "reduce emissions" than as much as anything else. Ethanol "burns cleaner" but you end up burning more of it, which, strangely enough, offsets your "gains" there with it. Same goes for CNG powered vehicles...). And plug-in stuff isn't any better. Until you get honest clean energy solutions (wind's not it right now, nor is solar...and neither will be there anytime in our lifetimes...) you're going to be using Coal and Gas fired power plants...which emit as much or more of the same pollutants the cars do when you bring all those EV's online.
If you tout it as a start towards "doing better", Hybrids might be that. As being "green"...that's a lie. And yes, we need to "do better". But we need to quit kidding ourselves about this and go about it the right and honest way about it. I strongly suspect that we can get an IC engine to run cleaner, clean and efficient enough to weigh in at the same levels as a Hybrid without the battery waste and the shifting of carbon emissions that's just kiddinng ourselves.
He's probably computing it based off of fuel consumed for distance driven from fuel-up to fuel-up. That's close enough for the purposes of what we're talking about here. On a good trip, my V6 Ranger pickup will get 22-23MPG, it typically gets 18-20 with most of my driving. There's techniques one can use to add a few. I question his 31 estimate, but more for the difficulty of doing the things needing to be done to accomplish it with the GTI.
You'd have to be affected or potentially affected by it to file to the docket- and if they don't grant Cert, you won't get heard. If they do decide to hear your case, you will need to be able to tie SOPA back to the Bill of Rights or to a power prohibited by the core of the Constitution. I won't say it isn't, but "seems" means you don't know...
I would, if that were the only choice. The problem with this thinking is...quite simply...what put the reins of power solely in the hands of the Democrats for 6 years at the Federal level for the past pass at this little game you propose (and it is one, sadly...). What you need to do is to do what you propose but to find people not part of the system to put in the place of the ones you're removing that way. Voting in someone that is a participant of the corrupt system (Democrats and Republicans would be that...) is only going to keep it going for a long while to come. Once that is in motion, you make it illegal to influence the system the way the businesses and other interests that are not of We The People do.
Heh... You're mistaken on the Health Care bill. It was created to mandate that EVERYONE get health insurance, tax you if you don't (and jail you if you don't pay it...), introduce a vast number of regulations on things you clearly didn't know about in a vain attempt to "fund" the initiative, and a vast array of regulations that quite simply moved the price UP so that more couldn't afford it. You have SOPA right. Simply put, they up-sold the lie in the case of "ObamaCare" and aren't even trying in the case of SOPA.
Quite simply, the Federal Government needs to have 2/3rds of the laws they've made taken off the books or to have Congress, who is mostly exempt from all of this crap, have it explicitly apply to them at the same time it does to us. A lot of this BS will stop and they'll shrink the bills a bit because they won't want booby-traps for themselves lurking.
And with some care about knowing which ABI's and API's you're using, you can take a binary from the Ubuntu distribution and run it on Red Hat, etc.
You can't do that stupid trick as readily with Android. If it were as simple as you describe, you'd be able to grab an Android userland binary and run it on ARM Debian or Ubuntu...which isn't possible.
Heh... If it were using Linus' version of Linux, you'd be able to take the application userland via AOSS and run non-NDK applications with a minimum amount of jiggery-pokery on the desktop.
You. Can't.
And it's not because of just their insistence on the graphics being "non-standard". Android's Linux kernel has additional mods that have yet to be merged back in. So, it's an Android specific fork of the Linux kernel combined with an Android app framework in an Android specific userland (it's different than pretty much any Linux distribution's layout or buildup...)- so while you can make a Linux app work under Android, it doesn't lead that it's just simply Linux with the Android app framework slapped on top of it.
Heh...that still doesn't negate the remark. Android's a fork of Linux with the Android application framework running on it- while there's differences there, calling it an OS is "okay".
J2ME is solely an application framework. It's capable of running on WinMo, WebOS, Linux, Windows, OSX, technically, Android (in theory, all you need do is adjust PhoneME to run on it via an NDK port...) and a whole host of others. Calling it an "OS" just shows you don't know a single thing about what you're talking about in that regard (including the Article's author...).
Depends on your viewpoint. Riches aren't wealth, for starters. And while he was born into it, it remains to be seen that one can KEEP it. Look at all of those large lottery pot winners... Most of them are destroyed by the wealth they gained- and are broke soon after they gain that wealth. Many that're born into wealth don't keep it.
It's as much a state of mind as having the resource in question.
You might find it hillariously stupid...but then, you probably haven't a clue how the people before him gained their wealth to have him born into it. The wealth wasn't just simply there and the wealthy all born into it. Most have to at least initially TAKE it through wits and initiative. The fact is...any can acheive wealth if they figure these things I allude to out and execute the plan they arrive at from that knowlege and do it well.
It's just that most people don't see the path there. Either their mind doesn't move in the right ways or they're unwilling to realize that there's a disconnect between what you've been told about wealth, riches, and money. Money is the token showing you your personal power at any given moment. Without it, you're limited in what you can/can't do outside of your own personal abilities. How you leverage that power determines whether you're "poor" or "rich". You can get a billion dollars handed to you, but if you don't manage how you utilize the money, you won't stay "rich" for very long. Trump's actually one of the ones that clearly knows how to handle money in the manner I allude to- he's obviously expanded his fortunes beyond what he started with (which wasn't really being "born into wealth"). Robert Kyosaki's another, as is Larry Winget. Based on your remarks...you're one of those that don't see this fact of life.
There's a few others like this one. This includes the GMA stuff where they claimed the Xy000 series of GMA's were capable of playing games, etc. They're better than their last passes at IGPs, but compared to AMD's lineup in that same space, they're below sub-par. Chipzilla rolls out stuff like this all the time. Been doing it for years now.
There's a few others like this one. This includes the GMA stuff where they claimed the Xy000 series of GMA's were capable of playing games, etc. They're better than their last passes at IGPs, but compared to AMD's lineup in that same space, they're below sub-par. Chipzilla rolls out stuff like this all the time. Been doing it for years now.
I didn't know that the Supremes actually had any weight on this...
(Hint: It's the Supreme Court. The Supremes is a vocal group....use the proper naming and terminology...)
As it stands...a Liberal majority Supreme Court wouldn't have ruled any differently. Seriously. It might've even done worse- they've been known to nuke real rights instead of this stuff. You know, things like waving a wand and erasing aspects of the Bill of Rights illegally. That sort of thing.
If you think that Liberal or Conservative means anything other than flip sides of the same rotten corrupted coin, you're kidding yourself and lying to everyone including yourself.
It's not about them no longer supplying it, but actually ripping it out of your box. They've already distributed it, and under an appropriate license- it wasn't leased out and the license doesn't require removal once the license is retired.
It does not make any sense to do what Canonical's doing here. Not happy about that thinking.
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Heh... They keep thinking they've got a better answer, when in fact, all they have is a different one in most cases.
Heh... End of month, possibly first part of next, the hackers get a crack at the Raspberry PI's to start forming some of the concepts and possibly even helping form some of the advanced concept portions of an ICT/beginning college curriculum with the R-Pi (Some are contemplating GPGPU ideas and others are thinking cluster computing and similar as a teaching the concepts idea...I'm part of the clustering crowd over in their forums. It's not going to make a blazing cluster without something GPGPU to tie into the fairly powerful mobile GPU as a co-processor- but it's going to be able to allow people to understand how varying cluster models work and be able to tinker with them on the cheap.) I'm hoping that the R-Pi Foundation does succeed. It's a win for as many as that takes this, what is basically a gift to the world, and runs with it.
Ah, but that doesn't change the reality of the GP poster's remarks. As long as it will do faceplant and pr0n, many, if not most users will never notice.
And at least some seem to be doing that with the current crop of Android tablets, citing that it does all of what they need while travelling when a keyboard's added either by dock or by bluetooth. And, I'd have to agree. There's two differing products that do good for what Office does on Android. There's several Facebook-centric apps, and a whole host of others that do well and the browser works for many of the other things. There's even Flash, though that's still lackluster (more because Adobe's not figured out how to make their toy fast...). Doesn't matter if it's a modular laptop or tablet (I've viewed the tablets as modular laptops anyhow...don't need the keyboard? WHY drag it along with it's extra power consumption? Don't need the CD/DVD drive? Why drag it along?)? I'm thinking not.
Only in the sense of trying to get Windows on to it in the desktop context. ARM's not going away any time soon- it's used all over the place, just not in desktops and notebooks right at the moment.
No, probably more along the lines of business tablets that need X86 and some warped version of Windows. Medfield allegedly has an idle power that is 2-2.5 times higher than the peak for a dual-core A9 configuration typically used in phones. If that's really the case, it's going suck seriously with only about a 2-4 max idle lifespan for the devices using them.
Really?
http://www.slashgear.com/windows-8-on-arm-wont-run-x86-apps-microsoft-admits-16180415/
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/will-windows-8-run-x86-apps-arm-tablets-or-not-173498
There's tons more quoting Microsoft officials on this- ZDNet's the only one that says what you're saying. Reality is, in order to accomplish what you're talking about there, you're going to need a bit more oomph as emulation of the X86 on ARM's not exactly what one would call "stellar" and you're going to need that to make what you're talking to work. It might be doable if you were talking 2+ GHz A15's- but we don't have those yet and at that level, you're actually better off moving on to something else.
Uh, hate to disillusion you... Android's nothing more than the Android app framework sitting on Linux with an Android themed directory structure. WebOS was nothing more than the same story with WebOS being replacing "Android" in that statement. Tizen's the same thing as WebOS in that respect. If Google had skipped using Bionic and used glibc, many would have got this a bit better. If it helps think in terms of Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Mandriva, and Gentoo (and a whole host of others...)- those are all considered "Linux". What makes any of the aforementioned any different?
Not to mention that it fails upon the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection Under the Law) and the 5th Amendment (Due Process Requirement).
Yeah, I know...they don't give a damn. The thing is...those Amendments...they're not automatic things. They require a belligerent Citizen DEMANDING that they be upheld. You can't plead the Fifth without you there to do it in a Trial, your Attorney CAN'T do it for you. Same goes for a demand that all evidence and the case get tossed due to violations of the Fourth Amendment. Same goes for pretty much ANY of the BoR.
You all want your rights upheld? You're going to have to start pushing back, folks, instead of hoping and relying upon them doing it for you- because they're not obligated and won't.
The Prius is probably the only Hybrid where the reality of what a Hybrid MIGHT be meets the pavement. It's got engines that are roughly equal in capability, horsepower-wise, and similar thinking about it. The only negatives for the Prius is that the batteries are a problem that offsets IT'S gains on being "green". Most of the other Hybrids are as the author claims things right at the moment. And a wall-plug model of the Prius is actually MORE polluting than the gasoline only model- you cause more pollution (it's just not nearby you...) by pulling juice from the grid- where it's Gas and Coal fired plants making the electricity. It's just more economical...right now...to do that.
And there you go. It's not green. It's just a nicer ride. I've driven a Prius and they're amazing. They're just not the "good for the environment" thing or the "efficient thing" that people make them out to be. What you should note in your case, though, is that the author IS right- once the battery is depleted, the gas engine kicks in and won't shut off until it's caught back up. Your usage allows it to catch back up. I suspect that if you were driving all throughout the hills all day long instead of driving up to them and then descending, you'd find your fuel efficiency would plummet to that 15 you see going up the hill.
They could've accomplished all of the things you talk to with modern engines without the Hybrid. Hybrids are interesting and have much potential- but they're not the green thing that people make them out to be right now. They could be- but they're not.
Heh... The thing is... I'm less concerned with the cost (though in reference to what I'm about to say...it adds to the issue...).
The biggest problem with Hybrids being touted as "green" is that they're NOT. Sure, they produce less vehicle emissions. But what about the batteries. Yes, you can recycle them, but there's still left-over pollution as a result of those batteries- and it's actually worse than the emissions from the cars right now (Which are more due to the dinking around with fuels trying to "reduce emissions" than as much as anything else. Ethanol "burns cleaner" but you end up burning more of it, which, strangely enough, offsets your "gains" there with it. Same goes for CNG powered vehicles...). And plug-in stuff isn't any better. Until you get honest clean energy solutions (wind's not it right now, nor is solar...and neither will be there anytime in our lifetimes...) you're going to be using Coal and Gas fired power plants...which emit as much or more of the same pollutants the cars do when you bring all those EV's online.
If you tout it as a start towards "doing better", Hybrids might be that. As being "green"...that's a lie. And yes, we need to "do better". But we need to quit kidding ourselves about this and go about it the right and honest way about it. I strongly suspect that we can get an IC engine to run cleaner, clean and efficient enough to weigh in at the same levels as a Hybrid without the battery waste and the shifting of carbon emissions that's just kiddinng ourselves.
He's probably computing it based off of fuel consumed for distance driven from fuel-up to fuel-up. That's close enough for the purposes of what we're talking about here. On a good trip, my V6 Ranger pickup will get 22-23MPG, it typically gets 18-20 with most of my driving. There's techniques one can use to add a few. I question his 31 estimate, but more for the difficulty of doing the things needing to be done to accomplish it with the GTI.
You'd have to be affected or potentially affected by it to file to the docket- and if they don't grant Cert, you won't get heard. If they do decide to hear your case, you will need to be able to tie SOPA back to the Bill of Rights or to a power prohibited by the core of the Constitution. I won't say it isn't, but "seems" means you don't know...
I would, if that were the only choice. The problem with this thinking is...quite simply...what put the reins of power solely in the hands of the Democrats for 6 years at the Federal level for the past pass at this little game you propose (and it is one, sadly...). What you need to do is to do what you propose but to find people not part of the system to put in the place of the ones you're removing that way. Voting in someone that is a participant of the corrupt system (Democrats and Republicans would be that...) is only going to keep it going for a long while to come. Once that is in motion, you make it illegal to influence the system the way the businesses and other interests that are not of We The People do.
Heh... You're mistaken on the Health Care bill. It was created to mandate that EVERYONE get health insurance, tax you if you don't (and jail you if you don't pay it...), introduce a vast number of regulations on things you clearly didn't know about in a vain attempt to "fund" the initiative, and a vast array of regulations that quite simply moved the price UP so that more couldn't afford it. You have SOPA right. Simply put, they up-sold the lie in the case of "ObamaCare" and aren't even trying in the case of SOPA.
Quite simply, the Federal Government needs to have 2/3rds of the laws they've made taken off the books or to have Congress, who is mostly exempt from all of this crap, have it explicitly apply to them at the same time it does to us. A lot of this BS will stop and they'll shrink the bills a bit because they won't want booby-traps for themselves lurking.
Only to the extent that the Federal Government or State Government is NOT involved on it.
Once they are, the explicitly DO apply- I know that one from personal experience...
And with some care about knowing which ABI's and API's you're using, you can take a binary from the Ubuntu distribution and run it on Red Hat, etc.
You can't do that stupid trick as readily with Android. If it were as simple as you describe, you'd be able to grab an Android userland binary and run it on ARM Debian or Ubuntu...which isn't possible.
Heh... If it were using Linus' version of Linux, you'd be able to take the application userland via AOSS and run non-NDK applications with a minimum amount of jiggery-pokery on the desktop.
You. Can't.
And it's not because of just their insistence on the graphics being "non-standard". Android's Linux kernel has additional mods that have yet to be merged back in. So, it's an Android specific fork of the Linux kernel combined with an Android app framework in an Android specific userland (it's different than pretty much any Linux distribution's layout or buildup...)- so while you can make a Linux app work under Android, it doesn't lead that it's just simply Linux with the Android app framework slapped on top of it.
Heh...that still doesn't negate the remark. Android's a fork of Linux with the Android application framework running on it- while there's differences there, calling it an OS is "okay".
J2ME is solely an application framework. It's capable of running on WinMo, WebOS, Linux, Windows, OSX, technically, Android (in theory, all you need do is adjust PhoneME to run on it via an NDK port...) and a whole host of others. Calling it an "OS" just shows you don't know a single thing about what you're talking about in that regard (including the Article's author...).
Depends on your viewpoint. Riches aren't wealth, for starters. And while he was born into it, it remains to be seen that one can KEEP it. Look at all of those large lottery pot winners... Most of them are destroyed by the wealth they gained- and are broke soon after they gain that wealth. Many that're born into wealth don't keep it.
It's as much a state of mind as having the resource in question.
You might find it hillariously stupid...but then, you probably haven't a clue how the people before him gained their wealth to have him born into it. The wealth wasn't just simply there and the wealthy all born into it. Most have to at least initially TAKE it through wits and initiative. The fact is...any can acheive wealth if they figure these things I allude to out and execute the plan they arrive at from that knowlege and do it well.
It's just that most people don't see the path there. Either their mind doesn't move in the right ways or they're unwilling to realize that there's a disconnect between what you've been told about wealth, riches, and money. Money is the token showing you your personal power at any given moment. Without it, you're limited in what you can/can't do outside of your own personal abilities. How you leverage that power determines whether you're "poor" or "rich". You can get a billion dollars handed to you, but if you don't manage how you utilize the money, you won't stay "rich" for very long. Trump's actually one of the ones that clearly knows how to handle money in the manner I allude to- he's obviously expanded his fortunes beyond what he started with (which wasn't really being "born into wealth"). Robert Kyosaki's another, as is Larry Winget. Based on your remarks...you're one of those that don't see this fact of life.
Recent track record... Yeah, sure...
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Larrabee-canceled-Intel-concedes-discrete-graphics-NVIDIA-AMDfor-now
There's a few others like this one. This includes the GMA stuff where they claimed the Xy000 series of GMA's were capable of playing games, etc. They're better than their last passes at IGPs, but compared to AMD's lineup in that same space, they're below sub-par. Chipzilla rolls out stuff like this all the time. Been doing it for years now.
Larrabee.
Sandy Bridge (at it's beginnings...).
GMA X-series.
Pentium 4's NetBurst.
iAPX 432.
There's a past track record that implies your faith in this is a bit misplaced at this time.
Recent track record... Yeah, sure...
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Larrabee-canceled-Intel-concedes-discrete-graphics-NVIDIA-AMDfor-now
There's a few others like this one. This includes the GMA stuff where they claimed the Xy000 series of GMA's were capable of playing games, etc. They're better than their last passes at IGPs, but compared to AMD's lineup in that same space, they're below sub-par. Chipzilla rolls out stuff like this all the time. Been doing it for years now.
Larrabee.
Sandy Bridge (at it's beginnings...).
GMA X-series.
Pentium 4's NetBurst.
iAPX 432.
There's a past track record that implies your faith in this is a bit misplaced at this time.
I didn't know that the Supremes actually had any weight on this...
(Hint: It's the Supreme Court. The Supremes is a vocal group....use the proper naming and terminology...)
As it stands...a Liberal majority Supreme Court wouldn't have ruled any differently. Seriously. It might've even done worse- they've been known to nuke real rights instead of this stuff. You know, things like waving a wand and erasing aspects of the Bill of Rights illegally. That sort of thing.
If you think that Liberal or Conservative means anything other than flip sides of the same rotten corrupted coin, you're kidding yourself and lying to everyone including yourself.
It's not about them no longer supplying it, but actually ripping it out of your box. They've already distributed it, and under an appropriate license- it wasn't leased out and the license doesn't require removal once the license is retired.
It does not make any sense to do what Canonical's doing here. Not happy about that thinking.