There's sure to be more than these two companies doing them- and they largely work with anything capacitive from what I understand (though with varying results...). This means you don't need to change a thing- just design it with the finger touch capability, audit one of the designs out there with your tablet, and then make your case and cosmetics on the stylus match up.
So, they don't really work as poorly as you're implying. It's not so much a tradeoff because it's more that the vendors didn't want to bundle a stylus with the basic devices because people were bitching about losing the damned things.:-D
1) They could miss things on Sandy Bridge. Do keep in mind that we WERE supposed to see Larrabee LAST year and they boggled on it.
2) Arm A9's more scalable than you seem to give credit for- they're just showing 2GHz silicon right now that's destined for mobile hardware. If you relax the requirements for TDP a bit and design for that opening up of things, you can ramp up clock quite nicely. In the space for a console unit, I could envision someone talking ARM possibly into doing a 3-4 GHz version of the A9 and doing well with it as it'd be much more than the current crop of CPUs in TDP and performance.
3) Sandy Bridge has NOTHING to do with the mobile or console space. It's a desktop/server space component with insane TDPs for anything other than those uses. (Here's a hint: What CPU is being used in the current gen consoles? While it's most definitely not ARM, it's also not X86 and the one player that did X86 in the prior generation dropped it for PowerPC...)
While I don't wholly disagree with your thinking, none of the reasons you've given really pan out. You give too much to Intel and not enough to what is currently going on in the industry, including in the ARM CPU space.
Heh... I don't know... Seems like they've managed pretty well with the first four thousand being sold out hours after the offer on production for the OpenPandora- and there's a waiting line for the next production batch.
If you're talking like PS3, X-Box 360, and Wii or perhaps the PSP and DS- yeah, that isn't "popular". That's more because there's not big money behind it with advertising, etc.
As for a tradition there, the item you linked doesn't say anything about that sort of thing. Set-tops would be little different that a PS3 as it's being sold, really- and if they could economically bring all those parts into a TV, they'd sell them that way. Right now, however, the parts are only there for something like an X-Box classic in capabilities being economical to add to a HD TV/Monitor.
Picture roughly the effective power of the X-Box classic or the Wii.
Now, picture that device fitting in the palm of your hand and consumes about a watt or so under full-tilt operation.
Impossible? Hardly. Here's a partial list of the very devices that fit this picture I'm painting.
BeagleBoard BeagleBoard xM (Much more aggressive config with 1GHz SoC, etc.) Gumstix Overo Pandora Gaming Handheld Nokia N900 Droid Droid X Droid Incredible Droid 2 Always Innovating Touchbook Dell Streak iPhone G3 iPhone G4 iPad (The list can't be exhaustive- it's any device that's sporting an OMAP3, Snapdragon with GPU, iMx515, Marvell Sheeva series SoC; there's no way to list just how many machines really, really do fit in this space right at the moment.)
This is with the currently shipping generation of ARM based systems. No, it's not a PS3 or 360. The handheld space will start getting devices that'll get a whiff of that space sometime end of this to middle of the next year when the Cortex A9 and equivalent derived SoC's start showing up. They'll perform in a very similar power envelope, perform more akin to the CPUs in the consoles and have from one to four primary CPU cores in an SMP configuration. The only sticking point would be the GPU and you can get credible performance with less transistors doing resolutions like 800x400 or 1024x600- and that's all the mobile devices really offer and can currently do.
This is not saying that they won't have consoles that make this look weak in comparison- odds on the big 3 has equally impressive things waiting for us that put them back ahead of that pack I allude to here. However, the power densities you hint at aren't needed to do the consoles now. It's just that the PARTS they're using need that much.
Will handhelds replace consoles? Hardly. But there's about to be a BIG jump in what a handheld can and will do and it'll place it well into the current console generation's space fairly quick.
Really? Ever heard of editing/etc/profile and changing the PATH statement there? No, there's no GUI tool- but under Windows it's not wholly clear like you make it out to be where it is. Yeah you can change it- but then so can I under Linux in as much of an easy way as you can under Windows- it's just different and if you're unfamiliar with one or the other, you're not going to be doing it on EITHER.
Oh, you've just not heard from Google and others...
Net Neutrality is about not dinking with traffic- just deliver it.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with bittorrent traffic- I don't pirate, I get Linux distributions and other things that're a LEGITIMATE use of that protocol.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with SIP traffic from a competing telecom interest so that the ISP can sell their own SIP or h.323 service.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with HTTP traffic going to/from Google and all of those others you mention.
It's all of that. And it DOES affect you. You're wrong like you surmise at the end of your post.
The fact that Obama and the Dems promised something along these lines, haven't done much WITH it, and what they've done is much like what they did with Healthcare "Reform", makes for interesting discussion- but that's not really germane to the thread you started here and would just merely start up a flamefest from the liberal and conservative crowd on/.:-D
Truly insightful. There really isn't anything such as a free lunch. There is always a price paid for it by someone, somewhere. Most people don't realize this because they've been made to believe there is such a thing- and that they don't have to pay anything in. There are things that are worth burning a bit of your privacy on to get something in return. Sadly, many people's thresholds for that sort of thing are kind-of low because they don't know just how valuable it really is.
It's not just another virus as you surmise. It's designed explicitly to attack SCADA systems that were designed run on embedded Windows based boxes- it uses exploits that're specific to those types of systems to propagate.
It's not a lot of hype. All it takes to screw up a graphite or light water moderated reactor is do the wrong thing at the right time- Chernobyl and Three Mile Island happened because of operator error in overriding things controlled by SCADA like systems. With a SCADA system controlling the processes in a nuclear reactor, you can have all sorts of adverse things happen, including a meltdown.
You'd be surprised at how good the Script Kiddies have become. While I agree that it's unlikely that there's a couple of them at the bottom of this, mainly because there's no payoff for them to be doing it- it definitely is not outside of the realm of reality for the reasons you state.
Actually, Freescale makes the CPUs for Microsoft. They spun their chip operations off a long while back. I suspect they'd have been a little leery of doing this stupid move (and it IS one...) if they were suing one of their critical suppliers like you hint at.
How about just simply banning "automated trading" altogether. You shouldn't NEED to buy and sell within seconds like they're doing. The bulk of the high-frequency people (the ones doing the 'automated' trading...) are largely doing Arbitrage plays in the first place because they're buying for all of a couple of minutes and reselling higher typically by small amounts- which is why you need the high trading frequency. They're trying to mine the market's volatility for money.
It's part of what's broken with the whole system in the first place- the flash crash we saw is just another symptom thereof and placing trading halts, etc. as "fixes" is like slapping a band-aid on a problem that needs a tourniquet immediately and major surgery afterwards.
In light of the fact that they're going to start tiering tighter than what they've got now, I don't know if everyone's going to want to tether these days.
That's the whole point. Why does the 200MB plan cost $15, if an additional 1.8 gigs only costs another $10. At that scale of economies, they really should just offer unlimited plans.
That'd be the sensible thing to do, but they're grubbing for money- gotta keep profits up, ever up, you know. Never mind that you're in a sagging economy or any silly detail like that.
Extra charges per MB. Commenting on the subject of jumping ship when they change, though, I can't say that there's much in the way of choice if you're wanting adequate coverage for more than voice service- pretty much everyone is going to screw you on exceeding that infamous 5Gb cap on those "unlimited" plans- even Sprint will do that. So "jumping ship" is a bit flawed in thinking if you're actually using/needing those smartphone functions. In the large, I use them for business uses, so...
Sorry...about to be pedantic here- words have meaning and you mis-used a concept there.
Illegal means "against the law"- nothing more.
If I commit a civil breach, I've just committed an illegal act. If I commit a criminal breach, I've just committed an illegal act.
The actions are covered under the Civil Code or the Penal Code and determine whether or not it's a civil breach or a criminal one. In this case, she has been tried under the Civil Code for damages, etc. where the bar to prosecution, evidence, etc. is rather low compared to the Penal one (not to mention that the RIAA themselves couldn't carry out a Penal Code case- only the DOJ can for Federal cases...) and there's a lot of financial reward for the RIAA to attempt to sue them (Money, scare tactics, etc...). She would've most likely been found as an innocent infringer and let off the hook if they'd tried her with the Penal Code.
Saying that they should airgap the SCADA is obvious- unfortunately, people tend to favor "ease of use" and that airgap is one of the first things that typically tends to get botched in the name of that. So, even if you thought you put it on a standalone, the thing's liable as not to be on the corporate net with all the other machines.
Heh... Depends on if you're using "SweetLeaf" or if you're using Truvia/Purevia. If you're using pure stevia, yeah, it's got this "nifty" licorice aftertaste if you've gotten carried away. The aftertaste isn't QUITE as bad with Stevia blended with Xylitol or Erythritol- and it's actually not as bad as most of the other stuff. Your mileage may vary, but I've had less issues with Stevia than with the other stuff- and I can't do anything with Nutrasweet, so much of the stuff out there is not available to me.
Uh... Cancer causing? Do you even KNOW what's in Truvia/Purevia?
Stevia Rubandia A extract and Erythritol...
If what they're making is cancer-causing, then you're plugging cancer-causing. The only reason they pressured the FDA to allow it, had nothing to do with "cancer-causing" stuff, but rather that they found a patentable way to make big piles of cash cleanly producing sweetener out of an unpatentable plant.
Actually the diabetes is for-real and not "pop-culture" medicine. Go reading up on the research. It causes major insulin spikes (because it goes into the bloodstream and doesn't respond to insulin (glucose does that)- and it is processed only by your liver.
Drinking a corn-syrup sweetened soda is very much like drinking a beer without the drunk- with the same impact on your system.
HCFS is NOT the same as sucrose, contrary to anything the industry has said on the subject. It's two monosaccarides instead of a disaccaride just for starters- it metabolizes completely differently with differing metabolic effects on you.
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Heh... You COULD come up with a capacitive screen stylus. In fact, some HAVE:
The Dagi Corporation in Taiwan offers a range of them for varying capacitive touch devices.
And TenOne offers the Pogo Stylus
There's sure to be more than these two companies doing them- and they largely work with anything capacitive from what I understand (though with varying results...). This means you don't need to change a thing- just design it with the finger touch capability, audit one of the designs out there with your tablet, and then make your case and cosmetics on the stylus match up.
So, they don't really work as poorly as you're implying. It's not so much a tradeoff because it's more that the vendors didn't want to bundle a stylus with the basic devices because people were bitching about losing the damned things. :-D
They've never brought innovation to the marketplace, unless you count "Bob".
Everything they've done has been a well marketed clone of something else. Even Windows.
That's not innovation.
Heh...
1) They could miss things on Sandy Bridge. Do keep in mind that we WERE supposed to see Larrabee LAST year and they boggled on it.
2) Arm A9's more scalable than you seem to give credit for- they're just showing 2GHz silicon right now that's destined for mobile hardware. If you relax the requirements for TDP a bit and design for that opening up of things, you can ramp up clock quite nicely. In the space for a console unit, I could envision someone talking ARM possibly into doing a 3-4 GHz version of the A9 and doing well with it as it'd be much more than the current crop of CPUs in TDP and performance.
3) Sandy Bridge has NOTHING to do with the mobile or console space. It's a desktop/server space component with insane TDPs for anything other than those uses. (Here's a hint: What CPU is being used in the current gen consoles? While it's most definitely not ARM, it's also not X86 and the one player that did X86 in the prior generation dropped it for PowerPC...)
While I don't wholly disagree with your thinking, none of the reasons you've given really pan out. You give too much to Intel and not enough to what is currently going on in the industry, including in the ARM CPU space.
Heh... I don't know... Seems like they've managed pretty well with the first four thousand being sold out hours after the offer on production for the OpenPandora- and there's a waiting line for the next production batch.
If you're talking like PS3, X-Box 360, and Wii or perhaps the PSP and DS- yeah, that isn't "popular". That's more because there's not big money behind it with advertising, etc.
As for a tradition there, the item you linked doesn't say anything about that sort of thing. Set-tops would be little different that a PS3 as it's being sold, really- and if they could economically bring all those parts into a TV, they'd sell them that way. Right now, however, the parts are only there for something like an X-Box classic in capabilities being economical to add to a HD TV/Monitor.
Here's an item for you to ponder though...
Picture roughly the effective power of the X-Box classic or the Wii.
Now, picture that device fitting in the palm of your hand and consumes about a watt or so under full-tilt operation.
Impossible? Hardly. Here's a partial list of the very devices that fit this picture I'm painting.
BeagleBoard
BeagleBoard xM (Much more aggressive config with 1GHz SoC, etc.)
Gumstix Overo
Pandora Gaming Handheld
Nokia N900
Droid
Droid X
Droid Incredible
Droid 2
Always Innovating Touchbook
Dell Streak
iPhone G3
iPhone G4
iPad
(The list can't be exhaustive- it's any device that's sporting an OMAP3, Snapdragon with GPU, iMx515, Marvell Sheeva series SoC; there's no way to list just how many machines really, really do fit in this space right at the moment.)
This is with the currently shipping generation of ARM based systems. No, it's not a PS3 or 360. The handheld space will start getting devices that'll get a whiff of that space sometime end of this to middle of the next year when the Cortex A9 and equivalent derived SoC's start showing up. They'll perform in a very similar power envelope, perform more akin to the CPUs in the consoles and have from one to four primary CPU cores in an SMP configuration. The only sticking point would be the GPU and you can get credible performance with less transistors doing resolutions like 800x400 or 1024x600- and that's all the mobile devices really offer and can currently do.
This is not saying that they won't have consoles that make this look weak in comparison- odds on the big 3 has equally impressive things waiting for us that put them back ahead of that pack I allude to here. However, the power densities you hint at aren't needed to do the consoles now. It's just that the PARTS they're using need that much.
Will handhelds replace consoles? Hardly. But there's about to be a BIG jump in what a handheld can and will do and it'll place it well into the current console generation's space fairly quick.
Really? Ever heard of editing /etc/profile and changing the PATH statement there? No, there's no GUI tool- but under Windows it's not wholly clear like you make it out to be where it is. Yeah you can change it- but then so can I under Linux in as much of an easy way as you can under Windows- it's just different and if you're unfamiliar with one or the other, you're not going to be doing it on EITHER.
Ah... But the thing is... You don't NEED the GUI with recent Linux systems- you do with Windows.
Oh, you've just not heard from Google and others...
Net Neutrality is about not dinking with traffic- just deliver it.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with bittorrent traffic- I don't pirate, I get Linux distributions and other things that're a LEGITIMATE use of that protocol.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with SIP traffic from a competing telecom interest so that the ISP can sell their own SIP or h.323 service.
Net Neutrality is about not interfering with HTTP traffic going to/from Google and all of those others you mention.
It's all of that. And it DOES affect you. You're wrong like you surmise at the end of your post.
The fact that Obama and the Dems promised something along these lines, haven't done much WITH it, and what they've done is much like what they did with Healthcare "Reform", makes for interesting discussion- but that's not really germane to the thread you started here and would just merely start up a flamefest from the liberal and conservative crowd on /. :-D
Truly insightful. There really isn't anything such as a free lunch. There is always a price paid for it by someone, somewhere. Most people don't realize this because they've been made to believe there is such a thing- and that they don't have to pay anything in. There are things that are worth burning a bit of your privacy on to get something in return. Sadly, many people's thresholds for that sort of thing are kind-of low because they don't know just how valuable it really is.
I can't either- because there's none else like it right at the moment.
It's not just another virus as you surmise. It's designed explicitly to attack SCADA systems that were designed run on embedded Windows based boxes- it uses exploits that're specific to those types of systems to propagate.
It's not a lot of hype. All it takes to screw up a graphite or light water moderated reactor is do the wrong thing at the right time- Chernobyl and Three Mile Island happened because of operator error in overriding things controlled by SCADA like systems. With a SCADA system controlling the processes in a nuclear reactor, you can have all sorts of adverse things happen, including a meltdown.
You'd be surprised at how good the Script Kiddies have become. While I agree that it's unlikely that there's a couple of them at the bottom of this, mainly because there's no payoff for them to be doing it- it definitely is not outside of the realm of reality for the reasons you state.
Actually, Freescale makes the CPUs for Microsoft. They spun their chip operations off a long while back. I suspect they'd have been a little leery of doing this stupid move (and it IS one...) if they were suing one of their critical suppliers like you hint at.
Actually it's been more like 20-25 years of that sort of thing...
He might not have it for much longer....
How about just simply banning "automated trading" altogether. You shouldn't NEED to buy and sell within seconds like they're doing. The bulk of the high-frequency people (the ones doing the 'automated' trading...) are largely doing Arbitrage plays in the first place because they're buying for all of a couple of minutes and reselling higher typically by small amounts- which is why you need the high trading frequency. They're trying to mine the market's volatility for money.
It's part of what's broken with the whole system in the first place- the flash crash we saw is just another symptom thereof and placing trading halts, etc. as "fixes" is like slapping a band-aid on a problem that needs a tourniquet immediately and major surgery afterwards.
In light of the fact that they're going to start tiering tighter than what they've got now, I don't know if everyone's going to want to tether these days.
That'd be the sensible thing to do, but they're grubbing for money- gotta keep profits up, ever up, you know. Never mind that you're in a sagging economy or any silly detail like that.
Extra charges per MB. Commenting on the subject of jumping ship when they change, though, I can't say that there's much in the way of choice if you're wanting adequate coverage for more than voice service- pretty much everyone is going to screw you on exceeding that infamous 5Gb cap on those "unlimited" plans- even Sprint will do that. So "jumping ship" is a bit flawed in thinking if you're actually using/needing those smartphone functions. In the large, I use them for business uses, so...
After having seen what people with Personality Disorders are capable of, I could've thought that they would've stooped even lower than this.
Sorry...about to be pedantic here- words have meaning and you mis-used a concept there.
Illegal means "against the law"- nothing more.
If I commit a civil breach, I've just committed an illegal act.
If I commit a criminal breach, I've just committed an illegal act.
The actions are covered under the Civil Code or the Penal Code and determine whether or not it's a civil breach or a criminal one. In this case, she has been tried under the Civil Code for damages, etc. where the bar to prosecution, evidence, etc. is rather low compared to the Penal one (not to mention that the RIAA themselves couldn't carry out a Penal Code case- only the DOJ can for Federal cases...) and there's a lot of financial reward for the RIAA to attempt to sue them (Money, scare tactics, etc...). She would've most likely been found as an innocent infringer and let off the hook if they'd tried her with the Penal Code.
And they USED Windows as the OS... Brilliant!
Saying that they should airgap the SCADA is obvious- unfortunately, people tend to favor "ease of use" and that airgap is one of the first things that typically tends to get botched in the name of that. So, even if you thought you put it on a standalone, the thing's liable as not to be on the corporate net with all the other machines.
Heh... Depends on if you're using "SweetLeaf" or if you're using Truvia/Purevia. If you're using pure stevia, yeah, it's got this "nifty" licorice aftertaste if you've gotten carried away. The aftertaste isn't QUITE as bad with Stevia blended with Xylitol or Erythritol- and it's actually not as bad as most of the other stuff. Your mileage may vary, but I've had less issues with Stevia than with the other stuff- and I can't do anything with Nutrasweet, so much of the stuff out there is not available to me.
Uh... Cancer causing? Do you even KNOW what's in Truvia/Purevia?
Stevia Rubandia A extract and Erythritol...
If what they're making is cancer-causing, then you're plugging cancer-causing. The only reason they pressured the FDA to allow it, had nothing to do with "cancer-causing" stuff, but rather that they found a patentable way to make big piles of cash cleanly producing sweetener out of an unpatentable plant.
Actually the diabetes is for-real and not "pop-culture" medicine. Go reading up on the research. It causes major insulin spikes (because it goes into the bloodstream and doesn't respond to insulin (glucose does that)- and it is processed only by your liver.
Drinking a corn-syrup sweetened soda is very much like drinking a beer without the drunk- with the same impact on your system.
HCFS is NOT the same as sucrose, contrary to anything the industry has said on the subject. It's two monosaccarides instead of a disaccaride just for starters- it metabolizes completely differently with differing metabolic effects on you.