Averages are meaningless. Minimums are what matter. Any frames beyond 1.0 rendered during a single screen refresh are useful only as penis proxies. Go outside -- infinite FPS!
Just because all their engineers have been contaminated by having access to the proprietary bits doesn't mean they can't (cautiously) assist a clean-room rewrite by outsiders.
I'm just going to whack you with the information stick and leave you to synthesize clue.
1. The more copies of a model sold, the less each copy pays for engineering. 2. A new chip design costs six to eight figures (USD) to develop. 3. A new computer model costs a lot to develop and support, even if you're starting with a reference design from a chip vendor. 4. People in the first world, where such niche segmentation is most likely to fly, care about run-time. Energy efficiency is irrelevant. 5. People in the first world do care about price. (See points 1-3) 6. GPUs can be gotten for USD20 at retail, soldered on a board with connectors and mounting bracket. (See point 1) Sold on reels, they're closer to USD5. 7. CMOS power consumption scales roughly linearly with clock speed. 8. To increase battery life, run twm instead of compiz at a lower vertical refresh rate and use solid-state disks. (See point 7) 9. Numbers is numbers. Who needs a specialized, custom coprocessor when you have SSE/AltiVec in the CPU? Or, who needs an x86 space heater when you can use Cg on the GPU to accelerate signal processing and reduce system power consumption by a significant factor by switching to ARM? 10. Battery R&D is hot thanks to electric cars. Progress here will make current laptops run SETI@home for days on a charge. 11. Apple has had modest success selling audio/video workstations and entertainment service clients. Their viability is mainly by virtue of "lifestyle marketing", major R&D expenditures, and a high gross profit margin, all of which imply a high MSRP. 12. Who's going to pay for someone to make applications use these new capabilities? Buyers, of course. Will buyers think it's worth it to pay more for less? Will volume make it cheaper than carrying an extra battery with? (See points 1, 5 and 11)
While this would work for most goods on the black market, prices wouldn't change much for illegal drugs. It's cheaper to buy some illegal drugs than legal ones because of massive regulation and liability. Just wait until a heroin user's family sues because their kid OD'd.
That's the beauty of it. People OD on heroin because the potency of any particular dosage unit isn't known or measured, let alone guaranteed. Regulating the type and proportion of any fillers would SAVE lives.
Today, electronic devices use tiny ASICs under epoxy blobs, surface mount microcontrolers,
Can't much help there, but FPGAs are popular enough and you can even get free (beer) design software for Linux.
tiny capacitors and resistors that are sold on a reel and connected by a very precise pick and place machines...
Oh come now. Most distributors will be happy to cut tape to sell you any quantity, and a little slop in placement on a board is easily fixed by the magic of surface tension. If you haven't been forced to deal with SMT by now, you're probably doing power or "vintage" electronics.
The copyright owner might only have a claim of "license violation" if an owner asked for and was denied the source code.
Read Section 3 of the GPL, reproduced a few comments up. PES MUST inform their licensees as to how to obtain source for the Ghostscript module. If they did not do so then PES is not authorized under the GPL to distribute Ghostscript. If PES also has no license to distribute under the AFPL, then they're making unlicensed copies. Ergo, pwnt.
the process of breaking up a large country into many smaller ones is often known as "balkanisation". When you do this, you always raise the possibility of trade barriers, and protectionism. these are the single quickest ways to screw up an economy (and to bring down a government). What we need are larger trading areas - with common interests, standards and regulations, not smaller ones.
What big trade needs are larger trading areas with common interests, standards and regulations. What citizens need is smaller trading areas and smaller organizations with less effective power.
These days any number in a product title is just a brand, and is meaningful only insofar as it differentiates "now" from "has-been" in the eyes of the wearer. There will likely not be a Windows 8; they'll probably switch back to names or something else entirely.
Any useful diagnostic purposes that version numbers might have served back in the day are today served by build numbers or Subversion revision numbers.
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... my T-Mobile phone runs Linux and yours doesn't.
Averages are meaningless. Minimums are what matter. Any frames beyond 1.0 rendered during a single screen refresh are useful only as penis proxies. Go outside -- infinite FPS!
"on the internet". I can has patent?
Seems that 128GB is the sweet price point (<$300). 16GB IDE units start at about $80 by the looks of it, and I wasn't shopping all that hard.
If they're smart they'll use that extra 2.4% as spares to cope better with those programs that use on-disk caches.
Just because all their engineers have been contaminated by having access to the proprietary bits doesn't mean they can't (cautiously) assist a clean-room rewrite by outsiders.
I'm just going to whack you with the information stick and leave you to synthesize clue.
1. The more copies of a model sold, the less each copy pays for engineering.
2. A new chip design costs six to eight figures (USD) to develop.
3. A new computer model costs a lot to develop and support, even if you're starting with a reference design from a chip vendor.
4. People in the first world, where such niche segmentation is most likely to fly, care about run-time. Energy efficiency is irrelevant.
5. People in the first world do care about price. (See points 1-3)
6. GPUs can be gotten for USD20 at retail, soldered on a board with connectors and mounting bracket. (See point 1) Sold on reels, they're closer to USD5.
7. CMOS power consumption scales roughly linearly with clock speed.
8. To increase battery life, run twm instead of compiz at a lower vertical refresh rate and use solid-state disks. (See point 7)
9. Numbers is numbers. Who needs a specialized, custom coprocessor when you have SSE/AltiVec in the CPU? Or, who needs an x86 space heater when you can use Cg on the GPU to accelerate signal processing and reduce system power consumption by a significant factor by switching to ARM?
10. Battery R&D is hot thanks to electric cars. Progress here will make current laptops run SETI@home for days on a charge.
11. Apple has had modest success selling audio/video workstations and entertainment service clients. Their viability is mainly by virtue of "lifestyle marketing", major R&D expenditures, and a high gross profit margin, all of which imply a high MSRP.
12. Who's going to pay for someone to make applications use these new capabilities? Buyers, of course. Will buyers think it's worth it to pay more for less? Will volume make it cheaper than carrying an extra battery with? (See points 1, 5 and 11)
I'd go on but this is enough.
x86 machine language is RISC, just compressed/encrypted.
It's a point that needs to be driven home, and what's more, ought to be made in more books on human relationships.
A good point; depending on the circumstances, ham-fisted prohibition may well not be the answer. Let me change the word "banned" to "controlled".
They already did that, not 40 years ago.
While this would work for most goods on the black market, prices wouldn't change much for illegal drugs. It's cheaper to buy some illegal drugs than legal ones because of massive regulation and liability. Just wait until a heroin user's family sues because their kid OD'd.
That's the beauty of it. People OD on heroin because the potency of any particular dosage unit isn't known or measured, let alone guaranteed. Regulating the type and proportion of any fillers would SAVE lives.
So you go to your independent electronics retailer and buy a 5 pack of those same resistors in Jim-Pak retail packaging for, oh, 5/$1.
Your local dealer's gotta pay rent somehow...
Today, electronic devices use tiny ASICs under epoxy blobs, surface mount microcontrolers,
Can't much help there, but FPGAs are popular enough and you can even get free (beer) design software for Linux.
tiny capacitors and resistors that are sold on a reel and connected by a very precise pick and place machines...
Oh come now. Most distributors will be happy to cut tape to sell you any quantity, and a little slop in placement on a board is easily fixed by the magic of surface tension. If you haven't been forced to deal with SMT by now, you're probably doing power or "vintage" electronics.
Prostitutes are preyed upon precisely because the arbitrarily illegal status of their work excludes them from meaningful police protection.
dd-wrt is pretty solid for me.
The copyright owner might only have a claim of "license violation" if an owner asked for and was denied the source code.
Read Section 3 of the GPL, reproduced a few comments up. PES MUST inform their licensees as to how to obtain source for the Ghostscript module. If they did not do so then PES is not authorized under the GPL to distribute Ghostscript. If PES also has no license to distribute under the AFPL, then they're making unlicensed copies. Ergo, pwnt.
How do you figure? Ethanol use by vehicles is expanding by various government decrees in the US even as we speak.
Yes, and count the votes this way too!
Dr. Bronner's Magic Clock?
Sun: The network is the computer.
Cray: The computer is the desktop.
the process of breaking up a large country into many smaller ones is often known as "balkanisation". When you do this, you always raise the possibility of trade barriers, and protectionism. these are the single quickest ways to screw up an economy (and to bring down a government). What we need are larger trading areas - with common interests, standards and regulations, not smaller ones.
What big trade needs are larger trading areas with common interests, standards and regulations. What citizens need is smaller trading areas and smaller organizations with less effective power.
They have their specialization and you have yours.
These days any number in a product title is just a brand, and is meaningful only insofar as it differentiates "now" from "has-been" in the eyes of the wearer. There will likely not be a Windows 8; they'll probably switch back to names or something else entirely.
Any useful diagnostic purposes that version numbers might have served back in the day are today served by build numbers or Subversion revision numbers.
a device to allow us to not have to shout to hear each other... Let's call that device a 'cell-phone'.
Clearly it's not living up to spec...
Porno aside, why would anyone think it's a good idea to buy medicine, products or anything else from some shady stranger?
Better a shady stranger than a shady corporation. The shady stranger is unlikely to funnel his profits into lobbying.