Or just buy some Rafales off the rack. Very capable, and very cheap. Heck, the USAF development component would be to buya fleet of them and make them all autonomous. Not just cheap, but would allow the development effort to focus on one thing (automation, AI, secure comms) rather than struggling to make the plane also fly and shoot.
"There isn't another jet even on the drawing board that competes with it in the air,"
What are you basing this on?
I thought the Russian Su-35 was perfectly comparable to the F22. It's also in production and being marketed to other countries. Of course it's hard to compare on specifications alone, but this comparison discusses various aspects, though being a US site ultimately states that the F22 would come out on top.
Now please don't misunderstand me, the very last thing we need is an actual showdown over Syria between these planes, so please be careful about who you vote for!
I actually make a good chunk of my living re-writing scientific software. My physics PhD allows me to come rapidly up to speed on the domain knowledge that went into the original code, and then I can apply software development best practices to produce a final product that is actually maintainable. However, I would be surprised to hear that any actually scientists would have contributed functional code to this space probe mission. At the end of the day, such software is an engineering item: said scientists would not have been tinkering around with the rocket engines, fuel tanks, or flight path, any more than they would have been pissing about with the landing module descent code. Of course, the loss of the payload suggests otherwise...:)
This is common everywhere: how to capture specific domain knowledge? And remember, it's a two-way process. The knowledge of the current expert has to be recorded in some way, and then, the new guy has to be trained to the intricacies of the previous procedure.Mix in the observation that some players may not want this process to be successful, and you're probably boned before you even realise it.
You do realise that trade-ins on anything always pay under the market value? Vehicle trade-ins are particularly notorious for this. The difference comes from the extra value ascribed to the existence of a guaranteed buyer.
Selling your second hand laptop online may well net you more cash than trading in to Microsoft, but you'll have to deal with all the associated hassles of doing so. This means that for you it may not make sense, but for others (time poor, high-income job, afraid of strangers, etc...) it certainly does. However, if Microsoft have underestimated the trade in value then certainly fewer people will take them up on it.
I'm not discrediting the information in your post, but anyone reading it needs to remember that the 7.5W end of the range is when the CPU isn't doing much, while the 45W end is at full throttle.
Alternatively you are indicating the TDP range for the entire processor lineup, which seems pretty meaningless.
"Good news is the COO and dept managers gave up their offices to join staff in open plan,"
I'm being cynical, but due to the nature of their work, managers are not affected as much by the open plan office. Such schemes hit those who have to think and concentrate on one task all day long. A manager is often talking to people or in meetings. The very nature of their job involves talking to people pretty much all day long, unless they are preparing reports for the board or their superiors. As a result, I would argue that their presence in the bull pit is pretty much a token gesture.
Even though **you** don't do anything useful or interesting with your laptop doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
With a powerful laptop I can go visit a potential customer and show them the product/service without depending on any external factors. Such an advantage is huge.
With a powerful laptop I can carry around a massive dataset and work on the programming problem while en route to a conference.
With a powerful laptop I can simply sit at home, at my work area, and not care about the local internet going down or the power going out: I can just focus on my work and get it done.
My understanding is that RAM becomes fragmented during use and the OS typically makes no effort to remedy this since on most (all?) computer systems RAM access is fast and uniform regardless of fragmentation.
Anyway, to achieve the power benefits of shutting down the second bank, the OS will need to run a RAM fragmentation and consolidation routine to clear that bank before it can be shut off.
I'm not making excuses for Apple, it's an interesting idea. Does anyone know of other hardware that does anything like this already?
Notepad's primary technical failure is that it uses a very simple memory buffer of the file contents. This is why it's dog slow to load a large file. Other editors only load the parts of the file being looked at, which reduces memory use and gives the impression that the file has been loaded much faster.
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Or just buy some Rafales off the rack. Very capable, and very cheap. Heck, the USAF development component would be to buya fleet of them and make them all autonomous. Not just cheap, but would allow the development effort to focus on one thing (automation, AI, secure comms) rather than struggling to make the plane also fly and shoot.
"There isn't another jet even on the drawing board that competes with it in the air,"
What are you basing this on?
I thought the Russian Su-35 was perfectly comparable to the F22. It's also in production and being marketed to other countries. Of course it's hard to compare on specifications alone, but this comparison discusses various aspects, though being a US site ultimately states that the F22 would come out on top.
Now please don't misunderstand me, the very last thing we need is an actual showdown over Syria between these planes, so please be careful about who you vote for!
I actually make a good chunk of my living re-writing scientific software. My physics PhD allows me to come rapidly up to speed on the domain knowledge that went into the original code, and then I can apply software development best practices to produce a final product that is actually maintainable. However, I would be surprised to hear that any actually scientists would have contributed functional code to this space probe mission. At the end of the day, such software is an engineering item: said scientists would not have been tinkering around with the rocket engines, fuel tanks, or flight path, any more than they would have been pissing about with the landing module descent code. Of course, the loss of the payload suggests otherwise... :)
Great post, thanks.
This is common everywhere: how to capture specific domain knowledge? And remember, it's a two-way process. The knowledge of the current expert has to be recorded in some way, and then, the new guy has to be trained to the intricacies of the previous procedure.Mix in the observation that some players may not want this process to be successful, and you're probably boned before you even realise it.
Entirely arse backwards.
Run Linux on the metal, and if you have to use Windows, stick it in a VM, ideally without any network access, unless it's absolutely essential.
You do realise that trade-ins on anything always pay under the market value? Vehicle trade-ins are particularly notorious for this. The difference comes from the extra value ascribed to the existence of a guaranteed buyer.
Selling your second hand laptop online may well net you more cash than trading in to Microsoft, but you'll have to deal with all the associated hassles of doing so. This means that for you it may not make sense, but for others (time poor, high-income job, afraid of strangers, etc...) it certainly does. However, if Microsoft have underestimated the trade in value then certainly fewer people will take them up on it.
"are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts."
This is not proof of any kind.
I'm not discrediting the information in your post, but anyone reading it needs to remember that the 7.5W end of the range is when the CPU isn't doing much, while the 45W end is at full throttle.
Alternatively you are indicating the TDP range for the entire processor lineup, which seems pretty meaningless.
For fuck sake. Do NOT tell me what I should or should not be doing with my fucking laptop.
"Good news is the COO and dept managers gave up their offices to join staff in open plan,"
I'm being cynical, but due to the nature of their work, managers are not affected as much by the open plan office. Such schemes hit those who have to think and concentrate on one task all day long. A manager is often talking to people or in meetings. The very nature of their job involves talking to people pretty much all day long, unless they are preparing reports for the board or their superiors. As a result, I would argue that their presence in the bull pit is pretty much a token gesture.
"Again, I'm not sure where you live, but I live in a developed country,"
Global. I travel and work anywhere in the world. Your first-world luxuries are not available everywhere.
Even though **you** don't do anything useful or interesting with your laptop doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
With a powerful laptop I can go visit a potential customer and show them the product/service without depending on any external factors. Such an advantage is huge.
With a powerful laptop I can carry around a massive dataset and work on the programming problem while en route to a conference.
With a powerful laptop I can simply sit at home, at my work area, and not care about the local internet going down or the power going out: I can just focus on my work and get it done.
My understanding is that RAM becomes fragmented during use and the OS typically makes no effort to remedy this since on most (all?) computer systems RAM access is fast and uniform regardless of fragmentation.
Anyway, to achieve the power benefits of shutting down the second bank, the OS will need to run a RAM fragmentation and consolidation routine to clear that bank before it can be shut off.
I'm not making excuses for Apple, it's an interesting idea. Does anyone know of other hardware that does anything like this already?
The question is why?
No, Darinbob got it right.
If using ApplePay costs the same at the till as a card, how do you get money/value onto your ApplePay account?
But any aspiring business wanting to stay in business will quickly and easily fall back on a paper ledger to continue trading during a power outage.
"and both have similar tipping culture to the US."
This is absolutely false. There is zero expectation of tipping in any facet of life in NZ or Australia.
"We just moved to an open plan office"
Hot desk? I've not done it myself, but it sounds absolutely awful.
"but a little more difficult to make something that works in the real world and is scalable."
Not really, you just have to know what you are doing.
Sure, but if all I want to do is read the first few bytes of a 1GB file then Notepad chokes, while other file viewers manage this without issue.
Notepad's primary technical failure is that it uses a very simple memory buffer of the file contents. This is why it's dog slow to load a large file. Other editors only load the parts of the file being looked at, which reduces memory use and gives the impression that the file has been loaded much faster.
"Who do you think Paint target audience is?"
I think you're over thinking it.
Don't think for one second that Microsoft gives two shits about developers and their software.
Paint.NET is to Paint as Notepad++ is to Notepad.