Which part of 'and there's a USB slot for importing/exporting documents or plugging in your own keyboard/mouse' didn't you get? I'd like to know that my documents won't be stored somewhere in some temp directory, personally. Security is a real issue for many business travellers.
Wow, flashback to the 90's. There is really no such thing as RISC or CISC anymore. Even massive general purpose CPU's like the x86 family use cores that are basically RISC by the classical definition, at least at the microop level. Conversely, today's RISC processors have instruction sets that have grown considerably in complexity since the days of true RISC chips.
Your premise is correct that it is an apples to oranges comparison, but not really for the reasons you describe.
I didn't claim to have all the answers, but paying kids to do what they should be expected to do anyways is not a good idea. Maybe if we started actually holding people accountable for their actions. Fining parents whose kids are delinquent or who get in repeated trouble might be a good start.
Yes, I am a parent. It's an uphill battle to actually discipline your kids and hold them accountable these days, because so many other parents in every income braket have abrogated their responsibility. Start holding them (the parents as well as the kids) accountable, and for crying out loud stop buying them every new toy under the sun! Make them earn something for a change. It's working for me. Is it easy? No. Is it necessary? Yes.
You are just now noticing this? Slashdot has gone steadily downhill in the quality of postings. We used to complain about the editors, now it's just the unwashed masses using Firehose. If the editors would actually, you know, perform actual editorial duties then things would probably improve.
I know you're trolling, but this chip isn't designed for supercomputers. Of course you'd know this if you'd read the article and/or visited the website. It *is* targeted at embedded apps such as routers, firewalls, and video decoders. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but your post is worth less than the sum of the electrons used to make it.
I was going to post the same sentiment but I wanted to read through some other replies first to avoid redundancy. This is *not* a general purpose CPU. It looks like it's targeted more towards high end switches/routers and things like advanced digital video applications (perhaps HD set tops or game consoles?).
I agree, my experience has been the same. Sometimes I can't choose though due to work requirements. This most recent was the Tropicana in Atlantic City. I had project teams there deploying new laptops to my customer's Sales Force. It was 10.95 per day there for access. We paid $250/day for conference room wireless.
Most of the places I stay at these days have free access. Even some of them require a webpage to authenticate anyways for some reason.
Unless it's gotten less buggy or somehow better in other ways, I wasn't impressed with D2 at all. Maybe I'll give it another try. Then again my smartphone handles regular old slashdot fairly well via Opera.
That's sort of what I do at times when I travel. I usually have 2 laptops with me (1 work, 1 play). Some hotels still charge up to $10/day for Internet access. I'm not going to use both at once, so I match their MAC addresses. I authenticate on one of them, do some work or play, then switch to the other. At the last place I stayed that did this I even asked if they minded if I did that. I got a blank look and a 'uh sure, you shouldn't have to pay twice...uhhh'. Fortunately more and more hotels have free 'net access.
No, I meant that the story was innacurate. It has nothing to do with the iPhone and everything to do with common practices in the US. I don't *like* those practices mind you, but the story was totally innacurate.
Who said anything about it being 'green' or that the military had an environmental motive for this? Hybrid != green. It's about reliability and capability, as it should be. The day the military starts doing things just to be 'green' will be a sad day. Their job is to break things and kill people as quickly and efficiently as possible, not to 'save the planet'
You beat me to it, except I was going to say 'Newsflash: CTO of an expensive IT tech company predicts that companies who spend more money on expensive IT stuff will prosper. Others doomed.'
Between this and the 'AT&T Cripples Blackberry' crap that made it to the front page, Slashdot is reaching new lows with regards to irrelevant 'news'.
The days of broadcast television are dying. Things like AppleTV & YouTube are going to kill it. Soon independant television producers will be able to produce/distribute the show directly to the consumer, no need to sell the show to ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. You'll be able to subscribe to the shows and download them. All of that is unicast traffic and it will destroy internet bandwidth ratios.
You mean just like video killed the radio star? Oh wait...it didn't...and neither will video over the Internet kill traditional broadcast/cable TV anytime soon.
I've had the same experience. I still have XP, W2K, Linux, and Mac OS here at home, but I enjoy my Vista machine. It's a great media machine and all of my old apps and games work just fine now.
He is talking about the raw data used, not the end result of the study. NASA has been rather secretive about both the data and the algorithms used to draw their conclusions.
Hardware makes very little in terms of profit margin, which is one reason you see large support contracts sold with high end server hardware. Services make margins that are typically ten times that of hardware sales. That is why you see more and more companies that were traditionally seen as hardware outfits getting into the services market.
It's not even worth it for free...that's just my opinion. I'm old fashioned...started with the 3 original paper 'pamphlet style' books back in 1975. Yeah yeah, I know, I'm old.
I've never bought one of their products. I stuck with 1st/2nd Edition hybrid+house rules. I've yet to see WotC do anything worth purchasing, unless I was out of paper to wrap fish with or something I suppose.
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Which part of 'and there's a USB slot for importing/exporting documents or plugging in your own keyboard/mouse' didn't you get? I'd like to know that my documents won't be stored somewhere in some temp directory, personally. Security is a real issue for many business travellers.
I wonder if there are grounds for a Class Action lawsuit, the Class being everyone who has had any problems using a third party box with their cable?
Many Christians interpret that as being made in God's spiritual image and have for years. Not all people of religion are cooks.
That's another good example of a 'Chip formerly known as RISC' taking on more and more 'CISC' like features.
My main point was that you can compare #'s of transistors, but to use broad strokes and talk of 'RISC' vs 'CISC' is basically meaningless now.
Wow, flashback to the 90's. There is really no such thing as RISC or CISC anymore. Even massive general purpose CPU's like the x86 family use cores that are basically RISC by the classical definition, at least at the microop level. Conversely, today's RISC processors have instruction sets that have grown considerably in complexity since the days of true RISC chips.
Your premise is correct that it is an apples to oranges comparison, but not really for the reasons you describe.
I didn't claim to have all the answers, but paying kids to do what they should be expected to do anyways is not a good idea. Maybe if we started actually holding people accountable for their actions. Fining parents whose kids are delinquent or who get in repeated trouble might be a good start.
Yes, I am a parent. It's an uphill battle to actually discipline your kids and hold them accountable these days, because so many other parents in every income braket have abrogated their responsibility. Start holding them (the parents as well as the kids) accountable, and for crying out loud stop buying them every new toy under the sun! Make them earn something for a change. It's working for me. Is it easy? No. Is it necessary? Yes.
I don't know if there have been comparisons, but BluRay *requires* the scratch resistant coating. The HD DVD standard makes it optional.
How about parents start actually parenting, and schools start actually teaching, instead? Government is NOT the solution to every problem.
You are just now noticing this? Slashdot has gone steadily downhill in the quality of postings. We used to complain about the editors, now it's just the unwashed masses using Firehose. If the editors would actually, you know, perform actual editorial duties then things would probably improve.
I know you're trolling, but this chip isn't designed for supercomputers. Of course you'd know this if you'd read the article and/or visited the website. It *is* targeted at embedded apps such as routers, firewalls, and video decoders. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but your post is worth less than the sum of the electrons used to make it.
You are a very tiny piece of the market though. Your anecdotal experience aside most people could care less right now. Even a lot of geeks.
I was going to post the same sentiment but I wanted to read through some other replies first to avoid redundancy. This is *not* a general purpose CPU. It looks like it's targeted more towards high end switches/routers and things like advanced digital video applications (perhaps HD set tops or game consoles?).
I agree, my experience has been the same. Sometimes I can't choose though due to work requirements. This most recent was the Tropicana in Atlantic City. I had project teams there deploying new laptops to my customer's Sales Force. It was 10.95 per day there for access. We paid $250/day for conference room wireless.
Most of the places I stay at these days have free access. Even some of them require a webpage to authenticate anyways for some reason.
Unless it's gotten less buggy or somehow better in other ways, I wasn't impressed with D2 at all. Maybe I'll give it another try. Then again my smartphone handles regular old slashdot fairly well via Opera.
That's sort of what I do at times when I travel. I usually have 2 laptops with me (1 work, 1 play). Some hotels still charge up to $10/day for Internet access. I'm not going to use both at once, so I match their MAC addresses. I authenticate on one of them, do some work or play, then switch to the other. At the last place I stayed that did this I even asked if they minded if I did that. I got a blank look and a 'uh sure, you shouldn't have to pay twice...uhhh'. Fortunately more and more hotels have free 'net access.
No, I meant that the story was innacurate. It has nothing to do with the iPhone and everything to do with common practices in the US. I don't *like* those practices mind you, but the story was totally innacurate.
Who said anything about it being 'green' or that the military had an environmental motive for this? Hybrid != green. It's about reliability and capability, as it should be. The day the military starts doing things just to be 'green' will be a sad day. Their job is to break things and kill people as quickly and efficiently as possible, not to 'save the planet'
See subject. It's just one more nail in the coffin. The next step is you'll need a passport just to *drive* across State lines.
You beat me to it, except I was going to say 'Newsflash: CTO of an expensive IT tech company predicts that companies who spend more money on expensive IT stuff will prosper. Others doomed.'
Between this and the 'AT&T Cripples Blackberry' crap that made it to the front page, Slashdot is reaching new lows with regards to irrelevant 'news'.
The days of broadcast television are dying. Things like AppleTV & YouTube are going to kill it. Soon independant television producers will be able to produce/distribute the show directly to the consumer, no need to sell the show to ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. You'll be able to subscribe to the shows and download them. All of that is unicast traffic and it will destroy internet bandwidth ratios.
You mean just like video killed the radio star? Oh wait...it didn't...and neither will video over the Internet kill traditional broadcast/cable TV anytime soon.
I've had the same experience. I still have XP, W2K, Linux, and Mac OS here at home, but I enjoy my Vista machine. It's a great media machine and all of my old apps and games work just fine now.
He is talking about the raw data used, not the end result of the study. NASA has been rather secretive about both the data and the algorithms used to draw their conclusions.
Hardware makes very little in terms of profit margin, which is one reason you see large support contracts sold with high end server hardware. Services make margins that are typically ten times that of hardware sales. That is why you see more and more companies that were traditionally seen as hardware outfits getting into the services market.
It's not even worth it for free...that's just my opinion. I'm old fashioned...started with the 3 original paper 'pamphlet style' books back in 1975. Yeah yeah, I know, I'm old.
I've never bought one of their products. I stuck with 1st/2nd Edition hybrid+house rules. I've yet to see WotC do anything worth purchasing, unless I was out of paper to wrap fish with or something I suppose.