So intel finally beats arm in performance/watt, but a 2 board cluster beats intels lowest power offering. So, basically intel has finally eroded the advantage arm has in servers, but arm still maintains an edge in small, low power devices. I love that arm has been so competitive in certain areas. Its good to see something other than x86 everywhere. Imagine if there was no iphone. Imagine if there was no competition and arm was still just a slow, but modern and power efficient core? ARM has come a long, long way in the past few years. Competition drives innovation. We need more.
This shouldn't even be a debate for the courts. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a very unamerican person. Its sad that courts have to decides people's rights to personal privacy.
While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market
Thank god I wasn't drinking milk. I think I would have blown it all over my keyboard. Here's the real question: how much is microsoft paying you to write this drivel?
Best in the industry?? Name one example please where they are the best in the industry when it comes to quality.
I lost my laptop cable (long story) and needed one quickly. Best buy wanted 60 for a knock off 3rd party universal cable. I said fuck that and got an OEM cable for $8 on amazon. I was ok with waiting the couple of extra days for shipping and saving 40.
I've seen these before and heard their results and they are very, very nice. I would buy if I wanted something to sample with or say record audio as a separate source from a camera. Yes they are pricey, but good mics can easily run into the thousands.
This is why I still own and love a G1. I'm running 2.2 and I have an extended life battery that gives me decent battery life and it looks like a brick. Sure its not the greatest phone, but it still does just about anything a droid X does or a Galaxy S, just a bit slower is all. Heck, half the time I underclock it and it is still fairly usable. Pandora really kills the processor though......
Its true, thought it must be said that digital is far more averse to highlight clipping, whereas film has a bit of a soft knee where it doesn't clip so harshly and abruptly. Much better shadow detail with digital however as well as a much wider range overall.
But that is a whole other headache. Also prepaid cards are loaded with fees because they typically are used by poor people that have no other options. I had one and left a few dollars in it. After a few months I had a negative balance. I cut up the card. They never mentioned that there would be a monthly service fee in addition to all the other fees you pay just using and adding money to the damn thing. The whole thing is just a scam if you ask me. A bank debit card/visa card would provide a great deal more protection. Especially if you do all your transactions online as visa. I mean think about it. You are putting your money in a non banking institution thus depriving yourself of all the protections offered therein. Are they really going to offer you any kind of insurance against fraud? The card I had mentioned nothing of the sort. Maybe by law they have to offer some protection, but I'd probably say good luck. At first I thought it was a great idea. A throwaway card. But then I realized that every purchase I would make cost me somehow nearly every step of the way where my visa card costs me nothing. If I had no soul I think I would start a credit card company.
I routinely search across network shares from windows 7. I haven't tried indexing across network shares (sounds painful), but you can certainly search for filenames. Are you just trolling or what?
Am I the only one that is excited at the prospect of say like a dual core atom running at 2ghz in a tablet form? I mean think of all the emulation you could do with that, and likely get at least 4-5 hours to boot. You could even dualboot to windows for some stuff, as well as run ubuntu more than half decently. Just include USB so you can plug in a mouse and keyboard..... I mean seriously. How is this not full of win? Arm makes a lot of sense in, say a phone, or an embedded device, but a tablet might as well be a netbook without the keyboard. I think you geeks out there are in love with arm just because its different and RISC and not boring x86. The fact of the matter is that you could take an x86 tablet and probably even get OS X running on it, and that's pretty cool. Way cooler than some ARM tablet that only runs android. I'll probably get modded to hell for this, but that's what I want in a portable slab. I want photoshop and google chrome for real, not some cell phone OS that was stretched to a larger screen. I mean don't get me wrong I love android, and on the run it is fast and works really well, but when I sit down a coffee shop the first thing that comes out is my notebook. Battery life isn't the biggest concern for me. Heck my crappy notebook barely gets 1.5 hours anymore. If I got 5-6 hours out of a device before it died, that would be pretty good.
You do realize that android runs on the dalvik virtual machine and that most of the code is basically java right? They are therefore compiled for dalvik as bytecode. 2.2 added support for JIT. In my experience with a G1, JIT doesn't make a huge difference in the real world because there are penalties for using it as well, especially when it comes to opening apps. There are also examples of native code, say C++ compiled for arm v6 processors, but I would imagine every app out there is running purely on the VM because it would be a lot of work to support the various major versions of arm architecture that are out in the wild. Some of the core OS parts are certainly running natively, but as far as I know, just about everything else is dalvik.
Actually IOS runs on darwin which the Mach kernel makes up the foundation of. The rest of the system is BSD based though. Oh hell, to clarify here is the wikipedia entry on it:
"Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that combines the Mach 3 microkernel, various elements of BSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system),[5] and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit.[6] Some of the benefits of this choice of kernel are the Mach-O binary format, which allows a single executable file (including the kernel itself) to support multiple CPU architectures, and the mature support for symmetric multiprocessing in Mach. The hybrid kernel design compromises between the flexibility of a microkernel and the performance of a monolithic kernel."
Answer your question? Basically the core of IOS is the same as the core of OS X. Hence all the rumors that the two will eventually converge.
lots of ways to destroy a plastic disc with metallic coating. i kind of agree. there is the relative small risk in shreading that they can somehow reconstruct a disc, but even then they wouldn't have anything near a complete image. nope, i'd say about 3-5 seconds in the microwave is about the quickest and easiest way to nuke a cd.
how is anything hard on the magnetron? all it does is emit energy, which the metal readily soaks up and superheats. The real danger is more catching the microwave on fire than anything.
Because you know, god forbid if something like a computer interface changes. If we followed that logic, we would still be using command line interfaces. Sadly, there are a lot of people here that I think would have preferred that. I thought I would hate touch interfaces, but now I realize after having an android phone how extremely useful they are. I never thought I would like the dual screen DS, but I, in fact loved it dearly. There are probably much better paradigms than the desktop, and if you ask me, Windows 7 is more of an evolutionary jump in the same philosophy. I mean what isn't in the same place? Explorer is a little different and they got rid of the branching program start bar mess. I would say those are all improvements. Oh and you can pin program icons right to the taskbar without using the little section that didn't work so well? Extremely useful. Like it or not, the direction of future of GUIs is probably the direction Gnome 3 is taking. Simple and task oriented. Most people don't want all the clutter. I think that's why chrome is so popular.
yeah and how much ram do they have? most people running machines that old are lucky to have 512-1gig of RAM. Something tells me XP would be faster on such machines. Even so my point is that chrome runs on Windows XP which is something that even IE9 cannot do. I don't necessarily understand why this is necessary. Even firefox runs on nearly anything, though they finally dropped PPC Mac OS support with version 4.
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Does Facebook hire monkeys to do their coding?
I think they should begin recruiting monkeys. It can't make things any worse.
So intel finally beats arm in performance/watt, but a 2 board cluster beats intels lowest power offering. So, basically intel has finally eroded the advantage arm has in servers, but arm still maintains an edge in small, low power devices. I love that arm has been so competitive in certain areas. Its good to see something other than x86 everywhere. Imagine if there was no iphone. Imagine if there was no competition and arm was still just a slow, but modern and power efficient core? ARM has come a long, long way in the past few years. Competition drives innovation. We need more.
This shouldn't even be a debate for the courts. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a very unamerican person. Its sad that courts have to decides people's rights to personal privacy.
AGREED! This sums up what is wrong with so many laws! You are my hero.
While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market
Thank god I wasn't drinking milk. I think I would have blown it all over my keyboard. Here's the real question: how much is microsoft paying you to write this drivel?
Best in the industry?? Name one example please where they are the best in the industry when it comes to quality.
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LOL!!
I lost my laptop cable (long story) and needed one quickly. Best buy wanted 60 for a knock off 3rd party universal cable. I said fuck that and got an OEM cable for $8 on amazon. I was ok with waiting the couple of extra days for shipping and saving 40.
fuck you best buy!
It is indeed a very slippery slope. Once you start sliding there is no stopping and boy have we slid far.
I've seen these before and heard their results and they are very, very nice. I would buy if I wanted something to sample with or say record audio as a separate source from a camera. Yes they are pricey, but good mics can easily run into the thousands.
Mod up please. Postgres is great and certainly better for a lot of enterprise applications than mysql. Scaling being one of the concerns here.
This is why I still own and love a G1. I'm running 2.2 and I have an extended life battery that gives me decent battery life and it looks like a brick. Sure its not the greatest phone, but it still does just about anything a droid X does or a Galaxy S, just a bit slower is all. Heck, half the time I underclock it and it is still fairly usable. Pandora really kills the processor though......
Its true, thought it must be said that digital is far more averse to highlight clipping, whereas film has a bit of a soft knee where it doesn't clip so harshly and abruptly. Much better shadow detail with digital however as well as a much wider range overall.
But that is a whole other headache. Also prepaid cards are loaded with fees because they typically are used by poor people that have no other options. I had one and left a few dollars in it. After a few months I had a negative balance. I cut up the card. They never mentioned that there would be a monthly service fee in addition to all the other fees you pay just using and adding money to the damn thing. The whole thing is just a scam if you ask me. A bank debit card/visa card would provide a great deal more protection. Especially if you do all your transactions online as visa. I mean think about it. You are putting your money in a non banking institution thus depriving yourself of all the protections offered therein. Are they really going to offer you any kind of insurance against fraud? The card I had mentioned nothing of the sort. Maybe by law they have to offer some protection, but I'd probably say good luck. At first I thought it was a great idea. A throwaway card. But then I realized that every purchase I would make cost me somehow nearly every step of the way where my visa card costs me nothing. If I had no soul I think I would start a credit card company.
I routinely search across network shares from windows 7. I haven't tried indexing across network shares (sounds painful), but you can certainly search for filenames. Are you just trolling or what?
Am I the only one that is excited at the prospect of say like a dual core atom running at 2ghz in a tablet form? I mean think of all the emulation you could do with that, and likely get at least 4-5 hours to boot. You could even dualboot to windows for some stuff, as well as run ubuntu more than half decently. Just include USB so you can plug in a mouse and keyboard..... I mean seriously. How is this not full of win? Arm makes a lot of sense in, say a phone, or an embedded device, but a tablet might as well be a netbook without the keyboard. I think you geeks out there are in love with arm just because its different and RISC and not boring x86. The fact of the matter is that you could take an x86 tablet and probably even get OS X running on it, and that's pretty cool. Way cooler than some ARM tablet that only runs android. I'll probably get modded to hell for this, but that's what I want in a portable slab. I want photoshop and google chrome for real, not some cell phone OS that was stretched to a larger screen. I mean don't get me wrong I love android, and on the run it is fast and works really well, but when I sit down a coffee shop the first thing that comes out is my notebook. Battery life isn't the biggest concern for me. Heck my crappy notebook barely gets 1.5 hours anymore. If I got 5-6 hours out of a device before it died, that would be pretty good.
Yuh. The atom should decimate when it comes to floating point.
You do realize that android runs on the dalvik virtual machine and that most of the code is basically java right? They are therefore compiled for dalvik as bytecode. 2.2 added support for JIT. In my experience with a G1, JIT doesn't make a huge difference in the real world because there are penalties for using it as well, especially when it comes to opening apps. There are also examples of native code, say C++ compiled for arm v6 processors, but I would imagine every app out there is running purely on the VM because it would be a lot of work to support the various major versions of arm architecture that are out in the wild. Some of the core OS parts are certainly running natively, but as far as I know, just about everything else is dalvik.
Its probably only a matter of time before the android kernel is forked from linux outright......
Actually IOS runs on darwin which the Mach kernel makes up the foundation of. The rest of the system is BSD based though. Oh hell, to clarify here is the wikipedia entry on it:
"Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that combines the Mach 3 microkernel, various elements of BSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system),[5] and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit.[6]
Some of the benefits of this choice of kernel are the Mach-O binary format, which allows a single executable file (including the kernel itself) to support multiple CPU architectures, and the mature support for symmetric multiprocessing in Mach. The hybrid kernel design compromises between the flexibility of a microkernel and the performance of a monolithic kernel."
Answer your question? Basically the core of IOS is the same as the core of OS X. Hence all the rumors that the two will eventually converge.
lots of ways to destroy a plastic disc with metallic coating. i kind of agree. there is the relative small risk in shreading that they can somehow reconstruct a disc, but even then they wouldn't have anything near a complete image. nope, i'd say about 3-5 seconds in the microwave is about the quickest and easiest way to nuke a cd.
how is anything hard on the magnetron? all it does is emit energy, which the metal readily soaks up and superheats. The real danger is more catching the microwave on fire than anything.
Because you know, god forbid if something like a computer interface changes. If we followed that logic, we would still be using command line interfaces. Sadly, there are a lot of people here that I think would have preferred that. I thought I would hate touch interfaces, but now I realize after having an android phone how extremely useful they are. I never thought I would like the dual screen DS, but I, in fact loved it dearly. There are probably much better paradigms than the desktop, and if you ask me, Windows 7 is more of an evolutionary jump in the same philosophy. I mean what isn't in the same place? Explorer is a little different and they got rid of the branching program start bar mess. I would say those are all improvements. Oh and you can pin program icons right to the taskbar without using the little section that didn't work so well? Extremely useful. Like it or not, the direction of future of GUIs is probably the direction Gnome 3 is taking. Simple and task oriented. Most people don't want all the clutter. I think that's why chrome is so popular.
yeah and how much ram do they have? most people running machines that old are lucky to have 512-1gig of RAM. Something tells me XP would be faster on such machines. Even so my point is that chrome runs on Windows XP which is something that even IE9 cannot do. I don't necessarily understand why this is necessary. Even firefox runs on nearly anything, though they finally dropped PPC Mac OS support with version 4.