Having the "start menu" take over my entire screen every time you want to use it is annoying. The tiles for non-metro apps look stupid. The folder structure is more compact and makes way more sense than splashing every icon for every program onto one screen. With Metro you end up scrolling all over the place looking for a program because they are in no logical order. Maintaining the order you want gets tedious after a while if you are installing a lot of apps that have lots of icons. It's also not as multi-monitor friendly as you would expect it to be.
I don't know about that. Feels too much like the netbooks of a few years ago. I do expect Android will eventually disrupt other markets like embedded systems and thin clients. Dell may regret buying Wyse if they don't watch out and keep on the ball.
I was a big "Windows 8" hater. Forcing Metro was a stupid, stupid thing to do. However, now all my PCs run Windows 8. Why the change of heart? Simple: Start8 from Stardock. With my start menu back and the ability to boot to the desktop, Windows 8 is actually not bad. Kind of a Windows 7 SP2. Worth the $15 upgrade fee (thank you Microsoft for being lazy with your upgrade website).
What can any other OS offer that I need or want that I don't already have on Windows? And no, warm fuzzy stick-it-to-the-man feelings don't count. It supports all my hardware, runs all my apps and games, and is extremely stable if you don't treat it like rest stop toilet.
As for Office suites, sorry, but no powerpivot equivalent, no care (and do say "Libreoffice has pivot tables!" It is not the same thing). I use it way too much.
I'm waiting on them to bump to Haswell but I'm looking at this to replace my XPS 17. I'm a consultant and I usually just work off of an 13 inch ultrabook but I have times where I need something bigger for doing some of the analytical work. This would give me a larger screen and cut over 2 lbs at the same time.
I know, I think they are garbage too, but it will at least lend a a bit of credibility to your resume if you have the MS certs for SQL server and Exchange. As for experience or with a non-profit (and these are two technologies that are not usually found in your local church or such unfortunately), if you can't get it through work then build yourself a lab. Grab the free VMware ESX edition and build up a virtual lab environment. You can do this for under a grand easy: case, PS, Intel desktop board, i7 proc, 32 gigs of RAM, extra Intel 1Gb NIC, and a couple of 2TB drives will allow you to run around a dozen VMs (assuming most are not doing much after they boot, usually the case). This will allow you to practice things like clustering, mirroring, etc. When the evals expire, build new boxes and start over. Added bonus: this will get your feet wet with virtualization.
Wouldn't the DOJ just LOVE this if they could force manufacturers to give them remote access. With a warrant, of course (wink wink!) Is there nothing in a modern house that can't be re-purposed to spy on us anymore?
Also, "not guilty" in this case means they did not violate the law in killing the animals they took, not that they didn't kill them. This is only due to ambiguity in the law. They were found guilty of littering. And by littering I mean dumping the bodies of the animals they killed illegally.
If whypetaeuthanizes is not PETA's site, then it's useless as a defense since it does NOT contain their official stance on the subject.
"From San Jose to Schenectady, many shelters have enacted policies requiring the automatic destruction of the huge and ever-growing number of ',pits,' they encounter. This news shocks and outrages the compassionate dog-lover.
Here's another shocker: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the very people who are trying to get
you to denounce the killing of chickens for the table, foxes for fur, or frogs for dissection, supports the pit bull policy,
albeit with reluctance."
Because people are stupid. There was a time that foreign governments were trolling p2p networks like bearshare (remember that?) because workers at DoD contractors had a habit of installing file sharing software and sharing out their entire computers. These were often systems that were outside of the DoD's direct control, located a the company site or (worse) laptops located where-ever. It only takes one idiot bridging the gap to make the whole thing useless.
We know they encourage it with their support for breed-specific euthanasia policies. Then there is the specific case of the Ahoskie, North Carolina indecent. You know, where "...a rash of unwelcome discoveries of dead animals dumped in the area. According to veterinarian Patrick Proctor, the PETA people told North Carolina shelters they would try to find the dogs and cats homes. He handed over two adoptable kittens and their mother, only to learn later that they had died, without a chance to find a home, in the PETA van..."
More to the point, where is the proof that they don't, other than their own PR site I mean.
My point being is that Amadhl's law is not some generalized law of diminishing returns (we already nave one of those) and it's not 1-(1/) * 100, which the OP seems to think. It applies to a vary narrow set of problems in parallel processing. Can't just go around smearing it all over everything like a Canadian with a jar of mayo.
More to the point, however, the OP's assumption that the screen uses the most power is dead wrong.
Amdahl's law applies to performance, not really geared toward power. Unless you would like to enlighten the class with a mathematical explanation of your assertion?
But are you actually realizing any benefit from the robot at that point? You have the cost of the labor for the human to do work on the server and the cost of the custom harness on top of the cost of the robot and it's support infrastructure. Is it really cheaper or more efficient at that point to even have the robot vs a human actually rack the device?
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Having the "start menu" take over my entire screen every time you want to use it is annoying. The tiles for non-metro apps look stupid. The folder structure is more compact and makes way more sense than splashing every icon for every program onto one screen. With Metro you end up scrolling all over the place looking for a program because they are in no logical order. Maintaining the order you want gets tedious after a while if you are installing a lot of apps that have lots of icons. It's also not as multi-monitor friendly as you would expect it to be.
I don't know about that. Feels too much like the netbooks of a few years ago. I do expect Android will eventually disrupt other markets like embedded systems and thin clients. Dell may regret buying Wyse if they don't watch out and keep on the ball.
I was a big "Windows 8" hater. Forcing Metro was a stupid, stupid thing to do. However, now all my PCs run Windows 8. Why the change of heart? Simple: Start8 from Stardock. With my start menu back and the ability to boot to the desktop, Windows 8 is actually not bad. Kind of a Windows 7 SP2. Worth the $15 upgrade fee (thank you Microsoft for being lazy with your upgrade website).
Also, don't forget good old edlin.
Ah EDIT, I used to use it all the time to "fix" files that notepad could not open properly. Then I discovered Notepad++ and never looked back.
What can any other OS offer that I need or want that I don't already have on Windows? And no, warm fuzzy stick-it-to-the-man feelings don't count. It supports all my hardware, runs all my apps and games, and is extremely stable if you don't treat it like rest stop toilet.
As for Office suites, sorry, but no powerpivot equivalent, no care (and do say "Libreoffice has pivot tables!" It is not the same thing). I use it way too much.
I'm waiting on them to bump to Haswell but I'm looking at this to replace my XPS 17. I'm a consultant and I usually just work off of an 13 inch ultrabook but I have times where I need something bigger for doing some of the analytical work. This would give me a larger screen and cut over 2 lbs at the same time.
I know, I think they are garbage too, but it will at least lend a a bit of credibility to your resume if you have the MS certs for SQL server and Exchange. As for experience or with a non-profit (and these are two technologies that are not usually found in your local church or such unfortunately), if you can't get it through work then build yourself a lab. Grab the free VMware ESX edition and build up a virtual lab environment. You can do this for under a grand easy: case, PS, Intel desktop board, i7 proc, 32 gigs of RAM, extra Intel 1Gb NIC, and a couple of 2TB drives will allow you to run around a dozen VMs (assuming most are not doing much after they boot, usually the case). This will allow you to practice things like clustering, mirroring, etc. When the evals expire, build new boxes and start over. Added bonus: this will get your feet wet with virtualization.
Good point. I think I'm just going to go find a nice cozy cave to live in. Wait, that hasn't worked out so well for other people lately either. Damn.
Wouldn't the DOJ just LOVE this if they could force manufacturers to give them remote access. With a warrant, of course (wink wink!) Is there nothing in a modern house that can't be re-purposed to spy on us anymore?
I find it kind of funny that one of your pillars is not something like "Make/Receive phone calls reliably".
Also, "not guilty" in this case means they did not violate the law in killing the animals they took, not that they didn't kill them. This is only due to ambiguity in the law. They were found guilty of littering. And by littering I mean dumping the bodies of the animals they killed illegally.
If whypetaeuthanizes is not PETA's site, then it's useless as a defense since it does NOT contain their official stance on the subject.
In their OWN WORDS:
"From San Jose to Schenectady, many shelters have enacted policies requiring the automatic destruction of the huge and ever-growing number of ',pits,' they encounter. This news shocks and outrages the compassionate dog-lover.
Here's another shocker: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the very people who are trying to get you to denounce the killing of chickens for the table, foxes for fur, or frogs for dissection, supports the pit bull policy, albeit with reluctance."
Because people are stupid. There was a time that foreign governments were trolling p2p networks like bearshare (remember that?) because workers at DoD contractors had a habit of installing file sharing software and sharing out their entire computers. These were often systems that were outside of the DoD's direct control, located a the company site or (worse) laptops located where-ever. It only takes one idiot bridging the gap to make the whole thing useless.
Why are we dragging Iron Man into this?
We know they encourage it with their support for breed-specific euthanasia policies. Then there is the specific case of the Ahoskie, North Carolina indecent. You know, where "...a rash of unwelcome discoveries of dead animals dumped in the area. According to veterinarian Patrick Proctor, the PETA people told North Carolina shelters they would try to find the dogs and cats homes. He handed over two adoptable kittens and their mother, only to learn later that they had died, without a chance to find a home, in the PETA van..."
More to the point, where is the proof that they don't, other than their own PR site I mean.
Please provide the law that is relevant to this discussion of computer architecture.
Really? Amdahl's law is:
Tn = a + (1-a)/N
Where Tn = Time with N cores
N = Number of Cores
a (should be alpha) = fraction of instructions in serial code.
What you are talking about is:
Bp = (1-((Pt - Pc)/pt))*100
While Amdahl is significant to the computer science world, are you claiming he invented percentages?
That's nice and all, but that is not Amdahl's law.
ugh. nave=have and that should read 1-(1/{insert some part specific performance factor here}) * 100
My point being is that Amadhl's law is not some generalized law of diminishing returns (we already nave one of those) and it's not 1-(1/) * 100, which the OP seems to think. It applies to a vary narrow set of problems in parallel processing. Can't just go around smearing it all over everything like a Canadian with a jar of mayo.
More to the point, however, the OP's assumption that the screen uses the most power is dead wrong.
Still waiting on that math.
Amdahl's law applies to performance, not really geared toward power. Unless you would like to enlighten the class with a mathematical explanation of your assertion?
For starters we are talking about laptops, with x86 CPUs that are much more power hungry than the ARM based proc in your phone.
But are you actually realizing any benefit from the robot at that point? You have the cost of the labor for the human to do work on the server and the cost of the custom harness on top of the cost of the robot and it's support infrastructure. Is it really cheaper or more efficient at that point to even have the robot vs a human actually rack the device?