For how many decades did it seem like hard drives and CRT displays would never be displaced? They just kept steadily improving the whole time, and no fundamentally different technologies could overtake them - until they did. (Hard drives decreased $/byte by increasing the denominator, whereas PV cells decreased $/watt by decreasing the numerator, does that somehow not count?)
Sure, the vast majority of research comes to nothing. The exceptions are what make it possible for 7 billion people to exist on earth.
The pit lane speed limit is one rule. Actually Formula One has 121 pages of rules.
A sport don't just "have" rules, it is created by a set of rules. Without the rules the sport does not exist. ("Eat or be eaten" is not a sport). The idea of a hackathon without rules isn't even good or bad, it's just nonsensical. "I mean, who is The Man to tell us this hackathon has to be about using computers to do stuff?"
Wow, I got something useful out of slashdot today. I have always wondered why my wife's phone won't charge from the cigarette lighter -> USB converter in our car. Is there some term that is used to distinguish connectors with / without this functionality, so I can buy the right kind?
By the way, if you are imagining that Clarke had any realistic notion of what would become possible when, re-read 2001 sometime. It is just as wrong as the old "there is a world market for 5 computers" quote, only in reverse, from cover to cover.
Especially when saying something won't happen ever.
Well, if you look at the article, the prediction is that flash prices won't fall much between now and 2 years from now (2015). Not the sort of prediction that you can really counter by exhuming Sci-Fi writers for quotable quotes.
I think you simply wouldn't have a steady supply of disposable adjunct professors, if the possibility of tenure (or at least some level of steady and well-paying employment) weren't there to continue drawing people into academia.
It's like a casino owner dreaming of how much more profitable the business would be if only they didn't have to pay off a winner once in a while.
How about tenured professors have less reason to give a damn about their jobs, since they cannot be (easily) fired?
No, because the findings also held for young professors on tenure track, whose positions are about as uncertain as you can get. This would seem to indicate that the issue is a focus on research vs teaching. You don't get tenure, or a Nobel Prize, for teaching.
I don't get it, how is this not an iPad killer? For $429, you could get a 32 GB iPad mini with a 7.9" 1024x768 screen and no MicroSD slot and no keyboard. Or for $30 less, you could get a 64 G transformer with a 10.1" 1366x768 screen, a MicroSD slot, and a keyboard, that can serve as a tablet, or run any PC application out there. Seems pretty "killer" to me.
It has a MicroSD slot, so how is the lack of a full-size SD slot a problem? A 32 GB micro SD is $20, just like a 32 GB non-micro, and normally include an adapter if you want to use it in a camera or something that needs full-size.
Unlike earlier Atom-based Windows tablets, these Bay Trail ones seem like they will not be horribly slow. Personally I would opt for a model with a better screen, but would expect to pay more for it.
Don't comment on things you know nothing about just because an idea popped into your head. If you ever actually try what you suggested, you will discover lots of reasons why that is not nearly a full solution.
Has anybody created a good near-real-time incremental backup system for linux?
I use a Mac at work and Linux at home (because I like the power, and I'm cheap) but I haven't found anything as convenient as Time Machine for Linux. On my MacBook I just plug in my firewire drive every morning when I arrive at work, and have incremental backups of everything at something like 30 minute intervals. Torvalds, obviously, does not have a similar setup.
unless someone can show me some real world tests, NOT benchmarks because as we have seen the "Intel Cripple Compiler" makes any benchmark that doesn't announce which compiler they use suspect at best
RTA. The 4x improvement isn't an Intel claim, they are what PC Perspective observed "without intervention from Intel and without restrictions on allowed benchmarks." They ran SiSoft Sandra, CineBench, TrueCrypt, 3DMark, and a few more under Windows 8.
This looks to me to be the part that would enable the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 to actually be a viable general-purpose computer in a true tablet form factor.
Apple has fallen off the profit throne.
Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics.
Samsung's operating profit for handsets was an estimated $5.2 billion in the second quarter of 2013, according to the report. Apple, meanwhile, had an estimated operating profit of $4.6 billion.
How much of that could possibly be from $20 no-contract phones I won't guess, but the point is they cover the extremes and everything in between and are already very profitable at it.
Samsung has a smoother path to the commoditization of the mobile market, because they are already span the entire market.
I have bought 4 of the Samsung S390G for my kids because, at $20 with no contract, they are a great value. Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but at that price, and with a MicroSD slot, it was the obvious choice for my kids' next music/video player, even if they never even activated the phone.
5) What about their line of personal computers, remember those? I'd like a MacBook Pro with a Haswell processor for improved battery life and support for 4k external displays, please?
Maybe, maybe not. MS Word has its own functionality to merge changes from different versions, so you might not want to lock it down. The big problem with locks is people forgetting to check things back in and locking everybody out.
With PCs, a piece of hardware could start of as an add-on for enthusiasts, then be integrated by an OEM if it was gaining traction. (Accelerated 3d graphics, for example, caught on this way). But tablets and cellphones are so monolithic that end-user swapping of storage is practically impossible.
Nobody even questions, why should you need an account to share a video in the first place? Slashdot is practically the only place left on the web where you can do anything (such as posting a comment) without an account. I really do think buying anything with cash may become highly suspect within the next 20 years.
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64 bit is no advantage on a device with less than 4 GB of non-upgradeable RAM.
Sure, the vast majority of research comes to nothing. The exceptions are what make it possible for 7 billion people to exist on earth.
A sport don't just "have" rules, it is created by a set of rules. Without the rules the sport does not exist. ("Eat or be eaten" is not a sport). The idea of a hackathon without rules isn't even good or bad, it's just nonsensical. "I mean, who is The Man to tell us this hackathon has to be about using computers to do stuff?"
They do, all the time. Why do you think the cost of solar has decreased by 90% over the last 30 years?
Wow, I got something useful out of slashdot today. I have always wondered why my wife's phone won't charge from the cigarette lighter -> USB converter in our car. Is there some term that is used to distinguish connectors with / without this functionality, so I can buy the right kind?
By the way, if you are imagining that Clarke had any realistic notion of what would become possible when, re-read 2001 sometime. It is just as wrong as the old "there is a world market for 5 computers" quote, only in reverse, from cover to cover.
Well, if you look at the article, the prediction is that flash prices won't fall much between now and 2 years from now (2015). Not the sort of prediction that you can really counter by exhuming Sci-Fi writers for quotable quotes.
It's like a casino owner dreaming of how much more profitable the business would be if only they didn't have to pay off a winner once in a while.
No, because the findings also held for young professors on tenure track, whose positions are about as uncertain as you can get. This would seem to indicate that the issue is a focus on research vs teaching. You don't get tenure, or a Nobel Prize, for teaching.
This new one also advertises 11 hours of battery life, compared to 5 for the Surface Pro.
The Surface Pro 2 should be a nice upgrade with the Haswell processor extending battery life. But they will never sell many at those prices.
I don't get it, how is this not an iPad killer? For $429, you could get a 32 GB iPad mini with a 7.9" 1024x768 screen and no MicroSD slot and no keyboard. Or for $30 less, you could get a 64 G transformer with a 10.1" 1366x768 screen, a MicroSD slot, and a keyboard, that can serve as a tablet, or run any PC application out there. Seems pretty "killer" to me.
Unlike earlier Atom-based Windows tablets, these Bay Trail ones seem like they will not be horribly slow. Personally I would opt for a model with a better screen, but would expect to pay more for it.
Don't comment on things you know nothing about just because an idea popped into your head. If you ever actually try what you suggested, you will discover lots of reasons why that is not nearly a full solution.
Looks intriguing, although I see there hasn't been a release in over 4 years. Is it just that good, in your experience?
I use a Mac at work and Linux at home (because I like the power, and I'm cheap) but I haven't found anything as convenient as Time Machine for Linux. On my MacBook I just plug in my firewire drive every morning when I arrive at work, and have incremental backups of everything at something like 30 minute intervals. Torvalds, obviously, does not have a similar setup.
RTA. The 4x improvement isn't an Intel claim, they are what PC Perspective observed "without intervention from Intel and without restrictions on allowed benchmarks." They ran SiSoft Sandra, CineBench, TrueCrypt, 3DMark, and a few more under Windows 8.
This looks to me to be the part that would enable the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 to actually be a viable general-purpose computer in a true tablet form factor.
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How much of that could possibly be from $20 no-contract phones I won't guess, but the point is they cover the extremes and everything in between and are already very profitable at it.
I have bought 4 of the Samsung S390G for my kids because, at $20 with no contract, they are a great value. Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but at that price, and with a MicroSD slot, it was the obvious choice for my kids' next music/video player, even if they never even activated the phone.
5) What about their line of personal computers, remember those? I'd like a MacBook Pro with a Haswell processor for improved battery life and support for 4k external displays, please?
Maybe, maybe not. MS Word has its own functionality to merge changes from different versions, so you might not want to lock it down. The big problem with locks is people forgetting to check things back in and locking everybody out.
With PCs, a piece of hardware could start of as an add-on for enthusiasts, then be integrated by an OEM if it was gaining traction. (Accelerated 3d graphics, for example, caught on this way). But tablets and cellphones are so monolithic that end-user swapping of storage is practically impossible.
How does the iPhone stack up? It's not like most people will carry both.
When the device makers can't even be bothered to offer the latest version of their own OS for devices they sold 6 months ago?
Nobody even questions, why should you need an account to share a video in the first place? Slashdot is practically the only place left on the web where you can do anything (such as posting a comment) without an account. I really do think buying anything with cash may become highly suspect within the next 20 years.
I think you're just not looking closely enough.