Sorry if I want a little bit more to go on than a random Slashdot comment saying "We use DDR2".I did see that comment, but - having been burned before - tend to believe the actual product literature.
Nice deflection though. Rage on me for not reading the sheet correctly, get corrected in that I *have* done so, and then fall back to a 3-word comment made previously. If you want to believe that, feel free, but I believe you were attempting to tear-me a new a-hole for not having read the spec sheet, which I obviously did.
Yes, I also mentioned section 2 (main features). Perhaps you could take the time to read that one instead of screenshotting the "Maximum ratings" section.
The PDF file states that there are two models of the "MT7688", there's a "MT7688KN" and a "MT7688AN". As I mentioned, only the AN model is listed as having DDR2. The KN has an "N/A" in that row.
Other sections of the spreadsheet - such as ratings - would apply only to the features available on the given model.
Now back to the kickstarted, where they link the PDF in section "What SoC is used in the Omega2?" and clearly state "The SoC is the MediaTek MT7688K"
So yes, if the Omega2 was using a MT7688AN, then the DDR2 ratings might apply. Since the SOC is supposedly a MT7688K, no DDR2, and that section of "Maximum ratings" (what you screenshotted) does NOT apply.
To summarize
* NT7688 has two models (AN/KN) * PDF covers BOTH models * Kickstarter says Omega2 has MT7688K model SOC (assume this means KN) * PDF says no DDR2 in KNmodel, only in AN * Other sections provide ratings for DDR2 but likely only apply to the AN variant that actually has said parts
So thanks for the "goddamn screen capture." Perhaps next time you could include some reading comprehension and actually look at the section I noted before you blow your top, it probably would have taken less time. While your at it, please take your Ritalin and calm down a bit.
There are a lot of shitty "news-like" sites out there. That is, sites that act like news and have staff that do "reports", but that often ignore any sense of journalistic ethics. OK, to be fair, a what would have once been considered "real" news agencies are the same way.
One of things about Gawker and its ilk, it's all about the clicks, and the clickbait and controversy. This resulted in a lot of "articles" that were little more than veiled attacks or flaming rhetoric. Sure, it got a lot of comments, but very little that was valuable or informative. Every now and then there would be an intelligent article but it was like finding a lost ring in a septic tank. Unfortunately while gawker.com might be dying, all those nasty little subsidiary sites appear to be continuing on to the new owners.
You mean the one they link from the section entitled "What SoC is used in the Omega2?", with the description "The SoC is the MediaTek MT7688K, and the datasheet is available here"
I sure as fuck did. As per "Section 2 - Main Features", the KN supposedly only supported 64MB (MB, what?) of DDR1, whereas the AN supported 2GB of DDR1/DDR2 at 193Mhz.
According to the Spec sheet listed for the MediaTek MT7688, the CPU is only 580Mhz and it uses DDR1 RAM. That sounds a fair bit slower than even the Pi Zero
Yup, pretty much. I could see this becoming a nightmare of integration as well. Facebook login for the service will be a given, but I just cleaned up me feed of all the "game" notifications I was getting from the crappy web-games. Now I'll probably now to deal with lame achievement notifications etc because I'm sure FB will start incorporating those into their feeds.
There have actually been a lot of competitors in this space. EA dropped Steam in favour of Origin, and of course MS is pushing the app store. So far though, Steam has been the top dog, likely in part because they offer the best service (note I won't say perfect service, as they still have issues, but still a lot better than the competition). Steam has also made progress is offering more features, such as the ability to play games from a non-logged-in account on an authorised PC (with a different account logged in).
Their "consoles" don't seem to be making huge headway, but the Steam platform itself I expect will be going strong for some time now.
Given the number of security issues with Java, it's probably good it didn't catch on. It's been hard enough ditching flash, but at least Java-web is used rarely enough I can disable or uninstall it on most browsers.
Last time I tried it, Minecraft ran nicely on OpenJDK. This is especially helpful if you're a non-windows person (Linux, BSD, etc) as OpenJDK is often included in the package management system whereas the Oracle version is not.
Most of where I've seen java on desktop was for certain management applications that needed cross-OS compatibility, but even that small niche still pales compared to the in-browser stuff (which means you have to enable browser Java applets, which is not a good idea security wise).
What used to drive me nuts is apps that were written in Java and *could* have been nicely cross-platform *IF* the developers had actually taken 5 seconds to allow variable paths instead of hardcoding windows drives and paths (C:, D:, etc) in there. Lots of interesting software, but implementation was always a huge fail.
Cars may actually come up with similar problems to phones soon (lots of software, little for updates), but currently you probably have less to worry about your 10-year-old car being hacked due to an unpatched exploit than your 2-year-old phone which the vendor/provider no longer offers software updates for.
GMO doesn't change the flavour of the tomato per-se, what it does it make the tomatoes appear a nice ripe red colour/texture when really they're not. That gives you a watery tomato with little flavour.
You want to know what a tomato should be like? Walk into a greenhouse or a garden full or real, fresh tomatoes. You can *smell* them before they even get near your palate. Most local store tomatoes here are watery, with little flavour and next to no scent. I do have to take care that my garden tomatoes don't spoil, as once actually ripe they can soften or split quickly, but the flavour is far and beyond the store stuff. Also, there's a lot of different *varieties* of tomatoes. Some are stronger tasting than others, have different textures, and come in a vast array of sizes and colours. They all taste pretty damn good though.
Apples on the other hand... well I don't grow those but I've tasted "wild" ones, and with those as well as store varieties some I like but others I find are sour/bitter. Maybe you got a "crab apple", which are a particularly sour variety and can also do a number on your stomach if you eat too many. I'm not fond of the crab apples myself but I have tasted some pretty good pies with them, and I understand they're pretty nice for making cider as well.
I wonder if there will be a successor to ARM. I'm not a CPU architect, but some of the main differences seem that ARM can mix cores (a multi-core processor need not have all cores of the same type) but overall requires more consecutive operations to perform a function (CISC vs RISC), but do so without the same overhead microcode translation. In the future I'd imagine we'll be seeing more hybrids between the two, like APU's where essentially a die has an x64 CISC-style core for general processing and an ARM RISC-style core for things like graphics processing etc, but I'm also hoping some new and exciting will come around in the next half-decade or so (quantum computing, perhaps?).
Cisco often buys into and then drops out of markets. For example they used to offer a load-balancer product, the "Cisco Ace". It was decent enough, but I believe they purchased the core tech from another company. In the last several years, the older Ace has been discontinued, and there is no successor product as Cisco apparently decided to get out of balancing. I'd imagine there are whole divisions of support and development that go out in this case.
A lot of big companies are like this. They buy out smaller innovative companies, use their tech, grab some patents and then dump them. That's good for the shareholders and sometimes management in the smaller company as they can get a big payout, but not so good for the workers who can suddenly go from having a good gig at an innovative company to being big corporate and then unemployed. In other industries such as gaming, companies like EA have pretty much been legendary for the "Buy, milk sequels, dump" cycle, and certainly it's a well-known trend with Microsoft etc too.
I kinda sound like certain anti-spam lists which basically worked thus: a) You don't really know that you're on the list b) You don't know who uses the list c) It's almost impossible to get off the list
Having worked in situations where a somebody either inherited IP's on the list, was mistakenly added, or did something bad (e.g. mis-configured mailserver/proxy allowing spam) that was fixed but could NEVER get off... yeah that's not so great.
It's not that everyone is using WW's list, it's that his list is being used to populate a bigger list which could block you for things you're actively interested in.
Maybe instead of tossing the evidence, the cop(s) who collected it *must* be terminated and charged. That would certainly dissuade cops from persueing warrantless activities, but it might also help prevent scumbags from getting away because of such misconduct.
Not doing business with them again is a start, but honestly one of the things I've found is that some businesses who do some *amazingly* bad support/PR, also seem to have public walls on their Facebook pages. I've had decent luck getting some response from businesses by posting a detailed summary of my issues on their wall.
Honestly, I don't have a problem with that. If there's value in it, then people will pay. Also, if things go back to the pay-model, then perhaps some other companies can come around with a pay-for-service rather than a sell-all-your-info model.
Personally, I'm OK with some ads. There have actually been some products on FB and other sites that have even caught my fancy. Ads in and of themselves aren't the big issue. Massive intrusive data mining, malware, disruptive/intrusive ads, and ads posing as informational sources *are* a problem.
Unions don't need the government to be at war with them, they're often at war with themselves. They still serve some purpose but many need to re-prioritise, especially in dropping certain fringes that take up time/resources and frankly are just not good cases. I've seen a *lot* of cases of with-cause terminations where the only thing keeping a given employee from the door and with a boot-in-the-ass was a long union process. This is despite the fact that everyone pretty much knows of the issues. For example, an employee who did not complete his work, and then blamed it on others. In fact, he often didn't come to work at the right times and was running a side-job using company resources on company time, and his work vehicle was often seen outside the local pub. He did eventually get fired but it took years to finalise that. Another case, an employee who lacked skill/will to do the same job as his peers, despite repeated attempts at training. Had a "I don't give a f***" attitude and stank so badly one side of the room was "his" and everyone sat on the other because nobody wanted to be near him.
In both cases, the above were a detriment not only to their employer but also to all the other dues-paying members who had to compensate for their lack of giving a sh*t. The unions spend a *lot* of time and resources defending folks like these, and frankly those resources are finite which means that often other people's issues that *need* attention don't get it. In the end the useless f***s get the same raises as everyone else, which pisses off pretty much everyone including the public in cases where they have a more visible position.
If unions would give up the dead-weight and focus more time on dealing with bigger issues (safety violations, discrimination, outsourcing, etc) they would likely have more support and get more done.
(source: former union member, steward, and council-member)
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Sorry if I want a little bit more to go on than a random Slashdot comment saying "We use DDR2".I did see that comment, but - having been burned before - tend to believe the actual product literature.
Nice deflection though. Rage on me for not reading the sheet correctly, get corrected in that I *have* done so, and then fall back to a 3-word comment made previously. If you want to believe that, feel free, but I believe you were attempting to tear-me a new a-hole for not having read the spec sheet, which I obviously did.
Yes, I also mentioned section 2 (main features). Perhaps you could take the time to read that one instead of screenshotting the "Maximum ratings" section.
The PDF file states that there are two models of the "MT7688", there's a "MT7688KN" and a "MT7688AN". As I mentioned, only the AN model is listed as having DDR2. The KN has an "N/A" in that row.
Other sections of the spreadsheet - such as ratings - would apply only to the features available on the given model.
Now back to the kickstarted, where they link the PDF in section "What SoC is used in the Omega2?" and clearly state "The SoC is the MediaTek MT7688K"
So yes, if the Omega2 was using a MT7688AN, then the DDR2 ratings might apply. Since the SOC is supposedly a MT7688K, no DDR2, and that section of "Maximum ratings" (what you screenshotted) does NOT apply.
To summarize
* NT7688 has two models (AN/KN)
* PDF covers BOTH models
* Kickstarter says Omega2 has MT7688K model SOC (assume this means KN)
* PDF says no DDR2 in KNmodel, only in AN
* Other sections provide ratings for DDR2 but likely only apply to the AN variant that actually has said parts
So thanks for the "goddamn screen capture." Perhaps next time you could include some reading comprehension and actually look at the section I noted before you blow your top, it probably would have taken less time. While your at it, please take your Ritalin and calm down a bit.
thanks!
There are a lot of shitty "news-like" sites out there. That is, sites that act like news and have staff that do "reports", but that often ignore any sense of journalistic ethics. OK, to be fair, a what would have once been considered "real" news agencies are the same way.
One of things about Gawker and its ilk, it's all about the clicks, and the clickbait and controversy. This resulted in a lot of "articles" that were little more than veiled attacks or flaming rhetoric. Sure, it got a lot of comments, but very little that was valuable or informative. Every now and then there would be an intelligent article but it was like finding a lost ring in a septic tank. Unfortunately while gawker.com might be dying, all those nasty little subsidiary sites appear to be continuing on to the new owners.
You mean the one they link from the section entitled "What SoC is used in the Omega2?", with the description "The SoC is the MediaTek MT7688K, and the datasheet is available here"
I sure as fuck did. As per "Section 2 - Main Features", the KN supposedly only supported 64MB (MB, what?) of DDR1, whereas the AN supported 2GB of DDR1/DDR2 at 193Mhz.
According to the Spec sheet listed for the MediaTek MT7688, the CPU is only 580Mhz and it uses DDR1 RAM. That sounds a fair bit slower than even the Pi Zero
Yup, pretty much. I could see this becoming a nightmare of integration as well. Facebook login for the service will be a given, but I just cleaned up me feed of all the "game" notifications I was getting from the crappy web-games. Now I'll probably now to deal with lame achievement notifications etc because I'm sure FB will start incorporating those into their feeds.
There have actually been a lot of competitors in this space. EA dropped Steam in favour of Origin, and of course MS is pushing the app store. So far though, Steam has been the top dog, likely in part because they offer the best service (note I won't say perfect service, as they still have issues, but still a lot better than the competition). Steam has also made progress is offering more features, such as the ability to play games from a non-logged-in account on an authorised PC (with a different account logged in).
Their "consoles" don't seem to be making huge headway, but the Steam platform itself I expect will be going strong for some time now.
Given the number of security issues with Java, it's probably good it didn't catch on. It's been hard enough ditching flash, but at least Java-web is used rarely enough I can disable or uninstall it on most browsers.
What a horribly inaccurate and misleading statemented. It'll actually be the 80% of staff still employed tomorrow... not 93%.
Last time I tried it, Minecraft ran nicely on OpenJDK. This is especially helpful if you're a non-windows person (Linux, BSD, etc) as OpenJDK is often included in the package management system whereas the Oracle version is not.
Most of where I've seen java on desktop was for certain management applications that needed cross-OS compatibility, but even that small niche still pales compared to the in-browser stuff (which means you have to enable browser Java applets, which is not a good idea security wise).
What used to drive me nuts is apps that were written in Java and *could* have been nicely cross-platform *IF* the developers had actually taken 5 seconds to allow variable paths instead of hardcoding windows drives and paths (C:, D:, etc) in there. Lots of interesting software, but implementation was always a huge fail.
someone cheats on you, it's not that hard to dump them
That is, if you don't mind up giving half of what you've spent your life earning...
Cars may actually come up with similar problems to phones soon (lots of software, little for updates), but currently you probably have less to worry about your 10-year-old car being hacked due to an unpatched exploit than your 2-year-old phone which the vendor/provider no longer offers software updates for.
Well, it should taste like a *ripe* tomato.
GMO doesn't change the flavour of the tomato per-se, what it does it make the tomatoes appear a nice ripe red colour/texture when really they're not. That gives you a watery tomato with little flavour.
You want to know what a tomato should be like? Walk into a greenhouse or a garden full or real, fresh tomatoes. You can *smell* them before they even get near your palate. Most local store tomatoes here are watery, with little flavour and next to no scent. I do have to take care that my garden tomatoes don't spoil, as once actually ripe they can soften or split quickly, but the flavour is far and beyond the store stuff. Also, there's a lot of different *varieties* of tomatoes. Some are stronger tasting than others, have different textures, and come in a vast array of sizes and colours. They all taste pretty damn good though.
Apples on the other hand... well I don't grow those but I've tasted "wild" ones, and with those as well as store varieties some I like but others I find are sour/bitter. Maybe you got a "crab apple", which are a particularly sour variety and can also do a number on your stomach if you eat too many. I'm not fond of the crab apples myself but I have tasted some pretty good pies with them, and I understand they're pretty nice for making cider as well.
Isn't that somewhat what AMD's APU is? Multiple X64 compute cores combined with multiple ARM graphics cores?
I wonder if there will be a successor to ARM. I'm not a CPU architect, but some of the main differences seem that ARM can mix cores (a multi-core processor need not have all cores of the same type) but overall requires more consecutive operations to perform a function (CISC vs RISC), but do so without the same overhead microcode translation.
In the future I'd imagine we'll be seeing more hybrids between the two, like APU's where essentially a die has an x64 CISC-style core for general processing and an ARM RISC-style core for things like graphics processing etc, but I'm also hoping some new and exciting will come around in the next half-decade or so (quantum computing, perhaps?).
Cisco often buys into and then drops out of markets. For example they used to offer a load-balancer product, the "Cisco Ace". It was decent enough, but I believe they purchased the core tech from another company. In the last several years, the older Ace has been discontinued, and there is no successor product as Cisco apparently decided to get out of balancing. I'd imagine there are whole divisions of support and development that go out in this case.
A lot of big companies are like this. They buy out smaller innovative companies, use their tech, grab some patents and then dump them. That's good for the shareholders and sometimes management in the smaller company as they can get a big payout, but not so good for the workers who can suddenly go from having a good gig at an innovative company to being big corporate and then unemployed. In other industries such as gaming, companies like EA have pretty much been legendary for the "Buy, milk sequels, dump" cycle, and certainly it's a well-known trend with Microsoft etc too.
I kinda sound like certain anti-spam lists which basically worked thus:
a) You don't really know that you're on the list
b) You don't know who uses the list
c) It's almost impossible to get off the list
Having worked in situations where a somebody either inherited IP's on the list, was mistakenly added, or did something bad (e.g. mis-configured mailserver/proxy allowing spam) that was fixed but could NEVER get off... yeah that's not so great.
It's not that everyone is using WW's list, it's that his list is being used to populate a bigger list which could block you for things you're actively interested in.
Maybe instead of tossing the evidence, the cop(s) who collected it *must* be terminated and charged. That would certainly dissuade cops from persueing warrantless activities, but it might also help prevent scumbags from getting away because of such misconduct.
Not doing business with them again is a start, but honestly one of the things I've found is that some businesses who do some *amazingly* bad support/PR, also seem to have public walls on their Facebook pages. I've had decent luck getting some response from businesses by posting a detailed summary of my issues on their wall.
Pi might be a bit inconvenient for that. How about a smartphone app?
Still waiting for the facebook status update plugin...
Oh, well then we should just let it slide, I suppose.
Honestly, I don't have a problem with that. If there's value in it, then people will pay. Also, if things go back to the pay-model, then perhaps some other companies can come around with a pay-for-service rather than a sell-all-your-info model.
Personally, I'm OK with some ads. There have actually been some products on FB and other sites that have even caught my fancy. Ads in and of themselves aren't the big issue. Massive intrusive data mining, malware, disruptive/intrusive ads, and ads posing as informational sources *are* a problem.
Unions don't need the government to be at war with them, they're often at war with themselves. They still serve some purpose but many need to re-prioritise, especially in dropping certain fringes that take up time/resources and frankly are just not good cases. I've seen a *lot* of cases of with-cause terminations where the only thing keeping a given employee from the door and with a boot-in-the-ass was a long union process. This is despite the fact that everyone pretty much knows of the issues.
For example, an employee who did not complete his work, and then blamed it on others. In fact, he often didn't come to work at the right times and was running a side-job using company resources on company time, and his work vehicle was often seen outside the local pub. He did eventually get fired but it took years to finalise that.
Another case, an employee who lacked skill/will to do the same job as his peers, despite repeated attempts at training. Had a "I don't give a f***" attitude and stank so badly one side of the room was "his" and everyone sat on the other because nobody wanted to be near him.
In both cases, the above were a detriment not only to their employer but also to all the other dues-paying members who had to compensate for their lack of giving a sh*t. The unions spend a *lot* of time and resources defending folks like these, and frankly those resources are finite which means that often other people's issues that *need* attention don't get it. In the end the useless f***s get the same raises as everyone else, which pisses off pretty much everyone including the public in cases where they have a more visible position.
If unions would give up the dead-weight and focus more time on dealing with bigger issues (safety violations, discrimination, outsourcing, etc) they would likely have more support and get more done.
(source: former union member, steward, and council-member)