This is a quote from the January 26th 2012 by Tomi Ahonen
“Luckily I didn’t have to do the math for this, the nice people at All About Symbian had tracked the numbers (read through the comments) and calculated the limits, finding N9 sales to be between the level of 1.5 million and 2.0 million units in Q4. Wow! Nokia specifically excluded all of its richest and biggest traditional markets where it tried to sell the Lumia, and these countries achieved – lets call it the average, 1.75 million unit sales of the N9 in Q4. So the one N9 outsold both Lumia handsets by almost exactly 3 to 1.” [1]
And the amazing thing is that the N9 sold so incredibly well despite not being marketed as much as as the Lumia. I still come across people looking to buy an N9, and having to get it Switzerland because it's not sold in Italy.
Unfortunately nVidia cards are a bit better (support for PhysX) which AMD doesn't
Unless you really need PhysX (which is a niche feature), my opinion is that AMD video cards are better. The 7770 and 7870 have excellent price/performace ratios and no major weaknesses. In particular, thermals and power consumption are better than on corresponding nVidia cards.
You're right about AMD's uncompetitiveness against Intel in the CPU market, though.
AMD video cards are significantly better than NVIDIA ones when it comes to raw computation power and when it comes to performance/watt and when it comes to performance/price; especially now that the 7xxx series has overcome the only weakness of the old series, the VLIW instruction set and architecture. Where AMD sucks big times is in software support. NVIDIA has pushed immensely CUDA, to the point that people now think that GPGPU = CUDA; and it has immensely pushed in creating a software environment around CUDA, including tons of external libraries that depend on CUDA. AMD has lost of a lot of ground with their CTM -> CAL -> OpenCL transitions, that have effectively prevented their technology to gain any significant traction, and they are just now starting to go back and getting some visibility. Their APU offering is probably the last chance they get in doing a significant breakthrough. Let's hope they don't bust it.
Or use Windows or possibly Gnome...or do OpenCl or OpenGl programming...or-
The list goes on. The fact that people are still selling craptacular integrated video chipsets in this day and age saddens me greatly. Guys, it's 2012...pony up for a dedicated video card with dedicated video ram. Quit trying to save a buck or two on a component you really don't want to be cheap on.
Well, I think you can do OpenCL on Intel HD3xxx/4xxx chips these days.
AFAIK, Intel HD3xxx is not OpenCL capable, and Intel HD4xxx is officially supported by Intel on Windows only (no Linux drivers). This is in sharp contrast with AMD, which has much better OpenCL support for everything they ship (CPUs, GPUs and APUs).
*Looks around* AAAAAAAnd, how does this AVX-256 compare to OpenCl transcoding of video?
That's a stupid question. OpenCL by itself does nothing whatsoever to improve video transcoding. OpenCL is an API, so the performance of an OpenCL kernel for video transcoding highly depends on which hardware you're running it on. On Intel CPUs supporting AVX-256, OpenCL kernels will be compiled to use those instructions (if Intel keeps updating its OpenCL SDK), on GPUs and APUs it will use whatever the respective platforms use.
What OpenCL does is make it easier to exploit AVX-256, just as it makes it easier to exploit SSE and multiple cores.
Actually, it is. Slowly but surely. Unsurprisingly, one of the biggest obstacle to Linux adoption for younger people is exactly gaming. I know quite a few peopl whose systems are dual-boot between linux and windows specifically for this: they use Linux most of the time, and then switch to Windows to play.
I would like to use DDG too, but the only thing it has which is useful (at least as of now) is the zero-click info-box. The actual search results are quite horrible compared to what Google provides (probably because DDG relies essentially on Bing, which is having huge problems keeping their database in good shape).
Joking and April's fools aside, this is something that FriendFeed has had since something like day 1, centuries before being bought up by Facebook: you could define "virtual friends" which, given the feed-based nature of FF as a social network, was just a collection of feeds.
Except for the fact that I'm not aware of cases when those who passed a law being actually held responsible for it when the law is then challenged in court or otherwise "be bad"
Same perplexity I have. What if the good results are linked to the host being a mouse, and in humans the same treatment would end up becoming some kind of auto-immune disease instead?
Just my thoughts. Why reinvent the wheel rather than expand and improve what's there already? (Note: I have never looked at or used VRML, so I have no idea what state it is in.)
Why is Wayland a 'threat'? Open source is evolution. Let Wayland come - if users go for it, they go for it and it becomes the new thing
The problem is not "if the users go for it". The problem is "if every major distribution tries to cram it down everybody's throat", with no alternatives or making it very hard to choose an alternative.
The fact that Nokia (actually, Elop) is too stupid to sell N9 in all the markets (it's not available in Italy, e.g., except imported more or less legally from e.g. Switzerland) and the fact that the N9 is essentially the end-of-line product for Harmattan are two strong reasons that have strongly limited the sales of that fine product.
Damn, and here I was, hoping that NASA had had the Portal technology for some time and that they were finally releasing the schematics for the Portal gun...
Sold well? Who bought it ? I hardly know anyone anymore who owns a Nokia phone, just eighteen months ago half my friends had one, hell I had a N900 myself. I had high hopes for the N900, sadly Nokia didnt...
Many people with N900 didn't get an N9 because the N9 is EOL. Despite this, though, there are markets where the N9 has not been officially sold (like Italy) that have to go look for their N9s eslewhere (e.g. Switzerland) _and they do_ (there are quite a few online Italian shops that sell imported N9s).
Nokia expresselly killed their Linux line of phones, by making the N950 a "developer preview" only and only releasing the N9 in "selected" market. _Despite_ this, and their Lumia phones being everywhere, the N9 is still in high demand.
Nokia already said that they won't sell their smartphone division several hours ago...
Why would Microsoft buy it when they already got it for free?
Because Nokia can pull out of the deal at any time now, and considering how much their Linux and Symbian smartphones are still in high request compared to their WinPhones (which is ridiculous if you consider that the N9 is essential an EOL, and still there's people in Italy, where it's not officially sold, getting it from Switzerland just to be able to put their hands on it), they actually might realize they're doing the stupidest possible thing by tying their technology to the MS o.s. —if MS buys their smartphone division, MS has the o.s. and hardware under its control. Much cheaper in the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if patents get in the deal as well, just so that they might fight a legal battle with android phones (specifically the reason why Google bought Motorola).
YES! Thank you! I really enjoy the fuck out of TED talks.... but you know... sometimes a year later its hard to remember exactly who said something and where I saw it.
TED talks are awesome, but every time somebody brings out this particular TED talk, I have to point out that it was a horrible talk. Her story is very interesting from the perspective of someone who suffered a stroke, but from a scientific perspective, it was all pseudosicence, and it needs to be disregarded despite her credentials.
Since I'm not even remotely an expert about neurology, I always thought that the talk drifted a little too often on the mystic side, but I was unable to pinpoint where the scientific part failed. Thanks for the references.
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Of a neurologist who had a stroke, and wrote an article about it later. It was really amusing how she wrote about it. She knew what was going on, she knew the signs, hell, she was an expert. She called for help of course, but, she talked about how during it, she was having a rich internal dialog about the process... thinking of what functions were broken, how it was manifesting and how she experienced it....
You are probably thinking about Jill Bolte Taylor's "Stroke of insight". She even made a TED talk about it
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This is a quote from the January 26th 2012 by Tomi Ahonen
“Luckily I didn’t have to do the math for this, the nice people at All About Symbian had tracked the numbers (read through the comments) and calculated the limits, finding N9 sales to be between the level of 1.5 million and 2.0 million units in Q4. Wow! Nokia specifically excluded all of its richest and biggest traditional markets where it tried to sell the Lumia, and these countries achieved – lets call it the average, 1.75 million unit sales of the N9 in Q4. So the one N9 outsold both Lumia handsets by almost exactly 3 to 1.” [1]
And the amazing thing is that the N9 sold so incredibly well despite not being marketed as much as as the Lumia. I still come across people looking to buy an N9, and having to get it Switzerland because it's not sold in Italy.
Unfortunately nVidia cards are a bit better (support for PhysX) which AMD doesn't
Unless you really need PhysX (which is a niche feature), my opinion is that AMD video cards are better. The 7770 and 7870 have excellent price/performace ratios and no major weaknesses. In particular, thermals and power consumption are better than on corresponding nVidia cards.
You're right about AMD's uncompetitiveness against Intel in the CPU market, though.
AMD video cards are significantly better than NVIDIA ones when it comes to raw computation power and when it comes to performance/watt and when it comes to performance/price; especially now that the 7xxx series has overcome the only weakness of the old series, the VLIW instruction set and architecture. Where AMD sucks big times is in software support. NVIDIA has pushed immensely CUDA, to the point that people now think that GPGPU = CUDA; and it has immensely pushed in creating a software environment around CUDA, including tons of external libraries that depend on CUDA. AMD has lost of a lot of ground with their CTM -> CAL -> OpenCL transitions, that have effectively prevented their technology to gain any significant traction, and they are just now starting to go back and getting some visibility. Their APU offering is probably the last chance they get in doing a significant breakthrough. Let's hope they don't bust it.
Well, I think you can do OpenCL on Intel HD3xxx/4xxx chips these days.
AFAIK, Intel HD3xxx is not OpenCL capable, and Intel HD4xxx is officially supported by Intel on Windows only (no Linux drivers). This is in sharp contrast with AMD, which has much better OpenCL support for everything they ship (CPUs, GPUs and APUs).
Batcoin.
*Looks around* AAAAAAAnd, how does this AVX-256 compare to OpenCl transcoding of video?
That's a stupid question. OpenCL by itself does nothing whatsoever to improve video transcoding. OpenCL is an API, so the performance of an OpenCL kernel for video transcoding highly depends on which hardware you're running it on. On Intel CPUs supporting AVX-256, OpenCL kernels will be compiled to use those instructions (if Intel keeps updating its OpenCL SDK), on GPUs and APUs it will use whatever the respective platforms use. What OpenCL does is make it easier to exploit AVX-256, just as it makes it easier to exploit SSE and multiple cores.
This is actually one of the reasons why the N900 was such an excellent choice.
Well, the linux market share isn't yet growing
Actually, it is. Slowly but surely. Unsurprisingly, one of the biggest obstacle to Linux adoption for younger people is exactly gaming. I know quite a few peopl whose systems are dual-boot between linux and windows specifically for this: they use Linux most of the time, and then switch to Windows to play.
That's divorce. The wife got the house. He got the restraining order.
And it's the kind of restraining order that forces you to be within a certain distance too http://xkcd.com/415/
I would like to use DDG too, but the only thing it has which is useful (at least as of now) is the zero-click info-box. The actual search results are quite horrible compared to what Google provides (probably because DDG relies essentially on Bing, which is having huge problems keeping their database in good shape).
Joking and April's fools aside, this is something that FriendFeed has had since something like day 1, centuries before being bought up by Facebook: you could define "virtual friends" which, given the feed-based nature of FF as a social network, was just a collection of feeds.
You mean GNU/RMS, of course, yes?
Are you talking about the remake of "The Omega man"?
Except for the fact that I'm not aware of cases when those who passed a law being actually held responsible for it when the law is then challenged in court or otherwise "be bad"
Same perplexity I have. What if the good results are linked to the host being a mouse, and in humans the same treatment would end up becoming some kind of auto-immune disease instead?
Just my thoughts. Why reinvent the wheel rather than expand and improve what's there already? (Note: I have never looked at or used VRML, so I have no idea what state it is in.)
Why is Wayland a 'threat'? Open source is evolution. Let Wayland come - if users go for it, they go for it and it becomes the new thing
The problem is not "if the users go for it". The problem is "if every major distribution tries to cram it down everybody's throat", with no alternatives or making it very hard to choose an alternative.
Want a real shock? Grab a 20 year old copy if Windows XP. I's still usable! (at least as usable as a Windows OS can be)
Except for the fact that 20 years ago you couldn't have Windows XP, at best OS/2 or WinNT.
The fact that Nokia (actually, Elop) is too stupid to sell N9 in all the markets (it's not available in Italy, e.g., except imported more or less legally from e.g. Switzerland) and the fact that the N9 is essentially the end-of-line product for Harmattan are two strong reasons that have strongly limited the sales of that fine product.
Damn, and here I was, hoping that NASA had had the Portal technology for some time and that they were finally releasing the schematics for the Portal gun ...
Sold well? Who bought it ? I hardly know anyone anymore who owns a Nokia phone, just eighteen months ago half my friends had one, hell I had a N900 myself. I had high hopes for the N900, sadly Nokia didnt...
Many people with N900 didn't get an N9 because the N9 is EOL. Despite this, though, there are markets where the N9 has not been officially sold (like Italy) that have to go look for their N9s eslewhere (e.g. Switzerland) _and they do_ (there are quite a few online Italian shops that sell imported N9s).
Nokia expresselly killed their Linux line of phones, by making the N950 a "developer preview" only and only releasing the N9 in "selected" market. _Despite_ this, and their Lumia phones being everywhere, the N9 is still in high demand.
Nokia already said that they won't sell their smartphone division several hours ago...
Why would Microsoft buy it when they already got it for free?
Because Nokia can pull out of the deal at any time now, and considering how much their Linux and Symbian smartphones are still in high request compared to their WinPhones (which is ridiculous if you consider that the N9 is essential an EOL, and still there's people in Italy, where it's not officially sold, getting it from Switzerland just to be able to put their hands on it), they actually might realize they're doing the stupidest possible thing by tying their technology to the MS o.s. —if MS buys their smartphone division, MS has the o.s. and hardware under its control. Much cheaper in the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if patents get in the deal as well, just so that they might fight a legal battle with android phones (specifically the reason why Google bought Motorola).
4) Bing and Yahoo gave the same exact search results.
Yeah, they have been the same search engine since something like mid-2010. Did you miss the news?
YES! Thank you! I really enjoy the fuck out of TED talks.... but you know... sometimes a year later its hard to remember exactly who said something and where I saw it.
TED talks are awesome, but every time somebody brings out this particular TED talk, I have to point out that it was a horrible talk. Her story is very interesting from the perspective of someone who suffered a stroke, but from a scientific perspective, it was all pseudosicence, and it needs to be disregarded despite her credentials.
Since I'm not even remotely an expert about neurology, I always thought that the talk drifted a little too often on the mystic side, but I was unable to pinpoint where the scientific part failed. Thanks for the references.
Of a neurologist who had a stroke, and wrote an article about it later. It was really amusing how she wrote about it. She knew what was going on, she knew the signs, hell, she was an expert. She called for help of course, but, she talked about how during it, she was having a rich internal dialog about the process... thinking of what functions were broken, how it was manifesting and how she experienced it....
You are probably thinking about Jill Bolte Taylor's "Stroke of insight". She even made a TED talk about it
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