Except the total cost of using any software is roughly the same.
If computers don't make us more productive, why do we use them? If they do make us more productive they can't all increase our productivity by the same amount (because Hello World seems to be completely useless).
Those kind of things are not even the reason I love Python, but would be enough to make me like it if I didn't love it already.
Yeah, giving meaning to blank space is bad. Yet, the rest of the language is good enough to compensate for that. (And, for the GP, you shouldn't just be pasting code from an example and not reviewing it anyway, it not compiling is a feature.)
Within time, only professionals will need desktop workstations
Yes, only those that have a profession, or a hobby, or are studying something will need a desktop. All the others will do well with a consuption-only device.
...and they all contain the same information (i.e. constant sync)...
Too bad my NAS holds 2TB of information, while my phone holds 2GB only. Once in a while, MS gets into a pipe dream, and they need decades to discover it can not be done.
Well, I don't (and since you used an universal quantifier, that makes you wrong). We can go there, that's right, but I'm not sure of it.
Anyway, I don't remember of any tracking in Brave New World. The status quo (no big government there) was so intense on people's mind that tracking wouldn't even fit. Are you confusing the books? (And no, I'm not sure about 1984 either.)
When my daugter was 3, I made she would memorize both 1 emergency phone number and our address, and she had no problems doing that. When she was 4 she learned (almost by herself) how to use a celphone.
the first one that *actually* goes and releases full GPL-compliant source code of their 3D GPU for example, i will INSTANTLY be recommending it to our clients.
If it was that easy... It seems that the Allwinner doesn't sell the A10 outside of China, and the boards I can find with it just don't have a good GPIO. As far as I know, there is no Raspberry Pi equivalent using the A10.
It probably won't be a problem for your client that is sponsored by the PRC, but it will limit the spread of the chip. Still, it seems to be enough to scare Broadcom, so we win.
Maybe he saw some money on it... They've sold about a million units just by virtue of supporting Free Softwre, how many more can they sell if they really support it? Anyway, it doesn't cost too much to find out.
Also, maybe the chineese promissing* that the A10 will have an entirely free stack helped a bit on this decision.
* As far as I know, they still didn't deliver it... But just the promisse should be enough to change Broadcom's strategy.
SO, they promisse that the chip they'll release next year can compete with the chips ARM is selling* now? (And, yeah, that would be the first time Intel overpromissed on power consuption... Forget about last year, and the year before that, and...)
* Ok, ARM doesn't sell, I know. but they are getting done now, with inferior processes, bigger feature sizes and are still competitive with the offering Intel has for the next year.
ARM has great instruction density... But it doesn't really matter, because you can power an ARM core and an instruction decompressor with less power than you needed for a x86 core, and zipped instructions have a much bigger density than x86, whatever architecture it is.
Anyway, the transistors on cache use much less energy thant he ones on the core. As cache becomes bigger, the core becomes less important, but not as fast as you imply.
When you can make a profit of $4 a part from 20 smaller customers who together buy say, 10M parts, but you lose $0.05 per part on 100M parts for Apple (or another big supplier-raping customer, there are many - just pick a big name), the choice is pretty easy.
A semiconductor guy saying that?!? No, the answer is not easy, and any option you choose may banckrupt you.
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If computers don't make us more productive, why do we use them? If they do make us more productive they can't all increase our productivity by the same amount (because Hello World seems to be completely useless).
Or, in ther words, you are wrong.
Those kind of things are not even the reason I love Python, but would be enough to make me like it if I didn't love it already.
Yeah, giving meaning to blank space is bad. Yet, the rest of the language is good enough to compensate for that. (And, for the GP, you shouldn't just be pasting code from an example and not reviewing it anyway, it not compiling is a feature.)
Yes, only those that have a profession, or a hobby, or are studying something will need a desktop. All the others will do well with a consuption-only device.
It is. Linux is already a success on everything else, and the desktop market is the last thing people are trying to make it fit into.
I don't think so (I'm not the GP), but Microsoft does. Or, do you have any other explanation for why they are betting the farm on mobile?
I don't know why Microsoft thinks that, by the way. Or, if the reason is indeed the one they claim, I completely disagree with them.
Too bad my NAS holds 2TB of information, while my phone holds 2GB only. Once in a while, MS gets into a pipe dream, and they need decades to discover it can not be done.
They are still not desktops. You can call them pocket computers if you want, but they don't fill the top of a desk.
Thanks. It was about time somebody made a good board from that chip. Now I'll look closer for their promissed open source GPU driver :)
(But yeah, I've already brought a Pi. Maybe I'll want another in the future, and it could be this board, maybe not.)
Well, I don't (and since you used an universal quantifier, that makes you wrong). We can go there, that's right, but I'm not sure of it.
Anyway, I don't remember of any tracking in Brave New World. The status quo (no big government there) was so intense on people's mind that tracking wouldn't even fit. Are you confusing the books? (And no, I'm not sure about 1984 either.)
When my daugter was 3, I made she would memorize both 1 emergency phone number and our address, and she had no problems doing that. When she was 4 she learned (almost by herself) how to use a celphone.
So, differently from a phone it can't be used when the kid has an actual problem?
And Netcraft conirmed it. I know. Everybody knows. You don't need to keep repeating it.
But, of course, zumbies are knwon to be slow... You may be up to something.
If it was that easy... It seems that the Allwinner doesn't sell the A10 outside of China, and the boards I can find with it just don't have a good GPIO. As far as I know, there is no Raspberry Pi equivalent using the A10.
It probably won't be a problem for your client that is sponsored by the PRC, but it will limit the spread of the chip. Still, it seems to be enough to scare Broadcom, so we win.
As lots of people already said here, KDE does not need it.
Also, it is indeed getting harder and harder to find (or build) a computer that doesn't come with 3D acceleration.
I had the same oppinion, but I've recently added a lock gesture to stop my pocket from using the phone.
Microsoft can't survive with just 80% of the desktop market. If they get that low, they are done (but I don't belive they'll get there with win8).
Maybe he saw some money on it... They've sold about a million units just by virtue of supporting Free Softwre, how many more can they sell if they really support it? Anyway, it doesn't cost too much to find out.
Also, maybe the chineese promissing* that the A10 will have an entirely free stack helped a bit on this decision.
* As far as I know, they still didn't deliver it... But just the promisse should be enough to change Broadcom's strategy.
SO, they promisse that the chip they'll release next year can compete with the chips ARM is selling* now? (And, yeah, that would be the first time Intel overpromissed on power consuption... Forget about last year, and the year before that, and...)
* Ok, ARM doesn't sell, I know. but they are getting done now, with inferior processes, bigger feature sizes and are still competitive with the offering Intel has for the next year.
ARM has great instruction density... But it doesn't really matter, because you can power an ARM core and an instruction decompressor with less power than you needed for a x86 core, and zipped instructions have a much bigger density than x86, whatever architecture it is.
Anyway, the transistors on cache use much less energy thant he ones on the core. As cache becomes bigger, the core becomes less important, but not as fast as you imply.
Well, the display was the main selling point of the new iPad...
A semiconductor guy saying that?!? No, the answer is not easy, and any option you choose may banckrupt you.
No, it won't. Government coruption have already eaten Capitalism a long time ago, it's long dead and can't eat anything anymore.
Because the objective of patents has an economical nature.
If you want the equivalent argument for, for example, environmental trolls, you'll have to show that they hurt the environment, not the economy.
A license to what? You are denying them the patent.
That depends on how much you get as compensation, doesn't it?