But yet when mobile CPUs went from single core to dual core, everyone thought that was a massive enhancement. And when dual-core mobile CPUs are now giving way to 4-way mobile CPUs, everyone seems to think that's a fantastic idea too.
So why is 4-way to 8-way utterly stupid all of a sudden, just because this guy says so?
I would think that a highly multithreaded app combined with a highly parallel CPU would actually be more power efficient, as you're doing the same work in less clocks.
Granted, all tasks cannot be highly multithreaded, but that particular street goes both ways.
So Google doesn't have enough resources to concurrently test 4.2.2 and 4.3 on the same hardware, so that if issues are discovered in 4.3 they have a backup plan?
It must suck to be so cash strapped that your QA team can't get that done.
The choice was probably driven largely by availability of cockpit parts. There is an impressive amount of 737s out there in various states of operation.
Denying "its current executives" participation in political processes isn't a violation of the 1st Amendment in multiple ways (freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association) exactly how?
You can make an argument that Corporations don't have the same rights as individual people, and you'd likely be right. But you can't say that the individual people that make up a corporation deserve to have their guaranteed rights stripped. Well, you can, but you'd be self-identifying as an idiot.
$900M write-off $890M marketing $x in R&D / production costs Total expense to produce $850M in revenue by selling 1.7M tablets: $1.79B + $x production costs
They lost $600+ after each customer bought one. They could have gave them away for free and been less in the hole, because they wouldn't have had to do the billion dollar marketing.
And none of that matters at all. BSOD exists in the zeitgeist, therefore it is a mark on the platform in general. It doesn't have to happen anymore, because it used to happen so often in the past. You can't run away from the shitty products you used to ship, by making less shitty products now. You have to make overwhelmingly better products now, or wait for the overall image of your products to gradually change.
People don't want to type the name of their program to run it. If they did, we'd still all be on DOS 6. I've heard people throw this out before as a workaround to a shit UI, and it only points out the massive failure of the new UI. Also, go ahead and type in the name of the program you want to run on your Windows tablet, with the on-screen keyboard, when anyone running iOS or Android has it up and running in 3 taps or less. Yeah, that's a great mobile computing experience.
I'll give Microsoft credit for trying something new, but sometimes you have to recognize when your new thing is actually worse than what you were doing before. Windows 8 is a failed experiment, and Microsoft should recognize it as such and mend it by giving everyone a switch to give back Aero.
Everyone seems to forget that the deal with Apple was really "$150m non-voting stock, a commitment for Office on Mac, and a cross-license agreement so that you won't win a billion dollar suit against us because we stole QuickTime, but you're losing patience for because you're out of cash."
So Apple wants to market a new device that uses someone else's patented tech. They enter negotiations to license it, and find that buying the company is a better outright solution strategically, financially, or otherwise.
They then assume control of the patent and defend it in court when it is stomped all over by competitors, as they found it to be a legally granted patent, and essential to their product design (thus buying the company). When it is struck down, all of a sudden Apple (who was playing the game as per the law) is the asshole here?
that company and its current executives and legal representatives (due to conflict of interest) should become ineligible to participate formally in political process or a "friend of a court" in any way.
I'm sure that policy wouldn't run afoul of the First Amendment in ANY way.
Everyone is holding these guys up to be some kind of saints in their battle against the evil Apple Empire, when they are thrice-convicted price fixers that screw their customers over at every opportunity, legal or otherwise; and try to screw the competition by suing over standards-essential patents that they don't license for FRAND terms (allegedly).
Samsung is not a friendly company, but I'll likely be modded down for saying so. Whatever, I've got the karma to burn.
Knowing how most taxi drivers go about their business, I'd agree that this is a safety matter; but I'd stipulate that safety is being improved by making taxi traffic a smaller percentage of cars entering the airport.
Oh, and wielding a legal regulation to lock out competition because the competition is using smartphone apps while you're stuck in the 1950s dial-a-cab era is awesome.
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But yet when mobile CPUs went from single core to dual core, everyone thought that was a massive enhancement. And when dual-core mobile CPUs are now giving way to 4-way mobile CPUs, everyone seems to think that's a fantastic idea too.
So why is 4-way to 8-way utterly stupid all of a sudden, just because this guy says so?
I would think that a highly multithreaded app combined with a highly parallel CPU would actually be more power efficient, as you're doing the same work in less clocks.
Granted, all tasks cannot be highly multithreaded, but that particular street goes both ways.
If 8-core procs are dumb, then Intel, AMD, and Nvidia must be absolutely fucking retarded to make products with hundreds of cores in them.
Just because software doesn't use it right now, it doesn't mean that software won't use it soon.
"Eight core processors are dumb (until we produce one) !!"
Then, like so many others have asked, how does Apple do it?
They release new software and baseband firmware for 3 year old phones routinely.
The client of an advertising agency gets to approve the marketing plan. Samsung would have approved the spend as well.
What is this auto-update you speak of?
To upgrade iOS, you have to actually tell it to upgrade. It will only notify you when one is available.
So Google doesn't have enough resources to concurrently test 4.2.2 and 4.3 on the same hardware, so that if issues are discovered in 4.3 they have a backup plan?
It must suck to be so cash strapped that your QA team can't get that done.
All of the various scenarios tend to wreak havoc on the simulation equipment, they'd like to test the fire extinguishers on his rig instead of theirs.
The choice was probably driven largely by availability of cockpit parts. There is an impressive amount of 737s out there in various states of operation.
Denying "its current executives" participation in political processes isn't a violation of the 1st Amendment in multiple ways (freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association) exactly how?
You can make an argument that Corporations don't have the same rights as individual people, and you'd likely be right. But you can't say that the individual people that make up a corporation deserve to have their guaranteed rights stripped. Well, you can, but you'd be self-identifying as an idiot.
Here's the thing though:
$900M write-off
$890M marketing
$x in R&D / production costs
Total expense to produce $850M in revenue by selling 1.7M tablets: $1.79B + $x production costs
They lost $600+ after each customer bought one. They could have gave them away for free and been less in the hole, because they wouldn't have had to do the billion dollar marketing.
And none of that matters at all. BSOD exists in the zeitgeist, therefore it is a mark on the platform in general. It doesn't have to happen anymore, because it used to happen so often in the past. You can't run away from the shitty products you used to ship, by making less shitty products now. You have to make overwhelmingly better products now, or wait for the overall image of your products to gradually change.
People don't want to type the name of their program to run it. If they did, we'd still all be on DOS 6. I've heard people throw this out before as a workaround to a shit UI, and it only points out the massive failure of the new UI. Also, go ahead and type in the name of the program you want to run on your Windows tablet, with the on-screen keyboard, when anyone running iOS or Android has it up and running in 3 taps or less. Yeah, that's a great mobile computing experience.
I'll give Microsoft credit for trying something new, but sometimes you have to recognize when your new thing is actually worse than what you were doing before. Windows 8 is a failed experiment, and Microsoft should recognize it as such and mend it by giving everyone a switch to give back Aero.
Everyone seems to forget that the deal with Apple was really "$150m non-voting stock, a commitment for Office on Mac, and a cross-license agreement so that you won't win a billion dollar suit against us because we stole QuickTime, but you're losing patience for because you're out of cash."
So Apple wants to market a new device that uses someone else's patented tech. They enter negotiations to license it, and find that buying the company is a better outright solution strategically, financially, or otherwise.
They then assume control of the patent and defend it in court when it is stomped all over by competitors, as they found it to be a legally granted patent, and essential to their product design (thus buying the company). When it is struck down, all of a sudden Apple (who was playing the game as per the law) is the asshole here?
That's some impressive logic.
that company and its current executives and legal representatives (due to conflict of interest) should become ineligible to participate formally in political process or a "friend of a court" in any way.
I'm sure that policy wouldn't run afoul of the First Amendment in ANY way.
Because they were all about Net Neutrality when it was other people's customers, but when it comes to their own network it's not cool all of a sudden.
That's what most people like to call "hypocrisy".
So the benchmarks would show scores indicative of real world performance, then?
Isn't that the point?
And Samsung still wouldn't care, evidenced by past behavior (otherwise known as the best predictor of future behavior):
Samsung could face 15B Euro fine
Samsung, LG fined for LCD price fixing
Tax evasion, bribery, and price fixing: how Samsung became the giant that ate Korea
Samsung agrees to plead guilty to DRAM price fixing, pay $300M fine
6 Samsung executives headed to jail for price fixing
Samsung, LG fined for mobile price fixing scheme
Everyone is holding these guys up to be some kind of saints in their battle against the evil Apple Empire, when they are thrice-convicted price fixers that screw their customers over at every opportunity, legal or otherwise; and try to screw the competition by suing over standards-essential patents that they don't license for FRAND terms (allegedly).
Samsung is not a friendly company, but I'll likely be modded down for saying so. Whatever, I've got the karma to burn.
Well, the brave are the ones that continue to operate their service in the face of an oppressive government. So, yes.
and your naked corpse found in the remotest part of California.
But I don't want to go to Redding! Stupid taxi driver never listens.
Trespass is a misdemeanor, so no.
Pot, meet kettle.
Painting over 300M people with the same stroke of a brush seems pretty angry and childish to me.
Knowing how most taxi drivers go about their business, I'd agree that this is a safety matter; but I'd stipulate that safety is being improved by making taxi traffic a smaller percentage of cars entering the airport.
Oh, and wielding a legal regulation to lock out competition because the competition is using smartphone apps while you're stuck in the 1950s dial-a-cab era is awesome.
Because color compression doesn't exist, and hasn't been in use in every image and video format for years.