It's not like it's expensive to put out one handset and see how it does. Make it great hardware and get it on all the networks. If it sells 10X better (like we all think it would) then drop Microsoft like a hot rock.
One would think it would be cheap if they can just throw Android on one of their ARM based handset, however who knows what kind of a deal they signed with the devil. Running an Android phone may be a breach of contract with a company that has a very big law team and tons of cash to burn through in a lawsuit...
While I agree it would be a safer and easier way to distribute the documents it wouldn't have the same political statement. Being up on wikileaks makes them look like they shouldn't have been released, while this methods clearly makes the statement, " These documents should be public. We paid for them, they are out laws, they should be free (for citizens) to read."
Or perhaps one of the parents caught wind that Orson Scott Card is Mormon and different and therefore evil.
That was my guess. "Hey the guy that wrote that is a Mormon! Whatever he writes must be trying to convert our precious Christian children!!"
Of course anyone who has read the book knows it doesn't have a Mormon perspective (let alone push one).. actually I don't remember any religious references, themes or any particular religious viewpoint.
I agree. Exercise is never a bad thing and getting out of the house clears your head. If I didn't have a dog, like you, I'd be stuck in my chair most of the day.
I have also found drum breaks a good way to clear my head if I'm feeling demotivated. Get a little energy out beating on the drums and I'm refreshed ready to tackle what was killing me before.
It's funny how you can feel like you have no energy sitting all the time, but in reality you are full of energy that needs to be released. Get up, get out and do something active.
Lol. Didn't see it was a full review. I don't read AnandTech so I missed the dropdown for the different pages..
It didn't do so well on DX11, in fact it was out down by a GT 440 (which I can get locally for $54). After quick browsing it appears the GT 440 does better on all the games as well. Well enough for me to prefer not having integrate video (as in don't include it on chip and pass the savings on to me).
Ivy Bridge does do significantly better than Sandy Bridge 2600K integrated, so Intel is improving.
If the mobile chip performance is this good then I won't worry about getting discrete graphics (I avoided an i7 MBP 13" due to the lack of discrete), but I still don't see the point of integrated on a high end desktop chip like the Sandy Bridge i5-2500 or i7-2600. It may be false consensus effect but in my opinion the type of people that run a high end desktop chip won't settle for the integrated.
People who only use their computer for homework and Facebook don't need a Sandy or Ivy Bridge processor. A Core2 with GMA is more than sufficient.
I think it makes sense for mobile applications, but for desktop it doesn't. You can get a $40 card that will outperform the onboard. That being said I'm sure Dell etc love it. They love charging for upgrades. They're the car salesmen of the computer world. Once you add the goodies onto your base model you could have bought the top end that came with those features and more.
Toms hardware suggests the i5-2500K (4 core, 3.7Ghz turbo) for $224.99 or i7-2600K (4 core 3.8Ghz turbo) for $324.99 as comparable.
Tomshardware never tested the FX-8120, so that's a lie. They tested the FX-8150 and found:
In the very best-case scenario, when you can throw a ton of work at the FX and fully utilize its eight integer cores, it generally falls in between Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K
The FX-8120 has 500 MHz lower base frequency which is far more significant than the 200 MHz lower max turbo. Not many have tested it but xbitlabs did:
I hope Tom's hardware wasn't recommending the 2500K or 2600K for virtualization. Those models are unlocked for over clocking but have the virtualization extensions disabled. I just ran into that when evaluating processors for running vmware.
And go to any taxi company where I live and you'll find Toyota Priuses (Prii according to Toyota... but that's another story) 400,000 km (they tend to get new ones around then).
As I'm sure most taxi drivers in the world do, they drive the hell out of those cars. Thanks to regenerative braking the brake pads last a lot longer than they are used to (according to one cabby), and to date no major failures with any of them.
I spoke to a mechanic I know that works with some of the cab companies and he agreed they were quite reliable. He did complain about how difficult it is to replace the battery and questioned the mental capacity of the engineers and designers.
I find it interesting all the local fleets have moved from Crown Victorias to fwd Toyota vehicles (Prius, Camry, Camry hybrid, Corolla and Sienna).
To me it smells of poor management period. The fact that they were able to get into a position where projects are slipping and it is then the worker's job to convince management that something needs to be done.
I've been in the same situation. More workers were needed so that new features, rewriting of core features for stability as well as general bug fixes could be done simultaneously. That was on the company's key product that generated >50% of the entire company's revenue ($10M company). Aside from the primary product slipping the CEO was heavily invested in his pet project for a new service, siphoning off existing resources and claiming all new hires. The new service was to compliment the existing product (but could be resold to competitors as well).
After spending too much time trying to convince management of the obvious and watching all my coworkers become demotivated (hard to stay motivated when you spend all your time barely succeeding at treading water in an industry you should be swimming in) I made the obvious but difficult decision. I left. I make more money and work for a company that is focused on a single product. If you can't do a bunch of things well, then focus on one you can do well.
I've seen it a bunch of times. Egos get in the way and management is focused on doing things that make them feel like they have ownership or are in control or are doing something 'cool' to brag to their cohorts about. The difficult thing is to drop everything but what you are good at. A friend saved a failing middleware company by doing exactly that. They were in the hole working on a bunch of revenue sucking 'products' that could have been the next greatest piece of middle ware (can you say bubble mentality? Great middleware? YA). The saving grace is they had a successful support and service side of the business. He dropped everything but the service and support then focused on having that be as profitable as possible. A decade later they are still alive and the company has the best employee remuneration of their field for the market they are involved in. The company would have gone under in months without more investment money had they continued to try and make a product. Looking back it is now easy to see that their big software products plans would have never panned out.
This. Someone steered the ship in the wrong direction and probably not without the passengers (engineers) yelling along the way. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost some of their best talent along the way out of sheer frustration (with management ineptitude). I don't know anyone at AMD, so I can't confirm, but it's not an uncommon occurrence. CEO or board in general thinks they know best and won't listen to anything that contradicts them (including customers, because they know better than their own customers), they blow through money and leave the company in an ill position.
I'd settle for less. Give me something over 1200 lines resolution and I'd be so happy. That or bring back 4:3 or 5:4 only bigger and with better resolution. I need some vertical height on my monitors. 16:9 monitors in portrait are like staring at anorexics. I need some meat on my metaphorical monitor bones!
I can just imagine Vic Toews coming across your post then quoting it as a reason why we desperately need this legislation.
"If we don't put this legislation through 'Shoe Puppet 1557239' will, and I quote, 'fuck the children'! This is exactly what we are trying to prevent!"
This is the exact logic they are using. It's not even the general case of, "You are against this, so you must be hiding something." Rather it's, "You are against this, you are hurting children!"
Of course children have a lot more emotional pull than the usual excuses of terrorism, drugs and organized crime. You can easily swap any in and it's equally absurd.
"Against warrantless entry of your home? You must be 'a terrorist'/'producing or holding drugs'/'organizing crime and holding illegal weapons' "
"Against public cameras tracking your every move? You must be 'a terrorist'/'selling drugs'/'doing criminal activities' "
"Against drug prohibition? You must be 'a terrorist that uses drug money to fund terrorist activities'/'in the drug trade'/'part of a large criminal organization that relies on drug money'! "
"Against warrantless wire-tapping? You must be 'communicating with terrorists'/'finding ways to get high'/'communicating with your partners in crime' "
The thing is that 19" CRT (and possibly even 17") could do 1024 lines resolution. With 4:3 aspect ratio latops with 15" 1280x1024 displays were common. Then with the initial wide screen displays (16:10 I assume) you could still get 900 lines resolution. Now anything < $1K seems to be 768 lines.
Sure for your average consumer who is just consuming media it's fine. For someone doing software dev or similar it can be painful. At my last employer I found some reasonably priced Dell's (within the budget I was given) that I could upgrade to 1080P for $100 (which I did). It was a lot better than the "720P" option, but almost a little fine for that screen size (which meant playing with font sizes for the older team members.. totally acceptable). At my new job I'm looking for a laptop for one of our contractors and it's painful. Basically in order to do his work he'll require an external monitor as I can't find anything reasonably priced in a small form factor (13 or 14" screen). It needs to be small for portability (riding coach etc). I can't even find the 15" 1080P laptops I ordered before. Now it looks as though I'd have to jump up to a 17" laptop to get anything above 768 lines.
Exactly, this is nothing new. I've seen a 20% difference on a blender when shopping for a gift for someone. The specs were the same, the product was physically the same, the packaging was the same, except for the UPC (though iirc, it has a stick-on upc with a square location for it to go in, to ease sku differentiation). I asked the more expensive retailer if they would price match and explained quite clearly how it was the same item. They didn't disagree, they just leaned on their policy and it having to match sku.
This could even be used within a chain to allow regional pricing (which might get around consumer laws where I live.. it would have to be tested in court to see what the minimum difference is to be a disparate product.. hopefully more than just a sku). Anyhow, easy enough to vote with your wallet and not shop at retailers that practice tricks like this in order to side step their own price matching guarantees. If you don't want to price match, then just don't have a price matching policy. Easy.
Exactly. The title is entirely misleading, it says, "Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego." When it should say "Mediocre model representing ZX81 made out of lego."
This does nothing other than vaguely resemble a ZX81. If you are going to do a non-working model of a computer at least choose something interesting and challenging. Maybe a Cray-2 with the cooling waterfall in a 1-1 scale.
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A substandard phone is doomed to fail. In other news, the sky is still blue.
I don't think anyone would claim Nokia hardware is substandard. It is well known they are excellent handset producers.
What is clear as the sky is blue: customers buying smart phones want apps.
IOS has apps, Android has apps. Go with anything else and you are waiting for the app market (to hopefully) catch up.
This is also where RIM went so wrong. BBX may save them, but only time will tell.
It's not like it's expensive to put out one handset and see how it does. Make it great hardware and get it on all the networks. If it sells 10X better (like we all think it would) then drop Microsoft like a hot rock.
One would think it would be cheap if they can just throw Android on one of their ARM based handset, however who knows what kind of a deal they signed with the devil. Running an Android phone may be a breach of contract with a company that has a very big law team and tons of cash to burn through in a lawsuit...
While I agree it would be a safer and easier way to distribute the documents it wouldn't have the same political statement. Being up on wikileaks makes them look like they shouldn't have been released, while this methods clearly makes the statement, " These documents should be public. We paid for them, they are out laws, they should be free (for citizens) to read."
Or perhaps one of the parents caught wind that Orson Scott Card is Mormon and different and therefore evil.
That was my guess. "Hey the guy that wrote that is a Mormon! Whatever he writes must be trying to convert our precious Christian children!!"
Of course anyone who has read the book knows it doesn't have a Mormon perspective (let alone push one).. actually I don't remember any religious references, themes or any particular religious viewpoint.
I agree. Exercise is never a bad thing and getting out of the house clears your head. If I didn't have a dog, like you, I'd be stuck in my chair most of the day.
I have also found drum breaks a good way to clear my head if I'm feeling demotivated. Get a little energy out beating on the drums and I'm refreshed ready to tackle what was killing me before.
It's funny how you can feel like you have no energy sitting all the time, but in reality you are full of energy that needs to be released. Get up, get out and do something active.
Lol. Didn't see it was a full review. I don't read AnandTech so I missed the dropdown for the different pages..
It didn't do so well on DX11, in fact it was out down by a GT 440 (which I can get locally for $54). After quick browsing it appears the GT 440 does better on all the games as well. Well enough for me to prefer not having integrate video (as in don't include it on chip and pass the savings on to me).
Ivy Bridge does do significantly better than Sandy Bridge 2600K integrated, so Intel is improving.
If the mobile chip performance is this good then I won't worry about getting discrete graphics (I avoided an i7 MBP 13" due to the lack of discrete), but I still don't see the point of integrated on a high end desktop chip like the Sandy Bridge i5-2500 or i7-2600. It may be false consensus effect but in my opinion the type of people that run a high end desktop chip won't settle for the integrated.
OK, had a spare second. Both the k and non-k models have VT-x but only the non-K has VT-d.
So it depends on whether you need I/O MMU virtualization or not.
They've got some weasel words in there, "..based on what we've seen..." and no benchmark scores.
Just check Intel's site and the specs for each chip. I.e. 2500 vs 2500K.
Mod parent up. Good bug reports are rarer than good sex (for most slashdotters).
And if you think you maybe had a good bug report but aren't sure.. then you haven't had a good bug report before.
People who only use their computer for homework and Facebook don't need a Sandy or Ivy Bridge processor. A Core2 with GMA is more than sufficient.
I think it makes sense for mobile applications, but for desktop it doesn't. You can get a $40 card that will outperform the onboard. That being said I'm sure Dell etc love it. They love charging for upgrades. They're the car salesmen of the computer world. Once you add the goodies onto your base model you could have bought the top end that came with those features and more.
Judging by the modding I guess Louis C.K got mod points.
Toms hardware suggests the i5-2500K (4 core, 3.7Ghz turbo) for $224.99 or i7-2600K (4 core 3.8Ghz turbo) for $324.99 as comparable.
Tomshardware never tested the FX-8120, so that's a lie. They tested the FX-8150 and found:
In the very best-case scenario, when you can throw a ton of work at the FX and fully utilize its eight integer cores, it generally falls in between Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K
The FX-8120 has 500 MHz lower base frequency which is far more significant than the 200 MHz lower max turbo. Not many have tested it but xbitlabs did:
I hope Tom's hardware wasn't recommending the 2500K or 2600K for virtualization. Those models are unlocked for over clocking but have the virtualization extensions disabled. I just ran into that when evaluating processors for running vmware.
And go to any taxi company where I live and you'll find Toyota Priuses (Prii according to Toyota... but that's another story) 400,000 km (they tend to get new ones around then).
As I'm sure most taxi drivers in the world do, they drive the hell out of those cars. Thanks to regenerative braking the brake pads last a lot longer than they are used to (according to one cabby), and to date no major failures with any of them.
I spoke to a mechanic I know that works with some of the cab companies and he agreed they were quite reliable. He did complain about how difficult it is to replace the battery and questioned the mental capacity of the engineers and designers.
I find it interesting all the local fleets have moved from Crown Victorias to fwd Toyota vehicles (Prius, Camry, Camry hybrid, Corolla and Sienna).
To me it smells of poor management period. The fact that they were able to get into a position where projects are slipping and it is then the worker's job to convince management that something needs to be done.
I've been in the same situation. More workers were needed so that new features, rewriting of core features for stability as well as general bug fixes could be done simultaneously. That was on the company's key product that generated >50% of the entire company's revenue ($10M company). Aside from the primary product slipping the CEO was heavily invested in his pet project for a new service, siphoning off existing resources and claiming all new hires. The new service was to compliment the existing product (but could be resold to competitors as well).
After spending too much time trying to convince management of the obvious and watching all my coworkers become demotivated (hard to stay motivated when you spend all your time barely succeeding at treading water in an industry you should be swimming in) I made the obvious but difficult decision. I left. I make more money and work for a company that is focused on a single product. If you can't do a bunch of things well, then focus on one you can do well.
I've seen it a bunch of times. Egos get in the way and management is focused on doing things that make them feel like they have ownership or are in control or are doing something 'cool' to brag to their cohorts about. The difficult thing is to drop everything but what you are good at. A friend saved a failing middleware company by doing exactly that. They were in the hole working on a bunch of revenue sucking 'products' that could have been the next greatest piece of middle ware (can you say bubble mentality? Great middleware? YA). The saving grace is they had a successful support and service side of the business. He dropped everything but the service and support then focused on having that be as profitable as possible. A decade later they are still alive and the company has the best employee remuneration of their field for the market they are involved in. The company would have gone under in months without more investment money had they continued to try and make a product. Looking back it is now easy to see that their big software products plans would have never panned out.
This. Someone steered the ship in the wrong direction and probably not without the passengers (engineers) yelling along the way. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost some of their best talent along the way out of sheer frustration (with management ineptitude). I don't know anyone at AMD, so I can't confirm, but it's not an uncommon occurrence. CEO or board in general thinks they know best and won't listen to anything that contradicts them (including customers, because they know better than their own customers), they blow through money and leave the company in an ill position.
I'd settle for less. Give me something over 1200 lines resolution and I'd be so happy. That or bring back 4:3 or 5:4 only bigger and with better resolution. I need some vertical height on my monitors. 16:9 monitors in portrait are like staring at anorexics. I need some meat on my metaphorical monitor bones!
Yes, if they change the legislation from all citizens to identified Catholic priests I'm willing to stand behind it.
In that case, fuck the children.
I can just imagine Vic Toews coming across your post then quoting it as a reason why we desperately need this legislation.
"If we don't put this legislation through 'Shoe Puppet 1557239' will, and I quote, 'fuck the children'! This is exactly what we are trying to prevent!"
This is the exact logic they are using. It's not even the general case of, "You are against this, so you must be hiding something." Rather it's, "You are against this, you are hurting children!"
Of course children have a lot more emotional pull than the usual excuses of terrorism, drugs and organized crime. You can easily swap any in and it's equally absurd.
"Against warrantless entry of your home? You must be 'a terrorist'/'producing or holding drugs'/'organizing crime and holding illegal weapons' "
"Against public cameras tracking your every move? You must be 'a terrorist'/'selling drugs'/'doing criminal activities' "
"Against drug prohibition? You must be 'a terrorist that uses drug money to fund terrorist activities'/'in the drug trade'/'part of a large criminal organization that relies on drug money'! "
"Against warrantless wire-tapping? You must be 'communicating with terrorists'/'finding ways to get high'/'communicating with your partners in crime' "
The thing is that 19" CRT (and possibly even 17") could do 1024 lines resolution. With 4:3 aspect ratio latops with 15" 1280x1024 displays were common. Then with the initial wide screen displays (16:10 I assume) you could still get 900 lines resolution. Now anything < $1K seems to be 768 lines.
Sure for your average consumer who is just consuming media it's fine. For someone doing software dev or similar it can be painful. At my last employer I found some reasonably priced Dell's (within the budget I was given) that I could upgrade to 1080P for $100 (which I did). It was a lot better than the "720P" option, but almost a little fine for that screen size (which meant playing with font sizes for the older team members.. totally acceptable). At my new job I'm looking for a laptop for one of our contractors and it's painful. Basically in order to do his work he'll require an external monitor as I can't find anything reasonably priced in a small form factor (13 or 14" screen). It needs to be small for portability (riding coach etc). I can't even find the 15" 1080P laptops I ordered before. Now it looks as though I'd have to jump up to a 17" laptop to get anything above 768 lines.
ur a faaaaaaaaaaaag
FTFY
If you are going to troll, do it right at least. 'your' (no capitalization) would have been acceptable as well.
Exactly, this is nothing new. I've seen a 20% difference on a blender when shopping for a gift for someone. The specs were the same, the product was physically the same, the packaging was the same, except for the UPC (though iirc, it has a stick-on upc with a square location for it to go in, to ease sku differentiation). I asked the more expensive retailer if they would price match and explained quite clearly how it was the same item. They didn't disagree, they just leaned on their policy and it having to match sku.
This could even be used within a chain to allow regional pricing (which might get around consumer laws where I live.. it would have to be tested in court to see what the minimum difference is to be a disparate product.. hopefully more than just a sku). Anyhow, easy enough to vote with your wallet and not shop at retailers that practice tricks like this in order to side step their own price matching guarantees. If you don't want to price match, then just don't have a price matching policy. Easy.
Exactly. The title is entirely misleading, it says, "Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego." When it should say "Mediocre model representing ZX81 made out of lego."
This does nothing other than vaguely resemble a ZX81. If you are going to do a non-working model of a computer at least choose something interesting and challenging. Maybe a Cray-2 with the cooling waterfall in a 1-1 scale.
Are students the "cash cow" at Stanford? I'm sure Stanford brings in an inordinate amount of research money.