Slashdot has been infested by FUD merchants. Recently it came out how digg is being gamed worse than was thought - with selective editing here, I would not be surprised if slashdot was similarly infected.
That's actually a really excellent point about being a part of a community. One of the crucial parts of being a scientist is being aware of what has come before, and what others are doing - aka literature reviews and reading. Things like arxiv.org are great resources for being able to access this material without having to pay the traditional expenses with getting access to various journals etc.
Getting the definitive source will be neigh on impossible, but those are rough pointers.
Either way its illustrative of requirements engineering/user perceptions/problem analysis.
Yes, because increasing user satisfaction shouldn't be an objective for a browser which is constantly trying to increase its market share...
Much like the story of people complaining about elevators taking too long to arrive, and the installation of mirrors stopped the complaints, this is much the same. If users perceive the browser to be faster, then that is just as important as it being faster from a user satisfaction point of view.
I also read this as well, and agree with your sentiments. How exactly any of these is an alternative browser to IE is beyond me when they are using the trident rendering engine.
Actually the summary is awful - of the 7 lesser known browsers - Avant, Maxthon, Slepnir are using trident (MSHTML). Appreciate that they may well be individual legitimate projects and not meaning to cast any aspersions on them, but having an additional 3 options which are how MS renders the web and whatever fobiles that entails, just seems wrong.
That was the point I was going for. No idea why the mods have moderated my initial post as flamebait - makes no sense. As you say, was highlighting that the specs are the same as many phones out there - im genuinely interested in how win 7 mobile plays out - but this article offers nothing at all on that. Meh, meta-moderation is a great thing;)
The whole point of interest in this story should be the phone's OS - win 7 mobile - as that's the novelty. Instead we get a friggin hardware rundown. So what? The text from TFA is the same as the blurb, save yourself a page click till there is some actual interesting useful information there. The video is also next to useless, half of it is looking at the phone turned off. Reminds me why I don't read engadget.
My prediction: that the massive amount of hype built up for this will mean a spectacular write-up of the device regardless of the quality - or else there will be a lot of egg on various 'tech reporters' faces.
Also I loved the penny-arcade comic on this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/22/
mmm - yeah, the NAT stuff does make sense - although the few broker multiplayer stuff i've played always had a 'host' player - who if they disconnected then the whole session terminated. But yeah what you're saying makes sense - probably depends on definition of 'server' - but yeah thinking about it, the EA server is probably routing the data, so in otherwords - totally screwed if your games on that list!
There's one thing i've never been that clear on with multiplayer gaming on consoles (only just got one, still avid PC gamer) - if you've 'friended' someone, eg on PSN or Live, are you still able to initiate a direct multiplayer game with that person? Or is an EA server still required to act as some sort of broker?
From what I understand, I thought each of these games on consoles, that one of the players will be the 'server' - and that the role of the EA server is matchmaking etc, but clarification would be cool. That is, is it possible to initiate a multiplayer session directly with another user, without the broker (i.e. EA Server)?
Disappointed had to read this far down to find this comment. The dis-proportionality in gender ratios in IT for western countries is pretty demoralizing. Having said that there are greater balances in developing nations. To perpetuate a culture which discourages 50% of the population from looking into IT as a career path means we are missing out on some pretty good talent.
I think the rough gist was that netbooks are generally underpowered and you wouldn't look at running productivity suites on them - web browsing etc fine, etc, etc.
This of course is referring to modern bloatware suites, as opposed to stuff like WP5.1 which i'm sure my 701 could run;)
Meh - I see it as a minor error, which in the (crap) article the rep actually correct straight after he said it - so if a rep makes an error and corrects it I don't see the problem.
The definition of netbook is also quite varied - the rep's wasn't great, but the general gist of what was being aimed at wasn't far off.
Man i'm even more pissed at whatever jerkoff/editor did this story - the boxout 'quote' is "Netbook is the new name for laptop. They're just small notebooks without word processors"
Screw those chumps, looking at the article that is not the direct quote, as he corrected himself, presumable said some other stuff, then the netbook comment.
Maybe i've just had this notebook in my lap too long.
The tesco one isn't so bad in fairness. The rep could well have been thinking of NOTEbook - rather than NETbook.
To be honest I thought that was the reason why PC makers no longer refer to laptops as laptops, but instead notebooks - so there was no implicit liability with someone burning their special parts from keeping a hot laptop in lap.
And of course like a noob I just read the article and indeed that is what happened - the rep thought notebook - and the article takes a shot at the rep for saying a netbook is: "They're just small notebooks without word processors."
So now im really pissed at giving pcpro a page click.
Not sure who modded you as troll - fair enough question which I was thinking of too - and the responses shed light on the situation. Less so about the falling, more about it operating in travelled airspace (admittedly taking up a v.v.v. small part of said space).
I've got a similar setup (and hence am now eating bricks), the anandtech article I think sheds some light on this: http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3634 - basically this new line-up actually has some smarts in it to properly power down non-utilized cores, whilst being able to operate within the thermal profile to run individual cores at very high speeds. Sounds pretty nifty, for us basically we'll have to wait and see how affordable the gulfstrem line of processors coming out next year is.
Long story short - 1366 is now good for 4+ cores, anything else and this new offering takes the cake (the gulfstream coming out next year is meant to be 4+ cores... so maybe there's hope for the platform not being obsolete yet...)
yeah - in a sense i think the 920 was the problem, as you got pretty good bang for your buck (on 1136), almost too much when compared price performance against the 940/50. had heard rumors that it would be discontinued in the new lineup in the second half of this year... turns out this was the announcement they'd planned. but yeah, i was exactly the same as yourself.
Ya... well I outlaid on a core i7-920 setup 3 months ago, justifying the outlay cost as I thought there would be a decent lifespan in the architecture, so should be easy to upgrade for a couple of years on that platform. D'oh!
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the FUD machine and astroturf emporium that slashdot has become.
There is clearly a massive FUD campaign on right now with net neutrality, slashdot is a prime breeding ground right now.
Slashdot has been infested by FUD merchants. Recently it came out how digg is being gamed worse than was thought - with selective editing here, I would not be surprised if slashdot was similarly infected.
That's actually a really excellent point about being a part of a community. One of the crucial parts of being a scientist is being aware of what has come before, and what others are doing - aka literature reviews and reading. Things like arxiv.org are great resources for being able to access this material without having to pay the traditional expenses with getting access to various journals etc.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1244-defining-the-problem-of-elevator-waiting-times
http://www3.sympatico.ca/karasik/GF_evolution_of_legend.html
http://www.shmula.com/384/on-queueing-and-elevator-mirrors
Getting the definitive source will be neigh on impossible, but those are rough pointers. Either way its illustrative of requirements engineering/user perceptions/problem analysis.
Yes, because increasing user satisfaction shouldn't be an objective for a browser which is constantly trying to increase its market share...
Much like the story of people complaining about elevators taking too long to arrive, and the installation of mirrors stopped the complaints, this is much the same. If users perceive the browser to be faster, then that is just as important as it being faster from a user satisfaction point of view.
doh - fixing post.
I also read this as well, and agree with your sentiments. How exactly any of these is an alternative browser to IE is beyond me when they are using the trident rendering engine.
Actually the summary is awful - of the 7 lesser known browsers - Avant, Maxthon, Slepnir are using trident (MSHTML). Appreciate that they may well be individual legitimate projects and not meaning to cast any aspersions on them, but having an additional 3 options which are how MS renders the web and whatever fobiles that entails, just seems wrong.
That was the point I was going for. No idea why the mods have moderated my initial post as flamebait - makes no sense. As you say, was highlighting that the specs are the same as many phones out there - im genuinely interested in how win 7 mobile plays out - but this article offers nothing at all on that. Meh, meta-moderation is a great thing ;)
The whole point of interest in this story should be the phone's OS - win 7 mobile - as that's the novelty. Instead we get a friggin hardware rundown. So what? The text from TFA is the same as the blurb, save yourself a page click till there is some actual interesting useful information there. The video is also next to useless, half of it is looking at the phone turned off. Reminds me why I don't read engadget.
um.... how? microsoft may get their act together and support the arm architecture. how does that involve arm selling out?
It's a bet! Will have to wait 3-6 months after release though to see how it plays in the wild.
My prediction: that the massive amount of hype built up for this will mean a spectacular write-up of the device regardless of the quality - or else there will be a lot of egg on various 'tech reporters' faces. Also I loved the penny-arcade comic on this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/22/
mmm - yeah, the NAT stuff does make sense - although the few broker multiplayer stuff i've played always had a 'host' player - who if they disconnected then the whole session terminated. But yeah what you're saying makes sense - probably depends on definition of 'server' - but yeah thinking about it, the EA server is probably routing the data, so in otherwords - totally screwed if your games on that list!
There's one thing i've never been that clear on with multiplayer gaming on consoles (only just got one, still avid PC gamer) - if you've 'friended' someone, eg on PSN or Live, are you still able to initiate a direct multiplayer game with that person? Or is an EA server still required to act as some sort of broker?
From what I understand, I thought each of these games on consoles, that one of the players will be the 'server' - and that the role of the EA server is matchmaking etc, but clarification would be cool. That is, is it possible to initiate a multiplayer session directly with another user, without the broker (i.e. EA Server)?
Disappointed had to read this far down to find this comment. The dis-proportionality in gender ratios in IT for western countries is pretty demoralizing. Having said that there are greater balances in developing nations. To perpetuate a culture which discourages 50% of the population from looking into IT as a career path means we are missing out on some pretty good talent.
Surely we can just look at his public LinkedIn profile? ;)
I think the rough gist was that netbooks are generally underpowered and you wouldn't look at running productivity suites on them - web browsing etc fine, etc, etc.
;)
This of course is referring to modern bloatware suites, as opposed to stuff like WP5.1 which i'm sure my 701 could run
Meh - I see it as a minor error, which in the (crap) article the rep actually correct straight after he said it - so if a rep makes an error and corrects it I don't see the problem.
The definition of netbook is also quite varied - the rep's wasn't great, but the general gist of what was being aimed at wasn't far off.
Man i'm even more pissed at whatever jerkoff/editor did this story - the boxout 'quote' is "Netbook is the new name for laptop. They're just small notebooks without word processors"
Screw those chumps, looking at the article that is not the direct quote, as he corrected himself, presumable said some other stuff, then the netbook comment.
Maybe i've just had this notebook in my lap too long.
The tesco one isn't so bad in fairness. The rep could well have been thinking of NOTEbook - rather than NETbook. To be honest I thought that was the reason why PC makers no longer refer to laptops as laptops, but instead notebooks - so there was no implicit liability with someone burning their special parts from keeping a hot laptop in lap.
And of course like a noob I just read the article and indeed that is what happened - the rep thought notebook - and the article takes a shot at the rep for saying a netbook is: "They're just small notebooks without word processors."
So now im really pissed at giving pcpro a page click.
Not sure who modded you as troll - fair enough question which I was thinking of too - and the responses shed light on the situation. Less so about the falling, more about it operating in travelled airspace (admittedly taking up a v.v.v. small part of said space).
I've got a similar setup (and hence am now eating bricks), the anandtech article I think sheds some light on this: http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3634 - basically this new line-up actually has some smarts in it to properly power down non-utilized cores, whilst being able to operate within the thermal profile to run individual cores at very high speeds. Sounds pretty nifty, for us basically we'll have to wait and see how affordable the gulfstrem line of processors coming out next year is.
Long story short - 1366 is now good for 4+ cores, anything else and this new offering takes the cake (the gulfstream coming out next year is meant to be 4+ cores... so maybe there's hope for the platform not being obsolete yet...)
yeah - in a sense i think the 920 was the problem, as you got pretty good bang for your buck (on 1136), almost too much when compared price performance against the 940/50. had heard rumors that it would be discontinued in the new lineup in the second half of this year... turns out this was the announcement they'd planned. but yeah, i was exactly the same as yourself.
Ya... well I outlaid on a core i7-920 setup 3 months ago, justifying the outlay cost as I thought there would be a decent lifespan in the architecture, so should be easy to upgrade for a couple of years on that platform. D'oh!