Not really weird. It's probably a legal requirement to have a GPS location of every cell on the network. AGPS, cell phone tracking and all that. The police wouldn't be happy with you being able to make cell calls from any network connection without being traceable, and AT&T probably wants to prevent overseas use as well.
The enemy is typically nearly destitute any more, with minimal technology. They're lucky to have explosives and bullets for the most part, and everything else is scavenged from consumer level stuff.
From a consumer standpoint, most people don't want desktops. Laptops are much handier, and they're portable. Most people don't use computers to use computers, they use computers to get something done. Surfing in the living room, recipes in the kitchen, whatever. If you're using that little power, you may as well have a nice laptop that you can use in more than just the office. The only place desktops are going for most consumers is into the media room, attached to the TV.
Despite what the article says, PAE is an ugly hack. It requires the application to deal with a lot more in memory than simply having a large address space. There is no way around that. If you think that every programmer is fully capable of writing a massive, high performance and solid memory management scheme, be my guest, but history has proved you wrong. If you don't write your own memory manager, your applications are still limited to 2/4GB of address space on a 32bit system. PAE also causes problems for DMA, which means that device performance suffers.
Yes, PAE technically "works", but it's ugly, inelegant and hard to use and requires very complex programming. 64bit is fast, elegant and doesn't require anything other than malloc() to get more memory space for a program.
The benchmark you're missing is in any program with large data sets. Video editing, high-resolution picture editing, new games (Supreme Commander is a case in point).
Here, here. The main thing I like about HDMI (except for the included HDCP bullshit) is that it's unification of cables. I don't need 10 cables to carry HD video with surround sound. I need one. Rather than trying to go all wireless, we should be looking to keep things unified and minimized as much as intelligently possible, make them simpler rather than more complex.
Bluetooth is nice, but it eats up power. A set of AAA's only works for a bit over a week for my bluetooth mouse. I love how nice and easy it is, but a USB dongle mouse is much, much better on battery.
I have heard rumors of a new low-power bluetooth though. I don't know if that would help.
It's not even being stuck with 4GB of address space. You're stuck with 2GB of address space for apps on a normal 32bit system, sometimes 3 if you have a system that's amenable (look up the/3GB switch)
I'm guessing that they might be sexually interested in both genders, but only interested in actually dating the opposite gender. Not actually that uncommon, or hard to understand.
Betamax was superior in many areas to VHS, but not in the one that counted. And that was tape length. I'll take driving a Chevy POS with 150HP over driving a Lexus with 20HP any day.
It's hard to ignore that? It's not like it significantly increases load times or changes, well, anything.
If you just want results, why didn't you just type your query into the search box that's on every modern browser? You get to ignore the entire homepage!
It's like you're just bitching because you can. Seriously... get over yourself.
So learn to use shortcut searches. IE, Chrome and Firefox all support them (I don't use Opera, but I'll bet they do, too). Why even look at the Google homepage? It's faster and you can ignore all the "ugly and bloated" stuff.
Oh, wait. That would be too easy. You'd rather just bitch about it.
Buy Blu-Ray? Because DRM is good for everyone! Blu-Ray is shit that happens to have high resolution. If they had some kind of high-res format without the DRM, I'd be all over it.
The problem with PhysX is it ties you to Nvidia cards. Game developers rightly don't want to cut out half of their market by tying performance to a certain brand of card. So they just use it for the "pretty" effects. It's really sad that we don't have a good OpenCL physics engine, or even a decent common SSE physics engine for games that makes physics work well on all machines.
We get lenient sentencing on violent criminals because we have asinine minimum sentences for drug possession and other non-violent crimes. We're filling our prisons up with potheads and letting murderers and rapists go.
Considering that a 1.35GB hard drive cost $1800 in 1993, and a 1.5TB (over 1048x the storage) is only $90 right now, and as 2MB is ~.15% of the 1.35GB disk, and 2GB is ~.13% of the 1.5TB disk, I'd say he could like it less and it'd still be an improvement.
I can see the tagline now... "If you don't like choice or they just confuse you, and would prefer Steve Jobs to do all your thinking and make all your decisions for you, pay way more for iOS devices that limit you to a sandbox of approved choices!"
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I+D: *punches marketing in the face*
Dumb client that downloads all attachments automatically? I could see it.
Not really weird. It's probably a legal requirement to have a GPS location of every cell on the network. AGPS, cell phone tracking and all that. The police wouldn't be happy with you being able to make cell calls from any network connection without being traceable, and AT&T probably wants to prevent overseas use as well.
The enemy is typically nearly destitute any more, with minimal technology. They're lucky to have explosives and bullets for the most part, and everything else is scavenged from consumer level stuff.
They aren't terribly long-lived, though.
Even better, it's not visible without vision enhancing equipment, so it won't draw attention to the soldier using it.
Because bad publicity can be stronger than any lawyer.
Links or it didn't happen
From a consumer standpoint, most people don't want desktops. Laptops are much handier, and they're portable. Most people don't use computers to use computers, they use computers to get something done. Surfing in the living room, recipes in the kitchen, whatever. If you're using that little power, you may as well have a nice laptop that you can use in more than just the office. The only place desktops are going for most consumers is into the media room, attached to the TV.
Despite what the article says, PAE is an ugly hack. It requires the application to deal with a lot more in memory than simply having a large address space. There is no way around that. If you think that every programmer is fully capable of writing a massive, high performance and solid memory management scheme, be my guest, but history has proved you wrong. If you don't write your own memory manager, your applications are still limited to 2/4GB of address space on a 32bit system. PAE also causes problems for DMA, which means that device performance suffers.
Yes, PAE technically "works", but it's ugly, inelegant and hard to use and requires very complex programming. 64bit is fast, elegant and doesn't require anything other than malloc() to get more memory space for a program.
The benchmark you're missing is in any program with large data sets. Video editing, high-resolution picture editing, new games (Supreme Commander is a case in point).
Here, here. The main thing I like about HDMI (except for the included HDCP bullshit) is that it's unification of cables. I don't need 10 cables to carry HD video with surround sound. I need one. Rather than trying to go all wireless, we should be looking to keep things unified and minimized as much as intelligently possible, make them simpler rather than more complex.
Bluetooth is nice, but it eats up power. A set of AAA's only works for a bit over a week for my bluetooth mouse. I love how nice and easy it is, but a USB dongle mouse is much, much better on battery.
I have heard rumors of a new low-power bluetooth though. I don't know if that would help.
It's not even being stuck with 4GB of address space. You're stuck with 2GB of address space for apps on a normal 32bit system, sometimes 3 if you have a system that's amenable (look up the /3GB switch)
I'm guessing that they might be sexually interested in both genders, but only interested in actually dating the opposite gender. Not actually that uncommon, or hard to understand.
Betamax was superior in many areas to VHS, but not in the one that counted. And that was tape length. I'll take driving a Chevy POS with 150HP over driving a Lexus with 20HP any day.
Yeah? That's great. I've got some rocks that repel tigers if you're interested. Letting them go for well below cost.
It's hard to ignore that? It's not like it significantly increases load times or changes, well, anything.
If you just want results, why didn't you just type your query into the search box that's on every modern browser? You get to ignore the entire homepage!
It's like you're just bitching because you can. Seriously... get over yourself.
So learn to use shortcut searches. IE, Chrome and Firefox all support them (I don't use Opera, but I'll bet they do, too). Why even look at the Google homepage? It's faster and you can ignore all the "ugly and bloated" stuff.
Oh, wait. That would be too easy. You'd rather just bitch about it.
Buy Blu-Ray? Because DRM is good for everyone! Blu-Ray is shit that happens to have high resolution. If they had some kind of high-res format without the DRM, I'd be all over it.
The problem with PhysX is it ties you to Nvidia cards. Game developers rightly don't want to cut out half of their market by tying performance to a certain brand of card. So they just use it for the "pretty" effects. It's really sad that we don't have a good OpenCL physics engine, or even a decent common SSE physics engine for games that makes physics work well on all machines.
We get lenient sentencing on violent criminals because we have asinine minimum sentences for drug possession and other non-violent crimes. We're filling our prisons up with potheads and letting murderers and rapists go.
It's not bloat if it's functional. I somehow doubt you posted that comment using DOS.
It used to be in the 50's that you could only do that kind of stuff with expensive vacuum tubes. Gotta give it time.
Considering that a 1.35GB hard drive cost $1800 in 1993, and a 1.5TB (over 1048x the storage) is only $90 right now, and as 2MB is ~.15% of the 1.35GB disk, and 2GB is ~.13% of the 1.5TB disk, I'd say he could like it less and it'd still be an improvement.
I can see the tagline now... "If you don't like choice or they just confuse you, and would prefer Steve Jobs to do all your thinking and make all your decisions for you, pay way more for iOS devices that limit you to a sandbox of approved choices!"
Wasn't Apple the company with the 1984 ad?