You're mostly buying expensive features that the consumer-level hardware could support, but doesn't for market differentiation reasons.
For example, Xeon processors that support ECC and perhaps some visualization features the consumer processors could easily do at no extra cost, and probably actually did support before some e-fuses were blown to make it into a Core i5 or whatever.
Same thing with the graphics cards. The pricy FireGL and Quattro cards aren't really any different than the gamer cards (except for perhaps not looking ridiculous) but have a few bits flipped somewhere that makes them cost several times as much.
Granted a few things are different, such as the ECC DIMMs. But in that case, the DIMMs are actually different, and the added cost (usually like 10-20%) isn't unreasonable considering the real differences.
The reality of it they got a report of a single one of the iPhones being activated. The bigger fish in the local crime scene are not going to be that stupid, so chances are pretty damn good you're dealing with some poor schmuck who bought one off of craigslist or eBay. i.e. not the big time criminals you are looking for. At worst, you might be able to say the guy in that hypothetical situation should have known it was likely stolen, but that's not really the police's job to decide.
A lot has to do with styles. Men's clothing tends to be looser and drapes over the body. Women's clothing tends to be tighter and conforms to the shape of the body. Thus, it's a lot harder for women to find clothes that fit, whereas for men it's not as difficult, and even if it's not a great fit, so long as it's close enough it'll still work.
My guess is that in the 2020's and the 2030's, "classic rock" (music from the 60's-70's, some early 80's) will still be hugely popular as it is today. Perhaps a handful of songs from the later 80's and early 90's may occasionally get mixed in. Music from the 90's and 2000's will be largely forgotten, as is already happening. The 2010's will fade into history even quicker.
To be honest, their music is actually pretty interesting and I want to like it, but the production quality is absolutely abysmal. Almost every one of their songs has been over-compressed to the point that it sounds like absolute shit. It's noticeably worse than other current pop music, which is already compressed to hell.
If you're talking military craft, the king has to be the C-130, which has been in continuous production for over 60 years now. Heck, the C-130 has been in production longer than the time it took between the Wright brothers' first flight and the first C-130 to roll off the assembly line.
The 3/5 Compromise was part of the 1787 Constitution Convention. Fredrick Douglass wasn't even born until well into the 1800's. So perhaps you shouldn't misrepresent things.
Well, you can have Windows 7 (or Windows 8.1) without the telemetry. But you basically have to pick and choose your patches. The lists of the KB's that install the telemetry are online.
The biggest problem is that as of last fall Microsoft has started distributing the patches for these OS's as monthly roll-ups so you can't pick and choose the individual patches anymore. Since the roll-ups install the telemetry you are stuck with a patch level from last fall that you can't update further.
Well, the GPS system is under the control of the US Military, and if it goes offline it could just be that they flipped the switch. I would say it's pretty unlikely they'll shut it off now, but I certainly wouldn't trust it to be online at all times forever, especially if things really start going sour in an emergency.
That's one of the reasons I'll never own a car where I don't have the option to directly control it.
I seem to remember that the Johnny Cabs were of the old way of thinking - where the car itself is as dumb as it always has been, and we'd have a robot driver to chauffeur us around. I seem to remember at one point in the movie Arnold's character actually rips Johnny out of the cab and drives it himself.
That the car itself would be smart and essentially a giant robot we could ride in didn't seem to occur to a lot of people.
I'd be pissed. You really pay for those few extra percent of performance at the high end. When your $999 CPU was new, the one with 90% of the performance was probably something like $399.
I have some of the photo CD's from back then, or probably a bit before then as this was before I remember those machines around. These only have one resolution available, not counting the tiny thumbnails, and it's a bit better than than XGA, about 1100x800ish with each photo slightly different. My guess is they all scan at some standard resolution and then they crop it. It's a bit of a curiosity, but not very impressive compared to the film scanner I have.
Kind of a missed opportunity for them, as they could have done high resolution scans (as it is, the CD is only a few MB) and dominated the megapixel wars for a while as resolution of 35 mm film is pretty high, though the typical cheap 35 mm point and shoot camera really didn't take advantage of it.
Probably because net neutrality refers to the behavior of ISPs, not the people providing content.
Actually, Google is also an ISP too, though a relatively small player in that market.
My theory is that Google realizes that while not having net neutrality will likely hurt them, as a large incumbent player it will hurt them a lot less than it could a smaller upstart rival. I'm guessing some of the other large tech companies may have come to the same conclusion.
Personally, I find this kind of behavior by Google to be only slightly less problematic than when ISPs engage in it. At least, there are other options for web search other than Google.
Well, until some deal is signed that makes Google the exclusive search provider for your ISP, or something like that.
That also assumes you can upgrade your CPU. My main computer runs an i7-3770K which I believe is the fastest CPU ever offered on Socket 1155. The other computer is also Socket 1155 and runs an i7-2600K. While that could be upgraded, the 2600K isn't really that much slower than the 3770K. I suppose I could overclock them as they are unlocked, though I haven't bothered because it hasn't seemed worth it.
Windows 8.1 is actually pretty good in some aspects. Noticeably faster and more stable than Windows 7 (and Windows 10 for that matter). It's also the last version of Windows without all the forced telemetry and forced updates. That makes it really the last version of Windows you can use without handing control over to Microsoft.
Of course, the huge flaw is the UI. Though there are some fixes for that (Classic Shell), and I never really minded it that much, though I agree it is still a step back.
The other thing to consider is Windows 7 currently has just over 2 years of support left. With Windows 8.1 you've got another 5 years to finish your migration to Linux.
2005 was Katrina, which I'm sure is why it's so high. My guess is the overall trend is up, with 2005 as an outlier, kind of like 1998 when talking about global temperatures.
My 486DX2/66 is unaffected. Apparently so is my Raspberry Pi. So is the Commodore 64, though with that machine you can read whatever memory you want any time you feel like it without any fancy tricks.
It's just fitting with the current trend of stuffing chips into laptops that are completely incapable of running at full speed more than a few seconds without throttling back. So you'll have a thin, quiet, fast laptop until you actually try to use it for something processor intensive, then you'll have a too-hot to sit on your laptop, slow-ass laptop until it can go back to idle.
Though someone will probably make it into a portable workstation and/or gaming machine that's 2" thick, equipped with some loud-ass fans that can run full speed at 100% indefinitely (plugged in) or approximately 20 minutes (on battery).
I've seen Windows 10 install on Core 2 Duo machines, and everything worked without a hitch, and that's pretty much concurrent with Socket AM2+. And Windows 7 dates back to the Socket AM2+ era (well, Socket AM3 was out, but only a few months old).
With that said, the Socket AM2/AM2+ systems I had from back then were recycled a while ago after I got tired of dealing with the exceptionally shitty nVidia chipsets they had.
The problem with most precompiled binary distributions is that a lot of them have been dropping 32-bit support. A P4 laptop is almost certainly a 32-bit machine, as there were never any mobile 64-bit P4's (as laptops had switched to the Pentium M by then). However, any distribution that still supports 32-bit should run just fine on a Pentium 4 - I've run recent Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware distros on P4's.
Potential tricky areas might include if the machine has some funky propriety hardware, or if it's still stuck with the original 256-512 MB ram it likely shipped with.
It's actually worse than that, since Windows 8 and later require the NX bit, which came out around the same time as 64-bit, so you can't install Windows 8/10 on anything older than about 2005 or so. I don't think there are any chips that have the NX bit but lack SSE2, but plenty the other way around, like any Socket 478 P4.
One of the things that hurts the Pi is that all the I/O is done through USB, and a lot of micro SD cards are not very fast - which isn't usually a big deal until you're using one as your OS drive.
Finally, clock for clock, ARM just isn't as fast as x86. It may be a 1.2GHz quad-core, but looking at MIPs, it's about the same as a mid-range P3, which is a single core. One of the reasons is in the TFA - the Pi doesn't do speculative branching like P3 does. My guess is that for anything single-threaded, you're probably looking at something more like Pentium MMX performance levels.
Overall, it's hard to say how the Pi stacks up. A lot will depend on what you are trying to do with it. If you're trying to use it as a desktop, you'll find it quite a bit slower than a higher-end P3 system, as the P3 will have the benefit of a faster hard drive, dedicated GPU, ethernet not hanging off the USB bus, etc. For other things like heavy number crunching it may be more comparable.
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And Bing is just as good if not better than Google is nowadays. And that's saying more about Google than it is Bing.
I switched away from Google back in 2011 because I noticed their results were shit then. I recommend DuckDuckGo, but even Bing is an improvement.
You're mostly buying expensive features that the consumer-level hardware could support, but doesn't for market differentiation reasons.
For example, Xeon processors that support ECC and perhaps some visualization features the consumer processors could easily do at no extra cost, and probably actually did support before some e-fuses were blown to make it into a Core i5 or whatever.
Same thing with the graphics cards. The pricy FireGL and Quattro cards aren't really any different than the gamer cards (except for perhaps not looking ridiculous) but have a few bits flipped somewhere that makes them cost several times as much.
Granted a few things are different, such as the ECC DIMMs. But in that case, the DIMMs are actually different, and the added cost (usually like 10-20%) isn't unreasonable considering the real differences.
The reality of it they got a report of a single one of the iPhones being activated. The bigger fish in the local crime scene are not going to be that stupid, so chances are pretty damn good you're dealing with some poor schmuck who bought one off of craigslist or eBay. i.e. not the big time criminals you are looking for. At worst, you might be able to say the guy in that hypothetical situation should have known it was likely stolen, but that's not really the police's job to decide.
I'm sure the "just kidding" part is the 7.1 version, which came out around the same time as Windows 2000.
But there's absolutely no reason Slackware 14.2 won't run on that system, and Slackware is a great distro.
A lot has to do with styles. Men's clothing tends to be looser and drapes over the body. Women's clothing tends to be tighter and conforms to the shape of the body. Thus, it's a lot harder for women to find clothes that fit, whereas for men it's not as difficult, and even if it's not a great fit, so long as it's close enough it'll still work.
My guess is that in the 2020's and the 2030's, "classic rock" (music from the 60's-70's, some early 80's) will still be hugely popular as it is today. Perhaps a handful of songs from the later 80's and early 90's may occasionally get mixed in. Music from the 90's and 2000's will be largely forgotten, as is already happening. The 2010's will fade into history even quicker.
Imagine Dragons? Really?
To be honest, their music is actually pretty interesting and I want to like it, but the production quality is absolutely abysmal. Almost every one of their songs has been over-compressed to the point that it sounds like absolute shit. It's noticeably worse than other current pop music, which is already compressed to hell.
If you're talking military craft, the king has to be the C-130, which has been in continuous production for over 60 years now. Heck, the C-130 has been in production longer than the time it took between the Wright brothers' first flight and the first C-130 to roll off the assembly line.
The 3/5 Compromise was part of the 1787 Constitution Convention. Fredrick Douglass wasn't even born until well into the 1800's. So perhaps you shouldn't misrepresent things.
Well, you can have Windows 7 (or Windows 8.1) without the telemetry. But you basically have to pick and choose your patches. The lists of the KB's that install the telemetry are online.
The biggest problem is that as of last fall Microsoft has started distributing the patches for these OS's as monthly roll-ups so you can't pick and choose the individual patches anymore. Since the roll-ups install the telemetry you are stuck with a patch level from last fall that you can't update further.
The only real solution is to install Linux.
Well, the GPS system is under the control of the US Military, and if it goes offline it could just be that they flipped the switch. I would say it's pretty unlikely they'll shut it off now, but I certainly wouldn't trust it to be online at all times forever, especially if things really start going sour in an emergency.
That's one of the reasons I'll never own a car where I don't have the option to directly control it.
I seem to remember that the Johnny Cabs were of the old way of thinking - where the car itself is as dumb as it always has been, and we'd have a robot driver to chauffeur us around. I seem to remember at one point in the movie Arnold's character actually rips Johnny out of the cab and drives it himself.
That the car itself would be smart and essentially a giant robot we could ride in didn't seem to occur to a lot of people.
I'd be pissed. You really pay for those few extra percent of performance at the high end. When your $999 CPU was new, the one with 90% of the performance was probably something like $399.
I have some of the photo CD's from back then, or probably a bit before then as this was before I remember those machines around. These only have one resolution available, not counting the tiny thumbnails, and it's a bit better than than XGA, about 1100x800ish with each photo slightly different. My guess is they all scan at some standard resolution and then they crop it. It's a bit of a curiosity, but not very impressive compared to the film scanner I have.
Kind of a missed opportunity for them, as they could have done high resolution scans (as it is, the CD is only a few MB) and dominated the megapixel wars for a while as resolution of 35 mm film is pretty high, though the typical cheap 35 mm point and shoot camera really didn't take advantage of it.
Actually, Google is also an ISP too, though a relatively small player in that market.
My theory is that Google realizes that while not having net neutrality will likely hurt them, as a large incumbent player it will hurt them a lot less than it could a smaller upstart rival. I'm guessing some of the other large tech companies may have come to the same conclusion.
Well, until some deal is signed that makes Google the exclusive search provider for your ISP, or something like that.
That also assumes you can upgrade your CPU. My main computer runs an i7-3770K which I believe is the fastest CPU ever offered on Socket 1155. The other computer is also Socket 1155 and runs an i7-2600K. While that could be upgraded, the 2600K isn't really that much slower than the 3770K. I suppose I could overclock them as they are unlocked, though I haven't bothered because it hasn't seemed worth it.
Windows 8.1 is actually pretty good in some aspects. Noticeably faster and more stable than Windows 7 (and Windows 10 for that matter). It's also the last version of Windows without all the forced telemetry and forced updates. That makes it really the last version of Windows you can use without handing control over to Microsoft.
Of course, the huge flaw is the UI. Though there are some fixes for that (Classic Shell), and I never really minded it that much, though I agree it is still a step back.
The other thing to consider is Windows 7 currently has just over 2 years of support left. With Windows 8.1 you've got another 5 years to finish your migration to Linux.
2005 was Katrina, which I'm sure is why it's so high. My guess is the overall trend is up, with 2005 as an outlier, kind of like 1998 when talking about global temperatures.
My 486DX2/66 is unaffected. Apparently so is my Raspberry Pi. So is the Commodore 64, though with that machine you can read whatever memory you want any time you feel like it without any fancy tricks.
It's just fitting with the current trend of stuffing chips into laptops that are completely incapable of running at full speed more than a few seconds without throttling back. So you'll have a thin, quiet, fast laptop until you actually try to use it for something processor intensive, then you'll have a too-hot to sit on your laptop, slow-ass laptop until it can go back to idle.
Though someone will probably make it into a portable workstation and/or gaming machine that's 2" thick, equipped with some loud-ass fans that can run full speed at 100% indefinitely (plugged in) or approximately 20 minutes (on battery).
I've seen Windows 10 install on Core 2 Duo machines, and everything worked without a hitch, and that's pretty much concurrent with Socket AM2+. And Windows 7 dates back to the Socket AM2+ era (well, Socket AM3 was out, but only a few months old).
With that said, the Socket AM2/AM2+ systems I had from back then were recycled a while ago after I got tired of dealing with the exceptionally shitty nVidia chipsets they had.
The problem with most precompiled binary distributions is that a lot of them have been dropping 32-bit support. A P4 laptop is almost certainly a 32-bit machine, as there were never any mobile 64-bit P4's (as laptops had switched to the Pentium M by then). However, any distribution that still supports 32-bit should run just fine on a Pentium 4 - I've run recent Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware distros on P4's.
Potential tricky areas might include if the machine has some funky propriety hardware, or if it's still stuck with the original 256-512 MB ram it likely shipped with.
It's actually worse than that, since Windows 8 and later require the NX bit, which came out around the same time as 64-bit, so you can't install Windows 8/10 on anything older than about 2005 or so. I don't think there are any chips that have the NX bit but lack SSE2, but plenty the other way around, like any Socket 478 P4.
One of the things that hurts the Pi is that all the I/O is done through USB, and a lot of micro SD cards are not very fast - which isn't usually a big deal until you're using one as your OS drive.
Finally, clock for clock, ARM just isn't as fast as x86. It may be a 1.2GHz quad-core, but looking at MIPs, it's about the same as a mid-range P3, which is a single core. One of the reasons is in the TFA - the Pi doesn't do speculative branching like P3 does. My guess is that for anything single-threaded, you're probably looking at something more like Pentium MMX performance levels.
Overall, it's hard to say how the Pi stacks up. A lot will depend on what you are trying to do with it. If you're trying to use it as a desktop, you'll find it quite a bit slower than a higher-end P3 system, as the P3 will have the benefit of a faster hard drive, dedicated GPU, ethernet not hanging off the USB bus, etc. For other things like heavy number crunching it may be more comparable.
No it wouldn't. The original Atom didn't have speculative execution. Therefore, we'd only be back at the atomic age.