Steve Jobs was the one on stage at NeXT showing how even a child could write GUI apps. He made XCode free and bundled it with every boxed copy of OS X back in 2001 when Microsoft required a paid dev account.
That was back when few people bought slow, expensive NeXT boxes over PCs or Unix workstations. Telling them 'it's slow, it's expensive and it won't let you run anything unless we say so' would have utterly killed any market it might have had.
ARM only will compete against Intel in cases where power consumption is more important than performance, i.e. netbooks and low power servers (read small market).
Or an increasing number of desktop/laptop uses. At least 90% of the time my laptop and desktop systems are clocked down to the minimum clock speed because there's really nothing for the CPU to do when browsing the web or writing documents.
An awful lot of current x86 CPUs could be replaced with ARM and users would barely notice.
Let Intel turn its full attention to ARM for a few cycles, and see if AMD doesn't punish them.
Intel don't need to, because they're big enough to have different teams doing both. The problem is that no-one can really push the x86 architecture down to ARM-level power consumption because it's such a complex beast in comparison.
If AMD can offer a single chip that does both, and does it well (key factor here)
You can't put a 300W GPU and a 125W CPU on the same die. At least not if you're sane.
The only use for graphics integrated on the CPU are for cheap low-end systems or for extra performance if you can offload some processing to the GPU cores. Putting a high-performance GPU there makes no sense because you need insane cooling to get the heat out and it will be crippled by the slow, shared memory interface anyway.
Plus, of course, you can't just upgrade the GPU in two years when the CPU is still fast enough for current games but the GPU isn't; you have to replace both. CPU manufacturers might love that, but users won't.
AMD chips seem to consume more power than comparable Intel chips, but I'm pretty sure they have thermal throttling these days.
I was impressed with one of the old P4 systems in my previous job because the fan was just lying on top of the heat-sink and every once in a while someone would knock it off and the CPU would just throttle down until someone got around to putting it back (yeah, I don't know why we never spent a few dollars to buy a fan that could actually be screwed into place). In those days an AMD CPU would probably have burned out.
Looking at the FAQ for authors publishing books on Amazon, it looks like it is the Author's choice to use DRM or not.
The publisher chooses whether to use DRM when uploading the book. Unfortunately there's no guaranteed way to tell that a book doesn't have DRM before buying it.
I cannot find the blog now but there's a guy out there who's making huge bucks on books the paper publishers REJECTED and laughing his way to the bank using Amazon.
Konrath, I suspect. If I remember correctly he said recently that he'd made a couple of hundred thousand dollars from some books that were rejected?
I have yet to see how Amazon's DRM does that, the books I buy work on my Phone,
Using crappy Kindle software.
iPad
Using crappy Kindle software.
Kindle
And no other e-book reader.
and any computer I own
Using crappy Kindle software.
It's anything but restrictive, in my opinion.
Other than forcing you to read it in Kindle software, rather than the software you would prefer to use to read it. About the best thing I can say about Kindle of PC is that it's not as bad as Adobe Digital Editions.
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions
In other words, they tie you into using one of the worst pieces of crap software since Adobe Flash Player.
I just don't buy e-books with DRM, it's much simpler.
This is as retarded as it sounds, of course the original german company has all the rights to it.
Why? If two companies own the same trademark in different countries, why should one have the rights to a facebook page and not the other?
Either they work it out themselves or they'll have to go to court to decide who does have the rights. That will probably take years, and by then facebook will probably be the new myspace.
I can see situations, particularly with schools, where administrators may not want large parts of their budgets going to server maintenance, licensing costs and the like looking to online solutions.
Of course once an organisation is tied to a particular 'online solution' and the costs of switching away would be enormous, the provider would never think of ratcheting up the annual fees until it makes up a large part of the budget.
People throwing away their lives for complete fucking bullshit like this.
The difference is that in capitalism you have the choice of not working for such a company, whereas in socialism you will successfully fulfil the Glorious People's Five Year Plan, comrade... or else.
OK, I'll admit that in the real world that generally means 'or else we'll just have to put bricks in the tractors we're shipping where the engines should have been', but that's only because most socialist nations can't afford to shoot everyone who doesn't meet their production metrics.
Because a private company would never be caught doing something like this. Nope. They are all completely above any kind of corruption.
Unlike the DMV, a private company can't force you to use their services. Nor can they push a unique identifier on you which is then used as an id by numerous different databases.
Anyway, if it was in the LEM, did the LEM even survive rentry? Since it had no heat shield, etc.? Is the LEM still attched to the CM during re-entry even? Pretty sure it's not.
The LEM was attached to the CM until just before re-entry; the SM was separated from the CM before the CM separated from the LEM, since the LEM was providing most of the life support and the SM was just dead weight. The LEM was not designed for reentry and burned up, but the RTG itself was designed to survive accidental reentry intact and is probably sitting on the sea-bed somewhere.
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The non-hippies enslave/kill them and steal their stuff.
The effort to warm the planet will increase the population of mosquitos.
Uh, no it won't. Europe had far more mosquitos when it was colder.
Steve Jobs was the one on stage at NeXT showing how even a child could write GUI apps. He made XCode free and bundled it with every boxed copy of OS X back in 2001 when Microsoft required a paid dev account.
That was back when few people bought slow, expensive NeXT boxes over PCs or Unix workstations. Telling them 'it's slow, it's expensive and it won't let you run anything unless we say so' would have utterly killed any market it might have had.
They would notice once they tried to play any games or run any heavy apps like photoshop.
Which most people don't do. The most processor-intensive thing a large fraction of PC users do on a typical day is play HD video on Youtube.
ARM only will compete against Intel in cases where power consumption is more important than performance, i.e. netbooks and low power servers (read small market).
Or an increasing number of desktop/laptop uses. At least 90% of the time my laptop and desktop systems are clocked down to the minimum clock speed because there's really nothing for the CPU to do when browsing the web or writing documents.
An awful lot of current x86 CPUs could be replaced with ARM and users would barely notice.
Let Intel turn its full attention to ARM for a few cycles, and see if AMD doesn't punish them.
Intel don't need to, because they're big enough to have different teams doing both. The problem is that no-one can really push the x86 architecture down to ARM-level power consumption because it's such a complex beast in comparison.
If AMD can offer a single chip that does both, and does it well (key factor here)
You can't put a 300W GPU and a 125W CPU on the same die. At least not if you're sane.
The only use for graphics integrated on the CPU are for cheap low-end systems or for extra performance if you can offload some processing to the GPU cores. Putting a high-performance GPU there makes no sense because you need insane cooling to get the heat out and it will be crippled by the slow, shared memory interface anyway.
Plus, of course, you can't just upgrade the GPU in two years when the CPU is still fast enough for current games but the GPU isn't; you have to replace both. CPU manufacturers might love that, but users won't.
There are lots of us that actually do real computing that has really heavy math.
So shouldn't you be using SSE instructions rather than x87?
Indeed. Intel's real competition hasn't been AMD for a few years now, it's been ARM.
Every x86 CPU made today, whether from Intel, AMD, or even Via, supports the AMD64 extensions.
Some of the netbook Atoms didn't a year or two back; isn't that still the case today?
AMD chips seem to consume more power than comparable Intel chips, but I'm pretty sure they have thermal throttling these days.
I was impressed with one of the old P4 systems in my previous job because the fan was just lying on top of the heat-sink and every once in a while someone would knock it off and the CPU would just throttle down until someone got around to putting it back (yeah, I don't know why we never spent a few dollars to buy a fan that could actually be screwed into place). In those days an AMD CPU would probably have burned out.
Looking at the FAQ for authors publishing books on Amazon, it looks like it is the Author's choice to use DRM or not.
The publisher chooses whether to use DRM when uploading the book. Unfortunately there's no guaranteed way to tell that a book doesn't have DRM before buying it.
I cannot find the blog now but there's a guy out there who's making huge bucks on books the paper publishers REJECTED and laughing his way to the bank using Amazon.
Konrath, I suspect. If I remember correctly he said recently that he'd made a couple of hundred thousand dollars from some books that were rejected?
I have yet to see how Amazon's DRM does that, the books I buy work on my Phone,
Using crappy Kindle software.
iPad
Using crappy Kindle software.
Kindle
And no other e-book reader.
and any computer I own
Using crappy Kindle software.
It's anything but restrictive, in my opinion.
Other than forcing you to read it in Kindle software, rather than the software you would prefer to use to read it. About the best thing I can say about Kindle of PC is that it's not as bad as Adobe Digital Editions.
And weren't they saying recently that profits are up despite a decline in sales because e-books are far more profitable than paper books?
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions
In other words, they tie you into using one of the worst pieces of crap software since Adobe Flash Player.
I just don't buy e-books with DRM, it's much simpler.
This is as retarded as it sounds, of course the original german company has all the rights to it.
Why? If two companies own the same trademark in different countries, why should one have the rights to a facebook page and not the other?
Either they work it out themselves or they'll have to go to court to decide who does have the rights. That will probably take years, and by then facebook will probably be the new myspace.
I see you are also woefully ignorant of the EU and its workings.
Only someone woefully ignorant of the EU and its workings could expect it not to collapse.
I can see situations, particularly with schools, where administrators may not want large parts of their budgets going to server maintenance, licensing costs and the like looking to online solutions.
Of course once an organisation is tied to a particular 'online solution' and the costs of switching away would be enormous, the provider would never think of ratcheting up the annual fees until it makes up a large part of the budget.
You mean to suggest that if a socialist system (or any other for that matter) were used, stupid management would suddenly disappear?
Stalin's approach of shooting those who couldn't meet the required metrics at least ensured that management became smart enough to fiddle the metrics.
People throwing away their lives for complete fucking bullshit like this.
The difference is that in capitalism you have the choice of not working for such a company, whereas in socialism you will successfully fulfil the Glorious People's Five Year Plan, comrade... or else.
OK, I'll admit that in the real world that generally means 'or else we'll just have to put bricks in the tractors we're shipping where the engines should have been', but that's only because most socialist nations can't afford to shoot everyone who doesn't meet their production metrics.
The EU will probably have collapsed before they could pass this law anyway.
Because a private company would never be caught doing something like this. Nope. They are all completely above any kind of corruption.
Unlike the DMV, a private company can't force you to use their services. Nor can they push a unique identifier on you which is then used as an id by numerous different databases.
Anyway, if it was in the LEM, did the LEM even survive rentry? Since it had no heat shield, etc.? Is the LEM still attched to the CM during re-entry even? Pretty sure it's not.
The LEM was attached to the CM until just before re-entry; the SM was separated from the CM before the CM separated from the LEM, since the LEM was providing most of the life support and the SM was just dead weight. The LEM was not designed for reentry and burned up, but the RTG itself was designed to survive accidental reentry intact and is probably sitting on the sea-bed somewhere.
6Km under the ocean is probably the safest place for it.
Think of the fish-children!