Mentioning DPI is a useless measurement. This is how we can tell nVidia is clawing desperately at nothing trying to market something that isn't worth half a shit anyways.
Uh-huh.
As I understand it this chip is aimed at netbooks, which typically have 10" displays with too few pixels to display much (e.g. mine is 1024x600, which is too small to be really usable for many GUI apps). So DPI on a 10" display is a useful number in determining the screen resolution those computers would be able to support.
Those who somehow do manage to hold on to their motivation are such a small minority that they can only vary rarely effect worthwhile change.
It's worse than that. Democracy actively selects for lying asshats, so even if you are smart and have good ideas you'll be beaten by the charismatic psychopath promising bread and circuses paid for with your neighbour's money (or, these days, money borrowed from the Chinese).
Except every piece of crap program on Windows wants to run its own helper/updater/taskbar crap which can't trivially be restarted.
Not to mention that any time you want to update a system DLL you have to reboot because Windows is so backward that you can't replace them while the OS is running.
But X Windows and similar stuff can't be restarted without killing off all the GUI apps.
Sure, but:
a) exploits in the X server seem fairly rare. b) most home users log out every day in any case.
Pretty much anything other than the X server or kernel can be restarted without having to log out. The kernel can be patched while running, but Ubuntu doesn't support it as far as I'm aware.
Without AMD, we wouldn't even have 64-bit computers now.
Uh, I was using 64-bit computers years before AMD started making Athlon-64s.
And Intel was probably right that we should have thrown away the x86 architecture and built a new 64-bit line without the baggage that AMD dragged with it. They were just wrong about Itanic being the way to do that.
The desktop will be replaced with cell phones on a docking station. Or at the very least, thin clients.
There's no benefit to using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client. There are a heck of a lot of disadvantages of using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client.
OK, you could carry all your work around on your phone so you don't need to access it remotely from the thin client, but again, what company in their right mind wants all their employees walking out of the building with their work in an easily lost, easily stolen phone?
On the flipside, after bringing about that awesome bus/memory architecture, they haven't made any particularly exciting breakthroughs ever since and Intel has caught up on that front.
More to the point, the 'awesome bus/memory architecture' only really helped them on servers; Intel's FSB was good enough for home users. And from what I've read the weird desire to maintain backwards compatibility with ancient motherboards has harmed their memory performance by forcing them to keep supporting DDR2 as well as DDR3; those kind of compatibility issues are one reason why we switched from integrated memory controllers to independent ones outside the CPU many years ago.
what's the point of a cpu 1% faster when it costs 50% more? (exaggerating for getting the point across)
Exagerating to pointlessness. No sane person would pay 50% more for a CPU that's 1% faster, but the real world is more like 50-100% more for a CPU that's 50% faster... and a lot of people will pay that.
AMD's profits suck because they're forced to sell complex and expensive CPUs cheap because they can't compete on performance. Intel sell far more CPUs and make far more money because they own the high end of the market and the very low end of the market and compete well in the middle.
What that means is that at almost any given price point, the AMD chip is better than the Intel chip with only a few cases where they are equal.
Which is what I said.
If you want the fastest CPU, you buy Intel. If you want the lowest power consumption for the performance, you buy Intel (or ARM, at the very low end). If you want cheap, you buy AMD.
If Dell switched to only selling AMD CPUs, they'd lose all the markets other than the low end... which is where the profit margins are usually the worst.
Dell is big enough to hurt Intel if they switch to AMD.
Considering Intel's CPUs beat AMD on pretty much every measure other than price, Intel could really hurt Dell if they switch to AMD. Nvidia would be far more likely to suffer if Dell only sold ATI cards in their gaming systems.
The reason/. has a left leaning bias is because most honest and intelligent people are left leaning.
In my experience the left generally claim to be 'honest and intelligent'; yet whenever they get into power they start by destroying the economy and, if unchecked, end up with death-camps for anyone who disagrees with them.
What's the name for that syndrome where smart people think they're dumber than they are and dumb people think they're smarter than they are?
Since, according to several sources I've read, the cost of printing is minimal compared to the other costs involved (grain of salt and all of course).
There's a reason why publishers generally don't accept paperback returns: typically the store just rips off the cover as proof it wasn't sold and throws the rest away, because printing another one is cheaper than dealing with the return and sending it back out.
That their out-of-print books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, that are currently making them ZERO money, could be sold for $2-$5 as pdfs.
Won't the rights have reverted to the authors? Or do the publishers pay for perpetual rights?
I recently bought an old pulp horror novel from the 70s that I remember reading as a kid because the author had put it up for $2.99 on a DRM-free ebook site. Clearly at least some authors realise they can now make money from their old out-of-print books whose rights have reverted to them even if the publishers don't.
why would anyone wish to hide what brand of jeans they like to wear?
Because it's none of their business?
I for one would very much prefer that marketers and ad networks had a good picture of my product preferences so that instead of ads for mortgage refinancing and painfully unfunny t-shirts, I would get advertisements for things that I might actually be interested in.
I see this a lot in politics these days: educated, intelligent journalists lashing out and saying anyone who doesn't agree with their political opinions must not be a member of the human race.
That's because they're lefties. Dehumanisation is the first step towards mass murder, and the left always end up murdering everyone who disagrees with them once they have absolute power.
Political violence is endemic on the left, which is probably why the Italians took this so seriously.
If that hasn't caught on, and if Windows Folders don't even really support that, it's because most people just don't bother... and the same is/will be true of tags by any other name.
Indeed. When I copy 2,000 images off my digital camera, I am not going to go through and add tags to every single one, whereas I might well cut and paste them into three directories for the places that I visited on that trip.
Tagging all files requires a huge amount of effort that most people simply aren't going to do.
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Mentioning DPI is a useless measurement. This is how we can tell nVidia is clawing desperately at nothing trying to market something that isn't worth half a shit anyways.
Uh-huh.
As I understand it this chip is aimed at netbooks, which typically have 10" displays with too few pixels to display much (e.g. mine is 1024x600, which is too small to be really usable for many GUI apps). So DPI on a 10" display is a useful number in determining the screen resolution those computers would be able to support.
Though, of course, saying 1440P is more useful.
Those who somehow do manage to hold on to their motivation are such a small minority that they can only vary rarely effect worthwhile change.
It's worse than that. Democracy actively selects for lying asshats, so even if you are smart and have good ideas you'll be beaten by the charismatic psychopath promising bread and circuses paid for with your neighbour's money (or, these days, money borrowed from the Chinese).
Except every piece of crap program on Windows wants to run its own helper/updater/taskbar crap which can't trivially be restarted.
Not to mention that any time you want to update a system DLL you have to reboot because Windows is so backward that you can't replace them while the OS is running.
But X Windows and similar stuff can't be restarted without killing off all the GUI apps.
Sure, but:
a) exploits in the X server seem fairly rare.
b) most home users log out every day in any case.
Pretty much anything other than the X server or kernel can be restarted without having to log out. The kernel can be patched while running, but Ubuntu doesn't support it as far as I'm aware.
The updates usually only fix things on disk and won't affect in-memory images of running executables.
post-install script: /sbin/service restart thing-i-just-fixed
Fortunately Linux doesn't have three zillion things running in the background that can't easily be restarted, unlike Windows.
It was patched quickly after languishing for almost three years.
Being patched quickly after only three years seems pretty good compared to the average Windows exploit.
Without AMD, we wouldn't even have 64-bit computers now.
Uh, I was using 64-bit computers years before AMD started making Athlon-64s.
And Intel was probably right that we should have thrown away the x86 architecture and built a new 64-bit line without the baggage that AMD dragged with it. They were just wrong about Itanic being the way to do that.
The desktop will be replaced with cell phones on a docking station. Or at the very least, thin clients.
There's no benefit to using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client. There are a heck of a lot of disadvantages of using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client.
OK, you could carry all your work around on your phone so you don't need to access it remotely from the thin client, but again, what company in their right mind wants all their employees walking out of the building with their work in an easily lost, easily stolen phone?
It wont be long before we dock our cell phones in a station and work via KVM at our office desk.
True. Everyone wants a phone with a half-hour battery life, and every company wants employees carrying their work around in their pocket.
On the flipside, after bringing about that awesome bus/memory architecture, they haven't made any particularly exciting breakthroughs ever since and Intel has caught up on that front.
More to the point, the 'awesome bus/memory architecture' only really helped them on servers; Intel's FSB was good enough for home users. And from what I've read the weird desire to maintain backwards compatibility with ancient motherboards has harmed their memory performance by forcing them to keep supporting DDR2 as well as DDR3; those kind of compatibility issues are one reason why we switched from integrated memory controllers to independent ones outside the CPU many years ago.
What makes you think that this isn't just a ploy by Dell to get a better deal from Intel?
Because Intel would laugh if Dell said they were only going to sell AMD CPUs in future?
what's the point of a cpu 1% faster when it costs 50% more? (exaggerating for getting the point across)
Exagerating to pointlessness. No sane person would pay 50% more for a CPU that's 1% faster, but the real world is more like 50-100% more for a CPU that's 50% faster... and a lot of people will pay that.
AMD's profits suck because they're forced to sell complex and expensive CPUs cheap because they can't compete on performance. Intel sell far more CPUs and make far more money because they own the high end of the market and the very low end of the market and compete well in the middle.
What that means is that at almost any given price point, the AMD chip is better than the Intel chip with only a few cases where they are equal.
Which is what I said.
If you want the fastest CPU, you buy Intel. If you want the lowest power consumption for the performance, you buy Intel (or ARM, at the very low end). If you want cheap, you buy AMD.
If Dell switched to only selling AMD CPUs, they'd lose all the markets other than the low end... which is where the profit margins are usually the worst.
Dell is big enough to hurt Intel if they switch to AMD.
Considering Intel's CPUs beat AMD on pretty much every measure other than price, Intel could really hurt Dell if they switch to AMD. Nvidia would be far more likely to suffer if Dell only sold ATI cards in their gaming systems.
The reason /. has a left leaning bias is because most honest and intelligent people are left leaning.
In my experience the left generally claim to be 'honest and intelligent'; yet whenever they get into power they start by destroying the economy and, if unchecked, end up with death-camps for anyone who disagrees with them.
What's the name for that syndrome where smart people think they're dumber than they are and dumb people think they're smarter than they are?
For the parent, ME2 : Mass Effect 2
For the parent's parent ME2 : Mirror's Edge 2
Ah... I was confused for a moment because I couldn't understand how anyone could call a stinker like Mass Effect 2 'awesome'.
If I remember correctly, it only works if you have the latest SSE instructions and an Intel GPU.
Since, according to several sources I've read, the cost of printing is minimal compared to the other costs involved (grain of salt and all of course).
There's a reason why publishers generally don't accept paperback returns: typically the store just rips off the cover as proof it wasn't sold and throws the rest away, because printing another one is cheaper than dealing with the return and sending it back out.
That their out-of-print books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, that are currently making them ZERO money, could be sold for $2-$5 as pdfs.
Won't the rights have reverted to the authors? Or do the publishers pay for perpetual rights?
I recently bought an old pulp horror novel from the 70s that I remember reading as a kid because the author had put it up for $2.99 on a DRM-free ebook site. Clearly at least some authors realise they can now make money from their old out-of-print books whose rights have reverted to them even if the publishers don't.
why would anyone wish to hide what brand of jeans they like to wear?
Because it's none of their business?
I for one would very much prefer that marketers and ad networks had a good picture of my product preferences so that instead of ads for mortgage refinancing and painfully unfunny t-shirts, I would get advertisements for things that I might actually be interested in.
There are ads on the Internet?
If Linux or OSX had 90% of the market, they'd be much worse off than Windows
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This is why I always install at least three different AV programs on any Windows PC.
If they're a critical service, why are they running Windows?
I see this a lot in politics these days: educated, intelligent journalists lashing out and saying anyone who doesn't agree with their political opinions must not be a member of the human race.
That's because they're lefties. Dehumanisation is the first step towards mass murder, and the left always end up murdering everyone who disagrees with them once they have absolute power.
Political violence is endemic on the left, which is probably why the Italians took this so seriously.
If that hasn't caught on, and if Windows Folders don't even really support that, it's because most people just don't bother... and the same is/will be true of tags by any other name.
Indeed. When I copy 2,000 images off my digital camera, I am not going to go through and add tags to every single one, whereas I might well cut and paste them into three directories for the places that I visited on that trip.
Tagging all files requires a huge amount of effort that most people simply aren't going to do.