I've got two of their LED TV's (47 and 55 inch), four PC monitors, two Blu-ray players, an Epic (Galaxy S) phone, and a home theater. They all go great together, and updates seem reasonable to me. The home theater could be a little easier to use, and using the phone as a remote for the TV could use a little work, but overall it's good stuff and has been quite reliable. Way better than that Sony nonsense - the stuff just plugs together. Recommended them to Mom, and when she got it she was like "Oh. Wow."
About half of the HDTVs you can buy now actually have Samsung displays, as well as all the iPhones and iPads. It's getting hard to get away from their products because more and more if you don't buy the gear from them, the people who made it buy their parts from Samsung.
Asus is totally kicking their ass on the Android tablet front with the Transformer, and now the Transformer Prime, but everything else looks like good gear so far.
We'll see if the lifecycle holds up. I expect a TV or monitor to last ten years or more. That's why I bought LED rather than plasma or LCD. It will take a while before I know if it was a good bet. For now I'm happy, so I guess I'm a Samsung fan too.
Quite as an aside, the prevalence of inexpensive LED displays in 1080p resolution has degraded the availability of higher-resolution displays that used to be common. It's nice that movies look nice, but sometimes we want to do wide spreadsheets or other stuff that calls for more pixels and setting up 4 monitors in a grid is really a pain.
Like most startups they didn't have a product yet - just plans to make one. This is not at all unusual, and not necessarily a scam. A lot of companies come into being with the intent to make something great and then fail to deliver and run out of cash. Some few hit it big and the winnings are fabulous. Them's the breaks.
In my link I put the trailing "." on the hostname. That's an error. Try again without the trailing., as it messes with some browsers' certificate authentication.
And here you have the problem. As if this one time weren't bad enough, raiding the treasury will now become a thing that happens every time we turn over administrations.
That's a different issue best addressed in some thread where there are folks who care about this particular metaphysical concept. I might suggest that the posters on this thread might lead you to the resolution you crave.
Back when copyright expired in a reasonable period of time this might have been a reasonable argument - even though the fraction of benefit that fell on actual artists was less than one percent. Now it's not even that, and copyright is forever.
The social contract of copyright is to grant the artist a monopoly !for a limited and reasonable time! to encourage the art by making it more profitable. But art is art, and culture is the sum of our art. All art must enter the public domain if we are to advance as a culture. Art is what defines our culture. So the monopoly should be limited and brief, not endless and without scope.
So now some people break the law when they'd rather not. It's the law, not them, that's wrong. By assimilating illicitly this forbidden art they are advancing culture, which is a higher calling.
Intel's not the only foundry on 22nm. Obviously not, since they buy their lithography equipment from third parties that must have more than one customer. They're investing heavily in this area it's true. Trigate is slick, but there are a lot of up-and-coming technologies Intel can't prevent. Apparently Intel forgot to patent the 90 degree rotation of trigate.
Intel's problem isn't their hardware, it's the software that runs on their hardware. In the executive suite they've got a Windows habit that's hard to kick. That worked for a while, but that day is coming to an end. People are starting to look from their WinTel PC to their iPad, iPhone, Android tablet or phone and ask: WTF? Why is this all-day battery-powered thing more capable and responsive than the half-kilowatt new desktop before me? For a lot of years the proclivity of Windows to consume all of Intel's Moore's law progress in hardware with slower software was a good thing. It moved a lot of units - encouraging people to upgrade both hardware and software, but Apple and now Google have spoiled that game. It was a trick and now the trick is told, all bets are off. It's a new game now.
Truth be told I was always amazed that people with a 3GHz dual-core processor just accepted that to get a desktop they should fire it up and go get coffee because they knew it took five minutes. That's performance we wouldn't have stood for in 1984 when processors were less than 0.01GHz and storage was slower still. A 3GHz single core Intel processor from 2005 retiring 4 instructions per clock retires 3.6 trillion instructions in five minutes. A modern SATA hard drive can deliver something like 4.8GB in five minutes. A modern gigabit network connection passes 6GB in five minutes. A reasonable desktop environment takes about 3MB and a few million instructions to present. Do you get what I'm saying? The hardware isn't the problem and it hasn't been since about 1993. Just abandoning crap software isn't going to get Intel out of the woods though now. That might have worked in 2003.
Intel's software partner Microsoft got the clue first, and now the word is that Windows 8 will be expressive and performant even on Windows XP machines, and run on ARM too. That's not going to move a lot of Intel CPUs any more. By all reports the WinTel marriage is on the rocks and could be over soon.
In the executive suite Intel's focused on exactly the wrong things: improving what they're doing, not cannibalizing their current markets. That was a good strategy for a while, but it's not going to weather the current changes - as I tried to tell them seven years ago. Now they need something... different.
So now Android runs on X86. That's a good thing. It can run in a VM on your modern Windows desktop in W7 with Microsoft Virtual PC, and give you the Android apps from your phone in a window on your PC. They can share accounts and data in the cloud. HP should have (and I believe planned to) done this with WebOS, but I believe caved when MS explained the consequences. But Intel's focus is still on the widget, not solving the real problem. Android on x86 is just going to move people to ARM faster if Intel doesn't get their software religion under control. This should be dead simple. Intel doesn't sell Windows and they should not care whether Windows lives or dies. They sell platforms, and help software vendors implement those platforms. They need to shift from that to delivering experiences, and controlling those experiences to a limited extent.
There are others without Intel's history and established markets who are ready to solve the real problem. Intel can join them or get out of the way. This is going to happen very fast, so Intel doesn't have forever to dither about figuring out where the road ahead might be.
Long ago CISC vendors implemented RISC as a sublayer, and the two merged. This flamewar is officially over.
The 4+1 thing is a different flamewar: SMP vs AMP (Asymmetric vs Symmetric MultiProcessing). This one is still hot because AMP is fairly new. I'm a big fan of AMP, but the SMP camp is rightly concerned about complexity of compilers and tools, race conditions and what not. Too soon to tell, but here's a thing: we dealt with the transition to 486 pretty well, and that was a merging of heterogeneous cores - a processor and a math coprocessor. We integrated GPUs and physics coprocessors pretty well, and I/O offloading too. I think we'll weather this change and come out the other side for the better. But the outcome remains uncertain. The problems involved are certainly challenging.
It's called a singularity because like the singularity of a black hole it's impossible to see what's beyond it. We can see what's beyond this: more progress and more competition. More diversity, more sales, more fitness of technology to our human needs. More connectivity between people.
We've gone beyond moving the buttons around on the word processor to sell it again to the same people who bought it before. But we can still see the future from here and it looks grand.
The Singularity is an even bigger deal, and further out.
The Verge test is a website-load script. It doesn't say the page loads are rate limited. If the Android tablet is faster it would of course load the tablets faster, tax the tablet more, and burn up the battery faster. If you can load the web pages as fast as a script for six hours without setting the tablet down this might be an issue for you. For almost all of us it will be "more than enough". They also say the test is run in "normal" mode, and a "balanced" energy mode retest, or economy mode, may give great performance for much longer. It's early yet - especially with the dock. We shall see.
It's the API legacy issue. Old tools can't cope with changes in the API - in this case, a text stream. New features require these changes.
The right thing to do is a dual implementation, writing to both, until the legacy tools have been updated. Unfortunately some of these legacy tools have fingers and so are very difficult to deprecate. I would say do it both ways if that's what suits you, or let the system administrator choose whether he wants the legacy logging suite or the next generation one, based on his need.
It shouldn't be that hard to write an app to convert the database log to traditional format in an app like "logtail -f/var/log/messages" that maps that final argument's canonical location to the appropriate table and provides output in the traditional format. Add a conditional like "if source stream is a traditional log location and file not found, failback to the equivalent log database converter's output as the stream" to the traditional Unix stream tools, and that should about do it.
I'm a big fan of ASCII text for many things, and for logfiles especially so. But let's not forget that ASCII isn't stored in the computer as glyphs in a row. ASCII data is binary data too. Not that I have a dog in this fight.
XBase for dBase compatibility. The sourceforge project was last updated in 2006, but I imagine not a lot has been done to dBase since then. The format is simple - I reverse engineered it and wrote my own libraries for it once. You'll find NOMAD on Softpedia.
Without the dock they are about the same according to Engadget. With the dock the Transformer gets six more hours or so. This is in line with my experience on the original Transformer. Battery life is "enough to stop worrying about whether you're going to run out."
You would be surprised. There will shortly be apps out that require this. The games will come first. For Maya renders on your tablet though you would probably still remote desktop to your workstation so it can use vast RAM for textures and access the render farm. At least until somebody offers a cloud Maya platform.
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I've got two of their LED TV's (47 and 55 inch), four PC monitors, two Blu-ray players, an Epic (Galaxy S) phone, and a home theater. They all go great together, and updates seem reasonable to me. The home theater could be a little easier to use, and using the phone as a remote for the TV could use a little work, but overall it's good stuff and has been quite reliable. Way better than that Sony nonsense - the stuff just plugs together. Recommended them to Mom, and when she got it she was like "Oh. Wow."
About half of the HDTVs you can buy now actually have Samsung displays, as well as all the iPhones and iPads. It's getting hard to get away from their products because more and more if you don't buy the gear from them, the people who made it buy their parts from Samsung.
Asus is totally kicking their ass on the Android tablet front with the Transformer, and now the Transformer Prime, but everything else looks like good gear so far.
We'll see if the lifecycle holds up. I expect a TV or monitor to last ten years or more. That's why I bought LED rather than plasma or LCD. It will take a while before I know if it was a good bet. For now I'm happy, so I guess I'm a Samsung fan too.
Quite as an aside, the prevalence of inexpensive LED displays in 1080p resolution has degraded the availability of higher-resolution displays that used to be common. It's nice that movies look nice, but sometimes we want to do wide spreadsheets or other stuff that calls for more pixels and setting up 4 monitors in a grid is really a pain.
... But it's undocumented.
Actually, yes they do. Samsung Group is a conglomerate that makes and buys and sells nearly every kind of thing imaginable.
Like most startups they didn't have a product yet - just plans to make one. This is not at all unusual, and not necessarily a scam. A lot of companies come into being with the intent to make something great and then fail to deliver and run out of cash. Some few hit it big and the winnings are fabulous. Them's the breaks.
In my link I put the trailing "." on the hostname. That's an error. Try again without the trailing ., as it messes with some browsers' certificate authentication.
And here you have the problem. As if this one time weren't bad enough, raiding the treasury will now become a thing that happens every time we turn over administrations.
I had. Despite what the fine article says demand was not a problem. Lots of people wanted these cars. They just couldn't deliver them.
That's a different issue best addressed in some thread where there are folks who care about this particular metaphysical concept. I might suggest that the posters on this thread might lead you to the resolution you crave.
Back when copyright expired in a reasonable period of time this might have been a reasonable argument - even though the fraction of benefit that fell on actual artists was less than one percent. Now it's not even that, and copyright is forever.
The social contract of copyright is to grant the artist a monopoly !for a limited and reasonable time! to encourage the art by making it more profitable. But art is art, and culture is the sum of our art. All art must enter the public domain if we are to advance as a culture. Art is what defines our culture. So the monopoly should be limited and brief, not endless and without scope.
So now some people break the law when they'd rather not. It's the law, not them, that's wrong. By assimilating illicitly this forbidden art they are advancing culture, which is a higher calling.
No, it's a transliteration / misquote of "Information wants to be free."
This introduces a grand philosophical conflict as yet unresolved. I'm going to call it a troll, but a good one.
/BTW: its spelt "youfamism."
I'm assuming you haven't heard about https://slashdot.org
It's a cool site where we talk about what idiots our employers are for deploying WebSense.
I'm curious about when wikileaks has published such information. Can you provide a citation?
OK fine. Keep telling yourself it's no big deal, everything's going fine. You're entitled to do that. lalala.
Intel's not the only foundry on 22nm. Obviously not, since they buy their lithography equipment from third parties that must have more than one customer. They're investing heavily in this area it's true. Trigate is slick, but there are a lot of up-and-coming technologies Intel can't prevent. Apparently Intel forgot to patent the 90 degree rotation of trigate.
Intel's problem isn't their hardware, it's the software that runs on their hardware. In the executive suite they've got a Windows habit that's hard to kick. That worked for a while, but that day is coming to an end. People are starting to look from their WinTel PC to their iPad, iPhone, Android tablet or phone and ask: WTF? Why is this all-day battery-powered thing more capable and responsive than the half-kilowatt new desktop before me? For a lot of years the proclivity of Windows to consume all of Intel's Moore's law progress in hardware with slower software was a good thing. It moved a lot of units - encouraging people to upgrade both hardware and software, but Apple and now Google have spoiled that game. It was a trick and now the trick is told, all bets are off. It's a new game now.
Truth be told I was always amazed that people with a 3GHz dual-core processor just accepted that to get a desktop they should fire it up and go get coffee because they knew it took five minutes. That's performance we wouldn't have stood for in 1984 when processors were less than 0.01GHz and storage was slower still. A 3GHz single core Intel processor from 2005 retiring 4 instructions per clock retires 3.6 trillion instructions in five minutes. A modern SATA hard drive can deliver something like 4.8GB in five minutes. A modern gigabit network connection passes 6GB in five minutes. A reasonable desktop environment takes about 3MB and a few million instructions to present. Do you get what I'm saying? The hardware isn't the problem and it hasn't been since about 1993. Just abandoning crap software isn't going to get Intel out of the woods though now. That might have worked in 2003.
Intel's software partner Microsoft got the clue first, and now the word is that Windows 8 will be expressive and performant even on Windows XP machines, and run on ARM too. That's not going to move a lot of Intel CPUs any more. By all reports the WinTel marriage is on the rocks and could be over soon.
In the executive suite Intel's focused on exactly the wrong things: improving what they're doing, not cannibalizing their current markets. That was a good strategy for a while, but it's not going to weather the current changes - as I tried to tell them seven years ago. Now they need something... different.
So now Android runs on X86. That's a good thing. It can run in a VM on your modern Windows desktop in W7 with Microsoft Virtual PC, and give you the Android apps from your phone in a window on your PC. They can share accounts and data in the cloud. HP should have (and I believe planned to) done this with WebOS, but I believe caved when MS explained the consequences. But Intel's focus is still on the widget, not solving the real problem. Android on x86 is just going to move people to ARM faster if Intel doesn't get their software religion under control. This should be dead simple. Intel doesn't sell Windows and they should not care whether Windows lives or dies. They sell platforms, and help software vendors implement those platforms. They need to shift from that to delivering experiences, and controlling those experiences to a limited extent.
There are others without Intel's history and established markets who are ready to solve the real problem. Intel can join them or get out of the way. This is going to happen very fast, so Intel doesn't have forever to dither about figuring out where the road ahead might be.
Don't mix your memes.
Long ago CISC vendors implemented RISC as a sublayer, and the two merged. This flamewar is officially over.
The 4+1 thing is a different flamewar: SMP vs AMP (Asymmetric vs Symmetric MultiProcessing). This one is still hot because AMP is fairly new. I'm a big fan of AMP, but the SMP camp is rightly concerned about complexity of compilers and tools, race conditions and what not. Too soon to tell, but here's a thing: we dealt with the transition to 486 pretty well, and that was a merging of heterogeneous cores - a processor and a math coprocessor. We integrated GPUs and physics coprocessors pretty well, and I/O offloading too. I think we'll weather this change and come out the other side for the better. But the outcome remains uncertain. The problems involved are certainly challenging.
It's called a singularity because like the singularity of a black hole it's impossible to see what's beyond it. We can see what's beyond this: more progress and more competition. More diversity, more sales, more fitness of technology to our human needs. More connectivity between people.
We've gone beyond moving the buttons around on the word processor to sell it again to the same people who bought it before. But we can still see the future from here and it looks grand.
The Singularity is an even bigger deal, and further out.
No, it was Grandma. The R.A.H. quote you're looking for though is:
“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.” Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Honest mistake. Very similar. Grandma didn't have his way with words, but she was good.
The difference between a politician and an honest politician is that an honest politician stays bought.
AT&T is not the United Nations. And even if they were, a firmly worded letter is getting them nowhere here.
The Verge test is a website-load script. It doesn't say the page loads are rate limited. If the Android tablet is faster it would of course load the tablets faster, tax the tablet more, and burn up the battery faster. If you can load the web pages as fast as a script for six hours without setting the tablet down this might be an issue for you. For almost all of us it will be "more than enough". They also say the test is run in "normal" mode, and a "balanced" energy mode retest, or economy mode, may give great performance for much longer. It's early yet - especially with the dock. We shall see.
It's the API legacy issue. Old tools can't cope with changes in the API - in this case, a text stream. New features require these changes.
The right thing to do is a dual implementation, writing to both, until the legacy tools have been updated. Unfortunately some of these legacy tools have fingers and so are very difficult to deprecate. I would say do it both ways if that's what suits you, or let the system administrator choose whether he wants the legacy logging suite or the next generation one, based on his need.
It shouldn't be that hard to write an app to convert the database log to traditional format in an app like "logtail -f /var/log/messages" that maps that final argument's canonical location to the appropriate table and provides output in the traditional format. Add a conditional like "if source stream is a traditional log location and file not found, failback to the equivalent log database converter's output as the stream" to the traditional Unix stream tools, and that should about do it.
I'm a big fan of ASCII text for many things, and for logfiles especially so. But let's not forget that ASCII isn't stored in the computer as glyphs in a row. ASCII data is binary data too. Not that I have a dog in this fight.
XBase for dBase compatibility. The sourceforge project was last updated in 2006, but I imagine not a lot has been done to dBase since then. The format is simple - I reverse engineered it and wrote my own libraries for it once. You'll find NOMAD on Softpedia.
Microsoft is paying over $2B a year to keep their online efforts alive. Do you think they'd wince at outbidding Google's $100m here?
Without the dock they are about the same according to Engadget. With the dock the Transformer gets six more hours or so. This is in line with my experience on the original Transformer. Battery life is "enough to stop worrying about whether you're going to run out."
You would be surprised. There will shortly be apps out that require this. The games will come first. For Maya renders on your tablet though you would probably still remote desktop to your workstation so it can use vast RAM for textures and access the render farm. At least until somebody offers a cloud Maya platform.