The "Minority Report" interface is an OS thing. Intel doesn't do that. They do hardware. The hardware they sell now is more than capable of doing that right now, if you've got the software.
I'm on a project installing several thousand dual-core W7 desktops today. Not a one has the processor power or video performance of the NGP. This battle is over.
The latest ARM processors go up to 16 cores SMP. They include up to 32 cores of video processing offload thanks to Imagination Technologies. They conserve Watts like the precious commodity that Watts are.
Part of what makes the hardware work well is the software. The Linux based platforms like WebOS, Android and others are very efficient and very portable. If they had to support Windows of course they would be slow, buggy, and burn those precious Watts.
Never say never. You'll lose that bet every time. Forever is a long time.
The mark of a good salesman is that he can make people want what he has. The mark of a great salesman is that he chooses to sell what people want already. Great salesmen are lazy, and know that there are enough things that are great that they need not push the crud.
How do you know the difference? The great salesman listens closely to you, asks pointed questions about your need, and delivers a solution that solves it. The good salesman bores you with powerpoints, doesn't want to hear about your special needs, and tries to sell you what he has rather than what you need.
Android is sweet. It's a great transitional phase - it lets us do a lot of stuff. But cellphones are about to be as powerful as desktop PCs and laptops. Soon what will matter will not be the user interface, the OS or the apps, but the utility to the end user: the opportunities it enables, the potentials it creates. The company that converges the mobile experience with the desktop experience in a way that transparently lets people do what they want to do will win.
What people want to do, mostly, is connect with the people they care about so they can share their experiences. That's why Facebook is such a huge thing right now. We're people, and we want to share.
No, like "The ARM toolchain includes simulators and cross compilers that can produce a running kernel and test VM from the SOC design before the silicon even gets wet."
A product that's selling faster than it can be made, and consuming the majority of the world's supply of its ingredients can be considered neither overpriced nor a failure.
When porting tech to a new platform, tuning the code to work ideally is quite the trick. It's also about 4% of the work. Most of the work is getting proven reliable drivers for the other hardware. Linux has the advantage here because a lot of hardware vendors design with linux drivers to prove the product. This makes spinning a new HW platform an agile two week deal to get to the proof. Of concept stage, and does not require outside assistance. Microsoft's wp7 platform has so few drivers that they're trying to sell the idea of choice as a bad thing: "fragmentation."
We are in a rapid innovation phase. Waiting for standards is sitting out the game. Innovating as fast as you can, delivering delightful new experiences is the only way to stay in the game.
That this whole maneuver helps Microsoft at all is an unproven assumption. We may find in the end that this was just wanton wealth destruction serving noone.
Dangerous business, that. Bad for an author's reputation. He's just another Enderle, O'Gara, or DiDio now. A shame, that. He did good work once upon a time.
When Microsoft partners with somebody to make something (the baby) like a Nokia phone, a sendo phone, or IBM OS/2, and then deliberately kills the product to achieve some other strategic goal, that's a knife the baby strategy. This is something else.
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They'll get the update complete just in time to miss the migration to mobile. What's with Germany?
There's something non-stupid about this entire evolution to you? Do share.
Eventually the End will come. That much is guaranteed.
* FTL speed - without FTL travel going to another star is just crazy.
Ok, Gravis Zero is one more volunteer to wait here. Please make a note of it when sending out the mission invites.
"Let's go look."
If presented with evidence he denies it, he is an idiot. If he only says "idunno", then he is only a fool.
Good point. Sorry. Lost the topic. I do that now and then.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all
That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true—a foolish figure,
But farewell it, for I will use no art.
- Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2, Wm Shakespear.
The "Minority Report" interface is an OS thing. Intel doesn't do that. They do hardware. The hardware they sell now is more than capable of doing that right now, if you've got the software.
You might be right. I could save it, but I doubt Intel has anybody on staff who can.
I'm on a project installing several thousand dual-core W7 desktops today. Not a one has the processor power or video performance of the NGP. This battle is over.
The latest ARM processors go up to 16 cores SMP. They include up to 32 cores of video processing offload thanks to Imagination Technologies. They conserve Watts like the precious commodity that Watts are.
Part of what makes the hardware work well is the software. The Linux based platforms like WebOS, Android and others are very efficient and very portable. If they had to support Windows of course they would be slow, buggy, and burn those precious Watts.
Never say never. You'll lose that bet every time. Forever is a long time.
Oxmanjusri : There's a new day dawning. Things have become chaotic. The old ways don't seem to hold.
I'm with you that the old way is a block to progress and sad. But it looks like we're turning the corner on that to me.
The mark of a good salesman is that he can make people want what he has. The mark of a great salesman is that he chooses to sell what people want already. Great salesmen are lazy, and know that there are enough things that are great that they need not push the crud.
How do you know the difference? The great salesman listens closely to you, asks pointed questions about your need, and delivers a solution that solves it. The good salesman bores you with powerpoints, doesn't want to hear about your special needs, and tries to sell you what he has rather than what you need.
Android is sweet. It's a great transitional phase - it lets us do a lot of stuff. But cellphones are about to be as powerful as desktop PCs and laptops. Soon what will matter will not be the user interface, the OS or the apps, but the utility to the end user: the opportunities it enables, the potentials it creates. The company that converges the mobile experience with the desktop experience in a way that transparently lets people do what they want to do will win.
What people want to do, mostly, is connect with the people they care about so they can share their experiences. That's why Facebook is such a huge thing right now. We're people, and we want to share.
No, like "The ARM toolchain includes simulators and cross compilers that can produce a running kernel and test VM from the SOC design before the silicon even gets wet."
A product that's selling faster than it can be made, and consuming the majority of the world's supply of its ingredients can be considered neither overpriced nor a failure.
Long MSFT then?
It is the price of gold that changes, not the value.
When porting tech to a new platform, tuning the code to work ideally is quite the trick. It's also about 4% of the work. Most of the work is getting proven reliable drivers for the other hardware. Linux has the advantage here because a lot of hardware vendors design with linux drivers to prove the product. This makes spinning a new HW platform an agile two week deal to get to the proof. Of concept stage, and does not require outside assistance. Microsoft's wp7 platform has so few drivers that they're trying to sell the idea of choice as a bad thing: "fragmentation."
We are in a rapid innovation phase. Waiting for standards is sitting out the game. Innovating as fast as you can, delivering delightful new experiences is the only way to stay in the game.
This is the right answer.
That this whole maneuver helps Microsoft at all is an unproven assumption. We may find in the end that this was just wanton wealth destruction serving noone.
Dangerous business, that. Bad for an author's reputation. He's just another Enderle, O'Gara, or DiDio now. A shame, that. He did good work once upon a time.
When Microsoft partners with somebody to make something (the baby) like a Nokia phone, a sendo phone, or IBM OS/2, and then deliberately kills the product to achieve some other strategic goal, that's a knife the baby strategy. This is something else.
And this man is special.