Anonymous includes people who actually run these systems all day at their JOB. They don't have to steal info from inside... just a hint on an anonymous board will do. "mbry at fbi.gov, mid-level bureaucrat, local and net admin access, clueless, valuable shared volume access, DB admin, fancies/., Chase, FB, FARK and Brony fansites. Cannot resist smiley packs and IE toolbars."
Congratulations! I wish you luck in your new adventure. Maybe one day I'll join the legions too. There's no such thing as an absolute rule - Of course if there's a neat new thing and I know I'm one of the first to enjoy it I find frequent improvements more tolerable. Developers need to understand though that pulling an update may eat some battery. It may devour some people's allotment of premium LTE data. It may be distracting. If you can hold back and roll several updates together into a less frequent release it can keep your app on devices longer. There is a balance.
An app that needs to update every week is not from a reliable developer. An app that wants attention every day is a pest. Freemium apps, apps that want me to install more apps or get "social" are lame. Also low value apps take precious space. Permissions creep is not OK.
A big deal with cloud is the need for metro area redundancy. For storage this might include a Fiber Channel or iSCSI SAN and add some clustered fail over servers at least 50 miles from the primary site. For this to work properly with synchronous replication and seamless failover you need low latency and fairly direct routes. Many failed malls are almost perfectly located for this.
I actually don't mind that one. The modern look is fresh and it remembers most of my preferences. The "read more comments" button doesn't work on my browser though, and the right side boxes for notifications is not there. Of the left column all I use is the "submissions" link, which could be moved over to the right side, maybe in a pulldown. It seems incomplete. I'm sure they'll keep classic slashdot maintained for us geezers if they go that way. It has been in beta unchanged since the turnover though, I believe.
I wish the mobile site would remember I prefer the "classic desktop view". It's a pain to have to tell my phone to request it every time I come to/.
Apparently RISC, MIPS and other such relics are back in vogue. Why not POVRay? Put a nice GUI on it and retrofit some gpgpu and it is off to the races. I wonder how well it would do with mandelbulb.
Well now that you can publish your GPU compute fork we expect good work in a timely fashion. Get busy. Also, if you could work in a Blender module and an Android version, that would be nice.
Small form factor business PCs, Media center PCs, low-end Steambox, emerging economies desktop. Strangely enough, servers. Integrating the GPU into the CPU gets the BOM cost down and raises the minimum performance standard. They are now approaching a teraflop on an APU. That is amazing.
Those folks know how much wood to put up for the winter. An important consideration in places where the infrastructure breaks down often in the winter. Air quality doesn't suffer much.
Ice Storm Extreme benchmark on N5 with ART reports "Maxed Out! This test is too light for your device. Try running Ice Storm Unlimited instead." The only other device with this score is iPad Air. Ice Storm Unlimited reports Ice Storm score 16943. Details:
Graphics: 17854
Physics: 14376
Graphics 1: 91.5 FPS
Graphics 2: 67.4 FPS
Physics: 45.6 FPS
Demo 0 FPS
The other devices reported are Kindle Fire HDX 7, Acer Liquid S2, NVIDIA Shield and Pantech Vega LTE-A. The differences between these are not significant.
I chose the N5 personally - I'm well invested in Android apps, and it automatically re-installs the apps I use with their data. But I do see why people like the iPhone. My daughters prefer it.
I wonder if the benchmarks enabled ART though. I'm enabling the new ART runtime on mine and will report back if the numbers are significantly different from the article. It takes a while to enable ART if you have a lot of apps...
At this level though the benchmarks seem ridiculous. Both phones have the power and display of a midrange laptop. It's difficult to imagine there is going to be some phone task for which either one is insufficient for the next few years. Maybe ever. This may be the knee of "good enough".
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Skill and proficiency in getting awarded a federal IT project contract seems to be inversely proportional to being able to deliver it.
Anonymous includes people who actually run these systems all day at their JOB. They don't have to steal info from inside... just a hint on an anonymous board will do. "mbry at fbi.gov, mid-level bureaucrat, local and net admin access, clueless, valuable shared volume access, DB admin, fancies /., Chase, FB, FARK and Brony fansites. Cannot resist smiley packs and IE toolbars."
Oh God that is one hilarious ad landing page. Well worth the click to earn your innovation protection badge!
Would you like a ham sandwich? A prosecutor could indict one for you.
There are thousands of people in the US who are serving "life without the possibility of parole" for nonviolent offenses.
Congratulations! I wish you luck in your new adventure. Maybe one day I'll join the legions too. There's no such thing as an absolute rule - Of course if there's a neat new thing and I know I'm one of the first to enjoy it I find frequent improvements more tolerable. Developers need to understand though that pulling an update may eat some battery. It may devour some people's allotment of premium LTE data. It may be distracting. If you can hold back and roll several updates together into a less frequent release it can keep your app on devices longer. There is a balance.
An app that needs to update every week is not from a reliable developer. An app that wants attention every day is a pest. Freemium apps, apps that want me to install more apps or get "social" are lame. Also low value apps take precious space. Permissions creep is not OK.
It seems to me that Sears and KMart have been taking turns going bankrupt since I was a kid.
A big deal with cloud is the need for metro area redundancy. For storage this might include a Fiber Channel or iSCSI SAN and add some clustered fail over servers at least 50 miles from the primary site. For this to work properly with synchronous replication and seamless failover you need low latency and fairly direct routes. Many failed malls are almost perfectly located for this.
I actually don't mind that one. The modern look is fresh and it remembers most of my preferences. The "read more comments" button doesn't work on my browser though, and the right side boxes for notifications is not there. Of the left column all I use is the "submissions" link, which could be moved over to the right side, maybe in a pulldown. It seems incomplete. I'm sure they'll keep classic slashdot maintained for us geezers if they go that way. It has been in beta unchanged since the turnover though, I believe.
I wish the mobile site would remember I prefer the "classic desktop view". It's a pain to have to tell my phone to request it every time I come to /.
I hope they don't mess up /. too.
Apparently RISC, MIPS and other such relics are back in vogue. Why not POVRay? Put a nice GUI on it and retrofit some gpgpu and it is off to the races. I wonder how well it would do with mandelbulb.
Well now that you can publish your GPU compute fork we expect good work in a timely fashion. Get busy. Also, if you could work in a Blender module and an Android version, that would be nice.
Small form factor business PCs, Media center PCs, low-end Steambox, emerging economies desktop. Strangely enough, servers. Integrating the GPU into the CPU gets the BOM cost down and raises the minimum performance standard. They are now approaching a teraflop on an APU. That is amazing.
Long summer nights telling tales by the bonfire.
I burn a couple cords a year in an open pit for backyard ambiance. I'm pretty sure that is worse than a wood stove.
Those folks know how much wood to put up for the winter. An important consideration in places where the infrastructure breaks down often in the winter. Air quality doesn't suffer much.
Uncle Larry is not in the "giving stuff away business".
People used to use Microsoft Java too.
Apparently JIT overhead matters a lot. When I enable the ART runtime on my N5, it won't even give a score on these tests. It just says "maxed out".
N5 with ART, GFXBench 2.7.2 reports for 2.5 Egypt HD Onscreen: 5727 - 51 FPS. With a *. This is a pretty amazing score for a mobile device.
BTW: with the score I got this: "Good news! This is one of the most powerful devices around and everything seems to be working normally."
Ice Storm Extreme benchmark on N5 with ART reports "Maxed Out! This test is too light for your device. Try running Ice Storm Unlimited instead." The only other device with this score is iPad Air. Ice Storm Unlimited reports Ice Storm score 16943. Details:
The other devices reported are Kindle Fire HDX 7, Acer Liquid S2, NVIDIA Shield and Pantech Vega LTE-A. The differences between these are not significant.
I chose the N5 personally - I'm well invested in Android apps, and it automatically re-installs the apps I use with their data. But I do see why people like the iPhone. My daughters prefer it.
I wonder if the benchmarks enabled ART though. I'm enabling the new ART runtime on mine and will report back if the numbers are significantly different from the article. It takes a while to enable ART if you have a lot of apps...
At this level though the benchmarks seem ridiculous. Both phones have the power and display of a midrange laptop. It's difficult to imagine there is going to be some phone task for which either one is insufficient for the next few years. Maybe ever. This may be the knee of "good enough".
They are both very nice phones. There. I said it.