I was going to come in here and remind Soulskill that this is not April first. But then I remembered that there's a "submit story" link in the/. global footer. This is probably his way of reminding us that we need to click that now and then if we don't want to see this crud.
There are a number of services that rent this facility. testdroid is one that offers 200+ devices. Here is a nice Google search. The services are not free, of course.
I don't know anything about the testdroid service. Just trying to help.
Hey, Android fragmentation makes it harder to develop apps that target every possible Android phone if you want to enable the cool new features on retro phones. But as a developer you're free to target whatever slice of the Android ecosystem you want to. No matter what level you pick, that's still a lot of pie. One billion slices of pie by the end of this year and growing at such a rate that Android devices may soon outnumber all mankind. What are you going to do? NOT develop for Android? I suppose that's a strategy.
They did. And it's great stuff. I recommend it if you have a use case for it.
Until Intel puts it in a motherboard socket it's not server tech. It's coprocessor tech. It is great tech, but it's not applicable to my statement. Word is that Intel intends to put it in a motherboard socket one day, but we have to wait and see what form that will take and when. Always in motion is the future.
Reusable Mars and moon trips require two craft - a lifter and an interplanetary. Also, a huge supply of fuel and/or ion propellant and air/water on orbit. Planetary Resources and NASA Dawn are working on this last bit.
Server side is where margins are at. AMD borked a server CPU generation and wound up cleaning house. If the world were different this would not be a recoverable error. Since Intel needs AMD to blunt monopoly supervision, Intel server tech will probably be delayed to give AMD a chance to catch up a little bit. Intel will keep inventing clever new stuff, but stuff it in a closet again as they have done many times before. This isn't a big deal since server tech is so way overpowered from what it needs to be that Intel could probably coast for 6 years before they had to start innovating again. Maybe they'll retask some engineers from servers (and God please, Itanic) to mobile. That would be nice.
Imagination Technologies, owners of PowerVR, recently became members of the Open Handset Alliance four months ago. Open Handset Alliance is the Android booster org. Before this they were a strictly proprietary driver company, and Android devices that used their tech had binary blobs. The binary blobs aren't gone yet, but they soon will be replaced with open source licensed drivers and actual hardware specifications.
So Microsoft needs there to be a mobile GPU tech company that has secret drivers to sell their mobile software on platforms that can't be made useful with a software flash. They cast about and set their sights on nVidia, who has already signed their devil's deal to keep how their PC hardware works a trade secret. They probably promised nVidia something useless to get this - that's their usual course. Now Microsoft's puppet hardware ODMs will build Microsoft nVidia GPU-based tablet platforms that can't run Android, won't sell, and have to be dumped all over the place like Surface RT is now. Expect Surface RT 2, whatever it's properly named, to use this tech. In the end nVidia gets hosed - again. If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.
Intel used Imagination Tech in their Atom line as well, and that's why you can't get good Linux drivers for those otherwise sweet mini-itx boards. Yet. They're coming. Intel has dropped them though for some reason now in favor of in-house tech.
It's really hard to track the machinations in GPUs.
Nothing. nVidia can't admit that Microsoft (or some Microsoft puppet) owns the source code to their Windows driver, patents on some of their graphics tech.
Consoles are priced low and top tier console makers are looking at tens of millions of units at least, so they fight for every millicent and they have leverage. It probably didn't math out for nVidia or Intel to provide the CPUs (or for nVidia, GPUs) for this generation. The result is that we get a console generation that's a midrange PC with off-the-shelf AMD GPU. That means quick porting of games between consoles and PC and for the most part an end to exclusivity of titles. For the consumer that's a win. For the console maker's it's a club to bludgeon each other with. And that's a good thing too.
Sooner or later both consoles will be cracked, but at this price point that's unlikely to yield the kind of savings that cracking the PS3 did. That was remarkable tech on launch day.
nVidia's graphics drivers include proprietary and patented Microsoft technologies. They cannot open source them, ever. They made their deal with the devil and they have to live with it.
Ultimately a troll is a plea for attention: a request for replies. The worst sort of troll is one that seeks to start a fight. The best sort is a question that goes the the heart of the issue and needs further answer than TFA provides. This one was the best sort. I didn't mean any harm by calling it a troll. Trolling is a sort of fishing where you put your line in and hope for the best. Here noh8rz10 did it well this time, and it's good to encourage newcomers, so I did.
That's your argument? That I haven't retold the list in this thread? Do you even want the list retold the maximum number of times? Jesus H Christ do I even need to enumerate these? I am not going to do it. If you don't have the list yet, scroll up.
You're giving them too much credit. There's a conference room and competing teams of world-class geniuses come to show their deal they've honed all year. Every one is fucking fabulous, world-shaking shit. And the Decider whips out his dick, pisses on all of them, and randomly picks one because he doesn't have to give a fuck. Then he hands it off to marketing, who fucks it up.
Why don't we go ahead and narrow the scope a little more: if you aren't something like Microsoft's Seattle-based Xbox development team, with a solid situation in a Fortune 500 company, and share interests with them, then Fuck off. You're too poor to understand the marvelous potentials this could bring.
If you don't know how the XBone is less gamer-friendly then you are seriously in denial. How can you even pretend? Oh, right, that's where your money comes from. Sorry. Carry on with your "lalala this is not happening" while the world passes you by. That's how you came to be where you are.
The webcam on these other things doesn't disable the gear if you block it. If the XBone webcam is obstructed the games will not play. Remembering to block the cam before putting her jammies on is more than I expect from my daughters, and more than I expect to need to.
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I was going to come in here and remind Soulskill that this is not April first. But then I remembered that there's a "submit story" link in the /. global footer. This is probably his way of reminding us that we need to click that now and then if we don't want to see this crud.
There are a number of services that rent this facility. testdroid is one that offers 200+ devices. Here is a nice Google search. The services are not free, of course.
I don't know anything about the testdroid service. Just trying to help.
Hey, Android fragmentation makes it harder to develop apps that target every possible Android phone if you want to enable the cool new features on retro phones. But as a developer you're free to target whatever slice of the Android ecosystem you want to. No matter what level you pick, that's still a lot of pie. One billion slices of pie by the end of this year and growing at such a rate that Android devices may soon outnumber all mankind. What are you going to do? NOT develop for Android? I suppose that's a strategy.
By the end of the year one billion Android devices will be in active use. You don't need to sell a huge fraction of those to make a good living.
I should point out that I am a HUGE Via fan. But I'm not retarded.
Exactly. And if you're that poor, fuck off. You are too poor to appreciate the thing anyway. Go play with some rocks and mud.
They did. And it's great stuff. I recommend it if you have a use case for it.
Until Intel puts it in a motherboard socket it's not server tech. It's coprocessor tech. It is great tech, but it's not applicable to my statement. Word is that Intel intends to put it in a motherboard socket one day, but we have to wait and see what form that will take and when. Always in motion is the future.
Reusable Mars and moon trips require two craft - a lifter and an interplanetary. Also, a huge supply of fuel and/or ion propellant and air/water on orbit. Planetary Resources and NASA Dawn are working on this last bit.
Server side is where margins are at. AMD borked a server CPU generation and wound up cleaning house. If the world were different this would not be a recoverable error. Since Intel needs AMD to blunt monopoly supervision, Intel server tech will probably be delayed to give AMD a chance to catch up a little bit. Intel will keep inventing clever new stuff, but stuff it in a closet again as they have done many times before. This isn't a big deal since server tech is so way overpowered from what it needs to be that Intel could probably coast for 6 years before they had to start innovating again. Maybe they'll retask some engineers from servers (and God please, Itanic) to mobile. That would be nice.
Imagination Technologies, owners of PowerVR, recently became members of the Open Handset Alliance four months ago. Open Handset Alliance is the Android booster org. Before this they were a strictly proprietary driver company, and Android devices that used their tech had binary blobs. The binary blobs aren't gone yet, but they soon will be replaced with open source licensed drivers and actual hardware specifications.
So Microsoft needs there to be a mobile GPU tech company that has secret drivers to sell their mobile software on platforms that can't be made useful with a software flash. They cast about and set their sights on nVidia, who has already signed their devil's deal to keep how their PC hardware works a trade secret. They probably promised nVidia something useless to get this - that's their usual course. Now Microsoft's puppet hardware ODMs will build Microsoft nVidia GPU-based tablet platforms that can't run Android, won't sell, and have to be dumped all over the place like Surface RT is now. Expect Surface RT 2, whatever it's properly named, to use this tech. In the end nVidia gets hosed - again. If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.
Intel used Imagination Tech in their Atom line as well, and that's why you can't get good Linux drivers for those otherwise sweet mini-itx boards. Yet. They're coming. Intel has dropped them though for some reason now in favor of in-house tech.
It's really hard to track the machinations in GPUs.
Nothing. nVidia can't admit that Microsoft (or some Microsoft puppet) owns the source code to their Windows driver, patents on some of their graphics tech.
Consoles are priced low and top tier console makers are looking at tens of millions of units at least, so they fight for every millicent and they have leverage. It probably didn't math out for nVidia or Intel to provide the CPUs (or for nVidia, GPUs) for this generation. The result is that we get a console generation that's a midrange PC with off-the-shelf AMD GPU. That means quick porting of games between consoles and PC and for the most part an end to exclusivity of titles. For the consumer that's a win. For the console maker's it's a club to bludgeon each other with. And that's a good thing too.
Sooner or later both consoles will be cracked, but at this price point that's unlikely to yield the kind of savings that cracking the PS3 did. That was remarkable tech on launch day.
nVidia's graphics drivers include proprietary and patented Microsoft technologies. They cannot open source them, ever. They made their deal with the devil and they have to live with it.
Via's greatest value is to somebody else. So if nVidia tried to buy them they would just be outbid.
So buy a PS4. Was that so hard?
Ultimately a troll is a plea for attention: a request for replies. The worst sort of troll is one that seeks to start a fight. The best sort is a question that goes the the heart of the issue and needs further answer than TFA provides. This one was the best sort. I didn't mean any harm by calling it a troll. Trolling is a sort of fishing where you put your line in and hope for the best. Here noh8rz10 did it well this time, and it's good to encourage newcomers, so I did.
Do you have a reference saying it won't?
I don't know if you heard, but not every game needs to see us to be fun.
That's your argument? That I haven't retold the list in this thread? Do you even want the list retold the maximum number of times? Jesus H Christ do I even need to enumerate these? I am not going to do it. If you don't have the list yet, scroll up.
You're giving them too much credit. There's a conference room and competing teams of world-class geniuses come to show their deal they've honed all year. Every one is fucking fabulous, world-shaking shit. And the Decider whips out his dick, pisses on all of them, and randomly picks one because he doesn't have to give a fuck. Then he hands it off to marketing, who fucks it up.
Why don't we go ahead and narrow the scope a little more: if you aren't something like Microsoft's Seattle-based Xbox development team, with a solid situation in a Fortune 500 company, and share interests with them, then Fuck off. You're too poor to understand the marvelous potentials this could bring.
Oh yeah. If you're urban and poor, also "fuck off". XBox One is for the discerning and successful urban professional.
If you don't know how the XBone is less gamer-friendly then you are seriously in denial. How can you even pretend? Oh, right, that's where your money comes from. Sorry. Carry on with your "lalala this is not happening" while the world passes you by. That's how you came to be where you are.
The webcam on these other things doesn't disable the gear if you block it. If the XBone webcam is obstructed the games will not play. Remembering to block the cam before putting her jammies on is more than I expect from my daughters, and more than I expect to need to.
Maybe you should spend less time on the toilet and check some shit out. But first, wash your hands.