Yet AMDs significantly outperformed Intels for quite a few years.. but only managed 50% market share at its height because of Intels illegal (no "questionable" about it) practices.
Exactly. And I was a big fan of AMD at that time.
But at the time of Prescott processors AMD began to decline in innovation. It stuck with Athlon XP (Barton) architecture And the Athlon 64 was not much better
AMD needs a 'push' like the one it gave Intel at the P4 days
Another example, if it takes a month and endless meetings to replace a failing drive during scheduled maint, and a half hour to replace a failed drive at any time, this simply eliminates all proactive maintenance. Much easier / cheaper to burn the power supply out, have a nice long outage, and then replace the whole device, than to get permission to blow dust out of the air filter.
The end result is usually much worse than it was at the beginning.
Of course the first one follows all ITIL processes
How long the corporate world will see that CMMI and ITIL are the (very expensive) equivalent of 'power crystals' and astrology?! Oh yeah, that's right, NEVER
That's the wrong logic. If someone would like you dead and they don't have a gun then the obstacles are nearly always insurmountable and the feeling passes. With a gun you can do it any time you want, and that increases the temptation.
Tell that to the dozens of people that die by stabbing in England each year.
Unbanning guns of course wouldn't be better, but still...
Make an article with a "forbidden word" or a "forbidden topic" or even something a little bit different from something "that everybody knows" (e.g. gastric ulcera) and it's immediately wrong.
Remember guys, next time a crackpot says "oh but they laughed at Einstein as well", IT'S YOUR FAULT
When you optimize to GPUs, you have to optimize to all GPUs. I realize there are common instruction sets but the main selling point of Android is its versatility.
Yes
That's why Apple uses LLVM to compile from 'generic GPU code' to 'GPU code optimized to Blah', that's on Mac OS and maybe on the iPhone as well
- useless if your source control doesn't know about unified diffs and if developers don't know how to make 1 commit - 1 changeset - also if it's dog slow, throw that piece of crap in the trash
AND I MEAN IT
Can you make a build in one step?
- very important, but overrated for things that don't 'build' - make this a 'deploy package' in one step
Do you make daily builds? Do you have a bug database?
- important. Corolary: all bug databases suck, some less, some more, use bugzilla and you'll be fine
Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
-use unit testing here
Do you have an up-to-date schedule? Do you have a spec?
- overrated
Do programmers have a quiet working conditions?
- ditch the phones
Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- the best tools are free. Use only tested and true tools, and ONLY if they cost $1000,00
Do you have testers?
- this is really important
Do new candidates write code during their interview?
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Wasn't DIRECT that maximized the usage of STS and Ares was a clean sheet design (and that's why it was late, overbudget, etc, etc)?
nah, just use cat and read really fast
Fusion is very interesting, maybe this is it
But I was thinking more about architectural improvements (for example hyperthreading http://www.anandtech.com/show/2594/8)
Yet AMDs significantly outperformed Intels for quite a few years.. but only managed 50% market share at its height because of Intels illegal (no "questionable" about it) practices.
Exactly. And I was a big fan of AMD at that time.
But at the time of Prescott processors AMD began to decline in innovation. It stuck with Athlon XP (Barton) architecture
And the Athlon 64 was not much better
AMD needs a 'push' like the one it gave Intel at the P4 days
Another example, if it takes a month and endless meetings to replace a failing drive during scheduled maint, and a half hour to replace a failed drive at any time, this simply eliminates all proactive maintenance. Much easier / cheaper to burn the power supply out, have a nice long outage, and then replace the whole device, than to get permission to blow dust out of the air filter.
The end result is usually much worse than it was at the beginning.
Of course the first one follows all ITIL processes
How long the corporate world will see that CMMI and ITIL are the (very expensive) equivalent of 'power crystals' and astrology?! Oh yeah, that's right, NEVER
That's the wrong logic. If someone would like you dead and they don't have a gun then the obstacles are nearly always insurmountable and the feeling passes. With a gun you can do it any time you want, and that increases the temptation.
Tell that to the dozens of people that die by stabbing in England each year.
Unbanning guns of course wouldn't be better, but still...
Make an article with a "forbidden word" or a "forbidden topic" or even something a little bit different from something "that everybody knows" (e.g. gastric ulcera) and it's immediately wrong.
Remember guys, next time a crackpot says "oh but they laughed at Einstein as well", IT'S YOUR FAULT
When you optimize to GPUs, you have to optimize to all GPUs. I realize there are common instruction sets but the main selling point of Android is its versatility.
Yes
That's why Apple uses LLVM to compile from 'generic GPU code' to 'GPU code optimized to Blah', that's on Mac OS and maybe on the iPhone as well
http://llvm.org/Users.html
No
Just got myself a smartphone. Android. 100Mb plan (that's the cheapest plan)
Last month, I got 90Mb of usage. And that's 'go wild' usage. (of course, I didn't use tethering)
So yeah, it doesn't bother me. If I go over the usage, I pay, no biggie.
Doctors should get a good night of sleep before a surgery, and it should be their responsibility.
Of course, the hospital should take care of not overworking him.
But shorting D+ and D- has a fixed meaning: a device can draw up 1.8A.
That's interesting, I was not aware of that.
Still, micro-USB charger of my smartphone is only capable of 0.7A. Not sure if D+ D- are shorted there.
1.8A would be great really, but maybe not practical (considering size of charger).
"deliberately drawing less power"
Oh you mean, using a conservative figure for power capability so your charger doesn't burn/overheat/explode, etc?
Seems ok by me.
I wonder how they find out that m was the same for the same signature...
Maybe if Sony didn't sue security experts that were hired to review their processes they would have experts working for them
Because the average code monkey does not know what's a SQL injection, let alone flaws in using cryptography.
So, yeah, they deserve it.
Yes, they will even simulate the simulator itself, which will be running a simulation of everything, etc and so on...
Humm... maybe this is why the Matrix was simulating the past
How much cash Apple has on the bank again?!
OK, that was supposed to be "only if they cost LESS than $1000'
Do you use source control?
- useless if your source control doesn't know about unified diffs and if developers don't know how to make 1 commit - 1 changeset
- also if it's dog slow, throw that piece of crap in the trash
AND I MEAN IT
Can you make a build in one step?
- very important, but overrated for things that don't 'build'
- make this a 'deploy package' in one step
Do you make daily builds?
Do you have a bug database?
- important. Corolary: all bug databases suck, some less, some more, use bugzilla and you'll be fine
Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
-use unit testing here
Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
Do you have a spec?
- overrated
Do programmers have a quiet working conditions?
- ditch the phones
Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- the best tools are free. Use only tested and true tools, and ONLY if they cost $1000,00
Do you have testers?
- this is really important
Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- important as well
Do you do hallway usability testing?
So... "reindeer takes drugs, see Santa Claus?!"
Well, they worked hard, studied a lot, improved the algorithms, lots of testing, implementation care, etc
Then some doofus comes and does "select * from table;"
let me guess, you use emacs...
Yeah, maybe Google should (maybe) join Apple and buy AT&T or Verizon
Or start laying their own antennas and cables.
And eat the other carriers for breakfast, for a competitor to smash the other carriers it's so easy it's not even funny.
A free market is a fair market
You can't have a free market without regulation to ensue fairness
Otherwise, you're going to have Enron all over again
For example, make sure that anyone can plug a power source on the grid, and get paid for that. ANYONE
If I want to plug my hamster powered generator there so be it.
And if they start the BS like it happened in California, that should mean (very) heavy fines.
About Rosetta, ok, I guess I got it wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(binary_translation_software)
What it doesn't translate are G5 specific ops, but Altivec works
is a huge piece of crap
Seriously Google, get your game up
the time it takes to sync is RIDICULOUS