People born rich often lose it. Staying rich requires above average performance.
You're trying to redefine meritocracy to only apply to people who get rich from not being rich, which is just a false premise you're adding. You're initial wealth has nothing to do with your ability to maintain or grow it proportionally.
Also, ARM doesn't need as much money, since they are fabless: they rely on various others. And that's another thing, since they license cores, other can make full SOCs, where as with intel, it's their SOC or nothing.
Intel would be happy to license you x86 tech for your SoC. However, if you're designing a SoC, you're probably smart enough to realize that Intels price for the license, power and transistor count make it silly to use x86 rather than ARM unless you must support x86... in which case, Intel has the one you want anyway.
You realize that branch prediction is really simple right?
Things like 'I see a branch not equal coming up, load the branch because I assume always not equal'
and that its up to the compiler to figure out the best way to right the code so that branch prediction works efficiently, right?
Branch prediction is really just 'We're going to assume you code your branches to do X most of the time, so you try to do that if you want good performance'
Remember, the 8080 subset is still alive and well in the INTEL architecture. This comes with a cost.
Seriously? There is much 8080 instruction set in an current x86 processor as there is in an ARM or AVR processor. They ALL share a small common set of instructions like nop and xor, but beyond that saying x86 is carrying that kind of legacy is silly.
Its worth noting however, that ARM already suffers from the same issue. Look at ARM devices that support the ENTIRE ARM instruction set. They are shit.
What you do with ARM however is pick the instruction set you want and just build a CPU with that, and that is pretty efficient. You don't built an iPad with the entire ARM instruction set, legacy, thumb, native java, and the other couple major parts I can't remember for arm off the top of my head. You build an iPad with thumb and current native like the original iPads, or just the one instruction set as was done on the dual core iPads.
Go check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#CPU_modes. Almost EVERYTHING in section 6 of that page is an OPTIONAL component to ARM. With Intel and x86, you have to carry ALL of those things, you don't get to pick and choose. Should Intel start making the same options (not the incompatibility that will create) then you'll see the same kind of performance boosts.
You know, we had the same argument with RISC versus CISC architecture. And we know who lost that one. Badly.
Which one do you think won? I really hope you're not really trying to imply CISC won, since you know, there isn't a CISC CPU on the market today. There are plenty of CPUs that have CISC decoders front ending for RISC cores, but I can't think of one actual CISC chip thats been used since the pentium.
They throw hundreds of cores onto the die, but it eats hundreds of watts as well. Massively parallel and simple instruction sets don't appear to translate into energy savings.
It does when you... turn those extra cores off when not needed. Yes, if you have a ton of cores sitting idle, its a waste of power, thats why they can be turned off, even on your previous nVidia GPU the cores can be turned off, just go slap a TESLA card in your machine. You're setup may be another story, but mine for instance has absolutely no problem shutting off GPU cores, or the external GPU completely and falling back on internal rendering with the CPU.
I work with several non-x86 CPU types regularly. All of which are openly RISC, none of which have the problems you're referring to as RISC problems.
I think you've been listening too far too much Intel marketing bullshit as the real world contradicts you pretty much 100%. Whats next, you'll tell us the slotted CPU really WAS required for higher speeds not just for intentional incompatibility between intel and amd?
Even if Apple clearly sees the infringement? Apple is supposed to let you keep selling a knock off of Angry Birds until a court order stops them? No, thats not how the law works.
If you know someone is breaking the law and you continue to facilitate them doing so, you are also breaking that law. You don't get to help the criminal and claim 'I was just helping, he did the ACTUAL crime'. Its a fucked up world you live in if you think its okay to help someone else commit a criminal offense and not be considered a criminal yourself.
the app store did. With iOS that is sufficient to kill the app.
Wrong. All it means is the app can not be sold. Its possible to distribute updates still if Apple has allowed that to continue. It has not been removed from any devices and it has not had its certificate revoked (which would make it stop working for everyone)
It is simply no longer for sale. THATS ALL. Everything else is EXACTLY like it was before. Currently, you can even redownload the app if you delete it.
All they've done is stop selling it at this stage.
As for your Android fanboying, lets remember that Apple has never actually killed an app, however Google has killed more than one, remotely disabled/removed it from devices. Apple stops selling them, Google takes them back away from you. But you're totally right, Apple is the bad one here...
I don't need to wish for that - I have a blackberry. RIM has no restrictions on what apps I install on MY device.
Yes, but no one cares about the 4 of you left in the world who still use a device that thinks its 1999. You're bragging about one feature thats really minor as if it makes up for the fact that your device sucks ass in every conceivable way, and no, other than telling us it was a blackberry, I don't need any other information to know its a POS.
Yes, they can tell them to fuck off, but if the court sides with PRC/SCS, Apple will be guilty of infringement as well.
If Apple believes that PRC/SCS will win, it is rather stupid for them to continue selling and fighting. By quitting now, they can tell the court 'look, we stopped as soon as we realized the problem' and its likely the court will let them off the hook with little to no punishment.
On the other hand, if they force the use of an injunction to stop distribution, and then PRC/SCS wins, then the court could get grumpy and make some serious financial (relatively) penalties for Apple as a response to selling an obviously infringing product (its obvious now because the patent owner has made it obvious).
Apple has been informed of an infringement case, they are no longer capable of calling themselves an innocent bystander or claiming ignorance.
No, but it does make you capable of communicating.
For that matter, you don't really need sign language for basic communications. Everyone can signal things like hunger, thirst, help, directions, all sorts of other common things without knowing sign at all.
I don't have to be fluent in proper spanish in order to communicate with the Mexican next door who doesn't speak english, we can use all sorts of alternatives to get the point across.
Actually, douchebag, its well known that kids can do sign language well before they can speak, and teaching them sign language is very useful for a number of reasons, including basic intelligence and development down the road.
So yes, everyone SHOULD do what he did, but instead you go on acting like you have a clue. Moron. Perhaps mommy and daddy should have tried a little sign language on you.
Yea, cause not having to scroll over a long as message to get to the important parts is horrible and should be banned.
Seriously, get out of the fucking dark ages dude, we don't have to append only any more, editors can edit anywhere in place! Welcome to the new millennium.... no we can do things that are practical and useful rather than having to stick with the limited resources of technology.
I got better things to do than care about some curmudgeons problem with 'top posting'. Get over yourself dinosaur. If you can't adapt to change you'll be extinct rather quickly, thats the way the Internet works.
What was the point of your post exactly? That you spend hundreds of dollars to build power systems that aren't as powerful or as useful as an iPhone? Obviously thats an exaggeration, but what are you trying to prove?
You're just rambling on about all the crappy, cheap shit you build your PCs out of. That stopped being impressive when I turned 15... which was 20 years ago.
So you got a bunch of shitty PCs that run Linux and aren't useful for much more than web browsing, whats your point?
Just wait until the next health crisis, see what fucking happens.
The same thing that always happens, those countries tell the US to go fuck themselves and make the drugs themselves at a cheap rate they can afford. Happens rather often, India pretty much defines how to do it for the rest of the world.
The guy (Steve Jobs) parked in handicapped spots [edibleapple.com],
You mean the guy dyeing of cancer parked in a handicapped spot at his own company? MY FUCKING GOD, CALL THE COPS! How dare he do that while taking chemotherapy!
He didn't give us Windows, he forced windows on us by having an exclusive contract with the PC vendors.
I hate MS and Bill Gates almost as much as Linux zealots... but this is just a retarded statement.
No one was FORCED to buy Windows, everyone DID buy Windows because it fit there needs better than alternatives.
If people didn't want Windows, he wouldn't have been able to get exclusive distribution rights with PC makers.
I suspect that if he's going to admit it (which no one should hold their breath waiting) he'll do it on his death bed so he can't be chewed out for the damage he's wreaked on the computing sector.
Seriously? You've got a warped view of the world if your reason for doing things is because of what others think of you.
If Bill Gates is concerned with with how he's acted in this world, he's concerned RIGHT NOW. He's already aware of his evils, FAR more than we are.
People don't make death bed confessions because they were afraid of what was going to happen to them in life. People make death bed confessions because they are afraid of what comes in the after life and they're hoping for forgiveness before its too late to be forgiven.
And yes, DOS was better than CP/M, you know why? Because the shit I wanted to use ran on it. If you think the 'technically superior' product is the one that wins the market, you've never had your eyes open. Technically superior products ALWAYS fail as people don't want technically superior, they want fucking useful, which is almost always different. Go see how HURD and Plan 9 are doing.
You speak like a 15 year old who hates gates because its nerd trendy.
You mean NSAPI? Both are nothing more than equally powerful plugin systems. You know whats better, ActiveX pretty much what Mozilla does with XPCOM now.
Remind me again what the actual flaws are in ActiveX so I can tear you a new asshole pointing out how you really have no clue.
ActiveX is no different and no less secure than any other plugin system, its simply a globally available plugin system. ALL really OSes have them, sorry your missing out. IE's had bugs and a bad implementation that made ActiveX easy to use to exploit, but that has absolutely nothing with ActiveX itself.
When you guys make idiotic statements about ActiveX you just make it entirely clue you're just an ignorant fanboy and anyone with a clue stops listening to you.
Its almost as dumb as pretending that anyone followed any 'standard' back then. Standards didnt' matter until Microsoft wiped Netscape off the face of the Earth, and they needed something to use as a battlecry for their recovery.
Yes, there are lots of them, the rest of us commonly refer to you as 'unemployed', though sometimes 'self employed' does actually fit.
In my experience though, CEO and 'programs' never goes together, unless you think just because you sell something that you are the CEO. If thats the case, then you don't actually understand what a CEO is. You're not a CEO if you're that small, you're just the owner pretending to be bigger than you actually are.
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Yes, but they don't look up that data by asking another computer over the wire and THAT is the difference that makes his statement.
'Switched IP' or 'layer 2 routing' or 'layer 3 switching' is not even a little new or unique to this or Juniper layer 3 switches.
People born rich often lose it. Staying rich requires above average performance.
You're trying to redefine meritocracy to only apply to people who get rich from not being rich, which is just a false premise you're adding. You're initial wealth has nothing to do with your ability to maintain or grow it proportionally.
Also, ARM doesn't need as much money, since they are fabless: they rely on various others. And that's another thing, since they license cores, other can make full SOCs, where as with intel, it's their SOC or nothing.
Intel would be happy to license you x86 tech for your SoC. However, if you're designing a SoC, you're probably smart enough to realize that Intels price for the license, power and transistor count make it silly to use x86 rather than ARM unless you must support x86 ... in which case, Intel has the one you want anyway.
You realize that branch prediction is really simple right?
Things like 'I see a branch not equal coming up, load the branch because I assume always not equal'
and that its up to the compiler to figure out the best way to right the code so that branch prediction works efficiently, right?
Branch prediction is really just 'We're going to assume you code your branches to do X most of the time, so you try to do that if you want good performance'
Remember, the 8080 subset is still alive and well in the INTEL architecture. This comes with a cost.
Seriously? There is much 8080 instruction set in an current x86 processor as there is in an ARM or AVR processor. They ALL share a small common set of instructions like nop and xor, but beyond that saying x86 is carrying that kind of legacy is silly.
Its worth noting however, that ARM already suffers from the same issue. Look at ARM devices that support the ENTIRE ARM instruction set. They are shit.
What you do with ARM however is pick the instruction set you want and just build a CPU with that, and that is pretty efficient. You don't built an iPad with the entire ARM instruction set, legacy, thumb, native java, and the other couple major parts I can't remember for arm off the top of my head. You build an iPad with thumb and current native like the original iPads, or just the one instruction set as was done on the dual core iPads.
Go check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#CPU_modes. Almost EVERYTHING in section 6 of that page is an OPTIONAL component to ARM. With Intel and x86, you have to carry ALL of those things, you don't get to pick and choose. Should Intel start making the same options (not the incompatibility that will create) then you'll see the same kind of performance boosts.
You know, we had the same argument with RISC versus CISC architecture. And we know who lost that one. Badly.
Which one do you think won? I really hope you're not really trying to imply CISC won, since you know, there isn't a CISC CPU on the market today. There are plenty of CPUs that have CISC decoders front ending for RISC cores, but I can't think of one actual CISC chip thats been used since the pentium.
They throw hundreds of cores onto the die, but it eats hundreds of watts as well. Massively parallel and simple instruction sets don't appear to translate into energy savings.
It does when you ... turn those extra cores off when not needed. Yes, if you have a ton of cores sitting idle, its a waste of power, thats why they can be turned off, even on your previous nVidia GPU the cores can be turned off, just go slap a TESLA card in your machine. You're setup may be another story, but mine for instance has absolutely no problem shutting off GPU cores, or the external GPU completely and falling back on internal rendering with the CPU.
I work with several non-x86 CPU types regularly. All of which are openly RISC, none of which have the problems you're referring to as RISC problems.
I think you've been listening too far too much Intel marketing bullshit as the real world contradicts you pretty much 100%. Whats next, you'll tell us the slotted CPU really WAS required for higher speeds not just for intentional incompatibility between intel and amd?
Factory-installed ram is three times as expensive as what you can get on Newegg now,
You can't get DDR3L SODIMMs on newegg right this instant, so you're statement is bullshit from the start.
However, 16GB of DDR3 1600 SODIMMs are $125 on average. Its hard to say $200 is 3 times $125.
Ars?
What The Fuck.
How many slashvertisments for other sites can you put in the first line of a slashdot submission?
Could you seriously not just link us to the one with the actual story in the first fucking place?
Hadoop fixes much of it, period. Without having to spend insane amount of money on databases, DBAs and still not being able to scale properly.
That just indicates you lack the skills and knowledge to deal with big data sets.
Congratulations, you're not the exact same type of person Microsoft aims to sell to.
Even if Apple clearly sees the infringement? Apple is supposed to let you keep selling a knock off of Angry Birds until a court order stops them? No, thats not how the law works.
If you know someone is breaking the law and you continue to facilitate them doing so, you are also breaking that law. You don't get to help the criminal and claim 'I was just helping, he did the ACTUAL crime'. Its a fucked up world you live in if you think its okay to help someone else commit a criminal offense and not be considered a criminal yourself.
the app store did. With iOS that is sufficient to kill the app.
Wrong. All it means is the app can not be sold. Its possible to distribute updates still if Apple has allowed that to continue. It has not been removed from any devices and it has not had its certificate revoked (which would make it stop working for everyone)
It is simply no longer for sale. THATS ALL. Everything else is EXACTLY like it was before. Currently, you can even redownload the app if you delete it.
All they've done is stop selling it at this stage.
As for your Android fanboying, lets remember that Apple has never actually killed an app, however Google has killed more than one, remotely disabled/removed it from devices. Apple stops selling them, Google takes them back away from you. But you're totally right, Apple is the bad one here ...
I don't need to wish for that - I have a blackberry. RIM has no restrictions on what apps I install on MY device.
Yes, but no one cares about the 4 of you left in the world who still use a device that thinks its 1999. You're bragging about one feature thats really minor as if it makes up for the fact that your device sucks ass in every conceivable way, and no, other than telling us it was a blackberry, I don't need any other information to know its a POS.
And when was that used in the past?
Perhaps you're confusing Google and Amazon with Apple?
Yes, they can tell them to fuck off, but if the court sides with PRC/SCS, Apple will be guilty of infringement as well.
If Apple believes that PRC/SCS will win, it is rather stupid for them to continue selling and fighting. By quitting now, they can tell the court 'look, we stopped as soon as we realized the problem' and its likely the court will let them off the hook with little to no punishment.
On the other hand, if they force the use of an injunction to stop distribution, and then PRC/SCS wins, then the court could get grumpy and make some serious financial (relatively) penalties for Apple as a response to selling an obviously infringing product (its obvious now because the patent owner has made it obvious).
Apple has been informed of an infringement case, they are no longer capable of calling themselves an innocent bystander or claiming ignorance.
No, but it does make you capable of communicating.
For that matter, you don't really need sign language for basic communications. Everyone can signal things like hunger, thirst, help, directions, all sorts of other common things without knowing sign at all.
I don't have to be fluent in proper spanish in order to communicate with the Mexican next door who doesn't speak english, we can use all sorts of alternatives to get the point across.
Actually, douchebag, its well known that kids can do sign language well before they can speak, and teaching them sign language is very useful for a number of reasons, including basic intelligence and development down the road.
So yes, everyone SHOULD do what he did, but instead you go on acting like you have a clue. Moron. Perhaps mommy and daddy should have tried a little sign language on you.
Yea, cause not having to scroll over a long as message to get to the important parts is horrible and should be banned.
Seriously, get out of the fucking dark ages dude, we don't have to append only any more, editors can edit anywhere in place! Welcome to the new millennium .... no we can do things that are practical and useful rather than having to stick with the limited resources of technology.
I got better things to do than care about some curmudgeons problem with 'top posting'. Get over yourself dinosaur. If you can't adapt to change you'll be extinct rather quickly, thats the way the Internet works.
What was the point of your post exactly? That you spend hundreds of dollars to build power systems that aren't as powerful or as useful as an iPhone? Obviously thats an exaggeration, but what are you trying to prove?
You're just rambling on about all the crappy, cheap shit you build your PCs out of. That stopped being impressive when I turned 15 ... which was 20 years ago.
So you got a bunch of shitty PCs that run Linux and aren't useful for much more than web browsing, whats your point?
Just wait until the next health crisis, see what fucking happens.
The same thing that always happens, those countries tell the US to go fuck themselves and make the drugs themselves at a cheap rate they can afford. Happens rather often, India pretty much defines how to do it for the rest of the world.
The guy (Steve Jobs) parked in handicapped spots [edibleapple.com],
You mean the guy dyeing of cancer parked in a handicapped spot at his own company? MY FUCKING GOD, CALL THE COPS! How dare he do that while taking chemotherapy!
You're an idiot.
He didn't give us Windows, he forced windows on us by having an exclusive contract with the PC vendors.
I hate MS and Bill Gates almost as much as Linux zealots ... but this is just a retarded statement.
No one was FORCED to buy Windows, everyone DID buy Windows because it fit there needs better than alternatives.
If people didn't want Windows, he wouldn't have been able to get exclusive distribution rights with PC makers.
I suspect that if he's going to admit it (which no one should hold their breath waiting) he'll do it on his death bed so he can't be chewed out for the damage he's wreaked on the computing sector.
Seriously? You've got a warped view of the world if your reason for doing things is because of what others think of you.
If Bill Gates is concerned with with how he's acted in this world, he's concerned RIGHT NOW. He's already aware of his evils, FAR more than we are.
People don't make death bed confessions because they were afraid of what was going to happen to them in life. People make death bed confessions because they are afraid of what comes in the after life and they're hoping for forgiveness before its too late to be forgiven.
And yes, DOS was better than CP/M, you know why? Because the shit I wanted to use ran on it. If you think the 'technically superior' product is the one that wins the market, you've never had your eyes open. Technically superior products ALWAYS fail as people don't want technically superior, they want fucking useful, which is almost always different. Go see how HURD and Plan 9 are doing.
You speak like a 15 year old who hates gates because its nerd trendy.
You mean NSAPI? Both are nothing more than equally powerful plugin systems. You know whats better, ActiveX pretty much what Mozilla does with XPCOM now.
Remind me again what the actual flaws are in ActiveX so I can tear you a new asshole pointing out how you really have no clue.
ActiveX is no different and no less secure than any other plugin system, its simply a globally available plugin system. ALL really OSes have them, sorry your missing out. IE's had bugs and a bad implementation that made ActiveX easy to use to exploit, but that has absolutely nothing with ActiveX itself.
When you guys make idiotic statements about ActiveX you just make it entirely clue you're just an ignorant fanboy and anyone with a clue stops listening to you.
Its almost as dumb as pretending that anyone followed any 'standard' back then. Standards didnt' matter until Microsoft wiped Netscape off the face of the Earth, and they needed something to use as a battlecry for their recovery.
Spending precious little of his fortune to give himself a massive public image boost in no way makes him a great person.
The money he spends on Charity work is less than the interest he makes on his fortunes. Its hard for me to find it impressive.
Absolutely nothing.
The only people who care about him are people who think no one should pay for anything ever. He'd be pretty much fucked.
Personally, I'd pay them to keep him so we don't have to listen to his political hippie ignorance anymore.
Yes, there are lots of them, the rest of us commonly refer to you as 'unemployed', though sometimes 'self employed' does actually fit.
In my experience though, CEO and 'programs' never goes together, unless you think just because you sell something that you are the CEO. If thats the case, then you don't actually understand what a CEO is. You're not a CEO if you're that small, you're just the owner pretending to be bigger than you actually are.