That is actually one thing I have applied pulseaudio to with good effect... merging sound outputs from multiple machines with no audio hardware to my main machine at the time, which was running windows. Very low latency, and it was not all that awful to configure.
If I was forced into a situation where no analog audio outputs were available, I'd have to opt for some sort of external bluetooth+DAC combined with existing analog headphones, provided tolerable codecs could be had. Best of both worlds, imo. Easy interfacing to any existing home theater equipment, and broad support for audio sources. I'm also averse to stuffing LiPos into my earholes (mild sarcasm), but there's nothing requiring that here anyhow. I think too many people try to present the false dichotomy in which if one wants 3.5mm jacks, they automatically abhor Bluetooth.
Another alternative is software to stream the audio to another machine over WiFi, if audio quality is a problem but latency is not.
Bluetooth makes a good backup indeed for 3.5mm users, and the converse is true too... not affording people multiple avenues of achieving their ends is unkind. Comparable to removing decades-old, well-understood keyboard shortcuts from an application because most people now have a mouse.
Mhmm. Right. One should think of the headphone jack as a simple electrical interface, rather than some sort of magical sound-transport medium. Past a certain point in the hardware, it's all analog anyhow. We seem to be arriving in a brave new world where we eventually won't even be able to connect light bulbs directly to the power grid. Something something luddite. Something something courage. That is all.
Lazy wanker can't muster an actual argument, so they break out the labels and vitriol. Executing rational arguments takes effort; ad hominems do too, but considerably less. My guess is that they're simply lazy.
In some respects, he did the world a great service by revealing the nature of that industry to more people than had previously been arsed to give a damn. If he was any smarter, he might have actually tried to play it off like that.
One should also note that laptop parts muddy that a bit (both i5 and i7 have 2C 4T, and i7 with 4C 8T), though it's somewhat outside of the context of this discussion.
My overclocked i7-3820 (LGA2011 -3000 CPUs are Sandy Bridge, if anyone ever runs into that confusion) which clocks all cores to 4.1GHz (could do 4.3 on all cores, but it gets a tad warm, so i keep it to 1 @ 4.3) seems to keep up with modern workloads. The things to take away from any results are not just the obvious gains in efficiency and performance, but also radical decline in the pace of improvements over the last ~7 years. I have a preference to refit my stuff whenever the cost/performance ratio (subjective to my own requirements, of course) has roughly doubled, and it has been a long 5 years. I'm still waiting on intel, but AMD's stuff is becoming appealing to me.
Currently running crusty old X79 stuff, a PCIe -> M.2 adapter, running a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB. Pretty sure NVMe just implies a standardized controller interface stitched to PCIe; I've been under the impression that software support is the main issue with it, as it's basically just another PCIe card as far as the hardware is concerned. I see it suggested on the internet (probably old forum posts) that X79 stuff should not be able to use it as a boot device, but my system begs to differ.
The piddly PCIe provisions are a shame though... no improvement (in lane count) whatsoever since they pulled the controllers onto the CPU die (LGA1156, Nehlaem). Note that the addition of each lane requires no less than two additional pins on the socket, so they'd have to re-purpose some pins to do it, and there aren't really a lot to spare. I know there were a fair number (20+) on the 1155 that weren't marked RSVD or anything else, but I'm having some difficult finding data on 1151. From the images I have found, it appears that practically every pin is connected to something, and fewer than 20 RSVD pins remain at all.
Sometimes the placements are relatively seamless, but all too often you're flung into a mystical world where it seems like everyone drinks the same brand of soda...
While I do not currently possess a modern Thinkpad (sold my T60 years ago, now all I have are a couple 600Xs), my next machine almost certainly will be.
Do we really think most manufacturers would actually use this opportunity to ease the difficulty of providing long term updates for their platforms, versus just dropping them and churning out new e-waste?
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That is actually one thing I have applied pulseaudio to with good effect... merging sound outputs from multiple machines with no audio hardware to my main machine at the time, which was running windows. Very low latency, and it was not all that awful to configure.
If I was forced into a situation where no analog audio outputs were available, I'd have to opt for some sort of external bluetooth+DAC combined with existing analog headphones, provided tolerable codecs could be had. Best of both worlds, imo. Easy interfacing to any existing home theater equipment, and broad support for audio sources. I'm also averse to stuffing LiPos into my earholes (mild sarcasm), but there's nothing requiring that here anyhow. I think too many people try to present the false dichotomy in which if one wants 3.5mm jacks, they automatically abhor Bluetooth.
Another alternative is software to stream the audio to another machine over WiFi, if audio quality is a problem but latency is not.
Bluetooth makes a good backup indeed for 3.5mm users, and the converse is true too... not affording people multiple avenues of achieving their ends is unkind. Comparable to removing decades-old, well-understood keyboard shortcuts from an application because most people now have a mouse.
I stand corrected!
Mhmm. Right. One should think of the headphone jack as a simple electrical interface, rather than some sort of magical sound-transport medium. Past a certain point in the hardware, it's all analog anyhow. We seem to be arriving in a brave new world where we eventually won't even be able to connect light bulbs directly to the power grid. Something something luddite. Something something courage. That is all.
Haven't used in almost a decade. Would've been nice if they'd spun it off instead of killing something still used by millions though. (quoted as single-digit millions by someone from AOL back in February)
Lazy wanker can't muster an actual argument, so they break out the labels and vitriol. Executing rational arguments takes effort; ad hominems do too, but considerably less. My guess is that they're simply lazy.
Also conceivable that what passes for "morals" inside his skull might have prevented him from doing something so... dishonest.
In some respects, he did the world a great service by revealing the nature of that industry to more people than had previously been arsed to give a damn. If he was any smarter, he might have actually tried to play it off like that.
I'm sure they show great benefit for the survival and/or wellbeing of the pharmabros.
One should also note that laptop parts muddy that a bit (both i5 and i7 have 2C 4T, and i7 with 4C 8T), though it's somewhat outside of the context of this discussion.
(I'm also being somewhat forgiving of AMD's Bulldozer stuff, so we'll stick with integer compute unit as the primary constituent of a 'core')
I'm assuming he was referring to Intel just now arriving at the 6-core consumer chip party.
My overclocked i7-3820 (LGA2011 -3000 CPUs are Sandy Bridge, if anyone ever runs into that confusion) which clocks all cores to 4.1GHz (could do 4.3 on all cores, but it gets a tad warm, so i keep it to 1 @ 4.3) seems to keep up with modern workloads. The things to take away from any results are not just the obvious gains in efficiency and performance, but also radical decline in the pace of improvements over the last ~7 years. I have a preference to refit my stuff whenever the cost/performance ratio (subjective to my own requirements, of course) has roughly doubled, and it has been a long 5 years. I'm still waiting on intel, but AMD's stuff is becoming appealing to me.
Currently running crusty old X79 stuff, a PCIe -> M.2 adapter, running a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB. Pretty sure NVMe just implies a standardized controller interface stitched to PCIe; I've been under the impression that software support is the main issue with it, as it's basically just another PCIe card as far as the hardware is concerned. I see it suggested on the internet (probably old forum posts) that X79 stuff should not be able to use it as a boot device, but my system begs to differ.
The piddly PCIe provisions are a shame though... no improvement (in lane count) whatsoever since they pulled the controllers onto the CPU die (LGA1156, Nehlaem). Note that the addition of each lane requires no less than two additional pins on the socket, so they'd have to re-purpose some pins to do it, and there aren't really a lot to spare. I know there were a fair number (20+) on the 1155 that weren't marked RSVD or anything else, but I'm having some difficult finding data on 1151. From the images I have found, it appears that practically every pin is connected to something, and fewer than 20 RSVD pins remain at all.
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It looks like they ate about a dozen RSVD pins for more power...
Perhaps the bigger nuisance is that Coffee Lake breaks compatibility with the 100/200 series chipset motherboards.
No true knave would make such an argument.
If all it takes it ~$20-30 a year to tip you into bankruptcy, you're doing something wrong.
Sometimes the placements are relatively seamless, but all too often you're flung into a mystical world where it seems like everyone drinks the same brand of soda...
If that's somehow magically not been snagged by then, I might just have to buy it (provided it's been relisted) when I get paid...
While I do not currently possess a modern Thinkpad (sold my T60 years ago, now all I have are a couple 600Xs), my next machine almost certainly will be.
Let's flush another potential ~6% of our dwindling user base down the toilet!
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Cthuhu wasn't on the ballot, sadly.
Do we really think most manufacturers would actually use this opportunity to ease the difficulty of providing long term updates for their platforms, versus just dropping them and churning out new e-waste?
Oh, but wait! He apologized! Free pass because:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/o...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p... (doesn't have full text or anything, but wsj's paywalls are mildly annoying)