If you're just talking CPU, power management comes to mind. Consider how the SMT and amd's turbo equivalent work. Power management is another reason.
Even in open source systems, cpu frequency/power management, scheduling decisions in the kernel and obviously chipset support for new SATA/PCI controllers are all needed.
AMD hasn't had hyper-threading before so how would windows 7 know that? It would need to schedule processes on real cores when possible to minimize performance loss.
Then there's SATA controllers and PCIe disks.. hvme. A lot has changed since 2009 when windows 7 came out.
What happens when they take away your USB support? I guess you'll have to buy a new Jeep to get USB type c right? That will be fine. The solution is yet another dongle right? But what about the limited power draw on classic USB 2/3?
It's PIN in THE US if it's a debit card (usually) but signature otherwise. Recently went to the UK and non of our cards worked with PIN. Everything was signature and merchants there found it to be a real hassle. They did look at the back of our cards to match it too.
We should have gone chip and pin from the beginning.
The reads seemed a bit faster in the UK than they are here too.
You're not wrong, but I think open source developers find ways of making code difficult to use as well. For example, the GNOME project seems to hate non Linux operating systems. Many tools are pushing systemd or wayland integration now.
One can argue that since it's open you can re-implement systemd or write a wayland compositor yourself but this is significant work and it's also a moving target. Just because something is open, doesn't mean it's useful.
The Mac OS X kernel and many other system components are already open source and available on Apple's developer site. This has been the case for years.
Similarly, Microsoft has started to open source.NET, ASP.NET and related tech as well as their plan to bring SQL Server to Linux. I think at this point a mix of closed and open source is already happening. Even in the Linux world, some people run Oracle or IBM software that is commercial on linux. This isn't a new thing.
Intel gave up on desktops. They started the death spiral. Laptops won't get faster, just GPU bumps.
Look at numbers for Haswell vs anything since. It's not much. Microsoft's windows 10 move further hurt them because people can sit on PCs longer. Microsoft had to save themselves.
Intel needs to blow out performance on PCs to get upgrades started again and for that to matter, we need a new killer app for PCs that require real CPU power. Something that can't be done on a tablet right now. Something that isn't easily offloaded onto cloud computing.
I'm just hoping AMD doesn't give up on gamers or desktops. I need FX or core i7 CPUs for what I do and I realize it's not common, but there are CAD users, programmers, engineers, etc that need CPU performance. They killed workstations because of PC speeding up and now they want to kill PCs... what are we supposed to use?
Yeah, they can't sell to grandma anymore and I'm going to have to pay a lot again like I did when I first started using computers, but I still need a fast PC and a laptop CPU won't cut it.
And for the record, I also have multiple PCs. My wife is also a programmer and a gamer. She has a 6 core intel haswell-e desktop and used to buy Mac Pros . I've got a core i7 4770 with 32GB of RAM, 3 SSDs and 2 hard drives. I've also got lowend servers running for building software and running websites. I know I'm not the norm, but there are segments like me out there.
I don't think it's solved, it's just better than regular k-cups. However, those wouldn't work for some k-cups such as hot cocoa. The powder is too fine.
you could probably get away with most coffee or tea k-cups though.
As someone who uses them frequently, let me explain. It's about laziness and choice. I can drop a pod in the machine and get a cup of coffee without grinding, getting a filter, etc. My wife can enjoy a different brand of coffee without making two pots.
Our habit costs about $60/month in the winter and around $20/month in the summer. We would have spent $20 to $40 on beans anyway.
A significant number of our k-cups are San Francisco Bay because they're a little more environmentally friendly.
It wasn't Microsoft BOB. It was Packard Bell Navigator. it's a totally different thing and unlike Microsoft BOB, Packard Bell released a patch for Windows 95.
My first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 100mhz and it had that software on it. The novelty wears off pretty quick, but it made for cool demos at the store back then.
NVIDIA sells more GPUs than AMD in discrete cards. They also aren't in a losing battle with Intel on x86. I'd say NVIDIA has a lot more money to play with.
On the AMD side, they have some decent GPUs, with no OS support. They also have several failed die shrinks and haven't released a real CPU product since 2012 for the desktop. They're probably really hurting right now.
You have a great post, but it's Linux specific. There is only one choice on FreeBSD and that's NVIDIA. They're the only company to support FreeBSD. AMD has no commercial driver for FreeBSD and the open source attempts are weak on BSD over the last 5 years. FreeBSD and DragonFly developers have put in recent efforts but it's hard to track all the crazy changes in the linux kernel lately.
Is it automated to generate new keys yet? My biggest issue with setting up DNSSEC was remembering to update it before the old keys expire. If I forget on a webserver, I could just install a new cert and go on. If I forget on a domain, no one with a cached entry can access it.
Many OS X security issues are related to OpenSSL, a graphics library (JPEG, PNG, etc) or webkit. Most of these issues would affect linux distros and other systems as well. Keep that in mind.
That's actually part of the problem. I learned C++ in 2003. At that point, it was somewhat usable but had very strange scoping rules compared to any other OO language I've seen since. Modern C++ has garbage collection, a thread abstraction and so on but at the time it had none of those things. My biggest issue with C++ is that it's so big and inconsistent. Since the STL grew up with contributions from all over the place, it's not a very consistent language. Take C# or to a lesser degree Java and look at the consistency with naming conventions, how things are structured in namespaces, etc. C++ is missing a lot of that. Rather than fix it, they just keep adding more crap on to it to keep it relevant.
C++ has it's place, but it's not the end all language that proponents make it out to be. If someone is really into C++, it's all they will use. They can't see it's flaws or they've accepted them long ago. For the rest of us, it's a clunk language with little performance benefit over modern languages.
Nothing is stopping AMD from supporting BSD like NVIDIA does. This is a vendor fail and I buy NVIDIA cards to support their BSD efforts even if it is only FreeBSD.
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If you're just talking CPU, power management comes to mind. Consider how the SMT and amd's turbo equivalent work. Power management is another reason.
Even in open source systems, cpu frequency/power management, scheduling decisions in the kernel and obviously chipset support for new SATA/PCI controllers are all needed.
AMD hasn't had hyper-threading before so how would windows 7 know that? It would need to schedule processes on real cores when possible to minimize performance loss.
Then there's SATA controllers and PCIe disks.. hvme. A lot has changed since 2009 when windows 7 came out.
And the GOP blamed Obama exclusively for the bail out when it started under Bush!
Early ones can run linux.
What happens when they take away your USB support? I guess you'll have to buy a new Jeep to get USB type c right? That will be fine. The solution is yet another dongle right? But what about the limited power draw on classic USB 2/3?
You haven't used a forum lately have you? Most are full of spam
It's PIN in THE US if it's a debit card (usually) but signature otherwise. Recently went to the UK and non of our cards worked with PIN. Everything was signature and merchants there found it to be a real hassle. They did look at the back of our cards to match it too.
We should have gone chip and pin from the beginning.
The reads seemed a bit faster in the UK than they are here too.
You're not wrong, but I think open source developers find ways of making code difficult to use as well. For example, the GNOME project seems to hate non Linux operating systems. Many tools are pushing systemd or wayland integration now.
One can argue that since it's open you can re-implement systemd or write a wayland compositor yourself but this is significant work and it's also a moving target. Just because something is open, doesn't mean it's useful.
We all forget that sometimes.
The Mac OS X kernel and many other system components are already open source and available on Apple's developer site. This has been the case for years.
Similarly, Microsoft has started to open source .NET, ASP.NET and related tech as well as their plan to bring SQL Server to Linux. I think at this point a mix of closed and open source is already happening. Even in the Linux world, some people run Oracle or IBM software that is commercial on linux. This isn't a new thing.
I don't know about your grandma, but mine can drive very fast. I'd rather use OS X than Windows any day of the week.
Intel gave up on desktops. They started the death spiral. Laptops won't get faster, just GPU bumps.
Look at numbers for Haswell vs anything since. It's not much. Microsoft's windows 10 move further hurt them because people can sit on PCs longer. Microsoft had to save themselves.
Intel needs to blow out performance on PCs to get upgrades started again and for that to matter, we need a new killer app for PCs that require real CPU power. Something that can't be done on a tablet right now. Something that isn't easily offloaded onto cloud computing.
I'm just hoping AMD doesn't give up on gamers or desktops. I need FX or core i7 CPUs for what I do and I realize it's not common, but there are CAD users, programmers, engineers, etc that need CPU performance. They killed workstations because of PC speeding up and now they want to kill PCs... what are we supposed to use?
Yeah, they can't sell to grandma anymore and I'm going to have to pay a lot again like I did when I first started using computers, but I still need a fast PC and a laptop CPU won't cut it.
And for the record, I also have multiple PCs. My wife is also a programmer and a gamer. She has a 6 core intel haswell-e desktop and used to buy Mac Pros . I've got a core i7 4770 with 32GB of RAM, 3 SSDs and 2 hard drives. I've also got lowend servers running for building software and running websites. I know I'm not the norm, but there are segments like me out there.
I don't think it's solved, it's just better than regular k-cups. However, those wouldn't work for some k-cups such as hot cocoa. The powder is too fine.
you could probably get away with most coffee or tea k-cups though.
As someone who uses them frequently, let me explain. It's about laziness and choice. I can drop a pod in the machine and get a cup of coffee without grinding, getting a filter, etc. My wife can enjoy a different brand of coffee without making two pots.
Our habit costs about $60/month in the winter and around $20/month in the summer. We would have spent $20 to $40 on beans anyway.
A significant number of our k-cups are San Francisco Bay because they're a little more environmentally friendly.
Seems reasonable. Microsoft used to have a Unix distro, Xenix.
They ditched it when the got far enough along with NT.
4 ways? MirBSD and MidnightBSD made 6 and there have been several other forks.
It wasn't Microsoft BOB. It was Packard Bell Navigator. it's a totally different thing and unlike Microsoft BOB, Packard Bell released a patch for Windows 95.
My first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 100mhz and it had that software on it. The novelty wears off pretty quick, but it made for cool demos at the store back then.
This. NVIDIA FTW on FreeBSD.
NVIDIA sells more GPUs than AMD in discrete cards. They also aren't in a losing battle with Intel on x86. I'd say NVIDIA has a lot more money to play with.
On the AMD side, they have some decent GPUs, with no OS support. They also have several failed die shrinks and haven't released a real CPU product since 2012 for the desktop. They're probably really hurting right now.
You have a great post, but it's Linux specific. There is only one choice on FreeBSD and that's NVIDIA. They're the only company to support FreeBSD. AMD has no commercial driver for FreeBSD and the open source attempts are weak on BSD over the last 5 years. FreeBSD and DragonFly developers have put in recent efforts but it's hard to track all the crazy changes in the linux kernel lately.
But then they turned around and created devops roles that overlap. It's a cycle.
I almost always get looped into sys admin work in addition to development because I know how to do it. It just happens.
Linux does the same thing. Support for newer chips is only supported in newer linux kernels.
Is it automated to generate new keys yet? My biggest issue with setting up DNSSEC was remembering to update it before the old keys expire. If I forget on a webserver, I could just install a new cert and go on. If I forget on a domain, no one with a cached entry can access it.
Many OS X security issues are related to OpenSSL, a graphics library (JPEG, PNG, etc) or webkit. Most of these issues would affect linux distros and other systems as well. Keep that in mind.
That's actually part of the problem. I learned C++ in 2003. At that point, it was somewhat usable but had very strange scoping rules compared to any other OO language I've seen since. Modern C++ has garbage collection, a thread abstraction and so on but at the time it had none of those things. My biggest issue with C++ is that it's so big and inconsistent. Since the STL grew up with contributions from all over the place, it's not a very consistent language. Take C# or to a lesser degree Java and look at the consistency with naming conventions, how things are structured in namespaces, etc. C++ is missing a lot of that. Rather than fix it, they just keep adding more crap on to it to keep it relevant.
C++ has it's place, but it's not the end all language that proponents make it out to be. If someone is really into C++, it's all they will use. They can't see it's flaws or they've accepted them long ago. For the rest of us, it's a clunk language with little performance benefit over modern languages.
Nothing is stopping AMD from supporting BSD like NVIDIA does. This is a vendor fail and I buy NVIDIA cards to support their BSD efforts even if it is only FreeBSD.
No need. Just use Hulu or some other streaming service. The target audience for this isn't WWE fans.