I actually wonder if Intel could catch up a bit on GPU performance with the integrated graphics on the newer chips. They're not process blocked. Same thing with AMD on the A series chips.
If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)
HP is also a consulting company. Perhaps they should work on new killer apps to use all those new CPU cycles and actually give people a reason to buy new computers. HP could get into 3D printing and mass market it.
HP needs R&D right now. Most companies cut it in 2008 and they need it badly at this point.
Recently purchased a new Mustang. I wasn't sure this time what I wanted and had a list of possible choices including the Camero, FR-S and Challenger. Many of the local dealers don't want to order a vehicle. Few had base models on the lot. Anything under 30k wasn't on the lot. Some dealers didn't even have a car I could test drive.
Step 1 is actually forcing dealers to keep updated inventory. I don't know how many times I went to a dealership or called and a vehicle had been gone for weeks.
If GM improves this process and it works for them, perhaps we'll see better service from all the automakers. I'm all in favor of that both as a consumer and computer programmer in Detroit.
OS X, iOS and Android. Google used some freebsd stuff in their userland too from my understanding. Even though android runs a linux kernel, everything in userland is not GPL.
Then there's the fact that 33% of all internet traffic goes through FreeBSD. (netflix)
I can't agree with this last part about sockets. There are two consumer sockets for Intel and AMD. That means you really do have to pay attention to the socket.
AMD is pushing A-series chips for consumer which one 2 different sockets (depending on age) plus the AM3+ for FX series.
Intel has socket 2011, 1150, 1155 in the consumer space right now.
I was wondering this too, but upon further research, VPS adds things Jails can't do like migrating from one physical machine to another without restarting programs and possibly even keeping sockets open. It has a mechanism to transfer an image of the disk state too.
Apparently, VPS also allows for sharing of several different types of resources to lower memory usage and they support distinct pids (init is pid 1 in each one for instance).
It looks like the new plan is if you want to virtualize freebsd instances, use VPS and if you need to run something else, use bhyve.
Git has scalability issues with very large repositories storing binary data. For example, I know someone who converted an SVN repo to Git with every picture he's taken plus modified versions after post processing work. (35GB of pictures)
It took him 10 minutes to commit anything due to Git not handling it.
Git is a great VCS for many use cases, but it actually does suck for binary file management under extreme conditions.
We all know how often other parties win in the US.. seriously this is a non option until the american public gives a shit about what's happening and by then it's going to be too late.
I have tried voting for other candidates in the past and they never win.
I can't speak to others views on windows phones, but I looked at android and windows phone prior to getting an iPhone 5 several months back. I was an existing iPhone user and haven't been impressed with the lack of innovation at apple. The sony and samsung android phones seemed rather good and I also looked at a nokia running windows. The build quality on the nokia was very good and was obviously better than most of the other devices. It felt heavy though. Then I started looking at the OS. It didn't seem terrible and I could figure out how to use it fairly easily. Then I started looking at apps. That's where they lost me. A switch to android would allow me (with some $$$) to get mostly back to where I was on iOS. I wouldn't have access to my iTunes collection anymore. With windows phone, I'd be giving up all sorts of apps.
That was a few months ago, but google has threatened to pull youtube from Microsoft several times. If even youtube is at risk, how am I supposed to trust it's a platform that's going to stick around for more than a year or two. Microsoft keeps starting over with windows phone and breaking backward compatibility.
Both parties support this. Members of congress from both sides of the aisle have said they want this. There is no one to vote for.
Re:The OS is good, but the hardware pushes me away
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I need desk space. A Mac Pro (before the new one comes out) gives you desk space. Drives are internal. Video is internal. Everything is inside a computer that can sit on the floor.
I couldn't wait for a mac pro refresh so I switched to a Mac Mini last December. It's faster than my Mac Pro 1,1 was. However, I had upgraded the video card in the Mac Pro and the Intel graphics are better than I expected, but still much slower. It means I can't play many games. Starcraft II will run.
Biggest problem is that I have a ton of little enclosures all over my desk. As I didn't want to pay $3000 (or i would have bought a mac pro), buying a thunderbolt enclosure is at least $700. I've got a dual drive usb 3 enclosure + another seagate usb3 enclosure for drives. The raid is my iTunes collection and the seagate backs that up. Then, i have a hub with my mouse and scanner plugged in and the remaining usb port is for my external optical drive I had to buy because it doesn't fit apple's vision anymore. I don't use it a lot except to burn music for my car.
Apple always claims they care about appearance, but my desk looks like shit. I have wires going everywhere and little non matching boxes everywhere with drives and crap in them. The Mac Pro was CLEAN looking.. soon apple won't have that at all. They don't get that I don't like a big pile of shit on my desk.
This isn't weird at all. Google is probably like any other company. They search linkedin and other sites for interesting candidates for a position and talk to them. They may not have even seen you in the system that far back. Your views on Google may have changed in 7 years. There are many reasons they might consider talking to you again.
I tried a surface rt at a microsoft store a few weeks ago. I was thinking about replacing a kindle fire with it. Sadly, IE is a much better browser than the kindle fire has. Since I want to consume web content, it seemed like a decent idea.
Then I tried the keyboard. It wouldn't register half my key strokes. It was very laggy when typing. I was not even remotely impressed.
I also found the swipe gestures not intuitive in Windows RT. I've got Windows 8 on my desktop (as a secondary os) and I always assumed it would make sense in touch. It doesn't.
As for email, I can't comment on the surface rt's email program, but the email client on my iPhone is pretty good. It's not as feature rich as Mail on a Mac, but it also runs a lot faster. Google's GMail client for iOS is very good too, but I only use it for work.
Not sure I agree with this. In the event someone wanted to use a binary blob (nvidia driver for example) or the official realtek driver vs what's included in the kernel, it would only work with some kernel versions. In FreeBSD, you don't get completely away from kernel version. Similarly, ports or (pc bsd packages in this case) would need to match for X related things.
Not only do I agree with you, but I have an example. Many years ago, I worked at an ISP as a sys admin. It was very early in my career. I had no college experience, and I was starting to learn to program and administer servers.
We were hired by a credit union as security consultants. They needed an audit of their new online banking system. The first thing I did was run Retina against their public server and a few script kiddie tools I had. I found that they had no firewall, an open SQL Server with no sa password and some very ugly IIS defaults. In 45 minutes, I had a script to dump their account data and list tables in their database. The sales guy asked me to print a few pages of that and he drove over and dumped it on the CU president's desk. It was very dramatic and fast, and we were then hired to setup a firewall and secure their network. We were never allowed to look at that VB code for their web app. Looking back, I wonder what I missed.
Reading 2600 and having a few apps lying around does not make me a security consultant. Of course, I can say I legally hacked a bank but in reality it's really lame.
If he was smart, he wrote unit tests for the code in question first and then could test his new version with the unit tests to determine if it worked for common cases at least.
Refactoring code isn't a bad thing provided there's actual testing done to show it still works.
I think the patent office shouldn't get the money for patent applications. They should have a budget independent of the number of applications they process with a minimum goal for each year to get through that's reasonable.
Sure we'll have a backlog, but when you can't get everything through and the patent office doesn't have a financial incentive to rubber stamp patents anymore it might cause change.
Another idea, give patent reviewers an incentive (bonus) when they find prior art for a patent.
Re:Smart TV? Help me understand...
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As someone who owns a smart tv, an apple tv and a ps3, you're not confused. Smart TV features suck in TVs. They do update them periodically regardless if you want them to or not and the menus are awful to navigate. A few times, I've had to reboot my TV due to a flaky update. Buying a new $100 set top box is no big deal... I upgraded the original apple tv to a v2 some years back painlessly. I get a few years out of one and buy a new one when they actually add features I care about. With the TV, I don't want it to do much.. in reality i just want a monitor with a remote to turn it on and off. I don't use the tuner. I don't change the input source. It's all through my receiver and cable box. If anything, I want a dumb tv.
People keep saying this, but I don't see it. Apple never released things that quickly before. They had a couple of flashy launches a year. That's it.
Investors are just upset because reality set in on the tablet front. They're starting to become mature products so it's not new shiny every day. Tech news isn't interesting anymore because most innovation is from losing features and dumbing down products. It's true of Tablets, Windows, Google (no more reader for instance), etc.
We're seeing the other end of the recession now.. R&D cuts hurt long run. Most tech companies have nothing in their pipeline unless they have it built into their DNA like HP used to have and Intel still does. Now it's acquisition season to get new stuff because you didn't invest like a good ceo.
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I actually wonder if Intel could catch up a bit on GPU performance with the integrated graphics on the newer chips. They're not process blocked. Same thing with AMD on the A series chips.
If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)
Granted, I have a 2014 model year car too.
What's the difference if you're at work or home? The NSA can get into your network either way.
HP is also a consulting company. Perhaps they should work on new killer apps to use all those new CPU cycles and actually give people a reason to buy new computers. HP could get into 3D printing and mass market it.
HP needs R&D right now. Most companies cut it in 2008 and they need it badly at this point.
Recently purchased a new Mustang. I wasn't sure this time what I wanted and had a list of possible choices including the Camero, FR-S and Challenger. Many of the local dealers don't want to order a vehicle. Few had base models on the lot. Anything under 30k wasn't on the lot. Some dealers didn't even have a car I could test drive.
Step 1 is actually forcing dealers to keep updated inventory. I don't know how many times I went to a dealership or called and a vehicle had been gone for weeks.
If GM improves this process and it works for them, perhaps we'll see better service from all the automakers. I'm all in favor of that both as a consumer and computer programmer in Detroit.
OS X, iOS and Android. Google used some freebsd stuff in their userland too from my understanding. Even though android runs a linux kernel, everything in userland is not GPL.
Then there's the fact that 33% of all internet traffic goes through FreeBSD. (netflix)
I can't agree with this last part about sockets. There are two consumer sockets for Intel and AMD. That means you really do have to pay attention to the socket.
AMD is pushing A-series chips for consumer which one 2 different sockets (depending on age) plus the AM3+ for FX series.
Intel has socket 2011, 1150, 1155 in the consumer space right now.
PHP is actually a lot like Perl. It also makes sense because PHP was originally a template language for Perl prior to getting rewritten in C.
The problem with PHP is the inconsistency. Parameter order is not consistent. Point releases change behavior and break code.
I also find PHP to be more irritating to debug than other web languages.
I was wondering this too, but upon further research, VPS adds things Jails can't do like migrating from one physical machine to another without restarting programs and possibly even keeping sockets open. It has a mechanism to transfer an image of the disk state too.
Apparently, VPS also allows for sharing of several different types of resources to lower memory usage and they support distinct pids (init is pid 1 in each one for instance).
It looks like the new plan is if you want to virtualize freebsd instances, use VPS and if you need to run something else, use bhyve.
Git has scalability issues with very large repositories storing binary data. For example, I know someone who converted an SVN repo to Git with every picture he's taken plus modified versions after post processing work. (35GB of pictures)
It took him 10 minutes to commit anything due to Git not handling it.
Git is a great VCS for many use cases, but it actually does suck for binary file management under extreme conditions.
We all know how often other parties win in the US.. seriously this is a non option until the american public gives a shit about what's happening and by then it's going to be too late.
I have tried voting for other candidates in the past and they never win.
Maybe he's more of a BMW guy?
I can't speak to others views on windows phones, but I looked at android and windows phone prior to getting an iPhone 5 several months back. I was an existing iPhone user and haven't been impressed with the lack of innovation at apple. The sony and samsung android phones seemed rather good and I also looked at a nokia running windows. The build quality on the nokia was very good and was obviously better than most of the other devices. It felt heavy though. Then I started looking at the OS. It didn't seem terrible and I could figure out how to use it fairly easily. Then I started looking at apps. That's where they lost me. A switch to android would allow me (with some $$$) to get mostly back to where I was on iOS. I wouldn't have access to my iTunes collection anymore. With windows phone, I'd be giving up all sorts of apps.
That was a few months ago, but google has threatened to pull youtube from Microsoft several times. If even youtube is at risk, how am I supposed to trust it's a platform that's going to stick around for more than a year or two. Microsoft keeps starting over with windows phone and breaking backward compatibility.
Both parties support this. Members of congress from both sides of the aisle have said they want this. There is no one to vote for.
I need desk space. A Mac Pro (before the new one comes out) gives you desk space. Drives are internal. Video is internal. Everything is inside a computer that can sit on the floor.
I couldn't wait for a mac pro refresh so I switched to a Mac Mini last December. It's faster than my Mac Pro 1,1 was. However, I had upgraded the video card in the Mac Pro and the Intel graphics are better than I expected, but still much slower. It means I can't play many games. Starcraft II will run.
Biggest problem is that I have a ton of little enclosures all over my desk. As I didn't want to pay $3000 (or i would have bought a mac pro), buying a thunderbolt enclosure is at least $700. I've got a dual drive usb 3 enclosure + another seagate usb3 enclosure for drives. The raid is my iTunes collection and the seagate backs that up. Then, i have a hub with my mouse and scanner plugged in and the remaining usb port is for my external optical drive I had to buy because it doesn't fit apple's vision anymore. I don't use it a lot except to burn music for my car.
Apple always claims they care about appearance, but my desk looks like shit. I have wires going everywhere and little non matching boxes everywhere with drives and crap in them. The Mac Pro was CLEAN looking.. soon apple won't have that at all. They don't get that I don't like a big pile of shit on my desk.
Thanks for the heads up. Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 on the same day? It's going to be a drinking day for sure.
This isn't weird at all. Google is probably like any other company. They search linkedin and other sites for interesting candidates for a position and talk to them. They may not have even seen you in the system that far back. Your views on Google may have changed in 7 years. There are many reasons they might consider talking to you again.
I tried a surface rt at a microsoft store a few weeks ago. I was thinking about replacing a kindle fire with it. Sadly, IE is a much better browser than the kindle fire has. Since I want to consume web content, it seemed like a decent idea.
Then I tried the keyboard. It wouldn't register half my key strokes. It was very laggy when typing. I was not even remotely impressed.
I also found the swipe gestures not intuitive in Windows RT. I've got Windows 8 on my desktop (as a secondary os) and I always assumed it would make sense in touch. It doesn't.
As for email, I can't comment on the surface rt's email program, but the email client on my iPhone is pretty good. It's not as feature rich as Mail on a Mac, but it also runs a lot faster. Google's GMail client for iOS is very good too, but I only use it for work.
Not sure I agree with this. In the event someone wanted to use a binary blob (nvidia driver for example) or the official realtek driver vs what's included in the kernel, it would only work with some kernel versions. In FreeBSD, you don't get completely away from kernel version. Similarly, ports or (pc bsd packages in this case) would need to match for X related things.
Google does.. i actually just throw things into chrome's address bar at work.
Not only do I agree with you, but I have an example. Many years ago, I worked at an ISP as a sys admin. It was very early in my career. I had no college experience, and I was starting to learn to program and administer servers.
We were hired by a credit union as security consultants. They needed an audit of their new online banking system. The first thing I did was run Retina against their public server and a few script kiddie tools I had. I found that they had no firewall, an open SQL Server with no sa password and some very ugly IIS defaults. In 45 minutes, I had a script to dump their account data and list tables in their database. The sales guy asked me to print a few pages of that and he drove over and dumped it on the CU president's desk. It was very dramatic and fast, and we were then hired to setup a firewall and secure their network. We were never allowed to look at that VB code for their web app. Looking back, I wonder what I missed.
Reading 2600 and having a few apps lying around does not make me a security consultant. Of course, I can say I legally hacked a bank but in reality it's really lame.
If he was smart, he wrote unit tests for the code in question first and then could test his new version with the unit tests to determine if it worked for common cases at least.
Refactoring code isn't a bad thing provided there's actual testing done to show it still works.
I think the patent office shouldn't get the money for patent applications. They should have a budget independent of the number of applications they process with a minimum goal for each year to get through that's reasonable.
Sure we'll have a backlog, but when you can't get everything through and the patent office doesn't have a financial incentive to rubber stamp patents anymore it might cause change.
Another idea, give patent reviewers an incentive (bonus) when they find prior art for a patent.
You underestimate Steve Ballmer.
As someone who owns a smart tv, an apple tv and a ps3, you're not confused. Smart TV features suck in TVs. They do update them periodically regardless if you want them to or not and the menus are awful to navigate. A few times, I've had to reboot my TV due to a flaky update. Buying a new $100 set top box is no big deal... I upgraded the original apple tv to a v2 some years back painlessly. I get a few years out of one and buy a new one when they actually add features I care about. With the TV, I don't want it to do much.. in reality i just want a monitor with a remote to turn it on and off. I don't use the tuner. I don't change the input source. It's all through my receiver and cable box. If anything, I want a dumb tv.
People keep saying this, but I don't see it. Apple never released things that quickly before. They had a couple of flashy launches a year. That's it.
Investors are just upset because reality set in on the tablet front. They're starting to become mature products so it's not new shiny every day. Tech news isn't interesting anymore because most innovation is from losing features and dumbing down products. It's true of Tablets, Windows, Google (no more reader for instance), etc.
We're seeing the other end of the recession now.. R&D cuts hurt long run. Most tech companies have nothing in their pipeline unless they have it built into their DNA like HP used to have and Intel still does. Now it's acquisition season to get new stuff because you didn't invest like a good ceo.