ARM doesn't do that as ARM doesn't make chips. They make chip designs, which they then license to other companies. Look at the TI OMAP series and you'll find that their chip comes with a built-in PowerVR GPU theoretically rated for DX 10.1 as well as a built-in DSP. Other manufacturers will most likely have similar offerings.
Just to put things into perspective, the Pandora ships with an OMAP3530 and will have as one launch "title" a PlayStation emulator, which has already been demonstrated to run smoothly. We're talking about something the size of a Nintendo DS that has a projected battery life of 9+ hours playing games off a 4200 mAh battery, capable of emulating the PSX. The Cortex A8-based OMAP3 is a seriously powerful little beast. I don't expect the Cortex A9-based OMAP4 to be any worse.
In Germany that would be what you get a disability insurance (the translation service also suggests "occupational disablement insurance") for. It often comes as an addon to life insurance - if you die or are unable to to work anymore the payout triggers. Granted, it's a one-time payment but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who will pay you money for the rest of your life (except the government, that is). Plus, often disability only lasts for a certain while (eg. being in hospital/stationary physiotherapy for a year after a bad accident) and a money injection can really help there.
But yeah, insuring your health per se is not quite possible unless you make a custom deal with an insurer (if people can insure their hands you should also be able to insure your health).
Depends. I have an iPod Touch. I have it because I could get it for 35 € when I bought my MBP (which I bought because I needed a laptop and am quite happy with Apple's laptop offerings). I didn't get it for the cool factor, I got it because 35 bucks is a killer price for a fairly decent PDA that happens to have decent audio playback built in.
The iPhone... well. It's a smartphone and I still think it's a bad idea to mix a PDA with something that puts a constant battery drain on it even in low-power mode. I wouldn't get one for 35 bucks either (well, except to resell it) as I think 35 bucks is pretty expensive for a mobile phone. So yeah.
Ok, that last word could be cooperation or competition, and since they're antonyms I'm going to have to guess that you mean the former.
No, it's "coopetition", which is a real word. It essentially means that competing companies identify areas where they can share costs by cooperating (areas where they don't believe they can gain a compatitive advantage), thus making both companies' life easier.
I'd assume that they won't just throw away all regular multi-display modes just because they came up with this. This will be an additional option, not a forced replacement.
But they have a ways go before we're sprinkling pixie dust on old uranium mines and expecting to come back a couple of years later and put a McDonald's on it.
We should do that right now. It would probably improve both taste and nutritional value of the stuff they sell.
You're one of the few people for whom Genius does work. For me, it's perfectly happy to suggest songs apparently based on criteria like "the artist is known on the internet". Example: Using Genius on Machinae Supremacy (electro-heavy Metal) songs yields results like Dragonforce (Power Metal), Lacuna Coil (Gothic Metal), U2 (uh, Rock?), Fool's Garden (Pop, I guess), Die Fantastischen Vier (Hip-Hop) and Caramelldansen (uh, yeah). I'm surprised it didn't manage to fit Rick Astley in there.
Essentially, it works well for mainstream and classical music; once your collection starts including more obscure songs (or even international ones) it goes completely insane. Another try, for example, revealed that Within Temptation and Böhse Onkelz are exactly the thing to combine with witty German A-Cappella.
It does serve a function, however: On parties you can have someone suggest a song and then read out the ridiculous playlist for everyone's amusement. Or even play it, if you want to annoy them.
No, we're comparing websites to websites. I don't care about Microsoft's history or what the CEO had for lunch. It's a fact that Apple's website is much easier to navigate. The Microsoft website being cluttered and inconsistent might have historical reasons but that's not an excuse for it being hard to navigate.
If you have vastly differnet websites for vastly different audiences then have the homepage clearly show links for each of the audiences so they can be funneled to different sub-sites with a minimum of confusion. Don't just put everything together under the assumption that everyone is happy if the information the seek is somewhere in there. Also, having all pages work the same makes for a much smoother experience. If your product absolutely requires different branding on the site layout level then put it on a different domain and tell people that they are leaving the Microsoft website and entering the Office one. Don't have a website where one page has one navigation bar, another has two, the third has a Silverlight plugin and the fourth has no navigation at all.
The Microsoft website is a maze with seemingly randomly changing layouts and pages hidden in arcane locations (for example, I couldn't find out how to go from the Windows 7 main page to the Windows 7 tech specs page without using the search function). Different company structure or not, microsoft.com is a jumbled mess. You get the feeling that Microsoft themselves have no idea what their products do. And that's not an impression you want to make on visitors.
The Apple site is ad-oriented but it's easy to get past the ads.
Let' see how long I take to find informations about the system specifications of Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard, starting from microsoft.com and apple.com, respectively. The homepage was completely preloaded for both, later page load times go into the overall time; neither page was in the cache beforehand. -> denotes a click, [Back] denotes use of the Back button, -foo-> denotes a search for foo.
Snow Leopard: apple.com -> Mac -> big Snow Leopard ad -> Tech Specs (3 clicks; 22 seconds)
Windows 7: microsoft.com -> Windows dropdown/Windows 7 -> Features (drops you to a search page) [Back] -windows 7 specs-> (search page with no relevant entries) -windows 7 requirements-> Systemanforderungen für Windows 7 (2 clicks, 2 search requests, 1 back button; 1:45 minutes)
The Window 7 time is strongly affected by me spending half a minute scanning the Windows 7 page for any link that looks like it might lead me to the specifications. Also note that in the end I had to resort to using the search function because there were no promising links. The page it redirected me to is styled differently to the main Windows 7 site, which suggests that there actually is no way to directly go from "Windows 7" to "Windows 7 system specifications". (Actually, on second look, it uses the same design; the main Win7 page just displays a huge, page-dominating green ad while the specs page completely lacks the color green.)
You mean Adobe would not use horribly outdated APIs for no reason other than their unwillingness to accept that Mac OS 9 is dead? What's next, Microsoft implementing Windows 8 around the Linux kernel?
Actually, if DPP ever takes hold the'll announce their next step towards full emulation of the physical world: MP3s will self-degrade to emulate the record player scratching the record; copying them around will also degrade them unless you use a special packing tool first (like CDs get scratched when you move them around while not in their case).
Dumbasses Pretend it's Property. And we could alsp abbreviate it "Dippippip" or "Dh'ph'ph". The latter is stupid and unneccessarily awkward, which perfectly fits DPP.
The key is not to obtain the file. The key is to cause someone economic damage by taking it from them, thus focing them to buy it again (or lose it). Imagine DPP'd files get sold for a year or two and then some worm comes around and takes them away from everyone. Might be a variant of the old "pay me and I'll decrypt your documents folder again" blackmail or just maliciousness; either way there's a lot of lost money. Something like DPP is too juicy a target for someone with little social consciousness and lots of spare time.
You are reading apple.slashdot.org. It might have occurred to you that at this subdomain you might find stories about Apple? You can filter it out, you know.
What a bunch of fuckups. lol AM towers, now that's random. What's next windmills? Um, they impede the free movement of air and adversely affect trees and avian flight. Yeah that's it./pant
Please put your pants back on. Just... please do it, okay?
You misunderstand. After the ELF has knocked down an AM tower the government should move in with guns and shoot the tower. Offering no explanations. And then they should immediately leave without saying a word. A couple incidents like that and the ELF will be too scared of the clearly insane government agents to do anything at all for a while.
However, it seems that this new cache increases performance at cost of price and reliability. The limited life-span of flash memory is well-known. I doubt they're going to wire their mainboards in such a way that a defective NAND cache can be routed around.
Why would NAND be a better idea? It still hast a cost and I'd expect the mainboard to become useless after the write cache has worn out. While some people can live with buying a new computer every year, others can't.
I predict that this onboard flash will completely destroy the Intel SSDs as well as Nehalem, Larrabee and Torchwood (not that the last one is any surprise).
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As said, TI has announced the OMAP4 series, which is based around the A9. Only 720 MHz and "1+ GHz" so far, though. (Source: Wikipedia)
ARM doesn't do that as ARM doesn't make chips. They make chip designs, which they then license to other companies. Look at the TI OMAP series and you'll find that their chip comes with a built-in PowerVR GPU theoretically rated for DX 10.1 as well as a built-in DSP. Other manufacturers will most likely have similar offerings.
Just to put things into perspective, the Pandora ships with an OMAP3530 and will have as one launch "title" a PlayStation emulator, which has already been demonstrated to run smoothly. We're talking about something the size of a Nintendo DS that has a projected battery life of 9+ hours playing games off a 4200 mAh battery, capable of emulating the PSX. The Cortex A8-based OMAP3 is a seriously powerful little beast. I don't expect the Cortex A9-based OMAP4 to be any worse.
In Germany that would be what you get a disability insurance (the translation service also suggests "occupational disablement insurance") for. It often comes as an addon to life insurance - if you die or are unable to to work anymore the payout triggers. Granted, it's a one-time payment but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who will pay you money for the rest of your life (except the government, that is). Plus, often disability only lasts for a certain while (eg. being in hospital/stationary physiotherapy for a year after a bad accident) and a money injection can really help there.
But yeah, insuring your health per se is not quite possible unless you make a custom deal with an insurer (if people can insure their hands you should also be able to insure your health).
What level range? Any decent loot to be expected?
Depends. I have an iPod Touch. I have it because I could get it for 35 € when I bought my MBP (which I bought because I needed a laptop and am quite happy with Apple's laptop offerings). I didn't get it for the cool factor, I got it because 35 bucks is a killer price for a fairly decent PDA that happens to have decent audio playback built in.
The iPhone... well. It's a smartphone and I still think it's a bad idea to mix a PDA with something that puts a constant battery drain on it even in low-power mode. I wouldn't get one for 35 bucks either (well, except to resell it) as I think 35 bucks is pretty expensive for a mobile phone. So yeah.
No, it's "coopetition", which is a real word. It essentially means that competing companies identify areas where they can share costs by cooperating (areas where they don't believe they can gain a compatitive advantage), thus making both companies' life easier.
I'd assume that they won't just throw away all regular multi-display modes just because they came up with this. This will be an additional option, not a forced replacement.
Nothing, unless we make the bacteria angry. In that case it will turn green and start tossing around tanks.
We should do that right now. It would probably improve both taste and nutritional value of the stuff they sell.
You're one of the few people for whom Genius does work. For me, it's perfectly happy to suggest songs apparently based on criteria like "the artist is known on the internet". Example: Using Genius on Machinae Supremacy (electro-heavy Metal) songs yields results like Dragonforce (Power Metal), Lacuna Coil (Gothic Metal), U2 (uh, Rock?), Fool's Garden (Pop, I guess), Die Fantastischen Vier (Hip-Hop) and Caramelldansen (uh, yeah). I'm surprised it didn't manage to fit Rick Astley in there.
Essentially, it works well for mainstream and classical music; once your collection starts including more obscure songs (or even international ones) it goes completely insane. Another try, for example, revealed that Within Temptation and Böhse Onkelz are exactly the thing to combine with witty German A-Cappella.
It does serve a function, however: On parties you can have someone suggest a song and then read out the ridiculous playlist for everyone's amusement. Or even play it, if you want to annoy them.
No, we're comparing websites to websites. I don't care about Microsoft's history or what the CEO had for lunch. It's a fact that Apple's website is much easier to navigate. The Microsoft website being cluttered and inconsistent might have historical reasons but that's not an excuse for it being hard to navigate.
If you have vastly differnet websites for vastly different audiences then have the homepage clearly show links for each of the audiences so they can be funneled to different sub-sites with a minimum of confusion. Don't just put everything together under the assumption that everyone is happy if the information the seek is somewhere in there. Also, having all pages work the same makes for a much smoother experience. If your product absolutely requires different branding on the site layout level then put it on a different domain and tell people that they are leaving the Microsoft website and entering the Office one. Don't have a website where one page has one navigation bar, another has two, the third has a Silverlight plugin and the fourth has no navigation at all.
The Microsoft website is a maze with seemingly randomly changing layouts and pages hidden in arcane locations (for example, I couldn't find out how to go from the Windows 7 main page to the Windows 7 tech specs page without using the search function). Different company structure or not, microsoft.com is a jumbled mess. You get the feeling that Microsoft themselves have no idea what their products do. And that's not an impression you want to make on visitors.
The Apple site is ad-oriented but it's easy to get past the ads.
Let' see how long I take to find informations about the system specifications of Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard, starting from microsoft.com and apple.com, respectively. The homepage was completely preloaded for both, later page load times go into the overall time; neither page was in the cache beforehand. -> denotes a click, [Back] denotes use of the Back button, -foo-> denotes a search for foo.
Snow Leopard: apple.com -> Mac -> big Snow Leopard ad -> Tech Specs (3 clicks; 22 seconds)
Windows 7: microsoft.com -> Windows dropdown/Windows 7 -> Features (drops you to a search page) [Back] -windows 7 specs-> (search page with no relevant entries) -windows 7 requirements-> Systemanforderungen für Windows 7 (2 clicks, 2 search requests, 1 back button; 1:45 minutes)
The Window 7 time is strongly affected by me spending half a minute scanning the Windows 7 page for any link that looks like it might lead me to the specifications. Also note that in the end I had to resort to using the search function because there were no promising links. The page it redirected me to is styled differently to the main Windows 7 site, which suggests that there actually is no way to directly go from "Windows 7" to "Windows 7 system specifications". (Actually, on second look, it uses the same design; the main Win7 page just displays a huge, page-dominating green ad while the specs page completely lacks the color green.)
You mean Adobe would not use horribly outdated APIs for no reason other than their unwillingness to accept that Mac OS 9 is dead? What's next, Microsoft implementing Windows 8 around the Linux kernel?
Actually, if DPP ever takes hold the'll announce their next step towards full emulation of the physical world: MP3s will self-degrade to emulate the record player scratching the record; copying them around will also degrade them unless you use a special packing tool first (like CDs get scratched when you move them around while not in their case).
Dumbasses Pretend it's Property. And we could alsp abbreviate it "Dippippip" or "Dh'ph'ph". The latter is stupid and unneccessarily awkward, which perfectly fits DPP.
The key is not to obtain the file. The key is to cause someone economic damage by taking it from them, thus focing them to buy it again (or lose it). Imagine DPP'd files get sold for a year or two and then some worm comes around and takes them away from everyone. Might be a variant of the old "pay me and I'll decrypt your documents folder again" blackmail or just maliciousness; either way there's a lot of lost money. Something like DPP is too juicy a target for someone with little social consciousness and lots of spare time.
Nah, they'll probably write a wrapper that glues their C++/Carbon code to Cocoa and blame Apple for CS5 being slow.
You are reading apple.slashdot.org. It might have occurred to you that at this subdomain you might find stories about Apple? You can filter it out, you know.
Please put your pants back on. Just... please do it, okay?
You misunderstand. After the ELF has knocked down an AM tower the government should move in with guns and shoot the tower. Offering no explanations. And then they should immediately leave without saying a word. A couple incidents like that and the ELF will be too scared of the clearly insane government agents to do anything at all for a while.
Bizarro Earth Liberation Front am very concerned about Earth. Knocking down random radio towers am very important and am not just for fun. Me serious!
Wait, isn't this a move to prop up HDDs a while longer by partially mitigating the SSDs' speed advantage?
However, it seems that this new cache increases performance at cost of price and reliability. The limited life-span of flash memory is well-known. I doubt they're going to wire their mainboards in such a way that a defective NAND cache can be routed around.
Why would NAND be a better idea? It still hast a cost and I'd expect the mainboard to become useless after the write cache has worn out. While some people can live with buying a new computer every year, others can't.
I predict that this onboard flash will completely destroy the Intel SSDs as well as Nehalem, Larrabee and Torchwood (not that the last one is any surprise).