So they want to maintain a certain level of quality in applications that get onto the device, nothing wrong with that.
You can still run applications not originally programmed in objective-c/c++/c, you just have to become an Apple Developer and pay $99, just don't expect your app to be approved on the app store.
That's not how you're currently supposed to use an SSD for gaming...
The optimal way is to load the OS onto a small 16-32gb SSD and then keep the games on a hard drive or RAID Array. Keeping the games on an SSD is silly since the only thing it will effect is loading times.
even if there's no underlying physical barrier in the way (as we saw when clock speeds topped out).
Hrmm? There is indeed an underlying physical barrier, you know, the size of the atoms that make up the darn things. It can only get so small.
Moore's law has held up for the past few decades because we've been picking the low hanging fruit, it's going to be really hard to shrink the process size in the near future. Besides the fact that Moore's law states nothing on the processing technology and only on the fact that feature(transistor) count will double every 2 years.
When you have something spinning, the smaller the better.
Let's do some simple Math:
For a 7200RPM Hard Drive@ 3.5" Diameter or.0889 meters you have a velocity of V = Pi*D*RPM = 3.14*.0889*7200 = 2009m/min or 33.5m/s. Now the centripetal acceleration: a = v^2/r = (33.5m/s)^2/.04445m = 25243m/s^2.
Or in other words: 2573g
Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of acceleration at the outer edges. The smaller the better.
A lot of the cost is the raw cost of the processed silicon wafers. Making the pure crystals and then slicing/cutting/polishing them to a workable state takes a lot of time.
Where the processing technology comes in is the ability to make more chips for a given wafer size.
SSD cost is limited by the cost to refine and turn Silicon into Flash Memory.
The price will only go down as the process size goes down, currently at 32nm with Intel's Latest drives. Once it reaches 8nm or the like then the cost will truly be comparable to Hard Drives. Until then, don't expect a miracle.
Maybe the next thing we can do is allow the cows to live in a virtual reality world where it seems like they are grazing in the grass when they're really on a treadmill making our electricity.
Maybe the reality of the matrix is that the machines needed humans to... Eat. Because we tasted yummy to them or something after they processed us into fuel.
Or maybe they needed to eat our thoughts because information was so important to them and we were random generators of information which were hard to replicate in machines.
Windows NT is a damned good OS for the time it was made.
I don't think the changes were out of incompetence either, the bunch at Apple seem to be fairly competent in what they are doing. To me it seems like something that was necessary to go from a Mouse/Keyboard based UI to a multitouch one.
Having used both the old and new Palm dev tools and the Windows Mobile dev tools back when it was pocket pc, developing on the iPhone is much less painful.
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The iPad costs ~$265 to produce, just the manufacturing not including R&D costs. It sells for $499. Not even close to your 5-10x hyperbolic statement.
So they want to maintain a certain level of quality in applications that get onto the device, nothing wrong with that.
You can still run applications not originally programmed in objective-c/c++/c, you just have to become an Apple Developer and pay $99, just don't expect your app to be approved on the app store.
Such as?
Is Apple supposed to make it easy for you to do anything you want with the device?
If you really want to run any program, just "jailbreak" it or sign up as a developer and you can install whatever app you please.
I use my iPad at home, you probably won't see me walking around with it.
How cute, someone complaining about buzzwords.
That's a silly statement since food production currently surpasses demand.
People aren't starving because you want a steak. People are starving because people are poor.
Which is nice, but they are patching BFBC2 and adding a 15 second timer before the game starts this week.
Don't worry, it's been done before.
That's not true at all, a quick check on newegg:
Intel X25-M 80gb: $225 or $2.8125/gb
Corsair Extreme 64gb: $239 $3.73/gb
Mushkin 64gb: $214 $3.34/gb
Kingston SSDNow V+ 64gb: $205 $3.2/gb
Kingston SSDNow V 64gb: $145 $2.25/gb
Considering the performance and reliability edge you get with Intel compared to the other drives, it's well worth it.
That's not how you're currently supposed to use an SSD for gaming...
The optimal way is to load the OS onto a small 16-32gb SSD and then keep the games on a hard drive or RAID Array. Keeping the games on an SSD is silly since the only thing it will effect is loading times.
The shit is used to fertilize the grass.
Yeah, because turning that silicon into flash memory has nothing to do with tooling costs. That's the magical fairy step.
Hrmm? There is indeed an underlying physical barrier, you know, the size of the atoms that make up the darn things. It can only get so small.
Moore's law has held up for the past few decades because we've been picking the low hanging fruit, it's going to be really hard to shrink the process size in the near future. Besides the fact that Moore's law states nothing on the processing technology and only on the fact that feature(transistor) count will double every 2 years.
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When you have something spinning, the smaller the better.
Let's do some simple Math:
For a 7200RPM Hard Drive@ 3.5" Diameter or .0889 meters you have a velocity of
V = Pi*D*RPM = 3.14*.0889*7200 = 2009m/min or 33.5m/s.
Now the centripetal acceleration:
a = v^2/r = (33.5m/s)^2/.04445m = 25243m/s^2.
Or in other words: 2573g
Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of acceleration at the outer edges. The smaller the better.
A lot of the cost is the raw cost of the processed silicon wafers. Making the pure crystals and then slicing/cutting/polishing them to a workable state takes a lot of time.
Where the processing technology comes in is the ability to make more chips for a given wafer size.
Yes, and once everyone starts doing that we can go through world wide famine.
Intel's SSDs are made in the USA with Micron....
SSD cost is limited by the cost to refine and turn Silicon into Flash Memory.
The price will only go down as the process size goes down, currently at 32nm with Intel's Latest drives. Once it reaches 8nm or the like then the cost will truly be comparable to Hard Drives. Until then, don't expect a miracle.
Reminds me of the matrix.
Maybe the next thing we can do is allow the cows to live in a virtual reality world where it seems like they are grazing in the grass when they're really on a treadmill making our electricity.
Maybe the reality of the matrix is that the machines needed humans to... Eat. Because we tasted yummy to them or something after they processed us into fuel.
Or maybe they needed to eat our thoughts because information was so important to them and we were random generators of information which were hard to replicate in machines.
"Hunny, I demand you have your life recorder on you at ALL times!"
Please don't try to make this practical.
Windows NT is a damned good OS for the time it was made.
I don't think the changes were out of incompetence either, the bunch at Apple seem to be fairly competent in what they are doing. To me it seems like something that was necessary to go from a Mouse/Keyboard based UI to a multitouch one.
Having used both the old and new Palm dev tools and the Windows Mobile dev tools back when it was pocket pc, developing on the iPhone is much less painful.
Wow dude man.
Incompetence, yes that's what you call selling 85 million+ devices running the OS.