Anytime you have competing form factors it's an issue... heck we had a glossy/matte screen thread here just last week.
Personally, it's an issue for me, but for different reasons. I want 1000+ vertical pixels. And I want a small form factor that I can easily lug around.
To get a 1000+ vertical pixels in a widescreen I need to have a 15 inch screen... 14.1 is my comfort limit. So I lose in this discussion. Not exactly a huge loss though.
I like the X series with their outdoor screen option... matte, and works beautifully in direct sunlight. Not so well in indirect sunlight, but still much better than the average laptop screen.
All I know is the common forum packages utilized by the sites I visit throughout the day are much much faster. Further, the browser stays more responsive while threads load in background tabs... now if I can just get my gesture plugin working I'll probably use it exclusively.
I think Woods, Nicklaus and Palmer may have each achieved similar status in golf. I would also add Byrd to the list for basketball and Minnesota Fats for pool. Robinson for MLB and maybe you could put in Sosa/McGwire as a combo.
Just wait til you get to the multi-threaded apps or the apps where problems fade away while debugging because of the wait time you're adding.
Granted the debugger is a phenomenal tool and can greatly reduce the effort and time... but it's no panacea.
a) is so often the wrong choice and can really submarine a company because they keep getting a cycle of a)'s... every 5th release becomes a complete rewrite as the new team says "we need a refactoring of the code, no one here is familar with it and/or it's spaghetti code, just give us 5 months we'll maintain the behavior 100% and we'll clean up a lot of bugs and we promise in the future maintenance will be a breeze"
They tested two 5400RPM hybrid drives against a 7200RPM standard drive... the results are as expected. Now I do agree that if I'm going to shell out the extra cash for the hybrid I probably want the 7200 drive too... and I definitely agree that I'd wait a couple generations (dunno about years)
That's just a useless couple numbers. Was in Gucci the other day and there's a woman's sweater for ten grand and mens coats for twelve... you can find crazy expensive stuff wherever you go for either sex.
Correction, it makes your character an ass... and what if your character is an ass? It's a fantasy world of good and bad and monsters and magic and blah blah blah, if no one plays the bad guy what fun will it be?
I used to play RPGs online when they were text only... and it was all about acting out a character. It wasn't supposed to be me. My character had relationships with other characters, and sometimes, offline on messages boards I would have discussions with that characters actor... but the people who assumed the characters were the real people had all sorts of odd stories about real life meetings and whatnot.
I mean sure, your real life persona spills into your character's persona on occassion. It is coming from your imagination after all, but it is a character. It's just one of the many reasons I've abandoned RPGs all together these days, everything is so personal and/or so video gamey, the characters are all gone.
Give me offline web clients and then we'll talk. I fly, I train, I have a portable modem on my cell phone, but it's not reliable enough for the train and isn't allowed when I fly. These are good times for me to send email or at least clean up my inbox... the offline features of both Thunderbird and Outlook make them very productive times for me... gmail, not so much.
Not saying that the rich web clients are great for some people, just saying there's still plenty of space for the full blown apps.
Free speech as defined by? If you're talking about the bill of rights, no it doesn't, that only applies to the government. If you're talking about Facebook TOS, it makes no promise of Free Speech. If you're talking about some great philosophical concept of Free speech, then again, it doesn't either... it just says you're free to say what you want and pay the consequences for what you've said... that consequence can even be being censored.
So, what version of Free Speech have you anthropomorphized into demanding free speech without any consequence?
What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I believe the concept is same as Roswell and all the other UFO conspiracy nuts... the gov't didn't want it to be public, not couldn't manage to make it so.
What about visual cues from on screen GPS? Geesh, the constant MPG updates on my car can get distracting when traffic is especially boring.
What about cheeseburgers? Why weren't those addressed... specifically cheeseburgers with extra ketchup when you're dressed nicely for an event. It might sound like I'm making a joke, but those are incredibly distracting. I bet I could even find a study that says as much. Of course cell phones are more distracting than music and GPS voice and books on tape, because those are all either passive or related to the task of driving. Cell phone conversation is an active task so it's going to take more brain power.
This is just like software development... we need to stop being reactionary to some new fangled invention that's causing accidents and start declaring an acceptable level of distraction, then test everything and see if it's acceptable. But since people won't stop eating in their car, talking on their cell phones, or letting their dogs sit in their lap, it doesn't really matter anyway.
The treo also has the wonderful "don't make a freaking sound" slider on the top... that's the one feature I really miss having gone to the blackberry and dash.
And those're just the ones who are going to actively pursue this.
There's the other side... those who find a problem, and just don't do anything about it. Why should I go to the MS website and hunt for an hour for a link if I find an exploit? I could just forget it and move on with my life and do work which actually generates a paycheck.
Cause the parent to your post was making a joke about how all Apple's comparison charts suck... so if the original poster had seen more, he wouldn't find this one to be the worst ever. Thanks for making me explain the joke so that every ounce of humor it may ever had held can be sapped.
I like the claim that mathematical models show more than 16 cores hurt performance in most applications.
Likewise, I bet there are models that show more than 14 cores hurt performance in a super-plurality of applications. Could've you been more vague? What models, what types of applications, and most importantly why? You can use Amdahl's law to show the theoretical maximum speedup for different types of programs, and guess what, none of them go down after 16, you just flatten (essentially diminishing returns). It's true you do have communication and combination issues which can outweigh computation issues, so if you program like an idiot you can certainly hurt performance... but then just don't code like an idiot, use extra cores when you need the parallel computation, not just cause they're there.
What "most applications" are you referring to? Do multiple cores hurt word processing, or matrix multiplication, maybe prime factoring or photoshop?
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Next to my 7800gt fan I don't even hear the two raptors I have clicking away.
Anytime you have competing form factors it's an issue... heck we had a glossy/matte screen thread here just last week. Personally, it's an issue for me, but for different reasons. I want 1000+ vertical pixels. And I want a small form factor that I can easily lug around. To get a 1000+ vertical pixels in a widescreen I need to have a 15 inch screen... 14.1 is my comfort limit. So I lose in this discussion. Not exactly a huge loss though.
I like the X series with their outdoor screen option... matte, and works beautifully in direct sunlight. Not so well in indirect sunlight, but still much better than the average laptop screen.
All I know is the common forum packages utilized by the sites I visit throughout the day are much much faster. Further, the browser stays more responsive while threads load in background tabs... now if I can just get my gesture plugin working I'll probably use it exclusively.
I think Woods, Nicklaus and Palmer may have each achieved similar status in golf. I would also add Byrd to the list for basketball and Minnesota Fats for pool. Robinson for MLB and maybe you could put in Sosa/McGwire as a combo.
Just wait til you get to the multi-threaded apps or the apps where problems fade away while debugging because of the wait time you're adding. Granted the debugger is a phenomenal tool and can greatly reduce the effort and time... but it's no panacea.
a) is so often the wrong choice and can really submarine a company because they keep getting a cycle of a)'s ... every 5th release becomes a complete rewrite as the new team says "we need a refactoring of the code, no one here is familar with it and/or it's spaghetti code, just give us 5 months we'll maintain the behavior 100% and we'll clean up a lot of bugs and we promise in the future maintenance will be a breeze"
They tested two 5400RPM hybrid drives against a 7200RPM standard drive... the results are as expected. Now I do agree that if I'm going to shell out the extra cash for the hybrid I probably want the 7200 drive too... and I definitely agree that I'd wait a couple generations (dunno about years)
That's just a useless couple numbers. Was in Gucci the other day and there's a woman's sweater for ten grand and mens coats for twelve... you can find crazy expensive stuff wherever you go for either sex.
Clever! I was thinking like a web page and trying the back buttons or the context menu. Thanks.
Just me or is there no way to jump around the presentation? Or for that matter even go back a slide if you missed a slide.
Correction, it makes your character an ass... and what if your character is an ass? It's a fantasy world of good and bad and monsters and magic and blah blah blah, if no one plays the bad guy what fun will it be?
I used to play RPGs online when they were text only... and it was all about acting out a character. It wasn't supposed to be me. My character had relationships with other characters, and sometimes, offline on messages boards I would have discussions with that characters actor... but the people who assumed the characters were the real people had all sorts of odd stories about real life meetings and whatnot.
I mean sure, your real life persona spills into your character's persona on occassion. It is coming from your imagination after all, but it is a character. It's just one of the many reasons I've abandoned RPGs all together these days, everything is so personal and/or so video gamey, the characters are all gone.
Give me offline web clients and then we'll talk. I fly, I train, I have a portable modem on my cell phone, but it's not reliable enough for the train and isn't allowed when I fly. These are good times for me to send email or at least clean up my inbox... the offline features of both Thunderbird and Outlook make them very productive times for me... gmail, not so much.
Not saying that the rich web clients are great for some people, just saying there's still plenty of space for the full blown apps.
Free speech as defined by? If you're talking about the bill of rights, no it doesn't, that only applies to the government. If you're talking about Facebook TOS, it makes no promise of Free Speech. If you're talking about some great philosophical concept of Free speech, then again, it doesn't either... it just says you're free to say what you want and pay the consequences for what you've said... that consequence can even be being censored.
So, what version of Free Speech have you anthropomorphized into demanding free speech without any consequence?
So buy a keyboard with a built in trackpoint.
What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I believe the concept is same as Roswell and all the other UFO conspiracy nuts... the gov't didn't want it to be public, not couldn't manage to make it so.
What about visual cues from on screen GPS? Geesh, the constant MPG updates on my car can get distracting when traffic is especially boring.
What about cheeseburgers? Why weren't those addressed... specifically cheeseburgers with extra ketchup when you're dressed nicely for an event. It might sound like I'm making a joke, but those are incredibly distracting. I bet I could even find a study that says as much. Of course cell phones are more distracting than music and GPS voice and books on tape, because those are all either passive or related to the task of driving. Cell phone conversation is an active task so it's going to take more brain power.
This is just like software development... we need to stop being reactionary to some new fangled invention that's causing accidents and start declaring an acceptable level of distraction, then test everything and see if it's acceptable. But since people won't stop eating in their car, talking on their cell phones, or letting their dogs sit in their lap, it doesn't really matter anyway.
The treo also has the wonderful "don't make a freaking sound" slider on the top... that's the one feature I really miss having gone to the blackberry and dash.
And those're just the ones who are going to actively pursue this.
There's the other side... those who find a problem, and just don't do anything about it. Why should I go to the MS website and hunt for an hour for a link if I find an exploit? I could just forget it and move on with my life and do work which actually generates a paycheck.
Cause the parent to your post was making a joke about how all Apple's comparison charts suck... so if the original poster had seen more, he wouldn't find this one to be the worst ever. Thanks for making me explain the joke so that every ounce of humor it may ever had held can be sapped.
So it's still pathetically small... why don't they let us change that?
I dunno what you're talking about... emacs is a great performer on every system I use it on and it rarely pushes 50-60 megs.
What I'd like to know is if I can finally open my 500meg plus log files with it, I'm sick of using textpad on windows to read log files.
I like the claim that mathematical models show more than 16 cores hurt performance in most applications.
Likewise, I bet there are models that show more than 14 cores hurt performance in a super-plurality of applications. Could've you been more vague? What models, what types of applications, and most importantly why? You can use Amdahl's law to show the theoretical maximum speedup for different types of programs, and guess what, none of them go down after 16, you just flatten (essentially diminishing returns). It's true you do have communication and combination issues which can outweigh computation issues, so if you program like an idiot you can certainly hurt performance... but then just don't code like an idiot, use extra cores when you need the parallel computation, not just cause they're there.
What "most applications" are you referring to? Do multiple cores hurt word processing, or matrix multiplication, maybe prime factoring or photoshop?
Yeah, and the video of things like transferring files, you literally "throw the file" towards the device.