I would be a bit surprised if GSM goes away anytime soon. Most of the world is still on it, not even on 3G/UMTS - I expcet this one to go away sooner, replaced with LTE when all handsets (used by those who care about bandwith) will have it.
But GSM...it looks like one of those "good enough" things, especially if you want to maintain wide coverage.
Why do you assume at all that "figuring out how the universe works" involves teleportation and FTL / time travel? (that said, sure, there is money in those things...already; via scifi works)
Yeah, makes one wonder, considering how many of the most powerful economic entities (of various kinds) have huge financial interest in disregarding AGW...
"...like an old lady krossing the street. Now it's more like the kar racing away after running over the old lady. -- "If I'd asKed my kustomers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." ~ Henry Ford"
Well, that "common sense. Don't buy the latest stuff, as there's always a premium there. Wait a while, and the prices come down" is what it is all about. Get something nice, perfectly good enough & inexpensive, now; wait a while, and the prices for much better things come down (and new things could also be available; either way just in time for the software which might make good use of the upgrade)
For various values of "a while" of course...but why hurry?
By that logic, it's pointless to buy (new) quad, six, or octa cores - after all, the most it will do is just cripple the memory and bus bandwiths, in comparison to what a simple (new) dualcore would get from a given (new) mobo.
Negligible? Just by glancing at catalogue here (FYI, also in Europe...) - sure, the bottom of the line boards are pretty much the same, but even at this pricepoint AMD gives notably better overall performance; when moving slightly higher, AMD oferrings start to destroy Intel ones thanks to much better GFX at this point. For somewhat comparable GFX from Intel (in i-series), the price increase becomes much more notable / 2x from the level at which we started (funny, weren't motherboards supposed to be cheaper now that GFX is in the CPU?)
Your talk, like that, about "race to bottom" or "why not trash what you have by the next upgrade?" is almost ingrate - sure, might not matter much to priviledged you, but matters to the world at large. There's somewhat more than 1 billion PCs out there - a lot of them old, and certainly still not available for everyone who'd want and could find a use from one (looking at mobile phone uptake, at close to 5 billion subscribers, gives a good idea...). Accidentally, AMD is notably more popular in "lesser" places among "lesser" people. It's a race to more. And Fusion will get interesting (look up recent demo from Computex; and remember it was run by the netbook / small laptop version)
Hm, I guess one PC of my buddy, with AM2 board, apparently running for a few months with Phenom II X4, is some damn good practical joke, eh?
And n-cores have prices pretty much determined via "multiply the price of one core in a dualcore CPU of similar clockspeed", and only for around a year, that's not what most of the world would call "not too expensive" even now, nvm "in the last few years"... Seriously, via what twists do you justify that buying something nice, but with an option of easily and inexpensively getting something much nicer (like...a CPUs which don't even exist now - cheap quadcore -> cheap octacore will be a nice upgrade, and at time when software will better utilise is), is "the wrong choice"?
Yeah, for a long time...and with incompatible (but mechanically identical...) versions. Go ahead, try and put some Core arch CPU into P4 era motherboard.
And 940 was mostly a server socket, a bit different realities.
Practically certain with popular boards (easy with "price search" services, they typically let you sort product categories by popularity) from big manufacturers; the ones which were always better to buy anyway.
The memory penalty argument can't really stand to much scrutiny - if it were such a big deal / making the whole thing not worthwile, there would be no point in buying new 6-core CPU vs. a new 2-core one, on a completelly "pristine" build, which slashes the bandwith per core by 3 already.
Accidentally, video encoding is pretty much the only semi-common task left where you want as much processing power as possible (within the constraints of given budget of course)
Scientists willing to tackle AGW (especially in one particular way...) can also go for funding to fossil fuel energy companies BTW; entities very interested in the results of such research, and one of the biggest and most powerful around. Or to some transnational organisations with deep pockets, controlling said industry...
How the above is not exactly happening (certainly as far as any results go), on the contrary - energy companies are more and more accepting of AGW, is one of the better things showing validity of the idea.
If only some of those grocery stores didn't often carry few fruits/etc. of almost the same kind...with small drawings on the buttons representing each kind of fruit, but it's not clear at all which one is which.
Oh well, might just as well push the least expensive one...
PS. And generally, TFA is your citattion (...for something I didn't exactly said) - apparently they specifically tried to determine how much the rising obesity levels influence uptake of larger cars.
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I would be a bit surprised if GSM goes away anytime soon. Most of the world is still on it, not even on 3G/UMTS - I expcet this one to go away sooner, replaced with LTE when all handsets (used by those who care about bandwith) will have it.
But GSM...it looks like one of those "good enough" things, especially if you want to maintain wide coverage.
You can't be tracked if the phone is turned off... (heck, it doesn't even need to have a SIM card; still useful in emergency situations)
It's what spawned Webkit; which in turn is the most mature modern browser engine available on current Amigas, you know...
Why do you assume at all that "figuring out how the universe works" involves teleportation and FTL / time travel? (that said, sure, there is money in those things...already; via scifi works)
Yeah, makes one wonder, considering how many of the most powerful economic entities (of various kinds) have huge financial interest in disregarding AGW...
It's doing fine in China.
"...like an old lady krossing the street. Now it's more like the kar racing away after running over the old lady.
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"If I'd asKed my kustomers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." ~ Henry Ford"
^fixed...
Well, that "common sense. Don't buy the latest stuff, as there's always a premium there. Wait a while, and the prices come down" is what it is all about. Get something nice, perfectly good enough & inexpensive, now; wait a while, and the prices for much better things come down (and new things could also be available; either way just in time for the software which might make good use of the upgrade)
For various values of "a while" of course...but why hurry?
By that logic, it's pointless to buy (new) quad, six, or octa cores - after all, the most it will do is just cripple the memory and bus bandwiths, in comparison to what a simple (new) dualcore would get from a given (new) mobo.
And if you only knew what things I have read...
Negligible? Just by glancing at catalogue here (FYI, also in Europe...) - sure, the bottom of the line boards are pretty much the same, but even at this pricepoint AMD gives notably better overall performance; when moving slightly higher, AMD oferrings start to destroy Intel ones thanks to much better GFX at this point. For somewhat comparable GFX from Intel (in i-series), the price increase becomes much more notable / 2x from the level at which we started (funny, weren't motherboards supposed to be cheaper now that GFX is in the CPU?)
Your talk, like that, about "race to bottom" or "why not trash what you have by the next upgrade?" is almost ingrate - sure, might not matter much to priviledged you, but matters to the world at large. There's somewhat more than 1 billion PCs out there - a lot of them old, and certainly still not available for everyone who'd want and could find a use from one (looking at mobile phone uptake, at close to 5 billion subscribers, gives a good idea...). Accidentally, AMD is notably more popular in "lesser" places among "lesser" people. It's a race to more.
And Fusion will get interesting (look up recent demo from Computex; and remember it was run by the netbook / small laptop version)
Hm, I guess one PC of my buddy, with AM2 board, apparently running for a few months with Phenom II X4, is some damn good practical joke, eh?
And n-cores have prices pretty much determined via "multiply the price of one core in a dualcore CPU of similar clockspeed", and only for around a year, that's not what most of the world would call "not too expensive" even now, nvm "in the last few years"...
Seriously, via what twists do you justify that buying something nice, but with an option of easily and inexpensively getting something much nicer (like...a CPUs which don't even exist now - cheap quadcore -> cheap octacore will be a nice upgrade, and at time when software will better utilise is), is "the wrong choice"?
Yeah, for a long time...and with incompatible (but mechanically identical...) versions. Go ahead, try and put some Core arch CPU into P4 era motherboard.
And 940 was mostly a server socket, a bit different realities.
Practically certain with popular boards (easy with "price search" services, they typically let you sort product categories by popularity) from big manufacturers; the ones which were always better to buy anyway.
"Few snowflakes" might be better...
The memory penalty argument can't really stand to much scrutiny - if it were such a big deal / making the whole thing not worthwile, there would be no point in buying new 6-core CPU vs. a new 2-core one, on a completelly "pristine" build, which slashes the bandwith per core by 3 already.
Accidentally, video encoding is pretty much the only semi-common task left where you want as much processing power as possible (within the constraints of given budget of course)
What I want to know is why we don't see "COMMUNISM!!!" in regards to the US military, highway system / car industry and airlines... (to name a few)
Scientists willing to tackle AGW (especially in one particular way...) can also go for funding to fossil fuel energy companies BTW; entities very interested in the results of such research, and one of the biggest and most powerful around. Or to some transnational organisations with deep pockets, controlling said industry...
How the above is not exactly happening (certainly as far as any results go), on the contrary - energy companies are more and more accepting of AGW, is one of the better things showing validity of the idea.
Also, remember tobacco industry?
How are societies not (also) a reflection of individuals forming them?
I don't see how this way of bootstrapping Stallman into phones could work - how will ge answer the first call?
(yes, yes, POTS - but I imagine you have to search nowadays to find a phone which doesn't have some closed firmware)
...box cutters, banning them ... just made it much more troublesome for the many honest airline passengers
I can't help but wonder - how? (especially "many")
And you know, India is the biggest democracy around...
Why would they leave themselves out of such game? (warning: pdf)
If only some of those grocery stores didn't often carry few fruits/etc. of almost the same kind...with small drawings on the buttons representing each kind of fruit, but it's not clear at all which one is which.
Oh well, might just as well push the least expensive one...
And I used mysterious grammatical constructs inculding "I" or "me"...you were trying to say something about reading comprehension?
Gey, it's not like you were trying to say something about fatties in general, isn't it?
PS. And generally, TFA is your citattion (...for something I didn't exactly said) - apparently they specifically tried to determine how much the rising obesity levels influence uptake of larger cars.