Though you're driving a larger screen. And I suspect a lot of the performance difference lies in things such as the memory and storage speeds. That's where a lot of the price tag difference comes from, I suspect.
As the other commenter says, you're really comparing apples to..well, sticks here. A tiny, slow device with hard power limitations is going to be fairly jerky and stuttery for many tasks. But as you also say, that doesn't mean they're not useful for a lot of stuff.
A modern Android phone or tablet is a completely different beast from your neat USB stick. Of course, the price and power requirements are completely different too. We have both Android and Apple devices aplenty at home, so I've had plenty of opportunity to compare. Overall, there's no longer much of a usability difference between them; what matters for ease of use is mostly what you're used to already.
But of course, for some tasks and some situations the openness of Android does make some things much easier on that platform.
NYC and other big cities are really big because there's a lot of people there. And there's a lot of people there because a lot of people want to live there, despite the high cost of living. Small places are small because they have few people; few people want to live there despite the low rents and open spaces.
And while "people" includes developers and engineers of course, it also includes startup founders. People will start new companies where they already live, or where they want to live. Which, for the majority of people, tend to be large cities. Especially if they have an education, already live in a large city (for attending university, for instance) or have any kind of special interests or lifestyle, or belong to some minority demographic that is better served in a large, diverse community than in a small, homogenous one.
So the "why" may have nothing to do with the relative cost of rent, network effect oar anything else. It may simply be because the founders want to live there, and enjoy mingling with like-minded people.
Video and podcasts are difficult to follow if you have bad hearing, if it's not in your first language, or if you're in an environment that makes it hard to hear clearly.
I've basically given up altogether on video presentations like this one for such reasons. If it's not important enough for you to provide a transcript, it's not worth my time to try to puzzle out what you are trying to say.
Seems OpenMP and openMPI are both available, so typical hybrid systems should at least run out of the box, though you'll of course need a fair bit of tuning to make full use of the thing. It should be less work than adapting a system for running on a GPU though.
A massive automated dragnet reiles on most data being very easy to access (whether technically or through bulk warrants). Add only moderate security to your data, and suddenly it won't be accessible in that way by default anymore. It has to be individually targeted in some manner, and that takes time and manpower that is always in short supply. So that won't happen unless there's a specific reason to target that data.
The site says it's in the Ubuntu repos, but it's not there when I look. Is it submitted and just not propagated yet, or is there a PPA I need to enable?
I like it so far, but tags and filters are mystifying.There's no documentation about them that I can find, so I really have no idea how they're supposed to be used, and I don't really have time for experimentation. I think they could potentially be very useful for marking important-seeming items in the UI or things like that?
Third this. Pushed me to finally set up my own small server at home. Set up was easy and it works quite well.
I use the official android client so far, and it's not bad. Still, I keep hoping NewsRob will come to support tt-rss as a backend at some point. That's the one thing I miss most from Google Reader.
This pushed me to finally set up a small server at home. Had been meaning to for a long time, just to learn about it, but never did. Now I have a small server with Tiny Tiny RSS running on it. Not too difficult to set up, and works really well. The Android app is not NewsRob quality but it's good enough to use on a daily basis.
Sorry; we're talking about the laptops for the memory. I guess I shouldn't have commented on both the new laptop and Cube replacement in the same post.
8GB is better, but still not exactly cutting edge. I got 16BG for my current laptop a year ago, and Id really hate to settle for less. Having two drives is also nice, but at that point I happily admit it's well and truly leaving ultrabook territory, so that would be unreasonable to ask for.
4Gb or RAM? That's really not a lot today. As for the desktop, the whole point is expandability, but that seems pretty limited with this one. Might have another Cube on our hands.
Local media cover both much more evenly, with lots of coverage about rebuilding efforts (or failures to do so), lives of survivors and so on. Asahi Shinbun even has a regular one- or two-page section dedicated to nothing else.
"Get a Galaxy Note II. You could replace both your phone and tablet."
A reasonable choice for some people. But a Note is smaller than the N7, and still too large to bring in my pocket. I, personally, prefer a two-device solution over a single compromise.
I have a Nexus 7. That's what I use for apps, email and games 95% of the time. It's light and portable, the screen is large enough to see clearly with my middle-aged eyes, and I can at least write shorter emails and stuff on it.
My Android phone, on the other hand, is mostly for receiving notifications, reading the occasional message and, now and again, making phone calls. It also acts as my tether for the N7 when I don't have other connectivity. Very occasionally I can't bring the N7 for whatever reason, and then it temporarily doubles up as my primary device; I don't expect or want to use it for everything the N7 does, as it's too frustrating and painful.
So what I would want is a companion phone. Reasonably small, so I can bring it everywhere I can't bring a tablet; and quite cheap (so I don't have to worry about dropping it or anything). It does _not_ have to do everything the N7 does. And in fact, all the critical things for me are already available as online web apps; I could live quite comfortably using only the browser interface for such a backup device even if there were no native apps at all.
It would ideally be ~3.5-4", splash and impact resistant, largish battery, and be able to offer tethering with Wifi. Actual performance specs, memory and so on really is less important. to me.
The linked article seems more than a little odd; I just checked Japan at the same place they link to, and it has an adoption rate of 3.13%, ahead of the US. So it seems the comparison is only among a restricted set of countries (the linked page has only five countries displayed), and not really relevant to much of anything.
System and numerical libraries and compilers are of course written specifically for the machine. But user-level apps (and a lot of scientific computing uses finished apps) are ported across multiple systems.
Portability is not as big an issue as it was a generation ago, as most supercomputers basically are Linux machines today, and made to more or less look like a typical Linux installation from a user-application level, with a POSIX API; pthreads, OpenMP and OpenMPI; a standard set of numerical libraries; and often even gcc-compatibility in order to minimize the effort of porting. A notable exception is GPU-based machines (that are in the minority today, despite the OP assertion); they don't have a common API to write for, so using them is substantially harder at a user-level.
And at a user level (but unike system libs) porting or coding time very much matters. Let's say your project is going to need a month of wall-clock computing time during the course of a year or two. If switching to a GPU-based system would shrink that by 50% - two weeks - then the effort to move your model code, app, and libraries had better take less than two weeks of work or you're going to waste project time, not save it.
It's a matter of politeness and consideration as much as anything else. Even if someone speaks your language near fluently, you are showing respect and committment by learning and using even a fairly limited amount of their own language. Even if you are completely butchering it (or especially if), the effort is highly appreciated.
Put it this way, would you rather make a deal with a foreign businessman that speaks only through an interpreter, or one that still needs one for the actual business, but at least honestly tries to speak english with you socially?
If you look at the bottom of the post (I know, I know) you'll find that Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Indonesian are already the highest priority, and the other languages are considered in addition to them.
Most of those rules either exempt small companies or they get reimbursed in turn by the state for the costs. In Sweden, for example, the employer pays for the first 14 days of sick leave (which is lower than your regular pay), the state covers anything beyond it. Same kind of thing with the other costs.
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Though you're driving a larger screen. And I suspect a lot of the performance difference lies in things such as the memory and storage speeds. That's where a lot of the price tag difference comes from, I suspect.
As the other commenter says, you're really comparing apples to ..well, sticks here. A tiny, slow device with hard power limitations is going to be fairly jerky and stuttery for many tasks. But as you also say, that doesn't mean they're not useful for a lot of stuff.
A modern Android phone or tablet is a completely different beast from your neat USB stick. Of course, the price and power requirements are completely different too. We have both Android and Apple devices aplenty at home, so I've had plenty of opportunity to compare. Overall, there's no longer much of a usability difference between them; what matters for ease of use is mostly what you're used to already.
But of course, for some tasks and some situations the openness of Android does make some things much easier on that platform.
Most ships need ballast anyhow. Not clear that there's any net weight penalty at all from carrying the batteries.
NYC and other big cities are really big because there's a lot of people there. And there's a lot of people there because a lot of people want to live there, despite the high cost of living. Small places are small because they have few people; few people want to live there despite the low rents and open spaces.
And while "people" includes developers and engineers of course, it also includes startup founders. People will start new companies where they already live, or where they want to live. Which, for the majority of people, tend to be large cities. Especially if they have an education, already live in a large city (for attending university, for instance) or have any kind of special interests or lifestyle, or belong to some minority demographic that is better served in a large, diverse community than in a small, homogenous one.
So the "why" may have nothing to do with the relative cost of rent, network effect oar anything else. It may simply be because the founders want to live there, and enjoy mingling with like-minded people.
Video and podcasts are difficult to follow if you have bad hearing, if it's not in your first language, or if you're in an environment that makes it hard to hear clearly.
I've basically given up altogether on video presentations like this one for such reasons. If it's not important enough for you to provide a transcript, it's not worth my time to try to puzzle out what you are trying to say.
Here's a preliminary "best practice" guide: http://www.prace-project.eu/Best-Practice-Guide-Intel-Xeon-Phi-HTML?lang=en
Seems OpenMP and openMPI are both available, so typical hybrid systems should at least run out of the box, though you'll of course need a fair bit of tuning to make full use of the thing. It should be less work than adapting a system for running on a GPU though.
A massive automated dragnet reiles on most data being very easy to access (whether technically or through bulk warrants). Add only moderate security to your data, and suddenly it won't be accessible in that way by default anymore. It has to be individually targeted in some manner, and that takes time and manpower that is always in short supply. So that won't happen unless there's a specific reason to target that data.
The site says it's in the Ubuntu repos, but it's not there when I look. Is it submitted and just not propagated yet, or is there a PPA I need to enable?
Plenty of land is available and inexpensive. Most of Japan is uninhabited. It's the land in _cities_ that is hugely expensive.
And any place will cost a fortune for visitors to visit.
I like it so far, but tags and filters are mystifying.There's no documentation about them that I can find, so I really have no idea how they're supposed to be used, and I don't really have time for experimentation. I think they could potentially be very useful for marking important-seeming items in the UI or things like that?
Third this. Pushed me to finally set up my own small server at home. Set up was easy and it works quite well.
I use the official android client so far, and it's not bad. Still, I keep hoping NewsRob will come to support tt-rss as a backend at some point. That's the one thing I miss most from Google Reader.
Depends on the number of entries in the feed file. For infrequently updated places the XML feed can go back months.
This pushed me to finally set up a small server at home. Had been meaning to for a long time, just to learn about it, but never did. Now I have a small server with Tiny Tiny RSS running on it. Not too difficult to set up, and works really well. The Android app is not NewsRob quality but it's good enough to use on a daily basis.
Sorry; we're talking about the laptops for the memory. I guess I shouldn't have commented on both the new laptop and Cube replacement in the same post.
8GB is better, but still not exactly cutting edge. I got 16BG for my current laptop a year ago, and Id really hate to settle for less. Having two drives is also nice, but at that point I happily admit it's well and truly leaving ultrabook territory, so that would be unreasonable to ask for.
4Gb or RAM? That's really not a lot today. As for the desktop, the whole point is expandability, but that seems pretty limited with this one. Might have another Cube on our hands.
Local media cover both much more evenly, with lots of coverage about rebuilding efforts (or failures to do so), lives of survivors and so on. Asahi Shinbun even has a regular one- or two-page section dedicated to nothing else.
And meanwhile, foreign media all but ignore the close to 20 000 dead from the tsunami; that was the real disaster.
"Get a Galaxy Note II. You could replace both your phone and tablet."
A reasonable choice for some people. But a Note is smaller than the N7, and still too large to bring in my pocket. I, personally, prefer a two-device solution over a single compromise.
Here's my possible use-case for it:
I have a Nexus 7. That's what I use for apps, email and games 95% of the time. It's light and portable, the screen is large enough to see clearly with my middle-aged eyes, and I can at least write shorter emails and stuff on it.
My Android phone, on the other hand, is mostly for receiving notifications, reading the occasional message and, now and again, making phone calls. It also acts as my tether for the N7 when I don't have other connectivity. Very occasionally I can't bring the N7 for whatever reason, and then it temporarily doubles up as my primary device; I don't expect or want to use it for everything the N7 does, as it's too frustrating and painful.
So what I would want is a companion phone. Reasonably small, so I can bring it everywhere I can't bring a tablet; and quite cheap (so I don't have to worry about dropping it or anything). It does _not_ have to do everything the N7 does. And in fact, all the critical things for me are already available as online web apps; I could live quite comfortably using only the browser interface for such a backup device even if there were no native apps at all.
It would ideally be ~3.5-4", splash and impact resistant, largish battery, and be able to offer tethering with Wifi. Actual performance specs, memory and so on really is less important. to me.
The linked article seems more than a little odd; I just checked Japan at the same place they link to, and it has an adoption rate of 3.13%, ahead of the US. So it seems the comparison is only among a restricted set of countries (the linked page has only five countries displayed), and not really relevant to much of anything.
System and numerical libraries and compilers are of course written specifically for the machine. But user-level apps (and a lot of scientific computing uses finished apps) are ported across multiple systems.
Portability is not as big an issue as it was a generation ago, as most supercomputers basically are Linux machines today, and made to more or less look like a typical Linux installation from a user-application level, with a POSIX API; pthreads, OpenMP and OpenMPI; a standard set of numerical libraries; and often even gcc-compatibility in order to minimize the effort of porting. A notable exception is GPU-based machines (that are in the minority today, despite the OP assertion); they don't have a common API to write for, so using them is substantially harder at a user-level.
And at a user level (but unike system libs) porting or coding time very much matters. Let's say your project is going to need a month of wall-clock computing time during the course of a year or two. If switching to a GPU-based system would shrink that by 50% - two weeks - then the effort to move your model code, app, and libraries had better take less than two weeks of work or you're going to waste project time, not save it.
It's a matter of politeness and consideration as much as anything else. Even if someone speaks your language near fluently, you are showing respect and committment by learning and using even a fairly limited amount of their own language. Even if you are completely butchering it (or especially if), the effort is highly appreciated.
Put it this way, would you rather make a deal with a foreign businessman that speaks only through an interpreter, or one that still needs one for the actual business, but at least honestly tries to speak english with you socially?
If you look at the bottom of the post (I know, I know) you'll find that Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Indonesian are already the highest priority, and the other languages are considered in addition to them.
Most of those rules either exempt small companies or they get reimbursed in turn by the state for the costs. In Sweden, for example, the employer pays for the first 14 days of sick leave (which is lower than your regular pay), the state covers anything beyond it. Same kind of thing with the other costs.