Also, there is caching, and also, some loads are heavy on longish FPU operations.
So... it doesn't quite work out that way. Also, multicore designs can have separate memory.
One example of multicore design that's both interesting and functional are the various vector processor graphics cores. Lots of em in there; and they get to do a lot of useful work you couldn't really do any other way with similar clock speeds and process tech.
Well, I cherry picked the high end devices, yes -- because they were sold claiming the feature sets that were compelling. Now, the fact that those feature sets were incomplete, and/or buggy, and/or mischaracterized... that's something I didn't pick. But it's been very consistent, and the higher end the device, the more consistent it's been.
It just sounds like you do business with shitty companies.
Well, Canon for the camera. Marantz for the pre-pro. Kenwood for the radio. I totally agree they are shitty companies. And they won't be getting any more of my money. It's not like I can't learn.
The bottom line is, these devices have, and were sold trumpeting, the mechanisms that would allow them to be fixed and/or improved. They aren't fixed, and they surely aren't improved in any significant way. I'm just reporting it, and drawing a general (and accurate) conclusion about considering "network upgradable" to be anything more than marketing hype.
You don't like what I'm saying, okay, more power to you. I'm still saying it, though. And I'm still right, so there's that.:)
These companies already have your money, so updating a device that's already been sold is a needless expense. There's also a good argument to be made that updating a device hurts future sales. If your phone isn't updated, it will start to feel old, so you're more likely to buy a new phone sooner.
Yes. I have a high-end preamp-processor, updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. I have a high-end camera. Updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. I have a high-end radio transceiver. Updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. And so on.
The whole "we can update your device" bit is a scam (and often, so is the "we can update your software" bit.) The only way a corporation is likely to actually update hardware responsibly is if legislation forces them to. And good luck trying to get THAT in place when corporations outright buy the decisions of the legislatures.
Sure. Any transport method that is used instead of another is competition. Walking, bicycles, private cars, motorcycles, skateboards, Segways, busses, subways, jitneys, hansoms, taxis, limos, Uber... all competitors that reduce opportunity for the others.
Anyway, the story is that Uber's earnings will be garnished to subsidize taxis. I wonder, would people approve if their bicycles and cars and so on were taxed specifically to subsidize taxis and/or other transportation methods?
It's fascinating to see the "this business has a right to exist, workable business model or not" attitude arise in a new space, and to watch the politicians be bought and sold accordingly.
If we all had smart-phones 100 years ago, today's taxi regulations (and the various boards enforcing them) would not have been created. Which means, it is time for them to be abolished.
I am so with you. No more smart-phones! BURN THEM! BURN THEM ALL!
Soon, teenagers might begin speaking to one another again; dress in ways that attract the eye; undertake outdoor activities other than "find that Pokemon"; and play games that develop co-ordination of more than their hands, develop whole-body muscle-tone, maybe even ask each other for dates with, you know, actual speech and eye contact. Maybe even kiss!
Nah, never happen. Bring on the VR hoods and nerve stimulators. Soon, "my teenager's in the cloud" will be a common parent's lament, and the most common teenage problem will be bedsores.:)
Zen's initial availability is slated for late this year, with lager-scale roll-out planned for early 2017.
You know, although a tank lager looks big from the outside, there are usually no more than a hundred or so tanks in one. So this doesn't seem like a very large rollout.
On the other hand, if one of the tanks rolled over the editor(s), that would be a service to humanity.
Ads can be good. They can enable commerce and content. Responsible advertising contains a combination of three things: a still image, and/or text, and a link. IOW: an HREF element, and within that, an IMG element and/or perhaps (preferably) some textual content. No scripts other than what's required to actually serve the ad, no videos, no animations, no scraping of user-specific information.
Anything/everything else is abuse.
Remember when Google was all about text ads?
Google's ethics cancer took care of that. For myself, I don't see many ads any longer. The status quo is to attempt to abuse me; fine. The status quo on this end is to block ads.
...they can have my money for another console if and when they abandon this incredibly toxic and annoying "cloud"-based approach to gaming. I am NOT going to spend money on a console that inherits the unacceptable shortcomings of the XB One. Put the games on disk, sell the disc, let me stick the disc in the machine. it should work. It should NOT go into a paroxysm of download after download at the game and system and add-on level. I have literally watched a NEW game take HOURS to become usable on the XB One. Wrong direction, Microsoft (and Sony, and whoever.) I pay, I stick it in the console, and it works. Otherwise, no thanks. My time is worth more than your bleeding cloud-mania.
Are the chargers smart enough to delay charging until night?
This is a very minor technical issue; so far, it's not been something anyone really has to pay attention to. When it becomes a problem, building timers into chargers isn't a serious technical challenge.
At present, some chargers have timers; in addition, you can monitor some by wifi, etc. A little googling will tell you all you need to know about this.
millions of homes are heated by electricity in the winter. On a cold January night the grid could very easily be overloaded.
Power grid on winter days heats and drives industry, shops, etc. At night, it heats, while most industrial activity falls off. Lots of room for EV charging there.
That won't be true once you're charging millions of vehicles overnight.
Well, that's the point, isn't it -- use the power to charge those vehicles instead of having all that spinning hardware doing less than it could.
And of course we can add more power: solar can add hugely to the current power base. Prices are dropping very fast; ROI is down from 20 years to 2-3 years. I have a solar system here, and it has already paid for itself, and is well along in reducing my utility bills with every bit of power it generates.
Ok, lets NOT talk about a power grid that would be completely overwhelmed and collapse without billions in investment..
The power grid is very lightly used at night. That's the sane time to charge most vehicles, and to buffer energy for the following day. There's no power grid problem in the sense of "not enough power." It's a logistics issue.
I grew up in the mid west, where winter temperatures frequently spend weeks in the below zero range - battery efficiency simply doesn't work well enough there... so cross off 1/3 of the country..
Technology issue, presently unsolved -- but ultracaps can provide the temperature extents and service life if and when they get them into an energy storage / size / weight range needed. Remains to be seen if this can be done, but odds seem pretty good that it can from my POV, given progress to date. That's an IMHO, of course.
Thanks, but no. It was a little pixelated character moving over a vast-ish landscape. Had some very basic, but very spacey and moody, procedural background music. I've been trying to think of it on and off ever since I saw this post. Drawing a blank. Sigh. Old.
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I'm waiting for the lawsuit where one of their laptops is so thin it slices up a user's hand.
Also, there is caching, and also, some loads are heavy on longish FPU operations.
So... it doesn't quite work out that way. Also, multicore designs can have separate memory.
One example of multicore design that's both interesting and functional are the various vector processor graphics cores. Lots of em in there; and they get to do a lot of useful work you couldn't really do any other way with similar clock speeds and process tech.
You put an extra space in your quote. Editing fail.
No, it's ok. You have to shit *and* piss his pants. It's two-factor authorization.
Well, I cherry picked the high end devices, yes -- because they were sold claiming the feature sets that were compelling. Now, the fact that those feature sets were incomplete, and/or buggy, and/or mischaracterized... that's something I didn't pick. But it's been very consistent, and the higher end the device, the more consistent it's been.
Well, Canon for the camera. Marantz for the pre-pro. Kenwood for the radio. I totally agree they are shitty companies. And they won't be getting any more of my money. It's not like I can't learn.
The bottom line is, these devices have, and were sold trumpeting, the mechanisms that would allow them to be fixed and/or improved. They aren't fixed, and they surely aren't improved in any significant way. I'm just reporting it, and drawing a general (and accurate) conclusion about considering "network upgradable" to be anything more than marketing hype.
You don't like what I'm saying, okay, more power to you. I'm still saying it, though. And I'm still right, so there's that. :)
Yep.
Yes. I have a high-end preamp-processor, updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. I have a high-end camera. Updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. I have a high-end radio transceiver. Updatable over the net. Plenty of bugs. Did they ever fix them, much less add new features? No. Did they release a new model? Yes. And so on.
The whole "we can update your device" bit is a scam (and often, so is the "we can update your software" bit.) The only way a corporation is likely to actually update hardware responsibly is if legislation forces them to. And good luck trying to get THAT in place when corporations outright buy the decisions of the legislatures.
I know, right? I keep telling them those are MY Pokemon, but the little bastards are always there first...
Sure. Any transport method that is used instead of another is competition. Walking, bicycles, private cars, motorcycles, skateboards, Segways, busses, subways, jitneys, hansoms, taxis, limos, Uber... all competitors that reduce opportunity for the others.
Anyway, the story is that Uber's earnings will be garnished to subsidize taxis. I wonder, would people approve if their bicycles and cars and so on were taxed specifically to subsidize taxis and/or other transportation methods?
It's fascinating to see the "this business has a right to exist, workable business model or not" attitude arise in a new space, and to watch the politicians be bought and sold accordingly.
I am so with you. No more smart-phones! BURN THEM! BURN THEM ALL!
Soon, teenagers might begin speaking to one another again; dress in ways that attract the eye; undertake outdoor activities other than "find that Pokemon"; and play games that develop co-ordination of more than their hands, develop whole-body muscle-tone, maybe even ask each other for dates with, you know, actual speech and eye contact. Maybe even kiss!
Nah, never happen. Bring on the VR hoods and nerve stimulators. Soon, "my teenager's in the cloud" will be a common parent's lament, and the most common teenage problem will be bedsores. :)
Oh, come now. You don't think that Intel has actually achieved a reasonable yield in their manufacturing processes, do you? That's unpossible.
You know, although a tank lager looks big from the outside, there are usually no more than a hundred or so tanks in one. So this doesn't seem like a very large rollout.
On the other hand, if one of the tanks rolled over the editor(s), that would be a service to humanity.
Okay, granted. Then no more support.
You're one of those who are against the LJBT* community, aren't you?
*(Lossy JPEGs Bereft of Transparency)
Ads can be good. They can enable commerce and content. Responsible advertising contains a combination of three things: a still image, and/or text, and a link. IOW: an HREF element, and within that, an IMG element and/or perhaps (preferably) some textual content. No scripts other than what's required to actually serve the ad, no videos, no animations, no scraping of user-specific information.
Anything/everything else is abuse.
Remember when Google was all about text ads?
Google's ethics cancer took care of that. For myself, I don't see many ads any longer. The status quo is to attempt to abuse me; fine. The status quo on this end is to block ads.
Perhaps so. Assuming that's the case, though, I see no imperative -- at any level -- to support shitty product development.
Gaming is a positive recreational activity. I don't mind putting time in; I get an improved mental state out.
Waiting hours for what you so blithely term a "patch" is not a positive recreational activity. Therefore, I decline.
My connection is 30/5. Hardly a "terrible" connection. Until you try to shove gigabytes down it, of course.
Wrong. My earlier consoles continue to work fine. I've gone post-buying new consoles, which is something else entirely.
...they can have my money for another console if and when they abandon this incredibly toxic and annoying "cloud"-based approach to gaming. I am NOT going to spend money on a console that inherits the unacceptable shortcomings of the XB One. Put the games on disk, sell the disc, let me stick the disc in the machine. it should work. It should NOT go into a paroxysm of download after download at the game and system and add-on level. I have literally watched a NEW game take HOURS to become usable on the XB One. Wrong direction, Microsoft (and Sony, and whoever.) I pay, I stick it in the console, and it works. Otherwise, no thanks. My time is worth more than your bleeding cloud-mania.
This is a very minor technical issue; so far, it's not been something anyone really has to pay attention to. When it becomes a problem, building timers into chargers isn't a serious technical challenge.
At present, some chargers have timers; in addition, you can monitor some by wifi, etc. A little googling will tell you all you need to know about this.
Power grid on winter days heats and drives industry, shops, etc. At night, it heats, while most industrial activity falls off. Lots of room for EV charging there.
Well, that's the point, isn't it -- use the power to charge those vehicles instead of having all that spinning hardware doing less than it could.
And of course we can add more power: solar can add hugely to the current power base. Prices are dropping very fast; ROI is down from 20 years to 2-3 years. I have a solar system here, and it has already paid for itself, and is well along in reducing my utility bills with every bit of power it generates.
Keep in mind that for most drivers, they don't need a "full tank" equivalent charge every night, or even most nights. Average number of miles driven per driver in the US is about 29 miles a day. So the power requirements are considerably less than full charge restoration.
Air conditioning load drops considerably at night.
Storage can leverage low-use times into high use times. Storage is under very rapid development.
And so on.
No. It was a spacey mood, run-across-a-landscape thing with background music of slowish notes that constantly mutated.
The power grid is very lightly used at night. That's the sane time to charge most vehicles, and to buffer energy for the following day. There's no power grid problem in the sense of "not enough power." It's a logistics issue.
Technology issue, presently unsolved -- but ultracaps can provide the temperature extents and service life if and when they get them into an energy storage / size / weight range needed. Remains to be seen if this can be done, but odds seem pretty good that it can from my POV, given progress to date. That's an IMHO, of course.
No, not that one either.
very early. a1000 time frame.
Thanks, but no. It was a little pixelated character moving over a vast-ish landscape. Had some very basic, but very spacey and moody, procedural background music. I've been trying to think of it on and off ever since I saw this post. Drawing a blank. Sigh. Old.
One very early Amiga game had generated / algorithmic music... can't recall the name... Anyone?
...I didn't say they were. :)