As it often happens on/. the summary is not correct.
In the linked article: "Bing's freshness -- search quality in terms of freshness -- is at least on par with Google" and "Shum believes that Bing has finally reached a point where it can compete with Google on a technical level".
Google still indexes a lot more websites (enter some rare keywords and Google will give you up to five times more results than Bing), and it allows quoted queries which sometimes allow you to find information much much faster.
I've read at least twice that throughout its latest history (the last ten years) AMD managed to create only two new CPU architectures, K8 and Bulldozer.
All AMD CPUs between K8 and Bulldozer are more or less the same design, and that fact alone explains that even Phenom2 CPUs offer modest improvement in IPC and power consumption over original Athlon64 CPUs which were released over 8 (!) years ago. All these CPUs share the same functional blocks, the same cache hierarchy, the same number of core blocks, etc.
Meanwhile during this time Intel has gone through Merom, Conroe, Wolfdale, Kentsfield, Arrandale, Clarkdale, Lynnfield... the list goes on and on. Every 2-3 years Intel offers some radical improvements which made Intel the king of the hill since the advent of the Core 2 architecture.
Also we have to bear in mind that Intel's R&D's budget equals AMD's entire revenue, and since the x86 architecture is one of the most complicated computing architectures (at least from what I've heard), maybe the fact that AMD is always trailing Intel CPUs is that AMD just lacks resources to innovate and invent (actually resources are there but senior managers in AMD have indiscreet bonuses and salaries which means they don't have as many talented engineers as e.g. Intel can easily afford).
I've read several times that Intel CPUs cost a little over $30 to manufacture, so don't think of Intel as Maecenas. Of course, they are lowering their profits by doing this, but they also give a lot more people the incentive and opportunity to overclock without fearing consequences like burnt $1000 CPUs.
A few years ago I read that cloned animals have the same age as their originals (right from the birth), thus cloning even middle aged animals becomes less attractive financially as clones have a substantially short(er) life span.
I wonder how soon we will see the posts asking how to recover information from IDE drives - most modern motherboards lack this interface and in a few years IDE will be entirely abandoned (at least in the consumer oriented market).
My relatives live in the countryside and Internet access speed via a GSM network is abysmal (I'm talking solely about G2/Edge traffic) - around 4-6KB/sec vs theoretical limit of ~14KB/sec. Also access is very intermittent.
Is there a simple working solution (like the one outlined in this article) of boosting GSM connectivity for a 3G modem (which, alas, works only in 2G mode, since 3G masts are too far away).
Now, according to Apple's lawyers, if you ever worked for Apple, then your subsequent inventions for other companies may also very well belong to Apple:
In amongst the ITC court papers in the recent HTC versus Apple spat is an argument which claims that Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android framework while working at Apple, hence infringing an Apple API patent.
This means that Android started at Apple, just by virtue of the fact that one of its former employees happened to have invented it. If this logic was applied, it would mean that it did not matter where an employee worked in their life all their inventions would be legally owned by the first company they worked for.
It's a bit sad they haven't tested betas of Firefox, IE and Chrome.
E.g. Firefox 7 includes some memory usage optimizations which could easily halve its memory usage under the stress test Tom's Hardware guys carried out.
Usually only computer enthusiasts buy high end Intel CPUs, many of them buy these CPUs for overclocking and setting performance records.
These people have never installed stock Intel coolers, so this decision made by Intel seems like a no-brainer to me. Besides with 180W TDP many will install water cooling kits which allow noise free operation and increased overclockability.
The widespread use of pirated copies of the former and the latter's better security.
I attribute it mainly to the fact that Windows 7 by defaultt at least includes a basic AV software (Windows Defender) whereas Windows XP has none.
And don't mention UAC, please - most people either ignore it and answer YES to all its alerts or disable it altogether right after the installation.
And no, "pirated" versions of Windows XP (most of them are just a VLK version with a valid serial key included) have nothing to do with Windows XP security or lack of it.
Using public WiFi spots is a much more dangerous issue, since a lot of websites still don't employ SSL encryption of the traffic and your POP3/IMAP/HTTP credentials can be easily eavesdropped.
Like it's mentioned earlier not storing passwords in an open or reverse encryptable form is not possible, since your Android device has to supply plain text password to many Internet servers.
Oh, and my customers are local police & highway patrol type organizations, most likely running an aged Windows box (probably IE6, too)
It seems like you need to code something using MSHTML (or hire someone who can do that for you). Almost all modern standards compliant HTML/JS engines have quite indecent memory requirements - and from your words I can conclude your clients PCs may have very weak configurations.
Why was this comment rated funny? Or funny has become another name for "insightful"?
KDE4 memory requirements are ridiculous, by default it even runs a fully fledged DB instance (MySQL to be precise).
Gnome3 developers have decided that everyone has stable bug free OpenGL compliant GPU drivers, not to mention that Gnome3 totally breaks the whole DE paradigm, for instance requiring four mouse clicks for things you could do with two in the past, and depriving the user of any means of customizing your desktop and using it as a files storage. I don't even want to recall the fact that you no longer can minimize/maximize applications windows.
I don't like the summary - from the article: A Chinese high-speed train derailed Saturday when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 16 people.
Still I don't understand all the details of the situation.
Phoronix guys weren't able to improve power usage by more than 15% even on this laptop, so it's not a big issue anyway.
15% from 6hours make it roughly one hour so I cannot say this issue is really minor. I'd even dare to say that every such detail does count since most hardware vendors tailor their products exclusively for Windows and the fact that Linux even works is a wonder.
And please don't judge Phoronix harshly. It's one of a very few websites which actually drive Linux development. Yes, Michael likes sensational style, but then again he wants to eat, buy hardware to test Linux on, pay for other people's work.
My stance is it's always better to be safe than sorry, so even thought there's no conclusive evidence that cell phones are harmful, it's not that difficult to reduce their usage or use them hands-free.
Besides, I like this citation very much:
"The CTIA keeps saying what they've said since 1993, which is that studies conclusively show that there's nothing to worry about. Well, let me tell you something: They do not conclusively show that. The few independent studies that are out there indicate that there's a problem. Most of the other studies have been sponsored by industry."
Meanwhile there are ever bigger problems than this one, like e.g. food quality degradation and abundance of food additives which alter our bodies in unpredictable ways.
I'm not a biologist (and I almost failed biology classes in my school years) but if I'm not mistaken the evolution didn't mix toad genes with crops genes - and that's what scientists sometimes do.
Humans' digestive system is perfectly capable of digesting the things we used to eat in the past, but I somehow doubt that genetically modified crops are absolutely safe for us - alas, an average Joe will never find out if fruits or vegetables on his table are genetically altered.
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As it often happens on /. the summary is not correct.
In the linked article: "Bing's freshness -- search quality in terms of freshness -- is at least on par with Google" and "Shum believes that Bing has finally reached a point where it can compete with Google on a technical level".
Google still indexes a lot more websites (enter some rare keywords and Google will give you up to five times more results than Bing), and it allows quoted queries which sometimes allow you to find information much much faster.
I've read at least twice that throughout its latest history (the last ten years) AMD managed to create only two new CPU architectures, K8 and Bulldozer.
All AMD CPUs between K8 and Bulldozer are more or less the same design, and that fact alone explains that even Phenom2 CPUs offer modest improvement in IPC and power consumption over original Athlon64 CPUs which were released over 8 (!) years ago. All these CPUs share the same functional blocks, the same cache hierarchy, the same number of core blocks, etc.
Meanwhile during this time Intel has gone through Merom, Conroe, Wolfdale, Kentsfield, Arrandale, Clarkdale, Lynnfield ... the list goes on and on. Every 2-3 years Intel offers some radical improvements which made Intel the king of the hill since the advent of the Core 2 architecture.
Also we have to bear in mind that Intel's R&D's budget equals AMD's entire revenue, and since the x86 architecture is one of the most complicated computing architectures (at least from what I've heard), maybe the fact that AMD is always trailing Intel CPUs is that AMD just lacks resources to innovate and invent (actually resources are there but senior managers in AMD have indiscreet bonuses and salaries which means they don't have as many talented engineers as e.g. Intel can easily afford).
I've read several times that Intel CPUs cost a little over $30 to manufacture, so don't think of Intel as Maecenas. Of course, they are lowering their profits by doing this, but they also give a lot more people the incentive and opportunity to overclock without fearing consequences like burnt $1000 CPUs.
I wonder why Seagate chose to slash their warranty even though its plants weren't affected by the floods.
A few years ago I read that cloned animals have the same age as their originals (right from the birth), thus cloning even middle aged animals becomes less attractive financially as clones have a substantially short(er) life span.
Is this fact still valid?
I wonder how soon we will see the posts asking how to recover information from IDE drives - most modern motherboards lack this interface and in a few years IDE will be entirely abandoned (at least in the consumer oriented market).
My relatives live in the countryside and Internet access speed via a GSM network is abysmal (I'm talking solely about G2/Edge traffic) - around 4-6KB/sec vs theoretical limit of ~14KB/sec. Also access is very intermittent.
Is there a simple working solution (like the one outlined in this article) of boosting GSM connectivity for a 3G modem (which, alas, works only in 2G mode, since 3G masts are too far away).
If cannot live without The Register, put into your hosts file
Linux: /etc/hosts
Windows: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
these two lines:
72.3.246.59 theregister.co.uk
72.3.246.59 www.theregister.co.uk
And the summary of the article is apparently wrong, someone stole/hacked into TheRegister DNS zone, TheRegister www servers are intact.
It's a bit sad they haven't tested betas of Firefox, IE and Chrome.
E.g. Firefox 7 includes some memory usage optimizations which could easily halve its memory usage under the stress test Tom's Hardware guys carried out.
I still think there's zero need for actual humans to fly to Mars until we terraform it.
Usually only computer enthusiasts buy high end Intel CPUs, many of them buy these CPUs for overclocking and setting performance records.
These people have never installed stock Intel coolers, so this decision made by Intel seems like a no-brainer to me. Besides with 180W TDP many will install water cooling kits which allow noise free operation and increased overclockability.
Firefox 6 has been already released unofficially (i.e. files are available, the announcement hasn't been yet made).
The widespread use of pirated copies of the former and the latter's better security.
I attribute it mainly to the fact that Windows 7 by defaultt at least includes a basic AV software (Windows Defender) whereas Windows XP has none.
And don't mention UAC, please - most people either ignore it and answer YES to all its alerts or disable it altogether right after the installation.
And no, "pirated" versions of Windows XP (most of them are just a VLK version with a valid serial key included) have nothing to do with Windows XP security or lack of it.
A very good article about ... nothing.
Ah, sorry, Symantec is good for you! how could I have missed that?
What about 20% or so Windows PCs infected with malware? Does this law means their owners should be indicted immediately?
Using public WiFi spots is a much more dangerous issue, since a lot of websites still don't employ SSL encryption of the traffic and your POP3/IMAP/HTTP credentials can be easily eavesdropped.
Like it's mentioned earlier not storing passwords in an open or reverse encryptable form is not possible, since your Android device has to supply plain text password to many Internet servers.
Oops, you asked for a cross platfrom browser - I've no idea then.
Oh, and my customers are local police & highway patrol type organizations, most likely running an aged Windows box (probably IE6, too)
It seems like you need to code something using MSHTML (or hire someone who can do that for you). Almost all modern standards compliant HTML/JS engines have quite indecent memory requirements - and from your words I can conclude your clients PCs may have very weak configurations.
Why was this comment rated funny? Or funny has become another name for "insightful"?
KDE4 memory requirements are ridiculous, by default it even runs a fully fledged DB instance (MySQL to be precise).
Gnome3 developers have decided that everyone has stable bug free OpenGL compliant GPU drivers, not to mention that Gnome3 totally breaks the whole DE paradigm, for instance requiring four mouse clicks for things you could do with two in the past, and depriving the user of any means of customizing your desktop and using it as a files storage. I don't even want to recall the fact that you no longer can minimize/maximize applications windows.
I don't like the summary - from the article: A Chinese high-speed train derailed Saturday when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 16 people.
Still I don't understand all the details of the situation.
Debris From Satellites' Collision Said to Pose Small Risk to Space Station
It seems like the risk isn't that small after all.
15% from 6hours make it roughly one hour so I cannot say this issue is really minor. I'd even dare to say that every such detail does count since most hardware vendors tailor their products exclusively for Windows and the fact that Linux even works is a wonder.
And please don't judge Phoronix harshly. It's one of a very few websites which actually drive Linux development. Yes, Michael likes sensational style, but then again he wants to eat, buy hardware to test Linux on, pay for other people's work.
My stance is it's always better to be safe than sorry, so even thought there's no conclusive evidence that cell phones are harmful, it's not that difficult to reduce their usage or use them hands-free.
Besides, I like this citation very much:
"The CTIA keeps saying what they've said since 1993, which is that studies conclusively show that there's nothing to worry about. Well, let me tell you something: They do not conclusively show that. The few independent studies that are out there indicate that there's a problem. Most of the other studies have been sponsored by industry."
Meanwhile there are ever bigger problems than this one, like e.g. food quality degradation and abundance of food additives which alter our bodies in unpredictable ways.
I'm not a biologist (and I almost failed biology classes in my school years) but if I'm not mistaken the evolution didn't mix toad genes with crops genes - and that's what scientists sometimes do.
Humans' digestive system is perfectly capable of digesting the things we used to eat in the past, but I somehow doubt that genetically modified crops are absolutely safe for us - alas, an average Joe will never find out if fruits or vegetables on his table are genetically altered.