Umm, it's a test of a: obscure geeky stuff and b: up to date technology issues and questions, with a twist of geeky humor as expected. It's a test of random facts if you're googling this stuff or just simply don't work with technology or fit in as a typical "IT guy". (even though by default a slashdotter is inundated with technology).
I got a 16/20, and feel like I should have known about VINES (though I know about other network stuff).
I believe the term you're looking for there is "physx", to pull a double entendre and being a pedant at the same time. Graphics performance matters, but I don't really want to sidetrack into that.
It's not the physical limitations of the processors that are at issue for higher performance. It has more to do with "Where can we get more gains"? Performance has been on a continual upward trend, and that hasn't changed. When we get down to 10nm, then we will be facing actual physics issues/limitations *ON SILICON*.There are other technologies in the works here (graphite). Even Intel is exploring this.
It has to do with at it's core, RISC vs CISC. There simply is no way around it until intel actually provides ARM processors. With their attempts to introduce x86 for android, it sounds like they have given up on the ARM route for consumers/entry level, even though they bought a license to ARM.
Piss Off? What makes you think I like DirectX? I am absolutely insulted by it. It is the only thing keeping windows marketshare up for desktops.
OpenGL is substantially better than DirectX, but it doesn't mean that all games support DirectX properly, even in wine with winetricks. How's Skyrim, Battlefield 3, starcraft 2 in wine? 1 can't even be confirmed well, and the other 2 run like shit. This is microsoft's fault but also a lack of proper linux ports too, which is a damn shame.
Guess what mac folks do when they game? switch to xp/7 via bootcamp. Not a solution either.
Yep. Seconded. Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary DirectX, almost no new game runs worth a damn in wine vs windows. If it wasn't for that, I'd have no reason to use windows.
Wha? Microsoft had one patch accepted, so yes, he's represented someone who does.
Nobody has said it's bad, literally. If anyone had, that's not only a: something for the copyright holder to decide what to do (along with the purported violator), and b: something that has nothing to do with court unless a is resolved first.
Lots of avenues exist outside of going to court. We're not all microsoft and patent trolling for fud, after all.
don't forget that naughton has worked with microsoft, to boot. His credibility is not only in question, but it's basically inaccurate. This is just banging the same old fud drum that naughton raised before.
well, I suppose I merged two issues, but my point is that very soon it's likely that ARM will surpass current and future console capability, as well as x86 desktop and server capability, power, and performance per watt. It's not far off the horizon.
umm, look at the tegra 3. ARM graphics are catching up to consoles quite easily (consoles were always behind). Remember, it's been 3 years where we went from "ARM can barely handle nintendo emulation (single core/500mhz/125mhz gpu)" to "ARM is competing with PS3(4 cores, 1.5ghz, 300+mhz multicore gpu)". In *3* years. All with devices that are more efficient with power than anything intel can offer. So what do you see for the next 12 months, let alone 3-4 years? Even if the increases slow down they're basically going to make x86 processors irrelevant.
it's not a lack of taxes collected, it's a lack of that same money being spent on infrastructure.
ask any engineer who works with government and they can tell you that instantly.
It's a politically created problem, and goes from the "we approved ourselves at $600/hour" to the "we dont' even know what we're writing a bill about but we're writing it anyway" congress. Oh, and also the bidding system for contracts in the US, which ensures that anything in the concept of "long term infrastructure" or "job done well" goes out the window for "save $5 upfront"
Wait, why are people paying for a video that is free in the first place? There is cost for distribution, but the video has no cost or value - value is determined by those who choose to pay for what they perceive as value - not the other way around.
There is an equivalent to what you're talking about already, but it doesn't work by restricting content and nor would anything that restricts the content itself. It's called flattr.com
Restricting content is a quick way to put anything out of business.
do you have any idea what you're talking about? The disabled simply do not rely on the same things, and guess what? They won't be able to rely on this either.
That assumes a: they'll be able to use the phone or b: they'll be able to use siri? Someone who can barely use a phone is going to figure out how to use a voice dictation, and deal with the results? what if they're blind? How are they going to find the siri results again?
Elderly (in the way you describe them) have solutions to this stuff - it's called a map or a yellow pages. Or, the universal one: Other People. Oh wait! So do we! It's not like it's a bad solution, just a different avenue to the same solution.
Blind folks use android phones and iphones too, but that doesn't have any reflection on common usage or any explanation for why siri is some magic groundbreaker. For the deaf android's infinite voice dictation can be helpful, but it's by far not the only solution. People have been making good voice dictation apps for a while but guess what? Not all of them can deal with dialects well, either. In fact, why don't you look at how many languages siri's in?
hint: nowhere near as many as google's voice recognition can handle.
I'm not trying to trash siri or trash android - both are features with different featuresets, and neither are amazing. they're just slow improvements.
this is a strength? are you utterly incapable of googling "locksmiths near (address)"? reorganizing existing data doesn't make this thing a magical unicorn, and the fact that iris can do equivalents to this with almost no effort shows how little siri means anything. If anything the reason people probably didn't do much about this is because they never thought it mattered. Just because apple markets something as "OMG AMAZING" doesn't mean everyone else is dumb enough to agree.
mind you, you're suggesting people rely on voice over actually typing on the phone that they could be using to get more specific results for themselves. It's just a change in how your phone *could* be used, if you care.
It's mostly done for the few people that care. As much as apple would love for siri to sound like an amazing feature, it is far from groundbreaking and most people just don't care.
Essentially what it gets used for is a decent voice command here or there. I forgot what site it was that was analyzing siri's data usage and categorized people by number of uses per day. I think the average was 3. People use their phones more than that in a day, let alone what that shows of siri.
no worries. the EFF has picked up on the article's FUD, among others. The funny thing is that moving forward with secureboot in ways that are undocumented/lock out linux would bring so many lawsuits to microsoft that even the lawyers will be falling over themselves to sue them. It would quite literally give novell so much ammunition it's not even funny.
I agree. Forget android hate or love, these are just purely crap. At least the Motoactv (note their weird spelling) is more interesting since it combines heart rate monitoring + gps + music + android sync stuff. How much are people really expecting to do out of a wristwatch?
smart phone scene has been boring? Have you even looked at where we've gone in 3 years? we went from "you have phones" to "you have phones that can emulate SNES" to "you have phones that can emulate playstation games" to "you have phones that can almost rival the PS3". in 3 years. You can get RAGE on your smartphone.
If you think the scene is boring, you might want to actually look around first. It's entirely possible smartphones will have more processing power than next gen consoles by the time they come out.
I'm willing to bet everything I own that 100% of your "statistic" is bullshit. Do you know how many users from ATT had to figure this out and how big the public backlash was? ATT had all phones locked from the third party thing, and people ran into issues almost immediately due to the amazon market + "tough shit, you can't get amazon market" from AT&T android phones.
That's just one carrier, let alone people who saw the news. Roms aren't just popular in an isolated group, either. Way to marginalize a large community as a tiny one though! That's pretty much doublespeak that we'd normally expect from a ceo of a large corporation during a giant fuckup or a shill.
What part of "it uses IE components" fails to make it IE? you're proving his point to a T. all of trident consists of all explorer windows, thus you are using IE. Which microsoft then goes and says "look! look! look at IE marketshare!" even though it's provably false.
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Umm, it's a test of a: obscure geeky stuff and b: up to date technology issues and questions, with a twist of geeky humor as expected. It's a test of random facts if you're googling this stuff or just simply don't work with technology or fit in as a typical "IT guy". (even though by default a slashdotter is inundated with technology).
I got a 16/20, and feel like I should have known about VINES (though I know about other network stuff).
I believe the term you're looking for there is "physx", to pull a double entendre and being a pedant at the same time. Graphics performance matters, but I don't really want to sidetrack into that.
It's not the physical limitations of the processors that are at issue for higher performance. It has more to do with "Where can we get more gains"? Performance has been on a continual upward trend, and that hasn't changed. When we get down to 10nm, then we will be facing actual physics issues/limitations *ON SILICON*.There are other technologies in the works here (graphite). Even Intel is exploring this.
It has to do with at it's core, RISC vs CISC. There simply is no way around it until intel actually provides ARM processors. With their attempts to introduce x86 for android, it sounds like they have given up on the ARM route for consumers/entry level, even though they bought a license to ARM.
Piss Off? What makes you think I like DirectX? I am absolutely insulted by it. It is the only thing keeping windows marketshare up for desktops.
OpenGL is substantially better than DirectX, but it doesn't mean that all games support DirectX properly, even in wine with winetricks. How's Skyrim, Battlefield 3, starcraft 2 in wine? 1 can't even be confirmed well, and the other 2 run like shit. This is microsoft's fault but also a lack of proper linux ports too, which is a damn shame.
Guess what mac folks do when they game? switch to xp/7 via bootcamp. Not a solution either.
Yep. Seconded. Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary DirectX, almost no new game runs worth a damn in wine vs windows. If it wasn't for that, I'd have no reason to use windows.
arm is not built like x86, and doesn't have x86's flaws. They do not have the same hurdles that intel does, for a lot of reasons.
Wha? Microsoft had one patch accepted, so yes, he's represented someone who does.
Nobody has said it's bad, literally. If anyone had, that's not only a: something for the copyright holder to decide what to do (along with the purported violator), and b: something that has nothing to do with court unless a is resolved first.
Lots of avenues exist outside of going to court. We're not all microsoft and patent trolling for fud, after all.
don't forget that naughton has worked with microsoft, to boot. His credibility is not only in question, but it's basically inaccurate. This is just banging the same old fud drum that naughton raised before.
well, I suppose I merged two issues, but my point is that very soon it's likely that ARM will surpass current and future console capability, as well as x86 desktop and server capability, power, and performance per watt. It's not far off the horizon.
umm, look at the tegra 3. ARM graphics are catching up to consoles quite easily (consoles were always behind). Remember, it's been 3 years where we went from "ARM can barely handle nintendo emulation (single core/500mhz/125mhz gpu)" to "ARM is competing with PS3(4 cores, 1.5ghz, 300+mhz multicore gpu)". In *3* years. All with devices that are more efficient with power than anything intel can offer. So what do you see for the next 12 months, let alone 3-4 years? Even if the increases slow down they're basically going to make x86 processors irrelevant.
well, we still have a republican and democrat party, so I'd assume that people haven't paid any attention to this issue.
it's not a lack of taxes collected, it's a lack of that same money being spent on infrastructure.
ask any engineer who works with government and they can tell you that instantly.
It's a politically created problem, and goes from the "we approved ourselves at $600/hour" to the "we dont' even know what we're writing a bill about but we're writing it anyway" congress. Oh, and also the bidding system for contracts in the US, which ensures that anything in the concept of "long term infrastructure" or "job done well" goes out the window for "save $5 upfront"
Wait, why are people paying for a video that is free in the first place? There is cost for distribution, but the video has no cost or value - value is determined by those who choose to pay for what they perceive as value - not the other way around.
There is an equivalent to what you're talking about already, but it doesn't work by restricting content and nor would anything that restricts the content itself. It's called flattr.com
Restricting content is a quick way to put anything out of business.
I like this, it implies the reality of what the DHS advocates: "minimum freedoms".
Maybe the department of unconstitutional (homeland) searches? or "duhs" pronounced "douche"? That would also be accurate.
How about they pay for the costs they bring the ISP's to try to filter content in the first place?
Again, I believe that challenge was backed down by the MAFIAA as well...wasn't it worded as "pay a day of our supposedly free costs of youtube"?
No, it won't take some presidential action.
Did you read the petition to end software patents? The president's office said clearly: this is a matter of congress.
So whoever is president will have zero to do with the situation. So a president, no matter who it is, is not going to fix this.
do you have any idea what you're talking about? The disabled simply do not rely on the same things, and guess what? They won't be able to rely on this either.
That assumes a: they'll be able to use the phone or b: they'll be able to use siri? Someone who can barely use a phone is going to figure out how to use a voice dictation, and deal with the results? what if they're blind? How are they going to find the siri results again?
Elderly (in the way you describe them) have solutions to this stuff - it's called a map or a yellow pages. Or, the universal one: Other People. Oh wait! So do we! It's not like it's a bad solution, just a different avenue to the same solution.
Blind folks use android phones and iphones too, but that doesn't have any reflection on common usage or any explanation for why siri is some magic groundbreaker. For the deaf android's infinite voice dictation can be helpful, but it's by far not the only solution. People have been making good voice dictation apps for a while but guess what? Not all of them can deal with dialects well, either. In fact, why don't you look at how many languages siri's in?
hint: nowhere near as many as google's voice recognition can handle.
I'm not trying to trash siri or trash android - both are features with different featuresets, and neither are amazing. they're just slow improvements.
this is a strength? are you utterly incapable of googling "locksmiths near (address)"? reorganizing existing data doesn't make this thing a magical unicorn, and the fact that iris can do equivalents to this with almost no effort shows how little siri means anything. If anything the reason people probably didn't do much about this is because they never thought it mattered. Just because apple markets something as "OMG AMAZING" doesn't mean everyone else is dumb enough to agree.
mind you, you're suggesting people rely on voice over actually typing on the phone that they could be using to get more specific results for themselves. It's just a change in how your phone *could* be used, if you care.
It's mostly done for the few people that care. As much as apple would love for siri to sound like an amazing feature, it is far from groundbreaking and most people just don't care.
Essentially what it gets used for is a decent voice command here or there. I forgot what site it was that was analyzing siri's data usage and categorized people by number of uses per day. I think the average was 3. People use their phones more than that in a day, let alone what that shows of siri.
no worries. the EFF has picked up on the article's FUD, among others. The funny thing is that moving forward with secureboot in ways that are undocumented/lock out linux would bring so many lawsuits to microsoft that even the lawyers will be falling over themselves to sue them. It would quite literally give novell so much ammunition it's not even funny.
hahahaha. The irony of +1 to this is great. well done.
In reality, it's a public comment, so there isn't a whole lot to be said there.
I agree. Forget android hate or love, these are just purely crap. At least the Motoactv (note their weird spelling) is more interesting since it combines heart rate monitoring + gps + music + android sync stuff. How much are people really expecting to do out of a wristwatch?
smart phone scene has been boring? Have you even looked at where we've gone in 3 years? we went from "you have phones" to "you have phones that can emulate SNES" to "you have phones that can emulate playstation games" to "you have phones that can almost rival the PS3". in 3 years. You can get RAGE on your smartphone.
If you think the scene is boring, you might want to actually look around first. It's entirely possible smartphones will have more processing power than next gen consoles by the time they come out.
there's a difference - you can use photoshop without QT, you can't use windows without trident.
I'm willing to bet everything I own that 100% of your "statistic" is bullshit. Do you know how many users from ATT had to figure this out and how big the public backlash was? ATT had all phones locked from the third party thing, and people ran into issues almost immediately due to the amazon market + "tough shit, you can't get amazon market" from AT&T android phones.
That's just one carrier, let alone people who saw the news. Roms aren't just popular in an isolated group, either. Way to marginalize a large community as a tiny one though! That's pretty much doublespeak that we'd normally expect from a ceo of a large corporation during a giant fuckup or a shill.
What part of "it uses IE components" fails to make it IE? you're proving his point to a T. all of trident consists of all explorer windows, thus you are using IE. Which microsoft then goes and says "look! look! look at IE marketshare!" even though it's provably false.