We paid a lot for these phones. There's a huge difference between the iPhone 5/5S and 6/6S. I don't plan on upgrading my 6S Plus anytime soon. I think for most people, the 6 generation is "good enough" for a while.
That's why sales are lacking.
I doubt this would gain traction. I for one would never trust Samsung with my information. They will never become Apple Pay. Judging by the lame bloatware they add to their "powerful" Galaxy devices that slow them to a crawl, and their lack of innovation in the mobile space, I predict failure.
Just another case of, "Me, too."
NVIDIA is usually really good about support. I wouldn't worry about this. I sent in my original NVIDIA Shield with a latch problem and they sent me a brand new one pretty fast.
8K is useful for the movie industry filming in 4K. The 8K cameras can downsample the 8K to 4K and get better picture quality than just filming using a 4K image sensor.
Wow, you are so bitter for nothing! Calm down. It is common for hardware designers to design extra capabilities for future revisions. Makes it easier to improve. Car manufacturers do this too. The Mustang 5.0 engine right now has some cutouts in the design which hint that direct injection is coming. Welcome to reality.
Yes, no personal information such as names and addresses are collected. However, in ANY client/server interaction, an IP address is logged. A particular IP address was found to be registering numerous bogus copies of Windows.
Now they are attempting to prosecute that person who is committing that illegal action. Since they don't have any personal information, they have to use the courts to find out who it was.
I see this as a really good thing. More options for parallel computing are great. Writing the parallel parts in VHDL/Verilog isn't too bad if you studied computer/electrical engineering. This is a good technology to compete with GPUs.
To me, writing parts in Verilog for parallel data computations would be easier than using OpenCL and similar. I'm sure the development tools would be updated for this kind of support.
I purchased almost every Nintendo console up until the Wii. I grew up on the original Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Stopped at the Wii.
Nintendo's marketing after the Wii was not effective. They should fire whoever named the console, and especially since they named the follow up console "Wii U". I didn't even know that the Wii U was so much different & better than the Wii.
Nintendo needs to wake up and smell the coffee. They should title their next console with "Nintendo" in it, to get all the nostalgic people back on. Or at least come up with a less silly name.
You think Google is any better? They breach people's privacy horrendously. I actually trust Microsoft more. Google tracks everything you do and uses that to target advertise to you. If you have an android device and take it with you, they track all routes you drive, places you've been to, and save that to their database. This is enabled by default, and you need to dig deep to find out how to disable these privacy breaches. This is just the tip of the iceberg with Google. Wake up.
I respectfully disagree. Although we may not be able to take advantage of the full 10GbE throughput right away due to limitation in I/O devices, it is still faster to transmit something over the network on a 10GbE link. For example, regarding the 500MB/s SSD you mentioned, the transmit speed on 10GbE will cap to ~4Gb/s. It's still faster than 1GbE.
There are no drivers in a BIOS. A BIOS is an embedded program in a motherboard with basic functionality for system configuration.
Anyways, UEFI is a replacement for BIOS, there will be no BIOS anymore. And for BIOS or UEFI, it doesn't matter what video card you use because they occur before Windows starts.
The secure boot/signed code issue comes up when Windows starts booting.
Does the current Intel C++ compiler (11.1) still cripple the binaries, where it generates separate code paths and uses one of them depending if a CPU is Intel or AMD?
I could not find a definitive answer while searching Google.
No! No, no, not 37! I said 40. Nobody's comin' up with 37. Who has a meeting in 37 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
What kind of a joke undergraduate degree do you have? What university accepted you into a graduate program? You are in your third year of your Ph.D. in math, and you never took physics? And as a Ph.D. student you have to ask Slashdot how to learn physics instead of actually researching? I pray you don't become a teacher or work on anything critical in the future.
A latency of 8 on DDR3 when the speed is 2GHz means 0.5ns per cycle or 8*0.5ns = 4ns latency.
A latency of 3 on DDR2 when the speed is 800MHz means 1.25ns per cycle or 3*1.25ns = 3.75ns latency.
Almost the same.
The 3GB limit is not intentional (I believe it is a 3.25GB limit by the way). Intel 32-bit processors can only address 4GB (2^32 bytes) of RAM. Which is why the upper part of address space is reserved for address space. This address space is for hardware devices, video ram, etc. One time I installed a couple of 512MB frame grabbers in a PC with 4GB of RAM, and the total usable memory went down to 2.5GB, because it ran out of address space for the RAM on the addon cards. You would need a 64-bit OS to gain a lot more address space to be able to use all the RAM. I know it is cool to bash Microsoft about anything, but not in that case.
We use CentOS at work extensively for our engineering stations and the IT dept. uses it on their Linux servers. Very stable, and compatible with our engineering tools, and the IT people don't have to worry about licensing.
Macs are not enterprise ready. The computers, save for the Mac Pro's, are not easily serviceable by IT departments, unlike, say, Thinkpads. Ever try changing a hard drive of a Macbook Pro? You don't wanna get stuck doing that. Also, Exchange dominates the corporation fields. Mac OS X has a long way to go in the aspects of group policy, and other details that Windows offers that admins need. Sure, you might be able to make hacks in the OS to make things work the way you want it, but Linux is a better option if you want a UNIX-like OS.
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We paid a lot for these phones. There's a huge difference between the iPhone 5/5S and 6/6S. I don't plan on upgrading my 6S Plus anytime soon. I think for most people, the 6 generation is "good enough" for a while. That's why sales are lacking.
I agree, the fact they wrote that immediately discredits the author as technically inept. This makes the whole article a waste of time.
I doubt this would gain traction. I for one would never trust Samsung with my information. They will never become Apple Pay. Judging by the lame bloatware they add to their "powerful" Galaxy devices that slow them to a crawl, and their lack of innovation in the mobile space, I predict failure. Just another case of, "Me, too."
NVIDIA is usually really good about support. I wouldn't worry about this. I sent in my original NVIDIA Shield with a latch problem and they sent me a brand new one pretty fast.
Only if situated in the state's only "self-sustaining scallop farm". Now say that five times fast...
Gotta get rid of the bleeps, sweeps, and the creeps...
8K is useful for the movie industry filming in 4K. The 8K cameras can downsample the 8K to 4K and get better picture quality than just filming using a 4K image sensor.
Wow, you are so bitter for nothing! Calm down. It is common for hardware designers to design extra capabilities for future revisions. Makes it easier to improve. Car manufacturers do this too. The Mustang 5.0 engine right now has some cutouts in the design which hint that direct injection is coming. Welcome to reality.
Yes, no personal information such as names and addresses are collected. However, in ANY client/server interaction, an IP address is logged. A particular IP address was found to be registering numerous bogus copies of Windows. Now they are attempting to prosecute that person who is committing that illegal action. Since they don't have any personal information, they have to use the courts to find out who it was.
I see this as a really good thing. More options for parallel computing are great. Writing the parallel parts in VHDL/Verilog isn't too bad if you studied computer/electrical engineering. This is a good technology to compete with GPUs. To me, writing parts in Verilog for parallel data computations would be easier than using OpenCL and similar. I'm sure the development tools would be updated for this kind of support.
I purchased almost every Nintendo console up until the Wii. I grew up on the original Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Stopped at the Wii.
Nintendo's marketing after the Wii was not effective. They should fire whoever named the console, and especially since they named the follow up console "Wii U". I didn't even know that the Wii U was so much different & better than the Wii.
Nintendo needs to wake up and smell the coffee. They should title their next console with "Nintendo" in it, to get all the nostalgic people back on. Or at least come up with a less silly name.
You think Google is any better? They breach people's privacy horrendously. I actually trust Microsoft more. Google tracks everything you do and uses that to target advertise to you. If you have an android device and take it with you, they track all routes you drive, places you've been to, and save that to their database. This is enabled by default, and you need to dig deep to find out how to disable these privacy breaches. This is just the tip of the iceberg with Google. Wake up.
I respectfully disagree. Although we may not be able to take advantage of the full 10GbE throughput right away due to limitation in I/O devices, it is still faster to transmit something over the network on a 10GbE link. For example, regarding the 500MB/s SSD you mentioned, the transmit speed on 10GbE will cap to ~4Gb/s. It's still faster than 1GbE.
There are no drivers in a BIOS. A BIOS is an embedded program in a motherboard with basic functionality for system configuration. Anyways, UEFI is a replacement for BIOS, there will be no BIOS anymore. And for BIOS or UEFI, it doesn't matter what video card you use because they occur before Windows starts. The secure boot/signed code issue comes up when Windows starts booting.
forget /usr, just do /bin /dev /etc /home /lib /media /proc /root /sbin /sys /tmp /var
Forget that, just do /Applications /Devices /Settings /Users /Users/root /Libraries /System /Temp /Variable
Does the current Intel C++ compiler (11.1) still cripple the binaries, where it generates separate code paths and uses one of them depending if a CPU is Intel or AMD? I could not find a definitive answer while searching Google.
Oh really? So Windows 7 came out in your local computer store before the rest of the world gets it on October 22nd?
Go the the "Sounds" Control Panel option, and under the "Playback" tab select the audio device you want to output on, and choose "Set Default".
No! No, no, not 37! I said 40. Nobody's comin' up with 37. Who has a meeting in 37 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
What kind of a joke undergraduate degree do you have? What university accepted you into a graduate program? You are in your third year of your Ph.D. in math, and you never took physics? And as a Ph.D. student you have to ask Slashdot how to learn physics instead of actually researching? I pray you don't become a teacher or work on anything critical in the future.
A latency of 8 on DDR3 when the speed is 2GHz means 0.5ns per cycle or 8*0.5ns = 4ns latency. A latency of 3 on DDR2 when the speed is 800MHz means 1.25ns per cycle or 3*1.25ns = 3.75ns latency. Almost the same.
The 3GB limit is not intentional (I believe it is a 3.25GB limit by the way). Intel 32-bit processors can only address 4GB (2^32 bytes) of RAM. Which is why the upper part of address space is reserved for address space. This address space is for hardware devices, video ram, etc. One time I installed a couple of 512MB frame grabbers in a PC with 4GB of RAM, and the total usable memory went down to 2.5GB, because it ran out of address space for the RAM on the addon cards. You would need a 64-bit OS to gain a lot more address space to be able to use all the RAM. I know it is cool to bash Microsoft about anything, but not in that case.
I am an electrical engineering student not even out of college yet, and I'm making $52k plus benefits a year salaried.
I hope I get more money when I graduate in June...
I am in SoCal
We use CentOS at work extensively for our engineering stations and the IT dept. uses it on their Linux servers. Very stable, and compatible with our engineering tools, and the IT people don't have to worry about licensing.
Macs are not enterprise ready. The computers, save for the Mac Pro's, are not easily serviceable by IT departments, unlike, say, Thinkpads. Ever try changing a hard drive of a Macbook Pro? You don't wanna get stuck doing that. Also, Exchange dominates the corporation fields. Mac OS X has a long way to go in the aspects of group policy, and other details that Windows offers that admins need. Sure, you might be able to make hacks in the OS to make things work the way you want it, but Linux is a better option if you want a UNIX-like OS.