Tell me again how self driving cars are supposed to bring safety to the roads by not having a human driver AND capable of drag racing at the same time?
For the vast average business use yes. But when when you start developing locally, gaming, rendering audio / video \ image editing you're going to want a powerful PC.
There's nothing quite like making an edit to an image and have to wait 15 minutes to see the result. It's painful. People that make giant movie posters or touch up old scanned-images for example work with giant file sizes that's well beyond editing a photo or video you took with your phone.
It sounds like you mean well, but lack the exposure to the real heavy lifting PC's do.
Go ahead and stick that system onto the chassis of an F-150.
Even if it's been massively scaled down. Batteries weigh more than Diesel by a large factor. Hauling requires a lot more juice than getting an aerodynamic frame to 100+ Mph.
and I target my primary code to 8-bit MCUs similar to a Z80A form 30Y ago in power, running some nice slim highly-optimised distributed coding.
You forgot to add 'up and down hills for 100 miles in the snow on a bicycle backwards while on your way to school.':) It sounds like what you're working on is mostly text. While a Tablet, phone or laptop can certainly host a terminal window, typing speed is still much faster with a proper keyboard. imho.
Cut your suit to fit your cloth.
Very interesting quote.Following that comparison I wonder how much our smart phones clothe us today?
If the amount and quality of clothing were expressed in computing power then the first astronauts to land on the moon did so wearing loincloths. now there's a mental visual!
I would like to see the CPU RAM bottleneck get as much attention as the CPU itself has. Unless we get that addressed I really don't see faster chips doing much good.
A story comes out like this at least twice a year. The harsh / glorious reality hasn't changed. If you want to get real work done it's going to be on a desktop. Even laptops get docked with a proper keyboard, mouse and at least 1 extra monitor when it's time for heavy lifting.
Then again one has to wonder at the headline. Tech update 'NEW Cpu!' Combined with the leading question, 'Is the desktop dead'. Will the new Slashdot owners please stop treating these message boards like the alphabet channels and focus on the geek culture? Sure it's yours but can you at least pretend it's not been subjugated by the mainstream entertainment industry?
Also, any headline that asks a question can be answered with 'No'.
This is why there's a push to develop locally with VirtualBox or your favorite VM Host whilst using the same recipes you would normally deploy to your machine provider.
I mention VirtualBox as it's the one I am currently running despite being owned by the Ebil Oracle. If there's others you prefer besides VMWare *NOT* windows based I would love to see a list. I specified not windows because I have no intention of paying for a licence for the host hardware.
By their logic there's many adults who shouldn't be voting either.
Most 16 year old individuals will do whatever the popular media tells them to or vote for whoever the 'cool kids' in school vote for. It's not so much about cognitive development and more about independent identity vs. Sustainable reward / risk equations relating to sustainability. Of which 16 year olds and many adults have no practical experience to make choices that not only affect themselves but millions of people around them.
tl;dr: Promise every 16 year old a free Motorcycle and they will vote for that candidate regardless of the consequences they are unable to visualize.
The historically astute will recognize this has been done before with disastrous results.
It's entertaining to imagine that when / if the field flips in our lifetime electrons as we know them cease to function, and become instead an extension of the mind.
May your Magick be strong, lest you be devoured by the hoard!
This is a case of "late worse than never" (or more exactly, "ever worse than never"). Seriously, what site we're on? I haven't come here for celebrity gossip.
Those who think the electoral college should continue to exist should also go back to middle school.
The electoral college was designed to prevent an unfit presidency voted by mass hysteria. If the electoral college simply votes as representatives of their poulation and doesn't serve as a safety check, it no longer serves a purpose. Popular vote instead should be used. There's no need to bin groups to a representative, it merely causes the type of silly campaign process we currently have where only a few states matter during the election.
You can put another conservative in power but Trump is no conservative, he's a sociopathic clown that's a disgrace of this country. Some small part of me is happy he won, if nothing else, as a perfect example of the joke our current governmental system and society has degraded to. It highlights the true values and nature of a vast majority of our population.
All hail big business.
I promise the founding fathers were far more educated and experienced in the ways of business and governing than a few 20~30 somethings that haven't had nearly the challenges that tempered them into adults.
People I know to be very intelligent have seemingly turned off their brains and have been using words like 'sociopath', 'degradation', 'Hitler', etc and 'literally' have no idea what those words really mean.
All hail big business.
Do you really think a bunch of broke altruistic redneck colonists banded together in 1776 to form a more perfect union? Or do you think savvy businessmen and statesmen colluded to create an environment that would protect and provide the freedom required to maximize the return on their investments?
It was rich people that paid for weapons, uniforms, and payroll for government offices that made this nation possible. Do you really think starting a new government is free?
As for Trumps opponent. Regardless of who was opposing trump, I am certain you would agree that any president needs to be someone that has stamina, willpower and perseverance when the going gets tough. Trumps opponent quit on the first night of counting, before the counting was even close to being done. That's like the coach of the football game leaving at the third quarter because the margin for victory wasn't large enough. His opponent may have won the popular vote, but that count came long after the opposing party gave up and left the game.
If you were interviewing a possible hire, and they grumbled and left when the questions got tough, then protested outside the building calling you and your business all kinds of nasty names and vandalizing the place? would you call them back later and offer them the job? The real honest answer is 'Not a chance in hell'.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't pay anything, and I turned off the 'tasteful ads'.
You're not running ad-block pro?
Tsk, Tsk.
I would much rather have a photo of my fingers stolen than have my fingers, or finger tips stolen!
Tell me again how self driving cars are supposed to bring safety to the roads by not having a human driver AND capable of drag racing at the same time?
I agree, though that niche is really huge still. :)
For the vast average business use yes. But when when you start developing locally, gaming, rendering audio / video \ image editing you're going to want a powerful PC.
There's nothing quite like making an edit to an image and have to wait 15 minutes to see the result. It's painful. People that make giant movie posters or touch up old scanned-images for example work with giant file sizes that's well beyond editing a photo or video you took with your phone.
It sounds like you mean well, but lack the exposure to the real heavy lifting PC's do.
Now THIS looks promising!!
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Go ahead and stick that system onto the chassis of an F-150.
Even if it's been massively scaled down. Batteries weigh more than Diesel by a large factor. Hauling requires a lot more juice than getting an aerodynamic frame to 100+ Mph.
As a short range toy. Don't expect to haul anything with it.
Looks like another headline edit.
Going to have to start making screenshots. CNN does the same thing to it's headlines.
and I target my primary code to 8-bit MCUs similar to a Z80A form 30Y ago in power, running some nice slim highly-optimised distributed coding.
You forgot to add 'up and down hills for 100 miles in the snow on a bicycle backwards while on your way to school.' :) It sounds like what you're working on is mostly text. While a Tablet, phone or laptop can certainly host a terminal window, typing speed is still much faster with a proper keyboard. imho.
Cut your suit to fit your cloth.
Very interesting quote.Following that comparison I wonder how much our smart phones clothe us today?
If the amount and quality of clothing were expressed in computing power then the first astronauts to land on the moon did so wearing loincloths. now there's a mental visual!
I would like to see the CPU RAM bottleneck get as much attention as the CPU itself has. Unless we get that addressed I really don't see faster chips doing much good.
A story comes out like this at least twice a year. The harsh / glorious reality hasn't changed. If you want to get real work done it's going to be on a desktop. Even laptops get docked with a proper keyboard, mouse and at least 1 extra monitor when it's time for heavy lifting.
Then again one has to wonder at the headline. Tech update 'NEW Cpu!' Combined with the leading question, 'Is the desktop dead'. Will the new Slashdot owners please stop treating these message boards like the alphabet channels and focus on the geek culture? Sure it's yours but can you at least pretend it's not been subjugated by the mainstream entertainment industry?
Also, any headline that asks a question can be answered with 'No'.
If you're trying to get us to socialize you can forget it!
Just a little cookie exploit. You delete yours right?
Everyone needs to relax. 2016 isn't cursed or anything. It's just statistics.
Just very depressing statistics, and very depressing that we are relegating human beings to mere numbers.
This is why there's a push to develop locally with VirtualBox or your favorite VM Host whilst using the same recipes you would normally deploy to your machine provider.
I mention VirtualBox as it's the one I am currently running despite being owned by the Ebil Oracle. If there's others you prefer besides VMWare *NOT* windows based I would love to see a list. I specified not windows because I have no intention of paying for a licence for the host hardware.
I wish I hadn't commented on this thread yet, as this needs a +1.
You kids may not like it, but he's dead on.
Assembly, C, C++
You were saying?
By their logic there's many adults who shouldn't be voting either.
Most 16 year old individuals will do whatever the popular media tells them to or vote for whoever the 'cool kids' in school vote for. It's not so much about cognitive development and more about independent identity vs. Sustainable reward / risk equations relating to sustainability. Of which 16 year olds and many adults have no practical experience to make choices that not only affect themselves but millions of people around them.
tl;dr:
Promise every 16 year old a free Motorcycle and they will vote for that candidate regardless of the consequences they are unable to visualize.
The historically astute will recognize this has been done before with disastrous results.
It's entertaining to imagine that when / if the field flips in our lifetime electrons as we know them cease to function, and become instead an extension of the mind.
May your Magick be strong, lest you be devoured by the hoard!
This is a case of "late worse than never" (or more exactly, "ever worse than never"). Seriously, what site we're on? I haven't come here for celebrity gossip.
I find you lack of Geek cred disturbing...
Can you describe the business requirement behind the ask please?
Those who think the electoral college should continue to exist should also go back to middle school.
The electoral college was designed to prevent an unfit presidency voted by mass hysteria. If the electoral college simply votes as representatives of their poulation and doesn't serve as a safety check, it no longer serves a purpose. Popular vote instead should be used. There's no need to bin groups to a representative, it merely causes the type of silly campaign process we currently have where only a few states matter during the election.
You can put another conservative in power but Trump is no conservative, he's a sociopathic clown that's a disgrace of this country. Some small part of me is happy he won, if nothing else, as a perfect example of the joke our current governmental system and society has degraded to. It highlights the true values and nature of a vast majority of our population.
All hail big business.
I promise the founding fathers were far more educated and experienced in the ways of business and governing than a few 20~30 somethings that haven't had nearly the challenges that tempered them into adults.
People I know to be very intelligent have seemingly turned off their brains and have been using words like 'sociopath', 'degradation', 'Hitler', etc and 'literally' have no idea what those words really mean.
All hail big business.
Do you really think a bunch of broke altruistic redneck colonists banded together in 1776 to form a more perfect union? Or do you think savvy businessmen and statesmen colluded to create an environment that would protect and provide the freedom required to maximize the return on their investments?
It was rich people that paid for weapons, uniforms, and payroll for government offices that made this nation possible. Do you really think starting a new government is free?
As for Trumps opponent. Regardless of who was opposing trump, I am certain you would agree that any president needs to be someone that has stamina, willpower and perseverance when the going gets tough. Trumps opponent quit on the first night of counting, before the counting was even close to being done. That's like the coach of the football game leaving at the third quarter because the margin for victory wasn't large enough. His opponent may have won the popular vote, but that count came long after the opposing party gave up and left the game.
If you were interviewing a possible hire, and they grumbled and left when the questions got tough, then protested outside the building calling you and your business all kinds of nasty names and vandalizing the place? would you call them back later and offer them the job? The real honest answer is 'Not a chance in hell'.
So the Drudge report and similar tabloids appear to have taken over the minds of the current Internet Generation. Fuck.