Uhhh...what? Friend I don't care for lawyers much either, but I don't read any "evil" on his part. he doesn't want to go to trial because the evidence don't mean shit if you can appeal to emotion...and?
I have seen people get paid millions for doing STUPID SHIT, shit that anybody with half a functional brain cell should have known not to do, like getting preganant while on a drug where they had to watch a video AND read a document telling them NO KIDS WHILE TAKING THIS yet they went to a jury and said "Boo hoo look at junior!" and got millions!
So yeah, i can see someone wanting to have a judge instead of a jury, but you also have to remember they ALSO don't want bad publicity, which if they go around fucking their customers they WILL get. So I have a feeling, just as my friends that went through arbitration found, they just want this to go away and as long as you ain't playing "lawsuit lotto" they are gonna be a hell of a lot more likely to just try to reach a settlement and call it a day.
Would it be nice if every single case was always heard in a public courtroom where a record could be read by anybody? Of course it would, but how many folks are willing to pay 75% taxes to have that? The courts are slow, overtaxed, and in the lawyer's eyes he can study the case for a year and have it blown all to shit by one girl that can cry good to a jury, so yeah I can see why he'd want it...but I can also see how it would be good for the consumer as well, as there is NO bullshit, no need for an expensive lawyer like in a big trial, and from what I've been told by those that had it done it was a "just the facts, here's the receipt" in and out kind of deal with the opposing lawyer ready to settle, the only haggle was over the price.
You see THIS is what I find fascinating about the whole thing, the fanbois not only rush to mod me down (as offtopic of all things, when we are talking about patents and I pointed out Google's patents are being used no differently than Apple or MSFT) but they truly see it as this "good VS evil" struggle, when its one uberrich megacorp VS another uberrich megacorp...who is the "good" guys here? Apple who wants a walled garden, or Google who wants to know what kind of TP we wipe our behinds with?
But I'm sorry, waste the modpoints and call me a dirty poo poo head all you want, its the EXACT SAME THING that Apple did! BOTH companies got a hold of some patents and BOTH companies are using the courts to gain advantage over their rivals..this isn't "robin hood" here, this is Coke VS Pepsi, both companies bought the patents to attack rivals and what do you know? that's what they did.
And THIS is what I find so fascinating Basil, you have 2 companies do the exact same damned thing, yet one will be labeled "evil" for doing it and when another does the same thing, its labeled "good". We saw the same thing here recently, with RMS and the FOSS crowd screaming about Win 8's walled garden...and? Where were you 7 years ago, when Apple made walled gardens hip? Too busy playing with your iPhone? Its the SAME DAMNED THING people!
Question...as someone who has never made a *BSD firewall, what makes it better to go that way as opposed to buying a Sonicwall or Cisco? What features are worth the extra expense required to use a computer as a firewall, VS just using a prebuilt ARM one?
As someone who has never homebuilt a firewall I'm curious, is it just because you want to save some old hardware? I've got an old Sempron I use as a nettop so I know that feeling,but is there more to it than that?
Why did he get labeled "troll" for speaking the truth? Hell ALL the big companies have been royally fucking up the UIs left and right trying to make everything for the damned tablets! Apple, MSFT, hell even Linux is now in on it with Canonical and Unity, the "future" is gonna be mass consumption whether you peasants like it or not!
The royal bitch is now that they are also forcing "the cloud" down everyone's damned throats a lot of times you can't even hang onto the old software, because it won't interface with the servers and you're fucked! I don't know how many times I've had to deal with pissed off customers because major features have been removed in their favorite software only to tell them "Sorry I don't control the servers at (Insert Apple, MSFT, etc) so I can't make the "better version" work anymore than you can, all you can do is deal with it or move to something else."
It's a royal pain in the damned ass, that's what it is. At least before they'd use focus groups and at least TRY to give people what they wanted, even if they fucked up the execution. Now its like the entire industry has said "Fuck you, its tablets first now, everything else...well who cares, we don't" and that is that.
You joke but can we ALL now accept that "Do No Evil" was nothing but "Think Different" tailored to geek culture? It was a marketing slogan and had as much bearing on reality as the Brawndo commercials in Idiocracy.
Here we see classic patent trolling with patents used as a weapon...NO different than how Apple and MSFT have done in the past...key words? NO different. Google is a megacorp, megacorps care only about the bottom line, period the end. If Google could triple their page views by having a "Save the titties!" campaign they would do so, its ALL marketing and doesn't have a damned thing to do with what goes on in house, no more than Apple is walking down the lines in China telling the workers building iPhones to think differently as they put them together.
As for TFA the final score will be the big three, Apple, Google, and MSFT, signing cross licensing agreements that make sure nobody comes through that doesn't pay their $699 license fee, so they'll get paid no matter who makes what, which seems to be all patents are ever used for anymore, trolling.
While I agree there are several that stand out, the Atari and the Pong for examples, for me if you want to bring back "NERD!" nostalgia you can't beat the good old memtest. I mean how many of us have sat there going "C'mon! Fricking POST already!" like kids waiting to get a cookie at the PC?
This is why I have to LMAO at kids complaining about Windows taking "a whole 2 minutes! ZOMFG!" on their multicore monsters...sheeeit, try waiting to get WinNT up on a Pentium II with a whopping 64Mb of memory kid and THEN talk to me about slow!
If by "superior" you mean BROKEN then we are in agreement. Please enjoy this list of show stopping bugs and then compare it to the same list from THREE YEARS AGO... notice how many are still on there? And your own "fix it" does NOT work, as the previous version requires kernel foo 3.2 and the distros are now on bar 4.2...thanks again to the totally fucked up way Linus and the devs tied every damned thing to the kernel...great job guys.
Meanwhile the rest of us can run brand new and decade old software, hell you can even run Vista drivers on 7,and it all "just works". Can YOU do that? Nope because the fundamental design is BROKEN, and Linus knows it and really doesn't care. He is making money off it, he can do whatever he wants, so he really doesn't care. The mistake Canonical made was using Linux at all, they should have went BSD like Apple did to where they could maintain some control. Instead they dove into the monkey house and got poo flung on them...yeah, can't say I'm surprised they will join Corel, and Xandros, and Linspire, Linus built an OS that is now devoted to servers and as a desktop? Sorry but it sucks, it really does.
Uhhh....sure it does, you just don't want to pay the market price for a niche item is all. Go to Tigerdirect or any website and look under "Gamer laptops" and you'll find plenty of high res screens with high powered graphics cards to drive those high res screens, just be ready to pay a premium because you're not gonna drive modern multimedia and games at that high a resolution with cheap junk IGPs. I don't have time now to go through the list to find a 2500 res, but the minimum on the gamer units now is 1080P with IIRC the Razr and Alienwares both going higher. There is also the Thinkpads designed for the medical industry, they have insanely high resolutions and $4k+ price tags to go with those insane specs.
If you want it SOMEBODY will build it and sell it to you, you just can't expect to get it for the same price as that $399 Acer special. That is what Torvalds is whining about and...well too bad, the yields on 2500 res screens sucks and this raises costs and in a cutthroat market high costs equal low sales. people looked, they chose, the market has spoken. As I said i bought a 12 inch with 1366x768 and I'm happy with that resolution and didn't want to pay double the price for a 1080p in that form factor, so the market works as intended. popular becomes cheaper, niche is expensive.
And how many responded in those polls? Was there ANY oversight to them at all, or was it just as useless as a phone poll here in the USA? After all I'm sure I can find 40 people that would say I should have the official title of "King God Of The Mountain" but that don't mean "the people" are behind that, it just means I found 40 bums and handed them a bottle of booze.
Never forget how easy it is to manipulate people with "polls" as we saw here in the USA in the lead up to Iraq. In fact I gave one of those phone pollers hell for using such leading questions they may have well just come out and said "Are you for murdering babies, or saving them by invading Iraq?" because the questions were SO leading it would make anyone who didn't go along sound like a monster.
Sure but that is where the "sucker born every minute" comes from, if one is smart enough to read tech sites they ought to be able to do a simple Google Search, its not like one has to actually do any work here. Just "Name of unit, model, tech specs" and voila! There they are.
And Columbia House had the monopoly on 8 tracks....who fucking cares? Do YOU care? Do I care? The kids of today sure as fuck don't care, you'd have to pry their cold dead hands off their cell phones to make them give a shit.
Look at the numbers, hundreds of millions of tablets and smartphones and MSFT doesn't even rank high single digits there. While the desktop will NEVER go away it simply won't be the center of the world it was in the 90s, its all "smart" now, smartphones and smartTVs and smart tablets and MSFT don't even have a place at the table. Complaining about MSFT and cooking up massive fines NOW is like screaming at IBM for holding the big iron market...who the fuck cares?
In the end though what proves this is nothing but a shakedown for money is they do NOTHING to actually help those companies they claim wronged. Do they cut a check to Mozilla, holders of netscape? How about Opera? Nope, it ALL goes into their greasy pockets and they cook up some irritating "solution" that frankly wasn't even needed because the numbers BEFORE the ballot screen had IE falling like a 747 with its wings ripped off, it was already dead, they are just shaking the money out of the corpse's pockets.
And as I have said before nanny government NEVER gets smaller ONLY bigger, so those cheering better be ready to pay more for their droid and iPhone because Apple AND Google WILL end up in their sights, its just a matter of time. Remember NEVER smaller, ONLY bigger.
Replace the screen yourself, or pay your local PC shop to do it, its not cheap but CAN be done. next time look for Thinkpads made for the medical industry, those are naturally more high res but again you want it you gotta pay for it, the 1366x768 screens are a commodity and have near 100% yields and the price reflects that, the higher res screens have worse yields and thus harder to get.
And let this be a lesson to you, do your damned homework before you buy! Who buys a $1000 laptop without even knowing the specs? I not only knew the specs on my $350 netbook but I had also saved pages that showed me how to change the HDD to SSD and where to get a touchscreen display if I wanted to switch. What you'll want to look for is "desktop replacement like this quad core AMD but if you want higher than 1600x900 you are gonna have to go for the "gamer" units and be ready to put a serious dent in your wallet.
Look, my advice? Use the laptop ONLY when you need to be mobile, buy it cheap, and spend the money on a decent quality desktop with a nice high res screen. hell buy a decent GPU like an HD6850 and you can go triple screen and have an eyegasm of screen goodness. laptops are meant for MOBILE and thus will ALWAYS be worse than a desktop, worse resolution, slower CPU, slower GPU, its all given up for more battery life. So unless you are living in hotel rooms frankly the mobile should be a cheap portable while the desktop at home is where you have your screen goodness.
Buy a Thinkpad designed for the medical industry, or change out the screen yourself? Go to the Thinkpad forums, they have links to screens designed to be perfect replacements for stock Thinkpads and since the medical industry uses Thinkpads you can get high res, but don't expect cheap because the economies of scale just ain't there.
Except they'll either settle and seal or in some cases even managed to appeal and seal, thus you get no more info from a public trial anymore than from arbitration and of course with local papers not wanting to bite the hand that buys ads they sure as shit isn't gonna be writing stories about it...lets face it, if a corrupt corp wants to cover shit up in THIS country? they'll have the courts not only helping them, but bending over backwards to do so.
And...WHY is this bad exactly? I've had friends and relatives go through arbitration and frankly the corps ended up settling for MORE than they asked for and was QUICKER than going to court. The kinds of things we see end up in arbitration are things that would be small claims court stuff and in those penny ante cases frankly the corps are a hell of a lot more likely to just give you the money and tell you to go away, you really aren't worth the effort or their law team's time.
So I don't see why arbitration would be a bad thing in these kinds of cases frankly our courts are overloaded and from talking to those that went through arbitration they tend to lean even MORE pro consumer as they don't want it to look unfair and end up having to go to court.
But which would be MORE valuable to your HPC friends, a thousand cores that individually are weaker than a Pentium 2, or 250 Magny Cours or Core i7 chips that can blow through twice as many instructions per second as those 1000 chips?
As we all know TINSTAAFL and there is ALWAYS a trade off, and in the case of ARM its frankly lousy IPC. So far many companies have sunk serious R&D into ARM and they haven't solved the problems so its doubtful that the arch is gonna hit even P4 levels of IPC anytime soon. For huge parallel loads you have both the Tesla GPUs and you have the Opteron and Xeon chips, and this is actually one place where the half core design of the new Opterons would probably work well as you could stuff more per rack than you can the Xeons.
Does this mean these won't have a niche? Nope, I could see these with a custom Linux server backend being used for light loads where it switched over to the Opteron for heavy computing which is what i think AMD is gonna try to do with this, but I just have to wonder how big a market there is for that as most servers i've dealt with are either under strain a LOT of the time or almost never under strain, and guys like your HPC friend I'm sure would be pounding the living hell out of the chips so I have to wonder with such a low IPC if they wouldn't be better served with 200 Xeons or 300 Magny Cours in the same rack space.
What amazes me is how people can be blind to this, when it should have been obvious when they needed "helper chips" like the Broadcoms to do 1080P decode, something that a P4 from 8 years ago could do with relative ease.
The ARM arch was just never designed to scale to the kinds of levels we are needing in today's devices, and you are seeing that as they try to ramp up the power budgets quickly go to shit. this is why you aren't seeing 3GHz ARM chips like you did X86 during the MHz wars, the power budget to ramp the chip that high, not to mention the cooling cost, would simply be too great so instead you are seeing more and more cores "bolted on" trying to make up for the lack of IPC. We saw that same strategy with AMD, didn't work out so well.
Whether the ARM fans like it or not the future is crazy high def screens, games that look better than what the X360 is putting out now, and to do those kinds of things you are gonna need a HELL of a lot more IPC than what we are seeing now. More cores and helper chips only get you so far, as all that needs more power to run. Frankly Intel could sit on ass and end up winning the market by default, by simply letting people's demands for ever higher quality video and games come to them, but they are still shrinking dies and coming up with new designs, and I have NO doubt in less than 16 months you'll see Atom chips that will just smoke the multicore ARMs at less of a power budget. in the end they have the fabs, they have the R&D, they have the processes down, its just a matter of time.
The big three, lung, pancreas, and bowel. Those 3 people tend to hang on long enough to get a LOT of money out of, just look how much jobs spent trying to beat the reaper, and they make a TON of money on those. ironically many of the drugs that end up treating those of us with auto-immune diseases usually start out as cancer drugs,methotrexate and remicade are the two that come to mind.
But in any case the big 3 are a billion dollar business and I doubt we'll be finding any cures for those.
Exactly, and why should they? I remember some site figuring up on a new PC install how many damned EULAs and TOS they would have to go through just to get a PC with all the basic websites set up and from actually LOOKING at the EULAs and TOS they determined that anybody not a lawyer well versed in contract law would have to spend something like $32,000 to have a contract lawyer sit down and actually explain these pages of legalese and if one were to go over it with enough detail by yourself to actually understand it, which they figured at a VERY conservative 25 minutes per page, you were looking at something like 14 WEEKS to just set up a PC and get all the basic websites signed up!
I mean look at the TOS for a LOT of the websites, you are talking 14-25+ pages of tightly packed legalese with the most obtuse wording they could possibly use! What they should have to do to test this crap is a "Man on the street" test where you grab 6 average people just walking down the street, hand them a paper copy of ONE page, just one random page of it, and then ask them questions over what they read. If the average person can't make heads or tails of a single page of the agreement without a lawyer present? then it should be thrown out, simple as that.
Because as it is now guys that are well read like myself often can't understand these things if you don't have a background in contract law, its just written with too much jargon to follow, it would be like handing a 65 year old judge a page written in Leet and telling him its a binding contract and he has to sign it before proceeding...do you think he would do ANY better than the average Joe does with legal leet speak?
Yet again more proof that Linus doesn't think about how things IRL work. Economics 101...You sell what makes you the most money and leads to the least waste, and in this case its using the same screens in TVs and laptops. This is why damned near everything under 17 inches is 1366x768, because all the low end TVs are at 1366x768 and frankly their yields are VERY good at that resolution. If they were to go with his idea? Look at prices to jump 45% as the yields on those simply aren't as good and that waste will be passed onto the consumer.
If he WANTS a screen that size? Its called a free market, he can have one, but it won't be as cheap because the economies of scale simply aren't there. My 12 inch netbook is 1366x768 and I have to say that resolution works perfectly fine for what I use it for, which is a mini-office and troubleshooting tool on service calls. I COULD have gotten a higher resolution screen, but the next closest model to what i got with a higher resolution screen was more than double what I paid. I weighed my choices, decided that the increased resolution wasn't worth the increased cost, and bought my E350 netbook instead.
Its a free market linus, you want a Macbook? You should buy one. you want any screen resolution? Then buy it. But the masses shouldn't have to subsidize your choice which is EXACTLY what would happen if we listened to you. Instead the CONSUMER gets to choose what works for them and that which becomes most popular? becomes cheaper thanks to economy of scale. Business 101 Linus. And its obvious the winner in mobile is 1366x768, followed by 1600x900, with 1080p relegated to the desktop replacement category. Maybe in 5 years they will be able to crank 1080p screens as cheaply as the 1366 ones and we'll see a shift, but for now it seems pretty obvious that unless you break out the checkbook its gonna be 1366x768.
To steal from Mel Brooks "Bullshit bullshit aaaaaaannnnd bullshit". This ain't 1999 anymore, MSFT ain't got a monopoly on shit. What are people buying? It ain't desktops and laptops, its smartphones and tablets. Hey Apple owns like 70%+ of that market, and as we saw with the Amazon VS the publishers case ALREADY has the power to influence the market...so where is THEIR browser screen? Why is iOS and OSX not being opened up?
Look at the numbers BEFORE the ballot, it shows the old joke was ohh so true "IE is the thing you use to download a browser" and has been falling like a rock since IE 7, how long ago was that?
This is a MONEY GRAB, pure and simple, there isn't a damned thing to fear from "Teh big bad M$" because they missed the fucking boat and are out of the mobile game for all intents and purposes. The EU needs to wake the fuck up and get with this century, be worrying about everything going through the NSA...oops, meant Google's servers, and Apple building nice little black boxes you have to fricking jailbreak just to install non approved software on. IE? Its a fucking corpse, its dead, its rotting, the only place it has ANY real foothold is enterprise and that's because Firefox fucked the enterprise users with the numbers spinning and Google really isn't interested in them, not as much nummy data they can collect from behind the corporate firewall.
So can we PLEASE let go of the bullshit already? its like a sheep kicking an old toothless wolf while two young and healthy lions put on their bibs and go "yep, bad old wolf, baaad" while they snicker. Ballmer is a piss poor CEO, he couldn't do the three Es if Billy held his sweaty hand and walked him through it, his track record is a fucking joke, Zune, Kin, Sidekick, WinPhone, the RRoD, fragmenting BOTH IE and DirectX...he's a fucking trainwreck. Bitching about IE while everyone uses their damned smartphones and iPads to read this is not only shortsighted, its fucking RETARDED. Talk about missing the freight train coming right for you...sheesh. Why am i not surprised the EU regulators are 10 years behind the fucking times? Maybe they should go after Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursors while they are at it...morons.
Yeah Bob writes a feature, that fucks up previous releases, breaks shit left and right, and when you point this out? You'll get told "fix it yourself".
There is a REASON why the ONLY time Linux gained shit was when Google just took the whole damned thing away from the devs, because it is like herding a bunch of cats. Hell look at the bullshit they've pulled the past 5 years, the fucking trainwreck that is Pulse, and of course the bizarro devs of the DEs "Quick, things am stable and people am happy, this not good! We must throw out ALL that works and make it a buggy mess, then people am miserable and I look am smart! Aren't I am great?"
Mark my words, Canonical dead in 2, and Linux can go back to being the hobbyist desktop for ubernerds, MSFT could put out Windows Goatse and people will put up with it because it'll be better than dealing with the arrogant asshole devs. Hell at least if enough of us refuse to buy Windows it bombs and they have to listen and fire the jokers that made the shitty versions...tell me friend, how do we fire Torvalds? How do we fire the guys that make the DEs, and the shitpile that is Pulse? Oh that's right, you don't pay for it so they don't owe you shit, take it and GTFO because they don't give a crap WHAT you think...yeah, good luck with that. Its only been 20 damned years and with the exception of the little buzz Canonical brought has gone exactly NOWHERE.
The fanboys can waste mod point but truth is truth and Good Lord Man is that page old and out of date! I don't see what you are trying to "prove" with a test that 1.-Nobody with ANY common sense at all is gonna actually be doing in real life on ANY of these chips, and 2.- A test that has got to be at LEAST 2 years old in the results, which is like a decade on the mobile front! They only have the single core Atoms, they only have the AMD E350, which isn't even sold anymore,....what good is this "test" and what is it supposed to prove? I'm sure I can dig up a test from 5 years ago showing how crappy ARM's IPC is but I doubt it would be of any use except for historical purposes...which considering that actually has 486 chips listed on the page? yeah historical purposes is pretty much ALL the LZMA test is good for anymore.
BTW here is a link of my own, showing that leakage at 50nm can be as much as 40% and that below 50nm it all comes down to the fabs and who has the better process...hmm...I wonder who that gives a serious advantage to? Not to mention that again, its easier for Intel to scale down than for ARM to scale up, since they already have the powerful chips, and the fabs, and the process, while ARM is having to try to crank up the IPC without blowing the power budget AND deal with leakage.
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Uhhh...what? Friend I don't care for lawyers much either, but I don't read any "evil" on his part. he doesn't want to go to trial because the evidence don't mean shit if you can appeal to emotion...and?
I have seen people get paid millions for doing STUPID SHIT, shit that anybody with half a functional brain cell should have known not to do, like getting preganant while on a drug where they had to watch a video AND read a document telling them NO KIDS WHILE TAKING THIS yet they went to a jury and said "Boo hoo look at junior!" and got millions!
So yeah, i can see someone wanting to have a judge instead of a jury, but you also have to remember they ALSO don't want bad publicity, which if they go around fucking their customers they WILL get. So I have a feeling, just as my friends that went through arbitration found, they just want this to go away and as long as you ain't playing "lawsuit lotto" they are gonna be a hell of a lot more likely to just try to reach a settlement and call it a day.
Would it be nice if every single case was always heard in a public courtroom where a record could be read by anybody? Of course it would, but how many folks are willing to pay 75% taxes to have that? The courts are slow, overtaxed, and in the lawyer's eyes he can study the case for a year and have it blown all to shit by one girl that can cry good to a jury, so yeah I can see why he'd want it...but I can also see how it would be good for the consumer as well, as there is NO bullshit, no need for an expensive lawyer like in a big trial, and from what I've been told by those that had it done it was a "just the facts, here's the receipt" in and out kind of deal with the opposing lawyer ready to settle, the only haggle was over the price.
Lol wut? I asked HOW MANY responded, and were the questions leading...and that makes it a "conspiracy"? Vlad, is that you?
You see THIS is what I find fascinating about the whole thing, the fanbois not only rush to mod me down (as offtopic of all things, when we are talking about patents and I pointed out Google's patents are being used no differently than Apple or MSFT) but they truly see it as this "good VS evil" struggle, when its one uberrich megacorp VS another uberrich megacorp...who is the "good" guys here? Apple who wants a walled garden, or Google who wants to know what kind of TP we wipe our behinds with?
But I'm sorry, waste the modpoints and call me a dirty poo poo head all you want, its the EXACT SAME THING that Apple did! BOTH companies got a hold of some patents and BOTH companies are using the courts to gain advantage over their rivals..this isn't "robin hood" here, this is Coke VS Pepsi, both companies bought the patents to attack rivals and what do you know? that's what they did.
And THIS is what I find so fascinating Basil, you have 2 companies do the exact same damned thing, yet one will be labeled "evil" for doing it and when another does the same thing, its labeled "good". We saw the same thing here recently, with RMS and the FOSS crowd screaming about Win 8's walled garden...and? Where were you 7 years ago, when Apple made walled gardens hip? Too busy playing with your iPhone? Its the SAME DAMNED THING people!
Question...as someone who has never made a *BSD firewall, what makes it better to go that way as opposed to buying a Sonicwall or Cisco? What features are worth the extra expense required to use a computer as a firewall, VS just using a prebuilt ARM one?
As someone who has never homebuilt a firewall I'm curious, is it just because you want to save some old hardware? I've got an old Sempron I use as a nettop so I know that feeling,but is there more to it than that?
Why did he get labeled "troll" for speaking the truth? Hell ALL the big companies have been royally fucking up the UIs left and right trying to make everything for the damned tablets! Apple, MSFT, hell even Linux is now in on it with Canonical and Unity, the "future" is gonna be mass consumption whether you peasants like it or not!
The royal bitch is now that they are also forcing "the cloud" down everyone's damned throats a lot of times you can't even hang onto the old software, because it won't interface with the servers and you're fucked! I don't know how many times I've had to deal with pissed off customers because major features have been removed in their favorite software only to tell them "Sorry I don't control the servers at (Insert Apple, MSFT, etc) so I can't make the "better version" work anymore than you can, all you can do is deal with it or move to something else."
It's a royal pain in the damned ass, that's what it is. At least before they'd use focus groups and at least TRY to give people what they wanted, even if they fucked up the execution. Now its like the entire industry has said "Fuck you, its tablets first now, everything else...well who cares, we don't" and that is that.
You joke but can we ALL now accept that "Do No Evil" was nothing but "Think Different" tailored to geek culture? It was a marketing slogan and had as much bearing on reality as the Brawndo commercials in Idiocracy.
Here we see classic patent trolling with patents used as a weapon...NO different than how Apple and MSFT have done in the past...key words? NO different. Google is a megacorp, megacorps care only about the bottom line, period the end. If Google could triple their page views by having a "Save the titties!" campaign they would do so, its ALL marketing and doesn't have a damned thing to do with what goes on in house, no more than Apple is walking down the lines in China telling the workers building iPhones to think differently as they put them together.
As for TFA the final score will be the big three, Apple, Google, and MSFT, signing cross licensing agreements that make sure nobody comes through that doesn't pay their $699 license fee, so they'll get paid no matter who makes what, which seems to be all patents are ever used for anymore, trolling.
While I agree there are several that stand out, the Atari and the Pong for examples, for me if you want to bring back "NERD!" nostalgia you can't beat the good old memtest. I mean how many of us have sat there going "C'mon! Fricking POST already!" like kids waiting to get a cookie at the PC?
This is why I have to LMAO at kids complaining about Windows taking "a whole 2 minutes! ZOMFG!" on their multicore monsters...sheeeit, try waiting to get WinNT up on a Pentium II with a whopping 64Mb of memory kid and THEN talk to me about slow!
If by "superior" you mean BROKEN then we are in agreement. Please enjoy this list of show stopping bugs and then compare it to the same list from THREE YEARS AGO... notice how many are still on there? And your own "fix it" does NOT work, as the previous version requires kernel foo 3.2 and the distros are now on bar 4.2...thanks again to the totally fucked up way Linus and the devs tied every damned thing to the kernel...great job guys.
Meanwhile the rest of us can run brand new and decade old software, hell you can even run Vista drivers on 7,and it all "just works". Can YOU do that? Nope because the fundamental design is BROKEN, and Linus knows it and really doesn't care. He is making money off it, he can do whatever he wants, so he really doesn't care. The mistake Canonical made was using Linux at all, they should have went BSD like Apple did to where they could maintain some control. Instead they dove into the monkey house and got poo flung on them...yeah, can't say I'm surprised they will join Corel, and Xandros, and Linspire, Linus built an OS that is now devoted to servers and as a desktop? Sorry but it sucks, it really does.
Uhhh....sure it does, you just don't want to pay the market price for a niche item is all. Go to Tigerdirect or any website and look under "Gamer laptops" and you'll find plenty of high res screens with high powered graphics cards to drive those high res screens, just be ready to pay a premium because you're not gonna drive modern multimedia and games at that high a resolution with cheap junk IGPs. I don't have time now to go through the list to find a 2500 res, but the minimum on the gamer units now is 1080P with IIRC the Razr and Alienwares both going higher. There is also the Thinkpads designed for the medical industry, they have insanely high resolutions and $4k+ price tags to go with those insane specs.
If you want it SOMEBODY will build it and sell it to you, you just can't expect to get it for the same price as that $399 Acer special. That is what Torvalds is whining about and...well too bad, the yields on 2500 res screens sucks and this raises costs and in a cutthroat market high costs equal low sales. people looked, they chose, the market has spoken. As I said i bought a 12 inch with 1366x768 and I'm happy with that resolution and didn't want to pay double the price for a 1080p in that form factor, so the market works as intended. popular becomes cheaper, niche is expensive.
And how many responded in those polls? Was there ANY oversight to them at all, or was it just as useless as a phone poll here in the USA? After all I'm sure I can find 40 people that would say I should have the official title of "King God Of The Mountain" but that don't mean "the people" are behind that, it just means I found 40 bums and handed them a bottle of booze.
Never forget how easy it is to manipulate people with "polls" as we saw here in the USA in the lead up to Iraq. In fact I gave one of those phone pollers hell for using such leading questions they may have well just come out and said "Are you for murdering babies, or saving them by invading Iraq?" because the questions were SO leading it would make anyone who didn't go along sound like a monster.
Sure but that is where the "sucker born every minute" comes from, if one is smart enough to read tech sites they ought to be able to do a simple Google Search, its not like one has to actually do any work here. Just "Name of unit, model, tech specs" and voila! There they are.
And Columbia House had the monopoly on 8 tracks....who fucking cares? Do YOU care? Do I care? The kids of today sure as fuck don't care, you'd have to pry their cold dead hands off their cell phones to make them give a shit.
Look at the numbers, hundreds of millions of tablets and smartphones and MSFT doesn't even rank high single digits there. While the desktop will NEVER go away it simply won't be the center of the world it was in the 90s, its all "smart" now, smartphones and smartTVs and smart tablets and MSFT don't even have a place at the table. Complaining about MSFT and cooking up massive fines NOW is like screaming at IBM for holding the big iron market...who the fuck cares?
In the end though what proves this is nothing but a shakedown for money is they do NOTHING to actually help those companies they claim wronged. Do they cut a check to Mozilla, holders of netscape? How about Opera? Nope, it ALL goes into their greasy pockets and they cook up some irritating "solution" that frankly wasn't even needed because the numbers BEFORE the ballot screen had IE falling like a 747 with its wings ripped off, it was already dead, they are just shaking the money out of the corpse's pockets.
And as I have said before nanny government NEVER gets smaller ONLY bigger, so those cheering better be ready to pay more for their droid and iPhone because Apple AND Google WILL end up in their sights, its just a matter of time. Remember NEVER smaller, ONLY bigger.
Replace the screen yourself, or pay your local PC shop to do it, its not cheap but CAN be done. next time look for Thinkpads made for the medical industry, those are naturally more high res but again you want it you gotta pay for it, the 1366x768 screens are a commodity and have near 100% yields and the price reflects that, the higher res screens have worse yields and thus harder to get.
And let this be a lesson to you, do your damned homework before you buy! Who buys a $1000 laptop without even knowing the specs? I not only knew the specs on my $350 netbook but I had also saved pages that showed me how to change the HDD to SSD and where to get a touchscreen display if I wanted to switch. What you'll want to look for is "desktop replacement like this quad core AMD but if you want higher than 1600x900 you are gonna have to go for the "gamer" units and be ready to put a serious dent in your wallet.
Look, my advice? Use the laptop ONLY when you need to be mobile, buy it cheap, and spend the money on a decent quality desktop with a nice high res screen. hell buy a decent GPU like an HD6850 and you can go triple screen and have an eyegasm of screen goodness. laptops are meant for MOBILE and thus will ALWAYS be worse than a desktop, worse resolution, slower CPU, slower GPU, its all given up for more battery life. So unless you are living in hotel rooms frankly the mobile should be a cheap portable while the desktop at home is where you have your screen goodness.
Buy a Thinkpad designed for the medical industry, or change out the screen yourself? Go to the Thinkpad forums, they have links to screens designed to be perfect replacements for stock Thinkpads and since the medical industry uses Thinkpads you can get high res, but don't expect cheap because the economies of scale just ain't there.
Except they'll either settle and seal or in some cases even managed to appeal and seal, thus you get no more info from a public trial anymore than from arbitration and of course with local papers not wanting to bite the hand that buys ads they sure as shit isn't gonna be writing stories about it...lets face it, if a corrupt corp wants to cover shit up in THIS country? they'll have the courts not only helping them, but bending over backwards to do so.
Good God man....that won't even pay for the pizza, much less the Mountain Dew!
And...WHY is this bad exactly? I've had friends and relatives go through arbitration and frankly the corps ended up settling for MORE than they asked for and was QUICKER than going to court. The kinds of things we see end up in arbitration are things that would be small claims court stuff and in those penny ante cases frankly the corps are a hell of a lot more likely to just give you the money and tell you to go away, you really aren't worth the effort or their law team's time.
So I don't see why arbitration would be a bad thing in these kinds of cases frankly our courts are overloaded and from talking to those that went through arbitration they tend to lean even MORE pro consumer as they don't want it to look unfair and end up having to go to court.
But which would be MORE valuable to your HPC friends, a thousand cores that individually are weaker than a Pentium 2, or 250 Magny Cours or Core i7 chips that can blow through twice as many instructions per second as those 1000 chips?
As we all know TINSTAAFL and there is ALWAYS a trade off, and in the case of ARM its frankly lousy IPC. So far many companies have sunk serious R&D into ARM and they haven't solved the problems so its doubtful that the arch is gonna hit even P4 levels of IPC anytime soon. For huge parallel loads you have both the Tesla GPUs and you have the Opteron and Xeon chips, and this is actually one place where the half core design of the new Opterons would probably work well as you could stuff more per rack than you can the Xeons.
Does this mean these won't have a niche? Nope, I could see these with a custom Linux server backend being used for light loads where it switched over to the Opteron for heavy computing which is what i think AMD is gonna try to do with this, but I just have to wonder how big a market there is for that as most servers i've dealt with are either under strain a LOT of the time or almost never under strain, and guys like your HPC friend I'm sure would be pounding the living hell out of the chips so I have to wonder with such a low IPC if they wouldn't be better served with 200 Xeons or 300 Magny Cours in the same rack space.
What amazes me is how people can be blind to this, when it should have been obvious when they needed "helper chips" like the Broadcoms to do 1080P decode, something that a P4 from 8 years ago could do with relative ease.
The ARM arch was just never designed to scale to the kinds of levels we are needing in today's devices, and you are seeing that as they try to ramp up the power budgets quickly go to shit. this is why you aren't seeing 3GHz ARM chips like you did X86 during the MHz wars, the power budget to ramp the chip that high, not to mention the cooling cost, would simply be too great so instead you are seeing more and more cores "bolted on" trying to make up for the lack of IPC. We saw that same strategy with AMD, didn't work out so well.
Whether the ARM fans like it or not the future is crazy high def screens, games that look better than what the X360 is putting out now, and to do those kinds of things you are gonna need a HELL of a lot more IPC than what we are seeing now. More cores and helper chips only get you so far, as all that needs more power to run. Frankly Intel could sit on ass and end up winning the market by default, by simply letting people's demands for ever higher quality video and games come to them, but they are still shrinking dies and coming up with new designs, and I have NO doubt in less than 16 months you'll see Atom chips that will just smoke the multicore ARMs at less of a power budget. in the end they have the fabs, they have the R&D, they have the processes down, its just a matter of time.
The big three, lung, pancreas, and bowel. Those 3 people tend to hang on long enough to get a LOT of money out of, just look how much jobs spent trying to beat the reaper, and they make a TON of money on those. ironically many of the drugs that end up treating those of us with auto-immune diseases usually start out as cancer drugs,methotrexate and remicade are the two that come to mind.
But in any case the big 3 are a billion dollar business and I doubt we'll be finding any cures for those.
Exactly, and why should they? I remember some site figuring up on a new PC install how many damned EULAs and TOS they would have to go through just to get a PC with all the basic websites set up and from actually LOOKING at the EULAs and TOS they determined that anybody not a lawyer well versed in contract law would have to spend something like $32,000 to have a contract lawyer sit down and actually explain these pages of legalese and if one were to go over it with enough detail by yourself to actually understand it, which they figured at a VERY conservative 25 minutes per page, you were looking at something like 14 WEEKS to just set up a PC and get all the basic websites signed up!
I mean look at the TOS for a LOT of the websites, you are talking 14-25+ pages of tightly packed legalese with the most obtuse wording they could possibly use! What they should have to do to test this crap is a "Man on the street" test where you grab 6 average people just walking down the street, hand them a paper copy of ONE page, just one random page of it, and then ask them questions over what they read. If the average person can't make heads or tails of a single page of the agreement without a lawyer present? then it should be thrown out, simple as that.
Because as it is now guys that are well read like myself often can't understand these things if you don't have a background in contract law, its just written with too much jargon to follow, it would be like handing a 65 year old judge a page written in Leet and telling him its a binding contract and he has to sign it before proceeding...do you think he would do ANY better than the average Joe does with legal leet speak?
Yet again more proof that Linus doesn't think about how things IRL work. Economics 101...You sell what makes you the most money and leads to the least waste, and in this case its using the same screens in TVs and laptops. This is why damned near everything under 17 inches is 1366x768, because all the low end TVs are at 1366x768 and frankly their yields are VERY good at that resolution. If they were to go with his idea? Look at prices to jump 45% as the yields on those simply aren't as good and that waste will be passed onto the consumer.
If he WANTS a screen that size? Its called a free market, he can have one, but it won't be as cheap because the economies of scale simply aren't there. My 12 inch netbook is 1366x768 and I have to say that resolution works perfectly fine for what I use it for, which is a mini-office and troubleshooting tool on service calls. I COULD have gotten a higher resolution screen, but the next closest model to what i got with a higher resolution screen was more than double what I paid. I weighed my choices, decided that the increased resolution wasn't worth the increased cost, and bought my E350 netbook instead.
Its a free market linus, you want a Macbook? You should buy one. you want any screen resolution? Then buy it. But the masses shouldn't have to subsidize your choice which is EXACTLY what would happen if we listened to you. Instead the CONSUMER gets to choose what works for them and that which becomes most popular? becomes cheaper thanks to economy of scale. Business 101 Linus. And its obvious the winner in mobile is 1366x768, followed by 1600x900, with 1080p relegated to the desktop replacement category. Maybe in 5 years they will be able to crank 1080p screens as cheaply as the 1366 ones and we'll see a shift, but for now it seems pretty obvious that unless you break out the checkbook its gonna be 1366x768.
To steal from Mel Brooks "Bullshit bullshit aaaaaaannnnd bullshit". This ain't 1999 anymore, MSFT ain't got a monopoly on shit. What are people buying? It ain't desktops and laptops, its smartphones and tablets. Hey Apple owns like 70%+ of that market, and as we saw with the Amazon VS the publishers case ALREADY has the power to influence the market...so where is THEIR browser screen? Why is iOS and OSX not being opened up?
Look at the numbers BEFORE the ballot, it shows the old joke was ohh so true "IE is the thing you use to download a browser" and has been falling like a rock since IE 7, how long ago was that?
This is a MONEY GRAB, pure and simple, there isn't a damned thing to fear from "Teh big bad M$" because they missed the fucking boat and are out of the mobile game for all intents and purposes. The EU needs to wake the fuck up and get with this century, be worrying about everything going through the NSA...oops, meant Google's servers, and Apple building nice little black boxes you have to fricking jailbreak just to install non approved software on. IE? Its a fucking corpse, its dead, its rotting, the only place it has ANY real foothold is enterprise and that's because Firefox fucked the enterprise users with the numbers spinning and Google really isn't interested in them, not as much nummy data they can collect from behind the corporate firewall.
So can we PLEASE let go of the bullshit already? its like a sheep kicking an old toothless wolf while two young and healthy lions put on their bibs and go "yep, bad old wolf, baaad" while they snicker. Ballmer is a piss poor CEO, he couldn't do the three Es if Billy held his sweaty hand and walked him through it, his track record is a fucking joke, Zune, Kin, Sidekick, WinPhone, the RRoD, fragmenting BOTH IE and DirectX...he's a fucking trainwreck. Bitching about IE while everyone uses their damned smartphones and iPads to read this is not only shortsighted, its fucking RETARDED. Talk about missing the freight train coming right for you...sheesh. Why am i not surprised the EU regulators are 10 years behind the fucking times? Maybe they should go after Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursors while they are at it...morons.
Yeah Bob writes a feature, that fucks up previous releases, breaks shit left and right, and when you point this out? You'll get told "fix it yourself".
There is a REASON why the ONLY time Linux gained shit was when Google just took the whole damned thing away from the devs, because it is like herding a bunch of cats. Hell look at the bullshit they've pulled the past 5 years, the fucking trainwreck that is Pulse, and of course the bizarro devs of the DEs "Quick, things am stable and people am happy, this not good! We must throw out ALL that works and make it a buggy mess, then people am miserable and I look am smart! Aren't I am great?"
Mark my words, Canonical dead in 2, and Linux can go back to being the hobbyist desktop for ubernerds, MSFT could put out Windows Goatse and people will put up with it because it'll be better than dealing with the arrogant asshole devs. Hell at least if enough of us refuse to buy Windows it bombs and they have to listen and fire the jokers that made the shitty versions...tell me friend, how do we fire Torvalds? How do we fire the guys that make the DEs, and the shitpile that is Pulse? Oh that's right, you don't pay for it so they don't owe you shit, take it and GTFO because they don't give a crap WHAT you think...yeah, good luck with that. Its only been 20 damned years and with the exception of the little buzz Canonical brought has gone exactly NOWHERE.
The fanboys can waste mod point but truth is truth and Good Lord Man is that page old and out of date! I don't see what you are trying to "prove" with a test that 1.-Nobody with ANY common sense at all is gonna actually be doing in real life on ANY of these chips, and 2.- A test that has got to be at LEAST 2 years old in the results, which is like a decade on the mobile front! They only have the single core Atoms, they only have the AMD E350, which isn't even sold anymore,....what good is this "test" and what is it supposed to prove? I'm sure I can dig up a test from 5 years ago showing how crappy ARM's IPC is but I doubt it would be of any use except for historical purposes...which considering that actually has 486 chips listed on the page? yeah historical purposes is pretty much ALL the LZMA test is good for anymore.
BTW here is a link of my own, showing that leakage at 50nm can be as much as 40% and that below 50nm it all comes down to the fabs and who has the better process...hmm...I wonder who that gives a serious advantage to? Not to mention that again, its easier for Intel to scale down than for ARM to scale up, since they already have the powerful chips, and the fabs, and the process, while ARM is having to try to crank up the IPC without blowing the power budget AND deal with leakage.