Uhhh...how EXACTLY does gaming SSDs and enterprise products have ANYTHING in common? Other than who made them nothing is comparable, after all Dell still makes good servers but that don't change the fact the Dell units in Worst Buy are garbage.
What you and the other enterprise guys fail to realize is...you're a dinosaur. I'm sorry but you are, consumers simply buy waaaay more product than you do and with VMs you'll be buying less every year. What killed OZC wasn't their enterprise kit, it was the fact their consumer lines were shit, end of story.
If you are talking about the one they bought from the Russians and refurb'd? I wouldn't exactly call that building, more like what Brazil did and patching the hell out of an older hull so it can get a couple more decades.
This is why I've been saying for years we need to quit cranking out the carriers, we have 10, next biggest country? TWO. Sorry but that isn't a threat, that's a joke. Not to mention those new sea skimmer missiles could be used as a Macross Missile Massacre and they wouldn't even need a carrier to take out a carrier task force anymore.
This is something I've argued for years, every MSFT victory? Was preceded by "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb", from the owner of CP/M blowing off IBM to go flying to BeOS choosing to start out on an ultra nice AT&T "Hobbit" CPU it has ALWAYS been "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb. What happens when the other guy doesn't politely shoot themselves in the face? Zune, Kin,Sidekick, WinRT, one bad move after another.
Citation please? Because while I'e been avoiding Win "LULZ I Iz A Cellphone LULZ" like an STD from what I understood if it can run Win 7 it can run Win 8 no prob.
If you make a boat engine, call it a boat engine, advertise it as a boat engine, but then tell people AFTER THEY BUY that the ONLY way you'll support it is if they have installed it in a hovercraft? Well enjoy your bankruptcy, you can join OCZ on the fail pile.
And now you see why OCZ is going out of business. Never heard of the customer is always right? Or how about the simple fact that over 90% of the PCs ON THE PLANET use Windows, so not having a tool that will work with Windows or at the very least a boot image ready for a flash stick is fucking stupid?
Let me explain a little bit about retail Chuck, you treat one customer right? He tells four people thus increasing your positive word of mouth, you fuck them over? They will tell TEN people what a POS your products are and kill your business, see TFA for a perfect example.
Hell it don't take Steve Jobs to know OCZ is shit, just talk to any system builder. i have several gamer customers and they ALL ended up getting burned by OCZ at least once. I'd tell them "Look at the reviews, they are burning folks" but all they cared about was their rank on the boards...well they all ended up with paperweights. OCZ is a classic example of "treat customers like shit and watch them dry up".
Exactly and if a run of the new chips cost more to make, counting lower yields and the retooling, than they can get in a downturn? Then it simply makes no sense to go 14nm right now.
This is why when AMD said they were gonna wait a year to release new chips while the pundits screamed "they are giving up!" I pointed out it was a DAMN smart move, the current process is mature and allows them to sell nearly 100% of the yields. With the current process they can get octo-hexa-quad-triple-dual, all by simply turning off bad cores and they can crank them out cheaply enough you can get a hexa for $100 and an octo for $130. This lets them offer more bang for the buck while covering the market and minimizing waste...where is the downside? Its not like folks are lining up at midnight to get the latest chips as many have more power now than they can use, so by sticking with a proven reliable mature process they can make the most profit with the least expense...it just makes good business sense.
No it isn't, not really. Right now FOSS is suffering from three MAJOR problems, which seriously hamper progress. If these problems were to be soled things would be a LOT farther along.
1.- The "Taco Bell" problem. This is where limited resources are squandered on the illusion of choice and ego stroking and its a serious issue. How many distros on distrowatch fit this description? "Its (insert Ubuntu/Debian) with (insert KDE/Gnome or derivative) along with (insert LO/FF/Gimp/Chromium) and just enough changes to make things incompatible"? Probably a good 90% at least. If this ego stroking illusion of choice were removed and that effort instead put to use fixing issues with one of the big three? It would go a LONG way to fixing the second problem.
2.- The "busted shitter" problem. You ask someone to paint you a picture or write you a song for free? You'll have plenty to choose from,many of which might even be good. Ask them to fix your stinking shitter for free? Better get used to pissing in the sink. All the "easy and fun work" in Linux is pretty much done,while all the nasty work, regression testing, documentation (how many place holder help files are in your average distro?) bug fixing, drier testing, application compatibility testing, all the nasty work that really adds polish to an OS and make it shine? Too much of it simply isn't getting done. For proof go look at any distro's forums after a major release and how many "update broke my driers" posts you see. More importantly look at how many of these are involving the "bog standard" hardware, the Realtek and Via sound, Realtek and SiS networking, the major wireless chips, things that should frankly NEVER be allowed to break because of the number of people using those chips...yet they are crapped on constantly. It doesn't matter how well your OS looks, the second it starts crapping on bog standard hardware it looks Mickey Mouse.
3.- The "FOSSie faction" which is frankly what TFA is talking about. Right now there is a war going on in the FOSS camp, on the one hand you hae the pragmatists that want Linux to be able to compete and hold its head up high when compared to OSX and Windows, then you have the "FOSSies" which I use that term because like Moonies its ALL about the dogma, who frankly don't care if Linux is a broken POS as long as its "purity of essence" with regards to GPL remains 100% intact. Try to bring up the lack of a hardware ABI and you'll find out soon enough its not a technical issue, not a design issue, its a RELIGIOUS issue. You'll quickly hear things like "it would allow companies to put out non GPL drivers" (Newsflash, they already do and ya know what? They are often the ONLY drivers that work worth a shit, see Nvidia) and "spirit of the GPL" and other such nonsense. At the end of the day you can have a useless "GPL pure" distro, see GNUsence, or you can compromise and actually make something work.
At the end of the day his calling them the TEA party is an apt description, as like the frankly ever more militant RMS there is NO talking to them, NO compromise, its their way or the highway PERIOD. This frankly is trashing Linux as Joe and Sally Average don't give a shit about your "GPL Spirit" all they know is their wireless was trashed and video wonked on the last update. Its sad really, to have so much good work, killer DEs, better than Windows now honestly, plenty of killer software, but the whole driver and subsystem situation really isn't any better than a decade ago and sadly its not the code, as Shuttleworth is finding out its the politics.
Even better idea....hae a second box for downloading! If you want to go ultra cheap C2D towers are a dime a dozen and if space is an issue? Throw together a mini based around one of those $70 AMD Bobcat boards. If you don't mind spending a little money they have prebuilt Bobcat systems small enough that they can mount to the back of the monitor and those 1.6GHz dual cores sip power. Finally add a KVM switch and tada! No more having laggy gameplay.
As for TFA it all comes down to one thing....greed. Greed on behalf of the content providers and greed on the cable company. I too USED to have both cable net and cable T, even had their VoIP, but the constant price hikes caused me to drop the phone and T. If they want my business they can offer a decent price but until then they can keep it, we get over a dozen channels OTA here including all those my fiance cares to watch, so no way and I gonna get gouged just for TV.
Actually if the rumors some of the other sites are saying is true the 14nm delay isn't because of low yield...its because nobody is buying.
Oh sure the yields aren't great but like AMD it looks like Intel has realized there really ain't a point in constantly putting out faster and better chips when they can't move the ones they got.
What both need to realize, and what will be biting ARM right in the ass in less than 18 months by my calculations is thus....The software just hasn't kept up with the hardware and X86 by switching from MHz wars to core wars went from "good enough" to "insanely overpowered" and when you can't even stress the one you have, what is the point of buying a new one? Intel and AMD are finding this carries over to other areas as well, take laptops for example. Used to you could set your watch by my customers replacing their laptops, every 2 years for the business guys and every 3 max for the home users, because the combo of heat cycling and software requirements would make them break or painfully slow, now? Well most of the time the laptop is twiddling its thumbs so its not getting hot enough to kill it and even a 5+ year laptop these days is a C2D or Turion X2 with 3+ GB of RAM and 300GB+ HDDs, more than Joe and Sally Average need frankly.
Oh and for the guys praising ARM and thinking that train is gonna keep on rolling? You got 18-24 months by my calculations and then? Hope you enjoy the same boat Intel and AMD are in now. The reason why is simple...ARM doesn't scale well and there is only so many cores and so much MHz you can push in a thin and light before you end up with battery life measured in minutes so just like how Intel and AMD hit the heat wall? So too will ARM hit the battery wall. When you combine this with the incredible race to the bottom going on right now, we are talking about dual core tablets in the $70 range at Chinamart and quads starting at $100? it won't be long before everybody and their dog has a phone and tablet that is faster than they know what to do with and then like X86 they won't replace until the unit dies.
so I wouldn't be surprised if intel just sits on 14nm until they get it down so well they can sell it as cheap or cheaper than current chips, after all AMD has already said it'll be a year before they release a new chip and why should they? Thanks to having a mature process they can sell hexacores for $100 and octocores for $130 and their yields on the APUs is so good the OEMs are selling quad laptops for $399, why spend all that money for a new chip when sales are already depressed? The same goes for Intel, they have chips at just about every price point, mature process means high yields and more profits per wafer, and with the global economy a crawl and PCs becoming like appliances why come out with a new chip? Stick with what you've got, they are several orders of magnitude faster than Joe and Sally know what to do with anyway.
Well lets see...both are single task designed OSes, both have a look like something from the early 90s and oh yeah...both suck.
So I'd say its a pretty apt mistake to make. BTW I have a question to all those Win 8 apologists...why do you not praise the "innovation" of sticking teeny tiny desktops on cellphones? Because all MSFT did was flip the same tired old shit they did for a decade, instead of stuffing a desktop GUI on a cellphone they jammed a cellphone GUI, complete with appstore crapstore and swipe gestures, onto a desktop where it makes NO fucking sense. Hell for that matter why aren't you replacing the steering wheel in your car with bike handlebars? After all by MSFT logic since bikes are growing and are the most popular UI worldwide for transportation that MUST make them superior and therefor perfect to use anywhere for anything.
I think I'll just leave this here and note how many times he says things like "stop" and "I don't want that" as the OS actively fights against the user who isn't doing the "tweeting twits and social shit" MSFT clearly designed the OS for. A GOOD UI should HELP the user and get out of the way, a BAD UI is a hindrance...which would you say Win 8.x is?
While I don't know if it was for the same reason everywhere I was helping out at an ISP when the first server bans were instituted and the reason they did it was guys were running Quake and other FPS servers and pretty much killing the bandwidth for everybody. If they ran a popular game server even when they were down it was getting pings up the ying yang from guys trying to hook up and the infrastructure, at least where I was at, simply couldn't handle it.
Are you being obtuse on purpose, or are you just an iFanboy? All that matters to the user is how it FEELS and I got news for ya pal, while I haven't tried the $60 one yet i HAVE sold a couple of the $80 ones and ya know what? They could not be happier! Its responsive, plays all their fav games, plays movies, they love the hell out of them.
So you keep right on waving the iFlag and watch as the numbers keep going down down down. Last figures i saw had them losing almost 10% from last year and that trend? WILL continue. At the end of the day ALL that matters to Joe and Jane Consumer is "will it do what i want it to?" and the answer is most certainly YES IT WILL.
Dude you ain't been keeping up with things, have you? They were already showing off $100 Android dual cores at this year's Hong Kong expo and you can go to places like ChinaBuye and get dual core 3G phones for less than $100, here is an example. Oh and my bad on the tablets, they actually have the dual cores starting at less than $60
And THIS is the reason why apple is doomed to end up a niche like they are in the PC space, because when multicore tablets and phones reach "good enough" for the masses that is all she wrote.
I often get called a hippie on this and other sites by the libertarian wing, of course they are so far right they make the tea party look like flower children, funny that if their dream world came to be? They would find out quickly that in a case of survival of the fittest their fat overfed asses aren't very fit at all.
But if you were to bring back Goldwater and Buckley? They'd be disgusted at what has become of the right, the "Let 'em die!" greed and tea party garbage, because they actually understood economics and gave a shit about the country. They would point out its the spending by the poor and middle class that keep the economic engine running and the more the top hoard the less the engine runs. They were for the free market but they also stressed giving those at the top reasons to invest back into the country. Hell you want to see some of the most scathing articles from national Review go back to the Raygun era because Buckley was always saying "We CAN do better" and he too hated the pandering to the neocon and bible thumper wings.
But now? call a spade a spade, what we have on BOTH sides is good old fashioned fascism, pure and simple. The right dreams of brown shirts and a handful of elite putting the boots to the poor via the stormtroopers and the left dreams of "Big Mommy Loves You Citizen!" big bro control, its the same coin, just different styles. The social left, the fiscal conservative? we no longer have a voice, pushed out by the fascists who dream of power for themselves.
I have to agree, in fact I won't buy a device that uses non standard connectors anymore, I found out what a PITA that is when I was on a trip with my ex and her phone couldn't take my adapter so i ended up spending the better part of a Sunday trying to find the funky adapter her phone used. Now I don't even think about it, I keep a standard mini-USB hanging off the PC at the shop and the one at the apt and it fits mine, fits my fiance's, fits the boys phones, it all "just works".
As for Apple? sigh....its fucking apple, I think if their shit actually worked with anything else their fans wouldn't be happy, Apple crap has ALWAYS only worked with Apple crap and that is just the way it is. Apple is gonna be killed by the "good enough" in the tablet and phone markets anyway, they'll have a high end niche like they have in towers but that will be it, as the competition starts cranking out really nice multicore Android tablets for less than $100 and phones for less than $150 the writing is on the wall so let them keep their funky connectors, just makes 'em more 'exclusive" as far as iFanboys are concerned.
You think YOU hate it? They call me "the/. resident hippie" but I was actually a Goldwater/Buckley conservative, one that thought you fix the problems NOT by fucking the poor, which any economist will tell you is economic suicide because the poor spend every dime they get and keep the economy running while uber rich like Mittens hoard, but instead to quit blowing billions like we were fighting the USSR next Tuesday and instead invest all the money into our own economy.
Well sadly we were kicked out of the party in the 80s, replaced by neo-cons with dreams of empire and bible thumpers that think we have to constantly get involved in the ME or "Jebus won't come back, come back jebus!"....sigh. I just LOVE how many on the right treat Raygun as a right wing god, the same guy who said "deficits don't matter" and spent like a drunken sailor on vegas leave as THAT is what we have now, we have the "spend on the rich and fuck the poor" right wing and the "spend on everybody" left wing, notice how NEITHER has the word save anywhere?
While I am in 100% agreement you can't save your way out of a depression, that is what was tried during FDR and it failed, you can't fix it by spending on dumb shit and BOTH parties seem to be great at that. BTW notice we no longer even HAVE a left party any more? You got fascist loving jack booted bullshit from BOTH sides, the only diff is one wants to go brownshirt while the other prefers the "big mommy loves you citizen" track, but again both are for the same shit, its just different spins. What i wouldn't give for a REAL third party but sadly all we get are Ayn Rand wannabes and those that are left of Lenin so we have zero fucking prayer of getting shit going here.
Sorry, 15 yard penalty, bullshit on the field. We elected Obama because the right ran Thurston Howell the Third and Lovey and just like on the show they couldn't help but keep opening their mouths and showing the world what rich spoiled clueless dumbasses look like.
Which was YOUR favorite "See I'm rich, he heh" gaffe? I'd say the "47%" gaffe wouldn't even make the top 5, my personal favorites were from him "I had to drive an ugly car in High School!" Oh poor baby, didn't like the BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that daddy gave you for your 16th BDay Mitt? And from her "We were so poor in college we had to live on our stock dividends!"...yeah, you are breaking my heart, it must have been soooo hard to live in that mansion daddy gave you and have to live on the piles of cash you were getting from the shitload of stock you and Mittens had before you had even graduated college. BTW want to know how many mansions daddy had given them before they graduated? FIVE, Mittens was stupid enough to brag about it at one of the fund raisers,just like he marveled about how them Chinese would practically kill each other to work for nothing. Smooth move rich retard.
So I'm sorry but the reason the right lost in 2008 and 2012 is the same reason they'll lose in 2016 and 2020, because they keep running candidates so fucking out of touch it hurts. You went from McSame, singing "Bomb Iran" while our troops are deployed in harm's way like its a fucking joke, to Thurston Howell the Third, and you watch in 2016, while the economy is in the crapper no less, they'll run....drumroll for dramatic effect.....Bobby "Fuck them poor bastards!" Jindal, guaranteed to let any dem just waltz right on in there.
Uuuuhhh...why? These are ULV embedded chips, they wouldn't even be able to keep up with the 2008 HD4650 I have in my nettop, hell they would probably get stomped by my early 00s X1650 PRO AGP that I have in the closet, so why would you care about this supposed "duopoly" when it does what the market is supposed to do and lower prices through competition?
If all you care about is video you can go with Intel (although the way they slit Nvidia's throat to get them out of the chipset biz really should have gotten them busted for antitrust) and if you want more both AMD and Nvidia have just about every price point you can imagine,hell Tiger has an HD5450 for $15 after MIR and that is more than powerful enough to give you 1080p over HDMI (I should know as i put one in the HTPC I built my dad) and will even do some light gaming.
So I really don't know what there is to complain about, if you want better graphics in a laptop? Go AMD and in a desktop you can get AMD or Nvidia and there is enough competition to keep prices low, so what's the prob?
Yeah...which is why Windows defaults to power saving when plugged into the wall, and defaults to balanced even on desktops. Sorry friend but we just haven't gotten there yet, for a perfect example just read about (or even better pick one up at Starmicro cheap) the Phenom I.
You see if you hook a Phenom I to the wall and turn OFF the power saving features of the OS? The power usage goes down, turn on the power usage and the power usage goes UP...why? The answer is very simple, the Phenom I was the first, and AFAIK the ONLY chip to have the frankly awesome per core speed stepping. If you had one job that required one full blast core, and another that only required half of that, with no real work for the remaining 2 cores? Then the Phenom I could make only the core that required full speed to have full clocks and could drop or raise the clocks several times a second if required....so what was the problem? The problem was Windows. Windows would see the slower cores and automatically dump work onto them thus slowing the system down and requiring the clocks to run higher than required because every time it would lower the clock Windows would dump more background tasks onto the slower cores. AMD ended up removing this power saving features on all subsequent chips because MSFT just couldn't get Windows to behave, but if you were to plug a kill-a-watt into a Phenom I you'd find that a Phenom I has lower power usage under XP than later OSes (because XP was "dumb" and didn't monitor the clocks) and with Vista and newer you turn off the power save features to get better power usage, although sadly there is no way to 100% negate Windows dumping work onto the slowed cores.
So I'm sorry friend but at least from what I've seen of Windows and Linux desktop OSes the power management still has a LONG ways to go, and I have a feeling the "future" is gonna be dumb OSes that leave all power management to the hardware itself.
NOOOOO..it means YOU sir don't deal with the public and therefor don't have a clue what you are talking about. Sure 320K MP3s sound damned good.....know what the average bitrate for MP3s is? Its 128k. I can tell you that because i've had to back up more MP3 collections before a reinstall than you've had hot dinners and while you'll find a few going down as low as 64k, and a few 256k, the majority is at 128k and I'm sorry but 128k MP3 sucks rancid donkey dick, its VERY tinny and thin but that seems to be the size Joe Average has settled on for the most part so that is what you see.
And again WHY is it 128K? WHERE did this come from? It was decided during the Napster and Audio Galaxy days as the lowest bitrate you could use and sound "good enough" while keeping the file sizes down, since back then an 80GB HDD was the average. Oh and just FYI but for your education you might want to Wiki "loudness war" to find out why MP3 in general sucks, you are taking music that has ALREADY been compressed to its absolute max to raise the loudness and then compressing AGAIN with the MP3 compression, and double compression sounds like shit.
I would as long as they gave me a slice. hell it wouldn't even have to be a big slice, Bing pays me for my searches with $5 gift cards which I use for all the little things i need at the shop, CD sleeves, adapters, and it is just nice to be given a little token as a thank you...plus the fact that the fiance has a bazillion things she wants at Amazon really don't hurt none;-)
Of course that is a HELL of a lot different than me paying for a pro photog to come take pics of my wares only to have competitors get the pics for free from Google, which is what the AC was talking about. In that case not only are you getting screwed but your competitor is getting an advantage handed to his business (since he no longer pays for ads, you do) and Google is getting more business off you hard work. in that case I'd do like AC and tell Google to get stuffed.
I am curious to see how much evil nasty shit Google has to do before it counts, I swear that "not do evil" bullshit is like an RDF from hell, you could find a pic of Brin assraping a nun and the Googlerfs would hold up that little slogan like a magic flag.
And its the same reason why Windows sucks, and Linux sucks, and OSX sucks, etc...its because there is a LOT of stuff hanging around from the "old days" that have ended up becoming a part of the system and still hang around.
Hell want an example everybody has on their PCs? MP3..MP3 SUCKS, sound quality wise its pretty bad and most of the other formats at the time could produce better sound and now of course we have lossless formats that can give you crystal clear sound...yet everybody still uses MP3s, why? Because they know MP3, everything will play MP3, its a hold out from the Napster days that just won't go away.
And I'm sure i'll get hate for saying this but I think a good chunk of his article is just hyperbole. You know what i use on my netbook? Word 2K, an ancient CD version I picked up at a going out of business sale ages ago, no updates, no patches, I slap the compatibility pack on it and voila! it has no problem with the new formats. I deal with plenty of SMBs and I haven't heard a word, no pun intended, of them having any trouble mixing and matching versions and they sure as hell ain't staying on the far right of the curve. Now maybe if you have an Excel jock that insists on using the latest features in the latest version the second it comes out? Or worse deal with a company that make "apps" using Access? Then i could see where there may be a problem, but we are talking about word here and Word has been the most well behaved of the suite.
And what is the alternative? Libre Office? I can open, edit, and save a document before LO gets done dragging its ass to the screen! I'm giving the LO team a break simply because they are cleaning up Sun's mess but lets be honest, Open office was a pig, and LO is a pig at this stage at well.
That is STILL not a good thing if you think about it for a bit, why? Well because the Bluetooth on the desktop may be designed not to care about power, since its on the mains, and therefor is instead designed to give you the max range while the one on the tablet will suck the unit dry if run the same way.....see the problem now?
With mobile versus desktop you have two use cases that are in complete conflict with each other. The things that make sense in one would kill the other, such as making a desktop behave with phone power levels or making the tablet run without its powersaving features. I mean you are talking about completely different arches, why do you think you could keep the same guts and end up with anything but crap?
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Uhhh...how EXACTLY does gaming SSDs and enterprise products have ANYTHING in common? Other than who made them nothing is comparable, after all Dell still makes good servers but that don't change the fact the Dell units in Worst Buy are garbage.
What you and the other enterprise guys fail to realize is...you're a dinosaur. I'm sorry but you are, consumers simply buy waaaay more product than you do and with VMs you'll be buying less every year. What killed OZC wasn't their enterprise kit, it was the fact their consumer lines were shit, end of story.
If you are talking about the one they bought from the Russians and refurb'd? I wouldn't exactly call that building, more like what Brazil did and patching the hell out of an older hull so it can get a couple more decades.
This is why I've been saying for years we need to quit cranking out the carriers, we have 10, next biggest country? TWO. Sorry but that isn't a threat, that's a joke. Not to mention those new sea skimmer missiles could be used as a Macross Missile Massacre and they wouldn't even need a carrier to take out a carrier task force anymore.
This is something I've argued for years, every MSFT victory? Was preceded by "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb", from the owner of CP/M blowing off IBM to go flying to BeOS choosing to start out on an ultra nice AT&T "Hobbit" CPU it has ALWAYS been "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb. What happens when the other guy doesn't politely shoot themselves in the face? Zune, Kin,Sidekick, WinRT, one bad move after another.
Citation please? Because while I'e been avoiding Win "LULZ I Iz A Cellphone LULZ" like an STD from what I understood if it can run Win 7 it can run Win 8 no prob.
If you make a boat engine, call it a boat engine, advertise it as a boat engine, but then tell people AFTER THEY BUY that the ONLY way you'll support it is if they have installed it in a hovercraft? Well enjoy your bankruptcy, you can join OCZ on the fail pile.
And now you see why OCZ is going out of business. Never heard of the customer is always right? Or how about the simple fact that over 90% of the PCs ON THE PLANET use Windows, so not having a tool that will work with Windows or at the very least a boot image ready for a flash stick is fucking stupid?
Let me explain a little bit about retail Chuck, you treat one customer right? He tells four people thus increasing your positive word of mouth, you fuck them over? They will tell TEN people what a POS your products are and kill your business, see TFA for a perfect example.
Hell it don't take Steve Jobs to know OCZ is shit, just talk to any system builder. i have several gamer customers and they ALL ended up getting burned by OCZ at least once. I'd tell them "Look at the reviews, they are burning folks" but all they cared about was their rank on the boards...well they all ended up with paperweights. OCZ is a classic example of "treat customers like shit and watch them dry up".
Exactly and if a run of the new chips cost more to make, counting lower yields and the retooling, than they can get in a downturn? Then it simply makes no sense to go 14nm right now.
This is why when AMD said they were gonna wait a year to release new chips while the pundits screamed "they are giving up!" I pointed out it was a DAMN smart move, the current process is mature and allows them to sell nearly 100% of the yields. With the current process they can get octo-hexa-quad-triple-dual, all by simply turning off bad cores and they can crank them out cheaply enough you can get a hexa for $100 and an octo for $130. This lets them offer more bang for the buck while covering the market and minimizing waste...where is the downside? Its not like folks are lining up at midnight to get the latest chips as many have more power now than they can use, so by sticking with a proven reliable mature process they can make the most profit with the least expense...it just makes good business sense.
No it isn't, not really. Right now FOSS is suffering from three MAJOR problems, which seriously hamper progress. If these problems were to be soled things would be a LOT farther along.
1.- The "Taco Bell" problem. This is where limited resources are squandered on the illusion of choice and ego stroking and its a serious issue. How many distros on distrowatch fit this description? "Its (insert Ubuntu/Debian) with (insert KDE/Gnome or derivative) along with (insert LO/FF/Gimp/Chromium) and just enough changes to make things incompatible"? Probably a good 90% at least. If this ego stroking illusion of choice were removed and that effort instead put to use fixing issues with one of the big three? It would go a LONG way to fixing the second problem.
2.- The "busted shitter" problem. You ask someone to paint you a picture or write you a song for free? You'll have plenty to choose from,many of which might even be good. Ask them to fix your stinking shitter for free? Better get used to pissing in the sink. All the "easy and fun work" in Linux is pretty much done,while all the nasty work, regression testing, documentation (how many place holder help files are in your average distro?) bug fixing, drier testing, application compatibility testing, all the nasty work that really adds polish to an OS and make it shine? Too much of it simply isn't getting done. For proof go look at any distro's forums after a major release and how many "update broke my driers" posts you see. More importantly look at how many of these are involving the "bog standard" hardware, the Realtek and Via sound, Realtek and SiS networking, the major wireless chips, things that should frankly NEVER be allowed to break because of the number of people using those chips...yet they are crapped on constantly. It doesn't matter how well your OS looks, the second it starts crapping on bog standard hardware it looks Mickey Mouse.
3.- The "FOSSie faction" which is frankly what TFA is talking about. Right now there is a war going on in the FOSS camp, on the one hand you hae the pragmatists that want Linux to be able to compete and hold its head up high when compared to OSX and Windows, then you have the "FOSSies" which I use that term because like Moonies its ALL about the dogma, who frankly don't care if Linux is a broken POS as long as its "purity of essence" with regards to GPL remains 100% intact. Try to bring up the lack of a hardware ABI and you'll find out soon enough its not a technical issue, not a design issue, its a RELIGIOUS issue. You'll quickly hear things like "it would allow companies to put out non GPL drivers" (Newsflash, they already do and ya know what? They are often the ONLY drivers that work worth a shit, see Nvidia) and "spirit of the GPL" and other such nonsense. At the end of the day you can have a useless "GPL pure" distro, see GNUsence, or you can compromise and actually make something work.
At the end of the day his calling them the TEA party is an apt description, as like the frankly ever more militant RMS there is NO talking to them, NO compromise, its their way or the highway PERIOD. This frankly is trashing Linux as Joe and Sally Average don't give a shit about your "GPL Spirit" all they know is their wireless was trashed and video wonked on the last update. Its sad really, to have so much good work, killer DEs, better than Windows now honestly, plenty of killer software, but the whole driver and subsystem situation really isn't any better than a decade ago and sadly its not the code, as Shuttleworth is finding out its the politics.
Even better idea....hae a second box for downloading! If you want to go ultra cheap C2D towers are a dime a dozen and if space is an issue? Throw together a mini based around one of those $70 AMD Bobcat boards. If you don't mind spending a little money they have prebuilt Bobcat systems small enough that they can mount to the back of the monitor and those 1.6GHz dual cores sip power. Finally add a KVM switch and tada! No more having laggy gameplay.
As for TFA it all comes down to one thing....greed. Greed on behalf of the content providers and greed on the cable company. I too USED to have both cable net and cable T, even had their VoIP, but the constant price hikes caused me to drop the phone and T. If they want my business they can offer a decent price but until then they can keep it, we get over a dozen channels OTA here including all those my fiance cares to watch, so no way and I gonna get gouged just for TV.
Actually if the rumors some of the other sites are saying is true the 14nm delay isn't because of low yield...its because nobody is buying. Oh sure the yields aren't great but like AMD it looks like Intel has realized there really ain't a point in constantly putting out faster and better chips when they can't move the ones they got.
What both need to realize, and what will be biting ARM right in the ass in less than 18 months by my calculations is thus....The software just hasn't kept up with the hardware and X86 by switching from MHz wars to core wars went from "good enough" to "insanely overpowered" and when you can't even stress the one you have, what is the point of buying a new one? Intel and AMD are finding this carries over to other areas as well, take laptops for example. Used to you could set your watch by my customers replacing their laptops, every 2 years for the business guys and every 3 max for the home users, because the combo of heat cycling and software requirements would make them break or painfully slow, now? Well most of the time the laptop is twiddling its thumbs so its not getting hot enough to kill it and even a 5+ year laptop these days is a C2D or Turion X2 with 3+ GB of RAM and 300GB+ HDDs, more than Joe and Sally Average need frankly.
Oh and for the guys praising ARM and thinking that train is gonna keep on rolling? You got 18-24 months by my calculations and then? Hope you enjoy the same boat Intel and AMD are in now. The reason why is simple...ARM doesn't scale well and there is only so many cores and so much MHz you can push in a thin and light before you end up with battery life measured in minutes so just like how Intel and AMD hit the heat wall? So too will ARM hit the battery wall. When you combine this with the incredible race to the bottom going on right now, we are talking about dual core tablets in the $70 range at Chinamart and quads starting at $100? it won't be long before everybody and their dog has a phone and tablet that is faster than they know what to do with and then like X86 they won't replace until the unit dies.
so I wouldn't be surprised if intel just sits on 14nm until they get it down so well they can sell it as cheap or cheaper than current chips, after all AMD has already said it'll be a year before they release a new chip and why should they? Thanks to having a mature process they can sell hexacores for $100 and octocores for $130 and their yields on the APUs is so good the OEMs are selling quad laptops for $399, why spend all that money for a new chip when sales are already depressed? The same goes for Intel, they have chips at just about every price point, mature process means high yields and more profits per wafer, and with the global economy a crawl and PCs becoming like appliances why come out with a new chip? Stick with what you've got, they are several orders of magnitude faster than Joe and Sally know what to do with anyway.
Well lets see...both are single task designed OSes, both have a look like something from the early 90s and oh yeah...both suck.
So I'd say its a pretty apt mistake to make. BTW I have a question to all those Win 8 apologists...why do you not praise the "innovation" of sticking teeny tiny desktops on cellphones? Because all MSFT did was flip the same tired old shit they did for a decade, instead of stuffing a desktop GUI on a cellphone they jammed a cellphone GUI, complete with appstore crapstore and swipe gestures, onto a desktop where it makes NO fucking sense. Hell for that matter why aren't you replacing the steering wheel in your car with bike handlebars? After all by MSFT logic since bikes are growing and are the most popular UI worldwide for transportation that MUST make them superior and therefor perfect to use anywhere for anything.
I think I'll just leave this here and note how many times he says things like "stop" and "I don't want that" as the OS actively fights against the user who isn't doing the "tweeting twits and social shit" MSFT clearly designed the OS for. A GOOD UI should HELP the user and get out of the way, a BAD UI is a hindrance...which would you say Win 8.x is?
While I don't know if it was for the same reason everywhere I was helping out at an ISP when the first server bans were instituted and the reason they did it was guys were running Quake and other FPS servers and pretty much killing the bandwidth for everybody. If they ran a popular game server even when they were down it was getting pings up the ying yang from guys trying to hook up and the infrastructure, at least where I was at, simply couldn't handle it.
Are you being obtuse on purpose, or are you just an iFanboy? All that matters to the user is how it FEELS and I got news for ya pal, while I haven't tried the $60 one yet i HAVE sold a couple of the $80 ones and ya know what? They could not be happier! Its responsive, plays all their fav games, plays movies, they love the hell out of them.
So you keep right on waving the iFlag and watch as the numbers keep going down down down. Last figures i saw had them losing almost 10% from last year and that trend? WILL continue. At the end of the day ALL that matters to Joe and Jane Consumer is "will it do what i want it to?" and the answer is most certainly YES IT WILL.
Dude you ain't been keeping up with things, have you? They were already showing off $100 Android dual cores at this year's Hong Kong expo and you can go to places like ChinaBuye and get dual core 3G phones for less than $100, here is an example. Oh and my bad on the tablets, they actually have the dual cores starting at less than $60
And THIS is the reason why apple is doomed to end up a niche like they are in the PC space, because when multicore tablets and phones reach "good enough" for the masses that is all she wrote.
I often get called a hippie on this and other sites by the libertarian wing, of course they are so far right they make the tea party look like flower children, funny that if their dream world came to be? They would find out quickly that in a case of survival of the fittest their fat overfed asses aren't very fit at all.
But if you were to bring back Goldwater and Buckley? They'd be disgusted at what has become of the right, the "Let 'em die!" greed and tea party garbage, because they actually understood economics and gave a shit about the country. They would point out its the spending by the poor and middle class that keep the economic engine running and the more the top hoard the less the engine runs. They were for the free market but they also stressed giving those at the top reasons to invest back into the country. Hell you want to see some of the most scathing articles from national Review go back to the Raygun era because Buckley was always saying "We CAN do better" and he too hated the pandering to the neocon and bible thumper wings.
But now? call a spade a spade, what we have on BOTH sides is good old fashioned fascism, pure and simple. The right dreams of brown shirts and a handful of elite putting the boots to the poor via the stormtroopers and the left dreams of "Big Mommy Loves You Citizen!" big bro control, its the same coin, just different styles. The social left, the fiscal conservative? we no longer have a voice, pushed out by the fascists who dream of power for themselves.
I have to agree, in fact I won't buy a device that uses non standard connectors anymore, I found out what a PITA that is when I was on a trip with my ex and her phone couldn't take my adapter so i ended up spending the better part of a Sunday trying to find the funky adapter her phone used. Now I don't even think about it, I keep a standard mini-USB hanging off the PC at the shop and the one at the apt and it fits mine, fits my fiance's, fits the boys phones, it all "just works".
As for Apple? sigh....its fucking apple, I think if their shit actually worked with anything else their fans wouldn't be happy, Apple crap has ALWAYS only worked with Apple crap and that is just the way it is. Apple is gonna be killed by the "good enough" in the tablet and phone markets anyway, they'll have a high end niche like they have in towers but that will be it, as the competition starts cranking out really nice multicore Android tablets for less than $100 and phones for less than $150 the writing is on the wall so let them keep their funky connectors, just makes 'em more 'exclusive" as far as iFanboys are concerned.
You think YOU hate it? They call me "the /. resident hippie" but I was actually a Goldwater/Buckley conservative, one that thought you fix the problems NOT by fucking the poor, which any economist will tell you is economic suicide because the poor spend every dime they get and keep the economy running while uber rich like Mittens hoard, but instead to quit blowing billions like we were fighting the USSR next Tuesday and instead invest all the money into our own economy.
Well sadly we were kicked out of the party in the 80s, replaced by neo-cons with dreams of empire and bible thumpers that think we have to constantly get involved in the ME or "Jebus won't come back, come back jebus!"....sigh. I just LOVE how many on the right treat Raygun as a right wing god, the same guy who said "deficits don't matter" and spent like a drunken sailor on vegas leave as THAT is what we have now, we have the "spend on the rich and fuck the poor" right wing and the "spend on everybody" left wing, notice how NEITHER has the word save anywhere?
While I am in 100% agreement you can't save your way out of a depression, that is what was tried during FDR and it failed, you can't fix it by spending on dumb shit and BOTH parties seem to be great at that. BTW notice we no longer even HAVE a left party any more? You got fascist loving jack booted bullshit from BOTH sides, the only diff is one wants to go brownshirt while the other prefers the "big mommy loves you citizen" track, but again both are for the same shit, its just different spins. What i wouldn't give for a REAL third party but sadly all we get are Ayn Rand wannabes and those that are left of Lenin so we have zero fucking prayer of getting shit going here.
Sorry, 15 yard penalty, bullshit on the field. We elected Obama because the right ran Thurston Howell the Third and Lovey and just like on the show they couldn't help but keep opening their mouths and showing the world what rich spoiled clueless dumbasses look like.
Which was YOUR favorite "See I'm rich, he heh" gaffe? I'd say the "47%" gaffe wouldn't even make the top 5, my personal favorites were from him "I had to drive an ugly car in High School!" Oh poor baby, didn't like the BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that daddy gave you for your 16th BDay Mitt? And from her "We were so poor in college we had to live on our stock dividends!"...yeah, you are breaking my heart, it must have been soooo hard to live in that mansion daddy gave you and have to live on the piles of cash you were getting from the shitload of stock you and Mittens had before you had even graduated college. BTW want to know how many mansions daddy had given them before they graduated? FIVE, Mittens was stupid enough to brag about it at one of the fund raisers,just like he marveled about how them Chinese would practically kill each other to work for nothing. Smooth move rich retard.
So I'm sorry but the reason the right lost in 2008 and 2012 is the same reason they'll lose in 2016 and 2020, because they keep running candidates so fucking out of touch it hurts. You went from McSame, singing "Bomb Iran" while our troops are deployed in harm's way like its a fucking joke, to Thurston Howell the Third, and you watch in 2016, while the economy is in the crapper no less, they'll run....drumroll for dramatic effect.....Bobby "Fuck them poor bastards!" Jindal, guaranteed to let any dem just waltz right on in there.
Uuuuhhh...why? These are ULV embedded chips, they wouldn't even be able to keep up with the 2008 HD4650 I have in my nettop, hell they would probably get stomped by my early 00s X1650 PRO AGP that I have in the closet, so why would you care about this supposed "duopoly" when it does what the market is supposed to do and lower prices through competition?
If all you care about is video you can go with Intel (although the way they slit Nvidia's throat to get them out of the chipset biz really should have gotten them busted for antitrust) and if you want more both AMD and Nvidia have just about every price point you can imagine,hell Tiger has an HD5450 for $15 after MIR and that is more than powerful enough to give you 1080p over HDMI (I should know as i put one in the HTPC I built my dad) and will even do some light gaming.
So I really don't know what there is to complain about, if you want better graphics in a laptop? Go AMD and in a desktop you can get AMD or Nvidia and there is enough competition to keep prices low, so what's the prob?
Yeah...which is why Windows defaults to power saving when plugged into the wall, and defaults to balanced even on desktops. Sorry friend but we just haven't gotten there yet, for a perfect example just read about (or even better pick one up at Starmicro cheap) the Phenom I.
You see if you hook a Phenom I to the wall and turn OFF the power saving features of the OS? The power usage goes down, turn on the power usage and the power usage goes UP...why? The answer is very simple, the Phenom I was the first, and AFAIK the ONLY chip to have the frankly awesome per core speed stepping. If you had one job that required one full blast core, and another that only required half of that, with no real work for the remaining 2 cores? Then the Phenom I could make only the core that required full speed to have full clocks and could drop or raise the clocks several times a second if required....so what was the problem? The problem was Windows. Windows would see the slower cores and automatically dump work onto them thus slowing the system down and requiring the clocks to run higher than required because every time it would lower the clock Windows would dump more background tasks onto the slower cores. AMD ended up removing this power saving features on all subsequent chips because MSFT just couldn't get Windows to behave, but if you were to plug a kill-a-watt into a Phenom I you'd find that a Phenom I has lower power usage under XP than later OSes (because XP was "dumb" and didn't monitor the clocks) and with Vista and newer you turn off the power save features to get better power usage, although sadly there is no way to 100% negate Windows dumping work onto the slowed cores.
So I'm sorry friend but at least from what I've seen of Windows and Linux desktop OSes the power management still has a LONG ways to go, and I have a feeling the "future" is gonna be dumb OSes that leave all power management to the hardware itself.
NOOOOO..it means YOU sir don't deal with the public and therefor don't have a clue what you are talking about. Sure 320K MP3s sound damned good.....know what the average bitrate for MP3s is? Its 128k. I can tell you that because i've had to back up more MP3 collections before a reinstall than you've had hot dinners and while you'll find a few going down as low as 64k, and a few 256k, the majority is at 128k and I'm sorry but 128k MP3 sucks rancid donkey dick, its VERY tinny and thin but that seems to be the size Joe Average has settled on for the most part so that is what you see.
And again WHY is it 128K? WHERE did this come from? It was decided during the Napster and Audio Galaxy days as the lowest bitrate you could use and sound "good enough" while keeping the file sizes down, since back then an 80GB HDD was the average. Oh and just FYI but for your education you might want to Wiki "loudness war" to find out why MP3 in general sucks, you are taking music that has ALREADY been compressed to its absolute max to raise the loudness and then compressing AGAIN with the MP3 compression, and double compression sounds like shit.
I would as long as they gave me a slice. hell it wouldn't even have to be a big slice, Bing pays me for my searches with $5 gift cards which I use for all the little things i need at the shop, CD sleeves, adapters, and it is just nice to be given a little token as a thank you...plus the fact that the fiance has a bazillion things she wants at Amazon really don't hurt none ;-)
Of course that is a HELL of a lot different than me paying for a pro photog to come take pics of my wares only to have competitors get the pics for free from Google, which is what the AC was talking about. In that case not only are you getting screwed but your competitor is getting an advantage handed to his business (since he no longer pays for ads, you do) and Google is getting more business off you hard work. in that case I'd do like AC and tell Google to get stuffed.
I am curious to see how much evil nasty shit Google has to do before it counts, I swear that "not do evil" bullshit is like an RDF from hell, you could find a pic of Brin assraping a nun and the Googlerfs would hold up that little slogan like a magic flag.
And its the same reason why Windows sucks, and Linux sucks, and OSX sucks, etc...its because there is a LOT of stuff hanging around from the "old days" that have ended up becoming a part of the system and still hang around.
Hell want an example everybody has on their PCs? MP3..MP3 SUCKS, sound quality wise its pretty bad and most of the other formats at the time could produce better sound and now of course we have lossless formats that can give you crystal clear sound...yet everybody still uses MP3s, why? Because they know MP3, everything will play MP3, its a hold out from the Napster days that just won't go away.
And I'm sure i'll get hate for saying this but I think a good chunk of his article is just hyperbole. You know what i use on my netbook? Word 2K, an ancient CD version I picked up at a going out of business sale ages ago, no updates, no patches, I slap the compatibility pack on it and voila! it has no problem with the new formats. I deal with plenty of SMBs and I haven't heard a word, no pun intended, of them having any trouble mixing and matching versions and they sure as hell ain't staying on the far right of the curve. Now maybe if you have an Excel jock that insists on using the latest features in the latest version the second it comes out? Or worse deal with a company that make "apps" using Access? Then i could see where there may be a problem, but we are talking about word here and Word has been the most well behaved of the suite.
And what is the alternative? Libre Office? I can open, edit, and save a document before LO gets done dragging its ass to the screen! I'm giving the LO team a break simply because they are cleaning up Sun's mess but lets be honest, Open office was a pig, and LO is a pig at this stage at well.
That is STILL not a good thing if you think about it for a bit, why? Well because the Bluetooth on the desktop may be designed not to care about power, since its on the mains, and therefor is instead designed to give you the max range while the one on the tablet will suck the unit dry if run the same way.....see the problem now?
With mobile versus desktop you have two use cases that are in complete conflict with each other. The things that make sense in one would kill the other, such as making a desktop behave with phone power levels or making the tablet run without its powersaving features. I mean you are talking about completely different arches, why do you think you could keep the same guts and end up with anything but crap?