I still have an Intel Core i5 3570k Ivy Bridge based CPU in my desktop and it's still fast as all hell. I can throw just about anything I want at it in terms of workloads and it keeps asking for more. For a computer based around a four year old CPU it's still a great machine and more than likely I'll keep it for another four years.
I'd have to disagree with the disk I/O part of your comment.
Disk I/O speed and bandwidth has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last three years due SSDs. SSDs have made huge improvements in computer performance lately, so much so that if you were to take even a four year old computer and put an SSD into it it would figuratively take off like a rocket. That just goes to show you, if you can't get the data and instructions to the CPU fast enough you're going to be staring a screen wondering why your application hasn't started yet. It's not the CPU and RAM that's the bottleneck in today's PCs, it's the data storage systems that we've all be using since the lowly hard drive showed up on the scene. Replace that hard drive with an SSD and suddenly everything is so much faster.
And meanwhile Android's security track record is the worst it's ever been. Millions of people are still completely exploitable because the particular OEM that made their device doesn't give a shit about their one year old device. God help the people who can't always afford the latest and greatest flagship device and is stuck on some three plus year old device because that's all the prepaid cellular service providers seem to shove down these people's throats.
And as for screen resolutions I don't give a shit about sky high screen resolutions. Can the screen produce a good picture? Can you read the text on the screen? If you have answered "yes" to those three questions then the screen is good enough. Sure, let's pack in a higher resolution screen just for kicks and oh shit... battery life has gone to shit. Hell my main desktop monitor is 1920x1080. It's good enough!
That's what I did, because I know that iOS is secure, that is... secure comparatively speaking to the steaming pile of crap that Android is. I'm not saying that iOS is 100% secure, no, that's not at all what I'm saying. What I am saying is that comparatively speaking, iOS seems more secure than Android.
I guess someone didn't learn from the mistakes of the Fort Pinto. The Ford Pinto was known for a weak rear-mounted gas tank that if you got into a rear-end collision you ended up with a first-rate barbecue with the passengers of the Pinto as the main course.
It's not just IOPS that are important, it's how fast a data storage device can read random bits of data. Benchmark people would refer to this as 4K Random Read Speeds.
A lot of disk benchmarking software has a benchmark that's called 4K Random Read Speeds. Basically it measures how fast the storage device can read random small bits of data. It's the one benchmarking number that most closely mirrors everyday computing such as when you're loading a program or booting your OS.
If you want to see some really pathetic numbers, go find out the 4K Random Read Speeds of a typical hard drive. You'll weep when you see the numbers. For instance, take a Western Digital Black Edition hard drive. It's often referred to as one of the fastest consumer hard drives on the market but their 4K Random Read Speeds are sub-1 MB/s compared to an SSD in which you'll find that 4K Random Read Speeds are in excess of 30 MB/s. And now you know why an SSD is faster than a spinning hard drive.
The prices fluctuate wildly from day to day. One day it can be low and the next it's up by $25 to $30. You have to watch the price on a daily basis. If you think you see a good price, grab it; it might be more the next day.
Are you trying to make me laugh? Because you're doing a good job of it. Microsoft and Security hasn't gone together in... ever. Windows has more security holes in it than Swiss cheese has holes. It's only been used by the masses because they had a stranglehold on the market because of their PC monopoly.
But things are changing and not for the best in the land of Microsoft. Microsoft is quickly losing relevance in today's post-PC market in which people no longer want PCs, they want a shiny tablet which more than likely will have an Apple logo on the back. Face it, Microsoft is dying and they know it. Proof is in the fact that Microsoft is putting Android and iPhone first for apps like Office, OneNote, Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, etc. They aren’t making these apps for other platforms just for the sake of making them available, they are making them available because they need to or they’re dead.
More and more people are choosing to dump the traditional desktop and go with mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Most people don't have a need for the traditional desktop anymore, most can get by with an iPad or some other Android-powered tablet.
Windows 8 and by extension Windows 10 is a last ditch effort for Microsoft to hold onto some semblance of relevance in today's post-PC world. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 8 was a flop and by extension Windows 10 will be a flop because nobody wants a Microsoft anything these days. Microsoft and by extension Windows used to be a household name, now it's not. The name on everyone's mind now is Apple with their iPad.
Windows is reliable now since NT came and gets shit done
Other than the fact that the system contains legacy code that's chock full of security bugs dating back to the early 1990s. Supporting legacy software is why Microsoft can't change and in the end, it's going to kill them. Other companies that are smaller and more agile will kill Microsoft.
Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, they know that the end is near. You can see that in how they are making apps for the iPhone and Android devices. Things like Office, OneNote, Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, etc. They aren’t making these apps for other platforms just for the sake of making them available, they are making them available because they need to or they’re dead.
The computing industry that we have today is not a Microsoft dominated industry anymore and Microsoft knows it. They sat on their desktop monopoly for too long and the rest of the industry flew past them while they were sleeping.
Japan is also so horribly overcrowded. Getting an apartment is expensive as hell, so much so that people in Japan dream of getting what barely passes as living space in New York.
No, there's a difference. Women will stab you in the back when you're not looking. They guys I've seen in passing will stab women right in the chest (figuratively speaking of course).
I'm a guy and no, I don't have anyone because well... I don't fit into the category of men that today's women want; you know the type. All muscle no brain, the kind that will only screw her for one night and leave her with a child and no child support. Oh, I'm sorry... I let my cynicism show through there.
Yeah, that's why you don't ever ask someone at work. It's a guaranteed trip to the HR Office. Either you get fired right on the spot or you get sent to "Sensitivity Training".
Some say that guys can be nasty when letting someone else down but they have nothing on women. Women will reach into your chest (figuratively speaking), rip your heart out, throw it to the ground, stomp all over it, and then she'll proceed to get nasty.
Get the hand-tossed pizza and it's not nearly as greasy on the bottom like the pan-pizza is. Hell, you actually taste the pizza and not the grease when you order hand-tossed.
But here's the problem. Unlike in the past we really do have the technology to put everyone out of work. Everyone including...
* The factory worker. Once thought as a safe job, now being replaced by robots.
* The warehouse worker. Again, once thought as a safe job, now being replaced by robots. We had an article about this on this very site. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
* Retail employee working the cash register, replaced by self-scan registers.
* Fast food worker, replaced by self-order kiosks and machines that can even make a burger.
* Customer and technical support agents on the phone, replaced by the likes of IBM Watson.
* Janitor, replaced by a robot that can clean toilets, mop floors, etc.
And that's just the start of the jobs that everyday people rely on for their very survival that simply won't exist anymore. Not everyone can have a college degree. Hell, we have too many of them as it is in the USA. Tons of people with college degrees, even technical degrees, and they can't find work. Why? Because either the job has been completely automated by a computer or a robot.
So when all of that happens, what do you think is going to happen? The very people who were once the life-blood of the economy will quite simply have no way to earn money. The system will collapse.
How will you be able to buy anything at Walmart if you don't have any cash to buy said products? That's the situation that we are very much looking at coming within the next 5 to 10 years.
I eventually see this entire system collapsing within the next ten years and not just IT (Information Technology) but the whole economy. How can the economy continue if you have nobody working and earning anything? That's right, it can't. And when that happens the entire system is going to simply collapse. Like I said before, I give the system another ten years (if we're lucky) or five years (if we're not lucky) and then... poof, gone. Total and complete world wide economic collapse that will make the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s look like a historical footnote in comparison. Anyone with half a brain can see the writing on the wall.
In some ways, that's why we have the problems that we have in the software industry to begin with. Everyone wants new features and they want them fast but at the same time they want it to be stable as well. Code that's developed rapidly and is stable is an oxymoron, especially if you have project managers hovering over you asking you why the software hasn't been released yet.
iOS 8.3 is an exception, yes, that's because Apple has decided that perhaps packing everything in including the kitchen sink is maybe not a good idea. Apple has already stated that iOS 8.4 and the future iOS 9 is concentrating more on efficiency and stability than past versions of iOS.
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Oh, and it has an SSD, 16 GBs of RAM, and an ATi R9 380 4GB video card in it too.
I still have an Intel Core i5 3570k Ivy Bridge based CPU in my desktop and it's still fast as all hell. I can throw just about anything I want at it in terms of workloads and it keeps asking for more. For a computer based around a four year old CPU it's still a great machine and more than likely I'll keep it for another four years.
I'd have to disagree with the disk I/O part of your comment.
Disk I/O speed and bandwidth has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last three years due SSDs. SSDs have made huge improvements in computer performance lately, so much so that if you were to take even a four year old computer and put an SSD into it it would figuratively take off like a rocket. That just goes to show you, if you can't get the data and instructions to the CPU fast enough you're going to be staring a screen wondering why your application hasn't started yet. It's not the CPU and RAM that's the bottleneck in today's PCs, it's the data storage systems that we've all be using since the lowly hard drive showed up on the scene. Replace that hard drive with an SSD and suddenly everything is so much faster.
Crap... two questions. I wish there was an edit button.
And meanwhile Android's security track record is the worst it's ever been. Millions of people are still completely exploitable because the particular OEM that made their device doesn't give a shit about their one year old device. God help the people who can't always afford the latest and greatest flagship device and is stuck on some three plus year old device because that's all the prepaid cellular service providers seem to shove down these people's throats.
And as for screen resolutions I don't give a shit about sky high screen resolutions. Can the screen produce a good picture? Can you read the text on the screen? If you have answered "yes" to those three questions then the screen is good enough. Sure, let's pack in a higher resolution screen just for kicks and oh shit... battery life has gone to shit. Hell my main desktop monitor is 1920x1080. It's good enough!
http://sourceforge.net/project...
It may be fixed but is your device going to get that patch? Oh I'm sorry, your phone is a year old... buy a new phone instead!
That's what I did, because I know that iOS is secure, that is... secure comparatively speaking to the steaming pile of crap that Android is. I'm not saying that iOS is 100% secure, no, that's not at all what I'm saying. What I am saying is that comparatively speaking, iOS seems more secure than Android.
I guess someone didn't learn from the mistakes of the Fort Pinto. The Ford Pinto was known for a weak rear-mounted gas tank that if you got into a rear-end collision you ended up with a first-rate barbecue with the passengers of the Pinto as the main course.
It's not just IOPS that are important, it's how fast a data storage device can read random bits of data. Benchmark people would refer to this as 4K Random Read Speeds.
A lot of disk benchmarking software has a benchmark that's called 4K Random Read Speeds. Basically it measures how fast the storage device can read random small bits of data. It's the one benchmarking number that most closely mirrors everyday computing such as when you're loading a program or booting your OS.
If you want to see some really pathetic numbers, go find out the 4K Random Read Speeds of a typical hard drive. You'll weep when you see the numbers. For instance, take a Western Digital Black Edition hard drive. It's often referred to as one of the fastest consumer hard drives on the market but their 4K Random Read Speeds are sub-1 MB/s compared to an SSD in which you'll find that 4K Random Read Speeds are in excess of 30 MB/s. And now you know why an SSD is faster than a spinning hard drive.
The prices fluctuate wildly from day to day. One day it can be low and the next it's up by $25 to $30. You have to watch the price on a daily basis. If you think you see a good price, grab it; it might be more the next day.
Secure? *chuckle*
Are you trying to make me laugh? Because you're doing a good job of it. Microsoft and Security hasn't gone together in... ever. Windows has more security holes in it than Swiss cheese has holes. It's only been used by the masses because they had a stranglehold on the market because of their PC monopoly.
But things are changing and not for the best in the land of Microsoft. Microsoft is quickly losing relevance in today's post-PC market in which people no longer want PCs, they want a shiny tablet which more than likely will have an Apple logo on the back. Face it, Microsoft is dying and they know it. Proof is in the fact that Microsoft is putting Android and iPhone first for apps like Office, OneNote, Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, etc. They aren’t making these apps for other platforms just for the sake of making them available, they are making them available because they need to or they’re dead.
More and more people are choosing to dump the traditional desktop and go with mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Most people don't have a need for the traditional desktop anymore, most can get by with an iPad or some other Android-powered tablet.
Windows 8 and by extension Windows 10 is a last ditch effort for Microsoft to hold onto some semblance of relevance in today's post-PC world. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 8 was a flop and by extension Windows 10 will be a flop because nobody wants a Microsoft anything these days. Microsoft and by extension Windows used to be a household name, now it's not. The name on everyone's mind now is Apple with their iPad.
Windows is reliable now since NT came and gets shit done
Other than the fact that the system contains legacy code that's chock full of security bugs dating back to the early 1990s. Supporting legacy software is why Microsoft can't change and in the end, it's going to kill them. Other companies that are smaller and more agile will kill Microsoft.
Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, they know that the end is near. You can see that in how they are making apps for the iPhone and Android devices. Things like Office, OneNote, Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, etc. They aren’t making these apps for other platforms just for the sake of making them available, they are making them available because they need to or they’re dead.
The computing industry that we have today is not a Microsoft dominated industry anymore and Microsoft knows it. They sat on their desktop monopoly for too long and the rest of the industry flew past them while they were sleeping.
Japan is also so horribly overcrowded. Getting an apartment is expensive as hell, so much so that people in Japan dream of getting what barely passes as living space in New York.
No, there's a difference. Women will stab you in the back when you're not looking. They guys I've seen in passing will stab women right in the chest (figuratively speaking of course).
I'm a guy and no, I don't have anyone because well... I don't fit into the category of men that today's women want; you know the type. All muscle no brain, the kind that will only screw her for one night and leave her with a child and no child support. Oh, I'm sorry... I let my cynicism show through there.
Yeah, that's why you don't ever ask someone at work. It's a guaranteed trip to the HR Office. Either you get fired right on the spot or you get sent to "Sensitivity Training".
Some say that guys can be nasty when letting someone else down but they have nothing on women. Women will reach into your chest (figuratively speaking), rip your heart out, throw it to the ground, stomp all over it, and then she'll proceed to get nasty.
Get the hand-tossed pizza and it's not nearly as greasy on the bottom like the pan-pizza is. Hell, you actually taste the pizza and not the grease when you order hand-tossed.
But here's the problem. Unlike in the past we really do have the technology to put everyone out of work. Everyone including...
* The factory worker. Once thought as a safe job, now being replaced by robots.
* The warehouse worker. Again, once thought as a safe job, now being replaced by robots. We had an article about this on this very site. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
* Retail employee working the cash register, replaced by self-scan registers.
* Fast food worker, replaced by self-order kiosks and machines that can even make a burger.
* Customer and technical support agents on the phone, replaced by the likes of IBM Watson.
* Janitor, replaced by a robot that can clean toilets, mop floors, etc.
And that's just the start of the jobs that everyday people rely on for their very survival that simply won't exist anymore. Not everyone can have a college degree. Hell, we have too many of them as it is in the USA. Tons of people with college degrees, even technical degrees, and they can't find work. Why? Because either the job has been completely automated by a computer or a robot.
So when all of that happens, what do you think is going to happen? The very people who were once the life-blood of the economy will quite simply have no way to earn money. The system will collapse.
How will you be able to buy anything at Walmart if you don't have any cash to buy said products? That's the situation that we are very much looking at coming within the next 5 to 10 years.
I eventually see this entire system collapsing within the next ten years and not just IT (Information Technology) but the whole economy. How can the economy continue if you have nobody working and earning anything? That's right, it can't. And when that happens the entire system is going to simply collapse. Like I said before, I give the system another ten years (if we're lucky) or five years (if we're not lucky) and then... poof, gone. Total and complete world wide economic collapse that will make the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s look like a historical footnote in comparison. Anyone with half a brain can see the writing on the wall.
In some ways, that's why we have the problems that we have in the software industry to begin with. Everyone wants new features and they want them fast but at the same time they want it to be stable as well. Code that's developed rapidly and is stable is an oxymoron, especially if you have project managers hovering over you asking you why the software hasn't been released yet.
iOS 8.3 is an exception, yes, that's because Apple has decided that perhaps packing everything in including the kitchen sink is maybe not a good idea. Apple has already stated that iOS 8.4 and the future iOS 9 is concentrating more on efficiency and stability than past versions of iOS.
I've not had any issues on my iPhone 6 Plus either. iOS 8.3 solved a lot of nagging issues, it nearly perfect now.
Holy hell, that video had me shouting "Oh f***!" a couple of times.