One of the bugbears of the ARM platform is the absence of mature, complete FOSS drivers for the embedded GPUs. e.g. PowerVR (proprietary), Mali (lima), Tegra (proprieatry), Adreno (Freedreno).
Yes, this must be the biggest obstacle OEMs face when deciding on a platform for new phone/tablet!
If AMD hadn't screwed up on the engineering side, it'd be a really great design.
I thought Bulldozer's reason to exist was to enable high clock rates. That doesn't seem to have panned out. Is that what you're talking about, or something else?
so 1GHz higher clock rates compared to x6 Phenoms doesnt count?
Nvidia gives out bribe^^^^marketing budget for 'The Way It's Meant To Be Played' splash screen. They pay you money for adding that splash and tying your product to some retarded nvidia only library (usually physx). There was a time Nvidia paid for removing features that worked better on AMD (Assassin's Creed DirectX 10.1). Nowadays they just force you to run their unoptimized DLL.
Almost forgot. Its even worse on Tablets. Nvidia has a big bribe^^^^marketing campaign that pays developers for locking their games into Tegra platform. They dont add extra features, there is a check in startup code you add to get your brib^^marketing budget. There are even patches that liberate games from this restriction.
Nvidia gives out bribe^^^^marketing budget for 'The Way It's Meant To Be Played' splash screen. They pay you money for adding that splash and tying your product to some retarded nvidia only library (usually physx). There was a time Nvidia paid for removing features that worked better on AMD (Assassin's Creed DirectX 10.1). Nowadays they just force you to run their unoptimized DLL.
The TI Stellaris Launchpad ($5, free shipping, 80 MHz) and Raspberry Pi ($30, 700 MHz) beat the living hell out of the Due on price and processing power
Launchpads are $13 now, Pi was always $32-39 ($42 if you order from Poland)
If AMD folds Intel will bend the consumer over and stuff them even harder than they are now. But if you like being penetrated by cement-filled pringles cans....
Intel won't let AMD die. Because Intel's under a LOT of scrutiny for anti-trust both in the US and abroad (remember the OEM case?).
Yes. I remember that case. they got penali.. oh wait, they got SLAP ON THE WRIST! For destroying AMD during K7 era, when AMD had the BEST and FASTEST chips on the market. During a time AMD had a chance to really grow.
I’m obsessed with everything being symmetrical for all my work, so I cloned over the left servers to the right side. It just bothered me that there would be a hole when usually servers would be there. I wanted it to look beautiful, and symmetry is beautiful to me.
oh, so its not fake because.. the photographer faked it?
Hello mister anonymous retard. Ever heard of wire transfers? They work just fine between banks, are free and take ONE click. I can use my own bank account to transfer money to other peoples bank accounts (in different banks, its called SWIFT) using Local Ebay equivalent (Allegro auction website). You see that work BANK in there? My money is safe, no "your account is suspicious so we are freezing your assets" crap you get with paypal.
so? Moore's law. Currently h.264 encoder chips cost $10. You could build 16x full HD h.264 encoders array for ~$160 today. Probably cheaper than one Nvidia card they used for mjpeg. Hell, a cluster(fuck) of 16 Raspberry pi's (broadcom can encode fullhd effortlessly) would be cheaper than what they used. All this is Today.
Bank Of America had a commercial last night proclaiming they have the same money-passing capabilities. There's also PopMoney, which has just started up and is signing up banks left, right, and sidewise, so they can integrate the same functionality into their own services (and apparently it allows you to use it even w/o your bank participating).
I'm guessing that eventually, aside from eBay, PayPal will eventually become obsolete.
Wont happen. Paypal works because of Ebay. If you use Ebay you must use Paypal. We had free effortless one click online payment systems in Europe for years, but we are still forced to using Paypal when we buy crap on Ebay.
why? hardware h.264 decoder barely scratches the surface of my GPUs performance. Im pretty sure you could run 16 instances at the same time one modern GPU. MJPEG is evil.
I do not know about satellite TV, but cable tv compresses the source so bad, that 720p TV looks blocky on a 1080p TV with little movement. Cable TV providers, like comcast are ruining HD TV by the crappy quality because they only care about money, not about quality. If they ever got on this bandwagon, they would fuck it up.
This is because US is retarded and uses MPEG-2 while rest of the world swims in sweet h.264.
Google question then, how does one actually get help from Google? I like a lot of their stuff but abandon all hope if you need to talk to a human to figure out why an email isn't going through gmail or resolve issues from the Play store (see Nexus 7 preorder fiasco, "resolve issues" not just "say whatever they want to hear to get them off the phone") or report downright errors in shopping.google.com?
I can't imagine needing any on-call at all when the end-user support is basically a doormat that reads "GO AWAY"
At those wages they cant afford real human support. Could you imagine $100K guy sitting on irc typing "have you tried turning it off and on again"?
Verizon is hardly first. Telefónica (fifth largest provider in the world) has been collecting this information since forever (and many more, they even log radio tower stats and correlate with traffic). There i
Last time I posted this I got modded troll for pointing out naked emperor:)
they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing. I suppose you could hire someone to fight on your behalf, but who's got enough disposable income for even that
Iv hear East European henchmen are quite cheap and will "take care" of any problem swiftly.
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One of the bugbears of the ARM platform is the absence of mature, complete FOSS drivers for the embedded GPUs. e.g. PowerVR (proprietary), Mali (lima), Tegra (proprieatry), Adreno (Freedreno).
Yes, this must be the biggest obstacle OEMs face when deciding on a platform for new phone/tablet!
If AMD hadn't screwed up on the engineering side, it'd be a really great design.
I thought Bulldozer's reason to exist was to enable high clock rates. That doesn't seem to have panned out. Is that what you're talking about, or something else?
so 1GHz higher clock rates compared to x6 Phenoms doesnt count?
think they deserve special treatment and don't have to be clean, social, pleasant, accountable workers.
newsflash: they do.
And this is why you get clueless people. Because you hire based on personality and clothes.
I also heard about Nvidia engineers "helping out" with code. Result is usually some spaghetti garbage that only works good on Nvidia.
For example Crysis 2 tessellation "optimized" to run smooth on Nvidia cards that excel at pointless tessellation.
http://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/2
That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
Somewhere a Microsoft marketing executive leaned back in his chair and pursed his lips. An idea was forming....
Im affraid this is an old idea they already tried http://media.slated.org/albums/userpics/10002/zoon-turd.png
Nvidia gives out bribe^^^^marketing budget for 'The Way It's Meant To Be Played' splash screen. They pay you money for adding that splash and tying your product to some retarded nvidia only library (usually physx).
There was a time Nvidia paid for removing features that worked better on AMD (Assassin's Creed DirectX 10.1). Nowadays they just force you to run their unoptimized DLL.
Almost forgot. Its even worse on Tablets. Nvidia has a big bribe^^^^marketing campaign that pays developers for locking their games into Tegra platform. They dont add extra features, there is a check in startup code you add to get your brib^^marketing budget. There are even patches that liberate games from this restriction.
Nvidia gives out bribe^^^^marketing budget for 'The Way It's Meant To Be Played' splash screen. They pay you money for adding that splash and tying your product to some retarded nvidia only library (usually physx).
There was a time Nvidia paid for removing features that worked better on AMD (Assassin's Creed DirectX 10.1). Nowadays they just force you to run their unoptimized DLL.
That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
>The HC1 runs Microsoft Windows CE 6.0 Professional
Ahahaha looks like they dug up this project form archives.
The TI Stellaris Launchpad ($5, free shipping, 80 MHz) and Raspberry Pi ($30, 700 MHz) beat the living hell out of the Due on price and processing power
Launchpads are $13 now, Pi was always $32-39 ($42 if you order from Poland)
Intel won't let AMD die. Because Intel's under a LOT of scrutiny for anti-trust both in the US and abroad (remember the OEM case?).
Yes. I remember that case. they got penali.. oh wait, they got SLAP ON THE WRIST! For destroying AMD during K7 era, when AMD had the BEST and FASTEST chips on the market. During a time AMD had a chance to really grow.
No, they have an OCD photographer:
I’m obsessed with everything being symmetrical for all my work, so I cloned over the left servers to the right side. It just bothered me that there would be a hole when usually servers would be there. I wanted it to look beautiful, and symmetry is beautiful to me.
oh, so its not fake because .. the photographer faked it?
Electric car is looking gloomier and gloomier :/
Hello mister anonymous retard. Ever heard of wire transfers? They work just fine between banks, are free and take ONE click. I can use my own bank account to transfer money to other peoples bank accounts (in different banks, its called SWIFT) using Local Ebay equivalent (Allegro auction website). You see that work BANK in there? My money is safe, no "your account is suspicious so we are freezing your assets" crap you get with paypal.
Decoding is much, much easier than encoding.
so? Moore's law. Currently h.264 encoder chips cost $10. You could build 16x full HD h.264 encoders array for ~$160 today. Probably cheaper than one Nvidia card they used for mjpeg. Hell, a cluster(fuck) of 16 Raspberry pi's (broadcom can encode fullhd effortlessly) would be cheaper than what they used. All this is Today.
PayPal's time is passing anyway.
Bank Of America had a commercial last night proclaiming they have the same money-passing capabilities. There's also PopMoney, which has just started up and is signing up banks left, right, and sidewise, so they can integrate the same functionality into their own services (and apparently it allows you to use it even w/o your bank participating).
I'm guessing that eventually, aside from eBay, PayPal will eventually become obsolete.
Wont happen. Paypal works because of Ebay. If you use Ebay you must use Paypal. We had free effortless one click online payment systems in Europe for years, but we are still forced to using Paypal when we buy crap on Ebay.
why? hardware h.264 decoder barely scratches the surface of my GPUs performance. Im pretty sure you could run 16 instances at the same time one modern GPU.
MJPEG is evil.
I do not know about satellite TV, but cable tv compresses the source so bad, that 720p TV looks blocky on a 1080p TV with little movement. Cable TV providers, like comcast are ruining HD TV by the crappy quality because they only care about money, not about quality. If they ever got on this bandwagon, they would fuck it up.
This is because US is retarded and uses MPEG-2 while rest of the world swims in sweet h.264.
Technically, you don't understand the use of "rounded" here.
Neither does Apple, and its on the list!
Google question then, how does one actually get help from Google? I like a lot of their stuff but abandon all hope if you need to talk to a human to figure out why an email isn't going through gmail or resolve issues from the Play store (see Nexus 7 preorder fiasco, "resolve issues" not just "say whatever they want to hear to get them off the phone") or report downright errors in shopping.google.com?
I can't imagine needing any on-call at all when the end-user support is basically a doormat that reads "GO AWAY"
At those wages they cant afford real human support. Could you imagine $100K guy sitting on irc typing "have you tried turning it off and on again"?
Verizon's the first, but watch Google
Verizon is hardly first. Telefónica (fifth largest provider in the world) has been collecting this information since forever (and many more, they even log radio tower stats and correlate with traffic). There i
Last time I posted this I got modded troll for pointing out naked emperor :)
Users are not customers anymore. Today big data is the commodity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzS83BGdWco
they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing. I suppose you could hire someone to fight on your behalf, but who's got enough disposable income for even that
Iv hear East European henchmen are quite cheap and will "take care" of any problem swiftly.
http://0x10c.com/
Not yet released, but looks quite cool.
Learn to program from a guy who puts 1 cycle Division instructions in imaginary CPUs. What could possibly go wrong? :)
Lets see.
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Logic_Shrimp_logic_analyzer
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bus-pirate-v3-assembled-p-609.html?cPath=61_68
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bus-blaster-v2-jtag-debugger-p-807.html
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/preorder-open-workbench-logic-sniffer-p-612.html?cPath=75
And this is just from first link in my bookmarks.
Every activity starts with a shopping trip.
Maybe if you are a hot bimbo planning a trip to Aspen.