Noooo! That's crazy talk, I'm so morally opposed to anything labeled DRM that I refuse to even buy a product from a company that advertises on a website that has an article on a motherboard for a CPU that supports DRM functionality!
Joking, of course. Don't try to talk rationally to any of these neckbeards, they are so incensed by the mere mention of DRM that they shut off any logical part of their brain that they may have.
I'm so tired of people whining about DRM. If you don't like it, don't use the media content that uses it. It's really as simple as that.
Sometimes when I get a cheeseburger they have a pickle on them. Instead of crying for 10 minutes about it and posting a self-righteous post on the Internet about how evil teh picklez are, I take the pickle off and eat the cheeseburger.
Hey, but he's an "architect"! That means he produces byzantine systems that the developers will just ignore when they do the actual work, but which he can still claim credit for. It's really win-win (except for the employer).
OK, now Atom vs. Arm - that's at least a reasonable discussion.
I'm not buying it. The "Whoah, ARM outperforms Atom!" articles I've seen are somewhat ridiculous and normalize for Mhz(?) or use obscure benchmarks and predictions based on vendor claims. And as you say, you can cherry pick different implementations..I mean benchmarks all you want to show different results.
Also, the Atom is not going to stand still while ARM continues to improve.
When someone produces a good set of real world benchmarks showing ARM outperforms Atom, then I'll believe it.
Now, performance/power - that ARM does win handily at the moment.
Yeah, the other issue is that ARM code is "bigger" but somehow a 900MHz ARM outruns a 1500MHz x86
Cite? You're not begging the question, are you?
I'll go further - you're full of shit. Please find me the ARM chip that outruns (performance-wise, unless you mean something else by "why so much faster") the Core i7-680UM (a 1.47GHz x86 chip), even on a core to core basis.
Trolling? You don't think the bulk majority of commercial, everyday software people use only running on Windows isn't a point against Linux? Sure, for advanced users (and even some "enthusiastic beginners") this doesn't matter, but it does for everyone else.
The huge catalog of win32 applications will be less of an issue if the top 5% that people would actually run on a low powered laptop or tablet are ported and compiled for Windows/ARM.
Yeah, after all those quad cablecard tuners work great with MythTV. Oh, wait... no. They don't work at all.
While you're showing people your cool music collection and the x264 rips you spent 30 minutes of time on each, I'll be recording four hi-def TV shows at a time and actually using mine on a daily basis.
There's no question on what "Moore's Law" is as the article would paint. Originally, he said double transistor count every year. Then, in 1975, he revised it to every two years.
It's obviously not a scientific law but it is based on the manufacturing process for circuits and how they evolve, and it has been a good rule of thumb number and has proven as accurate as can be expected while we continue to make chips in basically the same ways.
It's fairly easy to look this up, there's no need for a lame mainstream media article link.
Can anyone tell me why that AnandTech article from March is evidence that Windows Phone 7 has lapped Android? And why it just happened?
He's talking about the fact that Windows Phone 7 has advanced GPU acceleration built in from the beginning in several facets of the environment. Android doesn't and it's a few years older.
It certainly hasn't lapped it in terms of sales or momentum, but it could. Android has both the advantage and the curse of being more open and versatile - WP7 has the possibility of a more restrained set of hardware differences and can build in more low-level functionality.
One could, of course, use an unlock gesture to start further gesture commands. For example, waving your hand twice over your head or something. Sure, you could still have accidents but you can also sit on your remote control and have it stop your movie or skip to the end.
Lol. They didn't blow anything. They did not try to secure the device, obviously. There's no encryption or anything "difficult" about using the Kinect device itself.
There is no manufacturing growth in the US, but we're still (for a little while) top manufacturer. But the post you replied to is correct in that sense - new manufacturing jobs aren't being created.
Does this lame joke have to appear in every Windows 7 Mobile thread?
First - the phone is selling as well as other new platforms (and it is new - it's not WinMo6) when they were released.
Second, why choose 5 over 2 - I think there's an inverse hilarity rule and 2 would be 5/2 times as knee slappingly, yukyukingly hilarious, wouldn't it?
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How about you quit being a crybaby and not use DRM-locked media if you don't like it? Your entire point is asinine.
Noooo! That's crazy talk, I'm so morally opposed to anything labeled DRM that I refuse to even buy a product from a company that advertises on a website that has an article on a motherboard for a CPU that supports DRM functionality!
Joking, of course. Don't try to talk rationally to any of these neckbeards, they are so incensed by the mere mention of DRM that they shut off any logical part of their brain that they may have.
Oooh, totally! Just like PGP is DRM. Better not use it either, huh?
I'm so tired of people whining about DRM. If you don't like it, don't use the media content that uses it. It's really as simple as that.
Sometimes when I get a cheeseburger they have a pickle on them. Instead of crying for 10 minutes about it and posting a self-righteous post on the Internet about how evil teh picklez are, I take the pickle off and eat the cheeseburger.
Hey, but he's an "architect"! That means he produces byzantine systems that the developers will just ignore when they do the actual work, but which he can still claim credit for. It's really win-win (except for the employer).
OK, now Atom vs. Arm - that's at least a reasonable discussion.
I'm not buying it. The "Whoah, ARM outperforms Atom!" articles I've seen are somewhat ridiculous and normalize for Mhz(?) or use obscure benchmarks and predictions based on vendor claims. And as you say, you can cherry pick different implementations..I mean benchmarks all you want to show different results.
Also, the Atom is not going to stand still while ARM continues to improve.
When someone produces a good set of real world benchmarks showing ARM outperforms Atom, then I'll believe it.
Now, performance/power - that ARM does win handily at the moment.
ARM will never compete with x86 in raw performance. Performance per watt, however, might be another matter.
Yeah, the other issue is that ARM code is "bigger" but somehow a 900MHz ARM outruns a 1500MHz x86
Cite? You're not begging the question, are you?
I'll go further - you're full of shit. Please find me the ARM chip that outruns (performance-wise, unless you mean something else by "why so much faster") the Core i7-680UM (a 1.47GHz x86 chip), even on a core to core basis.
I won't hold my breath.
You can always rock out with your socks out like it's 1994 and use gvim and make on Windows and the VC++ compiler.
Trolling? You don't think the bulk majority of commercial, everyday software people use only running on Windows isn't a point against Linux? Sure, for advanced users (and even some "enthusiastic beginners") this doesn't matter, but it does for everyone else.
The huge catalog of win32 applications will be less of an issue if the top 5% that people would actually run on a low powered laptop or tablet are ported and compiled for Windows/ARM.
Even MCE tuner/capture hardware support is nothing to write home about.
You call a quad tuner cablecard tuner "nothing to write home about"?
Tons of prior art in this, including from VMWare. This is just another bullshit patent.
Shut up, moron. The container has nothing to do with DRM. One could easily develop DRM'd content that would fit in an mkv file.
Yeah, after all those quad cablecard tuners work great with MythTV. Oh, wait... no. They don't work at all.
While you're showing people your cool music collection and the x264 rips you spent 30 minutes of time on each, I'll be recording four hi-def TV shows at a time and actually using mine on a daily basis.
Late to the party.. You do know Windows Media Center has been around for ages, right?
There's no question on what "Moore's Law" is as the article would paint. Originally, he said double transistor count every year. Then, in 1975, he revised it to every two years.
It's obviously not a scientific law but it is based on the manufacturing process for circuits and how they evolve, and it has been a good rule of thumb number and has proven as accurate as can be expected while we continue to make chips in basically the same ways.
It's fairly easy to look this up, there's no need for a lame mainstream media article link.
Can anyone tell me why that AnandTech article from March is evidence that Windows Phone 7 has lapped Android? And why it just happened?
He's talking about the fact that Windows Phone 7 has advanced GPU acceleration built in from the beginning in several facets of the environment. Android doesn't and it's a few years older.
It certainly hasn't lapped it in terms of sales or momentum, but it could. Android has both the advantage and the curse of being more open and versatile - WP7 has the possibility of a more restrained set of hardware differences and can build in more low-level functionality.
They have an oppressive non-democratic monarchy/theocracy, I'm sure the US will be there soon to institute regime change, right? Right?!
Wait, you mean we are best of buddies with those shitbags? Color me surprised.
One could, of course, use an unlock gesture to start further gesture commands. For example, waving your hand twice over your head or something. Sure, you could still have accidents but you can also sit on your remote control and have it stop your movie or skip to the end.
Lol. They didn't blow anything. They did not try to secure the device, obviously. There's no encryption or anything "difficult" about using the Kinect device itself.
Uhh, yes? If you don't think we'll have that in the next 20 years you're not paying attention.
Don't use the DRM features or buy media that requires it. Seems kind of a silly thing to whine about, doesn't it?
Nobody with any sense gives a shit - if you don't like the DRM features, don't use programs that require them.
There is no manufacturing growth in the US, but we're still (for a little while) top manufacturer. But the post you replied to is correct in that sense - new manufacturing jobs aren't being created.
Does this lame joke have to appear in every Windows 7 Mobile thread?
First - the phone is selling as well as other new platforms (and it is new - it's not WinMo6) when they were released.
Second, why choose 5 over 2 - I think there's an inverse hilarity rule and 2 would be 5/2 times as knee slappingly, yukyukingly hilarious, wouldn't it?