When you consider that the x86 uses 3x the power, but can run a benchmark such as multithreaded linpack 1000x faster, it suddenly seems like we're getting ripped off by these ARM processors.
In reality, this processor consumes 20x less (I assume that means 1/20th) power of the current Ivy Bridges. I presume that's under normal use. It's a huge win for laptops.
The article you linked is the number for all cellphone plans in the US. This include older, more basic cellphones as well. It make sense, because I have a cellphone. I also have a desktop. Everyone I know has both a cellphone and a desktop. None of replaced one with the other, and certainly those who use their desktops to do anything more than check email certainly appreciate a large screen and the 1000x more processing power.
You're also incorrect about the number of PCs out there. It's actually over a billion. Believe it or not, it's still growing:
In MS's defense, they removed almost all of what made people dislike Vista. Vista was an improvement in terms of end user security. I ended up using vista for a short time and it wasn't bad. They did, however, make an OS that a huge number of people like in 7 by listening to their customers.
Who cares about WinRT. Let Apple and google fight for domination of ARM space. I'll still take my 1000x more powerful (according to linpack) x86 processors in laptops.
So the conditions of the deep and intermediate water were warmer than now during the last ice-age? What does this have to do with the current melt-off?
Also, has this study passed peer review already or is it in process?
It apparently has not happened in hundreds of thousands of years, aside from the previous record breaking low in 2007. They are able to tell by various methods of radioactive dating of the air bubbles stored in the ice. In 2007, we had a lot of this 100,000 year old ice melting off, which means this is the warmest the arctic has been since modern humans have evolved. This year, we're breaking that record.
No, I'm saving them from a bad purchasing decision.
I can't in good conscience recommend a laptop that costs so much, with such an insecure OS. A nice unibody doesn't mean that the overall quality of the laptop is any better than say, Dell. In fact, there have been just as many problems both hardware wise and software wise with our company MBPs as there have been with any other laptop.
I brought MS up, as a counter point to how to negotiate to get compensated. They didn't try to have an injunction because they didn't like competition.
You brought up FRAND, which is another example of patent abuse, but adds nothing to this discussion.
I'm not defending Google, so stop harping on this. Chewbacca defenses work on South Park.
Apple can't compete, so they seek injunctions. Now they are choosing something that is very much NOT like an iPhone to try and ban. If they succeed, consumers lose.
Asking for money is one thing. Seeking to ban products is quite another. Most patent cases between active tech companies get settled out of court, usually in a cross-licensing deal. Google's lawsuit will probably be settled that way, and both companies will continue on - no products banned.
Apple, on the other hand, just doesn't believe in real competition. They obviously aren't secure enough in their own products and capabilities, so they seek to ban other, arguably better, products from the market.
Did MS seek injunctions against products from being sold? No. Do they get some money from Android units sold? Yes. MS is certainly bad. Apple is far worse.
This is why iHate exists. The blatant inability to comprehend sentences coupled with extremely aggressive vitriol. This is what defines the apple fanboy. This is what alienates others even further from the platform - they don't want to be associated with individuals such as this.
> Or is it a rush to buy the currently best smartphone in the market in case there is an injunction on its sale in the US any time soon?
No. The S3 is not listed as one of the phones and injunction is going against. It's the S, and S2 variants. The S3, Nexus. and others are in the clear.
Android looks nothing like iOS. All smartphone oses, save for windows phone, use a grid of icons to represent apps. BBOS has been doing this since before iOS. Other than that, android is nothing like iOS.
I live and work on video encoding in the current decade. Quality is achieved by doing exhaustive macroblock searches, object detections, SSIM-like quality metric comparisons of the output (which requires you to decode what you just encoded). It's non-trivial. In fact, we still don't have anywhere near the compute power to get the most out of something like H.264 in real time. Offline encodes can spend a week on a 1 hour video, and do quite a reasonable job.
All that is moot, however, if you only have a few frames to work with, like in gaming situations.
> If you haven't actually tried onlive or the like you should
I certainly have tried it, more than once. The encode quality was crap. The latency was always noticeable, even though I had 30ms or so to their server. The maximum resolution I could use was 720p, and the latency was unbearable, as you'd expect due to the encoding process. The overall experience was crap compared to my gaming rig as well as my laptop. OnLive was a failure waiting to happen.
No, steam reports back all the software on your system. This is how they provide a list of common software on their analytics page. Almost every steam user has bittorrent, flash, adobe reader, etc. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Now, why wouldn't Valve get subpoenaed for the same reasons TFA claims MS would?
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When you consider that the x86 uses 3x the power, but can run a benchmark such as multithreaded linpack 1000x faster, it suddenly seems like we're getting ripped off by these ARM processors.
In reality, this processor consumes 20x less (I assume that means 1/20th) power of the current Ivy Bridges. I presume that's under normal use. It's a huge win for laptops.
The article you linked is the number for all cellphone plans in the US. This include older, more basic cellphones as well. It make sense, because I have a cellphone. I also have a desktop. Everyone I know has both a cellphone and a desktop. None of replaced one with the other, and certainly those who use their desktops to do anything more than check email certainly appreciate a large screen and the 1000x more processing power.
You're also incorrect about the number of PCs out there. It's actually over a billion. Believe it or not, it's still growing:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-06/tech/30481049_1_android-apps-ios
> PCs are not the most common devices that use the internet.
So far, they certainly are, by a big margin.
In MS's defense, they removed almost all of what made people dislike Vista. Vista was an improvement in terms of end user security. I ended up using vista for a short time and it wasn't bad. They did, however, make an OS that a huge number of people like in 7 by listening to their customers.
Who cares about WinRT. Let Apple and google fight for domination of ARM space. I'll still take my 1000x more powerful (according to linpack) x86 processors in laptops.
So the conditions of the deep and intermediate water were warmer than now during the last ice-age? What does this have to do with the current melt-off?
Also, has this study passed peer review already or is it in process?
It apparently has not happened in hundreds of thousands of years, aside from the previous record breaking low in 2007. They are able to tell by various methods of radioactive dating of the air bubbles stored in the ice. In 2007, we had a lot of this 100,000 year old ice melting off, which means this is the warmest the arctic has been since modern humans have evolved. This year, we're breaking that record.
Odd, all the data I've seen has pointed to a global decline, led by western nations, for the last 30 years.
What about assuming there is a reason in the first place? (I'm not talking about the usual, causal reasons here...)
You mean, 'coz.
No, I'm saving them from a bad purchasing decision.
I can't in good conscience recommend a laptop that costs so much, with such an insecure OS. A nice unibody doesn't mean that the overall quality of the laptop is any better than say, Dell. In fact, there have been just as many problems both hardware wise and software wise with our company MBPs as there have been with any other laptop.
I brought MS up, as a counter point to how to negotiate to get compensated. They didn't try to have an injunction because they didn't like competition.
You brought up FRAND, which is another example of patent abuse, but adds nothing to this discussion.
I'm not defending Google, so stop harping on this. Chewbacca defenses work on South Park.
Apple can't compete, so they seek injunctions. Now they are choosing something that is very much NOT like an iPhone to try and ban. If they succeed, consumers lose.
Asking for money is one thing. Seeking to ban products is quite another. Most patent cases between active tech companies get settled out of court, usually in a cross-licensing deal. Google's lawsuit will probably be settled that way, and both companies will continue on - no products banned.
Apple, on the other hand, just doesn't believe in real competition. They obviously aren't secure enough in their own products and capabilities, so they seek to ban other, arguably better, products from the market.
I've been doing this as well. It has been working. I've convinced no less than 5 people in the last 3 months to seek anything that is non-apple.
Apple's prices on their notebooks does the rest.
Did MS seek injunctions against products from being sold? No.
Do they get some money from Android units sold? Yes.
MS is certainly bad. Apple is far worse.
Now THAT's a proper ad hominem.
Rather than an explanation, you just get modded to 0. This is telling in it's own right.
> If you would rather die than choosing an iPhone
This is why iHate exists. The blatant inability to comprehend sentences coupled with extremely aggressive vitriol. This is what defines the apple fanboy. This is what alienates others even further from the platform - they don't want to be associated with individuals such as this.
> Or is it a rush to buy the currently best smartphone in the market in case there is an injunction on its sale in the US any time soon?
No. The S3 is not listed as one of the phones and injunction is going against. It's the S, and S2 variants. The S3, Nexus. and others are in the clear.
Android looks nothing like iOS. All smartphone oses, save for windows phone, use a grid of icons to represent apps. BBOS has been doing this since before iOS. Other than that, android is nothing like iOS.
Sager has customizable laptops.
> Uh... what decade are you living in?
I live and work on video encoding in the current decade. Quality is achieved by doing exhaustive macroblock searches, object detections, SSIM-like quality metric comparisons of the output (which requires you to decode what you just encoded). It's non-trivial. In fact, we still don't have anywhere near the compute power to get the most out of something like H.264 in real time. Offline encodes can spend a week on a 1 hour video, and do quite a reasonable job.
All that is moot, however, if you only have a few frames to work with, like in gaming situations.
> If you haven't actually tried onlive or the like you should
I certainly have tried it, more than once. The encode quality was crap. The latency was always noticeable, even though I had 30ms or so to their server. The maximum resolution I could use was 720p, and the latency was unbearable, as you'd expect due to the encoding process. The overall experience was crap compared to my gaming rig as well as my laptop. OnLive was a failure waiting to happen.
No, steam reports back all the software on your system. This is how they provide a list of common software on their analytics page. Almost every steam user has bittorrent, flash, adobe reader, etc. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Now, why wouldn't Valve get subpoenaed for the same reasons TFA claims MS would?
And most people do need *something* that will tell them whether or not that random executable that they just downloaded could be a threat or not.
Besides, Steam has been doing this for years. How come no-one has called them out?