Seen by whom? It is just a phone, one of many Android phones. Add up all the Android phones and it dwarfs the number of iPhones. What are they trying to say, that selling a million Pixel phones is somehow a failure? Yeesh, you can make statistics say anything...
I think comparing phone to phone is a good metric. We are not trying to compare ecosystems (iOS vs Android, Mac vs PC, etc). If you don't like the Pixel to iPhone comparison, how about Pixel to Galaxy 8? Or Pixel to G6? Selling 1 million units is a lot like Lumia numbers. Not good by any stretch. I wouldn't expect Google to keep this going much longer, kind of like how they cancel most of their hardware endeavors (think Motorola purchase, Nexus Q, etc)...
A more typical usage is where there are many smaller queries.
Typical usage of what? If I have an OLTP system, for a transactional web based system, sure i'd agree. But if I am operating a data warehouse with fact tables housing hundreds of millions of rows, or trying to run largish reports on top of my OLTP system (say for state/fed reporting, or financial reporting), my "typical usage" is not many smaller queries.
The last two projects I have been on, turning on auto-parrallism in Oracle has made huge performance gains. Not just for reads, but also when enabled for DML, we saw a lot of our bulk inserts and merges ran significantly faster. And this was on SQL that didn't change at all, just our DBAs making a few parameter changes on the DB.
What about Bennett Haselton, for always so graciously providing his view?
Totally agree with SoCalChris. Bennett Haselton has always provided deep and insightful analysis here at Slashdot, and should whole-heartedly be nominated.
Instead, we are likely to see Aerojet and possibly Rocketdyne merging with one of the smaller builders and then building a tug/depot, or perhaps their own form of a land-able launch system.
Not sure if you were implying that Aerojet or Rocketdyne merging independetly with a small builder, or if you meant the combined Aerojet/Rocketdyne merging with a small builder. Aerojet (parent company Gencrop) is actually in the process of closing on the purchase of Rocketdyne.
I just don't see how a browser based MMO would ever succeed. There would have to be so many limitations, its like handicapping yourself out of the gate!
At my work we have a choice between straight 8s, or 6/10/4 schedule. Personally, I like the 6/10/4, as I come in at noon on Mondays (working 12:00-6:00pm), and leave at 11:00am on Fridays (working 7:00-11:00am). Tuesday-Thurs I work 10 hours (7:00-6:00pm), for a total of 40 hours a week. Plus, if I ever want to have a three day weekend, I only have to use 4 vacation hours, instead of the traditional 8.
Yep. Because WoW is the best MMO ever, and nothing ever will ever surpass it, because there is just no creativity left in this space. In fact, every other MMO designer should just give up now.
I can think of quite a few things I would love to see: more freedom to do anything; theivery (from players, shops, houses...all with appropriate punishments if caught); ability to kill anyone (player or npc), at anytime, for any reason (with bounties, or appropriate punishments placed on your character for evil doing); housing marketplace (buying, selling, renting, expanding, furnishing); no level-caps (just insanely hard to attain higher levels ala Lineage 1)...thats just a couple off the top of my head.
I have played a small smattering of MMOs (Lineage, Lineage 2, WoW), and of the three Lineage 1 was my favorite. Some of the things you could do were cool, and really added to game play and fostering community.
With music though, I think there is a point well below 64GB where "enough is enough". My entire music library on my computer *MIGHT* reach 12GB tops; it's probably closer to 8GB, and that's with 2000-3000 songs. Now I realize that many people have collections that dwarf that in size, but honestly, do you really need to tote around your ENTIRE collection in your pocket? Just seems like a 2GB flash card holding a couple hundred songs that you feel like listening to at the time would be just fine.
Perhaps it is because the demand for the PS3 is much less than the demand for the Wii? I am sure Nintendo is doing everything they can to pump out as many Wiis as possible. The Wii has currently sold 6.03 million units with the PS3 having sold 2.67 million units. Having launched at the same time (roughly), it looks like the Wii is easily outselling the PS3. So what is that about Nintendo falling farther and farther behind. It looks like exactly the opposite...
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
OJ Simpson took flight, but he was technically not guilty.
Probably the worst example you could have come up with. I think it is just about understood by everyone that OJ WAS guilty. I am sure there are a few people that take off running and aren't guilty, but why the hell would you do this. Why not come out publicly offering DNA or fingerprints if you know you didn't do it. Running is about the dumbest thing you could do.
Here is what I don't get...why is Ars comparing a single, quad core Kentsfield to two, dual core Athlons? Wouldn't a better comparison to the 4x4 platform be two Woodcrest cups? Or am I missing something?
From the article: AMD's 4x4 system features two coherent HyperTransport (cHT) AM2 sockets, each of which can gluelessly support a dual-core Athlon CPU and a pool of DDR2. So a 4x4 system gives you two cores and one DDR2 bank per socket.
Sounds an awful lot like what Intel is doing with Woodcrest (and its platform, of which I can't recall the name). 2 sockets, each with a DIB, and can hold a dual core part. So how is 4x4 new? Hell, Apple is doing it currently with their G5
Actually, the first gen blu-ray players wont be able to play back the quad layer blu-ray disks currently in development. So if you buy a first gen Sony player, you can't play every blu-ray disk.
Sony allows you to play every blu-ray disk to every blu-ray device with every blu-player. It is an unfortunate consequence there are not so many players.
But, Apple allows you to play every iTunes track with every iTunes player (any of the 1G-5G iPods, the Moto ROKR and upcoming iTunes phones, or on my Mac or PC). So hw is it any different? Further, comparing to other companies in similar boats, Apple offers more variety than buying a PS3 (you can only play PS3 games on a PS3), or the Xbox360 (you can only play Xbox 360 games on an Xbox360). So I am not seeing your point...
YOU can listen to it wherever you want, whenever you want.
Also, I can listen to the music I purchase on my iPod, on my computer, on my cellphone (ROKR), in my Car (either via burnt CD, or direct iPod to AUX input), on my home stereo (again, same way as via Car). Hell i can even play it on another music player (convert first to MP3, then load that MP3 on to said player). Also, there isn't someone standing over my with a timer (like teh subscrption music based services) which will delete my tracks if my subscrption runs out. I can listen to my tracks as many times as I want, as long as I want, whenever I want.
x64, I believe, just refers to the x86 instruction set for 64 bit processors. Also known as EM64T, x86-64 or AMD64 depending on who you talk to.
And the 86 has nothing to do with transistors on a chip (the 8086 had 29,000 transistors). It was just the part number of the first in a line of processors (8086 then followed by the 80186, 80286, i386, i486, etc...).
Lineage 1 I believe had no level cap. I remember one player (he was Korean) was like level 75 or so (with the next highest around 65), and was still going. Leveling at this point was insane. It would take multiple months of game play to advanced a single level. His goal was to solo one of the in game dragons. That game is still being developed, and has had a ton of new content added since I last played (4 years ago).
I like that idea. If I want to keep grinding, and working it out, let me enhance my character (if it is only a few str or int point increase each level past 60 for WoW). Lineage 1 had a lot of cool things you could do that added to the game content. For example n-zels and ndais used to increase weapon/armor stats...and the fun of attempting to overzel/overdai an item, praying it wouldn't blow:) Plus you could sell a +9 b-kat for a shit load, and it wasn't soulbound to your character.
If Lineage 2 would have been based more closely to Lineage 1, I would have kept playing it. But Lineage 2 strayed way to far from what Lineage 1 was.
Most landlines are powered. So they still work during power outages - cell phones don't...
Last time I checked, my cell phone still operated during a power loss, seeing as how it is run off a battery. I charge it every night, so it is fully powered the next day, and it generally lasts me two days between charges (if I forget to charge it at night), coupled with the fact that he power has never gone off for more than a few hours at a time (and I live in California!), I don't see this as an issue at all. This feature alone is NOT worth the cash to me.
And that is what my cell phone is for. I currently have a land line via ATT. I was on the "life line" service (cost me $4/month, and was VERY basic services). I have not used my land line in over 2 years, and am going to cancel (its a bitch, can't do it via the web, have to call them so they can convince you not to cancel). I am sure at some point in my life, 911 will be nice to have, but I have only called it once (car accident, so it was via cell phone) in 23 years. I could care less if VoIP providers (or SkypeOut) gives me 911 access, if I absolutely need it, I have a cell phone.
Now I just need a reasonably priced wi-fi phone that is skype ready, and I am good to go!
Ah, but I am on Comcast with the 8 mbit plan. I maxed out our 802.11b wireless throuput awhile back (since realworld is only about half the proposed 11mbit), and had to upgrade my router to 802.11g. When I first moved here 3 years ago, I was on 384 kbps dsl. I then got comcast at 3 mbps, then 4, then 6, and now 8 mbps. I live in a 2 story apartment, so running cat5 is not an option. I have plans to setup a home media PC downstairs by my TV, and if my roommate is Bittorenting, and I want to stream a movie to my TV, I am going to come close to my 802.11g max (which in real world testing is about 25-30mbps). And how about those getting FIOS? The upper level plans would max out 802.11g routers throughput.
802.11n is needed. It adds some nice speed, and distance to what we have now.
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Seen by whom? It is just a phone, one of many Android phones. Add up all the Android phones and it dwarfs the number of iPhones. What are they trying to say, that selling a million Pixel phones is somehow a failure? Yeesh, you can make statistics say anything...
I think comparing phone to phone is a good metric. We are not trying to compare ecosystems (iOS vs Android, Mac vs PC, etc). If you don't like the Pixel to iPhone comparison, how about Pixel to Galaxy 8? Or Pixel to G6? Selling 1 million units is a lot like Lumia numbers. Not good by any stretch. I wouldn't expect Google to keep this going much longer, kind of like how they cancel most of their hardware endeavors (think Motorola purchase, Nexus Q, etc)...
A more typical usage is where there are many smaller queries.
Typical usage of what? If I have an OLTP system, for a transactional web based system, sure i'd agree. But if I am operating a data warehouse with fact tables housing hundreds of millions of rows, or trying to run largish reports on top of my OLTP system (say for state/fed reporting, or financial reporting), my "typical usage" is not many smaller queries.
The last two projects I have been on, turning on auto-parrallism in Oracle has made huge performance gains. Not just for reads, but also when enabled for DML, we saw a lot of our bulk inserts and merges ran significantly faster. And this was on SQL that didn't change at all, just our DBAs making a few parameter changes on the DB.
What about Bennett Haselton, for always so graciously providing his view?
Totally agree with SoCalChris. Bennett Haselton has always provided deep and insightful analysis here at Slashdot, and should whole-heartedly be nominated.
Instead, we are likely to see Aerojet and possibly Rocketdyne merging with one of the smaller builders and then building a tug/depot, or perhaps their own form of a land-able launch system.
Not sure if you were implying that Aerojet or Rocketdyne merging independetly with a small builder, or if you meant the combined Aerojet/Rocketdyne merging with a small builder. Aerojet (parent company Gencrop) is actually in the process of closing on the purchase of Rocketdyne.
http://www.aerojet.com/media/InvestorPresentation_GenCorpAcquisition.pdf
So close to owning http://www.clownpenius.fart/
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So you don't work in IT...you work for GeekSquad!
SOE = Sony Online Entertainment
I just don't see how a browser based MMO would ever succeed. There would have to be so many limitations, its like handicapping yourself out of the gate!
At my work we have a choice between straight 8s, or 6/10/4 schedule. Personally, I like the 6/10/4, as I come in at noon on Mondays (working 12:00-6:00pm), and leave at 11:00am on Fridays (working 7:00-11:00am). Tuesday-Thurs I work 10 hours (7:00-6:00pm), for a total of 40 hours a week. Plus, if I ever want to have a three day weekend, I only have to use 4 vacation hours, instead of the traditional 8.
From the Talk page on the wiki:
Just noticed that the instructions say to cp Csu-71/arm-cc-specs when it should really be driver/arm-cc-specs
so just do a:
cp driver/arm-cc-specs ~/.arm-cc-specs
and you should be good to go.
Think iPhone plan is going to be unlimited data? Think different.
T-mobile offers unlimited data on their Sidekick plans for only $20 a month (this includes internet, email, aim, and text). Why can't ATT do this?
I'm not sure what they could add over WoW
Yep. Because WoW is the best MMO ever, and nothing ever will ever surpass it, because there is just no creativity left in this space. In fact, every other MMO designer should just give up now.
I can think of quite a few things I would love to see: more freedom to do anything; theivery (from players, shops, houses...all with appropriate punishments if caught); ability to kill anyone (player or npc), at anytime, for any reason (with bounties, or appropriate punishments placed on your character for evil doing); housing marketplace (buying, selling, renting, expanding, furnishing); no level-caps (just insanely hard to attain higher levels ala Lineage 1)...thats just a couple off the top of my head.
I have played a small smattering of MMOs (Lineage, Lineage 2, WoW), and of the three Lineage 1 was my favorite. Some of the things you could do were cool, and really added to game play and fostering community.
With music though, I think there is a point well below 64GB where "enough is enough". My entire music library on my computer *MIGHT* reach 12GB tops; it's probably closer to 8GB, and that's with 2000-3000 songs. Now I realize that many people have collections that dwarf that in size, but honestly, do you really need to tote around your ENTIRE collection in your pocket? Just seems like a 2GB flash card holding a couple hundred songs that you feel like listening to at the time would be just fine.
Ya, I agree. Someone should come out with a flash based music player.
Perhaps it is because the demand for the PS3 is much less than the demand for the Wii? I am sure Nintendo is doing everything they can to pump out as many Wiis as possible. The Wii has currently sold 6.03 million units with the PS3 having sold 2.67 million units. Having launched at the same time (roughly), it looks like the Wii is easily outselling the PS3. So what is that about Nintendo falling farther and farther behind. It looks like exactly the opposite...
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
OJ Simpson took flight, but he was technically not guilty.
Probably the worst example you could have come up with. I think it is just about understood by everyone that OJ WAS guilty. I am sure there are a few people that take off running and aren't guilty, but why the hell would you do this. Why not come out publicly offering DNA or fingerprints if you know you didn't do it. Running is about the dumbest thing you could do.
Here is what I don't get...why is Ars comparing a single, quad core Kentsfield to two, dual core Athlons? Wouldn't a better comparison to the 4x4 platform be two Woodcrest cups? Or am I missing something?
From the article:
AMD's 4x4 system features two coherent HyperTransport (cHT) AM2 sockets, each of which can gluelessly support a dual-core Athlon CPU and a pool of DDR2. So a 4x4 system gives you two cores and one DDR2 bank per socket.
Sounds an awful lot like what Intel is doing with Woodcrest (and its platform, of which I can't recall the name). 2 sockets, each with a DIB, and can hold a dual core part. So how is 4x4 new? Hell, Apple is doing it currently with their G5
Actually, the first gen blu-ray players wont be able to play back the quad layer blu-ray disks currently in development. So if you buy a first gen Sony player, you can't play every blu-ray disk.
Sony allows you to play every blu-ray disk to every blu-ray device with every blu-player. It is an unfortunate consequence there are not so many players.
But, Apple allows you to play every iTunes track with every iTunes player (any of the 1G-5G iPods, the Moto ROKR and upcoming iTunes phones, or on my Mac or PC). So hw is it any different? Further, comparing to other companies in similar boats, Apple offers more variety than buying a PS3 (you can only play PS3 games on a PS3), or the Xbox360 (you can only play Xbox 360 games on an Xbox360). So I am not seeing your point...
YOU can listen to it wherever you want, whenever you want.
Also, I can listen to the music I purchase on my iPod, on my computer, on my cellphone (ROKR), in my Car (either via burnt CD, or direct iPod to AUX input), on my home stereo (again, same way as via Car). Hell i can even play it on another music player (convert first to MP3, then load that MP3 on to said player). Also, there isn't someone standing over my with a timer (like teh subscrption music based services) which will delete my tracks if my subscrption runs out. I can listen to my tracks as many times as I want, as long as I want, whenever I want.
And the 86 has nothing to do with transistors on a chip (the 8086 had 29,000 transistors). It was just the part number of the first in a line of processors (8086 then followed by the 80186, 80286, i386, i486, etc...).
Lineage 1 I believe had no level cap. I remember one player (he was Korean) was like level 75 or so (with the next highest around 65), and was still going. Leveling at this point was insane. It would take multiple months of game play to advanced a single level. His goal was to solo one of the in game dragons. That game is still being developed, and has had a ton of new content added since I last played (4 years ago). I like that idea. If I want to keep grinding, and working it out, let me enhance my character (if it is only a few str or int point increase each level past 60 for WoW). Lineage 1 had a lot of cool things you could do that added to the game content. For example n-zels and ndais used to increase weapon/armor stats...and the fun of attempting to overzel/overdai an item, praying it wouldn't blow :) Plus you could sell a +9 b-kat for a shit load, and it wasn't soulbound to your character.
If Lineage 2 would have been based more closely to Lineage 1, I would have kept playing it. But Lineage 2 strayed way to far from what Lineage 1 was.
Most landlines are powered. So they still work during power outages - cell phones don't...
Last time I checked, my cell phone still operated during a power loss, seeing as how it is run off a battery. I charge it every night, so it is fully powered the next day, and it generally lasts me two days between charges (if I forget to charge it at night), coupled with the fact that he power has never gone off for more than a few hours at a time (and I live in California!), I don't see this as an issue at all. This feature alone is NOT worth the cash to me.
Did Skype suddenly form a new partnership with someone to handle these calls?
ebay perhaps?
And that is what my cell phone is for. I currently have a land line via ATT. I was on the "life line" service (cost me $4/month, and was VERY basic services). I have not used my land line in over 2 years, and am going to cancel (its a bitch, can't do it via the web, have to call them so they can convince you not to cancel). I am sure at some point in my life, 911 will be nice to have, but I have only called it once (car accident, so it was via cell phone) in 23 years. I could care less if VoIP providers (or SkypeOut) gives me 911 access, if I absolutely need it, I have a cell phone. Now I just need a reasonably priced wi-fi phone that is skype ready, and I am good to go!
Ah, but I am on Comcast with the 8 mbit plan. I maxed out our 802.11b wireless throuput awhile back (since realworld is only about half the proposed 11mbit), and had to upgrade my router to 802.11g. When I first moved here 3 years ago, I was on 384 kbps dsl. I then got comcast at 3 mbps, then 4, then 6, and now 8 mbps. I live in a 2 story apartment, so running cat5 is not an option. I have plans to setup a home media PC downstairs by my TV, and if my roommate is Bittorenting, and I want to stream a movie to my TV, I am going to come close to my 802.11g max (which in real world testing is about 25-30mbps). And how about those getting FIOS? The upper level plans would max out 802.11g routers throughput. 802.11n is needed. It adds some nice speed, and distance to what we have now.