And still, major US carriers will still refuse to offer 64GB or larger smartphones (except perhaps the iPhone due to Apple's clout) while the rest of the world enjoys terabyte smartphones.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
And yet poor thread scheduling often ended up freezing absolutely everything else until that thread handed control back. Win95 allowed both cooperative and preemptive multitasking. When I built my first multiprocessor machine and switched to NT and commented that eventually all PCs will go SMP and I'll never own a single processor PC again, a lot of idiots jeered at it, claiming there is no practical use for SMP on a desktop PC/workstation, and yet here we are - four, six, and eight core PCs, with dual core being the bottom of the line, and 3,000+ core graphics cards being commonplace and more and more apps taking implementing CUDA or OpenCL for even more parallel processing.
Your view of "I don't understand why multicore CPUs is good for phones, you're dumb" is an incredibly closed-minded view based on how smartphone apps are implemented today, not taking into consideration how the phones could be put to use in months and years to come. That is the same mindset that said PDAs are only for geeks, and yet today practically everybody has a full-blown pocket sized unix box as a telephone with tens or even hundreds of apps installed, watching TV and movies on the go, listening to online streams from radio stations around the world, soccer moms checking their social schedules, people using their phones as cookbooks, people running entire small businesses on phablets and tablets, and a whole slew of other tasks that myopic short-sighted fools said that no one neither needed nor wanted.
I'd choose the two holding machine guns, since they're far more likely to have been trained in military strategy, when you consider that the AR-15 is a consumer-oriented hunting/home defense/target shooting rifle derived from the M-16.
You have no idea how multitasking works. Besides, many apps can take advantage of as many cores as you can throw at it.
Even if an app is written to spawn only two threads, other cores keep busy - filesystem maintenance, listening for phone calls, reading user input, listening for your bluetooth devices, and a slew of other tasks. That your game only takes advantage of two or four cores doesn't mean the other cores would go to waste.
I would think that an eight core processor might make sense for a high end smartphone; you could have four cores with scalable clock speed for high performance computing (gaming, video editing, etc.) and switch to four low-power cores on the fly, which will still multitask very well but will conserve power. If only any smartphone manufacturer would introduce such a beast.
What the hell ad you people doing to get coasters all the time? The times I get coasters is if the laser is flaking out (or in the case of the very expensive Ricoh drive I had years ago, inadequate lubrication on the optical sled. I went through five drives under warranty then when warranty ran out I fixed it for good with lithium grease), or if the software doesn't detect I put a CD instead of a DVD in and tries to write a DVD-sized data image to disk. Other than that, no problems- and I have discs from 1995 that are still readable - and back then I bought the cheapest media I could find. The design itself isn't the problem, and aside from rare equipment failures, the implementation isn't either.
So, what the hell are you all doing to make optical media so problematic?
I haven't been impressed with longevity of optical media
all the discs I still have (only a handful) from 1995 are still readable. ..
and I still occasionally get coasters,
The only time I ever get coasters is if the laser in a drive is flaking out, or the software doesn't detect the disc type properly and starts burning a DVD onto DVD media and runs out of space (in the former, it's equipment failure, and the latter, luser error).
> If they need more tax money why not keep things simple and increase the income tax?
Taxachusetts keeps doing that - they're continually raising taxes and "user fees" across the board, including "temporary taxes" which always end up being temporary in that the Sun will eventually engulf the Earth, ending all taxation. They never, ever fix the underlying problems (80% to 90% administrative cost overhead).
I just moved out of the fucking state because taxation is so ridiculous there.
I have a Chinese (LAVA-branded) Android tablet - it was a freebie from a vendor because I order so much from him (several years we were their largest account). He asked me for feedback on it after I had it for a few weeks. I felt bad but had not much good to say about it. It came with the Netflix preloaded (in their official firmware) and the Netflix app would not load movies. No update was available from Netflix at the time so I contacted lavatech. Their response was that they do not support it, that I should delete the app. WTF? Also, the manual clearly stated that the tablet charges via the mini-USB port. It doesn't. It only charges via the DC adapter port, and it uses a near impossible-to-find-size barrel connector.Lava Tech is uninterested in supporting their core products. Their response if something doesn't work according to their documentation, is to simply not use that feature, or they insist I'm doing it wrong (how can you plug in a mini-USB cable incorrectly?!).
I have a GS1000 dashcam (orange menu, a genuine GS1000 not a clone) - another cheap Chinese product. It has all the features I wanted but I ran into a bug. They quickly turned around and gave me a firmware update that fixed the problem I reported but introduced another problem. I emailed them again and they sent me another update (which I still have yet to test because I have been in the middle of moving to New Hampshire). Excellent customer service for a cheap product.
Support from Chinese companies ranges from completely sucktastic to fantastic. Unfortunately the former is far more common. I think the way Samsung and Apple actually stand behind their products, both will take the Chinese market by storm. I wouldn't buy a smartphone from a Chinese company because there is too much risk that the most basic features won't work (like, not being able to make phone calls) and the company will just say "don't use that feature then."
Hmm, well, the NASCAR target market is stupid. The drivers and crew chiefs are often brilliant (and often retired physicians, physicists, etc.) but their target demographic is dumber than a box of rocks.:-(
Come to the Epping/Lee New Hampshire area sometime on a clear night other than a Friday. Then, come back when there are races going on. You'll see what light pollution does - you go from having Magnitude 6-7 visibility to having a night sky resembling Boston's, all because the lights throw >70% of the light into the sky rather than on the ground, because they are improperly aimed.
Submitter's problem is that the neighbor's light was installed by an incompetent asshole, so much of the light she is paying for is being wasted - shined on the neighbor's property and into the sky. If aimed properly not only do you preserve night viewing, and NOT piss your neighbors off, you get more for your money by concentrating all those lumens where it is actually needed- on the ground.
The real problem with outdoor lighting is that fixtures are installed incorrectly probably 99% of the time. is there ANY reason that >50% of the light escaping the fixture should be going skyward? Aim the things properly and > 90% of the light pollution problem will go away (what remains is incidental reflection from the ground or scattering by water vapor). I have been in well-lighted gated communities where careful design went into outdoor lighting, and despite the ground being well lit, you still get a great view of the sky.
I am finishing a move to Lee, NH and in my backyard I can see the Milky Way very clearly, and for the first time I can actually spot the Andromeda Galaxy clearly without resorted to averted viewing.
Near me I have two NASCAR tracks and one drag track nearby (Lee Speedway, Star Speedway, and one New England Dragway). Lee Speedway is a short jog through the woods and Friday nights, sky viewing is crap; driving by I checked out the lights, and they're aimed at about a 30 angle, throwing 70%+ of the light up to the sky. I don't mind the noise at all from the track, but the light pollution is very annoying, because when those stupid lights are on I can't see much more in the sky than I can see in Boston. The problem can be solved very easily by aiming the lights correctly. It would still create a light dome from reflected and refracted light, but it would be very minimal.
Most of the problem is due to installer incompetence. There is no reason - no need for these lights to not be aimed properly. In fact, IMHO, it should be part of NEC to require outdoor lighting to be aimed as well as wired and sealed properly.
They had direct, specific information regarding those two douchebags who bombed the marathon, AND they are surveying ALL of our communications, sexually assaulting us at airports, and they still didn't put 2+2 together to prevent the bombing? We're not even exchanging essential liberty for security; we are exchanging our essential liberties for security theater.
Are you suggesting that doppler doesn't work for measuring vehicle speeds, with a lower (by many orders of magnitude) velocity relative to the observer? See: RADAR gun
> As for power, what they hell do they need a quad-core i5 that they can't do with an ARM processor?
minecraft, wow, starcraft, final fantasy, elder scrolls (soon), etc. nonlinear video editing (you'd be surprised how many kids are amateur videographers) 3D modeling (again, you'd be surprised how many kids. . . )
Not all kids are dumb kids who can barely figure out how to open Reader Rabbit apps.
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And still, major US carriers will still refuse to offer 64GB or larger smartphones (except perhaps the iPhone due to Apple's clout) while the rest of the world enjoys terabyte smartphones.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
And yet poor thread scheduling often ended up freezing absolutely everything else until that thread handed control back. Win95 allowed both cooperative and preemptive multitasking. When I built my first multiprocessor machine and switched to NT and commented that eventually all PCs will go SMP and I'll never own a single processor PC again, a lot of idiots jeered at it, claiming there is no practical use for SMP on a desktop PC/workstation, and yet here we are - four, six, and eight core PCs, with dual core being the bottom of the line, and 3,000+ core graphics cards being commonplace and more and more apps taking implementing CUDA or OpenCL for even more parallel processing.
Your view of "I don't understand why multicore CPUs is good for phones, you're dumb" is an incredibly closed-minded view based on how smartphone apps are implemented today, not taking into consideration how the phones could be put to use in months and years to come. That is the same mindset that said PDAs are only for geeks, and yet today practically everybody has a full-blown pocket sized unix box as a telephone with tens or even hundreds of apps installed, watching TV and movies on the go, listening to online streams from radio stations around the world, soccer moms checking their social schedules, people using their phones as cookbooks, people running entire small businesses on phablets and tablets, and a whole slew of other tasks that myopic short-sighted fools said that no one neither needed nor wanted.
I'd choose the two holding machine guns, since they're far more likely to have been trained in military strategy, when you consider that the AR-15 is a consumer-oriented hunting/home defense/target shooting rifle derived from the M-16.
You have no idea how multitasking works. Besides, many apps can take advantage of as many cores as you can throw at it.
Even if an app is written to spawn only two threads, other cores keep busy - filesystem maintenance, listening for phone calls, reading user input, listening for your bluetooth devices, and a slew of other tasks. That your game only takes advantage of two or four cores doesn't mean the other cores would go to waste.
I would think that an eight core processor might make sense for a high end smartphone; you could have four cores with scalable clock speed for high performance computing (gaming, video editing, etc.) and switch to four low-power cores on the fly, which will still multitask very well but will conserve power. If only any smartphone manufacturer would introduce such a beast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKJRPPA6NBQ
4 teh lulz. . . or something
What the hell ad you people doing to get coasters all the time? The times I get coasters is if the laser is flaking out (or in the case of the very expensive Ricoh drive I had years ago, inadequate lubrication on the optical sled. I went through five drives under warranty then when warranty ran out I fixed it for good with lithium grease), or if the software doesn't detect I put a CD instead of a DVD in and tries to write a DVD-sized data image to disk. Other than that, no problems- and I have discs from 1995 that are still readable - and back then I bought the cheapest media I could find. The design itself isn't the problem, and aside from rare equipment failures, the implementation isn't either.
So, what the hell are you all doing to make optical media so problematic?
all the discs I still have (only a handful) from 1995 are still readable. . .
The only time I ever get coasters is if the laser in a drive is flaking out, or the software doesn't detect the disc type properly and starts burning a DVD onto DVD media and runs out of space (in the former, it's equipment failure, and the latter, luser error).
> If they need more tax money why not keep things simple and increase the income tax?
Taxachusetts keeps doing that - they're continually raising taxes and "user fees" across the board, including "temporary taxes" which always end up being temporary in that the Sun will eventually engulf the Earth, ending all taxation. They never, ever fix the underlying problems (80% to 90% administrative cost overhead).
I just moved out of the fucking state because taxation is so ridiculous there.
I have a Chinese (LAVA-branded) Android tablet - it was a freebie from a vendor because I order so much from him (several years we were their largest account). He asked me for feedback on it after I had it for a few weeks. I felt bad but had not much good to say about it. It came with the Netflix preloaded (in their official firmware) and the Netflix app would not load movies. No update was available from Netflix at the time so I contacted lavatech. Their response was that they do not support it, that I should delete the app. WTF? Also, the manual clearly stated that the tablet charges via the mini-USB port. It doesn't. It only charges via the DC adapter port, and it uses a near impossible-to-find-size barrel connector.Lava Tech is uninterested in supporting their core products. Their response if something doesn't work according to their documentation, is to simply not use that feature, or they insist I'm doing it wrong (how can you plug in a mini-USB cable incorrectly?!).
I have a GS1000 dashcam (orange menu, a genuine GS1000 not a clone) - another cheap Chinese product. It has all the features I wanted but I ran into a bug. They quickly turned around and gave me a firmware update that fixed the problem I reported but introduced another problem. I emailed them again and they sent me another update (which I still have yet to test because I have been in the middle of moving to New Hampshire). Excellent customer service for a cheap product.
Support from Chinese companies ranges from completely sucktastic to fantastic. Unfortunately the former is far more common. I think the way Samsung and Apple actually stand behind their products, both will take the Chinese market by storm. I wouldn't buy a smartphone from a Chinese company because there is too much risk that the most basic features won't work (like, not being able to make phone calls) and the company will just say "don't use that feature then."
Easy. Use NVIDIA's proprietary drivers and the NVIDIA control panel to configure you multi-monitor setup. You will get full 2D and 3D acceleration.
Oh wait nevermind they blocked the sun. It's been a while. :-(
Simpsons already did it.
Hmm, well, the NASCAR target market is stupid. The drivers and crew chiefs are often brilliant (and often retired physicians, physicists, etc.) but their target demographic is dumber than a box of rocks. :-(
You mean, make sure it is actually installed correctly?
Come to the Epping/Lee New Hampshire area sometime on a clear night other than a Friday. Then, come back when there are races going on. You'll see what light pollution does - you go from having Magnitude 6-7 visibility to having a night sky resembling Boston's, all because the lights throw >70% of the light into the sky rather than on the ground, because they are improperly aimed.
Submitter's problem is that the neighbor's light was installed by an incompetent asshole, so much of the light she is paying for is being wasted - shined on the neighbor's property and into the sky. If aimed properly not only do you preserve night viewing, and NOT piss your neighbors off, you get more for your money by concentrating all those lumens where it is actually needed- on the ground.
The real problem with outdoor lighting is that fixtures are installed incorrectly probably 99% of the time. is there ANY reason that >50% of the light escaping the fixture should be going skyward? Aim the things properly and > 90% of the light pollution problem will go away (what remains is incidental reflection from the ground or scattering by water vapor). I have been in well-lighted gated communities where careful design went into outdoor lighting, and despite the ground being well lit, you still get a great view of the sky.
I am finishing a move to Lee, NH and in my backyard I can see the Milky Way very clearly, and for the first time I can actually spot the Andromeda Galaxy clearly without resorted to averted viewing.
Near me I have two NASCAR tracks and one drag track nearby (Lee Speedway, Star Speedway, and one New England Dragway). Lee Speedway is a short jog through the woods and Friday nights, sky viewing is crap; driving by I checked out the lights, and they're aimed at about a 30 angle, throwing 70%+ of the light up to the sky. I don't mind the noise at all from the track, but the light pollution is very annoying, because when those stupid lights are on I can't see much more in the sky than I can see in Boston. The problem can be solved very easily by aiming the lights correctly. It would still create a light dome from reflected and refracted light, but it would be very minimal.
Most of the problem is due to installer incompetence. There is no reason - no need for these lights to not be aimed properly. In fact, IMHO, it should be part of NEC to require outdoor lighting to be aimed as well as wired and sealed properly.
They had direct, specific information regarding those two douchebags who bombed the marathon, AND they are surveying ALL of our communications, sexually assaulting us at airports, and they still didn't put 2+2 together to prevent the bombing? We're not even exchanging essential liberty for security; we are exchanging our essential liberties for security theater.
I think you misunderstand what the 10, 50, and 100 year storms refer to.
I've seen them for sale. >_>
The sort of person who continues to believe these things work is the sort of person who believes that magnet motors can deliver "free" power.
Are you suggesting that doppler doesn't work for measuring vehicle speeds, with a lower (by many orders of magnitude) velocity relative to the observer? See: RADAR gun
Well, duh!
> As for power, what they hell do they need a quad-core i5 that they can't do with an ARM processor?
minecraft, wow, starcraft, final fantasy, elder scrolls (soon), etc.
nonlinear video editing (you'd be surprised how many kids are amateur videographers)
3D modeling (again, you'd be surprised how many kids. . . )
Not all kids are dumb kids who can barely figure out how to open Reader Rabbit apps.