Why is everything called cloud these days? Yet another du jour buzzword. Is this really justified here?
Given that making effective use of these cores would call for engineering code to work with any number of cores, as opposed to just 2, 4, or 8, then yes it is semi-justified, especially if aimed at the server market. I do say 'semi', though, because I partially agree with you about its silliness.
Yeah, but if you have to read literally daily stories about one of those products, no matter how trivial (in this case, a non-news item based on rumour, that even if it was true, tells us nothing other than the bleeding obvious that they are developing new products), you might get annoyed, or simply wonder why such disproportionate advertising was being given to them.
Yeah, I know, I was one of the people bitching about the constant Mozilla posts on Slashdot many moons ago. My bitching didn't work.
I can see it now: "New Opera user agent string spotting in field testing!" Is that news, do you think?
Get enough Opera enthusiasts actively perusing the site and, sorry to tell you this, but yes, front-page material. Slashdot runs on ad-views. That's why we also were presented with stories about installing Linux on a dead badger, fictional tales of Microsoft throwing Sony out of a trade show, and Ask Slashdot articles for people who don't know how to use Google. You're not going to like hearing this, but there are a number of people on this site interested in what Apple's going to do next. Same is true for anything Google does and anything Microsoft does. (Not sure why marketshare has anything to do with that, even people who hate Microsoft post in Microsoft threads.)
I'll summarize my point for you. Bitching doesn't discourage Slashdot from posting the stories. Meanwhile, you're being fed stories you care about that others don't. Life's unfair. Boo hoo.
I'm the CTO of a small software company. My board can, and often does, call me at all hours of the day and night. I find myself spending quite a few Sundays or Saturday nights flying out early to meet with the board prior to important 3rd party meetings, I don't get paid extra for this, but I certainly considered this possibility before accepting the position and I made sure that my compensation package reflected these 'hardships.'
Is your income/lifestyle comparable to the average IT guy? Just curious. Back in my 'office drone' days one I got into a shouty match with one of my coworkers. One of the higher-ups had a private chat with me and I explained that the other person started yelling and that I wasn't going to tolerate that crap. So the higher-up told me this story about how he worked at a big company you've heard of and how their semi-famous CEO would stand an inch or two from your face and yell at you at full volume. This guy was blissfully unaware that the tolerance for that sort of abuse was proportional to the amount you paid for your car.
I don't mean to cause any offense, but the more you stand to gain from the success of a company, the less of a hardship coming in on a Sunday is. Maybe I've just got the wrong image in my head, but any 'Chief' in a company is unlikely to be living paycheck to paycheck.
FFS - we do expect certain standards here. And if that's too much to ask, at least a little self-respect from Taco. Fanboism is one thing, but posting this on main page?
Slashdot is ad-driven. Bitching about a story is supporting the story. Ask where it's helpful to ask instead of asking where the opposite of what you want will happen. There are far too many stories about Google here for you to not understand how this works.
Oh, boo hoo. It's Slashdot's fault you couldn't scroll past the story instead of spending 20 seconds plus CAPTCHA to say you don't care. I don't like FireFox, Windows 7, or Google, so I'm going to go into their threads and post that I don't care and get modded up for it.
Microsoft, with stable income from Windows and Office, tries to diversify with the XBOX and Zune and that makes them reactionary? Why isn't Apple and Sony, then?
What website do you expect to give you more than a 30Mbps connection?!
Website(s) plural. The neat thing about the net is you can have mulitple connections going, which is extra neat if you have more than one computer. Me personally, I'd use that to sync with the server at work so I have a bunch of stuff at home to access. Fun stuff.
Frankly, though, I'm not sure why you're asking. "You're paying for a really fast connection, but couldn't you just settle for half of it?" How would you respond to somebody suggesting you disable one of your cores?
I keep submitting this story called "How Incredibly Amazing is Apple?" With nothing but the link to the Apple Store copied and pasted 50 times over, but for whatever reason the Mods just won't post it.
Knowing selling the Navy computer components you KNOW would fail, to me, would fall into "giving aid to the enemy"
Unless he acquired chips specifically designed to fail in combat, no, it's just a ripoff.
We could argue intention/motivation, but a crime is a crime, regardless what you meant.
The consequences are measured by motivation. Trust me, you do not want the definition of treason to get fuzzy, unless you want to fear what you post on public forums.
Weren't touch-screens the latest rage because.. you didn't have to.. push... buttons?
No. They're the 'latest rage' because you can have a simplified and optimized interface that changes based on the application.
Honestly dude, I'm not sure why you even asked that. "This button push is too much!" Seriously, have you not seen the progression of cell phones in the last 5 years?
My current wristwatch has been happily chugging away telling time since before any cell phone ever existed and will still be chugging along quite possibly when something else comes along to displace the cell phone.
The death of quality speciality devices is a bit premature at this point.
This is also true of good cameras and mp3/media players.
So would you say that vinyl and casette tapes are dead?
At least pocket watches kept the time even if you were out of cell service.
In recent years I've had far better luck with phones keeping time than watches. My watches always drift a bit and thanks to the Bush administration daylight savings time has always made my phones a better time piece than watches in terms of accuracy.
But that's not to say I disagree with your sentiment. If anything, I see watches complimenting phones instead of being replaced by them. They're already starting to trickle out, but I hope one day in an ubiquitous fashion that watches become a display piece for phones. I'd like my watch to talk to my phone, tell me who's calling, battery life, how long I've been on, and use it to hang up and/or silence the phone. Why? I use the headphones that came with my phone and it stays in my pocket. These options on my wrist would be very helpful. A relatively pain-free watch that did this would make me shake loose some change for it. But I am asking an awful lot of a watch-sized battery so I'm not holding my breath.
Anyway, I agree, phones won't replace watches. But I'll tell you this, my phones have replaced my alarm clock. I haven't had an alarm clock since 2004. My Nokia 3650, Treo, and iPhone have all had decent and reliable alarm support that's easy to input and they all follow rules about what days of the week to go off. They all earned bonus points, too, for allowing me to set an alarm for a particular day in the future. If I know that I have to work on Sunday, for example, I can set my phone's alarm right when I get the news and feel secure that it'll go off. My phones survive power outages and don't even need to be set, even when daylight savings time comes along. (Although my Treo did require a reboot... lame.) My iPhone has taken this a step further. Along with setting an alarm, I can also set a countdown timer. So on weekends I go to bed when I like, but use the timer to say "I want nine hours of sleep", and it works without fail. They also all have decent snooze options and I can put in a message like "You've got a meeting first thing..." so I can start the day a little earlier.
My iPhone did replace one function normally reserved for my watch, though. I used to use my watch's countdown timer to tell me when the laundry's done. The iPhone's countdown timer has an easier-to-use interface so it won. Everybody has their own way of doing things, but I could honestly see the alarm clock industry taking a major dive in the coming decade. Mobile devices are gaining hold and frankly it's not like alarm clocks are adding much to the mix other than silly interfaces.
Anyway, I've made my point, but I'll diverge a little bit towards the main spirit of the thread. My phone replacing devices? Actually, yeah, my phone has definitely shoved a couple of devices over a bit. My digital camera, which takes much better photos than any of the phones I have, has gotten much less usage. The fun silly pictures I take are generally good enough, and I can e-mail them or upload them to Facebook straight away. In most cases, those photos would not have existed otherwise. It's not like I'd ever carry a digital camera around all the time, even a small one. I value my pocket space. Sharing the photos on-line with my friends has proven to be more valuable in a lot of cases than the number of megapixels. I still have my camera, it goes with me when I go to Universal Studios or something, but it does not go to a restaurant with me when my nephew's making funny faces.
My phone also replaced my music player and it's slowly eating away at the Rhapsody service on my computer. I wouldn't normally have expected that, but the button on the headphones to play/pause/advance the music has made it easier to control the music and I'm not chained as severely to my desk. I'm also not using my laptop as much because my email notification's coming through the headphones and causing the phone to vibrate. That's probably
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This technology is like all others - it won't stop an offended MicroSoftie from feeding the trolls.
It also won't stop non-MS-fans who just think the comment was too dumb to even be used on SNL.
Why Nintendo does not even use upscaling on the Wii in any of the emulated games is beyound me.
Actually they do on the N64 games.
So you're B4, then?
I am 1D-10-T. Legend has it I was named after one of America's most notable Kings.
Why is everything called cloud these days? Yet another du jour buzzword. Is this really justified here?
Given that making effective use of these cores would call for engineering code to work with any number of cores, as opposed to just 2, 4, or 8, then yes it is semi-justified, especially if aimed at the server market. I do say 'semi', though, because I partially agree with you about its silliness.
Intel an American company, with the American economy in the shape it's in, I am offended at the codename Bangalore.
As the last remaining operational Soong type android, I am offended by the name Bang-A-Lore.
It's really hard to know which one should take precedence.
Neither should. Computing resources are plentiful and diversity is good.
Yeah, but if you have to read literally daily stories about one of those products, no matter how trivial (in this case, a non-news item based on rumour, that even if it was true, tells us nothing other than the bleeding obvious that they are developing new products), you might get annoyed, or simply wonder why such disproportionate advertising was being given to them.
Yeah, I know, I was one of the people bitching about the constant Mozilla posts on Slashdot many moons ago. My bitching didn't work.
I can see it now: "New Opera user agent string spotting in field testing!" Is that news, do you think?
Get enough Opera enthusiasts actively perusing the site and, sorry to tell you this, but yes, front-page material. Slashdot runs on ad-views. That's why we also were presented with stories about installing Linux on a dead badger, fictional tales of Microsoft throwing Sony out of a trade show, and Ask Slashdot articles for people who don't know how to use Google. You're not going to like hearing this, but there are a number of people on this site interested in what Apple's going to do next. Same is true for anything Google does and anything Microsoft does. (Not sure why marketshare has anything to do with that, even people who hate Microsoft post in Microsoft threads.)
I'll summarize my point for you. Bitching doesn't discourage Slashdot from posting the stories. Meanwhile, you're being fed stories you care about that others don't. Life's unfair. Boo hoo.
I'm the CTO of a small software company. My board can, and often does, call me at all hours of the day and night. I find myself spending quite a few Sundays or Saturday nights flying out early to meet with the board prior to important 3rd party meetings, I don't get paid extra for this, but I certainly considered this possibility before accepting the position and I made sure that my compensation package reflected these 'hardships.'
Is your income/lifestyle comparable to the average IT guy? Just curious. Back in my 'office drone' days one I got into a shouty match with one of my coworkers. One of the higher-ups had a private chat with me and I explained that the other person started yelling and that I wasn't going to tolerate that crap. So the higher-up told me this story about how he worked at a big company you've heard of and how their semi-famous CEO would stand an inch or two from your face and yell at you at full volume. This guy was blissfully unaware that the tolerance for that sort of abuse was proportional to the amount you paid for your car.
I don't mean to cause any offense, but the more you stand to gain from the success of a company, the less of a hardship coming in on a Sunday is. Maybe I've just got the wrong image in my head, but any 'Chief' in a company is unlikely to be living paycheck to paycheck.
FFS - we do expect certain standards here. And if that's too much to ask, at least a little self-respect from Taco. Fanboism is one thing, but posting this on main page?
Slashdot is ad-driven. Bitching about a story is supporting the story. Ask where it's helpful to ask instead of asking where the opposite of what you want will happen. There are far too many stories about Google here for you to not understand how this works.
who cares?
I sure as fuck don't.
Oh, boo hoo. It's Slashdot's fault you couldn't scroll past the story instead of spending 20 seconds plus CAPTCHA to say you don't care. I don't like FireFox, Windows 7, or Google, so I'm going to go into their threads and post that I don't care and get modded up for it.
The question is WHY THE FUCK DID IT MAKE SLASHDOT?
Numerous people on this site have loudly proclaimed "Alternatives are great!!!" and have had their comments modded up for it.
Microsoft, with stable income from Windows and Office, tries to diversify with the XBOX and Zune and that makes them reactionary? Why isn't Apple and Sony, then?
Silly question: Why letter size? Are current books not big enough for you?
What website do you expect to give you more than a 30Mbps connection?!
Website(s) plural. The neat thing about the net is you can have mulitple connections going, which is extra neat if you have more than one computer. Me personally, I'd use that to sync with the server at work so I have a bunch of stuff at home to access. Fun stuff.
Frankly, though, I'm not sure why you're asking. "You're paying for a really fast connection, but couldn't you just settle for half of it?" How would you respond to somebody suggesting you disable one of your cores?
I keep submitting this story called "How Incredibly Amazing is Apple?" With nothing but the link to the Apple Store copied and pasted 50 times over, but for whatever reason the Mods just won't post it.
What gives?
Just mention Firefox somewhere.
Knowing selling the Navy computer components you KNOW would fail, to me, would fall into "giving aid to the enemy"
Unless he acquired chips specifically designed to fail in combat, no, it's just a ripoff.
We could argue intention/motivation, but a crime is a crime, regardless what you meant.
The consequences are measured by motivation. Trust me, you do not want the definition of treason to get fuzzy, unless you want to fear what you post on public forums.
Weren't touch-screens the latest rage because.. you didn't have to.. push... buttons?
No. They're the 'latest rage' because you can have a simplified and optimized interface that changes based on the application.
Honestly dude, I'm not sure why you even asked that. "This button push is too much!" Seriously, have you not seen the progression of cell phones in the last 5 years?
wow Big Blue actually does things?
...said the guy trying to get a first post on Slashdot.
My current wristwatch has been happily chugging away telling time since before any cell phone ever existed and will still be chugging along quite possibly when something else comes along to displace the cell phone.
The death of quality speciality devices is a bit premature at this point.
This is also true of good cameras and mp3/media players.
So would you say that vinyl and casette tapes are dead?
I have yet to see a phone that can take anywhere near as good a picture as some of the most basic point and shoot cameras.
A noisy 640 x 480 picture is worth a lot more than a picture that never existed because somebody didn't have their P&S camera with them.
At least pocket watches kept the time even if you were out of cell service.
In recent years I've had far better luck with phones keeping time than watches. My watches always drift a bit and thanks to the Bush administration daylight savings time has always made my phones a better time piece than watches in terms of accuracy.
But that's not to say I disagree with your sentiment. If anything, I see watches complimenting phones instead of being replaced by them. They're already starting to trickle out, but I hope one day in an ubiquitous fashion that watches become a display piece for phones. I'd like my watch to talk to my phone, tell me who's calling, battery life, how long I've been on, and use it to hang up and/or silence the phone. Why? I use the headphones that came with my phone and it stays in my pocket. These options on my wrist would be very helpful. A relatively pain-free watch that did this would make me shake loose some change for it. But I am asking an awful lot of a watch-sized battery so I'm not holding my breath.
Anyway, I agree, phones won't replace watches. But I'll tell you this, my phones have replaced my alarm clock. I haven't had an alarm clock since 2004. My Nokia 3650, Treo, and iPhone have all had decent and reliable alarm support that's easy to input and they all follow rules about what days of the week to go off. They all earned bonus points, too, for allowing me to set an alarm for a particular day in the future. If I know that I have to work on Sunday, for example, I can set my phone's alarm right when I get the news and feel secure that it'll go off. My phones survive power outages and don't even need to be set, even when daylight savings time comes along. (Although my Treo did require a reboot... lame.) My iPhone has taken this a step further. Along with setting an alarm, I can also set a countdown timer. So on weekends I go to bed when I like, but use the timer to say "I want nine hours of sleep", and it works without fail. They also all have decent snooze options and I can put in a message like "You've got a meeting first thing..." so I can start the day a little earlier.
My iPhone did replace one function normally reserved for my watch, though. I used to use my watch's countdown timer to tell me when the laundry's done. The iPhone's countdown timer has an easier-to-use interface so it won. Everybody has their own way of doing things, but I could honestly see the alarm clock industry taking a major dive in the coming decade. Mobile devices are gaining hold and frankly it's not like alarm clocks are adding much to the mix other than silly interfaces.
Anyway, I've made my point, but I'll diverge a little bit towards the main spirit of the thread. My phone replacing devices? Actually, yeah, my phone has definitely shoved a couple of devices over a bit. My digital camera, which takes much better photos than any of the phones I have, has gotten much less usage. The fun silly pictures I take are generally good enough, and I can e-mail them or upload them to Facebook straight away. In most cases, those photos would not have existed otherwise. It's not like I'd ever carry a digital camera around all the time, even a small one. I value my pocket space. Sharing the photos on-line with my friends has proven to be more valuable in a lot of cases than the number of megapixels. I still have my camera, it goes with me when I go to Universal Studios or something, but it does not go to a restaurant with me when my nephew's making funny faces.
My phone also replaced my music player and it's slowly eating away at the Rhapsody service on my computer. I wouldn't normally have expected that, but the button on the headphones to play/pause/advance the music has made it easier to control the music and I'm not chained as severely to my desk. I'm also not using my laptop as much because my email notification's coming through the headphones and causing the phone to vibrate. That's probably
What the developers do not get is that apple's approval process drives the store. Exclusivity adds value, and makes customers like the store more.
As if the masses have the slightest idea of the store's restrictions.
So basically it sounds like everything will be stored on Google's servers in some way to me. So everything I do they will know.
I hear ya. I wish Google would make a phone that's just a phone!
Does anybody know why cats and not dogs or hamsters?
Scientists don't find computer hardware amazing until it doesn't do what they tell it.
What made the original star wars great was the animitronics for all the characters instead of jar jar binks super imposed cartoon characters.
What made JarJar obnoxious was not how his image was created for the film. That's like blaming YouTube for the abundance of noisy idiots on-line.