I may sound like the grumpy old "told-you-so" guy on this one, but who in their right mind would trust the cloud with their important data?
When these days computers and storage are so cheap, why does anyone bother with cloud storage, with all the complexity, reliability, security and privacy issues that it entails?
Seriously, get down to Earth! The cloud is overrated. I will go as far as to claim that the cloud is nothing more than the uber-buzzword of 2008.
Providing (almost) NVidia-like video card performance combined with (almost) Intel-like openness is one great thing AMD is doing right now. It's too bad that not enough pepole care about the openness to make it matter.
One dominant software manufacturer? No big deal, the free software community will develop better software. One dominant hardware manufacturer? Now that's scary.
Although VIA will still be developing chipsets for integrated motherboards featuring the Nano CPU, but will no longer produce chipsets for Intel and AMD CPUs.
Although this contradicts the headline directly, but it is also gramatically incorrect.
In any case, if improving your brain is the only reason you would exercise, you probably wouldn't enjoy it that much anyways.
Actually, exercising gives the geek brain one thing it needs - time during which the brain does not have to be divided between n tasks. This time can be used to give the geek brain some rest, or to pay undivided attention to something useful - such as a podcast or an audiobook. Either, I think, can be considered "improving your brain".
1) A company that is the only one with access to the code and has a direct business interest to say that the code is good, and nobody can argue with them
2) A community where any programmer with no business interest in anything at all can identify, explain, and show in code why some specific part of that code is bad
Closed code can hide pretty much anything for decades. With open code, there's always the chance of somebody finding the bullshit and crying out loudly on their blog. In the case of specific strange behavior, as in TFA, fiding that bad code becomes very easy when many eyes start looking in the same specific direction.
And I bet you're going to tell us next that DRM isn't for our own good and is just a way for conglomerates to steal more of our money with little effort done on their part, just like car manufacturers are telling you that driving an SUV is good for your safety while they make them with cheap truck chassis that are less maneuverable and do not reduce the impact of a collision nearly as much as a car chassis. Hah!
Well, I'm using Linux, and as far as I know, the video card does absolutely nothing (well, maybe scaling). What acceleration are you talking about? I have the exact same CPU by the way, and it works fine on most things. But try something _really_ high bitrate - like 5 GB for 30 minutes or something - and see what happens. It stutters, but only slightly, so if the other core was actually doing something to help, it would be fine.
I absolutely agree with you. I did not (intend to) claim otherwise. I was just curious about the legal side of the question, and I wanted to ignore the moral one.
What _exactly_ is wrong with a ripoff from a _legal_ (not moral) point of view? Can Facebook claim copyright infringement?? Is there a law against "doing more or less the same thing independently"? If there is, I'm scared.
Most people who obtain laptops for the first time will immediately buy a cheap shitty mouse and never use the touchpad again, whether it's a good one or not. That's one more reason why mice are here to stay: don't underestimate the importance of habit.
What such people will never find out is that a touchpad can actually be isgnificantly more comfortable over many hours of use, because the wrist is stressed much less. All movements can be done with a single finger, and if your finger gets tired, you have a few spares. A touchpad is also generally lower than a mouse, so you can rest your wrist while operating the touchpad. Less RSI (repetative strain injury)!
Once I was too lazy to go buy a mouse and I beat Warcraft 3 + Frozen Throne with just the touchpad of my Dell Latitude D800. My hands were not tired even after the rather brutal Warcraft 3 final battle, so I did test my theory:)
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
I'll build my own cloud! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget about the cloud!
I may sound like the grumpy old "told-you-so" guy on this one, but who in their right mind would trust the cloud with their important data?
When these days computers and storage are so cheap, why does anyone bother with cloud storage, with all the complexity, reliability, security and privacy issues that it entails?
Seriously, get down to Earth! The cloud is overrated. I will go as far as to claim that the cloud is nothing more than the uber-buzzword of 2008.
Providing (almost) NVidia-like video card performance combined with (almost) Intel-like openness is one great thing AMD is doing right now. It's too bad that not enough pepole care about the openness to make it matter.
One dominant software manufacturer? No big deal, the free software community will develop better software. One dominant hardware manufacturer? Now that's scary.
Although VIA will still be developing chipsets for integrated motherboards featuring the Nano CPU, but will no longer produce chipsets for Intel and AMD CPUs.
Although this contradicts the headline directly, but it is also gramatically incorrect.
Dare to suggest a dumber headline then?
This is good news, reported in a good story, but the headline must be the single dubmest headline. Ever. Not only on Slashdot, mind you. Ever.
In any case, if improving your brain is the only reason you would exercise, you probably wouldn't enjoy it that much anyways.
Actually, exercising gives the geek brain one thing it needs - time during which the brain does not have to be divided between n tasks. This time can be used to give the geek brain some rest, or to pay undivided attention to something useful - such as a podcast or an audiobook. Either, I think, can be considered "improving your brain".
Sure, but who are you going to trust?
1) A company that is the only one with access to the code and has a direct business interest to say that the code is good, and nobody can argue with them
2) A community where any programmer with no business interest in anything at all can identify, explain, and show in code why some specific part of that code is bad
Closed code can hide pretty much anything for decades. With open code, there's always the chance of somebody finding the bullshit and crying out loudly on their blog. In the case of specific strange behavior, as in TFA, fiding that bad code becomes very easy when many eyes start looking in the same specific direction.
I'm sorry, but Insightful you are not.
Get your arse to Mars.
There, fixed it for you.
And I bet you're going to tell us next that DRM isn't for our own good and is just a way for conglomerates to steal more of our money with little effort done on their part, just like car manufacturers are telling you that driving an SUV is good for your safety while they make them with cheap truck chassis that are less maneuverable and do not reduce the impact of a collision nearly as much as a car chassis. Hah!
Yeah, I mean imagine running Crysis on that.
Well, I'm using Linux, and as far as I know, the video card does absolutely nothing (well, maybe scaling). What acceleration are you talking about? I have the exact same CPU by the way, and it works fine on most things. But try something _really_ high bitrate - like 5 GB for 30 minutes or something - and see what happens. It stutters, but only slightly, so if the other core was actually doing something to help, it would be fine.
Is there anything out there that can play a high-bitrate obese .mkv Blueray backup rip efficiently on 2 or 4 cores?
We'll let the omniscient Slashdot decide that one. Besides, my warranty must have expired by now.
Indeed it does not. One can only get a person through the OEM channels.
I absolutely agree with you. I did not (intend to) claim otherwise. I was just curious about the legal side of the question, and I wanted to ignore the moral one.
So we have water and lime, and ice of course. Pour in a few thousand tons of cachasa and we'll have a gigantic caipirinha coctail. Awesome!
What _exactly_ is wrong with a ripoff from a _legal_ (not moral) point of view? Can Facebook claim copyright infringement?? Is there a law against "doing more or less the same thing independently"? If there is, I'm scared.
Most people who obtain laptops for the first time will immediately buy a cheap shitty mouse and never use the touchpad again, whether it's a good one or not. That's one more reason why mice are here to stay: don't underestimate the importance of habit.
:)
What such people will never find out is that a touchpad can actually be isgnificantly more comfortable over many hours of use, because the wrist is stressed much less. All movements can be done with a single finger, and if your finger gets tired, you have a few spares. A touchpad is also generally lower than a mouse, so you can rest your wrist while operating the touchpad. Less RSI (repetative strain injury)!
Once I was too lazy to go buy a mouse and I beat Warcraft 3 + Frozen Throne with just the touchpad of my Dell Latitude D800. My hands were not tired even after the rather brutal Warcraft 3 final battle, so I did test my theory
Safari has gone through a couple *.*# and a whole #.0 in the last few months for Mac, Win and Mobile...
And Internet Explorer is still going through lots of *&^%$#@!
WebKit is open source, but is Safari? One is the engine, the other is the browser using that engine. Is Safari itself open source too?
Who the hell gave the RIAA mod points of all things?
Who the hell modded you funny of all things?