I second the parent poster, it seems to be a non-issue. Maybe people in Africa just do not use Wikipedia that frequently, or use the English version or are just not inclined to contribute.
And if you look here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/, the numbers of wikipedia articles is absolutely not proportional to the number of users of a specific language, meaning that Wikipedia is used differently over the world.
For example, the Polish version has about double the amount of articles as the Spanish version, although Spanish is arguably used and spoken by far more people all over the world. Same thing with Esperanto and Arabic.
According to TFA, they streamed five HD files to five different XBox 360 extenders, but the entire network load is only around 20-25 Mbps? Which means one of those HD streams is only around 4-5 Mbps? Seems a bit low for me....
Anyway, if one HD stream is around 20 Mbps (sounds more realistically), it would still be feasible to stream it wirelessly, although I would agree that depending on the quality of your wireless connection it could be a bit shaky, so that a wired connection is preferable.
But I think Intel and Microsoft saying "HD should be wired" has more to do with the mandatory HDCP copy protection if you use HDMI cables....
Well, I RTFA and for me it looks like he is taking about the near future (emphasis mine):
But especially in the client space, we have to be very careful with overloading the market with a number of cores and see what is useful. I believe '2' is a good number. '4' will be an interesting number for the high-end. Will we see eight cores in the client in the next two years? If someone chooses to do that, engineering-wise that is possible. But I doubt this is something the market needs.
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I think that it will be two or three years until you are going to see four cores entering the mainstream.
So according to him, for the next few years anything more than four cores will not be mainstream. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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I second the parent poster, it seems to be a non-issue. Maybe people in Africa just do not use Wikipedia that frequently, or use the English version or are just not inclined to contribute.
/ , the numbers of wikipedia articles is absolutely not proportional to the number of users of a specific language, meaning that Wikipedia is used differently over the world.
And if you look here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
For example, the Polish version has about double the amount of articles as the Spanish version, although Spanish is arguably used and spoken by far more people all over the world. Same thing with Esperanto and Arabic.
According to TFA, they streamed five HD files to five different XBox 360 extenders, but the entire network load is only around 20-25 Mbps? Which means one of those HD streams is only around 4-5 Mbps? Seems a bit low for me....
Anyway, if one HD stream is around 20 Mbps (sounds more realistically), it would still be feasible to stream it wirelessly, although I would agree that depending on the quality of your wireless connection it could be a bit shaky, so that a wired connection is preferable.
But I think Intel and Microsoft saying "HD should be wired" has more to do with the mandatory HDCP copy protection if you use HDMI cables....
that I am reading this article on my laptop... in my bed.... while working. Well, no girlfriend here to piss off, but this is slashdot, after all ;)
Whats next? An extension to Google News, where nobody reads the articles, but everybody stays for the discussion? I smell a pattern here ;-)
Well, I RTFA and for me it looks like he is taking about the near future (emphasis mine):
But especially in the client space, we have to be very careful with overloading the market with a number of cores and see what is useful. I believe '2' is a good number. '4' will be an interesting number for the high-end. Will we see eight cores in the client in the next two years? If someone chooses to do that, engineering-wise that is possible. But I doubt this is something the market needs.
and
I think that it will be two or three years until you are going to see four cores entering the mainstream.
So according to him, for the next few years anything more than four cores will not be mainstream. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.