Fact is that with a choice between the person who went to court for X and was found not guilty, and the person who didn't, the vast majority of companies would pick the person who didn't, even if they were not as suitable for the job as the person who did.
A workaround would be that any defendant found not guilty could request reasonable anonymisation of the court papers presented to the internet. The court proceedings would be available, but an innocent person's life would not be ruined because of the false accusation / poor police work / etc.
The Atom has nothing to do with the P4 though. Completely different designs.
The only characteristic in common is the low IPC. I wonder if a 1.6GHz Atom would beat a 1.6GHz P4, that would be an interesting test, for a minute. A 1.6GHz P4 was my work computer, in 2001.
Intel announced their dual-core Atom to come out soon, the 330. Shame they're pairing it with the 945 chipset again. What a waste of time.
Actually I wouldn't mind hacking some code in the pub on one of these if I was waiting for a mate, or just trying not to look like the lone man drinking alone:) That's actually a lot more lightweight than most desktop apps though.
I'm still waiting for an nVidia Tegra based nettop actually. The top of the line is surely more than fast enough for typical use, but otherwise far cheaper to integrate, and uses far less power.
There are mini-ITX 780G boards coming, the comments on the linked article actually mention some.
Of course in the netbook the chipset used consumed about 5.5W IIRC, not 22W. The netbook Atom eats 2.5W I think. That's 8W in total. The article's Athlon 64 2000+ eats 8W on its own, and the chipset will eat some more.
However it does show that AMD could have a viable competitor if they spent some time creating a platform.
Yes, because it's a full function computer that requires a full-sized keyboard, with all the function keys.
Apart from the ASD.. line being a bit too far to the left, the keyboard looks ideally suited for such a device. The alpha keys are larger to make typing easier, at the cost of the other keys.
Who uses caps lock apart from people who have remapped it to control?
Even then when you compare with Finland or Sweden, which have a similar population density, the US compares badly. Saying that the US is larger isn't a worthwhile response, the $/potential customer is the same regardless of the scale of the operation. It's just that clearly one single company for the US is far worse than the dozens across Europe, and there isn't real competition or universal service requirements.
Then again the UK is pretty dire in my opinion, following the US model of cheap crappy DSL and lacking upstream bandwidth, rather than the Swedish model of fast fibre to the home. Virgin Media like to claim they're fibre to the cabinet, but it's still arse-slow on DSL if you're unfortunate to be stuck with them.
If was a 32 core or 16 core SPECJBB benchmark from Sun in the past week or two.
All I found now was an article at IBM putting it down. But then again, IBM would!
Still, doesn't negate the fact that Intel is faster in single CPU areas right now, nor that AMD is better at scaling to 4 or more CPUs. Intel has QPI to fix their issues, AMD supposedly has IPC and clock improvements coming with Deneb. It's all good for the consumer in the end.
Agreed. At least VIA is doing something interesting in this area, although it is seeming to take ages from my point of view. Nano + VX800U would be a great netbook combination (clearly not the 1.8GHz Nano which is rather warm, but the power consumption drops off drastically at 1.6GHz and 1.3GHz).
Atom doesn't interest me because Intel are artificially limiting its capabilities in what system makers can include, and the chipset is a hulking beast on top.
Score 4: Insightful for basically saying that MobileMe isn't suitable for business use. I get -1: Troll for dissing Windows Mobile and not getting excited by an accelerometer rotating the display. What's going on with Slashdot?
Anyway, no shit sherlock re MobileMe's unsuitability for business use.
Why wouldn't you use the Exchange capability, presuming the phone had passed your companies compliance testing to be offered as an alternative to a Blackberry?
It's not like MobileMe is mandatory. It's an option, for consumers. It's push email for consumers, which is a major step forward for them.
At least remote wipe on an iPhone will wipe all the on-board memory of that proprietary data. Windows Mobile remote wipe? What, your data was on a memory card, and that card was removed from the device? Oh no!
Yay, it can do what other smartphones have been doing for years.
Android is like Slashdot... bringing you yesterday's stuff, today!
However I hope that it is good and hence successful, because nothing could be better than getting rid of the travesty of a mobile operating system that is Windows Mobile.
I still think that everyone is fighting around in a 2007-esque mobile phone marketplace, whilst Apple is providing a 2008-esque experience (with functionality holes, yes, but overall).
"lapped"... it's about 20% faster clock for clock, and the top clocks are about 20% higher, so that's about 44% faster at the most, and certainly not if you start scaling to multiple CPUs where AMD is still leading (check out the 4P 16C benchmarks for AMD against Intel).
AMD now have an in-house chipset maker who are making some very well received and functional chipsets (AMD 790GX for example), have improved Linux support incredibly (Day 1 Linux Support for HD4000 series graphics cards, drivers were on the shipped CD).
I think you are seeing the natural integration difficulties in 2007 and this year as a long-term issue, whereas it is clearly a short-term issue. Barcelona was flawed even before the acquisition, R600 was an underperformer before it as well. RV770 and the fixed Phenoms are good options now, and there are good vibes for the coming year as well.
Err, where did you get the idea that this killed iPhones?
It's a list of applications that the iPhone shouldn't run because they're malicious. There's nothing about killing iPhones remotely here.
Of course, the ITWire story itself is written with so much hyperbole and bullshit and speculation it is easy to get caught up in it and lose sight of the simple explanation. Apple run an application store and thus have some responsibility over the contents on that store. If they let some bad software on by accident, they need a way to ensure that end users can't run it.
All the rest is conspiracy theory non-story verbal wankery.
This is a sensible choice for VIA, for the reasons they have given. It's been on the table for quite some time I imagine.
However a big thanks have to go out for them for their initial support of the AMD Athlon platform back in the day. Even if they had chipset problems since then...
Now, however, they are quite a bit behind in terms of chipsets for desktop systems.
I'd like to see a Nano with built-in chipset (memory controller, GPU at least) or even a SoC (Nano, Memory Controller, GPU, USB, Ethernet, SATA, Audio,...) in the future, and now they can allocate resources to achieve this.
Have you seen the average computer or phone user? How would you rate their awareness of computing device security? Now how about an application with a subtle malicious payload inside, would you expect them to find that? Would you expect to find that yourself?
Yes, Apple is your mother, and for 99% of iPhone users that is the desirable action. Hardly anybody these days bothers to educate themselves on proper responsible computing device operation, and in such a situation other entities have to take responsibility to stop things turning horrible. God forbid people download a "fun game involving shooting spam", and the application sends a spam email over whatever network you are on every time you shoot down a tin of spam...
Personally, for the problem the poster has, I'd just hit the pause button on the media player. Muting audio automatically is all very good but annoying if the video keeps playing and you lose track of where you are, so you definitely want to pause it. PC audio out of desktop speakers which you can hear quite well despite wearing a phone headset for the phone calls.
It's probably in the terms and conditions of ownership, and thus every owner has given permission already.
It's not like Apple is collecting user information here. It's a HTTP GET as far as I can tell, with no information being supplied to Apple, just a list of applications that are bad and that the user shouldn't run for their own protection.
Going beyond this into the realm of assuming that apple are collecting user data, disabling applications they just don't like, etc, is stupidity on the level of people who believe in conspiracy theories.
What? A simple HTTP GET to get a list of applications which can't have access to Core Location services? The simplest explanation is that it will protect user's privacy if an application includes something that gives away this information, and Apple included this as a means to stop rogue apps.
It's not as if it is sending a list of applications back, or other private information. Of course the articles and a lot of people are assuming that it does this and then getting all frothy and righteous about it.
It clearly means any environment which results in a compilation stage within the browser:
* Java - JIT *.NET - JIT * JavaScript - JIT on some browsers now
Why? Because they compile into executable code within a browser. Clearly the compiler/JIT/browser should sandbox these. But to compile code into memory, you need to disabled the NX bit check... that's one security mechanism bypassed. And I presume that address randomisation doesn't work for these JITs either. Yet.
Everyone else has said that it's not worth going to a game company, and getting VC would be incredibly difficult.
So that limits the game idea to yourself and maybe your friends (testing, level design, maybe even graphics, etc).
Can your game be implemented on the iPhone, or does it require half a keyboard? If it will run on the iPhone, then write it for the iPhone, because you don't need to worry about distribution, and there is a centralised App Store. If it's a good game then you have a market in the millions (tens of millions with the iPod Touch) even if you have to sell the game for $4.99 to get attention. The iPhone's meant to be a simple development platform as well, so that will help you.
If you have to write a desktop game, then it will be difficult on your own. Can you make it into an online game or MMORPRPOGHGRP? Runescape had success with that idea, using Java. Maybe just getting some good basic game demos done online is best, and then demonstrating them to companies if you just want a job...
What's a credit score? It's a score about how much you love being in debt, you get in debt and pay to get more debt and pay on time to get even more debt, etc. How is that relevant to you being able to get a job? It's beyond me.
It's a score about how often you miss payments, default on debt, etc, as well. You can be in a lot of debt but have a lot of collateral (house) and a good payment history, and thus have a good credit record. Sadly the credit agencies like to distill that down into a single number which is pretty meaningless, but decent loan processors, etc, will actually analyse your per-credit-item history to make a decision.
If you're in significant debt, then you might not be the best person to hire in a situation which involves money or expensive systems. For a factory worker or postman or store worker it is an irrelevance of course.
You're thinking in a mindset where there are test systems available.
This is a 60s or 70s government IT system that was probably the low-ball bid back then as well! It probably is its own test system, maybe overnight once a week or however it is scheduled.
It's clearly 1960s and 1970s code. It probably has the pay rates hard-coded in, rather than using a database, because back then memory was expensive and logic had to be compact.
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I think you missed the entire point of his post.
Fact is that with a choice between the person who went to court for X and was found not guilty, and the person who didn't, the vast majority of companies would pick the person who didn't, even if they were not as suitable for the job as the person who did.
A workaround would be that any defendant found not guilty could request reasonable anonymisation of the court papers presented to the internet. The court proceedings would be available, but an innocent person's life would not be ruined because of the false accusation / poor police work / etc.
The Atom has nothing to do with the P4 though. Completely different designs.
The only characteristic in common is the low IPC. I wonder if a 1.6GHz Atom would beat a 1.6GHz P4, that would be an interesting test, for a minute. A 1.6GHz P4 was my work computer, in 2001.
Intel announced their dual-core Atom to come out soon, the 330. Shame they're pairing it with the 945 chipset again. What a waste of time.
Preach it.
Actually I wouldn't mind hacking some code in the pub on one of these if I was waiting for a mate, or just trying not to look like the lone man drinking alone :) That's actually a lot more lightweight than most desktop apps though.
I'm still waiting for an nVidia Tegra based nettop actually. The top of the line is surely more than fast enough for typical use, but otherwise far cheaper to integrate, and uses far less power.
Holy battlesnakes! That actually makes sense! Thanks Sony!
There are mini-ITX 780G boards coming, the comments on the linked article actually mention some.
Of course in the netbook the chipset used consumed about 5.5W IIRC, not 22W. The netbook Atom eats 2.5W I think. That's 8W in total. The article's Athlon 64 2000+ eats 8W on its own, and the chipset will eat some more.
However it does show that AMD could have a viable competitor if they spent some time creating a platform.
Yes, because it's a full function computer that requires a full-sized keyboard, with all the function keys.
Apart from the ASD.. line being a bit too far to the left, the keyboard looks ideally suited for such a device. The alpha keys are larger to make typing easier, at the cost of the other keys.
Who uses caps lock apart from people who have remapped it to control?
Even then when you compare with Finland or Sweden, which have a similar population density, the US compares badly. Saying that the US is larger isn't a worthwhile response, the $/potential customer is the same regardless of the scale of the operation. It's just that clearly one single company for the US is far worse than the dozens across Europe, and there isn't real competition or universal service requirements.
Then again the UK is pretty dire in my opinion, following the US model of cheap crappy DSL and lacking upstream bandwidth, rather than the Swedish model of fast fibre to the home. Virgin Media like to claim they're fibre to the cabinet, but it's still arse-slow on DSL if you're unfortunate to be stuck with them.
If was a 32 core or 16 core SPECJBB benchmark from Sun in the past week or two.
All I found now was an article at IBM putting it down. But then again, IBM would!
Still, doesn't negate the fact that Intel is faster in single CPU areas right now, nor that AMD is better at scaling to 4 or more CPUs. Intel has QPI to fix their issues, AMD supposedly has IPC and clock improvements coming with Deneb. It's all good for the consumer in the end.
Agreed. At least VIA is doing something interesting in this area, although it is seeming to take ages from my point of view. Nano + VX800U would be a great netbook combination (clearly not the 1.8GHz Nano which is rather warm, but the power consumption drops off drastically at 1.6GHz and 1.3GHz).
Atom doesn't interest me because Intel are artificially limiting its capabilities in what system makers can include, and the chipset is a hulking beast on top.
Score 4: Insightful for basically saying that MobileMe isn't suitable for business use. I get -1: Troll for dissing Windows Mobile and not getting excited by an accelerometer rotating the display. What's going on with Slashdot?
Anyway, no shit sherlock re MobileMe's unsuitability for business use.
Why wouldn't you use the Exchange capability, presuming the phone had passed your companies compliance testing to be offered as an alternative to a Blackberry?
It's not like MobileMe is mandatory. It's an option, for consumers. It's push email for consumers, which is a major step forward for them.
At least remote wipe on an iPhone will wipe all the on-board memory of that proprietary data. Windows Mobile remote wipe? What, your data was on a memory card, and that card was removed from the device? Oh no!
Yay, it can do what other smartphones have been doing for years.
Android is like Slashdot ... bringing you yesterday's stuff, today!
However I hope that it is good and hence successful, because nothing could be better than getting rid of the travesty of a mobile operating system that is Windows Mobile.
I still think that everyone is fighting around in a 2007-esque mobile phone marketplace, whilst Apple is providing a 2008-esque experience (with functionality holes, yes, but overall).
"lapped" ... it's about 20% faster clock for clock, and the top clocks are about 20% higher, so that's about 44% faster at the most, and certainly not if you start scaling to multiple CPUs where AMD is still leading (check out the 4P 16C benchmarks for AMD against Intel).
AMD now have an in-house chipset maker who are making some very well received and functional chipsets (AMD 790GX for example), have improved Linux support incredibly (Day 1 Linux Support for HD4000 series graphics cards, drivers were on the shipped CD).
I think you are seeing the natural integration difficulties in 2007 and this year as a long-term issue, whereas it is clearly a short-term issue. Barcelona was flawed even before the acquisition, R600 was an underperformer before it as well. RV770 and the fixed Phenoms are good options now, and there are good vibes for the coming year as well.
AMD are making chipsets (having consumed ATI who were making them before), haven't you read the reviews? Look at the AMD 790GX chipset, or the 780G ...
Err, where did you get the idea that this killed iPhones?
It's a list of applications that the iPhone shouldn't run because they're malicious. There's nothing about killing iPhones remotely here.
Of course, the ITWire story itself is written with so much hyperbole and bullshit and speculation it is easy to get caught up in it and lose sight of the simple explanation. Apple run an application store and thus have some responsibility over the contents on that store. If they let some bad software on by accident, they need a way to ensure that end users can't run it.
All the rest is conspiracy theory non-story verbal wankery.
This is a sensible choice for VIA, for the reasons they have given. It's been on the table for quite some time I imagine.
However a big thanks have to go out for them for their initial support of the AMD Athlon platform back in the day. Even if they had chipset problems since then...
Now, however, they are quite a bit behind in terms of chipsets for desktop systems.
I'd like to see a Nano with built-in chipset (memory controller, GPU at least) or even a SoC (Nano, Memory Controller, GPU, USB, Ethernet, SATA, Audio, ...) in the future, and now they can allocate resources to achieve this.
Have you seen the average computer or phone user? How would you rate their awareness of computing device security? Now how about an application with a subtle malicious payload inside, would you expect them to find that? Would you expect to find that yourself?
Yes, Apple is your mother, and for 99% of iPhone users that is the desirable action. Hardly anybody these days bothers to educate themselves on proper responsible computing device operation, and in such a situation other entities have to take responsibility to stop things turning horrible. God forbid people download a "fun game involving shooting spam", and the application sends a spam email over whatever network you are on every time you shoot down a tin of spam...
"Maybe I am dating myself here"
Aren't most Slashdotters?
Personally, for the problem the poster has, I'd just hit the pause button on the media player. Muting audio automatically is all very good but annoying if the video keeps playing and you lose track of where you are, so you definitely want to pause it. PC audio out of desktop speakers which you can hear quite well despite wearing a phone headset for the phone calls.
It's probably in the terms and conditions of ownership, and thus every owner has given permission already.
It's not like Apple is collecting user information here. It's a HTTP GET as far as I can tell, with no information being supplied to Apple, just a list of applications that are bad and that the user shouldn't run for their own protection.
Going beyond this into the realm of assuming that apple are collecting user data, disabling applications they just don't like, etc, is stupidity on the level of people who believe in conspiracy theories.
What? A simple HTTP GET to get a list of applications which can't have access to Core Location services? The simplest explanation is that it will protect user's privacy if an application includes something that gives away this information, and Apple included this as a means to stop rogue apps.
It's not as if it is sending a list of applications back, or other private information. Of course the articles and a lot of people are assuming that it does this and then getting all frothy and righteous about it.
Apple gives you XCode, perl, ruby, etc for free.
Microsoft gives you Notepad.
What are you talking about, man?
It clearly means any environment which results in a compilation stage within the browser:
* Java - JIT .NET - JIT
*
* JavaScript - JIT on some browsers now
Why? Because they compile into executable code within a browser. Clearly the compiler/JIT/browser should sandbox these. But to compile code into memory, you need to disabled the NX bit check... that's one security mechanism bypassed. And I presume that address randomisation doesn't work for these JITs either. Yet.
Everyone else has said that it's not worth going to a game company, and getting VC would be incredibly difficult.
So that limits the game idea to yourself and maybe your friends (testing, level design, maybe even graphics, etc).
Can your game be implemented on the iPhone, or does it require half a keyboard? If it will run on the iPhone, then write it for the iPhone, because you don't need to worry about distribution, and there is a centralised App Store. If it's a good game then you have a market in the millions (tens of millions with the iPod Touch) even if you have to sell the game for $4.99 to get attention. The iPhone's meant to be a simple development platform as well, so that will help you.
If you have to write a desktop game, then it will be difficult on your own. Can you make it into an online game or MMORPRPOGHGRP? Runescape had success with that idea, using Java. Maybe just getting some good basic game demos done online is best, and then demonstrating them to companies if you just want a job...
What's a credit score? It's a score about how much you love being in debt, you get in debt and pay to get more debt and pay on time to get even more debt, etc. How is that relevant to you being able to get a job? It's beyond me.
It's a score about how often you miss payments, default on debt, etc, as well. You can be in a lot of debt but have a lot of collateral (house) and a good payment history, and thus have a good credit record. Sadly the credit agencies like to distill that down into a single number which is pretty meaningless, but decent loan processors, etc, will actually analyse your per-credit-item history to make a decision.
If you're in significant debt, then you might not be the best person to hire in a situation which involves money or expensive systems. For a factory worker or postman or store worker it is an irrelevance of course.
You're thinking in a mindset where there are test systems available.
This is a 60s or 70s government IT system that was probably the low-ball bid back then as well! It probably is its own test system, maybe overnight once a week or however it is scheduled.
It's clearly 1960s and 1970s code. It probably has the pay rates hard-coded in, rather than using a database, because back then memory was expensive and logic had to be compact.