These power and performance numbers finally match what Intel promised to deliver with Atom in 2008, and it took ARM and AMD kicking Atom squaw in the competitive nuts to get them to deliver. This does not bode well for Chipzilla.
The only public event featuring Windows 8 so far was the Build conference in September, and all demo ARM devices were kept under glass with a strict no touch policy. The fact is that no one who isn't bound under NDA has actually touched an ARM powered Windows 8 device.
WebOS has proven itself capable of running well on ARM based silicon. Considering certain other OS vendors won't even let you touch a device running on ARM yet I think WebOS is worth more than most people suspect. It is a shame that the one of the few PROVEN iOS alternatives is already experiencing bitrot thanks to HP.
There are plenty of bridge boards available that will accept a half-height x16 PCIe card and plug into a 32-bit PCI slot. The PLX PEX8112 bridge chip makes this type of bridge card fairly cheap to produce. I think I paid approximately 34 USD for one earlier this year that works well with a Radeon 6450 for multimedia applications.
T-Mobile is still a buyout target, and at this point I think Google or Microsoft could pick them up for less than AT&T offered. Since T-Mobile is more Android friendly than WP7 I think Google would be a more likely suitor.
How many web enabled gadgets go obsolete every time a browser is deprecated? Without community support for firmware upgrades nettops, PDAs, and content streamers go obsolete far too quickly given the amount of energy and natural resources consumed by their production, IMHO.
They should bring back the free battery card club cards, except with more eco-friendly rechargeable batteries. That way they can upsell the the recharging units.
I place a very high value on the ability to access the Internet via the service provider of my choice but that does not mean I am willing to let the Robber Barons, aka Spectrum Barons, fleece me with promises of data rates they can only deliver on their best day to an extremely sparse user base located smack dab in the middle of the highest of population densities. This carrot is simply not enticing enough to bear the associated stick.
Aside from the Wii, the current generation of consoles does a decent job of delivering 1080p HD content. It no longer takes a $1500 PC to game at HD resolution with playable frame rates. The question in my mind is when will display manufacturers start pushing 2K resolution as the next big thing, and how long will it take for prices to be on par with current 1080p displays. At that point there will be a compelling reason for the gaming masses to get excited and open their wallets once again.
The OBJ format sample model on the Pix4D site doesn't play nice with nice with Alias. Having to tweak either the OBJ data or the viewer to get a firsthand view of the model tells me this service is not quite ready for prime time, and likely in need of significant funding to get to production quality.
The NT kernel is optimized to run SMP on cache coherent cores. ARM is not cache coherent and it is likely that making it cache coherent would ruin much of its power efficiency compared to x86. NT running on a single ARM core doesn't seem very interesting and supporting multithreaded applications on SMP ARM will require either strong thread affinity or adding some really ugly shared memory hacks to WIN32.
Having worked with several commercial USB protocol analyzers over the years I have yet to see one was anything more than an FPGA connected to an off the shelf USB PHY chip. As much as I like cute dog videos these guys need to post proper requirements and design specifications if they seriously want funding from me.
...For including the Pokewalker with the DS Pokemon Heartgold game. My son gets to "unlock" playtime for his DS by using the pedometer feature on the Pokewalker (the pedometer is a Nintendo feature, gaming time limits are currently enforced the old fashion way).
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These power and performance numbers finally match what Intel promised to deliver with Atom in 2008, and it took ARM and AMD kicking Atom squaw in the competitive nuts to get them to deliver. This does not bode well for Chipzilla.
...compared to an electric vehicle. I'd be more much interested if it could travel 155 Miles on a gallon of biofuel.
Does it go to eleven?
Windows 8 is reputed to be ARMed.
The only public event featuring Windows 8 so far was the Build conference in September, and all demo ARM devices were kept under glass with a strict no touch policy. The fact is that no one who isn't bound under NDA has actually touched an ARM powered Windows 8 device.
WebOS has proven itself capable of running well on ARM based silicon. Considering certain other OS vendors won't even let you touch a device running on ARM yet I think WebOS is worth more than most people suspect. It is a shame that the one of the few PROVEN iOS alternatives is already experiencing bitrot thanks to HP.
"Good news, everyone!"
There are plenty of bridge boards available that will accept a half-height x16 PCIe card and plug into a 32-bit PCI slot. The PLX PEX8112 bridge chip makes this type of bridge card fairly cheap to produce. I think I paid approximately 34 USD for one earlier this year that works well with a Radeon 6450 for multimedia applications.
Any game developers on /. care to file a friend of the court brief regarding this case? It could be your studio that gets dragged into litigation next.
Your ARM based Android tablet isn't as powerful as an Core i5 based tablet? Let me guess which one is heavier, has worse battery life.
T-Mobile is still a buyout target, and at this point I think Google or Microsoft could pick them up for less than AT&T offered. Since T-Mobile is more Android friendly than WP7 I think Google would be a more likely suitor.
Considering the i386SX has a 16 bit data bus and can only address 16MB of memory I'd say this qualifies as a rather sweet hack.
How many web enabled gadgets go obsolete every time a browser is deprecated? Without community support for firmware upgrades nettops, PDAs, and content streamers go obsolete far too quickly given the amount of energy and natural resources consumed by their production, IMHO.
They should bring back the free battery card club cards, except with more eco-friendly rechargeable batteries. That way they can upsell the the recharging units.
I place a very high value on the ability to access the Internet via the service provider of my choice but that does not mean I am willing to let the Robber Barons, aka Spectrum Barons, fleece me with promises of data rates they can only deliver on their best day to an extremely sparse user base located smack dab in the middle of the highest of population densities. This carrot is simply not enticing enough to bear the associated stick.
Aside from the Wii, the current generation of consoles does a decent job of delivering 1080p HD content. It no longer takes a $1500 PC to game at HD resolution with playable frame rates. The question in my mind is when will display manufacturers start pushing 2K resolution as the next big thing, and how long will it take for prices to be on par with current 1080p displays. At that point there will be a compelling reason for the gaming masses to get excited and open their wallets once again.
The OBJ format sample model on the Pix4D site doesn't play nice with nice with Alias. Having to tweak either the OBJ data or the viewer to get a firsthand view of the model tells me this service is not quite ready for prime time, and likely in need of significant funding to get to production quality.
Am I the only one who was hoping for a Left For Dead 2 map with Osama zombies?
How long will it take before someone mods DD-WRT to obfuscate Internet traffic to make device identification by ISPs difficult?
How else do you expect NASA to secure funding?
What about Outlook? Can this exploit be triggered by code embedded in an email?
The NT kernel is optimized to run SMP on cache coherent cores. ARM is not cache coherent and it is likely that making it cache coherent would ruin much of its power efficiency compared to x86. NT running on a single ARM core doesn't seem very interesting and supporting multithreaded applications on SMP ARM will require either strong thread affinity or adding some really ugly shared memory hacks to WIN32.
Having worked with several commercial USB protocol analyzers over the years I have yet to see one was anything more than an FPGA connected to an off the shelf USB PHY chip. As much as I like cute dog videos these guys need to post proper requirements and design specifications if they seriously want funding from me.
Pranksters would NEVER target such a mechanism to trigger a wave of false reports. Such shenanigans would never happen in this day and age.
...And you're going to find your power animal is a penguin named Tux.
...For including the Pokewalker with the DS Pokemon Heartgold game. My son gets to "unlock" playtime for his DS by using the pedometer feature on the Pokewalker (the pedometer is a Nintendo feature, gaming time limits are currently enforced the old fashion way).