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Interesting idea. I don't know what computing applications I'd use it for though. Unless they could build a Mac out of it.
> Rather than just saying it (=demerijan) is bs, it would be more
> helpful to everybody if you explained why.
This is one of the reasons why I come here.
Yes, it can be tiring explaining it to non-experts but it would be more helpful.
IS AI about flops these days? It was more about branching and list processing back in the day.
My Core i7 desktops are from 2008 and my Core i7 laptop is from 2014 and they provide more CPU horsepower than I need. I don't anticipate need more horsepower in the next couple of years but it could happen.
But I suspect that I won't need a new computer for a few years. It's like phone or tablet upgrades. Someone needs to give me a good enough reason to upgrade anything these days and so far, nobody has. Would I want some upgrades? Sure. But I certainly don't need them.
I have no doubt that someone can use a 10 or 8 core processor (with 20 to 16) threads. But I'm not one of them. The only thing that I do that can use about 90% of 8 threads is video transcoding and I don't know that doubling the number of cores could improve on that. Not that it matters, I just start these and let them run to whenever they finish. Everything takes under an hour these days, and most take far less than that.
Intel Inside at Costco.
Was at Costco today and there was a guy with an Intel Inside dress shirt helping out Windows laptop customers.
P-Code is better than interpreted but there's still a performance penalty. There are a lot of applications that run in p-code but I'm not a fan.
Made $2,500 on JACK and PZZA this week. Unfortunately the closest JACK is about 1,000 miles away and I don't like PZZA pizza. I picked up some Dominos instead.
Intel Modem vs Qualcomm in the iPhone 7.
Reports I've seen indicate that the actual performance with Verizon is that the modems perform about the same and the suspected reason is that Apple has turned off some of the LTE features enabling higher performance. I'd still prefer to get the Qualcomm version as it has compatibility with all four carriers and Apple might enable those features down the road.
This is why many of them have such large faces. They display one to three pieces of information in very large fonts so that even I can read the important stuff without glasses.
It is really hard to do a good job on wearables. Apple and Samsung have their products on the market and they're pretty good but everything out there is a compromise. The best that I've seen are specialty devices which try to do one thing really well and then a few other smaller things fairly well. General-purpose products seem to do nothing in an outstanding way.
Only semi I'm holding now is NXPI. Basically a 10% buyout play - just requires a year of waiting.
DRYS is the most spectacular belly-flop that I've ever seen. Imagine buying at $90 or $100 and then watching it fall to $13. Or bought at $5 and sold at $100. Amazing stuff.
I doubt that even AMD could be that crazy.
Take a look at DRYS for the past three days.
A watch that I've been looking at for a year dropped sharply in price this morning. Retail is $400 and it's $229 right now. That could mean that a replacement model is just around the corner. This is a running watch and it's hard to justify because my current running watch is functional. It's just older, slower and less convenient. It takes about 1 minute to get a satellite lock and only syncs via a proprietary wireless dongle. The new stuff has GLONASS which gets satellite lock in a few seconds, and it syncs via WiFi or Bluetooth. It also has smartphone notifications, weighs 1/3rd less, much better battery life, etc.
A watch is nice in that you don't have to take out your phone to see the time.
I can put 24 GB RAM on my 2008 Dell Desktop that cost $578. There were more expensive machines back then (still Desktops that you could order off Dell's site) that could hold far more. So could one of these new phones that likely costs more than my old desktop, beat the Core i7 in my 2008 system?
The question is are these phones going to get 16 - 32 GB of RAM with which to run virtual machines?
I spoke to a VP at work yesterday about his take on the new Macs and his biggest disappointment was not offering 32 GB of RAM as he often uses multiple VMs on his Macs.
I've given up on Windows. I am in the process of migrating some of the few remaining things that I do on Windows over to Mac. Right now I'm moving my Media Library to external drives. I've already moved my special devices over to the Mac (mostly Garmin stuff). So it's little-by-little on weekends. I feel that it's too little, too late for Windows.
One the phone issue: I have my Mac plugged into multiple monitors with wired keyboard, mouse, and an external drive. I run Virtual Machines on it from time to time. Can the Windows phone run a few VMs? Does it have the bandwidth (Thunderbolt 20 GB) on external devices?
I'm pretty happy with a laptop and a phone as separate devices so that they can each do what they do best.
Trying to decide if it's worth it to buy one or two on Amazon before they're gone.
I have moved another application from my Home Desktop to my MacBook Pro and am moving media files off of it onto external drives and am considering dispensing with Windows systems altogether at home (I still have my Windows 7 VM on my MacBook Pro). I still have one program that only runs on Windows but I mainly use it in the office.
Glad that you got it to work.
It's interesting to see your plan. I have the Verizon Small Plan and it's $55 list and about $63 after taxes and fees. I get a 19% discount employer discount which works out to $52.79/month. For this I get 2 GB of LTE data, up to 2 GB of carryover data (the unused portion from the previous month), Safety Mode (if I go over my data limit, I still have data at 2G speeds - basically unlimited). I also get tethering which is important when I work when mobile, and free Voice roaming.
I spend a little time a few times a year looking for cheaper rates for equivalent service and this is the best that I've found so far for the features provided. I suspect that prices will somewhat trend down given the amount of competition in the space, especially from T-Mobile.
Apple added support in the iPhone 6 so that you could do seamless calling over WiFi through the carrier and that's what I do in the office as there's practically no connectivity in most of the building where I work. So I was able to take calls in the office when I got the iPhone 6 and Verizon turned on support.
I normally get two bars at home which is good enough but I find that most of my phone calls at home are over WiFI.
That, along with Xfinity WiFi has me as a pretty happy customer of Verizon and Comcast as the combination of the two gives me a lot of coverage and it's why I only use about 25 MB of cellular data per month.
I do as well but I can use Sun Global Desktop to access my work server at low bandwidth. It worked just fine over dialup. VNC has gotten a lot better too.
Do you need that resolution in watching a movie. I watch movies on WUXGA screens at 24 inches with much lower resolutions.
Here are the NetFlix broadband speed requirements:
0.5 Megabits per second - Required broadband connection speed.
1.5 Megabits per second - Recommended broadband connection speed.
3.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for SD quality.
I can't imagine that you'd need really high resolutions on a phone.
So it would appear that the lower performance found on Intel modems doesn't matter for viewing NetFlix content (I'm not a subscriber so I don't know what it's like).
I don't stream content on cellular connections. I don't really stream them on mobile devices at all.
I read the report on the Intel modem being slower and then laughed when I saw the numbers. I use about 10-50 MB/month of cellular data and the vast majority of that is for email. Email works fine for me at 100K. What are people doing that they require 10, 30, 50, 100 mbps?
How do you like your Pixel? I'd like something to replace my Nexus 7 and large phones are a consideration. The cost is a headache compared to tablet prices and I wouldn't need the phone/text part but it is something that I'm looking at (the XL).
I visited a used mobile devices store several days ago and it was an eye-opener. You can buy all kinds of old phones, tablets, computers, computer parts, accessories and some things hold value fairly well.
The iPad is competing with old iPads, cheap Android tablets and large phones and the iPhone Plus models. You don't need to replace tablets that often; and maybe not phones as well.
I think that Intel has figured out that supporting Windows 7 is worth it financially.
The Intel SSDs that I bought over the last few years have speeds of 300, 500 MB/S.
I gave my wife the 27 inch iMac (2010) and she loves it. It just didn't work for me. I'm glad that there are an absolute ton of options out there these days on size and resolution.
One of the guys in the office asked me about me using my Mac in the office for work (he wasn't sure if I had a company Mac or my own). I said that it's great working on a MacBook Pro in the office as we're a native Linux development shop. So he's going to order one as he's eligible for an upgrade. I have considered asking for a company MacBook Pro but I like having to only carry around one notebook. My son has a Work MBP and his personal MBP and he uses his own most of the time except when he's at the office. PC numbers reported lately have not been good but I think that more people are buying the nicer laptop and convertible SKUs.
I ordered a 25-inch 2550x1440 monitor and it's in the shipping room. I don't like 27-inch monitors as I find them too big for my desk to have multiple displays. I may get another if I find that I like it. I haven't figured out where I'm going to put it though.
Thanks for your comments. I passed them on to him.
This is interesting because one of the big complaints about iPhones is that they take a long time to charge compared to Android phones.
OT: What's the EE grad job market like these days?
A co-worker's son is doing contract work but looking for a full-time job. He's an EE grad and he's sending out a lot of resumes but would prefer New England (I don't think that there's much in this area). Do you have an suggestions?
Seems to be more of a battery problem.
Why Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds prefers x86 chips over ARM processors
Torvalds has an affinity for x86 because of the infrastructure and ecosystem
People are too fixated with the instruction set and the CPU core, Torvalds said, but it ultimately is the ecosystem around the architecture that matters more.
“What matters is all the infrastructure around the instruction set, and x86 has all that infrastructure... at a lot of different levels,” Torvalds said. “It’s opening a way that no other architecture is.”
A lot of application development happens on PCs with x86 chips from Intel or AMD. Compatibility matters for x86 chips and PCs, which have a unified model around hardware, development, and other infrastructure.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3129300/linux/why-linux-pioneer-linus-torvalds-prefers-x86-over-arm.html
Yup, I know lots of people that go that route. They take the risk on the components working together.
Did you build it or buy it?
After my recent experiences with Windows 10, I'm thinking about buying a spare Windows 7 license just in chase.
The problem is multifaceted as there are all kinds of different levels of cloud-sharing levels, from the hardware up to application-level.
Windows 10 Anniversary disabled Classic Start for me too.
The Google announcements didn't seem earth-shattering. Google wants to compete in the Apple-priced smartphone space instead of the midrange. As you might expect, people with Nexus devices looking to upgrade weren't pleased. I was looking for a new Nexus 7 (maybe with Intel inside) and that didn't happen. So it doesn't look like I'm going to upgrade phones anytime soon.