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Yes.. but they could probably change that, if they wanted
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Laying off thousands of engineers at AMD is not going to help the situation. Neither is their stock price decline or them considering using ARM.
John
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Even if they wanted to, AMD's much slower cadence of major architecture shifts means it would be a long time out. BullDudzer was AMD's first major (high performance) architecture change since the first A64 operons in 2003. They spent most of the 8 years between doing minor tweaks that, after Intel started smoking them with Core2, were always massively overhyped in advance as being able to close the gap before release hardware showed it actually widened. BullDudzer's architecture (and the new ARM license) was throwing in the towel and admitting that they're not going to be able to beat Intel at it's own game. Quite frankly I'm not convinced that AMD will still be in the x86 business (or in business at all for that matter) in 2019.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's what I thought before I got this news - but this might change things. After all, with Intel gone from that niche, AMD only needs to come up with something "not completely laughable". They haven't succeeded at that lately, but it doesn't look to me as though they were even trying.
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They'd need to do a lot better than just "not completely laughable"; Intel's lead is large enough that I strongly suspect even their mobile chips at stock speeds would beat an OCed AMD desktop chip for gaming.
I also don't see anything in the SA article that indicates that the gaming mobo makers won't be able to produce OC friendly boards with soldered 45xx/46xx/47xx chips. Having to swap the two parts as a whole will hurt repairability; but with the incremental gains on Intel's Tock's having been so minor and each Tick needing a new socket anyway, swapping CPUs as an upgrade path is much less important than it was in the LGA775 era anyway.
SA is IMO massively overstating the impact from the switch from LGA1366 leading with the enthusiast product and the alleged enthusiast product LGA2011 lagging badly behind the mainstream part. Except for the 3 GPU user and LN2 benchmarking crowds LGA1155 has met most enthusiast needs quite well. The 3rd memory channel almost never mattered; and the extra PCIe lanes almost never matters for 2 GPU gaming use while the southbridge has enough lanes for almost all in addition to a high performance GPU needs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thinking about this a bit more, I'm coming to the conclusion that SA has it backwards and it might actually end up being good for mobo-vendors, if not necessarily for consumers. A common thread I've seen in Anandtech motherboard reviews over the last year or two is that there's increasingly little reason to buy a top of the line motherboard instead of a midrange one (or a brandname budget board if you historically have shopped in the middle tier) because the increased integration of subsystems and tighter QA have meant that even budget boards are highly reliable and that the additional features on high end boards are increasingly less likely to be useful to enthusiasts and instead only serve to pad profit margins.
It's unlikely we'll see OEMs bloat their SKUs from ~10 to ~100 to include each current possible mobo+CPU pair. Instead what will probably happen is that the number of base mobo designs will drop since they no longer need to come up with minimally different boards to populate $20 increment between $100 and $300 to meet market segmentation/pricepoint matching goals. Instead there will probably be only a few base boards at low/medium/high prices matched with Intel's low/medium/high price CPUs (and only limited overlap between the CPU buckets). The lower number of base board designs from each vendor will probably boost differentiation between them; which currently is little more than plastic color and heatsink shape. Assuming they don't all make the same set of tradeoff's we'll actually have real competition in board vendors again. The only groups of consumers almost certain to lose are those who currently pair i7 CPUs with very low end mobos or who put Celerons in kitchen sink mobos.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Story.
I just checked, and this applies to the US market. Still no factory unlocked phone, however.
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http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html[^]
Some high (or low) points:
- Surface start screen [is] an incessantly blinking, unruly environment that feels like dozens of carnival barkers yelling at you simultaneously
- the main UI restricts users to a single window, so the product ought to be renamed "Microsoft Window."
- On a regular PC, Windows 8 is Mr. Hyde: a monster that terrorizes poor office workers and strangles their productivity.
I just wish he'd just come out and say what he really meant...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I especially like the part about "Low Information Density". 
But I remember how Mr. Nielsens own homepage have looked over the years, so it's a bit hard to take him to seriously.
Especially since he disallows archiving of his site.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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You can photograph it with your phone! 
Wout
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Yes, he really doesn't seem to get Metro at all. How much information do you need at the same time in front of your eyes?
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Personally I admire Jakob for the boldness in the choice of colours on his site.
There's usable. And then there's taste.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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True, but while I agree with most that he writes the result on his own homepage isn't that usable. The colours I'm actually not having a problem with. They're odd, not bad. Like orange.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Hey. That hurts. That hurts bad.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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"Lack of multiple windows" certainly discourages desktop users.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: "Lack of multiple windows" certainly discourages desktop users.
Who'll just end up using the desktop for multiple apps.
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Curiously, i was reading a review that praised Windows 8 before reading this. An althought sometimes he have a point, mainly when he refers to the discoverability of features, i believe he over reacts, specially when he calls Windows 8 on the PC Mr. Hyde.
I believe that as a new product it have a learning curve, but it's not as steep as he make it sounds. For a user that gives a damn about the Modern UI and only uses the Desktop, the only new thing he needs to learn is to click in the Start popup in the lower left corner (which can be done also by clicking the Windows key on the keyboard).
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I find that web site archaic and ugly - not sure we should listen to what he has to say about usability and design as a result.
I've had Windows 8 on my 3+ year old laptop for about three weeks since the old SSD died. I have to say I hate it less than I though I would. The jumping between UI's is only a slight PITA. Most of my day is spent running Windows apps on the desktop, and I hardly see the start screen. It all therefore looks very much like Windows 7 with a flatter theme. I can even run a 'Metro' app side by side on a single monitor with the desktop - i find docking the messaging Metro app like this is quite efficient.
Some things are harder to get to, and that's annoying, but I remember feeling much the same by some of the changes in XP as opposed to 2000. In general, though, I now have a laptop that:
1. Runs desktop apps faster than under Win 7
2. Runs cooler
3. Has longer battery life
4. Has faster shutdown/startup/sleep/wake times
I can't imagine I will ever sit and stare at the start screen as it's tiles scroll through three lines of info, so think it's a bit pointless. However as an occasional app starter, it's quite efficient with a little customisation.
I've added no third party utilities to 'improve' the interface, wanted to live with it out of the box for a while. I found adding a toolbar pointed to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs (the old Start Menu location) and a few apps pinned to the taskbar provides a pretty good way to start most things without context switching.
Rod
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I've had the Nest for a few weeks now and while I can't tell if it's saved me a pile of money yet, I can note a number of significant things that have made a difference to me and the family. The best thing about the Nest. It's simple and its simplicity hides enormous complexity. The right way to internet-enable an appliance?
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LLVM is a complex piece of software. There are several paths one may take on the quest of understanding how it works, none of which is simple. I recently had to dig in some areas of LLVM I was not previously familiar with, and this article is one of the outcomes of this quest. What I aim to do here is follow the various incarnations an "instruction" takes when it goes through LLVM’s multiple compilation stages, starting from a syntactic construct in the source language and until being encoded as binary machine code in an output object file. The amazing lifecycle of a simple division operation. Part 1: The Miracle of Birth...
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Very cool. The layers of abstraction make a lot of sense.
Marc
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Parallax background is a really simple but extremely cool feature you can add to your application. You just need a div containing your background picture and a listview on top of it. Here's how it works. Excellent extreme close-up. Now it's Wayne's World's Totally Amazing Excellent Discoveries...
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A few weeks ago at the Build conference, Scott Hanselman and I sat down to talk about C++ and modern UI/UX. Scott mentions he has used C++ in the past. C++ has changed. We still call it C++, but it’s a very different language now.... C++ is having a resurgence. Herb and Scott discuss why.
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Over the course of a few years I piled up a long list of git aliases.... I rely on many of them dozens of times a day. And maybe some have slipped your radar. Maybe you’ve never thought you could do some of these useful things with an alias. Let me show you some of the cool things you can do. gitconfig is the new .profile.
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I've found, contrary to what you sometimes read, that learning Python and Haskell has not improved my programming using other languages. Haskell in particular, being so different from imperative languages, is supposed to give new insights into programming that will help you even when you are not using the language. My current experience doesn't exactly tally with this, and here is why. The moral of the story: don't bother improving yourself.
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My takeaway from that article is to ignore articles from 2006 that complain about lack of features in C# that have been there for years already, like LINQ.
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I agree with Brady - this article, being almost 7 years old, is outdated. True at the time, but not now.
Marc
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ZRTP has recently gotten some press for being the primary key agreement used by Silent Circle, a new encrypted voice/video/text service launched by PGP inventor Phil Zimmerman and some other bright folks. But it's also used in other secure VoIP solutions, like Zfone and Moxie's RedPhone. Silent Circle's an interesting case, since it's gotten some gentle criticism lately from a variety of folks -- well, mostly Nadim Kobeissi -- for being partially closed-source and for having received no real security audits.... It gives us a (wonky) chance to learn a little bit about this ZRTP protocol that so many people seem to be using. ZRTP seems determined to address every possible attack simultaneously.
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People are doing a lot of cool things with the Raspberry Pi. One of the first things I thought to do was to see if I could make a Raspberry Pi web server. As I found out it’s really easy. Setting up a Web Server on this device really isn’t much different from any other Linux machine, but there are a couple things you’ll want to do in order to get it working right. You don't need to make tiny web pages for it, however.
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Back in May, the ICANN registration process for new gTLDs finally drew to a close, and in June ICANN published a list of which domain names had been applied for and by whom. A total of 1930 applications were received for suffixes such as .cloud, .music, .docs and .lol. ICANN said at the time that anyone who objected to an application and believed they had the grounds to do so could file a formal objection within seven months. OMG.ICantBelieveTheyreStillMessingThisUp
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For decades, the AN/FSQ-7 -- Q7 for short -- helped define the image of a computer in the popular consciousness. Nevermind that it was just a radar system originally backed by tens of thousands of vacuum tubes. For moviegoers everywhere, this was the sort of thing that automated myriad tasks not only in modern-day America but the distant future. It never made much sense. But sometimes, it made even less sense. It's a UNIX system! I know this!
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The author wanted to but Hal 9000 on the list, but his computer refused to cooperate.
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A while back, I wrote a simple blog on how to call a SQL Server stored procedure from VB.NET. I was asked by a reader to generate a more detailed "Hello World" style stored procedure so they could more easily identify exactly what was going on. In this tutorial, you will find just such a stored procedure and the associated VB.NET code. Data Access in VB 101.
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Even I don't think this is news.
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I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going to be an exciting time for developers as features proposed or finalised for the next versions of the language start to become more widely available. In this post, I will review some of the features I'm personally looking forward to landing and being used in 2013 and beyond. Some of these features are already available for experimenting.
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In his presentation, André starts with the foundations of Objective-C, how things are stored in memory and then goes on to look at the philosophy of programming. Although the tools, the operating systems and the devices may all have changed since this talk, the principles that he considers are still important: André talks about Small Talk, Lambda calculas, why assignment is bad, uniformity, functional programming and Haskell and the lessons we can learn for programming in Objective-C. André Pang's presentation on Objective-C from the very first NSConference.
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I’ve found writing unit tests in F# very productive, with it’s terse syntax and powerful type inference. I write F# tests against C# and F# implementations. Writing tests in F# can be a good introduction to the language and this is something we do on our team. To get up to speed quickly you’ll typically want a familiar unit testing framework and mocking library syntax. F# code works with all the popular open source .Net unit testing frameworks... Here are examples using many of the most popular testing frameworks.
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This is the first post in the Real World Problems with Windows Azure Web Sites blog series, as it intends to answer one of the most common questions I receive when I’m doing presentations about Windows Azure Web Sites. This situation demonstrates a typical setup, wherein a site owner has multiple environments to which they push their web site. This setup is extremely valuable for staging site releases and for delivering solid web applications or for doing A-B testing of a site’s changes. Code, Commit, Deploy... to the Cloud!
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Windows Azure now offers customers a cloud platform that can cost effectively and reliably meet the needs of Big Compute. With a massively powerful and scalable infrastructure, new instance configurations, and a new HPC Pack 2012, Windows Azure is designed to be the best platform for your Big Compute applications. In fact, we tested and validated the power of Windows Azure for Big Compute applications by running the LINPACK benchmark. The network performance was so impressive... that we submitted the results and have been certified as one of the Top 500 of the world’s largest supercomputers. 151.3 TFlops on 8,064 cores with 90.2 percent efficiency.
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A newly discovered form of malware that targets Linux servers acting as Web servers allows an attacker to directly inject code into any page on infected servers—including error pages. The rootkit, which was first publicly discussed on the Full Disclosure security e-mail list on November 13, appears to be crafted for servers running the 64-bit version of Debian Squeeze and NGINX. Iframe annoyances.
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As more and more software distribution are going through so-called App Stores, the question about the compatibility of their terms and conditions with the open source licenses, notably the GPL, often arise.... So far, the Android store is open source friendly, and Apple one is not yet open source friendly. But there is a new one in town, so I will look at the new Windows Store, that will ship WinRT Metro and Windows Phone 8 applications. Is it safe to publish a FOSS application on the Windows Store? Read on to find out.
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It is commonly thought by instigators of research in big data that most companies seek to use big data to understand customers/consumers better, and most have misunderstood the stark difference between personal data and non-personal data. Data that is generated from activities and events taking place are different from personal information that we may willingly or unwittingly share. Either way, the basic fact is that the most accurate personal data is the most valuable, and (here's the key) that data happens to be the most private. Are you in the game of exploiting information regardless of morality?
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Recently I’ve undertaken a personal project (computoser) that is a bit strange. I tried to write software that generates music at random. Good music, that is, because “random” usually generates noise. The idea, of course, is not at all new – there has been research on the topic and there is software that attempts to generate music. It's got a good beat, and I can dance to it.
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The human brain is an extraordinary computing machine. Nobody understands exactly how it works its magic but part of the trick is the ability to store and process information at the same time. That's entirely unlike conventional computers which store information in random access memory or on hard disc and shuttle it back and forth as required to a central processing unit. The time and energy all this takes is the thing that ultimately limits conventional computing performance, the so-called von Neumann bottleneck. Essentially, it is this that prevents conventional computers from approaching the performance of biological ones. All that may be about to change. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn...
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I now know one of the reasons why so few people... do Test Driven Development, or perform even basic testing methodologies. The topic was too academic! Yes, you might be able to list 4 different types of black box test approaches vs. white box test approaches and describe the characteristics of Smoke Tests, but never during the course did we see an example of an actual test or how it might be implemented! In fact, if I did not have personal experience of applying testing in actual projects, I wouldn’t even know what a unit test looked like. Teaching the ideal of programming has a long way to catch up with the reality of programming.
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The Jed Toolkit is a collection of interoperable tools to help facilitate the full process of internationalizing applications in JavaScript. These tools have a wide range of utility, from small modules to help format messages, dates, and numbers to services that facilitate translation, and code integration. The goal of the project is to bring the experience and quality of internationalizing JavaScript applications up to par with the rest of the current state of JavaScript tooling. What tools are you using for internationalization?
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Every developer knows you should have a one, exact, coding standard in your company. Every developer also knows you have to fight to get your rules into the company standard. Every developer secretly despairs when starting a new job, afraid of the crazy coding standard some power-mad architect has dictated. It’s better to throw coding standards out and allow free expression. The small win you get from increased conformity does not move the needle. I expect everyone to write good clean code. You decide what that means.
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Coding standards are pointless . They simply massage the ego of whoever writes them . Write the tests first , pass the tests , then re factor . Coding standards are irrelevant.
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Totally disagree.
There are different levels of coding standards.
1. How files and projects are organised and named
2. How namespaces, classes and all objects and variables are named
3. How code is organised within files (eg Adhering to StyleCop, how different sections are laid out)
4. How you code within a method (eg do you always ensure input params are checked? Output is checked?
5. How you format code. Braces on new or the same line? Wrap at 100 chars? Braces around all code blocks even if they are 1 line?
6. How you comment code.
7. How you handle error conditions. Do you throw exceptions or rely on passing around state?
8. How you handle return values - do you allow nulls, or do you always return an object, for example?
and on it can go.
These aren't nice to haves. These standards massively reduce the effort needed to scan large projects. Once someone understands the conventions in place in one part, they can move to any other part and understand how things are laid out and what to expect.
Standards such as how errors are handled ensure consistency in the code, and standards such as commenting ensure sufficient comments are placed where they are needed, and no more.
Coding Standards are like building or wiring standards. They reduce mistakes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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10!
I'd much rather work at a place with a standard than one without.
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