Comment Re:Home-schooling is a far better social backgroun (Score 1) 700
Fantastic post, thank you.
Fantastic post, thank you.
The title on your original link does say MTK6572, and from the pastebin linked elsewhere it seems the RPi2 is also a Cortex-A7. I agree it's still a pretty old architecture though.
Dual core A9? You sure about that?
Why would you want Thunderbolt again? It is a badly broken (IE doesn't actually do what is promised like channel bonding and a few other things that are sort of fixed in VERY recent silicon), costs far too much, forces the use of painfully expensive active cables, and only passes PCIe or video. This last bit is problematic because if you want any functionality on the other end of the cable, you need to add full controllers there too, think expensive and wasteful of power. In essence you are hot-plugging controllers with the cable, and while it works in theory....
TB is a badly broken spec from day one, it was meant as a control point for Intel to force the use of it's silicon in phones.mobile by replacing USB with something only it could provide. Needless to say the market saw through this and didn't adopt it in droves, sans the few that drank from the Intel money hose. The second the hose was shut off, so was the design wins.
The main reason that USB3 had such a slow start was because Intel was desperate to kill it to promote TB. Since Intel had control over the USB3 cert process, things went might slow for technical minutia that would easily pass by previous spec certs. Coincidence? Nope.
TB is a bad idea on technical, cost, lock-in, and many many other reasons, not working correctly ever being a key one there. Delivered silicon is a joke, there is and always will be one supplier, and progress is glacial. USB3.1 on the other hand beats it like a drum in every regard other than single channel throughput.
Why do I want to pay for this in my next laptop again?
-Charlie
This might be the first time I've thought we need a "+1, Offtopic" moderation option.
Nvidia used to make integrated chipsets for Intel and AMD, what changed is Intel no longer licenses the chipsets for the i7+ and AMD is now a direct competitor with their purchase of ATI.
That sounds more like a generation conflict between the fad-riding hipster son and his blue collar dad who often cuts corners.
FTFY.
This is called Win-Win. Its how the free market works.
Ah, Slashdot. Where the grits are hot, Natalie Portman is petrified, and price gouging is considered Win-Win.
A "fair price" and "the highest possible price the majority of people are willing to pay" are not synonyms.
When consumers don't feel like every corporation they do business with is a leech trying to gorge itself on as much of their blood as possible, they'll probably be willing to do more business in general. When it comes to cable TV, people are cutting the cord not just because they feel it's overpriced, but because they're sick and tired of feeling like they're being fleeced with a dull razor every month when they get their bill.
"What if" is a trademark of Hewlett Packard, so stop using it in your sentences without permission, or risk being sued.