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Comment: The real reason is cost (Score 1) 128

by Wesley Felter (#43593399) Attached to: AMD Details Next-Gen Kaveri APU's Shared Memory Architecture

In low-cost systems the CPU and GPU are combined on a single chip with a single (slow) memory controller. Given that constraint, AMD is trying to at least wring as much efficiency as they can from that single cheap chip. I salute them for trying to give customers more for their money, but let's admit that this hUMA thing is not about breaking performance records.

Comment: Re:Dead on arrival? (Score 2) 197

by Wesley Felter (#43463051) Attached to: Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support

Even years from now there will still be a few people who do actual work, and they won't be using tablets to do it. They'll be using computers and they'll need an OS which is optimized for productivity, not gaming, watching movies, tweeting, or shopping at Amazon. Few as they are, these people are willing to pay real money for a computer, like $2,000. Perhaps that is what GNOME and KDE should focus on, considering that Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Canonical don't care.

Comment: Re:remote desktop vs windows (Score 4, Informative) 197

by Wesley Felter (#43462727) Attached to: Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support

Wayland's native remoting protocol is under development but "only at the proof of concept state". http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/weston/log/?h=remote http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-April/008555.html

All the people talking about RDP keep in mind that that's a stopgap and won't be needed long-term.

Comment: It's even simpler than that (Score 4, Insightful) 90

by Wesley Felter (#43427875) Attached to: Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers

The reported reasoning for making Wayland support Android GPU drivers was difficulty in ODM vendors not wishing to offer driver support for platforms aside from Android.

ODMs don't know how to write software, so you're better off not asking them to; the result would just be garbage anyway. All the GPU drivers are actually written by the GPU IP vendors (Qualcomm, Imagination, ARM, etc.) and they only provide Android drivers. You could try to pay them to write KMS/DRM drivers, but they'd probably quote you a price in the millions which minority platform wannabes like Jolla could not afford anyway.

Comment: Re:I dont think user hate DLC (Score 1) 369

by Wesley Felter (#43048799) Attached to: Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars

Realistically, if DLC didn't exist then that day-one DLC just would never have been developed at all. It's a myth that the developers would have made the game better or longer if not for DLC. Developers/publishers get to choose how much development effort to put into a game and if their revenue is capped at $60 for all time then they'll just develop less content.

Comment: Re:If I had to guess (Score 1) 418

by Wesley Felter (#43019601) Attached to: Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S.

The burden of proof lies with you to prove that you didn't download it, 'cause it sure looks to them like you did.

In the courts I think the burden of proof is on the plaintiff.

It's not like they're going to confiscate your computer to do a forensics investigation on it to prove you're guilty...

AFAIK that is exactly what they tend to do.

Stay the curse.

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