That speaks to how large the music markets in those countries are, not how widely their artists and songs are outside their home markets. There was a time when the US and EU markets were all that mattered. Now, while still massively influential, they're being challenged (at least in size) by other music markets.

US and British R&B has had some collaboration with Nigerian artists. Beyonce recorded an album with almost every song featuring an African (normally Nigerian) artist. Sam Smith recorded a duet with Tiwa Savage that got some streams. It's not a lot but seems like it's increasing. BTS, a k-pop group that mostly releases songs in Korean, is charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and getting nominated for US music awards. Their US fanbase is incredibly devoted and most don't even speak Korean.

Raeally? That's interesting because TFA came out in 2015 while Rogue One came out a whole year later in 2016.

They've done lots of illegal things as well. They paid Michael Dell (amongst other OEMs) millions to reduce AMD volumes during the Athlon 64 years, when AMD CPUs beat out Intel CPUs on almost everything that wasn't compiled using the ICC (Intel's compiler). They were found guilty and ordered to pay a ~1.25 billion USD fine. A fine they still haven't paid. This did massive damage to AMD at a time when they were expecting increased revenues as the fruit of their investment in R&D.

It seems to be competitive enough, it just needs a better laptop surrounding it, and the Vega iGPU needs better drivers. The problems seem fixable in few months time.

The power consumption (of the CPU) is already comparable. 2-3Ghz is Ryzen's sweet spot. It's getting the rest of the laptop right that remains to be seen. OEMs have a long history of treating AMD like the redheaded stepchild. AMD also has less power to dictate terms than Intel, but like I said, we should wait for other laptops before we decide Ryzen Mobile is a bust.

The laptop reviewed (HP Envy x360) is a 15-inch laptop being compared to 13-inch laptops. The screen of the review laptop is turned up 100%, while many of the compared laptops were not. Also, there was no hardware acceleration on the video application used in the Ryzen laptop test. Pretty confident that with a more competent OEM they'd fix the screen issues (screen take up a huge chunk of most mobile devices power), put in a bigger battery and an upcoming update from AMD should make hardware acceleration work on more applications. With that solved this should be easily competitive with Intel mobile CPUs.

I await Acer and Dell's efforts before I'd write Ryzen Mobile off.

Fabs cost money. It's not about initiative, but the ability to pony up billions for several years. Billions they never got because Intel bribed the major OEMS at the time to refuse to put AMD in their products, or to include them only in their shittiest products, and at small volumes. Even when the Ahtlon 64 was eating Pentiums for breakfast. Dell's existence was basically subsidized by Intel during these years thanks to the bribes

During the several years AMD had the performance crown, they were largely relegated to dumpster tier OEM products or custom built enthusiast PCs (not the largest market segment) due to Intel's illegal business practices. The 1 billion fine Intel was eventually slapped with is pocket change compared to the opportunity cost of the revenues they could have earned during their time in the sunshine, and how they could have used those missing dollars in R&D, operations and marketing.

Intel only pulled ahead of AMD in the process node race at ~32nm, years after they fucked AMD over financially. And process node shrinks are a function of how much money you can throw at the problem. Since the smartphone explosion lead to major money and mindshare being thrown at third party fabs, TSMC and Samsung are quickly catching up to Intel, and look to be on the verge of surpassing Intel in the next few years. Intel's lead was once thought insurmountable, now these upstarts are snapping at it's heels.

AMD's hardware teams are easily among the best in the industry, high profile hires are just one part of the story. Intel and nVidia engineers readily acknowledge that fact all the time. Under much more resource constraints than the two incumbents, they regularly put out hardware that challenges and even beats what the two industry behemoths put out. Their driver/software people are a different story, but that's understandable when you compare AMD's workforce (~9000) to Intel (`100,000) or nVidia (~10,000).

This is pretty incorrect. You don't get 52% IPC uplift just from a process node shrink. The Bulldozer family was a double whammy of bad for AMD because it was a bad design choice as well as them being stuck on an older, less power efficient node.

Had they released Zen chips on their old node sizes, they would have still realized the IPC gain, but would have had to work with lower clocks and higher power consumption. They're now competitive with Intel on performance/watt, that comes from the node shrink, but they're also competitive on performance/clock, which comes from the new architecture which doesn't have such boneheaded decisions baked in like a shared FPU between two Bulldozer "cores"

Bulldozer was AMD's Netburst moment. It failed hard vs Intel on everything except specific multithreaded integer workloads, and even then only beat Intel at much higher power consumption. Every tech reviewer on the planet who knows what they're talking about has shouted it from the rooftops. The Core architecture pulled ahead of AMD's Phenoms and they never recovered till Zen.

Article: There is sexism in the tech industry

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If only all that formal logic training taught self awareness.

Typing this comment out on an older Llano laptop, the APU inside is an A6-3400M with 4 CPU "cores" and 1 GPU core. There was never a correlation between core numbers and A[X]. It's just a way to segment by performance.

You've been to Fiji and seen the "i cula ni bokola" forks I take it. Well modern natives being hardline Christian, they're taught an exaggerated take on the brutality of their cannibal past in order to underscore how good they live now with their Christian faith. Cannibalism in Polynesia was ritualistic, done mainly after war or in the process of a ritual of high importance. You don't build an agrarian trader society (which the Polynesians were) if everyone's eating everybody they don't know.

>I take it you've never heard of Margaret Hamilton or Admiral Grace Hopper who somehow managed to excel in a much more sexist society than we have now because instead of whining about the patriarchy on Twitter or Jezebel, they went and proved themselves better than their male peers. What if a girl entering into STM was only just as good as her male peers? Why does a minority have to out-perform to reach the same results? Don't you think that's unfair, and still biased?

Agreed, she had a lot of contacts within the civil rights movement, both political and ecclesiastical. What's also true is that she was a light skinned, chaste (at least apparently so) sober, respectable middle class black woman. Has she been the same person, but darker skinned, poorer, or with an illegitimate child or other non-ideal domestic situation, she might not have been able to make the impact she did.

Sorry about that, I'd edit my comment, but slashdot doesn't have that feature.

Your complete ignorance of history, especially the history of white supremacy, is laughable. Black people weren't allowed to use the same seats, toilets, pools and rooms as black people. Does that strike you as a time when white people had a positive view of black people?

Actually, it's not at all brazen. The facts of the case painted the firm as pretty sexist. What they could not prove to a reasonable standard was that this background sexism was directly responsible for her not getting promotions and bonuses. Her husband's legal problems also complicate the narrative, and cast doubt on her intentions

This is why the civil rights movement in the 60s waited for Rosa Parks, even though there had been several incidents of black women being mistreated on buses prior to Ms Parks' case. People are simple-minded, and confounding factors (like illegitimate children, alcohol/drug addictions, unsympathetic looks when it came to these many black women who went through what Rosa Parks went through) make your cause less likely to be successful, as unfair as that is.