Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Jan 2009 23:31 UTC
People who work for for-profit companies, especially large ones, are always a bit uninteresting to interview, with media training and marketing instructions taking out all the sharp edges. CNet interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and they got some very interesting quotes from the love-him-or-hate-him CEO.
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RE[3]: Comment by moleskine
by UltraZelda64 on Mon 12th Jan 2009 06:26
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Good point on the power hog modern GPUs. Those things are ridiculous. Okay, I admit, although I'm not a gamer I do like to have high-performance stuff. That includes a high-quality GPU.
But come on; they went from weak but efficient, to more powerful and requiring a bit more power, to even more power and requiring their own fan(s), to even MORE power and requiring their own power supply cable, to the (IMO) completely unnecessary "SLI" (two power-hungry video cards with unnecessarily high power). Who knows what additional power/temperature requirements are on today's cards.
I'd just like to *have* that extra horsepower when I want it (which is rarely). But most of the time I just want it to run nice and cool and not waste power doing basically nothing (ie., displaying the same static image or watching a video). I don't like integrated-anything (included graphics), so that's completely out of the picture for me. Other than GPUs, I can't think of a single other piece of hardware that I absolutely despise for their inefficiency.
Even the processor (as innefficient as the x86 is) at least has been gaining efficiency modes.
RE[3]: Comment by moleskine
by Bernhard on Mon 12th Jan 2009 11:40
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Member since:2008-11-12
Personally I think any power consumption over 50W is excessive. Video cards in particular are shockers.
Why can't we buy a powerful 2D multimedia video card that only uses 20 watts for under $100?
Why can't we buy a powerful 2D multimedia video card that only uses 20 watts for under $100?
A Radeon 4350 does HD playback and has a price tag of 30€ (Germany). Okay, it needs 25 Watts but it's pretty close to what you want.
Back to topic:
Vista may run ok on new Hardware, but it broke compatibility with a lot of old apps AND with a lot of old Hardware. Both of which is bad for the corporate guys. They wouldn't throw out perfectly good stuff just because an OS update requires it!
OTOH, Vista didn't break compatibility enough to finally get rid of all those old design flaws. Most of which date back to NT, 95 or even Mess-Dos...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/25/13 0:45 UTC
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 23:59 UTC
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 22:33 UTC
Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Linked by Howard Fosdick on 05/24/13 21:41 UTC
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 14:44 UTC
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.More News »
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Personally I think any power consumption over 50W is excessive. Video cards in particular are shockers.
Why can't we buy a powerful 2D multimedia video card that only uses 20 watts for under $100? Most people aren't gamers but many of us want smooth blu-ray playback and fast video encoding without needing a quad core $500 CPU.