RE: User Demographics
Just where the hell did you pull these utter junk numbers from, seriously?
AdMob? Really?
Posts by Levente Szileszky
1265 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jul 2007
Google's Moto move spells iPhone doom
Thursday 18th August 2011 17:01 GMT
RE: You Have to be Kidding...
...if you are seriously quoting Piper Jaffray and their junk "analysis". :) PJ is a typical lowlife, el cheapo market-manipulator scammy outlet who had been found doing illegal tricks SEVERAL times. They have also at least twice rather deleted emails and paid fines than showing anything to the investigators looking for crucial evidence of improper (securities) conduct (last time they paid $700k, a year ago, just Google the details.) It's a classic crooked firm where so-called "investment banking" and brokering goes hand in hand, only to enrich the firm - kinda like how Government Sachs scammed people in 2007-2008 by pushing worthless derivatives GS itself was selling/shorting already.
Wednesday 17th August 2011 05:11 GMT 
Reasoning is silly but the story remains true...
...namely iOS is losing already and nothing can stop it especially not Apple - its own (fake) exclusive approach cornered iOS into this tight, lonely, sad place on the market: against everybody else.
Regardess of all the Jobsian drones here the fact is a fact: when your competitor activates MORE THAN 5 TIMES MORE units every single day than you do then you have LOST the battle, period.
FWIW the author seems to be quite clueless about demographics and shopping habits, let alone US prices. You know what's cheap? Blackberry, FOR FREE, that's cheap. And that's what you can see it in the hands of kids and teens, yes - not so much those shiny new Android phones because the latest ones are always running around $100-200 with 2-y contracts.
BTW in the past 10-12 months with only a couple of exception literally everybody I know REPLACED her/his iPhone with a new, shiny Android phone. It's a trend and I am not talking about technology professionals only but also - GASP! - design people. Yes, you are reading it right - even classic Apple-base started dropping iPhones now. It's old, it's outdated and AT&T's network sucks.
I mean it sucks - REALLY-REALLY SUCKS, at least in NYC.
Nvidia enlists Cray CTO for Tesla GPU assault
Monday 15th August 2011 20:33 GMT
"Riiight" said AMD and yawned. "Wake me up when NVDA becomes a player in x86 server world..."
And that sums it up all - all the buzz about ARM-based servers etc are pretty lame when 90+ percent of server sales are x86. Nvidia, short on x86 license, can only serve up ARM on its GPGPU platform but in the meantime AMD is adding GPU to its x86...
Call me a pessimist but I cannot see Nvidia converting large number of x86 enterprise users to ARM/GPU-based platforms... I think Nvidia will become more and more a niche player. Which, of course, does not mean they won't make profit, not at all - but their already astronomical R&D cost will go even further up without similarly skyrocketing revenues on the horizon.
Grow up, Google: You're threatening IT growth
Friday 12th August 2011 17:44 GMT
RE: Two things
...and you are totally wrong on both counts - let me guess: another "well-informed" Apple user...?
FYI first application store *I* have used around 2002-2003 was either Handango or PocketGear, both opened circa 1999 - you know, back when Apple was struggling to get its new OSX out of beta status (didn't happen until Panther) and had nothing to do with mobile things.
Of course, a simple Google search would tell you that mutlitouch is available since late 70s, with absolutely no link to Apple.
The fact that you, just like most Apple users, have very limited knowledge on the topic does not mean you have to jump in and post utter BS without checking your facts first....
Apple sues NYC mom & pop shops
Monday 8th August 2011 20:52 GMT
Hey, it's probably Canal St, the smelliest-stinkiest place in the world at these days and...
...home of all knockoffs of the world including those tacky, god-awful, ugly Luis Vutton-deisgned purses, donut-sized fake Rolex and other watches and generally speaking all flashy but cheap things that any self-conscious member of the proletariat loves to wear as a perceived indicator of his/her social status.
Yes, iPods and all sorts of things with that bitten-fruit logo on it are also available here.
The only thing you have to fight is the smell - but make no mistake, this is no small undertaking: the smell is a mixture of rotting fish and dogsh!t, day after day heatep up to 90-100 degrees (~30-40 Celsius for prospective EU buyers) by direct sunlight, in 70-80% humidity during July-Sep...
...so bad that when I take a cab home at the end of the day I always make sure all windows are sealed when we make the right turn to Canal St.
The smell is so consistent, horrible and omnipresent that it's impossible to be coincidental; commuting through here for long years we have developed a crazy theory in our office: every morning, just right after sun comes up, designated "wastemen" emerge from their basements with huge tanks of nasty leftover viscera from the Chinese kitchen they work for (being Chinatown there are quite a few) and carefully dispose their content on every other corner... "oh, we need a bit more chicken gizzard here... ahh, these two-days old fish heads will be perfect here... wow, perfect, let this little blood river run downhill from here so the rats giant flies will all line up here..."
...and nature takes care of the rest, providing a "classic" Chinatown smell - a smell that's once smelled forever etched into the consciousness of every out-of-town bargain hunter.
Google promises fix for jittery Usenet addicts
Adobe outs un-Flash web animation tool
Monday 8th August 2011 18:59 GMT
Pardonnez mon Francais...
...but you must be really high on the Jobsian Kool-Aid if aren't joking here:
"translation:
"we thought we had the power to keep everyone to be locked into Flash forever but in the end Steve Jobs showed us we didn't so we had to get with the program.""
YEAH, because Steve Freedom From Porn Jobs commands such a hold over what's going on the web, rrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiight...
... you Apple shills are really boring, I'm sure you know that.
FYI the web is FULL of Flash-based content and iOS-only content is literally nonexistent compared to Flash.
Yeah I know, it sounds very weird when you compare it to the Jobsian bubble your're living in but it's actually true.
Of course, for you to notice this would require to ditch that useless iOS-crap you are using to run pricey apps, only to get the same content/do the same things we can get/do for free on any device running any proper, current OS (Android, linux, Windows, OS X, literally anything other than iOS.)
This crazy RDF-talk just reminded me how the Puritan-In-Chief was heralded as the savior of the printed press after the iPad announcement - and how it turned out to be the complete opposite: more expensive but a lot less digital content with 30% or more Apple-cut on these already miniscule subscrition numbers...
Monday 8th August 2011 18:59 GMT 
Just tried for the first time...
...and made an animated, dancing logo under 30 seconds And I'm not a web guy (and yes, this also means it is absolutely ugly and lame.))
It is pretty basic, kinda rudimentary right now but if you ever used any kind of timeline/keyframe-based editor/cg/comp/design tool you are fine already - and that's a huge thing if you want to make the transition a lot less painful and spread it a lot faster than it happened with Flash (though granted, Flash was something new so heads had to be adjusted first back then which is not the case here.)
They need to put in a lot more tools/modifiers to make it useful and make one existing plugin system work inside Edge (instead of creating another one, ahem.) Nevertheless it's promising, I must say.
Film studios thrash BT in Newzbin site-block test case
Friday 29th July 2011 09:05 GMT
Seriously: just how did this mesuge Richard Arnold become a justice?
"In throwing this out, Arnold pointed out that European law rejected ISPs' claims that they were not "intermediaries", nor "service providers". He also rejected the proposition that "operators of Newzbin2 do not use the service to infringe copyright".
Actually, dear Judge Mesuge, relevant EU papers SPECIFICALLY STATE THAT ORDERING FILTERING IS ILLEGAL - of course, since you are High Court judge I'm sure it isn't expected from you to follow EU laws like this: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-04/cp110037en.pdf
Actually mesuge is too soft here - since apparenetly not only both of you are Arnolds but both of you have roughly the same knowledge of current EU law hereby you shall be called Judge Schwartzenegger, period.
"Judge Arnold said he believed site-blocking was proportionate, with the Human Rights Act's Article 1 – which protects the property rights of creators – outweighing Article 10's rights of free expression claimed on behalf of Newsbinz2 members, and BT"
So let me get this clear, dear Judge Schwartzenegger: copyrights "outweigh" free speech?
Amazing, just amazin how far a judge can crawl up in the movie industry's ass... are you really this stupid or it's just your stupid niece needed that job?
For a COMPLETELY OPPOSITE STANCE by EU Advocate General Cruz Villalon please see my link above. Cannot wait to see when EU courts strike down your inane junk, Judge Schwartzenegger.
"The Studios have made it clear that this is a test case: if they are successful in obtaining an order against BT, then they intend to seek similar orders against all the other significant ISPs in the UK. The other ISPs were invited to intervene in the present application if they so wished, but have not done so."
Oh well... all ISPs have heard you, all eyes on you, right, Judge Schwartzenegger?
Once again, this is the type of garbage you can expect when you let idiots like this to rule about things dear to their heart: http://jiplp.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/3/224.extract
NotW 'targeted' phone of Sarah Payne's mum
Dell buys Force 10 Networks
Tuesday 26th July 2011 00:01 GMT
RE: dell doesn't need...
"I don't expect to see 40gig equallogic anytime soon, not as long as equallogic can't span more than 1 shelf at a time."
Internally EQL uses 16-drive RAID groups IIRC and even if we assume a future 64-disks unit it's still not enough... on the other hand that's only 4x 10GbE and two are already there on all PS6x10 units.
They also support DCB now: http://www.equallogic.com/resourcecenter/assetview.aspx?id=8855
RIM workforce decimated: 2,000 jobs slashed
Monday 25th July 2011 20:39 GMT
Just how long this clueless management will stay on?
Until the bitter and, until they drive RIM to the ground?
Seriously: after so spectacularly missing all the market shifts a kid was able to predict and then failing at EVERY ATTEMPT to catch up with it, how long these bunglers are allowed to stay at the helm? Will the board finally bring in someone with a clue?
Look at this fool: http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-ceo-walks-out-2010-7
Once again, I pity the engineers...
Ballmer begs partners to love Microsoft clouds
Wednesday 20th July 2011 14:47 GMT
RE: Sorry but most of you are wrong!
"When he says "We are the only company out there that's investing in on-premises and on the cloud. " well he is exactly spot-on, and this will allow the benefits of both to roll in onto the balance sheet."
Ohh YEAH: hours and hours of system-wide, total outage, then another and another... outage after outage at least every few months, for the past few YEARS - ever since they have laucnhed BPOS... that's the benefit? Or you meant the benefit on their balance sheets by not running an enterprise-class service?
So far Microsoft proved that they are literally UNABLE to provide any enterprise-class hosted service. period. Most likely they simply did not have a clue how to do it, they have never launched any product without huge, show-stopping bugs so they are just learning QA101 but apparently it takes years for them...
Be my guest if you want to be a beta tester but if you were my CTO and you'd keep arguing that MS is capable I'd replace you after the 3rd outage, that's for sure.
Speaking of BPOS: I looove the name! It's so quintessentially Microsoft! Who other than MS would would go for such an obviously bad name? :) Clearly shows how the incompetency at the top... or maybe they knew what they are launching hence the fitting name? :D
"I for one have turned away from Google Apps that promised so much and delivered so little,"
Pleahhhse. Google APps is far from a perfect business collab suite, that's for sure but their email platform is literally rock-solid when compared to MS' terrible service track record and Google offered shared, cloud-based collaboration on documents for years now, let alone their 30-40 other products in the Google Apps suite.
Not liking them is fine - I've pretty pissed numerous times at their awful, antisocial geek-styled, dodgy support people with absolutely no clue about preemptive approach - but let's stop with the nonsensical cliches, please. Some might don't like the Gmail UI - I am not in love with it but certainly *hate* that junk Outlook UI -, their recent transition was a mess, app marketplace is mostly nothing but companies utilizing Google Apps API for logins and so on but as far as promises and delivered features go Google Apps (and Zoho) are most likely far ahead of everyone else.
Tuesday 12th July 2011 05:31 GMT
Seriously: he's a bussiness-beancounter guy...
...why would anyone believe his promises especially after these atrocious past few years of BPOS (previous online service bundle)?
Also, the guy is either really out of his mind or full of sh!t:
"VMware, Oracle, Google, and Amazon have merit, he admitted, but he says they're unique, specific, and limited. "We think you want to mix and match between the public and private environments," Ballmer told his conference audience. "We are the only company out there that's investing in on-premises and on the cloud. The amount you learn from working [in] both environments to work in the other is dramatic.""
RRRRIIIIIGHTTTTT, Amazon and others are "unique" proprietary while you are SOOOO OPEN...
And apparently he never heard of OpenStack development group or Rightscale platform etc.
Well, that's what you get when a clueless guy speaks for the company.
Dell considers Google+ for video customer support
Wednesday 20th July 2011 14:13 GMT
RE: And the point is...
...not your broken laptop but ENTERPRISE SUPPORT, D'OH.
It could be a great tool along Webex - and with a lot less issue than Webex -, when one does not have to describe what he's seeing on a failing SAN or server but simply point the webcam and show it. I'd certainly welcome it.
HTC loses prelim patent ruling to Apple, takes stock hit
Monday 18th July 2011 19:18 GMT
RE: Porn
It's one thing that you are obviously clueless about the porn reference - hey, clueless people are always the most opinionated - but can you, please, stop spreading your ignorant nonsense about he's not having an issue with porn?
It's a direct quote from the Puritan-in-Chief:
"Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is."
Though it's more than a year old story it's never too late for you to to catch up: http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-from-porn
Yeah, I know, you feel stupid about now - sorry, it wasn't me...
Monday 18th July 2011 19:18 GMT
RE: What about...
...what? Amazon just launched their store, which part of this you cannot read? https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#Approval Process and Content Guidelines
Oh wait, I see what do you mean - you like this style of publishing information more: http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
Yes, you see it correctly: you cannot even read the second one without already being a developer which comes with a fee.
There goes your claim, the usual Apple way...
Speaking of Amazon's app store: last time I checked Apple immediately sued Amazon, the world and their dogs for using "app store" which is probably the most arrogant dick move, considering the term 'app store' is as common as it can be, nobody gets a hold on it in any sane legal system.
FYI since you are obviously handicapped for this conversation: "Freedom from Porn" is a QUOTE from an email the Puritan-in-Chief wrote himself back in one of his drug-ridden overnight email-back-and-forth-argue-about-your-BS-business-ethics sessions - for your convenience I include the link to the original story: http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-from-porn
Of course, if you you would know about it, along with all the disgusting tactics Jobs/Apple use to smear and kill competitors, to protect their monopolistic little walled garden/turf, you wouldn't end up posting your clueless adhom garbage, I know, I know, apology accepted.
To use a quote that I am sure you will recognize immediately: "Maybe you should read up on the subject instead of posting your opinions as being some sort of facts."
How fitting...
Monday 18th July 2011 15:36 GMT
RE: Killing competitors
You clearly have no clue about the modus operandi of Puritan-in-Chief of Apple, Steve "Freedom From Porn" Jobs - he/his company became one of the most anti-competitive organizations of the world.
A truly disgusting person and corporation, with the most dishonest and unscrupulous business processes aka lowlife tricks. I never thought I will say this but even Microsoft is less monopolistic than Apple.
You really need to read up on the subject before you post any more silly ideas - start with a current issue and check out Apple's app store approval tactics...
Monday 18th July 2011 15:13 GMT
RE: IPs
You meant Apple's, the world's biggest copycat machine's new slogan, right? FYI Apple has never invented anything in its entire existence - nada, nil, nothing.
The lunatic, totally broken US patent system is one thing but accusing HTC stealing from Apple when HTC was already on the market 5 YEARS ahead of Apple is simply a classic lowlife Apple trick to intimidate competiton, hoping it will turn the tide of Android, now activating over half a million devices every day.
Typical Steve "Freedom From Porn" Jobs tactics: when your marketing BS does not work anymore then spread FUD and use big, bold words with a big stick and keep abusing the system as long as it pays - it's the only thing they know as Apple never invented a single thing, only advanced existing inventions.
VMware taxes your virtual memory
Wednesday 13th July 2011 21:15 GMT 
It's a classic (d!ck) EMC move, what's the news? Pay up or switch platforms...
...to Hyper-V - a LOT cheaper - or the even better upcoming XenServer 6 (beta is available) with full of new features including vSphere management support: http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/2011/07/citrix-announces-xenserver-6-beta-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-xencenter/
Is Facebook worth more than Google?
Monday 11th July 2011 07:34 GMT
Good ol' lame, stupid pump-and-dump play by Wall St crooks...
...as always, nothing else.
My fav in this recent BS-train is Zynga, the king of junk copycat games running on FB - valued at $10B...!
That means Activision + EA = Zynga - this unabashed copycat king, let by one of the most disgusting lowlifes of the thief industry, Pincus, is worth more than the two biggest game publishing giants, with ACTUAL games, with ACTUAL portfolios of ORIGINAL franchises.
As I always say you have to really-really-really stupid to believe in this - or you have to have a good reason ($$$) to push this BS-train of IPOs.
The bigger problem is when these unscrupulous, rotten crooks of Wall St, parasites of Government Sachs et al will once again pull out and the house of cards will suddenly come down and we will, once again, be forced to pick up the tabs why these scumbags will be planning the next heist.
At the end it's going to hurt us, taxpayers, nobody else, mark my words.
Microsoft pounces as Mozilla shuns enterprise
Wednesday 29th June 2011 18:42 GMT
RE: Re: RE: And this is why I'm not surprised
I'm a bit perplexed: it IS fully relevant here (ie Firefox in a corporate Windows environment bigger than "manual install everywhere"), why the comments about "dick-size"' and "feel a man"...? =:$
If anything then a "100+ Windows network" is considered rather small in corporate networking so I'm not sure how could be even assumed as a "dick-sizing" argument...
Hah, nobody :D - it's a network mostly I have designed and built over 10+ years, from SANs down to desktops. ;)
Sunday 26th June 2011 07:04 GMT
RE: And this is why I'm not surprised
As someone running a 100+ Windows network w/ FF as primary browser (IE and Chrome being other choices) I am failing to see how "no Group Policy plugins make Firefox (unfortunately IMO) unsuitable for enterprise use if your enterprise uses a Windows environment" - care to elaborate?
"As an admin, I need to make sure the users aren't misbehaving or getting pwned" - right because IE is soooo famous about being secure (the WORST-EVER browser) and that browser security is soooo GPO-dependent... of course, it isn't either. Even if I give you the benefit of doubt and assume you have at least a slight clue about the subject (I doubt) you still couldn't make a single valid connection here FYI.
"AND I need to be able to push updates without disturbing the users... " which, once again, has nothing to do with IE vs FF as both needs to be restarted after patching.... seriously: have you ever seen a browser updated without a restart? Conversely any proper mgmt system will provide silent install, y'know.
"Given that they've never bothered to put out tools for this, it comes as no surprise that enterprise support is not a priority at Mozilla."
OK, so here is the point when I will argue that you lack even the most basic experience in this field, sorry - if you are a corporation you can pick from several different patch mgmt/distribution systems (we use KACE but there are others like LANdesk, Altiris etc) but even if you are some cheap@ss garage-firm you can still use WSUS/SMS-based deployment provided you know how to roll an msi yourself (a better developed chimp can learn it.)
Did I mention with KACE/AppDeploy you can even deploy a fully sandboxed, secure Firefox...?
MeeGo and the Great Betrayal Myths of tech history
Thursday 23rd June 2011 16:12 GMT
Again: Elop is there to make sure Microsoft gets what it wants...
...by either making Windows Phone 7/8 finally running on more devices than the population of Vatican City (unlikely) or sinking Nokia's stock as low as possible so MS can get it's top-notch distribution and hardware divisions for next to nothing.
Memories of Sendo, Nortel, Danger and near-death experiences of Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Palm should always remind you of MS101: partnering with Microsoft = KISS OF DEATH.
Apple's new Final Cut Pro X 'not actually for pros'
'Four million Amazon Tablets' ready for autumn - report
Thursday 23rd June 2011 15:42 GMT
They have all the ingredients together Apple will never get...
...in terms of having the best customer service in the world, already offering streaming rentals as well as downloadable movies and TV shows on desktops, consumer electronic devices etc, DRM-free music for cheap, books readable on all operating systems and devices, all stored and always-available in the world's best cloud architecture, Amazon AWS.
The smartest thing by Amazon was to add Amazon Instant Video for Prime subscribers ($79/year) for FREE - this should slowly eat into Netflix territory, all they need is a bit bigger selection and finally introduce HD streaming for desktop PCs (note to studios: if piracy isn't a concern at Netflix then it shouldn't be at Amazon either.)
Google's Music beta w/ 20k songs free is a nice competitor in the music arena but Google has little chance to get into the media business as waist-deep as Amazon did, let alone Google has little to do with retailing/online sales beyond its own products or searching results (it would just endanger its core business, selling ads on search results.) Amazon sells music, movies, digital books, audiobooks - you name it, Google has little chance to ever succeed here unless studios suddenly decide they want to get in bed with Google and Google is willing to risk alienate its advertisers, partners etc.
We know Apple is busy working on its next-gen TV unit and upgrading its own cloud architecture I don't see how would they catch up with Amazon here (provided Bezos et al gets the tablet right and won't make stupid compromises): Amazon Video is already there in every new TV set or Blu-Ray player or media device made by Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, LG, Vizio etc - heck, even Tivos come with Amazon Video preloaded. Best part is that Amazon has nothing to with devices, hardware support etc.When I tested their HD streaming quality I found it very nice - better than my PoC Time Warner cable (though if you have TWC in NYC you know its junk quality HD channels are not much of a challenge.)
I think Apple's walled garden and dedicated hardware approach won't help here, let alone Amazon's very high customer satisfaction rate - they are really one of the best one out there. When in one of my early tests bandwidth wasn't perfect (I was experimenting with a wireless bridge) and I got moved back to SD, a day or two later I got an email from Amazon saying they have noticed I rented the HD version but I watched it mostly in HD so here's a full rebate and sorry for my problems... Amazon customer service. I mean, amazing. :)
It's one of the few great big companies, I hope they get it right.
Apple iOS 5 gets web 3D...for ads only
Thursday 16th June 2011 19:17 GMT
A gimmick...
...nothing else. If this is how Apple wants to drum up their nonexisting iAd revenues then they are banking on the stupidest advertisers only, I think.
As a side note I think Apple has no clue about mobile ad business - they have learned this the hard way during the past year: after big introduction last year it didn't get a single mention at WWDC so it's obviously a huge flop (Steve "Freedom from Porn" Jobs never admits errors.)
Moreover I don't think they actually like his ad-based ecosystem at all - it eats into their super-profitable wallet garden App Store sales. Witness this as new Mail was introduced with "No ads" as a feature and even the Puritan-In-Chief proudly reaffirmed their anti-ad stance:
“No ads,” he boasted. “We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we just don’t want ads.”
http://www.conversionrater.com/2011/06/07/looks-like-the-iad-hasnt-cracked-mobile-advertising/
Dolphin Browser HD
Wednesday 22nd June 2011 08:50 GMT
RE: new version
"Incidentally, Firefox mobile does this too."
Yeah except current Firefox Mobile beta is on the tune of ~40MB and slow as a dog (provided it did not freeze to death at startup, taking the entire Android OS with it.)
Unfortunately current FF Mobile beta is a pile of oozing sh!t, period.
Duke Nukem publisher parts company with flacks over Twitter gaffe
Thursday 16th June 2011 21:16 GMT
And the game isn't that bad at all - it's a retro piece, remember...
...stiched together from leftover pieces by Gearbox in the past couple of years.
It is overly narcisstic, sexist etc - whatever, that's the point in *ANY* Duke game
.
PR firm was stupid, they should have simply pointed this out, showing how dumb most reviewers are.
AMD promises 10 teraflop notebooks by 2020
Wednesday 15th June 2011 19:25 GMT
RE: the way its going now...
.... before Xmas Nvidia will announce an even more inefficient, battery-killer Tegra which, based on their track record, will lose out even bigger to PowerVR's latest v6 chip.
Nvidia makes great but crazy power-hungry desktop products and as a result they have a lot to learn about energy efficient architectures to be successful in the mobile space, I think.
Wednesday 15th June 2011 17:18 GMT
RE: APU's...
It's actually rather clear from Anandtech's numbers that whenever AMD decides to upgrade the memory path that very moment this little GPU will immediately enter the mainstream performance league (it already mops the floor with Intel's integrated garbage in Sandy Bridge.)
Take a look here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444/amd-llano-notebook-review-a-series-fusion-apu-a8-3500m/3
"With 400 shader processors behind a shared 128-bit DDR3 memory interface, the upper bound for Sumo performance is the Radeon HD 5570. In practice, you should expect performance to be noticeably lower since the GPU does have to share its precious memory bandwidth with up to four x86 CPU cores.
The mobile version of Llano supports up to DDR3-1600 while the desktop parts can run at up to DDR3-1866. Maximum memory capacities are 32GB and 64GB for notebooks and desktops, respectively."
In other words AMD is working on adding another controller/faster path and simultaneously on shrinking faster 6xxx-class GPU core into the same package while also upgrading CPU cores, I bet.
If I were Intel (Larrabee-fiasco, remember?) I would seriously consider buying Nvidia now or soon - NVDA will fall more as next-gen APU releases will near closer but they will need 2-3 years to integrate their products - or they will see their mobile and desktop business shrinking, thanks to APUs, ARM cores etc.
That $5B AMD spent on ATI doesn't seem that much anymore, huh? :)
EA angers fans over Battlefield 3 pre-order exclusives
Apple iCloud: Steve Jobs' own private internet
Thursday 9th June 2011 21:11 GMT
RE: DId you miss
...you mean beyond providing EXACTLY the same services like Amazon's MP3, VOD or Google's Picasa, Docs, Gmail, Music or all the 50+ *other* Google products and services Apple have yet to fully copy in the future?
You Kool-Aid drinkers are funny, I give you that - I imagine your Puritan-In-Chief pulls out a white paper and says "this paper is black" and you will immediately start parroting it's black.
I know, I know, there's no spoon...
Thursday 9th June 2011 21:08 GMT
RE: Adam T aka the classic clueless Apple fanbase...
.... who thinks all the things they didn't have a clue about before Apple showed them shouldn't have existed at all. RIIIIIGHT.
"What, you mean like the iPhone, the iPad, the iMac, stylus-free touchpads, simple, affordable development and distribution for developers on a mass-market platform (not Linux, I mean a platform that makes money)."
Case in point... no, I mean exactly UNLIKE these well-known copycats made by Apple.
Thanks for confirming my old belief about the inherent clueless nature of any true Apple-zealot, though. :)
Wednesday 8th June 2011 14:49 GMT 
Sometimes I wonder: will Apple ever come up with something on its own...?
Granted, I didn't expect to much anyway - another predictable 'meeetoo' by Apple, following Google, Amazon etc. The whole history of their online services reads like a classic copycat operations, aimed at clueless Apple users: before subscription-based, overpriced MobileMe there was subscription-based, overpriced .Mac and even if we consider free iTools their earliest (beta) predecessor - I don't - that wasn't different either: non-supported webmail, hosting etc which were already available on the market. But hey, once you are locked into this platform you gotta buy the same 'brand', right?
But seriously: iCloud...?
I cannot think of a worse name... It's fitting though: no creative thinking, tacky, cheesy - classic Steve "Freedom from Porn" Jobs aka Apple.
Wednesday 8th June 2011 14:49 GMT
RE: Just checked..
1. For music try Google Music (beta), its 20k song limit regardless of size is really generous and you can still buy more space.
2. You can copy any file up to 1GB size into your Google account via Docs, for free. When you run out of space you can get more for cheap - your 80-100GB should be around $20-30 per year.
3. It's Lion aka OS X 10.7 (Tiger was OS X 10.4, the first *actually* usable, mostly bug-free OS X.)
Apple pilfers rips off student's rejected iPhone app
Nokia CTO replaced by Professor of Karma
Thursday 9th June 2011 17:53 GMT
Anything that MS touches FAILS, that's rule #1...
...and rule #2 is after it happens they all try to escape the deadly grip of this bureaucratic, thought-killing, management-ruined slow-moving beast called Microsoft.
Strictly looking at mobile business: with its utter junk Windows Mobile MS literally KILLED Sendo, Nortel, Danger and *ALMOST* managed to kill Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Palm, Nokia - this is all in the past 10 years.
If you look at the list you will notice that survivals are all MS-free and running Android and raking in profit again. The only exception is Nokia and MS is at it again, this time even managed to push Elop into the CEO's chair - the same guy who made the Nokia-MS deal as an MS employee in 2009 about bringing 'all Office business to Symbian'... less than two years later Nokia was on the ropes and the hyenas are already circling.
Moral of all these stories - most important business survival message for execs: AVOID CONTACT WITH MICROSOFT AT ALL COST!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
