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As much as i want this to happen. I dont see this coming in the near future.
Why would they release the new MacPro with Intel Xeon if they had ever planned to switch away? And would MacPro be staying in x86 land if Apple decide to switch the rest to ARM?

Another obstacle is Thunderbolt. This DisplayPort + External PCI-Express Cable is totally in control by Intel. AMD's version is based on USB 3, which is an ugly hack that Apple will unlikely use.

The performance gap between Haswell and A7 is huge. Watts to Watts, at Notebook / Desktop power range Intel wins hands down. Although the gap is shrinking with each Ax SoC.

Then there is the part about Intel Atom losing on performance. Which is wrong. Intel Atom SoC performs really well. It didn't get much wins simply because of its ecosystem and prices.

The Mobile SoC market are operating at thin margin comparatively speaking. Even if Intel are offering Atom at the same price, why would any OEM wants to be bound by Intel & x86 again? So Intel decide to offer those SoC at a lost and what happened? On the Western world it is dominated by Qualcomm where it offer better solution or cheaper TC with its integrated Modem. In Eastern World or China it is hit by "8 Core" marketing team from MediaTek. Everyone thoughts more Core = better.

I dont see how Intel is going win this Mobile battle. Apple will pretty much drive Intel to where they want, which is to Fab SoC for them.
Both of you seem to have gotten confused by mitx.org, the "Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange."

That site is not related to MITx, the MIT MOOC offering. MITx was essentially renamed edX (after MIT partnered with Harvard) and is here: https://www.edx.org/

The MIT part (still called MITx) is here: https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

MITx does not have a "$7,500/year corporate membership," etc.
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You're not missing anything.

I once managed to create a cross-build system "wrong way". (OBS made this error both possible and easy.) I tried to build some pretty heavy x86 software (QtWebKit) and ended up creating a config that used a cluster of panda boards to run qemus in x86 emulation mode.

To my chagrin, I didn't realise the error until I was wondering, after ~5h, why my build was still not finished.
The fact that there's been a setback does not mean that the project has turned into a disaster. In a really big, multi-year project things can go wrong, they can be dealt with, and the project can be completed successfully.

In the case of stuck tunnel boring machines, a good example is the second St. Clair Tunnel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Tunnel). The Seattle Times has a good article about the problems encountered with the St. Clair Tunnel and how that relates to the Seattle Deep Bore tunnel: "Canada’s tunnel saga offers lessons on Bertha fix" (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022905964_berthasarn...).

The conclusion of the article nicely sums things up:

> Arguments over costs in Sarnia dragged on until 2008, when the Supreme Court of Canada decided who must pay $36 million for repairs and delays — the CN Railway’s insurers.

> By then, double-stacked trains had been using the tunnel between Canada and the U.S. nearly 14 years, and the seven-month delay was long forgotten.

> Until now.

Now maybe other things will go wrong, and the project really will be a fiasco. But I don't think we're anywhere near that point yet.
1. Never expose it to the internet... Use a VPN if you have to access from outside your network. Most home routers support vpn;s so there is no reason not to

2. You should always have 3 copies of data, 1 working, 1 local back and 1 geo diverse backup (i.e a spideroak, crashplan, or even a friends house) Most people forget the 3rd but what happens if your house burns down?

3. You should have a completely cold backup of important data, this could be a external hard drive that is only plugged in when backups are done, DVD's, Tape Drive, or something else, but what ever it is it should not be accessible to the system with out manual intervention, this will prevent scripts from deleting everything.
You say that ARM chips are 10x slower than Haswells, but the difference isn't actually that large anymore and for Apple's A7 it's around 3x versus a normal desktop chip like the 4770 and only 1.7X versus the 4250U you'd find in a Macbook Air[1]. Diminishing returns is a constant factor in engineering and I'd expect it to be very hard for Apple to make up the remaining distance between themselves and Intel, but we shouldn't exaggerate how large that difference is. And it is possible that some hypothetical A8 could be made competitive with Intel in the 15W range due to not having to make the compromises required to hit 4 GHz.

I do agree that the ~10W you'd save by using an A7 versus an 4250U in a Mackbook Air would be a false economy.

EDIT: To explain that bit about targeted power ranges a bit more, to hit high frequencies at a given process node (like 45 nm or whatever) you need to break up your logic into a fairly high number of simple stages separated by clock driven latches. A core that doesn't worry about hitting high frequencies can divide up it's logic into fewer stages, simplifying design and requiring fewer transistors for latching.

[1]http://www.computingcompendium.com/p/arm-vs-intel-benchmarks...
FWIW, it should be able to run ARM Windows, right?
Paris has height restrictions, which doesn't seem to have deterred artists.

On the contrary, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a096d1d0-d2ec-11e2-aac2-00144...
I think the idea was that it could be removed from the tamper evident packaging and used to dose food/drink/etc. It's true that greater availability does make this more possible, but 1) it's not exactly impossible at present, 2) there are plenty of other things that someone could be dosed with (I'd rather LSD than rat poison), and 3) someone trying to do so now is liable to cause greater harm (I'd rather be dosed with pure LSD than adulterated). Of course, I'd rather not be dosed with anything against my will in the first place, but that doesn't seem to be made substantially more likely by legalization of LSD.
While I think the article's prediction is incorrect (see my other comment for why), it did give me an idea: Why doesn't Apple design their own x86 CPU?

Their work on the Ax series has probably taught them quite a bit that could be ported over to x86-land. Also, Apple could leave out x86 cruft they don't use: legacy addressing modes, PAE, etc. And of course, they could design the CPU specifically for their products instead of searching for the closest match sold by existing vendors (or cajoling Intel to tweak their designs).

Apple already has strong relationships with fab companies. They have the talent and teams to design such a CPU. One wonders if they're already working on such a thing. Even if it never shipped, it could be used to negotiate lower prices from Intel.
>>Strange that there has been no reporting of this "riot" from last week

Literally 10 seconds with Google:

http://www.dn.se/sthlm/200-i-rinkebyupplopp-polis-skadad-av-...

(The publication date is "2014-07-24 08:31". ~ A week ago.)
I use Excel XML spreadsheets (so I don't have to write my own tools) as tabular stores for stuff like I18N, item lists, and so on, but a way to actually manage translation has generally eluded me. Never heard of Transifex before but this'll help me out with my own gamedev.
There are people building serious 64 bit arm chips, for server type applications. No idea what actual performance will be yet.
I agree with threeseed and I'm also someone who has spent hundreds with Themeforest. Viewing demos one by one is too slow. It doesn't live up to your promise of finding themes quickly.

However, the larger problem you discovered is that spending adwords is not cost effective for theme affiliates. It's common knowledge that the bigger players like Themeforest, ElegantThemes, etc. have better economics so they will always outbid you. But if you reduce your CPCs down to your breakeven, the volume will be too low to bother. Ultimately you need a more cost effective traffic channel to have any chance of making this work.

I also own a premium themes business and a theme review blog so I will share the ways I get cheap traffic:

1. For the premium themes, I rely on marketplaces and blog reviews/roundups. I let them drive the traffic while I focus on building great themes.

2. For the theme review blog, I rely on super long tail search traffic driven by the hundreds of theme reviews I've written. I also gain traffic and links by writing guest posts on prominent WP blogs.

3. Another big traffic driver I see a lot but don't use myself is to release high quality free WP themes. Then mix in premium affiliate themes on your Themes page to make a little money.

Be prepared to spend a solid year working on the above before you see significant traction. It's a tough space to play in these days, but it does eventually pay if you work really hard at it. If that scares you, I would probably pull the plug now before you spend a lot more time.

Best of luck!
By talking to the person, in person or on the phone or IM or email, depending on the priority of the question/issue. If something needs to be addressed then it goes into the bug tracker (whatever that might be). For egregious things, we might even `git revert` the patch and let the person rethink/rework it.
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I actually see Apple branding A7 as 'desktop class' to leverage better CPU price from Intel.
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Fixed now. Just type Ctrl-C. Thanks for the report.
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mu4e is pretty good - http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

the configuration is a bit of a pain, but once you've gotten past the setup it's a very nice way to do your email from inside emacs
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I don't know of one, but Firebug has a nice cookie viewer/editor. To be fair, the Chrome cookie tool seems to be useless for anything other than deleting cookies, which is why I keep the EditThisCookie extension installed.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fng...
The power of data: You will be surprised to learn that US still provides economic assistance to countries like Germany, Japan, France and more ...
I tried for years as a solo, unsuccessful. I had reasonable product and customers but one cannot grow enough to be interesting to investors.

I joined as the 3rd person on a pre-money team. Hardly knew one dude, still haven't met the other in person. 6mo into this we got a few bucks from an Angel and 6mo after that we got another Angel.

My experience was that its impossible for solo; but easy for a team. I also firmly believe in the three founder model (biz, sales, tech)

I would be careful calling any investors yokel or D-List. To me investors seem emotionally sensitive. But regardless, economic scarcity is working in their favour so you better come correct to the game.
Heh, I'm not applauding anything, just stating reality: the amount required to trip on LSD is orders of magnitude less than every other recreational drug.

Were a legalized form of LSD distributed in a such a way that it could not be combined to create a single powerful dose, sure, that sounds reasonable. However, if one were able to purchase liquid LSD to treat their chronic back pain, no, there should be limits in place to protect oneself and others, as again, LSD is no joke ;-)
I'm honestly not sure what Prof. Flower's view is here. I feel like I'm missing a lot of assumed history, context and perspective when I read this.

I've completed several courses through MITx, perhaps half a dozen total through edX and many more between edX, Coursera and Udacity.

The best content was an all around better experience than anything I've experienced in my time doing online programs as a adult student at an accredited university.

The best MOOC courses I've done are highly produced and thoughtful, particularly relative to the 'Read chapters 8,9,10 and submit these exercises directly from the painfully written $147 textbook.' accredited courses which I'm paying thousands each year for.

Relative to the state of the typical community college or state university online experience edX is revolutionary.

Opting for paid certificates of completion via MOOC wherever possible, I've spent the equivalent of perhaps 1.5 university credits and gained more than the 30 I've accrued over the past year.

MOOCs as a better and cheaper alternative to the current options for non-traditional students would seem like a great thing.

Obviously, there's one big issue, the gap between being educated (what you know) and having an education (what degree you hold).

Working in tech it's easy to forget that the field is pretty unique in valuing the former on par with if not completely in lieu of the latter. The rest of the world doesn't operate that way.

As long as MOOC courses are not accredited or otherwise valued by employers they aren't terribly useful to people who need education most.
I made the mistake of leaving a copy of my wallet.dat file on a Synology box that had port 5000 open to the net for the Surveillance Station app.

Pro tip: don't do that.
please add a feature to re-order properties alphabetically, that would be super useful. derulo package wiggle ;)
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How would I make a bell sound? (I know nothing about audio)

Can audio / sounds be copyrighted?
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He actually said it's the funnest, not funniest. I'm not sure which he meant though.
Ha. That's actually an employer, but fair point.
I'm not sure what the budget for most mobile app startups is, so I'm not sure if it'd be more reasonable for a startup to find some friend with a DSLR to take some shots for lunch or coffee (essentially getting something 80% as good as these, without the extra features of layers etc for approximately 10% of your asking rate). These freebies certainly look like they're high quality, though, and that's a start.

Something that strikes me as way more important is that transforming a screenshot so that it looks natural in the hand of the model is probably the most valuable thing you can offer here. This means giving it some perspective (skew, rotate, etc...), right? Automating that for each image by providing a macro or something would really make these images more valuable in my opinion. Even text instruction rather than a script would be useful.

I don't have Photoshop, and maybe Pixelmator is ignoring scripts such as these since it doesn't understand them, so I may be giving you advice you already know. If not, consider figuring out a way to package that, because that'd certainly make these images more useful (perhaps even worth more than $70, although I really have no context for stock photo value).
What if Apple introduced workstation-class ARM another way; made a really powerful iPad/iPhone which could sit in a dock with keyboard/mouse/monitor, and run both iOS and ARM OSX?

x86 computers could continue to exist for high-end users, but typical-users might be content with a hybrid tablet/computer. As ARM increased in power, x86 might dissapear entirely.

Your comments on Windows compatibility/virtualization are spot on. Cloud streaming, Citrix/XenApp, can help in some situations here. In a few years virtually all major apps will probably be cloud/browser based (Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, streaming games/apps, etc). Windows on Mac might not be as important then. It's possible Microsoft might release ARM Windows too (besides RT). If ARM gets popular in the datacenter you may see Windows Server 2015 ARM Edition. They've done this in the past with Itanium.
We are using Ruby on Rails.
Apache Tika exists for years and seems to have the same goal: http://tika.apache.org/

I'm wondering why the authors wrote something from scratch ?

edit: this is answered by one author in the 2nd disqus comments of the link
Don't make me waste minutes of my time watching vague videos before i can actually find out what it is. Give me a technical drawing first, or at the very least have the decency and courtesy to have your video display what it does, accurately, in the first ten seconds instead of making me watch someone pump their bike.

Also, holy shit, blinking backlights are a massive danger source. They may be nice when you're riding on a narrow country road with nothing at all for miles but you, your bike, and a psycho car driver; however when you're in a city, on a bike path, and there's a person behind you, your blinking light will rob them of the ability to effectively concentrate on the surroundings because your blinking light will keep drawing their attention. And don't try to tell me you'll switch it off/set it to no-blink when you switch from riding on the road to riding on a bike path. You'll be too lazy to. I'd be too lazy to.

In effect this project is badly marketing a thing that will increase traffic danger.

I'd actually like this if it wasn't for the latter point.
Yeah. Noted. We don't have a mobile site yet. Lack of resources at the moment, but I hope to do it soon.
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Yeah, as soon as the guy started saying this I discounted the whole article. Yes, maybe Apple will switch to A7 chips, but this author sure doesn't know enough about processors to have any kind of a privileged viewpoint.

If one doesn't even know what uops are, and doesn't have a mental estimate of what percentage of i7 silicon is devoted to the instruction decoder, one doesn't get to write articles comparing Intel to ARM chips.

Edit: Going back to the article I note the author is Jean-Louis Gassee, so this is just bizarre. He is kind of just talking out his ass and I would hope he'd know better than that, because whereas making stuff up is a survival skill in exec-land, being blatantly and demonstrably wrong about said make-ups is not.
It actually is true, though it's easy to exaggerate how important it is. Decoding an x86 instruction into the RISCish internal format isn't hard, but decoding 4 at once can be quite a challenge. There's no way to look at a single byte of the incoming instruction stream and figure out if it's the start of an instruction or not, you need to do a fair amount of decoding on each byte of the chunk that you fetch from I$ before you can tell where the instruction boundaries are. For A64 ARM you know that every fourth byte is going to be a new instruction start. I wouldn't put this penalty at more than maaaaybe 20% at the very most, but it is a thing.

EDIT: And there are things like instruction gates that seriously are cruft that gums up how the memory system works, and some would argue that the x86 memory ordering constraints fall under this as well. On the other hand you should listen to Linus rant about how REP MOVS is the best thing since sliced bread that every other architecture is missing out on.
I'm just going to start writing that in all of my math books.
Thank you!

Good question. The broader idea originally was to "uncover employee happiness" but we've held off on the measure/metrics part of the business to build up the perks/rewards side.
Let's get this straight. Can your position be correctly defined as: Blackhats are accused of breaking the law, therefore, they are not entitled to due process and legal representation in court? In addition, the military is allowed to make a hostile response with any offensive network resources they have available?
Linear Discriminant Analysis bit by bit
Somebody has just realized that it sucks not to have control over their own content. Facebook (or Google for that matter) provides free service, so they have pretty much total control over whom to refuse or withdraw the service.
Change to a watchface that includes the battery charge. Better yet, install Pebble Canvas and create your own watch face.
If they left out stuff they didn't use, they would still have to keep in stuff that others use. Apple might not use Feature A, but application A might use Feature A, or at the least, VMWare might need Feature A in order to run Windows 7 or Ubuntu.

If Apple wanted to go full-iOS and lock out everything that isn't Apple-approved, then this would be a good idea. If they wanted to keep Bootcamp, virtualization, or an unregulated third-party application development environment, designing chips without the standard features of Intel chips wouldn't be a great idea.
I've have my synology hooked up to the net and have seen a LOT of attempts in the past few weeks to log into root / sh from what looks to be Chinese IPs.
Cool, but what kind of de facto sovereignity does it have? Does it have a sea port? An international airport? Transport corridor beween two its parts?
The "transitions" comments leave out a big piece of functionality; certainly big for me, and I imagine big for others. That's VMs for Windows and Linux. I have all kinds of Linux VMs I run on my Mac, and I imagine others that need "that one Windows app" run Windows a lot in VMWare and VirtualBox. Going to ARM would torch a big part of Mac functionality for me.
Very difficult (not impossible - see below*), from what you have written above. Why should anyone invest their money with you, when you have no track record. Also, what happens if you fall under the "proverbial" bus.

Any reasonable investor will say (not in so many words), use your own money to prove that your idea works, and then I may invest some of my money.

You may find some risk taker investors, who may take a bet on you, but if they are professional investors, they hedge their bet by making sure that they can wrestle control of the company from you if you don't deliver - and that's unlikely to be appealing to you either, so your best bet is to try to show the world that they were all wrong in not backing you - and they (investors) will all come crawling to you.

At the moment, the way I see it, you're not holding any of the cards (though I'm sure you see it differently), so investors will call all the shots in the current scenario you describe.
Why is it open to the internet?

Don't do that.

You say it was "behind your router" but I think you've specifically opened ports to your NAS (or you have some sort of NAT and the NAS has done it)

Restrict access (if you must open it to the internet, open to only specific IP addresses) or better yet disable it, and use an ssh port-forward if you really have to get to it.
According to Geekbench the current CPU in the iPad Air (the A7) scores about the same as a Core 2 Duo from 2006 (the E6600). Nothing to sneeze at and definitely getting close to the low power Haswell CPU's in systems like the Macbook Air. But I reckon it'll be a few generations of A series CPU's before they reach the point where they can challenge Intel for the crown
That doesn't address the actual recording of the comments such that they can easily see the context of your comments. It also doesn't adress pre-merge review and pre-merge integration automated testing.

In short: No. Although I'm happy that your process works for you it doesn't (and won't) work for a lot of other situations (including mine at my current place of work nor my previous one).
Cribbing a die shot:

http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/cpu/intel_core_i5_760_b...

Notice the size of the L3. Now look at a core- each core is probably 50% L2 by area, and the L1 + branch predictor/prefetcher probably occupies another 25%.
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