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Nice overview on modern CPU limitations but I find it more interesting that the continual pitching of Venray Technology didn't seem to pan out. Not much online since around 2012. I wonder what went wrong with their idea to integrate CPUs onto DRAM. Weird architectures usually fail I guess.

I worked in a company that made CNC machine tools at the time of the Challenger disaster. The actions of Roger Boisjoly gave me the courage to reject a demand from management that I add a "feature" to a control system I was working on to disable all safety lockouts from a single virtual switch.

I refused the assignment. When they didn't fire me on the spot I followed the managers who made the request and when they would ask another engineer to do it, I would warn the engineer that they could be held personally responsible for any injuries or fatalities that could occur.

I fully expected to be fired but surprisingly, management just gave up on the idea. Perhaps my insistence that it was a bad idea convinced them.

These are some of the highest paid corporate officers. The state income tax will offset the cost in a few years.

No mention of the disastrous "cleaning up" bug when you pulled the PCMCIA RAM card. That was the final straw for me. It could take 30-45 minutes before you could use your device again after pulling the card.

The file is compressed.

Info here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96491/why-does-du-re...

The last answer (marked for 0 points of course) is probably correct in this case. The file fits in the extended attributes.

There are some really odd results in his benchmarks. For example, he has a Dell Venue 11 Pro with a Core-M beating a Surface Pro 4 with a Core-i5 on some video tests. It is unlikely that a Core-i5 loses out to a Core-M for anything.

He has problems with video testing in general. It seems he couldn't figure out how to test 4K video editing on the iPad Pro. For reference, 9to5 Mac got it to work with some bugginess.

I don't think there is much lagging in the node size with the A9 family in comparison to Intel's mobile chips. A9 is a 14-16 nm FinFET design. Not much different than Intel's 14 nm FinFET for core-M. The A9X is clocked at 2.26 GHz compared with a Skylake core-m7 clocked at 1.2-3.1 GHz.

An enthusiastic thumbs up. I don't want to be anything but a programmer. I never have. I've tried starting companies. Rewarding but ultimately not successful. I've been a manager. It was awful. I've only ever been happy when creating software. Not always happy because the industry has major problems but the only time I like my job is when I'm writing software. I've done everything: QA, systems admin, build management and everything needed for successful software engineering but programming is my passion. I'm going to be a programmer until my brain won't let me continue.

I'm 53.

Russian web store. not working.

I would think that NoScript will block it.

The CFO stated that the watch provided was more than 100% growth of revenue in the Other category. Also that the watch sold more than iPhone and iPad in the same initial 9 week period. So more than 3 million Apple watches compared against initial iPad sales.

I was taught that 5.5x was the standard BOM to retail price ratio. If the revised article is correct and the BOM is $20.19 then there is a fairly large markup to $199.

And one the main differences between the original teardown with the counterfeit headphones was that the hinges were zinc alloy and with the real Beats headphones, the hinges were made with higher quality stainless steel.

Oddly timed article given the announcement by IBM of their successful 7 nm test chips.

The original article on Medium that this article on huffington post reprints was based on a pair of counterfeit Beats headphones. The followup on Medium does the teardown on a real pair of Beats. Not much difference but some improved quality:

https://medium.com/bolt-blog/how-it-s-made-series-yup-our-be...

IBM has some good news on III-V materials as well.

https://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/futuristic...

Thanks for this. Great presentation. I learned a lot.

Last page for accuracy is totally busted on an iPhone. Too bad.

The Atom CPU in the Surface 3 doesn't seem competitive with the A8X in the iPad Air 2. Geekbench results:

  Uploaded	Model			Processor		Frequency	Cores	Platform	Single-Core Score	Multi-Core Score
  Feb 21, 2015	Intel CHERRYVIEW	Intel Atom x7-Z8700	1601		4	Windows 32-bit		984		3210
  Feb 13, 2015	Intel CHERRYVIEW	Intel Atom x7-Z8700	1601		4	Windows 64-bit		990		3451

  Uploaded	Model			Processor		Frequency	Cores	Platform	Single-Core Score	Multi-Core Score
  Jan 27, 2015	iPad Air 2		Apple A8X		1500		3	iOS 64-bit		1814		4665

I've worked with developers who seem to code mostly by going to stack overflow, finding something that seems to fit their problem and then they copy code into the app. No attempt to find a more recent version or a more correct solution of the problem is made. I've seen JavaScript code copied from a stack overflow answer that was dated 2009. There is nothing better than a 6 year old answer to a common JavaScript problem.

Battery is replaceable obviously. Why would you doubt that?

No GPS hardware in the Apple Watch so it would be more accurate to say it uses GPS in the iPhone. Any reference for this? It does make sense though.

If it is 10 ms, Apple isn't going to promise that. It is on the right order of magnitude I think.

Apple is touting a 50 ms accuracy on their new Apple Watch. That sounds suspiciously like the accuracy of NTP. If Apple is relying on NTP for the watch, they would be crazy to not help out financially for its support.

"If I have to get up to ask you a question, I might not ask it."

That seems very inefficient for most questions. Why not ask online instead?

Can't do that, we looked at the VPN logs and no one ever logged in.

Having people constantly walking behind you is incredibly distracting. If I have a wall and no chance of anyone behind me, I won't be nearly as distracted.

"Typed while goofing off in my cubicle".

Yeah, fun all right. "Why aren't you finished with your project?"

"I can't concentrate at the office. But I'm having fun. Isn't that enough?"

"Sure, sure. Carry on!"

Scary in 2011. A little less so in 2012. As of now, not very scary.