Posts by mdriftmeyer

Quote: Originally Posted by 3Eleven  I will say some of the Samsung ads do make me giggle. I'll never forget that one with the wife saying goodbye to her husband and she beams him a special movie.   I always...

Seeing as DISH Network owns Blockbuster and may soon own US Sprint/Clearwire then I won't be surprised if they are working hard with Apple to partner against NetFlix.

Very simple to check. All a Developer needs to do is set up a dev iPad/iPhone slave it off their dev box, run Wireshark and see what sorts of background threads are running that should not be running, which use CPU/GPU cycles, even WiFi...

Quote: Originally Posted by SCProfessor  So how is Hasbro a big deal if you are already running a supped up graphics card?   It's not. Haswell is reportedly a 10% improvement over Ivy-Bridge on the CPU. BFD.

And no matter what Intel touts they get completely obliterated by SoC with real discrete GPU cores. The next gen SoC will continue to have ImgTec GPGPUs on them. Intel cannot touch their capacities, performance and power use. The Air...

Ron is not CEO material. He had 2 years and cut 43k jobs and no bottom in sight. There is a reason so few Executives are CEO/Chairman material. So few have true vision and fewer yet stick to it. People truly don't get that Apple...

Multiple Themes UI was killed during the Mac OS 9 days. It's long since buried. That dog will never hunt.

Quote: Originally Posted by gwmac  I will take your word for it. Since you seem to be the guy to ask, how does iOS and Android currently compare when it comes to fully utilizing all the cores? With quad and even octa...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Actually, the statement is true. IN A VACUUM, items of different weights fall at the same speed. In the atmosphere (where most people will be using their phones), you have...

There are big improvements in LLVM/Clang/LLDB/Compiler-RT/Libc and more coming in the June Release. What's even more exciting is that with C 11 complete and C 14 add-ons hitting the trunk presently there are even bigger improvements...