As a complete fanboi with a 15" rMBP...

...and almost all mod cons, I have to agree that this isn't a winner.

Dual core only, no discrete graphics, and there's only £100 between the 13" and the 15" with 256Gb of disc! That one needs to be at £1399 or so to make any sense.

RDP client is free from MS

"straight up RDP will do; Microsoft offers a client with its Office suite"

Actually it's a free download - no MS purchase reqd.

Best thing I've seen today. Only to be superceded in 21 minutes by the first pint...

re GPUs - "maybe it can work for your workstation apps, too."

Great! Rather than pay $6000 a pop for trader spec workstations I'll get our quants to rewrite everything in OpenCL. I can see that taking a few years to pay off... Not to mention the fact that high-end workstation GPU cards will cost as much or more (Quadro 6000 pushing $3K a pop at the cheapest venues, I see).

Sometimes it's cheaper to buy iron than cut code.

I'm not fussed about training up the next set of programmers - the talented ones will auto assemble, the untalented ones can be bought in the 3rd world for 2p/kilo - but an understanding of code and how it works should be a mandatory part of the pre-GCSE syllabus, just at the

10 print "about time"

20 goto 10

level. At GCSE hopefully there'll be Raspberry Pi for everyone!

I suspect given the level of GCSE maths these days I'm being damned optimistic. Paging Frank Chalk to the thread... Syllabus rearrangement is to some degree a deck chairs/titanic affair. At least the Feng Shui of this arrangement is pleasing.

Icon: IT? bleh. Computer Science forever!

Assuming for the sake of argument...

...that Lewis can invalidate the opinion piece of his whole article in a single assumption, why does he bother? Expanding a bit upon the actual reportage would have been more interesting.

That's my birthday pressie sorted out...

One subscription to Fungal Biology please, love.

No content, but...

<3 Lewis Page's defence coverage.

Oh dear.

Based on the crop of stories - complete with subsubeditor taglines of excruciating excrebility - awaiting me after lunch, did you have your 1 December drinks today?

cased and slippy

Hmmm. I actually got a case due to the fact that the iPhone 4 slid off everything, landed face down and scratched the screen. I'm unsurprised by the headline, as my 3G managed two scratches of significance in 2Y and my 4 managed 10 in a month.

Anecdotal evidence may cause cancer.

I think

I should get the GF this for her birthday rather than the Cayman S.

More posts with classic New Order album subtitles please

Nostalgia for the 40+ demographic. Surely Movement / Lowlife / Technique could be shoehorned easily into a weeks subs. Nothing post-1988 though, if possible, it's all been downhill since then.

Pub anyone?

I really have a fierce thirst now. And not for the merkin piss at that...

Scanner

Someone get this kit to Robin Rimbaud - there's been a paucity of Scanner over the past few years...

intermittently down since last night at least

Couldn't use GMaps to find the damned pub we were going to:-(

Seemed to work much later in the evening, briefly.

Dead again today. Grrrrr. Might try the APN workaround...

All these dirty rings...

In my day, it was all Eye of Iapetus jokes round 'ere.

- A Concerned Clarke Fan

open to interpretation

"The real pity (perhaps) is that Java, because of its interpreted nature and therefore its high overhead compared to compiled languages..."

did we miss the last ten years of JIT compilation technology work? once you've been through a piece of code a couple of times and the JIT has been at it, it's not interpreted at all... java's reluctance to give you access to the low-level fiddly bits you need to implement efficient HPC code is the real problem.

is C++ comparable to FORTRAN these days? people were up to all sorts of template-unpleasantness to do efficient vector calculations last time i looked...