There is a contest to name all the things wrong with the official Microsoft Win 10 airliner (at this point in time, anyway)

Microsoft says the old style driver for the propellers is no longer supported .....  you can try to install your old propellers, but they will not turn.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 09/07/16 at 03:46:52:



Perfect reply, that's just funny..

So, stumbled upon this, looking for the airplane.

http://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html#Windows10

Being NOT a techie I'm not qualified to say
This is Good,
But I Think it's good. It's loaded with links.

http://liliputing.com/2016/05/arm-unveils-cortex-73-mali-g71-graphics-vr-augm...
 
The new Japanese Softbank owned ARM HOLDINGS has just finally announced production on a new class of main ARM Cortex class cores called the A73, once again announced "just in time" mainly because a licensee (Qualcomm) was shipping the new SOC core design to customers and they are announcing new phones being built around it.



So, we are getting a new A73 core, matched up with the old A53/57 smaller cores for Big little, with a whole new generation of improved Mali G71 3D Graphics which are aimed directly at 3D phones/googles.

We will see if the Japanese can improve on some of ARM's current really closed mouth PR habits.....  but it is refreshing to see something REAL being announced only when it becomes real, followed in the weeks immediately following by independent benchmark testing of the real thing.

What does ARM claim for the new chipset?   That it doesn't slow down when it gets up to temperature.   This really means only the hot, clock downed state is being advertised and serious efforts have been to maximize performance at this state AND that the heated up, clocked down performance is now appreciably  faster than the old cold chip performance used to be.

This is actually a significant forward progress for the ARM world.

25-30% throughput improvement is being touted, which is in line with the old hot state speed drops from years past.

As the chips get down to smaller lithography, they tend to get MORE SENSITIVE to heat.   So, what ARM is saying is that they have some new tech antidote for overheating built into this product itself.

Samsung has been building heat pipes into their own design's SOC cores (and into the ones they build for Qualcomm too) so this heat pipe tech may have moved over to the mainstream midrange phone SOCs from ARM now.   Mebbe, possibly.



Actually, when you plan to plunk a phone into a desk dock and use the thing as a PC, having it run reliably at full speed once it gets warm is a good thing, don't you think?   And robust, fast 3-D graphics are a must in that use also.




Now, here is the interesting kicker -- all these numbers DO assume a speed bump due to 10nm lithography, as we see there IS going to be a lithography shift very soon across the entire phone industry -- down to 10nm.    

Every Lithography Shift of late (last 3 lithography shifts anyway) has had the very first SOCs out of the gate to foul themselves up with thermal issues fairly badly.    And that makes this newest one an "against the recent reality trend" sorta thing when ARM claims the A-73 cores will not slow down below their rating numbers when they get hot.  

We shall see, we shall see ........ soon enough anyway.

Change, she comes   ......

 (except to Intel and Microsoft, that is)  ......

then you have to know independently that Windows Phones in total only represent 0.4 % of the active phones on the planet right now, and that the market share of Windows 10 phones is about 0.05% (a little more than 1/10th of what is out there Microsoftish).  

I've listened to some good comedians who didn't tickle me as much.

So, MS " UpGrades " my computer to Win 10, for Free.
And now it's a POS, polluted with an OS I DIDN'T BUY,and didn't WANT, and there is effectively nothing I can do, unless I can wipe the drive and load an OS because I just happen to Have a cd?

So, if I stop by and dump a coke in your keyboard, as long as I don't try to bill you,I don't get in trouble for vandalism?

So, I can slip a note under the wiper of that Jaguar down the street and lay claim to it?

I don't know if it's paid off,, but I can find out.

Dear Mr. Gates

Here is Your hard drive.
If you would please drop your pants and bend over,
I'll drive it in, hard.
Get it? Drive hard, hard drive?
See what I did there?
In a minute, you'll fully understand.
Thanks EVER so much!
Justin angry ol guy.

How would you get this Linux disc?

Thanks OF, I'll definitely keep this post in mind.