Moore's Law is not processor speed, it is how many transistors you can fit on an IC. Moore's Law did follow processing speed until we hit a barrier and now have to use multiple cores.
Yup, manufacturing of ICs does not become cheaper over time. That follows Moore's Second Law, cost doubles every 18 months.
For networking we have Butter's Law. Cost of sending bits over a network halves every 9 months, and also speed of sending bits of data doubles every 9 months.
ISPs do not give such increases in speed to their customers though. I have an "up to 24Mb/s" ADSL2+ line that gives me 3Mb/s as the line is crappy, I had 3Mb/s 5 years ago, and 2Mb/s 10 years ago. *sigh*
I also want to state, £48 million is not all of it.
The new IT system cost £140 million, as of November 2008. The system has been slammed many times. I still have to wait three months to be paid from the date I send them an invoice, and when Voyager was launched, council staff couldn't buy anything for months.
Birmingham has the largest local authority, both in terms of population and workers. West Midlands is also split in to Dudley, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall, Solihull and Coventry councils. They are not small councils by any imagination either. You could also include Staffordshire and Warwickshire as they are within the same conurbation, just not in the same county.
Well, Capita spent more than twice that on the Birmingham City Council web site, and thy still have contracts both with this council, and many other councils and government departments.
I live in Birmingham, I know people that work in IT at the council.
IT was taken over by Capitia, they also have contracts for many other councils and government departments. I have never known a corporate company to be so wasteful and incompetent.
Biggest news last years was the re-write of the web site. Was first estimated to be cost jut over £600k, and was to be competed in March 2006. However, Capita over-run and completed it mid 2009 at a cost of £2.2 million.
Sure, so how does Skype get through. In fact, how do most apps get around points 2.11-2.13?
2.11 Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them 2.12 Apps that are not very useful or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected 2.13 Apps that are primarily marketing materials or advertisements will be rejected
I would say the vast majority of apps in the store fall under these points.
It may not be interpolating the pixels, however you will loose resolution because you have to low pass filter and anti-alias because you have a bayer pattern matrix sensor. Because you have 4M effective pixels doesn't mean you get 4M pixels of resolution.
Take the Red One cine camera. I have tested it, it has a 4k sensor, however the resolution is close 3.2k after de-bayering and filtering, at best. The Red camera looks blurry at 3.2k too. The Sony F35 is a 5k chip but it samples down to 2k and makes a very sharp image. The Red camera is good when scaled down to 2k as well.
Not all apps have to go through the public App Store for iOS devices.
You can develop your own apps and distribute them within your corporate environment and not have them approved by Apple. You can distribute apps and update to devices over the air, by push or by asking employees to follow a link, you can even host the apps yourself. Apple even gives you the tools to do all of this.
"true 3D" which you refer to is what we call volumetric 3D. Something we all want.
Stereoscopic 3D is what is currently being sold right now, it has its limitations, especially in the domestic environment where you are close to a small screen, compared to the cinema where you have a large screen far away. With cinema, your eyes converge straight forward and focus at infinity, and the image also converges to the same point in space so you have a natural perspective and depth perception. In the domestic environment, you have different sized screens are sit relatively close (and at different distances) to the screen, so you no longer have a natural perspective (eyes converging, image is diverging), giving head aches. You can't fix this, unless you do an online edit for each individual with different sized screens at different distances.
I hope Sony with their Playstation 3 let you input your screen size and sitting distance for gaming.
Mac Pro's from experience are cheaper than Dell or HP workstations when they launch a new model. They even have hardware that is unavailable to other manufacturers.
Macs are fairly priced, apart from the latest Mac Mini. Have you checked out the new iMac's, the 21.5inch model they must be making a loss. their MacBook and MacBook Pro's are well priced.
In the UK, the consumer only has a contract with the retailer they bought it from. The manufacturer is not liable.
People have been successful in the UK with a full or partial refunds. Amazon, GAME and HMV have given damages or full refunds to customers. £84 is what Amazon offer for a partial refund, and you get to keep the console.
If the Ph.D. student only had one copy on their thesis, which was on a USB stick, and they broke the USB stick, they deserves to fail.
All of my work gets archived twice on 2.5inch USB hard drives, one taken off site, a copy put online where it is stored at a data centre, and I also send copies via email. It's not hard work, and relatively cheap.
Every Brother printer I have come across has broken down after 18-24 months, and they are forever pulling through 2-3 pages at once and jamming. Ten or even fifteen year old HP laser jets going strong.
HP laser jets are built like battle tanks.
I also do not mind having to pay £40 for HP toner to find they print 10,000 pages.
BT Broadband claimed I used 170GB per month on average over a 12 month period using my 2.5Mb connection.
Meanwhile, 2.7TB is nothing if you have a leased line. Just had a two week film shoot, used 6TiB. We have had to transfer all the daily rushes via the Internet.
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Moore's Law is not processor speed, it is how many transistors you can fit on an IC. Moore's Law did follow processing speed until we hit a barrier and now have to use multiple cores.
Yup, manufacturing of ICs does not become cheaper over time. That follows Moore's Second Law, cost doubles every 18 months.
For networking we have Butter's Law. Cost of sending bits over a network halves every 9 months, and also speed of sending bits of data doubles every 9 months.
ISPs do not give such increases in speed to their customers though. I have an "up to 24Mb/s" ADSL2+ line that gives me 3Mb/s as the line is crappy, I had 3Mb/s 5 years ago, and 2Mb/s 10 years ago. *sigh*
I also want to state, £48 million is not all of it.
The new IT system cost £140 million, as of November 2008. The system has been slammed many times. I still have to wait three months to be paid from the date I send them an invoice, and when Voyager was launched, council staff couldn't buy anything for months.
Follow the link for more:
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/11/03/birmingham-s-voyager-computer-fiasco-slammed-in-report-65233-22174870/
Birmingham has the largest local authority, both in terms of population and workers. West Midlands is also split in to Dudley, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall, Solihull and Coventry councils. They are not small councils by any imagination either. You could also include Staffordshire and Warwickshire as they are within the same conurbation, just not in the same county.
Cheers Greg, you hit some of the problems there. I have mod points but I have already posted.
Well, Capita spent more than twice that on the Birmingham City Council web site, and thy still have contracts both with this council, and many other councils and government departments.
It used to be, why is there so much white space in the content. :S
Oh, the cost I stated above was for the redesign. I'm sure you can make your own mind up about how it was such a huge failure.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/
I live in Birmingham, I know people that work in IT at the council.
IT was taken over by Capitia, they also have contracts for many other councils and government departments. I have never known a corporate company to be so wasteful and incompetent.
Biggest news last years was the re-write of the web site. Was first estimated to be cost jut over £600k, and was to be competed in March 2006. However, Capita over-run and completed it mid 2009 at a cost of £2.2 million.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/politics-news/2009/08/04/cost-of-new-birmingham-city-council-website-spirals-to-2-8m-65233-24307674/
I don't see interpreted code listed in the guidelines.
Sure, so how does Skype get through. In fact, how do most apps get around points 2.11-2.13?
2.11 Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them
2.12 Apps that are not very useful or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
2.13 Apps that are primarily marketing materials or advertisements will be rejected
I would say the vast majority of apps in the store fall under these points.
On another note. Mozilla could release their Fenec browser. However, add-ons would have to be disabled as they download extra code.
I only wish!
I fail to get your point – the iPhone 4 has the same CPU and GPU as they 3GS. They have just called it the 'A4' for marketing purposes.
The only real difference is the iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM over the 256MB on the 3GS.
It may not be interpolating the pixels, however you will loose resolution because you have to low pass filter and anti-alias because you have a bayer pattern matrix sensor. Because you have 4M effective pixels doesn't mean you get 4M pixels of resolution.
Take the Red One cine camera. I have tested it, it has a 4k sensor, however the resolution is close 3.2k after de-bayering and filtering, at best. The Red camera looks blurry at 3.2k too. The Sony F35 is a 5k chip but it samples down to 2k and makes a very sharp image. The Red camera is good when scaled down to 2k as well.
http://www.definitionmagazine.com/journal/2009/12/1/why-i-bought-a-sony-f35-cinematography-camera-by-dan-mulliga.html
USB isn't a good for streaming, it would fall over with Bluray.
Streaming like this has been tried before, example being Sony and i.LINK (really is Firewire 400).
Not all apps have to go through the public App Store for iOS devices.
You can develop your own apps and distribute them within your corporate environment and not have them approved by Apple. You can distribute apps and update to devices over the air, by push or by asking employees to follow a link, you can even host the apps yourself. Apple even gives you the tools to do all of this.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/
I hope you found that informing.
How many users will ever use the HDMI output though?
I wouldn't say all new phones have HDMI, the iPhone only has composite and component.
"true 3D" which you refer to is what we call volumetric 3D. Something we all want.
Stereoscopic 3D is what is currently being sold right now, it has its limitations, especially in the domestic environment where you are close to a small screen, compared to the cinema where you have a large screen far away. With cinema, your eyes converge straight forward and focus at infinity, and the image also converges to the same point in space so you have a natural perspective and depth perception. In the domestic environment, you have different sized screens are sit relatively close (and at different distances) to the screen, so you no longer have a natural perspective (eyes converging, image is diverging), giving head aches. You can't fix this, unless you do an online edit for each individual with different sized screens at different distances.
I hope Sony with their Playstation 3 let you input your screen size and sitting distance for gaming.
You always buy after-market.
Mac Pro's from experience are cheaper than Dell or HP workstations when they launch a new model. They even have hardware that is unavailable to other manufacturers.
Macs are fairly priced, apart from the latest Mac Mini. Have you checked out the new iMac's, the 21.5inch model they must be making a loss. their MacBook and MacBook Pro's are well priced.
In the UK, the consumer only has a contract with the retailer they bought it from. The manufacturer is not liable.
People have been successful in the UK with a full or partial refunds. Amazon, GAME and HMV have given damages or full refunds to customers. £84 is what Amazon offer for a partial refund, and you get to keep the console.
If the Ph.D. student only had one copy on their thesis, which was on a USB stick, and they broke the USB stick, they deserves to fail.
All of my work gets archived twice on 2.5inch USB hard drives, one taken off site, a copy put online where it is stored at a data centre, and I also send copies via email. It's not hard work, and relatively cheap.
Photographers use dye sub printers, not inkjet. They are continuous colour so measure in ppi, 300ppi printers beat most inkjets.
Every Brother printer I have come across has broken down after 18-24 months, and they are forever pulling through 2-3 pages at once and jamming. Ten or even fifteen year old HP laser jets going strong.
HP laser jets are built like battle tanks.
I also do not mind having to pay £40 for HP toner to find they print 10,000 pages.
"Big Mac" is a registered trademark though. So nobody is going to calling it by that name, or any burger similar to that name in a hurry.
"Quarter Pounder with cheese" is not registered but is a trademark.
You can use "cheeseburger" or "mayo chicken" though.
Sure.
Anyway, should it read "33 Attorney Generals"? Plural is in the wrong word.
OP there is no 'u' in attorney too. ;)
BT Broadband claimed I used 170GB per month on average over a 12 month period using my 2.5Mb connection.
Meanwhile, 2.7TB is nothing if you have a leased line. Just had a two week film shoot, used 6TiB. We have had to transfer all the daily rushes via the Internet.