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Lord, lord, lord... Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen...
Nice story and good points. But, Apple is Apple. If they buy ARM and their secretive culture expands into ARM, then ARM designs are going to be off the roadmaps of every single chip manufacturer(probably even Samsung). Apple wouldn't even need to cancel the licensing deals.
Why? Apple is a failure in the corporate market just because CIO's and CTO's love road-maps. And not 1 year road-maps, but 3-5-10 year road-maps.
What sane person would approve investments into tech that has unknown future? Only small companies can afford such a luxury. Unfortunately, no small company has the capabilities to design and produce CPU's and SoC's.
ARM's board of directors will be taking this offer very seriously as it will greatly benefit its shareholders
And they will be even smarter talking to Nokia and other mobile device manufacturers. Why? Because Apple is not the only company to have 40bn USD in cash or in liquid assets. Ever heard of bidding wars?
You mean the chip and architecture that powers every single gaming console out there*? Or the architecture that is most likely at the core of your car's on-board computer?
PowerPC didn't go the way Apple wanted, so they ditched it. It was their call and probably it was a right one. But don't present PowerPC as a total failure just because Apple did not like it.
* - Maybe not strictly every, but statistically speaking probably close. Since all major ones PS2, PS3, XBox 360 and Nintendo's stuff are PowerPC based.
Dry definition: Art is a product of human creativity.
But you don't consider anything mass produced a work of art, though it's a product of human creativity.
Common sense dictated that art is something you value for non-functional characteristics. I.e a Ferarri looks exceptionally good, but it's the functionality you buy it for, therefore Ferarri is not art. (A BMW X6 could be considered art, since it's functionality is crap, but it looks good...)
From the statement above, a computer game can't be art, since people value computer games for functionality.(When was the last time you bought a non-functional game that you still value? The answer is never. I have a portrait that takes up too much space, but it's valuable to me without functionality.) I consider video dynamics a part of functionality.
Nicely put. In my social philosophy studies I have found that free-market is more closely related to communism than capitalism(Ironic, isn't it?).
In my history studies, however capitalism shows tendencies to favour monopolies and oligopolies.
As much as I hate demos to disappear, I really hate playing through the demos. They should release some gameplay video first and a long one, no less than 10 minutes and real time. Recently I bought more games based on gameplay videos than demos. That being said, I spent more on games that I downloaded using a torrent than I saw and played demos.
Wine tastings are more of a social event. Attracting your interest in some particular wine is just a side-effect that wineries are happy to use.
What they are pushing is trying to sell you something blindly, without you having a right to be reimbursed.
When EA moves to that model, I am officially out of legal game market. Torrents all the way and without having a legal version of the game in the drawer.
the largest market place to sell their apps, not the largest mobile platform
Will it surprise you to know that even with your asterisk, Ovi Store has a far larger audience than iPhone. Ovi store now covers not only smartphones but featurephones also. I mean, el cheapo Nokia 2323 (50Eur) comes with OviStore installed.
If you put up real expenses, you will probably get that launching people on a specialized spacecraft and cargo an another specialized spacecraft is much cheaper(the Russian way). But Shuttle does have the advantage of bulky deliveries.
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OS updates are OTA in iPhone!?!?!??! News to me:-D
As for the van? Once again, you miss the context. Insurgents in Iraq often arrived in vans to collect wounded, weapons, and ammo to make any dead appear to be innocent civilians.
And in this instance they didn't have to do that, now did they?
Were the pilots a bit gung-ho? Yes, they were. That's how you get a soldier past the fact that they're chopping up other human beings. It's a part of soldiering.
Nope! "gung-ho" is not. Bullets count - is the real thing.
You are probably not aware that owning an AK-47 is usual in Iraq. It's like guns in Starbucks in US. These guys know the fact pretty well. RPG on the other hand, even a perceived one is an actual threat.
And let me remind you and everyone else. Real Life(TM) comes in real HD, no "super-zoom" is required. And when you see a gun aimed at you, adrenaline provides the "super-slo-mo"(You bastard are lucky not having being shot at you).
I do dual boot, but 95% of my time is spent in Linux. So dual-boot means very little these days. I know some people that quadruple boot WinXP Win7, OpenSolaris and Ubuntu(and Ubuntu has VMs for Fedora, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and CentOS).
That is bullshit! Oracle DBMS product's licensing costs are not that high, but RAC is the thing that really bites.
I have a client, a fairly big multinational, that stays clear of RAC just because of the license costs. They are prepared to face downtime, but will not buy RAC licenses.
I have no idea how much RAC would cost them, but they did cost benefit analysis. And they are sticking with Oracle since their industry solution is based on Oracle Forms.
There should be philosophy at the end of that line of XKCD. The old Greeks were first and foremost philosophers, and only later mathematicians and physicists.
I have to agree. Mathematics and the abstract fields are really not the ones that should be most values in CS. Physics should be. Sometimes people forget that computers are real and physical. And most of it is actually deeply based in physics. They are even designed by physicists and not mathematicians.
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What are you saying!?!?!? All mighty Bob will smite you for your words...
Lord, lord, lord... Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen...
Nice story and good points. But, Apple is Apple. If they buy ARM and their secretive culture expands into ARM, then ARM designs are going to be off the roadmaps of every single chip manufacturer(probably even Samsung). Apple wouldn't even need to cancel the licensing deals.
Why? Apple is a failure in the corporate market just because CIO's and CTO's love road-maps. And not 1 year road-maps, but 3-5-10 year road-maps.
What sane person would approve investments into tech that has unknown future? Only small companies can afford such a luxury. Unfortunately, no small company has the capabilities to design and produce CPU's and SoC's.
And they will be even smarter talking to Nokia and other mobile device manufacturers. Why? Because Apple is not the only company to have 40bn USD in cash or in liquid assets. Ever heard of bidding wars?
But becoming a monopoly or gaining market dominance by mergers and acquisitions is also illegal.
You mean the chip and architecture that powers every single gaming console out there*? Or the architecture that is most likely at the core of your car's on-board computer?
PowerPC didn't go the way Apple wanted, so they ditched it. It was their call and probably it was a right one. But don't present PowerPC as a total failure just because Apple did not like it.
* - Maybe not strictly every, but statistically speaking probably close. Since all major ones PS2, PS3, XBox 360 and Nintendo's stuff are PowerPC based.
Dry definition: Art is a product of human creativity.
But you don't consider anything mass produced a work of art, though it's a product of human creativity.
Common sense dictated that art is something you value for non-functional characteristics. I.e a Ferarri looks exceptionally good, but it's the functionality you buy it for, therefore Ferarri is not art. (A BMW X6 could be considered art, since it's functionality is crap, but it looks good...)
From the statement above, a computer game can't be art, since people value computer games for functionality.(When was the last time you bought a non-functional game that you still value? The answer is never. I have a portrait that takes up too much space, but it's valuable to me without functionality.) I consider video dynamics a part of functionality.
Nicely put. In my social philosophy studies I have found that free-market is more closely related to communism than capitalism(Ironic, isn't it?).
In my history studies, however capitalism shows tendencies to favour monopolies and oligopolies.
And say bye-bye to the success that MW2 is.
As much as I hate demos to disappear, I really hate playing through the demos. They should release some gameplay video first and a long one, no less than 10 minutes and real time. Recently I bought more games based on gameplay videos than demos. That being said, I spent more on games that I downloaded using a torrent than I saw and played demos.
Wine tastings are more of a social event. Attracting your interest in some particular wine is just a side-effect that wineries are happy to use.
What they are pushing is trying to sell you something blindly, without you having a right to be reimbursed.
When EA moves to that model, I am officially out of legal game market. Torrents all the way and without having a legal version of the game in the drawer.
And a LOT of free time. I found that electronics is the MOST time consuming hobby.
Will it surprise you to know that even with your asterisk, Ovi Store has a far larger audience than iPhone. Ovi store now covers not only smartphones but featurephones also. I mean, el cheapo Nokia 2323 (50Eur) comes with OviStore installed.
You mean for the first 30 minutes, right?
And standard Ryanair rules apply. (a.k.a Destination may vary from the stated in your ticket)
If you put up real expenses, you will probably get that launching people on a specialized spacecraft and cargo an another specialized spacecraft is much cheaper(the Russian way). But Shuttle does have the advantage of bulky deliveries.
OS updates are OTA in iPhone!?!?!??! News to me :-D
And in this instance they didn't have to do that, now did they?
Nope! "gung-ho" is not. Bullets count - is the real thing.
You are probably not aware that owning an AK-47 is usual in Iraq. It's like guns in Starbucks in US. These guys know the fact pretty well. RPG on the other hand, even a perceived one is an actual threat.
And let me remind you and everyone else. Real Life(TM) comes in real HD, no "super-zoom" is required. And when you see a gun aimed at you, adrenaline provides the "super-slo-mo"(You bastard are lucky not having being shot at you).
I do dual boot, but 95% of my time is spent in Linux. So dual-boot means very little these days. I know some people that quadruple boot WinXP Win7, OpenSolaris and Ubuntu(and Ubuntu has VMs for Fedora, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and CentOS).
He spreads it all around ...
You mean like US did in the 19th century?
That is bullshit! Oracle DBMS product's licensing costs are not that high, but RAC is the thing that really bites.
I have a client, a fairly big multinational, that stays clear of RAC just because of the license costs. They are prepared to face downtime, but will not buy RAC licenses.
I have no idea how much RAC would cost them, but they did cost benefit analysis. And they are sticking with Oracle since their industry solution is based on Oracle Forms.
There should be philosophy at the end of that line of XKCD. The old Greeks were first and foremost philosophers, and only later mathematicians and physicists.
I have to agree. Mathematics and the abstract fields are really not the ones that should be most values in CS. Physics should be. Sometimes people forget that computers are real and physical. And most of it is actually deeply based in physics. They are even designed by physicists and not mathematicians.