Going by the majority of comments here, let me be the devil's advocate.
In my opinion, what Nokia is trying to do is avoid commoditization of mobile hardware.
Symbian was no good for them in terms of features and performance requirements.
Going with Android will effectively make the phone hardware a commodity (like what happened with PCs). Just imagine, with Android becoming ubiquitous everywhere, how long until users are free to choose any mobile phone and transfer their full preferences and data to another Android phone. In that case, competition in mobile hardware industry will remain on the basis of price only.
What I feel is, Nokia is betting on WP7 to stand out from the rest of the pack (Samsung/LG/HTC) in order to maintain their market share.
Not so fast..
Silicon has a refractive index of about 4.0. So, light travels upto 4 times slower than in vaccum.
Also, the delays are more than just the distance within chips since sensing and detection delays are typically larger.
Currently, the main advantage of optical interconnects is that the capacitive charging and discharging delays within the chip transistors and interconnects comprise a major portion of the total delay. This problem is exacerbated with smaller geometries such as 32nm and 28nm.
Optical interconnects do not suffer from such problems.
Apparently this appears is nothing but a patent troll from Micro$oft.
EDA tool industry has long been using the time-based licensing model for their tools, particularly using the FlexLM based licensing system.
How can they even think to patent this sort of thing ?
I appreciate your observations regarding the domain registration for this site, but the site is directly linked from the ASUS website .
So there is no question of this being a fake site.
The biggest advantage of AMD x64 over Itanium is the ability to run x86 32-bit code natively without any performance penalty.
The comparison is not just about better technology. Think of the trillions of lines of x86 32-bit code that has been written.
Would you render all this code unusable just because you want to move to a better architecture.
Carefully repowering SRAM can maintain the contents. I have seen SRAM come up with essentially 99% of the contents still intact after the SRAM had been powered down for over a week. I guess that once powered up, the SRAM has a preference to come back the way it was before powerdown.
Or perhaps the slight residual voltage kept the SRAM contents intact. (Even though it was probably less than one tenth of a volt.) SRAM draws very little current when the voltages are reduced. Thus the power rails can maintain some small voltage for a very long time..
I would really like to see any citation to support your point. If true, this is really an interesting concept.
The article title and summary could have been worded better.
In addition to the new case (which by any means can be considered a minor change), there is speculation that the new Macs will be using nVidia MCP79 chipsets.
Along with the comparatively better graphics performance, this will also add SLI support to the Macbooks.
Indeed.
In addition, the seemingly dumb folks at DoD dont even care to remove personal information from the document before releasing on the net.
For instance, the DoD document was created by Elizabeth Latwin.
This could well be a possible explanation for the 1908 Tunguska blast in Siberia. The event still remains an unsolved mystery, despite many theories put forward to explain it.
One of the possible explanations is that it was caused by high concentrations of methane accumulated from the crust, followed by explosive combustion.
In any case, the chips are not going to be manufactured in China.
These will be manufactured by STMicroelectronics on 65nm process in their Crolles Fab in France.
No thats not true.
Although the design is Chinese, the Godson processors will be manufactured by STMicroelectronics, which is a French-Italian company.
The processors will probably be manufactured in Crolles, France on the ST 65nm process. The backend packaging is done in Singapore and Malaysia using RoHS compliant package design.
Just to point out, vegetarianism in India has a slightly different meaning.
Vegetarians in India do not eat meat or fish. But it is considered alright to eat eggs and dairy products, such as milk and cheese. This is associated with the concept of Ahimsa (Non-violence).
Just to point out, vegetarianism/veganism in India has a slightly different meaning when comparing with USA.
Vegetarianism, in India is generally associated with not eating meat and fish. Its alright to consume dairy products, such as milk and to a lesser extent eggs. Indians somehow justify this practice as Ahimsa (Non-Violence).
I can see your point.
But just for your information, Infineon is one of the most innovative companies in the VLSI market, with some very good products in the communications and automotive domain.
As for the ethical issues associated with Trusted Platform Modules, pretty much every VLSI company (Freescale, STMicroelectronics, TI etc) has products catering to this domain.
The retention of this terrestrial energy IS the greenhouse effect
It seems you do not any idea regarding Greenhouse effect.
The Earth absorbs the heat radiated from the sun. It then radiates back the heat in the form of high-wavelength radiation.
Greenhouse effect is caused due to absorption of this high wavelength radiation by gases in the atmosphere. Chief among these greenhouse gases are CO2, methane, and to some extent CFCs.
Trees help the environment by fixing the free carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2, thereby reducing the Greenhouse effect.
The SpearFirefox FAQ clearly states that the download count does not include duplicate downloads, incomplete downloads or downloads done through Firefox updates.
The Openmoko Website still shows that the phone is sold out. AFAIK, it has been showing this page for the last 5 months. The link given in the post also shows up a blank page, except for some ads.
Please, can anyone provide a correct link to the article ?
Actually, that will not be a fair comparison. Processors such as Atom and Nano are designed for x86 compatibility, an architecture thats almost 30 years old and inefficient as compared to current standards.
ARM on the other hand is a comparatively modern RISC architecture. No doubt it finds place in about 75% of 32 bit RISC CPUs in embedded systems.
No. If you actually observe closely, it is the muscular energy that is expended in lifting the weights to the top of the lamp. The same energy is then converted into light by the falling weights.
Considering 100% efficiency, and assuming the lamp to be perpendicular to the earth's surface, the angular velocity of the earth should decrease very slightly. But it will be restored back once the weights fall to the bottom of the lamp, thereby conserving the angular momentum.
Absolutely correct..
In fact, I work for a company where I have to analyze the architecture of DSP processors and optimize the assembly code to achieve the best performance for applications. I wonder if there is any other way to do it other than assembly code.
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Going by the majority of comments here, let me be the devil's advocate.
In my opinion, what Nokia is trying to do is avoid commoditization of mobile hardware. Symbian was no good for them in terms of features and performance requirements.
Going with Android will effectively make the phone hardware a commodity (like what happened with PCs). Just imagine, with Android becoming ubiquitous everywhere, how long until users are free to choose any mobile phone and transfer their full preferences and data to another Android phone. In that case, competition in mobile hardware industry will remain on the basis of price only.
What I feel is, Nokia is betting on WP7 to stand out from the rest of the pack (Samsung/LG/HTC) in order to maintain their market share.
Will this gamble pay off, only time will tell.
Not so fast..
Silicon has a refractive index of about 4.0. So, light travels upto 4 times slower than in vaccum.
Also, the delays are more than just the distance within chips since sensing and detection delays are typically larger.
Currently, the main advantage of optical interconnects is that the capacitive charging and discharging delays within the chip transistors and interconnects comprise a major portion of the total delay. This problem is exacerbated with smaller geometries such as 32nm and 28nm.
Optical interconnects do not suffer from such problems.
Apparently this appears is nothing but a patent troll from Micro$oft.
EDA tool industry has long been using the time-based licensing model for their tools, particularly using the FlexLM based licensing system.
How can they even think to patent this sort of thing ?
I appreciate your observations regarding the domain registration for this site, but the site is directly linked from the ASUS website .
So there is no question of this being a fake site.
Why focus only on google ?
Lets see how slashdot fares on this check !!
145 errors that make it much worse than google.
The biggest advantage of AMD x64 over Itanium is the ability to run x86 32-bit code natively without any performance penalty.
The comparison is not just about better technology. Think of the trillions of lines of x86 32-bit code that has been written.
Would you render all this code unusable just because you want to move to a better architecture.
Carefully repowering SRAM can maintain the contents. I have seen SRAM come up with essentially 99% of the contents still intact after the SRAM had been powered down for over a week. I guess that once powered up, the SRAM has a preference to come back the way it was before powerdown. Or perhaps the slight residual voltage kept the SRAM contents intact. (Even though it was probably less than one tenth of a volt.) SRAM draws very little current when the voltages are reduced. Thus the power rails can maintain some small voltage for a very long time. .
I would really like to see any citation to support your point. If true, this is really an interesting concept.
The article title and summary could have been worded better.
In addition to the new case (which by any means can be considered a minor change), there is speculation that the new Macs will be using nVidia MCP79 chipsets.
Along with the comparatively better graphics performance, this will also add SLI support to the Macbooks.
Indeed.
In addition, the seemingly dumb folks at DoD dont even care to remove personal information from the document before releasing on the net. For instance, the DoD document was created by Elizabeth Latwin.
This could well be a possible explanation for the 1908 Tunguska blast in Siberia.
The event still remains an unsolved mystery, despite many theories put forward to explain it.
One of the possible explanations is that it was caused by high concentrations of methane accumulated from the crust, followed by explosive combustion.
I don't feel this has to do anything with Taiwan.
In any case, the chips are not going to be manufactured in China.
These will be manufactured by STMicroelectronics on 65nm process in their Crolles Fab in France.
Of course it can run Linux.
The Godson processor is based on a superscalar MIPS architecture, which is well supported under Linux.
Interestingly, it cannot run Windows, as Windows runs only on x86,x64 and IA64 architectures.
No thats not true.
Although the design is Chinese, the Godson processors will be manufactured by STMicroelectronics, which is a French-Italian company.
The processors will probably be manufactured in Crolles, France on the ST 65nm process. The backend packaging is done in Singapore and Malaysia using RoHS compliant package design.
Firefox already has crash recovery feature, albeit through an addon.
You can use the "Session Manager" addon in Firefox.
It save and restores all the browser windows, either when you exit or when the browser crashes.
Here is the link to it.
Excuse me, but I seriously doubt that you are using a 50 amp 240 volt line.
If its true, it amounts to a mind-boggling 50x240 = 12kW power rating (assuming power factor = 1).
You are most probably using a 240 volts 5amp line, that is common in most parts of Asia and other countries where 240V is supplied.
Just to point out, vegetarianism in India has a slightly different meaning.
Vegetarians in India do not eat meat or fish. But it is considered alright to eat eggs and dairy products, such as milk and cheese. This is associated with the concept of Ahimsa (Non-violence).
Technically, this should be called Lacto-Ovo_Vegetarianism.
Just to point out, vegetarianism/veganism in India has a slightly different meaning when comparing with USA.
Vegetarianism, in India is generally associated with not eating meat and fish. Its alright to consume dairy products, such as milk and to a lesser extent eggs. Indians somehow justify this practice as Ahimsa (Non-Violence).
Technically, it should be called Lacto-Ovo Vegetarianism.
I can see your point. But just for your information, Infineon is one of the most innovative companies in the VLSI market, with some very good products in the communications and automotive domain.
As for the ethical issues associated with Trusted Platform Modules, pretty much every VLSI company (Freescale, STMicroelectronics, TI etc) has products catering to this domain.
The retention of this terrestrial energy IS the greenhouse effect
It seems you do not any idea regarding Greenhouse effect.
The Earth absorbs the heat radiated from the sun. It then radiates back the heat in the form of high-wavelength radiation.
Greenhouse effect is caused due to absorption of this high wavelength radiation by gases in the atmosphere. Chief among these greenhouse gases are CO2, methane, and to some extent CFCs.
Trees help the environment by fixing the free carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2, thereby reducing the Greenhouse effect.
The SpearFirefox FAQ clearly states that the download count does not include duplicate downloads, incomplete downloads or downloads done through Firefox updates.
The Openmoko Website still shows that the phone is sold out. AFAIK, it has been showing this page for the last 5 months. The link given in the post also shows up a blank page, except for some ads. Please, can anyone provide a correct link to the article ?
All modern CPUs support thermal throttling for the same purpose.
Actually, that will not be a fair comparison. Processors such as Atom and Nano are designed for x86 compatibility, an architecture thats almost 30 years old and inefficient as compared to current standards. ARM on the other hand is a comparatively modern RISC architecture. No doubt it finds place in about 75% of 32 bit RISC CPUs in embedded systems.
No. If you actually observe closely, it is the muscular energy that is expended in lifting the weights to the top of the lamp. The same energy is then converted into light by the falling weights. Considering 100% efficiency, and assuming the lamp to be perpendicular to the earth's surface, the angular velocity of the earth should decrease very slightly. But it will be restored back once the weights fall to the bottom of the lamp, thereby conserving the angular momentum.
Absolutely correct.. In fact, I work for a company where I have to analyze the architecture of DSP processors and optimize the assembly code to achieve the best performance for applications. I wonder if there is any other way to do it other than assembly code.