IDC notes that Samsung was responsible for 44% of all Android devices shipped. That equates to 46.11 million devices, or about 20 million more than the iPhone.
I.e. Samsung alone shipped almost twice as many smartphones as Apple.
Note that Samsung is only one Android vendor, and is outperforming iPhone. There are several other Android vendors with large sales as well: HTC, ZTE, LG, Motorola, etc.
15 microSieverts / hour corresponds to ~150 milliSieverts / year though, which according to the xkcd graph means "lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk" (100 milliSieverts / year) and is 100 times higher than the limit set by the EPA in the US.
So as long as the level is 15 microSieverts / hour, then nobody will be allowed to live there. As I said above, the level is 100 times higher than the allowed habitable limit.
America has just spent the last 5 years torturing people and invading a country against international law with American soldiers massacring its population with impunity. It's a terrible role model for democracy.
I don't think most Americans would agree with you (see comment above for example). They usually claim the constitution only applies to the government, and corporations are free to censor and discriminate as much as they want. If corporations have to abide by the constitution, then it's communism, or?
It's like Blackwater. They're a private company and therefore are not subject to laws which govern the US military, i.e. the law against murder.
The Blue Gene architecture (which is used by 3 of the top 5 supercomputers in the world) has 1Gb/s interfaces between the nodes, so it's basically the same thing. Blue Gene has two networks though, one torus network and one tree network, but it's still just 1Gb/s.
I think you're probably right, this is a first:). You made a good point about taking productivity into account, I've dismissed it too quickly before. So I learned a new perspective as well.
It seems you've misunderstood the original problem. The problem is that the Earth can only tolerate a fixed level of pollution (greenhouse gases). This means that the global pollution output of all activities on Earth needs to be bounded by that fixed level.
If you allow the pollution output to be proportional to the size of the global economy then the pollution output will not be bounded by any value, since the size of the global economy can grow (and does grow a lot).
You need to penalize wasteful production and consumption and a simple (and democratic) way to do that is to restrict each person to a fixed amount of pollution. You seem to want to suggest to restrict persons to different amounts of pollution, proportional to their share of the global economy. This would reward wasteful production and consumption rather than penalize it, since the more you produce and consume, the more you would be allowed to pollute. I don't really see how you can motivate such a viewpoint.
Like I said, if you allow pollution to be proportional to economic size, then producing an unnecessary hamburger and consuming it (or just throwing it away) would give you the right to pollute more. With a system with a fixed allowed pollution per person, then you would be rewarded by not producing the (unnecessary) hamburger in the first place, and you could instead "spend" your pollution on something which is actually useful.
So consuming a hamburger would increase consumption, which would increase the GDP, which according to you would give you the right to pollute more. That doesn't make any sense.
Or building a military weapon and firing it on Iraq would also increase the GDP, which you argue should give you the right to pollute more. Surely you cannot be serious with your argument.
The temperature in the US has little effect on the global mean value of the temperature (the US is only 2% of the area of the Earth). But the US is one of the top (or the top) polluter of greenhouse gases. That's why there's criticism, the US's share of the pollution is a lot larger than its share of land area or population.
It used to be like that where I live as well (Sweden), but about 1 year ago the ADSL providers started offering 8/8 Mbit (or 20/3) instead of 24/1 Mbit or something similar.
Yes, but it would expand in your tank, thus increasing volume (it would have the same mass, and thus the same energy, i.e. the same number of gasoline molecules).
This isn't rocket science. It's just like you buy breakfast cereal by how much it weighs and not by volume, because then the manufacturers would just fill the package with as much air as possible.
The warming is actually only amplified in the north pole, not the south (as can be seen on the maps you link to). The reason is that some of the sea is uncovered during the summer in the north pole, while it isn't in the south pole, since there's land there.
Nowhere in the article does it say there are pressure sensors. It says it uses resistance changes to detect a target. The keys example is also fud, there's no support from the article that keys would be detected as a target, or even used as a target.
Autodesk owns both Maya and 3DS Max, so I think it's a bit too early to say "good bye Autodesk". Perhaps they're not dominating the 3D CAD segment, but in principle the difference between a general 3D modeler and a CAD program is marginal.
Excerpt from 29 oct 2006 "weekly article" from IBC:
Monday 23 October was the worst day, when around 80 died.
On Tuesday 24 October the dead included 4 Iraqi firefighters, killed by US forces in Fallujah, mistakenly believing they were insurgents who had commandeered a firetruck.
On Wednesday 25 October US aircraft kill some more Iraqi civilians, when they bomb houses in Sadr City. At least 10 die in the bombing.
Thursday 26 October comes a close second with around 70 deaths. A lot of those killed are police officers, over 30 of them, while 50 policemen are kidnapped and are still missing. Suicide bombs kill 15 in Kirkuk, and another journalist is killed, together with his wife.
On Friday 27 October US forces raid a house in Fallujah and shoot dead 2 civilians. At least 30 bodies are found scattered in Baghdad, Mosul and Suwayrah.
Another US airstrike, this time in Ramadi, kills a family of 6 (2 of them children) on Saturday 28 October. Over 30 dead bodies are found, 11 Iraqi soldiers are abducted, and in Kirkuk an activist for women's rights is killed in front of her children.
and so on..
It looks like the Lancet figure that 30% are killed by the US military is reasonable.
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I.e. Samsung alone shipped almost twice as many smartphones as Apple.
Note that Samsung is only one Android vendor, and is outperforming iPhone. There are several other Android vendors with large sales as well: HTC, ZTE, LG, Motorola, etc.
15 microSieverts / hour corresponds to ~150 milliSieverts / year though, which according to the xkcd graph means "lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk" (100 milliSieverts / year) and is 100 times higher than the limit set by the EPA in the US.
So as long as the level is 15 microSieverts / hour, then nobody will be allowed to live there. As I said above, the level is 100 times higher than the allowed habitable limit.
America has just spent the last 5 years torturing people and invading a country against international law with American soldiers massacring its population with impunity. It's a terrible role model for democracy.
You're looking at the date the posters joined the forum, not the date of the post.
It's like Blackwater. They're a private company and therefore are not subject to laws which govern the US military, i.e. the law against murder.
As I said above, Blue Gene uses standard Ethernet too. Why is that bad?
The Blue Gene architecture (which is used by 3 of the top 5 supercomputers in the world) has 1Gb/s interfaces between the nodes, so it's basically the same thing. Blue Gene has two networks though, one torus network and one tree network, but it's still just 1Gb/s.
I think you're probably right, this is a first :). You made a good point about taking productivity into account, I've dismissed it too quickly before. So I learned a new perspective as well.
You need to penalize wasteful production and consumption and a simple (and democratic) way to do that is to restrict each person to a fixed amount of pollution. You seem to want to suggest to restrict persons to different amounts of pollution, proportional to their share of the global economy. This would reward wasteful production and consumption rather than penalize it, since the more you produce and consume, the more you would be allowed to pollute. I don't really see how you can motivate such a viewpoint.
Like I said, if you allow pollution to be proportional to economic size, then producing an unnecessary hamburger and consuming it (or just throwing it away) would give you the right to pollute more. With a system with a fixed allowed pollution per person, then you would be rewarded by not producing the (unnecessary) hamburger in the first place, and you could instead "spend" your pollution on something which is actually useful.
Or building a military weapon and firing it on Iraq would also increase the GDP, which you argue should give you the right to pollute more. Surely you cannot be serious with your argument.
The temperature in the US has little effect on the global mean value of the temperature (the US is only 2% of the area of the Earth). But the US is one of the top (or the top) polluter of greenhouse gases. That's why there's criticism, the US's share of the pollution is a lot larger than its share of land area or population.
It used to be like that where I live as well (Sweden), but about 1 year ago the ADSL providers started offering 8/8 Mbit (or 20/3) instead of 24/1 Mbit or something similar.
So it's 5 Gigabytes per second.
This isn't rocket science. It's just like you buy breakfast cereal by how much it weighs and not by volume, because then the manufacturers would just fill the package with as much air as possible.
The warming is actually only amplified in the north pole, not the south (as can be seen on the maps you link to). The reason is that some of the sea is uncovered during the summer in the north pole, while it isn't in the south pole, since there's land there.
The reason the clock is moved forward now is most likely the USA, not "the Russians". In today's world, America is the Soviet Union.
Nowhere in the article does it say there are pressure sensors. It says it uses resistance changes to detect a target. The keys example is also fud, there's no support from the article that keys would be detected as a target, or even used as a target.
Autodesk owns both Maya and 3DS Max, so I think it's a bit too early to say "good bye Autodesk". Perhaps they're not dominating the 3D CAD segment, but in principle the difference between a general 3D modeler and a CAD program is marginal.
Moral Orel is my favorite too.
It looks like the Lancet figure that 30% are killed by the US military is reasonable.
Uh.. there are no muslims in the US military? I thought America had freedom of religion?
From the article. In the middle of the only fucking paragraph on the page: