I never had a power glove, but the kid across the street did. We tried it when he got it on his birthday. Designing games for the thing would have only solved one problem with the thing. Another major problem with the power glove was the weight. Your right arm got really tired holding the thing all the time in a certain position. It meant you had to limit your gaming sessions to 20 minutes at a time.
Not all android phones get the same battery life. Currently the Motorola Droids (1,X,2) get the best battery life. But as another poster mentioned, iPhone 4 still beats them for longevity.
Err... no. Think of 3G and 4G like AM and FM radio. The N900 is kind of like a radio that can only receive FM (they sell a lot of stuff nowadays that has an FM receiver w/o AM). You cannot get that FM receiver to receive AM, you need to include an AM receiver. If you want to know the details, 3G and 4G use different frequencies, like AM and FM do. They also use different modulation techniques, again like AM and FM radio.
If you want to do those things I suggest an Nvidia Fermi GPGPU. Of course, in order to use them you will need to know how to take advantage of them. Fortunately, Nvidia has a written CUDA plugins and other ways to use them in, for instance Matlab, so you don't have to write everything yourself.
Apple, which is generally believed to have the most capable processor in the market today
The processor in the Galaxy S line of phones (Samsung Captivate, Vibrant, Epic 4G, whatever Verizon wants to call theirs) is basically a newer version of the one in the iPhone 4. It has the same CPU (1GHz ARM Cortex A8) and a better GPU (PowerVR SGX 535 vs 540).
AMD Fusion was meant to compete with Larrabee which is not released. The Intel package with two separate dies is not interesting. The point of these products is to give the programmer access to the vast FP power of a graphics chip, so they can do, for instance, a large scale fft and ifft faster than a normal CPU. If this proves more powerful than Nvidia's latest Fermi (GTX 480 I believe), then expect a lot of shops to switch. Right now my workplace has a Nvidia Fermi on backorder, so it looks like this is a big market.
This is the way the computer scene operates. Everything is gussied up to look hip and new when it's really putting lipstick on a pig. When all is said and done, the computer is good for a limited number of uses. These include calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing. That's it. Everything is a subset of those Big Five.
Err, I think you are neglecting one category that is probably driving more computer use than 3 of those 5 put together - communication. In fact communication is the whole point of a bunch of these web 2.0 ideas. They rely on social networking to, for instance, get recommendations for some purchase. This existed before "web 2.0" of course, but these newfangled sites are supposed to make it "easier" and "more accessible" without having to trawl through message boards/google/whatever.
I think you are taking things too far. Sony/BMG, the company that put the rootkit in the CDs, was not a part of Sony Corp. but was 50% owned by Sony and 50% owned by Bertelsmann. You also have to realize that Sony is, like other large multinational corporations, made up of a bunch of smaller companies doing things like pressing DVDs, manufacturing consumer electronics, and making movies. These smaller divisions probably aren't aware of each others activities to a very large extent. So anthropomorphizing Sony or any large corporation is pointless, and it is silly to assign a personality to any very large corporation, whether it be Sony, IBM, or even Microsoft.
Actually, the corporation responsible for the rootkit, Sony-BMG, no longer exists. Sony-BMG was a 50-50 venture combining Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG). About a year ago, Bertelsmann decided to get out of the music business, and sold its stake to Sony, so Sony now owns 100% of a music publisher again. Convoluted, I know, but that is the nature of large conglomerates like Sony and Bertelsmann.
The statistic about 4x return rates was for MSI Wind only. This could be due to problems with SUSE on their particular hardware configuration. Conversely, Dell claims that their return rates for Windows and Linux are about the same. http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
Also Canonical claims that "Continually repeating that we 'confirmed' a 4x return over XP when we did nothing of the sort is really not worthy of a great company like Microsoft." http://blog.canonical.com/?p=151
Did you even read the summary? It was Paramount who did this. FYI, some of Paramount's HD DVDs (btw, the official name has no dash) did the same thing, phone home for an update.
On a less sarcastic note if you have figured out that plants need CO2 to live, then there is probably hope that once you start looking at the so-called science of manmade global warming, you'll discover that it's not science at all.
To put the project in perspective Kiluea pumps out around 700,000 tons a year, and Pinatubo put out more CO2 in '91 than the entire output of all mankinds exisistence. As it turns out nature responds by (suprise suprise) increasing plantlife. So we are going to offset Kiluea for 1.5 ( to be generous) years by pumping it underground.
Comparison of CO2 emissions from volcanoes vs. human activities.
Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1991). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 2006) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.]. Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002)
Gerlach and others estimate that, in addition to the measured 17 Mt of SO2, the eruption of approximately 5 km3 of magma was accompanied by release of at least 491 to 921 Mt of H2O, 3 to 16 Mt of Cl, and 42 to 234 Mt of CO2.
So Mt. Pinatubo let off 42 to 234 Mt of CO2, which is more than 100 times less than what man released in 2006.
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I'm not suggesting less antagonism for Sony, I'm suggesting an equal (or preferrably greater) hate for BMG and some for Bertelsmann as well. Isn't their enough room in your heart to hate another corporate conglomerate who were just as (if not more) culpable?
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So what about Bertelsmann? Are you going to advocate for their responsibility in this as well? Cause I seem to be the only one who's doing that.
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But in fact, Sony/BMG and Sony Corp. are two different entities, hence the BMG part. Where do you think the BMG comes from? It comes from Bertelsmann Music Group, which used to be a major record co. that was wholly owned by a large conglomerate (Bertelsmann obviously). These two large conglomerates Sony and Bertelsmann decided to merge and spin-off their music business. Now sometimes the spinoff and the parent company maintain a good relationship, other times they have very little to do with each other. An example is the CW network, which is a merger of CBS's UPN and Time-Warner's WB network. The CW had a hard time getting many Time-Warner Cable operators to carry their network in various local markets.
As for why I care, I personally knew someone who was screwed by a BMG label (before the merger). I was hoping the rootkit behavior would make people go after BMG and possibly Bertelsmann, but it looks like Sony gets all the hate.
What I am saying is that one is not a subsidiary of the other one, they are separate companies. They may have a close relationship, or none at all. I gave an example in another post, where The CW television network in the US had problems getting carried by many Time Warner Cable networks even though CW is 50% owned by Time Warner.
I'm saying that it wasn't the people at Sony who made the ultimate decision to do the things Sony/BMG did. Remember that it is people who commit crimes, not corporations. The people who bore the most responsibility for the rootkit were the people who headed S/BMG at the time, like Andrew Lack, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, and Thomas Hesse. I was attempting to make a point with my previous comment about TWC and the CW that sometimes common ownership does not mean that everyone has the same boss and the same goals.
I'm not sure that those companies really have that many connections, even with 50% ownership. Consider the US TV network, The CW - it is 50% owned by Time Warner, yet it had a difficult time getting Time Warner Cable to carry them in many markets.
Also, I find America's Next Top Model to be the most insipid show on network TV. Who do I blame for that one? CBS or Warner? Or maybe Tyra Banks?
You seem to be confusing Sony and Sony/BMG. Sony/BMG is a separate company that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (hence the Bertelsmann Music Group). They only publish music. That's it. Sony Corporation, on the other hand, makes electronics, movies, replicates DVDs, and has researched and developed products like the CD, 3.5" floppy, and Betamax.
Since you work for Sony, you should know that Sony/BMG is not Sony. Much like Sony-Ericsson, it is a separate company that is 50/50 owned by two large conglomerates. In S/BMG case, it is Sony and Bertelsmann, and in S-E case it is Sony and Ericsson. In addition, this incident takes place in Europe, so it is more likely to be a former BMG shop anyway.
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to boycott Bertelsmann too?
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to advocate boycotting Bertelsmann, too?
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to boycott Bertelsmann now?
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I never had a power glove, but the kid across the street did. We tried it when he got it on his birthday. Designing games for the thing would have only solved one problem with the thing. Another major problem with the power glove was the weight. Your right arm got really tired holding the thing all the time in a certain position. It meant you had to limit your gaming sessions to 20 minutes at a time.
Not all android phones get the same battery life. Currently the Motorola Droids (1,X,2) get the best battery life. But as another poster mentioned, iPhone 4 still beats them for longevity.
In the context of wifi, 3G and 4G is a lot like going from 802.11g to 802.11n, especially with stuff like MIMO. You can't simulate MIMO in software.
Err... no. Think of 3G and 4G like AM and FM radio. The N900 is kind of like a radio that can only receive FM (they sell a lot of stuff nowadays that has an FM receiver w/o AM). You cannot get that FM receiver to receive AM, you need to include an AM receiver. If you want to know the details, 3G and 4G use different frequencies, like AM and FM do. They also use different modulation techniques, again like AM and FM radio.
If you want to do those things I suggest an Nvidia Fermi GPGPU. Of course, in order to use them you will need to know how to take advantage of them. Fortunately, Nvidia has a written CUDA plugins and other ways to use them in, for instance Matlab, so you don't have to write everything yourself.
Apple, which is generally believed to have the most capable processor in the market today
The processor in the Galaxy S line of phones (Samsung Captivate, Vibrant, Epic 4G, whatever Verizon wants to call theirs) is basically a newer version of the one in the iPhone 4. It has the same CPU (1GHz ARM Cortex A8) and a better GPU (PowerVR SGX 535 vs 540).
AMD Fusion was meant to compete with Larrabee which is not released. The Intel package with two separate dies is not interesting. The point of these products is to give the programmer access to the vast FP power of a graphics chip, so they can do, for instance, a large scale fft and ifft faster than a normal CPU. If this proves more powerful than Nvidia's latest Fermi (GTX 480 I believe), then expect a lot of shops to switch. Right now my workplace has a Nvidia Fermi on backorder, so it looks like this is a big market.
Farmville is a lot like Harvest Moon. If you have a SNES/GBA/PS1/PS2/N64/GC/DS/PSP/Wii then you could play that instead.
This is the way the computer scene operates. Everything is gussied up to look hip and new when it's really putting lipstick on a pig. When all is said and done, the computer is good for a limited number of uses. These include calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing. That's it. Everything is a subset of those Big Five.
Err, I think you are neglecting one category that is probably driving more computer use than 3 of those 5 put together - communication. In fact communication is the whole point of a bunch of these web 2.0 ideas. They rely on social networking to, for instance, get recommendations for some purchase. This existed before "web 2.0" of course, but these newfangled sites are supposed to make it "easier" and "more accessible" without having to trawl through message boards/google/whatever.
I think you are taking things too far. Sony/BMG, the company that put the rootkit in the CDs, was not a part of Sony Corp. but was 50% owned by Sony and 50% owned by Bertelsmann. You also have to realize that Sony is, like other large multinational corporations, made up of a bunch of smaller companies doing things like pressing DVDs, manufacturing consumer electronics, and making movies. These smaller divisions probably aren't aware of each others activities to a very large extent. So anthropomorphizing Sony or any large corporation is pointless, and it is silly to assign a personality to any very large corporation, whether it be Sony, IBM, or even Microsoft.
Actually, the corporation responsible for the rootkit, Sony-BMG, no longer exists. Sony-BMG was a 50-50 venture combining Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG). About a year ago, Bertelsmann decided to get out of the music business, and sold its stake to Sony, so Sony now owns 100% of a music publisher again. Convoluted, I know, but that is the nature of large conglomerates like Sony and Bertelsmann.
The statistic about 4x return rates was for MSI Wind only. This could be due to problems with SUSE on their particular hardware configuration. Conversely, Dell claims that their return rates for Windows and Linux are about the same. http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
Also Canonical claims that "Continually repeating that we 'confirmed' a 4x return over XP when we did nothing of the sort is really not worthy of a great company like Microsoft." http://blog.canonical.com/?p=151
Did you even read the summary? It was Paramount who did this. FYI, some of Paramount's HD DVDs (btw, the official name has no dash) did the same thing, phone home for an update.
I'm not suggesting less antagonism for Sony, I'm suggesting an equal (or preferrably greater) hate for BMG and some for Bertelsmann as well. Isn't their enough room in your heart to hate another corporate conglomerate who were just as (if not more) culpable?
So what about Bertelsmann? Are you going to advocate for their responsibility in this as well? Cause I seem to be the only one who's doing that.
But in fact, Sony/BMG and Sony Corp. are two different entities, hence the BMG part. Where do you think the BMG comes from? It comes from Bertelsmann Music Group, which used to be a major record co. that was wholly owned by a large conglomerate (Bertelsmann obviously). These two large conglomerates Sony and Bertelsmann decided to merge and spin-off their music business. Now sometimes the spinoff and the parent company maintain a good relationship, other times they have very little to do with each other. An example is the CW network, which is a merger of CBS's UPN and Time-Warner's WB network. The CW had a hard time getting many Time-Warner Cable operators to carry their network in various local markets.
As for why I care, I personally knew someone who was screwed by a BMG label (before the merger). I was hoping the rootkit behavior would make people go after BMG and possibly Bertelsmann, but it looks like Sony gets all the hate.
What I am saying is that one is not a subsidiary of the other one, they are separate companies. They may have a close relationship, or none at all. I gave an example in another post, where The CW television network in the US had problems getting carried by many Time Warner Cable networks even though CW is 50% owned by Time Warner.
I'm saying that it wasn't the people at Sony who made the ultimate decision to do the things Sony/BMG did. Remember that it is people who commit crimes, not corporations. The people who bore the most responsibility for the rootkit were the people who headed S/BMG at the time, like Andrew Lack, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, and Thomas Hesse. I was attempting to make a point with my previous comment about TWC and the CW that sometimes common ownership does not mean that everyone has the same boss and the same goals.
I'm not sure that those companies really have that many connections, even with 50% ownership. Consider the US TV network, The CW - it is 50% owned by Time Warner, yet it had a difficult time getting Time Warner Cable to carry them in many markets.
Also, I find America's Next Top Model to be the most insipid show on network TV. Who do I blame for that one? CBS or Warner? Or maybe Tyra Banks?
You seem to be confusing Sony and Sony/BMG. Sony/BMG is a separate company that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (hence the Bertelsmann Music Group). They only publish music. That's it. Sony Corporation, on the other hand, makes electronics, movies, replicates DVDs, and has researched and developed products like the CD, 3.5" floppy, and Betamax.
Since you work for Sony, you should know that Sony/BMG is not Sony. Much like Sony-Ericsson, it is a separate company that is 50/50 owned by two large conglomerates. In S/BMG case, it is Sony and Bertelsmann, and in S-E case it is Sony and Ericsson. In addition, this incident takes place in Europe, so it is more likely to be a former BMG shop anyway.
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to boycott Bertelsmann too?
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to advocate boycotting Bertelsmann, too?
The rootkit was put on those CDs by Sony/BMG, which is a separate entity that is 50/50 owned by Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG stands for Bertelsmann Music Group). Furthermore, the people at the top, who make all of the important decisions are all from the BMG side. So, if either company is more to blame, it is Bertelsmann. Are you going to boycott Bertelsmann now?