Why? What Apple are doing here is driving their share price *up* and Samsung's *down*. It's thinking in the short term: someone somewhere is going to do a run on Apple stock very soon and make a killing, then buy Samsung stock as it floors with half the money. If/when Samsung recover, short that stock and retire obscenely rich either way... only difference between whether Samsung recovers or not is how many lobster testicles you get in your morning mojito.
This is bigger than Apple Vs. Samsung and patent whores. This is an entity or entities manipulating the market with outside influences (in this case, with huge and vexatious litigation) in order to make as much money as possible for the least effort on their own part. It's like sealing two catholic priests in a room and throwing in a small boy, watching them fight to the death then pitting the winner against Michael Jackson. Maximum entertainment for minimum effort.
The ideals Mr. H. lived by were not his own. Replacement of the Family with the State? Marx. Socialist economic agenda? Marx. Welfare to Work? Marx. Cultural homogenisation? Marx.
All occurring right now in Britain, as if he were alive and well and occupying 10 Downing Street. It's not a sudden phenomenon, either, this has been building since 1947.
Innocence of Muslims has been on Youtube since JULY.
Why the protests NOW?
-also-
Why is the US Government so set on blaming the US Diplomatic Mission killings on this video? Doesn't anyone else think that it might possibly have been preplanned, independently of some fourteen minute video, to coincide with the anniversary of the WTC demolition?? I mean, really?
...notwithstanding the fact that the Western media continues to paint the Middle East as a war torn, savage region of deserts and oil, the place is actually rather green (albeit warm), and 99% of the populace are generally happy with their individual lot, and peaceful. It's the disgruntled (for whatever reason) 1% who incite, most likely, IMHO, encouraged by Western influences*::coughCIAcough::. Those same Western influences control Western media, so when unrest does happen, the cameras are already there. It's not a case of convenience, it's staged to deliberately destabilise the region and keep guns moving and blood money flowing.
OK, here's the list, in case you missed it:
CIA (and their list of "friendly" or "useful" individuals, al Qaeda) MI6 (stop saying MI5, that's Internal Intelligence) Puppet Governments (such as installed in Georgia - what, you didn't know the current President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, is a former New York lawyer?) Common Purpose International ("leadership training" - which involves nudging, NLP, and is also used to find and neutralise leadership elements where such traits are not desired, by any means necessary)
No, what people are saying is that comparing Apple's replacement for Google Maps to Google Maps is like comparing the scrawlings of a drunk toddler with a box of crayons to the Mona Lisa.
...levy fines against global corporations in a different currency, then convert to assets which belong to the Treasury.
Google: butthurt. Seriously butthurt. Federal Reserve: butthurt. Although they'll just handicap to their masters in Zurich for a bailout. Not so butthurt. Eurozone: laughing all the way to the... bank. Seriously, they just made nearly 400 billion US (see fractional reserve banking) and the public purse doesn't get to see penny one of it.
I'm going by what my high-draw 5 year old factory clocked 2.8 P4 draws with its hungry heifer of a GeForce 8600GTS. 125W for the CPU, 90W for the GPU, 170 for the mainboard & RAM, 25 for the hard drive, 30 for the DVDRW, 3 fans at 5 each. It was built as a budget gaming rig, I still use it to play fairly recent (read: less than 2 years old) games.
that's how they're designed (from someone who's designed and executed datacentre solutions). I got out of the game not long before the AMD Opteron 4100 series came out (mid 2010), but at 5.83W per core they're a pretty damn smart solution even by current standards. You're talking about server power consumption of WAY LESS than.001W per request. Probably 5,000 requests are processed before the thing drinks a Watt. If my Atom-powered netbook could handle that kind of workload I would be well happy.
There's nothing wrong with datacentres sitting idle, the "wrong" comes into it when people burn 500W on a PC with 19" monitor just to scroll down Facebook.
Tablets are (apparently) ousting desktop PCs and laptops as consumer devices. These are by necessity low-consumption, hence low-capacity devices (as in, they can barely play an HD video without screeching to a bloody halt), they're certainly not going to be doing any what an 80's admin would have considered big iron work. This would be left to... well, big iron. The infrastructure is already there; thin clients, virtualisation on multicore beasts that can chew through 4k CGI rendition in practically real time, cloud storage and fast broadband. Hey, did I mention the word "theoretically"?
There's your justification. Thirty Gigawatts is what 66 million average desktop computers (at 450W a pop, not including displays) consume. Think about what 66 million netbooks, or tablets, consume?
Asus EeePC (Atom): 40W (according to the wallwart I've got plugged into the side of mine) each. 2.64GW. iPad: from what I've read, 10W a piece - and the screen uses 6 of that. 660MW.
Sod it, add them together. That's 132 million computers, accessing a virtualisation service for a total power cost of change from 33.5GW. That's a might less than 132 million desktop machines doing their own thing yet costing 59.4GW *on their own* - not including the aforementioned server infrastructure. Why aren't we doing this?? According to Gartner the number of personal computers in use around the world hit one billion way back in 2008. This is slightly more than significant.
Commence to shootdown citing personal security concerns in 5... 4... 3... 2...
heeh... that's where they get you on contracts... cellular is worst for this. 3 have unlimited data on prepay for £15 a month, but if you go contract, that same £15/mo gets you 3GB data - go over that and you're charged 1p/MB (remember this is overflow data on contract but you are getting a guarantee of service which you do not get on prepay - anywhere). That's £10/GB - $16 Can. You pull 450GB on a plan like that, you're looking at over seven thousand Dollars. With "normal" usage on contract you're not going to burn 450GB in a decade. Sometimes it's better to go prepay.
I was directly interrogating massive databases for massive amounts of information on a very frequent basis. A fast connection was, at the time, absolutely essential to maintaining my work rate.
Unfortunately, Virgin Media did not deliver. Looking elsewhere, I found a cellular provider that did. In spades.
I had the WORST time with Virgin... 3 are faster - and more stable - and are not picky about the amount of bandwidth you use, unlike a certain cable provider.
2010 I kicked Virgin to the kerb for the last time as I was getting 50% uptime at a VERY generous estimate (having to restart the fucking router every half an hour did NOTHING for my disposition nor my work rate) and never any more than 2MBit down. On a 30MBit contract.
300 minutes any network voice (excluding 101 and premium numbers) 3,000 SMS texts (excluding 5-digit text codes) the only truly unlimited data plan of ANY carrier in the UK (and free MSN/Facebook/Skype (which doesn't count toward any data even if you use your gear for video calls!)...on top of that you're allowed to tether!
All for £15 a month.
I have about 0 downtime on it (not including computer restarts and moving around and occasionally rebooting my phone), and I can (and do most of the time) saturate at 3.8MBit. For an all you can eat wireless plan at that price, I'll never go back to a fixed line.
It doesn't even bother me that I use probably 15 minutes talk a month and I've sent three SMS texts in four years. It's worth the fifteen quid just for the data.
GSM900 was introduced in 1991, GSM1800 in September 1993 - between those dates the only way to get on the networks was to buy in to stupidly expensive contracts (hell, for that matter there was no such thing as pay-as-you-go back then - that didn't happen until 1996). Otherwise you were stuck on (marginally cheaper) analogue.
BT Cellnet (founded as Cellnet Securicor in 1985) rebranded itself as O2 in 2002, and was acquired by Telefonica Europe in 2005.
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I would be concerned if Apple ever get the patent for a remote microwave communications relay in geostationary orbit. (Clarke, 1945)
The Clarke estate would have KITTENS.
I think this might be the one.
Why? What Apple are doing here is driving their share price *up* and Samsung's *down*. It's thinking in the short term: someone somewhere is going to do a run on Apple stock very soon and make a killing, then buy Samsung stock as it floors with half the money. If/when Samsung recover, short that stock and retire obscenely rich either way... only difference between whether Samsung recovers or not is how many lobster testicles you get in your morning mojito.
This is bigger than Apple Vs. Samsung and patent whores. This is an entity or entities manipulating the market with outside influences (in this case, with huge and vexatious litigation) in order to make as much money as possible for the least effort on their own part. It's like sealing two catholic priests in a room and throwing in a small boy, watching them fight to the death then pitting the winner against Michael Jackson. Maximum entertainment for minimum effort.
Mod up.
I'm in Nottingham. My house almost straddles the friggin' trunk!
The ideals Mr. H. lived by were not his own. Replacement of the Family with the State? Marx. Socialist economic agenda? Marx. Welfare to Work? Marx. Cultural homogenisation? Marx.
All occurring right now in Britain, as if he were alive and well and occupying 10 Downing Street. It's not a sudden phenomenon, either, this has been building since 1947.
There is only one race. The Human Race.
Might I suggest a new term: cultural genocide.
I've cleared court rooms with that one.
Innocence of Muslims has been on Youtube since JULY.
Why the protests NOW?
-also-
Why is the US Government so set on blaming the US Diplomatic Mission killings on this video? Doesn't anyone else think that it might possibly have been preplanned, independently of some fourteen minute video, to coincide with the anniversary of the WTC demolition?? I mean, really?
...notwithstanding the fact that the Western media continues to paint the Middle East as a war torn, savage region of deserts and oil, the place is actually rather green (albeit warm), and 99% of the populace are generally happy with their individual lot, and peaceful. It's the disgruntled (for whatever reason) 1% who incite, most likely, IMHO, encouraged by Western influences* ::coughCIAcough::. Those same Western influences control Western media, so when unrest does happen, the cameras are already there. It's not a case of convenience, it's staged to deliberately destabilise the region and keep guns moving and blood money flowing.
OK, here's the list, in case you missed it:
CIA (and their list of "friendly" or "useful" individuals, al Qaeda)
MI6 (stop saying MI5, that's Internal Intelligence)
Puppet Governments (such as installed in Georgia - what, you didn't know the current President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, is a former New York lawyer?)
Common Purpose International ("leadership training" - which involves nudging, NLP, and is also used to find and neutralise leadership elements where such traits are not desired, by any means necessary)
No, what people are saying is that comparing Apple's replacement for Google Maps to Google Maps is like comparing the scrawlings of a drunk toddler with a box of crayons to the Mona Lisa.
...levy fines against global corporations in a different currency, then convert to assets which belong to the Treasury.
Google: butthurt. Seriously butthurt.
Federal Reserve: butthurt. Although they'll just handicap to their masters in Zurich for a bailout. Not so butthurt.
Eurozone: laughing all the way to the... bank. Seriously, they just made nearly 400 billion US (see fractional reserve banking) and the public purse doesn't get to see penny one of it.
It's not like they don't need help...
I'm going by what my high-draw 5 year old factory clocked 2.8 P4 draws with its hungry heifer of a GeForce 8600GTS. 125W for the CPU, 90W for the GPU, 170 for the mainboard & RAM, 25 for the hard drive, 30 for the DVDRW, 3 fans at 5 each. It was built as a budget gaming rig, I still use it to play fairly recent (read: less than 2 years old) games.
Time to use community pressure to obtain the desired result.
the one with the bridges in Philadelphia made me piss so hard I had to look it up on Google Maps as well...
it ain't much better on there! (zoom in on the bridges)
That's nothing. Check out these other iOS Maps fuckups. It really is a hilarious way to kill four hours!
It's gotta be done!
snap. I forgot about him.
that's how they're designed (from someone who's designed and executed datacentre solutions). I got out of the game not long before the AMD Opteron 4100 series came out (mid 2010), but at 5.83W per core they're a pretty damn smart solution even by current standards. You're talking about server power consumption of WAY LESS than .001W per request. Probably 5,000 requests are processed before the thing drinks a Watt. If my Atom-powered netbook could handle that kind of workload I would be well happy.
There's nothing wrong with datacentres sitting idle, the "wrong" comes into it when people burn 500W on a PC with 19" monitor just to scroll down Facebook.
Tablets are (apparently) ousting desktop PCs and laptops as consumer devices. These are by necessity low-consumption, hence low-capacity devices (as in, they can barely play an HD video without screeching to a bloody halt), they're certainly not going to be doing any what an 80's admin would have considered big iron work. This would be left to... well, big iron. The infrastructure is already there; thin clients, virtualisation on multicore beasts that can chew through 4k CGI rendition in practically real time, cloud storage and fast broadband. Hey, did I mention the word "theoretically"?
There's your justification. Thirty Gigawatts is what 66 million average desktop computers (at 450W a pop, not including displays) consume. Think about what 66 million netbooks, or tablets, consume?
Asus EeePC (Atom): 40W (according to the wallwart I've got plugged into the side of mine) each. 2.64GW.
iPad: from what I've read, 10W a piece - and the screen uses 6 of that. 660MW.
Sod it, add them together. That's 132 million computers, accessing a virtualisation service for a total power cost of change from 33.5GW.
That's a might less than 132 million desktop machines doing their own thing yet costing 59.4GW *on their own* - not including the aforementioned server infrastructure. Why aren't we doing this?? According to Gartner the number of personal computers in use around the world hit one billion way back in 2008. This is slightly more than significant.
Commence to shootdown citing personal security concerns in 5... 4... 3... 2...
heeh... that's where they get you on contracts... cellular is worst for this. 3 have unlimited data on prepay for £15 a month, but if you go contract, that same £15/mo gets you 3GB data - go over that and you're charged 1p/MB (remember this is overflow data on contract but you are getting a guarantee of service which you do not get on prepay - anywhere). That's £10/GB - $16 Can. You pull 450GB on a plan like that, you're looking at over seven thousand Dollars. With "normal" usage on contract you're not going to burn 450GB in a decade. Sometimes it's better to go prepay.
I was directly interrogating massive databases for massive amounts of information on a very frequent basis. A fast connection was, at the time, absolutely essential to maintaining my work rate.
Unfortunately, Virgin Media did not deliver. Looking elsewhere, I found a cellular provider that did. In spades.
I had the WORST time with Virgin... 3 are faster - and more stable - and are not picky about the amount of bandwidth you use, unlike a certain cable provider.
2010 I kicked Virgin to the kerb for the last time as I was getting 50% uptime at a VERY generous estimate (having to restart the fucking router every half an hour did NOTHING for my disposition nor my work rate) and never any more than 2MBit down. On a 30MBit contract.
Pay as you Go on 3 UK:
300 minutes any network voice (excluding 101 and premium numbers) ...on top of that you're allowed to tether!
3,000 SMS texts (excluding 5-digit text codes)
the only truly unlimited data plan of ANY carrier in the UK (and free MSN/Facebook/Skype (which doesn't count toward any data even if you use your gear for video calls!)
All for £15 a month.
I have about 0 downtime on it (not including computer restarts and moving around and occasionally rebooting my phone), and I can (and do most of the time) saturate at 3.8MBit. For an all you can eat wireless plan at that price, I'll never go back to a fixed line.
It doesn't even bother me that I use probably 15 minutes talk a month and I've sent three SMS texts in four years. It's worth the fifteen quid just for the data.
GSM900 was introduced in 1991, GSM1800 in September 1993 - between those dates the only way to get on the networks was to buy in to stupidly expensive contracts (hell, for that matter there was no such thing as pay-as-you-go back then - that didn't happen until 1996). Otherwise you were stuck on (marginally cheaper) analogue.
BT Cellnet (founded as Cellnet Securicor in 1985) rebranded itself as O2 in 2002, and was acquired by Telefonica Europe in 2005.