Most of the Dual cores draw less power than the single cores at idle, which is where your phone's CPU spends most of it's time. There are only a very few applications that seem to peg even my 1.5 year old Motorola Droid, mostly games and whatnot. I would expect the average battery life to improve when moving to a new dual core compared to a single core simply because they can slow the clockrate and disable unused parts of the die. Of course, maybe the new single cores will perform even better battery life wise, I'm just saying compared to what is common now.
If I'm not playing games the display is typically the number one power user at something around 35%. Next is cell standbyat 18%. Only after that is OS related things which all added up together come to about 17%. CPU just isn't the biggest power draw on most smartphones, unless you're playing graphics intensive games. If you're doing something like browsing the web you'll see the transceiver and display numbers jump up faster than the browser's because there really isn't that much to think about when it comes to displaying a page.
Youtube doubled its revenues last year. Emphasis added.
The statement says nothing about profits, or profit margins; it's entirely possible to make a $1 billion profit one year, double your revenues the next year and suddenly be losing money. In Youtube's case it is probably a very good sign though, since no one really had any idea 5 years ago how to go about monetizing it.
The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
Mormons believe that the God of Earth is nothing particularly special as Gods go (and that other planets have different, independent Gods). It is also implied, though not stated outright, that the God of Earth was once a mortal man, and that if you live a good enough Mormon life you might have the opportunity to become God to a planet yourself after you die. That is the primary difference between most Christianity and Mormonism, not rituals, or if Jesus went on tour.
He is saying that Mormons are polytheistic because they believe each Planet in the universe has it's own God and that there is nothing particularly special about the God that runs things here on Earth. In fact, if you are a really, really good Mormon you had a chance to ascend to godhood yourself after death, but only if you had enough wives to birth enough 'spiritual children' to populate it (why some fundamentalist Mormons insist on polygamy). I don't know how much of this is still considered cannon to the Mormon faith, but it is historically part of the faith.
I tried to explain to the wife how amazing it is. She isn't technology illiterate, in fact I'd say she's well above average, but she just didn't see what was so impressive about it. People don't understand that there is an enormous gap between being able to retrieve general information on a subject and being able to answer a specific question. In their minds computers have been doing 99% of this for a good decade now; closing the last 1%, even if it is arguable the hardest percent, just isn't that cool to anyone outside of CS.
Congratulations, you've just rediscovered Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
"A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. [...] But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."
The life as a whole it doesn't perform a valuable function, but the individual cells that turn cancerous might have been about to die from some other cause when they revert. And that makes sense, cancer is made more likely by genetic damage, perhaps the cells are becoming cancerous when there is some piece or another of genetic code that is damaged beyond repair so the cell reverts to a simpler set of instructions that perform a similar role. A set which, unfortunately, lacks such handy things as communications channels and programmed cell death.
Kind of like if Windows can't find a file that it needs to boot normally, so it boots into safe mode so you can fix the problem. Except, this safe mode doesn't have a display driver, keyboard support, or Ethernet support... and it causes the computer to reproduce out of control. So the analogy isn't perfect, but no one ever said analogies had to be.
Why? Gold has very little inherent worth. If the shit really and truly hit the fan people would probably go back to it out of some belief otherwise, but in reality using gold (or any other near worthless commodity) is practically identical to using a fiat currency. The only reason you accept anything as payment is because you have faith that you'll be able to pay someone else with it tomorrow. The only difference between fiat and backed currency is that the amount of money in circulation is controlled by a governing body, as opposed to being 'controlled' by the global output of whatever your backing is. At least if the Federal Reserve prints a few billion extra dollars there is generally a reason for it, if someone were to find a major, previously unknown gold deposit tomorrow the value of a backed currency would fluctuate for no reason.
It's fair I think, this is really just an incremental step toward the local maxima that we've been approaching for 40 years now. Quantum computing, in theory, could be used to speed some calculations by several orders of magnitude, and that would just be the first working generation. Lets face it, if all we ever research is smaller transistors eventually we're going to get transistors to the minimum theoretical size (beyond which electron tunneling produces as much noise as the actual signal does). Granted, there's a lot of room for improvement after that point, with larger dies, better cooling, and faster clock speeds, but the underlying piece of technology (the transistor) will be virtually stagnant in 20 years.
Things like quantum computing, spintronics, 3D chip design, etc have the potential, if any of them work out, to break out of the local maxima and into a new part of the graph, maybe a part of the graph with a much, much higher peak. If you say you made a better transistor people go 'meh' because everyone knows that we can make better transistors, we do it every day. If you say you have a potentially paradigm shifting idea that may or may not work people get more exciting because... well, because the possibilities are more exciting quite frankly.
Why would they be immune to cosmic rays? If a ray hits a wire, you're going to get a voltage spike, which can be interpreted as a 1 when there should be a 0 on the line. Doesn't matter what size it is or what it's made out of. Now, if they're really talking about 1/100 the power it opens up the possibility of multiple redundancy using less power than current systems. Have 10 duplicate copies of your processor all working the numbers and they take a vote on the answer and there's virtually zero chance of cosmic rays causing problems, and you'd still be using 1/10 the power of a conventional processor (in theory... if their ideas work out... and are mass producible... and conventional technology doesn't catch up in the meantime...)
I don't see this as being free at all, since you're talking a geosync satellite you're going to need a fair amount of equipment to have access to it. Even beyond the basic requirements of a computer and a satellite linkup, you are still talking about consistent electricity, maintenance, and repair. None of that is free, especially if you're working 16 hours a day just to feed your family.
That also means IFR aviation traffic in inclement weather is many cases is now impossible.
IFR does not, in any airplane, rely solely on GPS. In fact, in many situations the information from GPS is weighted well below the information from other sources which can be much more accurate. This is especially the case in situations where IFR is the most important, namely approach and departure. If you look at the plates for any airport in the world, STARS (standard approaches) and SIDS (standard departures) are laid out based on localizers and VOR stations, not GPS coordinates and there are plenty of good reasons for that. You don't need to know exactly where you are over the pacific ocean for safe IFR flight, which is about the only place on the planet where you're likely to be flying IFR without having access to navigational aids.
Possible solution A) Rotate the net and let centrifugal force do the work of your spring pole Possible solution B) Apply a charge to the net so that it's self repelling, which they're doing anyway to control it's orbit.
Now, I imagine there are a good half dozen other possible solutions, and I'm not at all sure either of mine are feasible, but I am pretty sure that the engineers involved understand the basic physics of the situation and have probably thought of your concerns.
If it came to the situation that is going on in Egypt do you really think the government would require legal authority to make it happen? The law would be passed the instant the people in Washington believed it was needed to maintain order. The government almost certainly has equipment at every major ISP already for FBI, NSA, and CIA investigations, the only question is whether or not that equipment has the capability to block traffic or simply monitor. But then again, even if all they can do is monitor, it would be pretty hard to defend against an attack that comes from machines that are already on your network and that have backdoor access to a depressing number of your systems so I doubt it would matter anyway.
So I'd argue that if the US government wanted to shut down the internet they already have all the equipment in all the right places that they would need to do so. And from a legal standpoint it wouldn't matter because either the law would be passed by congress within hours of significant unrest or it would be done through some kind of executive order that no one in a position of authority would have the cajones to argue against until much later.
At the same time, if someone is out there lowering expectations by charging less it's up to you to raise expectations back up by providing things the cheap guy doesn't. That is how stores survive in the Walmart era; offer unique products that customers are looking for, better service, better atmosphere, better response times, etc. I worked at a grocery store through the time when a Super-Walmart moved into the area. Management's response was that we couldn't win on price but if we wanted to stay alive we'd have to win in every other category. And they did, the store is still as busy as ever 10 years later, despite having 1/1000th the buying power that the Walmart chain does.
Price isn't everything, you can compete with a somewhat lower price even offering the exact same product, if you can produce a significantly better product at the same time you can compete ever with a much lower price.
Another issue that they have is that the good games they have never drop in price. There is a huge catalog of PS3 and XBox360 games that can be had for $30, basically all the most popular titles more than a year old. That just isn't the case on the Wii.
Regular price on Amazon for a few of the Wii's most popular titles:
Super Mario Galaxy: $41 Twilight Princess: $47 Metroid Prime 3: $48
But... if you know the ark doubles as a Nazi face melter then it makes more sense to let the Germans take it back to Berlin and open it during a big ceremony for all the top Nazi brass which was their original plan until you sent some idiot with a fedora and a bullwhip in and screwed everything up!
If he would have left the hashtag out probably no one would have cared. Yes, it's still tasteless, but at least it wouldn't have been clogging up the Cairo feeds with advertising. That takes it from tasteless to complete assholishness; it isn't the joke IMO, it's the fact that he was using interest in the revolution to sell his product.
They might have to accept people that don't look Japanese, but speak? Seriously? I don't think it's too much to ask for the people caring for your elderly to be able to communicate with them without calling in the floor translator. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have to pantomime out what you need from the people who are being paid to care for you.
Conveniently long enough to silence Cox until the civil planning stages are over and the project moves forward while ignoring Cox's arguments. I know that the licensing board feels the need to protect the title of 'Engineer', but this is just abusive and ridiculous.
From the article: "The PIL had urged the authorities to ban articles, advertisements, episodes and practices promoting astrology and its related subjects like vastu, reiki, feng shui, tarot, palmistry, zodiac signs and rashifal." Emphasis added.
They had recently passed a law banning certain false advertising practices for medicine and treatments (similar, I imagine, to the regulations that the FDA imposes in the US), but the law was written in such a way that it could be used to ban any psuedo-science from being advertised or sold.
The court was left with three choices. Apply the law as written and ban the above listed pseudoscience, enraging scores of superstitious Indians across the country. Declare that those subjects were science and continue to all them (what apparently they chose to do). Personally I think, the third choice, declare those practices to be outside the scope of the law, would have been the preferred one. But I can understand why, for political reasons, they ruled the way that they did.
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Most of the Dual cores draw less power than the single cores at idle, which is where your phone's CPU spends most of it's time. There are only a very few applications that seem to peg even my 1.5 year old Motorola Droid, mostly games and whatnot. I would expect the average battery life to improve when moving to a new dual core compared to a single core simply because they can slow the clockrate and disable unused parts of the die. Of course, maybe the new single cores will perform even better battery life wise, I'm just saying compared to what is common now.
If I'm not playing games the display is typically the number one power user at something around 35%. Next is cell standbyat 18%. Only after that is OS related things which all added up together come to about 17%. CPU just isn't the biggest power draw on most smartphones, unless you're playing graphics intensive games. If you're doing something like browsing the web you'll see the transceiver and display numbers jump up faster than the browser's because there really isn't that much to think about when it comes to displaying a page.
Youtube doubled its revenues last year. Emphasis added.
The statement says nothing about profits, or profit margins; it's entirely possible to make a $1 billion profit one year, double your revenues the next year and suddenly be losing money. In Youtube's case it is probably a very good sign though, since no one really had any idea 5 years ago how to go about monetizing it.
The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
Developers who would rather write to one target slightly fragmented target than to two significantly fragmented targets?
Mormons believe that the God of Earth is nothing particularly special as Gods go (and that other planets have different, independent Gods). It is also implied, though not stated outright, that the God of Earth was once a mortal man, and that if you live a good enough Mormon life you might have the opportunity to become God to a planet yourself after you die. That is the primary difference between most Christianity and Mormonism, not rituals, or if Jesus went on tour.
He is saying that Mormons are polytheistic because they believe each Planet in the universe has it's own God and that there is nothing particularly special about the God that runs things here on Earth. In fact, if you are a really, really good Mormon you had a chance to ascend to godhood yourself after death, but only if you had enough wives to birth enough 'spiritual children' to populate it (why some fundamentalist Mormons insist on polygamy). I don't know how much of this is still considered cannon to the Mormon faith, but it is historically part of the faith.
Voice recognition is not the hard part. My phone can do decent voice recognition.
I tried to explain to the wife how amazing it is. She isn't technology illiterate, in fact I'd say she's well above average, but she just didn't see what was so impressive about it. People don't understand that there is an enormous gap between being able to retrieve general information on a subject and being able to answer a specific question. In their minds computers have been doing 99% of this for a good decade now; closing the last 1%, even if it is arguable the hardest percent, just isn't that cool to anyone outside of CS.
Congratulations, you've just rediscovered Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
"A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. [...] But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."
The life as a whole it doesn't perform a valuable function, but the individual cells that turn cancerous might have been about to die from some other cause when they revert. And that makes sense, cancer is made more likely by genetic damage, perhaps the cells are becoming cancerous when there is some piece or another of genetic code that is damaged beyond repair so the cell reverts to a simpler set of instructions that perform a similar role. A set which, unfortunately, lacks such handy things as communications channels and programmed cell death.
Kind of like if Windows can't find a file that it needs to boot normally, so it boots into safe mode so you can fix the problem. Except, this safe mode doesn't have a display driver, keyboard support, or Ethernet support... and it causes the computer to reproduce out of control. So the analogy isn't perfect, but no one ever said analogies had to be.
The smallest transferable unit is not a single BitCoin. It is in fact .00000001 BitCoin, making for plenty of transferable units.
Why? Gold has very little inherent worth. If the shit really and truly hit the fan people would probably go back to it out of some belief otherwise, but in reality using gold (or any other near worthless commodity) is practically identical to using a fiat currency. The only reason you accept anything as payment is because you have faith that you'll be able to pay someone else with it tomorrow. The only difference between fiat and backed currency is that the amount of money in circulation is controlled by a governing body, as opposed to being 'controlled' by the global output of whatever your backing is. At least if the Federal Reserve prints a few billion extra dollars there is generally a reason for it, if someone were to find a major, previously unknown gold deposit tomorrow the value of a backed currency would fluctuate for no reason.
It's fair I think, this is really just an incremental step toward the local maxima that we've been approaching for 40 years now. Quantum computing, in theory, could be used to speed some calculations by several orders of magnitude, and that would just be the first working generation. Lets face it, if all we ever research is smaller transistors eventually we're going to get transistors to the minimum theoretical size (beyond which electron tunneling produces as much noise as the actual signal does). Granted, there's a lot of room for improvement after that point, with larger dies, better cooling, and faster clock speeds, but the underlying piece of technology (the transistor) will be virtually stagnant in 20 years.
Things like quantum computing, spintronics, 3D chip design, etc have the potential, if any of them work out, to break out of the local maxima and into a new part of the graph, maybe a part of the graph with a much, much higher peak. If you say you made a better transistor people go 'meh' because everyone knows that we can make better transistors, we do it every day. If you say you have a potentially paradigm shifting idea that may or may not work people get more exciting because... well, because the possibilities are more exciting quite frankly.
Why would they be immune to cosmic rays? If a ray hits a wire, you're going to get a voltage spike, which can be interpreted as a 1 when there should be a 0 on the line. Doesn't matter what size it is or what it's made out of. Now, if they're really talking about 1/100 the power it opens up the possibility of multiple redundancy using less power than current systems. Have 10 duplicate copies of your processor all working the numbers and they take a vote on the answer and there's virtually zero chance of cosmic rays causing problems, and you'd still be using 1/10 the power of a conventional processor (in theory... if their ideas work out... and are mass producible... and conventional technology doesn't catch up in the meantime...)
I don't see this as being free at all, since you're talking a geosync satellite you're going to need a fair amount of equipment to have access to it. Even beyond the basic requirements of a computer and a satellite linkup, you are still talking about consistent electricity, maintenance, and repair. None of that is free, especially if you're working 16 hours a day just to feed your family.
That also means IFR aviation traffic in inclement weather is many cases is now impossible.
IFR does not, in any airplane, rely solely on GPS. In fact, in many situations the information from GPS is weighted well below the information from other sources which can be much more accurate. This is especially the case in situations where IFR is the most important, namely approach and departure. If you look at the plates for any airport in the world, STARS (standard approaches) and SIDS (standard departures) are laid out based on localizers and VOR stations, not GPS coordinates and there are plenty of good reasons for that. You don't need to know exactly where you are over the pacific ocean for safe IFR flight, which is about the only place on the planet where you're likely to be flying IFR without having access to navigational aids.
Possible solution A) Rotate the net and let centrifugal force do the work of your spring pole
Possible solution B) Apply a charge to the net so that it's self repelling, which they're doing anyway to control it's orbit.
Now, I imagine there are a good half dozen other possible solutions, and I'm not at all sure either of mine are feasible, but I am pretty sure that the engineers involved understand the basic physics of the situation and have probably thought of your concerns.
If it came to the situation that is going on in Egypt do you really think the government would require legal authority to make it happen? The law would be passed the instant the people in Washington believed it was needed to maintain order. The government almost certainly has equipment at every major ISP already for FBI, NSA, and CIA investigations, the only question is whether or not that equipment has the capability to block traffic or simply monitor. But then again, even if all they can do is monitor, it would be pretty hard to defend against an attack that comes from machines that are already on your network and that have backdoor access to a depressing number of your systems so I doubt it would matter anyway.
So I'd argue that if the US government wanted to shut down the internet they already have all the equipment in all the right places that they would need to do so. And from a legal standpoint it wouldn't matter because either the law would be passed by congress within hours of significant unrest or it would be done through some kind of executive order that no one in a position of authority would have the cajones to argue against until much later.
At the same time, if someone is out there lowering expectations by charging less it's up to you to raise expectations back up by providing things the cheap guy doesn't. That is how stores survive in the Walmart era; offer unique products that customers are looking for, better service, better atmosphere, better response times, etc. I worked at a grocery store through the time when a Super-Walmart moved into the area. Management's response was that we couldn't win on price but if we wanted to stay alive we'd have to win in every other category. And they did, the store is still as busy as ever 10 years later, despite having 1/1000th the buying power that the Walmart chain does.
Price isn't everything, you can compete with a somewhat lower price even offering the exact same product, if you can produce a significantly better product at the same time you can compete ever with a much lower price.
Another issue that they have is that the good games they have never drop in price. There is a huge catalog of PS3 and XBox360 games that can be had for $30, basically all the most popular titles more than a year old. That just isn't the case on the Wii.
Regular price on Amazon for a few of the Wii's most popular titles:
Super Mario Galaxy: $41
Twilight Princess: $47
Metroid Prime 3: $48
But... if you know the ark doubles as a Nazi face melter then it makes more sense to let the Germans take it back to Berlin and open it during a big ceremony for all the top Nazi brass which was their original plan until you sent some idiot with a fedora and a bullwhip in and screwed everything up!
If he would have left the hashtag out probably no one would have cared. Yes, it's still tasteless, but at least it wouldn't have been clogging up the Cairo feeds with advertising. That takes it from tasteless to complete assholishness; it isn't the joke IMO, it's the fact that he was using interest in the revolution to sell his product.
They might have to accept people that don't look Japanese, but speak? Seriously? I don't think it's too much to ask for the people caring for your elderly to be able to communicate with them without calling in the floor translator. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have to pantomime out what you need from the people who are being paid to care for you.
Conveniently long enough to silence Cox until the civil planning stages are over and the project moves forward while ignoring Cox's arguments. I know that the licensing board feels the need to protect the title of 'Engineer', but this is just abusive and ridiculous.
From the article: "The PIL had urged the authorities to ban articles, advertisements, episodes and practices promoting astrology and its related subjects like vastu, reiki, feng shui, tarot, palmistry, zodiac signs and rashifal." Emphasis added.
They had recently passed a law banning certain false advertising practices for medicine and treatments (similar, I imagine, to the regulations that the FDA imposes in the US), but the law was written in such a way that it could be used to ban any psuedo-science from being advertised or sold.
The court was left with three choices. Apply the law as written and ban the above listed pseudoscience, enraging scores of superstitious Indians across the country. Declare that those subjects were science and continue to all them (what apparently they chose to do). Personally I think, the third choice, declare those practices to be outside the scope of the law, would have been the preferred one. But I can understand why, for political reasons, they ruled the way that they did.