o they don't realize that they have their position in the cellphone-market BECAUSE they use Android insted of IN SPITE of it?
HP is the number one computer maker, yet they want to sell their business. The problem of being a hardware maker using a licensed OS, is that while revenue and market position might be great, you don't make much profit.
At the end of the day Profit (the part you get to keep) is all that really matters. As a business person, I understand the appeal.
and likely have alot of software not work with it.
And this is a good thing, MS has been dragging along support for cruft for far too long, and its time to start over with a clean code base. They still have support for VB6 (a great language in the day) that was discontinued about 11 years ago.
Who is it bad for? Web standards, and perhaps Android users.
Flash is not a web standard, but a proprietary format owned by Adobe. The sooner it dies the faster we can move to something that is an open standard.
This is actually only good for Adobe, as it slows the death of flash. Without this, content providers would simply send everyone html5 video. What is wrong with that?
Exactly, $6b was a huge premium, and was likely peek valuation.
The IPO is on hold because investors are figuring out that Groupon is not profitable, the business model is too easy to duplicate, and customers are starting to figure out it was not worth the cost and trouble.
I am pretty darn sure I am going to be completely decomposed long before this ever happens
Perhaps in certified form, especially heli's, but take a look at what is happening in the experimental space.
There are a number of electric hybrid aircraft in development that are starting to look like we will see some practical applications in 2-3 years. Burt Rutan flew one to Oshkosh this summer. The biggest difference is they are not trying to carry all the energy in batteries, but rather just enough for takeoff. Charge the batteries with small highly efficient engine powered generator, and use a simple electric motor for propulsion. The engine does not need a wide power band, so something like a wave disk design looks promising.
At least until we get a major breakthrough in battery tech.
A lot of problems would go away if the US would simply get rid of its government flood insurance program. If you want to build a house somewhere its likely to get flooded, and its too risky for a private insurer to cover, and the bank won't loan without insurance... it won't get built. .
I don't understand how any reasonably intelligent person would play a game where one player can gain an advantage simply by paying more. Note this is different from games that charge a small monthly fee just to play. Myself, and everyone I know refuse to play (or admit when I asked) games with in game bonuses purchasable with real cash.
I believe our government should invest in green tech, but they are investing in the wrong areas.
A bad investment is one that is not viable on its own, such as existing green tech that is not profitable.
A good investment is one that helps develop tech that is financially viable on its own. In other words, research. We should support those looking for new inventions that would support themselves once developed. Once developed, let the open market reap the benefits.
Apple has already sold 29 million iPads, and analysts are predicting that will likely at least double through the end of the year. So if you take a conservative number like 50 million, and you lose $100 on each sale, you just sunk 5 billion before making any money. And that is a stationary target, and iPad sales are certainly not stationary.
No problem, HP has like 13 billion in cash. Oh wait, they just spent most of it buying a software company, perhaps even borrowing to pull it off.
Then how are you going to make money? Raise prices? That will go over like a lead brick.
Losing billions in an attempt to break into a market is simply terrible business strategy. Very very few company's have billions upon billions to blow like Balmer did getting into the xbox business.
A much smarter strategy is to build something new and exciting that customers are willing to buy at a price that makes a profit to start with.
OS X has core load sharing built into the OS. Even though you are only doing one task, it can split it up over multiple cores. iOS does do multitasking, but you are correct it is very limited, and almost nothing is exposed to 3rd party apps.
And there were Microsoft tablets around 10 years prior to the iPad. It doesn't really matter. Most things Jobs invented already existed, but were terribly implemented. He had the vision and resources to build something people actually wanted. Your point is mute.
(I personally do not own any apple products, but my family has several).
Since the switch I have stopped downloading anything from them. If you click the link to show all information it usually has the developers site, and many have the clean download available directly.
All that matters to end users is if the games play and look great. You are going to buy this if you want dedicated controls (the differentiation), not by processor specs. Why bother even releasing the specs unless it is just to gloat a little?
This Vita looks pretty good for a dedicated device (not something I personally would buy).
If it is truly important, it should have an easily identifiable counterpart in the GUI. Shortcuts should always be a second method for power users. I think were getting better on this, many apps are copying web browsers, with dedicated search boxes in plain sight.
The base source code is available for OS X, but Apple openly talks about their desire to control all levels of code in the ecosystem. Note that just the base code for Android is available as well, not the high end goodness that really makes it shine. In this regard Android is about as open as Apple's OS X. The difference is for some reason Google spins Android as "Open", and Apple does not.
It appears you are of the demographic that would enjoy a Sony Vita. Congratulations. The point is that although there are millions like you, you are now the minority, as most people are content with a few $0.99 games on their smart phone to play while waiting for their wife to try on clothes at Kohls.
The maps for our state are far better quality and newer on bing maps than on Google maps. I still usually use google maps, as I like the interface better, but switch to bing when I want to see something on the background image.
I usually start with Google for searches as well, but the quality has been going down for years, now dominated by marketing sites. The real results often don't start until page 2, 3, or 4.
Find myself switching to Bing when Google search refuses to find a result I like, and sometimes it works.
Airline crews are limited to flight hours as a means to limit the radiation they receive to stay under OSHA limits. It is one of the careers that receive relatively high doses over their careers. Doses are cumulative (think about how people develop skin cancer supposedly from sun burns as a child).
For these reasons pilots try to avoid even small doses of radiation where they can, and walking through a body scanner several times every day they work over several years would add up.
Examples of industries with significant occupational radiation exposure:
- Airline crew (the most exposed population)
- Industrial radiography
- Medical radiology and nuclear medicine
- Uranium mining
- Nuclear power plant and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant workers
- Research laboratories (government, university and private)
The 3ds looks like a sad device from the 80's, two tiny little screens surrounded with massive amounts of plastic in a thick case. I see kids squinting playing them and think that is they best they got? In 2011?
Sadly (for us Sony haters), it looks like Sony is building some decent kit. Hats off. Decent sized screen, nice input buttons (if your going to have buttons, they better be good), still very portable. If I was in the market would likely purchase this over a Nintendo in a heartbeat (admittedly have not looked at other factors like game selection).
Since phones and iPods can play games "good enough" for the mass market, and do a lot more as well, the portable market for a dedicated game device will hence forth be a niche market, even if that niche is numbered in the millions.
Me too, but not because I like the Razr. There is a stack of defective ones on my dresser. My wife's Razr looks like it has gone through a war zone (she doesn't regularly kill them like I do).
The cost of data plans and silly 2 year contracts is keeping us away. Waiting for a prepaid App-phone that I like on a prepaid plan less than $30 a month for each phone. Where getting close....
"platform of choice" Right now traditional consoles are still the platform of choice, with mobile closing the gap fast. They are just saying they this will flip very soon. Does not mean consoles are going away.
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o they don't realize that they have their position in the cellphone-market BECAUSE they use Android insted of IN SPITE of it?
HP is the number one computer maker, yet they want to sell their business. The problem of being a hardware maker using a licensed OS, is that while revenue and market position might be great, you don't make much profit.
At the end of the day Profit (the part you get to keep) is all that really matters. As a business person, I understand the appeal.
and likely have alot of software not work with it.
And this is a good thing, MS has been dragging along support for cruft for far too long, and its time to start over with a clean code base. They still have support for VB6 (a great language in the day) that was discontinued about 11 years ago.
Who is it bad for? Web standards, and perhaps Android users.
Flash is not a web standard, but a proprietary format owned by Adobe. The sooner it dies the faster we can move to something that is an open standard.
This is actually only good for Adobe, as it slows the death of flash. Without this, content providers would simply send everyone html5 video. What is wrong with that?
Exactly, $6b was a huge premium, and was likely peek valuation.
The IPO is on hold because investors are figuring out that Groupon is not profitable, the business model is too easy to duplicate, and customers are starting to figure out it was not worth the cost and trouble.
I am pretty darn sure I am going to be completely decomposed long before this ever happens
Perhaps in certified form, especially heli's, but take a look at what is happening in the experimental space.
There are a number of electric hybrid aircraft in development that are starting to look like we will see some practical applications in 2-3 years. Burt Rutan flew one to Oshkosh this summer. The biggest difference is they are not trying to carry all the energy in batteries, but rather just enough for takeoff. Charge the batteries with small highly efficient engine powered generator, and use a simple electric motor for propulsion. The engine does not need a wide power band, so something like a wave disk design looks promising.
At least until we get a major breakthrough in battery tech.
A lot of problems would go away if the US would simply get rid of its government flood insurance program. If you want to build a house somewhere its likely to get flooded, and its too risky for a private insurer to cover, and the bank won't loan without insurance... it won't get built. .
I don't understand how any reasonably intelligent person would play a game where one player can gain an advantage simply by paying more. Note this is different from games that charge a small monthly fee just to play. Myself, and everyone I know refuse to play (or admit when I asked) games with in game bonuses purchasable with real cash.
A bad investment is one that is not viable on its own, such as existing green tech that is not profitable.
A good investment is one that helps develop tech that is financially viable on its own. In other words, research. We should support those looking for new inventions that would support themselves once developed. Once developed, let the open market reap the benefits.
Apple skipped tablets and turned phones into computers
Interestingly enough, they developed the tablet first, but ended up shipping the phone first.
"Once the established leader has been displaced"
Apple has already sold 29 million iPads, and analysts are predicting that will likely at least double through the end of the year. So if you take a conservative number like 50 million, and you lose $100 on each sale, you just sunk 5 billion before making any money. And that is a stationary target, and iPad sales are certainly not stationary.
No problem, HP has like 13 billion in cash. Oh wait, they just spent most of it buying a software company, perhaps even borrowing to pull it off.
Then how are you going to make money? Raise prices? That will go over like a lead brick.
Losing billions in an attempt to break into a market is simply terrible business strategy. Very very few company's have billions upon billions to blow like Balmer did getting into the xbox business.
A much smarter strategy is to build something new and exciting that customers are willing to buy at a price that makes a profit to start with.
Yes... I have an MBA =]~
Assume by "stacking" they are referring to (and the article alluded to) something similar to Intel's Tri-Gate transistors?
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-22nm-3D-Trigate-Transistors/
And not simply stacking and interconnecting like this?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/rochester-3d-processor,6369.html
OS X has core load sharing built into the OS. Even though you are only doing one task, it can split it up over multiple cores. iOS does do multitasking, but you are correct it is very limited, and almost nothing is exposed to 3rd party apps.
And there were Microsoft tablets around 10 years prior to the iPad. It doesn't really matter. Most things Jobs invented already existed, but were terribly implemented. He had the vision and resources to build something people actually wanted. Your point is mute.
(I personally do not own any apple products, but my family has several).
Since the switch I have stopped downloading anything from them. If you click the link to show all information it usually has the developers site, and many have the clean download available directly.
Is there a quality download site left?
All that matters to end users is if the games play and look great. You are going to buy this if you want dedicated controls (the differentiation), not by processor specs. Why bother even releasing the specs unless it is just to gloat a little? This Vita looks pretty good for a dedicated device (not something I personally would buy).
If it is truly important, it should have an easily identifiable counterpart in the GUI. Shortcuts should always be a second method for power users. I think were getting better on this, many apps are copying web browsers, with dedicated search boxes in plain sight.
The base source code is available for OS X, but Apple openly talks about their desire to control all levels of code in the ecosystem. Note that just the base code for Android is available as well, not the high end goodness that really makes it shine. In this regard Android is about as open as Apple's OS X. The difference is for some reason Google spins Android as "Open", and Apple does not.
It appears you are of the demographic that would enjoy a Sony Vita. Congratulations. The point is that although there are millions like you, you are now the minority, as most people are content with a few $0.99 games on their smart phone to play while waiting for their wife to try on clothes at Kohls.
The maps for our state are far better quality and newer on bing maps than on Google maps. I still usually use google maps, as I like the interface better, but switch to bing when I want to see something on the background image.
I usually start with Google for searches as well, but the quality has been going down for years, now dominated by marketing sites. The real results often don't start until page 2, 3, or 4.
Find myself switching to Bing when Google search refuses to find a result I like, and sometimes it works.
Airline crews are limited to flight hours as a means to limit the radiation they receive to stay under OSHA limits. It is one of the careers that receive relatively high doses over their careers. Doses are cumulative (think about how people develop skin cancer supposedly from sun burns as a child).
For these reasons pilots try to avoid even small doses of radiation where they can, and walking through a body scanner several times every day they work over several years would add up.
Examples of industries with significant occupational radiation exposure:
http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/53939/radiation-exposure/
Perhaps we need to breed some much larger spiders? Nothing could possibly go wrong....
The 3ds looks like a sad device from the 80's, two tiny little screens surrounded with massive amounts of plastic in a thick case. I see kids squinting playing them and think that is they best they got? In 2011?
Sadly (for us Sony haters), it looks like Sony is building some decent kit. Hats off. Decent sized screen, nice input buttons (if your going to have buttons, they better be good), still very portable. If I was in the market would likely purchase this over a Nintendo in a heartbeat (admittedly have not looked at other factors like game selection).
Since phones and iPods can play games "good enough" for the mass market, and do a lot more as well, the portable market for a dedicated game device will hence forth be a niche market, even if that niche is numbered in the millions.
Me too, but not because I like the Razr. There is a stack of defective ones on my dresser. My wife's Razr looks like it has gone through a war zone (she doesn't regularly kill them like I do).
The cost of data plans and silly 2 year contracts is keeping us away. Waiting for a prepaid App-phone that I like on a prepaid plan less than $30 a month for each phone. Where getting close....
"platform of choice" Right now traditional consoles are still the platform of choice, with mobile closing the gap fast. They are just saying they this will flip very soon. Does not mean consoles are going away.
And yet I would not want to take my family there, even to see Petra. Will this help in their progress toward human rights?