"It is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue," Rochefort said.
Fact: It's worse. It's not as neatly done != It isn't much better.
Personally - I really don't care what kind of dodgy information they could gleen from a smart meter. I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.
Or that nobody has been home for a couple of days so you are probably on vacation and your home would be a good target for robbery! Yeah, that's worth saving a few bucks a month on electricity.
Personally, if your house is being cased for a Robbery, they won't glean the information from a spread sheet. They'll actually have spent time casing the neighborhood and recorded your patterns of coming and going. More and more robberies are coming from meth addicts looking to hock stuff to cover their drug habits. They'll steal items in plain sight. They won't be using software tools to see power usage and make the corollary when you will have the highest probability of not being home.
Then again, most people learned decades ago that automatic timers at night for certain lighting controls are quite effective at as deterrent to breaking and entering a stranger's home.
I was seriously starting to consider buying an iPhone. Then I see this patent, and think "I will never buy such a product".
But your post gives me hope; if everyone called apple support every time they saw an ad like this, it would be awesome.
"Hello Apple? I was dialing 9-1-1, but I only got 9-1 in, and then this screen popped up and asked me how many horsepower are in the new lexus, and now my house has all burnt to the ground, and I had to borrow the neighbor's phone because my iPhone is unusable until I answer this stupid question. BTW, can you give me the legal department's number?"
Wake up. It's a Patent designed never to be used. It's a Patent to protect against some competitor from doing it on their systems.
I have CDs from the mid 80s. What most people fail to notice is that the thickness of those old CDs did allow one to skip them on the road and be able to put them back into the player and read correctly. They are thicker than today's CDs. Like all stuff in technology they hook you at a reasonable price, jack you up on costs later and cheapen the product so it fails sooner, rather than later.
A lot of companies will also use a single employee for all of their commits too. I know the company I used to work for made one man look like a code factory to a certain open source project, but, in fact, it was a team of 20 or so devs behind him doing the real work.
You clearly know nothing about Linux Kernel development if you think Morton is a face for a team of hidden coders.
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Hmm, you realize that Android alone is over 10 million lines of code right? That's a pretty big open source contribution right there. But then there's also over a million lines of code across 100+ smaller projects too. So I am not sure what your definition of "table scraps" is but it's significantly more lines of code than most companies do.
I see millions of lines of Code from the Apache Foundation's various Java projects in Android.
It's not that anyone cares that MSFT booked the revenue in Nevada.
Really? I'll best most people in Washington (state) do.
I live in Washington State, and no, not really--I don't mind.
I'm thinking of starting my own business, and I would love to pay less in taxes, giving me the ability to spend the profit on other more important things like bonuses for employees that do great work, healthcare plans to entice better workers, and money for a general office slush fund for things like parties, a well stocked beer/soda fridge, etc...
That Service or Goods Business you plan on creating better not use any Public Roads or other Public Services and then you can ask those mythical bonuses you plan on giving out to our employees that they have to pay as they go.
With all due respect, your statistic does not support your claim. "R&D to sales" is a measure of the effectiveness of a company's effort to convert R&D into sales. If that ratio is low, all the better. You originally claimed that "Apple's R&D investment is far below industry average". That claim has been refuted in the grandparent to this post. Now you want to divorce the "R" from the "D" to complain that Apple doesn't publish papers or have its papers cited. That's an entirely different subject.
What's your point? If you want to argue that Apple is doing a disservice to the world of technology, you need a better yardstick than "papers published". Need I remind you that Apple basically invented the home computer, basically invented the PDA, and has recently completely re-energized the smartphone industry? Those accomplishments have had obvious penumbral effects.
I guess his point should be that he sucks at statistical relationships and how they may or may not support his theory. That R&D to sales is asinine. Boeing's R&D to sales sees them going into the crapper with losing $1.6 Billion this quarter. I suppose they just don't have very effective/efficient/competent R&D and it's showing.
well, if you stop sucking and being an apple fanbois, we may take you a bit more seriously then your bold 'general knowledge' statements.
Having worked for Steve at NeXT and Apple I can attest that Apple's Legal Department is vast, top knotch and has vast resources at their disposal to make sure all R&D passes far more than the sniff test. It's a streamlined, but vastly detailed process when Apple goes to patent any IP.
I download my Nvidia drivers from the Archlinux package repository. How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
I'd imagine Debian wouldn't have a problem giving them the statistics of their packages being installed. I've updated over the past 3 years every time Debian updates to match their latest releases.
Also when you figure per capita, the US has almost 4 times the population, which makes US sales roughly 2.5 times better.
Umm, no. RTFA. 65,000 in six months in Germany versus 600,000 per week in the USA. Even accounting for population differences, the difference is about 120:1.
Hey, FU. How about a sense of Civility and just say, RTA? If you need the F for a book sales article you truly have issues.
$20+/yr for OSX upgrades (Apple forcing you to upgrade)
$1200 for a Macbook (sorry, I'm a Linux person, so I need a MacBook, etc...)
$199 for a iPod touch (before the 3G S came out and I have a G1 phone already!)
$75/mo for the best internet access (SDK updates are 2.7GB since it includes XCode!!!, also, my apps are media heavy at 100MB per app)--and the app uploader tool sucks.
(and $120 for a data plan if you need it)
That about $2K to get my 1.99 apps out the door, not to mind:
development time (can take months for a polished professional app)
slower development time (and learning curve for most) using Obj-C. It's a PITA, like Symbian... Compared to WebOS or Android development.
2week wait for any approval
illogical hassles and contract bureaucracy with app-store that will stress you out.
Hence in all, if I used my typical developer rate, I think I spent $25K in niche apps (meditation apps) with a creative partner and so far have made my last 3 months' developer fees. It took Apple about a month to review as well.
I'd say it's less lucrative than other platforms! In WebOS and Android, my dev experience was much easier in creating the same app... at 1/2 the cost. Sure, every ecosystem has appstore hassles, but they are either more predictable or respond faster.
Conclusion: it is a crap shoot, Apple gives consumers what they want at expense of devs and I would have had more fun in Vegas spending $5K--at least some touching and nudity would have been involved compared to building these apps.
What a crock of shit. You assume every Tom, Dick and Harry is either a C++ Head or a Java Head. Guess what? Talent doesn't get delayed by learning syntax and the most common MVC pattern in history--now being adopted as somehow revolutionary by the Java,.NET and C++ heads.
Imagination, Vision and artistic talent are from your child hood. You either have it or you do not.
The cost of not having talent for coming up with creative products dwarfs any of this `I need a Macbook, I need to pay for a dirt cheap license fee, I need to spend dirt for an OS upgrade and god! My time is precious!''
You shouldn't be programming solo if you can't keep your head above water financially, in any occupation.
Stop pissing time down the drain at bars, sporting events, nerd conferences, game hours that turn into all nighters and if you can't come up with something worth developing then get a job in Corporate America.
Perhaps if he wants to be successful, he shouldn't spend his weekends "partying in Las Vegas and New York" and instead spend it on development and marketing. I've heard a wacky rumor that can help.
Or define success as less than 7 figures and enjoying a fulfilling life. Some people need to be b**ch slapped into reality.
The difference is those projects usually cost less than a dollar year after year, forever. This one would cost less than a dollar once. Then it would be funded privately.
I'd imagine it'll take 3 to 5 centuries to match 6 months of just of one's personal vice habits, ala Starbucks, Cigs, Booze, etc.
Alas, as others have pointed out upthread, the high-temp superconductors don't work well for magnets. All superconducting materials lose their superconductivity at a certain magnetic field-strength threshold; for high-Tc materials, that threshold is much lower than it is for "conventional" superconductors.
Even if that weren't an issue, the ceramic materials are generally too brittle to stand up to the mechanical forces inside a high-field magnet coil.
Our lab has experimented with high-Tc superconducting probes for MRI. Even though they're high-Tc, we still end up cooling them to the liquid-helium range.
The beauty of Scientific Research is that it is always a moving target. When these superconductors research expands to composite materials that provide more exotic properties you'll see them being used in said applications that currently don't seem optimal.
PetroSun Incorporated is years ahead of those pricks and Reuters need to talk about everyone but them makes it clear those pricks don't research before they report.
Exactly. Sorry, but I'd love to have these paid to make a report analysts put their reputations and jobs on the line when it is readily apparent that the iPhone market penetration has only just begun.
Take some science class. Things lose heat in vacuum by emitting radiation (typically infrared at our temperature). You might also learn that crashing is easier than landing (less delta-V), kinetic energy is a bitch at that kind of speed and will create an explosion, and people here on Earth actually use explosions to excavate material, not robotic spoons.
Heat, by definition is Radiation. We won't get into the specifics of convection and conduction.
Analyzing reports is expensive. There's a lot of data there, you have to have multiple people do it(since otherwise the person analyzing the reports can steal from you) and unless you spend a lot of time and have a lot of people doing it you can only really see quite major exceptions from the general trends and most of the people who steal know how to do it without raising an major exception.
The truth of the matter is that low level fraud costs more to prevent than to accept, especially when you take into account the general moral drops you get from showing that you really don't trust your employees.
Most people are honest, most of the people who aren't honest can be scared off with the fact that audit reports exist, and the rest of them all together steal so very little that it's not really that big a deal.
An OpenCL implementation of Bullet physics is coming. It's Open Source and is already being used in commercial games -- once it gets GPU acceleration there will probably be little demand for PhysX.
I completely agree and look forward to applying my M.E. and C.S. backgrounds for my work.
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Fact: It's worse. It's not as neatly done != It isn't much better.
>"Someone get me an e-meter, quick!"
>I'm afraid sir you'll have to buy your own. This is a business not a religion.
Fixed that for ya.
That would cover them all, even if their business is Soul management.
Personally - I really don't care what kind of dodgy information they could gleen from a smart meter. I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.
Or that nobody has been home for a couple of days so you are probably on vacation and your home would be a good target for robbery! Yeah, that's worth saving a few bucks a month on electricity.
Personally, if your house is being cased for a Robbery, they won't glean the information from a spread sheet. They'll actually have spent time casing the neighborhood and recorded your patterns of coming and going. More and more robberies are coming from meth addicts looking to hock stuff to cover their drug habits. They'll steal items in plain sight. They won't be using software tools to see power usage and make the corollary when you will have the highest probability of not being home.
Then again, most people learned decades ago that automatic timers at night for certain lighting controls are quite effective at as deterrent to breaking and entering a stranger's home.
I was seriously starting to consider buying an iPhone. Then I see this patent, and think "I will never buy such a product".
But your post gives me hope; if everyone called apple support every time they saw an ad like this, it would be awesome.
"Hello Apple? I was dialing 9-1-1, but I only got 9-1 in, and then this screen popped up and asked me how many horsepower are in the new lexus, and now my house has all burnt to the ground, and I had to borrow the neighbor's phone because my iPhone is unusable until I answer this stupid question. BTW, can you give me the legal department's number?"
Wake up. It's a Patent designed never to be used. It's a Patent to protect against some competitor from doing it on their systems.
I have CDs from the mid 80s. What most people fail to notice is that the thickness of those old CDs did allow one to skip them on the road and be able to put them back into the player and read correctly. They are thicker than today's CDs. Like all stuff in technology they hook you at a reasonable price, jack you up on costs later and cheapen the product so it fails sooner, rather than later.
A lot of companies will also use a single employee for all of their commits too. I know the company I used to work for made one man look like a code factory to a certain open source project, but, in fact, it was a team of 20 or so devs behind him doing the real work.
You clearly know nothing about Linux Kernel development if you think Morton is a face for a team of hidden coders.
Hmm, you realize that Android alone is over 10 million lines of code right? That's a pretty big open source contribution right there. But then there's also over a million lines of code across 100+ smaller projects too. So I am not sure what your definition of "table scraps" is but it's significantly more lines of code than most companies do.
I see millions of lines of Code from the Apache Foundation's various Java projects in Android.
Really? I'll best most people in Washington (state) do.
I live in Washington State, and no, not really--I don't mind. I'm thinking of starting my own business, and I would love to pay less in taxes, giving me the ability to spend the profit on other more important things like bonuses for employees that do great work, healthcare plans to entice better workers, and money for a general office slush fund for things like parties, a well stocked beer/soda fridge, etc...
That Service or Goods Business you plan on creating better not use any Public Roads or other Public Services and then you can ask those mythical bonuses you plan on giving out to our employees that they have to pay as they go.
You might as well be arguing with him about whether his hair is on fire. It seems to be blind to reason.
With all due respect, your statistic does not support your claim. "R&D to sales" is a measure of the effectiveness of a company's effort to convert R&D into sales. If that ratio is low, all the better. You originally claimed that "Apple's R&D investment is far below industry average". That claim has been refuted in the grandparent to this post. Now you want to divorce the "R" from the "D" to complain that Apple doesn't publish papers or have its papers cited. That's an entirely different subject.
What's your point? If you want to argue that Apple is doing a disservice to the world of technology, you need a better yardstick than "papers published". Need I remind you that Apple basically invented the home computer, basically invented the PDA, and has recently completely re-energized the smartphone industry? Those accomplishments have had obvious penumbral effects.
I guess his point should be that he sucks at statistical relationships and how they may or may not support his theory. That R&D to sales is asinine. Boeing's R&D to sales sees them going into the crapper with losing $1.6 Billion this quarter. I suppose they just don't have very effective/efficient/competent R&D and it's showing.
well, if you stop sucking and being an apple fanbois, we may take you a bit more seriously then your bold 'general knowledge' statements.
Having worked for Steve at NeXT and Apple I can attest that Apple's Legal Department is vast, top knotch and has vast resources at their disposal to make sure all R&D passes far more than the sniff test. It's a streamlined, but vastly detailed process when Apple goes to patent any IP.
Either way, Apple hates being tied to vendors,
Which is funny to me, as they seem to have no problem tying people to them.
Don't misconstrue B-to-B with B-to-C.
I download my Nvidia drivers from the Archlinux package repository. How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
I'd imagine Debian wouldn't have a problem giving them the statistics of their packages being installed. I've updated over the past 3 years every time Debian updates to match their latest releases.
Umm, no. RTFA. 65,000 in six months in Germany versus 600,000 per week in the USA. Even accounting for population differences, the difference is about 120:1.
Hey, FU. How about a sense of Civility and just say, RTA? If you need the F for a book sales article you truly have issues.
Huh?
That about $2K to get my 1.99 apps out the door, not to mind:
Hence in all, if I used my typical developer rate, I think I spent $25K in niche apps (meditation apps) with a creative partner and so far have made my last 3 months' developer fees. It took Apple about a month to review as well. I'd say it's less lucrative than other platforms! In WebOS and Android, my dev experience was much easier in creating the same app... at 1/2 the cost. Sure, every ecosystem has appstore hassles, but they are either more predictable or respond faster. Conclusion: it is a crap shoot, Apple gives consumers what they want at expense of devs and I would have had more fun in Vegas spending $5K--at least some touching and nudity would have been involved compared to building these apps.
What a crock of shit. You assume every Tom, Dick and Harry is either a C++ Head or a Java Head. Guess what? Talent doesn't get delayed by learning syntax and the most common MVC pattern in history--now being adopted as somehow revolutionary by the Java, .NET and C++ heads.
Imagination, Vision and artistic talent are from your child hood. You either have it or you do not.
The cost of not having talent for coming up with creative products dwarfs any of this `I need a Macbook, I need to pay for a dirt cheap license fee, I need to spend dirt for an OS upgrade and god! My time is precious!''
You shouldn't be programming solo if you can't keep your head above water financially, in any occupation.
Stop pissing time down the drain at bars, sporting events, nerd conferences, game hours that turn into all nighters and if you can't come up with something worth developing then get a job in Corporate America.
Perhaps if he wants to be successful, he shouldn't spend his weekends "partying in Las Vegas and New York" and instead spend it on development and marketing. I've heard a wacky rumor that can help.
Or define success as less than 7 figures and enjoying a fulfilling life. Some people need to be b**ch slapped into reality.
The difference is those projects usually cost less than a dollar year after year, forever. This one would cost less than a dollar once. Then it would be funded privately.
I'd imagine it'll take 3 to 5 centuries to match 6 months of just of one's personal vice habits, ala Starbucks, Cigs, Booze, etc.
Alas, as others have pointed out upthread, the high-temp superconductors don't work well for magnets. All superconducting materials lose their superconductivity at a certain magnetic field-strength threshold; for high-Tc materials, that threshold is much lower than it is for "conventional" superconductors.
Even if that weren't an issue, the ceramic materials are generally too brittle to stand up to the mechanical forces inside a high-field magnet coil.
Our lab has experimented with high-Tc superconducting probes for MRI. Even though they're high-Tc, we still end up cooling them to the liquid-helium range.
The beauty of Scientific Research is that it is always a moving target. When these superconductors research expands to composite materials that provide more exotic properties you'll see them being used in said applications that currently don't seem optimal.
The point is that you can be pretty darn sure that the person is NOT more skilled or knowledgeable.
Though imperfect, desire to hack on personal projects is a damn good lameness filter.
Every top architect I worked around at NeXT and Apple had families and never programmed outside of work. They were normal.
PetroSun Incorporated is years ahead of those pricks and Reuters need to talk about everyone but them makes it clear those pricks don't research before they report.
You lost me at Gartner.
Exactly. Sorry, but I'd love to have these paid to make a report analysts put their reputations and jobs on the line when it is readily apparent that the iPhone market penetration has only just begun.
Take some science class. Things lose heat in vacuum by emitting radiation (typically infrared at our temperature). You might also learn that crashing is easier than landing (less delta-V), kinetic energy is a bitch at that kind of speed and will create an explosion, and people here on Earth actually use explosions to excavate material, not robotic spoons.
Heat, by definition is Radiation. We won't get into the specifics of convection and conduction.
Analyzing reports is expensive. There's a lot of data there, you have to have multiple people do it(since otherwise the person analyzing the reports can steal from you) and unless you spend a lot of time and have a lot of people doing it you can only really see quite major exceptions from the general trends and most of the people who steal know how to do it without raising an major exception.
The truth of the matter is that low level fraud costs more to prevent than to accept, especially when you take into account the general moral drops you get from showing that you really don't trust your employees.
Most people are honest, most of the people who aren't honest can be scared off with the fact that audit reports exist, and the rest of them all together steal so very little that it's not really that big a deal.
Expensive? Compared to a Depression?
An OpenCL implementation of Bullet physics is coming. It's Open Source and is already being used in commercial games -- once it gets GPU acceleration there will probably be little demand for PhysX.
I completely agree and look forward to applying my M.E. and C.S. backgrounds for my work.
Havok is a better engine anyway.
But that's the problem with corporate buyings anyway. Even if its kinda wrong to stop supporting the other platforms, they have every right to do so.
Have Havok. I'll take Bullet http://www.bulletphysics.com/wordpress/ I rather like AMD making Bullet OpenCL ready.