Helium has been cheap, and it's mostly used for it's attributes as inert, not buoyant. Balloons have been an after thought.
And your circular argument is logical fallacy, NOT proof. If you can't be bothered to provide sources or numbers to support your claim, you should just be quiet while the adults are talking.
Our energy supply is finite, and so our energy usage should be measured in units of energy, not dollars.
Of everything we have and do on this planet... Electricity is the closet thing we have to an infinite commodity. Until the entire surface of the earth is shaded, all wind ceases to blow, all rivers stop flowing, all tides stop, all mountains have been leveled, all thunderstorms cease to be generated, the mantle and core cools to surface temps, and we've burned every last calorie of biomass... until then, there's plenty of electricity to be had, and the only limitation is the cost of converting the energy into usable forms of electricity.
If anything... Absolutely ANYTHING... can be properly measured in dollars, it's electricity.
You're complaining that you'll have to file a lawsuit to defend your copyright. Boo hoo.
You should be HAPPY that you have the ability to simply file a lawsuit. If they hosted their video on their own servers, in another country (rather than YouTube), you'd have no practical recourse.
In this case, you file a case in a court that's close to home, the accused doesn't show-up at all, you win by default, and YouTube does what you want. And if by chance they DO show-up, then you've got more of a fight on your hands, but you'll be able to get legal fees and impose fines on the individuals located in the US.
I never claimed it would ELIMINATE flammability, and either you're an idiot for coming away with that idea, or you're making up an obvious straw man.
Here's a couple quotes from my post:
"slowing combustion"
"more difficult to combust, or burn slower and cooler"
It was pretty damn clear that the idea is to make hydrogen-filled balloons just burn when lighted, and not turn into a massive raging fireball of your nightmares.
And it works well enough for kerosene in jet engines.
You won't ever be successful pulling it from the atmosphere. Helium is the lightest of noble gases, so it reaches high altitudes, and continues floating right on out into outer space.
Fill those balloons with hydrogen... They'll get even more lift, and the party could get extremely memorable, if one of those balloons gets close to a party candle.
Hydrogen is flammable, but slowing combustion is simply a matter of mixing it with some other gas that interrupts oxidation. Race car tires are filled with Nitrogen so that a blow out won't feed a fire. Carbon dioxide is also a common industrial gas which displaces oxygen.
You're a moron. This phone has high-end specs, where there are Android phones still selling in the US which are lower-spec than FirefoxOS is targeting, and which are going, non-subsidized, for as low as $40. There is no lower-end than that, and FirefoxOS most certainly will not out-perform Android.
This may be a javascript developers wet dream, but otherwise it has absolutely no selling points. There are already Android apps for damn near everything, including real games that far surpass what HTML5 could hope to do. So we've got a high-end phone, running another incompatible OS that has very few apps available. For what possible reason should people drop the android ecosystem? If they want to run a web app, that's what a web browser is for. The average person won't care about the novelty of an HTML window manager.
And web-apps have long been my nightmare on the desktop... I don't want to do whois queries on your web site, thanks, I'll take my tiny, decades old command-line. No BS about supported browsers, insane resource usage for trivial tasks, no issues when there's no internet connection, no crazy workarounds like web sockets to the web server, then converting the connection into another protocol and proxying the connection to a different server (which might be on the private network where the public web app can't hope to reach it... etc etc.
There are differences, but they absolutely are NOT significantly affecting calorie absorbtion. There will be a little variability from the type of food, but other effects will be more significant. If you count your calories, you will be eating about the right amount, and maintaining a healthy weight.
Study after study, Atkins diets never out-perform conventional starchy diets.
Things like BPA or certain types of food are really only going to be corner cases.
That seems very unlikely. It was suspected for a long time that BPA signaling your system to keep creating fat was causing some real problems.
Your body cannot store fat from nowhere.
That's technically true... It will always be possible to diet and lose weight. But if BPA is acting as described, then you will have to carefully watch your diet, forever, because your body will ALWAYS continue to signal hunger, and always try to store fat. And it's a tricky balance. It's easy to diet too much, and end up getting dizzy and even fainting from too few calories.
So, if BPA has made an epidemic of anything, I'd say it was more like an epidemic of being "slightly chubby", but not one of obesity.
Maybe you don't know what "obese" means... If you really mean MORBIDLY obese, then I'll agree with you. When weight becomes crippling, a little self-control is necessary, and it's easy to judge by eye when you're gaining hundreds of pounds, versus losing it (too quickly, perhaps).
But obesity is really just a few pounds of extra weight. Someone doesn't even have to appear out of shape (when clothed) to be obese. A few pounds of belly fat, and you might be obese, and at high risk of a number of health problems.
Your body absorbs much more energy from 100 calories of sugar, for example, than it does from 100 calories of raw vegetables.
This is TECHNICALLY true in some cases, but there are fleetingly few people who get a significant percentage of their daily food intake from, say: completely RAW, UNCOOKED broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, corn, peas, beans, etc, etc.
People cook these foods precisely because uncooked food is hard to digest. And it's not likely people are going to be ignorant of this fact... eating raw vegetables is tantamount to drinking a mega-dose of Metamucil. It'll be PAINFULLY obvious if you're not digesting your food.
While there are exceptions, like foods very, very high in fiber... I don't know of any all-bean diets, so for the average person, all calories are pretty damn close to being the same, for all practical purposes.
First off, it's been solidly proven that BPA will shrink your genitals, just as if you've been taking estrogen pills. That's something which might be a reasonable trade-off in powerful medications, but that should never be something that comes into contact with our FOOD, which by definition, should not have such medical side-effects.
And back to your claim, exercise has very little effect on obesity. You have to run a marathon to burn off a pizza. It's massively impractical to lose weight with exercise.
So we're back to over-eating. But is this generation really forcing themselves to over-eat? It's really not like every family out there drinks nothing but sodas, and eats nothing but junk food. The fact that obesity has become an epidemic, and this generation is estimated to have a shorter life-span than the previous, indicates that something has change for the worse.
BPA is a reasonable guess. The other likely option that scientists are researching is children being treated with antibiotics, which kills off beneficial bacteria.
That seems extremely unlikely. Obesity in children is the major story, and they aren't particularly likely to be handling receipts for the groceries that their parents bought. Besides, it seems obvious that direct ingestion is far more significant.
Carnot's law applies to any generation of work from heat, period. If you can break Carnot's law, no matter with what sort of device, you can create a perpetual motion machine
While I don't see anything technically incorrect in your post, I'd just like to point out that Carnot doesn't apply to photovoltaics.
And PVs are very relevant both because they can operate on infrared (something which the unsophisticated would just call "heat"), and also because they have been eyed for quite some time as a replacement (or supplement) for TECs in RTGs and similar applications.
See the "Proposals" section for a number of missions which planned (or currently do plan) to include them. With better luck, we could well have had them in current space-craft. Instead, it's one of those "any day now..." things. But once they are proven, I'd expect ASRGs to become the standard. The efficiency is just so much better, requiring less than a quarter as much radio-isotope fuel, and significantly reducing size and cost as a result.
Instead of typewriters, how about serial terminals? Vt100, Wyse50, etc. Whatever you can get your hands on will work. Set it to "offline mode" and when you hit a key, it'll appear on the screen, so it can be checked. They require power, but with no smarts, and a pretty tiny CRT, it's a tiny fraction of a computer. And if you get a multiport serial card, serial mux, a bunch of USB-RS232 adapters, or a terminal server, you could hook them all up to a computer, running whatever text-only typing tutor program you've got. If there's any long-standing call / order processing centers in your vicinity, you might find that they've stockpiled their old terminals as they switched over to computers.
A second option would be pretty much any old PDA with a keyboard... All the better if you go with a B&W screen without backlight. Something like a Psion 3/5 or Osaris will run for 40+ hours on a pair of AAs. String some wires from the battery compartments and supply them with 3V (should be simple enough if you've got a car battery handy) instead of going through batteries, and you should be fine. The WinCE devices out there are almost all high power, due to color screens and faster CPUs, but could still work for you, if you can secure a good number of them.
It wouldn't be hard to build a simple circuit that takes PS2 input, and outputs the letters to a small LCD, but since there's no such mass-market product, I think it'll end up costing more to get someone to assemble it, than it would cost to buy used junk.
Yes, it does invalidate WP... They've got tons of bureaucratic policies, crippling admins from intervening all the time, and making editing WP a nightmare. And yet none of it worked to flag or stop some true corruption of WP.
I long assumed WP would eventually die of neglect, as anonymous editors push their POVs in random articles with few editors. But maybe corrupt admins will do far more damage, much more quickly than the pleebs could ever hope to do so.
Haha! You start by saying "it doesn't matter how you read it" and then go on to change what he said from an "idle" process, to a "blocked" one! And yet you don't see the blatant irony here?
In short, no! "Blocked" is obviously NOT what he meant at all. It's the words YOU are putting in his mouth which change the statement into something that is technically incorrect, and then you go yell at him for it! He was CLEARLY talking about the 4th core being underutilized because there are only 4, single-threaded processes running, so one core is only handling a largely idle SSH (ConnectBot) process.
And what's worse, YOU are the only people who didn't understand his statement. The context was very clear.
"Less wrong" may be true in some cases, but not at all in many others.
His example of a flat versus round earth is not a scientific theory... it's facts based on observation. I could put together a theory which says the earth is flat, and back it up with solid equations and supporting evidence, and NOBODY will believe it. But observing a fact doesn't require science, so this really isn't as all relevant to the scientific method.
Try an example like early medicine... It was in a horrible state for a long, long time after modern science came along. We went from bleeding sick patients, to treating them with cure-alls like cocaine, laxatives, and snake-oil. It absolutely isn't true that one theory was more correct than the one before it, and that the next one would be even better. We got there, eventually, but early scientific theories about medicine very definitely killed more people than they saved, and regressed at times.
And don't think such things are impossible today... What is seen as healthy today, could very well be carcinogenic, just by virtue of scientists mistaking side-effects for primary effects of a given disease, or any of myriad other issues. For something a bit more contemporary, try Atkins, the diet which is diametrically opposed to common nutritional advice... One isn't a progression or improvement upon the other, they are polar opposites. The fact that they work out almost equivalent is an unfortunate detail that only slightly derails my analogy, so we'll ignore that bit.
Our growing knowledge of the universe isn't necessarily based on the scientific principles working out as they should. Instead, it's huge improvements in equipment, making direct observation of everything under the sun possible, often advancing knowledge.
There's no shortage of other examples, but I've already typed far too much...
Converting your application to another CPU architecture is called "porting" for a reason. We're talking about games, and audio and video codecs here. It's highly likely they've got some serious dependencies on ARMv7 that'll take far more than a recompile. If not, they'd have made it platform-independent to begin with.
Android is an ARMv7 platform, just like Windows is x86, no matter how hard anyone tries to change it.
With x86 Android, all the CPU-intensive apps, WON'T RUN. They mention Chrome, but Firefox is also out. Non-trivial games won't run, as they're all native ARMv7. I know I make extensive use of emulators like MAME and others on my phone, but not if it's missing an ARMv7 CPU.
Multimedia apps are almost all out of the question, as they're ARMv7 for performance reasons. This includes Flash, so no luck if you wanted to use it. For multimedia, you're pretty much stuck with the piss-poor built-in audio and video players, since they've gone through the trouble of recompiling/porting them to x86.
My point is simple... No matter how fast the CPU may be, you aren't going to be able to run ANY apps that would benefit from a fast CPU, cause none of them will run, AT ALL. I think the potential for a non-ARM chip will have to come from the low-end instead... Maybe China's ridiculously cheap, low-end MIPS CPUs will make for cheap enough low-end tablets, that aren't fast enough for games and video anyhow, that developers slowly begin porting their apps, and opening the door for high-end MIPS devices as well.
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This is why science is awesome. The very same guy that advocated the "Out of Africa" theory, circled back in the face of more evidence and is re-evaluating.
You've missed the down-side to this... The old theory was wrong... Any decision making or thought-processes based on it are invalidated... All the school-children taught this theory as a fact have been indoctrinated with misinformation. There's no reason to believe the new theory isn't going to be invalidated down the road. It's perpetually a "best guess" getting passed off as fact, no matter how incomplete the evidence.
I'm decidedly pro-science, I can assure you, but it's utter lack of a guaranteed accuracy-meter for accepted theories makes it very problematic, particularly to defend in the face of deniers. I feel like I'm walking a tightrope when I try to explain that I don't believe the current theory of evolution is correct, but it's not because I'm a young-earth creationist, or other nutjob.
Until we can get "odds" on scientific theories, it's highly problematic getting them to interact with the human universe, where people don't like answers that change, let alone supporting or acting upon them in any big way. (Not trying to turn this into an endless and pointless global-warming debate, either).
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Helium has been cheap, and it's mostly used for it's attributes as inert, not buoyant. Balloons have been an after thought.
And your circular argument is logical fallacy, NOT proof. If you can't be bothered to provide sources or numbers to support your claim, you should just be quiet while the adults are talking.
Of everything we have and do on this planet... Electricity is the closet thing we have to an infinite commodity. Until the entire surface of the earth is shaded, all wind ceases to blow, all rivers stop flowing, all tides stop, all mountains have been leveled, all thunderstorms cease to be generated, the mantle and core cools to surface temps, and we've burned every last calorie of biomass... until then, there's plenty of electricity to be had, and the only limitation is the cost of converting the energy into usable forms of electricity.
If anything... Absolutely ANYTHING... can be properly measured in dollars, it's electricity.
You're complaining that you'll have to file a lawsuit to defend your copyright. Boo hoo.
You should be HAPPY that you have the ability to simply file a lawsuit. If they hosted their video on their own servers, in another country (rather than YouTube), you'd have no practical recourse.
In this case, you file a case in a court that's close to home, the accused doesn't show-up at all, you win by default, and YouTube does what you want. And if by chance they DO show-up, then you've got more of a fight on your hands, but you'll be able to get legal fees and impose fines on the individuals located in the US.
I already addressed this in my first reply to you, which you didn't bother to dispute at the time. Go re-read it, or go away.
I never claimed it would ELIMINATE flammability, and either you're an idiot for coming away with that idea, or you're making up an obvious straw man.
Here's a couple quotes from my post:
"slowing combustion"
"more difficult to combust, or burn slower and cooler"
It was pretty damn clear that the idea is to make hydrogen-filled balloons just burn when lighted, and not turn into a massive raging fireball of your nightmares.
And it works well enough for kerosene in jet engines.
It's far cheaper and easier to remove water vapor from air at the compressor, than buying nitrogen.
You won't ever be successful pulling it from the atmosphere. Helium is the lightest of noble gases, so it reaches high altitudes, and continues floating right on out into outer space.
Fill those balloons with hydrogen... They'll get even more lift, and the party could get extremely memorable, if one of those balloons gets close to a party candle.
Hydrogen is flammable, but slowing combustion is simply a matter of mixing it with some other gas that interrupts oxidation. Race car tires are filled with Nitrogen so that a blow out won't feed a fire. Carbon dioxide is also a common industrial gas which displaces oxygen.
Here's a list blatantly lifted from WP:
Reduction of heat:
HFC-227ea (MH227, FM-200),
Novec 1230, HFC-125 (ECARO-25),
FS 49 C2
Reduction or isolation of oxygen:
Argonite / IG-55 (ProInert)
CO 2 carbon dioxide
IG-541 Inergen,
IG-100 (NN100)
Inhibiting the chain reaction:
FE-13, FE-227, FE-25, MH227, FM-200, Halons, Halon 1301, Freon 13T1, NAF P-IV, NAF S-III, and Triodide (Trifluoroiodomethane).
Hydrogen is so buoyant, it should still be light enough in a mixture designed to be more difficult to combust, or burn slower and cooler.
You're a moron. This phone has high-end specs, where there are Android phones still selling in the US which are lower-spec than FirefoxOS is targeting, and which are going, non-subsidized, for as low as $40. There is no lower-end than that, and FirefoxOS most certainly will not out-perform Android.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/venture-phone/features/
This may be a javascript developers wet dream, but otherwise it has absolutely no selling points. There are already Android apps for damn near everything, including real games that far surpass what HTML5 could hope to do. So we've got a high-end phone, running another incompatible OS that has very few apps available. For what possible reason should people drop the android ecosystem? If they want to run a web app, that's what a web browser is for. The average person won't care about the novelty of an HTML window manager.
And web-apps have long been my nightmare on the desktop... I don't want to do whois queries on your web site, thanks, I'll take my tiny, decades old command-line. No BS about supported browsers, insane resource usage for trivial tasks, no issues when there's no internet connection, no crazy workarounds like web sockets to the web server, then converting the connection into another protocol and proxying the connection to a different server (which might be on the private network where the public web app can't hope to reach it... etc etc.
There are differences, but they absolutely are NOT significantly affecting calorie absorbtion. There will be a little variability from the type of food, but other effects will be more significant. If you count your calories, you will be eating about the right amount, and maintaining a healthy weight.
Study after study, Atkins diets never out-perform conventional starchy diets.
That seems very unlikely. It was suspected for a long time that BPA signaling your system to keep creating fat was causing some real problems.
That's technically true... It will always be possible to diet and lose weight. But if BPA is acting as described, then you will have to carefully watch your diet, forever, because your body will ALWAYS continue to signal hunger, and always try to store fat. And it's a tricky balance. It's easy to diet too much, and end up getting dizzy and even fainting from too few calories.
Maybe you don't know what "obese" means... If you really mean MORBIDLY obese, then I'll agree with you. When weight becomes crippling, a little self-control is necessary, and it's easy to judge by eye when you're gaining hundreds of pounds, versus losing it (too quickly, perhaps).
But obesity is really just a few pounds of extra weight. Someone doesn't even have to appear out of shape (when clothed) to be obese. A few pounds of belly fat, and you might be obese, and at high risk of a number of health problems.
This is TECHNICALLY true in some cases, but there are fleetingly few people who get a significant percentage of their daily food intake from, say: completely RAW, UNCOOKED broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, corn, peas, beans, etc, etc.
People cook these foods precisely because uncooked food is hard to digest. And it's not likely people are going to be ignorant of this fact... eating raw vegetables is tantamount to drinking a mega-dose of Metamucil. It'll be PAINFULLY obvious if you're not digesting your food.
While there are exceptions, like foods very, very high in fiber... I don't know of any all-bean diets, so for the average person, all calories are pretty damn close to being the same, for all practical purposes.
First off, it's been solidly proven that BPA will shrink your genitals, just as if you've been taking estrogen pills. That's something which might be a reasonable trade-off in powerful medications, but that should never be something that comes into contact with our FOOD, which by definition, should not have such medical side-effects.
And back to your claim, exercise has very little effect on obesity. You have to run a marathon to burn off a pizza. It's massively impractical to lose weight with exercise.
So we're back to over-eating. But is this generation really forcing themselves to over-eat? It's really not like every family out there drinks nothing but sodas, and eats nothing but junk food. The fact that obesity has become an epidemic, and this generation is estimated to have a shorter life-span than the previous, indicates that something has change for the worse.
BPA is a reasonable guess. The other likely option that scientists are researching is children being treated with antibiotics, which kills off beneficial bacteria.
That seems extremely unlikely. Obesity in children is the major story, and they aren't particularly likely to be handling receipts for the groceries that their parents bought. Besides, it seems obvious that direct ingestion is far more significant.
While I don't see anything technically incorrect in your post, I'd just like to point out that Carnot doesn't apply to photovoltaics.
And PVs are very relevant both because they can operate on infrared (something which the unsophisticated would just call "heat"), and also because they have been eyed for quite some time as a replacement (or supplement) for TECs in RTGs and similar applications.
NASA hasn't been pursuing better RTG materials, instead they've been developing Sterling engines to replace the Peltiers.
The future of RTGs is in Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generators (ASRGs):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Stirling_Radioisotope_Generator
See the "Proposals" section for a number of missions which planned (or currently do plan) to include them. With better luck, we could well have had them in current space-craft. Instead, it's one of those "any day now..." things. But once they are proven, I'd expect ASRGs to become the standard. The efficiency is just so much better, requiring less than a quarter as much radio-isotope fuel, and significantly reducing size and cost as a result.
Instead of typewriters, how about serial terminals? Vt100, Wyse50, etc. Whatever you can get your hands on will work. Set it to "offline mode" and when you hit a key, it'll appear on the screen, so it can be checked. They require power, but with no smarts, and a pretty tiny CRT, it's a tiny fraction of a computer. And if you get a multiport serial card, serial mux, a bunch of USB-RS232 adapters, or a terminal server, you could hook them all up to a computer, running whatever text-only typing tutor program you've got. If there's any long-standing call / order processing centers in your vicinity, you might find that they've stockpiled their old terminals as they switched over to computers.
A second option would be pretty much any old PDA with a keyboard... All the better if you go with a B&W screen without backlight. Something like a Psion 3/5 or Osaris will run for 40+ hours on a pair of AAs. String some wires from the battery compartments and supply them with 3V (should be simple enough if you've got a car battery handy) instead of going through batteries, and you should be fine. The WinCE devices out there are almost all high power, due to color screens and faster CPUs, but could still work for you, if you can secure a good number of them.
It wouldn't be hard to build a simple circuit that takes PS2 input, and outputs the letters to a small LCD, but since there's no such mass-market product, I think it'll end up costing more to get someone to assemble it, than it would cost to buy used junk.
Yes, it does invalidate WP... They've got tons of bureaucratic policies, crippling admins from intervening all the time, and making editing WP a nightmare. And yet none of it worked to flag or stop some true corruption of WP.
I long assumed WP would eventually die of neglect, as anonymous editors push their POVs in random articles with few editors. But maybe corrupt admins will do far more damage, much more quickly than the pleebs could ever hope to do so.
Haha! You start by saying "it doesn't matter how you read it" and then go on to change what he said from an "idle" process, to a "blocked" one! And yet you don't see the blatant irony here?
In short, no! "Blocked" is obviously NOT what he meant at all. It's the words YOU are putting in his mouth which change the statement into something that is technically incorrect, and then you go yell at him for it! He was CLEARLY talking about the 4th core being underutilized because there are only 4, single-threaded processes running, so one core is only handling a largely idle SSH (ConnectBot) process.
And what's worse, YOU are the only people who didn't understand his statement. The context was very clear.
"Less wrong" may be true in some cases, but not at all in many others.
His example of a flat versus round earth is not a scientific theory... it's facts based on observation. I could put together a theory which says the earth is flat, and back it up with solid equations and supporting evidence, and NOBODY will believe it. But observing a fact doesn't require science, so this really isn't as all relevant to the scientific method.
Try an example like early medicine... It was in a horrible state for a long, long time after modern science came along. We went from bleeding sick patients, to treating them with cure-alls like cocaine, laxatives, and snake-oil. It absolutely isn't true that one theory was more correct than the one before it, and that the next one would be even better. We got there, eventually, but early scientific theories about medicine very definitely killed more people than they saved, and regressed at times.
And don't think such things are impossible today... What is seen as healthy today, could very well be carcinogenic, just by virtue of scientists mistaking side-effects for primary effects of a given disease, or any of myriad other issues. For something a bit more contemporary, try Atkins, the diet which is diametrically opposed to common nutritional advice... One isn't a progression or improvement upon the other, they are polar opposites. The fact that they work out almost equivalent is an unfortunate detail that only slightly derails my analogy, so we'll ignore that bit.
Our growing knowledge of the universe isn't necessarily based on the scientific principles working out as they should. Instead, it's huge improvements in equipment, making direct observation of everything under the sun possible, often advancing knowledge.
There's no shortage of other examples, but I've already typed far too much...
Converting your application to another CPU architecture is called "porting" for a reason. We're talking about games, and audio and video codecs here. It's highly likely they've got some serious dependencies on ARMv7 that'll take far more than a recompile. If not, they'd have made it platform-independent to begin with.
Android is an ARMv7 platform, just like Windows is x86, no matter how hard anyone tries to change it.
With x86 Android, all the CPU-intensive apps, WON'T RUN. They mention Chrome, but Firefox is also out. Non-trivial games won't run, as they're all native ARMv7. I know I make extensive use of emulators like MAME and others on my phone, but not if it's missing an ARMv7 CPU.
Multimedia apps are almost all out of the question, as they're ARMv7 for performance reasons. This includes Flash, so no luck if you wanted to use it. For multimedia, you're pretty much stuck with the piss-poor built-in audio and video players, since they've gone through the trouble of recompiling/porting them to x86.
My point is simple... No matter how fast the CPU may be, you aren't going to be able to run ANY apps that would benefit from a fast CPU, cause none of them will run, AT ALL. I think the potential for a non-ARM chip will have to come from the low-end instead... Maybe China's ridiculously cheap, low-end MIPS CPUs will make for cheap enough low-end tablets, that aren't fast enough for games and video anyhow, that developers slowly begin porting their apps, and opening the door for high-end MIPS devices as well.
Intel's strategy seems inherently doomed.
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This is why science is awesome. The very same guy that advocated the "Out of Africa" theory, circled back in the face of more evidence and is re-evaluating.
You've missed the down-side to this... The old theory was wrong... Any decision making or thought-processes based on it are invalidated... All the school-children taught this theory as a fact have been indoctrinated with misinformation. There's no reason to believe the new theory isn't going to be invalidated down the road. It's perpetually a "best guess" getting passed off as fact, no matter how incomplete the evidence.
I'm decidedly pro-science, I can assure you, but it's utter lack of a guaranteed accuracy-meter for accepted theories makes it very problematic, particularly to defend in the face of deniers. I feel like I'm walking a tightrope when I try to explain that I don't believe the current theory of evolution is correct, but it's not because I'm a young-earth creationist, or other nutjob.
Until we can get "odds" on scientific theories, it's highly problematic getting them to interact with the human universe, where people don't like answers that change, let alone supporting or acting upon them in any big way. (Not trying to turn this into an endless and pointless global-warming debate, either).