So, Intel or ARM is still not decided, but that it will run Windows is? Guess that must be WinCE? But why not put Android on it? To make a real alternative to those cheap/underpowered chinese android pads floating around, and give the WePad a run for it's money?
I wonder, is it a coincidence or is the $7-8 price range somehow special? a balance between "low enough to throw away on a whim" and "high enough to be worth dealing with the bureocracies of actually paying", perhaps?
Or maybe the wast majority of people pay either $5 or $10? Both are within your definitions of cheap enough for impulse purchase, yet enough to be worth hassle, and make you feel you actually paid for it. Sure there are some that pays next to nothing, and some that pays a lot more than the average. A distribution curve over ammounts paid for something like this would be interesting to see...
If you bothered reading your own link to the Cadillac you'd see that it wasn't using OLED film to achieve it. It uses a camera and a projector. Different technology.
While learning to deal with hardware issues is great, it might not be so fun in the long run, if swapping between different hardware on nearly every boot?
Population growth? How does that affect it much? More people, more people need to provide services to a larger population.
Technology? To a certain extent I guess. As more fewer people can care for more other people. On the other hand, technology has provided new avenues for services. Instead of 2 small grocery shops there is now 1 large and efficient one, but next to it is a cell-phone dealer...
Free market and capitalism? yes. most certainly. here in norway the minimum wage, while absent in law, in reality is over $15/hr for unskilled labour. Even with a much higher tax-rate than the US that still leave plenty of money for a single person to support themselves frugaly... Yes, eating at a restaurant or even fast food frequently is prohibitly expensive here, but that's because even those people working there makea decent salary.
The low cost of many products and services in the US is based on those providing them being payed really low wages./P
Given that the CURP of the president probably isn't supposed public knownledge, that limites the number of people able to register their phones in his name. Also, despite it probably have being transmitted around by SMS the past week, I guess the possibility of getting your phone disabled by registering in his name, (after all he officially owns it now and is free to cancel it), isn't something lots of people would be risking...
I recently stumbled across a website telling me my browser (FF3) was too old, suggesting I upgrade to a more modern browser, namely IE 5.5 or whatever version Netscape was at at that time...
Given that each user is only going to see this screen once per computer, I'd say simply using the seconds of the current minute as a random seed should be OK. Can't see why you would need more randomness that that in this particular situation. Just make sure that the distribution of browsers evens out for all seeds...
Add a firewall that blocks all websites using Apache or any other kind of open source software at their offices, and see if they are able to still communicate their ideas...
I don't exactly think they prepared XMPP support overnight. So they could either have worked on it for a month or two before release, or have some kind of system "click here to enable XMPP support" and run the others through a gateway with the browser-based chat-users (which most likely will include most people for the forseable future), if that is techically possible with TLS and XMPP...
Among one of the things I've heard was that he said (at the time of making the prequels) that he didn't want to make episode 7-9 because he "would be too old for that" by the end of it... Guess he changed his mind, as well as the setting and format...
Here in Norway you can easily get both locked and unlocked phones, though pretty much all advertised products are locked. Typically for 1 year, after which unlocking is a phonecall away. Done this myself twice, never any hassle. However, with the exception of the phone I got 4 years ago (locked a single month, at a 150 euro discount), taking the bundled contracts seem to always come out more expensive than getting an unlocked phone and choosing another contract that suites your usage pattern. No idea how the sales-ratio between locked/unlocked phones are.
Yeah, okay... How come the telegraph isn't being nominated? [...] And we want to nominate this for a Nobel Prize?
Nobel Price nominations are not similar to for instance oscar nominations. There limited number people (mostly political leaders, etc) in the world eligible to submit nomitations. Only a single person is required to submit a nomination for it to be valid (which is how Hitler got nominated in 1939), and it's not whoever gets the most nominations that wins. Last year got 205 nominations, and complete no official record of nominees since 1955 is publish. The Commitee remains silent until the winner is declared, and there is no runner-up or anything.
That is why the Internet can get nominated, and why you wouldn't hear about it unless someone outside the Committe commented on it.
My point exactly. The question is "how much would they need to bring back to break even?" and "how much would they have deflated the value of moon rocks by then?"
If they could recover costs in 3-4 trips, it probably wouldn't affect the market value too much. But if they would need 100 trips, they might just as well consider it a nice bonus rather than a primary objective. (And as someone else pointed out, just the fuel-costs of getting stuff into orbit eliminates this as the primary source of income.)
Given that the US seemed to win the space race something like 3 - 8, I'd say no. The Russians beat the US to quite a lot of important milestones along the way to the moon. In the early years they were way ahead, and it wasn't until the end the US surpassed them.
Hadn't their ready-to-go manned lunar rocket exploded (destroying the launch-site) 2 weeks before Apollo 11 launched, they could have been first to walk the moon as well. Shame they didn't, as the US probably would have to go to Mars just to declare final victory...
The cost of the Apollo space program is commonly given as $25 billion. When adjusted to 2005 dollars this would approximate to $135 billion.
200.000g * $2000 = $400 million. Granted, there was a bunch of first-time research and pesky human requirements to take care of back then, so presumably an unmanned rock-collector should be cheaper. Wonder what the cost per mission would be, how many trips they would have to do before breaking even, and if they would have affected the price of moon-rocks enough to affect their revenue by then...
I would dread doing anything involving RAW on a system with 64MB RAM. On the other hand, I quite happily edited DV-video on 256 MB RAM (or less?) about a decade ago...
Intel processors in lower-end price brackets might often score a win, but only if you consider the price of CPU alone.
Odd... Looking at a major webshop around here, there are 6 AMD CPUs to chooce from before you get to the 2nd cheapest option from Intel. And that includes a QuadCore from AMD.
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So, Intel or ARM is still not decided, but that it will run Windows is? Guess that must be WinCE? But why not put Android on it? To make a real alternative to those cheap/underpowered chinese android pads floating around, and give the WePad a run for it's money?
I wonder, is it a coincidence or is the $7-8 price range somehow special? a balance between "low enough to throw away on a whim" and "high enough to be worth dealing with the bureocracies of actually paying", perhaps?
Or maybe the wast majority of people pay either $5 or $10? Both are within your definitions of cheap enough for impulse purchase, yet enough to be worth hassle, and make you feel you actually paid for it. Sure there are some that pays next to nothing, and some that pays a lot more than the average. A distribution curve over ammounts paid for something like this would be interesting to see...
If you bothered reading your own link to the Cadillac you'd see that it wasn't using OLED film to achieve it. It uses a camera and a projector. Different technology.
While learning to deal with hardware issues is great, it might not be so fun in the long run, if swapping between different hardware on nearly every boot?
Population growth? How does that affect it much? More people, more people need to provide services to a larger population.
Technology? To a certain extent I guess. As more fewer people can care for more other people. On the other hand, technology has provided new avenues for services. Instead of 2 small grocery shops there is now 1 large and efficient one, but next to it is a cell-phone dealer...
Free market and capitalism? yes. most certainly. here in norway the minimum wage, while absent in law, in reality is over $15/hr for unskilled labour. Even with a much higher tax-rate than the US that still leave plenty of money for a single person to support themselves frugaly... Yes, eating at a restaurant or even fast food frequently is prohibitly expensive here, but that's because even those people working there makea decent salary.
The low cost of many products and services in the US is based on those providing them being payed really low wages./P
Medical Emergency? Rescue helicopters? Yes, we managed without those until recent decades. People just died instead.
That depends... is there a "Government App" approved by Apple yet?
Given that the CURP of the president probably isn't supposed public knownledge, that limites the number of people able to register their phones in his name. Also, despite it probably have being transmitted around by SMS the past week, I guess the possibility of getting your phone disabled by registering in his name, (after all he officially owns it now and is free to cancel it), isn't something lots of people would be risking...
Maybe in the corporate world yes. But for home users, the advantage over Win98 was significant.
I recently stumbled across a website telling me my browser (FF3) was too old, suggesting I upgrade to a more modern browser, namely IE 5.5 or whatever version Netscape was at at that time...
Given that each user is only going to see this screen once per computer, I'd say simply using the seconds of the current minute as a random seed should be OK. Can't see why you would need more randomness that that in this particular situation. Just make sure that the distribution of browsers evens out for all seeds...
Add a firewall that blocks all websites using Apache or any other kind of open source software at their offices, and see if they are able to still communicate their ideas...
I don't exactly think they prepared XMPP support overnight. So they could either have worked on it for a month or two before release, or have some kind of system "click here to enable XMPP support" and run the others through a gateway with the browser-based chat-users (which most likely will include most people for the forseable future), if that is techically possible with TLS and XMPP...
Among one of the things I've heard was that he said (at the time of making the prequels) that he didn't want to make episode 7-9 because he "would be too old for that" by the end of it... Guess he changed his mind, as well as the setting and format...
Here in Norway you can easily get both locked and unlocked phones, though pretty much all advertised products are locked. Typically for 1 year, after which unlocking is a phonecall away. Done this myself twice, never any hassle. However, with the exception of the phone I got 4 years ago (locked a single month, at a 150 euro discount), taking the bundled contracts seem to always come out more expensive than getting an unlocked phone and choosing another contract that suites your usage pattern. No idea how the sales-ratio between locked/unlocked phones are.
What? A Peace Price for lazyness?
(as for "how", a quick clanse at wikipedia should tell you who to talk/bride into making a submission for you...)
Yeah, okay... How come the telegraph isn't being nominated? [...] And we want to nominate this for a Nobel Prize?
Nobel Price nominations are not similar to for instance oscar nominations. There limited number people (mostly political leaders, etc) in the world eligible to submit nomitations. Only a single person is required to submit a nomination for it to be valid (which is how Hitler got nominated in 1939), and it's not whoever gets the most nominations that wins. Last year got 205 nominations, and complete no official record of nominees since 1955 is publish. The Commitee remains silent until the winner is declared, and there is no runner-up or anything.
That is why the Internet can get nominated, and why you wouldn't hear about it unless someone outside the Committe commented on it.
My second thought was that CNN is going to love this.
Which brings up the question, "is showing anthropomorphic animals bleeding more or less child-friendly than showing real humans being shot?"
My point exactly. The question is "how much would they need to bring back to break even?" and "how much would they have deflated the value of moon rocks by then?"
If they could recover costs in 3-4 trips, it probably wouldn't affect the market value too much. But if they would need 100 trips, they might just as well consider it a nice bonus rather than a primary objective. (And as someone else pointed out, just the fuel-costs of getting stuff into orbit eliminates this as the primary source of income.)
Given that the US seemed to win the space race something like 3 - 8, I'd say no. The Russians beat the US to quite a lot of important milestones along the way to the moon. In the early years they were way ahead, and it wasn't until the end the US surpassed them.
Hadn't their ready-to-go manned lunar rocket exploded (destroying the launch-site) 2 weeks before Apollo 11 launched, they could have been first to walk the moon as well. Shame they didn't, as the US probably would have to go to Mars just to declare final victory...
The cost of the Apollo space program is commonly given as $25 billion. When adjusted to 2005 dollars this would approximate to $135 billion.
200.000g * $2000 = $400 million. Granted, there was a bunch of first-time research and pesky human requirements to take care of back then, so presumably an unmanned rock-collector should be cheaper. Wonder what the cost per mission would be, how many trips they would have to do before breaking even, and if they would have affected the price of moon-rocks enough to affect their revenue by then...
64MB for large raw images. 640MB for SD video.
I would dread doing anything involving RAW on a system with 64MB RAM. On the other hand, I quite happily edited DV-video on 256 MB RAM (or less?) about a decade ago...
Intel processors in lower-end price brackets might often score a win, but only if you consider the price of CPU alone.
Odd... Looking at a major webshop around here, there are 6 AMD CPUs to chooce from before you get to the 2nd cheapest option from Intel. And that includes a QuadCore from AMD.
I'd imagine it to be so thin it would be quite soft. In fact so soft that it would either tear, or get crumbled up and unsuable.
A torpedo that comes back if it misses? What could possibly go wrong? This man was clearly a genius!
The genious part would be to sell it to your enemies!