The server market, usually Linux-based, appears to be AMD's most stable market. Opterons are very often preferred over Xeons for a variety of reasons. So why exactly would AMD start axing developers in areas related to that? If anything, it'd make more sense to throttle down consumer processors and focus on graphics and server processors, no?
And yet, if everyone respect the spirit of the law instead of finding holes in the letter of it, we as a society would most likely be a whole lot better off.
Then again, this would require such things as integrity and honesty.
That's a rather simplistic analysis. The problem is that we don't even know how the brain fully works. If, for instance, neurons make use of quantum properties (a very real possibility), then classical computers may be hard-pressed to replicate even a mouse brain. We don't know whether quantum computers are more powerful than classical computers. Many believe that they are, but we have not found proof of this. They could be anywhere from equal to exponentially faster, and you know what exponentially faster means with numbers like what you've been pulling.
Your entire post is based on the premise that a neuron and a transistor are even comparable. That's one hell of an assumption.
The goal was $2M, which would unlock additional investor money. Anything above $2M is going to help fund additional elements, but the game is already funded.
The only good thing about Google versus, say, Facebook, is that there's always a way of taking your data out of Google's platform. I know I backed up my Gmail account a while ago, just as a test, and it worked fine. Likewise for Drive and all that. The worst bit would be working with an Android phone that doesn't have a Market link, but even that's possible, if inconvenient, by using sideloading.
Good luck getting your stuff out of Facebook, however!
Funny you should use that comparison... Borderlands 2 also has (or at least had, I'm unaware whether this was fixed) a form validation bug. When you trade with somebody, you can input a negative number for the money you "give" them as part of the trade. The other player, however, only sees 0 if the value is negative. If you trick the other player into accepting the trade, the money is actually taken from their character without warning. As if that wasn't enough, should the value you've drained be larger than the other player's bank, you get the money anyway! Just enter -9999999 and never be worried about money ever again.
Considering I have a 1GB cap, LTE is utterly unimportant for me. I also know I am far from alone.
You're really looking for something to pick here. The Nexus S was good, the GNex was average, but the Nexus 4 is quite frankly top of the line. Gorilla Glass 2, HD screen, induction coil, lithium-polymer battery, 8Mpx camera, quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM... Honestly, few phones can match that feature set. The lack of LTE is a shame, but a deal breaker? Heck no. Or do you mean to imply all phones prior the arrival of LTE were somehow crippled?
For the average user, 3G is fast enough. It could be better, but if that's the cost to bring the entire phone down to 300 dollars, then it's a price I'm willing to pay.
All Nexus devices can also be unlocked and rooted in a straightforward process. That they don't come in this way is a protection for the average Joe who doesn't know what "rooting" even means and who'd just be vulnerable to a malicious app trying to elevate its own permissions.
The vast majority of Christians on earth also happen to be pretty normal folk. It's the tiny minority that acts like a bunch of jerks and thinks it's always, always right that's the problem.
Unsurprisingly, there's a fair bit of overlap between those guys and people who hold the Bible as being literally true.
Considering how ham-fisted most so-called "terrorists" actually are, I'd say we give the bad guys way too much credit. Goldfinger-style plots only happen in movies.
To be honest, I'm a lot more worried about the prospect of losing what used to be ATI. ARM is bringing healthy competition to the processor market and Intel is forced to dramatically reorient its business if it wants to keep its edge.
But who's really competent in the GPU market? PowerVR? Give me a break. It's a duel between AMD and Nvidia, and if AMD disappears Nvidia will jack up their prices even more than they used to. They've got extensive contact with developers and industries reliant on graphics hardware, and they've made large progress in the mobile GPU market with Tegra.
There'll always be competition in the general purpose processor market, as that's too big a market for a single player to completely control. Graphics processors, however, risk a lot were Nvidia (or any other company, for that matter) left with no sizable competitors.
The app seems rather cool. It's the same basic principle of using an app to get a taxi, except you also get integration with the taxi's own GPS so you know precisely where the taxi is while it's on its way. The entire process looks rather streamlined and I'll be curious to see whether this one will work. Response from Taxi Diamond (one of the largest taxi companies in Montreal) certainly sounds a lot more positive than NYC's taxi companies.
If it works, he gets to profit from it. If it doesn't work, he walks away with the money given to him by the locals. If it causes issues, he can wash his hands and let the government take care of the fallout.
I'm sorry, but that's not what I call taking risks, it's exploitation. He's gambling the ecosystem for profit.
There is a difference between "unknown software" and "sideloading". Unless you're too incompetent to do a quick background check before downloading and installing an app, there's no inherent risk to sideloading.
I know I've sideloaded a few apps, most of the time to save money while giving more to the app developer. Sometimes the app wasn't available on the market (say, for emulators).
Even schools don't understand it. My university has managed to create a student portal with features such as video sharing, realtime chat, forums and more, yet it's still impossible to create a group assignment. Instead, professors need to individually grade each and every student, wasting hours in copy/pasting across everyone and making sure to correctly match often changing group members.
Except Christians don't come out of hiding to protest about a stupid movie. You can't cherry pick the things you want to bitch about and think others will play ball.
GM and Chrysler had to be bailed out because they made shitty products, simple as that. There was a point where the basic premise of buying a new car was "anything but American", with Ford slightly better off than the other two. Funny how that reflected into bailouts eh?
In that perspective, unless HP, Dell and co. change, they likely will get in the same situation. I know more and more people who avoid Dell computers because of bad experiences (laptops failing a year or two after purchase). HP's managed to kill off many of its lucrative and renown markets like calculators. They're replicating all of GM's and Chrysler's missteps and it's going to cost them dearly.
Unlike cars, however, computers can be easily bought custom with no brand screwing things up. This is why PCs will be a lot more resilient, so long as there is a market for pieces.
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
Pandora's biggest issue is that they're still blocking everyone outside of the US. When they finally wake up, the entire market will already be taken by other players like Last.fm or Spotify, which is a shame because Pandora does seem like a nice service.
A one-time cost will always be better than a recurring cost, however. The current factories needed to be built, too, and they've been destroyed and reconstructed many times already. It's not a particularly good argument to say that a new factory would have environmental costs: of course it would, but so would an ICE car factory, so the next time one is constructed, a choice can be made.
In the long run, which is what matters in the end, we'll have to move away from ICEs and fossil fuels as a whole. That certain products such as plastics are created from them should be more of a reason, not less. We should keep what we have for products which currently have no viable replacements, as opposed to burning it when alternatives exist.
Smoking in a particular issue because it is a drug. When you ban a drug, a black market develops around it. Even with smoking being legal, there already is a black market for cheaper cigarettes. Outlawing it would immediately turn 10-40% of the population into criminals, depending on where you live, because you can't stop smoking overnight.
The way it currently is designed is to progressively cut down the percentage of smokers until it is low enough to be negligible (and it's working). I don't think it's ever going to be outlawed, it'll just go to a level where it is considered manageable, while bringing enough money to offset the costs of healing the people who get sick because of it.
Yes, it is often exploited by governments as a way of making more money than it actually costs the state to heal the smokers. You can see it as overreaching or as a deterrent. I see it as a little of both.
Cars would likely go down the same route (since you also can't require everyone to switch to electric cars overnight), but a black market would be very difficult to create since you can't really hide that your car uses an ICE.
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The server market, usually Linux-based, appears to be AMD's most stable market. Opterons are very often preferred over Xeons for a variety of reasons. So why exactly would AMD start axing developers in areas related to that? If anything, it'd make more sense to throttle down consumer processors and focus on graphics and server processors, no?
And yet, if everyone respect the spirit of the law instead of finding holes in the letter of it, we as a society would most likely be a whole lot better off.
Then again, this would require such things as integrity and honesty.
That's a rather simplistic analysis. The problem is that we don't even know how the brain fully works. If, for instance, neurons make use of quantum properties (a very real possibility), then classical computers may be hard-pressed to replicate even a mouse brain. We don't know whether quantum computers are more powerful than classical computers. Many believe that they are, but we have not found proof of this. They could be anywhere from equal to exponentially faster, and you know what exponentially faster means with numbers like what you've been pulling.
Your entire post is based on the premise that a neuron and a transistor are even comparable. That's one hell of an assumption.
The goal was $2M, which would unlock additional investor money. Anything above $2M is going to help fund additional elements, but the game is already funded.
The only good thing about Google versus, say, Facebook, is that there's always a way of taking your data out of Google's platform. I know I backed up my Gmail account a while ago, just as a test, and it worked fine. Likewise for Drive and all that. The worst bit would be working with an Android phone that doesn't have a Market link, but even that's possible, if inconvenient, by using sideloading.
Good luck getting your stuff out of Facebook, however!
Funny you should use that comparison... Borderlands 2 also has (or at least had, I'm unaware whether this was fixed) a form validation bug. When you trade with somebody, you can input a negative number for the money you "give" them as part of the trade. The other player, however, only sees 0 if the value is negative. If you trick the other player into accepting the trade, the money is actually taken from their character without warning. As if that wasn't enough, should the value you've drained be larger than the other player's bank, you get the money anyway! Just enter -9999999 and never be worried about money ever again.
Considering I have a 1GB cap, LTE is utterly unimportant for me. I also know I am far from alone.
You're really looking for something to pick here. The Nexus S was good, the GNex was average, but the Nexus 4 is quite frankly top of the line. Gorilla Glass 2, HD screen, induction coil, lithium-polymer battery, 8Mpx camera, quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM... Honestly, few phones can match that feature set. The lack of LTE is a shame, but a deal breaker? Heck no. Or do you mean to imply all phones prior the arrival of LTE were somehow crippled?
For the average user, 3G is fast enough. It could be better, but if that's the cost to bring the entire phone down to 300 dollars, then it's a price I'm willing to pay.
All Nexus devices can also be unlocked and rooted in a straightforward process. That they don't come in this way is a protection for the average Joe who doesn't know what "rooting" even means and who'd just be vulnerable to a malicious app trying to elevate its own permissions.
Nexus devices are still consumer devices.
The vast majority of Christians on earth also happen to be pretty normal folk. It's the tiny minority that acts like a bunch of jerks and thinks it's always, always right that's the problem.
Unsurprisingly, there's a fair bit of overlap between those guys and people who hold the Bible as being literally true.
In fact, I'd call for a treaty on the level of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Perhaps stronger.
Bioengineering is still in its infancy, but it could be a hell of a lot more lethal than nukes. It's definitely a lot harder to track.
Considering how ham-fisted most so-called "terrorists" actually are, I'd say we give the bad guys way too much credit. Goldfinger-style plots only happen in movies.
So what you're saying is that we need to find the Magratheans and check if the Earth's still on warranty?
To be honest, I'm a lot more worried about the prospect of losing what used to be ATI. ARM is bringing healthy competition to the processor market and Intel is forced to dramatically reorient its business if it wants to keep its edge.
But who's really competent in the GPU market? PowerVR? Give me a break. It's a duel between AMD and Nvidia, and if AMD disappears Nvidia will jack up their prices even more than they used to. They've got extensive contact with developers and industries reliant on graphics hardware, and they've made large progress in the mobile GPU market with Tegra.
There'll always be competition in the general purpose processor market, as that's too big a market for a single player to completely control. Graphics processors, however, risk a lot were Nvidia (or any other company, for that matter) left with no sizable competitors.
I saw this on TV a few days ago:
http://tag-taxi.com/
The app seems rather cool. It's the same basic principle of using an app to get a taxi, except you also get integration with the taxi's own GPS so you know precisely where the taxi is while it's on its way. The entire process looks rather streamlined and I'll be curious to see whether this one will work. Response from Taxi Diamond (one of the largest taxi companies in Montreal) certainly sounds a lot more positive than NYC's taxi companies.
If it works, he gets to profit from it.
If it doesn't work, he walks away with the money given to him by the locals.
If it causes issues, he can wash his hands and let the government take care of the fallout.
I'm sorry, but that's not what I call taking risks, it's exploitation. He's gambling the ecosystem for profit.
There is a difference between "unknown software" and "sideloading". Unless you're too incompetent to do a quick background check before downloading and installing an app, there's no inherent risk to sideloading.
I know I've sideloaded a few apps, most of the time to save money while giving more to the app developer. Sometimes the app wasn't available on the market (say, for emulators).
He made a stack (of postcards?) instead of a queue. Give him a break!
Even schools don't understand it. My university has managed to create a student portal with features such as video sharing, realtime chat, forums and more, yet it's still impossible to create a group assignment. Instead, professors need to individually grade each and every student, wasting hours in copy/pasting across everyone and making sure to correctly match often changing group members.
Except Christians don't come out of hiding to protest about a stupid movie. You can't cherry pick the things you want to bitch about and think others will play ball.
GM and Chrysler had to be bailed out because they made shitty products, simple as that. There was a point where the basic premise of buying a new car was "anything but American", with Ford slightly better off than the other two. Funny how that reflected into bailouts eh?
In that perspective, unless HP, Dell and co. change, they likely will get in the same situation. I know more and more people who avoid Dell computers because of bad experiences (laptops failing a year or two after purchase). HP's managed to kill off many of its lucrative and renown markets like calculators. They're replicating all of GM's and Chrysler's missteps and it's going to cost them dearly.
Unlike cars, however, computers can be easily bought custom with no brand screwing things up. This is why PCs will be a lot more resilient, so long as there is a market for pieces.
Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
Pandora's biggest issue is that they're still blocking everyone outside of the US. When they finally wake up, the entire market will already be taken by other players like Last.fm or Spotify, which is a shame because Pandora does seem like a nice service.
Here in Quebec, over 90% of our electricity comes from hydroeletricity. Average CO2 cost of a 100 miles trip for a Leaf? Zero.
Tell me, why exactly should we have to stick with polluting ICE cars just because you guys have been slacking off?
A one-time cost will always be better than a recurring cost, however. The current factories needed to be built, too, and they've been destroyed and reconstructed many times already. It's not a particularly good argument to say that a new factory would have environmental costs: of course it would, but so would an ICE car factory, so the next time one is constructed, a choice can be made.
In the long run, which is what matters in the end, we'll have to move away from ICEs and fossil fuels as a whole. That certain products such as plastics are created from them should be more of a reason, not less. We should keep what we have for products which currently have no viable replacements, as opposed to burning it when alternatives exist.
Smoking in a particular issue because it is a drug. When you ban a drug, a black market develops around it. Even with smoking being legal, there already is a black market for cheaper cigarettes. Outlawing it would immediately turn 10-40% of the population into criminals, depending on where you live, because you can't stop smoking overnight.
The way it currently is designed is to progressively cut down the percentage of smokers until it is low enough to be negligible (and it's working). I don't think it's ever going to be outlawed, it'll just go to a level where it is considered manageable, while bringing enough money to offset the costs of healing the people who get sick because of it.
Yes, it is often exploited by governments as a way of making more money than it actually costs the state to heal the smokers. You can see it as overreaching or as a deterrent. I see it as a little of both.
Cars would likely go down the same route (since you also can't require everyone to switch to electric cars overnight), but a black market would be very difficult to create since you can't really hide that your car uses an ICE.
Harnessing the power of the atom was also mind-boggingly complex. Harnessing fusion power still is.
That it is hard is no reason to avoid it, and people who make absolute predictions about the future tend to be absolutely wrong.