Are you kidding? Prices still haven't dropped below $1/GB being there in 2008. Market concentration is at an all-time high. The iPhone 3GS had 32 GB and the iPhone 4GS at the same price point has... 32 GB. NAND Flash prices are unjustifiably high.
It's a good thing too, because it's likely Samsung has been colluding with other NAND Flash manufacturers to keep prices high. They bought up a lot of competitors and the top 3 manufacturers control the vast majority of the market now. The DOJ actually investigated Samsung for collusion in 2007 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/nand_flash_antitrust_probe_widens/) but abruptly dropped the case in 2009 (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWgWSqhs_Jk0). Perhaps coincidentally when Obama became president. The main problem with NAND Flash is it's so massively capital intensive that you need $25 billion to construct a new fabrication plant. It's easy for companies like Samsung (which was fined a record $3 billion by the DOJ for colluding with LCD manufacturers to price fix LCD panels) to cheat the market system.
"HP’s technology allows the memory layers to be put directly on top of the processor layer making for very fast systems on chip" Interestingly this is exactly what John Carmack stated he was hoping would happen in his last interview. It would make development of new game engine technology that takes full advantage of PC systems much easier.
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He took computers away from the geeks and nerds and gave it to the masses. It's not as simple as a "walled garden" though. The entire approach was one of intense simplicity and ease of use. It's difficult for engineers to imagine things from the casual consumer's perspective. One might ask "why take away such and such port? What's the purpose"? It's extremely difficult to understand the benefits of simplicity and convenience over greater functionality. Nintendo's Wii gamble was almost entirely inspired by Apple's approach. Look at all the ultrabooks Intel showcased- total Macbook Air clones.
I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.
The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely." I'm glad the last sentence sounded sincere. It started off so politically correct and yawn-inducing. Screw your wife, talk about how you feel. And he does at the end. It's good to see.
It's not even logical from a profit-making perspective though. Look at Australia and other countries that are trying to build national broadband networks. Instead of building a government owned fiber network that is far superior to the horribly ineffective private efforts and is paid for entirely through subscriber revenue, a huge percentage of citizens would prefer to continue leaving the infrastructure privatized and paying private monopolistic corporations to sit on their laurels and do nothing. Look at Australia where conservatives whine about the "cost" of the network. What cost? Telstra's (the monopolist that controls almost all landlines in Australia) revenue is $4 billion/year. That alone would pay for the network in 10 years. Instead of all your money going to a corporation's CEOs and wealthy shareholders, it now goes back into the local economy. But people still complain without the slightest idea of how stupid they are.
Solyndra's problem was competition with China and a lack of access to capital. $500 million might seem like a lot, but when you're developing brand new technology it's a drop in the bucket. They needed more money, and the government wouldn't provide it. Actually it came out today that Solyndra was depending heavily on a bill that was going through Congress last year but was ultimately voted down.
Oh god socialist! We can't redistribute the wealth gained by hedge fund managers and corporate executives (at the expense of everyone else) that belong to a boys' club that never lets any new and innovative ideas into their group!
It's funny how our productivity has doubled in the last 20-30 years but NASA's budget has been cut and the average wage has declined. But the idiots are still out in droves defending corporate profits, tax cuts for the wealthy, and ridiculous military expenditures.
LOL yes because the same people who are cutting NASA's budget and think "government is too big" despite all the government services they rely on *really* care about the poor, don't they?
Yeah I love the armchair idiots who think Apple's designs are so "obvious". Why didn't they release their own products before Apple and strike it rich? Look at the endless whining over Windows 8's Metro interface and the utter failure of Linux GUIs to appeal to the mainstream. Look at how Samsung redesigned their tablet *right after* Apple announced their iPad 2. Look at the design of tablets before the iPad.
Patents aren't the issue. It's the pay to CEOs and "industry leaders". Extensive sociological research has conclusively demonstrated excessive monetary rewards cause an even greater disruption to productivity and innovation than insufficient pay. You really have to think about it for a little bit to understand why this is so (or simply read the studies' analyses), but it's related to a fear of "rocking the boat", losing one's cushy salary, and complacency. You can see the consequences yourself at various public US corporations.
Are you kidding? "Logical way to do it"? Those items are exact replicas. The icons in the store, the USB and power adapters. The boxes, the cables. They follow the exact same shape and form factor. If it was so obvious why didn't Samsung do it before Apple? Look how Samsung redesigned the Galaxy Tab right after Apple released the iPad 2. One of the CEO's sons was caught heading a company that sold blatant ripoffs of Apple's smart covers for the iPad 2. How much more obvious does it need to get?
People defending Samsung are morons engaging in neo tribalism. It's retarded. Asian companies rarely innovate, probably due to a rigid and hierarchical culture than discourages doing things differently, a culture that is magnified and perpetuated in corporations. They also forget Samsung was fined $3 billion for rounding up all the LCD manufacturers and colluding to price-fix LCDs. And the DOJ was investigating them for price-fixing NAND Flash until they abruptly dropped the case in 2009 (given corruption revelations at the SEC it's not hard to see something backhanded going on). Oh and let's not forget Samsung's CEO's son was caught heading a company that sold blatant ripoffs of the iPad 2's smart covers. Samsung is an extremely amoral company that cares very little for the rules of law. I'm not saying Apple has "morals", but holy cow people trying to defend Samsung in this situation are just blind religious fanatics.
Well... even on slashdot I see people complain about a phone being $100 more or less than another phone while happily handing their carrier thousands of dollars over their 2 year contract's life.
I also get tired of mentioning the A5's GPU is extremely powerful compared to every other device out there. Shrinking the iPad 2's SoC into the iPhone's form factor and maintaining or even improving battery life from the previous iPhone is really amazing.
Yeah the GPU blows everything else right now out of the water. The A5 is a monster, and deriving the kind of battery life Apple manages out of it with a sub 1500 mAh battery is just amazing. A lot of self-proclaimed technies don't really appreciate the design genius of Apple's engineers.
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Are you kidding? Prices still haven't dropped below $1/GB being there in 2008. Market concentration is at an all-time high. The iPhone 3GS had 32 GB and the iPhone 4GS at the same price point has... 32 GB. NAND Flash prices are unjustifiably high.
I've got 16 GB of RAM and an SSD. SDD is so fast I don't even bother hibernating.
It's a good thing too, because it's likely Samsung has been colluding with other NAND Flash manufacturers to keep prices high. They bought up a lot of competitors and the top 3 manufacturers control the vast majority of the market now. The DOJ actually investigated Samsung for collusion in 2007 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/nand_flash_antitrust_probe_widens/) but abruptly dropped the case in 2009 (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWgWSqhs_Jk0). Perhaps coincidentally when Obama became president. The main problem with NAND Flash is it's so massively capital intensive that you need $25 billion to construct a new fabrication plant. It's easy for companies like Samsung (which was fined a record $3 billion by the DOJ for colluding with LCD manufacturers to price fix LCD panels) to cheat the market system.
"HP’s technology allows the memory layers to be put directly on top of the processor layer making for very fast systems on chip" Interestingly this is exactly what John Carmack stated he was hoping would happen in his last interview. It would make development of new game engine technology that takes full advantage of PC systems much easier.
He took computers away from the geeks and nerds and gave it to the masses. It's not as simple as a "walled garden" though. The entire approach was one of intense simplicity and ease of use. It's difficult for engineers to imagine things from the casual consumer's perspective. One might ask "why take away such and such port? What's the purpose"? It's extremely difficult to understand the benefits of simplicity and convenience over greater functionality. Nintendo's Wii gamble was almost entirely inspired by Apple's approach. Look at all the ultrabooks Intel showcased- total Macbook Air clones.
I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely." I'm glad the last sentence sounded sincere. It started off so politically correct and yawn-inducing. Screw your wife, talk about how you feel. And he does at the end. It's good to see.
It's not even logical from a profit-making perspective though. Look at Australia and other countries that are trying to build national broadband networks. Instead of building a government owned fiber network that is far superior to the horribly ineffective private efforts and is paid for entirely through subscriber revenue, a huge percentage of citizens would prefer to continue leaving the infrastructure privatized and paying private monopolistic corporations to sit on their laurels and do nothing. Look at Australia where conservatives whine about the "cost" of the network. What cost? Telstra's (the monopolist that controls almost all landlines in Australia) revenue is $4 billion/year. That alone would pay for the network in 10 years. Instead of all your money going to a corporation's CEOs and wealthy shareholders, it now goes back into the local economy. But people still complain without the slightest idea of how stupid they are.
Right... the benefit of shipping our jobs to innovative countries. yay
Solyndra's problem was competition with China and a lack of access to capital. $500 million might seem like a lot, but when you're developing brand new technology it's a drop in the bucket. They needed more money, and the government wouldn't provide it. Actually it came out today that Solyndra was depending heavily on a bill that was going through Congress last year but was ultimately voted down.
Oh god socialist! We can't redistribute the wealth gained by hedge fund managers and corporate executives (at the expense of everyone else) that belong to a boys' club that never lets any new and innovative ideas into their group!
Wha....? I didn't realize Bush's No Child Left Behind was a liberal solution.
It's funny how our productivity has doubled in the last 20-30 years but NASA's budget has been cut and the average wage has declined. But the idiots are still out in droves defending corporate profits, tax cuts for the wealthy, and ridiculous military expenditures.
LOL yes because the same people who are cutting NASA's budget and think "government is too big" despite all the government services they rely on *really* care about the poor, don't they?
Yeah I love the armchair idiots who think Apple's designs are so "obvious". Why didn't they release their own products before Apple and strike it rich? Look at the endless whining over Windows 8's Metro interface and the utter failure of Linux GUIs to appeal to the mainstream. Look at how Samsung redesigned their tablet *right after* Apple announced their iPad 2. Look at the design of tablets before the iPad.
Patents aren't the issue. It's the pay to CEOs and "industry leaders". Extensive sociological research has conclusively demonstrated excessive monetary rewards cause an even greater disruption to productivity and innovation than insufficient pay. You really have to think about it for a little bit to understand why this is so (or simply read the studies' analyses), but it's related to a fear of "rocking the boat", losing one's cushy salary, and complacency. You can see the consequences yourself at various public US corporations.
A rounded rectangle? Have you actually read the trade dress claims?
Are you kidding? "Logical way to do it"? Those items are exact replicas. The icons in the store, the USB and power adapters. The boxes, the cables. They follow the exact same shape and form factor. If it was so obvious why didn't Samsung do it before Apple? Look how Samsung redesigned the Galaxy Tab right after Apple released the iPad 2. One of the CEO's sons was caught heading a company that sold blatant ripoffs of Apple's smart covers for the iPad 2. How much more obvious does it need to get?
People defending Samsung are morons engaging in neo tribalism. It's retarded. Asian companies rarely innovate, probably due to a rigid and hierarchical culture than discourages doing things differently, a culture that is magnified and perpetuated in corporations. They also forget Samsung was fined $3 billion for rounding up all the LCD manufacturers and colluding to price-fix LCDs. And the DOJ was investigating them for price-fixing NAND Flash until they abruptly dropped the case in 2009 (given corruption revelations at the SEC it's not hard to see something backhanded going on). Oh and let's not forget Samsung's CEO's son was caught heading a company that sold blatant ripoffs of the iPad 2's smart covers. Samsung is an extremely amoral company that cares very little for the rules of law. I'm not saying Apple has "morals", but holy cow people trying to defend Samsung in this situation are just blind religious fanatics.
I wish someone would put a solar panel on these e-ink readers. I know Toshiba and LG did that in Japan... so where's the American version?
Nook Color's CPU is also slow.
Well... even on slashdot I see people complain about a phone being $100 more or less than another phone while happily handing their carrier thousands of dollars over their 2 year contract's life.
I also get tired of mentioning the A5's GPU is extremely powerful compared to every other device out there. Shrinking the iPad 2's SoC into the iPhone's form factor and maintaining or even improving battery life from the previous iPhone is really amazing.
The A5's GPU is far superior to the SGS2's.
Yeah the GPU blows everything else right now out of the water. The A5 is a monster, and deriving the kind of battery life Apple manages out of it with a sub 1500 mAh battery is just amazing. A lot of self-proclaimed technies don't really appreciate the design genius of Apple's engineers.