The component cost *would* change, though not necessarily double. It takes a lot more materials to pack up the parts of 1000 phones for assembly than it does to ship 1000 phones.
You just reminded me of some of the sleepers I've read about and seen on youtube (which I can't find easily right now.... sigh...). Things like the Smart Diablo (a smart car with a hyabusa engine capable of smoking a ferrari). Or the 80's jetta that was upgraded with a high-powered audi turbo engine and AWD. Or even the Chevy car (think it was a caprice) that someone had modded with massive hot-rod tires and upgraded the engine to take something more like avgas.
Personally, I would like to see something like the old VW beetle with a subaru boxer engine from an STI.
I'm just waiting for the Microsoft One-upmanship. I can't wait for the $290 "Built in Redmond" book that features 50+ pages of BSODs and the poster-size centerfold of Clippy.
Not only that, they have openly swiped designs from Braun. They don't exactly have a great track record with stealing ideas either. Though I think that most people realize that Apple takes ideas and meshes them together in new, often useful, ways. It was their bread and butter under St. Jobs.
"Due to the overwhelming demand for our 1Gbps service at the $70 price point, we established that consumer *do not* want to spend $70 and would rather spend $140 for our great service."
We have the best security team ever. Security, yea, Security. I know a guy, he's a genius about security. He's gonna security the hell out of that, what was it? Operating System. Yes. Security!
I fail to see how Google investing in AOSP is benefiting Apple and Microsoft. Realistically, Google is not in competition with Samsung or other Android manufacturers.
Google has the crosshairs on them because they may be using their market dominance to push their own products. A closer analogy is what happened with MS during the browser nonsense some years ago. Windows is still the de-facto standard OS, and was pushing IE down users throats, even going so far as making it an integral part of the OS. You could argue that Google is doing the exact same thing with Android and locking vendors into Google Play/Apps. There's no other app store that holds a candle to Googles, so manufacturers are stuck.
It's really the same "you want to use our OS, you will have this applications on your device."
No, Trump can do one hell of a lot, regardless of what Congress wants. I'm not saying he will, but don't think he couldn't.
You're right, the President is called "most powerful man in the world" for a very good reason. However, that's why our government is structured the way it is. We have Congress that has to approve many of those actions, such as the annual budget or officially declare war. We also have the Judicial branch making sure laws are being followed. The system is designed to limit each branches power through those checks and balances.As broken as it is, it's still better than many other styles of government.
Another thing to keep in mind is every presidential candidate has made a whole bunch of promises that can't keep. Why? Because they don't yet fully understand the weight of the office until they've sat there. The firehose of information from the F.B.I., C.I.A., D.O.E., and all other three-letter agencies alone is enough to make a persons head explode. Then to take that information and maintain some semblance of peace with other countries, or even peace within our country, takes someone incredibly socially savvy. I fully expect many of those promises made under the guise of "Make America Great Again" won't happen and will be quietly forgotten.
Oh, and if Trump were to be impeached, Pence would be President. There would be no "handing off" to the Democrats. Though that may happen in 4 years if Trump is enough of a nightmare.
You are completely ignoring the feeling of putting in the cartridge, sliding the power button, and using the real controller. Sure, this thing takes SD cards (which makes me kinda want one), but there is something to be said about the "feel" of the original over some android box with some odd controller.
As someone who grew up with genesis and SNES, playing Sonic with an xbox360 controller just feels weird.
I can think of real-world examples where this sort of thing happens:
Video Game industry - Sure some older games had re-releases that fixed some issues, and some games were crazy buggy (youtube Sonic 3 glitches). However, the games typically "just worked" in the 80's and 90's. Compare that to today with multi-GB day-one patches that *should* have been part of the gold disk... had sales/marketing/management not put an improbably deadline on development.
OS Development - See all the zero-day bugs in Windows, OSX, Linux, and mobile OS's. There's a reason we have things like BlackHat, Pwn2Own and such.
IDE and plugin development - Visual Studio is a bloated mess. Eclipse is a resource hog that sometimes refuses to save files, other times refuses to open them or even gain mouse focus. Code::Blocks has it's own wierdness to try to use.
Macromedia/Adobe Flash - Need I really say more? This crap is broken by design.
Really, I think this sort of thing is in all software development. Proper practices are the exception, not the rule.
Though I'm pretty sure they only innovation they could do is start moving diamonds from their storehouses to remove the artificial scarcity. They'd rather not profit by quantity, so we'll see how this turns out...
Or maybe instead of pushing the onus on manufacturers to implement only to have users circumvent, how about they take some initiative and install some jammers/blockers at the prisons?
So lets get this right, it's 2016 and instead of downloading complete replacements for the OS at 4GB a piece, we're saving a few hundred meg? Shouldn't these be even smaller? like individual files and executables? maybe even diffs of those files? Is there really any reason they couldn't adopt a mechanism like deltarpm to push updates?
I'm sure those ISP's with datacaps are foaming at the mouth that those caps are gonna be slightly harder to hit now...
Imagine if all the money the world spends on sports would, for just one year, be funnelled into things like getting people out of poverty, creating jobs, curing cancer, building infrastructure...
How about all the money the world spends on passive entertainment? Sure Hollywood would implode and TV sales would tank. But people would actually get outside and talk to one another, play some games, bond with friends and family.
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More like 1000, and she'll become friends with an alcoholic robot and work for an intergalactic delivery service. The things you learn by watching TV.
The component cost *would* change, though not necessarily double. It takes a lot more materials to pack up the parts of 1000 phones for assembly than it does to ship 1000 phones.
Talk about a sleeper...
You just reminded me of some of the sleepers I've read about and seen on youtube (which I can't find easily right now.... sigh...). Things like the Smart Diablo (a smart car with a hyabusa engine capable of smoking a ferrari). Or the 80's jetta that was upgraded with a high-powered audi turbo engine and AWD. Or even the Chevy car (think it was a caprice) that someone had modded with massive hot-rod tires and upgraded the engine to take something more like avgas.
Personally, I would like to see something like the old VW beetle with a subaru boxer engine from an STI.
Choose a personality:
Clippy
Cortana
Because the CIA aren't lawmen, and their jurisdiction is outside the US. It's the FBI's job to enforce federal law within US borders.
I'm just waiting for the Microsoft One-upmanship. I can't wait for the $290 "Built in Redmond" book that features 50+ pages of BSODs and the poster-size centerfold of Clippy.
Not only that, they have openly swiped designs from Braun. They don't exactly have a great track record with stealing ideas either. Though I think that most people realize that Apple takes ideas and meshes them together in new, often useful, ways. It was their bread and butter under St. Jobs.
"Due to the overwhelming demand for our 1Gbps service at the $70 price point, we established that consumer *do not* want to spend $70 and would rather spend $140 for our great service."
Intel tried to do something like this with their acquisition of McAffee.. Only to spin-off (sell) the company a few years later.
Anybody know enough to explain how this is different?
We have the best security team ever. Security, yea, Security. I know a guy, he's a genius about security. He's gonna security the hell out of that, what was it? Operating System. Yes. Security!
so, statistically, half of facebooks millions (billions?) of users?
/s
That couldn't possibly influence a majority opinion...
Now if only we could get cable manufacturers to build USB-C cables to spec...
I fail to see how Google investing in AOSP is benefiting Apple and Microsoft. Realistically, Google is not in competition with Samsung or other Android manufacturers.
Google has the crosshairs on them because they may be using their market dominance to push their own products. A closer analogy is what happened with MS during the browser nonsense some years ago. Windows is still the de-facto standard OS, and was pushing IE down users throats, even going so far as making it an integral part of the OS. You could argue that Google is doing the exact same thing with Android and locking vendors into Google Play/Apps. There's no other app store that holds a candle to Googles, so manufacturers are stuck.
It's really the same "you want to use our OS, you will have this applications on your device."
No, Trump can do one hell of a lot, regardless of what Congress wants. I'm not saying he will, but don't think he couldn't.
You're right, the President is called "most powerful man in the world" for a very good reason. However, that's why our government is structured the way it is. We have Congress that has to approve many of those actions, such as the annual budget or officially declare war. We also have the Judicial branch making sure laws are being followed. The system is designed to limit each branches power through those checks and balances.As broken as it is, it's still better than many other styles of government.
Another thing to keep in mind is every presidential candidate has made a whole bunch of promises that can't keep. Why? Because they don't yet fully understand the weight of the office until they've sat there. The firehose of information from the F.B.I., C.I.A., D.O.E., and all other three-letter agencies alone is enough to make a persons head explode. Then to take that information and maintain some semblance of peace with other countries, or even peace within our country, takes someone incredibly socially savvy. I fully expect many of those promises made under the guise of "Make America Great Again" won't happen and will be quietly forgotten.
Oh, and if Trump were to be impeached, Pence would be President. There would be no "handing off" to the Democrats. Though that may happen in 4 years if Trump is enough of a nightmare.
If any humans know how to live in a hostile environment where damn near every animal can kill you, it's the Australians.
Samsung VR, now with realistic lighting and heat effects!
You never ran into the coke machine at my high school. That one was definitely a taker and not a giver.
You are completely ignoring the feeling of putting in the cartridge, sliding the power button, and using the real controller. Sure, this thing takes SD cards (which makes me kinda want one), but there is something to be said about the "feel" of the original over some android box with some odd controller.
As someone who grew up with genesis and SNES, playing Sonic with an xbox360 controller just feels weird.
I can think of real-world examples where this sort of thing happens:
Video Game industry - Sure some older games had re-releases that fixed some issues, and some games were crazy buggy (youtube Sonic 3 glitches). However, the games typically "just worked" in the 80's and 90's. Compare that to today with multi-GB day-one patches that *should* have been part of the gold disk... had sales/marketing/management not put an improbably deadline on development.
OS Development - See all the zero-day bugs in Windows, OSX, Linux, and mobile OS's. There's a reason we have things like BlackHat, Pwn2Own and such.
IDE and plugin development - Visual Studio is a bloated mess. Eclipse is a resource hog that sometimes refuses to save files, other times refuses to open them or even gain mouse focus. Code::Blocks has it's own wierdness to try to use.
Macromedia/Adobe Flash - Need I really say more? This crap is broken by design.
Really, I think this sort of thing is in all software development. Proper practices are the exception, not the rule.
Don't innovate, litigate!
Though I'm pretty sure they only innovation they could do is start moving diamonds from their storehouses to remove the artificial scarcity. They'd rather not profit by quantity, so we'll see how this turns out...
XXIst century.
Well it is MMXVI, after all. Or as the kids put it these days "II 0 I VI"
Or maybe instead of pushing the onus on manufacturers to implement only to have users circumvent, how about they take some initiative and install some jammers/blockers at the prisons?
So lets get this right, it's 2016 and instead of downloading complete replacements for the OS at 4GB a piece, we're saving a few hundred meg? Shouldn't these be even smaller? like individual files and executables? maybe even diffs of those files? Is there really any reason they couldn't adopt a mechanism like deltarpm to push updates?
I'm sure those ISP's with datacaps are foaming at the mouth that those caps are gonna be slightly harder to hit now...
Did you even read the fucking article or summary? Christ sakes man.
You must be new here.
Imagine if all the money the world spends on sports would, for just one year, be funnelled into things like getting people out of poverty, creating jobs, curing cancer, building infrastructure ...
How about all the money the world spends on passive entertainment? Sure Hollywood would implode and TV sales would tank. But people would actually get outside and talk to one another, play some games, bond with friends and family.