There are problems with your post, but I'm not going to bother with them — I get very tired of responding to posts that disagree with something I didn't actually say. If you read my post again (without reading into it) I was simply pointing out a factual error.
You do have a point, although I can foresee problems obtaining diesel fuel too. In any case, I'm not arguing the guy's general argument in favor of diesel as a tried-and-true tech. I was merely pointing out his factual error in referring to fuel cells as needing a "niche fuel source". He was clearly assuming that all fuel cells are fueled by hydrogen gas, which is not the case.
Everybody has an opinion about how the government should be run, but nobody can seem to take the time to learn how the government actually is run. This is an across the board sequestration of government spending not a spending cut aimed at NASA.
The Chinese do engineering too. When I worked for Sun, I collaborated a lot with their Shanghai engineering team.
Although English is widely spoken among India's elite (a legacy of almost 3 centuries of British rule), it's not a first language for most Indians. They certainly have more good English speakers than the Chinese, but it's hardly a standard lingua franca. When you deal with a call center and deal with some guy whose vocabulary, grammar, and accent make him almost unintelligible, he's probably a graduate of some quickie school that crammed the language into his head for a few rupees tuition.
India's big edge is a different legacy of British rule: schools. When the sun never set on the British Empire, they built universities for their ruling class in England, and technical schools everywhere else. Hence the old stereotype of a mechanical engineer with a Scots accent, and the new stereotype of a software engineer with a Hindi accent.
Fine, China isn't any better than the U.S. at training skilled workers. But India is, judging from the accents I hear in the workplace.
Anyway, the OECD rankings are about skill levels, not classroom hours. More teaching doesn't necessarily translate into skills, but better teaching certainly does.
And let's not forget that we not only can't afford to lag, we can't even afford to just keep up. Americans don't work cheap, so if they want to work, they need to work better.
any mention of AMD is presumed to be related to its 64/32-bit x86 chips
Huh? We talking about tablets! Most tablets are based on ARM chips. Even Microsoft has been forced to acknowledge that ARM dominates the tablet space, by creating Windows RT. That's why the fact that a new tablet-centric CPU is not ARM is itself significant.
Yeah, people who are thoroughly familiar with AMD know that they don't do ARM. But most people don't know that. I didn't know that, not until I did some Googling just now.
When the talking point is "Windows 8, not Android" my first question is "Windows RT or regular Windows?" In other words, is this an ARM chip (as is the case with 90% of Android systems) or an x86 chip? That key fact is buried near the end of the article (x86).
That little detail makes their decision not to support Android initially a lot easier to understand: people who sell Android tablets have all their expertise in ARM, and are not going to be in a hurry to buy an x86 chip.
Can you say the same about Android devices from 3 years ago -- or even Android devices released next month running old operating systems?
I'm an Androidian, so everybody believe me when I say this guy is 100% right. Except I'm not so concerned about the Froyo devices that will be sold next month. I'm worried about the ones sold next year, and the year after that. If Froyo remains the the dominant version of Android 2 years from now, Android is in big trouble.
Well, I understand the concept of irony and you don't. I'm also smart enough to stop arguing when I run out of arguments, and you're not. So if I'm dumb...
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So fine, fuel cells are a bad idea. The headline is still stupid, as is TPPs attempts at making fun of MS for something they didn't actually say.
There are problems with your post, but I'm not going to bother with them — I get very tired of responding to posts that disagree with something I didn't actually say. If you read my post again (without reading into it) I was simply pointing out a factual error.
You do have a point, although I can foresee problems obtaining diesel fuel too. In any case, I'm not arguing the guy's general argument in favor of diesel as a tried-and-true tech. I was merely pointing out his factual error in referring to fuel cells as needing a "niche fuel source". He was clearly assuming that all fuel cells are fueled by hydrogen gas, which is not the case.
It uses a niche fuel source
RTFA, Hell read the fucking summary. It uses natural gas. Not exactly exotic.
It's a perfectly good idea. Fuel cells are more efficient, less polluting. The only thing that's stupid is the usual sloppy Slashdot headline.
clearly marked with the words 'DANGER RADIOACTIVE' as well as a radiation warning symbol,
So, everything's fine as long as Bart Simpson doesn't find it.
"Did you look under the sofa cushions — in Hell?
. You keep finding new reasons why a fact is obvious to you. That has nothing to do with the fact not being obvious to other people.
Everybody has an opinion about how the government should be run, but nobody can seem to take the time to learn how the government actually is run. This is an across the board sequestration of government spending not a spending cut aimed at NASA.
The Chinese do engineering too. When I worked for Sun, I collaborated a lot with their Shanghai engineering team.
Although English is widely spoken among India's elite (a legacy of almost 3 centuries of British rule), it's not a first language for most Indians. They certainly have more good English speakers than the Chinese, but it's hardly a standard lingua franca. When you deal with a call center and deal with some guy whose vocabulary, grammar, and accent make him almost unintelligible, he's probably a graduate of some quickie school that crammed the language into his head for a few rupees tuition.
India's big edge is a different legacy of British rule: schools. When the sun never set on the British Empire, they built universities for their ruling class in England, and technical schools everywhere else. Hence the old stereotype of a mechanical engineer with a Scots accent, and the new stereotype of a software engineer with a Hindi accent.
And financial system were lone idiots flourish is supposed to be superior?
Fine, China isn't any better than the U.S. at training skilled workers. But India is, judging from the accents I hear in the workplace.
Anyway, the OECD rankings are about skill levels, not classroom hours. More teaching doesn't necessarily translate into skills, but better teaching certainly does.
And let's not forget that we not only can't afford to lag, we can't even afford to just keep up. Americans don't work cheap, so if they want to work, they need to work better.
A couple of hours ago, that URL pointed to an article about yet another Bitcoin ripoff. It was a lot funnier then.
AMD has never been in the ARM market.
You know that, and I know that (now). But it's bad journalism to assume that everybody knows that.
Your various comments are interesting and informative, but don't really have anything to do with my observation.
And if you buy a ice chest, it's probably because you're going tailgating, not because you're embracing a cold-storage paradigm shift.
In this case, it's newsworthy for its entertainment value.
Also related: can somebody spot me $50 until Friday? You know I'm good for it.
In geekland, Nobody == Nobody I Know.
We know that because the Bruce Parens blog post that he linked to confirms it!
If you're going to spam, at least enter the link correctly.
Steam and Visual Studio. Oh yeah, that's all applications anybody needs.
any mention of AMD is presumed to be related to its 64/32-bit x86 chips
Huh? We talking about tablets! Most tablets are based on ARM chips. Even Microsoft has been forced to acknowledge that ARM dominates the tablet space, by creating Windows RT. That's why the fact that a new tablet-centric CPU is not ARM is itself significant.
Yeah, people who are thoroughly familiar with AMD know that they don't do ARM. But most people don't know that. I didn't know that, not until I did some Googling just now.
Important fact! Up front! Basic Journalism. Assumptions make...
When the talking point is "Windows 8, not Android" my first question is "Windows RT or regular Windows?" In other words, is this an ARM chip (as is the case with 90% of Android systems) or an x86 chip? That key fact is buried near the end of the article (x86).
That little detail makes their decision not to support Android initially a lot easier to understand: people who sell Android tablets have all their expertise in ARM, and are not going to be in a hurry to buy an x86 chip.
Can you say the same about Android devices from 3 years ago -- or even Android devices released next month running old operating systems?
I'm an Androidian, so everybody believe me when I say this guy is 100% right. Except I'm not so concerned about the Froyo devices that will be sold next month. I'm worried about the ones sold next year, and the year after that. If Froyo remains the the dominant version of Android 2 years from now, Android is in big trouble.
Well, I understand the concept of irony and you don't. I'm also smart enough to stop arguing when I run out of arguments, and you're not. So if I'm dumb...