I assume you do realize what it means when one completely arbitrary number equals another completely arbitrary number, right? its called a 'coincidence' at the best.
Really, this is either a desperate attempt to shill for the M8, or a huge statistics fail that someone has decided to run with.
And, not only that.
If you look at, for example, the Oneplus One, it has basically the same performance but much more battery life. In what way is that less good that the M8? Of course there is none - it is better. NOTHING AT ALL is conveyed by these graphics or figures - they are purely arbitrary.
Hell, multiple the battery number by 2 (which is may as well be, as it has no physical meaning) then the Note III is suddenly 'the most balanced'
Nuclear is safe and cheap - it has killed far less people than ANY other form of power generation per output (including wind and solar, due to the high incidence of installation fatalities).
It has been politically buried in a mountain of oversight and penalty 'costs' for political reasons - basically a cost created by the cold war 'fear the enemies radiation!' propaganda that was brainwashed in to everyone.
the REAL negative things about nuclear power these days are: The NRC, an organisation that has for far too long held back sensible improvements in this critical part of infrastructure. The old, outdated, and unnecessarily less safe reactors being kept live due to the political impossibility of replacing them with modern ones (and even THEN their safety history is pretty damn good compared to alternatives).
Any TRUE environmentalist should be screaming at the top of their lungs, protesting in the streets, to have more nuclear power built and shut down the damn coal plants that ARE spreading radiation everywhere!
I assume you do realise that that amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been MUCH higher than it is no previously, yes? And of course that ran away didnt it, making earth venus like and all.. at least until the magic pixies came and magicked it back I guess. And yes, of course, that half a billion yars worth of carbon - because as we know carbon is continuously produced (I can only imagine by those same magic pixies) and so accumulates..
Oh, sorry - there I go again with damn damn pesky critical thinking.
No, you are right! the sky is falling! we had better empower those fantastic politicians who only have our best interests at heart to grab more power!
And too bad they include completely made up additional costs to nuclear (like a cost of heat production - complete BS, and cost of using up uranium resources, when in fact reprocessing reduces that to almost zero very quickly ).
In other words this is a fluff piece written by some pro-wind political pressure group with the intention of getting some good headlines and hoping no one actually looks at the numbers.
Put another way, propaganda.
Enjoy the lies. Pity that environmentalists so often have to resort to them - not many ideals on those idealists.
They are copying the pre-spaceshuttle sensible and very workable X-20 dyna-soar, which was a very sensible design for certain applications. The space shuttle was lumbered with masses of military 'requirements' and pork belly politics that destroyed the design - welcome to the USA! That doesnt mean that X-20 type return vehicles are bad..
In fact the perfect mix could well be SAs lift body on top of a return-and-land Space-X primary booster.
Pretty much anything but more NASA pork is a win win for space.
Make sure the end user is GUARANTEED the bandwidth they are paying for (no over subscription, no 'up to', etc). Then I would be happy for 3rd parties to pay the ISP to increase the bandwidth ABOVE that top level, as much as they like.
That would be a win all round, but of course that is almost exactly the opposite of what they will actually do.
So, if I get this right, the people wanting to show off their nice new shiny 'ITS A REAL APPLE!' devices are the overly focused hotrodders overspending on things they dont really need in the hope of a bit more social position, right?
And the people buying a perfectly functional android phone for 1/3 the price, and not upgrading it to this 'latest model' endlessly are the sane ones, hmmm?
In that care, I could not agree more!
Of course if you are trying to say that spending very top dollar on an iPhone is 'sensible' but looking at the fact that an equivalently priced android phone has more features, higher specifications, etc is foolish, then I think perhaps you partook of just a little too much of the happy powder somewhere along the line.
Hell, even apply compare themselves to 'luxury brands' now... and for good reason.
You may think that allowing 3rd party apps is positive feature, It is not.You seem to understand the upside but let me lay out the downsides:
1) It adds bulk to the phone for a feature that most customers do not care about and will not use 2) It adds to the cost of the product for design, manufacturing, warranty, and support (again for a feature few will actually use) 3) It reduces the reliability of the device by a small but statistically significant amount. When you are selling these in the millions that adds up to substantial expense. 4) Adding the 3rd party apps features comes at the expense of other features that could occupy that space such as additional battery capacity. 5) It is a vector for Viruses and Malware to enter the phone (see point 3 above) 6) It requires supporting third party software that may have compatibility issues 7) 3rd party softwarecomes in a variety of speeds and people will inevitably buy software that are not fast, incompatible or have other performance issues 8) It complicates the software on the device and almost certainly will result in bugs.
Most of your disadvantages are amazingly tenuous at best, and easily miss-applied to all sorts of other features. In the end Apple profits by people wanting to upgrade their phones as soon as possible - expansion capability reduces that. 9) The functionality can be replicated in other ways that may (and in fact are) preferable to other people such as wirelessly syncing data to other devices. 10) SD cards basically are modern day floppy disks. Do we *really* need to go back to those?
I can happily (and do) run Cyanogenmod CM11 on my Samsung Galaxy S (original version). Thats android 4.4.4, latest. In fact the progressions of andrioid versions have made the device faster, more user friendly, and functional over time.
They are not 'ride sharing' or 'car pooling' or anything even similar.
The business model is old and well established,at least in london. It means a cab service that does not use fully licensed drivers and vehicles, and cannot be just hailed on the street (must be booked). The fact that they take most of their bookings from phone apps/online makes no difference at all. It is just a private hire of transport service - they dont use cab ranks, they cannot pick up people who hail them.
Perhaps if they had admitted this to begin with, they would not have faced the legal hurdles they have.
A) But water vapour doesn't accumulate over centuries like CO2 does (it rains out), so the long-term effect isn't there B) Not true. CO2 has historically had a powerful positive feedback effect on temperature. C) Climate models have only missed recent short term temperature fluctuations (as expected). Still important for long-term predictions. D) So? We're concerned about how current levels will affect us.
Oh boy, where to start - or should I just mod funny?
A) CO2 accumulates? you had really better tell that to all the plant life that things it is continuously absorbing it;) B) um, no, it does not, there is very little evidence of a CO2 drive global temperature historically - not to mention the clear evidence that global temperatures have nevr run away, even though CO2 levels have been MUCH higher. C) Climate models have missed ALL the temperature fluctuations since they have been making news - and by constantly increasing amounts - a big problem since they are pretty much all feedback based models - so if they dont work in the short to mid term, they have NO hope in the long term. D) The point is accoring to the chicken littles, we should already have disastrous effects, where are they?
and for bonus points.... What happens when you increase atmospheric CO2, temperature, and rainfall? (which pretty much all the models agree will happen)? How many of the models do you think include adjustments for increased plant growth? (hint, its a round number). And thats only the tip on the iceberg.
The FACT that is almost always ignored is that a scientific theory is only useful if it can predict, thats one of the RULES. Once they start being able to predict, I will be much more interested in what they have to say. Until then its all just opinions.
No, it is a stupid article. Someone has come up with an over-complex solution to a non existent problem.
The use of the CPU to create temperature is a overly complex and difficult approach, compared to using a simple regulated heater which would be much simpler, more reliable, more repeatable, and cost less. Really, they are using a whole computer just to generate the heat, and a separate computer (cellphone) to run the reaction. stupid and overly complex. If there is a demand for a usb controlled accurate heat generator it would be trivial to build one with a usb microcontroller, its pwm output, and a heating resistor. it would cost less, be more accurate, smaller, waste less power, more reliable, cheaper. I doubt it would be difficult to find a suitable device already from some similar application.
Temperature regulation is absolutely NOT a contributing factor to high cost of such tests.
Hell, a power supply, some switches, and some resistors would do it if you didnt want automatic control.
So, I guess you have not seen the models currently available with auto steer, that morons are already treating as autodrive?
The first few big court cases should be.... interesting. The manufacturers are just waiving responsibility with a few lines in the owners manual and maybe a short warning on the in car screen.
What is happening here is of course that what she says directly provokes and annoys that subset of society who will react like that. That is, teens. And I am sure she knows it, anyone who thinks about it knows it, and it is common, and means little. Of course she is not addressing that, she is trying to use that brush to paint 'people in tech', ie: people working there. very few of those are angsty teens.
Really, pick pretty much ANY subject, it would not be hard to get a bunch of nasty responses in an online forum - and she is playing that game, a lot of what she claims could easily be considered trolling (for example presenting paths of play not required or even sensible in games as the main intention of the game just because they paint the game as anti women).
Is she right to involve the police, etc when someone starts saying things this stupid? quite possibly yes. Is she right to claim this defines an entire gender? dont be ridiculous. THAT is sexist, against men, as she quite clearly is herself.
Which is a pity, that she obviously believes that reverse sexism (by labeling the majority of men to be akin to the worst examples she can find) is good.
Except of course this thing is not even a robot, not a '3d printer', as far as I can tell its just a collection of hype terms and a dream (I suspect) of being showered in free funding to play with.
It is a simple computer controlled gantry, of the types common since the 80s.
And this is progress? really?
I wonder if they know that fully automated gps tracked tractors have commercially existed for over 10 years.
Unless of course you are Apple, IBM, Microsoft, or one of the other 'special' applicants who have their own rubber stamp (sorry I mean priority clearing house) for their patents.
Eventually we gave up applying for US patents because, especially as a foreign company, the prior art that gets presented is just an insult.
Really, we had them tag teaming two sets of prior art back forward, NEVER ONCE replying to our queries as to why it was applicable, just switching to the other, and waiting until the end of their allowable response time to do this each time, until the window for acceptance just ran out. Maximised their fees though, they were sure to do that..
http://www.osnews.com/story/27868/Another_day_another_sensationalist_unfounded_security_story "First, a patch been sent to OEMs and AOSP, but with Android's abysmal update situation, this is a moot point. The crux, however, lies with Google Play and Verify Apps. These have already been updated to detect this issue, and prevent applications that try to abuse this flaw from being installed"
Google reacted to this disclosure rapidly and well. Of course such a vulnerability would probably never be FOUND in iOS or WinPhone, since they are closed source, and almost certainly never disclosed if it was.
Just update your play store, and you are safe unless you are sideloading (never a great idea) If you are sideloading then if you leave verify apps on, its also no problem.
Google are also scanning all apps on Google Play to check no one has been trying this.
Yawn, another google/Android beatup trying to wag the dog. Not hard to guess where the spin is originating.
Um, what? Firstly, you are thinking that gaming is a primary must have application for schools? I am thinking you are a teen, right? Secondly, you dont even know that NVidia linux graphics drivers are almost exactly on par with their windows cousins?
Sure, you wont run windows games on them - those are developed for WINDOWS, dumbarse. OpenGL runs very will on both platforms, and certainly with NVidia with equial performance and stability. Linux is a fantastic graphics platform. DirectX is continuously playing catchup.
Perhaps if you actually used computers, rather than treating them as a gaming console - you may learn something...
All equipment being re-purchased to use linux, and then replaced at the standard windows replacement rates, which is BS. All administration staff to be assumed to be windows trained but zero knowledge of linux, but are retained, and consultants bought in to run linux All microsoft user end software to still be supported (outlook, windows web frontends, databases, office 'apps', etc), requiring additional complexity and many many retained windows servers and workstations. Basically they create a horrific hybrid solution required to support any and all historical solutions, keep all the baggage from windows they can, then point out that it costs more.
The fact is that any reasonably well planned transition is just that - a transition. And the savings are clear and obvious, as more and more locations are finding. Hell, even the savings of transitioning backend servers to Linux, and frontend software to OSS, while retaining windows for users, are huge.
Wow there was just so much completely made up and utterly wrong 'information' in that post you should win a prize!
And that's before we look at the fact that you must believe long range radio signally and their associated power comes for free.
You are a complete fucking moron. You do realize that.. Right?
IF you cared about actual numbers, which you quite obviously do not, you would find out that cloud storage consumes several orders of magnitude more power per round trip store/retrieve than local SD storage. It's not even close.
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I assume you do realize what it means when one completely arbitrary number equals another completely arbitrary number, right?
its called a 'coincidence' at the best.
Really, this is either a desperate attempt to shill for the M8, or a huge statistics fail that someone has decided to run with.
And, not only that.
If you look at, for example, the Oneplus One, it has basically the same performance but much more battery life.
In what way is that less good that the M8? Of course there is none - it is better.
NOTHING AT ALL is conveyed by these graphics or figures - they are purely arbitrary.
Hell, multiple the battery number by 2 (which is may as well be, as it has no physical meaning) then the Note III is suddenly 'the most balanced'
This.
Nuclear is safe and cheap - it has killed far less people than ANY other form of power generation per output (including wind and solar, due to the high incidence of installation fatalities).
It has been politically buried in a mountain of oversight and penalty 'costs' for political reasons - basically a cost created by the cold war 'fear the enemies radiation!' propaganda that was brainwashed in to everyone.
the REAL negative things about nuclear power these days are:
The NRC, an organisation that has for far too long held back sensible improvements in this critical part of infrastructure.
The old, outdated, and unnecessarily less safe reactors being kept live due to the political impossibility of replacing them with modern ones (and even THEN their safety history is pretty damn good compared to alternatives).
Any TRUE environmentalist should be screaming at the top of their lungs, protesting in the streets, to have more nuclear power built and shut down the damn coal plants that ARE spreading radiation everywhere!
THIS crap got modded up? Scary.
I assume you do realise that that amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been MUCH higher than it is no previously, yes?
And of course that ran away didnt it, making earth venus like and all.. at least until the magic pixies came and magicked it back I guess.
And yes, of course, that half a billion yars worth of carbon - because as we know carbon is continuously produced (I can only imagine by those
same magic pixies) and so accumulates..
Oh, sorry - there I go again with damn damn pesky critical thinking.
No, you are right! the sky is falling! we had better empower those fantastic politicians who only have our best interests at heart to grab more power!
And too bad they include completely made up additional costs to nuclear (like a cost of heat production - complete BS, and cost of using up uranium resources, when in fact reprocessing reduces that to almost zero very quickly ).
In other words this is a fluff piece written by some pro-wind political pressure group with the intention of getting some good headlines and hoping no one actually looks at the numbers.
Put another way, propaganda.
Enjoy the lies. Pity that environmentalists so often have to resort to them - not many ideals on those idealists.
My god.... as in Hallelujah??
Just wondering..
What a load of BS.
They are copying the pre-spaceshuttle sensible and very workable X-20 dyna-soar, which was a very sensible design for certain applications.
The space shuttle was lumbered with masses of military 'requirements' and pork belly politics that destroyed the design - welcome to the USA!
That doesnt mean that X-20 type return vehicles are bad..
In fact the perfect mix could well be SAs lift body on top of a return-and-land Space-X primary booster.
Pretty much anything but more NASA pork is a win win for space.
The answer is simple isnt it?
Make sure the end user is GUARANTEED the bandwidth they are paying for (no over subscription, no 'up to', etc).
Then I would be happy for 3rd parties to pay the ISP to increase the bandwidth ABOVE that top level, as much
as they like.
That would be a win all round, but of course that is almost exactly the opposite of what they will actually do.
I am having some trouble seeing your point..
So, if I get this right, the people wanting to show off their nice new shiny 'ITS A REAL APPLE!' devices are the overly focused hotrodders overspending on things they dont really need in the hope of a bit more social position, right?
And the people buying a perfectly functional android phone for 1/3 the price, and not upgrading it to this 'latest model' endlessly are the sane ones, hmmm?
In that care, I could not agree more!
Of course if you are trying to say that spending very top dollar on an iPhone is 'sensible' but looking at the fact that an equivalently priced android phone has more features, higher specifications, etc is foolish, then I think perhaps you partook of just a little too much of the happy powder somewhere along the line.
Hell, even apply compare themselves to 'luxury brands' now... and for good reason.
You may think that allowing 3rd party apps is positive feature, It is not.You seem to understand the upside but let me lay out the downsides:
1) It adds bulk to the phone for a feature that most customers do not care about and will not use
2) It adds to the cost of the product for design, manufacturing, warranty, and support (again for a feature few will actually use)
3) It reduces the reliability of the device by a small but statistically significant amount. When you are selling these in the millions that adds up to substantial expense.
4) Adding the 3rd party apps features comes at the expense of other features that could occupy that space such as additional battery capacity.
5) It is a vector for Viruses and Malware to enter the phone (see point 3 above)
6) It requires supporting third party software that may have compatibility issues
7) 3rd party softwarecomes in a variety of speeds and people will inevitably buy software that are not fast, incompatible or have other performance issues
8) It complicates the software on the device and almost certainly will result in bugs.
Most of your disadvantages are amazingly tenuous at best, and easily miss-applied to all sorts of other features.
In the end Apple profits by people wanting to upgrade their phones as soon as possible - expansion capability reduces that.
9) The functionality can be replicated in other ways that may (and in fact are) preferable to other people such as wirelessly syncing data to other devices.
10) SD cards basically are modern day floppy disks. Do we *really* need to go back to those?
Said the Anonymous Coward hiding behind HIS keyboard, pretending to be.... god knows what ;)
Just sayin.. :)
I can happily (and do) run Cyanogenmod CM11 on my Samsung Galaxy S (original version). Thats android 4.4.4, latest.
In fact the progressions of andrioid versions have made the device faster, more user friendly, and functional over time.
Got the phone in early 2010.
So, what is your point?
Minicab companies.
They are not 'ride sharing' or 'car pooling' or anything even similar.
The business model is old and well established,at least in london.
It means a cab service that does not use fully licensed drivers and vehicles, and cannot be just hailed on the street (must be booked).
The fact that they take most of their bookings from phone apps/online makes no difference at all.
It is just a private hire of transport service - they dont use cab ranks, they cannot pick up people who hail them.
Perhaps if they had admitted this to begin with, they would not have faced the legal hurdles they have.
A) But water vapour doesn't accumulate over centuries like CO2 does (it rains out), so the long-term effect isn't there
B) Not true. CO2 has historically had a powerful positive feedback effect on temperature.
C) Climate models have only missed recent short term temperature fluctuations (as expected). Still important for long-term predictions.
D) So? We're concerned about how current levels will affect us.
Oh boy, where to start - or should I just mod funny?
A) CO2 accumulates? you had really better tell that to all the plant life that things it is continuously absorbing it ;)
B) um, no, it does not, there is very little evidence of a CO2 drive global temperature historically - not to mention the clear evidence that global temperatures have nevr run away, even though CO2 levels have been MUCH higher.
C) Climate models have missed ALL the temperature fluctuations since they have been making news - and by constantly increasing amounts - a big problem since they are pretty much all feedback based models - so if they dont work in the short to mid term, they have NO hope in the long term.
D) The point is accoring to the chicken littles, we should already have disastrous effects, where are they?
and for bonus points....
What happens when you increase atmospheric CO2, temperature, and rainfall? (which pretty much all the models agree will happen)?
How many of the models do you think include adjustments for increased plant growth? (hint, its a round number).
And thats only the tip on the iceberg.
The FACT that is almost always ignored is that a scientific theory is only useful if it can predict, thats one of the RULES.
Once they start being able to predict, I will be much more interested in what they have to say.
Until then its all just opinions.
No, it is a stupid article. Someone has come up with an over-complex solution to a non existent problem.
The use of the CPU to create temperature is a overly complex and difficult approach, compared to using a simple regulated heater which would be much simpler, more reliable, more repeatable, and cost less.
Really, they are using a whole computer just to generate the heat, and a separate computer (cellphone) to run the reaction. stupid and overly complex.
If there is a demand for a usb controlled accurate heat generator it would be trivial to build one with a usb microcontroller, its pwm output, and a heating resistor.
it would cost less, be more accurate, smaller, waste less power, more reliable, cheaper. I doubt it would be difficult to find a suitable device already from some
similar application.
Temperature regulation is absolutely NOT a contributing factor to high cost of such tests.
Hell, a power supply, some switches, and some resistors would do it if you didnt want automatic control.
So, I guess you have not seen the models currently available with auto steer, that morons are already treating as autodrive?
The first few big court cases should be.... interesting.
The manufacturers are just waiving responsibility with a few lines in the owners manual and maybe a short warning on the in car screen.
HAve you met many angsty teens?
What is happening here is of course that what she says directly provokes and annoys that subset of society who will react like that.
That is, teens.
And I am sure she knows it, anyone who thinks about it knows it, and it is common, and means little.
Of course she is not addressing that, she is trying to use that brush to paint 'people in tech', ie: people working there. very few of those are angsty teens.
Really, pick pretty much ANY subject, it would not be hard to get a bunch of nasty responses in an online forum - and she is playing that game, a lot of what she claims could easily be considered trolling (for example presenting paths of play not required or even sensible in games as the main intention of the game just because they paint the game as anti women).
Is she right to involve the police, etc when someone starts saying things this stupid? quite possibly yes.
Is she right to claim this defines an entire gender? dont be ridiculous. THAT is sexist, against men, as she quite clearly is herself.
Which is a pity, that she obviously believes that reverse sexism (by labeling the majority of men to be akin to the worst examples she can find) is good.
I have 3 words for you..
Westboro Baptist Church
Although I do wonder if you will understand.
Except of course this thing is not even a robot, not a '3d printer', as far as I can tell its just a collection of hype terms and a dream (I suspect) of being showered in free funding to play with.
It is a simple computer controlled gantry, of the types common since the 80s.
And this is progress? really?
I wonder if they know that fully automated gps tracked tractors have commercially existed for over 10 years.
What a f'ing joke.
This.
Unless of course you are Apple, IBM, Microsoft, or one of the other 'special' applicants who have their own rubber stamp (sorry I mean priority clearing house) for their patents.
Eventually we gave up applying for US patents because, especially as a foreign company, the prior art that gets presented is just an insult.
Really, we had them tag teaming two sets of prior art back forward, NEVER ONCE replying to our queries as to why it was applicable, just switching to the
other, and waiting until the end of their allowable response time to do this each time, until the window for acceptance just ran out.
Maximised their fees though, they were sure to do that..
Because as we all know.. Batteries are free and last forever! Hallelujah.
Sigh.
Well he was one hell of a lot more convincing than you.
Which was not difficult.
Not just that.. its already reasonably moot.
http://www.osnews.com/story/27868/Another_day_another_sensationalist_unfounded_security_story
"First, a patch been sent to OEMs and AOSP, but with Android's abysmal update situation, this is a moot point. The crux, however, lies with Google Play and Verify Apps. These have already been updated to detect this issue, and prevent applications that try to abuse this flaw from being installed"
Google reacted to this disclosure rapidly and well.
Of course such a vulnerability would probably never be FOUND in iOS or WinPhone, since they are closed source, and almost certainly never disclosed if it was.
Just update your play store, and you are safe unless you are sideloading (never a great idea)
If you are sideloading then if you leave verify apps on, its also no problem.
Google are also scanning all apps on Google Play to check no one has been trying this.
Yawn, another google/Android beatup trying to wag the dog. Not hard to guess where the spin is originating.
Um, what?
Firstly, you are thinking that gaming is a primary must have application for schools? I am thinking you are a teen, right?
Secondly, you dont even know that NVidia linux graphics drivers are almost exactly on par with their windows cousins?
Sure, you wont run windows games on them - those are developed for WINDOWS, dumbarse.
OpenGL runs very will on both platforms, and certainly with NVidia with equial performance and stability. Linux is a fantastic graphics platform.
DirectX is continuously playing catchup.
Perhaps if you actually used computers, rather than treating them as a gaming console - you may learn something...
This.
Most Microsoft TCO analysis involves:
All equipment being re-purchased to use linux, and then replaced at the standard windows replacement rates, which is BS.
All administration staff to be assumed to be windows trained but zero knowledge of linux, but are retained, and consultants bought in to run linux
All microsoft user end software to still be supported (outlook, windows web frontends, databases, office 'apps', etc), requiring additional complexity and many many retained windows servers and workstations.
Basically they create a horrific hybrid solution required to support any and all historical solutions, keep all the baggage from windows they can, then point out that it costs more.
The fact is that any reasonably well planned transition is just that - a transition.
And the savings are clear and obvious, as more and more locations are finding.
Hell, even the savings of transitioning backend servers to Linux, and frontend software to OSS, while retaining windows for users, are huge.
Wow there was just so much completely made up and utterly wrong 'information' in that post you should win a prize!
And that's before we look at the fact that you must believe long range radio signally and their associated power comes for free.
You are a complete fucking moron. You do realize that.. Right?
IF you cared about actual numbers, which you quite obviously do not, you would find out that cloud storage consumes several orders of magnitude more power per round trip store/retrieve than local SD storage. It's not even close.
Idiot.