It's going to be a great smartphone, it will be very smart, every pixel on it will be personally supervised by Bezos and you'll be able to use the smartphone for everything!
You can browse Amazon with it. You can email to Amazon with it. You can buy from Amazon with it. You can sell on Amazon with it. You can Amazon the Amazon with it.
It's so great, that they will put Amazon into Amazon because they heard that you like to Amazon while you Amazon.
32.2 cm is only from thermal expansion. If glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt you can probably double that.
Since going from a solid to a liquid is a cooling process (80cals/gram for water), and it takes 1cal/gram to change liquid water's temperature by a degree. Doesn't this mean that the melted ice will cool the ocean down, offsetting the rise in sea level from thermal expansion?
What kind of qualifier is that? If the computing power was "almost unlimited" you could crack any password you want since it is essentially unbounded in its parallelism. They are obviously making some concrete assumption about computing resources (which the article does not specify, as far as I can tell).
They also make the assumption that you will not be the unlucky soul to have your password cracked on the first try.
Significant? $5.50 a month is hardly "significant".
Nor is the $30-and-change per year cost of gaming "significant"
Especially when you factor in that the gaming will keep you away from other hobbies that might be more expensive. Such as: RC airplanes/cars, porn, collecting items, cars, girls (plus you don't need to worry about having kids, which cost even more money!), along with many other things.
I'm sure it works on at least one smartphone out there. Just never seems to work too well on mine, and it's not a cheapo one either (Motorola Photon). You would think they would work on getting it to work well on other phones before starting to build their own phone.
There should definitely be something to tell readers if an article is an April Fool's article or if it is real. Wouldn't have to be too obvious either, and could even be something like a "spoiler" button.
Why _does_ wireless plan cost 30/month for 3Gigs of data? It's not like other competitors are rushing in to offer something better.
With US cellular I get 5GB of data, and free tethering (within that 5GB, tethering plans just add data to your max). And it's the same $30/month for the data. My only complaint is that they don't have full nation wide coverage but, you get free roaming on sprint, verizon, etc. You just need to make sure you use at least half of your total data on US cellular's network.
But you also forgot that your processor is running 10x slower. That blender render will then also take approx. 10x longer, so no you don't get a magical boost in processing power.
While nuclear power doesn't generate a lot of CO2 directly (ignoring the backup diesel generators) the mining, transport and processing of uranium does generate CO2 emissions.
Just as I'm sure the mining, transport and processing of coal generates CO2 emissions.
You realize Asus announced at CES it will soon be releasing a 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $250?
Too bad the smartphone market is collusive. Smartphones and tablets use the exact same hardware, except tablets have much bigger and more expensive screens and batteries. Yet the tablets retail for 1/3 the price of smartphones.
And your phone has cellular/3G/4G radios, which add extra hardware and lots of licensing costs.
You may have been using a 4G phone in an area without 4G coverage. I have a 4G phone in an area with 4G coverage. The difference is huge. In case anyone wants numbers, I'll run a speed test:
Speakeasy.net going from Indianapolis to the Chicago test location. Using a Droid Bionic phone through Verizon.
4G: 35Mbps down, 12Mbps up
3G: 0.48Mbps down, 0.47Mbps up
I think he might have been commenting on how there weren't any noticeable difference in real-world use for him.
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Wikipedia is extremely difficult to edit if your brain is calcified from refusing to learn anything since you finished school.
Perhaps Wikipedia isn't interested in what you have to offer then.
Then again, saving 100 ms for opening 20 pages a day for a million users means you save whole man-month each year!
I wonder how much faster the average American would have to drive to save that same amount of time.
It's going to be a great smartphone, it will be very smart, every pixel on it will be personally supervised by Bezos and you'll be able to use the smartphone for everything!
You can browse Amazon with it.
You can email to Amazon with it.
You can buy from Amazon with it.
You can sell on Amazon with it.
You can Amazon the Amazon with it.
It's so great, that they will put Amazon into Amazon because they heard that you like to Amazon while you Amazon.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Amazon....
32.2 cm is only from thermal expansion. If glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt you can probably double that.
Since going from a solid to a liquid is a cooling process (80cals/gram for water), and it takes 1cal/gram to change liquid water's temperature by a degree. Doesn't this mean that the melted ice will cool the ocean down, offsetting the rise in sea level from thermal expansion?
I guess they are trying to sell simple machines now.
What kind of qualifier is that? If the computing power was "almost unlimited" you could crack any password you want since it is essentially unbounded in its parallelism. They are obviously making some concrete assumption about computing resources (which the article does not specify, as far as I can tell).
They also make the assumption that you will not be the unlucky soul to have your password cracked on the first try.
Significant? $5.50 a month is hardly "significant".
Nor is the $30-and-change per year cost of gaming "significant"
Especially when you factor in that the gaming will keep you away from other hobbies that might be more expensive. Such as: RC airplanes/cars, porn, collecting items, cars, girls (plus you don't need to worry about having kids, which cost even more money!), along with many other things.
I'm sure it works on at least one smartphone out there. Just never seems to work too well on mine, and it's not a cheapo one either (Motorola Photon). You would think they would work on getting it to work well on other phones before starting to build their own phone.
If only he could create a website incapable of being slashdotted.
Ya... terrible title doesn't match summary or linked article. News at 11.
You wrote that at 11:43PM. Do we really have to wait till 11:00AM? I want the news NOW!!!
You must be new here. We never get the news too quickly.
But can it mine bitcoins?
I would rather they try to patch the security holes *before* we start charging people with attempted murder and murder, personally.
You can never really be certain that every security hole has been patched though, after all programming is the art of adding bugs to software.
There should definitely be something to tell readers if an article is an April Fool's article or if it is real. Wouldn't have to be too obvious either, and could even be something like a "spoiler" button.
Why _does_ wireless plan cost 30/month for 3Gigs of data? It's not like other competitors are rushing in to offer something better.
With US cellular I get 5GB of data, and free tethering (within that 5GB, tethering plans just add data to your max). And it's the same $30/month for the data. My only complaint is that they don't have full nation wide coverage but, you get free roaming on sprint, verizon, etc. You just need to make sure you use at least half of your total data on US cellular's network.
So how do I upload these video's/pictures to a computer then? USB was barely around, and only at the 1.0 spec.
But you also forgot that your processor is running 10x slower. That blender render will then also take approx. 10x longer, so no you don't get a magical boost in processing power.
so the camera can tell the difference between the color green and brown? Wow!
It's better than I can do! I'm colorblind you insensitive clod!
I thought that everyone knew to use at least 123456 as their password. After all that increases its security by an order of magnitude!
While nuclear power doesn't generate a lot of CO2 directly (ignoring the backup diesel generators) the mining, transport and processing of uranium does generate CO2 emissions.
Just as I'm sure the mining, transport and processing of coal generates CO2 emissions.
T-mobile USA? Ever heard of them?
Yes I have. But I like being able to make phone calls and send text messages with my phone, which is a difficult thing to do with T-Mobile in my area.
[...] 23kJ[...] That's less than 1/1000th of the energy released by burning 1 liter of gasoline!
And that's why cars are causing global warming! duh.
What if the person on the other end is a minor while you are an adult? Do you get charged for this as if it happened in "real life"?
You realize Asus announced at CES it will soon be releasing a 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $250?
Too bad the smartphone market is collusive. Smartphones and tablets use the exact same hardware, except tablets have much bigger and more expensive screens and batteries. Yet the tablets retail for 1/3 the price of smartphones.
And your phone has cellular/3G/4G radios, which add extra hardware and lots of licensing costs.
Cmon, considering how long it takes Congress to pass NEW laws, if we had a sunset clause like this nothing would ever get done.
And that's different from now, how?
You may have been using a 4G phone in an area without 4G coverage. I have a 4G phone in an area with 4G coverage. The difference is huge. In case anyone wants numbers, I'll run a speed test:
Speakeasy.net going from Indianapolis to the Chicago test location. Using a Droid Bionic phone through Verizon.
4G: 35Mbps down, 12Mbps up
3G: 0.48Mbps down, 0.47Mbps up
I think he might have been commenting on how there weren't any noticeable difference in real-world use for him.