Nah, it sounds like Huawei holds most of the patents on 5G infrastructure and is years ahead of everyone else getting hardware to market. So now all the US companies that make similar equipment are losing contracts to Huawei, so the government decided to help them out by raising some "security concerns".
It's the least they could do after the NSA was caught red handed systematically backdooring Cisco hardware.
This is just the UK government towing the US line, because in a few weeks it may be rather desperate for a trade deal. No harm in getting the ass-kissing started early.
Java was the most popular language for mobile apps before Android came along. Nokia's Symbian OS in particular had many Java based apps, and the industry could see where things were going: apps that run on phones, TVs and laptops, basically everywhere.
Symbian was crap though and apps were generally terrible. Android quickly took over, and how Android apps so in fact run on phones, TVs and laptops.
Oracle is arguing that they could have been a major player if Android hasn't used their API, but in reality Java failed because it and the Symbian OS and the non-touch phones it ran on were all shit.
You are describing sales tax. Corporation tax is on corporate profits, not on sales.
The obvious flaw in your argument is that you ignore where the $5 price tag for the burger comes from. The company chose $5 based on what the market will pay for its product. If the tax increases the market won't magically be willing to pay more for its product, so price rises may result in losing more from lost sales than the tax increase is worth.
Did Google's prices go up when they were forced to pay the back tax they owned in the EU? Were the EU fines they paid for anti-competitive behaviour passed on directly to their customers? Of course not, the online advertising and cloud computing markets are highly competitive and they are in both for the long term, so they aren't going to jack up costs and damage their competitiveness over a relatively modest tax rate.
Unfortunately USB phone charging and battery charging for RC are rather different problems.
With USB you have to pretend to be lots of different types of charger and implement current limiting, and the adjustments you make are not very fine gained. The actual battery charging is handled by the phone, all you can do is supply 5V at a certain max current.
Direct battery charging is actually easier in many ways, just a constant current circuit with digital adjustment and some monitoring. One of the nice things about Lipo is that it's really easy to charge, compared to say NiMH.
Also, do they use BGA for aerospace? Automotive is sticking to leaded devices for the most part, because of the problems with BGA reliability in systems that experience a lot of vibration and temperature cycling.
Do they use lead-free in aerospace applications? The lead-free requirement of RoHS rules only really applies to consumer items. Stuff like aerospace, automotive and medical are all exempt.
It's the lack of custom stuff that has held ARM back. To get really high throughput you need high end NICs and storage controllers, which in turn need proprietary drivers that need porting to ARM. It's not just a case of re-compling either, or just one or two components you can bolt on. For example even now there are not many options for ARM boards with huge numbers of PCIe lanes to feed all that stuff, but if you buy a Xeon of Threadripper/Epyc system that's standard.
They said that about submarines too. They were very dangerous, lots of crews lost. I think it was after the loss of the USS Scorpion that they decided to have aim for no more losses, and they actually managed to do it.
Also note that it's not zero accidents, just zero deaths from accidents.
It won't slam on the brakes, it will just reduce power until the car gently slows down.
A bigger danger is that GPS speed databases won't be updated. A road might be widened and the limit increased, for example. Or it might get momentarily confused by two roads that cross over each other at different elevations, as sat-navs sometimes are.
That's why for safety the driver can override the system if they need to, both by pressing the accelerator hard for a temporary override and by turning it off until next drive with a switch.
I keep some slow chargers around for overnight use, to preserve the battery.
I was thinking about an open source project to build a smart charger that linked to the phone via Bluetooth or over the USB cable. The phone would be able to control the charge rate, and an app would offer features like adjusting charging speed based on the time and only charging to 80%.
I think it was a special RF remote. In Europe petrol pumps usually won't dispense until authorized by a staff member who sits in the payment kiosk watching what is happening on CCTV. When someone pulls up to the pump they check they are not on the banned list or trying to fill up 20 jerry cans and use an RF remote to turn on the pump.
Presumably it will be like the button that disables traction control or the one that disables ABS. You can use it but if you then have an accident that would have been averted by traction control and they find out, you are going to be held liable.
Cars in Japan have had speed limiters since the 60s by a gentlemen's agreement between manufacturers. It's set fairly high (114 MPH) and performance cars often have a feature that disables it at race tracks.
Always reminds me of newspaper articles about Jews coming to the UK around 1905. They were described as vermin, spreading disease and savagery. Lock up your women folk kind of thing. And that was just the mainstream media.
The problem with the popular platform argument is the platform is only popular because it takes steps to keep that kind of shit off most people's feeds. If they did nothing to keep the site bearable for the majority of users who don't want spam and KKK posts it wouldn't be popular any more.
Then you would demand that the site everyone moved to in order to get away from that shit also be made a common carrier and get flooded with it too. Repeat ad infinitum.
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That's what I said. Huawei are years ahead, US companies don't have their 5G infrastructure hardware out yet.
There are some European players but they are not all that competitive with what Huawei is offering right now.
Nah, it sounds like Huawei holds most of the patents on 5G infrastructure and is years ahead of everyone else getting hardware to market. So now all the US companies that make similar equipment are losing contracts to Huawei, so the government decided to help them out by raising some "security concerns".
It's the least they could do after the NSA was caught red handed systematically backdooring Cisco hardware.
They already modified the little Mercedes emblem so that it doesn't stick up for safety reasons.
Hopefully this will be a very long, messy, and expensive legal battle for both companies.
But then the lawyers win, and as terrible as Oracle and Google may be nothing justifies the lawyers winning.
This is just the UK government towing the US line, because in a few weeks it may be rather desperate for a trade deal. No harm in getting the ass-kissing started early.
Java was the most popular language for mobile apps before Android came along. Nokia's Symbian OS in particular had many Java based apps, and the industry could see where things were going: apps that run on phones, TVs and laptops, basically everywhere.
Symbian was crap though and apps were generally terrible. Android quickly took over, and how Android apps so in fact run on phones, TVs and laptops.
Oracle is arguing that they could have been a major player if Android hasn't used their API, but in reality Java failed because it and the Symbian OS and the non-touch phones it ran on were all shit.
You are describing sales tax. Corporation tax is on corporate profits, not on sales.
The obvious flaw in your argument is that you ignore where the $5 price tag for the burger comes from. The company chose $5 based on what the market will pay for its product. If the tax increases the market won't magically be willing to pay more for its product, so price rises may result in losing more from lost sales than the tax increase is worth.
Did Google's prices go up when they were forced to pay the back tax they owned in the EU? Were the EU fines they paid for anti-competitive behaviour passed on directly to their customers? Of course not, the online advertising and cloud computing markets are highly competitive and they are in both for the long term, so they aren't going to jack up costs and damage their competitiveness over a relatively modest tax rate.
Unfortunately USB phone charging and battery charging for RC are rather different problems.
With USB you have to pretend to be lots of different types of charger and implement current limiting, and the adjustments you make are not very fine gained. The actual battery charging is handled by the phone, all you can do is supply 5V at a certain max current.
Direct battery charging is actually easier in many ways, just a constant current circuit with digital adjustment and some monitoring. One of the nice things about Lipo is that it's really easy to charge, compared to say NiMH.
Also, do they use BGA for aerospace? Automotive is sticking to leaded devices for the most part, because of the problems with BGA reliability in systems that experience a lot of vibration and temperature cycling.
Do they use lead-free in aerospace applications? The lead-free requirement of RoHS rules only really applies to consumer items. Stuff like aerospace, automotive and medical are all exempt.
I hear the Russians make good planes.
Since when do you need a dev machine with the same architecture as the server? I write ARM code all day on an x86 laptop.
The solution is obviously .NET Core. Then the CPU architecture doesn't matter. Only half kidding.
It's the lack of custom stuff that has held ARM back. To get really high throughput you need high end NICs and storage controllers, which in turn need proprietary drivers that need porting to ARM. It's not just a case of re-compling either, or just one or two components you can bolt on. For example even now there are not many options for ARM boards with huge numbers of PCIe lanes to feed all that stuff, but if you buy a Xeon of Threadripper/Epyc system that's standard.
In Europe you can pre-authorize your credit card for, say, up to 100 Euro of fuel and then fill up, after which you are billed for the exact amount.
But these guys got around that by setting the price of fuel to 0.01 Euro/litre instead of the usual ~1.40 Euro/litre.
They said that about submarines too. They were very dangerous, lots of crews lost. I think it was after the loss of the USS Scorpion that they decided to have aim for no more losses, and they actually managed to do it.
Also note that it's not zero accidents, just zero deaths from accidents.
It won't slam on the brakes, it will just reduce power until the car gently slows down.
A bigger danger is that GPS speed databases won't be updated. A road might be widened and the limit increased, for example. Or it might get momentarily confused by two roads that cross over each other at different elevations, as sat-navs sometimes are.
That's why for safety the driver can override the system if they need to, both by pressing the accelerator hard for a temporary override and by turning it off until next drive with a switch.
Yeah, but for phones, i.e. USB power output... Actually something like link but open source would be nice too.
Well there isn't a supply bottleneck, so it would be demand.
Deploying solar PV in Arizona helps bring the cost of the tech down so that it is affordable in Rajasthan..
I keep some slow chargers around for overnight use, to preserve the battery.
I was thinking about an open source project to build a smart charger that linked to the phone via Bluetooth or over the USB cable. The phone would be able to control the charge rate, and an app would offer features like adjusting charging speed based on the time and only charging to 80%.
I think it was a special RF remote. In Europe petrol pumps usually won't dispense until authorized by a staff member who sits in the payment kiosk watching what is happening on CCTV. When someone pulls up to the pump they check they are not on the banned list or trying to fill up 20 jerry cans and use an RF remote to turn on the pump.
Most people don't even realize it's happening.
Presumably it will be like the button that disables traction control or the one that disables ABS. You can use it but if you then have an accident that would have been averted by traction control and they find out, you are going to be held liable.
Cars in Japan have had speed limiters since the 60s by a gentlemen's agreement between manufacturers. It's set fairly high (114 MPH) and performance cars often have a feature that disables it at race tracks.
3. If you press down hard on the accelerator it overrides the speed limiter temporarily.
Always reminds me of newspaper articles about Jews coming to the UK around 1905. They were described as vermin, spreading disease and savagery. Lock up your women folk kind of thing. And that was just the mainstream media.
The problem with the popular platform argument is the platform is only popular because it takes steps to keep that kind of shit off most people's feeds. If they did nothing to keep the site bearable for the majority of users who don't want spam and KKK posts it wouldn't be popular any more.
Then you would demand that the site everyone moved to in order to get away from that shit also be made a common carrier and get flooded with it too. Repeat ad infinitum.