It's easy enough to explain the whining: the vast majority is from people who never owned a iPhone but want to dump on it to feel better about their choice of phone architecture. Much like "bendgate" which died out once people started doing tests of other phones and discovered that the iPhone was far from the weakest, this too will die out in short order as people either discover that plugging in their existing earphones to the adapter, move to dedicated USB DACs or tryout BT earphones and decide that they are more than good enough and much less hassle.
Who, beyond conspiracy nuts cares what "another reading of things" is?
The question is whether we should use the new ability we have with CRISPR to engineer a gene drive that would inexpensively eliminate Aedes aegypti from the Americas thus eliminating the main vector for a number of diseases.
Would you care to elaborate how the creation of a self propagating gene drive is "justifying expensive interventions"? A gene drive is by definition self propagating in the targeted population from a modest initial introduction and CRISPR has brought such techniques down to the point where massive labs are no longer needed. Was eliminating smallpox from the wild another such "expensive intervention"? Is not the elimination of a number of diseases that proportionately affects the poor socially beneficial?
We do understand as the cited articles explained in detail. Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas (where the Gene drive under discussion is envisioned). The Gene drive is species specific and will only eliminate that specific species (which isn't an important prey species even in it's original range). Nobody is saying "Lets eliminate ALL mosquitos", just the pathogen spreading Aedes aegypti.
The Gene drive under discussion is Aedes aegypti specific, Aedes aegypti isn't the only mosquito species present even in it's home range and due to it's habit of laying eggs in tiny pools of water is never an important prey species. What basis do you have for saying that the elimination of a specific pathogen spreading species in the Americas where it is an invasive species is a problem?
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas. It's elimination from the Americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to mosquito predators than Aedes aegypti.
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas and doesn't lays it's eggs in water that typically hosts dragonfly larvae. It's elimination from the americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to dragonflies than Aedes aegypti.
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas and doesn't lays it's eggs in water that typically hosts dragonfly larvae. It's elimination from the americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to dragonflies than Aedes aegypti.
Intel didn't lay off thousands and reaffect the rest of the teams working on atom to continue selling cut priced processors. The era of cheap x86 compatible processors appears to be over which sounds the death knell for cheap Microsoft surfaces.
Does that even exist? Even vendors such as Motorola & Samsung have promised support and then abandoned it for some phones and the less said about HTC & others like Huawei the better.
Easy enough to compare the prices between Atom and Pentium and reread the quote on rededicating what they didn't lay off to "generate higher returns" though. If you want to wait for the programmed discontinuation of low priced Atoms before understanding, be my guest.
Ah so that's what Intel means when it says that it is literally decimating their workforce and reassigning everyone that used to work on Atom elsewhere. Thanks for explaining because without your explanations one would understand that Intel has decided to cut it's loss makers and reinforce their higher margin products while continuing just enough future products to avoid lawsuits from partners that were being abandoned. Without your inside knowledge that Intel plans ahead for more than 4 years, one would wrongly come to the conclusion from reading how many Intel clients and partners were wrongfooted by the shuttering of Atom and the layoffs that this hadn't been planned for years and years ago. I now await with bated breath the tidal wave of low priced Atom based products that will now push ARM from the dominance in tablets and smartphones that they now enjoy.
Nobody cares whether the Atom architecture is used in forthcoming processors or what they are called. The big change is that the Atom priced processors are going away and that Intel has laid off and/or reassigned everyone in Atom to higher priced processor teams so they aren't coming back. Microsoft will not be able to claim that Surface isn't all that much more expensive than ARM tablets when changing the processor to a goldmont or a bay trail or a cherry trail or a fairy trail doubles the price.
Intel laying off 11% of their personnel and "rededicating the resources affected to Atom to products that can advance the firm's strategy and generate higher returns" is a bit more than a mere rebranding.
It Slices! It Dices! It was claimed by Microsoft to be the be the do all, be everything device for everyone! It's a Tablet but with the smart keyboard(TM) it's a laptop as well!
I called it a tablet because that's the way Microsoft called it. As for Win8, I wouldn't use it either.
Then refer what you use as a surface pro as they are not interchangeable. So sorry for you that Intel recognized that the Surface would never well sell enough to make money.
The Millions you cite are the multi-year lifetime sales. Surface never sold well compared to other tablets which is why Intel pulled the plug on Atom so the end is in sight for Surface.
Some people (like you) bought into the Microsoft's pitch on needing x86 compatibility and the Win8 interface in a tablet. Most didn't and in a year or so Surface will be history, laptops and other tablets will continue to be sold.
Latest Atom processor == last Atom atom processor as Intel discontinued further development of the Atom line due to insufficient sales.
I never saw the point in Surface as I found the Win8 interface unwieldy (and _unwelcome_ on my laptop), x86 compatibility unneeded in a tablet and the whole package expensive compared to tablets that did what I needed them to do (& not what Microsoft thought I should be doing with them).
You cannot be bothered to research Gawker yet you can take the time to dance around why you will not recant using them as a source? Time/effort cannot be the reason why, which means you're lying again.
There is only one issue here: Why are you still refusing to back away from Gawker as a reliable source. One does not cite Gawker, the KKK manifesto or Mein Kampf (the "my struggle" you were too dumb to understand earlier) innocently. Your if-then is irrelevant with such a source.
Clearly, Gawker isn't Mein Kampf but as even a trivial amount of research would show, it isn't a reputable source either. So why are you incapable of acknowledging it?
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It's easy enough to explain the whining: the vast majority is from people who never owned a iPhone but want to dump on it to feel better about their choice of phone architecture. Much like "bendgate" which died out once people started doing tests of other phones and discovered that the iPhone was far from the weakest, this too will die out in short order as people either discover that plugging in their existing earphones to the adapter, move to dedicated USB DACs or tryout BT earphones and decide that they are more than good enough and much less hassle.
Who, beyond conspiracy nuts cares what "another reading of things" is?
The question is whether we should use the new ability we have with CRISPR to engineer a gene drive that would inexpensively eliminate Aedes aegypti from the Americas thus eliminating the main vector for a number of diseases.
Would you care to elaborate how the creation of a self propagating gene drive is "justifying expensive interventions"? A gene drive is by definition self propagating in the targeted population from a modest initial introduction and CRISPR has brought such techniques down to the point where massive labs are no longer needed. Was eliminating smallpox from the wild another such "expensive intervention"? Is not the elimination of a number of diseases that proportionately affects the poor socially beneficial?
We do understand as the cited articles explained in detail. Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas (where the Gene drive under discussion is envisioned). The Gene drive is species specific and will only eliminate that specific species (which isn't an important prey species even in it's original range). Nobody is saying "Lets eliminate ALL mosquitos", just the pathogen spreading Aedes aegypti.
The Gene drive under discussion is Aedes aegypti specific, Aedes aegypti isn't the only mosquito species present even in it's home range and due to it's habit of laying eggs in tiny pools of water is never an important prey species. What basis do you have for saying that the elimination of a specific pathogen spreading species in the Americas where it is an invasive species is a problem?
So, you didn't read the cited articles...
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas. It's elimination from the Americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to mosquito predators than Aedes aegypti.
Yes they have. Read the cited articles.
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas and doesn't lays it's eggs in water that typically hosts dragonfly larvae. It's elimination from the americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to dragonflies than Aedes aegypti.
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in the Americas and doesn't lays it's eggs in water that typically hosts dragonfly larvae. It's elimination from the americas poses no threat here. Even in it's native range there are other, non pathogen spreading species that are more important to dragonflies than Aedes aegypti.
Intel didn't lay off thousands and reaffect the rest of the teams working on atom to continue selling cut priced processors. The era of cheap x86 compatible processors appears to be over which sounds the death knell for cheap Microsoft surfaces.
And no bmws are powered by ford motors but that doesn't have anything to do with what we were talking about which was atom powered surfaces either.
Does that even exist? Even vendors such as Motorola & Samsung have promised support and then abandoned it for some phones and the less said about HTC & others like Huawei the better.
Easy enough to compare the prices between Atom and Pentium and reread the quote on rededicating what they didn't lay off to "generate higher returns" though. If you want to wait for the programmed discontinuation of low priced Atoms before understanding, be my guest.
Yup that growth certainly explains why Intel decided to close shop on Atom. All that growth, ayup...
Yeah and I heard that they were removing THE INTERNAL FLOPPY TOO! OMG!!!
Yeah! Just like removing the physical keys doomed the iPhone because we all know that Blackberry proved looong ago that physical keys are better!
Not at all, I do appreciate that Surface is what some people want. It's just not what most people want or need and it's merits were clearly oversold.
Ah so that's what Intel means when it says that it is literally decimating their workforce and reassigning everyone that used to work on Atom elsewhere. Thanks for explaining because without your explanations one would understand that Intel has decided to cut it's loss makers and reinforce their higher margin products while continuing just enough future products to avoid lawsuits from partners that were being abandoned. Without your inside knowledge that Intel plans ahead for more than 4 years, one would wrongly come to the conclusion from reading how many Intel clients and partners were wrongfooted by the shuttering of Atom and the layoffs that this hadn't been planned for years and years ago. I now await with bated breath the tidal wave of low priced Atom based products that will now push ARM from the dominance in tablets and smartphones that they now enjoy.
*rollseyes* indeed...
Nobody cares whether the Atom architecture is used in forthcoming processors or what they are called. The big change is that the Atom priced processors are going away and that Intel has laid off and/or reassigned everyone in Atom to higher priced processor teams so they aren't coming back. Microsoft will not be able to claim that Surface isn't all that much more expensive than ARM tablets when changing the processor to a goldmont or a bay trail or a cherry trail or a fairy trail doubles the price.
Intel laying off 11% of their personnel and "rededicating the resources affected to Atom to products that can advance the firm's strategy and generate higher returns" is a bit more than a mere rebranding.
It Slices! It Dices! It was claimed by Microsoft to be the be the do all, be everything device for everyone! It's a Tablet but with the smart keyboard(TM) it's a laptop as well!
I called it a tablet because that's the way Microsoft called it. As for Win8, I wouldn't use it either.
Then refer what you use as a surface pro as they are not interchangeable. So sorry for you that Intel recognized that the Surface would never well sell enough to make money.
Says the Putinbot... Go back to school, your english needs more work.
Everybody? No.
Highly visible individuals that are wanted by foreign governments (like Fethullah Gülen). Yes.
If Snowden is breaking Russian laws the US embassy is going to bring it up publicly so Snowden will not be able to pretend to do so invisibly.
The Millions you cite are the multi-year lifetime sales. Surface never sold well compared to other tablets which is why Intel pulled the plug on Atom so the end is in sight for Surface.
Some people (like you) bought into the Microsoft's pitch on needing x86 compatibility and the Win8 interface in a tablet. Most didn't and in a year or so Surface will be history, laptops and other tablets will continue to be sold.
Latest Atom processor == last Atom atom processor as Intel discontinued further development of the Atom line due to insufficient sales.
I never saw the point in Surface as I found the Win8 interface unwieldy (and _unwelcome_ on my laptop), x86 compatibility unneeded in a tablet and the whole package expensive compared to tablets that did what I needed them to do (& not what Microsoft thought I should be doing with them).
You cannot be bothered to research Gawker yet you can take the time to dance around why you will not recant using them as a source? Time/effort cannot be the reason why, which means you're lying again.
There is only one issue here: Why are you still refusing to back away from Gawker as a reliable source. One does not cite Gawker, the KKK manifesto or Mein Kampf (the "my struggle" you were too dumb to understand earlier) innocently. Your if-then is irrelevant with such a source.
Clearly, Gawker isn't Mein Kampf but as even a trivial amount of research would show, it isn't a reputable source either. So why are you incapable of acknowledging it?