The $800 smartphone is going the way of the $3000 laptop. Further growth will be in numbers, not in total market dollars, at least in hardware. Software and online services will continue growing exponentially for the foreseeable future. Apple has a serious problem on its hands, or at least, the windfall profits of the last decade will drift away into ancient history. Apple's best bet is to jack up online service prices for its slowly declining fan base, much the way Microsoft keeps tightening the screws on its hapless OEMs and gullible users. But that doesn't last forever, and just how comfortable will you be trusting Apple or Microsoft to keep your private data secure and private? The big growth will be in non-aligned providers who have not yet given reason to doubt their trustworthiness. For the two most recent holders of most the bloated corporate monster title, the party is winding down, the guests are heading for the door. It's kind of hard to shed a tear, given the decades of bad acting and cynical, borderline illegal profiteering.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. If you thought Google was your friend or sends you free videos to make you happy, or isn't evil, you have another think coming. It's going to get worse from here, much worse. Get used to it: you are Google's money pump, nothing more. The first one is always free.
Apple needs to become a church. Apple's biggest asset is its believers, and what else do you need? Nothing rakes in the gold like religion, it's the best business ever.
Released by popular demand for all citizens to test on themselves, ten years down the road we learn that the principal side effect is to eat away your brain and turn you into a zombie. The streets are infested with millions of zombies. You are the only survivor in your neighbourhood because with your home in foreclosure you could not afford the pills. Grab your gun and run.
4Q 2014 sales figures pegged Apple's smartphone profit at $18.8 billion, while iPhone sales were 74.5 million. $18.8b / 74.5m = a staggering $252 profit per phone. For anyone who denies an Apple tax exists, there it is right there.
You are right, Apple imposes a tax on gullibility.
And skates, not sharks. And "are related to" not "evolved from". I understand why a rag like mirror hacked up that headline, but why did a Slashdot editor uncritically promulgate that journalistic slime? The research is fascinating enough without the outright lies.
"evolved from SHARK fins" is a journalistic invention from mirror.co and is not the fault of the cited article, which says "evolved from the transformation of gill arches in early fish", clearly including common ancestors. It is perfectly plausible that the same gene may have descended in recognizable form down these not very widely separated branches of the evolutionary tree, that is certainly true of many other genes. What other means do we have to learn something about genes of the vanished common parent, other than studying the similarities and differences of current expression and function of recognizable descendents in dissimilar species?
Anyway, the research is about gills, not fins, so that is another journalistic crime from mirror.co. It would have been more honest to run a headline along the lines that shark gills and human hands are essentially the same, but then would anybody read it?
Because art is all about the artist attempting to elicit an emotional response from the person experiencing their work, and since no so-called 'AI' has actual emotions, it can't understand art, and therefore can't 'create' art.
Even if I accept your narrow definition of art as "elicits and emotional response", I can't accept your non sequitur: having emotions is not a precondition for eliciting an emotional response. Just consider a flat tire to know that.
...felt like a throwback to the days when people actually built "sites" with Flash...
It's not nearly as bad as that.
* browser navigation keys work (doesn't get stuck in a separate mode)
* Text can be selected and copied
* No proprietary player brimming with exploits
Agree, it doesn't cater to the ADHD set - you actually have to play the video, or at least skip through to the end like I did - to test your art connoisseur quotient, or scope the tech out for counterfeiting potential, or whatever your immediate goal is. You have to admit, it's a slick html5 demo, and not without taste.
It also breaks the internet in various ways just like flash, for example, no deep links, you can only bookmark the top level site. The only way in is through the art show. I sure don't want the internet to end up like that, a video internet just isn't for me. But for announcing an art research project? OK, fine. At least it's not flash.
Why on earth would you need a 600 horsepower engine to charge a battery? The electric portion is a cheap way to boost the HP to over 800 without designing a new engine.
No. A car that costs the better part of a million dollars can have any engine it wants. The car has electric motors because they have a better power/weight ratio than gas engines, an advantage maximized by a relatively small battery. It has just enough electrics to take the top spot in the 0-60 list and the rest is gas for the energy density. Each time battery energy density goes up, the electric/gas ratio will go up until the gas motor disappears completely, with a huge weight saving in motor, transmission and support systems.
Until they can make a 1000+ HP electric motor that still has range, ICE engines will still be faster.
Electric horsepower isn't the issue, the P90D already comes in a 762 HP. Range is the issue, which is the only reason the Porsche 918 is not all-electric. A secondary issue is cost: huge engineering resources beyond the power plant are required to create a street legal production car that is stable at nearly 300 MPH. I do not doubt that Tesla will go after the top speed record eventually, after all Musk also makes rockets, don't you know? But 0-60 matters a lot more in the real market, and so does price. The P90D costs ten times less than the Veyron and six times less than the 918. That's an awful lot of fast for the buck.
"The point is, the fastest production cars are now electric."
Uh, no. With a top speed of only 218 mph the Porsche 918 it doesn't even make the top ten fastest production cars.
Actually, the 918's gas motor provides 75% of the power, however the point still stands: everything fast from now on will have an electric motor in it. As batteries improve, hybrids will rapidly be displaced by full electrics. The next iteration of the 918 will no doubt have bigger electrics and smaller internal combustion, saving weight.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a cheap and (probably) good Linux machine.
Oh and that the touchpad does not suck.
All touchpads without separate click buttons suck, it's only a question of degree.
It's about where the PC market is going
The $800 smartphone is going the way of the $3000 laptop. Further growth will be in numbers, not in total market dollars, at least in hardware. Software and online services will continue growing exponentially for the foreseeable future. Apple has a serious problem on its hands, or at least, the windfall profits of the last decade will drift away into ancient history. Apple's best bet is to jack up online service prices for its slowly declining fan base, much the way Microsoft keeps tightening the screws on its hapless OEMs and gullible users. But that doesn't last forever, and just how comfortable will you be trusting Apple or Microsoft to keep your private data secure and private? The big growth will be in non-aligned providers who have not yet given reason to doubt their trustworthiness. For the two most recent holders of most the bloated corporate monster title, the party is winding down, the guests are heading for the door. It's kind of hard to shed a tear, given the decades of bad acting and cynical, borderline illegal profiteering.
Why is it such big news that Apple's sales have leveled off.
Not levelled off. Dropped. Like the proverbial rock.
Apple down, Android up.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. If you thought Google was your friend or sends you free videos to make you happy, or isn't evil, you have another think coming. It's going to get worse from here, much worse. Get used to it: you are Google's money pump, nothing more. The first one is always free.
Apple needs to become a church. Apple's biggest asset is its believers, and what else do you need? Nothing rakes in the gold like religion, it's the best business ever.
They need to do better than Twilight and Hunger, both embarrassingly derivative, repetitious, shallowly acted and content-free.
Released by popular demand for all citizens to test on themselves, ten years down the road we learn that the principal side effect is to eat away your brain and turn you into a zombie. The streets are infested with millions of zombies. You are the only survivor in your neighbourhood because with your home in foreclosure you could not afford the pills. Grab your gun and run.
4Q 2014 sales figures pegged Apple's smartphone profit at $18.8 billion, while iPhone sales were 74.5 million. $18.8b / 74.5m = a staggering $252 profit per phone. For anyone who denies an Apple tax exists, there it is right there.
You are right, Apple imposes a tax on gullibility.
This *IS* science.
He's forming a hypothesis based on observed evidence.
An unfalsifiable hypothesis that does not explain anything and has no predictive power. Crackpot.
His wikipedia page notes a lot of areas he worked in without mentioning any accomplishments, apart from joining committees.
Would it be too much for a volkswagen?
...MS's bullshit set the internet back by 5 fucking years...
Also, ASP set the internet back by 6 years, Silverlight by 2 years, Flash by 7 years and PHP by 8 years. In total, the internet is now -2 years old.
No study has ever produced strong evidence that second-hand smoke carries health effects; all which have suggested such have been refuted.
According to you. However, Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke; The International Agency for Research on Cancer (an agency of the World Health Organization) has classified second-hand smoke as a known carcinogen and many other credible references. Blowing out your ass.
And skates, not sharks. And "are related to" not "evolved from". I understand why a rag like mirror hacked up that headline, but why did a Slashdot editor uncritically promulgate that journalistic slime? The research is fascinating enough without the outright lies.
"evolved from SHARK fins" is a journalistic invention from mirror.co and is not the fault of the cited article, which says "evolved from the transformation of gill arches in early fish", clearly including common ancestors. It is perfectly plausible that the same gene may have descended in recognizable form down these not very widely separated branches of the evolutionary tree, that is certainly true of many other genes. What other means do we have to learn something about genes of the vanished common parent, other than studying the similarities and differences of current expression and function of recognizable descendents in dissimilar species?
Anyway, the research is about gills, not fins, so that is another journalistic crime from mirror.co. It would have been more honest to run a headline along the lines that shark gills and human hands are essentially the same, but then would anybody read it?
Good luck managing to type complex equations as fast as you can write them.
That's why your phone has a camera.
He is using the word "literally", not as the opposite of "figurative", but as an intensifier.
True, it fits in perfectly with this generally dumbed down and content free puff piece.
Batteries are not even remotely capable enough for aviation applications...
The skies are already full of battery powered drones, so that claim is wildly wrong. Perhaps you meant to say "for many aviation applications".
Nuclear has an amazing energy density, with a very small environmental footprint in terms of land and resources.
How are you going to build a rector light enough to put in an airplane? Consider coming back down to earth.
Because art is all about the artist attempting to elicit an emotional response from the person experiencing their work, and since no so-called 'AI' has actual emotions, it can't understand art, and therefore can't 'create' art.
Even if I accept your narrow definition of art as "elicits and emotional response", I can't accept your non sequitur: having emotions is not a precondition for eliciting an emotional response. Just consider a flat tire to know that.
...felt like a throwback to the days when people actually built "sites" with Flash...
It's not nearly as bad as that.
* browser navigation keys work (doesn't get stuck in a separate mode)
* Text can be selected and copied
* No proprietary player brimming with exploits
Agree, it doesn't cater to the ADHD set - you actually have to play the video, or at least skip through to the end like I did - to test your art connoisseur quotient, or scope the tech out for counterfeiting potential, or whatever your immediate goal is. You have to admit, it's a slick html5 demo, and not without taste.
It also breaks the internet in various ways just like flash, for example, no deep links, you can only bookmark the top level site. The only way in is through the art show. I sure don't want the internet to end up like that, a video internet just isn't for me. But for announcing an art research project? OK, fine. At least it's not flash.
Why on earth would you need a 600 horsepower engine to charge a battery? The electric portion is a cheap way to boost the HP to over 800 without designing a new engine.
No. A car that costs the better part of a million dollars can have any engine it wants. The car has electric motors because they have a better power/weight ratio than gas engines, an advantage maximized by a relatively small battery. It has just enough electrics to take the top spot in the 0-60 list and the rest is gas for the energy density. Each time battery energy density goes up, the electric/gas ratio will go up until the gas motor disappears completely, with a huge weight saving in motor, transmission and support systems.
Until they can make a 1000+ HP electric motor that still has range, ICE engines will still be faster.
Electric horsepower isn't the issue, the P90D already comes in a 762 HP. Range is the issue, which is the only reason the Porsche 918 is not all-electric. A secondary issue is cost: huge engineering resources beyond the power plant are required to create a street legal production car that is stable at nearly 300 MPH. I do not doubt that Tesla will go after the top speed record eventually, after all Musk also makes rockets, don't you know? But 0-60 matters a lot more in the real market, and so does price. The P90D costs ten times less than the Veyron and six times less than the 918. That's an awful lot of fast for the buck.
"The point is, the fastest production cars are now electric."
Uh, no. With a top speed of only 218 mph the Porsche 918 it doesn't even make the top ten fastest production cars.
Fastest production cars by acceleration. Porsche 918 is number one. Top two are hybrids. Number four is the all-electric Model S.
By the way, this Datsun 1200 does 0-60 in 1.8 seconds. Gas engines are well on their way to the museum.
Jail time for dumbass hackers. Good sport. Let the entertainment begin.
Actually, the 918's gas motor provides 75% of the power, however the point still stands: everything fast from now on will have an electric motor in it. As batteries improve, hybrids will rapidly be displaced by full electrics. The next iteration of the 918 will no doubt have bigger electrics and smaller internal combustion, saving weight.