It's not necessarily *Android* specific. On the GPS in particular, the iPhone 3G's GPS drained the battery quite fast, so fast that when using a map *with the phone plugged into the car charger* the iPhone 3G with GPS turned on would actually use more power than the charger could provide, and run the battery down in under 4 hours. The iPhone 4's GPS on the other hand uses very little power (and is a much better GPS too, the comparison is like night and day). It used about 1% of the battery on an hour long bike ride (in this instance, the screen was off, but I was impressed on how much better it was on power consumption compared to the old 3G).
It's a law that's impractical. It's OK for green card holders, since the green card (which I don't think is actually green any more) is a credit card sized plastic card.
However, for H1-B holders, the H1-B papers are about half a ream of A4. Unless you want to always be carrying a briefcase, it's impractical. Carrying your passport all the time is not desirable also because the passport generally won't last long if it's kept in your pockets all the time. Never mind you can't really go to the beach with it.
Yes, but the source audio should not be compressed. Trying to get rid of the compression when you're not listening in your car is like trying to unscramble an egg: it's impractical. However, adding compression when you're in your car is dead easy, just press the Loudness button.
Well, no, human powered gliders are already practical and you can use a bog standard Schempp-Hirth Discus. They do it quite a lot off one ridge in England, basically a bunch of people with a bungee rope sling the glider off the edge of the ridge, and the glider pilot then uses the lift to stay aloft like any other launch method.
For powered fixed wing there has also been the Gossamer Albatross which crossed the English channel.
This on the other hand takes quite a feat of engineering to make something light enough AND stable enough AND strong enough AND distribute the power to the rotors. It's not about being a practical design, it's about meeting quite a tricky engineering challenge.
Full scale helicopters also take massive advantage of ground effect - many helicopters struggle to hover out of ground effect at gross weight. Watch any light piston helicopter take off, and you'll see it lifts into a ground effect hover, then flies in ground effect until it's in translational lift and then some before actually climbing out.
I love Spanish, but I wouldn't pick it as the lingua franca of the world - there's no neuter gender. I think any language without a proper neuter gender which works in a logical manner is just not the right language for a "world language". German noun genderrules also IMHO disqualifies German as a world language.
I go to Spain often enough. When I'm not staying with friends, I find that pretty much every cheap hotel has free WiFi of reasonable quality, so at most I have to wait till I get to the hotel to upload stuff.
However, in Spain you can get pretty cheap pay as you go 3G internet/phone service, which I use to avoid all roaming charges on my phone. The random Phone House I went into in Madrid even had a convenient tool to turn a regular SIM into a micro SIM for the iphone/ipad, and the cheap payg sim I bought can be used with tethering too, so if I have another device like a laptop and there's no wifi, well I can provide my own.
Cooking dinner generally isn't a big user of power compared to the normal running of the house.
The heat is actually the solution to the laundry problem: put the laundry on a clothes line outside. You then don't need to spend any money drying clothes. (I don't even own a dryer, I don't live somewhere hot either).
That's not entirely true. A lot of it is what opportunity you started with. Let's do a thought experiment: had Bill Gates been born in grinding poverty in a favela in Rio de Janiero, instead of born already a millionaire in the United States, would he still be now a multibillionaire? Probably not, he'd probably be still in that favela.
Now given two people of equal background where one ends up a deadbeat and the other a billionaire, you can say that - but there is a huge variance of opportunity that people are born in. Merely being born in the west is hitting the lottery in terms of opportunity. 80% of the world's population lose that particular one.
It's not just the instruction decoder, but branch prediction and pipelining. The x86 ISA makes all of these things much more complex. Also the low number of registers means that x86 isn't terribly efficient with cache either.
The instruction decoder in x86 is the size of an entire ARM execution core.
Considering ARM outships all other architectures put together very handily, yes it's obvious: CISC lost badly. (ARM's original expansion is Acorn Risc Machine).
But firstly: the right tool for the right job. x86 isn't going to go away in the forseeable future, but on the other hand, neither is ARM. What makes ARM more efficient - especially in embedded devices - is the part of an x86 processor that just figures out the length of the next instruction is the size of an entire ARM execution core. The other thing with ARM is the licencing model. You can buy the ARM IP and put it in any custom chip you want, you can't do that with anything Intel makes, you can only build what Intel wants to make. And thirdly, just as x86 has huge inertia in the desktop/server market due to binary compatibility and being well known and understood by the manufacturers, the same thing holds true for ARM in embedded.
Of course someone from Intel sees "no future for ARM", but the reality is likely to be different. ARM is likely to continue to outsell all other architectures put together for the forseeable future because of the embedded and handheld market where it already has a stronghold.
This is primarily an OSS site, not a Microsoft site. If you want articles on problem solving in an MS environment, Slashdot is not for you. I suggest you start a site called Cee Colon Backslash Dot for Microsoft stuff.
Please, get started on the US border security thing. What problems did you have?
I recently went to visit friends in Houston, and it took all of 10 minutes to go through US immigration. The immigration officer was polite, friendly and made me feel welcome.
But the Chinese Halstatt does not have this quality that is special, the "hundreds of years old" bit, so nothing is actually lost from Halstatt in Austria, because the new one doesn't have the one actual thing that makes the old one special, its oldness.
500M years isn't going to be good for us either. Long before the sun begins to turn into a red giant, the increase in solar output will have made life as we know it impossible on Earth (certainly less than 1bn years)
To all the posters chuntering on about "what a waste of money" etc. to something that is actually inspiring and gets people interested in engineering and aerospace, consider this.
Let's invent a new unit of currency: the Iraq War Dollar. One Iraq War Dollar = the cost of the Iraq war, or $800 billion which is the Department of Defense's estimate of the direct costs.
Cost of the entire Apollo program: 16 Iraq War cents (in 2012 dollars) Estimated cost of research needed to get to the first working fusion power plant: 10 Iraq War cents Current cost estimate for Mars rover Curiosity: 1/3rd of an Iraq War cent Entire NASA budget for 2012: Just over 2 Iraq War cents Cost of the ISS for its entire lifetime: 19 Iraq War cents
Five huge engineering projects, that inspire people and push technology and hardly kill anyone - and we're not even up to half of one measly Iraq War Dollar.
On the other hand, my last computer monitor (a big 21 inch Trinitron) lasted 12+ years before it started going bad - I suspect it was bad capacitors (it had all the hallmarks), I didn't repair it because I wanted to upgrade to a higher resolution 16:9 LCD. (I don't know exactly how old it was, I bought it second hand about 11 years ago). I didn't have to do anything to that monitor the whole time I had it, it just kept going.
My Trinitron TV in my living room I bought new in 1993 and it's still working fine. It did get repaired once.
My grandfather's job was repairing TVs, and we usually got a free TV from him (an old rental set). It was always fairly old, but he repaired it and it worked. As a kid during the 80s, I had my home computer plugged into a valve based TV. Even the analogue stage was valves, it took about 30 seconds or so before you got sound, and another 30 seconds or so before the picture began to appear after turning the TV on.
We had one set that had both tubes and a couple of integrated circuits in it. I think we got rid of our last valve (tube) TV in the early 1990s when it finally expired for good.
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It's not necessarily *Android* specific. On the GPS in particular, the iPhone 3G's GPS drained the battery quite fast, so fast that when using a map *with the phone plugged into the car charger* the iPhone 3G with GPS turned on would actually use more power than the charger could provide, and run the battery down in under 4 hours. The iPhone 4's GPS on the other hand uses very little power (and is a much better GPS too, the comparison is like night and day). It used about 1% of the battery on an hour long bike ride (in this instance, the screen was off, but I was impressed on how much better it was on power consumption compared to the old 3G).
It's much safer if you're Indian or Russian to sneak into the US by:
1. Travel to Canada
2. Walk south
There isn't even a fence on most of the .us - .ca border. Not to mention lack of murderous narcotraficantes.
It's a law that's impractical. It's OK for green card holders, since the green card (which I don't think is actually green any more) is a credit card sized plastic card.
However, for H1-B holders, the H1-B papers are about half a ream of A4. Unless you want to always be carrying a briefcase, it's impractical. Carrying your passport all the time is not desirable also because the passport generally won't last long if it's kept in your pockets all the time. Never mind you can't really go to the beach with it.
British citizen. No such thing as British subject any more.
Yes, but the source audio should not be compressed. Trying to get rid of the compression when you're not listening in your car is like trying to unscramble an egg: it's impractical. However, adding compression when you're in your car is dead easy, just press the Loudness button.
Well, no, human powered gliders are already practical and you can use a bog standard Schempp-Hirth Discus. They do it quite a lot off one ridge in England, basically a bunch of people with a bungee rope sling the glider off the edge of the ridge, and the glider pilot then uses the lift to stay aloft like any other launch method.
For powered fixed wing there has also been the Gossamer Albatross which crossed the English channel.
This on the other hand takes quite a feat of engineering to make something light enough AND stable enough AND strong enough AND distribute the power to the rotors. It's not about being a practical design, it's about meeting quite a tricky engineering challenge.
Full scale helicopters also take massive advantage of ground effect - many helicopters struggle to hover out of ground effect at gross weight. Watch any light piston helicopter take off, and you'll see it lifts into a ground effect hover, then flies in ground effect until it's in translational lift and then some before actually climbing out.
I love Spanish, but I wouldn't pick it as the lingua franca of the world - there's no neuter gender. I think any language without a proper neuter gender which works in a logical manner is just not the right language for a "world language". German noun genderrules also IMHO disqualifies German as a world language.
Landowners have air rights? Citation needed.
I go to Spain often enough. When I'm not staying with friends, I find that pretty much every cheap hotel has free WiFi of reasonable quality, so at most I have to wait till I get to the hotel to upload stuff.
However, in Spain you can get pretty cheap pay as you go 3G internet/phone service, which I use to avoid all roaming charges on my phone. The random Phone House I went into in Madrid even had a convenient tool to turn a regular SIM into a micro SIM for the iphone/ipad, and the cheap payg sim I bought can be used with tethering too, so if I have another device like a laptop and there's no wifi, well I can provide my own.
Cooking dinner generally isn't a big user of power compared to the normal running of the house.
The heat is actually the solution to the laundry problem: put the laundry on a clothes line outside. You then don't need to spend any money drying clothes. (I don't even own a dryer, I don't live somewhere hot either).
That's not entirely true. A lot of it is what opportunity you started with. Let's do a thought experiment: had Bill Gates been born in grinding poverty in a favela in Rio de Janiero, instead of born already a millionaire in the United States, would he still be now a multibillionaire? Probably not, he'd probably be still in that favela.
Now given two people of equal background where one ends up a deadbeat and the other a billionaire, you can say that - but there is a huge variance of opportunity that people are born in. Merely being born in the west is hitting the lottery in terms of opportunity. 80% of the world's population lose that particular one.
It's not just the instruction decoder, but branch prediction and pipelining. The x86 ISA makes all of these things much more complex. Also the low number of registers means that x86 isn't terribly efficient with cache either.
The instruction decoder in x86 is the size of an entire ARM execution core.
Considering ARM outships all other architectures put together very handily, yes it's obvious: CISC lost badly. (ARM's original expansion is Acorn Risc Machine).
But firstly: the right tool for the right job. x86 isn't going to go away in the forseeable future, but on the other hand, neither is ARM. What makes ARM more efficient - especially in embedded devices - is the part of an x86 processor that just figures out the length of the next instruction is the size of an entire ARM execution core. The other thing with ARM is the licencing model. You can buy the ARM IP and put it in any custom chip you want, you can't do that with anything Intel makes, you can only build what Intel wants to make. And thirdly, just as x86 has huge inertia in the desktop/server market due to binary compatibility and being well known and understood by the manufacturers, the same thing holds true for ARM in embedded.
Of course someone from Intel sees "no future for ARM", but the reality is likely to be different. ARM is likely to continue to outsell all other architectures put together for the forseeable future because of the embedded and handheld market where it already has a stronghold.
On (1) we have plenty of micropower devices now running with silicon and off 1.2 volts.
This is primarily an OSS site, not a Microsoft site. If you want articles on problem solving in an MS environment, Slashdot is not for you. I suggest you start a site called Cee Colon Backslash Dot for Microsoft stuff.
Please, get started on the US border security thing. What problems did you have?
I recently went to visit friends in Houston, and it took all of 10 minutes to go through US immigration. The immigration officer was polite, friendly and made me feel welcome.
But the Chinese Halstatt does not have this quality that is special, the "hundreds of years old" bit, so nothing is actually lost from Halstatt in Austria, because the new one doesn't have the one actual thing that makes the old one special, its oldness.
So what's the problem?
And why is Arkansas pronounced Arkensaw, but Kansas not pronounced Kansaw?
Some people eat high horse, too.
Google gets most of their images from aircraft.
Move to where? Immigration rules usually stop it if you have to go to another country to find abundant water.
500M years isn't going to be good for us either. Long before the sun begins to turn into a red giant, the increase in solar output will have made life as we know it impossible on Earth (certainly less than 1bn years)
To all the posters chuntering on about "what a waste of money" etc. to something that is actually inspiring and gets people interested in engineering and aerospace, consider this.
Let's invent a new unit of currency: the Iraq War Dollar. One Iraq War Dollar = the cost of the Iraq war, or $800 billion which is the Department of Defense's estimate of the direct costs.
Cost of the entire Apollo program: 16 Iraq War cents (in 2012 dollars)
Estimated cost of research needed to get to the first working fusion power plant: 10 Iraq War cents
Current cost estimate for Mars rover Curiosity: 1/3rd of an Iraq War cent
Entire NASA budget for 2012: Just over 2 Iraq War cents
Cost of the ISS for its entire lifetime: 19 Iraq War cents
Five huge engineering projects, that inspire people and push technology and hardly kill anyone - and we're not even up to half of one measly Iraq War Dollar.
On the other hand, my last computer monitor (a big 21 inch Trinitron) lasted 12+ years before it started going bad - I suspect it was bad capacitors (it had all the hallmarks), I didn't repair it because I wanted to upgrade to a higher resolution 16:9 LCD. (I don't know exactly how old it was, I bought it second hand about 11 years ago). I didn't have to do anything to that monitor the whole time I had it, it just kept going.
My Trinitron TV in my living room I bought new in 1993 and it's still working fine. It did get repaired once.
My grandfather's job was repairing TVs, and we usually got a free TV from him (an old rental set). It was always fairly old, but he repaired it and it worked. As a kid during the 80s, I had my home computer plugged into a valve based TV. Even the analogue stage was valves, it took about 30 seconds or so before you got sound, and another 30 seconds or so before the picture began to appear after turning the TV on.
We had one set that had both tubes and a couple of integrated circuits in it. I think we got rid of our last valve (tube) TV in the early 1990s when it finally expired for good.