Last I heard, TSMC only manufactures ICs for companies; they don't do design work. Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC, but it could be an uphill battle with all of the patent landmines they could run into. Displays, RAM and flash ICs are commodity devices, low margin, and there are only a few players that Apple can deal with. Dropping Samsung as a supplier limits Apple that much further.
So the history here as I understand it: 1) Apple designs a smartphone and buys components from Samsung, a manufacturer of ICs and end user products. 2) Samsung start making some similar phones and gets the shit sued out of them by Apple. 3) Apple says they're going to drop Samsung from future BOMs. 4) Samsung increase the price Apple must pay for their components. 5) Next salvo fired by Apple will be???
Joe Citizen seems to use a limited set of retarded tools to make voting decisions, such as what the media or institutions (eg churches) tell him.
That seems like a silly comment to me. In a small town, the people can actually know their elected officials. Everybody else usually depends upon some form of media to make a decision on each candidate and whether or not that candidate has similar values. I actually used wikipedia to research some of the state candidates for this election. But there's no proof that any wikipedia article is any less biased than any other source. Most people make voting decisions based upon their own prejudices, which are reinforced by what they read in the media that agrees with their preconceived 'truths.'
As far as churches go, I've yet to see one in person that "told" people how to vote. There are no doubt exceptions. Sure, church members probably tend to be more conservative than the general population. But I know Christians who are Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. Some are pretty bright, others not so much. In other words, a fairly decent sample of Americana.
Politicians just vote whichever way the highest bidder tells them to.
I don't know what says more about the change in the average Slashdot reader--the fact that the summary for this story assumes that the reader doesn't know anything at all about BGP, or the fact that this is the first comment to bemoan that.
Even if most/. readers are technically literate, not all technical disciplines require even the slightest knowledge of networking. So why wouldn't it be OK for the summary to assume the reader may not know anything about BGP. If this were an article about IC processing, I might make the same comment if the summary assumed that the reader didn't know anything about IC fabrication. But I wouldn't, because I know that you can't be knowledgeable in all fields.
If I had to put $20 on it, I'd also bet that the next Xbox runs "windows store" apps -- they're very much functional with something like Kinect for interactions, and SmartGlass applications are already.NET based. There's also already a few games for the 360 that have announced they'll have Windows 8 support and you'll be able to pause/resume between them.
Now that you've pointed that out, I don't think that I'd bet against your idea that the next Xbox runs "windows store" apps. Interesting.
Then H-1Bs still aren't the answer. Open borders are. Unless you think applying a "world supply" argument is only valid when it's an advantage for you.
By definition national borders limit the movement of people and goods. Those limits will always help some and hurt others. H-1B visas are a manipulation of local supply and demand, one that helps employers at the expense of US workers.
Sure, there are costs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Hidden_costs_and_risks_for_employers I recall reading on/. comments that companies would hire H-1B workers, have US workers train them, then let the US workers go. Even if we assume that a lot of the statements were hyperbole, employers aren't going to go with a more expensive solution if they can avoid it. It's still manipulation of supply and demand, and IMO causes a catch-22 for employers trying to find qualified US workers.
Um, the free market, applied to labor/companies, would say that salaries and job demand will level out over time. If you bring in a lot of outside labor, you drive salaries down. Students entering college will look at these lower wages and say, hum, I'll go for a degree that's not engineering related. Which gives employers their ammo that "we just can't find qualified US applicants." Stop the H1-B visas and wages will rise until supply and demand settle out. It's has nothing to do with racism: , By artificially increasing supply, H1-B visas keep wages low for jobs that tech companies cannot offshore.
That's not really the interesting question. The question is, will Windows 8 modern apps, Windows 8 RT and Windows Phone 8 end up with a reasonable share of the market? Because the combination is what will determine the ecosystem size.
Windows 8 will likely, at some point, end up on 300-500 million PCs, like Windows 7. Windows 8 tablets? Who knows. RT tablets? Really who knows. And as much as I like WP, that's an even longer shot. But if a developer says "I can write my software one, against the WinRT APIs, and it'll run on 300 million PCs, 50 million tablets, and some number of phones", it doesn't really matter if Microsoft sells 5 million or 25 million Surface tablets. Especially when people realize "hey, that application I bought runs on all of these... and my settings and data is on all of my devices...".
There's more to an ecosystem than a single device.
There are a lot of 'ifs' in there that will determine how viable of an ecosystem MS can make. The Write Once, Run Anywhere ideal, IMO, has too many limitations due to the wide ecosystem to ever be a draw for developers. But you make some good points: Seamless integration between devices can be a big selling point. Can MS get there from here?
The typical cost of "telephone" service that families are paying have gone up significantly since the days when we only had land lines and pay phones were ubiquitous enough to be used when you were out in your car. How many families are paying a couple hundred bucks a month or so so that every family member can be reached 24/7? Between cell phones and home internet/TV bills, people often spend a much higher percentage of the household income for these services than before, and then wonder why they have no money for anything else.
OK, the SMART-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART-1 went from an initial orbital period of about 11 hours to 25 hours in about 147 days. This was achieved running the ion drive for 1/3 to 1/2 of the orbit, since they wanted a highly elliptical orbit. LEO for the repair/resupply satellite would start with a more circular orbit and a period of about 90 minutes. If you run the ion drive for most of the orbit, I'd guess that would roughly balance out the lower starting point. Only 22% of the weight was propellent. Of course, you'd need more propellent to drop back down to LEO afterwards. Overall, ion drives are suppose to be about 800% more efficient than chemical rockets.
One issue is that because the satellite will spend a fair amount of time in the Van Allen belt, the solar cells will be degraded over time and will need to be repaired or replaced. The ion drive itself experiences erosion of certain components that require periodic replacement.
If it doesn't matter how long you take to get from LEO to geosync and back again, then maybe an ion-drive using solar panels for power. That maximizes the payload that gets to geosynchronous orbit, and you resupply the repair satellite periodically while it's in LEO. One issue I'm concerned with is how standardized any available connections are on the satellites to refuel them. But the repair satellite could be made versatile enough to bring satellites to LEO for repair/refueling. Perhaps someone on the ISS could do EVAs to repair them, and unmanned resupply ships would bring up parts and fuel. The repair satellite could also be used as a tug to take new satellites from LEO to geosync, saving weight on the launch vehicle--no need for a one-use booster to take the satellite from LEO to geosync.
That wouldn't explain why replacing the router fixes the problem, unless he just happens to be replacing the old router with one that just happens to have a stronger transmitter or better antenna. The pessimist in me says that the chances of that happening can't be 100% of the time.
Really? Because the REAL journalists, not retarded bloggers, don't need to eat and have a home?
Paying one way or another for services rendered is standard and entirely acceptable. Stop being such a fucking leech.
Shame I used up my mod points earlier. +1 obvious. Of course, even "real" journalists are more often than not being paid to bias the news one way or the other. The difference between them and bloggers seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.
Sadly, they probably still have to take attendance manually. No one will trust an automated system, and they'll say they need to 'verify' the accuracy of the RFID system or have the manual records in case of a system failure.
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And she's an Atheist. It was a triple fail.
Unless Google Maps is playing Apple Maps, Austria does indeed share a border with Switzerland.
Or Australia: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/kristen-neel-anti-obama-australia-tweet-backlash_n_2093160.html
"I'm moving to Australia, because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says."
Last I heard, TSMC only manufactures ICs for companies; they don't do design work. Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC, but it could be an uphill battle with all of the patent landmines they could run into. Displays, RAM and flash ICs are commodity devices, low margin, and there are only a few players that Apple can deal with. Dropping Samsung as a supplier limits Apple that much further.
So the history here as I understand it: 1) Apple designs a smartphone and buys components from Samsung, a manufacturer of ICs and end user products. 2) Samsung start making some similar phones and gets the shit sued out of them by Apple. 3) Apple says they're going to drop Samsung from future BOMs. 4) Samsung increase the price Apple must pay for their components. 5) Next salvo fired by Apple will be???
Yeah, I misread the headline too.
Free speech vs. douchebaggery. That should feed the trolls.
Joe Citizen seems to use a limited set of retarded tools to make voting decisions, such as what the media or institutions (eg churches) tell him.
That seems like a silly comment to me. In a small town, the people can actually know their elected officials. Everybody else usually depends upon some form of media to make a decision on each candidate and whether or not that candidate has similar values. I actually used wikipedia to research some of the state candidates for this election. But there's no proof that any wikipedia article is any less biased than any other source. Most people make voting decisions based upon their own prejudices, which are reinforced by what they read in the media that agrees with their preconceived 'truths.'
As far as churches go, I've yet to see one in person that "told" people how to vote. There are no doubt exceptions. Sure, church members probably tend to be more conservative than the general population. But I know Christians who are Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. Some are pretty bright, others not so much. In other words, a fairly decent sample of Americana.
Politicians just vote whichever way the highest bidder tells them to.
I don't know what says more about the change in the average Slashdot reader--the fact that the summary for this story assumes that the reader doesn't know anything at all about BGP, or the fact that this is the first comment to bemoan that.
Even if most /. readers are technically literate, not all technical disciplines require even the slightest knowledge of networking. So why wouldn't it be OK for the summary to assume the reader may not know anything about BGP. If this were an article about IC processing, I might make the same comment if the summary assumed that the reader didn't know anything about IC fabrication. But I wouldn't, because I know that you can't be knowledgeable in all fields.
First Acknowledgment!
If I had to put $20 on it, I'd also bet that the next Xbox runs "windows store" apps -- they're very much functional with something like Kinect for interactions, and SmartGlass applications are already .NET based. There's also already a few games for the 360 that have announced they'll have Windows 8 support and you'll be able to pause/resume between them.
Now that you've pointed that out, I don't think that I'd bet against your idea that the next Xbox runs "windows store" apps. Interesting.
The supply is the world supply.
Then H-1Bs still aren't the answer. Open borders are. Unless you think applying a "world supply" argument is only valid when it's an advantage for you.
By definition national borders limit the movement of people and goods. Those limits will always help some and hurt others. H-1B visas are a manipulation of local supply and demand, one that helps employers at the expense of US workers.
Sure, there are costs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Hidden_costs_and_risks_for_employers I recall reading on /. comments that companies would hire H-1B workers, have US workers train them, then let the US workers go. Even if we assume that a lot of the statements were hyperbole, employers aren't going to go with a more expensive solution if they can avoid it. It's still manipulation of supply and demand, and IMO causes a catch-22 for employers trying to find qualified US workers.
" It's has nothing to do with racism: , By..."
It has nothing to do with racism: By...
Can't. Type. Or proofread, apparently.
Um, the free market, applied to labor/companies, would say that salaries and job demand will level out over time. If you bring in a lot of outside labor, you drive salaries down. Students entering college will look at these lower wages and say, hum, I'll go for a degree that's not engineering related. Which gives employers their ammo that "we just can't find qualified US applicants." Stop the H1-B visas and wages will rise until supply and demand settle out. It's has nothing to do with racism: , By artificially increasing supply, H1-B visas keep wages low for jobs that tech companies cannot offshore.
That's OK. They'll just sell the fish to the US, and catch fish for local consumption somewhere else.
That's not really the interesting question. The question is, will Windows 8 modern apps, Windows 8 RT and Windows Phone 8 end up with a reasonable share of the market? Because the combination is what will determine the ecosystem size.
Windows 8 will likely, at some point, end up on 300-500 million PCs, like Windows 7. Windows 8 tablets? Who knows. RT tablets? Really who knows. And as much as I like WP, that's an even longer shot. But if a developer says "I can write my software one, against the WinRT APIs, and it'll run on 300 million PCs, 50 million tablets, and some number of phones", it doesn't really matter if Microsoft sells 5 million or 25 million Surface tablets. Especially when people realize "hey, that application I bought runs on all of these... and my settings and data is on all of my devices...".
There's more to an ecosystem than a single device.
There are a lot of 'ifs' in there that will determine how viable of an ecosystem MS can make. The Write Once, Run Anywhere ideal, IMO, has too many limitations due to the wide ecosystem to ever be a draw for developers. But you make some good points: Seamless integration between devices can be a big selling point. Can MS get there from here?
Does anyone really believe that the Surface will end up with any reasonable market share of the tablet market?
Well, at least when you say that with Apple's stuff, there is at least a kernel of truth to it.
Kernel. You did that on purpose.
an inability to find a buyer
Did they try putting it on ebay? If they keep the shipping costs down then I'm sure they could find a buyer for it.
Local pick up only.
When all you have is a hammer, all problems are solved by using MS products.
The typical cost of "telephone" service that families are paying have gone up significantly since the days when we only had land lines and pay phones were ubiquitous enough to be used when you were out in your car. How many families are paying a couple hundred bucks a month or so so that every family member can be reached 24/7? Between cell phones and home internet/TV bills, people often spend a much higher percentage of the household income for these services than before, and then wonder why they have no money for anything else.
OK, the SMART-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART-1 went from an initial orbital period of about 11 hours to 25 hours in about 147 days. This was achieved running the ion drive for 1/3 to 1/2 of the orbit, since they wanted a highly elliptical orbit. LEO for the repair/resupply satellite would start with a more circular orbit and a period of about 90 minutes. If you run the ion drive for most of the orbit, I'd guess that would roughly balance out the lower starting point. Only 22% of the weight was propellent. Of course, you'd need more propellent to drop back down to LEO afterwards. Overall, ion drives are suppose to be about 800% more efficient than chemical rockets.
Some of the new geosync satellites are using ion drives to get to synchronous orbit, and those take several months to do so. NASA has done some research on a reusable ion-drive booster: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790009727_1979009727.pdf
One issue is that because the satellite will spend a fair amount of time in the Van Allen belt, the solar cells will be degraded over time and will need to be repaired or replaced. The ion drive itself experiences erosion of certain components that require periodic replacement.
If it doesn't matter how long you take to get from LEO to geosync and back again, then maybe an ion-drive using solar panels for power. That maximizes the payload that gets to geosynchronous orbit, and you resupply the repair satellite periodically while it's in LEO. One issue I'm concerned with is how standardized any available connections are on the satellites to refuel them. But the repair satellite could be made versatile enough to bring satellites to LEO for repair/refueling. Perhaps someone on the ISS could do EVAs to repair them, and unmanned resupply ships would bring up parts and fuel. The repair satellite could also be used as a tug to take new satellites from LEO to geosync, saving weight on the launch vehicle--no need for a one-use booster to take the satellite from LEO to geosync.
That wouldn't explain why replacing the router fixes the problem, unless he just happens to be replacing the old router with one that just happens to have a stronger transmitter or better antenna. The pessimist in me says that the chances of that happening can't be 100% of the time.
Really? Because the REAL journalists, not retarded bloggers, don't need to eat and have a home?
Paying one way or another for services rendered is standard and entirely acceptable. Stop being such a fucking leech.
Shame I used up my mod points earlier. +1 obvious. Of course, even "real" journalists are more often than not being paid to bias the news one way or the other. The difference between them and bloggers seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.
Sadly, they probably still have to take attendance manually. No one will trust an automated system, and they'll say they need to 'verify' the accuracy of the RFID system or have the manual records in case of a system failure.