Really Audio and Display have nothing in common? I guess you never watch video on your computer. A pure X app already misses out some what on desktop integration on Linux. Does anyone write new code using X11 any longer or do they all use GTK or QT? So Cups was a good idea because it solved a problem. Well guess what sound on Linux is a problem. Hardware accelerated video playback on Linux is a problem.
What is worse is that you are already betting that X11 on top of Wayland will be an issue before you even see it. No get off my lawn you dang kid. Really give Ubuntu some credit for seeing an problem and trying to fix it. It may fail in the end but they are trying to move forward with new ideas. Before curseing them you should see what they develop and give them feed back. In the end it may be better.
Again not so clear cut. Where do you expect people to gain expertise in things like combat aircraft, radar, sonar, nuclear submarines, and air to air missiles except in the military? Again it is just not so clear cut. Everyone can see the issue with a high ranking officers that is in charge of a program leaving and getting a high paid job as a reward as a terrible thing. What about a sergeant with lot of experience in combat getting a job in testing new combat systems? Now that would make a lot of sense. Of course is the General going to work for a contractor any worse than an FCC commissioner going to work for Comcast after approving the Comcast NBC merger? I don't think so. The idea of out sourcing is that government agencies do not have any competitors to drive them to do better. The problem is that government contractors in many cases seem to have all the profit motive of an independent company and all the competitors of a government agency.
Not always. A great example has to do with Torpedos during WWII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo The US Navy at the time made it's own torpedos and wouldn't buy from outside manufactures. Their production rate was under two torpedos a day in 1937 even though they had 3000 people working their. They also ran too deep and the detonators failed. For the first half of WWII the US's torpedos had a greater then 50% failure rate. The division of the Navy that made the Torpedos blamed the sailors that where using them until a sub commander fired 9 torpedos into the side of whale factory ship and filmed all of them failing to go off. GE and later Westinghouse produced better torpedos faster during the second half the war. Sometime outside contractors can do a better job. Sometimes they do not. While I actually agree that too much is being outsourced it is just not as clear cut as you make it out to be. If you want another example look up the Royal Aircraft establishment or the history of the UKs post war nationalization of the their Aerospace industry.
"Thing is, you don't have to wrap it in glass and aluminum and sell it through a trendy store for me. And, for years now, Linux has been up to the task of competing with Apple, if only the hardware vendors would step up and sell solutions that "just work" instead of throwing it out there and saying "knock yourselves out, the possibilities are endless..."" Get a mac then. I actually love the mac and OS/X is a really good OS. This is a $35 computer and it will just work. Plug it into an network cable, monitor, power, keyboard, and mouse and it will work just fine. You see that is the trick with "Just works". Devices just work for a limited field of uses of you want to go past those uses then it gets tricky. For instance lets say I want to measure temperature with my mac? I will have to find a sensor that works over the USB and drivers for it. I may even have to write software to log it. But it will not just work out of the the box until I add some bits. You want wifi instead of a wired? Well I gave you a link and two you can buy right now. Your expectations are out of line with this product. Again $35 for a PC. Complaining that it doesn't have built in Wifi for that price is as I said just crabbing about it. I have actually had very good luck with Linux just working for me. This is a first run of a $35 Linux computer. If you are not a hobbiest or have need for it then really don't buy it because it was not made for you. Frankly I do not know why anyone would buy any computer if they are not a hobbiest or have a need that it solves.
X11 is not going away it is just getting shifted to a different level. X11 will run on top of Wayland just as X11 on the mac runs on top of the Mac Graphics system. I hope that Wayland and Unity can flatten the modle a bit for most Linux users. You now have a display manger running on top of Gnome or KDE running on top of GTK or QT running on top of X, Or do yu have Gnome or KDE running on top of a Display manager running on top of QT or GTK, running on top of X? X11 has tried to keep up but the fact display is separate from audio and printing is a real issue and will be for some time to come. Those three areas should be closely tied together and they are not.
In terms of CO2 even counting that it is cleaner. The Facking debate has nothing to do with CO2 output and when you look at the CO2 production of tar sand oil then oil moves up the scale. Add in that most natural gas is moved by pipeline vs train for coal and it is still way ahead of Coal and Oil as far as CO2 emissions.
Yes it is crabbing.. The level of functionality is actually really very good. As to the lack of WiFi, here is a list of adaptors that will work http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB this list is not complete because their are only a few wifi to usb chips on the market so other adaptors will work as well. Actually all of the USB wifi adaptors I have tired have worked but that is not a large test base. Just for fun here are two that will work.
Doing that search also should explain the lack of WiFi on the devices. Even value brands like TrendNet and Rosewill cost almost as much or more than the Pi does. Finding a working USB adaptor is really just a google search away. I doubt that this will run open office very well and Java support seems lacking so Eclipse.org and NetBeans are probably not options at this time. But we are talking about $35 or so. That is less than a tank of gas, a console or PC video game, or most peoples bar tabs. In a school lab or even in a lot of office settings these can be used as thin clients or even a replacement of a desktop. For hackers this thing has a good amount of IO 16 bits of GPIO plus I2C and SPI. The The Arduino Uno is about the same price and offers A2Ds but lacks video out, audio, networking, mass storage, a full blown OS..... So for hacking projects this is also really a handy little device.
If you are looking for a $35 PC well this is your best and probably your only choice.
You tube app yes. But I can see YouTube on my browser as well. Android phones have flash now. I am not saying that Flash is a good thing or bad. Frankly I think Java is better for real apps and that HTML 5 is better for video and web apps. However their is a lot of Flash out their and Java is no where to be seen on mobile devices so that is what we are left with.
The Flash on my Android phone seems to do fine with Youtube other videos. Hulu doesn't work because it is "Blocked" on mobile devices. For some odd reason.
The BeeBe was a bit on the expensive side. It was a very cool machine but I would say this is more like the ZX-81 if you want to keep it British or the Commodore-64. Funny thing is that this is cheaper than both of those machines.
Solution. The people that sell the Raspberry Pi simply off a tested wifi adaptor and bluetooth adaptor that is plug and play. The target was lowest possible price. The ram can be an issue for some software like browsers and Flash "Yes I hate it as well but..". But they couldn't meet their price goal with more ram but that really should be prefaced with the word yet. This is their first model and it is targeted at the very low end market. Give them time... Frankly I would love to see them do something like the BeagleBoard or PandaBoard but with Giga E, 4+ SATA ports and DIMM slots. and a Mini ITX form factor. That would make for a great NAS, or desktop. If they could get the price down to say $100 I think it could be very popular. But give them time and don't crab about a $35 system that lacks WiFi.
"What the hell does law enforcement need a 37mm/40mm grenade launcher attached to a remote-controlled UAV for? " They don't. And this summary is pure manipulation. Think of all the police forces that use Bell Jet Rangers and have for years. They CAN carry Hellfire missiles mini-guns, and goodness knows what else. The thing is that they don't. First the the BIG LIE that is part of this summary. The company is working on things like stun batons and tazers. Go to the company website sometime and look at this thing. It is the size of a large model helicopter. BTW Small UAV == a model aircraft. And on the website they only talk about Sensors... Are they going to put weapons on it. I doubt it because they would be of next to no use. Will it carry sensors? Yes. If they do not put weapons on it it is not weaponized. Everyone here is taking a worst case view of this. I wish that we could have a bit of a better view of this. A small UAV like this could be very valuable is search and rescue or any number of uses such as fire fighting. I live in Florida and we often hear about people getting dragged out by rip currents. A small drone like this that could be launched quickly could be really useful. We also have forest fires one of these to scout would also be very useful. But Slashdot has learned... Fear Sells.
Yes really because if we are all dead then the discussion is moot. The original post didn't say that it would be all fairy farts and unicorn poop but moot. As in it wouldn't really matter. An then there is this part. "My hunch is basically that it would give us some breathing room, but in the long run we'd still have to get our house in order as we're running out of oil and eventually we'll get to the point where the atmosphere is warming again." This is just bat crap crazy. No we would be dead or at least a lot of us would be. We would also be in a tiny ice age that could last for decades. Not only that but this priest of the church of global climate change is spouting the same crap as so many other mindless followers. " but in the long run we'd still have to get our house in order as we're running out of oil " What the heck does that have to do with global climate change. Oil does contribute but it is not the real emitter. That goes to Coal. natural gas is the cleanest of the fossile fuels. It's formula is CH4 It has the highest ratio of hydrogen to carbon so the lowest greenhouse footprint of fossile fuels. Oil based fuels tend to have a lower ratio so they contribute more. Since gasoline isn't all one hydrocarbon lets just take one of the common ones which is Iso-octane is c8H18 so it has a slightly better than 2 to 1 ratio of carbon to Hydrogen. So it produces more CO2 Coal is almost 70% carbon so it has the largest carbon footprint of all the fossile fuels and we are in no danger of running out! Solar and Wind do not replace oil they hopefully replace coal. So yes that SUV is less of a worry than that coal fired powerplant. ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!! This is like High School Chem I and yet people still do not get it.
Well the last eruption was well over 25,000 times as large so that would be 50 Katrinas . Now the question becomes is the power output to out is one to one? Does it take twice the power to double the output or does it take 4 times the power to double the output?
I try to respect others beliefs so I am not going to say that a Catholic believes this or that . I can say that my faith doesn't believe in the saint system that the Catholic church does but I am in now way offended by a town named after a Saint.
Exactly. It had to be a grand slam home run. Their one hope is really Europe. If enough European customers buy just because they do not want Nokia to go belly up they might just hold one. I could see Europeans deciding that they will live with Microsoft to keep Nokia alive for a while. If they do not it means the end of European cell phone makers and surrendering that industry to the US, China, Japan, Korea, and maybe Canada. But I doubt that most will care. Now if they had kept the N9 as a flagship then it could have been a big maybe. You would have had what would be seen as an all EU stack from the phone to software. Again that would have been a big maybe.
Well no really. 1. It is unlikely that we could drill deep enough to get to the really hot stuff. 2. You would need lots of water since you are hoping that there is not a lot of water in that mix. 3, If there is a lot of water BOOM. 4. It would not just take out a small country it will take out a large section of South America. Coffee and cocaine product would both end. 5. All that drilling may cause it to erupt. And now let's talk about scale. The last super volcano eruption in that area looks to have been a large VEI 8. Now picture a block of rock one Km long, and one Km wide. Now picture it one Km tall. It would be a big square mountain. No imagine between 1000 and 25000 of those blocks. That is how much rock a VEI 8 puts into the sky as dust,ash, and rock...... It you combine all the nuclear weapons on earth, all the hurricanes, and all of the volcanos that have erupted in say the last 50 years... Well I have not done the math but I would bet that it would be a small fraction of the energy involved in such an event.
Wow really? I mean this has got to be about the dumbest thing I have ever read on slashdot. "No, the largest eruption on record only gave like a year of cooled weather, and while these are likely to be substantially larger eruptions, an eruption large enough to produce a climate change mooting atmospheric change would probably go a long ways towards ending life as we know it. Duhhh A super volcano would be at least an order of magnitude worse then Krakatoa. I decided to spend a little time and look it up and it seems that the VEI 8 eruptions of "Yellowstone was one" have a Dense Rock Equivalent (DRE) of ejecta of over 1000km^3. Several including some of the Yellowstone ones reached well over 25,000km^3 So multiply that by two and see what you get? BTW Krakatoa was only 25km^3. If you had two 25,000km^3 events it would be mind numbingly bad. Yes we are talking end of the world wipe the slate almost clean bad. The Toba super eruption was 70,000 years ago and was at the small end of the VEI scale killed 70% of the human population of the earth. Really are you such a climate change zealot that you must mindlessly dismiss any statement that you feel undermines it? Wow I am not a doubter of climate change and support reduced CO2 but this is making it into a religion that must defended by the faithful at all times. So NO YOU ARE AS WRONG AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY BE! Even a single VEI 8 Event much less two would make the current climate change a none issue because there is a good chance that the majority of the human race would be dead.
What about a year from now? This is supposed to be a flagship device and it is going to go head to head with the best Android and the iPhone 4s which it just can not do.
Since I do not have one of course not. I can tell you that the GPU slower than the one on Samsung Galaxy SII and iPhone4s. of course that might not be an issue with the small screen and low resolution. WP7 currently doesn't support multi-core cpus and few apps on the platform support multi-tasking so it maybe good enough for WP7 today.
Now if he can leverage a Six Sigma management strategy and achieve a nine nines reliability while migrating to a cloud based infrastructure we could have a real paradigms shift.
Please their are a tiny number of electric cars. Solar, Wind, and Hydro have no net effect on oil use in the US. It is all about coal. It will take decades to replace even a good percentage of cars with electric if tech can get to that point.
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Really Audio and Display have nothing in common? I guess you never watch video on your computer.
A pure X app already misses out some what on desktop integration on Linux. Does anyone write new code using X11 any longer or do they all use GTK or QT?
So Cups was a good idea because it solved a problem. Well guess what sound on Linux is a problem. Hardware accelerated video playback on Linux is a problem.
What is worse is that you are already betting that X11 on top of Wayland will be an issue before you even see it.
No get off my lawn you dang kid.
Really give Ubuntu some credit for seeing an problem and trying to fix it. It may fail in the end but they are trying to move forward with new ideas. Before curseing them you should see what they develop and give them feed back. In the end it may be better.
Again not so clear cut. Where do you expect people to gain expertise in things like combat aircraft, radar, sonar, nuclear submarines, and air to air missiles except in the military? Again it is just not so clear cut. Everyone can see the issue with a high ranking officers that is in charge of a program leaving and getting a high paid job as a reward as a terrible thing. What about a sergeant with lot of experience in combat getting a job in testing new combat systems? Now that would make a lot of sense. Of course is the General going to work for a contractor any worse than an FCC commissioner going to work for Comcast after approving the Comcast NBC merger? I don't think so.
The idea of out sourcing is that government agencies do not have any competitors to drive them to do better. The problem is that government contractors in many cases seem to have all the profit motive of an independent company and all the competitors of a government agency.
Not always.
A great example has to do with Torpedos during WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo
The US Navy at the time made it's own torpedos and wouldn't buy from outside manufactures. Their production rate was under two torpedos a day in 1937 even though they had 3000 people working their. They also ran too deep and the detonators failed. For the first half of WWII the US's torpedos had a greater then 50% failure rate. The division of the Navy that made the Torpedos blamed the sailors that where using them until a sub commander fired 9 torpedos into the side of whale factory ship and filmed all of them failing to go off. GE and later Westinghouse produced better torpedos faster during the second half the war.
Sometime outside contractors can do a better job. Sometimes they do not. While I actually agree that too much is being outsourced it is just not as clear cut as you make it out to be.
If you want another example look up the Royal Aircraft establishment or the history of the UKs post war nationalization of the their Aerospace industry.
"Thing is, you don't have to wrap it in glass and aluminum and sell it through a trendy store for me. And, for years now, Linux has been up to the task of competing with Apple, if only the hardware vendors would step up and sell solutions that "just work" instead of throwing it out there and saying "knock yourselves out, the possibilities are endless...""
Get a mac then. I actually love the mac and OS/X is a really good OS. This is a $35 computer and it will just work. Plug it into an network cable, monitor, power, keyboard, and mouse and it will work just fine. You see that is the trick with "Just works". Devices just work for a limited field of uses of you want to go past those uses then it gets tricky. For instance lets say I want to measure temperature with my mac? I will have to find a sensor that works over the USB and drivers for it. I may even have to write software to log it. But it will not just work out of the the box until I add some bits.
You want wifi instead of a wired? Well I gave you a link and two you can buy right now. Your expectations are out of line with this product. Again $35 for a PC. Complaining that it doesn't have built in Wifi for that price is as I said just crabbing about it. I have actually had very good luck with Linux just working for me. This is a first run of a $35 Linux computer. If you are not a hobbiest or have need for it then really don't buy it because it was not made for you. Frankly I do not know why anyone would buy any computer if they are not a hobbiest or have a need that it solves.
X11 is not going away it is just getting shifted to a different level. X11 will run on top of Wayland just as X11 on the mac runs on top of the Mac Graphics system. I hope that Wayland and Unity can flatten the modle a bit for most Linux users. You now have a display manger running on top of Gnome or KDE running on top of GTK or QT running on top of X, Or do yu have Gnome or KDE running on top of a Display manager running on top of QT or GTK, running on top of X?
X11 has tried to keep up but the fact display is separate from audio and printing is a real issue and will be for some time to come. Those three areas should be closely tied together and they are not.
In terms of CO2 even counting that it is cleaner. The Facking debate has nothing to do with CO2 output and when you look at the CO2 production of tar sand oil then oil moves up the scale. Add in that most natural gas is moved by pipeline vs train for coal and it is still way ahead of Coal and Oil as far as CO2 emissions.
Yes it is crabbing.. The level of functionality is actually really very good.
As to the lack of WiFi, here is a list of adaptors that will work http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB this list is not complete because their are only a few wifi to usb chips on the market so other adaptors will work as well.
Actually all of the USB wifi adaptors I have tired have worked but that is not a large test base.
Just for fun here are two that will work.
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&ix=c2&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=TEW-664UB#q=TEW-664UB&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=shop&ei=rq6uTtj3A9PbggeSrNWZCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&ved=0CE4Q_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=c7f58bc4f869669a&biw=1433&bih=666
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=RNX-N2X&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1433&bih=666&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9328323554417061627&sa=X&ei=fK6uTqGqOMyRgQfT4KimDA&ved=0CDMQ8wIwAA
Doing that search also should explain the lack of WiFi on the devices. Even value brands like TrendNet and Rosewill cost almost as much or more than the Pi does.
Finding a working USB adaptor is really just a google search away.
I doubt that this will run open office very well and Java support seems lacking so Eclipse.org and NetBeans are probably not options at this time.
But we are talking about $35 or so. That is less than a tank of gas, a console or PC video game, or most peoples bar tabs.
In a school lab or even in a lot of office settings these can be used as thin clients or even a replacement of a desktop.
For hackers this thing has a good amount of IO 16 bits of GPIO plus I2C and SPI. The The Arduino Uno is about the same price and offers A2Ds but lacks video out, audio, networking, mass storage, a full blown OS..... So for hacking projects this is also really a handy little device.
If you are looking for a $35 PC well this is your best and probably your only choice.
You tube app yes. But I can see YouTube on my browser as well. Android phones have flash now. I am not saying that Flash is a good thing or bad. Frankly I think Java is better for real apps and that HTML 5 is better for video and web apps. However their is a lot of Flash out their and Java is no where to be seen on mobile devices so that is what we are left with.
Well maybe he gets FOSS. Maybe he expects that his staff should support the OS. He pays his staff to do more than call a phone number.
The Flash on my Android phone seems to do fine with Youtube other videos. Hulu doesn't work because it is "Blocked" on mobile devices. For some odd reason.
The BeeBe was a bit on the expensive side. It was a very cool machine but I would say this is more like the ZX-81 if you want to keep it British or the Commodore-64. Funny thing is that this is cheaper than both of those machines.
Solution.
The people that sell the Raspberry Pi simply off a tested wifi adaptor and bluetooth adaptor that is plug and play.
The target was lowest possible price. The ram can be an issue for some software like browsers and Flash "Yes I hate it as well but..". But they couldn't meet their price goal with more ram but that really should be prefaced with the word yet.
This is their first model and it is targeted at the very low end market. Give them time...
Frankly I would love to see them do something like the BeagleBoard or PandaBoard but with Giga E, 4+ SATA ports and DIMM slots. and a Mini ITX form factor. That would make for a great NAS, or desktop. If they could get the price down to say $100 I think it could be very popular.
But give them time and don't crab about a $35 system that lacks WiFi.
Actually it still could. In florida it tends to be hot and dry and little wind when we get fires. Very unlike the west.
"What the hell does law enforcement need a 37mm/40mm grenade launcher attached to a remote-controlled UAV for? "
They don't. And this summary is pure manipulation.
Think of all the police forces that use Bell Jet Rangers and have for years. They CAN carry Hellfire missiles mini-guns, and goodness knows what else. The thing is that they don't.
First the the BIG LIE that is part of this summary. The company is working on things like stun batons and tazers. Go to the company website sometime and look at this thing. It is the size of a large model helicopter. BTW Small UAV == a model aircraft. And on the website they only talk about Sensors... Are they going to put weapons on it. I doubt it because they would be of next to no use. Will it carry sensors? Yes. If they do not put weapons on it it is not weaponized.
Everyone here is taking a worst case view of this. I wish that we could have a bit of a better view of this. A small UAV like this could be very valuable is search and rescue or any number of uses such as fire fighting. I live in Florida and we often hear about people getting dragged out by rip currents. A small drone like this that could be launched quickly could be really useful. We also have forest fires one of these to scout would also be very useful.
But Slashdot has learned... Fear Sells.
Yes really because if we are all dead then the discussion is moot. The original post didn't say that it would be all fairy farts and unicorn poop but moot. As in it wouldn't really matter.
An then there is this part.
"My hunch is basically that it would give us some breathing room, but in the long run we'd still have to get our house in order as we're running out of oil and eventually we'll get to the point where the atmosphere is warming again."
This is just bat crap crazy.
No we would be dead or at least a lot of us would be. We would also be in a tiny ice age that could last for decades. Not only that but this priest of the church of global climate change is spouting the same crap as so many other mindless followers.
" but in the long run we'd still have to get our house in order as we're running out of oil "
What the heck does that have to do with global climate change. Oil does contribute but it is not the real emitter. That goes to Coal.
natural gas is the cleanest of the fossile fuels. It's formula is CH4 It has the highest ratio of hydrogen to carbon so the lowest greenhouse footprint of fossile fuels. Oil based fuels tend to have a lower ratio so they contribute more. Since gasoline isn't all one hydrocarbon lets just take one of the common ones which is Iso-octane is c8H18 so it has a slightly better than 2 to 1 ratio of carbon to Hydrogen. So it produces more CO2
Coal is almost 70% carbon so it has the largest carbon footprint of all the fossile fuels and we are in no danger of running out!
Solar and Wind do not replace oil they hopefully replace coal. So yes that SUV is less of a worry than that coal fired powerplant.
ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!! This is like High School Chem I and yet people still do not get it.
Well the last eruption was well over 25,000 times as large so that would be 50 Katrinas . Now the question becomes is the power output to out is one to one? Does it take twice the power to double the output or does it take 4 times the power to double the output?
I try to respect others beliefs so I am not going to say that a Catholic believes this or that . I can say that my faith doesn't believe in the saint system that the Catholic church does but I am in now way offended by a town named after a Saint.
Exactly. It had to be a grand slam home run. Their one hope is really Europe. If enough European customers buy just because they do not want Nokia to go belly up they might just hold one.
I could see Europeans deciding that they will live with Microsoft to keep Nokia alive for a while. If they do not it means the end of European cell phone makers and surrendering that industry to the US, China, Japan, Korea, and maybe Canada. But I doubt that most will care. Now if they had kept the N9 as a flagship then it could have been a big maybe. You would have had what would be seen as an all EU stack from the phone to software. Again that would have been a big maybe.
Well no really.
1. It is unlikely that we could drill deep enough to get to the really hot stuff.
2. You would need lots of water since you are hoping that there is not a lot of water in that mix.
3, If there is a lot of water BOOM.
4. It would not just take out a small country it will take out a large section of South America. Coffee and cocaine product would both end.
5. All that drilling may cause it to erupt.
And now let's talk about scale.
The last super volcano eruption in that area looks to have been a large VEI 8.
Now picture a block of rock one Km long, and one Km wide. Now picture it one Km tall. It would be a big square mountain. No imagine between 1000 and 25000 of those blocks. That is how much rock a VEI 8 puts into the sky as dust,ash, and rock......
It you combine all the nuclear weapons on earth, all the hurricanes, and all of the volcanos that have erupted in say the last 50 years... Well I have not done the math but I would bet that it would be a small fraction of the energy involved in such an event.
Wow really? I mean this has got to be about the dumbest thing I have ever read on slashdot.
"No, the largest eruption on record only gave like a year of cooled weather, and while these are likely to be substantially larger eruptions, an eruption large enough to produce a climate change mooting atmospheric change would probably go a long ways towards ending life as we know it.
Duhhh A super volcano would be at least an order of magnitude worse then Krakatoa. I decided to spend a little time and look it up and it seems that the VEI 8 eruptions of "Yellowstone was one" have a Dense Rock Equivalent (DRE) of ejecta of over 1000km^3. Several including some of the Yellowstone ones reached well over 25,000km^3 So multiply that by two and see what you get? BTW Krakatoa was only 25km^3.
If you had two 25,000km^3 events it would be mind numbingly bad. Yes we are talking end of the world wipe the slate almost clean bad.
The Toba super eruption was 70,000 years ago and was at the small end of the VEI scale killed 70% of the human population of the earth.
Really are you such a climate change zealot that you must mindlessly dismiss any statement that you feel undermines it?
Wow I am not a doubter of climate change and support reduced CO2 but this is making it into a religion that must defended by the faithful at all times.
So NO YOU ARE AS WRONG AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY BE! Even a single VEI 8 Event much less two would make the current climate change a none issue because there is a good chance that the majority of the human race would be dead.
What about a year from now? This is supposed to be a flagship device and it is going to go head to head with the best Android and the iPhone 4s which it just can not do.
Since I do not have one of course not. I can tell you that the GPU slower than the one on Samsung Galaxy SII and iPhone4s. of course that might not be an issue with the small screen and low resolution.
WP7 currently doesn't support multi-core cpus and few apps on the platform support multi-tasking so it maybe good enough for WP7 today.
Now if he can leverage a Six Sigma management strategy and achieve a nine nines reliability while migrating to a cloud based infrastructure we could have a real paradigms shift.
Well if he can find the right synergies and bring out of the box thinking into play this could work.
Please their are a tiny number of electric cars. Solar, Wind, and Hydro have no net effect on oil use in the US. It is all about coal. It will take decades to replace even a good percentage of cars with electric if tech can get to that point.