What was the smartphone market like a few years ago?
What is it like now?
Intel made cash selling Xscale, made more cash not trying to leadership the sector, and is using that cash to get back into it and take it over. And anyone doubting they can dominate it just isn't paying attention to cost and scale.
I don't know if they were smarter or luckier, but they certainly were both to some degree.
You forget, perhaps, who Intel is, and what they have.
Everyone and their grandmother may be ordering ARM-based chips from the contract fabs, but Intel does its own design and fabrication.
Their economies of scale and vertical efficiencies are not something that the ARM world can stay ahead of for very long.
If Intel has decided that there's enough profit in this sector to make it their major focus, their monthly spending on it could outstrip everyone else's annual expenditure.
BTW, they've been in mobile before. It just wasn't big enough for them to make real money at it. Now is a whole new situation. Mobiles are a lot more like computers than they are like phones, so putting more computer-like CPU cores into them is a logical idea.
ARM needs to start playing catch-up just to stay in the race, even though it's ahead in the early laps.
No, they aren't. You're limited only by the law and your ethics. And as long as we have a law that allows the criminals to follow their ethics, that's where our society's dialogue will reside.
Earthquakes cause changes in stresses in piezoelectric rock (e.g., quartz, which is very common). Massive piezo charges form, causing discharges, causing plasmas, i.e., ball lightning.
Now, while this is explainable, it's incredibly difficult to prove, because to prove it you need objective evidence, and to do that you have to have systems in place to observe an earthquake, which means you have to, in some way, predict an earthquake to occur at some time in some locale, which is not hard conceptually but involves enormous locales and time spans, and so is something we haven't yet got the fiduciary gonads to pay for.
E.g., giant earthquake has the effect of causing a giant tsunami, the knock-on is that the tsunami knocks out the generators at the nuke plant, and so on and so on, knocking on until eventually someone gets fired for not wearing their dosimeter at the Tepco HQ in Tokyo.
Avoiding natural disasters is a canard. Systems can be designed to tolerate worst-case scenarios. The problem at Fukushima is they didn't design for worst-case. They designed for events that weren't nearly far enough out on the tail of the distribution. Someone murdered Japan for a couple of bucks.
No such thing. Not in the quantities needed to supply our activities. We'd have to ration light, heat, all mechanical activities, and food (which is energy too) to fit into the budget that would give us. And ban breeding.
We need to stop using fossil fuels, build nuke plants, and continue in the search for high-efficiency solar power.
If there was a large release of Radon days before the quake, was the sea effervescent?
I'm serious. Enough of a substance to raise the temperature of that much atmosphere is a lot of that substance. I'd expect simmering if not outright foaming. We should see the sea getting warmer and bubbling like soda, too.
Then make it illegal for bored cops to peruse it, and illegal for any evidence gathered that way to be used against you, but don't make it illegal to track down criminals based on evidence of crimes.
This could all have been mooted if in the original design of IPv4 it weren't made so easy to spoof. That same lackadaisical attitude spread to mail paths and DNS.
The fact is, in order to get data from point A to point B there is a necessary uniqueness to the identification of A and B. If that had been concretized rather than left flapping in the wind, while still allowing for mobility, then your packets would be your packets with 100% certainty.
I really haven't looked at IPv6 hard enough to know if it's less spoofable. But I hope so. I really want a button in my email client labelled "Spam" that brings up a full trace to the person who initiated the message, determines what spambot they were running, then correlates with the other bots to triangulate to the control node, and shuts it down with prejudice, preferably by injecting 50 kV into its keyboard.
The question is not whether it's different. It's different, hence patentable.
The question is whether the difference is worth anything. Nominally it isn't. You don't proffer it with a price tag. You wait until someone uses it without mentioning that you patented it before they used it. Then you walk in and sue them, and they pay you more than if you'd just negotiated.
The part that's broken isn't the patenting. It's the arbitration of value.
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That's more expensive than putting a few hundred thousand of them on the ground.
What was the smartphone market like a few years ago?
What is it like now?
Intel made cash selling Xscale, made more cash not trying to leadership the sector, and is using that cash to get back into it and take it over. And anyone doubting they can dominate it just isn't paying attention to cost and scale.
I don't know if they were smarter or luckier, but they certainly were both to some degree.
You forget, perhaps, who Intel is, and what they have.
Everyone and their grandmother may be ordering ARM-based chips from the contract fabs, but Intel does its own design and fabrication.
Their economies of scale and vertical efficiencies are not something that the ARM world can stay ahead of for very long.
If Intel has decided that there's enough profit in this sector to make it their major focus, their monthly spending on it could outstrip everyone else's annual expenditure.
BTW, they've been in mobile before. It just wasn't big enough for them to make real money at it. Now is a whole new situation. Mobiles are a lot more like computers than they are like phones, so putting more computer-like CPU cores into them is a logical idea.
ARM needs to start playing catch-up just to stay in the race, even though it's ahead in the early laps.
No, they aren't. You're limited only by the law and your ethics. And as long as we have a law that allows the criminals to follow their ethics, that's where our society's dialogue will reside.
Those taxes are rarely enough to pay for what you get. Road is a couple of million dollars a mile these days.
When you're out on the public roads in your 1500-lb child-smashing machine, you should be identifiable.
When you're on the public internets on your 1.5-GHz rootkit-depositing machine, you should be identifiable.
If you want to go out on the roads without ID, leave the car at home.
If you want to communicate without ID, leave the internet at home.
See how that works?
There's no money in opinion. There's plenty in spin.
I'm not sure this study focussed on 9-14 year old girls. But if it did, maybe we need to have a talk with its parents.
Why do I need to click anything?
Then you'd better vote harder.
Then find the people you fear in government, and charge them with the something you say you have on them.
who will enforce this fine law
We will. That's how it works.
Tell you what.
You turn in your license plates and I'll think about what I said.
You think Gaddafi isn't trolling and spamming? You want that button too.
He's actually the only person I have ever heard of to complete a typical project scedule as planned.
Ball lightning is unexplained?
Earthquakes cause changes in stresses in piezoelectric rock (e.g., quartz, which is very common). Massive piezo charges form, causing discharges, causing plasmas, i.e., ball lightning.
Now, while this is explainable, it's incredibly difficult to prove, because to prove it you need objective evidence, and to do that you have to have systems in place to observe an earthquake, which means you have to, in some way, predict an earthquake to occur at some time in some locale, which is not hard conceptually but involves enormous locales and time spans, and so is something we haven't yet got the fiduciary gonads to pay for.
Effects caused by the original effects.
E.g., giant earthquake has the effect of causing a giant tsunami, the knock-on is that the tsunami knocks out the generators at the nuke plant, and so on and so on, knocking on until eventually someone gets fired for not wearing their dosimeter at the Tepco HQ in Tokyo.
Avoiding natural disasters is a canard. Systems can be designed to tolerate worst-case scenarios. The problem at Fukushima is they didn't design for worst-case. They designed for events that weren't nearly far enough out on the tail of the distribution. Someone murdered Japan for a couple of bucks.
green, renewable energy
No such thing. Not in the quantities needed to supply our activities. We'd have to ration light, heat, all mechanical activities, and food (which is energy too) to fit into the budget that would give us. And ban breeding.
We need to stop using fossil fuels, build nuke plants, and continue in the search for high-efficiency solar power.
If there was a large release of Radon days before the quake, was the sea effervescent?
I'm serious. Enough of a substance to raise the temperature of that much atmosphere is a lot of that substance. I'd expect simmering if not outright foaming. We should see the sea getting warmer and bubbling like soda, too.
Otherwise, I call simple weather.
Then make it illegal for bored cops to peruse it, and illegal for any evidence gathered that way to be used against you, but don't make it illegal to track down criminals based on evidence of crimes.
This could all have been mooted if in the original design of IPv4 it weren't made so easy to spoof. That same lackadaisical attitude spread to mail paths and DNS.
The fact is, in order to get data from point A to point B there is a necessary uniqueness to the identification of A and B. If that had been concretized rather than left flapping in the wind, while still allowing for mobility, then your packets would be your packets with 100% certainty.
I really haven't looked at IPv6 hard enough to know if it's less spoofable. But I hope so. I really want a button in my email client labelled "Spam" that brings up a full trace to the person who initiated the message, determines what spambot they were running, then correlates with the other bots to triangulate to the control node, and shuts it down with prejudice, preferably by injecting 50 kV into its keyboard.
The question is not whether it's different. It's different, hence patentable.
The question is whether the difference is worth anything. Nominally it isn't. You don't proffer it with a price tag. You wait until someone uses it without mentioning that you patented it before they used it. Then you walk in and sue them, and they pay you more than if you'd just negotiated.
The part that's broken isn't the patenting. It's the arbitration of value.
And then again, the judge may find all of this countersuit's claims true, yet still find merit in what remains of Righthaven's suit.
I believe the term for this state is "winkelvossed".