45% of cell owners say that their phone is a smartphone, up from 33% in May 2011 49% of cell owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform common to the US market,1 up from 39% in May 2011
So the criterion is whether the user says their phone is a smart phone.
Personally, I think a more interesting poll question would be if phone owners use the `smart' functions on their phones or just use them as old fashioned feature phones.
Depends on what "it" is. If you mean constitutional law in general, sure. If you mean citizen initiatives that propose new laws in general, not so much.
There is no way to form take some forms of voter initiatives seriously that do not lead to California style problems.
I do like the idea of recall elections and initiatives to place existing laws on the ballot for an up or down vote by the population at large. But positive law by ballot just doesn't work once you've scaled up past the size of a small town. Even with a legislative body sitting between enactment and the ballot box, the end result is a big waste of time at best.
... I would be fine about talking about the actual *price* of refined petrol instead of talking about the combined price + various taxes. But the fact of the matter is that petroleum companies are benefiting from a market structure where they do not incur large portions of the *costs* of using refined petrol. Until such time as all costs associated with using gasoline are built into the market price, taxes should certainly be included in the discussion.
... but a heck of a lot of people carry around, uh, tablets. Many people would like tablets to stay at the present size of the iPad and/or Fire. But many people would also like a usable screen about the size of letter (or even legal) paper. Such a device would be about the same size as a tablet of said paper and fit nicely into most briefcases, folders, folios, et cetera.
There is no real reason to do so. It's a fashion statement. But, in most situations in which it is done, is not one that rises to the level of idiocy. And, in a few situations such as holding high recoil, rapid fire weapons on the battlefield sideways so that they spray horizontally rather than vertically, it makes sense.
But, as someone raised by an out-of-the-closet lesbian, I can assure you that being outed as gay has some pretty severe consequences in many parts of this country. The one year I attended a public school in Kentucky, as one example, I faced very real threats of violence because my mother was gay even though I myself am straight.
Granted, in some parts of the country, this has ceased to be an issue. In fact, some of my daughters' friends at school think it's `cool' to be gay. At one school attended by my eldest daughter, you might say that being bisexual was the new black.
But in a world where two thirds of the voting public in Ohio pass a state constitutional amendment banning not only gay marriage but also recognition of same sex civil unions, I can assure you that there are still many places in the US where being outed has very real, very significant, and oftentimes very brutal consequences.
The dividing line in this case is largely (but not entirely) along the Catholic/Protestant split. Protestants tend to ignore IVF and forms of birth control that are abortifacient. Catholics tend to spotlight IVF and abortifacient forms of birth control on the list of things that kill the unborn.
But, to be fair, this split is at usually at the doctrinal level. It's not uncommon for either Catholics or Protestants to either (a) not be well informed on matters of doctrine or (b) not care about matters of doctrine. But, if you look at the literature, that split will be there even if it isn't manifested 100% in those who self-identify with the respective label.
All of the national book chains have long had "exclusive to x" lines. Granted, it's been more common for distributors to do exclusive editions but exclusive titles are not all that rare. Usually, but not always, the exclusive titles are of poor quality: cook books, how to books, coffee table books, et cetera.
Technical skills (as in the technical ability to perform the tasks of the position) are only half the equation, if that. Plenty of people that have the technical chops for a given position just aren't a good fit for the position because either they don't have people skills at all, or they don't fit in well with the corporate culture, or have some other impediment to being a valuable employee that won't show up in a simulation.
As an example, I helped interview a very technically skilled person a few years ago. She really had the technical chops. Nevertheless I recommended against hiring her because she kept cutting me off in mid-sentence during the interview. My boss (and her boss) disagreed with my assessment and the candidate was hired. Technically she did quite well. But the way that she ultimately left the company was filled with the sort of drama that we all could have done without.
It wasn't the Ottoman incursion that inspired Vlad Tsepes to cruelty and brutality. He had plenty of experience with that prior to the attempted invasion by Mehmed II. For example, after the brutal civil war that ended with Tsepes as the ruler of Wallachia, he invited all the noble families that had opposed him to the reconcile at the Paschal (Easter) liturgy. After the midnight services, when they were expecting to attend a feast, he put them all in chains while their fancy robes and dresses, forced marched across his territory and impressed them into slave gangs to build his castle.
The invasion of the Turks cemented his position as a Romanian national hero. (He as already popular for bring law and order to Wallachia.) But it occurred well after his reputation for brutality was spread across Europe by Russians, Germans, and Italians.
... I'll concede that he's been in some decent films and has been quite good in them: Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, Hook, Jumanji, Awakenings, Final Cut, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
The kind of republican government that the United States has depends on its citizenry being well informed about political theory, the sciences, and so on.
Arguably, a liberal arts education at the university level is needed to produce the sorts of citizens required in order for a representative democracy to work. Yes, leisure (as opposed to work) is required for this to happen.
Also, work backwards a bit. After all, why restrict to 2011. Q4 2010 saw 16 million units for Apple vs 10 million for Samsung. And then keep going and going, over all, Apple has sole more smartphones.
For annual totals of Apple's 93 million to Samsung's 94 million. More important than introduction of 4s is the entry of Verizon (Q2) and Sprint, Aircel, and Airtel (Q4). Likewise, the addition of Verizon gave Apple a bump in Q2. Q3 is an anomaly for Apple because the release of a new model was being anticipated. People intending to get an iPhone were putting such off in anticipation of the new model expected to be released shortly.
The largest hindrance to iPhone adoption has been the lack of carriers. This is becoming less and less of an issue.
The value of a college education should not lie in the career opportunities it opens up for the graduates.
Sometimes it is the case that career opportunities is the only value offered by schools. Many colleges are little more than trade schools that replace apprenticeships with four years of studies. Some schools are so bad that they don't even amount to that.
But it seems to me that if one wants to learn a trade (even if that trade is a white collar one like computer programming) then apprenticeships have far more value in learning the requisite skills. Unfortunately, many HR departments do not see things that way.
The real value of a college education should lie in seeking education for its own sake. Not everyone needs to go to college to be well educated. But some people, perhaps most people, learn better in that sort of environment. Moreover, a well designed college program will stretch a student beyond what he or she would normally be attracted to in his or her studies and expose that student to ideas that he or she would not normally encounter. That sort of thing is difficult, but not impossible, for an autodidact to encounter.
I think you missed the GP's point. No senators will vote for SOPA because it is a HOUSE bill. Some senators, however, may vote for the corresponding bill (PIPA) in the SENATE.
Granted, the GP was a bit confusing by talking of senators not supporting SOPA because it is a house bill. Senators support various house bills all the time by lobbying their colleagues in the house to pass this bill or that bill. It's just that, being senators, they don't get to vote on house bills.
In the first century BC, Mithradates and his allies killed every single Roman citizen in Anatolia within a month's time. Historical estimates offer that somewhere between 80,000 and 150,000 Romans were killed across the Aegaen islands and Anatolia. This happened in a world without the Internet, without mass media, without high tech weapons, without gunpowder.
Mithradates and his lieutenants were able to spread hatred of Rome entirely through word of mouth. They were able to coordinate their slaughter without the Internet. They were able to kills tens, if not hundreds of thousands, in practically the blink of an eye.
It doesn't seem to me that much has changed with regards human capacity to spread hatred.
Advances in both chip design and software has largely diminished the traditional advantages to RISC design.
For example, one of the longstanding argument for RISC chips was that because the instruction set was simpler (in terms of the computations, not necessarily in terms of having fewer instructions), it was easier to ramp up clocks speeds. So you had DEC Alphas running rings around x86 chips simply because the DEC kit was running at 500Mhz when Intel was barely able to crack 100Mhz. But advances in chip design have largely leveled the playing field here. Clock speeds are similar between CISC and RISC chips these days.
Another one of the advantages in RISC design was the ability to keep the pipeline full. But with improvements in branch prediction, out of order operations, and speculative execution, modern CISC designs are almost always able to keep the pipeline full of instructions.
Not to mention, Intel was able to adapt a good bit of RISC theory in its chips designs. The guts of the modern x86 family are fundamentally different than the days of yore. The x86 instruction set is largely an artificial interface that Intel chips break down into an almost entirely different instruction set internally.
And then there also the improvements in compiler design. Modern compilers are much better at optimization than they were in 80s and 90s. But this leads to the point you make in your second paragraph. That was effectively the argument for VLIW processors. Yet Itanic didn't seem to pan out so well. It would seem that compilers and programmers just aren't clever enough to make VLIW work well (where working well means better performance than non-VLIW chips doing the same computations). As it turns out, the things that can make a compiler smarter can mostly be applied to compilers for both RISC and CISC chips.
Admittedly, _released_ versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista didn't support any RISC chips. The days of NT shipping with install discs for multiple architectures are long gone.
But the the most recent versions of the Windows family still supports RISC chips, just on a different code branch (Windows CE/Mobile/Pocket PC/Whatever they're calling it these days). Microsoft had planned on re-unifying the branches with Windows 7 but that goal got pushed back to Windows 8.
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If so, it would have been counted as one.
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So the criterion is whether the user says their phone is a smart phone.
Personally, I think a more interesting poll question would be if phone owners use the `smart' functions on their phones or just use them as old fashioned feature phones.
Depends on what "it" is. If you mean constitutional law in general, sure. If you mean citizen initiatives that propose new laws in general, not so much.
There is no way to form take some forms of voter initiatives seriously that do not lead to California style problems.
I do like the idea of recall elections and initiatives to place existing laws on the ballot for an up or down vote by the population at large. But positive law by ballot just doesn't work once you've scaled up past the size of a small town. Even with a legislative body sitting between enactment and the ballot box, the end result is a big waste of time at best.
The state is effectively ungovernable precises because of various schizophrenic initiatives put on the ballot.
Go to any business setting. Many, if not most people, are carrying around tablets *of paper*.
... I would be fine about talking about the actual *price* of refined petrol instead of talking about the combined price + various taxes. But the fact of the matter is that petroleum companies are benefiting from a market structure where they do not incur large portions of the *costs* of using refined petrol. Until such time as all costs associated with using gasoline are built into the market price, taxes should certainly be included in the discussion.
... but a heck of a lot of people carry around, uh, tablets. Many people would like tablets to stay at the present size of the iPad and/or Fire. But many people would also like a usable screen about the size of letter (or even legal) paper. Such a device would be about the same size as a tablet of said paper and fit nicely into most briefcases, folders, folios, et cetera.
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There is no real reason to do so. It's a fashion statement. But, in most situations in which it is done, is not one that rises to the level of idiocy. And, in a few situations such as holding high recoil, rapid fire weapons on the battlefield sideways so that they spray horizontally rather than vertically, it makes sense.
But, as someone raised by an out-of-the-closet lesbian, I can assure you that being outed as gay has some pretty severe consequences in many parts of this country. The one year I attended a public school in Kentucky, as one example, I faced very real threats of violence because my mother was gay even though I myself am straight.
Granted, in some parts of the country, this has ceased to be an issue. In fact, some of my daughters' friends at school think it's `cool' to be gay. At one school attended by my eldest daughter, you might say that being bisexual was the new black.
But in a world where two thirds of the voting public in Ohio pass a state constitutional amendment banning not only gay marriage but also recognition of same sex civil unions, I can assure you that there are still many places in the US where being outed has very real, very significant, and oftentimes very brutal consequences.
The dividing line in this case is largely (but not entirely) along the Catholic/Protestant split. Protestants tend to ignore IVF and forms of birth control that are abortifacient. Catholics tend to spotlight IVF and abortifacient forms of birth control on the list of things that kill the unborn.
But, to be fair, this split is at usually at the doctrinal level. It's not uncommon for either Catholics or Protestants to either (a) not be well informed on matters of doctrine or (b) not care about matters of doctrine. But, if you look at the literature, that split will be there even if it isn't manifested 100% in those who self-identify with the respective label.
All of the national book chains have long had "exclusive to x" lines. Granted, it's been more common for distributors to do exclusive editions but exclusive titles are not all that rare. Usually, but not always, the exclusive titles are of poor quality: cook books, how to books, coffee table books, et cetera.
... that candidate x plays well with others?
Technical skills (as in the technical ability to perform the tasks of the position) are only half the equation, if that. Plenty of people that have the technical chops for a given position just aren't a good fit for the position because either they don't have people skills at all, or they don't fit in well with the corporate culture, or have some other impediment to being a valuable employee that won't show up in a simulation.
As an example, I helped interview a very technically skilled person a few years ago. She really had the technical chops. Nevertheless I recommended against hiring her because she kept cutting me off in mid-sentence during the interview. My boss (and her boss) disagreed with my assessment and the candidate was hired. Technically she did quite well. But the way that she ultimately left the company was filled with the sort of drama that we all could have done without.
If you can shave ten cents off the cost of your widget by using a slightly smaller memory module, you've just saved a million bucks.
It wasn't the Ottoman incursion that inspired Vlad Tsepes to cruelty and brutality. He had plenty of experience with that prior to the attempted invasion by Mehmed II. For example, after the brutal civil war that ended with Tsepes as the ruler of Wallachia, he invited all the noble families that had opposed him to the reconcile at the Paschal (Easter) liturgy. After the midnight services, when they were expecting to attend a feast, he put them all in chains while their fancy robes and dresses, forced marched across his territory and impressed them into slave gangs to build his castle.
The invasion of the Turks cemented his position as a Romanian national hero. (He as already popular for bring law and order to Wallachia.) But it occurred well after his reputation for brutality was spread across Europe by Russians, Germans, and Italians.
... I'll concede that he's been in some decent films and has been quite good in them: Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, Hook, Jumanji, Awakenings, Final Cut, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
You say 'leisure' as if it were a bad word.
The kind of republican government that the United States has depends on its citizenry being well informed about political theory, the sciences, and so on.
Arguably, a liberal arts education at the university level is needed to produce the sorts of citizens required in order for a representative democracy to work. Yes, leisure (as opposed to work) is required for this to happen.
Also, work backwards a bit. After all, why restrict to 2011. Q4 2010 saw 16 million units for Apple vs 10 million for Samsung. And then keep going and going, over all, Apple has sole more smartphones.
Why just Q3? Oh, right, because it was the one quarter that Samsung outsold Apple!
Quarter Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Samsung 13 18 28 35
Apple 18 20 17 37
For annual totals of Apple's 93 million to Samsung's 94 million. More important than introduction of 4s is the entry of Verizon (Q2) and Sprint, Aircel, and Airtel (Q4). Likewise, the addition of Verizon gave Apple a bump in Q2. Q3 is an anomaly for Apple because the release of a new model was being anticipated. People intending to get an iPhone were putting such off in anticipation of the new model expected to be released shortly.
The largest hindrance to iPhone adoption has been the lack of carriers. This is becoming less and less of an issue.
Samsung Q4 smartphone sales: 35 million (forecast)
Apple Q4 iphone sales: 37 million (actual)
The iPhone is outselling all models of Samsung's smartphones combined.
I, for one, would like to see more of the voting public exposed to collegiate level political theory, comparative religion, and science.
The value of a college education should not lie in the career opportunities it opens up for the graduates.
Sometimes it is the case that career opportunities is the only value offered by schools. Many colleges are little more than trade schools that replace apprenticeships with four years of studies. Some schools are so bad that they don't even amount to that.
But it seems to me that if one wants to learn a trade (even if that trade is a white collar one like computer programming) then apprenticeships have far more value in learning the requisite skills. Unfortunately, many HR departments do not see things that way.
The real value of a college education should lie in seeking education for its own sake. Not everyone needs to go to college to be well educated. But some people, perhaps most people, learn better in that sort of environment. Moreover, a well designed college program will stretch a student beyond what he or she would normally be attracted to in his or her studies and expose that student to ideas that he or she would not normally encounter. That sort of thing is difficult, but not impossible, for an autodidact to encounter.
I think you missed the GP's point. No senators will vote for SOPA because it is a HOUSE bill. Some senators, however, may vote for the corresponding bill (PIPA) in the SENATE.
Granted, the GP was a bit confusing by talking of senators not supporting SOPA because it is a house bill. Senators support various house bills all the time by lobbying their colleagues in the house to pass this bill or that bill. It's just that, being senators, they don't get to vote on house bills.
In the first century BC, Mithradates and his allies killed every single Roman citizen in Anatolia within a month's time. Historical estimates offer that somewhere between 80,000 and 150,000 Romans were killed across the Aegaen islands and Anatolia. This happened in a world without the Internet, without mass media, without high tech weapons, without gunpowder.
Mithradates and his lieutenants were able to spread hatred of Rome entirely through word of mouth. They were able to coordinate their slaughter without the Internet. They were able to kills tens, if not hundreds of thousands, in practically the blink of an eye.
It doesn't seem to me that much has changed with regards human capacity to spread hatred.
``you end up avoiding mostly harmless low income areas, like university student areas ''
Come again?
Advances in both chip design and software has largely diminished the traditional advantages to RISC design.
For example, one of the longstanding argument for RISC chips was that because the instruction set was simpler (in terms of the computations, not necessarily in terms of having fewer instructions), it was easier to ramp up clocks speeds. So you had DEC Alphas running rings around x86 chips simply because the DEC kit was running at 500Mhz when Intel was barely able to crack 100Mhz. But advances in chip design have largely leveled the playing field here. Clock speeds are similar between CISC and RISC chips these days.
Another one of the advantages in RISC design was the ability to keep the pipeline full. But with improvements in branch prediction, out of order operations, and speculative execution, modern CISC designs are almost always able to keep the pipeline full of instructions.
Not to mention, Intel was able to adapt a good bit of RISC theory in its chips designs. The guts of the modern x86 family are fundamentally different than the days of yore. The x86 instruction set is largely an artificial interface that Intel chips break down into an almost entirely different instruction set internally.
And then there also the improvements in compiler design. Modern compilers are much better at optimization than they were in 80s and 90s. But this leads to the point you make in your second paragraph. That was effectively the argument for VLIW processors. Yet Itanic didn't seem to pan out so well. It would seem that compilers and programmers just aren't clever enough to make VLIW work well (where working well means better performance than non-VLIW chips doing the same computations). As it turns out, the things that can make a compiler smarter can mostly be applied to compilers for both RISC and CISC chips.
Admittedly, _released_ versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista didn't support any RISC chips. The days of NT shipping with install discs for multiple architectures are long gone.
But the the most recent versions of the Windows family still supports RISC chips, just on a different code branch (Windows CE/Mobile/Pocket PC/Whatever they're calling it these days). Microsoft had planned on re-unifying the branches with Windows 7 but that goal got pushed back to Windows 8.