1) They license other companies intellectual property. They can't just willy-nilly make all of their drivers' source code public.
2) A decade ago, NVIDIA other companies were so competitive, they were concerned that revealing their driver source code could reveal their hardware tricks to speed up graphics performance. Then their competitors could reverse-engineer the detail in their next generation card, and "catch up" to NVIDIA's performance. Luckily, they may be finally realizing that they get more of an advantage by utilizing free debugging & fixes from their enthusiast customers.
They'll never move to the lower end of the market, because its tight margins means no profit. They basically will abandon the low end to feature phones and android. Market efficiencies are going to keep driving down the costs of android/feature phones to the point that Apple can't make an obscene profit on outdated iPhones. At that point, Apple will only offer products in the high end market, at an obscene profit margin.
My point is that its not worth burning billions making a mapping service competitive to google. They don't "need" an Apple maps service to keep selling their phones. They don't build their own internet search service. They would be a lot brighter building a high quality Apple cloud service. That would service their phones, tablets, laptop and desktops, give them the ability to provide uniquely user-friendly services, and enable "lock-in". No one takes Apple maps seriously, and once their phones become niche, they will have pumped a ton of money to provide an inferior service. It doesn't make sense from a marketing standpoint.
But Apple doesn't make cars, or GPS auto map devices.
Apple leases out search; why does it feels compelled to create its inferior mapping service? Why not just license mapquest/whatever, or come to an agreement with Google?
It strikes me that Apple and Google are two companies competing in different market niches. Apple being hardware, and Google being user information (for advertisers). How does Apple "monetize" its userbase information right now?
Why does Apple feel the compulsion to plow money into an inferior map service? It only benefit their iphone niche until they can't sustain a lower end iphone market.
Judy Clarke having represented so many killers, I wonder how she can even sleep at night!
Because her willingness to defend potentially wrongly accused killers means we can live in a legal system where everyone is presumed innocent before a trial can issue a judgement. If the accused were permitted to be executed without a real opportunity to exonerate themselves, then our entire notion of a nation governed by laws, not by dictators, would be a lie.
the state cannot be trusted to wield this power responsibility.
Why would you trust the state to wield any power over a human being, even a criminal, responsibly? What makes the court system justifiable to convict someone to life without parole, but unjustifiable to execute them?
The Tsarnaevs should not have been allowed to enter the United States in the first place, but if anyone dare to speak up against immigration of moslems into the United States of America that person would be automagically chastised as "hater" and "racist", by none other than those who subscribe to the political correctness doctrines.
It depends. Are you against Israeli Jews from immigrating into the US? Latin Americans, because the higher rate of "criminal conviction"? English, French, Dutch, and Germans, for their history of inhuman bloodshed?
I never understood these hayseed "kill'em" states. Just execute them by firing squad or (proper) hanging. When its designed to be quick, its not "cruel & unusual punishment". New York City is perfectly designed to execute prisoners "humanely". Just close off a block by the Empire State building, and shove them off from the observation deck. I've never heard of anyone lingering from death once they hit the ground.
for life with no chance of parole might as well be death
except its not. Life without parole sentences have been "commuted". In most cases, it only avoids the costs of medical care and burial. It doesn't mean Hinckley isn't going to get out at some point (though he never was sentenced to "life imprisonment without parole").
Really, the only persuasive argument for me for "life imprisonment without parole" is the cost to a successful death penalty prosecution. And somehow, that should be correctable.
Easy conversion does not make it a reliable store of value.
It does when you live in Argentina, and experience gov't mandated fixed rate of Argentine Peso -> USD, arbitrary fee/tax for exchange, shortage of available USD currency at an Argentine bank, or even temporary ban on currency exchanges for "the little people". Compare that to the market determining USD/bitcoin or peso/bitcoin exchange rate..
Now could the Argentine Peso also be a poor store of value, thats plausible
If you believe the Argentine Peso to be a more reliable store of value than bitcoin, then apparently you don't know what you're talking about.
The fact that bitcoin can be converted to USD or Euro, would make it a (slightly) more reliable store of value, because the Argentine Treasury department has no qualms about fixing exchange rates, penalizing conversions, or outright banning currency conversions.
> I don't want some device I have to build in a kit every couple of months. I'm beyond the point where I want to endlessly fiddle with technology. It's a waste of my time, and not something I do for fun.
But you realize that Google is pretty incompetent as a consumer support vendor? They're putting out changes to their "stock" android OS at least twice a year. For lollipop, they upgraded the phones months ago; but didn't even bother to upgrade the N7 (2013, razor/razorg) until a week or two ago. And almost every time, someone gets boned by a software glitch caused by the new release. Google does not give a tinker's damn when the device goes sideways on consumers.
I'm still running kitkat, figuring that I'm not going to even update my tablet until (lollipop) v5.1.1 is released as an automatic update. I'm pretty much terrified, at this point, every time Google puts out an upgrade, because their QA really sucks. As far as I'm concerned, fiddling with it is a guaranteed event, like a slackware/gentoo release from a decade ago, every time Google puts out an upgrade.
The sad truth is that its highly likely I will go iPad mini when my N7 dies on me. And I hate Apple. It strangles developers. Its as soulless as Google. Their products will never be the vanguard of technology. But Apple gives a damn about ensuring a flawless user experience. If the tablet goes sideways, they'll replace it. Their upgrades will fix things without introducing new problems. The question is whether that's worth the excessive margin they'll be extracting from your wallet.
I'm thinking the the US takes its commercial computer security so casually, the Chinese get a head start by hacking the repository with all the details involved with the fab plant. At this point, China has the engineers and materials scientists capable of reverse manufacturing critical equipment, and can buy previous generation tools from European companies.
Lenovo still has to follow US export laws, and Lenovo can simply be embargoed. I don't think Lenovo even produces computers with Xeon CPUs (unless they come from the outdated China fab plant).
You're also under the mistaken impression that the Chinese can't just steal the technological details from US fab plants, and then make an acceptable copy purely for their military research division.
Lenovo still has to abide by US commerce regulations if it wants to sell its products in the US. (Which is currently its most lucrative way to stay in existence.) Frankly, I doubt Lenovo even has a license to buy Xeon chips. What I don't get is what is stopping a European export company from buying the computers in small numbers, and shipping it over to an Eastern European company that does no business in the US, and have them send the chips to China?
And why is this even an irritant to China. There is no time savings from a computation unique to a Xeon chip, that cannot be replicated by a supercomputer cluster with software higher precision emulation. Its just more work and higher energy consumption costs.
The soonest way China gets SOTA computing chips is to provide the chips from US factories. (And then the Chinese build the tools to nuke said factories.) Let them develop their own competing technology. That at least gives a 10-20 year window where the US is "safe" from higher tech nukes. Handing it over to them for a profit gives zero time window.
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1) They license other companies intellectual property. They can't just willy-nilly make all of their drivers' source code public.
2) A decade ago, NVIDIA other companies were so competitive, they were concerned that revealing their driver source code could reveal their hardware tricks to speed up graphics performance. Then their competitors could reverse-engineer the detail in their next generation card, and "catch up" to NVIDIA's performance. Luckily, they may be finally realizing that they get more of an advantage by utilizing free debugging & fixes from their enthusiast customers.
Well, can't count on an anonymous coward to do it. Luckily what you say also doesn't matter.
> I'm not sure they won't be moving down market
They'll never move to the lower end of the market, because its tight margins means no profit. They basically will abandon the low end to feature phones and android. Market efficiencies are going to keep driving down the costs of android/feature phones to the point that Apple can't make an obscene profit on outdated iPhones. At that point, Apple will only offer products in the high end market, at an obscene profit margin.
My point is that its not worth burning billions making a mapping service competitive to google. They don't "need" an Apple maps service to keep selling their phones. They don't build their own internet search service. They would be a lot brighter building a high quality Apple cloud service. That would service their phones, tablets, laptop and desktops, give them the ability to provide uniquely user-friendly services, and enable "lock-in". No one takes Apple maps seriously, and once their phones become niche, they will have pumped a ton of money to provide an inferior service. It doesn't make sense from a marketing standpoint.
But Apple doesn't make cars, or GPS auto map devices.
Apple leases out search; why does it feels compelled to create its inferior mapping service? Why not just license mapquest/whatever, or come to an agreement with Google?
It strikes me that Apple and Google are two companies competing in different market niches. Apple being hardware, and Google being user information (for advertisers). How does Apple "monetize" its userbase information right now?
Why does Apple feel the compulsion to plow money into an inferior map service? It only benefit their iphone niche until they can't sustain a lower end iphone market.
Judy Clarke having represented so many killers, I wonder how she can even sleep at night!
Because her willingness to defend potentially wrongly accused killers means we can live in a legal system where everyone is presumed innocent before a trial can issue a judgement. If the accused were permitted to be executed without a real opportunity to exonerate themselves, then our entire notion of a nation governed by laws, not by dictators, would be a lie.
the state cannot be trusted to wield this power responsibility.
Why would you trust the state to wield any power over a human being, even a criminal, responsibly? What makes the court system justifiable to convict someone to life without parole, but unjustifiable to execute them?
The Tsarnaevs should not have been allowed to enter the United States in the first place, but if anyone dare to speak up against immigration of moslems into the United States of America that person would be automagically chastised as "hater" and "racist", by none other than those who subscribe to the political correctness doctrines.
It depends. Are you against Israeli Jews from immigrating into the US? Latin Americans, because the higher rate of "criminal conviction"? English, French, Dutch, and Germans, for their history of inhuman bloodshed?
Not true, unless it was a Massachusetts (state) thing. The Oklahoma Bomber declined to appeal his sentence, and he was summarily executed.
I never understood these hayseed "kill'em" states. Just execute them by firing squad or (proper) hanging. When its designed to be quick, its not "cruel & unusual punishment". New York City is perfectly designed to execute prisoners "humanely". Just close off a block by the Empire State building, and shove them off from the observation deck. I've never heard of anyone lingering from death once they hit the ground.
Such despair is a suitable punishment.
Until some hippies come along and call it "cruel and unusual punishment".
for life with no chance of parole might as well be death
except its not. Life without parole sentences have been "commuted". In most cases, it only avoids the costs of medical care and burial. It doesn't mean Hinckley isn't going to get out at some point (though he never was sentenced to "life imprisonment without parole").
Really, the only persuasive argument for me for "life imprisonment without parole" is the cost to a successful death penalty prosecution. And somehow, that should be correctable.
Perhaps if there were less anonymous cowards, ethical perspectives could be defended in a discussion about the death penalty.
Just pointing out how feckless your attack on the death penalty is.
Easy conversion does not make it a reliable store of value.
It does when you live in Argentina, and experience gov't mandated fixed rate of Argentine Peso -> USD, arbitrary fee/tax for exchange, shortage of available USD currency at an Argentine bank, or even temporary ban on currency exchanges for "the little people". Compare that to the market determining USD/bitcoin or peso/bitcoin exchange rate..
Now could the Argentine Peso also be a poor store of value, thats plausible
If you believe the Argentine Peso to be a more reliable store of value than bitcoin, then apparently you don't know what you're talking about.
The fact that bitcoin can be converted to USD or Euro, would make it a (slightly) more reliable store of value, because the Argentine Treasury department has no qualms about fixing exchange rates, penalizing conversions, or outright banning currency conversions.
Personally, I preferred the saccharin taste to aspertame. I'd drink saccharin products today if they were available on the market.
> I don't want some device I have to build in a kit every couple of months. I'm beyond the point where I want to endlessly fiddle with technology. It's a waste of my time, and not something I do for fun.
But you realize that Google is pretty incompetent as a consumer support vendor? They're putting out changes to their "stock" android OS at least twice a year. For lollipop, they upgraded the phones months ago; but didn't even bother to upgrade the N7 (2013, razor/razorg) until a week or two ago. And almost every time, someone gets boned by a software glitch caused by the new release. Google does not give a tinker's damn when the device goes sideways on consumers.
I'm still running kitkat, figuring that I'm not going to even update my tablet until (lollipop) v5.1.1 is released as an automatic update. I'm pretty much terrified, at this point, every time Google puts out an upgrade, because their QA really sucks. As far as I'm concerned, fiddling with it is a guaranteed event, like a slackware/gentoo release from a decade ago, every time Google puts out an upgrade.
The sad truth is that its highly likely I will go iPad mini when my N7 dies on me. And I hate Apple. It strangles developers. Its as soulless as Google. Their products will never be the vanguard of technology. But Apple gives a damn about ensuring a flawless user experience. If the tablet goes sideways, they'll replace it. Their upgrades will fix things without introducing new problems. The question is whether that's worth the excessive margin they'll be extracting from your wallet.
No one cares what an anonymous coward thinks.
I'm thinking the the US takes its commercial computer security so casually, the Chinese get a head start by hacking the repository with all the details involved with the fab plant. At this point, China has the engineers and materials scientists capable of reverse manufacturing critical equipment, and can buy previous generation tools from European companies.
Lenovo still has to follow US export laws, and Lenovo can simply be embargoed. I don't think Lenovo even produces computers with Xeon CPUs (unless they come from the outdated China fab plant).
Chinese workers are still cheaper than to develop & implement a packaging robot? I find it hard to believe, but that's probably the case.
IIRC Apple constructs its MacPro's in the US.
You're also under the mistaken impression that the Chinese can't just steal the technological details from US fab plants, and then make an acceptable copy purely for their military research division.
Lenovo still has to abide by US commerce regulations if it wants to sell its products in the US. (Which is currently its most lucrative way to stay in existence.) Frankly, I doubt Lenovo even has a license to buy Xeon chips. What I don't get is what is stopping a European export company from buying the computers in small numbers, and shipping it over to an Eastern European company that does no business in the US, and have them send the chips to China?
And why is this even an irritant to China. There is no time savings from a computation unique to a Xeon chip, that cannot be replicated by a supercomputer cluster with software higher precision emulation. Its just more work and higher energy consumption costs.
The soonest way China gets SOTA computing chips is to provide the chips from US factories. (And then the Chinese build the tools to nuke said factories.) Let them develop their own competing technology. That at least gives a 10-20 year window where the US is "safe" from higher tech nukes. Handing it over to them for a profit gives zero time window.