I think what parent really meant was % of budget, not % of gdp. Either way spending 4,7% of gdp is very very high up in the ranking. This is more than 50% of the budget by any way you want to put it huge, unless you want to only compare the USA with 3rd world countries in civil war and dictatorships.
No, we have "state run media", because the majority of voters think that its a good idea having public media that is paid by taxpayers rather than Companies, because that makes higher quality programming possible.
Btw, it's not "state run media", its independent media financed by taxes.
Yes, *we* do like having independent media.
Symbian Foundation closing does not imply that Nokia will stop Symbian Development. Symbian 4 being transformed from an incompatible system into an upgrade path from Symbian 3 does not make it go away except for the name. And another one: "Symbian 3 made it onto a couple of phones, but no one really noticed or cared" The first Symbian 3 device was only just released (N8) and reviewed by the usual websites, and 2 more are announced and prototypes released and shown at the Nokia Fare (C7, E7).
I'm to lazy to actually read the whole articles but there's probably more nonsense.. bad Journalism.
when comparing 2 totally different architectures: Blue Gene/L ( power pc-440 cpu vs Earth Simulator ( sx6 ) cpu.
Memory Latency: 7 microsec vs 2 microsec. Memory Bandwidth: 1.4 GByte/sec vs 5 GByte/sec per node Register size: 64Bit? vs 16Kbit ( 16 Thousand Bit! ). -> There's certainly cases where one 1 BlueGene/L TFlop ~ 1 B Earth Simulator TFlop, but for plenty stuff Earth Simulator will always outperform BlueGene/L, even if it gets cranked up to 360 TFlop. ( Data taken from the latest CT journal from www.heise.de )
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I think what parent really meant was % of budget, not % of gdp. Either way spending 4,7% of gdp is very very high up in the ranking. This is more than 50% of the budget by any way you want to put it huge, unless you want to only compare the USA with 3rd world countries in civil war and dictatorships.
No, we have "state run media", because the majority of voters think that its a good idea having public media that is paid by taxpayers rather than Companies, because that makes higher quality programming possible. Btw, it's not "state run media", its independent media financed by taxes. Yes, *we* do like having independent media.
Nokia are Number 1 in smartphones, by far, above 30% market share for 2010. Contrary to popular believe their market share in smartphones is *bigger* than their market share in dumb phones. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/nokia-s-market-share-slips-below-30-as-smaller-vendors-grow-gartner-says.html
Very badly researched articles and Summary:
Symbian Foundation closing does not imply that Nokia will stop Symbian Development.
Symbian 4 being transformed from an incompatible system into an upgrade path from Symbian 3 does not make it go away except for the name.
And another one:
"Symbian 3 made it onto a couple of phones, but no one really noticed or cared"
The first Symbian 3 device was only just released (N8) and reviewed by the usual websites, and 2 more are announced and prototypes released and shown at the Nokia Fare (C7, E7).
I'm to lazy to actually read the whole articles but there's probably more nonsense.. bad Journalism.
Oh, maths is so tricky. But you'd be right if the U.S had 700 Million people.
when comparing 2 totally different architectures:
Blue Gene/L ( power pc-440 cpu vs Earth Simulator ( sx6 ) cpu.
Memory Latency: 7 microsec vs 2 microsec.
Memory Bandwidth: 1.4 GByte/sec vs 5 GByte/sec per node
Register size: 64Bit? vs 16Kbit ( 16 Thousand Bit! ).
-> There's certainly cases where one 1 BlueGene/L TFlop ~ 1 B Earth Simulator TFlop, but for plenty stuff Earth Simulator will always outperform BlueGene/L, even if it gets cranked up to 360 TFlop.
( Data taken from the latest CT journal from www.heise.de )