I can't wait to see the tax legislation for that one. You would have to provide a receipt showing that you purchased and paid tax on that device. Then you would have to provide evidence that various blocks of storage were used for legitimate purposes. One tax dodge would be to have duplicate copies of everything. Tax inspectors would have to go round inspecting everyones backup strategies.
Because the support company oor the engineers in the support conpany couldgain experience of product support and create a rival product. Better to employ those engineers on next generation products.
Yes. It seems like a way of getting round hardware subsidies. They are giving out a $100 that covers the price of a phone because they have a "software bug" that won't be fixed until June. How convenient.
Why don't they just delay the release of the hardware until the bug is fixed? Like console makers would do? Of course to get developers interested in the phone, they need users. The quickest way of achieving this would be giving away free. That then gets a user base which attracts developers.
Like when oil platforms go offline for "maintenance" during the time of year of peak demand.
My workplace has public wi-fi, I have a wifi router at home, the local cafes have their own wi-fi zones, my phone has Skype as well as everybody else I know, even friends abroad. The only SIM card that I have is PAYG.
That's what they did in World War II . Training course for pilots involved riding tricycles with a canopy in the shape of the cockpit. The goal was to get the pilots used to the restricted field of view.
Average career lifespan of World War I pilots was 4 minutes.
UK universities were told to be more like corporations in that they should research, patent and license technology and create "spin-off companies" like their USA counterparts. The phrase "kicking round moneyballs" comes to mind. There was also the income from post-doc students which was around $200,000 per student. Each professor was supposed to have a lab full of students (12 max) each investigating a small part of the project. Combine that with grant applications and they were bringing in serious dough.
Academics dont always publish their best ideas. Also, usually by the time a paper has been published for method X, they are working on metjod Y. First generation of a project is done with standard components. Second generation uses custom components. Third generation adds a computer control system. Fourth generation does the process automatically. Fifth generation shrinks everything down into single unit.
I imagine there is a cloud of interstellar gas sonewhere which displays the current capacity of the universe like one of those online data storage companies.
You don't need GPS in a mobile phone to determine location. Cellphone towers are arranged in a hexagonal pattefn. That way, the signal strength from the nearest tower can determine location to a few dozen meters.
Since cell-phone towers dont move around, this gves the cell phone company the ability to track your location.
Samsung Galaxy II does the GPS / Wi-Fi geolocation bit. Google put together a list of all the WiFi hotspots in the world and uses that to augment GPS. Makes me wonder whether these phones are calling home with all the WiFi zones they have detected.
Each one of those was an original masterpiece designed to be something different and never seen before. Usually it was built from state-of-the-art materials and construction techniques. The Eiffel Tower wasn't even intended to be a permanent structure.
A replica life size model of a TV series starship might work if it were part of an office block, startup incubator, luxury hotel or cinema multiplex. The exterior wouldn't diminish the functionality of the inside space, but the functionality would pay for the maintenance.
The best location in my opinion would be as part of an airport hotel or conference center. Imagine having your flight coming in through the fog or haze and the first thing you see is a spaceship coming into view like something out of the Wrath of Khan.
It's not just Intel though. Microsoft is sponsoring application developers for their smartphones and tablets. Stanford university has provided a timeline of CPU's (but omitting ARM) for reference by engineers - I wonder if that is a deliberate patent honeypot? It really looks like there is this sudden panic.
I'm sure I saw something on TV with land drilling for magma chambers. They said that they could tell when the drill bit went through the crust because the drill would spin faster. When retracted, the drill would be covered in semi-solid rock.
It's more like "One *Intel* Laptop per Child". Intel really missed the mobile devices market. That's rapidly approaching the bottom end of the PC market. They simply cannot afford to lose out due to the sheer number of CPU cores that the market provides (billions).
Having mobile phones seemed to help local fishermen. Not only did it help them find the best prices for their catches, it also helped improve the distribution of food.
Once the population has food security, they can afford to start saving money and making long term financial investments like hospitals, schools, colleges, housing and offices.
It's deliberate. There was a podcast interview with some Microsoft engineers regarding future COM enhancements. They were waiting for the hardware to get faster and for memory to increase just so they could give every class member its own lock.
Simple experiment to conduct. Select ten, twenty or more sites that would be suitable for fracking. Set up seismographic equipment to locate the origin of earthquakes in all cases. Choose half the sites for fracking. Leave the other half as a control. Now you can gather results. This will give you a 2x2 table of fracking/no-fracking vs. earthquakes/no earthquakes. It could be extended to amount of fracking vs. strength of earthquake.
Just about every CCD is infra-red sensitive. That's due to the use of silicon and other elements. Even a mobile phone can create nfra-red pictures if you place a suitable filter in front of the lens (eg. Hoya H72).
Of course, an astronomical telescope is going to have the sensor chilled down to well below 0C .
We used to have these sort of philosophical debates in RE and Biology.
RE: Maybe God is the sum of all conscious / sentient thought in the universe. Everything else just obeys the laws of physics and can juat be left alone to tick along like clockwork.
Biology: How do we know something is "alive"? At the time, we used definitions like being able to reproduce, consume food and die. Then the answer was, it contained DNA, genes and enzymes that could interact.
Raw CCD sensor data is usually more than 8 bits per channel (or colour filter). 16 bits per pixel is used for professional cameras, but those sensors use Bayer format for red, green and blue. Telescopes just place different colour filters over the entire sensor and correct for different levels of sensitivity.
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There are already watches that measure heart rate and pressure. It would be good if they could combine everything into a single device.
I can't wait to see the tax legislation for that one. You would have to provide a receipt showing that you purchased and paid tax on that device. Then you would have to provide evidence that various blocks of storage were used for legitimate purposes. One tax dodge would be to have duplicate copies of everything. Tax inspectors would have to go round inspecting everyones backup strategies.
Because the support company oor the engineers in the support conpany couldgain experience of product support and create a rival product. Better to employ those engineers on next generation products.
Yes. It seems like a way of getting round hardware subsidies. They are giving out a $100 that covers the price of a phone because they have a "software bug" that won't be fixed until June. How convenient.
Why don't they just delay the release of the hardware until the bug is fixed? Like console makers would do? Of course to get developers interested in the phone, they need users. The quickest way of achieving this would be giving away free. That then gets a user base which attracts developers.
Like when oil platforms go offline for "maintenance" during the time of year of peak demand.
My workplace has public wi-fi, I have a wifi router at home, the local cafes have their own wi-fi zones, my phone has Skype as well as everybody else I know, even friends abroad. The only SIM card that I have is PAYG.
That's what they did in World War II . Training course for pilots involved riding tricycles with a canopy in the shape of the cockpit. The goal was to get the pilots used to the restricted field of view.
Average career lifespan of World War I pilots was 4 minutes.
The last level in the training course won't have the berzerker or invincible power-ups.
UK universities were told to be more like corporations in that they should research, patent and license technology and create "spin-off companies" like their USA counterparts. The phrase "kicking round moneyballs" comes to mind. There was also the income from post-doc students which was around $200,000 per student. Each professor was supposed to have a lab full of students (12 max) each investigating a small part of the project. Combine that with grant applications and they were bringing in serious dough.
Academics dont always publish their best ideas. Also, usually by the time a paper has been published for method X, they are working on metjod Y. First generation of a project is done with standard components. Second generation uses custom components. Third generation adds a computer control system. Fourth generation does the process automatically. Fifth generation shrinks everything down into single unit.
Patent trolls would sue anyone who had a bit of land that sloped into the ocean.
I imagine there is a cloud of interstellar gas sonewhere which displays the current capacity of the universe like one of those online data storage companies.
You don't need GPS in a mobile phone to determine location. Cellphone towers are arranged in a hexagonal pattefn. That way, the signal strength from the nearest tower can determine location to a few dozen meters.
Since cell-phone towers dont move around, this gves the cell phone company the ability to track your location.
Samsung Galaxy II does the GPS / Wi-Fi geolocation bit. Google put together a list of all the WiFi hotspots in the world and uses that to augment GPS. Makes me wonder whether these phones are calling home with all the WiFi zones they have detected.
Theres a Luxor Pyramid, so anything is possible.
They wanted to build some condo units in the style of the Leaning tower of Pisa.
http://www.finehomeslv.com/blog/project-city-center-las-vegas-towers-resemble-leaning-tower-of-pisa/
Each one of those was an original masterpiece designed to be something different and never seen before. Usually it was built from state-of-the-art materials and construction techniques. The Eiffel Tower wasn't even intended to be a permanent structure.
A replica life size model of a TV series starship might work if it were part of an office block, startup incubator, luxury hotel or cinema multiplex. The exterior wouldn't diminish the functionality of the inside space, but the functionality would pay for the maintenance.
The best location in my opinion would be as part of an airport hotel or conference center. Imagine having your flight coming in through the fog or haze and the first thing you see is a spaceship coming into view like something out of the Wrath of Khan.
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It's not just Intel though. Microsoft is sponsoring application developers for their smartphones and tablets. Stanford university has provided a timeline of CPU's (but omitting ARM) for reference by engineers - I wonder if that is a deliberate patent honeypot?
It really looks like there is this sudden panic.
I'm sure I saw something on TV with land drilling for magma chambers. They said that they could tell when the drill bit went through the crust because the drill would spin faster. When retracted, the drill would be covered in semi-solid rock.
It's more like "One *Intel* Laptop per Child". Intel really missed the mobile devices market. That's rapidly approaching the bottom end of the PC market. They simply cannot afford to lose out due to the sheer number of CPU cores that the market provides (billions).
Having mobile phones seemed to help local fishermen. Not only did it help them find the best prices for their catches, it also helped improve the distribution of food.
Once the population has food security, they can afford to start saving money and making long term financial investments like hospitals, schools, colleges, housing and offices.
It's deliberate. There was a podcast interview with some Microsoft engineers regarding future COM enhancements. They were waiting for the hardware to get faster and for memory to increase just so they could give every class member its own lock.
Actually, scientists have been able to drill down to the mantle or at least magma chambers where the crust is thinnest.
http://www.livescience.com/6959-hole-drilled-bottom-earth-crust-breakthrough-mantle-looms.html
Simple experiment to conduct. Select ten, twenty or more sites that would be suitable for fracking. Set up seismographic equipment to locate the origin of earthquakes in all cases. Choose half the sites for fracking. Leave the other half as a control. Now you can gather results. This will give you a 2x2 table of fracking/no-fracking vs. earthquakes/no earthquakes. It could be extended to amount of fracking vs. strength of earthquake.
Just about every CCD is infra-red sensitive. That's due to the use of silicon and other elements. Even a mobile phone can create nfra-red pictures if you place a suitable filter in front of the lens (eg. Hoya H72).
Of course, an astronomical telescope is going to have the sensor chilled down to well below 0C .
We used to have these sort of philosophical debates in RE and Biology.
RE: Maybe God is the sum of all conscious / sentient thought in the universe. Everything else just obeys the laws of physics and can juat be left alone to tick along like clockwork.
Biology: How do we know something is "alive"? At the time, we used definitions like being able to reproduce, consume food and die. Then the answer was, it contained DNA, genes and enzymes that could interact.
Raw CCD sensor data is usually more than 8 bits per channel (or colour filter). 16 bits per pixel is used for professional cameras, but those sensors use Bayer format for red, green and blue. Telescopes just place different colour filters over the entire sensor and correct for different levels of sensitivity.