Can anybody name me a smartphone that doesn't have Facebook integration already? It's hard to build a phone around a killer feature when literally every competitor already has that feature.
I'm torn. Farmers are free to use non-GMO seeds, but economically speaking these seeds make sense. The increased product you get in the end more than compensates for the increased seed costs. This isn't one of those bullcrap cases where someone gets sued because pollen from the GMO plants blew into his non GMO fields and Monsanto came over to shake him down for his hybrid crops. This guy was just trying to use the GMO seeds without paying for them.
I would read that but it's got the annoying white on black color scheme that hurts my eyes because I use the computer in a lit room instead of a darkened basement.
It's actually pretty hard to switch away from a social media site that all of your friends are using. Google+ showed us just how hard with it's sausagefest userbase and extremely high percentage of eagerly created but completely inactive accounts.
The Tea Party lost not because they were offering sound financial advice, but because all of the crazies took on the mantle of the Tea Party to demand everything from deporting Obama back to his Kenyan birthplace to shutting down Medicare/Medicaid to demanding the removal of evolution and global warming from the classroom.
They're basically another third party like Libertarians. They're founded on all of these great principles that the big parties are afraid to touch, but also saddled with loads of crazy from trying to build a party out of the lunatic fringe. I see this all the time with college Liberatrians. "Oh boy, I can totally get behind the party that wants to get the government out of my hair and treat people like adults! Wait, what do you mean about letting big corporations pollute as much as they want? Oh crap, this would affect my Pell grants, wouldn't it..."
I wish I could convince the two foot guy that scrollbars are a good thing and everybody hates having to slowly slide the stupid lists across the screen.
It depends a bit on what the hardware supports on the customer side. You don't want it end up like the fansub community where everybody flocked to the most efficient encoder that absolutely no hardware decoders support, trapping the videos on computer screens.
Also, how hard is it to just buy a gun in the US? Sure if you're a criminally insane felon you'll have to go to a gun show or use the internet or get someone else to buy it for you, but that's hardly a barrier.
I don't think we're going to see a completely separate install of Gnome for every single Gnome app on your system. I think this is intended for standalone apps like you see on phones and tablets.
IIRC the Grand Challenge winner use a computer vision system, augmented with LIDAR because computer vision is still an evolving field with plenty of risk. I am excited, autonomous navigation in cars seems like the sort of thing that is actually achievable without some major tech breakthrough. Sure it's too expensive currently, but the costs will come down as engineers optimize the system.
China has a lot of people, but it also has a lot of land area. The population density of China is 365 people per square mile, which puts it nowhere near the top worldwide. Compare this with Italy at 512 people per square mile or Germany at 609 people per square mile or the UK at 650 people per square mile. Neighboring Taiwan is all the way up at 1,849 people per square mile.
To me Gnome 3 still feels like a beta, with a bunch of features planned but not implemented yet that were working in Gnome 2. Also, it looks like shit because most of the machines I use don't have particularly good graphics cards and Gnome 3's fallback mode doesn't work for beans.
I always think it is weird when people applaud China for playing the long game, when so many of their policies seem focused on making them look explosive in the short term but crippling them in the long term. The One Child policy for instance has created an enormous glut of working age people with few dependents that will become a tremendous burden on the country when they reach retirement age. The One Child policy combined with traditional values is also creating a tremendous imbalance in the genders, with almost 20% more boys than girls born. Societies with enormous gender imbalances like that become unstable as unattached and disaffected males become restless. Historically (this also happens in polygamous cultures) the only solution is to go to war with your neighbors to kill off the excess men. The completely lax environmental regulation is allowing them to attract manufacturing from around the world, but at the cost of enormous medical and cleanup expenses down the road.
Anybody who thinks China is some unstoppable juggernaut based on their recent performance isn't thinking the situation all the way through. The communist party can only ignore these issues for so long before they boil over.
That said, China is and should be a major economic power. With a population that large you should be a major player in all global issues. The problem is that the government seems more interested in declaring themselves the winner in everything that they're not bothering to actually solve the real looming domestic issues.
I think it is 1000 miles of range until you have to replace the batteries entirely, which really isn't very far. It's not quite enough range to get you from Boston to Atlanta.
And Flash is already slow on X86 machines. Emulated CPU on smartphone hardware to do realtime video decoding and decrypting is, well, it's not going to work.
That's how you're supposed to do it. You try to plug it in and discover that it is upside down, so you turn it over and discover that it is still upside down, so you turn it over again and it actually goes in.
My guess is that the 100W delivery will be optional, and most manufacturers simply won't support it. In fact that's big enough that I don't expect to see it on many devices at all. Even your average desktop has no way to deliver 100W from the motherboard without plugging in supplemental power from the power supply (which we already do, but it would be yet more cables), and you will of course need a bigger power supply to support that.
What I really hope is that the spec has a negotiation protocol where both ends agree on the maximum amount of power they can handle and use that. So if you plug in your smartphone to a desktop, the smarphone will say "I can use up to 40W to charge, but need at least 1W", and the desktop will say "I can supply 20W", and the phone will go "ok" and let them charge. That could still be a nightmare though if someone then plugs in his second smartphone and the desktop replies with "I have no available USB power left, so you don't get to charge".
Trying to support 100W on all 12 ports of a Motherboard is obviously not going to happen, but I do like that this will let you run things like full size optical drives and hard drives off of USB. The old limit was too arbitrarily small, but the new one is much too large for widespread support. The best we can say is that it opens up a comfortable middle road where you can run most computer peripherals off of USB power potentially, except for Laser Printers.
Because Fiber optics solutions require transceivers to convert the electrical signals to light and back again. These are relatively expensive for commercial products that want to tick off a feature for a few cents. TOSLink is a bit of an exception because it is so low bandwidth that you can do it with pretty cheap hardware, but even then it is viewed as a somewhat premium feature.
Also, as everybody else noted, you can't send enough power over a fiber connection to charge a phone, so now you have an expensive hybrid solution where you have to run a copper cable anyway.
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You may not want to look too closely into how many of them got rich in the first place.
Stuff like when parties are happening, major life events (births, graduations), etc...
Can anybody name me a smartphone that doesn't have Facebook integration already? It's hard to build a phone around a killer feature when literally every competitor already has that feature.
I'm torn. Farmers are free to use non-GMO seeds, but economically speaking these seeds make sense. The increased product you get in the end more than compensates for the increased seed costs. This isn't one of those bullcrap cases where someone gets sued because pollen from the GMO plants blew into his non GMO fields and Monsanto came over to shake him down for his hybrid crops. This guy was just trying to use the GMO seeds without paying for them.
But my friends post high quality content and important social information. I've already filtered out the people who just spam useless posts.
I would read that but it's got the annoying white on black color scheme that hurts my eyes because I use the computer in a lit room instead of a darkened basement.
It's actually pretty hard to switch away from a social media site that all of your friends are using. Google+ showed us just how hard with it's sausagefest userbase and extremely high percentage of eagerly created but completely inactive accounts.
The Tea Party lost not because they were offering sound financial advice, but because all of the crazies took on the mantle of the Tea Party to demand everything from deporting Obama back to his Kenyan birthplace to shutting down Medicare/Medicaid to demanding the removal of evolution and global warming from the classroom.
They're basically another third party like Libertarians. They're founded on all of these great principles that the big parties are afraid to touch, but also saddled with loads of crazy from trying to build a party out of the lunatic fringe. I see this all the time with college Liberatrians. "Oh boy, I can totally get behind the party that wants to get the government out of my hair and treat people like adults! Wait, what do you mean about letting big corporations pollute as much as they want? Oh crap, this would affect my Pell grants, wouldn't it..."
I wish I could convince the two foot guy that scrollbars are a good thing and everybody hates having to slowly slide the stupid lists across the screen.
It depends a bit on what the hardware supports on the customer side. You don't want it end up like the fansub community where everybody flocked to the most efficient encoder that absolutely no hardware decoders support, trapping the videos on computer screens.
From what I understand, the law actually treats streaming and downloading differently, which is why content producers make such a big deal over it.
Also, how hard is it to just buy a gun in the US? Sure if you're a criminally insane felon you'll have to go to a gun show or use the internet or get someone else to buy it for you, but that's hardly a barrier.
I don't think we're going to see a completely separate install of Gnome for every single Gnome app on your system. I think this is intended for standalone apps like you see on phones and tablets.
IIRC the Grand Challenge winner use a computer vision system, augmented with LIDAR because computer vision is still an evolving field with plenty of risk. I am excited, autonomous navigation in cars seems like the sort of thing that is actually achievable without some major tech breakthrough. Sure it's too expensive currently, but the costs will come down as engineers optimize the system.
China has a lot of people, but it also has a lot of land area. The population density of China is 365 people per square mile, which puts it nowhere near the top worldwide. Compare this with Italy at 512 people per square mile or Germany at 609 people per square mile or the UK at 650 people per square mile. Neighboring Taiwan is all the way up at 1,849 people per square mile.
To me Gnome 3 still feels like a beta, with a bunch of features planned but not implemented yet that were working in Gnome 2. Also, it looks like shit because most of the machines I use don't have particularly good graphics cards and Gnome 3's fallback mode doesn't work for beans.
I always think it is weird when people applaud China for playing the long game, when so many of their policies seem focused on making them look explosive in the short term but crippling them in the long term. The One Child policy for instance has created an enormous glut of working age people with few dependents that will become a tremendous burden on the country when they reach retirement age. The One Child policy combined with traditional values is also creating a tremendous imbalance in the genders, with almost 20% more boys than girls born. Societies with enormous gender imbalances like that become unstable as unattached and disaffected males become restless. Historically (this also happens in polygamous cultures) the only solution is to go to war with your neighbors to kill off the excess men. The completely lax environmental regulation is allowing them to attract manufacturing from around the world, but at the cost of enormous medical and cleanup expenses down the road.
Anybody who thinks China is some unstoppable juggernaut based on their recent performance isn't thinking the situation all the way through. The communist party can only ignore these issues for so long before they boil over.
That said, China is and should be a major economic power. With a population that large you should be a major player in all global issues. The problem is that the government seems more interested in declaring themselves the winner in everything that they're not bothering to actually solve the real looming domestic issues.
About the only thing I can say about mine is that I squeezed in just in time to join the 500 club.
I think it is 1000 miles of range until you have to replace the batteries entirely, which really isn't very far. It's not quite enough range to get you from Boston to Atlanta.
And Flash is already slow on X86 machines. Emulated CPU on smartphone hardware to do realtime video decoding and decrypting is, well, it's not going to work.
That's how you're supposed to do it. You try to plug it in and discover that it is upside down, so you turn it over and discover that it is still upside down, so you turn it over again and it actually goes in.
My guess is that the 100W delivery will be optional, and most manufacturers simply won't support it. In fact that's big enough that I don't expect to see it on many devices at all. Even your average desktop has no way to deliver 100W from the motherboard without plugging in supplemental power from the power supply (which we already do, but it would be yet more cables), and you will of course need a bigger power supply to support that.
What I really hope is that the spec has a negotiation protocol where both ends agree on the maximum amount of power they can handle and use that. So if you plug in your smartphone to a desktop, the smarphone will say "I can use up to 40W to charge, but need at least 1W", and the desktop will say "I can supply 20W", and the phone will go "ok" and let them charge. That could still be a nightmare though if someone then plugs in his second smartphone and the desktop replies with "I have no available USB power left, so you don't get to charge".
Trying to support 100W on all 12 ports of a Motherboard is obviously not going to happen, but I do like that this will let you run things like full size optical drives and hard drives off of USB. The old limit was too arbitrarily small, but the new one is much too large for widespread support. The best we can say is that it opens up a comfortable middle road where you can run most computer peripherals off of USB power potentially, except for Laser Printers.
Because Fiber optics solutions require transceivers to convert the electrical signals to light and back again. These are relatively expensive for commercial products that want to tick off a feature for a few cents. TOSLink is a bit of an exception because it is so low bandwidth that you can do it with pretty cheap hardware, but even then it is viewed as a somewhat premium feature.
Also, as everybody else noted, you can't send enough power over a fiber connection to charge a phone, so now you have an expensive hybrid solution where you have to run a copper cable anyway.
How often are your memory access patterns not neatly aligned? This is pretty frequent and can be a major bottleneck for some applications.
The overall design reminds me a lot of Rambus. It saved pins and had excellent sustained throughput, but memory latency suffered.