A modern smartphone has a gigahertz processor, a gigabyte of RAM
A modern smart phone has an ARM processor, which is nothing at all like the more powerful CPUs used in desktop PCs.
If most smart phones were x86 I think it'd already have happened, but the only two who can produce x86 chips don't want to kill the PC market.
If smart phones were built on x86 they would be the size of a football and you would need to carry the battery on your back. The complete System on a Chip used in a smart phone consumes around one or two watts, while the smallest embedded i3 CPU alone draws ten times that much. There's a very good reason for not using x86 processors in embedded devices and it isn't "Intel doesn't feel like making them", but rather "It's like swatting a fly with a Cadillac".
My mind boggles that somebody saying "the rich people at Google should be paying more in taxes" is being painted by you as motivated by some sort of fringe "fear of socialism."
The phrase you're looking for is "I have to pay taxes to support free meals for those Google employees."
They're rich. They can afford it.
Oh, yes. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; or just Whenever they Feel like it as long as the Taxpayers are Rich, Whereas They can Afford It."
Arguments just don't get any more compelling than that.
In Professor McMahon's perfect world, Google would pay extra salary to each of their employees, who would be taxed on that as income, and they would then use that money to buy food, paying sales tax. By giving people food instead of money Google is skipping both taxes.
Assuming a marginal tax rate of 20%, plus an extra 10% in sales tax, those $10 meals would generate $3 in taxes. For two meals a day, with a working year of up to 250 days, that's $1500 per year in potential taxes which aren't being collected for each and every Oompa-loompa at the Chocolate Factory. It would really be less than that because of the way that sales tax works, but since we're making up numbers anyway why bother being accurate?
Either that or the good Professor has been spending too much time listening to fringe political parties, honestly believes that anything he doesn't like must come from the government and involve stealing tax money from him and sees any attempt to provide decent food (not including three litre Big Gulps) to people who need it as the ultimate evil of Socialismidia. Considering the country involved, I would accept either possible explanation.
Every shooting in the USA, every single one, without exception, has taken place in a state which had at least one Senator. The majority of shootings took place in states with two Senators.
That even includes the District of Columbia, which is afflicted with two Shadow Senators even though it isn't a state.
It's obvious even to a child of six that the problem is not video games, not guns, not even lack of access to health care for the mentally ill, it's the presence of Senators.
Abolish the Senate and I guarantee you that the problem of shootings taking place in states with Senators will go away immediately.
They have to. Because they cannot rule out that someone crazy/stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would not also be crazy/stupid enough to brag about it.
You know what else? You also cannot rule out that someone crazy or stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would _not_ say anything about it. So you'd better close down the airport and call in a SWAT team every time a passenger doesn't say anything about bombs.
How about a contest where the submitted code does exactly what the specs say, every time, on any hardware. The victor will be the one who writes a piece of code to spec, sits an untrained user in front of the app, and it behaves exactly as expected. Extra points if the user is successfully able to decipher any and all error messages and correct input without interference from anyone. Once you have a grip on that shit, then you can start doing cute/useless shit like this.
If you make something idiot proof then the world will build a better idiot. Once you understand that concept -- and I mean _really_ understand it, not just remember how to say it when the Omega-Derp sits down in front of your product, misreads the instructions and starts spooning ice cream into it, or when Out-tel's latest processor correctly implements the Halt And Catch Fire instruction and calls it "NOP" -- then you can start to understand the Tao of Design.
And once you understand that, it's probably time to take a long vacation because you'll really need it.
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"It looks like you're trying to write a paper where the experimental results do not support your thesis. Would you like me to correct the results?"
A modern smartphone has a gigahertz processor, a gigabyte of RAM
A modern smart phone has an ARM processor, which is nothing at all like the more powerful CPUs used in desktop PCs.
If most smart phones were x86 I think it'd already have happened, but the only two who can produce x86 chips don't want to kill the PC market.
If smart phones were built on x86 they would be the size of a football and you would need to carry the battery on your back. The complete System on a Chip used in a smart phone consumes around one or two watts, while the smallest embedded i3 CPU alone draws ten times that much. There's a very good reason for not using x86 processors in embedded devices and it isn't "Intel doesn't feel like making them", but rather "It's like swatting a fly with a Cadillac".
I don't know how Sony treats people in Japan, but for me Sony would be the last company I would trust as my ISP.
That's only because Electronic Arts doesn't offer that service yet.
"EA Fibre 2012 servers will be closing down later this month, but you can pre-order EA Fibre 2014 and get a Free(*) copy of Sim City!"
And don't get me started about "Full Speed" USB.
July, 2013: AMD Says 'Okay, There Will Be A DirectX 12, But We're Not Supporting It'
September, 2013: AMD Says DirectX 12 Support By Next Year
March, 2014: New AMD Cards' Poor DirectX 12 Performance Disappointing
May, 2014: AMD Boss Complains About Being 'Left Out' Of DirectX 12 Development
August, 2014: Struggling AMD Says 'Just Wait For DirectX 13!'
You know how chimpanzees share something like 98% of their DNA with humans? It's like that...
Has anyone told Prenda Law about this? Those chimpanzees may have to pay a bundle to avoid being sued for all that unauthorized sharing.
They used to spell it "Sci Fi", but changed it to avoid charges of false advertising.
My mind boggles that somebody saying "the rich people at Google should be paying more in taxes" is being painted by you as motivated by some sort of fringe "fear of socialism."
The phrase you're looking for is "I have to pay taxes to support free meals for those Google employees."
They're rich. They can afford it.
Oh, yes. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; or just Whenever they Feel like it as long as the Taxpayers are Rich, Whereas They can Afford It."
Arguments just don't get any more compelling than that.
These are the same people who compared VCRs to the Boston Strangler. Why be surprised that they don't like TiVo?
As everyone knows, skipping commercials is un-American and no different from terrorism.
In Professor McMahon's perfect world, Google would pay extra salary to each of their employees, who would be taxed on that as income, and they would then use that money to buy food, paying sales tax. By giving people food instead of money Google is skipping both taxes.
Assuming a marginal tax rate of 20%, plus an extra 10% in sales tax, those $10 meals would generate $3 in taxes. For two meals a day, with a working year of up to 250 days, that's $1500 per year in potential taxes which aren't being collected for each and every Oompa-loompa at the Chocolate Factory. It would really be less than that because of the way that sales tax works, but since we're making up numbers anyway why bother being accurate?
Either that or the good Professor has been spending too much time listening to fringe political parties, honestly believes that anything he doesn't like must come from the government and involve stealing tax money from him and sees any attempt to provide decent food (not including three litre Big Gulps) to people who need it as the ultimate evil of Socialismidia. Considering the country involved, I would accept either possible explanation.
Congress, Ms. Feinstein in particular, but the rest of them also need to be thrown out.
So you're arguing that Senator Feinstein needs to be thrown out of Congress?
I think there may be an important detail that you're missing there. This instructional video may help you spot it.
Every shooting in the USA, every single one, without exception, has taken place in a state which had at least one Senator. The majority of shootings took place in states with two Senators.
That even includes the District of Columbia, which is afflicted with two Shadow Senators even though it isn't a state.
It's obvious even to a child of six that the problem is not video games, not guns, not even lack of access to health care for the mentally ill, it's the presence of Senators.
Abolish the Senate and I guarantee you that the problem of shootings taking place in states with Senators will go away immediately.
There should be zero. Why would we need researchers in literature?
We already have writers.
Yes, and most of them write stories that begin with "I never thought this kind of thing could happen to me, but..."
I rarely enter anywhere i cant leave easily and at my own discretion.
Like on board a plane, in the air?
Even without the TSA that's not something you can leave easily and at your own discretion unless your name is D. B. Cooper.
They have to. Because they cannot rule out that someone crazy/stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would not also be crazy/stupid enough to brag about it.
You know what else? You also cannot rule out that someone crazy or stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would _not_ say anything about it. So you'd better close down the airport and call in a SWAT team every time a passenger doesn't say anything about bombs.
In a large sack, underneath the mattress.
At least you know that they're safe.
Agreed.
How about a contest where the submitted code does exactly what the specs say, every time, on any hardware. The victor will be the one who writes a piece of code to spec, sits an untrained user in front of the app, and it behaves exactly as expected. Extra points if the user is successfully able to decipher any and all error messages and correct input without interference from anyone. Once you have a grip on that shit, then you can start doing cute/useless shit like this.
If you make something idiot proof then the world will build a better idiot. Once you understand that concept -- and I mean _really_ understand it, not just remember how to say it when the Omega-Derp sits down in front of your product, misreads the instructions and starts spooning ice cream into it, or when Out-tel's latest processor correctly implements the Halt And Catch Fire instruction and calls it "NOP" -- then you can start to understand the Tao of Design.
And once you understand that, it's probably time to take a long vacation because you'll really need it.
"You have to learn the difference between "Open Source philosophy" (RMS), "Open Source", open systems and access to source.
And perhaps you need to learn the difference between Free Software and Open Source.
Here's a good starting point: RMS supports only one of them.
You need to go deeper.
That's a myth. Monster cables are no better than cheaper products from other vendors.
If you can hear a difference, then it's probably because you have your ethernet cable connected backwards.
Here, I have gone to great lengths to address your question on this page.
Personally, I like to blame broccoli for anything that isn't perfect in my life.
Better luck next time Richard Stallman.
But either way it's better than your current job at EA.
Canada and Australia are higher per person then the USA, having a lot of extractive industries.
Canada also has a tenth the population of the USA, and exports large amounts of those, ahem, extracted products to it.
If you pick and choose just the right facts, you can prove just about anything.