Maybe, but how much is enough? For me, the number is far below $3 Billion.:)
There is making a profit, then there is greed, and sometimes greed blinds you and makes you do stupid things.
Yeah, but we're not talking about taking money from starving children, we're talking about how much one overvalued company wants to pay for another. If I was selling and I thought I could get more then there'd never be an 'enough'. The more you have the more awesome you might be able to do, the more new startups you could fund, the more you might put into worthy causes. Facebook have no better use for money than I do...
For over a hundred years, people have been using the power of radio waves to generate enough electricity to operate a radio with earphones.
Uhuh, a radio *receiver*. The energy required to send back to the basestation is going to be in the same region as the original signal at source, not once it's been spread out and dissipated, coupled with the losses in electrical inductance are huge... and where are you going to get that from? You can't just get magic energy.
Four years isn't long enough. Come back to us when you reach 6 or 8 years. The study looked at drives during the warranty period (WD drives have 5 year warranty).
Also the information they presented doesn't show that low of a failure rate.
Yes indeed. Nobody should publish any data at all until the minimum time requirements of Bill_the_Engineer are met!
This is still interesting, and will get more so as more years are added on. (You did read the bit where they say they're going to keep updating the data, didn't you?)
Of course, this excludes the fact that Android Apps are actually portable
Portable to what exactly?
You'know... *portable*. Maybe not portable *out* as much, but there's a bunch of standard Java libraries that have been tweaked for Android app use (or in many cases, can be used directly within apps). This is a pretty big win for developers.
and ultimately, when Google implements ART instead of Dalvik, Android will be significantly more competitive in performance (these benchmarks don't test the hardware exclusively, but the software environment also).
Ah yes, the classic Fandroid response of "Just around the corner it's gonna get better!!!"
Well, indeed, but what these 'fans' are also saying is that *right now* the situation works pretty well, and in the future there's a highly likely big bump in performance as devices start recompiling to machine code on app installation. Android is only in a bad state performancewise in your mind, everyone else who uses & develops for find it quite acceptable.
I know it is completely different from the kernel but I think 4.0 should wait till a mature wayland. If it is half as good as they are making it out to be It would deserve a new linux kernel number to match its change in the linux desktop.
That has to be the most perverse, counter-intuitive nonsense marketing idea I've heard in a while. Congratulations!
Develop Linux like Intel develops CPUs: first you make a new shiny, then you do an entire release on improving that shiny. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
So, how it used to work in the 2.2/2.4 days? And they rejected that?
Even better if you have two competing teams working on it. Whichever team comes up with the better product by launch time gets the nod.
Ah, internal competition, a fine strategy from the management manual, but a terrible terrible idea in practice that fosters resentment, animosity, stops cooperation. What do you think the team that fail are going to do? Say "ah never mind", or get frustrated, go off and do something else with their lives and never contribute again?
Agreed. The other thing that people seem to choose to ignore is the value in a standadised platform and a helpful community around that. All the things the RPi does is possible by other means, of course, but what happens when you're starting out and don't know what you're doing? There's a big community around the RPi, magazines, tutorials, forums, all people who know what hardware you have and can answer your questions directly.
I'm a programmer by trade, but I know very little about analogue electronics. RPi community means I can get out into building physical things, which would be far harder if someone just threw a USB GPIO board at me with no extra help.
Except Apple and Microsoft offered Google to join into their conglomerate, but Google declined and wanted to snatch the patents away without Apple and Microsoft.
Problem is, that wouldn't have helped them, because Apple & MS could still go after the manufacturers of Android devices, and Google could do nothing to stop it. Without hardware manufacturers Android doesn't exist, so they had to have their own to use as a defensive shield for their manufacturers.
I've[sic] we're going to be ridiculously nerdy and arbitrary we could all just just use seconds since the start of 1970.
Which might be fine for you, but those of us who would thus have been born long before the beginning of time might be justified in being a little miffed.
Mark Zuckerberg's and the like don't give a shit personally about the other people who don't have internet connection and the reasons they are not online. They just want them online for revenue. Get them online, make advertising dollars from them, let them figure out how to survive life.
Did Bill Gates care about the wider world when he was Zuckerberg's age? Wasn't he busy building a monolithic and morally questionable business? I imagine it's rather easier to look good in the eyes of the world when you're sitting on enough money to do something about it, and the days when you collected that money are over.
Its the same gas in the same pipe, at the same pressure for everyone on the block. Gas company A has a pumping problem, and the entire load is picked up (unwittingly) by company B's pumps.
They'd know, and presumably company B bills company A? I'm pretty sure the amount of fuel dumped into the grid is tightly controlled, they're not just randomly pushing gas around!
There is a middle way though... one set of wires held by one regulated company (in the UK, BT for communications and National Grid for power), and multiple companies competing to provide you with service. Typically they have equipment installed in the exchange, so the "rent" for BT is literally last-mile stuff.
That horrible socialist holdout of the UK that has had one of the best value internet service through the last decade...
that argument no longer holds water, now that we have the DNA testing and other advanced forensics that set those people free.
...and still the sometimes racist, sometimes biased, potentially corrupt people around running the system. Putting your faith in DNA as the panacea is phenomenally dangerous. You know how easily your (and everyone's) DNA gets spread around?
you speak of theory that only works between your ears. in practice, thousands of times the monsters are out again and do their crimes again.
Huh...? What is this 'technically' bollocks? If you want to amend a system with life-without-parole to replace a capital sentence then you can do that.
... cut off the reciprocal data sharing agreements with EU authorities. The ones where their intelligence agencies can hoover up all financial data from any US organization associated with any EU citizen.
I think that's the issue (and why this sharing has been a bit controversial over here), is that those reciprocal agreements don't exist. The US have been given a view into EU data, and the same sharing doesn't come in the other direction. (whether it was sought... I don't know, but one-sided arrangements are troublesome in and of themselves)
Why did they switch from using vertical pixels as the dominant label (720, 1080) to using horizontal pixels as the dominant label (4k)?
I think it's because 4k is a cinema standard, which measures horizontally, whereas previous measures (405/525/625/720/1080) have all been from broadcast TV, that happens to measure vertically.
The TFTP was a pretty one-sided agreement, and it's therefore politically fragile and the first thing that's likely to be pulled when the trust in the USA's respect of EU data breaks down.
I can't speak of the bribery, I haven't done the leg-work to find out, but as for the rest...
The general tone of the whole piece is that of someone who thinks the American way is superior and infallible and no other way can have merit, which makes me instantly suspicious of his bias. That he sits there and declares there is nothing worth stealing is a bit unlikely, unless you believe in US-superiority in all things. I question his judgement because he talks about Europe as if it's one entity. He talks about Europe like it has a single communist government, when its member states have a large range of political leanings.
I suppose if your job is constantly looking outward at the threatening foreign lands then you're going to get a bit... tainted.
The terrorists won as soon as we had to take off our shoes and throw away our nail files in order to get on an airplane, starting around 12 years ago.
Did that prevent you from getting on the plane? If not, then no.
Your measure for loss-of-freedom is pretty high. I mean, let's say we got to a state where there is mandatory papers checks for every citizen on their daily commute. Does that stop them from going to work... probably not. Is it a loss, obviously yes.
For European companies, the NSA reading their data equals their competitors reading their data. This has been known here since at least the early 90s, when Echolon data was used for commercial advantage of US companies.
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Maybe, but how much is enough? For me, the number is far below $3 Billion. :)
There is making a profit, then there is greed, and sometimes greed blinds you and makes you do stupid things.
Yeah, but we're not talking about taking money from starving children, we're talking about how much one overvalued company wants to pay for another. If I was selling and I thought I could get more then there'd never be an 'enough'. The more you have the more awesome you might be able to do, the more new startups you could fund, the more you might put into worthy causes. Facebook have no better use for money than I do...
For over a hundred years, people have been using the power of radio waves to generate enough electricity to operate a radio with earphones.
Uhuh, a radio *receiver*. The energy required to send back to the basestation is going to be in the same region as the original signal at source, not once it's been spread out and dissipated, coupled with the losses in electrical inductance are huge... and where are you going to get that from? You can't just get magic energy.
Four years isn't long enough. Come back to us when you reach 6 or 8 years. The study looked at drives during the warranty period (WD drives have 5 year warranty).
Also the information they presented doesn't show that low of a failure rate.
Yes indeed. Nobody should publish any data at all until the minimum time requirements of Bill_the_Engineer are met!
This is still interesting, and will get more so as more years are added on. (You did read the bit where they say they're going to keep updating the data, didn't you?)
Of course, this excludes the fact that Android Apps are actually portable
Portable to what exactly?
You'know... *portable*. Maybe not portable *out* as much, but there's a bunch of standard Java libraries that have been tweaked for Android app use (or in many cases, can be used directly within apps). This is a pretty big win for developers.
and ultimately, when Google implements ART instead of Dalvik, Android will be significantly more competitive in performance (these benchmarks don't test the hardware exclusively, but the software environment also).
Ah yes, the classic Fandroid response of "Just around the corner it's gonna get better!!!"
Well, indeed, but what these 'fans' are also saying is that *right now* the situation works pretty well, and in the future there's a highly likely big bump in performance as devices start recompiling to machine code on app installation. Android is only in a bad state performancewise in your mind, everyone else who uses & develops for find it quite acceptable.
I know it is completely different from the kernel but I think 4.0 should wait till a mature wayland. If it is half as good as they are making it out to be It would deserve a new linux kernel number to match its change in the linux desktop.
That has to be the most perverse, counter-intuitive nonsense marketing idea I've heard in a while. Congratulations!
Develop Linux like Intel develops CPUs: first you make a new shiny, then you do an entire release on improving that shiny. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
So, how it used to work in the 2.2/2.4 days? And they rejected that?
Even better if you have two competing teams working on it. Whichever team comes up with the better product by launch time gets the nod.
Ah, internal competition, a fine strategy from the management manual, but a terrible terrible idea in practice that fosters resentment, animosity, stops cooperation. What do you think the team that fail are going to do? Say "ah never mind", or get frustrated, go off and do something else with their lives and never contribute again?
So your solution is to go back to the dark ages? And fuck all the countries that haven't developed yet? Your genius knows no bounds.
Agreed. The other thing that people seem to choose to ignore is the value in a standadised platform and a helpful community around that. All the things the RPi does is possible by other means, of course, but what happens when you're starting out and don't know what you're doing? There's a big community around the RPi, magazines, tutorials, forums, all people who know what hardware you have and can answer your questions directly.
I'm a programmer by trade, but I know very little about analogue electronics. RPi community means I can get out into building physical things, which would be far harder if someone just threw a USB GPIO board at me with no extra help.
Except Apple and Microsoft offered Google to join into their conglomerate, but Google declined and wanted to snatch the patents away without Apple and Microsoft.
Problem is, that wouldn't have helped them, because Apple & MS could still go after the manufacturers of Android devices, and Google could do nothing to stop it. Without hardware manufacturers Android doesn't exist, so they had to have their own to use as a defensive shield for their manufacturers.
I've[sic] we're going to be ridiculously nerdy and arbitrary we could all just just use seconds since the start of 1970.
Which might be fine for you, but those of us who would thus have been born long before the beginning of time might be justified in being a little miffed.
I believe numbers go negative, so you'd be ok...
I will probably switch to Google Hangouts and SIP.
Yes but what will non-Google employees do?
Mark Zuckerberg's and the like don't give a shit personally about the other people who don't have internet connection and the reasons they are not online. They just want them online for revenue. Get them online, make advertising dollars from them, let them figure out how to survive life.
Did Bill Gates care about the wider world when he was Zuckerberg's age? Wasn't he busy building a monolithic and morally questionable business?
I imagine it's rather easier to look good in the eyes of the world when you're sitting on enough money to do something about it, and the days when you collected that money are over.
You get to choose who to pay. That's ALL you get.
Its the same gas in the same pipe, at the same pressure for everyone on the block.
Gas company A has a pumping problem, and the entire load is picked up (unwittingly) by company B's pumps.
They'd know, and presumably company B bills company A? I'm pretty sure the amount of fuel dumped into the grid is tightly controlled, they're not just randomly pushing gas around!
There is a middle way though... one set of wires held by one regulated company (in the UK, BT for communications and National Grid for power), and multiple companies competing to provide you with service. Typically they have equipment installed in the exchange, so the "rent" for BT is literally last-mile stuff.
That horrible socialist holdout of the UK that has had one of the best value internet service through the last decade...
A GOOD thing? So called "news" links on Facebook are.....
I cant go on, this is too terribly obvious to point out the problems with "news" on Facebook
Doesn't that rather depend on your friends?
that argument no longer holds water, now that we have the DNA testing and other advanced forensics that set those people free.
...and still the sometimes racist, sometimes biased, potentially corrupt people around running the system. Putting your faith in DNA as the panacea is phenomenally dangerous. You know how easily your (and everyone's) DNA gets spread around?
you speak of theory that only works between your ears. in practice, thousands of times the monsters are out again and do their crimes again.
Huh...? What is this 'technically' bollocks? If you want to amend a system with life-without-parole to replace a capital sentence then you can do that.
I think that's the issue (and why this sharing has been a bit controversial over here), is that those reciprocal agreements don't exist. The US have been given a view into EU data, and the same sharing doesn't come in the other direction. (whether it was sought... I don't know, but one-sided arrangements are troublesome in and of themselves)
Why did they switch from using vertical pixels as the dominant label (720, 1080) to using horizontal pixels as the dominant label (4k)?
I think it's because 4k is a cinema standard, which measures horizontally, whereas previous measures (405/525/625/720/1080) have all been from broadcast TV, that happens to measure vertically.
The TFTP was a pretty one-sided agreement, and it's therefore politically fragile and the first thing that's likely to be pulled when the trust in the USA's respect of EU data breaks down.
It's ok, cause any tenuous, stereotypical point you might have had was utterly undermined by the last word of your post.
Can we not use the phrase "abrupt firing" when talking about nuclear missiles please?
I can't speak of the bribery, I haven't done the leg-work to find out, but as for the rest...
The general tone of the whole piece is that of someone who thinks the American way is superior and infallible and no other way can have merit, which makes me instantly suspicious of his bias. That he sits there and declares there is nothing worth stealing is a bit unlikely, unless you believe in US-superiority in all things.
I question his judgement because he talks about Europe as if it's one entity. He talks about Europe like it has a single communist government, when its member states have a large range of political leanings.
I suppose if your job is constantly looking outward at the threatening foreign lands then you're going to get a bit... tainted.
The terrorists won as soon as we had to take off our shoes and throw away our nail files in order to get on an airplane, starting around 12 years ago.
Did that prevent you from getting on the plane? If not, then no.
Your measure for loss-of-freedom is pretty high. I mean, let's say we got to a state where there is mandatory papers checks for every citizen on their daily commute. Does that stop them from going to work... probably not. Is it a loss, obviously yes.
For European companies, the NSA reading their data equals their competitors reading their data. This has been known here since at least the early 90s, when Echolon data was used for commercial advantage of US companies.
That isn't really true.
Why We Spy on Our Allies - By R. James Woolsey, former Director of CIA
Really? You're going to take that yay-America propaganda as trustworthy?