and China is, at the end of the day, considered a competitor to the USA.
Maybe by Trump supporters. Outside of America there is no contest.
America is not even in the running. If you want Quality, you buy European or Japanese. If you want cheap, you buy Chinese. Nobody buys American.
A quick trip round my house:
European products: 50%
Chinese products: 30%
Japanese products: 10%
Unidentifiable/Korean/other: 10%
American products: 0%
Obviously, I live in Europe.
Looking in the streets outside, almost everything is European. Nothing is American. Links on my browser home screen: about 5% American, 0% Chinese - but then I can't actually read Chinese.
there is no real technical reason that Android or iOS has to suck for serious work,
The technical reason is Google. Google is all out maximising suckiness everywhere it goes. Look at today's new Youtube feature "two ads for the price of one" - now your ad break is twice as long so you don't get as many in your movie!
Hell, if it has an ad in it, I watch something else!
Maybe not where you live, but this is about London, where the speed limit has recently been reduced to 20MPH almost everywhere, which reduces road capacity to the extent that traffic barely moves. However, most of London is pretty flat, and cyclists can easily exceed 20MPH - and having no regard for the concept of road markings - they come at you silently from arbitrary directions, and no more predictable than moths.
Cyclists need to know that unless other road users can predict what they are going to do, they will die. However, they seem to believe that they can out-manoeuvre other vehicles, so they do not need to plan what they are going to do next, let alone use their body language to show what they are going to do. They have no concept of what a large truck can or can't do, though they willingly go inches away from them at speeds which show they are not planning to live long.
As a truck driver once told me: anyone who goes out on the roads of London without a metal box round him, is obviously a loonie, and should be locked up! The evidence appears to support this view.
Accident statistics show that in 70% of all car-cyclist accidents, the car driver was causing the collision.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
If I, a driver, hit the door when another driver opens the door of his parked car, I was driving too close. If a cyclist hits a car door, the car driver was responsible for not looking (despite the fact that the cyclist may have come at him via a route that was illegal, and the driver had no reason to expect the bike-from-hell to hit him).
Large numbers of cyclists are killed in London because they try to pass trucks which are turning left. WTF are they on the inside of a truck for? The driver almost certainly can't see them, and would generally have his trafficators on for a good while, but a cyclist on the inside can't see them!.
We, (drivers) are told to leave 2 metres between us and a cyclist, while the cyclists calmly push along the side of the car, touching for the entire length, even when the car is moving.
Deliveroo cyclists are famously the worst of the lot when it comes to riding out of side-streets without looking, using pedestrian only routes, riding on the pavements, and scaring the hell out of mothers with young babies - and many other crimes against humanity too numerous to mention.
Commercial cyclists should be required to have a black box on their bike, and insurance. And taxed out of existence.
That is not true. Most people in Europe have several cards, and I am quite sure they have to use a PIN.
I can also confirm that a lot of people in Nigeria have several cards, and they have to use PINs there, and one side effect has been to massively reduce fraud committed by the banks themselves. I assume the reluctance of American banks to force use of the PIN is because a large part of the fraud is committed by the banks themselves.
Yes its true: American banks are noticeably less trustworthy than Nigerian banks. (cf Wells Fargo)
the worst is that it suggests videos I already watched like a year ago.
No, even worse than that is that I click the "not interested" button, and it says OK, Ill take than into account and then shows me the same damn video choices again Not just stupid, but doubling down on annoyingly stupid!
And If I have clicked on "No, I don't want that" four or five times, it still sends me the same, 5 year old dross.
Also, why does the search/home not offer "only today's stuff please"? 10 day old stories about Trump are not even useful to Trump supporters or bots.
explain why the children in Peru are mostly super skinny? The thick fog of diesel smoke is so bad you can't even see very far most days in Lima.
That is easy: the diesel engines that smoke heavily burn at low temperatures, leaving lots of unburned carbon. The oxides of nitrogen are produced by burning the nitrogen in the air, not diesel. This only became a problem after diesel engines were modified to run hotter reduce the carbon dioxide. To create lots of oxides of nitrogen, the engines have to run seriously hot.
To mitigate the NO2 problem, they introduced the urea injection technology (squirting pigs piss into the the exhaust pipe). The amount of urea needed depends on the amount of NOx being generated, which depends on the temperature in the combustion chamber, which can't be measured, so the microprocessor has to guess. Sometimes it is right, sometimes not. If its right, well and good, if not you get a face full of pigs piss, NOx or both. Fortunately, on a test bench, its easy to guess. In real life, not so much.
I blame the regulators for driving the CO2 regulations deep into this area, when diesels were already cleaner than petrol, Also, you could use EGR technology instead, but the pigs piss people would not make a profit from that. In any case, pollution is around 60% of what it was in 1970 - probably less than 10% of what it was in 1956, in the UK.
Disclaimer: I am not bribed by pigs piss people, and my proposal a for "Kosher" alternative, using goats' piss, was ignored. I am not sore, honest.
To be replacements they would have to have the same or better features. Crappy letter-box aspect ratio screens and no "tab" features won't hack it. I want to be able to draw on the screen while giving presentations to individuals or groups up to three, but HDMI out is good too.
I won't buy unless the boot loader is unlocked and the battery is replaceable by ME.
OTOH, I would happily buy an A3 E-ink ebook reader with sound. I want it to read datasheets with schematics in on the workbench or in the field. Meanwhile, I will go on using my 3rd gen Kindle.
200 years from now I bet Chinese and English will be influencing each other heavily
You don't need to wait 200 years. It is happening now in parts of London. But it is not limited to Chinese and English.
The reality is English's big advantage is it can easily adopt words from other languages, and the concepts that go with them. Many other languages cannot adopt words form other languages due to a variety of restrictive rules, and therefore lack the ability to benefit from access to ideas developed in other cultures.
English is the market leader because it is the language with the largest vocabulary by a very large margin. With this comes a culture of being very specific by choosing from a large number of words with quite similar meanings
(despite the best efforts of many whose vocabulary is very limited).
Many other languages have far smaller vocabularies, and have cultures where being specific is not highly prized. This makes them less suitable for science and engineering,
In my relatively limited experience, Chinese falls into this category. German is certainly less specific than English in matters relating to time.
However, if you wish to deliberately obfuscate, I highly recommend Pidgin English - see https://www.bbc.com/pidgin for the official BBC version. Try using that for your next PHD on thermodynamic processes involving sub-atomic particles (or the benefits of a Vegan diet for Youtube users). I assume you can still claim it was English if you can cite the BBC. No be so, abi?
They are in the business of blinding you with bullshit.
Its perfectly true there is a problem of bandwidth between memory and the CPU, and that the current popular solution is to have a nice wide path between the memory chips and the cache. One transfer accounts for a whole bunch of bytes, and DRAM usually does four or more data transfers for each address transfer.
This is based on optimising for what today's hardware does well.
As for "more memory chips means more power consumption" - power consumption depends on the number of cells being wiggled, and the frequency you wiggle them. Not the number of packages you wiggle. Quiescent dissipation of a ram chip is insignificant. And its DRAM - so when you address some of it, you refresh a whole bunch more - which you would have to do anyway. OTOH if you design the system so accesses are highly localised, you get row-hammer problems (or complete meltdown). Spreading dissipation over multiple chips by interleaving them keeps the heat dissipation problems down.
I find that about one of every 3 or 4 times that I click "Search" on Google after I've already scanned the first page of results it gives me without finding any of the search terms I entered.
I am seriously thinking of writing my own search engine. We are almost back to when the answer to all queries was "Barnes and Noble" and "Alamo Car Rental".
Another problem seems to be cultural. In the UK, Traffic signs means ones giving instructions to drivers. Street signs means labels with the name of streets on. I suspect the reverse may be true in America.
There are many other issues, but low resolution of both the original and the screen is definitely a problem. I often give up.
While checking out a packet of "naturally rolled oats" at the local supermarket, I casually asked "how does one unnaturally roll an oat?" The checkout guy replied "When I find out, I will upload the video to youtube - direct from Sodom and Gomorrah".
Which explains where most Youtube videos come from, but I still want to know about the oats.
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People who have a clue do not work for insurance companies.
Maybe by Trump supporters. Outside of America there is no contest.
America is not even in the running. If you want Quality, you buy European or Japanese. If you want cheap, you buy Chinese. Nobody buys American.
A quick trip round my house:
European products: 50%
Chinese products: 30%
Japanese products: 10%
Unidentifiable/Korean/other: 10%
American products: 0%
Obviously, I live in Europe.
Looking in the streets outside, almost everything is European. Nothing is American. Links on my browser home screen: about 5% American, 0% Chinese - but then I can't actually read Chinese.
The technical reason is Google. Google is all out maximising suckiness everywhere it goes. Look at today's new Youtube feature "two ads for the price of one" - now your ad break is twice as long so you don't get as many in your movie!
Hell, if it has an ad in it, I watch something else!
Maybe not where you live, but this is about London, where the speed limit has recently been reduced to 20MPH almost everywhere, which reduces road capacity to the extent that traffic barely moves. However, most of London is pretty flat, and cyclists can easily exceed 20MPH - and having no regard for the concept of road markings - they come at you silently from arbitrary directions, and no more predictable than moths.
Cyclists need to know that unless other road users can predict what they are going to do, they will die. However, they seem to believe that they can out-manoeuvre other vehicles, so they do not need to plan what they are going to do next, let alone use their body language to show what they are going to do. They have no concept of what a large truck can or can't do, though they willingly go inches away from them at speeds which show they are not planning to live long. As a truck driver once told me: anyone who goes out on the roads of London without a metal box round him, is obviously a loonie, and should be locked up! The evidence appears to support this view.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
If I, a driver, hit the door when another driver opens the door of his parked car, I was driving too close. If a cyclist hits a car door, the car driver was responsible for not looking (despite the fact that the cyclist may have come at him via a route that was illegal, and the driver had no reason to expect the bike-from-hell to hit him).
Large numbers of cyclists are killed in London because they try to pass trucks which are turning left. WTF are they on the inside of a truck for? The driver almost certainly can't see them, and would generally have his trafficators on for a good while, but a cyclist on the inside can't see them!.
We, (drivers) are told to leave 2 metres between us and a cyclist, while the cyclists calmly push along the side of the car, touching for the entire length, even when the car is moving.
Deliveroo cyclists are famously the worst of the lot when it comes to riding out of side-streets without looking, using pedestrian only routes, riding on the pavements, and scaring the hell out of mothers with young babies - and many other crimes against humanity too numerous to mention.
Commercial cyclists should be required to have a black box on their bike, and insurance. And taxed out of existence.
is people being stolen really a big problem where you live?
I can also confirm that a lot of people in Nigeria have several cards, and they have to use PINs there, and one side effect has been to massively reduce fraud committed by the banks themselves. I assume the reluctance of American banks to force use of the PIN is because a large part of the fraud is committed by the banks themselves.
Yes its true: American banks are noticeably less trustworthy than Nigerian banks. (cf Wells Fargo)
For those who wish to know: "The Free World" is the bit ruled by "Free Willie" - probably somewhere under the Atlantic Ocean.
you mean when he said he was not interested, it was "fake news"?
Please give me a capcha where I can lick "I am a bot"!
And If I have clicked on "No, I don't want that" four or five times, it still sends me the same, 5 year old dross.
Also, why does the search/home not offer "only today's stuff please"? 10 day old stories about Trump are not even useful to Trump supporters or bots.
That is easy: the diesel engines that smoke heavily burn at low temperatures, leaving lots of unburned carbon. The oxides of nitrogen are produced by burning the nitrogen in the air, not diesel. This only became a problem after diesel engines were modified to run hotter reduce the carbon dioxide. To create lots of oxides of nitrogen, the engines have to run seriously hot.
To mitigate the NO2 problem, they introduced the urea injection technology (squirting pigs piss into the the exhaust pipe). The amount of urea needed depends on the amount of NOx being generated, which depends on the temperature in the combustion chamber, which can't be measured, so the microprocessor has to guess. Sometimes it is right, sometimes not. If its right, well and good, if not you get a face full of pigs piss, NOx or both. Fortunately, on a test bench, its easy to guess. In real life, not so much.
I blame the regulators for driving the CO2 regulations deep into this area, when diesels were already cleaner than petrol, Also, you could use EGR technology instead, but the pigs piss people would not make a profit from that. In any case, pollution is around 60% of what it was in 1970 - probably less than 10% of what it was in 1956, in the UK.
Disclaimer: I am not bribed by pigs piss people, and my proposal a for "Kosher" alternative, using goats' piss, was ignored. I am not sore, honest.
To be replacements they would have to have the same or better features. Crappy letter-box aspect ratio screens and no "tab" features won't hack it. I want to be able to draw on the screen while giving presentations to individuals or groups up to three, but HDMI out is good too.
I won't buy unless the boot loader is unlocked and the battery is replaceable by ME.
OTOH, I would happily buy an A3 E-ink ebook reader with sound. I want it to read datasheets with schematics in on the workbench or in the field. Meanwhile, I will go on using my 3rd gen Kindle.
Nowadays, even if its locked, Microsoft installs an "update". Its much the same really.
Then you have drunk too much Trump Kool-ade.
You don't need to wait 200 years. It is happening now in parts of London. But it is not limited to Chinese and English.
The reality is English's big advantage is it can easily adopt words from other languages, and the concepts that go with them. Many other languages cannot adopt words form other languages due to a variety of restrictive rules, and therefore lack the ability to benefit from access to ideas developed in other cultures.
Yes, or possibly no. (Ask W C Fields).
English is the market leader because it is the language with the largest vocabulary by a very large margin. With this comes a culture of being very specific by choosing from a large number of words with quite similar meanings (despite the best efforts of many whose vocabulary is very limited).
Many other languages have far smaller vocabularies, and have cultures where being specific is not highly prized. This makes them less suitable for science and engineering,
In my relatively limited experience, Chinese falls into this category. German is certainly less specific than English in matters relating to time.
However, if you wish to deliberately obfuscate, I highly recommend Pidgin English - see https://www.bbc.com/pidgin for the official BBC version. Try using that for your next PHD on thermodynamic processes involving sub-atomic particles (or the benefits of a Vegan diet for Youtube users). I assume you can still claim it was English if you can cite the BBC. No be so, abi?
They are in the business of blinding you with bullshit.
Its perfectly true there is a problem of bandwidth between memory and the CPU, and that the current popular solution is to have a nice wide path between the memory chips and the cache. One transfer accounts for a whole bunch of bytes, and DRAM usually does four or more data transfers for each address transfer.
This is based on optimising for what today's hardware does well.
As for "more memory chips means more power consumption" - power consumption depends on the number of cells being wiggled, and the frequency you wiggle them. Not the number of packages you wiggle. Quiescent dissipation of a ram chip is insignificant. And its DRAM - so when you address some of it, you refresh a whole bunch more - which you would have to do anyway. OTOH if you design the system so accesses are highly localised, you get row-hammer problems (or complete meltdown). Spreading dissipation over multiple chips by interleaving them keeps the heat dissipation problems down.
DO NOT let these guys design your hardware.
I doubt that is the reason: newer phones mostly just have fewer features.
Kool-ade is a better explanation.
I am seriously thinking of writing my own search engine. We are almost back to when the answer to all queries was "Barnes and Noble" and "Alamo Car Rental".
There are many other issues, but low resolution of both the original and the screen is definitely a problem. I often give up.
OTOH, bots are pretty persistent.
Well wave good bye. IBM will fly it to Bangalore just as soon as they can find the planes to do it.
Mod parent up.
While checking out a packet of "naturally rolled oats" at the local supermarket, I casually asked "how does one unnaturally roll an oat?" The checkout guy replied "When I find out, I will upload the video to youtube - direct from Sodom and Gomorrah".
Which explains where most Youtube videos come from, but I still want to know about the oats.