The goal of most advertising companies appears to be to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Indeed, the entire industry appears totally committed to this goal.
The problem started with allowing sites to serve executable code. it seems it will end with users having to block all executable code - short of nuking from high orbit, it is the only way to be safe.
In the case of Flash, nuking from high orbit is probably essential.
Quite a lot of Africa has very good public transport if what you want is to be able to get somewhere at any time of day or night quickly and cheaply. However, it is public in the sense of Uber, not in the sense of socialist.
I accept that the vehicles are of the same standard as all the others in the area. Obviously, so does everyone else.
I would say it is about 95%ish accurate in decoding what I say.
I speak very standard English - sound like Prince Charles - and I would say it is close to 0% accurate.
As to why it needs a DSP to process speech - bit rate typically under 10khz - that is an even greater mystery. I think you will find that the processor in your typically MP3 player (probably a very sad 8051 clone) has way more than enough power to do analogue to digital. Unfortunately, even large mainframes with massive amounts of disk storage cannot actually recognise speech. This processor must not just be "always on" but always connected to mothership! What about those of us who have piss-poor ISPs!
Where can I down load an open source tin-foil hat upgrade?
15kW per house? This is Africa, not America - typical usage in Europe is 4kW per house. It is probably 40W per house in Africa. Only 0.001% of houses have A/C.
And, as pointed out elsewhere, most electricity comes from Diesel in Africa (The rest mostly from Hydroelectric).
In the African continent, people have different tastes in music, and probably don't want a pile of steaming hot American crap.
The above services probably have little or no modern African content, and lack the skill to acquire it.
However, given that Africans are accustomed to the very lowest quality of pirate CDs, it will be interesting to see if they will pay for services offering music they want at a marginally better quality (assuming network coverage permits). The problem is not going to be lack of smart phones, but the fact that data is so expensive in Africa, probably because the networks want to make sure that VoIP costs more than a normal phone call.
In summary: Spotify won't work because they have the wrong catalogue. Bazza won't work because you can probably buy three copies of the music on CD for the cost of the data to stream it once, and the connection will keep dropping.
Their drivers are shockingly bad at the Gnome standard environment. (OK, I am using an old graphics card, but I dont expect the Open Source driver to work and the proprietry one not (as I also own an Nvidia system, and the Nouveau driver is strait from hell.
If Microsoft are not bribing people to put out this crap, it is even more shocking than if they are!
I presume TIPxxx refers to "Texas Instruments Plastic" transistors. These have proprietry TI part numbers - although many were later second sourced.
The parts were widely used because they were very cheap, and widely available. The early ones used a plastic that tended to burst into flames if the device was overloaded.
There are generally perfectly adequate alternatives with the European Standard numbers (BCxxx). It is unclear why these people are promoting a strangely obsolete technology, and the OP is not much help in understanding any of the relevant issues.
In social science, studies often have a sample of less than 10 people, and only 3 of one sex. Expect a report that X applies to 60% of that sex. (ie the sample was 2 of 3 - quite possibly 50% chance it was either way.
Hardly surprising really - after being repeatedly shafted by Oracle, anyone who has had dealings with them would probably rather not have a phone at all than be dependent on an Oracle product.
Witness the way that their take over of Sun was seen as a step backwards - its not like Sun was revelling in a great reputation for its ways with customers.
I would like to see the evidence for that in the UK. I think most rapes take place indoors, and muggings in places where there is lighting, but its not very good.
Sure the ISA is open, but that is just for the CPU. A meaningful inplementation needs all the stuff that goes around it, and, as with all electronics, volume is king.
Theoretically, as you say, someone who needs a CPU to embed could choose Sparc. Then they could set about developing the rest of the system. But when they place an order, they better have a vlome market - or they would be better of with an alternative by a very large margin.
The existing Sparc targets a very specific market (web/database servers) at which it excels, but the market is not really big enough for other players to have massively bigger volume. The machines for this market have more IP outside the CPU than in it - it is about transactions per second, not instructions per second.
I have tried using Sparc as a workstation, and I am using Intel now. Its about the external infrastructure, not the product. My servers are all Sparc (OpenBSD, not Solaris - no hideous licencing problems, and Solaris majors on features I don't need - but if I did, the licence fees might be worth the money.
Now if a Sparc product was to target the mobile phone market?
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The problem started with allowing sites to serve executable code. it seems it will end with users having to block all executable code - short of nuking from high orbit, it is the only way to be safe.
In the case of Flash, nuking from high orbit is probably essential.
Disclaimer: My Government sells nukes.
"Jibe" is spelled gybe. You should learn this.
Not without a legal requirement for cyclists to be able to use both brain cells at the same time.
I accept that the vehicles are of the same standard as all the others in the area. Obviously, so does everyone else.
I speak very standard English - sound like Prince Charles - and I would say it is close to 0% accurate.
As to why it needs a DSP to process speech - bit rate typically under 10khz - that is an even greater mystery. I think you will find that the processor in your typically MP3 player (probably a very sad 8051 clone) has way more than enough power to do analogue to digital. Unfortunately, even large mainframes with massive amounts of disk storage cannot actually recognise speech. This processor must not just be "always on" but always connected to mothership! What about those of us who have piss-poor ISPs!
Where can I down load an open source tin-foil hat upgrade?
And, as pointed out elsewhere, most electricity comes from Diesel in Africa (The rest mostly from Hydroelectric).
The above services probably have little or no modern African content, and lack the skill to acquire it.
However, given that Africans are accustomed to the very lowest quality of pirate CDs, it will be interesting to see if they will pay for services offering music they want at a marginally better quality (assuming network coverage permits). The problem is not going to be lack of smart phones, but the fact that data is so expensive in Africa, probably because the networks want to make sure that VoIP costs more than a normal phone call.
In summary: Spotify won't work because they have the wrong catalogue. Bazza won't work because you can probably buy three copies of the music on CD for the cost of the data to stream it once, and the connection will keep dropping.
A lot of people on this thread evidently think the jury is still out on that.
Quality is not necessarily "good" quality. Or even passable.
If Microsoft are not bribing people to put out this crap, it is even more shocking than if they are!
So you are the missing ax murderer?
Or did you mean "ask"?
Voting is reserved for people who eat Pringles. isn't that a good enough way to identify true American citizens?
The parts were widely used because they were very cheap, and widely available. The early ones used a plastic that tended to burst into flames if the device was overloaded.
There are generally perfectly adequate alternatives with the European Standard numbers (BCxxx). It is unclear why these people are promoting a strangely obsolete technology, and the OP is not much help in understanding any of the relevant issues.
Unfortunately, not just social science.
If you get your connection by tethering on a limited data plan, then this setting effectively constitutes theft.
The prefetch setting in Iceweasel is exactly as described in the OP. I have just changed mine.
Yes, they really are rising from their graves. Netcraft confirms it!
Hardly surprising really - after being repeatedly shafted by Oracle, anyone who has had dealings with them would probably rather not have a phone at all than be dependent on an Oracle product.
Witness the way that their take over of Sun was seen as a step backwards - its not like Sun was revelling in a great reputation for its ways with customers.
I suspect their motto is:
"Let's be evil".
Please see a doctor. Even with ear plugs, you ought to hear that wooshing sound.
Iit is the only way to guarantee it can be fixed.
I offer MS Word in evidence.
I would like to see the evidence for that in the UK. I think most rapes take place indoors, and muggings in places where there is lighting, but its not very good.
People are so poor they can't afford to commit crime any more.
Sure the ISA is open, but that is just for the CPU. A meaningful inplementation needs all the stuff that goes around it, and, as with all electronics, volume is king.
Theoretically, as you say, someone who needs a CPU to embed could choose Sparc. Then they could set about developing the rest of the system. But when they place an order, they better have a vlome market - or they would be better of with an alternative by a very large margin.
The existing Sparc targets a very specific market (web/database servers) at which it excels, but the market is not really big enough for other players to have massively bigger volume. The machines for this market have more IP outside the CPU than in it - it is about transactions per second, not instructions per second.
I have tried using Sparc as a workstation, and I am using Intel now. Its about the external infrastructure, not the product. My servers are all Sparc (OpenBSD, not Solaris - no hideous licencing problems, and Solaris majors on features I don't need - but if I did, the licence fees might be worth the money.
Now if a Sparc product was to target the mobile phone market?
Oh, wait ...
SCO argue otherwise: You only have to claim ownership, not actually have even the vaguest title to it.