I don't really understand why in such a scenario the rest of the carmakers wouldnt just ramp up their electric efforts.
because tesla does nothing particularly cheaply or effectively.
also.. tencent got swindled. 1.78 billion for a 5 percent stake in an operation that is not turning steady profit is a PRETTY SHITTY DEAL, just ask microsoft. the salesman musk needed that money to keep the train rolling.
but thats besides the point that daimler could copy whatever model tesla has as succesful profitable model in a year. theres electric bmw models ready to scale up in production that are cheaper than teslas.
previous tesla models have been competing mainly with upper market bmw's - and even with those teslas have been able to compete due to tax breaks. the previous teslas have all been stupidly expensive - and yet tesla has failed to turn that expensive price into profit TRANSLATING into selling EXPENSIVE PARTS AT BARELY THE COST for several years.
that is, I am very skeptical of Tesla managing to sell _anything_ for under 30 000 dollars at a profit and you have to remember that such a car would still be competing with bmw's on price once you add the tax that most of the world has on cars.
right now it's still basically "do I buy a tesla, an upper range bmw or a lower range ferrari" - and the two latter ones let you tour through europe without stopping.
broken the law? were those felonies? because you know how american law is.
and wait a sec.. you have an ethical and moral system but no universal healthcare "BECAUSE OMG IT COSTS MONEYYY AND WE AS AMERICANS AARE SOOOOOO POOOOOOR".
by putting some of the people to drive the speedbumped roads the main road will flow faster.
of course it doesn't account for why the fuck anyone would take those side roads if the main road flows faster. thats the real flaw in their thinking - why would anyone take the slow route for everyone else to go faster?
I don't think drivers license or passport photos classify as public.
or "they happen to be available to fbi" could be marked as public - which probably isn't.
a far larger problem is of course if you're using such a database and it has a hundred million faces and 15% fail rate, you're bound to make some mistakes.. of which few are going to be very serious indeed.
"You don't suddenly get hundreds of coordinated "protesters" showing up in the same outfits, carrying latest model encrypted cell phones, and all having top-quality lawyers."
oh actually yeah you do. thats just like a 1 fb post. and if you have 10k protesters then 100 will fit that, no problem.
you seem to misunderstand that a) theres people who just want to fuck shit up and go to protests just to fuck shit up b) it's a hobby/lifestyle for them c) they have guides some of them follow.
very few really to be honest. even finland has 100+ people violent protest at least once a year, kind of organized.
you think iveyyy understood anything about that? hell no.
if he did, then ios would have had arbitrary dpi support for a long time.
and btw windows itself has supported arbitrary dpi for a long, long, long time now. some asian manufacturer volume control apps and such are just the stuff that broke.
also ios fixed resolutions were a cancer on mobile app design for a long time and now theres on the market thousands of app designers who can only draw a photoshop picture for a fixed size screen and can't comprehend the question "what if the screen is 1.5x times wide" or what "if the screen is 4cm across and not 10cm".
especially when you could have used your touchscreen phone as a trackpad(without a dock) for a laptop since.. well fucking since 2001 or so.
maybe they're patenting using lighting connector.. but thats another thing, you shouldnt be able to patent the same fucking thing with using a different connector.
it doesn't work. but makes the ecosystem for browsers a pay-to-play ecosystem.
it's basically just geared towards monopolization for the players that made this standard.
and microsoft has had it's hands in a bunch of drm solutions all of which it has promptly dropped or just decided to ignore on their products. like... you know... if ms made a video+audio drm solution......and didnt use it on their phones while licensing it out with stupid, stupid licensing restrictions say to nokia say something like 12 years ago.. (the stupid licensing restrictions were that to make a multimedia plugin on symbian 7.0s nokias onwards, you had to have developer permissions granted by nokia. one of the excuses nokia used in this pay to play ecosystem of theirs was that you could break drm on shitty ringtones with it that nobody gave a shit about - also you could break the drm on shitty video clips that had already broken drm and had much better quality rips in the wild.
it doesn't work and it can't be open source for the obvious reasons so whats the fucking point - and by it doesn't work I mean it doesnt keep it off the internets - or seriously are they gonig to stop people from hooking up to hdmi ? I SERIOUSLY doubt the viability of any streaming service that does that.
if by a complex problem that occurs in combination of different states you mean BENCHMARKING said feature, then sure. yeah. very complex. just hammering that instruction seems to be the cause. doesnt matter which core inside either...basically, benchmarking one of the new features of their new cpu makes the bug appear.
oh but he is asking how to turn it into cash without paying taxes or having a record he has the cash.
he probably totally ignores the fact that once he pays the tax on the investment he is free to do whatever he wants with the money without any of the agencies caring anything - UNLIKE if he just got magically a million dollars of cash and went buying expensive things which would put him on the hitlist of dea etc.
it's that they keep adding background stuff and webrtc and PUSH notifications that cause js to run and shit.
and then they add this.
is this going to leave the push stuff working? OR is this a ploy to make us enable the bg push stuff? I mean.. just give the option to shut them off with a timer or not.
it stops being fun when you have 3+ apps that handle communication for a single project. it becomes a bother, really it does.
especially when you want to move devices or need to move devices often.. installing all that crap. whats worse, maybe you need to use multiple private instances of the same.. like having 10 slacks that you need to be part of and everyone expecting you to react to everyone of those. it's not good at all.
though the problem becomes more like that you have 10 telephones that you need to be watching at the same time, which ends up churning significant amounts of your time.
ugh.. it is actually built into the api, at least for general run of the mill 3rd party developers. it's not like you can just sign up as a developer and get access to random peoples privately shared data.
now if you sign up and okay access for a "please surveillance me" app then.. well, duh.
the stuff you can get without permissions you can get via regular http/web anyways, if the target has chosen to do so. which of course begs the question wtf are geofeedia etc selling. my bet is that they're selling 99.999% snakeoil product. it will tell law enforcement for example how many times people have publicly said "pot" in a given geographic area(that the users have marked themselves to be part of). as such the rule changes don't have any effect.
twitter on the other hand has been giving some weirdo firehose access to some partners for analyzing or whatnot. thats also just a better api to info that people are putting on the web anyways.
phev rebates are a joke. they cause just the phev system to be subsidized. due to how cars are now taxed in most of the world by co2 tests, the phev gets cheaper as well.
the thing is, pretty much nobody plugs them in and the added weight causes them to have worse mileage than a 1995 honda civic making it all kind of silly and pointless.
yeah the phev is mostly popular due to it dropping the co2 in the test. it's the ultimate circumvention device really. for the consumer it's pretty much +- zero.
If I went to the local tech mall and bought 100 tablets, I could take 100 tablets and none of them would have any dead pixels.
thats why people are complaining. it's not usual nowadays. if you have such a policy that you need x amount of them to be bad for it to be a defect, put it on the box.
or just try the device before buying, thats what people do in asia - in the west you just assume it works.
give them some slack. they got a really, really reaally good deal on screens that....well, simply put, 720p screens need to go into 50 bucks tablets now. 150 bucks tablets need at least 1080p.
so, they were probably really, really, really cheap for nintendo. and someone probably had a lot of slightly defective screens sitting in some warehouse in asia, since people in asia would turn on the device before buying it (seriously).
nintendo should have reworded it as that it's normal for a nintendo product to ship with dead pixels out of the box.
look, the mindset is just that what bad is a backdoor in a product you maybe need to patch up and such. it's secret yeah? thats the mindset the chinese and asians build anything like this.
coincidentally asian thieves rarely pick locks and the locks are of shit quality everywhere.
seriously, 250$ does seem a tad expensive and non-newsworthy. you would probably be better off with a refurb elitebook with core i5.
cheapest nucs are under 250, but celeron as well and really not that good value for money if you consider you can get a screen, battery and and keyboard for the same price too.
affordable smartphones had been around for years before apple made a smartphone.
furthermore, it never was even a market leader in quantities. what was needed for the apple version, inventionwise, was nothing.
entirely evolutionary.
what was necessary from apples side was screen costs to go down enough and component costs to go down enough so they could sell you a 200 dollar device for 1200 dollars on a contract. that was the real magic of the first generation iPhone - selling a smartphone that lacked actual natively running apps, that had a lackluster resolution screen even for the time, for about 1200 dollars unsubsidized(yes thats how much a launch iPhone cost the people making 2 year contracts at the time).
a long rant about the american/global phones market at the time and how reading forbes ruins your global market leader company:
the american phone market was always twisted, especially in smartphone category - as for years yanks had been buying smartphones(palm treos, windows mobiles. blackberries) with price tags north of 1000$ without knowing that they were that expensive due to the network contracts hiding the costs of the devices(incidentally smartphone adoption in usa was low due to high costs of data plans and still is). rest of the world was dominated by symbian/nokia which provided smartphones with multitasking, web, etc. with phones in the 100 to 600 dollar price range.
you know what started the fall of Nokia really? it wasn't iPhone directly - it was iPhone being featured again and again on american magazines which made the board of Nokia think that they had lost the race and decided to aggressively "focus" on the american market - at this point symbian smartphone sales were still growing. as part of that strategy they decided to hire an american CEO, that american CEO then thought that symbian didn't matter and made a public speech declaring it dead at THE SAME TIME THE YEARLY SHIPMENTS WERE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH. the shipments had not even started to decline before the ceo publicly announced to not buy them anymore. the very same month they were at an all time high - moar money than ever from smartphone shipments for them! so why did he do it?
the board believed forbes more than they believed their own numbers of what people were actually buying globally. Nokia had put huge amounts of developer resources to pleasing american operators for no practical reason at all - as if at&t would have known what the phone needed to have in order to sell(they didn't know). hiring elop came during this focus on american market and american operators, because the light heads in the board thought that the american market was important for them(it wasn't, really).
thats such a huge amounts of fail that it's almost impossible to comprehend and bordering on sabotage, unless you look at the mindset at the people in charge: they were reading american business magazines and believing what was being written in them so they burnt about 20 billion dollars worth of company to ground and put a global brand leader name into an icebox for years.
iPhone as a device was more of a disaster for blackberry as blackberry was also a 1000 dollar device manufacturer that sold on the same markets to the same people, those markets being markets where people bought the phones along with the contract subsidized so that they never knew the real price of the device vs. service.
the biggest trick with the launch of the iPhone was selling it such a high price successfully - that was jobs magic with it.
the biggest trick with getting developers on board iPhone was deceptively simple: offer them a decent cut of the sales of the apps and ask _only_ 100 bucks to be a developer. simple.
but wait, for nokia you could develop and publish for free! well, kind of. if you wanted the app to be sold on operator sales channels and the like, you paid up your arse for it. if you wanted to use any of the more interesting api's you paid 700 bucks for signing - per update. if you
the hardware enabling comes first. what you do with it comes second. there are inventions and then there are what you would call obvious ideas.
most visible advancements come from the latter while it's inventions and things that enabled those inventions which enable them.
for example, if there had not been apple, if there had not been nokia, you would still have that mobile phone - what these companies have mostly done is just applying inventions that enabled their devices to be made, like the transistor and so forth.
information theory therefore comes second, it's about what you do with them - but it is something that was born out of need for it due to other inventions already existing.
as obviously you are working mostly in applications of electric devices and what you can do with them, information theory is more important for you, because you aren't really trying to design a smaller chip and break chip manufacturing minimum size limits, in which case you would find the physics research to have been way more valuable for you - and without those devices that are enabled by science you wouldn't be using them for engineering solutions using them.
shannon seems mostly having been interested in the logic side of things: If you have a machine that does this and this what will be the logical conclusion that you can do with it - people like this are far more likely to pop up rather than the kind of people who come up with the new device itself - for example an internal combustion engine meant quite a lot of changes to the world, once you had that it didn't take quite as much imagination to use it for something as it did to actually come up with a design for a working motor - but once you had the motor it would be obvious to use it to generate electricity, to drive cars, to drive boats and so forth.
incidentally this difference is how you can smell bullshit sellers a million miles away: if someone is selling like a perpetual motion machine that makes water or a car that runs on water, you need to ask yourself: why isn't he applying it to such and such.
the thorium car from a while back for example: who fucking cares if it can run a car forever when, if they had a working model for the power source, they would be using it on a car as the last thing on earth making the whole design and articles about it utterly stupid. Having the power generating unit would change the whole world and the cars would be the last thing to change, so why try to sell the idea as a car engine as the first thing?
Your textbook is pretty dumb. it's just as much linux as your wireless router is probably linux - no, it's even more so linux than that. just because you're not using X doesnt make it non-linux - or then me and my brothers first linux installations weren't linux too(they were).
Android most definitely is Linux. you cannot separate the two. even if you're not using ndk and using only dalvik/art, you're still using linux threads and a bunch of other linux things almost directly.
you COULD maybe run "android apps" inside another operating system, but Android as in lets say android 5.0 or whatever is definitely linux and a lot of how the apps and systems on it work bind directly to the linux kernel all the way to the way process security works. furthermore you can just run linux binaries too, provided that the linux installation of course on the phone has everything that binary needs in order to run.
anyways, if your android textbook says it's not linux, then people who learn by it will probably never even think that it is linux and thus can just wonder with amazement at what some apps do while they can never make their apps do the same.
did the textbook also tell you that asynctasks are somehow magical without showing you the source to them, disproving them as magical and making them look like a dumb waste of space?
maybe they would not have been if Apple had not been using the Ireland operation to funnel worldwide profits there to dodge local taxes worldwide.......
look if apple had wanted to pay the taxes locally it could have, but instead it chose to funnel them there,
the idea is to demote links to such search engines.
the companies who provide this service to the media companies are lazy as fuck, so what they care is just sending a few per week to the same sites that are on the first page of results. they bill by the amounts served and bill high and just do it enough.
case in point how it works on youtube - you can find common movies and tv shows from major networks if you just bother to type in the names. the folks SELLING this service to the media companies DO NOT EVEN BOTHER with that 99% of the time, instead they just trust youtubes content id.
seriously, if I can find top gear on youtube, why can't the folks selling the content protection to bbc cant? because they are lazy fucks.
But they want developers on board of it already. Despite the developers not having a market or users to sell to!
2019 is just as good as saying "in the future! with memristors!".
the development suite for hololens 1 is THREE THOUSAND BUCKS. THREE FUCKING THOUSAND BUCKS.
or 5000 bucks if you want warranty and basic mdm that you would get for free on a 99 bucks android phone.
2019 is just as same as saying they're just waiting for some prices to come down. but it makes it almost totally utterly pointless to buy the devkit for 3000 bucks now, given that an user version of the same thing is 2 years away(at least) and might not have _anything_ to do with the devkit!
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I don't really understand why in such a scenario the rest of the carmakers wouldnt just ramp up their electric efforts.
because tesla does nothing particularly cheaply or effectively.
also.. tencent got swindled. 1.78 billion for a 5 percent stake in an operation that is not turning steady profit is a PRETTY SHITTY DEAL, just ask microsoft. the salesman musk needed that money to keep the train rolling.
but thats besides the point that daimler could copy whatever model tesla has as succesful profitable model in a year. theres electric bmw models ready to scale up in production that are cheaper than teslas.
previous tesla models have been competing mainly with upper market bmw's - and even with those teslas have been able to compete due to tax breaks. the previous teslas have all been stupidly expensive - and yet tesla has failed to turn that expensive price into profit TRANSLATING into selling EXPENSIVE PARTS AT BARELY THE COST for several years.
that is, I am very skeptical of Tesla managing to sell _anything_ for under 30 000 dollars at a profit and you have to remember that such a car would still be competing with bmw's on price once you add the tax that most of the world has on cars.
right now it's still basically "do I buy a tesla, an upper range bmw or a lower range ferrari" - and the two latter ones let you tour through europe without stopping.
broken the law? were those felonies? because you know how american law is.
and wait a sec.. you have an ethical and moral system but no universal healthcare "BECAUSE OMG IT COSTS MONEYYY AND WE AS AMERICANS AARE SOOOOOO POOOOOOR".
okay, got it.
yes.
by putting some of the people to drive the speedbumped roads the main road will flow faster.
of course it doesn't account for why the fuck anyone would take those side roads if the main road flows faster. thats the real flaw in their thinking - why would anyone take the slow route for everyone else to go faster?
I don't think drivers license or passport photos classify as public.
or "they happen to be available to fbi" could be marked as public - which probably isn't.
a far larger problem is of course if you're using such a database and it has a hundred million faces and 15% fail rate, you're bound to make some mistakes.. of which few are going to be very serious indeed.
"You don't suddenly get hundreds of coordinated "protesters" showing up in the same outfits, carrying latest model encrypted cell phones, and all having top-quality lawyers."
oh actually yeah you do. thats just like a 1 fb post.
and if you have 10k protesters then 100 will fit that, no problem.
you seem to misunderstand that a) theres people who just want to fuck shit up and go to protests just to fuck shit up b) it's a hobby/lifestyle for them c) they have guides some of them follow.
very few really to be honest. even finland has 100+ people violent protest at least once a year, kind of organized.
..you can't disable it easily in windows either.
the tunnel especially.
and even when you disable ipv6 on purpose, it will get enabled again! JUST GREAT! (ms is doing it to defeat firewalls/filters for the phone home).
you think iveyyy understood anything about that? hell no.
if he did, then ios would have had arbitrary dpi support for a long time.
and btw windows itself has supported arbitrary dpi for a long, long, long time now. some asian manufacturer volume control apps and such are just the stuff that broke.
also ios fixed resolutions were a cancer on mobile app design for a long time and now theres on the market thousands of app designers who can only draw a photoshop picture for a fixed size screen and can't comprehend the question "what if the screen is 1.5x times wide" or what "if the screen is 4cm across and not 10cm".
yeah because thats not that big of an addition.
it's not worth giving a patent for, frankly.
especially when you could have used your touchscreen phone as a trackpad(without a dock) for a laptop since.. well fucking since 2001 or so.
maybe they're patenting using lighting connector.. but thats another thing, you shouldnt be able to patent the same fucking thing with using a different connector.
it doesn't work.
but makes the ecosystem for browsers a pay-to-play ecosystem.
it's basically just geared towards monopolization for the players that made this standard.
and microsoft has had it's hands in a bunch of drm solutions all of which it has promptly dropped or just decided to ignore on their products. like... you know... if ms made a video+audio drm solution.. ....and didnt use it on their phones while licensing it out with stupid, stupid licensing restrictions say to nokia say something like 12 years ago.. (the stupid licensing restrictions were that to make a multimedia plugin on symbian 7.0s nokias onwards, you had to have developer permissions granted by nokia. one of the excuses nokia used in this pay to play ecosystem of theirs was that you could break drm on shitty ringtones with it that nobody gave a shit about - also you could break the drm on shitty video clips that had already broken drm and had much better quality rips in the wild.
it doesn't work and it can't be open source for the obvious reasons so whats the fucking point - and by it doesn't work I mean it doesnt keep it off the internets - or seriously are they gonig to stop people from hooking up to hdmi ? I SERIOUSLY doubt the viability of any streaming service that does that.
...haha.
if by a complex problem that occurs in combination of different states you mean BENCHMARKING said feature, then sure. yeah. very complex. just hammering that instruction seems to be the cause. doesnt matter which core inside either. ..basically, benchmarking one of the new features of their new cpu makes the bug appear.
oh but he is asking how to turn it into cash without paying taxes or having a record he has the cash.
he probably totally ignores the fact that once he pays the tax on the investment he is free to do whatever he wants with the money without any of the agencies caring anything - UNLIKE if he just got magically a million dollars of cash and went buying expensive things which would put him on the hitlist of dea etc.
you know what the joke is?
it's that they keep adding background stuff and webrtc and PUSH notifications that cause js to run and shit.
and then they add this.
is this going to leave the push stuff working? OR is this a ploy to make us enable the bg push stuff? I mean.. just give the option to shut them off with a timer or not.
it stops being fun when you have 3+ apps that handle communication for a single project. it becomes a bother, really it does.
especially when you want to move devices or need to move devices often.. installing all that crap. whats worse, maybe you need to use multiple private instances of the same.. like having 10 slacks that you need to be part of and everyone expecting you to react to everyone of those. it's not good at all.
though the problem becomes more like that you have 10 telephones that you need to be watching at the same time, which ends up churning significant amounts of your time.
ugh.. it is actually built into the api, at least for general run of the mill 3rd party developers. it's not like you can just sign up as a developer and get access to random peoples privately shared data.
now if you sign up and okay access for a "please surveillance me" app then.. well, duh.
the stuff you can get without permissions you can get via regular http/web anyways, if the target has chosen to do so. which of course begs the question wtf are geofeedia etc selling. my bet is that they're selling 99.999% snakeoil product. it will tell law enforcement for example how many times people have publicly said "pot" in a given geographic area(that the users have marked themselves to be part of). as such the rule changes don't have any effect.
twitter on the other hand has been giving some weirdo firehose access to some partners for analyzing or whatnot. thats also just a better api to info that people are putting on the web anyways.
phev rebates are a joke. they cause just the phev system to be subsidized. due to how cars are now taxed in most of the world by co2 tests, the phev gets cheaper as well.
the thing is, pretty much nobody plugs them in and the added weight causes them to have worse mileage than a 1995 honda civic making it all kind of silly and pointless.
yeah the phev is mostly popular due to it dropping the co2 in the test. it's the ultimate circumvention device really. for the consumer it's pretty much +- zero.
If I went to the local tech mall and bought 100 tablets, I could take 100 tablets and none of them would have any dead pixels.
thats why people are complaining. it's not usual nowadays. if you have such a policy that you need x amount of them to be bad for it to be a defect, put it on the box.
or just try the device before buying, thats what people do in asia - in the west you just assume it works.
give them some slack. they got a really, really reaally good deal on screens that.. ..well, simply put, 720p screens need to go into 50 bucks tablets now. 150 bucks tablets need at least 1080p.
so, they were probably really, really, really cheap for nintendo. and someone probably had a lot of slightly defective screens sitting in some warehouse in asia, since people in asia would turn on the device before buying it (seriously).
nintendo should have reworded it as that it's normal for a nintendo product to ship with dead pixels out of the box.
doesn't need to be state sponsored.
look, the mindset is just that what bad is a backdoor in a product you maybe need to patch up and such. it's secret yeah? thats the mindset the chinese and asians build anything like this.
coincidentally asian thieves rarely pick locks and the locks are of shit quality everywhere.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/se...
seriously, 250$ does seem a tad expensive and non-newsworthy. you would probably be better off with a refurb elitebook with core i5.
cheapest nucs are under 250, but celeron as well and really not that good value for money if you consider you can get a screen, battery and and keyboard for the same price too.
affordable smartphones had been around for years before apple made a smartphone.
furthermore, it never was even a market leader in quantities.
what was needed for the apple version, inventionwise, was nothing.
entirely evolutionary.
what was necessary from apples side was screen costs to go down enough and component costs to go down enough so they could sell you a 200 dollar device for 1200 dollars on a contract. that was the real magic of the first generation iPhone - selling a smartphone that lacked actual natively running apps, that had a lackluster resolution screen even for the time, for about 1200 dollars unsubsidized(yes thats how much a launch iPhone cost the people making 2 year contracts at the time).
a long rant about the american/global phones market at the time and how reading forbes ruins your global market leader company:
the american phone market was always twisted, especially in smartphone category - as for years yanks had been buying smartphones(palm treos, windows mobiles. blackberries) with price tags north of 1000$ without knowing that they were that expensive due to the network contracts hiding the costs of the devices(incidentally smartphone adoption in usa was low due to high costs of data plans and still is). rest of the world was dominated by symbian/nokia which provided smartphones with multitasking, web, etc. with phones in the 100 to 600 dollar price range.
you know what started the fall of Nokia really? it wasn't iPhone directly - it was iPhone being featured again and again on american magazines which made the board of Nokia think that they had lost the race and decided to aggressively "focus" on the american market - at this point symbian smartphone sales were still growing. as part of that strategy they decided to hire an american CEO, that american CEO then thought that symbian didn't matter and made a public speech declaring it dead at THE SAME TIME THE YEARLY SHIPMENTS WERE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH. the shipments had not even started to decline before the ceo publicly announced to not buy them anymore. the very same month they were at an all time high - moar money than ever from smartphone shipments for them! so why did he do it?
the board believed forbes more than they believed their own numbers of what people were actually buying globally. Nokia had put huge amounts of developer resources to pleasing american operators for no practical reason at all - as if at&t would have known what the phone needed to have in order to sell(they didn't know). hiring elop came during this focus on american market and american operators, because the light heads in the board thought that the american market was important for them(it wasn't, really).
thats such a huge amounts of fail that it's almost impossible to comprehend and bordering on sabotage, unless you look at the mindset at the people in charge: they were reading american business magazines and believing what was being written in them so they burnt about 20 billion dollars worth of company to ground and put a global brand leader name into an icebox for years.
iPhone as a device was more of a disaster for blackberry as blackberry was also a 1000 dollar device manufacturer that sold on the same markets to the same people, those markets being markets where people bought the phones along with the contract subsidized so that they never knew the real price of the device vs. service.
the biggest trick with the launch of the iPhone was selling it such a high price successfully - that was jobs magic with it.
the biggest trick with getting developers on board iPhone was deceptively simple: offer them a decent cut of the sales of the apps and ask _only_ 100 bucks to be a developer. simple.
but wait, for nokia you could develop and publish for free! well, kind of. if you wanted the app to be sold on operator sales channels and the like, you paid up your arse for it. if you wanted to use any of the more interesting api's you paid 700 bucks for signing - per update. if you
really, no.
the hardware enabling comes first. what you do with it comes second. there are inventions and then there are what you would call obvious ideas.
most visible advancements come from the latter while it's inventions and things that enabled those inventions which enable them.
for example, if there had not been apple, if there had not been nokia, you would still have that mobile phone - what these companies have mostly done is just applying inventions that enabled their devices to be made, like the transistor and so forth.
information theory therefore comes second, it's about what you do with them - but it is something that was born out of need for it due to other inventions already existing.
as obviously you are working mostly in applications of electric devices and what you can do with them, information theory is more important for you, because you aren't really trying to design a smaller chip and break chip manufacturing minimum size limits, in which case you would find the physics research to have been way more valuable for you - and without those devices that are enabled by science you wouldn't be using them for engineering solutions using them.
shannon seems mostly having been interested in the logic side of things: If you have a machine that does this and this what will be the logical conclusion that you can do with it - people like this are far more likely to pop up rather than the kind of people who come up with the new device itself - for example an internal combustion engine meant quite a lot of changes to the world, once you had that it didn't take quite as much imagination to use it for something as it did to actually come up with a design for a working motor - but once you had the motor it would be obvious to use it to generate electricity, to drive cars, to drive boats and so forth.
incidentally this difference is how you can smell bullshit sellers a million miles away: if someone is selling like a perpetual motion machine that makes water or a car that runs on water, you need to ask yourself: why isn't he applying it to such and such.
the thorium car from a while back for example: who fucking cares if it can run a car forever when, if they had a working model for the power source, they would be using it on a car as the last thing on earth making the whole design and articles about it utterly stupid. Having the power generating unit would change the whole world and the cars would be the last thing to change, so why try to sell the idea as a car engine as the first thing?
Your textbook is pretty dumb. it's just as much linux as your wireless router is probably linux - no, it's even more so linux than that. just because you're not using X doesnt make it non-linux - or then me and my brothers first linux installations weren't linux too(they were).
Android most definitely is Linux. you cannot separate the two. even if you're not using ndk and using only dalvik/art, you're still using linux threads and a bunch of other linux things almost directly.
you COULD maybe run "android apps" inside another operating system, but Android as in lets say android 5.0 or whatever is definitely linux and a lot of how the apps and systems on it work bind directly to the linux kernel all the way to the way process security works. furthermore you can just run linux binaries too, provided that the linux installation of course on the phone has everything that binary needs in order to run.
anyways, if your android textbook says it's not linux, then people who learn by it will probably never even think that it is linux and thus can just wonder with amazement at what some apps do while they can never make their apps do the same.
did the textbook also tell you that asynctasks are somehow magical without showing you the source to them, disproving them as magical and making them look like a dumb waste of space?
maybe they would not have been if Apple had not been using the Ireland operation to funnel worldwide profits there to dodge local taxes worldwide.......
look if apple had wanted to pay the taxes locally it could have, but instead it chose to funnel them there,
the idea is to demote links to such search engines.
the companies who provide this service to the media companies are lazy as fuck, so what they care is just sending a few per week to the same sites that are on the first page of results. they bill by the amounts served and bill high and just do it enough.
case in point how it works on youtube - you can find common movies and tv shows from major networks if you just bother to type in the names. the folks SELLING this service to the media companies DO NOT EVEN BOTHER with that 99% of the time, instead they just trust youtubes content id.
seriously, if I can find top gear on youtube, why can't the folks selling the content protection to bbc cant? because they are lazy fucks.
But they want developers on board of it already.
Despite the developers not having a market or users to sell to!
2019 is just as good as saying "in the future! with memristors!".
the development suite for hololens 1 is THREE THOUSAND BUCKS. THREE FUCKING THOUSAND BUCKS.
or 5000 bucks if you want warranty and basic mdm that you would get for free on a 99 bucks android phone.
2019 is just as same as saying they're just waiting for some prices to come down. but it makes it almost totally utterly pointless to buy the devkit for 3000 bucks now, given that an user version of the same thing is 2 years away(at least) and might not have _anything_ to do with the devkit!