Internally, you need 12, 5,and 3.3 volts. Well, the 78xx chips do that for cheap..
Something like the 78xx / 79xx regulators are very inefficient, and can give off lots of heat. There's a reason that the power section in any modern laptop is a fairly sophisticated switcher / dc-dc convertor.
The summary says: "According to the scientists, this suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion."
Isn't it really that religion evolved to exploit some quirk in brain structure?
Really? Moderating this as troll? I think it's a reasonable question. Stupidity must cause at least as many issues as obesity. Once you start down this path I think you'll find it a slippery slope.
Apple signed an n-year exclusive with AT&T in order to extract some concessions from AT&T, not the least of which is: who owns the customer. With many handset manufacturers, it seems like the carrier is the end customer, not the subscriber. Apple seems focussed on the end subscriber as the customer, and if they had to sign an exclusive with AT&T at the beginning of the iPhone to allow them to control the way the subscriber sees the phone, so be it. It's fairly amazing that the new kid on the block was able to wrest such concessions from a telco giant like AT&T.
Granted, you sign a deal with AT&T, and pay AT&T the monthly bill, but you get a phone that is an Apple product, with no AT&T software and branding. Apple controls what the customer sees on the phone. Apple handles software updates. Essentially, Apple's deal with AT&T ceded control of the customer relationship to Apple; it allowed them to go against long-standing wireless carrier rules and traditions.
When the AT&T exclusive is up, I'm sure you'll see the iPhone on other carriers. I imagine that Apple has enough power now to ensure that the new carriers plays by similar rules.
No, they took a market segment selling $2000 products that no one had any particular use for, rejected many of the ideas embodied in those products, re-thought the problem, and came out with a fairly aggressively priced new product that essentially created a "new" category of tablet computers. Anyone could have done it, but they weren't willing to do the hard work. I don't have an iPad, but it's clear to me that they thought about the problem in a new way, and came up with a good product, you know, by innovating.
Why is everyone suddenly scrambling to get out a tablet and/or tablet OS? (hint: It's not because of the tablets that have existed before the iPad.)
Yeah, how do you explain the fact that there have been tablets for maybe ten years, yet it's suddenly it's a new, desirable, market after the iPad? How do you explain the fact that, time and time again, Apple can create a product that many people actually want to use? (hint: it's not hypnotism)
The iPhone 4 antenna issues was unfortunate, but once you use a case or other protector, it's a very nice device. If the iPhone 4 had a bumper in the box with it, with advice along the lines of "If you experience reception issues, please install the bumper." no one would have thought twice about it.
Between them, they sold 40,000 units whereas the iphone sold 270,000 [socialmediaseo.net] for the same period, almost SEVEN times as many and just from Apple and AT&T stores/on-line.
that's the number for the iphone launch, which was really a first of it's kind product.
That's the number for the iPhone 4 launch earlier this year. The iPhone 4 is a fourth of its kind product. It entered a market that was almost as saturated with smart phones as today's market. If the 40k number for the W7 is accurate, this may not be as bad as the Kin, but it's still bad.
What you can't do is release something that will immediately catch up with competitors that have a couple of years head start (it'd be rushed and hackish.)
Umm... a couple years head start? Hasn't Microsoft been making a phone OS for something like a decade? Wasn't Microsoft intimately involved with many of the hardware specifications on those phones?
Perhaps you mean the head start that Apple has after coming to the market late, but redefining it anyway?
I agree that philosophy is a good thing, I just used it as my straw man for the argument against the statement that the cost of a degree should be proportional to the eventual salary.
It seems that the only thing both parties agree on is the dismantling of the middle class - so perhaps policies that help the super rich and powerful secure more of our middle class wealth will not be gridlocked.
This is the tragic truth. I think that we're slipping into some combination of oligarchy and serfdom. The whole concept of a middle class was a beautiful thing, while it lasted.
When I am in a financial bind I quickly work to reduce my financial burden by making cuts to non essential items, why should the govt be any different?
One of my biggest complaints against conservatives is that they never really talk about exactly what they want to cut. Assuming that we take recent Sunday morning statements at face value, defense, medicare, and social security are not being considered as targets. What does that leave?
He is what he is, another tax-and-spend Democrat...
As opposed to the cut-tax and spend Republicans?
It seems to me that under the current political system, the US is stuck with two parties, and that independent candidates will remain marginalized. In my view, Obama was clearly the better candidate of the two major parties in 2008.
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I guess it depends upon exactly what flavor of geek you are. For my money, a real programming geek would have programmed it in his HP16c.
Internally, you need 12, 5,and 3.3 volts. Well, the 78xx chips do that for cheap. .
Something like the 78xx / 79xx regulators are very inefficient, and can give off lots of heat. There's a reason that the power section in any modern laptop is a fairly sophisticated switcher / dc-dc convertor.
If you were going to design the perfect pickpocket, invisible hands would be one of the first things you'd include.
While Nokia has taken a hammering because they can't seem to get a smartphone out the door
They've gotten lots of smart phones out the door. Just not ones that very many people wanted.
The summary says: "According to the scientists, this suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion."
Isn't it really that religion evolved to exploit some quirk in brain structure?
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the US Constitution
Yeah, it's much better to say that you have a 0.21872266 yard penis.
Really? Moderating this as troll? I think it's a reasonable question. Stupidity must cause at least as many issues as obesity. Once you start down this path I think you'll find it a slippery slope.
It seems like Arizona could solve most of their budget woes by taxing stupidity.
The fact that PDF is almost solely used to produce printed documents doesn't mean that's the intent of the format.
Right, but world domination is hard to fit on the printed page. :-)
Who would be left to work factory jobs.../quote> I believe it's China.
Throwing journalists and dissenters in jail is a good start on the path to being a dictator.
Isn't that the definition of government?
Apple signed an n-year exclusive with AT&T in order to extract some concessions from AT&T, not the least of which is: who owns the customer. With many handset manufacturers, it seems like the carrier is the end customer, not the subscriber. Apple seems focussed on the end subscriber as the customer, and if they had to sign an exclusive with AT&T at the beginning of the iPhone to allow them to control the way the subscriber sees the phone, so be it. It's fairly amazing that the new kid on the block was able to wrest such concessions from a telco giant like AT&T.
Granted, you sign a deal with AT&T, and pay AT&T the monthly bill, but you get a phone that is an Apple product, with no AT&T software and branding. Apple controls what the customer sees on the phone. Apple handles software updates. Essentially, Apple's deal with AT&T ceded control of the customer relationship to Apple; it allowed them to go against long-standing wireless carrier rules and traditions.
When the AT&T exclusive is up, I'm sure you'll see the iPhone on other carriers. I imagine that Apple has enough power now to ensure that the new carriers plays by similar rules.
From that statement, I infer that you've never used a netbook, or never used an iPad, or maybe both.
No, they took a market segment selling $2000 products that no one had any particular use for, rejected many of the ideas embodied in those products, re-thought the problem, and came out with a fairly aggressively priced new product that essentially created a "new" category of tablet computers. Anyone could have done it, but they weren't willing to do the hard work. I don't have an iPad, but it's clear to me that they thought about the problem in a new way, and came up with a good product, you know, by innovating.
Why is everyone suddenly scrambling to get out a tablet and/or tablet OS? (hint: It's not because of the tablets that have existed before the iPad.)
Yeah, how do you explain the fact that there have been tablets for maybe ten years, yet it's suddenly it's a new, desirable, market after the iPad? How do you explain the fact that, time and time again, Apple can create a product that many people actually want to use? (hint: it's not hypnotism)
The iPhone 4 antenna issues was unfortunate, but once you use a case or other protector, it's a very nice device. If the iPhone 4 had a bumper in the box with it, with advice along the lines of "If you experience reception issues, please install the bumper." no one would have thought twice about it.
Between them, they sold 40,000 units whereas the iphone sold 270,000 [socialmediaseo.net] for the same period, almost SEVEN times as many and just from Apple and AT&T stores/on-line.
that's the number for the iphone launch, which was really a first of it's kind product.
That's the number for the iPhone 4 launch earlier this year. The iPhone 4 is a fourth of its kind product. It entered a market that was almost as saturated with smart phones as today's market. If the 40k number for the W7 is accurate, this may not be as bad as the Kin, but it's still bad.
Luckily for most products the sales last longer than just one day.
Yes, they often last as long as six or seven weeks.
What you can't do is release something that will immediately catch up with competitors that have a couple of years head start (it'd be rushed and hackish.)
Umm... a couple years head start? Hasn't Microsoft been making a phone OS for something like a decade? Wasn't Microsoft intimately involved with many of the hardware specifications on those phones?
Perhaps you mean the head start that Apple has after coming to the market late, but redefining it anyway?
I agree that philosophy is a good thing, I just used it as my straw man for the argument against the statement that the cost of a degree should be proportional to the eventual salary.
And of course, the right-wing media fans that fire constantly, but they still never say what programs the conservatives want to cut.
It seems that the only thing both parties agree on is the dismantling of the middle class - so perhaps policies that help the super rich and powerful secure more of our middle class wealth will not be gridlocked.
This is the tragic truth. I think that we're slipping into some combination of oligarchy and serfdom. The whole concept of a middle class was a beautiful thing, while it lasted.
When I am in a financial bind I quickly work to reduce my financial burden by making cuts to non essential items, why should the govt be any different?
One of my biggest complaints against conservatives is that they never really talk about exactly what they want to cut. Assuming that we take recent Sunday morning statements at face value, defense, medicare, and social security are not being considered as targets. What does that leave?
He is what he is, another tax-and-spend Democrat...
As opposed to the cut-tax and spend Republicans? It seems to me that under the current political system, the US is stuck with two parties, and that independent candidates will remain marginalized. In my view, Obama was clearly the better candidate of the two major parties in 2008.
Oh... and considering that-- how the hell does a college justify charging $20k a year for a degree which is only going to pay $60 to $70k?
By that logic, why does a college even offer classes in philosophy? How much can you earn in a philosophy shoppe?