The balance of power between China and Japan is reversing with incredible speed. There's no need to go back to Kublai Khan to explain this. In 1995 Japan's GDP was 733% that of China's. In 2012 it was 72% of China's. What else do you need to know?
Solar is not 'maybe going to take off in the next decade,' it is taking off as we speak. Where I live (New Mexico) it is easily noticeable, you see them all over.
Personally, the main thing holding me back is deflation. If they keep getting cheaper, my payoff might be sooner if I wait a couple years to get them. But then the subsidies may well decrease, so maybe not...
I got one of the early Dell 4K 30 hz monitors and I can NOT recommend it. You think, "hey, 30hz isn't bad even for a game, it should be fine for web-surfing and Word editing." The problem is the mouse cursor motion at only 30 hz is downright annoying! YMMV but for me that alone ruins it. Now I run that monitor at 1080p (60hz) most of the time and only kick it into 4K to look at maps (which look great!)
This is a nice interview and all, but a story about a high-speed camera absolutely demands some cool high-speed footage of china shattering or a face getting punched or something.
Why anybody would want to be in the mobile phone market is less clear to me than it seems to be to you. Unless your name is Apple, your margins will be miniscule. Unless your name is Samsung, you aren't a big enough player to make up for low margins on huge volume. In short, you will not turn a profit.
I assume Amazon has an app you can install on any phone. Why make phones?
My guess is there is a bit of spin going on here. If an indie wants to post their video for free, I doubt google will take it down. The question is probably all about the checks these indies have been getting from google, and google's refusal to keep sending them unless a new bargain (which includes google streaming for cheap) is struck.
If my guess is correct, the answer to your question is that the process is actually self-selecting.
It's not like slipping in lower-performance parts is hard to detect.
In fact, on top of the simple dishonesty, it's insulting that they assume we buy products on the basis of reviews but don't bother to measure them, or aren't aware enough to notice performance differences ourselves. We're not idiots.
Where I live, Comcast sent the broadcast channels unencrypted in high-def over cable for several years after the digital conversion. They had sent some converter boxes, but since everything was working fine I thought they were only needed for analog TVs to watch the new digital signal. Then, poof, one day my PVR wouldn't work any more, and the next time I tried watching TV in real-time, it didn't work (even after a channel scan). So I hooked my PVR to an antenna now I have cable TV service, with no TV signal.
But contiguous writes is the absolute (and unrealistic) best case in terms of MB transferred before failure for an HDD, because it minimizes the number of revolutions and seeks per megabyte written. For whatever it's worth, it used to be said that "enterprise grade" drives were designed to withstand constant seeking associated with accesses from multiple processes, instead of fewer seeks associated with sporadic, single-user access.
If seeking does wear a drive, then using an SSD for files that generates lots of seeks will not only greatly speed up the computer, but also extend the life of HDDs relegated to storing big files.
In practice, who wields a patent is at least as significant as what is in it. Getting sued by a nobody is one thing, but how would you feel getting served by IBM or Apple and their army of lawyers?
I thought this statement in the article was interesting: "Last year, the company made a big to-do about publishing a full list of patents it owns." It hadn't occurred to me this could be secret information, but it makes me wonder if companies set up mazes of shell corporations to obscure their IP holdings, like they do to avoid taxes or to prevent prices from going up when they are bidding on something (acquiring a smaller company, drilling rights, etc).
Oh, I realize it's not equipped for remote control. I was simply pointing out that it could be, and it would be a lot safer obviously. But I guess that's like pushing a mannequin out the door of an airplane to go skydiving.
Have to take issue with you on this one. AMOLED is actually a big deal. That's why it's mentioned in the title, and that's why it's newsworthy. I don't want to upgrade my TV again until I can get an OLED.
Besides the ancillary wheels to make this a "car," consider the equally-ancillary driver in the cockpit. I cannot think of a good reason to have a person onboard, beyond creating a (very real) element of danger.
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Hard to get more definitive than that.
OK, you can argue that NVidia is simply lying; that they engineer these for professional applications and then make a rebadged version to score an easy buck by conning ego-driven gamers. But what kind of defense is that?
I disagree, as it is prompting us to work together despite current tensions, and has saved a lot of money. (If we had a cheaper option on hand we'd be doing it by now!)
This is similar to how people disagree on the Olympics, or the UN as a whole. Some people say "the UN is a sham if Country X is on the human rights committee." I say "what, you think Country X would have better human rights if they weren't on the comittee?"
You might be right or wrong, but you have no way of knowing without at least understanding the research and specifically addressing the points they make. You're not going to take the time to read the paper, let alone acquire the necessary background to understand it, and neither am I. Know-nothings tossing out hunches on an Internet forum, now that is mental masturbation.
I tried the official EA version of Tetris on a smartphone lately and it was an absolute travesty. It actually played a video commercial before even letting me play. Then more spam between every level. In some ways computers have really fallen a long way in 30 years.
If it's too dynamic it will be very frustrating. Without some stability, you would never even know if the bus were viable for your next ride without punching it into your smarthphone and re-thinking the locations and times available. Also it is a 2-way influence - people who rely on the bus fall into a routine that is compatible with the bus schedule, so if that suddenly changes, you have to change when you get up, or go to the gym after work instead of before, etc etc. I don't want to be a downer about this new business, I just wonder if busses were so badly routed/timed before as to make a real business opportunity, especially since most busses are operated by the government at a loss, are they not?
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The balance of power between China and Japan is reversing with incredible speed. There's no need to go back to Kublai Khan to explain this. In 1995 Japan's GDP was 733% that of China's. In 2012 it was 72% of China's. What else do you need to know?
Ukraine's issues are primarily internal.
Personally, the main thing holding me back is deflation. If they keep getting cheaper, my payoff might be sooner if I wait a couple years to get them. But then the subsidies may well decrease, so maybe not...
I know I don't want to upgrade my TV until I can get a 50" 4k OLED for about $1K. My crystal ball says that will happen in 2018 :)
I got one of the early Dell 4K 30 hz monitors and I can NOT recommend it. You think, "hey, 30hz isn't bad even for a game, it should be fine for web-surfing and Word editing." The problem is the mouse cursor motion at only 30 hz is downright annoying! YMMV but for me that alone ruins it. Now I run that monitor at 1080p (60hz) most of the time and only kick it into 4K to look at maps (which look great!)
This is a nice interview and all, but a story about a high-speed camera absolutely demands some cool high-speed footage of china shattering or a face getting punched or something.
I assume Amazon has an app you can install on any phone. Why make phones?
If my guess is correct, the answer to your question is that the process is actually self-selecting.
In fact, on top of the simple dishonesty, it's insulting that they assume we buy products on the basis of reviews but don't bother to measure them, or aren't aware enough to notice performance differences ourselves. We're not idiots.
Where I live, Comcast sent the broadcast channels unencrypted in high-def over cable for several years after the digital conversion. They had sent some converter boxes, but since everything was working fine I thought they were only needed for analog TVs to watch the new digital signal. Then, poof, one day my PVR wouldn't work any more, and the next time I tried watching TV in real-time, it didn't work (even after a channel scan). So I hooked my PVR to an antenna now I have cable TV service, with no TV signal.
It's surprising. Kingston? I thought they were a good brand.
If seeking does wear a drive, then using an SSD for files that generates lots of seeks will not only greatly speed up the computer, but also extend the life of HDDs relegated to storing big files.
I thought this statement in the article was interesting: "Last year, the company made a big to-do about publishing a full list of patents it owns." It hadn't occurred to me this could be secret information, but it makes me wonder if companies set up mazes of shell corporations to obscure their IP holdings, like they do to avoid taxes or to prevent prices from going up when they are bidding on something (acquiring a smaller company, drilling rights, etc).
Why talk in generalities about brands? Let's just compare the work. What project is Dell working on that's comparable to "The Machine"? Nothing.
Oh, I realize it's not equipped for remote control. I was simply pointing out that it could be, and it would be a lot safer obviously. But I guess that's like pushing a mannequin out the door of an airplane to go skydiving.
Have to take issue with you on this one. AMOLED is actually a big deal. That's why it's mentioned in the title, and that's why it's newsworthy. I don't want to upgrade my TV again until I can get an OLED.
Besides the ancillary wheels to make this a "car," consider the equally-ancillary driver in the cockpit. I cannot think of a good reason to have a person onboard, beyond creating a (very real) element of danger.
Or, Apple is about to announce a smartwatch with wireless charging, kicking off a swift and inevitable move towards it.
OK, tell that to NVidia:
Hard to get more definitive than that.
OK, you can argue that NVidia is simply lying; that they engineer these for professional applications and then make a rebadged version to score an easy buck by conning ego-driven gamers. But what kind of defense is that?
This is similar to how people disagree on the Olympics, or the UN as a whole. Some people say "the UN is a sham if Country X is on the human rights committee." I say "what, you think Country X would have better human rights if they weren't on the comittee?"
You don't consider the PS4 a higher-resolution rehash of the PS3? The differences in what they do are not fundamental.
PC/Console disparities would certainly ruin competitive play, but not cooperative play. (Does GTA have that?)
You might be right or wrong, but you have no way of knowing without at least understanding the research and specifically addressing the points they make. You're not going to take the time to read the paper, let alone acquire the necessary background to understand it, and neither am I. Know-nothings tossing out hunches on an Internet forum, now that is mental masturbation.
I tried the official EA version of Tetris on a smartphone lately and it was an absolute travesty. It actually played a video commercial before even letting me play. Then more spam between every level. In some ways computers have really fallen a long way in 30 years.
If it's too dynamic it will be very frustrating. Without some stability, you would never even know if the bus were viable for your next ride without punching it into your smarthphone and re-thinking the locations and times available. Also it is a 2-way influence - people who rely on the bus fall into a routine that is compatible with the bus schedule, so if that suddenly changes, you have to change when you get up, or go to the gym after work instead of before, etc etc. I don't want to be a downer about this new business, I just wonder if busses were so badly routed/timed before as to make a real business opportunity, especially since most busses are operated by the government at a loss, are they not?