There are a whole set of instructions to do with cache handling and other OS-centric things that will often be used differently on diferent OSs and it could be one of these. This sort of bug would only manifest itself in certain OSs and in certain ways.
Typically it is only sequences of instructions that would trigger these bugs. In other words, the CPU has to be in a certain state to trigger the bug. Some OSs will never get in that state. The bugs are surely something like this because otherwise crashes would be far more common than we see.
The reason why I mention cache handlers is because those are notoriously tricky and have proven buggy before. The Core Duo 2 CPUs need new cache handlers to handle the dual (and more) cores and thus this area is more likely to be buggy.
Are you spouting from a point of knowledge or just wild extrapolation from other devices you've seen?
The iphone has a glass front which should make it far more scratch resistant than a regular plastic touch screen.
The haptic touch screens need extra mechanics (weight, battery power,cost...). Like everything in engineering you need to make trade offs. The iphone touch screen is different from a regular touch screen. It has to be to support multi-touch. This difference should make it far better than a regular touch screen and easier to use.
Sure, many handsets do use GPS to provide E911 positioning. However there are many other ways to achieve E911 positioning, such as cellular triangulation.
There are a lot of phones that even have GPS at the hardware level, but it is disabled.
This is possibly one of those cases where "funding" from Microsoft becomes a two-edged sword. Don't bite the hand that feeds. (Assuming for a moment that they do get some MS dollars...)
If you wanted an African base, then South Africa is a lot easier to travel to (more airlines etc) and has far better infrastructure.
WTF does Google want to do in Africa anyway? If they want to access programmers etc, then they should target South Africa which holds probably 95+% of the African programmer talent.
My wife spent a while caring for paraplegics and helping them to adjust. Most of these were young males hurt in mining accidents. Being able to have fantasies about walking is probably low on their agenda and probably serves little useful purpose. Being able to have realistic sex play is probably far more desirable and beneficial to the their health and wellbeing.
No doubt people just lacked the balls to point this out. Even if it is legal, it is at least in the very gray zone and could have been used as an argument.
CD, and all music sales, must compete against all other discretionary/disposable income (depending which definition you choose to use). Ten years back there were far fewer ways to blow your money.
Of course, the 1960s, 70s and 80s had decade-defining music. There's no such music for the 2000's. Not really that much worth buying.
Just because it takes $200k to make a toy can does not mean it will take $200M to build a bigger thing to go to the moon.
Making a product (toy car) is very expensive. Moulds for plastic injection moulding can cost $50k+ each. Processes for making 1 off parts cost a lot less.
Industrial revolution & the Luddites anyone? Mechanisation during the industrial revolution probably put more people out of jobs than robots have and will. Manufacturing processes developed during the industrial revolution probably got 90% of the way there and robotics might take it to 95%. Take for example thread spinning (almost all of us wear clothing from spun thread), the actual spinning process went from 100% manual to over 80% automated in the Industrial Revolution and mechanical refinements have takes it to 99.9%.
Some might think that releasing Safari on Windows would help expose hacker's attempts to get at Safari and thus allow a way to tighten up iphone. There's not enough time in the cycle for that to happen.
What it did do was expose hundreds of thousands of people to Safari (there have been over 1M downloads), helping people to accept that Safari is a real browser and ready them for iphone.
Some banks offer very easy terms (even zero charge) to "top up" a current mortgage. Depending on your bank, this is typically far cheaper than a regular loan.
Some clipboard wielding person asking you about your cellphone or some stupid web survey is pretty flawed because it just is not real enough.
If you held out a briefcase stuffed with a real million pounds in notes and offered that, few people would hesitate before handing over their cellphone, lover, mother in law etc.
For many purposes it is very hard to beat dead trees and pencils. Just because something can be computerised does not mean it should be.
The major reason that the unwashed masses don't really care about paper vs electronic ballots is that they really don't care about politics and voting. If this was to do with something important to most people (eg. What is on TV tonight) then you'd get people interested.
Attaching a bunchof prior art (or supposed prior art) to an application sure helps the peer review process.
Only problem I see with this is that it can easily become deep pockets vs the rest exercise. No doubt MS and some others will have a few people perminantly assigned to tearing apart applications from others.
Go to http://www.apple.com/iphone/ then watch the launch keynote. Then try to honestly say you'd rather have that current ugly lump you call a phone. I am not a fanboy, but I realise that there is the iphone and there is the rest.
Yes, there will be rabid KoolAid-drinking fanboys that will throw away a phone + plan bought yesterday and buy one of these. However, the fans would most likely have held off buying phones since the January announcement. There will be a lot of people who have plans that have expired or will expire in the next few months. Apple can achieve their sales goals within the normal upgrade stream.
AT+T already has almost 60M subscribers. Apple has set a target of selling 10M iphones in 2008. They coupld probably do that within the AT+T client base without getting anyone to switch.
From a manufacturing stand point, the last thing Apple wants is for everyone to dump their phones and buy iphone on the day of release. Manufacturing huge numbers is very difficult. With the goal of selling 10M phones in a year, almost 1M per month, they'd rather have customers roll in slowly than in one big wave. Plan lock in helps because it means that people will wait until their current plan completes (or nears completion), thus providing a smoothing effect.
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The only carbon fibre I have around here is a $1000 flyrod and I'm not going to test that.
Typically it is only sequences of instructions that would trigger these bugs. In other words, the CPU has to be in a certain state to trigger the bug. Some OSs will never get in that state. The bugs are surely something like this because otherwise crashes would be far more common than we see.
The reason why I mention cache handlers is because those are notoriously tricky and have proven buggy before. The Core Duo 2 CPUs need new cache handlers to handle the dual (and more) cores and thus this area is more likely to be buggy.
Perhaps this only happens on MS and not on Macs.
If it is a MS patch how will it fix an OS-independent CPU bug?
The iphone has a glass front which should make it far more scratch resistant than a regular plastic touch screen.
The haptic touch screens need extra mechanics (weight, battery power,cost...). Like everything in engineering you need to make trade offs. The iphone touch screen is different from a regular touch screen. It has to be to support multi-touch. This difference should make it far better than a regular touch screen and easier to use.
There are a lot of phones that even have GPS at the hardware level, but it is disabled.
This is possibly one of those cases where "funding" from Microsoft becomes a two-edged sword. Don't bite the hand that feeds. (Assuming for a moment that they do get some MS dollars...)
If you wanted an African base, then South Africa is a lot easier to travel to (more airlines etc) and has far better infrastructure.
WTF does Google want to do in Africa anyway? If they want to access programmers etc, then they should target South Africa which holds probably 95+% of the African programmer talent.
My wife spent a while caring for paraplegics and helping them to adjust. Most of these were young males hurt in mining accidents. Being able to have fantasies about walking is probably low on their agenda and probably serves little useful purpose. Being able to have realistic sex play is probably far more desirable and beneficial to the their health and wellbeing.
Since it is more than just theoretically possible to hijack a voting machine via hardware methods, all aspecs of the design should be held for review.
Foreign nationals will be required to fit a GPS tracking collar to their necks at points of entry...
No doubt people just lacked the balls to point this out. Even if it is legal, it is at least in the very gray zone and could have been used as an argument.
Of course, the 1960s, 70s and 80s had decade-defining music. There's no such music for the 2000's. Not really that much worth buying.
Making a product (toy car) is very expensive. Moulds for plastic injection moulding can cost $50k+ each. Processes for making 1 off parts cost a lot less.
You'd never know if an article was a dupe or not.
What it did do was expose hundreds of thousands of people to Safari (there have been over 1M downloads), helping people to accept that Safari is a real browser and ready them for iphone.
that would have been enough!
I'd probably pay a million quid to have it taken away!
Some banks offer very easy terms (even zero charge) to "top up" a current mortgage. Depending on your bank, this is typically far cheaper than a regular loan.
If you held out a briefcase stuffed with a real million pounds in notes and offered that, few people would hesitate before handing over their cellphone, lover, mother in law etc.
The major reason that the unwashed masses don't really care about paper vs electronic ballots is that they really don't care about politics and voting. If this was to do with something important to most people (eg. What is on TV tonight) then you'd get people interested.
Only problem I see with this is that it can easily become deep pockets vs the rest exercise. No doubt MS and some others will have a few people perminantly assigned to tearing apart applications from others.
Yes, there will be rabid KoolAid-drinking fanboys that will throw away a phone + plan bought yesterday and buy one of these. However, the fans would most likely have held off buying phones since the January announcement. There will be a lot of people who have plans that have expired or will expire in the next few months. Apple can achieve their sales goals within the normal upgrade stream.
AT+T already has almost 60M subscribers. Apple has set a target of selling 10M iphones in 2008. They coupld probably do that within the AT+T client base without getting anyone to switch.
From a manufacturing stand point, the last thing Apple wants is for everyone to dump their phones and buy iphone on the day of release. Manufacturing huge numbers is very difficult. With the goal of selling 10M phones in a year, almost 1M per month, they'd rather have customers roll in slowly than in one big wave. Plan lock in helps because it means that people will wait until their current plan completes (or nears completion), thus providing a smoothing effect.
If you're a US tax payer, you've already paid for this software.