Or some of it wasn't trapped by infall and then released by the Late Heavy Bombardment as large chunks of mantle were blasted into mist - which would have been my guess.
A lot of little ones, or a few big ones. One remaining asteroid that we know of - 1 Ceres - has as much water on it as all the fresh water on Earth. There's quite a lot more water on Earth than we can see though - it's just mixed in with the rock, trapped in the mantle.
These tablets have limited time to establish dominant mindshare. If Google subsidized each tablet $10 for 100 million tablets a year, that would be the$1B/yr level Microsoft is subsidizing Nokia. This isn't business any more, except to the extent that as always - business is war. The goal here is to kill the PC outright before Microsoft achieves their avowed goal of killing Google.
I'm a HUGE Intel fan. Really, I am. But they have a rather serious Windows dependency they need to be quit of before they're ready to take on ARM, no matter what their process technology is, nor how fabulous their fabs. They are in serious danger of losing the plot.
Some eight years ago a laptop and desktop came to have the capabilities almost anybody needs. The innovation should have turned on that day to making the thing thinner, lighter and smaller; to making it run all day - but it didn't. Instead Windows became more bloated (as it always has) to drive new product sales for Intel and GPU vendors to make ever more powerful systems to give us more beautiful chrome. That worked for a while. It was great for sales and margins back in the day.
And then Apple came and reminded us that the purpose of the widget and the OS is not to sell more OS and more widget. It's to serve people in ever-evolving ways. To enable and empower people to do what they want to do, and get out of the way the rest of the time. To connect us to the things and people we care about. They came out with the iPhone, and then the iPad. They gave us what we had long craved.
Right about seven years ago ARM systems became "good enough" to do this and Apple released the iPod Touch - an innovative product that struck a chord with us. In 2007 came the iPhone. In 2008 Android. Ever since 2007 Intel has fiddled while Rome burned, producing "mobile" chips that burn multiple watts.
In 2005 the talk was about "the next billion users". It was always obvious that the next billion users wouldn't have watts. Well, Apple and Google have found that next billion users even faster than predicted. They're (we're) mobile. Between Android and iOS, they've sold nearly a billion devices - by the end of this year they'll get there - and now by ignoring the needs and wants of people Intel is in for a hell of a fight.
Even now their Windows pal is abandoning them, developing a new version of Windows without the chrome that requires their power-hungry CPUs, slimming it down to the point where a 7-year-old system is more than adequate and pricing it at a spot that's going to give legs to legacy systems and also building ARM-based systems under their own brand. That's going to kill new unit sales in every possible way for Intel. They had a good stretch where they got to milk that special relationship, but it's over now and then need to think about what next to do.
There are trust issues here that are very delicate. Buyers are not going to want to buy gear that leads back to the Bad Old Way where progress was slow.
I hope Intel figures this out. Really I do. But in the meantime I'm going to buy the kids, and Mom, Nexus 7 tabs for Christmas. My youngest son is almost old enough to teach how to build Android apps.
The founding fathers of the US didn't feel that way, and published their "Federalist Papers" under pseudonyms. Freedom to be anonymous guarantees freedom of speech. It also focuses the audience not on the speaker, but the message. With modern tech anonymous speech can't be prevented anyway so there's no point in trying to banish it unless you want to be The Best Korea.
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's not clear if you're asking about Nokia or Samsung here.
Samsung's Linux business is their Smartphone department, and it's pulling $3.8B/quarter this summer, so an annualized run rate of about $20B profit. At a reasonable 5 PER for a 15% operating margin business growing this fast this would be $100B at least for business value, plus another 40% for takeover markup. I.E. nobody has that much money. Of course, that would never happen anyway.
Nokia's Linux businesses? They have to be worth something to somebody. And anything is better than nothing, unless they get more for destroying them than selling them.
Other companies can't make Apple devices. If they want to compete with Apple here they need to use things like Android. Samsung's not doing too badly in that department - $3.87 billion in profits on their mobile devices just last quarter, almost all of it Android phones. PC OEMs don't have a good profit model - it almost all goes to Microsoft or Intel, or Apple. I think more than anything the drive for profit among the OEM tech giants is what's going to motivate this shift to mobile. That, and the amazingly short time-to-market that comes from vertical integration.
I was in the store yesterday and happened to walk past the laptops and notice one was selling for $299. This is not a netbook, but a 15.9" full size laptop with DVD and all that. That's half of what I paid for my TF101 with keyboard. And I wouldn't trade it for two of them.
The kernel bits this needs were designed by the Linux kernel geeks who drew the silicon. That's what vertical integration is. The software was ready before the silicon blank was wet.
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Or some of it wasn't trapped by infall and then released by the Late Heavy Bombardment as large chunks of mantle were blasted into mist - which would have been my guess.
A lot of little ones, or a few big ones. One remaining asteroid that we know of - 1 Ceres - has as much water on it as all the fresh water on Earth. There's quite a lot more water on Earth than we can see though - it's just mixed in with the rock, trapped in the mantle.
You don't have to make a call to be triangulated. That bars signal level indicator, what is it doing? It's pinging every tower in range.
Well, what about a Valve console? Something like Tegra Wayne 4 cores @2GHz, plus 16 GPU cores with XBMC or Android. Would we buy that?
The griefers won. There's a lesson there for slashdot.
These tablets have limited time to establish dominant mindshare. If Google subsidized each tablet $10 for 100 million tablets a year, that would be the$1B/yr level Microsoft is subsidizing Nokia. This isn't business any more, except to the extent that as always - business is war. The goal here is to kill the PC outright before Microsoft achieves their avowed goal of killing Google.
I'm a HUGE Intel fan. Really, I am. But they have a rather serious Windows dependency they need to be quit of before they're ready to take on ARM, no matter what their process technology is, nor how fabulous their fabs. They are in serious danger of losing the plot.
Some eight years ago a laptop and desktop came to have the capabilities almost anybody needs. The innovation should have turned on that day to making the thing thinner, lighter and smaller; to making it run all day - but it didn't. Instead Windows became more bloated (as it always has) to drive new product sales for Intel and GPU vendors to make ever more powerful systems to give us more beautiful chrome. That worked for a while. It was great for sales and margins back in the day.
And then Apple came and reminded us that the purpose of the widget and the OS is not to sell more OS and more widget. It's to serve people in ever-evolving ways. To enable and empower people to do what they want to do, and get out of the way the rest of the time. To connect us to the things and people we care about. They came out with the iPhone, and then the iPad. They gave us what we had long craved.
Right about seven years ago ARM systems became "good enough" to do this and Apple released the iPod Touch - an innovative product that struck a chord with us. In 2007 came the iPhone. In 2008 Android. Ever since 2007 Intel has fiddled while Rome burned, producing "mobile" chips that burn multiple watts.
In 2005 the talk was about "the next billion users". It was always obvious that the next billion users wouldn't have watts. Well, Apple and Google have found that next billion users even faster than predicted. They're (we're) mobile. Between Android and iOS, they've sold nearly a billion devices - by the end of this year they'll get there - and now by ignoring the needs and wants of people Intel is in for a hell of a fight.
Even now their Windows pal is abandoning them, developing a new version of Windows without the chrome that requires their power-hungry CPUs, slimming it down to the point where a 7-year-old system is more than adequate and pricing it at a spot that's going to give legs to legacy systems and also building ARM-based systems under their own brand. That's going to kill new unit sales in every possible way for Intel. They had a good stretch where they got to milk that special relationship, but it's over now and then need to think about what next to do.
There are trust issues here that are very delicate. Buyers are not going to want to buy gear that leads back to the Bad Old Way where progress was slow.
I hope Intel figures this out. Really I do. But in the meantime I'm going to buy the kids, and Mom, Nexus 7 tabs for Christmas. My youngest son is almost old enough to teach how to build Android apps.
Sadly, both YADML.com and YAFML.com appear to be taken.
The founding fathers of the US didn't feel that way, and published their "Federalist Papers" under pseudonyms. Freedom to be anonymous guarantees freedom of speech. It also focuses the audience not on the speaker, but the message. With modern tech anonymous speech can't be prevented anyway so there's no point in trying to banish it unless you want to be The Best Korea.
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
You have been deprecated.
The purpose for secure boot is to protect the hardware from non-Windows operating systems. It's irony.
It's not clear if you're asking about Nokia or Samsung here.
Samsung's Linux business is their Smartphone department, and it's pulling $3.8B/quarter this summer, so an annualized run rate of about $20B profit. At a reasonable 5 PER for a 15% operating margin business growing this fast this would be $100B at least for business value, plus another 40% for takeover markup. I.E. nobody has that much money. Of course, that would never happen anyway.
Nokia's Linux businesses? They have to be worth something to somebody. And anything is better than nothing, unless they get more for destroying them than selling them.
Other companies can't make Apple devices. If they want to compete with Apple here they need to use things like Android. Samsung's not doing too badly in that department - $3.87 billion in profits on their mobile devices just last quarter, almost all of it Android phones. PC OEMs don't have a good profit model - it almost all goes to Microsoft or Intel, or Apple. I think more than anything the drive for profit among the OEM tech giants is what's going to motivate this shift to mobile. That, and the amazingly short time-to-market that comes from vertical integration.
Real workstations are just tower servers with a decent graphics card. Nobody is saying those are going away.
I was in the store yesterday and happened to walk past the laptops and notice one was selling for $299. This is not a netbook, but a 15.9" full size laptop with DVD and all that. That's half of what I paid for my TF101 with keyboard. And I wouldn't trade it for two of them.
Samsung seems to be doing ok. $5.9 billion in profit this quarter.
To me the curious thing is that Nokia needs money and is selling off parts of itself. But not the Linux parts. Those it kills.
They were selling more phones then than now. A lot more.
What was this article about again? You think the target is debian?
Have you heard of this weird Android thing? It seems people like their Linux nicely wrapped.
The kernel bits this needs were designed by the Linux kernel geeks who drew the silicon. That's what vertical integration is. The software was ready before the silicon blank was wet.
HP could go a couple ways yet. They've got a 'softy leading them right now.
But this is interesting tech.
I'm pretty sure that within an hour of it being public, somebody was working on it.
But not me.
It takes a good command of the language and a fuckton more to take my geek card. Nice try though. Keep me on my toes.