In addition to the UEFI requiring bootloaders signed by Microsoft, or security features turned off, there is the use of PowerVR graphics from Imagination Technologies (IT). For many years IT did not support the api documentation required to make a good open driver for these Intel devices. As Platforms there were several other parts of the reference platform that were Windows Only. Co-marketing dollars were applied to Windows devices only, and so on. You think we don't know about the myriad games Intel played?
Also known as the "embrace" phase of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
This is the phase where the whole opportunity lies before. The beginning of the hunt, when the outcome is uncertain. There is a lot to like about it. It is the most exciting part.
It runs fine. It just doesn't sell. With 200 million tablets moving each year, Intel would like to own more of that space than Windows tablets can give them. It doesn't matter how well they make Windows run on a tablet if people won't buy tablets with Windows on in any significant number.
No, Intel were using Imagination Technologies' (IT) GPUs for their low power chips, and IT was not giving up the hardware specs for open-source drivers that could be used with the Linux kernel that lies under Android. GP is exactly correct. I hear IT is beginning to come to their senses, but this issue is a big part of how we got to where we are today. You are also right that they didn't change fast enough.
Try a Nexus 7 2013. It has all the performance and power you need with all day battery life and a glorious high-def display for only $229, or less on sale. This was the target last fall, and Intel doesn't have a chip in this class. Soon maybe, but then they will probably try to tie it to Windows again and fail utterly. This Christmas you need this and QHD to make a splash.
You arrange small rare earth magnets in a checkerboard pattern. Now your hoverboard wants to tear itself apart, but at least you can get hover with electromagnets in the surface. A low latency link between pressure sensors on the surface and the electromagnet controls does the rest.
Intel can do fine. They make some amazing tablet platforms. They just need to stop deliberately making them incompatible with the sort of software people want to use, defeaturing the platform to prevent competition with their other products, and providing price incentives that encourage a gimped final product. It is not that difficult.
So instead of walking across their own parking lot Google has to bus them in from the surrounding community. This is the solution to the traffic problem?
Verizon stopped in return for wireless spectrum. Google is accelerating at an exponential rate. They are hiring salespeople in NYC now. They were slow to start because it takes time to grow this sort of business organically, but is was important to do that to avoid the old thinking buying an existing cableco would bring with it. Once they have a solid org and process there is no reason not to grow by acquisition. It may happen faster than you think.
And while we are at it we could reclaim the thermal energy of those spent fuel ponds. Dammit there is no reason not to exploit that free energy just because it is lower intensity than the main reactor. Adapt the binary cycle systems used in next-gen geothermal and turn those BTUs into watts!
Admiral Rickover is generally seen as the father of commercial nuclear power. He pushed the boiling water designs scaled up from successful navy submarine reactors. The idea was "now is better" and "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!". Maybe he was right at the time, but that was 60 years ago. Now we have all this spent fuel from his reactors and we have to do something with it. We could bury it now at horrific expense. Or we could use it as input for breeder reactors, burn up the uranium and difficult mid-halflife actinides generating 200x the power we have got so far and then bury what's left at horrific expense. No mining, mining injuries, mining environmental costs or fossil fuel usage because our mine is the dangerously overfull spent fuel cooling ponds of boiling water reactors.
A lot of people in these threads have accused me of being anti-nuke because I don't want more boiling water reactors. I am not anti-nuke, I'm anti-stupid. We have more spent fuel than we will need for 100 years. I don't see any need to make more of it until we have a plan for what to do with what we have. IFR solves that.
In fact, breeder reactors enrich Uranium so well they can feed themselves and all the boiling water reactors too, so we could shut down mining right now and not mine another gram of natural uranium for 100 years. Enriched uranium is a natural byproduct of a breeder reactor. It is almost free! How is that for solving two problems (or eight) at once?
The downside is we wind up with a bunch of plutonium, some of which NASA needs, and the rest can be securely buried with less risk of than the wastes we already have.
I like the thorium thing too - a reactor that can only fission while you radiate it is a nice safe design. The traveling wave thing holds promise too.
Back before white rot fungus evolved to break down lignin. So the plants fell and their woody parts did not ever decompose. Now they are broken down into CO2 and Methane through biological action.
The type of reactor is important. There isn't enough uranium for us to power out of this with light water reactors. We need breeders. Thorium, traveling wave, IFR that take spent fuel as input and self-enrich.
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It seems to be working out for Samsung so far. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The project was a huge success. It separated Oregon from their money, right?
In addition to the UEFI requiring bootloaders signed by Microsoft, or security features turned off, there is the use of PowerVR graphics from Imagination Technologies (IT). For many years IT did not support the api documentation required to make a good open driver for these Intel devices. As Platforms there were several other parts of the reference platform that were Windows Only. Co-marketing dollars were applied to Windows devices only, and so on. You think we don't know about the myriad games Intel played?
Same here. The local paper used to be a big deal with local color, news and editorial. Now it's a leaflet of its former self.
I like the idea of choice.
Also known as the "embrace" phase of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
This is the phase where the whole opportunity lies before. The beginning of the hunt, when the outcome is uncertain. There is a lot to like about it. It is the most exciting part.
It runs fine. It just doesn't sell. With 200 million tablets moving each year, Intel would like to own more of that space than Windows tablets can give them. It doesn't matter how well they make Windows run on a tablet if people won't buy tablets with Windows on in any significant number.
No, Intel were using Imagination Technologies' (IT) GPUs for their low power chips, and IT was not giving up the hardware specs for open-source drivers that could be used with the Linux kernel that lies under Android. GP is exactly correct. I hear IT is beginning to come to their senses, but this issue is a big part of how we got to where we are today. You are also right that they didn't change fast enough.
ARM processor power has achieved "good enough", so Intel's technology leverage here means nothing.
Try a Nexus 7 2013. It has all the performance and power you need with all day battery life and a glorious high-def display for only $229, or less on sale. This was the target last fall, and Intel doesn't have a chip in this class. Soon maybe, but then they will probably try to tie it to Windows again and fail utterly. This Christmas you need this and QHD to make a splash.
Ah, yes. After 19 years of crawling the Windows tablet is just coming of age.
You arrange small rare earth magnets in a checkerboard pattern. Now your hoverboard wants to tear itself apart, but at least you can get hover with electromagnets in the surface. A low latency link between pressure sensors on the surface and the electromagnet controls does the rest.
Intel can do fine. They make some amazing tablet platforms. They just need to stop deliberately making them incompatible with the sort of software people want to use, defeaturing the platform to prevent competition with their other products, and providing price incentives that encourage a gimped final product. It is not that difficult.
So instead of walking across their own parking lot Google has to bus them in from the surrounding community. This is the solution to the traffic problem?
Back in the Ford administration. Or maybe Nixon.
OK, that's enough nightmare fuel for one day.
Which is run by a former Microsoft executive who was in charge of security. I guess he can gloat about being personally responsible.
An accountancy firm found a way to get taxable profits off the books? Say it ain't so.
Verizon stopped in return for wireless spectrum. Google is accelerating at an exponential rate. They are hiring salespeople in NYC now. They were slow to start because it takes time to grow this sort of business organically, but is was important to do that to avoid the old thinking buying an existing cableco would bring with it. Once they have a solid org and process there is no reason not to grow by acquisition. It may happen faster than you think.
This is the most important part.
It is not nice to gloat, you lucky bastige.
And while we are at it we could reclaim the thermal energy of those spent fuel ponds. Dammit there is no reason not to exploit that free energy just because it is lower intensity than the main reactor. Adapt the binary cycle systems used in next-gen geothermal and turn those BTUs into watts!
Admiral Rickover is generally seen as the father of commercial nuclear power. He pushed the boiling water designs scaled up from successful navy submarine reactors. The idea was "now is better" and "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!". Maybe he was right at the time, but that was 60 years ago. Now we have all this spent fuel from his reactors and we have to do something with it. We could bury it now at horrific expense. Or we could use it as input for breeder reactors, burn up the uranium and difficult mid-halflife actinides generating 200x the power we have got so far and then bury what's left at horrific expense. No mining, mining injuries, mining environmental costs or fossil fuel usage because our mine is the dangerously overfull spent fuel cooling ponds of boiling water reactors.
A lot of people in these threads have accused me of being anti-nuke because I don't want more boiling water reactors. I am not anti-nuke, I'm anti-stupid. We have more spent fuel than we will need for 100 years. I don't see any need to make more of it until we have a plan for what to do with what we have. IFR solves that.
In fact, breeder reactors enrich Uranium so well they can feed themselves and all the boiling water reactors too, so we could shut down mining right now and not mine another gram of natural uranium for 100 years. Enriched uranium is a natural byproduct of a breeder reactor. It is almost free! How is that for solving two problems (or eight) at once?
The downside is we wind up with a bunch of plutonium, some of which NASA needs, and the rest can be securely buried with less risk of than the wastes we already have.
I like the thorium thing too - a reactor that can only fission while you radiate it is a nice safe design. The traveling wave thing holds promise too.
He knows we are going to talk about how Microsoftie Howard Schmidt is chairman of the board of codenomicon.
Back before white rot fungus evolved to break down lignin. So the plants fell and their woody parts did not ever decompose. Now they are broken down into CO2 and Methane through biological action.
The type of reactor is important. There isn't enough uranium for us to power out of this with light water reactors. We need breeders. Thorium, traveling wave, IFR that take spent fuel as input and self-enrich.