It's not that the Androids are cheap. It's that like the tablets they offer more choices. iPhone is great if it's what you want. But if you want a keyboard, removable battery, microSDHC, dualSIM, HDMI 1080p outputs, a different camera, a flip phone, a cheaper phone, a phone that comes in red... you're getting an Android.
If there wasn't an Android, Google search on your phone would not be possible. Carriers and phone OEMs would be paid to lock in something else. So Google is winning because they get to be in your pocket, even on an iPhone.
I did buy the keyboard and the battery life with it is wonderful. They've got a project started for Ubuntu on it, and of course Microsoft is working on Windows 8 for the Prime. I am not sure why - I'm happy with it the way it is.
If you had ever been really, truly cold, then you would understand why the folk in Canada and Russia could really give a damn that global warming is flooding your Florida swamp real-estate.
I might suggest that the vast bulk of CO2 absorbing photosynthesis on earth occurs in the sea since there's such a tall column of growing space to work with - enough to absorb almost all of the light - and ever abundant water to facilitate the process as is required. I shouldn't think terrestrial photosynthesis contributes all that much to the main.
The albedo feedback is one of the mechanisms for rapid descent into glaciation as well as rapid ascent from it. It's one of the reasons why when we get too close to the cold, the kill-switch wipes out terrestrial animals so fast that we find woolly mammoths frozen in glaciers with daisies in their bellies when the snow melts again. We were slipping back into glaciation there, for about 9,000 years, and getting close to that kill-switch. And it's normal to see the reverse in an interglacial period like we're in now that we're out of that thicket. What would be odd was if the global mean temperature dropped 2c below present and stayed there for a few hundred years or so in a stable thermal mode the Earth doesn't normally have, instead of switching to rapid glaciation and killing off 90-some percent of us.
Lots of things are going to have to change. Just like lots of things always had to change. We live on a changing planet, and if we left it in about 10,000 years you'd never know we were here without some serious digging.
Virtualization. It turns out that most virtualized workloads don't benefit much from having their own FPU really, and can share one. Web servers, VDI desktops, database servers dishing CRM, mail servers, file & print, and so on. Virtualization is a huge chunk of the industry standard server market right now. Cloud servers similarly have little use for heavy number-crunching power - and if you've got a FPU cloud app, Amazon's got GPGPU cloud nodes for you.
This solution requires OS support, which will vary in quality. The OEM can control the way the RAM cache and SSD cache is used on the drive. The 4GB flash on these drives is, I think, too small. It may have good technologies like write combining and lazy write to flash that might help prolong life though.
Or in some cases a capacitor, not a battery, commits the RAM cache to flash storage in the event of a power failure. As the capacitors on enterprise-class SSDs do.
I find it interesting that at the same time the FDA and Texas were attempting to shut Dr. Burzynski's clinic down and throw him in prison, a US government agency hired one of his researchers and obtained derivative patents of his work. The patents don't look any more credible than his own (in addition to cancer apparently the substances are treatment for HIV, diabetes and gout...), but it's interesting.
You're unlikely to be afflicted by some ailment that cannot be alleviated be relief of subluxation or malaise. A chiropractic adjustment and an elixir of Mare's blood taken during menstruation and diluted 10x will cure what ails you.
I didn't say there are patterns in randomness. I said we see patterns in randomness. The fact that we are (intelligently designed to) see patterns where there are none is, actually, the joke. And the joke is sublime.
Chiefly among them the idea that randomness is not divine. How else would some being equal parts evil and good distribute his Will? In closely examining randomness we find what patterns we will, allowing us to imagine we grasp the whole until the patterns devolve until they're just a cloud.
It's humor to keep a divine being amused for all time - to tease us with imagined understanding.
My kids get a big kick out of doing YouTube and Angry Birds on the big screen. Now and then I get a customer with an HDTV in the conference room I can do a slide presentation on or refer to PDF documents with, from my phone. It only takes one million-dollar deal to make it worthwhile and then some for my company, my smartphone and me, so today we're money ahead. I bring the laptop and projector anyway because I'm a boy scout and believe in being prepared - but if it's there I use it. Believe it or not having the phone that does that sells the completely unrelated SAN or network or server technology better than its specs does. It's probably cynical to exploit this, but whatever. The geeks selling the good gear have the good gear, so it may be a legitimate bias. People don't buy rockets from Ford, generally.
It also helps to not be dishing retro crap, but that's on point for neither your comment nor TFA.
Well it's nice Canada has such a surplus of geothermal then - over a million times their need. With the surplus they can do algae and sell the world "green oil".
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This. Android phones really pulled Samsung's bacon out of the fire in Q3.
It's not that the Androids are cheap. It's that like the tablets they offer more choices. iPhone is great if it's what you want. But if you want a keyboard, removable battery, microSDHC, dualSIM, HDMI 1080p outputs, a different camera, a flip phone, a cheaper phone, a phone that comes in red... you're getting an Android.
If there wasn't an Android, Google search on your phone would not be possible. Carriers and phone OEMs would be paid to lock in something else. So Google is winning because they get to be in your pocket, even on an iPhone.
I did buy the keyboard and the battery life with it is wonderful. They've got a project started for Ubuntu on it, and of course Microsoft is working on Windows 8 for the Prime. I am not sure why - I'm happy with it the way it is.
If you had ever been really, truly cold, then you would understand why the folk in Canada and Russia could really give a damn that global warming is flooding your Florida swamp real-estate.
So, without further ado: The Cremation of Sam McGee.
I might suggest that the vast bulk of CO2 absorbing photosynthesis on earth occurs in the sea since there's such a tall column of growing space to work with - enough to absorb almost all of the light - and ever abundant water to facilitate the process as is required. I shouldn't think terrestrial photosynthesis contributes all that much to the main.
The albedo feedback is one of the mechanisms for rapid descent into glaciation as well as rapid ascent from it. It's one of the reasons why when we get too close to the cold, the kill-switch wipes out terrestrial animals so fast that we find woolly mammoths frozen in glaciers with daisies in their bellies when the snow melts again. We were slipping back into glaciation there, for about 9,000 years, and getting close to that kill-switch. And it's normal to see the reverse in an interglacial period like we're in now that we're out of that thicket. What would be odd was if the global mean temperature dropped 2c below present and stayed there for a few hundred years or so in a stable thermal mode the Earth doesn't normally have, instead of switching to rapid glaciation and killing off 90-some percent of us.
Lots of things are going to have to change. Just like lots of things always had to change. We live on a changing planet, and if we left it in about 10,000 years you'd never know we were here without some serious digging.
Go ahead and stay home from school. The world needs ditch-diggers too.
Hard digging is good for jobs. :)
Dear kids: your faith in firewalls is part of the problem. It's a scuba suit in a deep fat fryer.
Virtualization. It turns out that most virtualized workloads don't benefit much from having their own FPU really, and can share one. Web servers, VDI desktops, database servers dishing CRM, mail servers, file & print, and so on. Virtualization is a huge chunk of the industry standard server market right now. Cloud servers similarly have little use for heavy number-crunching power - and if you've got a FPU cloud app, Amazon's got GPGPU cloud nodes for you.
3... 2... 1... Go!
Meh. This is more like "We think we can improve on the best thing." I believe we actually had a thread about this here recently.
This solution requires OS support, which will vary in quality. The OEM can control the way the RAM cache and SSD cache is used on the drive. The 4GB flash on these drives is, I think, too small. It may have good technologies like write combining and lazy write to flash that might help prolong life though.
Or in some cases a capacitor, not a battery, commits the RAM cache to flash storage in the event of a power failure. As the capacitors on enterprise-class SSDs do.
Drones are used in filmmaking all the time too.
Well, that's interesting. And apparently they're on bittorrent.
I find it interesting that at the same time the FDA and Texas were attempting to shut Dr. Burzynski's clinic down and throw him in prison, a US government agency hired one of his researchers and obtained derivative patents of his work. The patents don't look any more credible than his own (in addition to cancer apparently the substances are treatment for HIV, diabetes and gout...), but it's interesting.
You're unlikely to be afflicted by some ailment that cannot be alleviated be relief of subluxation or malaise. A chiropractic adjustment and an elixir of Mare's blood taken during menstruation and diluted 10x will cure what ails you.
Einstein admitted that in his private life he adhered to beliefs at odds with his theories.
Good luck with that.
I didn't say there are patterns in randomness. I said we see patterns in randomness. The fact that we are (intelligently designed to) see patterns where there are none is, actually, the joke. And the joke is sublime.
The question answers itself.
Chiefly among them the idea that randomness is not divine. How else would some being equal parts evil and good distribute his Will? In closely examining randomness we find what patterns we will, allowing us to imagine we grasp the whole until the patterns devolve until they're just a cloud.
It's humor to keep a divine being amused for all time - to tease us with imagined understanding.
My kids get a big kick out of doing YouTube and Angry Birds on the big screen. Now and then I get a customer with an HDTV in the conference room I can do a slide presentation on or refer to PDF documents with, from my phone. It only takes one million-dollar deal to make it worthwhile and then some for my company, my smartphone and me, so today we're money ahead. I bring the laptop and projector anyway because I'm a boy scout and believe in being prepared - but if it's there I use it. Believe it or not having the phone that does that sells the completely unrelated SAN or network or server technology better than its specs does. It's probably cynical to exploit this, but whatever. The geeks selling the good gear have the good gear, so it may be a legitimate bias. People don't buy rockets from Ford, generally.
It also helps to not be dishing retro crap, but that's on point for neither your comment nor TFA.
Well it's nice Canada has such a surplus of geothermal then - over a million times their need. With the surplus they can do algae and sell the world "green oil".