If Android requires it as a supported format you can bet the SOCs will start having support for it. In fact several already do. Then there is the fact that as GPUs become programmable the hardware codec support ends up being a piece of firmware which could be done for another codec by a software programmer with access to the hardware specs.
Yes energy use in China is still rising and initially it will come mostly from coal. As in India. However the Chinese have also been building dams like the Three Gorges Dam and lots of nuclear power plants. As for food I expect their food production to eventually grow even if they will be dependent on imports for a long time.
The Japanese have a lot of cars as well. They just don't use them that much. As for China, unlike India, they have spent a lot on high speed rail.
Lower birthrates... they have them already. They are not required. The fact is if they did not have enough food to get to Western level they would just go back to their traditional consumption style. That is all. Or someone else would.
They had to ramp up electrical generation capacity quickly. The easiest way to do that on the cheap was to use coal. However they also made big strides in other kinds of energy generation. Like the Three Gorges Dam. Presently they are also the country that is building the largest number of nuclear reactors. They are the country building the highest amount of high speed rail track as well.
The way they managed the banks, my grandmother would have done better. The problem with people who diss out the labour theory of value, which is a wrong theory BTW, is that they can go all the way around and believe on the other wrong theory on the opposite side of the spectrum. Which is that what matters is how much capital you can gain from your services or goods or whatever. It doesn't mean anything. With the labour theory of value aberrations like digging a hole and filling it up amount to useful work. With the money is all that matters theory you get people like Nick Leeson and Bernie Madoff. Not to mention Ponzi schemes. It doesn't work either. No. Given the same field of endeavor people don't get magically over 10x more productive than the median in that field. Period. This applies to software engineering, as espoused in the Mythical Man Month, and I've seen studies that show the exact same thing on other fields.
People who believe otherwise get scammed by people like Bernie Madoff.
Because closing down the company isn't free either. You have to pay compensation to workers and whatnot. Plus there is something called the capital gains tax.
Dude. To me it is like this. If a person has 10x the income of a middle class person he's milking someone else's hard work. No one can work over 10x more than the median. No one.
I see no evidence for this. There is not enough oil to spend on transportation driving fuel guzzling vehicles like in the US but this is not the model used in other 'civilized' places in Asia like Japan. They use electric public transport a lot.
Energy is becoming rapidly less expensive because of modern technologies.
Bollocks. Some heat engines have gotten more energy efficient at the cost of additional system complexity but fuels are more expensive now.
Wind is not cheap either if you consider the changes you have to make to the energy grid including backup energy storage and so on. Even without these changes it was not significantly cheaper than natural gas fired power stations. Solar may get to the point where it will be cheap but it certainly is not at that point right now.
i disagree. They made a lot of products before the market even existed. N770 for one. The problem is management never pushed the projects or marketed them well enough. Having no vision did not help either. Nor did selling out to Microsoft when they were the leading cellphone manufacturer. It was just dumb.
There is a lot of US licensed technology in Gripen. AESA radar may be one but the F404 engine is another. There aren't a lot of countries which can manufacture their own military jet aircraft engines. The fact that Sweden can do it, even if its under license, is pretty surprising by itself. There are a lot of countries in Europe which manufacture weapons despite not being actively involved in wars. Besides Switzerland, there's Belgium for example. As for Switzerland they manufacture more than just handheld weapons. Contraves would be one example.
Sweden has the biggest military industrial complex in relation to population in the world
Israel and Switzerland have pretty big military industrial complexes as well. In Sweden's and Switzerland case its because of their policy of neutrality.
Using lasers to communicate quickly through the long distances of space has generally been the purview of science fiction.
The ESA Artemis satellite used the SILEX laser link to communicate with the SPOT-4 satellite. It was not the first project to use laser communications in space either. The datarates mentioned in this article are better than those of SILEX though.
Just quit the job. Especially if he has known that person for a long time. From my experience it is a bad idea to try to fight against such relationships and worse thing is if your work will be constantly undermined you can bet its the person doing actual work, namely you, that will be blamed if something goes wrong. Not the person who is doing jack. Just get away from it as quick as possible.
It is nice to move the goalposts every time you start losing on a front like Apple is doing. I still remember when they claimed they had more profit per unit sold yet they had 10% of the PC market. Pretty soon they will have 10% of the smartphone market as well.
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If Android requires it as a supported format you can bet the SOCs will start having support for it. In fact several already do. Then there is the fact that as GPUs become programmable the hardware codec support ends up being a piece of firmware which could be done for another codec by a software programmer with access to the hardware specs.
You do that. Unless your definition of 'rapid' means centennial timescales. That's too slow for me.
Yes energy use in China is still rising and initially it will come mostly from coal. As in India. However the Chinese have also been building dams like the Three Gorges Dam and lots of nuclear power plants. As for food I expect their food production to eventually grow even if they will be dependent on imports for a long time.
The Japanese have a lot of cars as well. They just don't use them that much. As for China, unlike India, they have spent a lot on high speed rail.
Lower birthrates... they have them already. They are not required. The fact is if they did not have enough food to get to Western level they would just go back to their traditional consumption style. That is all. Or someone else would.
They had to ramp up electrical generation capacity quickly. The easiest way to do that on the cheap was to use coal. However they also made big strides in other kinds of energy generation. Like the Three Gorges Dam. Presently they are also the country that is building the largest number of nuclear reactors. They are the country building the highest amount of high speed rail track as well.
The way they managed the banks, my grandmother would have done better. The problem with people who diss out the labour theory of value, which is a wrong theory BTW, is that they can go all the way around and believe on the other wrong theory on the opposite side of the spectrum. Which is that what matters is how much capital you can gain from your services or goods or whatever. It doesn't mean anything. With the labour theory of value aberrations like digging a hole and filling it up amount to useful work. With the money is all that matters theory you get people like Nick Leeson and Bernie Madoff. Not to mention Ponzi schemes. It doesn't work either. No. Given the same field of endeavor people don't get magically over 10x more productive than the median in that field. Period. This applies to software engineering, as espoused in the Mythical Man Month, and I've seen studies that show the exact same thing on other fields.
People who believe otherwise get scammed by people like Bernie Madoff.
Its electric. It has no exhaust.
Sure. Prove me wrong. My source is Mythical Man Month.
Hah! Managing piles of money other people do not even access to is not skill.
Because closing down the company isn't free either. You have to pay compensation to workers and whatnot. Plus there is something called the capital gains tax.
Iraq was about oil pure and simple. Afghanistan was not.
Dude. To me it is like this. If a person has 10x the income of a middle class person he's milking someone else's hard work. No one can work over 10x more than the median. No one.
I see no evidence for this. There is not enough oil to spend on transportation driving fuel guzzling vehicles like in the US but this is not the model used in other 'civilized' places in Asia like Japan. They use electric public transport a lot.
Energy is becoming rapidly less expensive because of modern technologies.
Bollocks. Some heat engines have gotten more energy efficient at the cost of additional system complexity but fuels are more expensive now.
Wind is not cheap either if you consider the changes you have to make to the energy grid including backup energy storage and so on. Even without these changes it was not significantly cheaper than natural gas fired power stations. Solar may get to the point where it will be cheap but it certainly is not at that point right now.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/0...
Elop's intention all along was to drive the corp into the ground and clean up from its sale
This. People don't call him the Manchurian CEO for nothing.
i disagree. They made a lot of products before the market even existed. N770 for one. The problem is management never pushed the projects or marketed them well enough. Having no vision did not help either. Nor did selling out to Microsoft when they were the leading cellphone manufacturer. It was just dumb.
There is a lot of US licensed technology in Gripen. AESA radar may be one but the F404 engine is another. There aren't a lot of countries which can manufacture their own military jet aircraft engines. The fact that Sweden can do it, even if its under license, is pretty surprising by itself. There are a lot of countries in Europe which manufacture weapons despite not being actively involved in wars. Besides Switzerland, there's Belgium for example. As for Switzerland they manufacture more than just handheld weapons. Contraves would be one example.
Sweden has the biggest military industrial complex in relation to population in the world
Israel and Switzerland have pretty big military industrial complexes as well. In Sweden's and Switzerland case its because of their policy of neutrality.
Not just that country. You would be perceived as a nation which does not respect embassies if its in their convenience to do so.
Using lasers to communicate quickly through the long distances of space has generally been the purview of science fiction.
The ESA Artemis satellite used the SILEX laser link to communicate with the SPOT-4 satellite. It was not the first project to use laser communications in space either. The datarates mentioned in this article are better than those of SILEX though.
There are several kinds of polymorphism.
With some idiots no amount of money can pay for the amount of grief you will get.
Just quit the job. Especially if he has known that person for a long time. From my experience it is a bad idea to try to fight against such relationships and worse thing is if your work will be constantly undermined you can bet its the person doing actual work, namely you, that will be blamed if something goes wrong. Not the person who is doing jack. Just get away from it as quick as possible.
You clearly don't know how Microsoft does work. If they license something it is never for a long time.
It is nice to move the goalposts every time you start losing on a front like Apple is doing. I still remember when they claimed they had more profit per unit sold yet they had 10% of the PC market. Pretty soon they will have 10% of the smartphone market as well.