The living expenditures in those places are higher. How do you expect to get a worker to be on site if you don't pay them well enough to live near the place to begin with?
If what is happening in the EU right now is any indication even the US will get a push towards getting more Chinese like working conditions sooner rather than later.
Didn't the developers commit the code to a version control system with meaningful commit messages? Did you not do code reviews?
Most "agile" projects I have been involved in spent a lot of effort doing code reviews and discussions were done via mailing-list so everything was properly documented.
Buran "looked" like the Shuttle for political reasons. The actual architecture was a lot different. Energia was a standalone booster and they did not use solid rockets. Instead of using the crawler like NASA it was launched using a rotating table. The fact is the original Russian design aka the Vulkan rocket was meant to launch a much smaller spacecraft similar to Spiral. This was changed to a larger vehicle as they heard about the Shuttle design. Some people in the Russian military even thought the Shuttle was meant to be an orbital bomber design because it was so big when the main driver was actually reconnaissance satellite size.
8.8% of Samsung what revenue? The Samsung conglomerate does more than electronics. Not to mention that Samsung has a lot of other clients for their electronics. Its not like Samsung became the #2 electronics manufacturer overnight. They already were #2 before Apple started selling the iPhone.
But sure stay in your little deluded world that Samsung actually needs Apple for anything.
IMO the only justification for the President to intervene on such a case would be for national security concerns. This case is clearly not national security related.
The thing is those multitouch interfaces were already either patented or had prior art available on desktop surfaces. Apple's "innovation" was adding "in a phone" to the patent claims.
Plus it is not like people weren't working on touch based phone interfaces before your precious iPhone came out. IBM Simon, Neonode, etc.
Well it is a Generation III nuclear power plant. It still uses LWR (liquid water reactor) technology like the old Generation II nuclear power plants but it uses passive safety systems instead of pumps to ensure the core is cooled down in an emergency. AFAIK there has been no new nuclear power plant construction in the US since the 1980s and this is the first new reactor being built since then. The AP1000 design hasn't been built before in the US although there are some plants in construction in China.
Piledriver is not the only CPU core they have. The Jaguar core (to be used in the PS4 and XBox One) is low power and has better performance than the Intel Atom cores.
I have the Piledriver and it is fast enough for my needs. Even the area where it is supposedly weaker, FP computation, I can do real-time ray-tracing benchmarks at 1/3 to 1/5th the speed of a 1Tflops GPU.
About the only place that builds nuclear power plants on time is South Korea. This is probably because of permission issues. It also helps they have a large naval construction industry that can build the required steel pressure vessels. Sometimes the problems are due to licensing issues, and lawsuits stalling construction. Other times there isn't enough financing to build it at the originally planned speed. Then there are the issues with happen when you are building any new kind of reactor with untrained personnel. This is the first AP1000 reactor being built in the US (although there are a couple under construction in China for quite some time now).
Unit 3 means it is the third reactor in the power plant. Vogtle is the name of the power plant (probably the name of the place it is located in). Apparently there are already 2 units installed there with Generation II reactors and they are now in the process of construction another two units with Generation III reactors of the Westinghouse AP1000 design.
The thing is tablets and even some of the larger form factor cellphones compete with personal computers for many use cases. Most office and clerical workers today can do their work with just a browser and many of the novel PC users which have been developed since the Internet became popular are browser oriented. Android and iOS also have a quite vast application library for many kinds of niche applications including casual gaming.
Perhaps you would prefer to have expensive meat or to force some people to live without eating any meat at all, like in some 3rd world countries, just to stroke your ego. But I would rather eat meat and benefit from the well known pluses adding meat to a diet causes.
People have been planting corn since long before they used oil in agriculture. Most oil is used to run tractors and farm machinery which could run using other forms of energy.
There are trade restrictions on the export of advanced lithography machine tools to China. It will always be two process generations behind until the Chinese develop their own lithography tech.
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If the end result is misery and unemployment it will end regardless.
Not just Asia. They have been quite busy constructing buildings in Africa as well.
They are working on it. The scale of their naval ramp-up is pretty insane.
The living expenditures in those places are higher. How do you expect to get a worker to be on site if you don't pay them well enough to live near the place to begin with?
The thing is MS has never been that good at services. What services they have they had to buy 3rd party companies for the most part.
Uh no earthquake and tsunami fatalities can be prevented as well. Building codes come to mind. Civilian disaster warning systems. Etc.
If what is happening in the EU right now is any indication even the US will get a push towards getting more Chinese like working conditions sooner rather than later.
Great! Now all we need is to resurrect Pets.com's festering corpse.
Didn't the developers commit the code to a version control system with meaningful commit messages? Did you not do code reviews?
Most "agile" projects I have been involved in spent a lot of effort doing code reviews and discussions were done via mailing-list so everything was properly documented.
A lot less than the other companies which have been working in the cellphone business for decades now I would guess.
Buran "looked" like the Shuttle for political reasons. The actual architecture was a lot different. Energia was a standalone booster and they did not use solid rockets. Instead of using the crawler like NASA it was launched using a rotating table. The fact is the original Russian design aka the Vulkan rocket was meant to launch a much smaller spacecraft similar to Spiral. This was changed to a larger vehicle as they heard about the Shuttle design. Some people in the Russian military even thought the Shuttle was meant to be an orbital bomber design because it was so big when the main driver was actually reconnaissance satellite size.
8.8% of Samsung what revenue? The Samsung conglomerate does more than electronics. Not to mention that Samsung has a lot of other clients for their electronics. Its not like Samsung became the #2 electronics manufacturer overnight. They already were #2 before Apple started selling the iPhone.
But sure stay in your little deluded world that Samsung actually needs Apple for anything.
IMO the only justification for the President to intervene on such a case would be for national security concerns. This case is clearly not national security related.
The thing is those multitouch interfaces were already either patented or had prior art available on desktop surfaces. Apple's "innovation" was adding "in a phone" to the patent claims.
Plus it is not like people weren't working on touch based phone interfaces before your precious iPhone came out. IBM Simon, Neonode, etc.
Well it is a Generation III nuclear power plant. It still uses LWR (liquid water reactor) technology like the old Generation II nuclear power plants but it uses passive safety systems instead of pumps to ensure the core is cooled down in an emergency. AFAIK there has been no new nuclear power plant construction in the US since the 1980s and this is the first new reactor being built since then. The AP1000 design hasn't been built before in the US although there are some plants in construction in China.
If we weren't interested in specs we would be using a tablet.
Piledriver is not the only CPU core they have. The Jaguar core (to be used in the PS4 and XBox One) is low power and has better performance than the Intel Atom cores.
I have the Piledriver and it is fast enough for my needs. Even the area where it is supposedly weaker, FP computation, I can do real-time ray-tracing benchmarks at 1/3 to 1/5th the speed of a 1Tflops GPU.
About the only place that builds nuclear power plants on time is South Korea. This is probably because of permission issues. It also helps they have a large naval construction industry that can build the required steel pressure vessels. Sometimes the problems are due to licensing issues, and lawsuits stalling construction. Other times there isn't enough financing to build it at the originally planned speed. Then there are the issues with happen when you are building any new kind of reactor with untrained personnel. This is the first AP1000 reactor being built in the US (although there are a couple under construction in China for quite some time now).
Unit 3 means it is the third reactor in the power plant. Vogtle is the name of the power plant (probably the name of the place it is located in). Apparently there are already 2 units installed there with Generation II reactors and they are now in the process of construction another two units with Generation III reactors of the Westinghouse AP1000 design.
The thing is tablets and even some of the larger form factor cellphones compete with personal computers for many use cases. Most office and clerical workers today can do their work with just a browser and many of the novel PC users which have been developed since the Internet became popular are browser oriented. Android and iOS also have a quite vast application library for many kinds of niche applications including casual gaming.
No fret. It is all explained here.
Perhaps you would prefer to have expensive meat or to force some people to live without eating any meat at all, like in some 3rd world countries, just to stroke your ego. But I would rather eat meat and benefit from the well known pluses adding meat to a diet causes.
People have been planting corn since long before they used oil in agriculture. Most oil is used to run tractors and farm machinery which could run using other forms of energy.
There are trade restrictions on the export of advanced lithography machine tools to China. It will always be two process generations behind until the Chinese develop their own lithography tech.