The mission was supposed to last until 2013 so the wheels lasted as long as they were supposed to. The problem is other components did not work as initially predicted so the mission did not produce as many results as they hoped to.
Actually Intel probably earns more from laptops than desktops for a couple of years now. Otellini came to power after he headed the division which designed the Pentium M so he was behind that transition. Their issue was they were blindsided by the smartphone and tablet segments. I still remember Intel claiming the next big thing was going to be smart TVs. There the energy requirements were not as cumbersome. So they sold off XScale.
AMD would probably be dead by now if not for two things: Dirk Meyer as a CEO driving new processor designs which are again (barely) competitive with Intel when previously they had no interesting CPU offerings and the PS4 and XBox Next console wins. It remains to be seen if the current management will keep funding R&D to remain competitive with Intel in performance or not. Their deal to buy ATI back when Hector Ruiz was CEO nearly killed AMD.
Intel sold XScale because they thought they could get X86 power consumption down to compete. They did. There are Atom smartphones available now from Lenovo for example and these are still not as integrated as some of the ARM devices. Once Intel gets enough on-chip integration the chips will have similar power consumption characteristics. There is nothing magical about ARM.
StrongARM was also used in the Compaq iPAQ devices which were reasonably successful PDA devices at the time. There was even an optional cell phone add-on available for it.
The funny thing is he gets modded up by the Apple sycophants as informative when his speech is composed of blatant lies and non-sequiturs.
The modern smart phones are not that different from candy bar phones. The main difference is the size of the screen. In fact they are considered derivatives of the bar format. There were plenty of PDAs with smartphone capability before the iPhone. These include the Mio A701 and a myriad of HTC devices running Windows Mobile. The first smartphone with a touch screen was probably the IBM Simon (1994). The iPad was designed before the iPhone (if you believe Apple themselves) and people have been working and selling tablets for a long time before the iPad was released. These include the Microsoft tablets which never took off because they were not lightweight enough due to the existing hardware back then. Not to mention the Nokia 770 devices. The ebook market started a long time before Apple got involved in it. For example the Kindle was released years prior and Sony also had dedicated ebook readers back then.
The losses in the portable game sector were mostly predictable and several vendors even bet on it early on (remember the N-Gage?) and the laptop losses were going to happen once the tablet devices matured. The first iPad was clearly not good enough but as software matured and it became possible to connect to a projector, to print from the device, and the applications got more diverse the use cases started to get there.
Atom development was neglected for a long time and Intel used to use previous generation manufacturing processes to make Atom. Not exactly what you are supposed to do if you want to have major wins in the mobile market. Intel did it because Atom did not give them the same profit margins as their other processors. However the end result is they are losing share in the CPU market to ARM.
Nah. I think this is just a matter of $. The Apache license makes it easier for Oracle to monetize OoO in the future. Oracle runs a large consulting business besides their database core business. This is also true for companies such as IBM. Oracle has wanted to compete with Microsoft in the small to mid sized business applications segment for a long time. They just do not want to spend a lot of their own resources doing it.
Simple. IBM gets to sell it for gazillions for those companies which demand IBM tech support under the Lotus Symphony brand. More or less like the relationship between Eclipse and Rational Application Developer.
It was not just ideology. Basically they had issues getting their patches accepted. There were also a lot of people in LibreOffice who wanted to ditch Java as a requirement because it makes the suite even slower than it needs to be.
You have different VAT rates for different products. e.g. food and medical products pay a lower VAT rate. In practice lower income people tend to spend a larger fraction of their income on these products than wealthier people. There is a limit to how much food a person can eat anyway.
Blizzard is not French. The studio is located in the USA. They were owned by Vivendi at one time but their games were never developed in France.
Rockstar is a subsidiary of Take-Two (USA company) which does development in several locations. One of which, arguably the main one, is in Scotland.
Most of the French developers I used to know have closed doors (e.g. Cryo, Delphine, etc). Most European game software developers did not handle the rather expensive transition to 3D content development very well. It seems to be easier to gather the required capital in North America.
The meter also used to be a fraction of the distance between two points on the surface of the Earth. This is pretty much irrelevant since it is defined today as the distance traveled by light in a certain amount of time.
Actually I have a history of voting for people who clearly state they are against software patents running for the European Parliament. Quite often these people are also against excessive federalism in the EU instead of rubber stamping everything put out by the Commission. I would probably vote for the Pirate Party if we had one here.
Most of the issues in the economy were caused or exacerbated by federal imposed policies (namely free trade with China and the Euro). Voting for mainstream parties for the European Parliament is to vote for the continuity of the present ruinous centrally imposed policies.
Modern AESA radars do not have single transmit-receive elements but are arrays of many elements. Modern fleets and air combat wings also usually share the radar data via datalinks so they have information of more than one radar available.
Why is wanting to be able to have some control over the Mediterranean a Cold War mindset? The Mediterranean is in Russia's yard much like the Gulf of Mexico is in the US's. Russia has been fighting to keep some control over the region for centuries already even back when the Ottoman Empire was a major threat.
Did you seriously expect Russia to fold on its ambitions just because the Soviet Union collapsed? They may no longer have the resources and manpower advantage they used to have but they will still want to have some control over strategic areas of interest to Russia. They are still a regional power.
The Russians have a naval base in Syria. So they are just protecting their interests when they are helping the present regime. It has nothing to do with any agenda to obstruct US/Israeli interests in the region.
Blackberry would be in the other cathegory. Seriously. I have been to plenty of places in the world and the only place I have seen people use Blackberry devices was in North America. A lot of Nokia phones use Microsoft OSes and this seems to be split by OS rather than vendor.
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The mission was supposed to last until 2013 so the wheels lasted as long as they were supposed to. The problem is other components did not work as initially predicted so the mission did not produce as many results as they hoped to.
Actually Intel probably earns more from laptops than desktops for a couple of years now. Otellini came to power after he headed the division which designed the Pentium M so he was behind that transition. Their issue was they were blindsided by the smartphone and tablet segments. I still remember Intel claiming the next big thing was going to be smart TVs. There the energy requirements were not as cumbersome. So they sold off XScale.
AMD would probably be dead by now if not for two things: Dirk Meyer as a CEO driving new processor designs which are again (barely) competitive with Intel when previously they had no interesting CPU offerings and the PS4 and XBox Next console wins. It remains to be seen if the current management will keep funding R&D to remain competitive with Intel in performance or not. Their deal to buy ATI back when Hector Ruiz was CEO nearly killed AMD.
They acquired more than PA Semi. Exponential Technology at one time had the leading edge PPC implementation and they were eventually bought by Apple.
My candy bar phone back then played MP3s just fine. I do not see what's the big deal with vendor-locked iTunes.
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And just one brain cell to know when to press it as well.
Intel sold XScale because they thought they could get X86 power consumption down to compete. They did. There are Atom smartphones available now from Lenovo for example and these are still not as integrated as some of the ARM devices. Once Intel gets enough on-chip integration the chips will have similar power consumption characteristics. There is nothing magical about ARM.
StrongARM was also used in the Compaq iPAQ devices which were reasonably successful PDA devices at the time. There was even an optional cell phone add-on available for it.
The funny thing is he gets modded up by the Apple sycophants as informative when his speech is composed of blatant lies and non-sequiturs.
The modern smart phones are not that different from candy bar phones. The main difference is the size of the screen. In fact they are considered derivatives of the bar format. There were plenty of PDAs with smartphone capability before the iPhone. These include the Mio A701 and a myriad of HTC devices running Windows Mobile. The first smartphone with a touch screen was probably the IBM Simon (1994). The iPad was designed before the iPhone (if you believe Apple themselves) and people have been working and selling tablets for a long time before the iPad was released. These include the Microsoft tablets which never took off because they were not lightweight enough due to the existing hardware back then. Not to mention the Nokia 770 devices. The ebook market started a long time before Apple got involved in it. For example the Kindle was released years prior and Sony also had dedicated ebook readers back then.
The losses in the portable game sector were mostly predictable and several vendors even bet on it early on (remember the N-Gage?) and the laptop losses were going to happen once the tablet devices matured. The first iPad was clearly not good enough but as software matured and it became possible to connect to a projector, to print from the device, and the applications got more diverse the use cases started to get there.
Atom development was neglected for a long time and Intel used to use previous generation manufacturing processes to make Atom. Not exactly what you are supposed to do if you want to have major wins in the mobile market. Intel did it because Atom did not give them the same profit margins as their other processors. However the end result is they are losing share in the CPU market to ARM.
There is a long history of game developers suing people who write walkthrough guides as infringing their copyright and failing.
Nah. I think this is just a matter of $. The Apache license makes it easier for Oracle to monetize OoO in the future. Oracle runs a large consulting business besides their database core business. This is also true for companies such as IBM. Oracle has wanted to compete with Microsoft in the small to mid sized business applications segment for a long time. They just do not want to spend a lot of their own resources doing it.
Simple. IBM gets to sell it for gazillions for those companies which demand IBM tech support under the Lotus Symphony brand. More or less like the relationship between Eclipse and Rational Application Developer.
It was not just ideology. Basically they had issues getting their patches accepted. There were also a lot of people in LibreOffice who wanted to ditch Java as a requirement because it makes the suite even slower than it needs to be.
Is it that hard to understand a lot of the content would not be there if the authors did not get ad revenue?
Do you really think Microsoft isn't doing the same thing with Bing or Windows Live? Some people are really naive.
You have different VAT rates for different products. e.g. food and medical products pay a lower VAT rate. In practice lower income people tend to spend a larger fraction of their income on these products than wealthier people. There is a limit to how much food a person can eat anyway.
Blizzard is not French. The studio is located in the USA. They were owned by Vivendi at one time but their games were never developed in France.
Rockstar is a subsidiary of Take-Two (USA company) which does development in several locations. One of which, arguably the main one, is in Scotland.
Most of the French developers I used to know have closed doors (e.g. Cryo, Delphine, etc). Most European game software developers did not handle the rather expensive transition to 3D content development very well. It seems to be easier to gather the required capital in North America.
The meter also used to be a fraction of the distance between two points on the surface of the Earth. This is pretty much irrelevant since it is defined today as the distance traveled by light in a certain amount of time.
Actually I have a history of voting for people who clearly state they are against software patents running for the European Parliament. Quite often these people are also against excessive federalism in the EU instead of rubber stamping everything put out by the Commission. I would probably vote for the Pirate Party if we had one here.
Most of the issues in the economy were caused or exacerbated by federal imposed policies (namely free trade with China and the Euro). Voting for mainstream parties for the European Parliament is to vote for the continuity of the present ruinous centrally imposed policies.
From what I heard dog tastes like lamb. So I probably wouldn't like it. I hate lamb. Snakes however I could probably eat.
Modern AESA radars do not have single transmit-receive elements but are arrays of many elements. Modern fleets and air combat wings also usually share the radar data via datalinks so they have information of more than one radar available.
Why is wanting to be able to have some control over the Mediterranean a Cold War mindset? The Mediterranean is in Russia's yard much like the Gulf of Mexico is in the US's. Russia has been fighting to keep some control over the region for centuries already even back when the Ottoman Empire was a major threat.
Did you seriously expect Russia to fold on its ambitions just because the Soviet Union collapsed? They may no longer have the resources and manpower advantage they used to have but they will still want to have some control over strategic areas of interest to Russia. They are still a regional power.
Well it should certainly help them prevent Turkish and Israeli overflights of their territory. Not to mention aerial bombardments.
The Russians have a naval base in Syria. So they are just protecting their interests when they are helping the present regime. It has nothing to do with any agenda to obstruct US/Israeli interests in the region.
Blackberry would be in the other cathegory. Seriously. I have been to plenty of places in the world and the only place I have seen people use Blackberry devices was in North America. A lot of Nokia phones use Microsoft OSes and this seems to be split by OS rather than vendor.