Computers have won against humans at playing Chess and Go for example. The list of tasks that you can do now with a computer continues to increase. But is it an universal solution? No.
Watson basically came clean out of that because he gave a lot to a local charity when there was some sort of natural disaster. I think he never served his sentence.
Microsoft didn't have an operating system. They had to get it from someone else. IBM basically went to talk with Microsoft because Gates' mother, who used to be a bank manager, did benefit work on weekends with people connected with IBM's management. And Bill Gates' father, one of top lawyers in the area, helped craft their (highly favorable) contract with IBM.
Oh they have plants alright. Plus they are building more. The problem is they don't have leading edge processes. SMIC would be one example of a Chinese foundry.
Given the bubble valuations in the stock market that is pretty much part for the course. The thing is the Apple is coasting on its success. How many successful new products can you remember Apple turning out ever since Jobs died? Right. I mean Apple also grew quite a lot in the first couple of years when Sculley was CEO but it was rotting from the inside.
Tim Cook is an industrial engineer. Great COO material. He can manage the supply chain and make sure the product is manufacturable. But he just does not have the product vision to be a CEO in a leading edge technical company.
I think IBM used to be a contributor to Apache Harmony? So they basically should have given away all the class libraries they used to have. AFAIK IBM switched to the OpenJDK class libraries after that was open sourced.
- Portable binaries across all major OSes and hardware platforms. - Large standard library which implements nearly everything you need to write a networked application. - Threading supported natively. - Decent performance.
A lot of people thus use Java on server-side enterprise apps. The GUI for client apps is abysmal though and some of the APIs are a pointless waste of time. But you can just NOT use those APIs (like EJBs) even if your enterprise clients love them for whatever reason.
Which is of course wrong because even in France you'll need an air conditioner to cool down the building at some times of the year. Look at the record highs for Paris, France which is in the north of France.
Oh really? So what happens when Spring comes? You shut down your computers? I have been in France, it's quite cold but it isn't Canada or Scandinavia. It's kinda like living in Seattle. Office buildings use resistive heating? If that is true it is certainly quite surprising.
I know electricity is cheap in France because of nuclear power and all. But this is still a terrible idea. Resistive heating (which is what this is) is terribly inefficient compared with a heat pump like an air conditioner (which can in fact heat besides cool down buildings when run in reverse). It can use like 2-3x as much power to heat a building by the same amount.
The way it should happen would be to simply eliminate "imaginary property" altogether. But I bet they would still figure out some other way of performing this "Hollywood accounting". Probably much like Hollywood itself does, they claim "marketing expenses" which are curiously always enough to erase any profit they made.
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Nah. It must be rewritten in Javascript. With Angular.js, Node.js, and a whole load of other *.js's or it won't Web Scale!
When another famous British Inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair, invented an electric vehicle he came up with this.
I'll wait for this one sitting down and I'll probably need to steady myself so I won't fall off my chair once it does get released.
IP ~= Copyights + Trademarks + Patents + Trade secrets + whatever.
That's why people like RMS don't like using the moniker IP to describe something. These things have neither the same rules, nor the same purpose.
A "trade secret" is usually something like the "secret sauce" used to make something. Like say the recipe for Coca-Cola.
Yes, because there have only been herds of animals grazing this planet ever since humans came along. Not!
Damned environmentalist stupidity about CO2.
Computers have won against humans at playing Chess and Go for example. The list of tasks that you can do now with a computer continues to increase. But is it an universal solution? No.
Much like 3D glasses and VR its just another fad.
The field continues to advance at a snail's pace.
It's the 5th generation computer hype all over again.
By that token then rich people wouldn't want to get richer either. But the reality is human greed is infinite.
Watson basically came clean out of that because he gave a lot to a local charity when there was some sort of natural disaster. I think he never served his sentence.
Microsoft didn't have an operating system. They had to get it from someone else. IBM basically went to talk with Microsoft because Gates' mother, who used to be a bank manager, did benefit work on weekends with people connected with IBM's management. And Bill Gates' father, one of top lawyers in the area, helped craft their (highly favorable) contract with IBM.
IR is (invisible)light you idiot.
Actually IIRC Tianhe is the name the Chinese give to the Milky Way galaxy.
Oh they have plants alright. Plus they are building more. The problem is they don't have leading edge processes. SMIC would be one example of a Chinese foundry.
Given the bubble valuations in the stock market that is pretty much part for the course. The thing is the Apple is coasting on its success. How many successful new products can you remember Apple turning out ever since Jobs died? Right. I mean Apple also grew quite a lot in the first couple of years when Sculley was CEO but it was rotting from the inside.
Tim Cook is an industrial engineer. Great COO material. He can manage the supply chain and make sure the product is manufacturable. But he just does not have the product vision to be a CEO in a leading edge technical company.
Yeah but he was a pretty good designer and had a sense for technology.
I think IBM used to be a contributor to Apache Harmony? So they basically should have given away all the class libraries they used to have. AFAIK IBM switched to the OpenJDK class libraries after that was open sourced.
- Portable binaries across all major OSes and hardware platforms.
- Large standard library which implements nearly everything you need to write a networked application.
- Threading supported natively.
- Decent performance.
A lot of people thus use Java on server-side enterprise apps. The GUI for client apps is abysmal though and some of the APIs are a pointless waste of time. But you can just NOT use those APIs (like EJBs) even if your enterprise clients love them for whatever reason.
Is it that surprising that he can be all of those things? No one's perfect.
Which is of course wrong because even in France you'll need an air conditioner to cool down the building at some times of the year. Look at the record highs for Paris, France which is in the north of France.
Oh really? So what happens when Spring comes? You shut down your computers? I have been in France, it's quite cold but it isn't Canada or Scandinavia. It's kinda like living in Seattle. Office buildings use resistive heating? If that is true it is certainly quite surprising.
I know electricity is cheap in France because of nuclear power and all. But this is still a terrible idea. Resistive heating (which is what this is) is terribly inefficient compared with a heat pump like an air conditioner (which can in fact heat besides cool down buildings when run in reverse). It can use like 2-3x as much power to heat a building by the same amount.
What everyone wants is for their phone to be as thin as a credit card and for their batteries to last for seconds, rather than minutes.
Yet you just posted this in the World Wide Web didn't you? Guess where THAT was invented.
The way it should happen would be to simply eliminate "imaginary property" altogether. But I bet they would still figure out some other way of performing this "Hollywood accounting". Probably much like Hollywood itself does, they claim "marketing expenses" which are curiously always enough to erase any profit they made.