The USA government also cancelled a contract AT&T had with Huawei where they would retail their smartphones. Huawei is currently the #2 smartphone vendor in the world, #1 is Samsung, #3 is Apple (used to be #2 last year).
Huawei also competes with Cisco and Juniper in router equipment.
Nah it was dumb not to do it. Instead you guys ship the crude oil by train to the USA and it is refined there. The refineries earn all the money while the Canadian extracts earn less and less. Ever heard of this guy called Rockefeller and Standard Oil?
Yeah the fact that they did not fund that pipeline or refineries back when oil was at $150 USD and they could have easily raised the money was dumb as fuck.
Coal gets incredibly expensive the longer the shipping route is because it has so little energy density. Plus most of the high quality coal in Europe has already been mined. It has been mined ever since the Industrial Revolution. China has plenty of crap quality coal to burn right there on their turf. Plus they can import the high quality coal cheaper from places like Australia.
With all the wind power investments which have been made in Europe the amount of power required to run on baseload keeps decreasing. While the rest needs to be covered with a reliable quick-cycling power source which nearly inevitably tends to be natural gas.
At the same time the natural gas reserves in Europe, like in the Netherlands, and the North Sea, keep shrinking. So expect a lot of Russian gas imports in the future for Europe.
The thing is most pump hydro facilities used to be hydroelectric dams and water reservoirs in the first place. If, for whatever reason, batteries become more cost effective they'll just use them for water storage purposes and run the rest of the water downhill and generate electricity. Just like they used to.
He did not nationalize everything. As a case in point most of the TV stations in Venezuela are private. He nationalized the oil sector but that is not particularly uncommon. Norway and Saudi Arabia also have nationalized oil companies.
Personally I think Obama didn't want to go in but that there was CIA involvement in it already by that point. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary as Secretary of State already was involved in it but kept him in the dark.
GLONASS is global. Do you even know what the acronym stands for? The network had coverage issues because they did not launch new satellites at a fast enough rate to replace broken ones fast enough after the fall of the Soviet Union. But this is not the case anymore.
The UK has not done that poorly with their deal with the EU. It is the countries in the Eurozone that are in the shitter. The UK is not in the Eurozone.
In fact the UK, since it joined the EU, has finally become independent in food production, thanks in no small part to EU farming subsidies. Which is quite a feat consider that was not the case like over a century.
In Ancient Athens they had silver mines. The income from the silver mines was IIRC mined by slaves and distributed to the citizens of Athens. All the citizens had to do was attend the Agora, i.e. the citizen's assembly, and they would be paid for each day they went there. Judges were also paid per each court case they judged and it wasn't a profession back then. This did eventually lead to a lot of frivolous litigation cases though.
IIRC the income from attending the citizen's assembly was enough to eat.
In places where this system was tested, it has been fairly well established, that unless it is universal it will lead to some people stop working and things like that.
Well, the chunky pixel mode was less of a problem than the lack of CPU power. You have to remember that you couldn't play Doom properly on anything less than a 386DX40 and even then it was a slideshow. You needed a 486 processor.
With a comparable CPU the machine has a similar performance. Commodore added the Akiko chip to the CD32 to do chunky-to-planar conversion for example and it turned out someone figured out it was faster to do the conversion in assembler... on the stock 68020 at 14 MHz.
The problem was a lack of development in chip design. You could count the amount of chip designers they had in 1987 with one hand. This, plus using now obsolete design methods, meant it took them until 1991 to come up with the AGA chipset and they only developed it as a last minute stopgap because the chipset they were working on, the AAA chipset wouldn't be ready in time, the AAA chipset had it been debugged would also have only been competitive for a couple of years at best. They basically should have switched to a RISC CPU earlier. Commodore had a deal with HP. They had a license to use the PA-RISC architecture embedded into any chip they wanted because they were basically using HP as a CMOS silicon foundry back then. Given the craptastic performance of the stock CPUs on most regular Amigas emulation of the 68K CPU would have been trivial.
In short the AGA chipset and Amigas came out too late, in part because they wasted over a year in development because Irving Gould (the major shareholder) fired the entire management team, and hired former PC hardware guys from IBM (the guy who designed the PCjr) which brought his own staff and decided he had to kill all ongoing machine projects to leave his mark. They could have released an A3000+ with AGA like a year before the A4000 was released and a cut down version six months later. They had working prototypes back then. The Amiga engineers even had put an AT&T 32010 DSP chip in it (for sound, but the chip could do fixed point maths processing really fast, which could probably have made something like Doom possible).
Irving Gould also fired the Commodore founder and CEO Jack Tramiel a decade before because, get this, Tramiel wouldn't allow him to use Commodore as his own personal slush fund to pay for his personal jet or his house and yatch in the Bahamas.
Other than that the major stumble like I said was not moving to RISC CPUs sooner. 68K was dead and too expensive around the time Commodore died and there was no lack of available RISC architectures to pick.
FWIW the AGA Amigas were highly compatible with earlier Amigas in hardware.
The problem was Commodore basically killed chip development by starving it from resources. Apple never did much in the way of chip design back then. I think people usually say that Steve Jobs was shown an Amiga prototype and he basically told the guys who did the demo that it "had too much hardware" in it.
Not just old habits. Memory was tight, so you just unloaded as many libraries as you could from memory. The Amiga 1000 had 256KB RAM (shared with the video graphics and audio buffers) and the Amiga 500 had 512KB RAM.
Nah. Alpha and Itanic had floundered way before that. The first Itanic was a total disaster of a processor and the second one, while much better, wasn't exactly something that could easily run x86 applications quickly. The Alpha was interesting but after Intel ripped off their manufacturing processes and design techniques and incorporated them into the Pentium Pro, it was finished. There were lawsuits about this.
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Link to a story about the AT&T shenanigans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Not new though.
The USA did the same thing to Japan's supercomputer industry in the 1980s.
The USA government also cancelled a contract AT&T had with Huawei where they would retail their smartphones. Huawei is currently the #2 smartphone vendor in the world, #1 is Samsung, #3 is Apple (used to be #2 last year).
Huawei also competes with Cisco and Juniper in router equipment.
Nah it was dumb not to do it. Instead you guys ship the crude oil by train to the USA and it is refined there. The refineries earn all the money while the Canadian extracts earn less and less. Ever heard of this guy called Rockefeller and Standard Oil?
Yeah the fact that they did not fund that pipeline or refineries back when oil was at $150 USD and they could have easily raised the money was dumb as fuck.
Coal gets incredibly expensive the longer the shipping route is because it has so little energy density. Plus most of the high quality coal in Europe has already been mined. It has been mined ever since the Industrial Revolution. China has plenty of crap quality coal to burn right there on their turf. Plus they can import the high quality coal cheaper from places like Australia.
With all the wind power investments which have been made in Europe the amount of power required to run on baseload keeps decreasing. While the rest needs to be covered with a reliable quick-cycling power source which nearly inevitably tends to be natural gas.
At the same time the natural gas reserves in Europe, like in the Netherlands, and the North Sea, keep shrinking. So expect a lot of Russian gas imports in the future for Europe.
The thing is most pump hydro facilities used to be hydroelectric dams and water reservoirs in the first place. If, for whatever reason, batteries become more cost effective they'll just use them for water storage purposes and run the rest of the water downhill and generate electricity. Just like they used to.
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Except GM is talking bullshit. They are dumping sedans to focus on crossover vehicles.
They even removed a hybrid electric vehicle from production.
What he was saying was not that the Euro is undervalued, but that if Germany had its own currency it would be valued higher.
He did not nationalize everything. As a case in point most of the TV stations in Venezuela are private. He nationalized the oil sector but that is not particularly uncommon. Norway and Saudi Arabia also have nationalized oil companies.
Personally I think Obama didn't want to go in but that there was CIA involvement in it already by that point. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary as Secretary of State already was involved in it but kept him in the dark.
Pumped hydro is actually pretty efficient. The problem is it is expensive and it can't be built just anywhere.
GLONASS is global. Do you even know what the acronym stands for?
The network had coverage issues because they did not launch new satellites at a fast enough rate to replace broken ones fast enough after the fall of the Soviet Union. But this is not the case anymore.
The UK has not done that poorly with their deal with the EU. It is the countries in the Eurozone that are in the shitter. The UK is not in the Eurozone.
In fact the UK, since it joined the EU, has finally become independent in food production, thanks in no small part to EU farming subsidies. Which is quite a feat consider that was not the case like over a century.
In Ancient Athens they had silver mines. The income from the silver mines was IIRC mined by slaves and distributed to the citizens of Athens. All the citizens had to do was attend the Agora, i.e. the citizen's assembly, and they would be paid for each day they went there. Judges were also paid per each court case they judged and it wasn't a profession back then. This did eventually lead to a lot of frivolous litigation cases though.
IIRC the income from attending the citizen's assembly was enough to eat.
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11th per capita.
I am fairly certain that other countries having recovered from WWII, while they stayed neutral in the conflict, had nothing to do with it right?
In places where this system was tested, it has been fairly well established, that unless it is universal it will lead to some people stop working and things like that.
The original Mac was crap compared to an Apple II GS.
Well, the chunky pixel mode was less of a problem than the lack of CPU power. You have to remember that you couldn't play Doom properly on anything less than a 386DX40 and even then it was a slideshow. You needed a 486 processor.
With a comparable CPU the machine has a similar performance. Commodore added the Akiko chip to the CD32 to do chunky-to-planar conversion for example and it turned out someone figured out it was faster to do the conversion in assembler... on the stock 68020 at 14 MHz.
The problem was a lack of development in chip design. You could count the amount of chip designers they had in 1987 with one hand. This, plus using now obsolete design methods, meant it took them until 1991 to come up with the AGA chipset and they only developed it as a last minute stopgap because the chipset they were working on, the AAA chipset wouldn't be ready in time, the AAA chipset had it been debugged would also have only been competitive for a couple of years at best. They basically should have switched to a RISC CPU earlier. Commodore had a deal with HP. They had a license to use the PA-RISC architecture embedded into any chip they wanted because they were basically using HP as a CMOS silicon foundry back then. Given the craptastic performance of the stock CPUs on most regular Amigas emulation of the 68K CPU would have been trivial.
In short the AGA chipset and Amigas came out too late, in part because they wasted over a year in development because Irving Gould (the major shareholder) fired the entire management team, and hired former PC hardware guys from IBM (the guy who designed the PCjr) which brought his own staff and decided he had to kill all ongoing machine projects to leave his mark. They could have released an A3000+ with AGA like a year before the A4000 was released and a cut down version six months later. They had working prototypes back then. The Amiga engineers even had put an AT&T 32010 DSP chip in it (for sound, but the chip could do fixed point maths processing really fast, which could probably have made something like Doom possible).
Irving Gould also fired the Commodore founder and CEO Jack Tramiel a decade before because, get this, Tramiel wouldn't allow him to use Commodore as his own personal slush fund to pay for his personal jet or his house and yatch in the Bahamas.
Other than that the major stumble like I said was not moving to RISC CPUs sooner. 68K was dead and too expensive around the time Commodore died and there was no lack of available RISC architectures to pick.
FWIW the AGA Amigas were highly compatible with earlier Amigas in hardware.
The problem was Commodore basically killed chip development by starving it from resources. Apple never did much in the way of chip design back then. I think people usually say that Steve Jobs was shown an Amiga prototype and he basically told the guys who did the demo that it "had too much hardware" in it.
Not just old habits. Memory was tight, so you just unloaded as many libraries as you could from memory. The Amiga 1000 had 256KB RAM (shared with the video graphics and audio buffers) and the Amiga 500 had 512KB RAM.
https://money.cnn.com/1997/10/...
Nah. Alpha and Itanic had floundered way before that. The first Itanic was a total disaster of a processor and the second one, while much better, wasn't exactly something that could easily run x86 applications quickly. The Alpha was interesting but after Intel ripped off their manufacturing processes and design techniques and incorporated them into the Pentium Pro, it was finished. There were lawsuits about this.