Japan hit the ceiling once their GDP/capita got to the level of the rest of the Western economies. China is a long way from getting there in GDP/capita.
Don't be stupid. IntelliJ, Netbeans or Eclipse are at least comparable if not better than Visual Studio if you compare Java with C# development. The C++ support maybe be lackluster but you would be better off with a good text editor like Sublime Text than a buggy IDE for something like that anyway.
2000 had a similar problem to Vista. They changed the driver model and *nothing* would work anymore. A lot of devices did not have working drivers for a long time and some older devices never new got drivers made. The software APIs were changed in ways that broke backwards compatibility so yes a lot of old apps would not run properly either. A lot of this was due to applications that wanted to write all over the filesystem and which were not designed for a multi-user OS.
I liked Windows 2000 for the stability because it was NT based. Plus unlike NT the user interface was no longer horrible and it had passable support for games. Windows XP added more backwards compatibility with old apps so it was a lot more acceptable as a working platform plus by then the driver situation had improved. Vista had similar issues in particular with NVIDIA graphics drivers.
Fine tuning would be ok but for that we would need to know more about the way the system works. Plus I think the current world average temperature is too low.
CO2 is plant food. What happens is it eventually gets soaked up. Plus the world's average temperature has been a lot higher than this at a time the world's population was a lot smaller than it is now and when we did not use oil at all and only burned carbon that was located close to the surface. So I couldn't care less.
This problem is quite complicated. For sure to a degree this is electric utilities lashing back at something that threatens their business model. But you have to look at it from a technical perspective at well. Renewable production is highly variable and matching that to actual grid requirements is not easy. Some people think the solution to that problem is to turn the electrical supply into an open market but there are some things that just can't be done yet. Like storing large amounts of electricity cheaply.
The current renewables powered electric grids either depend on large hydroelectric facilities with pumped storage (Denmark stores excess wind powered electricity in Norwegian hydroelectric dams) and/or on peaking power plants using natural gas. Well the thing is the most efficient and modern natural gas powered plants are combined cycle. The combined cycle power plants lose efficiency if you spooling them up and down to the point where its useless to use the combined cycle to begin with. So you're nearly halving the efficiency of the plant. What a lot of people then say is why not run these natural gas power plants with the same amount of natural gas continuously and get nearly twice the electricity out of that natural gas and drop using the renewables. That's what lot of people think.
That's because he ignored the nationalistic friction that has existed between China and Vietnam since time immemorial. China was invaded from that direction a couple of times a long time ago but the Chinese never quite got over it. They want to control that whole area. When the US was pushed out that plus the Sino-Soviet split was what stopped communist expansion in that area.
It isn't corroborated by reality since global average temperatures have not followed the predictions of that model. They are now too busy coming up with theories for where the missing heat went and saying it went down a whole (literally). Well why didn't it go down a hole before too?
A lot of us think this is much more easily explained by solar activity but of course what matters to these people is an insignificant amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Do you know there is some evidence that if global temperatures went up the world's deserts would actually recede? Even if the temperature wouldn't rise as much the arctic would become navigable just like it was in the Middle Ages when the Novgorod Republic was a major trading power and Iceland was colonized. That's what the scaremongerers won't tell you.
The article seems kinda bogus. Samsung uses their own fabs. AFAIK the capacity at TSMC is being used by Qualcomm (which does sell some Krait chips to Samsung) and Apple. Yes AMD (ex-ATI) and NVIDIA seem to have been left in the cold with this. It might push some of them to Globalfoundries if they can play their cards right. AMD at least has people with experience with their production process.
Motorola also sold a lot less chips so they could not invest nearly as much on fab technology as Intel did. You can thank that to Apple's exorbitant prices back then.
If Motorola chips were that expensive they wouldn't sell as much as they did for things like automotive and washing machines and crap like that.
There's some sort of analogous law for fab price similar to Moore's law. I think its like each new process fab, which you have to build every ~18 months, costs like twice as much as the previous generation.
Actually a lot of the problems in Europe could be solved with more government backed investments. I am talking about things like the dependency on Russia natural gas for example. You could reinforce the gas and electricity grid interconnections between member states. You could increase gas storage and shipment. They could increase the amount of fiber and 4G coverage.
A recent workaround by the US confection industry has been to reduce the amount of cocoa butter in candy bars without using vegetable fats by adding polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), which is an artificial castor oil-derived emulsifier that simulates the mouthfeel of fat. Up to 0.3% PGPR may be added to chocolate for this purpose
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The GDP/capita kept growing until much after that.
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Until 1995. Guess what happened in 1995? Kobe earthquake.
Japan would have recovered by now if it wasn't for the earthquake/tsunami and closing down all the nuclear power plants.
Japan hit the ceiling once their GDP/capita got to the level of the rest of the Western economies. China is a long way from getting there in GDP/capita.
VS is crap. It only becomes useable with add-ons like Resharper.
Don't be stupid. IntelliJ, Netbeans or Eclipse are at least comparable if not better than Visual Studio if you compare Java with C# development. The C++ support maybe be lackluster but you would be better off with a good text editor like Sublime Text than a buggy IDE for something like that anyway.
2000 had a similar problem to Vista. They changed the driver model and *nothing* would work anymore. A lot of devices did not have working drivers for a long time and some older devices never new got drivers made. The software APIs were changed in ways that broke backwards compatibility so yes a lot of old apps would not run properly either. A lot of this was due to applications that wanted to write all over the filesystem and which were not designed for a multi-user OS.
I liked Windows 2000 for the stability because it was NT based. Plus unlike NT the user interface was no longer horrible and it had passable support for games. Windows XP added more backwards compatibility with old apps so it was a lot more acceptable as a working platform plus by then the driver situation had improved. Vista had similar issues in particular with NVIDIA graphics drivers.
What you conveniently ignore is that Mann is the one trying to sue online conservative media just to shut them up.
Oh and BTW there *are* trees thousands of years old.
Cycles and epicycles. If you take back that chart a thousand years what's to tell you that we are at a maximum? The fact is we aren't.
Fine tuning would be ok but for that we would need to know more about the way the system works. Plus I think the current world average temperature is too low.
CO2 is plant food. What happens is it eventually gets soaked up. Plus the world's average temperature has been a lot higher than this at a time the world's population was a lot smaller than it is now and when we did not use oil at all and only burned carbon that was located close to the surface. So I couldn't care less.
You can stop breathing right now if you want to.
Global warming, string theory, are models in search of a world they can apply to.
Yes because 97% of climate scientists believe in anthropogenic global warming.
Part of the cost was an increase in the price of oil as Iraq oil production came to a standstill. Still think the impact to GDP was minimal?
This problem is quite complicated. For sure to a degree this is electric utilities lashing back at something that threatens their business model. But you have to look at it from a technical perspective at well. Renewable production is highly variable and matching that to actual grid requirements is not easy. Some people think the solution to that problem is to turn the electrical supply into an open market but there are some things that just can't be done yet. Like storing large amounts of electricity cheaply.
The current renewables powered electric grids either depend on large hydroelectric facilities with pumped storage (Denmark stores excess wind powered electricity in Norwegian hydroelectric dams) and/or on peaking power plants using natural gas. Well the thing is the most efficient and modern natural gas powered plants are combined cycle. The combined cycle power plants lose efficiency if you spooling them up and down to the point where its useless to use the combined cycle to begin with. So you're nearly halving the efficiency of the plant. What a lot of people then say is why not run these natural gas power plants with the same amount of natural gas continuously and get nearly twice the electricity out of that natural gas and drop using the renewables. That's what lot of people think.
Was never in harms way and got a Purple Heart. Do you even know why they give people a Purple Heart medal?
That's because he ignored the nationalistic friction that has existed between China and Vietnam since time immemorial. China was invaded from that direction a couple of times a long time ago but the Chinese never quite got over it. They want to control that whole area. When the US was pushed out that plus the Sino-Soviet split was what stopped communist expansion in that area.
It isn't corroborated by reality since global average temperatures have not followed the predictions of that model. They are now too busy coming up with theories for where the missing heat went and saying it went down a whole (literally). Well why didn't it go down a hole before too?
A lot of us think this is much more easily explained by solar activity but of course what matters to these people is an insignificant amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Do you know there is some evidence that if global temperatures went up the world's deserts would actually recede? Even if the temperature wouldn't rise as much the arctic would become navigable just like it was in the Middle Ages when the Novgorod Republic was a major trading power and Iceland was colonized. That's what the scaremongerers won't tell you.
They already tried that more than once. It did not work well. The impact on landing is too large. You need the retro-rocket burn.
The article seems kinda bogus. Samsung uses their own fabs. AFAIK the capacity at TSMC is being used by Qualcomm (which does sell some Krait chips to Samsung) and Apple. Yes AMD (ex-ATI) and NVIDIA seem to have been left in the cold with this. It might push some of them to Globalfoundries if they can play their cards right. AMD at least has people with experience with their production process.
Motorola also sold a lot less chips so they could not invest nearly as much on fab technology as Intel did. You can thank that to Apple's exorbitant prices back then.
If Motorola chips were that expensive they wouldn't sell as much as they did for things like automotive and washing machines and crap like that.
There's some sort of analogous law for fab price similar to Moore's law. I think its like each new process fab, which you have to build every ~18 months, costs like twice as much as the previous generation.
Actually a lot of the problems in Europe could be solved with more government backed investments. I am talking about things like the dependency on Russia natural gas for example. You could reinforce the gas and electricity grid interconnections between member states. You could increase gas storage and shipment. They could increase the amount of fiber and 4G coverage.
A recent workaround by the US confection industry has been to reduce the amount of cocoa butter in candy bars without using vegetable fats by adding polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), which is an artificial castor oil-derived emulsifier that simulates the mouthfeel of fat. Up to 0.3% PGPR may be added to chocolate for this purpose
Bleargh.