It is a bunch of balooney. If size was the issue they could have used a thinner headphone jack. There are such things.
This is just a throwback to the old days when mobile phone companies used to charge you $100 extra for a $1 headphone jack. Sony Ericsson loved doing that...
At the time of Elop's "burning platforms memo" Android was not outselling the Nokia platforms at the time which included Symbian based smartphones. Yes it was outselling the predecessor to MeeGo, which was only available in like a single model which was ludicrously expensive and available in limited quantities. He basically Osborned their whole lineup with that move.
Add to that that they moved to a version of Windows Phone which was totally incompatible with previous Windows Mobile applications, and those applications were themselves incompatible with the next version of Windows Phone which came out a year or two later and you have a recipe for disaster.
IBM did that for a reason. Apple screwed both IBM and Motorola (remember them?) when they pulled the plug on the Mac compatible sector. All of a sudden what was supposed to be a really large market will several million units turned into a niche market which could hardly pay for the chip development costs. Eventually Motorola gave up on the desktop market and turned to embedded applications and were later spun out to create Freescale. IBM basically kept the Power architecture server work they were doing before. Why would they spent an untold sum developing a laptop chip for a niche customer as finicky as Apple?
I am still remembering that Sapphire glass vendor which basically went bust because they trusted Apple's talk a couple years back. IBM isn't that dumb.
Exactly. The problem is those guys were caught selling the data Amazon uses to cut these online retailers who operate on their site off in the first place.
It is that expensive because it's being build on some of the most expensive land in the world basically. Even despite it being built far away from what should be its optimal route IMHO. i.e. along the coast connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles to San Diego.
There is a vast difference between the earlier generation Nissan Leaf, which is basically an econobox meant for short distance travel, and the latest model which came out last year.
EVs basically have a lot of torque. But if you accelerate too much you drain the battery faster. So it's better to keep them below a certain velocity. ICE cars also typically have a design velocity and the engine is optimized to run at those velocities. If you don't you typically waste fuel or decrease the usable lifetime of the vehicle. It's just that most people don't care.
There are a lot of professions which do not require such a high level of education. Sure. It does not mean those occupations are not important. We still need carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. Those people still need a high level of education to perform well, but they can learn on the job.
It's when you claim to design a leading edge chip design with people fresh out of high school, like Peter Thiel claimed, that I start to scratch my head and consider that he's bonkers.
The current Chinese government has leaders well educated in technical sectors for sure. Personally I liked the previous leader (i.e. Hu Jintao) better. I think that government was more focused on actually achievable goals and left much of the rest to take care of itself with minimal interference. This guy takes a much more heavy handed approach to rule. It's like they decided to go back to the imperial regime again.
I can understand why they did it. They probably expected friction with the West and that's why he was granted plenipotentiary powers. They are basically cleaning up their house (remember Stalin's Purges?) before the major event happens.
I liked using WinForms when I did C# programming. I also liked C# as a language. It was leagues ahead of the crap they had before. But still, like you said, it was not something easy to port to other platforms. I still do most of my programming in C or C++ however.
I have looked at Rust but the syntax seems to get more obnoxious with each release and to be honest, I do not feel like writing code for a language that is in a perpetual state of flux.
Remember when Peter Thiel started paying people not to go to college and start their own leading edge tech enterprise fresh out of high school? So how well did that turn out? Then there is Theranos, another company funded by someone who never bothered to get their bachelor degree. Now Google, under its new management, wants to contract people without degrees as long as they pass a paper or whatever test. But with their shrinking main business why do they even need that many people to begin with? Burnout? Not interesting anymore?
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Yes, because it's impossible to manufacture headphones with a smaller jack...
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There is a spaceport in the Mojave desert already. It is basically mostly unused though.
It sells more because it can operate from more airfields and it uses less fuel. A supersonic aircraft will use more fuel. Basically.
We have had variable geometry aircraft for over 50 years now.
It is a bunch of balooney. If size was the issue they could have used a thinner headphone jack. There are such things.
This is just a throwback to the old days when mobile phone companies used to charge you $100 extra for a $1 headphone jack. Sony Ericsson loved doing that...
Same here. Not to mention the possible security implications of using Bluetooth.
At the time of Elop's "burning platforms memo" Android was not outselling the Nokia platforms at the time which included Symbian based smartphones. Yes it was outselling the predecessor to MeeGo, which was only available in like a single model which was ludicrously expensive and available in limited quantities. He basically Osborned their whole lineup with that move.
Add to that that they moved to a version of Windows Phone which was totally incompatible with previous Windows Mobile applications, and those applications were themselves incompatible with the next version of Windows Phone which came out a year or two later and you have a recipe for disaster.
Sparta also had two "kings".
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It's a troll vs troll fight. Remember the Samsung lawsuit over rounded corners? I think it's high time Apple got to cough up some too.
A lot of other companies, including US companies, broke the same sanctions but only got to pay a fine. For some reason she got arrested instead.
IBM did that for a reason. Apple screwed both IBM and Motorola (remember them?) when they pulled the plug on the Mac compatible sector. All of a sudden what was supposed to be a really large market will several million units turned into a niche market which could hardly pay for the chip development costs. Eventually Motorola gave up on the desktop market and turned to embedded applications and were later spun out to create Freescale. IBM basically kept the Power architecture server work they were doing before. Why would they spent an untold sum developing a laptop chip for a niche customer as finicky as Apple?
I am still remembering that Sapphire glass vendor which basically went bust because they trusted Apple's talk a couple years back. IBM isn't that dumb.
Exactly. The problem is those guys were caught selling the data Amazon uses to cut these online retailers who operate on their site off in the first place.
Because of NIMBYism California does not have nuclear power plants anymore. Expect a lot of natural gas power plants in your future.
It is that expensive because it's being build on some of the most expensive land in the world basically.
Even despite it being built far away from what should be its optimal route IMHO. i.e. along the coast connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles to San Diego.
There is a vast difference between the earlier generation Nissan Leaf, which is basically an econobox meant for short distance travel, and the latest model which came out last year.
EVs basically have a lot of torque. But if you accelerate too much you drain the battery faster. So it's better to keep them below a certain velocity. ICE cars also typically have a design velocity and the engine is optimized to run at those velocities. If you don't you typically waste fuel or decrease the usable lifetime of the vehicle. It's just that most people don't care.
There are a lot of professions which do not require such a high level of education. Sure. It does not mean those occupations are not important. We still need carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. Those people still need a high level of education to perform well, but they can learn on the job.
It's when you claim to design a leading edge chip design with people fresh out of high school, like Peter Thiel claimed, that I start to scratch my head and consider that he's bonkers.
I heard they already do that with aluminium and other metals...
The current Chinese government has leaders well educated in technical sectors for sure. Personally I liked the previous leader (i.e. Hu Jintao) better. I think that government was more focused on actually achievable goals and left much of the rest to take care of itself with minimal interference. This guy takes a much more heavy handed approach to rule. It's like they decided to go back to the imperial regime again.
I can understand why they did it. They probably expected friction with the West and that's why he was granted plenipotentiary powers. They are basically cleaning up their house (remember Stalin's Purges?) before the major event happens.
I liked using WinForms when I did C# programming. I also liked C# as a language. It was leagues ahead of the crap they had before. But still, like you said, it was not something easy to port to other platforms. I still do most of my programming in C or C++ however.
I have looked at Rust but the syntax seems to get more obnoxious with each release and to be honest, I do not feel like writing code for a language that is in a perpetual state of flux.
No one, recorded (unless you accept the Bible as a valid record), has lived into his 150s. So he's basically talking out of his arse.
The inequality in terms of lifetime actually used to be WORSE at one point. Unfortunately it has been getting worse in places like the USA again.
Remember when Peter Thiel started paying people not to go to college and start their own leading edge tech enterprise fresh out of high school? So how well did that turn out? Then there is Theranos, another company funded by someone who never bothered to get their bachelor degree. Now Google, under its new management, wants to contract people without degrees as long as they pass a paper or whatever test. But with their shrinking main business why do they even need that many people to begin with? Burnout? Not interesting anymore?
s/Pompey/Pompeii
I have heard other arguments claiming it was a volcanic eruption, kinda like the one in Pompey, and that the description makes more sense that way.