Ideally, you would blow it up a LONG way away, not point blank. It gives the fragments much longer to drift out of conflict. Nobody would have a clear idea if which country was going to be ground zero.
Apple is enforcing their patents. The law REQUIRES them to do so or risk losing their patents.
Absolutely not true. They always have the option of licensing them at reasonable prices.
But the funny part, is Apple's track record of defending their patents. It seems most of the patents they put at risk by using them as the basis for a law suit are ultimately declared invalid. You would think they would be a little worried about suing these days, and just start collecting license fees.
With Samsung being able to get down to 14nm, that means every company benefits.
You put too much polish on the apple.
Fabless means you are someone else's Bitch. You have to buy from someone else because you don't have a fabrication facility to make your own processors.
Like Apple, currently shopping around for another chip manufacturer after Samsung raised prices, (to earn back billion dollar fine which will most likely be overturned on appeal). Even if Apple finds another fab to make their processors and related chips, they will still be a generation behind Samsung.
With the power savings available at 14nm, Samsung will be able to ask premium prices. All the smaller manufactures will end up buying from Samsung.
But maybe u think we could just hollywood like blow everything up and thats it?
In fact this is a realistic option with an asteroid this small. Its only 140 meters, or a football field and a half in diameter.
Shattering it into much smaller fragments is actually an option, as only some of those would still hit earth, and many of those would be small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Most that don't burn up, would (statically at least) hit ocean.
Most asteroids, from what we know, are loose accumulations of space debris without a solid core. It might shatter rather easily.
My buddy had a (second hand) Lincoln Town car with a built in car phone. Does that make it a mobile device? He crashed it one night when he was watching translucent and overlapped images. Alcohol may have been involved.
It has a diameter of about 140 meters. Its not a planet killer. You watch too much TV. Nobody can keep a secret in this world. Not least of all, government officials.
We have only this anonymous poster's allegation that Samsung was involved.
An anonymous filer, most likely Samsung,
There are any number of possible sources for this challenge, since the technique is used in almost all smartphones in and computer operating systems. Windows Vista and Windows 7 relied heavily on this technique for Aero.
So many of Apple's patents are common software techniques long in use in other fields but with an appended phrase "On a Smartphone". I expect more of them will be reexamined.
The story was submitted by the someone associated with Miniand, the maker of the computer. This poor guy probably never dreamed it would end up on Slashdot. A blatant advertising ploy.
Sniping at somebody who might be an amateur roboticist and possibly wrote his first Java script is easy.
Its Especially Easy, and certainly fair game when that person posts his first juvenile project on Youtube, then the maker of the computer SOC submits it to slashdot claiming its from an ENGINEER.
Shannon's constraints on the carrying capacity of an information channel are a fundamental part of information theory, not related to any given technology.
And also unrelated to the challenge under discussion, as I pointed out.
The suggestion by the GP that DARPA is unaware of Shannon, or that they are asking for a solution that somehow violates his constraints is simple wrong, and ill informed pedantry.
Seems that the route to novelty and ingenuity these days requires you somehow cable a cell phone into your project. Even when your computer-on-stick already has Wifi built in.
What's the PM's motivation? Is he/she bringing in the extra layers to protect themselves?
I think you can get a good idea of the PM's concern by just reading the post above:
career building success for me, and everyone acknowledges my technical capabilities.
After you get by the dripping narcissism, you can easily see the "I'm outta here the minute this gets built" syndrome, and the sneaking suspicion that the PM is getting sold a bill of goods by a fast talking baffle gab artist, a Sheldon Leonard wanna-be working on a project he created, has brow-beat others into accepting, but which now is starting to cost real money. It would seem he is apparently deathly afraid of peer review, and is more in fear of losing the spotlight.
I do not, for the life of me, understand why FireFox is so hell-bent on 32-bit versions.
I do not for the life of me understand this blind push to 64bit when there is no demonstrable speed improvement. 32bit software on a 64bit platform is not measurably slower for the tasks that a browser needs to do.
An armed society is a polite society. For ever nutter that want's to go on a rampage there are several hundred that just want to live long enough go home after work.
Have they checked the schools MSDS sheets for chemicals that if spilled or combined with others could be hazardous. Let's see if they have any chlorine and ammonia on hand, or maybe some sodium hydroxide in the bathroom cleaning closet. If they do, they better call the police to haul the school staff off.
The chemicals were found in his home. I don't see what the MSDS sheets have to do with anything.
Police then searched the boy's home on the 300 block of East Spencer Lane and found several electronic parts and several types of chemicals that when mixed together, could cause an explosion, police say.
I ask you, in what home in this country would you NOT find such materials?
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Ideally, you would blow it up a LONG way away, not point blank.
It gives the fragments much longer to drift out of conflict.
Nobody would have a clear idea if which country was going to be ground zero.
Most asteroids, from what we know, are loose accumulations of space debris without a solid core. It might shatter rather easily.
What does the nuclear bomb modeling show?
Apple is enforcing their patents. The law REQUIRES them to do so or risk losing their patents.
Absolutely not true. They always have the option of licensing them at reasonable prices.
But the funny part, is Apple's track record of defending their patents. It seems most of the patents they put at risk by using them as the basis for a law suit are ultimately declared invalid. You would think they would be a little worried about suing these days, and just start collecting license fees.
With Samsung being able to get down to 14nm, that means every company benefits.
You put too much polish on the apple.
Fabless means you are someone else's Bitch. You have to buy from someone else because you don't have a fabrication facility to make your own processors.
Like Apple, currently shopping around for another chip manufacturer after Samsung raised prices, (to earn back billion dollar fine which will most likely be overturned on appeal). Even if Apple finds another fab to make their processors and related chips, they will still be a generation behind Samsung.
With the power savings available at 14nm, Samsung will be able to ask premium prices. All the smaller manufactures will end up buying from Samsung.
watching the man/woman in front of you pulled off to the showers/killing room are so far different in reality
And you would know this HOW?
If there was any wisdom the Mayans passed down to us, it was that clocks and calendars do not control time.
But just in case, we are all switching to 64bit clocks.
But maybe u think we could just hollywood like blow everything up and thats it?
In fact this is a realistic option with an asteroid this small. Its only 140 meters, or a football field and a half in diameter.
Shattering it into much smaller fragments is actually an option, as only some of those would still hit earth, and many of those would be small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Most that don't burn up, would (statically at least) hit ocean.
Most asteroids, from what we know, are loose accumulations of space debris without a solid core. It might shatter rather easily.
theoretical physics, as little as I understand, leads me to believe by looking for them we are actively inviting them to hit us.
Its clear you understand little.
But I'd be interested in how one sends an invitation to a 140 meter ball of rock.
Will it RSVP?
Send them an email. They will either laugh you into the delete bin, or send you a link to those pages.
Because why?
My buddy had a (second hand) Lincoln Town car with a built in car phone. Does that make it a mobile device? He crashed it one night when he was watching translucent and overlapped images. Alcohol may have been involved.
It has a diameter of about 140 meters. Its not a planet killer.
You watch too much TV. Nobody can keep a secret in this world. Not least of all, government officials.
Who says its Samsung?
Microsoft may be just as likely the source of this appeal, since they have used translucent images since Vista.
50 billion is a really big number. In fact, there are less than 10 million US patents. Now quick math. By many percent were you off?
In his defense, he did say " 50 billion moar patents".
Who knows what that might actually mean.
We have only this anonymous poster's allegation that Samsung was involved.
An anonymous filer, most likely Samsung,
There are any number of possible sources for this challenge, since the technique is used in almost all smartphones in and computer
operating systems. Windows Vista and Windows 7 relied heavily on this technique for Aero.
So many of Apple's patents are common software techniques long in use in other fields but with an appended phrase "On a Smartphone".
I expect more of them will be reexamined.
I know what they are, I just don't see how they pertain, since the chemicals were found in his home, common household chemicals.
Is it possible to safely eliminate just this one bacteria via a vaccine or antibiotic?
Perhaps someone could post this bacteria's susceptibility to Alcohol. Preferably before New Years Eve.
It's fun. Let him enjoy his 15 minutes!
The story was submitted by the someone associated with Miniand, the maker of the computer. This poor guy probably never dreamed it would end up on Slashdot. A blatant advertising ploy.
Sniping at somebody who might be an amateur roboticist and possibly wrote his first Java script is easy.
Its Especially Easy, and certainly fair game when that person posts his first juvenile project on Youtube, then the maker of the computer SOC submits it to slashdot claiming its from an ENGINEER.
Shannon's constraints on the carrying capacity of an information channel are a fundamental part of information theory, not related to any given technology.
And also unrelated to the challenge under discussion, as I pointed out.
The suggestion by the GP that DARPA is unaware of Shannon, or that they are asking for a solution that somehow violates his constraints is simple wrong, and ill informed pedantry.
Seems that the route to novelty and ingenuity these days requires you somehow cable a cell phone into your project.
Even when your computer-on-stick already has Wifi built in.
What's the PM's motivation? Is he/she bringing in the extra layers to protect themselves?
I think you can get a good idea of the PM's concern by just reading the post above:
career building success for me, and everyone acknowledges my technical capabilities.
After you get by the dripping narcissism, you can easily see the "I'm outta here the minute this gets built" syndrome, and the sneaking suspicion that the PM is getting sold a bill of goods by a fast talking baffle gab artist, a Sheldon Leonard wanna-be working on a project he created, has brow-beat others into accepting, but which now is starting to cost real money. It would seem he is apparently deathly afraid of peer review, and is more in fear of losing the spotlight.
I do not, for the life of me, understand why FireFox is so hell-bent on 32-bit versions.
I do not for the life of me understand this blind push to 64bit when there is no demonstrable speed improvement.
32bit software on a 64bit platform is not measurably slower for the tasks that a browser needs to do.
This.
An armed society is a polite society.
For ever nutter that want's to go on a rampage there are several hundred that just want to live long enough go home after work.
Have they checked the schools MSDS sheets for chemicals that if spilled or combined with others could be hazardous.
Let's see if they have any chlorine and ammonia on hand, or maybe some sodium hydroxide in the bathroom cleaning closet.
If they do, they better call the police to haul the school staff off.
The chemicals were found in his home. I don't see what the MSDS sheets have to do with anything.
Police then searched the boy's home on the 300 block of East Spencer Lane and found several electronic parts and several types of chemicals that when mixed together, could cause an explosion, police say.
I ask you, in what home in this country would you NOT find such materials?