What's the point in knowing where everything is? Having cables between and in communities is no surprise to anyone. If you are going to look at utilities, don't forget cable and satellite companies. It is also worth examining how the revenue siphoned off by them may reduce resources at local news operations.
It might be more interesting to look at what happens with our frequency spectrum. Should the push always be towards something business can monetize? Some might prefer peer owned networks with minimal expenses. It's like having most of your power or water heating from your own panels versus always having to buy energy from a major utility.
There's more than the F.C.C. involved with spectrum
Of course the characteristics that matter depend on the application. For a processor, fast switching is desirable, with low leakage in the off state, a low saturated resistance in the on state, low input capacitance, low capacitance from the output to the input etc. Additionally when there are devices in series across the supply, the characteristics should be such that a spike of current is avoided during switching. The input capacitance is important since it takes current to charge and discharge it, increasing the drive power requirements as the operating frequency rises.
The nature of the input/output transfer function between on and off is very important to linear applications, such as audio, instrumentation, r.f. receiver circuits, linear r.f. power amplifiers etc. Low noise characteristics may also be sought. Those things are important to wireless communications and networking.
In power applications, things like the temperature coefficient of the saturated on resistance become important. Devices with a positive temperature coefficient may have potential problems with thermal runaway since losses and heat then boost each other. When building power devices, shifts in saturated on resistance, switching threshold, and gain with temperature are all important. If a portion of the transistor tends to draw more current when heated, the portion of the chip that conducts first, or that which has the least effective cooling, may tend to hog a disproportionate amount of the current, further increasing the temperature at the hotter spot. The safely handled power level is reduced when the current density is less uniform. Those sorts of characteristics make some existing types of power FETs that are fine for switching more failure prone in something like a linear audio power amplifier. When geometries are very small and current densities are high, metal migration from interconnects may occur possibly leading to eventual failure.
The effective thermal resistance is also important. Like electrical resistance which develops a voltage drop (or rise if you prefer) when current flows, thermal resistance develops a temperature rise with heat flow. Usually expressed units of temperature rise in degrees C per Watt, the junction to package surface, package surface to heatsink (pad), and heatsink to ambient thermal resistances are additive. The temperature rise across those combined resistances must be such that a maximum safe junction temperature is not exceeded. The heatsink to ambient thermal resistance can be reduced with a fan, but if thermal conductivity within the chip/package is poor, power handling ability is less than it would be otherwise. It's usually more difficult to achieve low thermal resistance with faster devices since they're generally smaller. A low speed power transistor with a large chip generally has lower thermal resistance than a fast one with a small chip. (smaller may reduce carrier transit times and capacitance). Of course smaller transistors usually reduce cost since more can be produced in a given size die, but process costs and yield are also factors. (and licensing fees?)
From the above it should be apparent that developing optimal devices for a given application is an involved art. It will be interesting to see which devices can see improved performance from use of graphene technology.
Marketing-speak tends to lie or at least mislead. Although the amount to data to/from memory goes up when the path gets wider, that iisn't increasing the rates the individual data lines are clocked at. So while it is reasonable to talk of so many gigabits per second memory bandwidth, it's isn't a memory clock in the GHz. When the data path got wider, some multiplied the frequency of the memory clock by the path multiplier to inflate the advertised number, but the signals are still at a few hundred MHz, not those high numbers. And even then, if wait states are needed, the effective memory clock is much less yet. Usually only a small amount of cache runs at high spee
They also shouldn't get a lock-in on proprietary standards/protocols used for basic functions. Skype comes to mind. While it's good to see a Linux version, there should be full free access for others to code their own apps and inter-operate fully.
I like the idea of hardware being open to other OSes. I'm wondering how much of a role the OS or replaceable firmware plays in power management and battery charge control. If those functions are not handled properly, problems could extend beyond performance issues to safety issues.
Perhaps a restrictive bootloader could allow other OSes, but throw up an advisory flag if the OS doesn't self-identify having certain functionality. At the same time, it might throw up SHA1 check values that could help some confirm that what they're considering installing is not corrupted. Perhaps the hardware could have some protective default fallback limits on things like clock rate, charging current, maximum battery voltage, discharge depth etc for use if more advanced control functionality is not announced by the OS during install or boot?
Hardware wise, this is similar to the Apple TV which sells at a profit for $99 supporting 1080p output. The Apple TV uses less than 6 Watts. There's no mention of Bluetooth, but I suppose if there were software support, an adapter on the mini-USB port would be a possible way to add it without hardware changes. Currently it has their single-core A5 ARM and in many ways is like the original WiFi iPad. They probably wouldn't have to do much additional development work to upgrade to SOC multicore ARM with Power VR GPU functionality if they wanted to boost Apple TV performance for gaming since they already have done so for other products. It is likely that a small developer could not get as cheap or as well integrated of silicon as Apple has developed even with the technologies available to license.
Has anyone loaded another OS on ARM-based Apple TV? I know it was done with the original Intel CPU / drive-equipped version. (Mac OS X among other things)
It would seem a simple task for them to add iOS app support with the main issue being the smoothest development/distribution of apps able to work without input from a touch screen. Since the next release of OS X will support some games for cross platform play with iOS devices, development of similar suitable apps must be underway. (Of related interest, there's also OS X and iOS Airplay video streaming, with either devices mirroring video to Apple TV and the big screen)
This all has many implications. It shows the viability of a $99 device meeting requirements for low-cost gaming. They already show the viability of profit from large scale sales of very low cost apps. At those prices, I think a great many consumers would not seek to pirate games. I know that language seems backwards, but it is the paying customers that matter. (glass mostly full perspective) Eliminating however many do pirate would likely be less beneficial to revenue than numbers would suggest since those people would likely not all buy.
Although an ARM console at $99 looks quite feasible, it is also apparent that Apple could do the same thing at the drop of a hat, and with a huge eco-system in place. If something is going to compete successfully against a fairly likely Apple product, it had better have more than low prices and DRM going for it. Since iOS in general doesn't provide users a development platform, that might be the niche to serve. Provide educational and hobbyist development tools. There was a time when educators did quite a bit with Hypercard on Macs. That environment was a step away from being net enabled, but it predated the net. Surely something exciting can be offered. Apple can more easily get away with offering something with limited storage since either video content or apps could be fetched from their iCloud. A smaller developer would likely have to offer plug-in Flash memory support. Bundling more Flash would make it harder to meet price points.
Cheap hardware and low cost DRM'd games alone would be very vulnerable to competition from Apple. Look at the financials of the current console vendors. The well-liked Xbox 360 hasn't broken even yet, but is getting a bit long in the tooth especially over power consumption. Although power has been reduced to where they aren't so quick to burn up, use is extraordinarily high for something used for more than short sessions such as streamed video. (over 100 Watts versus less than 6)
Even if committed to doing so, it is very likely that retailers haven't yet paid for the merchandise in inventory. Sometimes retailers have the right to return unsold goods, depending on the specific agreements in place. I suspect that some contract terms may be under a NDA, but perhaps some upper management from major retails chains can provide (post!) specifics as to the terms for Samsung distribution? There are many possible terms to contracts. The current issue is something that retailers might be able to treat similarly to the situation of a wide-scale manufacturing defect that requires returns. Without knowing the terms, we're only speculating about whether retailers must still pay for what they have received.
When HP withdrew their tablets, many actually came back from the retail channel. Had the retailers sold them and had to pay at the previously contracted price, the retailers would have likely suffered large losses from selling at the announced deeply cut prices.
Those interested in these products could look on the bright side, perhaps have some hope for them to appear with different firmware, or Apple to lose the case. Then not only would the products reappear unaltered, but Samsung would be paid damages from the bond Apple posted.
I think most people here have pretty strong feelings about censorship or manipulation of the news. I'd hope that moderators avoid using the system as a way to vote their opinions, and try to stick with promoting the insightful/informative and demoting the disruptive. We're all only human, so sometimes it takes some effort to resist temptation to warp the process by treating it as voting. That degrades the quality of the site.
Do none of the users of these phones have the source to what they bought? I would have thought people would load multiple versions and could boot into whichever one suited the mood..
IIRC the consolidation I'd read about was partly a matter of skipping going from DC to 120 VAC 60 Hz and back to DC again following individual UPS batteries. I believe the motherboards had an efficient high-frequency switcher for the bulk of the load, but not a full DC-DC converter. There was no isolation transformer and no rectifier beyond commutating diodes. The DC distribution voltage wasn't really low, which helps avoid excessive conductor losses and those in the preceding rectifier. I might not be recalling all of the details correctly. But it came across as a simple low cost optimization that most others just don't bother with. That wasn't surprising to me since many developers and digital designers have little background in analog / power supply design, or r.f. considerations for that matter. I don't recall if anything special was needed to constrain battery charging.
Citations please? The have been articles describing things Google has done that lowered the cost and power consumption of servers. They did things like using higher efficiency power supplies, and avoiding some extra DC-DC conversion.
Although large businesses can often be criticized for choosing higher profits over environmental responsibility, servers farms are clearly an area where better environmental impact generally means lowered costs. More efficient servers cost less to power, maybe be more reliable when producing less heat, and have lower cooling costs when producing less heat.
Maybe some can find ways when the heat is always put to use? That doesn't seem easy to do all year around, but perhaps some oil refining, chemical processing, recycling, or other manufacturing process could use the heat as part of some process where heat is always needed. Some might be able to shift loads to servers in cooler locations where they could help heat buildings. They might get a break on space rental in exchange for lowering the energy costs to a complex. Not everyone will have the flexibility to pick locations where such things are possible, but hopefully it can still be done increasingly.
I find it hard to believe that Google wouldn't go for efficiency whenever possible, even if motivated only by the bottom line.
It's too bad someone from a local mortuary couldn't give them a brain in his name with a note "here's the excess knowledge back".
If there were no unpaid fees, there wasn't a contract fr anything else.
If they really think that completion of a program of xx courses is what is being paid/owed for, those who paid additional fees to do it over a longer than default time should get partial refunds. Perhaps those that don't graduate should get refunds also?
A few people might even go for an app to control / patrol U.S. borders. It'd be an unusual way to avoid paying some salaries. Best not to give them missiles though!
Who knows, maybe even the Incredible Hulk would go for that. I was a little surprised when I saw that he (the actor) signed up as a reserve deputy on the central California coast. The article noted he was also one in Santa Monica near Los Angeles. Then a peek at the wikipedia showed this:
"In November 2010, Ferrigno was sworn in as a member of a Maricopa County, Arizona volunteer sheriff posse, which also includes actors Steven Seagal and Peter Lupus, in order to help control illegal immigration in the Phoenix Valley area."
California has had The Terminator as governor, so nothing would be too surprising. (Reagan, also a former actor was once governor of CA too, instantly created large numbers of homeless by emptying the mental hospitals, including many Vietnam vets - sounds like a plot for a zombie game app)
Don't worry, a fleet of drones disguised as Angry Birds are closing in on the miscreant developer. Perhaps you'd like to buy an app that controls them?
Yeah, go to the movie and discover the trailer you already saw was the movie.
The sped-up aspect of it is sorta like Blipverts.
The smoke must have been dense. Perhaps one could have bounced signals off of that. I recall that when a power failure hit during a large California fire, I discovered that some reflected out of town FM and tv signals were quite strong
Smoke isn't the best way to get those weak DTV signals, but the deadline for rural low power analog tv stations to have applied for a subsidy refunding some DTV conversion costs ended July 2nd. It looks like there may have been $20 million left to hand out too.
Or do they have different shaped corners than the Samsung models?
Regardless, there many be some people who choose to suspend buying Samsung or other South Korean products now that the country has announced that they'll be doing "research" whaling. (Of course they should be told why business is going elsewhere) Calling it research whaling exploits a loophole to engage in a banned practice.
I don't suppose political researchers use harpoons? They can end up traveling to places like the Cayman Islands though.
It's still B.S. It's a tech product, and the circuit board isn't even stuffed with imported parts in the U.S. Having the case or frame here might as well be called a marketing expense instead of a manufacturing expense. It's done for marketing reasons, and isn't the meat of the product. They might as well throw a can of spaghetti sauce in a pot and call it homemade after adding a pinch of salt.
It would be funny to see this used as precedence in an immigration case. "Yes, I'm made in U.S.A., it says so right here on my can of hair spray."
Leave it to corporations to twist things using geography. Banks get away with using regulations bought in Delaware even for customers not in Delaware? Can we throw Delaware out of the U.S. meanwhile until they get their act together? Google seems happy to exploit everyone elses data. Since some corporations call them selves personal, so maybe I.P. issues should be treated as personal too? It seems like Google is handling everyone one elses data, grabbing taking it from many places and profiting from it. Maybe we should start calling what they do "data laundering".
Why does the U.S. allow this level of deception? In the U.K. things are so different they didn't even let Apple describe the iPhone as accessing the whole internet because Flash wasn't supported. Because the 4G in the U.S. doesn't actually meet the full 4G specification, Apple got penalized in Australia when they said the iPad supported 4G. Which agency needs a reboot to bring some truth to claims made in the U.S.? The Commerce Department? We shouldn't put up with this.
The latest Intel chip will help considerably with x86 battery life.
It is strange he talks about things being "integrated" when they've announced SEPARATE x86 and ARM tablets. And neither is binary compatible with their gaming platform (PPC).
Except for Intel probably costing more, why should they need ARM at all? If Intel is now viable for mobile, it would have made more sense to switch the phone to Intel. Their eco-system is incredibly fragmented.
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What's the point in knowing where everything is? Having cables between and in communities is no surprise to anyone. If you are going to look at utilities, don't forget cable and satellite companies. It is also worth examining how the revenue siphoned off by them may reduce resources at local news operations.
It might be more interesting to look at what happens with our frequency spectrum. Should the push always be towards something business can monetize? Some might prefer peer owned networks with minimal expenses. It's like having most of your power or water heating from your own panels versus always having to buy energy from a major utility.
There's more than the F.C.C. involved with spectrum
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/about
Excuse me but could someone clarify how is "big boobs" sexist phrase? It might mean either gender.
Ahhh, I see... they were talking about Steve Ballmer.
Now to get that image of him in sweaty wet shirt out of my head.
Speaking of head, there was the time the MS marketing guys cut a black mans' head off and pasted on a white one.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/
There are at least 7 billion sources of carbon at the moment, and that's just the bipedal ones.
Wake me up when you've figured out how to seed the atmosphere with a catalyst that converts CO2 and sunlight to oxygen and a rain of transistors.
Of course the characteristics that matter depend on the application. For a processor, fast switching is desirable, with low leakage in the off state, a low saturated resistance in the on state, low input capacitance, low capacitance from the output to the input etc. Additionally when there are devices in series across the supply, the characteristics should be such that a spike of current is avoided during switching.
The input capacitance is important since it takes current to charge and discharge it, increasing the drive power requirements as the operating frequency rises.
The nature of the input/output transfer function between on and off is very important to linear applications, such as audio, instrumentation, r.f. receiver circuits, linear r.f. power amplifiers etc. Low noise characteristics may also be sought. Those things are important to wireless communications and networking.
In power applications, things like the temperature coefficient of the saturated on resistance become important. Devices with a positive temperature coefficient may have potential problems with thermal runaway since losses and heat then boost each other. When building power devices, shifts in saturated on resistance, switching threshold, and gain with temperature are all important. If a portion of the transistor tends to draw more current when heated, the portion of the chip that conducts first, or that which has the least effective cooling, may tend to hog a disproportionate amount of the current, further increasing the temperature at the hotter spot. The safely handled power level is reduced when the current density is less uniform. Those sorts of characteristics make some existing types of power FETs that are fine for switching more failure prone in something like a linear audio power amplifier. When geometries are very small and current densities are high, metal migration from interconnects may occur possibly leading to eventual failure.
The effective thermal resistance is also important. Like electrical resistance which develops a voltage drop (or rise if you prefer) when current flows, thermal resistance develops a temperature rise with heat flow. Usually expressed units of temperature rise in degrees C per Watt, the junction to package surface, package surface to heatsink (pad), and heatsink to ambient thermal resistances are additive. The temperature rise across those combined resistances must be such that a maximum safe junction temperature is not exceeded. The heatsink to ambient thermal resistance can be reduced with a fan, but if thermal conductivity within the chip/package is poor, power handling ability is less than it would be otherwise. It's usually more difficult to achieve low thermal resistance with faster devices since they're generally smaller. A low speed power transistor with a large chip generally has lower thermal resistance than a fast one with a small chip. (smaller may reduce carrier transit times and capacitance). Of course smaller transistors usually reduce cost since more can be produced in a given size die, but process costs and yield are also factors. (and licensing fees?)
From the above it should be apparent that developing optimal devices for a given application is an involved art. It will be interesting to see which devices can see improved performance from use of graphene technology.
Marketing-speak tends to lie or at least mislead. Although the amount to data to/from memory goes up when the path gets wider, that iisn't increasing the rates the individual data lines are clocked at. So while it is reasonable to talk of so many gigabits per second memory bandwidth, it's isn't a memory clock in the GHz. When the data path got wider, some multiplied the frequency of the memory clock by the path multiplier to inflate the advertised number, but the signals are still at a few hundred MHz, not those high numbers. And even then, if wait states are needed, the effective memory clock is much less yet. Usually only a small amount of cache runs at high spee
Perhaps a recipe has been declared a state secret?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1079364
They also shouldn't get a lock-in on proprietary standards/protocols used for basic functions. Skype comes to mind. While it's good to see a Linux version, there should be full free access for others to code their own apps and inter-operate fully.
I like the idea of hardware being open to other OSes. I'm wondering how much of a role the OS or replaceable firmware plays in power management and battery charge control. If those functions are not handled properly, problems could extend beyond performance issues to safety issues.
Perhaps a restrictive bootloader could allow other OSes, but throw up an advisory flag if the OS doesn't self-identify having certain functionality. At the same time, it might throw up SHA1 check values that could help some confirm that what they're considering installing is not corrupted. Perhaps the hardware could have some protective default fallback limits on things like clock rate, charging current, maximum battery voltage, discharge depth etc for use if more advanced control functionality is not announced by the OS during install or boot?
Hardware wise, this is similar to the Apple TV which sells at a profit for $99 supporting 1080p output. The Apple TV uses less than 6 Watts. There's no mention of Bluetooth, but I suppose if there were software support, an adapter on the mini-USB port would be a possible way to add it without hardware changes. Currently it has their single-core A5 ARM and in many ways is like the original WiFi iPad. They probably wouldn't have to do much additional development work to upgrade to SOC multicore ARM with Power VR GPU functionality if they wanted to boost Apple TV performance for gaming since they already have done so for other products. It is likely that a small developer could not get as cheap or as well integrated of silicon as Apple has developed even with the technologies available to license.
Has anyone loaded another OS on ARM-based Apple TV? I know it was done with the original Intel CPU / drive-equipped version. (Mac OS X among other things)
It would seem a simple task for them to add iOS app support with the main issue being the smoothest development/distribution of apps able to work without input from a touch screen. Since the next release of OS X will support some games for cross platform play with iOS devices, development of similar suitable apps must be underway. (Of related interest, there's also OS X and iOS Airplay video streaming, with either devices mirroring video to Apple TV and the big screen)
This all has many implications. It shows the viability of a $99 device meeting requirements for low-cost gaming. They already show the viability of profit from large scale sales of very low cost apps. At those prices, I think a great many consumers would not seek to pirate games. I know that language seems backwards, but it is the paying customers that matter. (glass mostly full perspective) Eliminating however many do pirate would likely be less beneficial to revenue than numbers would suggest since those people would likely not all buy.
Although an ARM console at $99 looks quite feasible, it is also apparent that Apple could do the same thing at the drop of a hat, and with a huge eco-system in place. If something is going to compete successfully against a fairly likely Apple product, it had better have more than low prices and DRM going for it. Since iOS in general doesn't provide users a development platform, that might be the niche to serve. Provide educational and hobbyist development tools. There was a time when educators did quite a bit with Hypercard on Macs. That environment was a step away from being net enabled, but it predated the net. Surely something exciting can be offered. Apple can more easily get away with offering something with limited storage since either video content or apps could be fetched from their iCloud. A smaller developer would likely have to offer plug-in Flash memory support. Bundling more Flash would make it harder to meet price points.
Cheap hardware and low cost DRM'd games alone would be very vulnerable to competition from Apple. Look at the financials of the current console vendors.
The well-liked Xbox 360 hasn't broken even yet, but is getting a bit long in the tooth especially over power consumption. Although power has been reduced to where they aren't so quick to burn up, use is extraordinarily high for something used for more than short sessions such as streamed video. (over 100 Watts versus less than 6)
Even if committed to doing so, it is very likely that retailers haven't yet paid for the merchandise in inventory. Sometimes retailers have the right to return unsold goods, depending on the specific agreements in place. I suspect that some contract terms may be under a NDA, but perhaps some upper management from major retails chains can provide (post!) specifics as to the terms for Samsung distribution? There are many possible terms to contracts. The current issue is something that retailers might be able to treat similarly to the situation of a wide-scale manufacturing defect that requires returns. Without knowing the terms, we're only speculating about whether retailers must still pay for what they have received.
When HP withdrew their tablets, many actually came back from the retail channel. Had the retailers sold them and had to pay at the previously contracted price, the retailers would have likely suffered large losses from selling at the announced deeply cut prices.
Those interested in these products could look on the bright side, perhaps have some hope for them to appear with different firmware, or Apple to lose the case. Then not only would the products reappear unaltered, but Samsung would be paid damages from the bond Apple posted.
I think most people here have pretty strong feelings about censorship or manipulation of the news. I'd hope that moderators avoid using the system as a way to vote their opinions, and try to stick with promoting the insightful/informative and demoting the disruptive. We're all only human, so sometimes it takes some effort to resist temptation to warp the process by treating it as voting. That degrades the quality of the site.
Here's some more penguin news with a bit of history...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797
Your DNA just might have an interesting adventure there.
http://archive.org/details/Cat_Women_of_the_Moon
Do none of the users of these phones have the source to what they bought? I would have thought people would load multiple versions and could boot into whichever one suited the mood..
IIRC the consolidation I'd read about was partly a matter of skipping going from DC to 120 VAC 60 Hz and back to DC again following individual UPS batteries. I believe the motherboards had an efficient high-frequency switcher for the bulk of the load, but not a full DC-DC converter. There was no isolation transformer and no rectifier beyond commutating diodes.
The DC distribution voltage wasn't really low, which helps avoid excessive conductor losses and those in the preceding rectifier. I might not be recalling all of the details correctly. But it came across as a simple low cost optimization that most others just don't bother with. That wasn't surprising to me since many developers and digital designers have little background in analog / power supply design, or r.f. considerations for that matter. I don't recall if anything special was needed to constrain battery charging.
Didn't webOS use tech from Palm which bought Apple/Newton tech way back when?
Citations please? The have been articles describing things Google has done that lowered the cost and power consumption of servers. They did things like using higher efficiency power supplies, and avoiding some extra DC-DC conversion.
Although large businesses can often be criticized for choosing higher profits over environmental responsibility, servers farms are clearly an area where better environmental impact generally means lowered costs. More efficient servers cost less to power, maybe be more reliable when producing less heat, and have lower cooling costs when producing less heat.
Maybe some can find ways when the heat is always put to use? That doesn't seem easy to do all year around, but perhaps some oil refining, chemical processing, recycling, or other manufacturing process could use the heat as part of some process where heat is always needed. Some might be able to shift loads to servers in cooler locations where they could help heat buildings. They might get a break on space rental in exchange for lowering the energy costs to a complex. Not everyone will have the flexibility to pick locations where such things are possible, but hopefully it can still be done increasingly.
I find it hard to believe that Google wouldn't go for efficiency whenever possible, even if motivated only by the bottom line.
What content is it AOL has that people want to see?
Maybe they should find existing sites to put the servers.
How about Pizza Huts? Help heat the pizza ovens.
It's too bad someone from a local mortuary couldn't give them a brain in his name with a note "here's the excess knowledge back".
If there were no unpaid fees, there wasn't a contract fr anything else.
If they really think that completion of a program of xx courses is what is being paid/owed for, those who paid additional fees to do it over a longer than default time should get partial refunds. Perhaps those that don't graduate should get refunds also?
A few people might even go for an app to control / patrol U.S. borders. It'd be an unusual way to avoid paying some salaries. Best not to give them missiles though!
Who knows, maybe even the Incredible Hulk would go for that. I was a little surprised when I saw that he (the actor) signed up as a reserve deputy on the central California coast. The article noted he was also one in Santa Monica near Los Angeles. Then a peek at the wikipedia showed this:
"In November 2010, Ferrigno was sworn in as a member of a Maricopa County, Arizona volunteer sheriff posse, which also includes actors Steven Seagal and Peter Lupus, in order to help control illegal immigration in the Phoenix Valley area."
California has had The Terminator as governor, so nothing would be too surprising.
(Reagan, also a former actor was once governor of CA too, instantly created large numbers of homeless by emptying the mental hospitals, including many Vietnam vets - sounds like a plot for a zombie game app)
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/06/15/2106806/lou-ferrigno-hulk-sheriffs-deputy.html#storylink=omni_popular
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ferrigno
The local tv station ought to bring back some reruns of the Hulk.
The garden walls have been breached! Oh noes!
Don't worry, a fleet of drones disguised as Angry Birds are closing in on the miscreant developer. Perhaps you'd like to buy an app that controls them?
Yeah, go to the movie and discover the trailer you already saw was the movie.
The sped-up aspect of it is sorta like Blipverts.
The smoke must have been dense. Perhaps one could have bounced signals off of that. I recall that when a power failure hit during a large California fire, I discovered that some reflected out of town FM and tv signals were quite strong
Smoke isn't the best way to get those weak DTV signals, but the deadline for rural low power analog tv stations to have applied for a subsidy refunding some DTV conversion costs ended July 2nd. It looks like there may have been $20 million left to hand out too.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/lptv/index.html
Well it was a fun 4th, hopefully everyone still has their fingers.
Or do they have different shaped corners than the Samsung models?
Regardless, there many be some people who choose to suspend buying Samsung or other South Korean products now that the country has announced that they'll be doing "research" whaling. (Of course they should be told why business is going elsewhere) Calling it research whaling exploits a loophole to engage in a banned practice.
I don't suppose political researchers use harpoons? They can end up traveling to places like the Cayman Islands though.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
It's still B.S. It's a tech product, and the circuit board isn't even stuffed with imported parts in the U.S. Having the case or frame here might as well be called a marketing expense instead of a manufacturing expense. It's done for marketing reasons, and isn't the meat of the product. They might as well throw a can of spaghetti sauce in a pot and call it homemade after adding a pinch of salt.
It would be funny to see this used as precedence in an immigration case.
"Yes, I'm made in U.S.A., it says so right here on my can of hair spray."
Leave it to corporations to twist things using geography. Banks get away with using regulations bought in Delaware even for customers not in Delaware? Can we throw Delaware out of the U.S. meanwhile until they get their act together?
Google seems happy to exploit everyone elses data. Since some corporations call them selves personal, so maybe I.P. issues should be treated as personal too?
It seems like Google is handling everyone one elses data, grabbing taking it from many places and profiting from it. Maybe we should start calling what they do "data laundering".
Why does the U.S. allow this level of deception? In the U.K. things are so different they didn't even let Apple describe the iPhone as accessing the whole internet because Flash wasn't supported. Because the 4G in the U.S. doesn't actually meet the full 4G specification, Apple got penalized in Australia when they said the iPad supported 4G. Which agency needs a reboot to bring some truth to claims made in the U.S.? The Commerce Department? We shouldn't put up with this.
I'd think the real problem would be the use of youtube in his site name.
Anyway already TV signals have gone out many light years, and they were theoretically copyrighted.
Some, like the sci-fi show from the early 50's Tales of Tomorrow, are now public domain and have bounced back to Earth landing at archive.org
http://archive.org/search.php?query=Tales%20of%20Tomorrow%20AND%20collection%3Atelevision
There's an IT opening at the NTIA. Yes, there's actually an agency besides the FCC involved with spectrum.
http://www.usajobs.gov/JobSearch/Search/GetResults?OrganizationID=CM61&ApplicantEligibility=All
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/about
The latest Intel chip will help considerably with x86 battery life.
It is strange he talks about things being "integrated" when they've announced SEPARATE x86 and ARM tablets. And neither is binary compatible with their gaming platform (PPC).
Except for Intel probably costing more, why should they need ARM at all? If Intel is now viable for mobile, it would have made more sense to switch the phone to Intel.
Their eco-system is incredibly fragmented.