You seriously think that present long copyrights and huge profits (at least in case of biggest offenders, MPAA, RIAA & co.) do anything towards quantity and quality?
It stiffens the creativity of huge number of small artists (there's quantity) who can't build on works which are long past their directly profitable time (quality). It's about strong-arming their control as middleman during times when progress (both when it comes to distribution and much lower costs of creation) made them obsolete.
Yes, unfortunately. A byproduct of times when US carriers went with RAZR because Nokia didn't want to allow to castrate its phones; so they didn't get much presence.
Who knows how much similar factors are at play here. It seems like reliably getting OS upgrades might end up hard for too many Android phones; plays nicely with planned obsolescence, tying people to contracts.
The way VW kept going runs in the family. Germans had Kubelwagen during WW2, mostly based on Beetle. Even though only RWD, it was very competitive with 4WDs other sides used; it's low weight and flat bottom meant it was more or less sliding over difficult terrain.
Bluetooth headsets have orders of magnitude lower radiated power than cellphones. They probably still influence the matter from which your head is composed much less, even if frequency is more conductive for heating (cellphones do that to)
Not that it makes a difference anyway; at least BT headsets are more comfortable.
But is that really "much more" than Argo fleet of buoys? For them it's simple: they sink to pre-set depth and stay there for a long time; the movement is for all intents and purposes completely influenced by the currents at that depth (which are actually very slow, so precision is of paramount importance) In case of glider it should be (?) harder to know which currents, at which depth influenced its movement, especially since it swims through every intermediate layer for some time, constantly changing them. Plus, from what I understand, such gliders usually don't actually surface on every "hill", which could introduce more uncertainties.
I'm not saying gliders are dead end! Just that Argo is mighty useful in its own right.
Stickers can be always removed...what's really frustrating is that many otherwise fine laptops come in glossy finish.
That might look good on an equipment which sits on the shelf in your house...or in shop. But terrible for something which is meant to be routinely touched by hands and kept in usual bag with other stuff.
Guess it just shows that such manufacturers care more about how it looks in shop...
Now only few other pieces of the puzzle in the quest for ultimate ultraportable.
Pixel Qi screen, for even longer battery life and legibility in sunlight.
With lower temps & power draw of Pinetrail it might be also possible for netbooks to become routinely cooled passively.
Also just for me and other faithful...uhm...clit;p (plus preferably as close in overall form to original Lenovo S10 as possible, it was actually very nice) Can't help it, playing Diablo2 in a cathedral during organ concert, on a cemetery on 1 XI night (it looks like this here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg ) and in a train while sitting next to some nuns are things I simply must do. And with touchpad that's not really possible.
Followers of this particular flavor of mythology won't step out of line much, that's just how it works.
It might become a point of contention when it comes to "external" relationships...but however this pans out it will be beneficent for Vatican. Either it will reaffirm their position and authority or it will make the followers feel singled out, struggling against outside world. And this usually makes people more abhorrent; such little unease not only falls in line with the story, it also solidifies the group against disturbances (what, you don't think such little silliness makes people stop bending themselves to what shaped large part of their life?)
It's similar (though in much lesser degree) to the effects of repression of sexual life. In itself it's irrelevant. But it's in competition with very powerful force in all of us. If something manages to make you repress it, that something likely will have a grip on you for the rest of your life.
Holy See could pass legislation copyrighting the Bible for God's sake (pun intended), and it would have no impact whatsoever on the rest of the world, where that legislation has no relevance.
Which makes me wonder...we do have works that are out of copyright and most Bible translations fall under that. Assuring undeterred access only to old texts could really backfire for them... (not that I mind)
So, how far into the past this is legally binding? Only current symbols, current Pope?
I wouldn't be surprised if construction from styrofoam and wood (covered with "tension foil" or fiberglass with epoxy) is actually quite sturdy against shotgun pellets.
Also, small UAVs (well, RC planes...) get lost from sight at quite low altitude; especially when your eyes aren't fixated on it. Or you don't expect it coming. Quietly... (electrics can have quite long flying time already; or one can be both electric and internal combustion, front and rear propeller, switching off IC engine half an hour before destination)
Stealth technologies are just too simple for vehicles that have no mission profile except to get from point A to point B. They can fly as low as they want and as slow as they want, unlike stealth fighters and bombers. So anyone who claims these things will be detectable is taking a whole lot on faith, whereas their existence is a matter of fact. How the technological fight between detection and penetration capabilities turns out will have a large effect on the future viability of nation-states.
It doesn't even have to be much of technological fight to speak of; just going for the basics. Small UAVs can be built from basically wood and styrofoam.
But does gliding through water instead of rising up/down tell you much more about subsurface currents? Might even introduce some additional uncertainties...
First...give me the definition of smartphone. Tell me why iPhone is one while Sony Ericsson "feature phones" (web browsing, multitasking, multimedia features...) aren't. "Smartphone" is largely an arbitrary term, denoting what's "premium" right now, what you are supposed to crave, for which you are expected to shell out premium. Today smartphones are tomorrow feature phones. Heck, Nokia S40 platform has Webkit browser now... (and "multitasking" similar to this in iPhone)
Secondly - who are you to tell that majority of people on the planet even expect it instead of, well, something different. Look at the state of landline phones - more advanced models, with number memory, answering machine or caller ID are available for quite some time. And yet what's typical is basic terminal with rotary dial or simple dialpad. Almost all of them on classic "network", even though ISDN is available for a very long time...
Which brings us to third thing - 3G everywhere? There is quite a bit of areas throughout the world which still don't have GPRS, don't have data access.
You're looking at this from a very local perspective, from point of view of very atypical market. One that's on forced upgrades, expects keyboards (they never took of in Europe and ex-Soviet states, that's what I'm sure of; I've heard Japanese prefer numpads too), where people are willing to pay $50-$99. You know why a year ago there were only 3 billion mobile phone users and now there are only 4.6 billion? Because cheapest phones are still quite expensive, in case of Nokia at $20-something.
And there was really no observation about Nokia in TFA, there is equally little in most of such articles. Just focusing on local darlings; an artifact of times when Nokia didn't want to allow US carriers to castrate their phones, so they went with RAZR. Nokia "haven't competed well in smartphone market"? They have 50% of it! What would you call "competes well" then?... (certainly no other manufacturer would qualify, right?) That's bigger share than their total share, of 40%. They are best positioned to bring those cheap smartphones for the masses of the world.
"if any difference" is going slightly too far probably? There should be some, if only because of lower CPU utilization (plus possibility of using much more efficient, even if slower, CPUs?), and hence somewhat lower power usage (including cooling). However slight. But yeah, certainly nothing close to 10:1.
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At some point it will be quite hard to find those in good condition; or registration of vehicles not abhorring to some emission norms will be impossible (you will be only able to continue owning them) - that last part quite soon in Sweden when compared even to rest of Europe, I imagine.
It's not a case of usual "differs from market to market". US is practically the only of major ones where Nokia doesn't dominate the landscape (I don't know the numbers but I guess you could also include Japan and S. Korea, they are quite isolated from the world at large when it comes to cellphone trends)
Ignoring Nokia when talking about "future of mobile phones" isn't some small regional peculiarity, it's talking solely about your local market (while not giving that impression, perhaps even not realizing)
Comes assembled, quite cheap, can drive usual resolutions, often Atom/x86 compatibility...typically has few redundant things though, like HDD; but that might be useful, together with x86, in case you change your mind.
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You seriously think that present long copyrights and huge profits (at least in case of biggest offenders, MPAA, RIAA & co.) do anything towards quantity and quality?
It stiffens the creativity of huge number of small artists (there's quantity) who can't build on works which are long past their directly profitable time (quality). It's about strong-arming their control as middleman during times when progress (both when it comes to distribution and much lower costs of creation) made them obsolete.
Yes, unfortunately. A byproduct of times when US carriers went with RAZR because Nokia didn't want to allow to castrate its phones; so they didn't get much presence.
Who knows how much similar factors are at play here. It seems like reliably getting OS upgrades might end up hard for too many Android phones; plays nicely with planned obsolescence, tying people to contracts.
TBH that tells more about how providers you are familiar with are scamming people who would like to not get a phone from them...
The way VW kept going runs in the family. Germans had Kubelwagen during WW2, mostly based on Beetle. Even though only RWD, it was very competitive with 4WDs other sides used; it's low weight and flat bottom meant it was more or less sliding over difficult terrain.
Bluetooth headsets have orders of magnitude lower radiated power than cellphones. They probably still influence the matter from which your head is composed much less, even if frequency is more conductive for heating (cellphones do that to)
Not that it makes a difference anyway; at least BT headsets are more comfortable.
Wiki says it's 3150; from the in-house Intel line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_3100
And we all know wiki doesn't lie...
But is that really "much more" than Argo fleet of buoys? For them it's simple: they sink to pre-set depth and stay there for a long time; the movement is for all intents and purposes completely influenced by the currents at that depth (which are actually very slow, so precision is of paramount importance) In case of glider it should be (?) harder to know which currents, at which depth influenced its movement, especially since it swims through every intermediate layer for some time, constantly changing them. Plus, from what I understand, such gliders usually don't actually surface on every "hill", which could introduce more uncertainties.
I'm not saying gliders are dead end! Just that Argo is mighty useful in its own right.
Stickers can be always removed...what's really frustrating is that many otherwise fine laptops come in glossy finish.
That might look good on an equipment which sits on the shelf in your house...or in shop. But terrible for something which is meant to be routinely touched by hands and kept in usual bag with other stuff.
Guess it just shows that such manufacturers care more about how it looks in shop...
It is, supposedly, X3150, so basically the same part that's in G31. 3100/X3100? Anyway, seems it's "proper" Intel GMA, with good Linux support.
Now only few other pieces of the puzzle in the quest for ultimate ultraportable.
Pixel Qi screen, for even longer battery life and legibility in sunlight.
With lower temps & power draw of Pinetrail it might be also possible for netbooks to become routinely cooled passively.
Also just for me and other faithful...uhm...clit ;p (plus preferably as close in overall form to original Lenovo S10 as possible, it was actually very nice) Can't help it, playing Diablo2 in a cathedral during organ concert, on a cemetery on 1 XI night (it looks like this here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg ) and in a train while sitting next to some nuns are things I simply must do. And with touchpad that's not really possible.
Or that secrecy of the confession is often better protected than lawyer-client relationship.
In itself relatively late idea, certainly not at the roots of Christianity.
No, it won't.
Followers of this particular flavor of mythology won't step out of line much, that's just how it works.
It might become a point of contention when it comes to "external" relationships...but however this pans out it will be beneficent for Vatican. Either it will reaffirm their position and authority or it will make the followers feel singled out, struggling against outside world. And this usually makes people more abhorrent; such little unease not only falls in line with the story, it also solidifies the group against disturbances (what, you don't think such little silliness makes people stop bending themselves to what shaped large part of their life?)
It's similar (though in much lesser degree) to the effects of repression of sexual life. In itself it's irrelevant. But it's in competition with very powerful force in all of us. If something manages to make you repress it, that something likely will have a grip on you for the rest of your life.
Roughly: however many people who later become IP lawyers were also born in catholic family.
Holy See could pass legislation copyrighting the Bible for God's sake (pun intended), and it would have no impact whatsoever on the rest of the world, where that legislation has no relevance.
Which makes me wonder...we do have works that are out of copyright and most Bible translations fall under that. Assuring undeterred access only to old texts could really backfire for them... (not that I mind)
So, how far into the past this is legally binding? Only current symbols, current Pope?
"heading down"?...
Not really.
I wouldn't be surprised if construction from styrofoam and wood (covered with "tension foil" or fiberglass with epoxy) is actually quite sturdy against shotgun pellets.
Also, small UAVs (well, RC planes...) get lost from sight at quite low altitude; especially when your eyes aren't fixated on it. Or you don't expect it coming. Quietly... (electrics can have quite long flying time already; or one can be both electric and internal combustion, front and rear propeller, switching off IC engine half an hour before destination)
Stealth technologies are just too simple for vehicles that have no mission profile except to get from point A to point B. They can fly as low as they want and as slow as they want, unlike stealth fighters and bombers. So anyone who claims these things will be detectable is taking a whole lot on faith, whereas their existence is a matter of fact. How the technological fight between detection and penetration capabilities turns out will have a large effect on the future viability of nation-states.
It doesn't even have to be much of technological fight to speak of; just going for the basics. Small UAVs can be built from basically wood and styrofoam.
Also no witnesses and no added complications of keeping the crew alive (at least for the journey ;p )
But does gliding through water instead of rising up/down tell you much more about subsurface currents? Might even introduce some additional uncertainties...
And you know it will be 90% in "few years" how?
First...give me the definition of smartphone. Tell me why iPhone is one while Sony Ericsson "feature phones" (web browsing, multitasking, multimedia features...) aren't. "Smartphone" is largely an arbitrary term, denoting what's "premium" right now, what you are supposed to crave, for which you are expected to shell out premium. Today smartphones are tomorrow feature phones. Heck, Nokia S40 platform has Webkit browser now... (and "multitasking" similar to this in iPhone)
Secondly - who are you to tell that majority of people on the planet even expect it instead of, well, something different. Look at the state of landline phones - more advanced models, with number memory, answering machine or caller ID are available for quite some time. And yet what's typical is basic terminal with rotary dial or simple dialpad. Almost all of them on classic "network", even though ISDN is available for a very long time...
Which brings us to third thing - 3G everywhere? There is quite a bit of areas throughout the world which still don't have GPRS, don't have data access.
You're looking at this from a very local perspective, from point of view of very atypical market. One that's on forced upgrades, expects keyboards (they never took of in Europe and ex-Soviet states, that's what I'm sure of; I've heard Japanese prefer numpads too), where people are willing to pay $50-$99. You know why a year ago there were only 3 billion mobile phone users and now there are only 4.6 billion? Because cheapest phones are still quite expensive, in case of Nokia at $20-something.
And there was really no observation about Nokia in TFA, there is equally little in most of such articles. Just focusing on local darlings; an artifact of times when Nokia didn't want to allow US carriers to castrate their phones, so they went with RAZR. Nokia "haven't competed well in smartphone market"? They have 50% of it! What would you call "competes well" then?... (certainly no other manufacturer would qualify, right?) That's bigger share than their total share, of 40%. They are best positioned to bring those cheap smartphones for the masses of the world.
Have no fear, turning devs into disposable resources will ensure bright future to efficiency being judged only in hardware terms.
"if any difference" is going slightly too far probably? There should be some, if only because of lower CPU utilization (plus possibility of using much more efficient, even if slower, CPUs?), and hence somewhat lower power usage (including cooling). However slight. But yeah, certainly nothing close to 10:1.
At some point it will be quite hard to find those in good condition; or registration of vehicles not abhorring to some emission norms will be impossible (you will be only able to continue owning them) - that last part quite soon in Sweden when compared even to rest of Europe, I imagine.
What then? ;/
It's not a case of usual "differs from market to market". US is practically the only of major ones where Nokia doesn't dominate the landscape (I don't know the numbers but I guess you could also include Japan and S. Korea, they are quite isolated from the world at large when it comes to cellphone trends)
Ignoring Nokia when talking about "future of mobile phones" isn't some small regional peculiarity, it's talking solely about your local market (while not giving that impression, perhaps even not realizing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettop
Comes assembled, quite cheap, can drive usual resolutions, often Atom/x86 compatibility...typically has few redundant things though, like HDD; but that might be useful, together with x86, in case you change your mind.