Intel could purchase almost every individual company on the planet. It doesn't make most companies on the planet a failure in any way.
Arguing that ARM is not successful in light of their very positive situation - yes, that is unreasonable.
ARM and Intel are simply different. Which also influences the thing that you can't really compare their "market capitalization" directly. ARM is an IP company. How much is IP part of Intel worth? How should we include in comparisons fabs, chips & OEM manufacturers that are part of ARM ecosystem but obviously not ARM? (while Intel does those things itself, to greater or lesser degree)
Yes, and no mention of Nokia in the summary (and quite dismissive in TFA).
It's not only about Maemo, it's about a phone manufacturer that has 40% of total market (of which smartphones are what, 15 - 20% now? Why do you talk only about them?). Over 50% of smartphone market. The only phone manufacturer that keeps itself comfortable financially (others are either struggling or mobile phones aren't their main product; except RIM perhaps, but they sell corporate service rather than phones). Only one their product (1100) is the most popular consumer electronic device in history, it vastly outsold families (like "iPod") from other manufacturers. A year ago there were 3 billion phones in the world, now there are around 4.6, and it's largely thanks to Nokia. Phones, companies which enable this kind of uptake is what's defining 21st century landscape.
Interestingly, a market that Intel is eager to get into (remember their claims about future of Atom? Licensing its IP on a similar terms to ARM cores?)
Titan is interesting because, in many ways, it is probably similar to primordial Earth, frozen in time. Even with low temperatures still the most similar place to our planet in the Solar System.
Though conditions on Titan are unlikely to be conductive to any form of Earth bacteria.
Europa, Mars or Ganimede OTOH...yeah, we really need to try to sterilize probes to those (and this is also why a manned mission to Mars might be not such a great idea for a long time)
"Go back"? I think you overestimate the scientific motives behind funding of missions in "glory times of space exploration". For politicians it was mostly about upping the other guys.
If anything, we have right now the era which you wish would be "back". Purely scientific factors as the major reason of directing funds.
OTOH it seems they are targeting this stirling generator first and foremost for Titan mission; perhaps generally for bodies with significant atmosphere, where it works much better? And you don't need much power while in transit.
Liquid methane probably also has low viscosity, which makes things worse.
OTOH the low gravity, small influx of energy and dense atmosphere might mean the seas of Titan are rather calm. BTW, the atmosphere is rather hazy, so there would be indeed a problem with aiming - but perhaps the lander will use strong signals transmitted to it from Earth as a beacon?
It seems you forgot ARM processors...this tiny, insignificant part of the market which, by now, perhaps ships more CPUs annually than Intel has ever produced.
That doesn't really look like that in the real world...
First, you have Creative Zii, some Archos devices, etc. Essentially an Android iPod Touch-style thing.
Secondly, I don't see Android competing with Symbian devices that much; the latter are, most often, sturdy candybars at least two times less expensive (without contract!) than cheapest Android phones, which are all large touchscreen devices - not really cheap, but definitely on the cheap, a bit.
Most importantly, you forget that vast majority of phones sold today are not smartphones, but simple feature phones. This is the area in which smartphone OS can grow, bigtime. But manufacturers don't really target their Android offerings there (if it even can be done - can Android run properly on the slower spectrum of ARM CPUs, with small amounts of RAM, and small non-touchscreen?) OTOH Symbian phones are nearing $100 mark...
It was not only a question about signaling stack being closed though - this part is regulated and closed pretty much everywhere (and all landline phones are also closed that way, they must pass certification to be sold). But in most of the world phones would still classify as open (worst I've seen was customized wallpaper & startup/shutdown animation, both with "carrier theme")
BTW, Symbian smartphones actually run their radio stack on the same CPU as user OS & apps ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA2 ); keeps the price down, I guess, and helps them to have over half of smartphone sales.
Perhaps Google will just bundle with Android most of the apps average consumer would think of wanting? Leaving toying with "geeky" ones for..."geeks"?
Because I can't quite see how they can resolve this mess, other than becoming "benevolent dictators" as far as hardware specs goes (but what about the phones that will be out there till then? What about manufacturers not willing to give such control?)
BTW, you don't write for Symbian?...;) (well, it should be good really-soon-now(tm), together with Maemo getting Qt as default UI toolkit)
Still, how is that a good thing? Are we supposed to shun pointless consumptionism, especially when the only thing stopping you from latest and greatest, software-wise, is lack of will of carrier/manufacturer, planned obsolescence?
There is no agreed upon definition of a smartphone for starters; practically all SE phones should qualify if iPhone does...
But there's another thing. Which probably can't be applied here, with 46%, but certainly is present in not so clear scenarios.
Namely - Apple has only one product. Yes, there's "non-3G", 3G and 3GS, but they are practically always presented as one device, "iPhone" (as in this case). Also on the lists of popularity of handsets (as in this case). But..."iPhone" belongs more in a chart with popularity of whole brands.
..., please, read the context before writing your post (the Anonymous Coward post to which I was replying...I was just pointing out that his claim about no similarities at all is invalid)
That said, angel'o'sphere:
a) the word asteroid never was precisely defined, but it is generally considered acceptable to use it for bodies above 10 m...certainly in the dozens or hundreds range. And anyways, yes, of course, I was referring to smaller impactors, those which are most likely to hit and the ones we have any hope of deflecting
b) that's...why I wrote..."(when it's possible)"... (regarding detection and time left for deflection; because we do have technology, more or less - certainly we can do gravitational tug)
c) read...the parent poster... (regarding also the punch line of your post)
Well, I guess you're excused since for some ridiculous reason of all my posts this one got modded up...as Insightful even (WTF?)
That's why I wrote "(when it's possible)" there. We can't do anything about impactors that sneak up on us, so they are somehow beyond the scope of this discussion...
And anyway, my previous post was mostly tongue-in-cheek in response to unsubstantiated, IMHO, claims of parent poster. Even directly paraphrasing them, without touching all subtleties of course.
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Intel could purchase almost every individual company on the planet. It doesn't make most companies on the planet a failure in any way.
Arguing that ARM is not successful in light of their very positive situation - yes, that is unreasonable.
ARM and Intel are simply different. Which also influences the thing that you can't really compare their "market capitalization" directly. ARM is an IP company. How much is IP part of Intel worth? How should we include in comparisons fabs, chips & OEM manufacturers that are part of ARM ecosystem but obviously not ARM? (while Intel does those things itself, to greater or lesser degree)
Yes, and no mention of Nokia in the summary (and quite dismissive in TFA).
It's not only about Maemo, it's about a phone manufacturer that has 40% of total market (of which smartphones are what, 15 - 20% now? Why do you talk only about them?). Over 50% of smartphone market. The only phone manufacturer that keeps itself comfortable financially (others are either struggling or mobile phones aren't their main product; except RIM perhaps, but they sell corporate service rather than phones). Only one their product (1100) is the most popular consumer electronic device in history, it vastly outsold families (like "iPod") from other manufacturers. A year ago there were 3 billion phones in the world, now there are around 4.6, and it's largely thanks to Nokia. Phones, companies which enable this kind of uptake is what's defining 21st century landscape.
That's a US CEOs definition of "failure" at most.
Interestingly, a market that Intel is eager to get into (remember their claims about future of Atom? Licensing its IP on a similar terms to ARM cores?)
This only means ARM isn't ripping you off. Doesn't change the simple fact that they are hugely successful (and also profitable, of course)
Titan is interesting because, in many ways, it is probably similar to primordial Earth, frozen in time. Even with low temperatures still the most similar place to our planet in the Solar System.
Though conditions on Titan are unlikely to be conductive to any form of Earth bacteria.
Europa, Mars or Ganimede OTOH...yeah, we really need to try to sterilize probes to those (and this is also why a manned mission to Mars might be not such a great idea for a long time)
"Go back"? I think you overestimate the scientific motives behind funding of missions in "glory times of space exploration". For politicians it was mostly about upping the other guys.
If anything, we have right now the era which you wish would be "back". Purely scientific factors as the major reason of directing funds.
I'm torn about "King Arthur", at least it gave us good soundtrack ;)
OTOH it seems they are targeting this stirling generator first and foremost for Titan mission; perhaps generally for bodies with significant atmosphere, where it works much better? And you don't need much power while in transit.
Liquid methane probably also has low viscosity, which makes things worse.
OTOH the low gravity, small influx of energy and dense atmosphere might mean the seas of Titan are rather calm. BTW, the atmosphere is rather hazy, so there would be indeed a problem with aiming - but perhaps the lander will use strong signals transmitted to it from Earth as a beacon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Space_Exploration_&_Technology_Initiative might be closest to what you want, they are building lunar orbiter, to be launched in 2012 (and they already have some major successes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSETI_Express_Satellite ); though I don't know if there's a way to donate, or if they even need it.
Or pick one of the teams from Google Lunar X PRIZE; not only you should find some with great chance of success, but also accepting donations.
It seems you forgot ARM processors...this tiny, insignificant part of the market which, by now, perhaps ships more CPUs annually than Intel has ever produced.
That doesn't really look like that in the real world...
First, you have Creative Zii, some Archos devices, etc. Essentially an Android iPod Touch-style thing.
Secondly, I don't see Android competing with Symbian devices that much; the latter are, most often, sturdy candybars at least two times less expensive (without contract!) than cheapest Android phones, which are all large touchscreen devices - not really cheap, but definitely on the cheap, a bit.
One chart is worth thousands words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone_2009.svg
Most importantly, you forget that vast majority of phones sold today are not smartphones, but simple feature phones. This is the area in which smartphone OS can grow, bigtime. But manufacturers don't really target their Android offerings there (if it even can be done - can Android run properly on the slower spectrum of ARM CPUs, with small amounts of RAM, and small non-touchscreen?) OTOH Symbian phones are nearing $100 mark...
It was not only a question about signaling stack being closed though - this part is regulated and closed pretty much everywhere (and all landline phones are also closed that way, they must pass certification to be sold). But in most of the world phones would still classify as open (worst I've seen was customized wallpaper & startup/shutdown animation, both with "carrier theme")
BTW, Symbian smartphones actually run their radio stack on the same CPU as user OS & apps ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA2 ); keeps the price down, I guess, and helps them to have over half of smartphone sales.
Perhaps Google will just bundle with Android most of the apps average consumer would think of wanting? Leaving toying with "geeky" ones for..."geeks"?
Because I can't quite see how they can resolve this mess, other than becoming "benevolent dictators" as far as hardware specs goes (but what about the phones that will be out there till then? What about manufacturers not willing to give such control?)
BTW, you don't write for Symbian?... ;) (well, it should be good really-soon-now(tm), together with Maemo getting Qt as default UI toolkit)
Still, how is that a good thing? Are we supposed to shun pointless consumptionism, especially when the only thing stopping you from latest and greatest, software-wise, is lack of will of carrier/manufacturer, planned obsolescence?
If true, it might have something to do with the max size of close social group that humans form; it falls somewhere in "up to 30" range.
"Discriminating"? In the same way that video camera used during documentary discriminates, right?
...and all the while ignoring that Symbian has more than 50% marketshare.
Isn't the next Final Fantasy PS3-only in Japan though?
There is no agreed upon definition of a smartphone for starters; practically all SE phones should qualify if iPhone does...
But there's another thing. Which probably can't be applied here, with 46%, but certainly is present in not so clear scenarios.
Namely - Apple has only one product. Yes, there's "non-3G", 3G and 3GS, but they are practically always presented as one device, "iPhone" (as in this case). Also on the lists of popularity of handsets (as in this case). But..."iPhone" belongs more in a chart with popularity of whole brands.
Hm, they still want to have something to do with the Queen, it would seem.
And are much closer to full memberstate of ESA that my country, supposedly European one.
Sweden holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the last half year.
..., please, read the context before writing your post (the Anonymous Coward post to which I was replying...I was just pointing out that his claim about no similarities at all is invalid)
That said, angel'o'sphere:
a) the word asteroid never was precisely defined, but it is generally considered acceptable to use it for bodies above 10 m...certainly in the dozens or hundreds range. And anyways, yes, of course, I was referring to smaller impactors, those which are most likely to hit and the ones we have any hope of deflecting
b) that's...why I wrote..."(when it's possible)"... (regarding detection and time left for deflection; because we do have technology, more or less - certainly we can do gravitational tug)
c) read...the parent poster...
(regarding also the punch line of your post)
Well, I guess you're excused since for some ridiculous reason of all my posts this one got modded up...as Insightful even (WTF?)
That's why I wrote "(when it's possible)" there. We can't do anything about impactors that sneak up on us, so they are somehow beyond the scope of this discussion...
And anyway, my previous post was mostly tongue-in-cheek in response to unsubstantiated, IMHO, claims of parent poster. Even directly paraphrasing them, without touching all subtleties of course.