Also, Cortex-A9: "For 2000 DMIPS of performance when designed in a TSMC 65 nanometer (nm) generic process the core logic costs less than 1.5 mm^2 of silicon." ( http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9SingleCore.html ) So it seems "up to 3 mm^2" in your quote really means "up to" (and for a much older core of course, when it was just launching 4 years ago)
And Cortex-A9 "consumes less than 250mW per core"...
A year ago half of global population had mobile phones, now probably around 4.5 billion. Nokia has around 40% of that. There's no way Symbian smartphones amount to half of their produced handsets (just look around you...and remember that you live in developed world; in reality, S30 and S40 (which are NOT Symbian) dominate)
BTW, a billionth Nokia phone, sold in 2005, was Nokia 1100. As far from the "smartphone" as it can be...
While using site stats is probably quite accurate for desktop OSes (they are all used virtually the same, most of them networked...and as a matter of fact, probably mostly some Windows machines aren't), it is totally meaningless for mobile phones.
Too many external factors.
Besides, we have some decent stats from other sources (there's a graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone , though only for smartphones of course...)
Sadly - for balance - I can't point at a machine that came with Linux pre installed and had it replaced by Windows.
There are lots of such examples. In recent years they were usually cheap laptops bought in not-quite-mature markets (think "post Soviet block", of that I'm certain)
Those machines often have some nonfunctional copy of Linux (doesn't even boot to X for example, doesn't have drivers for the hardware). Sometimes they are blank...but with Knoppix live-DVD included, so they arguably are also Linux machines... Well, one major (really major) PC manufacturer usually adds FreeDOS, so at least those machines are excluded.
And yes, virtually all of them get formatted and pirated Windows gets installed.
It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust.
What you just wrote could be probably called almost a model of contradictory statement. Religions are organizations that are built largely on trust (or so the claim goes...)
Take any group of trusted people and you will find that a minority want to use their trust for personal gain. In America, corporations, schools, etc. are all looked at pretty thoroughly for abuses, religion usually isn't.
...because they've had many generations to perfect the organizational aspects of their existence, of using trust to their benefit.
Really? You have at your place a popular radio which plays mostly Muse, The Beatles, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Kings of Leon, Nirvana, Green Day, Pink Floyd...and so on? ( http://www.last.fm/charts/artist ) Now?
Because the part that everybody other are sheeple and you are soooo special is just self-delusion.
There are certainly many people on Last.fm with similar music tastes to yours. But...their music library has some artists that yours doesn't, and which still likely fit. That's the data on which Last.fm builds recommendations.
But it doesn't do that, "playing something that sounds similar". It groups things according to tastes of its listeners, nothing more, nothing less. It outputs "people who listen to what you specified also like this"
Which, for me, works much better than Pandora approach. The latter is so...sensible, logical...predictable. When its recommendations aren't disliked by me, it gives something which I already know.
Last.fm tends to give quite a bit more of nice, new things which I've never heard before. They rarely sound very similar to what I specified. But do I like them? Hell yeah. And that's all that matters.
The most presented list, Weekly artist and track charts: 1. Muse 2. The Beatles 3. Radiohead 4. Coldplay 5. Lady GaGa 6. The Killers 7. Red Hot Chili Peppers 8. Metallica 9. Michael Jackson 10. Kings of Leon
Heck, even hyped artists and tracks (which simply show the increase in actual listening) seem passable...
And as a side note - they will grow big time, IMHO. They're pushing Symbian more and more towards the dominant mobile phone platform of this planet, the Nokia S40 (well, ok, they're selling lots of S30 too, perhaps more). They are the only ones with a product for this segment - cheap, reliable candybars, not that much different from what majority of their market is already using. Most smartphone makers even don't want to enter that market, with only one claiming it does want a slice (Android), but I yet to see anything which supports that claim... (there are NO cheap Android phones, and none upcoming; all are devices with large touchscreens, nowhere near $100 without contract)
(and since you might want to avoid "Story" section/spoilers;) - the US version, "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond", is a bit different / shorter)
PS. Yes, recently canceled, awful TV-show "Defying Gravity" was based on this, supposedly. Yes, the original is unimaginably better (even when it comes to effects, despite being 5 years older)
Even if I'm a bit skeptical towards the overall concept (especially given the limits of tech) and how it stands in comparison to what we could do with alternatives, I will almost certainly be always able to agree with that; I don't expect we'll see any launcher that impresses more in our lifetime.
Especially in such superb selection of shots, editing. Real life footage much more dynamic and/or breathtaking than BSG or BBC Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (BTW, if you haven't seen it DO IT NOW), who would've known?;)
Since you didn't notice - the summary and TFA discusses not only the present time. As a matter of fact, it seems to try to determine specifically what is or isn't sensible for the future. What awaits us.
From the summary it seems that he looks only at energy consumption while totally ignoring that our energy sources do differ in their potential of adding waste energy to the biosphere.
In first line "a bit" and in second "much more"?...
Anyway, it's a bit debatable...yes, adblock in Opera requires you to put one file in a directory and restart Opera. Afterwards it's actually much better than FF, with its GUI element hider, if you want to block something additional.
Though voicecalls are a bit more than data - not only because of QoS requirements but also due to need for interaction with "general" telephone network.
OTOH cost of text messages was always virtually zero...
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The 48-core chip that Intel demonstrated is 45nm!
Also, Cortex-A9: "For 2000 DMIPS of performance when designed in a TSMC 65 nanometer (nm) generic process the core logic costs less than 1.5 mm^2 of silicon." ( http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9SingleCore.html ) So it seems "up to 3 mm^2" in your quote really means "up to" (and for a much older core of course, when it was just launching 4 years ago)
And Cortex-A9 "consumes less than 250mW per core"...
A year ago half of global population had mobile phones, now probably around 4.5 billion. Nokia has around 40% of that. There's no way Symbian smartphones amount to half of their produced handsets (just look around you...and remember that you live in developed world; in reality, S30 and S40 (which are NOT Symbian) dominate)
BTW, a billionth Nokia phone, sold in 2005, was Nokia 1100. As far from the "smartphone" as it can be...
While using site stats is probably quite accurate for desktop OSes (they are all used virtually the same, most of them networked...and as a matter of fact, probably mostly some Windows machines aren't), it is totally meaningless for mobile phones.
Too many external factors.
Besides, we have some decent stats from other sources (there's a graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone , though only for smartphones of course...)
Sadly - for balance - I can't point at a machine that came with Linux pre installed and had it replaced by Windows.
There are lots of such examples. In recent years they were usually cheap laptops bought in not-quite-mature markets (think "post Soviet block", of that I'm certain)
Those machines often have some nonfunctional copy of Linux (doesn't even boot to X for example, doesn't have drivers for the hardware). Sometimes they are blank...but with Knoppix live-DVD included, so they arguably are also Linux machines... Well, one major (really major) PC manufacturer usually adds FreeDOS, so at least those machines are excluded.
And yes, virtually all of them get formatted and pirated Windows gets installed.
It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust.
What you just wrote could be probably called almost a model of contradictory statement. Religions are organizations that are built largely on trust (or so the claim goes...)
Take any group of trusted people and you will find that a minority want to use their trust for personal gain. In America, corporations, schools, etc. are all looked at pretty thoroughly for abuses, religion usually isn't.
...because they've had many generations to perfect the organizational aspects of their existence, of using trust to their benefit.
I don't know...we do a lot of stuff as a collective already, more of it the more "advanced" we are.
Really? You have at your place a popular radio which plays mostly Muse, The Beatles, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Kings of Leon, Nirvana, Green Day, Pink Floyd...and so on? ( http://www.last.fm/charts/artist ) Now?
Because the part that everybody other are sheeple and you are soooo special is just self-delusion.
There are certainly many people on Last.fm with similar music tastes to yours. But...their music library has some artists that yours doesn't, and which still likely fit. That's the data on which Last.fm builds recommendations.
You know, they can't just take any music they like and stream it. First it ahs to be put there by owners.
Anyway, "text recommendations" work OK regardless.
But it doesn't do that, "playing something that sounds similar". It groups things according to tastes of its listeners, nothing more, nothing less. It outputs "people who listen to what you specified also like this"
Which, for me, works much better than Pandora approach. The latter is so...sensible, logical...predictable. When its recommendations aren't disliked by me, it gives something which I already know.
Last.fm tends to give quite a bit more of nice, new things which I've never heard before. They rarely sound very similar to what I specified. But do I like them? Hell yeah. And that's all that matters.
You know, there was an easy way you could make sure if what you're writing makes sense...
http://www.last.fm/charts
The most presented list, Weekly artist and track charts:
1. Muse
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. Coldplay
5. Lady GaGa
6. The Killers
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Metallica
9. Michael Jackson
10. Kings of Leon
Heck, even hyped artists and tracks (which simply show the increase in actual listening) seem passable...
Even totally not knowing who he is, my first impression from the summary was just in that vein.
"Remember, Google starting the fight with MS (//it is presented a bit like that...) will be only bad for us"
Small nitpicking: Nokia has 50% of smartphone market ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone ).
And as a side note - they will grow big time, IMHO. They're pushing Symbian more and more towards the dominant mobile phone platform of this planet, the Nokia S40 (well, ok, they're selling lots of S30 too, perhaps more). They are the only ones with a product for this segment - cheap, reliable candybars, not that much different from what majority of their market is already using. Most smartphone makers even don't want to enter that market, with only one claiming it does want a slice (Android), but I yet to see anything which supports that claim... (there are NO cheap Android phones, and none upcoming; all are devices with large touchscreens, nowhere near $100 without contract)
To remove any ambiguity - it has its wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Odyssey:_Voyage_To_The_Planets
(and since you might want to avoid "Story" section/spoilers ;) - the US version, "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond", is a bit different / shorter)
PS. Yes, recently canceled, awful TV-show "Defying Gravity" was based on this, supposedly. Yes, the original is unimaginably better (even when it comes to effects, despite being 5 years older)
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Even if I'm a bit skeptical towards the overall concept (especially given the limits of tech) and how it stands in comparison to what we could do with alternatives, I will almost certainly be always able to agree with that; I don't expect we'll see any launcher that impresses more in our lifetime.
Especially in such superb selection of shots, editing. Real life footage much more dynamic and/or breathtaking than BSG or BBC Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (BTW, if you haven't seen it DO IT NOW), who would've known? ;)
Digital camera tech have come a long way recently... (and one can't forget also about new DSLRs...EOS 5D-II gives fabulous results for the price)
Since you didn't notice - the summary and TFA discusses not only the present time. As a matter of fact, it seems to try to determine specifically what is or isn't sensible for the future. What awaits us.
Pretty much, it appears.
From the summary it seems that he looks only at energy consumption while totally ignoring that our energy sources do differ in their potential of adding waste energy to the biosphere.
Well, at least it seems to appear that fines on the scale of recent EU one don't seem to bother Intel that much...
In first line "a bit" and in second "much more"?...
Anyway, it's a bit debatable...yes, adblock in Opera requires you to put one file in a directory and restart Opera. Afterwards it's actually much better than FF, with its GUI element hider, if you want to block something additional.
That might also depend whether or not the ones deciding, at that particular time, about the funding actually don't mind such discovery...
There are even some who think that we are the most intelligent species in the galaxy, or in the whole universe.
Accidentally, they are the members of the same "most intelligent" species.
You won't get fully open platform, rules of whatever entity that regulates your radio spectrum prevent that, basically.
Though voicecalls are a bit more than data - not only because of QoS requirements but also due to need for interaction with "general" telephone network.
OTOH cost of text messages was always virtually zero...