I'd be interested in knowing how his algorithm works. Finding sunken vessels 2 miles under water using existing satellite photos of the ocean(even if they are "optimum-quality") seems almost too good to be true. Not only that but to supposedly be able to make out gun turets of those ships? Seems like a bit of hocus pocus.
Perhaps he is going public with this in hopes that someone will want to purchase the software for treasure hunting.
For the same reason software companies have to lower their prices in other parts of the world. Because those people can not afford to subsidize our relatively high standard of living by paying our relatively high prices.
Perhaps there should be people yelling for "fair trade software/music" like there are for fair trade coffee? Except in this case it would be the third world countries which would have to pay a minimum price for our goods.
Given the source I am not surprised to see this. I can tell you thought that C programming is and will be dominant in small embedded systems (8/16 bit microcontrollers) for a long time.
I'm no Vista expert (obviously) but I find it odd that applications can apparently can easily cause a BSOD on Vista. I mean you would think that nothing short of a crash of the core OS would cause a BSOD.
Why would this start in the US and then go to Europe? Europe is far denser in population than the typical rural US where farming is comon. With the higher density there will of course be more cell phones. Seems odd to me.
It's interesting that the workers were not offered to simply have a salary cut but were instead fired and then forced to reapply for lower paying jobs. This is obviously an attempt to eliminate any benefits the employees may have had from being long-time employees.
According to an earlier Slashdot story, Apple is forbidding Cingular from subsidizing the iPhone with service contracts because they are concerned about the iPhone cutting into iPod sales. Seems to me that Apple is already considering this and is attempting to limit it as much as possible. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.
I don't know how small your current phone is BUT the iPhone does have gigs of storage (4 or 8) and will have battery life that meets your expectations. That is if Jobs was telling the truth in his Macworld speech.
I am looking forward to trying the iPhone. In particular I'm looking formward to being free of the god-awful software that comes with most phones.
Just this weekend I decided to check an ebay auction on my samsung phone. I noticed that Sprint offers a "ebay premium" program for download. Guess what? It's FIVE dollars a month. WHAT? I already pay for internet access on my phone, why should I pay another dime to get a better view of my ebay account? If the phones came with capable browsers then this nickel and diming wouldn't be possible because the phone would have desktop-similar browsing capability. I think the iPhone is going to go a long way to helping consumers.
We all know that people are running Mac OS X in VMware all over the place. We also know it runs slow as hell? Why? Because there are no vmware tools to be installed in your Mac OS X running in vmware. All this article means is that we will not see vmware tools released for Mac OS X until Apple gives the go ahead to run Mac OS X in vmware.
I don't know why any sane person would purchase an Apple branded "server" just to load something on it that could have been loaded on a (hardware wise) equally capable and cheaper machine.
500 amputees sounds unlikely until you consider that there have been over 3000 killed. If you assume that a good portion of those 3000 had limbs blown off the number of total amputations would be much higher I am sure.
I'm curious. We know that Microsoft scrapped most if not all of the original Longhorn work during the development of what would become Vista. Perhaps Allchin's remarks were made in reference to the original Longhorn. The original work was supposedly complete crap and unmanageable.
Sure, mileage for hybrids will drop with the new regulations but at the same time the mileage on all-gas vehicles will drop as well. Hybrids will still come out on top.
I have a 17" Dell Inspiron and I can tell you that it's a great laptop but don't plan on being able to use it everywhere. First off, it's completely unusable in a coach seat on an airplane because it's so huge there is actually not enough space between you and the seat in front of you to open it! Also, at a battery life of about 2.5 hours it's not going to keep you up for long with no external power available. I can imagine a 20" laptop would be worse since it's going to have greater backlighting demands.
From what limited experience I have with airplane power outlets, it appears that Boeing prefers the car style power adapters (15VDC) while Airbus prefers standards real power outlets with AC. Don't know why that is.
Know what else stifles innovation in semiconductor devices? When it costs literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to get your new whiz bang product through the semiconductor manufacturing process. That's a big reason why they want to combine their efforts to reduce cost.
Apparently you don't know much about OMAP. The processor with which this article is referring is a combination of an ARM and a DSP in a single package.
All the tabacco company sponsored commercials (the PR ones) I have seen of late claim that "there is no such thing as a safe cigarette." So at least lately they do not make the claim that cigs are safe.
According to the article, they are attempting to clear inventory. I would guess that the extra VRAM is done by populating another 32MB on a currently unpopulated set of pads on the board. Switching to a new video chipset that is not pin for pin compatible with what they currently have (and use) will not relieve any overstock concerns.
Well, there are already rechargeable medical implantable devices based on Li-Ion on the market today. I'm not certain why the article seems too imply this is not already going on.
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Well that was only 7 years ago. What were you expecting?
From the commercials I have seen, the iPhone IS the killer app.
I'd be interested in knowing how his algorithm works. Finding sunken vessels 2 miles under water using existing satellite photos of the ocean(even if they are "optimum-quality") seems almost too good to be true. Not only that but to supposedly be able to make out gun turets of those ships? Seems like a bit of hocus pocus.
Perhaps he is going public with this in hopes that someone will want to purchase the software for treasure hunting.
For the same reason software companies have to lower their prices in other parts of the world. Because those people can not afford to subsidize our relatively high standard of living by paying our relatively high prices.
Perhaps there should be people yelling for "fair trade software/music" like there are for fair trade coffee? Except in this case it would be the third world countries which would have to pay a minimum price for our goods.
Given the source I am not surprised to see this. I can tell you thought that C programming is and will be dominant in small embedded systems (8/16 bit microcontrollers) for a long time.
I'm no Vista expert (obviously) but I find it odd that applications can apparently can easily cause a BSOD on Vista. I mean you would think that nothing short of a crash of the core OS would cause a BSOD.
Why would this start in the US and then go to Europe? Europe is far denser in population than the typical rural US where farming is comon. With the higher density there will of course be more cell phones. Seems odd to me.
It's interesting that the workers were not offered to simply have a salary cut but were instead fired and then forced to reapply for lower paying jobs. This is obviously an attempt to eliminate any benefits the employees may have had from being long-time employees.
According to an earlier Slashdot story, Apple is forbidding Cingular from subsidizing the iPhone with service contracts because they are concerned about the iPhone cutting into iPod sales. Seems to me that Apple is already considering this and is attempting to limit it as much as possible. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.
I don't know how small your current phone is BUT the iPhone does have gigs of storage (4 or 8) and will have battery life that meets your expectations. That is if Jobs was telling the truth in his Macworld speech.
From the article: "I think people will recognise that its appropriate once in their lifetime to go through a little bit more inconvenience..."
Are passports issued for life in Britain? I doubt it.
I am looking forward to trying the iPhone. In particular I'm looking formward to being free of the god-awful software that comes with most phones.
Just this weekend I decided to check an ebay auction on my samsung phone. I noticed that Sprint offers a "ebay premium" program for download. Guess what? It's FIVE dollars a month. WHAT? I already pay for internet access on my phone, why should I pay another dime to get a better view of my ebay account? If the phones came with capable browsers then this nickel and diming wouldn't be possible because the phone would have desktop-similar browsing capability. I think the iPhone is going to go a long way to helping consumers.
We all know that people are running Mac OS X in VMware all over the place. We also know it runs slow as hell? Why? Because there are no vmware tools to be installed in your Mac OS X running in vmware. All this article means is that we will not see vmware tools released for Mac OS X until Apple gives the go ahead to run Mac OS X in vmware.
I don't know why any sane person would purchase an Apple branded "server" just to load something on it that could have been loaded on a (hardware wise) equally capable and cheaper machine.
500 amputees sounds unlikely until you consider that there have been over 3000 killed. If you assume that a good portion of those 3000 had limbs blown off the number of total amputations would be much higher I am sure.
I'm curious. We know that Microsoft scrapped most if not all of the original Longhorn work during the development of what would become Vista. Perhaps Allchin's remarks were made in reference to the original Longhorn. The original work was supposedly complete crap and unmanageable.
Sure, mileage for hybrids will drop with the new regulations but at the same time the mileage on all-gas vehicles will drop as well. Hybrids will still come out on top.
I have a 17" Dell Inspiron and I can tell you that it's a great laptop but don't plan on being able to use it everywhere. First off, it's completely unusable in a coach seat on an airplane because it's so huge there is actually not enough space between you and the seat in front of you to open it! Also, at a battery life of about 2.5 hours it's not going to keep you up for long with no external power available. I can imagine a 20" laptop would be worse since it's going to have greater backlighting demands.
From what limited experience I have with airplane power outlets, it appears that Boeing prefers the car style power adapters (15VDC) while Airbus prefers standards real power outlets with AC. Don't know why that is.
Know what else stifles innovation in semiconductor devices? When it costs literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to get your new whiz bang product through the semiconductor manufacturing process. That's a big reason why they want to combine their efforts to reduce cost.
Apparently you don't know much about OMAP. The processor with which this article is referring is a combination of an ARM and a DSP in a single package.
All the tabacco company sponsored commercials (the PR ones) I have seen of late claim that "there is no such thing as a safe cigarette." So at least lately they do not make the claim that cigs are safe.
You're their customer, not their boss. Obviously being someone's customer does not give you the ability to fire them.
According to the article, they are attempting to clear inventory. I would guess that the extra VRAM is done by populating another 32MB on a currently unpopulated set of pads on the board. Switching to a new video chipset that is not pin for pin compatible with what they currently have (and use) will not relieve any overstock concerns.
Well, there are already rechargeable medical implantable devices based on Li-Ion on the market today. I'm not certain why the article seems too imply this is not already going on.