Actually you'd expect supply to increase and demand to decrease with increasing prices. D'oh! Not sure how I missed that. The rest is still correct though.
What about working a second job? Why isn't that an option?
It is. In theory I think this makes the problem worse.
Normally, the price of goods or labour is set by supply and demand - naively you'd expect supply to decrease and demand to increase with increasing prices, such that there's some equilibrium point in the middle where the two match. If people deal with pay that's not sufficient to live on by getting second jobs when they wouldn't otherwise then that assumption doesn't hold; a decrease in the cost of labour leads to an increase in the supply of labour. It's quite likely that this increase in the supply of labour would totally overwhelm any increase in demand, causing a downward spiral where lower wages lead to people needing more jobs leading to further decreases in wages. So lowering or removing the minimum wage might well make things worse!
In fact, it was likely that Apple's early insistence on cutting edge tech is at least part of the reason nobody bought them until Steve Jobs came back. SCSI on the desktop? Who the fuck can afford SCSI on the desktop, and why the hell would I need it?
Not just SCSI, but from what I've heard a really buggy, incompatible implementation of SCSI.
I'd heard that the Nouveau developers had managed to reverse-engineer most of the video decode hardware on recent NVidia GPUs - including the DRM! - but weren't sure about the legalities of releasing code based on that.
Yeah. These days the site is basically run by users who managed to get in early enough and become well-know enough that they got moderator positions on the default subreddits - and they run a horde of fake accounts so the users don't have to. Seriously, one of the most prolific moderators (Karmanaut) was actually caught posting replies to his own comments with a sockpuppet to make it look like people agreed with him because he later accidentally sent someone a message from the wrong account.
The Tetris pieces are just tetrominos - they're every possible shape you can create by joining four squares together. You can't come up with your own similar shapes because there aren't any more of them.
ISPs can either use the BT openreach DSLAMS in the exchanges, or fit their own.
Of course, the newest feature on the block is fibre-to-the-curb, which requires the use of BT Openreach-owned hardware for the ISPs entire network, including the links from the exchange IIRC. Plus, no matter who you're getting ADSL from you're reliant on BT Openreach for physical cabling to the exchange and their repair department is awful thanks to their monopoly - if it's an intermittent fault and it's not happening when they visit, they assume it's your equipment at fault and charge you for the visit.
Nokia actually bought the Symbian OS that they based most of their phones on prior to switching strategy to Windows Phone from Psion. It's based on the OS that Psion's old PDAs used to run.
Larrabee doesn't support any of the existing x86 SIMD instruction sets, so any code's going to need to be rewritten in order to get decent performance on it anyway.
Sounds like a vague reason for VC rejection that can encompass all sorts of prejudices. For instance, I wonder how often it really means "he doesn't have the right skin colour for leadership" or "she doesn't have the right gender for leadership" - and the VCs wouldn't even necessarily realise that was the reason, because pretty much everyone is awful at spotting their own cognitive biases. This is especially true when there are so many convenient ways to rationalize their decisions.
Bear in mind that it's only middle of the pack for applications that don't have ARM-only native code, which apparently a lot of Android applications do these days. No review actually seems to test how fast the dynamic recompilation support is.
I think this is precisely because the backward's compatibility is not necessary there.
It's actually quite funny. One of Intel's main problems in smartphones is that their chips aren't compatible with existing software, so they have to use dynamic translation. (There are some incorrect benchmarks out there that reckon it's as fast as native code but that's because they didn't realise that Intel had paid the manufacturer of the Android benchmarking suite they'd used to include a native x86 version and that it was using that instead of the ARM one.)
The drivers are crap and the power efficiency is too bad to be suitable for mobile. On mobile and low-power devices, Intel licenses PowerVR's GPU designs just like many ARM manufacturers do.
Wow. Apparently/. isn't as anti-Microsoft as is usually claimed, because I don't remember seeing anything about them disabling the Microsoft-approved paid Chevron unlock and disabling all the applications sideloaded via it, and I know the original announcement of it definitely made/.
As soon as the iPad has a hardware problem and needs to go in for repair, or a software problem and needs to be reloaded, that optional iOS update becomes impossible to avoid. Apple have some very effective protection against OS downgrades or even just reloading the same outdated OS version on the iPad.
Last I heard they were actually selling screwdrivers that were subtly the wrong shape and damaged the screw heads whilst removing them just because they couldn't actually source the right ones. Their recommendation was to replace the screws with more standard ones once you'd removed them.
Most laptops require a screwdriver to replace the hard drive. This one is no different. Except that in this case, the "hard drive" is a chip, third party versions of which will undoubtedly be available soon, just like the were for the Air
So, aside from the fact that the screwdriver is proprietary, expensive, hard to obtain and incompatible with everything else, and the hard drive is proprietary, expensive, hard to obtain and incompatible with everything else, it's just like any other laptop.
Apple actually killed off the 17-inch Macbook Pro with the 1920x1280 screen when they released the new 15-inch Pro with Retina Display, so the highest resolution you can get now is effectively 1440x900 - it's the native resolution of the non-Retina Display 15 inch model and the resolution emulated by the Retina Display model.
Have you taken a look at the form factor of the MBPR and taken the time to consider which off-the-shelf SSD would fit in there?
There's actually a standard for small SSDs called mSATA that's roughly the same size as the one in the MBPR. Apple didn't use it. They even went to the trouble of using a different, incompatible connector for the SSD to the similarly-sized one used in the Macbook Air.
The other 2,460,000 (or a few million more, depending) must all be people moving bitcoins from their computer wallets to their super-secret USB wallets, meanwhile 40,000 of them are actual legitimate transactions. Right.
Actually, most of it is going to be people moving Bitcoins from their computer wallets to their computer wallets. Due to the way Bitcoins work if you spend money from any transaction you've received you have to spend the whole thing, so the Bitcoin client creates a change transaction back to a new address in your own wallet for the unspent remainder. Bitcoin is designed to make it impossible to tell which transactions are genuine and which are change, so the statistics inflate the number of Bitcoins transferred by treating change as genuine transfers.
Last time I looked, the majority of the Bitcoins "transferred" every day were just Mt Gox sending the same few thousand bitcoins back to themselves as change again and again every time they made a payout. It adds up fast.
Current evidence shows that people are NOT hoarding the coins: every day, 40 thousand coins change hands on the single largest exchange: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html [bitcoincharts.com] This is six times the number of coins created daily by the network (7 thousand).
That's about 0.4% of the 9.2 million total bitcoins in existence right now.
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Actually you'd expect supply to increase and demand to decrease with increasing prices. D'oh! Not sure how I missed that. The rest is still correct though.
What about working a second job? Why isn't that an option?
It is. In theory I think this makes the problem worse.
Normally, the price of goods or labour is set by supply and demand - naively you'd expect supply to decrease and demand to increase with increasing prices, such that there's some equilibrium point in the middle where the two match. If people deal with pay that's not sufficient to live on by getting second jobs when they wouldn't otherwise then that assumption doesn't hold; a decrease in the cost of labour leads to an increase in the supply of labour. It's quite likely that this increase in the supply of labour would totally overwhelm any increase in demand, causing a downward spiral where lower wages lead to people needing more jobs leading to further decreases in wages. So lowering or removing the minimum wage might well make things worse!
In fact, it was likely that Apple's early insistence on cutting edge tech is at least part of the reason nobody bought them until Steve Jobs came back. SCSI on the desktop? Who the fuck can afford SCSI on the desktop, and why the hell would I need it?
Not just SCSI, but from what I've heard a really buggy, incompatible implementation of SCSI.
I'd heard that the Nouveau developers had managed to reverse-engineer most of the video decode hardware on recent NVidia GPUs - including the DRM! - but weren't sure about the legalities of releasing code based on that.
Yeah. These days the site is basically run by users who managed to get in early enough and become well-know enough that they got moderator positions on the default subreddits - and they run a horde of fake accounts so the users don't have to. Seriously, one of the most prolific moderators (Karmanaut) was actually caught posting replies to his own comments with a sockpuppet to make it look like people agreed with him because he later accidentally sent someone a message from the wrong account.
The Tetris pieces are just tetrominos - they're every possible shape you can create by joining four squares together. You can't come up with your own similar shapes because there aren't any more of them.
ISPs can either use the BT openreach DSLAMS in the exchanges, or fit their own.
Of course, the newest feature on the block is fibre-to-the-curb, which requires the use of BT Openreach-owned hardware for the ISPs entire network, including the links from the exchange IIRC. Plus, no matter who you're getting ADSL from you're reliant on BT Openreach for physical cabling to the exchange and their repair department is awful thanks to their monopoly - if it's an intermittent fault and it's not happening when they visit, they assume it's your equipment at fault and charge you for the visit.
I'm pretty sure that some of the video downloader plugins for Firefox already work this way.
One word: Siri.
This is particularly true for Apple customers that do not, in fact, live in the US.
Nokia actually bought the Symbian OS that they based most of their phones on prior to switching strategy to Windows Phone from Psion. It's based on the OS that Psion's old PDAs used to run.
Larrabee doesn't support any of the existing x86 SIMD instruction sets, so any code's going to need to be rewritten in order to get decent performance on it anyway.
As I recall Sourceforge did open-source the website a long time ago. Then they closed it again and stopped releasing new versions of the code.
Sounds like a vague reason for VC rejection that can encompass all sorts of prejudices. For instance, I wonder how often it really means "he doesn't have the right skin colour for leadership" or "she doesn't have the right gender for leadership" - and the VCs wouldn't even necessarily realise that was the reason, because pretty much everyone is awful at spotting their own cognitive biases. This is especially true when there are so many convenient ways to rationalize their decisions.
Bear in mind that it's only middle of the pack for applications that don't have ARM-only native code, which apparently a lot of Android applications do these days. No review actually seems to test how fast the dynamic recompilation support is.
I think this is precisely because the backward's compatibility is not necessary there.
It's actually quite funny. One of Intel's main problems in smartphones is that their chips aren't compatible with existing software, so they have to use dynamic translation. (There are some incorrect benchmarks out there that reckon it's as fast as native code but that's because they didn't realise that Intel had paid the manufacturer of the Android benchmarking suite they'd used to include a native x86 version and that it was using that instead of the ARM one.)
The funny thing is that even Bulldozer should be quite capable in SSE terms, but SuperPi is so ancient that it doesn't actually use SSE at all...
The drivers are crap and the power efficiency is too bad to be suitable for mobile. On mobile and low-power devices, Intel licenses PowerVR's GPU designs just like many ARM manufacturers do.
Wow. Apparently /. isn't as anti-Microsoft as is usually claimed, because I don't remember seeing anything about them disabling the Microsoft-approved paid Chevron unlock and disabling all the applications sideloaded via it, and I know the original announcement of it definitely made /.
As soon as the iPad has a hardware problem and needs to go in for repair, or a software problem and needs to be reloaded, that optional iOS update becomes impossible to avoid. Apple have some very effective protection against OS downgrades or even just reloading the same outdated OS version on the iPad.
Last I heard they were actually selling screwdrivers that were subtly the wrong shape and damaged the screw heads whilst removing them just because they couldn't actually source the right ones. Their recommendation was to replace the screws with more standard ones once you'd removed them.
Most laptops require a screwdriver to replace the hard drive. This one is no different. Except that in this case, the "hard drive" is a chip, third party versions of which will undoubtedly be available soon, just like the were for the Air
So, aside from the fact that the screwdriver is proprietary, expensive, hard to obtain and incompatible with everything else, and the hard drive is proprietary, expensive, hard to obtain and incompatible with everything else, it's just like any other laptop.
Apple actually killed off the 17-inch Macbook Pro with the 1920x1280 screen when they released the new 15-inch Pro with Retina Display, so the highest resolution you can get now is effectively 1440x900 - it's the native resolution of the non-Retina Display 15 inch model and the resolution emulated by the Retina Display model.
Have you taken a look at the form factor of the MBPR and taken the time to consider which off-the-shelf SSD would fit in there?
There's actually a standard for small SSDs called mSATA that's roughly the same size as the one in the MBPR. Apple didn't use it. They even went to the trouble of using a different, incompatible connector for the SSD to the similarly-sized one used in the Macbook Air.
The other 2,460,000 (or a few million more, depending) must all be people moving bitcoins from their computer wallets to their super-secret USB wallets, meanwhile 40,000 of them are actual legitimate transactions. Right.
Actually, most of it is going to be people moving Bitcoins from their computer wallets to their computer wallets. Due to the way Bitcoins work if you spend money from any transaction you've received you have to spend the whole thing, so the Bitcoin client creates a change transaction back to a new address in your own wallet for the unspent remainder. Bitcoin is designed to make it impossible to tell which transactions are genuine and which are change, so the statistics inflate the number of Bitcoins transferred by treating change as genuine transfers.
Last time I looked, the majority of the Bitcoins "transferred" every day were just Mt Gox sending the same few thousand bitcoins back to themselves as change again and again every time they made a payout. It adds up fast.
Current evidence shows that people are NOT hoarding the coins: every day, 40 thousand coins change hands on the single largest exchange: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html [bitcoincharts.com] This is six times the number of coins created daily by the network (7 thousand).
That's about 0.4% of the 9.2 million total bitcoins in existence right now.