I've got a three year old Samsung Galaxy S5 which is fine as a phone. I haven't upgraded it because they won't sell me anything faster with a removable battery, water seals, an SD card and a headphone socket.
Now one problem they've got is that I'm not the only one who's not upgrading their phone every two years like people used to do.
I reckon things like this are a way to push that. Eclipse or even LibreOffice on a Snapdragon 835 will work but it will be a painful experience. If you bought the next S9 or S10 with a faster CPU it would be less so - maybe even comparable your aging x64 development machine, but still not as fast as a new development machine.
I..e. it's a proof of concept but I think it's only really useful if you had a CPU that was 2-4 times faster. Which of course Samsung will be happy to sell you in two to four years time. And hey, in two years time the non removable battery in your S8 will have lost half its capacity and Android will have started to run hotter and slower.
I.e. Samsung are trying to get people back on the upgrade treadmill.
I.e. looking up a virtual address now needs a lookup in PML5, PML4, Page Directory, Page Table. Of course the TLB caches lookups but adding more layers increases the time taken to handle a TLB miss.
I was hoping either Intel or AMD would introduce a more advanced page table - hashed inverted page tables like the ones used in PowerPC, the UltraSPARC and the IA-64 for example
It's only a matter of time before someone does a Nintendo DS like clamshell design with the top screen as a screen and the bottom screen as a touchpad.
A clamshell with two displays, the bottom one as a keyboard seems like something which is worth experimenting with, even though I hate touch screen keyboards myself. It's actually a bit mysterious why touch typing on a mechanical keyboard is so much easier than on a touchscreen given that you're not looking at the keys.
Perhaps you could use haptic feedback to trick your fingers into thinking they're hitting keys either dead centre or a bit off so your muscle memory can calibrate. I remember reading about haptic feedback and how the holy grail was to be able to simulate fur. If you can do that you could probably simulate keys.
When someone moves a finger over a sharp surface, typically both vertical and lateral forces are applied to the skin, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. Using a haptic interface called GRAB, which was developed by Carlo Alberto Avizzano and his colleagues at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, the researchers showed that a realistic sensation can be created using skin-stretch alone, and leaving out the vertical forces. The device consists of a thimble on a motorised arm. Using the motors to apply short bursts of very precise resistance it applies slight lateral stretches to the skin of a fingertip passing over the thimble, giving the impression of a sharp edge.
The ultimate aim of this sort of research would be to find ways to simulate any kind of shape, sensation or texture, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. "The holy grail for me is to do fur," says Dr MacLean. There is a long way to go, but it should eventually be feasible, she says. One of the difficulties of simulating textures, says Dr Hayward, is that the sensation of texture depends on the interaction between the surface and tiny ridges in the skin at the fingertips. In theory, it should be possible to stimulate these ridges individually using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, but so far nobody has tried, says Dr MacLean.
I remember having a PC running Windows and an x86 embedded system running VxWorks. Even though the disk and CPU were much faster on the PC the VxWorks system actually outperformed it for FTP and HTTP. VxWorks is a tiny, real time OS with a BSD like interface. It had zbuf TCP/IP, a very efficient cached file system and so on. No memory protection in the version we used so you had to be careful but it also meant it was fast as hell.
VxWorks was not cheap but there was a time when it made sense for routers. You had to pay for a licence but that was offset by needing less flash and ram than an equivalent Linux box. And the hard real time nature of it made it great for embedded systems. Of course as time past the cost of flash and ram dropped and CPUs got faster. And of course there are excellent free router implementations. So my Asus router now runs Linux.
That'd be plausible if you architected your web app to concentrate the most performance critical parts into one or two modules. However I bet when people knock up a quick hack in Python most of them don't know/care what the performance critical parts are. So they're probably spread over the whole application.
Realistically you'd be better off sticking a high performance cache in front of the server. That way you could serve a static version of the page to most people and only occasionally have the cache call the real server to update.
Of course that would change the way the application worked -you'd need to warn people that their comments would only show up the static version of the page next time that is updated. Funnily enough Slashdot does this. Reddit doesn't.
Then again they're doing a revamp of the code, so maybe that will be part of it.
What you say is true, however, you are missing the big picture. Reddit didn't start out with millions of users. It started out with maybe a dozen, with no promise that it'll ever grow beyond that. If they wrote the entire thing in C and took 2 more years to launch, maybe it would've never gotten big. Maybe it would've never launched at all. The creators couldn't support themselves indefinitely, and their investors might not have the patience for it.
That's a fair point. Still you can make the case once a website which does have millions of users there should be a better alternative. Of course at that point you'd be crazy to rewrite a large Python app in C/C++ because the odds are the C/C++ version would end up mishandling under documented features of the Python version.
I guess there's Cython, but I'm not sure how widely used it is.
Perhaps the best way forward is to have some sort of high performance run time like Cython for scripting languages.
The Matrix would make more sense if the captive humans were being used as computation devices. Brains manage full consciousness in only a few Watts. Apparently the original script did say that but they thought it would be too hard for the audience to understand.
That's because Lockheed Martin, who in no way pay me to shill, are committed to delivering reliable and value for money solutions to defend American freedom.
"Starcraft II is our secret weapon against Koreans. They'll sit in an internet cafe and play it for 100 hours straight and when they stand up they'll fucking DIE"
People always say this - programmer time is expensive, compute power cheap, efficiency doesn't matter.
However look at Reddit. They originally wrote in Lisp, and then rewrote it in Python. And it's still slow enough it goes down regularly. Despite the fact that it's using a relatively light framework - web.py and then Pylons.
You could imagine writing a web framework in something like C or C++ that would be much more efficient than Python.
I mean I like both Python and C/C++. Python is definitely easier to prototype stuff in. C/C++ is fast as hell. And if you're serving a website to vast numbers of people that means you need less hardware to do it.
Or look at Windows apps..Net and Java ones are so crappy I avoid them. Native Win32 with a stripped down framework gives you tiny, fast applications like uTorrent.
I'm still convinced a lot of the smoothness of iOS applications over Android is because Apple use Objective C while Google use Java. You can handwave away the slowness of Java with things like JIT and AOT code conversion but just picking the two devices up you can see that Android is not a particularly performant environment.
Now personally a multi vendor OS is important enough that I can live with it being a bit crappy so I went from Windows Mobile to Android and not to iOS. Android, like Windows Mobile before it is multivendor which means you have cheap hardware and loads of free or cheap software and third party Roms and firmware images. Like Windows Mobile it's kind of a mess though - Windows Mobile was always about ten years behind the state of the art in terms of UIs. Android is crippled because most of the applications are written in Java.
All these 'energy harvesting devices' cheat. They find a microuniverse and suck the energy out of it. Eventually the microuniverse being energy sucked implodes with the death of all its inhabitants and they just move on to a new one. The bastards.
They're also the reason you need to wear a hat, coat and scarf inside your Tardis despite setting the climate control to 'temperate'.
It always strikes me as odd when Americans who like open source oppose IP. At least some of the difference in prosperity between the USA and say China comes from the fact that US companies own vast amounts of IP and the USA has rigged the international rules on IP to its benefit.
Get rid of patents and copyright and the power won't move from Apple, Microsoft etc to open source projects, it will move to people who own factories in China.
After $5.90 in basic manufacturing costs are added, Samsung's total cost to make the Galaxy S8 rises to $307.50; the unsubsidized price for a 64GB Galaxy S8 starts at around $720. The preliminary estimated total at this point is $43.34 higher than that of the Galaxy S7 previously performed by IHS Markit, and is $36.29 higher than the total build cost of the Galaxy S7 Edge, considered a better comparison to the Galaxy S8. IHS Markit has not yet performed a teardown analysis on the larger Galaxy S8 Plus.
So Samsung spends $307 BOM cost and the device sells for $720, i.e. they make about $413.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teardown engineers at IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) have completed their preliminary physical dissection of the new Apple iPhone X and found that the model A1865 version of the smartphone with 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $370.25.
With a starting price of $999, the iPhone X is $50 more than the previous most expensive iPhone, the 8 Plus 256 GB. As another point of comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S8 with 64 GB of NAND memory has a BOM of $302 and retails at around $720.
We don't know what Samsung charges for a display. IHS estimates it costs Apple $110 for the display assembly "which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor". And we don't know at all what AMOLEDs cost Samsung to make.
Still it's hard to see how they could make more money selling displays to Apple - who bargain hard on price - than it could selling them in its own handsets.
Maybe you could argue that selling more high end displays in Apple devices is better for Samsung than selling low end ones in mid market phones like the J7/A7 etc.
I'm not convinced though.
Of course for a megacorp like Samsung it makes sense if all the bits of the corporation try to maximize their profitability individually. I.e. the display part should sell to Apple if it makes money doing it even if the phone part would rather it did not. The alternative - where the phone part can stop the display part selling to Apple by appealing to its sense of patriotism - is very bad. But not uncommon among megacorps.
One of the vertical line drivers is stuck 'on'. So you get a line mostly in one of the primary colours - R, G or B. Or, less common, a combination of the two.
My S5 is still fine, but for some reason I've seen a few people with battered looking S7s and S8s with the vertical line. Not sure if the battering causes the failure or if some display panels just fail spontaneously.
Incidentally, there's an amusing bit of Apple overcharging for glass
The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phoneâ(TM)s repair pricing â" and like the phone itself, it gets expensive. If you donâ(TM)t have the extended warranty, a screen replacement will cost $279. Thatâ(TM)s more than twice the price of an iPhone 6 screen replacement ($129) and about 65 percent higher than a new iPhone 8 screen ($169). The pricing was first spotted by MacRumors.
If that sounds high, you should be careful not to damage an iPhone X in any other way: all other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549. Again, thatâ(TM)s a lot more than what other recent iPhones cost to repair. iPhone 8 repairs cost $349 and 8 Plus repairs cost $399. That means if you crack the glass back of the iPhone X (or the iPhone 8), you might just want to live with it.
Appleâ(TM)s extended warranty, AppleCare+, often looks like a pricey upsell. But for iPhone X buyers, it seems like it might be a necessary safety net. Appleâ(TM)s warranty costs $199 for the iPhone X (up from $129 for the iPhone 8 and $149 for the 8 Plus); but while the warranty itself is more expensive, warranty service fees (which apply only when Apple is repairing something with âoeaccidental damageâ) donâ(TM)t go up at all. So an iPhone X can still get a $29 screen repair if itâ(TM)s under warranty, and it can still get a $99 repair for anything else under AppleCare+, too.
So it's $279 for a replacement display out of warranty. Or $29 with warranty. And the warranty costs $199. And all other repairs are a whopping $549.
So if you're the sort of person who cracks the display on your phone, you're going to be paying through the nose for it.
IHS Markit estimates the cost of the display module, which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor, at $110.
I.e. Apple make a fair bit of profit out of people dropping their phones. Arguably the reason Apple and Samsung have moved to glass front and back is that glass breaks and repairs are profitable. Also, especially in the Samsung case, it's hard to take the phone apart without damaging expensive bits if you look at the iFixit videos.
I reckon I could get a whole new, or at least 'pre-owned' S5 for less than $279 if I looked around a bit.
Arguably an omnipotent God wouldn't give people the choice about whether they get free will, or in general freedom because they might make the wrong choice.
E.g. look at all the millennials who want to live under 'communism, socialism or fascism'.
I'd interpret that as most Americans want a free market system, voting for Capitalism over Socialism 59% to 34%.
Millennials have no money/lots of student debt and 44% want a Scandinavian social democratic system where they'd get free stuff as opposed to 42% who want capitalism (what they think they have). Support for radically anti freedom systems like Communism and Fascism is pretty low - 7% each even among Millennials. And if you look the rest of the report, that's because Millennials mostly can't identify Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Capitalism from the definition.
So they're young, ignorant and have been brainwashed at college. I went through that stage - I voted Labour in my 20s, albeit only when it was led by the centrist Tony Blair. It was only after I worked in Sweden that I realized that Scandinavian social democracy is no utopia.
Vice President Mike Pence said, via his spokesperson, that Pence believes that if the allegations against Roy Moore are true, then "this would disqualify anyone from serving in office."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "If these allegations are true, he must step aside."
Sen. John McCain: "The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they are proud of."
Former Gov. of Massachusetts: "Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said, "I'm horrified and if this is true he needs to step down immediately." She also said she has spoken to Luther Strange about becoming a write-in challenge, ultimately challenging Moore in the Dec. 12 election.
Sen. Ted Cruz, who endorsed Roy Moore: "These are serious and troubling allegations. If they are true, Judge Moore should immediately withdraw. However, we need to know the truth, and Judge Moore has the right to respond to these accusations."
Sen. Jeff Flake: "If there is any shred of truth to the allegations against Roy Moore, he should step aside immediately."
Sen. John Cornyn, who endorsed Moore and is listed on his website, said: "Well I think the next steps are up to the governor and the people of Alabama. I find it deeply disturbing and troubling. If it is true, I don't think his candidacy is sustainable."
Sen. David Perdue called the allegations "devastating" and said Moore should withdraw if they're true.
Sen. Pat Toomey: "If there's a shred of truth to it, then he need to step aside."
Sen. Richard Shelby: "If that's true, then he wouldn't belong in the Senate."
Sen. Mike Lee: "If these allegations are true, Roy Moore needs to step down."
Sen. Tim Scott: "If they're accurate, he should step aside."
Sen. Cory Gardner, chairman of national republican senatorial committee: "If these allegations are found to be true, Roy Moore must drop out of the Alabama special Senate election."
Sen. Rob Portman: "It was very troubling... if what we read is true and people are on the record so I assume it is..." Moore should step aside.
Sen. Susan Collins: "If there is any truth at all to these horrific allegations, Roy Moore should immediately step aside as a Senate candidate."
Sen. John Hoeven: "The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious and if true, he should step down as a candidate for the Senate."
Trump said he should stand aside if the allegations are true
"...Point is, I'm still not sure what the [Trade Federation] ships were there to do. And don't any of you f[beep]gots tell me it was explained more in the novelization or some Star Wars BOOK! What matters is the MOVIES! I ain't never read one them Star Wars books, or any books in general for that matter, and I ain't about to start. Don't talk about them stupid video games, or novels, comic books or any of that fucking crap. I seen enough of that shit."
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The Nazis got going in Munich. Not of course that that has anything to do with this story.
I've got a three year old Samsung Galaxy S5 which is fine as a phone. I haven't upgraded it because they won't sell me anything faster with a removable battery, water seals, an SD card and a headphone socket.
Now one problem they've got is that I'm not the only one who's not upgrading their phone every two years like people used to do.
I reckon things like this are a way to push that. Eclipse or even LibreOffice on a Snapdragon 835 will work but it will be a painful experience. If you bought the next S9 or S10 with a faster CPU it would be less so - maybe even comparable your aging x64 development machine, but still not as fast as a new development machine.
I..e. it's a proof of concept but I think it's only really useful if you had a CPU that was 2-4 times faster. Which of course Samsung will be happy to sell you in two to four years time. And hey, in two years time the non removable battery in your S8 will have lost half its capacity and Android will have started to run hotter and slower.
I.e. Samsung are trying to get people back on the upgrade treadmill.
Eclipse is sluggish on an a fast x64 chip. Running it on a Snapdragon 835 is likely to be painful
http://weborus.com/snapdragon-...
Geekbench is a admittedly a bit bogus but I can't find anyone doing a decent benchmark like SpecInt comparisons between x64 and ARM.
Turns out they've just added another level to the page tables, taking it to 5.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Doc...
https://software.intel.com/sit...
I.e. looking up a virtual address now needs a lookup in PML5, PML4, Page Directory, Page Table. Of course the TLB caches lookups but adding more layers increases the time taken to handle a TLB miss.
I was hoping either Intel or AMD would introduce a more advanced page table - hashed inverted page tables like the ones used in PowerPC, the UltraSPARC and the IA-64 for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or maybe someone's invented a better way to do it now.
Holy inadequate Batman!
It's a meme, bro.
It's only a matter of time before someone does a Nintendo DS like clamshell design with the top screen as a screen and the bottom screen as a touchpad.
A clamshell with two displays, the bottom one as a keyboard seems like something which is worth experimenting with, even though I hate touch screen keyboards myself. It's actually a bit mysterious why touch typing on a mechanical keyboard is so much easier than on a touchscreen given that you're not looking at the keys.
Perhaps you could use haptic feedback to trick your fingers into thinking they're hitting keys either dead centre or a bit off so your muscle memory can calibrate. I remember reading about haptic feedback and how the holy grail was to be able to simulate fur. If you can do that you could probably simulate keys.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
https://archive.fo/O4197
When someone moves a finger over a sharp surface, typically both vertical and lateral forces are applied to the skin, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. Using a haptic interface called GRAB, which was developed by Carlo Alberto Avizzano and his colleagues at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, the researchers showed that a realistic sensation can be created using skin-stretch alone, and leaving out the vertical forces. The device consists of a thimble on a motorised arm. Using the motors to apply short bursts of very precise resistance it applies slight lateral stretches to the skin of a fingertip passing over the thimble, giving the impression of a sharp edge.
The ultimate aim of this sort of research would be to find ways to simulate any kind of shape, sensation or texture, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. "The holy grail for me is to do fur," says Dr MacLean. There is a long way to go, but it should eventually be feasible, she says. One of the difficulties of simulating textures, says Dr Hayward, is that the sensation of texture depends on the interaction between the surface and tiny ridges in the skin at the fingertips. In theory, it should be possible to stimulate these ridges individually using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, but so far nobody has tried, says Dr MacLean.
iOS autocorrupts apostrophes and double quotes to SmartQuotes by default, which slashdot doesn't handle.
https://www.jordanmerrick.com/...
I remember having a PC running Windows and an x86 embedded system running VxWorks. Even though the disk and CPU were much faster on the PC the VxWorks system actually outperformed it for FTP and HTTP. VxWorks is a tiny, real time OS with a BSD like interface. It had zbuf TCP/IP, a very efficient cached file system and so on. No memory protection in the version we used so you had to be careful but it also meant it was fast as hell.
VxWorks was not cheap but there was a time when it made sense for routers. You had to pay for a licence but that was offset by needing less flash and ram than an equivalent Linux box. And the hard real time nature of it made it great for embedded systems. Of course as time past the cost of flash and ram dropped and CPUs got faster. And of course there are excellent free router implementations. So my Asus router now runs Linux.
That'd be plausible if you architected your web app to concentrate the most performance critical parts into one or two modules. However I bet when people knock up a quick hack in Python most of them don't know/care what the performance critical parts are. So they're probably spread over the whole application.
Realistically you'd be better off sticking a high performance cache in front of the server. That way you could serve a static version of the page to most people and only occasionally have the cache call the real server to update.
Of course that would change the way the application worked -you'd need to warn people that their comments would only show up the static version of the page next time that is updated. Funnily enough Slashdot does this. Reddit doesn't.
Then again they're doing a revamp of the code, so maybe that will be part of it.
What you say is true, however, you are missing the big picture. Reddit didn't start out with millions of users. It started out with maybe a dozen, with no promise that it'll ever grow beyond that. If they wrote the entire thing in C and took 2 more years to launch, maybe it would've never gotten big. Maybe it would've never launched at all. The creators couldn't support themselves indefinitely, and their investors might not have the patience for it.
That's a fair point. Still you can make the case once a website which does have millions of users there should be a better alternative. Of course at that point you'd be crazy to rewrite a large Python app in C/C++ because the odds are the C/C++ version would end up mishandling under documented features of the Python version.
I guess there's Cython, but I'm not sure how widely used it is.
Perhaps the best way forward is to have some sort of high performance run time like Cython for scripting languages.
The Matrix would make more sense if the captive humans were being used as computation devices. Brains manage full consciousness in only a few Watts. Apparently the original script did say that but they thought it would be too hard for the audience to understand.
That's because Lockheed Martin, who in no way pay me to shill, are committed to delivering reliable and value for money solutions to defend American freedom.
"Starcraft II is our secret weapon against Koreans. They'll sit in an internet cafe and play it for 100 hours straight and when they stand up they'll fucking DIE"
People always say this - programmer time is expensive, compute power cheap, efficiency doesn't matter.
However look at Reddit. They originally wrote in Lisp, and then rewrote it in Python. And it's still slow enough it goes down regularly. Despite the fact that it's using a relatively light framework - web.py and then Pylons.
You could imagine writing a web framework in something like C or C++ that would be much more efficient than Python.
I mean I like both Python and C/C++. Python is definitely easier to prototype stuff in. C/C++ is fast as hell. And if you're serving a website to vast numbers of people that means you need less hardware to do it.
Or look at Windows apps. .Net and Java ones are so crappy I avoid them. Native Win32 with a stripped down framework gives you tiny, fast applications like uTorrent.
I'm still convinced a lot of the smoothness of iOS applications over Android is because Apple use Objective C while Google use Java. You can handwave away the slowness of Java with things like JIT and AOT code conversion but just picking the two devices up you can see that Android is not a particularly performant environment.
Now personally a multi vendor OS is important enough that I can live with it being a bit crappy so I went from Windows Mobile to Android and not to iOS. Android, like Windows Mobile before it is multivendor which means you have cheap hardware and loads of free or cheap software and third party Roms and firmware images. Like Windows Mobile it's kind of a mess though - Windows Mobile was always about ten years behind the state of the art in terms of UIs. Android is crippled because most of the applications are written in Java.
Those things seem to last forever. Presumably eventually the Lithium Ion battery will need to be replaced due to this effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Loss rates vary by temperature: 6% loss at 0 C (32 F), 20% at 25 C (77 F), and 35% at 40 C (104 F).
Still mine's still going strong after 7 years.
All these 'energy harvesting devices' cheat. They find a microuniverse and suck the energy out of it. Eventually the microuniverse being energy sucked implodes with the death of all its inhabitants and they just move on to a new one. The bastards.
They're also the reason you need to wear a hat, coat and scarf inside your Tardis despite setting the climate control to 'temperate'.
It always strikes me as odd when Americans who like open source oppose IP. At least some of the difference in prosperity between the USA and say China comes from the fact that US companies own vast amounts of IP and the USA has rigged the international rules on IP to its benefit.
Get rid of patents and copyright and the power won't move from Apple, Microsoft etc to open source projects, it will move to people who own factories in China.
Samsung is making more money on iPhone X than on their Galaxy phones.
[citation needed]
Both Samsung and Apple sell high end devices for at least 100% markup. E.g.
http://news.ihsmarkit.com/pres...
After $5.90 in basic manufacturing costs are added, Samsung's total cost to make the Galaxy S8 rises to $307.50; the unsubsidized price for a 64GB Galaxy S8 starts at around $720. The preliminary estimated total at this point is $43.34 higher than that of the Galaxy S7 previously performed by IHS Markit, and is $36.29 higher than the total build cost of the Galaxy S7 Edge, considered a better comparison to the Galaxy S8. IHS Markit has not yet performed a teardown analysis on the larger Galaxy S8 Plus.
So Samsung spends $307 BOM cost and the device sells for $720, i.e. they make about $413.
Now IHS reckon for an iPhone X
http://www.businesswire.com/ne...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teardown engineers at IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) have completed their preliminary physical dissection of the new Apple iPhone X and found that the model A1865 version of the smartphone with 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $370.25.
With a starting price of $999, the iPhone X is $50 more than the previous most expensive iPhone, the 8 Plus 256 GB. As another point of comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S8 with 64 GB of NAND memory has a BOM of $302 and retails at around $720.
We don't know what Samsung charges for a display. IHS estimates it costs Apple $110 for the display assembly "which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor". And we don't know at all what AMOLEDs cost Samsung to make.
Still it's hard to see how they could make more money selling displays to Apple - who bargain hard on price - than it could selling them in its own handsets.
Maybe you could argue that selling more high end displays in Apple devices is better for Samsung than selling low end ones in mid market phones like the J7/A7 etc.
I'm not convinced though.
Of course for a megacorp like Samsung it makes sense if all the bits of the corporation try to maximize their profitability individually. I.e. the display part should sell to Apple if it makes money doing it even if the phone part would rather it did not. The alternative - where the phone part can stop the display part selling to Apple by appealing to its sense of patriotism - is very bad. But not uncommon among megacorps.
You see this failure mode in Samsung phones with an OLED display. And the iPhone X uses a Samsung display.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Seems like it is a bad vertical line driver looking at this.
https://us.community.samsung.c...
One of the vertical line drivers is stuck 'on'. So you get a line mostly in one of the primary colours - R, G or B. Or, less common, a combination of the two.
My S5 is still fine, but for some reason I've seen a few people with battered looking S7s and S8s with the vertical line. Not sure if the battering causes the failure or if some display panels just fail spontaneously.
Incidentally, there's an amusing bit of Apple overcharging for glass
https://www.theverge.com/circu...
The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phoneâ(TM)s repair pricing â" and like the phone itself, it gets expensive. If you donâ(TM)t have the extended warranty, a screen replacement will cost $279. Thatâ(TM)s more than twice the price of an iPhone 6 screen replacement ($129) and about 65 percent higher than a new iPhone 8 screen ($169). The pricing was first spotted by MacRumors.
If that sounds high, you should be careful not to damage an iPhone X in any other way: all other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549. Again, thatâ(TM)s a lot more than what other recent iPhones cost to repair. iPhone 8 repairs cost $349 and 8 Plus repairs cost $399. That means if you crack the glass back of the iPhone X (or the iPhone 8), you might just want to live with it.
Appleâ(TM)s extended warranty, AppleCare+, often looks like a pricey upsell. But for iPhone X buyers, it seems like it might be a necessary safety net. Appleâ(TM)s warranty costs $199 for the iPhone X (up from $129 for the iPhone 8 and $149 for the 8 Plus); but while the warranty itself is more expensive, warranty service fees (which apply only when Apple is repairing something with âoeaccidental damageâ) donâ(TM)t go up at all. So an iPhone X can still get a $29 screen repair if itâ(TM)s under warranty, and it can still get a $99 repair for anything else under AppleCare+, too.
So it's $279 for a replacement display out of warranty. Or $29 with warranty. And the warranty costs $199. And all other repairs are a whopping $549.
So if you're the sort of person who cracks the display on your phone, you're going to be paying through the nose for it.
IHS reckons the display assembly is
http://www.businesswire.com/ne...
IHS Markit estimates the cost of the display module, which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor, at $110.
I.e. Apple make a fair bit of profit out of people dropping their phones. Arguably the reason Apple and Samsung have moved to glass front and back is that glass breaks and repairs are profitable. Also, especially in the Samsung case, it's hard to take the phone apart without damaging expensive bits if you look at the iFixit videos.
I reckon I could get a whole new, or at least 'pre-owned' S5 for less than $279 if I looked around a bit.
Arguably an omnipotent God wouldn't give people the choice about whether they get free will, or in general freedom because they might make the wrong choice.
E.g. look at all the millennials who want to live under 'communism, socialism or fascism'.
https://www.washingtontimes.co...
Though admittedly if you look at the report it's not as bad as the Washington Times makes out
https://victimsofcommunism.org...
https://imgur.com/a/3LQU6
I'd interpret that as most Americans want a free market system, voting for Capitalism over Socialism 59% to 34%.
Millennials have no money/lots of student debt and 44% want a Scandinavian social democratic system where they'd get free stuff as opposed to 42% who want capitalism (what they think they have). Support for radically anti freedom systems like Communism and Fascism is pretty low - 7% each even among Millennials. And if you look the rest of the report, that's because Millennials mostly can't identify Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Capitalism from the definition.
So they're young, ignorant and have been brainwashed at college. I went through that stage - I voted Labour in my 20s, albeit only when it was led by the centrist Tony Blair. It was only after I worked in Sweden that I realized that Scandinavian social democracy is no utopia.
Ben Shapiro on the allegations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hardly
https://www.axios.com/republic...
What they're saying:
Vice President Mike Pence said, via his spokesperson, that Pence believes that if the allegations against Roy Moore are true, then "this would disqualify anyone from serving in office."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "If these allegations are true, he must step aside."
Sen. John McCain: "The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they are proud of."
Former Gov. of Massachusetts: "Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said, "I'm horrified and if this is true he needs to step down immediately." She also said she has spoken to Luther Strange about becoming a write-in challenge, ultimately challenging Moore in the Dec. 12 election.
Sen. Ted Cruz, who endorsed Roy Moore: "These are serious and troubling allegations. If they are true, Judge Moore should immediately withdraw. However, we need to know the truth, and Judge Moore has the right to respond to these accusations."
Sen. Jeff Flake: "If there is any shred of truth to the allegations against Roy Moore, he should step aside immediately."
Sen. John Cornyn, who endorsed Moore and is listed on his website, said: "Well I think the next steps are up to the governor and the people of Alabama. I find it deeply disturbing and troubling. If it is true, I don't think his candidacy is sustainable."
Sen. David Perdue called the allegations "devastating" and said Moore should withdraw if they're true.
Sen. Pat Toomey: "If there's a shred of truth to it, then he need to step aside."
Sen. Richard Shelby: "If that's true, then he wouldn't belong in the Senate."
Sen. Mike Lee: "If these allegations are true, Roy Moore needs to step down."
Sen. Tim Scott: "If they're accurate, he should step aside."
Sen. Cory Gardner, chairman of national republican senatorial committee: "If these allegations are found to be true, Roy Moore must drop out of the Alabama special Senate election."
Sen. Rob Portman: "It was very troubling ... if what we read is true and people are on the record so I assume it is..." Moore should step aside.
Sen. Susan Collins: "If there is any truth at all to these horrific allegations, Roy Moore should immediately step aside as a Senate candidate."
Sen. John Hoeven: "The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious and if true, he should step down as a candidate for the Senate."
Trump said he should stand aside if the allegations are true
http://fortune.com/2017/11/10/...
Sanders said that Trump âoebelieves we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case from many years ago, to destroy a person's life.
"However, the president also believes that if these allegations are true, Judge Moore will do the right thing and step aside."
Someone needs to do a Cat Facts bot to keep spammers busy
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
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