Over hundreds of millions of years we'd end up with a very high average. In fact the further you go back, the higher the average. There's something wonderfully twisted about the idea of pitching a plan to set an industry friendly high target CO2 level to US right wingers by explaining that we should set it at the average over the last say 100 million years given that a sizeable minority of them would be young Earth creationists who don't actually believe the Earth is 100 million years old.
Do rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increasing global temperatures, or could it be the other way around? This is one of the questions being debated today. Interestingly, CO2 lags an average of about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- confirming that CO2 is not the cause of the temperature increases. One thing is certain-- earth's climate has been warming and cooling on it's own for at least the last 400,000 years, as the data below show. At year 18,000 and counting in our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age, we may be due-- some say overdue-- for return to another icehouse climate!
So either way it seems like we need to get those SUV engines running. Also tell the Brazilians to fell more rainforest to stop them sucking the valuable CO2 out of the biosphere and causing an economically disastrous ice age.
Luckily the Chinese are doing a heroic job emitting CO2.
So it doesn't really matter what the US tries to do - even if it could somehow magically cut its CO2 output to zero in the long run we'll have a lot more of it around thanks to China. And over a few decades it is almost certain that Burma, Vietnam and the like will industrialise in much the same CO2 intensive way China has. Taiwanese manufacturers have a "China+1" strategy - i.e. build factories in China plus one other country. In fact China is a big country and it is only the coastal regions that are highly industrialised and thus emit the CO2. Unfortunately that pattern is unlike to be repeated in smaller developing countries that make up the rest of Asia - they are likely to end up as industrialised as Japan over the whole country.
So the odds of humanity as a whole agreeing to cut its total CO2 output is zero. That's not really unreasonable actually - the US and Europe industrialised in a CO2 intensive way. Their CO2 outputs are now flat or falling because the factories have moved to Asia. If I were in China, Burma or Vietnam I'd be very hostile to the idea that my country should stop industrialising because of concerns about CO2 affecting the climate in the future. Especially if those concerns came from countries who have already passed through that stage of development. Even a new Cultural Revolution in China would only cause a pause in the process. Once it was over it would resume.
Why would this average consumer need Direct3D for YouTube?
Most consumers need DXVA - i.e. DirectX Video Acceleration. On a netbook DXVA would mean that you could play Youtube videos with low CPU usage. That's particularly important on a netbook.
On my 1015PX - which is the second netbook I've bought so Intel have had two chances to get it right - it still doesn't work.
According to Intel, the GMA 3150 can help the CPU decode MPEG2 videos. The DXVAChecker shows hooks for MPEG2 (VLD, MoComp, A, and C) up to 1920x1080. Therefore, the performance of the N450 and N470 with GMA 3150 is currently not sufficient to watch H.264 encoded HD videos with a higher resolution than 720p. HD flash videos (e.g. from youtube) are also not running fluently on the Atom CPUs.
It supports MPEG2. I don't think I've ever played an MPEG2 video on this machine and it could probably decode them fine in software anyway. It doesn't support H.264, which is absolutely ubiquitous and used by Youtube. An Atom N570 can decode H.264 in software but only with some effort (high CPU usage,fans at high speed, high power usage) at high resolutions.
On my i5 based notebook which is powerful enough to decode HD H.264 in software without breaking sweat H.264 is decoded by the GPU.
I think the problem is that Intel already has most of the netbook chipset market already. So getting HD youtube videos to work would just cannibalize the market for higher end i5/i7 machines. Still it seems odd that they revved the chipset and didn't fix the most obvious limitation.
No animal larger than a few kilograms and incapable of long sheltered hibernation could survive the Endorian calamity. The air might even have been poisoned and deoxygenated for a few years until simple plant life could return to growth. If so then it is possible that all animal life perished. In any case any ewok on the surface who was not equipped with impressive high-technology survival gear and a nuclear shelter must have died.
For those unfortunate beings not painlessly obliterated by the impact concussions, the initial night of celebration would linger on and on with days of darkness. A chill would fall, the waters would turn to ice and the vegetation would wilt into death or dormancy, depending on species. Provided that radioactivity was insignificant and the air remained modestly breathable (a very generous assumption) the doomed ewoks might survive for days or weeks huddling around bonfires, until they starved.
Every read that about a hundred times and every time I read it just makes me so happy.
The only other thing better than this is this wonderful piece of liberal baiting from the WS
Lucas wants the Empire to stand for evil, so he tells us that the Emperor and Darth Vader have gone over to the Dark Side and dresses them in black.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Palpatine believes that the political order must be manipulated to produce peace and stability. When he mutters, "There is no civility, there is only politics," we see that at heart, he's an esoteric Straussian.
Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.
Also, unlike the divine-right Jedi, the Empire is a meritocracy. The Empire runs academies throughout the galaxy (Han Solo begins his career at an Imperial academy), and those who show promise are promoted, often rapidly. In "The Empire Strikes Back" Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor "falls down on the job."
And while it's a small point, the Empire's manners and decorum speak well of it. When Darth Vader is forced to employ bounty hunters to track down Han Solo, he refuses to address them by name. Even Boba Fett, the greatest of all trackers, is referred to icily as "bounty hunter." And yet Fett understands the protocol. When he captures Solo, he calls him "Captain Solo." (Whether this is in deference to Han's former rank in the Imperial starfleet, or simply because Han owns and pilots his own ship, we don't know. I suspect it's the former.)
But the most compelling evidence that the Empire isn't evil comes in "The Empire Strikes Back" when Darth Vader is battling Luke Skywalker. After an exhausting fight, Vader is poised to finish Luke off, but he stays his hand. He tries to convert Luke to the Dark Side with this simple plea: "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. . . . Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy." It is here we find the real controlling impulse for the Dark Side and the Empire. The Empire doesn't want slaves or destruction or "evil." It wants order.
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin
I like C, but the problem is that most programmers cause chaos when they write it. C was always meant as a language that people who like assembler will like and use and be more productive. It was not meant as a language that today's script monkeys should use.
Also Objective C was designed according to the prinicples of Objectivism - i.e. the code of the looters and moochers would crash and burn and bankrupt their companies whereas the code of Great Men would navigate the formidable obstacles of pointers and demonstrate their status as Nietzschean Ubermenschen and be rewarded with tonnes of cash and Patricia Neal, so this is not really surprising.
How technical do I need to be before I can get away with telling people to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!". Script monkey? OS Kernel developer?
Actually it has nothing to do with technical ability. You can tell people to shut the fuck up if you're not in a position to get fired when your boss finds out. I.e. you own the company or, like Linus, you are Benevolent Dictator For Life on some open source project.
Of course - as Ulrich Drepper found out - even Benevolent Dictators For Life can look out of the window and see that the peasants are tearing down their statues, Ceausescu style. And most people reading this would get shitcanned from their sysadmin job a lot quicker than that for not jumping when their boss tells them.
Really the tech world would be a lot more pleasant if people didn't conflate rudeness and technical competence. Most people seem to master the rudeness, neglect the technical competence and then wonder why they are undervalued.
Thursday night I run into Harold Carnes at a party for a new club called World's End that opens in a space where Petty's used to be on the Upper East Side. I'm with Nina Goodrich and Jean in a booth and Harold's standing at the bar drinking champagne. I'm drunk enough to finally confront him about the message I left on his machine. Excused from the booth, I make my way to the other side of the bar, realizing that I need a martini to fortify myself before discussing this with Cannes (it has been a very unstable week for me - I found myself sobbing during an episode of Alf on Monday). Nervously, I approach. Harold is wearing a wool suit by Gieves & Hawkes, a silk twill tie, cotton shirt, shoes by Paul Stuart; he looks heavier than I remember. "Face it," he's telling Truman Drake, "the Japanese will own most of this country by the end of the '90s."
Relieved that Harold is, as usual, still dispensing valuable and new information, with the addition of a faint but unmistakable trace of, god forbid, an English accent, I find myself brazen enough to blurt out, "Shut up, Carnes, they will not." I down the martini, Stoli, while Cannes, looking quite taken aback, stricken almost, turns around to face me, and his bloated head breaks out into an uncertain smile. Someone behind us is saying, "But look what happened to Gekko..."
What happened to Japan? Property bubble burst and they had twenty years of poor growth.
China has a property bubble too, and unlike Japan is likely to go through a lot of political pain if the economy ever stumbles. Aka a bloody revolution against the swine that run the place. The LDP spent a couple of periods in opposition but bounced back quickly - the CCP will likely go down to bloody defeat Tiananmen style and then explode into factions. Actually there's a fair chance of a Yugoslavia style transition to an authoritarian nationalist regime in an attempt to keep Tibet and Xinjiang from seceding.
The CCP's legitimacy is solely due to the fact it has presided over economic growth, and if that stops I think things will get very bad, very fast.
- that die area is wasted on circuits translating x86 to internal RISC machine
If you look at a die photo most of the area is cache - the actual CPU is a small fraction of that. And the translation circuits are a small fraction of that.
Native ARM apps can run on Intel Android thanks to libhoudini. Which is actually really good performance-wise - it is probably JITing ARM code to Intel. Unfortunately it is only legally usable on Medfield chips.
Now it's plausible you've got three natural platforms
1) A mass market/default one - Microsoft Windows
2) A premium one - Apple's OS-X
3) An 'other' one - Linux
Probably the market share of the premium one is a compromise - you can have 7% market share with relatively high margins. If Apple made cheaper computers they'd sell more of them but that might not necessarily be in their best interest because it would eat into their margins and destroy the exclusiveness that makes people covet their goods.
Some types of luxury goods, such as high-end wines, designer handbags, and luxury cars, are Veblen goods, in that decreasing their prices decreases people's preference for buying them because they are no longer perceived as exclusive or high-status products.
Now look at phones and tablets. Apple have once again own the premium section. Android own the mass market one. And I think Windows Phone will be the 'other' one.
In fact Apple are doing quite a bit better in phones and tablets than this analysis would suggest.
Following the successful launch of the iPhone 5, sales of iOS devices have overtaken Android in the U.S., according to Kantar Worldpanel. The research firm found that in the past 12 weeks, sales of Apple (AAPL) smartphones accounted for 48.1% of the market compared to Android's 46.7% share. Apple loyalty remains high as the majority of iPhone 5 sales, 62%, came from existing iPhone owners while 13% switched from Android, 6% from BlackBerry devices and only a âoesmall number of first time smartphone ownersâ bought iPhone 5 handsets. An impressive 92% of existing iPhone owners, additionally, noted that their next upgrade will be an Apple device.
Most Android devices sold are much lower margin than iOS ones. In fact there are no 'cheap' iOS devices whereas there's an absolute load of cheap Android devices.
There's a lot of demand for netbooks because they run PC OSs though. E.g. I can run Visual Studio, an embedded compiler, Mingw and an Office Suite on my netbook because it runs a desktop OS and has a keyboard.
I'm still not really keen on the onscreen keyboards you get on Android.
So you're saying a life of hookers and blow tends to cause problems? If this man had had a normal family life and stayed off the drugs he'd still be free.
Why put him in a straightjacket? Crowds gather to listen to him rant and rave -- does that bother you? Why not let him opine for hours until he's hoarse if it fits his fancy?/q
On the other hand asspies are the cause of all the horrible shit on the Internet. Bronies for example have never created anything that could possibly justify their continued existence,
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Whenever I see the word pendantic it reminds of those shiny things fly fishermen use to catch fish.
How about the historical average value for CO2?
Question is what period to average over
Over hundreds of millions of years we'd end up with a very high average. In fact the further you go back, the higher the average. There's something wonderfully twisted about the idea of pitching a plan to set an industry friendly high target CO2 level to US right wingers by explaining that we should set it at the average over the last say 100 million years given that a sizeable minority of them would be young Earth creationists who don't actually believe the Earth is 100 million years old.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phanerozoic_Carbon_Dioxide.png
How about the average over 400,000. That looks like it would be about 250ppm, i.e. quite a bit lower than today. On the other hand consider
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html
Do rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increasing global temperatures, or could it be the other way around? This is one of the questions being debated today. Interestingly, CO2 lags an average of about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- confirming that CO2 is not the cause of the temperature increases. One thing is certain-- earth's climate has been warming and cooling on it's own for at least the last 400,000 years, as the data below show. At year 18,000 and counting in our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age, we may be due-- some say overdue-- for return to another icehouse climate!
So either way it seems like we need to get those SUV engines running. Also tell the Brazilians to fell more rainforest to stop them sucking the valuable CO2 out of the biosphere and causing an economically disastrous ice age.
Luckily the Chinese are doing a heroic job emitting CO2.
http://photos.mongabay.com/09/forecast_co2_line.jpg
So it doesn't really matter what the US tries to do - even if it could somehow magically cut its CO2 output to zero in the long run we'll have a lot more of it around thanks to China. And over a few decades it is almost certain that Burma, Vietnam and the like will industrialise in much the same CO2 intensive way China has. Taiwanese manufacturers have a "China+1" strategy - i.e. build factories in China plus one other country. In fact China is a big country and it is only the coastal regions that are highly industrialised and thus emit the CO2. Unfortunately that pattern is unlike to be repeated in smaller developing countries that make up the rest of Asia - they are likely to end up as industrialised as Japan over the whole country.
So the odds of humanity as a whole agreeing to cut its total CO2 output is zero. That's not really unreasonable actually - the US and Europe industrialised in a CO2 intensive way. Their CO2 outputs are now flat or falling because the factories have moved to Asia. If I were in China, Burma or Vietnam I'd be very hostile to the idea that my country should stop industrialising because of concerns about CO2 affecting the climate in the future. Especially if those concerns came from countries who have already passed through that stage of development. Even a new Cultural Revolution in China would only cause a pause in the process. Once it was over it would resume.
People that vote "Present" on controversial issues to avoid taking a potentially unpopular stand should be melted.
Hang on there's a couple of guys in dark suits and mirror shades at the door. I better go and see what they want
Meanwhile in Congress
...excellent for Facebook.
I think for Facebook you might want to melt the occupants after 8 uses, not the chair.
Damn, someone ask the intern where the green button is!
Why would this average consumer need Direct3D for YouTube?
Most consumers need DXVA - i.e. DirectX Video Acceleration. On a netbook DXVA would mean that you could play Youtube videos with low CPU usage. That's particularly important on a netbook.
On my 1015PX - which is the second netbook I've bought so Intel have had two chances to get it right - it still doesn't work.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-3150.23264.0.html
According to Intel, the GMA 3150 can help the CPU decode MPEG2 videos. The DXVAChecker shows hooks for MPEG2 (VLD, MoComp, A, and C) up to 1920x1080. Therefore, the performance of the N450 and N470 with GMA 3150 is currently not sufficient to watch H.264 encoded HD videos with a higher resolution than 720p. HD flash videos (e.g. from youtube) are also not running fluently on the Atom CPUs.
It supports MPEG2. I don't think I've ever played an MPEG2 video on this machine and it could probably decode them fine in software anyway. It doesn't support H.264, which is absolutely ubiquitous and used by Youtube. An Atom N570 can decode H.264 in software but only with some effort (high CPU usage,fans at high speed, high power usage) at high resolutions.
On my i5 based notebook which is powerful enough to decode HD H.264 in software without breaking sweat H.264 is decoded by the GPU.
I think the problem is that Intel already has most of the netbook chipset market already. So getting HD youtube videos to work would just cannibalize the market for higher end i5/i7 machines. Still it seems odd that they revved the chipset and didn't fix the most obvious limitation.
No animal larger than a few kilograms and incapable of long sheltered hibernation could survive the Endorian calamity. The air might even have been poisoned and deoxygenated for a few years until simple plant life could return to growth. If so then it is possible that all animal life perished. In any case any ewok on the surface who was not equipped with impressive high-technology survival gear and a nuclear shelter must have died.
For those unfortunate beings not painlessly obliterated by the impact concussions, the initial night of celebration would linger on and on with days of darkness. A chill would fall, the waters would turn to ice and the vegetation would wilt into death or dormancy, depending on species. Provided that radioactivity was insignificant and the air remained modestly breathable (a very generous assumption) the doomed ewoks might survive for days or weeks huddling around bonfires, until they starved.
Every read that about a hundred times and every time I read it just makes me so happy.
The only other thing better than this is this wonderful piece of liberal baiting from the WS
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp?nopager=1
Lucas wants the Empire to stand for evil, so he tells us that the Emperor and Darth Vader have gone over to the Dark Side and dresses them in black.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Palpatine believes that the political order must be manipulated to produce peace and stability. When he mutters, "There is no civility, there is only politics," we see that at heart, he's an esoteric Straussian.
Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.
Also, unlike the divine-right Jedi, the Empire is a meritocracy. The Empire runs academies throughout the galaxy (Han Solo begins his career at an Imperial academy), and those who show promise are promoted, often rapidly. In "The Empire Strikes Back" Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor "falls down on the job."
And while it's a small point, the Empire's manners and decorum speak well of it. When Darth Vader is forced to employ bounty hunters to track down Han Solo, he refuses to address them by name. Even Boba Fett, the greatest of all trackers, is referred to icily as "bounty hunter." And yet Fett understands the protocol. When he captures Solo, he calls him "Captain Solo." (Whether this is in deference to Han's former rank in the Imperial starfleet, or simply because Han owns and pilots his own ship, we don't know. I suspect it's the former.)
But the most compelling evidence that the Empire isn't evil comes in "The Empire Strikes Back" when Darth Vader is battling Luke Skywalker. After an exhausting fight, Vader is poised to finish Luke off, but he stays his hand. He tries to convert Luke to the Dark Side with this simple plea: "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. . . . Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy." It is here we find the real controlling impulse for the Dark Side and the Empire. The Empire doesn't want slaves or destruction or "evil." It wants order.
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin
I like C, but the problem is that most programmers cause chaos when they write it. C was always meant as a language that people who like assembler will like and use and be more productive. It was not meant as a language that today's script monkeys should use.
Also Objective C was designed according to the prinicples of Objectivism - i.e. the code of the looters and moochers would crash and burn and bankrupt their companies whereas the code of Great Men would navigate the formidable obstacles of pointers and demonstrate their status as Nietzschean Ubermenschen and be rewarded with tonnes of cash and Patricia Neal, so this is not really surprising.
They should comment out the call to DDCrash. As its name suggests that often causes problems
X-Sarcasm : This post is sarcasm.
open source being the tool of little man to fight the giants, thus seen as a holy thing.
If it's a holy thing, shouldn't painful martyrdom encourage it? That's what the Romans found happened with the early Christians.
How technical do I need to be before I can get away with telling people to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!". Script monkey? OS Kernel developer?
Actually it has nothing to do with technical ability. You can tell people to shut the fuck up if you're not in a position to get fired when your boss finds out. I.e. you own the company or, like Linus, you are Benevolent Dictator For Life on some open source project.
Of course - as Ulrich Drepper found out - even Benevolent Dictators For Life can look out of the window and see that the peasants are tearing down their statues, Ceausescu style. And most people reading this would get shitcanned from their sysadmin job a lot quicker than that for not jumping when their boss tells them.
Really the tech world would be a lot more pleasant if people didn't conflate rudeness and technical competence. Most people seem to master the rudeness, neglect the technical competence and then wonder why they are undervalued.
http://mycourselinks.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ellis-bret-easton-american-psycho.pdf
Thursday night I run into Harold Carnes at a party for a new club called World's End that opens in a space where Petty's used to be on the Upper East Side. I'm with Nina Goodrich and Jean in a booth and Harold's standing at the bar drinking champagne. I'm drunk enough to finally confront him about the message I left on his machine. Excused from the booth, I make my way to the other side of the bar, realizing that I need a martini to fortify myself before discussing this with Cannes (it has been a very unstable week for me - I found myself sobbing during an episode of Alf on Monday). Nervously, I approach. Harold is wearing a wool suit by Gieves & Hawkes, a silk twill tie, cotton shirt, shoes by Paul Stuart; he looks heavier than I remember. "Face it," he's telling Truman Drake, "the Japanese will own most of this country by the end of the '90s."
Relieved that Harold is, as usual, still dispensing valuable and new information, with the addition of a faint but unmistakable trace of, god forbid, an English accent, I find myself brazen enough to blurt out, "Shut up, Carnes, they will not." I down the martini, Stoli, while Cannes, looking quite taken aback, stricken almost, turns around to face me, and his bloated head breaks out into an uncertain smile. Someone behind us is saying, "But look what happened to Gekko..."
What happened to Japan? Property bubble burst and they had twenty years of poor growth.
China has a property bubble too, and unlike Japan is likely to go through a lot of political pain if the economy ever stumbles. Aka a bloody revolution against the swine that run the place. The LDP spent a couple of periods in opposition but bounced back quickly - the CCP will likely go down to bloody defeat Tiananmen style and then explode into factions. Actually there's a fair chance of a Yugoslavia style transition to an authoritarian nationalist regime in an attempt to keep Tibet and Xinjiang from seceding.
The CCP's legitimacy is solely due to the fact it has presided over economic growth, and if that stops I think things will get very bad, very fast.
- that die area is wasted on circuits translating x86 to internal RISC machine
If you look at a die photo most of the area is cache - the actual CPU is a small fraction of that. And the translation circuits are a small fraction of that.
I can't wait for an Atom that pairs the new Atari Dumbledore CPU core and the new Porkslope Turkeyhandle GPU.
BTW the reason why Android is outselling Apple is because its "better value"
Calling Apple stuff Verblen good was not intended as a compliment. Either to Apple or the people that buy their stuff.
Native ARM apps can run on Intel Android thanks to libhoudini. Which is actually really good performance-wise - it is probably JITing ARM code to Intel. Unfortunately it is only legally usable on Medfield chips.
http://grokbase.com/p/gg/android-x86/12a35ssv8e/commercial-application-testing
If you look at desktops Windows ended up with about 91.3%. OS-X has about 7.3% and Linux has 1.25%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Now it's plausible you've got three natural platforms
1) A mass market/default one - Microsoft Windows
2) A premium one - Apple's OS-X
3) An 'other' one - Linux
Probably the market share of the premium one is a compromise - you can have 7% market share with relatively high margins. If Apple made cheaper computers they'd sell more of them but that might not necessarily be in their best interest because it would eat into their margins and destroy the exclusiveness that makes people covet their goods.
I.e. the premium brand is a Verblen good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Some types of luxury goods, such as high-end wines, designer handbags, and luxury cars, are Veblen goods, in that decreasing their prices decreases people's preference for buying them because they are no longer perceived as exclusive or high-status products.
Now look at phones and tablets. Apple have once again own the premium section. Android own the mass market one. And I think Windows Phone will be the 'other' one.
In fact Apple are doing quite a bit better in phones and tablets than this analysis would suggest.
http://bgr.com/2012/11/27/iphone-5-market-share-october-2012/
Following the successful launch of the iPhone 5, sales of iOS devices have overtaken Android in the U.S., according to Kantar Worldpanel. The research firm found that in the past 12 weeks, sales of Apple (AAPL) smartphones accounted for 48.1% of the market compared to Android's 46.7% share. Apple loyalty remains high as the majority of iPhone 5 sales, 62%, came from existing iPhone owners while 13% switched from Android, 6% from BlackBerry devices and only a âoesmall number of first time smartphone ownersâ bought iPhone 5 handsets. An impressive 92% of existing iPhone owners, additionally, noted that their next upgrade will be an Apple device.
Most Android devices sold are much lower margin than iOS ones. In fact there are no 'cheap' iOS devices whereas there's an absolute load of cheap Android devices.
There's a lot of demand for netbooks because they run PC OSs though. E.g. I can run Visual Studio, an embedded compiler, Mingw and an Office Suite on my netbook because it runs a desktop OS and has a keyboard.
I'm still not really keen on the onscreen keyboards you get on Android.
It's actually surprising how Android is a brilliant OS for phones and tablets despite the fact you'd never think of using for this sort of stuff.
So you're saying a life of hookers and blow tends to cause problems? If this man had had a normal family life and stayed off the drugs he'd still be free.
There's a big difference between the scientists who discover things like this and people like Hansen, even if both get paid by NASA.
Hansen thinks he already knows the truth and goes out to find more evidence for it. These guys know they don't know.
Those paragraphs are easier to read after a Red Bull though.
Red Bull gives you wings!
Excuse me, Jesus Fried Chicken is a trademark of mine.
There's more than one way to skin them though.
Why put him in a straightjacket? Crowds gather to listen to him rant and rave -- does that bother you? Why not let him opine for hours until he's hoarse if it fits his fancy?/q
On the other hand asspies are the cause of all the horrible shit on the Internet. Bronies for example have never created anything that could possibly justify their continued existence,
We need to send these people to the glue factory.