The current 17" MBP has a regular price of $2500. Mid-2010 it would have had an i5 processor.
While expensive, it's one of very few laptops offering a 1920x1200 display. Even most of the other "high end" ones are offering only 1920x1080. That's 10% less vertical capacity.
The final connection to the house should be run as a utility that is completely separate from the ISPs. The ISPs would terminate at neighborhood substations and all ISPs would use the same last-mile connections.
This would minimize the startup costs since you don't have nearly as much cable plant to deal with.
Under Net Neutrality, you (as an end user) can still buy higher priority/more bandwidth lines on either end if you pay for them.
For me the big problem with NOT having net neutrality is that my ISP is also the cable provider, so they can give preferential treatment to packets from their own video-on-demand service while slowing down the traffic to the internet as a whole (incidentally slowing down Netflix). If I choose not to use their video-on-demand service then my Netflix packets are being slowed down to allow my neighbour to stream his movie smoothly.
EUFI is not a PC-compatible BIOS, but it's still a "basic input output system" used to load the "real" OS. Sure, the proper word is firmware, but really I wouldn't be surprised if most people still call it the BIOS.
Creating a full OS is HARD. By going with Linux you get out-of-the box hardware support, tcp/ip stack, wifi stack, bluetooth stack, graphics support, preemptive multitasking, flash support, card reader support, audio support, etc.
A relatively simple reader with physical buttons and no networking is fairly straightforward. Something like the Nook Color or Kindle Fire is a whole different ballgame.
Patents were intended as the alternative to a trade secret. The way it was supposed to work is that rather than keep everything secret (like the old medieval guild system did) you documented how you built something and in return you got the rights to that device for a limited amount of time. Thus others could see how you did it and either license it from you for a fee or else figure out an alternative way of doing it, and after the time had expired then the information was publicly available.
As for the claim of "bogus" or "largely questionable" patents, are you seriously arguing that "placing a loading status icon in the content viewing area of a browser" (ie, put the status icon where it's actually visible when zoomed in) isn't obvious? Or loading the text first and then the images? Or using handles to change the size of selected text area (how else are you going to do it when you can't click and drag?).
I have a touchpad. Compared to my 14" laptop with core i3 and a couple gigs of RAM, the tablet is much lighter and smaller, has longer battery life, turns on faster, and is less likely to be damaged by my toddlers' grubby fingers poking at it. The tablet can be held in one hand while poking at it with the other.
I use my tablet for late-night reading with a kid sleeping in my lap and the lights turned low. I can watch movies on the airplane when there isn't enough room in economy to properly open up my laptop. I can watch movies on a long trip without needing an inverter.
Sure, it's no good for serious work--for that I have another machine with many gigs of RAM and a couple of large displays. But for some things it's great.
So far it works pretty darn well for casual web browsing (including Flash!), media consumption, and videoconferencing. Kindle reader app works well, though something that could deal with Adobe digital editions would be nice.
So far I'm not really seeing anything (for my usage) where spending 4x the money on an iPad would make much difference.
There will be server versions as well...I've seen specs (publicly available) for an 8-core (16-thread) sandy bridge EP with a 95W TDP. I suspect it's clocked a bit lower and maybe binned for efficiency.
My cable company is also my ISP. They don't like Netflix, and are launching their own streaming network video service to compete. Because they're my ISP, they could give their own service priority treatment over their Internet access and this would be allowable under your proposed rules.
The problem is that even if I don't subscribe to their service, my Internet packets get slowed down because someone else's video streaming packets get priority. This would cause their video streaming service to be beautifully smooth and fast at the cost of *everyone's* Internet connectivity, thus basically allowing them to leverage the fact that they're the ISP to compete against Netflix in a way that is arguably unfair.
Added to that, they can do things like not count traffic to their own services against the monthly cap. I'm actually okay with that since I don't generally hit the caps anyway and there is a real cost to going outside their network--but the cost is nowhere near what they charge.
If the ISP is doing carrier-grade NAT across their whole address pool, does it matter anymore that you might technically share an IP address with others? Heck, you could be using different public v4 addresses for different connections and most people would never know.
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A capacitive switching DC-to-DC converter is capable of up to 98% efficiency depending on how it's configured and what voltages it's operating at.
They bought out Minolta's camera division, so all autofocus Minolta lenses will work with modern Sony digital SLRs.
so I reentered the text only to find that the first message had gone through...
The current 17" MBP has a regular price of $2500. Mid-2010 it would have had an i5 processor.
While expensive, it's one of very few laptops offering a 1920x1200 display. Even most of the other "high end" ones are offering only 1920x1080. That's 10% less vertical capacity.
17" MBP at Best Buy. Regular price $2500, now on sale for $2300.
Currently uses i7, but in mid 2010 it would have been an i5.
The MBP is also just about the only laptop left with a 1920x1200 pixel screen. Just about everyone else has gone to 1920x1080.
Freezers will run in infrequent bursts. It's likely not the end of the world if your food spends a few hours at -1F instead of -4F.
Technically if the tax base increases and you don't increase the government budget, then you have an effective reduction in per-capita spending.
I have a disk with unpartitioned free space on it. It could very easily hold encrypted data and there's no way for me to prove that it doesn't.
It looks like it's got a male usb connector on one end and a male hdmi connector on the other. Just stick it into the hdmi port on the TV/monitor.
People who use asserts in fielded code are either (1) lazy or (2) dumb or (3) cheating their employers.
Assuming performance isn't a problem, why wouldn't you leave them in on the off chance that you made a mistake in a corner case somewhere?
The final connection to the house should be run as a utility that is completely separate from the ISPs. The ISPs would terminate at neighborhood substations and all ISPs would use the same last-mile connections.
This would minimize the startup costs since you don't have nearly as much cable plant to deal with.
Under Net Neutrality, you (as an end user) can still buy higher priority/more bandwidth lines on either end if you pay for them.
For me the big problem with NOT having net neutrality is that my ISP is also the cable provider, so they can give preferential treatment to packets from their own video-on-demand service while slowing down the traffic to the internet as a whole (incidentally slowing down Netflix). If I choose not to use their video-on-demand service then my Netflix packets are being slowed down to allow my neighbour to stream his movie smoothly.
EUFI is not a PC-compatible BIOS, but it's still a "basic input output system" used to load the "real" OS. Sure, the proper word is firmware, but really I wouldn't be surprised if most people still call it the BIOS.
I had one overseas where we had no power.
So carrier-grade gear will be DC-DC.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/89710-the-fanless-spinning-heatsink-the-heatsink-is-the-fan
Creating a full OS is HARD. By going with Linux you get out-of-the box hardware support, tcp/ip stack, wifi stack, bluetooth stack, graphics support, preemptive multitasking, flash support, card reader support, audio support, etc.
A relatively simple reader with physical buttons and no networking is fairly straightforward. Something like the Nook Color or Kindle Fire is a whole different ballgame.
The product is the phone that uses it.
Besides, how is what Google is doing releasing Android any different than what Canonical is doing making Ubuntu freely available?
Patents were intended as the alternative to a trade secret. The way it was supposed to work is that rather than keep everything secret (like the old medieval guild system did) you documented how you built something and in return you got the rights to that device for a limited amount of time. Thus others could see how you did it and either license it from you for a fee or else figure out an alternative way of doing it, and after the time had expired then the information was publicly available.
As for the claim of "bogus" or "largely questionable" patents, are you seriously arguing that "placing a loading status icon in the content viewing area of a browser" (ie, put the status icon where it's actually visible when zoomed in) isn't obvious? Or loading the text first and then the images? Or using handles to change the size of selected text area (how else are you going to do it when you can't click and drag?).
I have a touchpad. Compared to my 14" laptop with core i3 and a couple gigs of RAM, the tablet is much lighter and smaller, has longer battery life, turns on faster, and is less likely to be damaged by my toddlers' grubby fingers poking at it. The tablet can be held in one hand while poking at it with the other.
I use my tablet for late-night reading with a kid sleeping in my lap and the lights turned low. I can watch movies on the airplane when there isn't enough room in economy to properly open up my laptop. I can watch movies on a long trip without needing an inverter.
Sure, it's no good for serious work--for that I have another machine with many gigs of RAM and a couple of large displays. But for some things it's great.
So far it works pretty darn well for casual web browsing (including Flash!), media consumption, and videoconferencing. Kindle reader app works well, though something that could deal with Adobe digital editions would be nice.
So far I'm not really seeing anything (for my usage) where spending 4x the money on an iPad would make much difference.
There will be server versions as well...I've seen specs (publicly available) for an 8-core (16-thread) sandy bridge EP with a 95W TDP. I suspect it's clocked a bit lower and maybe binned for efficiency.
There is a blacklist for individual devices, including some Intel NICs. If yours isn't on the list, maybe it should be.
My cable company is also my ISP. They don't like Netflix, and are launching their own streaming network video service to compete. Because they're my ISP, they could give their own service priority treatment over their Internet access and this would be allowable under your proposed rules.
The problem is that even if I don't subscribe to their service, my Internet packets get slowed down because someone else's video streaming packets get priority. This would cause their video streaming service to be beautifully smooth and fast at the cost of *everyone's* Internet connectivity, thus basically allowing them to leverage the fact that they're the ISP to compete against Netflix in a way that is arguably unfair.
Added to that, they can do things like not count traffic to their own services against the monthly cap. I'm actually okay with that since I don't generally hit the caps anyway and there is a real cost to going outside their network--but the cost is nowhere near what they charge.
If the ISP is doing carrier-grade NAT across their whole address pool, does it matter anymore that you might technically share an IP address with others? Heck, you could be using different public v4 addresses for different connections and most people would never know.