The voting populace must be informed, or they will put a bunch of fools in office.
Zeah, that never happens
It's a comfy thought that a voting majority would be able to run and support a modern rule-of-law state, but there's nobody really disputes that that's a pretty naive fantasy. In reality we have something resembling a meritocracy, where the less competent among us fail to get into positions of authority and withdraw from public debate. What's left is a ruling elite, who in turn take policy advice from intellectuals and experts. Where opinions differ the population is allowed to vote which bunch of politicians are allowed to take advice from the intellectuals. This is where the lower classes come into play, since securing their vote will give one political group more power than the other. It doesn't matter if they're informed, they could be as thick as a brick and no-one would care. The majority choose not to actively participate in public debate, so when it come time to vote they really are little more than trophies for the political groups and parties who do.
Their revenue stream relies on lock-in. To the unknowing masses who don't understand packet switching or P2P connections Skype might seem like a reasonable deal, but for a VOIP gateway their service is ridiculously over-priced. If a competitor can offer their own service, but still allow it's users to easily interact with Skype customers then they would have to compete based on merit alone.
Especially with the blazing-fast tech market, any self-respecting IT guy should be on the look-out for new developments that will potentially help productivity. Even if some uses turn out to be totally superfluous, the expected return from trying out new stuff is huge.
Where you see opportunity I see clunky workarounds and waste of resources. The service you mention does exist. You can run a PBX with the necessary software for free, or you could use the POTS gateways that charge by the minute. Problem is it totally defeats the point of P2P voice calling.
It would also help explaining what the Samsung Exynos is in the first place. From Samsung's website:
General Description Exynos 4210 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on the 32-bit RISC processor for smartphones, tablet PCs, and Netbook markets. Exynos 4210 provides the best performance features such as dual core CPU, highest memory bandwidth, world's first native triple display, 1080p video decode and encode hardware, 3D graphics hardware, and high-speed interfaces such as SATA and USB.
Exynos 4210 uses the CortexA9 dual core, which is 25% DMIPS faster than the CortexA8 core. It provides 6.4GB/s memory bandwidth for heavy traffic operations such as 1080p video en/decoding, 3D graphics display, and native triple display. The application processor supports dynamic virtual address mapping. This feature will help the software engineers to fully utilize the memory resources with ease.
Exynos 4210 provides the best 3D graphics performance and native triple display. The native triple display, in particular, supports WSVGA resolution of two main LCD displays and 1080p HDTV display throughout HDMI, simultaneously. This is possible due to the capability of Exynos 4210 to support separate post processing pipelines.
Exynos 4210 lowers the Bill of Materials (BOM) by integrating the following IPs: world's first DDR3 interfaces that will prepare bit cross with DDR2; 8 channels of I2C for a variety of sensors; SATA2; the GPS baseband; and a variety of USB derivatives (USB Host 2.0, Device 2.0, and HSIC interfaces with PHY transceivers to be connected with 802.11n, Ethernet, HSPA+, and 4G LTE modem). The application processor also supports industry's first DDR based eMMC 4.4 interfaces to increase the file system's performance.
Exynos 4210 is available as FCMSP Package on Package (PoP), which has a 0.45mm ball pitch with LPDDR2 configuration. The MCP will depend upon the customer's requirement.
Exynos 4210 Block Diagram Features
ARM CortexA9 dual core subsystem with 64-/128-bit SIMD NEON
- 32KB (Instruction)/32KB (Data) L1 Cache and 1MB L2 Cache
- 1.2Hz and 1.0GHz Core Frequency: Voltage 1.2V
64-bit Multi-layered bus architecture
Internal ROM and RAM for secure booting, security, and general purposes
Memory Subsystem:
- SRAM/ROM/NOR/NAND Interface with x8 or x16 data bus
- OneNAND Interface with x16 data bus
- 2-ports 32-bit 800Mbps LPDDR2/DDR2/DDR3 Interfaces
8-bit ITU 601/656 Camera Interface
Multi-format Video Hardware Codec: 1080p 30fps (capable of decoding and encoding MPEG-4/H.263/H.264) and 1080p 30fps (capable of decoding MPEG-2/VC1)
JPEG Hardware Codec
3D and 2D graphics hardware, supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0, and OpenVG 1.1
LCD single or dual display, supporting 24bpp RGB, MIPI
Native triple display, supporting WSVGA LCD dual display and 1080p HDMI, simultaneously
Composite TV-out and HDMI 1.3a interfaces
GPS baseband integration with GPS RF interface
2-ports (4-lanes and 2-lanes) MIPI DSI and MIPI CSI interfaces
1-channel AC-97, 2-channel PCM, and 3-channel 24-bit I2S audio interface, supporting 5.1 channel audio
1-channel S/PDIF interface support for digital audio
8-channel I2C interface support for PMIC, HDMI, and general-purpose multi-master
3-channel high-speed SPI
4-channel high-speed UART (up to 3Mbps data rate for Bluetooth 2.1
A computer is not an operating system. Just sayin. I guess I can't blame you for not knowing the difference, probably 90% of electronics store assistants and their customers couldn't tell you either.
My frustration with inkjet printers was that the ink would dry out, effectively increasing the running cost far beyond the best-case scenario that reviewers analyze. They also fail much more often, generally after a period of non-use. Laser printers on the other hand are much more reliable will function flawlessly after extended dormant periods. For the small fortune of money I must have invested in ink cartridges and refills, I can say that I have very few color print-outs to show for it.
If you print large volumes then it will obviously make sense to go for the solution with the cheapest ink. I suspect the best solution would be a continuous-ink inkjet system. For most home users however, who use their printer mostly for printing letters and text documents, and might occasionally want a color print-out of something pretty, I would tend to recommend something that won't require an awful lot of maintenance.
The fallacy lies therein that already in your physical explanation assume the "knowledge" (presumably the consciousness of a human) to cause the particle to "take a stand". That's simply a step too far. I suppose this is due to the unfortunate choice of words: If your lecturer had used the word "interaction" instead of "observation" or "measurement" you would probably have had a different perception.
The only way to measure particles is to interact with them. In this context it would seem far more reasonable to assume that the first particle to interact with the electron caused the collapse of the wave function.
All previous physical theories were highly deterministic. Uncertainty was taken to be solely due to chaotic system's behavior. People who believed in a "free will" philosophy had a problem with this idea that consciousness is merely a state of a system of molecules, where an outcome would be deterministic. With Quantum mechanics came theories which embed uncertainty into the fundamental forces of nature. This provided the philosophers a physical process to "express" the hypothetical free will. Of course a physicist will realize that this is just jumping to conclusions, and that the brain is still just a system state of molecules, and that the uncertainty basically translates to some quantum effects and random noise.
Have you researched market opportunities? I can't imagine aerial surveys coming cheap, there must be at least several hundred dollars per deployment in there I should think
There seem to be interesting things going on in the DIY/hobbyist sector as well. I could think of a whole range of services one could offer and for which these would be perfectly adequate.
There are simply so many different functions and possible paths of accomplishing things with computers that manuals will rarely be helpful. In fact, this is what much of the problem is. People are being uncreative and expect to be given instructions about how to do something rather that learn the functionality of the software and solve the problem themselves.
EVERYONE I have passed my iPhone too for the first time has used their fingernails, and when it didn't work just pushed harder. Even after explaining that they need to use the flesh on their finger they almost instantly forget or ignore my advice.
Rubbish. I will admit I find Apple's clock really unintuitive from a UI design perspective. But it hasn't got anything to do with how many "phone clock interfaces" you've seen before. It's just th basics of a digital GUI: There are buttons to press, and pressing them will usually bring up more information. With this simple behavior I can use all sorts of small apps that I've never seen before.
The iPhone and Android phones landed on a market which were hungry for their products. Any tech geek could immediately realize the potential of a media-capable handheld computer with a slick UI and internet access.
Of course there are many interesting uses for the iPad, but it's essentially a recreational toy. There aren't many productive uses for the device. So they're relying very much on the brand and novelty apps to shift hardware. It's not so much that people are deciding between Android and iPad, it's that Apple have convinced people that they need an iPad. That's the genius of marketing.
The problem with current Solar cells is not efficiency. Well, in a way it is of course, because every improvement helps along the economics.
The real problem is that the panels require a huge amount of energy to produce as they rely on highly refined materials. So much energy is required that it takes years or decades to break even.
And the whole world uses Apple? I couldn't tell you what the most recent OSX is and I couldn't really care. I don't buy them. Unless you're a felinologist their names and images are just too similar in concept to tell apart.
Huh? iTunes still has DRM. They just don't slap it onto music files any more.
I would also argue that Apple's whole "iOS" system is a bad case of DRM. In light of that the fact that Apple sell unencrypted Audio files seems quite unimportant.
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The voting populace must be informed, or they will put a bunch of fools in office.
Zeah, that never happens
It's a comfy thought that a voting majority would be able to run and support a modern rule-of-law state, but there's nobody really disputes that that's a pretty naive fantasy. In reality we have something resembling a meritocracy, where the less competent among us fail to get into positions of authority and withdraw from public debate. What's left is a ruling elite, who in turn take policy advice from intellectuals and experts. Where opinions differ the population is allowed to vote which bunch of politicians are allowed to take advice from the intellectuals.
This is where the lower classes come into play, since securing their vote will give one political group more power than the other. It doesn't matter if they're informed, they could be as thick as a brick and no-one would care. The majority choose not to actively participate in public debate, so when it come time to vote they really are little more than trophies for the political groups and parties who do.
Ekiga
But I bet this has nothing to do with security and everything with preventing other clients connecting to the network.
Their revenue stream relies on lock-in. To the unknowing masses who don't understand packet switching or P2P connections Skype might seem like a reasonable deal, but for a VOIP gateway their service is ridiculously over-priced. If a competitor can offer their own service, but still allow it's users to easily interact with Skype customers then they would have to compete based on merit alone.
Especially with the blazing-fast tech market, any self-respecting IT guy should be on the look-out for new developments that will potentially help productivity. Even if some uses turn out to be totally superfluous, the expected return from trying out new stuff is huge.
Where you see opportunity I see clunky workarounds and waste of resources. The service you mention does exist. You can run a PBX with the necessary software for free, or you could use the POTS gateways that charge by the minute.
Problem is it totally defeats the point of P2P voice calling.
To compensate for journalistic laziness? I think not.
It would also help explaining what the Samsung Exynos is in the first place. From Samsung's website:
General Description
Exynos 4210 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on the 32-bit RISC processor for smartphones, tablet PCs, and Netbook markets. Exynos 4210 provides the best performance features such as dual core CPU, highest memory bandwidth, world's first native triple display, 1080p video decode and encode hardware, 3D graphics hardware, and high-speed interfaces such as SATA and USB.
Exynos 4210 uses the CortexA9 dual core, which is 25% DMIPS faster than the CortexA8 core. It provides 6.4GB/s memory bandwidth for heavy traffic operations such as 1080p video en/decoding, 3D graphics display, and native triple display. The application processor supports dynamic virtual address mapping. This feature will help the software engineers to fully utilize the memory resources with ease.
Exynos 4210 provides the best 3D graphics performance and native triple display. The native triple display, in particular, supports WSVGA resolution of two main LCD displays and 1080p HDTV display throughout HDMI, simultaneously. This is possible due to the capability of Exynos 4210 to support separate post processing pipelines.
Exynos 4210 lowers the Bill of Materials (BOM) by integrating the following IPs: world's first DDR3 interfaces that will prepare bit cross with DDR2; 8 channels of I2C for a variety of sensors; SATA2; the GPS baseband; and a variety of USB derivatives (USB Host 2.0, Device 2.0, and HSIC interfaces with PHY transceivers to be connected with 802.11n, Ethernet, HSPA+, and 4G LTE modem). The application processor also supports industry's first DDR based eMMC 4.4 interfaces to increase the file system's performance.
Exynos 4210 is available as FCMSP Package on Package (PoP), which has a 0.45mm ball pitch with LPDDR2 configuration. The MCP will depend upon the customer's requirement.
Exynos 4210 Block Diagram
Features
ARM CortexA9 dual core subsystem with 64-/128-bit SIMD NEON
- 32KB (Instruction)/32KB (Data) L1 Cache and 1MB L2 Cache
- 1.2Hz and 1.0GHz Core Frequency: Voltage 1.2V
64-bit Multi-layered bus architecture
Internal ROM and RAM for secure booting, security, and general purposes
Memory Subsystem:
- SRAM/ROM/NOR/NAND Interface with x8 or x16 data bus
- OneNAND Interface with x16 data bus
- 2-ports 32-bit 800Mbps LPDDR2/DDR2/DDR3 Interfaces
8-bit ITU 601/656 Camera Interface
Multi-format Video Hardware Codec: 1080p 30fps (capable of decoding and encoding MPEG-4/H.263/H.264) and 1080p 30fps (capable of decoding MPEG-2/VC1)
JPEG Hardware Codec
3D and 2D graphics hardware, supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0, and OpenVG 1.1
LCD single or dual display, supporting 24bpp RGB, MIPI
Native triple display, supporting WSVGA LCD dual display and 1080p HDMI, simultaneously
Composite TV-out and HDMI 1.3a interfaces
GPS baseband integration with GPS RF interface
2-ports (4-lanes and 2-lanes) MIPI DSI and MIPI CSI interfaces
1-channel AC-97, 2-channel PCM, and 3-channel 24-bit I2S audio interface, supporting 5.1 channel audio
1-channel S/PDIF interface support for digital audio
8-channel I2C interface support for PMIC, HDMI, and general-purpose multi-master
3-channel high-speed SPI
4-channel high-speed UART (up to 3Mbps data rate for Bluetooth 2.1
A computer is not an operating system. Just sayin.
I guess I can't blame you for not knowing the difference, probably 90% of electronics store assistants and their customers couldn't tell you either.
My frustration with inkjet printers was that the ink would dry out, effectively increasing the running cost far beyond the best-case scenario that reviewers analyze. They also fail much more often, generally after a period of non-use. Laser printers on the other hand are much more reliable will function flawlessly after extended dormant periods.
For the small fortune of money I must have invested in ink cartridges and refills, I can say that I have very few color print-outs to show for it.
If you print large volumes then it will obviously make sense to go for the solution with the cheapest ink. I suspect the best solution would be a continuous-ink inkjet system.
For most home users however, who use their printer mostly for printing letters and text documents, and might occasionally want a color print-out of something pretty, I would tend to recommend something that won't require an awful lot of maintenance.
The fallacy lies therein that already in your physical explanation assume the "knowledge" (presumably the consciousness of a human) to cause the particle to "take a stand". That's simply a step too far.
I suppose this is due to the unfortunate choice of words: If your lecturer had used the word "interaction" instead of "observation" or "measurement" you would probably have had a different perception.
The only way to measure particles is to interact with them. In this context it would seem far more reasonable to assume that the first particle to interact with the electron caused the collapse of the wave function.
All previous physical theories were highly deterministic. Uncertainty was taken to be solely due to chaotic system's behavior. People who believed in a "free will" philosophy had a problem with this idea that consciousness is merely a state of a system of molecules, where an outcome would be deterministic.
With Quantum mechanics came theories which embed uncertainty into the fundamental forces of nature. This provided the philosophers a physical process to "express" the hypothetical free will.
Of course a physicist will realize that this is just jumping to conclusions, and that the brain is still just a system state of molecules, and that the uncertainty basically translates to some quantum effects and random noise.
When was the last time someone at the computer store asked you what OS you would like to take with your PC?
I meant the alleged 20-30k commercial alternatives.
Do you have any links for some of these automated drones?
Have you researched market opportunities? I can't imagine aerial surveys coming cheap, there must be at least several hundred dollars per deployment in there I should think
There seem to be interesting things going on in the DIY/hobbyist sector as well. I could think of a whole range of services one could offer and for which these would be perfectly adequate.
Xerography was a fanciful neologism for a process invented by Xerox's founder.
Microsoft has a trademark on .Net (pronounced dot-net) as a fanciful name for a particular product.
They also have a Trademark for Windows as an OS, but that doesn't stop anyone using the term for the UI elements in their OS's.
The "App Store" is a descriptive term for two very generic concepts: An online store for computer applications.
Notice that Apple doesn't make the (rediculous) claim of exclusivity over the term "App", since they only started using it very recently.
There are simply so many different functions and possible paths of accomplishing things with computers that manuals will rarely be helpful. In fact, this is what much of the problem is. People are being uncreative and expect to be given instructions about how to do something rather that learn the functionality of the software and solve the problem themselves.
EVERYONE I have passed my iPhone too for the first time has used their fingernails, and when it didn't work just pushed harder. Even after explaining that they need to use the flesh on their finger they almost instantly forget or ignore my advice.
Rubbish. I will admit I find Apple's clock really unintuitive from a UI design perspective. But it hasn't got anything to do with how many "phone clock interfaces" you've seen before.
It's just th basics of a digital GUI: There are buttons to press, and pressing them will usually bring up more information. With this simple behavior I can use all sorts of small apps that I've never seen before.
The iPhone and Android phones landed on a market which were hungry for their products. Any tech geek could immediately realize the potential of a media-capable handheld computer with a slick UI and internet access.
Of course there are many interesting uses for the iPad, but it's essentially a recreational toy. There aren't many productive uses for the device. So they're relying very much on the brand and novelty apps to shift hardware.
It's not so much that people are deciding between Android and iPad, it's that Apple have convinced people that they need an iPad. That's the genius of marketing.
Looks more like Moltres
The problem with current Solar cells is not efficiency. Well, in a way it is of course, because every improvement helps along the economics.
The real problem is that the panels require a huge amount of energy to produce as they rely on highly refined materials. So much energy is required that it takes years or decades to break even.
And the whole world uses Apple? I couldn't tell you what the most recent OSX is and I couldn't really care. I don't buy them.
Unless you're a felinologist their names and images are just too similar in concept to tell apart.
Huh? iTunes still has DRM. They just don't slap it onto music files any more.
I would also argue that Apple's whole "iOS" system is a bad case of DRM. In light of that the fact that Apple sell unencrypted Audio files seems quite unimportant.