ARM don't make the chips, they license the basic core design to chip manufacturers, who customize it to their own needs, then sell the chips.
So there's no threat of Android, or anyone else, being denied supply, there's a wide variety of suppliers to choose from.
You'd need a frakkin powerful laser to punch through clouds from geosynchronous orbit (about 36,000 km above the Earth).
What if it's a sunny day? How bright would the laser need to be to be noticeable in bright tropical sunlight?
For those4 of you who are lucky enough to never have worked on such projects, here's how I.T. outsourcing works...
1. Client calls for tenders on a vaguely-defined project.
2. Outsourcing companies put in bids that are _very_ keenly priced. It's not unusual for the initial big to be a break-even, or even a loss-maker for the outsourcing company.
3. Client chooses lowest bidder - even if other bidders are clearly better-qualified to do the job.
4. Contract is signed, including a clause where any variance to the original spec is to be billed at $X per hour (typically several times the rate for the original work).
5. Every frakking thing in the contract is then gone over with a fine tooth comb, and if any part of the necessary work wasn't explicitly specified, it becomes a variance. Meetings are called with the client to discusss these variances. At every meeting there will be 2 or 3 client representatives, and 6 or 8 contractor representatives, these meetings are billed to the client at $X per person per hour. The longer it takes to agree on the revised specs, the more the contractor makes.
6. Actual work then commences. Inevitably, more ambiguities or outright bugs in the original spec are discovered. This leads to more very profitable (for the contractor) meetings.
7. When the project is half way finished, there's a change in management at the client, and the new manager feels the urge to "make his mark" by having an organizational re-structure. Everyone gets new job titles, new business cards, new reporting lines. This requires changes to the software, which requires more meetings....
The above describes an outsourcing project I worked on where the client was a large private business, where the client is government, you have a whole 'nother layer of bureaucracy adding far more opportunity for highly profitable (for the contractor) meetings.
The device my company makes is about as complex as an iPod, has similar materials costs to an iPod, but sells for several thousand dollars per unit.
Are we ripping our customers off?
No.
Apple sells millions of iPods, in a good year we sell a few thousand of our product, and we do a lot of R&D, so our cost per unit is quite high.
The guy who draws first is the agressor, we can't let the agressor win.
That's the same reason that the guy on the roof of the saloon, aiming to shoot the someone in the back, always gets shot just as he's taking aim, and falls impressively to the street. Snipers and back-shooters are bad guys.
>People like this woman will keep driving even after losing a license. They "need" to for blah, blah, blah.
>There really is no rational remedy for habitual dangerous drivers in a car-centric society.
Where I live, if you prove to be a completely irresponsible driver, they take away your car, for 48 hours the first time, then for 3 months, then forever.
Another study of teachers, asked to estimate the IQ of their students, found they overestimated the IQ of extroverted kids, and underestimated the IQ of quiet kids.
Males tend to be more extroverted than females, so that could explain the perception of males as 'smarter'.
I recently showed up at the ER late at night, with a broken wrist.
The ER doctor looked at the X-rays, then called the fracture specialist at home, who looked at the X-rays on his home computer,
and passed on his advice to the ER doctor.
When they found out that hackers had found a way to bypass the web interface on their MyBook NAS, and gain access to a Linux shell prompt their reaction was...
...To issue a firmware update that had a "Enable SSH access" box in the setup page.
Lots of geeks I know are buying the WD box precisely because it's hacker-friendly.
It's how much bad code never gets written in the first place, because the programmer knows his/her code is going to be reviewed.
When you know your code will be reviewed, you resist the temptation to take the quick-and-dirty shortcut that you know will get picked up in a review, you do it right the first time.
Set it up as a P2P server, wirelessly networked to your internet connection, and put it somewhere unobvious eg garden shed, under the floor, etc.
Then, when the Copyright Police raid your home looking for all that illicit stuff you're sharing, they'll confiscate your desktop PC, find nothing on it, and have to return it with a note of apology.
With a hardware solution, the nightmare scenario is that some crucial component fails, and the business is off-line for days/weeks while you try to source a replacement for a 10 year old part.
With a virtualized solution, if the hardware fails you can buy any new PC at the local Wal-Mart, restore your backup of the VM, and the business will be up and running in a matter of hours.
So all the unsophisticated scared-of-technology types are going to all the trouble to switch, for no benefit to themselves, while those who are affected by the caps stay put?
> If you're on Time Warner, call and complain. Tell them that as a result of this new policy you are researching alternatives and as soon as you find one you will be canceling service.
I hate to tell you this, but it won't work.
Aussie users made a similar threat when one of our biggest ISP's introduced download caps.
A spokesdroid for the ISP said (paraphrased)
"50% of our bandwidth is consumed by 5% of our customers. If they take their business to one of our competitors, we'd be delighted"
Now we know what happened to Atlantis, two rival claimants, one in the frozen North, the other in the tropical South, both proclaiming "There can be only one".
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ARM don't make the chips, they license the basic core design to chip manufacturers, who customize it to their own needs, then sell the chips.
So there's no threat of Android, or anyone else, being denied supply, there's a wide variety of suppliers to choose from.
You'd need a frakkin powerful laser to punch through clouds from geosynchronous orbit (about 36,000 km above the Earth).
What if it's a sunny day? How bright would the laser need to be to be noticeable in bright tropical sunlight?
1. Client calls for tenders on a vaguely-defined project.
2. Outsourcing companies put in bids that are _very_ keenly priced. It's not unusual for the initial big to be a break-even, or even a loss-maker for the outsourcing company.
3. Client chooses lowest bidder - even if other bidders are clearly better-qualified to do the job.
4. Contract is signed, including a clause where any variance to the original spec is to be billed at $X per hour (typically several times the rate for the original work).
5. Every frakking thing in the contract is then gone over with a fine tooth comb, and if any part of the necessary work wasn't explicitly specified, it becomes a variance. Meetings are called with the client to discusss these variances. At every meeting there will be 2 or 3 client representatives, and 6 or 8 contractor representatives, these meetings are billed to the client at $X per person per hour. The longer it takes to agree on the revised specs, the more the contractor makes.
6. Actual work then commences. Inevitably, more ambiguities or outright bugs in the original spec are discovered. This leads to more very profitable (for the contractor) meetings.
7. When the project is half way finished, there's a change in management at the client, and the new manager feels the urge to "make his mark" by having an organizational re-structure. Everyone gets new job titles, new business cards, new reporting lines. This requires changes to the software, which requires more meetings....
The above describes an outsourcing project I worked on where the client was a large private business, where the client is government, you have a whole 'nother layer of bureaucracy adding far more opportunity for highly profitable (for the contractor) meetings.
The device my company makes is about as complex as an iPod, has similar materials costs to an iPod, but sells for several thousand dollars per unit.
Are we ripping our customers off?
No.
Apple sells millions of iPods, in a good year we sell a few thousand of our product, and we do a lot of R&D, so our cost per unit is quite high.
The guy who draws first is the agressor, we can't let the agressor win.
That's the same reason that the guy on the roof of the saloon, aiming to shoot the someone in the back, always gets shot just as he's taking aim, and falls impressively to the street. Snipers and back-shooters are bad guys.
>People like this woman will keep driving even after losing a license. They "need" to for blah, blah, blah.
>There really is no rational remedy for habitual dangerous drivers in a car-centric society.
Where I live, if you prove to be a completely irresponsible driver, they take away your car, for 48 hours the first time, then for 3 months, then forever.
Don't the tinfoil-hat brigade even bother to read articles before deciding they confirm their worst nightmares?
Another study of teachers, asked to estimate the IQ of their students, found they overestimated the IQ of extroverted kids, and underestimated the IQ of quiet kids. Males tend to be more extroverted than females, so that could explain the perception of males as 'smarter'.
I recently showed up at the ER late at night, with a broken wrist.
The ER doctor looked at the X-rays, then called the fracture specialist at home, who looked at the X-rays on his home computer, and passed on his advice to the ER doctor.
Let's see them do that without computers.
When they found out that hackers had found a way to bypass the web interface on their MyBook NAS, and gain access to a Linux shell prompt their reaction was...
...To issue a firmware update that had a "Enable SSH access" box in the setup page.
Lots of geeks I know are buying the WD box precisely because it's hacker-friendly.
I'm in the market for a NAS, I'd really appreciate the warning.
They should have told the cops that they're Republicans, on the way to meet President Obama.
Maybe he's going to build some space-ships that look like DC-8s, and fly to the Galactic Confederacy to meet Xenu.
Have 2 meters per block, at the 1/4 and 3/4 mark. Then you'll never park more that 1/4 block from a meter.>br>
With only 1/2 a block worth of cars per meter, you probably won't have to wait in line.
If you whine about walking 1/4 block, I may have to slap you.
It's how much bad code never gets written in the first place, because the programmer knows his/her code is going to be reviewed.
When you know your code will be reviewed, you resist the temptation to take the quick-and-dirty shortcut that you know will get picked up in a review, you do it right the first time.
You insensitive clod.
Set it up as a P2P server, wirelessly networked to your internet connection, and put it somewhere unobvious eg garden shed, under the floor, etc.
Then, when the Copyright Police raid your home looking for all that illicit stuff you're sharing, they'll confiscate your desktop PC, find nothing on it, and have to return it with a note of apology.
Web... Spider... get it?
I'm here all week, try the veal, don't forget to tip the waitresses.
With a hardware solution, the nightmare scenario is that some crucial component fails, and the business is off-line for days/weeks while you try to source a replacement for a 10 year old part.
With a virtualized solution, if the hardware fails you can buy any new PC at the local Wal-Mart, restore your backup of the VM, and the business will be up and running in a matter of hours.
So all the unsophisticated scared-of-technology types are going to all the trouble to switch, for no benefit to themselves, while those who are affected by the caps stay put?
Seems unlikely.
> If you're on Time Warner, call and complain. Tell them that as a result of this new policy you are researching alternatives and as soon as you find one you will be canceling service.
I hate to tell you this, but it won't work.
Aussie users made a similar threat when one of our biggest ISP's introduced download caps.
A spokesdroid for the ISP said (paraphrased) "50% of our bandwidth is consumed by 5% of our customers. If they take their business to one of our competitors, we'd be delighted"
What's 14/3 got to do with pi?
Everyone knows the real pi day is July 22.
"It's been an interesting 4 months (interpret that however you like)"
Now we know what happened to Atlantis, two rival claimants, one in the frozen North, the other in the tropical South, both proclaiming "There can be only one".
Oh the humanity!
It's time to throw out that milk in your fridge.