So, while there is a large percentage of Windows shipped with new computers, also realize that Windows is shipped on computers with SSD as well which will start to be offered at attractive prices compared to ones install with HDD. Also a large portion of Windows sales is coming from upgrading old computers which should offset some of the loss of new computer sales, people may find it attractive to upgrade an older computer rather then buying something brand new while the prices jump.
While Office may be installed on new computers, the bread and butter of Office profit comes from corporate sales to upgrade existing systems,
Microsoft will get a hit for sure, but may not be as big as Intel as they have more paths to market then Intel.
So, all these components are made "overseas" because it is cheap to make. But often these components are made in areas of political or environmental instability.
I think companies have to start understanding that regardless of how "cheap" it is for the labor to produce the component, if something happens that stops production of those components what is the actual cost to the company to recover? Why are billion dollar companies always so short sited and believe nothing bad will happen to them.
What will the actual cost be to the entire semiconductor industry for the few cents per component saved by building them overseas?
yes, could tell you are not from the US because you pluralize Maths, just to emphasis you studied more then one math otherwise nobody would believe you could both add AND subtract.
Just kidding, I watch a lot of Top Gear and its a pet peeve of mine to refer to math and carbon emission as maths and carbons.
Look, schools teach stuff that we don't use in everyday life. A large majority of us don't need to use the kind of math taught in schools. We forget more of what we learned in school then the math we use in real life. Without the practice of these skills then we don't recall how to apply them on a day to day basis.
Also, testing (and school) is an artificial gauge of intelligence. In real life we are not expected to do math without the use of reference tools or materials. Our lives are not dependent on the ability to recall how to solve math problems on the spot. If I needed to use some kind of calculus or geometry to solve a problem I have all the resources of Google and the Internet at my disposal. Because I had the past experience of learning those math skills I know how to quickly look up a reference to how to reuse those skills on demand. Intelligence is not about how to regurgitate facts quickly its about knowing when and how to retrieve those facts when required and apply them to solving problems. If I should use a calculator or computer to solve a problem, am I stupid? No, because I can solve it quickly and move on with the rest of my life. It might take 10 - 15 minutes for a grade 10 student to solve a single math problem, but I can look it up and solve it in a few minutes because most likely its a very small part of the problem I am trying to solve.
If someone asks me some grade 10 math question and I can't answer it on the spot but a student currently studying those skills can answer it right away, the only dumb person in the equation is the one assuming that I am not smart because I don't readily practice the same math skills taught in school.
Also, give me a few days to study for a test and I am sure I will do as well as, if not better then a grade 10 student as I have gained maturity, discipline, and patience and will treat studying far different then an immature child who doesn't want to be in school in the first place.
Most likely the competition fine print is that anything submitted by the contest becomes the property of Siemens, so basically, Siemens gets to file a patent that could be worth trillions by making a 100k upfront investment. Not saying the winner's career isn't going to be rosy, by she isn't going to get a dime more for that invention.
BTW, if she was smart, then she should have filed a patent on her own and sold it to Siemens for far more money.
is to lose confidence in Netflix. They have a business model that should be how content is distributed by the cable companies. Everything on demand, cheap subscription rates, and access to older archives of content that would otherwise not be available except to purchase physical media, which consumers seem to be shunning.
The problem is that while the big cable companies are still struggling to maintain a greedy monopoly on TV content distribution, companies like Netflix are the necessary upset required to get these big companies making better decisions and offering better services. When Netflix was consuming the largest amount of Internet bandwidth, you know the big Telco companies started paying attention. A few decisions in the right direction and Netflix could replace cable services completely.
I do fear, however, that eventually Netflix may become extinct once big Telco gets into the game of offering similar services, but for now Netflix is the black sheep of content distribution and should be supported rather then complained about. For $7.99/mth I am accessing television and movies I have not seen before and no other service (cable, iTunes, movie rental stores) can offer me that value.
Its easy for people to b*tch about how poorly Netflix may have been operating their business, but in the end these same people will b*tch louder when Netflix shuts its doors for good.
is assuming it required a huge special effects budget. The moment you think a sci-fi movie requires a $300 million budget, you failed....ahem Michael Bay and George Lucas.
Good science fiction should be nothing more then a compelling and interesting plot set at some point in the future, period. Why Hollywood thinks it requires epic space battles, aliens, robots and obscene amounts of explosions and noise is beyond me.
Also Michael Bay and George Lucas should be banned from making or releasing any movie ever again, science fiction or otherwise, they are predominantly why Hollywood cannot make good science fiction.
I want to play games on an 80 inch LCD TV. Unless they build game playing capabilities directly into my TV then I guess a "console" of some sort is required, whether that "console" is an attached PC, Tablet, or Smart Phone who cares.
Console, by definition, is "something that attaches to your TV to play a game". I don't care what that console actually IS, just give me the ability to play in my comfortably in my living room.
I agree that it may be the end of the road for "traditional" consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo but the game "console" will always exist as long as TV's exist.
So does nobody think that if composting is mandatory then it will have the same impact on a community as the logistics of maintaining a growing landfill?
You remove x amount of waste from the landfill meaning that x amount of waste has to be stored and processed somewhere else.
If mandatory in a community then this will greatly increase the amount of land required to collect, store and process compost. Sure, the landfills will grow more slowly, but the net effect is that more land is required to process compost. If the ultimate goal was to reduce the burden of waste on your community then you failed.
The moment a "green" solution is introduced everyone jumps on the bandwagon and want it rammed down our throats and anybody that disagrees (i.e. actually thinks about the problem and collects the facts) is immediately dismissed as an uncaring *sshole.
The biggest threat to humankind is the "green" movement. I have never heard of so many stupid policies and ideas thrown about as with people trying to be green.
Stop, think and then apply rational solutions to these problems. Moving tons of waste away from a landfill only requires tones of waste to be processed somewhere else. Compost != puppies and unicorns.
Because with each new generation of iOS Apple makes the iOS run like sh*t on older platforms because they design the new OS to run better on faster hardware. Have an older generation of iPhone, iPod or iPad and iOS 5 performs like a dog. I have never known my iPod to stutter and hesitate until I updated to iOS 5.
This is in stark comparison with OS X which traditionally improved performance on older generations with each generation (until Lion which broke everything equally)
Agreed, Apple doesn't care about making the fastest hardware, on any platform, but they make damn sure you will want to upgrade your iDevice with each new iOS update.
Or all these companies (AMD, nVidia, Intel) slapping more "cores" on their products and only yielding 10 - 15% performance improvements kind of lack luster?
I think if companies can't at least double performance then they shouldn't bother releasing a new product. The trickle release of half-hearted improvements in performance has to end.
Called a shelf system, check out Ikea.
Perhaps you have to address the problem of why you need to buy every movie you watch opposed to figuring out how to manage it. Realize how much money you are wasting buying a movie that you will most likely watch once. In fact unless you watch a movie say more then 4 times, you will never recover the cost vs renting.
Also Netflix and iTunes and other services offer acceptable quality for a large majority of movies. I save the big blockbusters for my Blu-ray 7.1 surround viewing experience, but there are a ton of movie releases every year that really don't benefit at all from that kind of set-up, so I just stream them.
You can be a movie buff but not obsess about owning every movie you watch, address that issue first and you will find you don't need to invest thousands in disk management systems, or the disks themselves.
OK sure, I know there are people that still figure out how to hack a copy of Angry Birds onto device X, but in general the makers of Angry Birds are very rich happy people compared to the people at Ubisoft.
Two big reasons why nobody steals Angry Birds.
First, there are free ad-subsidized versions of the app. When its free and you only have to put up with a few ads, then why bother with the hassle of trying to hack it onto your system. I know people hate ads, but whatever, free is free and I am enough of a free thinker that I don't have to buy something just because I saw an ad in Angry Birds.
Secondly the non-ad version is cheap enough that only *ssholes won't separate with a few bucks for a decent game, and nobody likes being an *sshole.
I am amazed at how the main-stream gaming industry still haven't caught on to the fact that nobody wants to pay $60 for a game anymore, which is why they are stolen. The only reason why next-gen gaming consoles are not even being announced (except for the stupid WiiU) is that Microsoft and Sony do not know how to compete in a reality where people do not buy $60 games any more. Consoles are sold at a lost and the loss is made up for through platform licensing. How do you make money on a platform selling $.99 games, well, ask Google and Apple because it is possible.
There is also a myth that main-stream games NEED to cost a lot of money to produce and so that is why they cost a lot of money. If your game costs millions to produce, you need to change your business model. It shouldn't cost this much to produce any software, game or otherwise. Stop making a new game engine every release and start using one of the many widely available game engines which are cheap (or even free) to license, then all you are doing is largely modeling the game, artwork, music, and other stuff which should be relatively cheap. Why are iOS/Android games cheap or free?, because they are all sharing the same gaming engines so it comes down to spending a few months developing game content, which is cheap, period.
Games like Angry Birds have over half a billion downloads, the most any main-stream game company can hope for selling a main stream game is maybe 20 million. Ubisoft et. al. need to get a clue and figure out how to compete in the 21st century gaming market and stop blaming piracy which is only a byproduct of not understanding the market they are selling to.
Finally, why doesn't Chrome preserve my paragraphs?
Geeze, just fired up taskmanager and except for a few low level system processes, almost every app running has more then one thread running. More the 50% have greater then 10 threads. New features in C++ and C# makes is very easy to support multiple threads in an app even when you don't think its needed like parallel data collections and queries. I think companies have to stop blaming the myth of single threaded desktop apps for their CPU's lousy performance, I don't think there is a single desktop app that runs in only one thread these days. I also think people that benchmark hardware should start getting a clue about the software they are testing on, maybe take a course on software development or something.
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So, while there is a large percentage of Windows shipped with new computers, also realize that Windows is shipped on computers with SSD as well which will start to be offered at attractive prices compared to ones install with HDD. Also a large portion of Windows sales is coming from upgrading old computers which should offset some of the loss of new computer sales, people may find it attractive to upgrade an older computer rather then buying something brand new while the prices jump.
While Office may be installed on new computers, the bread and butter of Office profit comes from corporate sales to upgrade existing systems,
Microsoft will get a hit for sure, but may not be as big as Intel as they have more paths to market then Intel.
So, all these components are made "overseas" because it is cheap to make. But often these components are made in areas of political or environmental instability.
I think companies have to start understanding that regardless of how "cheap" it is for the labor to produce the component, if something happens that stops production of those components what is the actual cost to the company to recover? Why are billion dollar companies always so short sited and believe nothing bad will happen to them.
What will the actual cost be to the entire semiconductor industry for the few cents per component saved by building them overseas?
Hmm, losing a billion from lost sales kind of makes that point moot now doesn't it.
yes, could tell you are not from the US because you pluralize Maths, just to emphasis you studied more then one math otherwise nobody would believe you could both add AND subtract.
Just kidding, I watch a lot of Top Gear and its a pet peeve of mine to refer to math and carbon emission as maths and carbons.
Look, schools teach stuff that we don't use in everyday life. A large majority of us don't need to use the kind of math taught in schools. We forget more of what we learned in school then the math we use in real life. Without the practice of these skills then we don't recall how to apply them on a day to day basis.
Also, testing (and school) is an artificial gauge of intelligence. In real life we are not expected to do math without the use of reference tools or materials. Our lives are not dependent on the ability to recall how to solve math problems on the spot. If I needed to use some kind of calculus or geometry to solve a problem I have all the resources of Google and the Internet at my disposal. Because I had the past experience of learning those math skills I know how to quickly look up a reference to how to reuse those skills on demand. Intelligence is not about how to regurgitate facts quickly its about knowing when and how to retrieve those facts when required and apply them to solving problems. If I should use a calculator or computer to solve a problem, am I stupid? No, because I can solve it quickly and move on with the rest of my life. It might take 10 - 15 minutes for a grade 10 student to solve a single math problem, but I can look it up and solve it in a few minutes because most likely its a very small part of the problem I am trying to solve.
If someone asks me some grade 10 math question and I can't answer it on the spot but a student currently studying those skills can answer it right away, the only dumb person in the equation is the one assuming that I am not smart because I don't readily practice the same math skills taught in school.
Also, give me a few days to study for a test and I am sure I will do as well as, if not better then a grade 10 student as I have gained maturity, discipline, and patience and will treat studying far different then an immature child who doesn't want to be in school in the first place.
Most likely the competition fine print is that anything submitted by the contest becomes the property of Siemens, so basically, Siemens gets to file a patent that could be worth trillions by making a 100k upfront investment. Not saying the winner's career isn't going to be rosy, by she isn't going to get a dime more for that invention.
BTW, if she was smart, then she should have filed a patent on her own and sold it to Siemens for far more money.
Here comes the parade of the Moly vs Silicon fanboys. Personally I am a graphene fanboy.
is to lose confidence in Netflix. They have a business model that should be how content is distributed by the cable companies. Everything on demand, cheap subscription rates, and access to older archives of content that would otherwise not be available except to purchase physical media, which consumers seem to be shunning.
The problem is that while the big cable companies are still struggling to maintain a greedy monopoly on TV content distribution, companies like Netflix are the necessary upset required to get these big companies making better decisions and offering better services. When Netflix was consuming the largest amount of Internet bandwidth, you know the big Telco companies started paying attention. A few decisions in the right direction and Netflix could replace cable services completely.
I do fear, however, that eventually Netflix may become extinct once big Telco gets into the game of offering similar services, but for now Netflix is the black sheep of content distribution and should be supported rather then complained about. For $7.99/mth I am accessing television and movies I have not seen before and no other service (cable, iTunes, movie rental stores) can offer me that value.
Its easy for people to b*tch about how poorly Netflix may have been operating their business, but in the end these same people will b*tch louder when Netflix shuts its doors for good.
Anybody that thinks the Playbook and Kindle Fire are similar must also believe that there are no differences between a Corolla and a Porche 911.
Jailbreaking the Playbook may have just saved RIM from extinction.
I think it is mostly unreadable because it was written on a tablet, case closed.
is assuming it required a huge special effects budget. The moment you think a sci-fi movie requires a $300 million budget, you failed....ahem Michael Bay and George Lucas.
Good science fiction should be nothing more then a compelling and interesting plot set at some point in the future, period. Why Hollywood thinks it requires epic space battles, aliens, robots and obscene amounts of explosions and noise is beyond me.
Also Michael Bay and George Lucas should be banned from making or releasing any movie ever again, science fiction or otherwise, they are predominantly why Hollywood cannot make good science fiction.
I want to play games on an 80 inch LCD TV. Unless they build game playing capabilities directly into my TV then I guess a "console" of some sort is required, whether that "console" is an attached PC, Tablet, or Smart Phone who cares. Console, by definition, is "something that attaches to your TV to play a game". I don't care what that console actually IS, just give me the ability to play in my comfortably in my living room. I agree that it may be the end of the road for "traditional" consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo but the game "console" will always exist as long as TV's exist.
For years they thought digitize meant feeding it into machines that turn it into tiny bits....of paper.
So does nobody think that if composting is mandatory then it will have the same impact on a community as the logistics of maintaining a growing landfill? You remove x amount of waste from the landfill meaning that x amount of waste has to be stored and processed somewhere else. If mandatory in a community then this will greatly increase the amount of land required to collect, store and process compost. Sure, the landfills will grow more slowly, but the net effect is that more land is required to process compost. If the ultimate goal was to reduce the burden of waste on your community then you failed. The moment a "green" solution is introduced everyone jumps on the bandwagon and want it rammed down our throats and anybody that disagrees (i.e. actually thinks about the problem and collects the facts) is immediately dismissed as an uncaring *sshole. The biggest threat to humankind is the "green" movement. I have never heard of so many stupid policies and ideas thrown about as with people trying to be green. Stop, think and then apply rational solutions to these problems. Moving tons of waste away from a landfill only requires tones of waste to be processed somewhere else. Compost != puppies and unicorns.
How complicated is that algorithm? bool willRunRedLight = speed > 0 && light == red; I jest, I jest.
Because with each new generation of iOS Apple makes the iOS run like sh*t on older platforms because they design the new OS to run better on faster hardware. Have an older generation of iPhone, iPod or iPad and iOS 5 performs like a dog. I have never known my iPod to stutter and hesitate until I updated to iOS 5. This is in stark comparison with OS X which traditionally improved performance on older generations with each generation (until Lion which broke everything equally) Agreed, Apple doesn't care about making the fastest hardware, on any platform, but they make damn sure you will want to upgrade your iDevice with each new iOS update.
Or all these companies (AMD, nVidia, Intel) slapping more "cores" on their products and only yielding 10 - 15% performance improvements kind of lack luster? I think if companies can't at least double performance then they shouldn't bother releasing a new product. The trickle release of half-hearted improvements in performance has to end.
Called a shelf system, check out Ikea. Perhaps you have to address the problem of why you need to buy every movie you watch opposed to figuring out how to manage it. Realize how much money you are wasting buying a movie that you will most likely watch once. In fact unless you watch a movie say more then 4 times, you will never recover the cost vs renting. Also Netflix and iTunes and other services offer acceptable quality for a large majority of movies. I save the big blockbusters for my Blu-ray 7.1 surround viewing experience, but there are a ton of movie releases every year that really don't benefit at all from that kind of set-up, so I just stream them. You can be a movie buff but not obsess about owning every movie you watch, address that issue first and you will find you don't need to invest thousands in disk management systems, or the disks themselves.
OK sure, I know there are people that still figure out how to hack a copy of Angry Birds onto device X, but in general the makers of Angry Birds are very rich happy people compared to the people at Ubisoft. Two big reasons why nobody steals Angry Birds. First, there are free ad-subsidized versions of the app. When its free and you only have to put up with a few ads, then why bother with the hassle of trying to hack it onto your system. I know people hate ads, but whatever, free is free and I am enough of a free thinker that I don't have to buy something just because I saw an ad in Angry Birds. Secondly the non-ad version is cheap enough that only *ssholes won't separate with a few bucks for a decent game, and nobody likes being an *sshole. I am amazed at how the main-stream gaming industry still haven't caught on to the fact that nobody wants to pay $60 for a game anymore, which is why they are stolen. The only reason why next-gen gaming consoles are not even being announced (except for the stupid WiiU) is that Microsoft and Sony do not know how to compete in a reality where people do not buy $60 games any more. Consoles are sold at a lost and the loss is made up for through platform licensing. How do you make money on a platform selling $.99 games, well, ask Google and Apple because it is possible. There is also a myth that main-stream games NEED to cost a lot of money to produce and so that is why they cost a lot of money. If your game costs millions to produce, you need to change your business model. It shouldn't cost this much to produce any software, game or otherwise. Stop making a new game engine every release and start using one of the many widely available game engines which are cheap (or even free) to license, then all you are doing is largely modeling the game, artwork, music, and other stuff which should be relatively cheap. Why are iOS/Android games cheap or free?, because they are all sharing the same gaming engines so it comes down to spending a few months developing game content, which is cheap, period. Games like Angry Birds have over half a billion downloads, the most any main-stream game company can hope for selling a main stream game is maybe 20 million. Ubisoft et. al. need to get a clue and figure out how to compete in the 21st century gaming market and stop blaming piracy which is only a byproduct of not understanding the market they are selling to. Finally, why doesn't Chrome preserve my paragraphs?
More like a minor skirmish then a war.
I thought all Toyota's were self driving a few years back, they certainly did not respond to the drivers instructions.
Geeze, just fired up taskmanager and except for a few low level system processes, almost every app running has more then one thread running. More the 50% have greater then 10 threads. New features in C++ and C# makes is very easy to support multiple threads in an app even when you don't think its needed like parallel data collections and queries. I think companies have to stop blaming the myth of single threaded desktop apps for their CPU's lousy performance, I don't think there is a single desktop app that runs in only one thread these days. I also think people that benchmark hardware should start getting a clue about the software they are testing on, maybe take a course on software development or something.
How can rocks fall from new land rising from the sea?
Because Greenpeace is well known for their entirely benevolent and respectful code of conduct that does not resort to any dirty tricks.