Posts by Mage 9273 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Nov 2007
When they proposed making Sat boxes and TVs instead of welly boots people laughed
When they proposed making phones instead of Sat boxes and TVs people laughed.
They are still a quite large telecom infrastructure company, having absorbed the Siemens and Motorola sub divisions that did the same stuff.
It could be a Robin Reliant or a Volvo.
Worstall has said this before convincingly.
Are there still people that really don't get that it could be 5,000 years before we might need to mine asteroids?
No Interstellar war by hypothetical aliens with FTL travel / Jump drive or whatever would ever be over resources. Or for human slaves.
Oddly in UK & Ireland the Kindle touch is same price with or without advertising screen savers and by law in all of EU they have to offer two years warranty anyway. SOGA.
(Apple was fined in Italy for charging people for 2nd year).
About €79 in Tesco Ireland (high sales tax aka VAT compared to USA perhaps).
I must have stepped on a load of apple fan wrists getting here. Proof the Reality Distortion Field is back
Did Apple really research at all ?
There was research in 2013 highlighting the issues.
The Android wearables are a bit pointless, but considering the Apple hype of quality and design, their watch is shiny junk.
Intel used to have a big ARM range (obtained from DEC), they still have one ARM comms processor I think, the rest sold to Marvell.
There is no reason for Intel or anyone else to buy ARM, they are not a chip maker.
Intel, I think, still has a full ARM licence, Their biggest strengths are in marketing and Chip Manufacturing.
Perhaps Intel may make ARM chips again more generally, they seem though have a "Not invented here" ego issue as Intel processed and Intel Peripherals on SoC Arm makes far more sense than their vast expenditure in Mobile Sector, making them less x86 sales every year.
Yes, it's a pity ex Philips NXP is doing so little and Texas Instruments gave up doing phone chips and then swallowed National Semiconductor.
Motorola Semi is split now into two also rans.
As fab building costs rise and markets become commoditised (Apple original iPhone almost stock parts) and fewer gadget makers, now just using bought in chips and not designing them, such consolidation is inevitable.
There are a tiny fraction of the companies making Semis today as there were in 1960s to 1980s.
Sanyo, Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic (Mitsushiba) all used to develop loads of chips.
The UK (Inmos, Ferranti, Plessey) all gone
Intermetal, Telefunken, Siemens ..?
I think this ex HP Avago purchase saves Broadcom.
Or actually set fire to the turf.
The Thermostat only adds the upstairs radiators to the solid fuel stove. But the system still heats one one room and the water if there is no electricity.
What does all this IoT stuff do in a power cut. Or a digger where the broadband cables are. Or a small disaster.
But compared to Apple's Watch that only extends an iPhone, their dustbin styled workstation, It sounds like Lenovo are actually trying to be innovators?
These are more than USPTO documents (that often today are entirely copying prior art).
The Apple Newton was a good attempt. But Jobs killed it when he came back.
I wish I could afford a Lenovo laptop,
This is why Twitter and Facebook delude their members.
"Individuals who get their information from the same sources with the same perspective may be under the impression that theirs is the dominant perspective, regardless of what the science says,"
People need to use a wide range of news and other sources. The BBC etc need to stop dumbing down their journalism to recycled Tweets. BBC shouldn't be allowed to promote or use proprietary services like Twitter at all.
The Internet has increased the Echo Chamber syndrome far more than favourite newspapers, Radio or TV ever did.
We need an independent investigation and regulation of all these mega corp so called cloud providers. Google, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin
How private are documents sent to Kindle via Amazon?
Good luck though with perhaps the 2nd largest provider/social media company in the World. Not on the list, TenCent. Though I think they may be registered in the Cayman Is.
Certainly the Irish Data Protection Regulator will do nothing about those 29 out of top 30 Internet companies based in Ireland for EU, and now many transferring all non-USA stuff to Ireland, not for low corporation tax but soft regulation. The current enquiry into the 2005-2008 Banking Fiasco in Ireland is enlightening.
MS and Sun fought over Java language (MS had J++), which resulted in C#, but not over the VM, as MS had their own VM.
This is actually quite complicated and is partly due to Oracle intransigence. The Desktop Java licence is essentially free. The Mobile Java isn't, and was for an era of very limited CPU and RAM, so is a more limited product.
Google actually bought in Android rather than add their own app VM and GUI on say Debian (which was running on mobile devices before Android existed.) Sun or Oracle, I forget which, wouldn't licence the full java for mobile. So Google did their own copy of the JVM.
Ironically the VM (or p-code) used by Visual Basic originally and morphed into .net for C# and other VM based MS Languages AND the originally Sun's VM for Java are both inspired by UCSD runtime for the p-Code produced by Pascal and other compilers. Western Digital or someone even did a bit-slice cpu (5 chips?) to run p-code as native.
So really it's almost unreasonable Oracle citing copyright, especially as they refused to licence the thing for Mobile. It's not like Google has copied all the implementation, but only the interface so existing byte code would run.
Google and Oracle have both been idiots on this.
I use noscript and other tools to block most of the trackers, which can be done without cookies now.
Most people are not that tech savy.
There is a reason that 29 of top 30 Web Borgs are based in Ireland for EU stuff and many moving all non-USA stuff. It's not low corporation tax but the useless Irish Regulators.
Rather than fine Facebook, the Irish data commissioner has issued a notice warning EU citizens to avoid using Facebook.
How does that work given all the 3rd party junk on nearly every major website.
I can't actually find the notice. Maybe in a filing cabinet in a toilet in the basement.
Not as in engineering, hard sums or programming.
But simply how stuff looks, mostly copied from Dieter Rams Braun Era.
So they'd be mad to actually give him a senior job. Common in companies last 100 years to invent a new title for someone long serving.
I wonder why Apple hired Jony Ives rather than Dieter Rams at the time. Maybe Jobs didn't know of him or he turned it down.
yes, nokia tried ... sometime up to about 2002, then they strangled Crystal, S80, etc and messed up their tablet development,. messed with internal politics, intel's mess of megoo, buying Trolltech rather than ordering a custom QT from them.
QNX was the wrong choice too, though a lovely OS for controllers and embedded.
Really, I don't think so, Windows CE makes more sense for GPIO pins as it's a RTOS. I doubt you could bit-bang IR remote or RDS or sample receive IR remote handset RDS decoder IC. Good luck getting Win CE on it. But I've had loads of embedded ARM based development systems that came with WinCE and the first task was always using JTAG to change the boot loader to install Linux as often the supplied boot would only allow versions of Win CE.
I can't think of any use for it. If you really needed this mad version of Windows 10, then a PC is better to develop on and test on an ITX x86 that uses the Cash Register version of Win 10.
I'm still using Windows daily (since 1992), but this is pointless for a Raspberry Pi 2.
Perhaps it's a Touch Screen Netbook with a poor keyboard and not really a Tablet at all. Except for Business use, a new Classic Edition Windows based on XP, properly updated for Touch (not anything like XP Tablet Edition) rather than schizophrenic Win 8.
If I wanted Linux something else is a better idea for the money.
They sound very desperate to have people on Win 10..
1) Maybe it's not something people would buy, given a choice
2) Last version ever of a discrete windows, becomes like Mozilla Firefox updates ... except I expect at some stage you have to subscribe to MS Cloud or it stops working.
The drug dealer is giving the latest designer drug free to all his customers.
That and the other specs sort of rules out a lot of official Apple Hardware and older Linux boxes.
I can see why they think no laptop works:
Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290 graphics card or better,
Intel i5-4590 processor,
8GB RAM.
Two USB 3.0 ports
HDMI 1.3 video output supporting a 297MHz clock via direct output architecture
This is for very high end gamers, not average consumers. Does Apple's round rubbish can meet the spec?
Traditionally lag is huge problem for graphics that tracks rapid head movement. Essentially changing camera angle / view port almost at frame rate and ideally synchronised to frame rate. Really it needs a custom designed graphics card with on board low latency interface to the headset and also to main CPU via USB, graphics card I/O or usb slave port on graphics card.
There are good reasons why VR headsets have been poor in terms of realism. It's not a software problem.
"If your body stopped being able to produce new cells, you wouldn't die instantly, but you wouldn't be alive very long either."
It's a horrible way to die. It's called being a walking ghost I think?
Imagine if all your DNA was removed.
They think the symptoms might be like these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat#Toxicity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel#Toxicity
Junk gadgets for the home that expose you to Criminals. Criminals can hack them, or just used them to decide when you are out and if the house is worth robbing.
Evil Corporations will sell you the gadgets and support on subscription.
Most of the products are pointless and wouldn't even get a mention in a School science fair.
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