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Get advance notice of the new product specs, build and patent it in a few days. Run it down to the patent office before the Apple units are ready. Get design patent protection ahead of Apple.
If they cared they could probably express freight some prototypes to the US and Europe as well. These plants have the rapid design cycle down so well they can do things like this. Apple can't without revealing in advance what their new products are going to be.
The purple hue is a dead giveaway. It may be possible to fix it or at least improve the situation in software by adjusting the light meter to exposure time calculation for bright light - assuming they aren't already at the minimum exposure time limit of the sensor. Or as others have said, use a lens hood.
This is probably a byproduct of being so secretive you don't test the product outdoors in broad daylight. The new campus will have a delightful open air central park where such things can be done without fear some fool will forget the prototype in a pub.
It's important to note that these standards are for retail products that must be universally compatible. If you own both ends of the fiber and can engineer and manufacture the switching technology like Google can do, then terabit IP networking is available now. It's not standard and it's technically not "Ethernet" but it puts the bits down the pipe.
This post is just a reminder that we had a big hoopla about Windows 7 being designed for touch from the ground up: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/touch but it didn't sell.
And that there was a big hoopla about Windows tablets at CES 2010, and the outcome was so dire that PCWorld disappeared their own slideshow: http://www.pcworld.com/article/186361/tablets_dell_hp.html but the underlying article remains: http://www.pcworld.com/article/186281/dawn_of_the_tablet_pc_ces_2010_roundup.html but none of that sold well.
And that Microsoft has been trying to sell tablets with Windows for 17 years with no success, with everybody they can get to build with their ware. For all involved it has been a money loser the whole time, including Microsoft. It has destroyed more relationships with customers than any other Microsoft product, except Vista and ME. Many billions have been burned on this fire.
This dog won't hunt.
When we went from Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, those few of us involved we knew our situation was dire and we wanted change. Now, however, we have a computer in our pocket finer than the first Cray that lets us do video chat with grandma - and everybody is involved. To provide that level of quantum leap today I'm afraid W8 is going to have to invent something new and relevant that takes us not just a bit above, but to an entirely human new dimension. It's going to have to involve a new realm of physics.I just don't see that happening.
]Bradley said HP's tablet will be the "only serviceable tablet there is" and claimed "it is expandable". But what it won't be is a consumer device, which is a brave - some may say foolhardy - move given the trend toward employees buying their own devices from shops and bringing them into the office.
Might as well shut this entire line of inquiry down right now before you waste more billions of dollars. You started 5 years after the race began, on a different track, headed in the wrong direction.
Let's not get fancy. At this point it needed to have as many developers as possible for the Christmas buying season. But it doesn't, because WP8 is not ready for wide release. The ship date has slipped, perhaps until after the Holidays. But they don't want to admit that yet, or you might by an iPhone or Android. They're not as dumb as RIM.
But the Haswell platforms employ Microsoft patented technologies for video. They are Windows Only. Direct X. No OpenGL, no Linux, no Android, no BSD to fully implement to technology in these chips. Intel has finally caved to Redmond and given them their Holy Grail: an Intel platform that best only runs Windows.
Do I have to say it's not for me? OK. It's not.
Never was the icon more appropriate. I was a HUGE Intel fan, but am quick becoming apostate.
Intel, if submitting to Microsoft is what I have to do to love you, then you don't love me back.
Nuclear power is cheap if you don't count the cost of the long term risk and the cost of waste disposal - which is how we're accounting it today. The risk is borne by the public, waste disposal is deffered until it disappears from the accounting because accounting rules don't understand half-lives of fissionables. And we're supposed to accept that is OK, because the books balance. Eventually though the cost of replacing 100s of square miles of land, the cost of quickly replacing it when it proves untenable. Men seem incapable of managing this much risk. Japan is in this spot now, and the current estimate of when they'll be able to complete their cleanup of Fukushima is at least 30 years hence. Maybe 50. Until they've secured the vast amount of spent fuel stored there in something approaching secure storage we cannot even begin to estimate the cost. They're counting themselves lucky though, because the outcome could have been much worse. But not for some brave souls who stayed at their work despite certain danger, and a favorable wind, almost half of Japan would now be uninhabitable for 100 years. Has any major Japanese nuclear operator got a plan for a major Fuji eruption? No. Such a thing is not possible.
And now despite the obvious dangers with recent precedent, and the imminent eruption of Mount Fuji, Japan is telling its people that they cannot afford to cease nuclear power immediately, no matter how high the risk because they lacked the forethought to save some of the dividends of cheap nuclear power to have a replacement ready should the promise sour.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a HUGE fan of the potentials of nuclear power to provide electrical energy in appropriate places where cheaper riskless alternatives like geothermal aren't available. But if we're going to let people play with fission we have to be able to trust them, and they have to consider the whole lifecycle including disposal of waste in the cost. And we have to be able to trust them to execute to plan and dry cask that stuff instead of stuffing cooling ponds until they're almost undergoing spontaneous fission without an adverse event. That is not too much to ask. If they won't even figure taking out the trash in the cost they don't seem trustworthy to me.
Christophe Kinnard et al, the source of data in this graph, used "terrestrial proxies" to gauge arctic sea ice extent for 1500 years. That's absurd. That's the quality of extrapolation we've come to expect from Warmists, that they can look back 1500 years and know how thick the ice was at the north pole in August of each year based on tree rings in Russia. Of course the error bars on the graph cover a huge fraction of the area. With all of the modern science at our disposal today we cannot estimate the current summer sea ice extent based on measurements taken from land ("terrestrial") within the error bars of this graph, and to rely on trace evidence of "proxies" is to be even less definite. We may as well put these "scientists" in a set with "One Tree Briffa." If this is science, so is Homeopathy. While they were at it why didn't they try to reconstruct (er, "model") a 100m year history of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico based on the fossil record of New York mollusk populations?
The graph does, in fact, disagree with the historical record of exploration and colonization of North America. It is provably untrue. That you hold it out as evidence to prove your point is quite bizarre. Are you trying to discredit AGW theory by holding up weak arguments? If so, you're doing a stellar job.
Let's see some Arctic Ocean sediment studies before we figure this. Ocean sediments provably vary when ice is overhead and when it is not due to the presence or absence of insolation above them, thus varying the type of algae and other detritus that settle - and they stay where they settle forever, stratifying in discrete layers that vary with the seasons that provide a method of counting the clock in time with C14 dating, with major eruption ash and asteroid impact layers to provide the major beats. And doing so we may as well go back 250 million years or 500 million since the data is right there on the seabed. We even know most of how the seabed moves over time, thanks to plate tectonics.
In short I'm calling your graph a bunch of garbage that should not have been published in a self-respecting publication like Nature. You need to not bring this weak stuff. If you're going to call what you're doing science, then do the science. Don't rely on terrestrial data published by others as "proxies" to extrapolate things that are almost certainly not relevant when you can go out into the arctic, drill the cores, and have proof. Or at least beg the cores from Exxon or BP, who would are already drilling them anyway and would probably give up a slice of them up for free to improve their public image. A doctorate degree used to mean something.
>Gas 2.2p, Nuclear 2.3p, Coal 2.5p, Onshore wind 5.4p, Offshore wind 7.2p
Enhanced Geothermal is even cheaper than gas, is often discovered accidentally while searching for other resources, and also can involve fracking. And it doesn't involve burning hydrocarbons.
So frack away, and maybe you will find some of each!
Google doesn't control Android very much. It's open source, and the OEMs can and do change it quite a lot. All of the manufacturers offer considerable variety. Fragmentation is an Android strength that prevents it from being a stagnant monopoly. You may as well be concerned that all phone vendors use plastic or glass, and insist on a wood third option. A third option is not needed here because if Google got rude any phone vendor could fork Android.
But having compatibility with all of these other manufacturers offers the benefit of a huge ecosystem with a half-billion unit installed base to attract developers and an immense software library, so Google would have to get _really_ rude for that to be attractive.
This was one of my first thoughts. While the components and mobile divisions of Samsung are very separate, this matter has become serious enough for the corporate head to get the various divisions to work together. It's the mobile division that's the breadwinner.
Let me remind you that despite our "war on drugs" not only can the US not prevent its citizenry from acquiring prohibited substances from the far reaches of the world, we can't even keep them out of our most controlled spaces: our prisons. If we can't keep heroin, Meth and Marijuana out of a prison, what hope have we of keeping it out of a Middle School, Junior High, or High school? None.
I don't care for any of these substances myself, but I know stupid when I see it.