What??? Are you serious? It's the other way around. National makes the cheapest, crappiest, volume parts around. They have some high end parts, but nothing that compares with the high precision parts from other semiconductor companies. Especially compare National to Linear or Analog Devices for quality.
The last figures I heard were that 20-30% of the costs of a european mid range car are electronics, with a sharp upwards trend. American cars and cars for the american market are usually based on slightly simpler and older technology.
The current figures are the electronics in a car account for over 50% of the costs.
Can you tell I'm an analog guy? I sure hope so.
Yes, I can see that. What I don't understand is what you're doing on slashdot. This place is generally for comp sci types. Even though I'm an EE, I'm more on the digital side of things, with lots of software thrown in for good measure.
is the sound of thousands of laser printers firing up, and spitting out epic number of resumes
Not really. National has always been laying off workers periodically. This will just be another cycle of layoffs, as far as National is concerned.
Thank you Intel!!!!!
Not so fast, Intel is only working on the Atom port of MeeGo, not the ARM port. So unless your N900 runs on Atom chips, you don't gain anything from Intel's work.
That is Germany. Other major EU countries are further behind. Portugal and Greece, the most heavily regulated "old" EU countries according to the Economic Freedom Index are also the poorest and if they weren't regularly bailed out by the rest of EU would have dropped out of the ranks of developing countries by now. Portugal is very close to dropping from a developed to a developing nation in the HDI rankings. Their workers must be really happy with all that regulation that protects their jobs and pensions against that pesky reality, right?
Ooops, you just cited something from the Heritage foundation, a well known conservative, and totally slanted source of information. Just like Fox News. You should seek truth from sources that are reliable, accurate, fair, and unbiased.
are fucken stupid.
Its user base will never hit the 1.5 million units Microsoft claims are already delivered on its current trend, so somebody's about to get stuck with some dead inventory.
Microsoft gave every one of it's employees a W7 phone, but refused to give any to mobile developers.
There's no reason to develop apps for a phone with few users and no long-term prospects either.
What's worse is that developers are treated as second class citizens who don't have as much access to the hardware as "1st tier partners" do. And Microsoft doesn't give out all of the tools for free to developers like all of the other platforms. Microsoft will give out crippleware versions of the phone development toolchain.
The integrated WP7 phone Facebook app has a little over 300,000 users now and less than 4,000 Facebook likes. It looks like buying Facebook likes has gone out of vogue with Microsoft's marketing department.
The MS marketing department has a hell of a tough job. The biggest draw for facebook likes is to run a giveaway with ipads.
"The Empire Strikes Back"
There is a right way to do things and a hackish way. I wonder which one is which
You left out the third alternative. There's the LINUX way to do things.
"Maybe he just wanted you guys to shut up and quit your bitching."
That's funny. Steve Jobs never listens to people who bitch. You'll have to come up with a better troll than that to defend Jobs.
Apple: "All your base are belong to us"
and I volunteer every week and give away a portion of each (meager) paycheck.
Most of us just call this "paying taxes", you insensitive clod!
He's being double taxed you oversensitive clod!!!
Considering Microsoft just licensed ARM you might be surrised.
Yeah, I would be surprised at how lame a 2 GHz ARM can run under windows. Under Linux, that's a different story.
So does emacs, but then the op asked for a decent development environment, not an operating system.
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas l'Informatique. -- Bosquet [on seeing the IBM 4341]
