That's still very US centric. Apple has "mindshare" lately, it seems. And only 2% of total mobile phone sales, 15% on "smartphone" sales (with Nokia having half of that, and 37% of the total)

Behind Nokia there is Samsung with 20% (in a year, large part of their phones will suddenly be "smartphones"), LG 11%, SE & Motorola 5% both, (who knows how many more here, between 5 and 2%)

"revenues, profit and market capitalization" means only that given manufacturer rips its consumers off handily, if they can do it with such miniscule marketshare.

Nokia has 37% of global mobile phone sales (and BTW, they don't depend on Chinese sweatshops; they own all their manufacturing facilities, majority of them are not in China), Samsung 20%, LG 11%, SE & Motorola 5% each, (who knows how many here), Apple...2%. Plus don't forget about Symbian having half of smartphone market and Apple 15% of that, however poorly the category would be defined.

And yes, in the biggest and more serious battle, about access to radio technology behind mobile phones (to which also Nokia greatly contributed, not only them; they are probably the biggest contributor though, hence the main opponent for Apple...but also they don't have much to lose, due to some temporary turmoil, in the US; so I wouldn't be too surprised if other players basically "outsourced" this case to Nokia), the total share matters; radio modules are nowadays basically the same. Heck, quite a lot of "feature phones" built around touchscreens shows up recently...

Also, ask yourself why the much bigger players aren't "attacked" by Nokia. They have much more to gain if Nokia case was weak, many more radio modules sold...

"Hey! Where my Facebooks site at? I can't find it and I searched all the Google on the Interweb!?" - Dick Cheney

"The issue has been resolved ... Good news, people" is not quite correct. Naturally, the status quo of bending laws here and there (simply change them isntead of such show...) has been reestablished to your satisfaction; but that doesn't resolve the issue.

Oh well, it's the direction of the world anyway. I'm happy I can already see it, at leats locally.

Isn't it fair to say that if you're worried about roundoff noise in repeated calculations, you've passed the point from being just a scientist to a someone who should be concerned with general programming theory and conventions, and hence at least familiar and comfortable with notation that denotes type?

My introduction to IEEE 754 was brought about via Python, when my chemistry kinetic simulations weren't running right (many millions of iterations, scaling factors with huge and tiny exponents). Understanding and fixing that problem took an hour or two, which far overshadowed the minute-long pause when I first found that 5/2 = 2.

In the end, the benefits of having the power of a real programming environment far outstrip the very small entry barrier. I personally feel that in the modern world you have no business calling yourself a scientist of any kind unless you can write a basic data manipulation script (parse and write a flatfile csv/tabs/CRLF etc) in some language of your choice. Massive quantities of data and meta-analyses are now the norm, making manual transcription or even copy/paste a thing of the past, and it is not acceptable to be hobbled by the feature set of existing software.

Look at what the intense lobbying and marketing going into anti-drunk driving. The best example being MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.) To (rightly) save +10,000 people a year from being killed.

Once we have robotic controlled cars that can reduce traffic accidents by a suitable amount there will be a similar incentive to get rid of the bad driving of humans. Think MAHD (Mothers Against Human Drivers.) And I think saving another 10,000 plus people a year and further reducing insurance rates etc will make it worth it. People will be able to work or entertain themselves during their commute instead of trying to multi-task and get into accidents.

Same here. Unfortunately, it's not a very quotable song except for the title, so I am not going to be able to sneak any lyrics from it into a casual Slashdot post.

Okay, I lied. You caught me under false pretenses.

New York Lawyer, my good man, thanks 10,000 times for your work and effort, but as a non-lawyer I have NO IDEA what your post means. It must be bad, but really I don't know what it means. Can you tell me, a non-lawyer, what it means other than "You're screwed" or some such thing? I just don't know...

It's typical to overhype and exaggerate results like this. What's interesting is if it really is that easy to make reliable, robust, defect free logic circuits so easy, would it be a good thing or a bad thing economically. I'd certainly be out of a job if a grad student could magically mix up an SOC complete with electrical interconnects and packaging while his/her advisor slowly whittles away at his/her self esteem

Don't forget Start at the end!

(Select, Start if two people are going to be listening to the song.)

Glad I'm not the only one who feels the same about our populace, although I won't deny being hypocritical about it myself, even if I'm aware of it.

those lobbyists are preventing progress for the sake of established bloodsucking institutions and Associations.

the equivalent would have been in medieval times the monks to block the printing press after they realized that not only bibles can be printed!

Oh my God I hate these lobbyists and IP-lords!

Except sunlight isn't expected to run out in a timeframe that humanity can fathom.

eg. removing https:/// [https] from the location bar after we (the security/it industry) have spent 25 years teaching people to look for it

Er, 25 years ago HTTP didn't exist. Let alone SSL.

Oops. I meant to say "mirrored box filled with light". Also, next time you're being interrogated in a room with a "one-way mirror", just put your eye right up against the glass and block out ambient light using your hands. You'll probably be able to see into the viewing room unless the viewing room is very dim and/or the interrogation room is very bright.