And after the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam was more an ally of the Soviets against China, and topped the China backed Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. They are 2 of the 4 parties in territorial disputes over islands in the South China Sea

I think their only cheap phones are their bottom of the line phones, like 510s. Above that, they are at par pricewise w/ iPhones and Galaxies. Problem is that they lack a lot of the apps that would make one want to prefer a smartphone to one of the older Symbian based phones. Hence they hardly move. In the Microsoft store in the city where I live, I've seen employees carry iPhones IN ADDITION to their Lumias.

I have seen a lot of garbage apps on Windows Phone, a lot of them being web wrappers. The hardware - the 510 is as cheap as anything else in the market, and in markets where people don't use phones to scan Q-readers, or read a credit card, or connect through an internet phone, or work for Uber, a Windows phone is just fine.

I somehow get the sense that they're headed that way! Like OneNote for Android, which one has to separately get from the Play store, allows you to draw, whereas the one that comes w/ Windows Phone doesn't! Go figure!

The OS and the UI themselves were fantastic, and unlike Windows 8.x for PCs, Windows Phone 8.x is great! Problem is that most great apps are either iOS only or iOS and Android, but most of them have punted on Windows Phone. My Lumia recently malfunctioned - the battery stopped charging. I had the opportunity to simply get it exchanged for another, but I grabbed the opportunity to replace it w/ a Moto-X, and I couldn't be happier.

Also, Verizon, while it still offers Windows Phones from HTC, seems to have stopped offering the Lumia Icons. The Windows Phones are probably now the smartphones for the Third World, where people don't use apps beyond Whatsapp, Camera, FaceBook, Twitter and Skype

Slow lane implies crippling one's ability to access certain content. Fast lane implies making certain content, such as movies, more smoothly accessable

So are you supporting the Windows Phone platform?

I disagree. Particularly w/ the decision to prevent Netflix from paying to establish faster lanes. I'm fine w/ banning ISPs from slowing down traffic.

What I would have liked, though, would have been the FCC ruling that content can't be blocked just b'cos it's available on TV. In other words, if you bought internet but not TV service from say, TWC, then when you hit a site that has either live feeds or a recording of an event, they shouldn't be able to prevent you from watching just b'cos you didn't buy the TV service w/ it.

Not just that, it's a lot easier to have tens or hundreds or thousands of books in a Kindle or an iPad. Particularly during moving. You don't have to worry about pages getting yellow, or particular books getting lost - once something is in your online library, it's there for good - unless and until you delete it.

Well, when Obama came to power, global warming was pretty big on the agenda. Now, w/ the freezing temparatures even in the south, doesn't look like it's an issue anymore. With all the snow, he's really scaled global warming back to the point where we're now freezing. So Mr Obama, can you accept that you've done this job very successfully, and stop trying to stop global warming by vetoing this pipeline deal? Too much of a good thing....

Silicon is only reaching its limits in the commercial space, where cost reductions are required, no matter how irrational. But in the military or aerospace sectors, stability is a lot more important, which is why those sectors are slow to move, if ever, and are willing to pay premium prices for yesterday's technology to be kept alive. For them, 500nm would be a lot more stable than even 50nm, let alone 10nm. They'd rather go w/ that, rather than go to an unstable yet expensive technology like GaAs, or even a shrink of silicon to the point where it gets unstable.

Also, Moore's law only made sense when it was extrapolated to mean that the number of transistors would keep doubling implies that the cost per transistor would keep getting halved. But now, the one no longer implies the other: while one can still get twice the silicon, the much more sophisticated processes and tooling required has actually increased the cost, and one of the few solutions to that has been to increase wafer diameters. The ISSCC would do well to recognize that a certain node - say 10nm - is the best that can happen, and then try and help get as much of the volume manufacturing to that point. However, older nodes from 500nm on down would still be needed for the foreseeable future.

You could have TTL or ECL, but they won't be anywhere near as scalable, given the relative sizes that are required of collector, gate & emitter

But nowhere nearly as long as silicon. The real successor to Silicon may be either Graphene or Silicene

Silicene may be a more likely substitute than silicone

Wasn't that called Xenix?

I quite agree. That 'window' of opportunity (in a manner of speaking) existed during the entire Windows 8.x fiasco, but neither Linux nor the BSDs seized the initiative. Now, Microsoft is in a comeback mode w/ Windows 10, and it's unlikely that that opportunity will come again anytime soon. Unless another Ballmer replaces Nadella anytime soon.