samsung also manufacturers the screens and several other components for the IPHONE so if your so worried about there quality you wouldn't by one of them as well.
Except it's the design of the phone that's the failure, not the individual components.
sheeple is reserved for apple due to the it being created from the word sheep and apple
Wrong, dipshit. sheep and people.
How many waited for models of Apple phones are there
How many new models of Android or even Samsung phones are there... many of all types and prices
Apple starve the market, make them wait, then release, usually with just less than demand, and they all sell, whereas their "rivals" are multiple manufacturers who compete with each other just keep bringing out new models and sell them at a steady rate
Yet, for some reason, Apple's profits are higher than its competitors, as is its stock price. So, what exactly was your point?
And Apple doesn't like to channel stuff - they drop production as sales drop, and when a new model is being introduced, will often not fulfill orders for the old inventory, rather letting them dry up. It's a rather fragile balancing act - Apple hates shortages (they want everyone who wants one to walk out with one), but also needs to ensure expensive inventory doesn't pile up. And it's even harder when your quantities are in the millions.
And this is the real secret to Apple's success. Their customers are well aware of Apple's typical product-refresh cycles, too, so they'll hold off until after the WWDC or whatever.
The designs make people want the products. But it's the supply-chain management that makes the money.
No phone has 4g, it has some marketing bullshit that doesn't even come close to the spec.
The anonymous coward speaks the truth.
With the 4G on probably less then when he has the 4G off?
Battery life a Samsung phone with 4G on: I'd say poor Battery life a Samsung phone with 4G off: I'd say good to great
Battery life of an iPhone with 4G on: 0, because you aren't allowed to Battery life of an iPhone with 4G off: great
Yeah, that's Apple winning right there. Let me guess when the iPhone 5 comes out with 4G, 4G will then be awesome?
You seem to forget that there's no such thing as 4G.
With Apple, the screen size that Jobs liked is the only choice you have. The screen size is "just right" only if your tastes exactly matched his, or you were convinced by the hype that being trendy was more important than getting the screen size you really wanted.
Having a single screen size certainly makes life easier for developers
There is no justification in the article for the thesis it states so boldly in its title, ergo, the article is completely worthless. Reads like an advertisement. Slow news day?
Wish I had mod points. I agree.
Lattice sold their Brevia development board which has an instant on FPGA. It also has an I/O system that is remarkable. If there's a specification it can't do it's most likely obsolete. I've been able to use the free development software to hook it up to a 3.3v I/O source and record the digital signals. I bought it for 29.95. Unfortunately the 3.3v is hard wired and I've not checked if I can power the I/O with different voltages.
FWIW there is an atmega 168 FPGA core but I've not tried to make it work. It comes with Lattice's micro8 core as a demo.
You do realize that Xilinx, Altera and Actel also offer pretty cheap development/starter kits with FPGAs, I/O headers and some peripherals? And they work with the free (as in beer) tools supplied by the vendors? Digilent also make a series of low-cost FPGA kits.
Firstly, I don't see a huge attempt to reprogram every PLC or FPGA in existence. Secondly, much of said behavior is likely script kiddy level. It is now sexy to start talking about hacking at hardware type things, even if not much comes out of it.
Well, the obvious reason (well, obvious to me, anyway; I'm an EE who does FPGA design for a living) there are very few attempts to reprogram every FPGA in existence is because the FPGAs are always installed on an application-specific circuit board, with application-specific I/O and peripherals. Modifying some product to do something else is a non-starter, simply because of the rework involved.
Off topic and barely relevant to the improvement of driving safety.
If you want better driving safety, you want better driver training
I agree wholeheartedly with the need for better driver training.
However, the problems remain. For example, there's always going to be some jackass driving like a maniac, weaving in and out of traffic, trying to shave a minute off of his commute. The fact that he's a well-trained jackass is irrelevant if he cuts you off or runs a stoplight.
And no matter how well-trained a driver might be, one cannot discount the problems caused by lack of vehicle maintenance. Just yesterday, I was at a stoplight and I looked at passenger-side rear wheel of the monster truck to my left, and the tire was bald to the point of showing wires. (OK, a well-trained driver would be one who is smart enough to know not to drive on such dangerous tires -- but the argument always presented is, "I can't afford a replacement, and I need my car to get to work
I'd love to see much more stringent driver training. But between the lack of funding on all levels for such things, and the ridiculous idea that a 16-year-old kid is mature enough to drive a car, unfortunately it won't happen.
Speed limits actually hinder driving safety more often than they help.
Citation, please.
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I was going to suggest the same thing, but I forgot the Agilent name
I am curious, when HP and Agilent split, did all of the real engineer end up migrating to Agilent?
All of the real engineering was in the Test and Measurement group, which was what became Agilent. The industrial-strength computing business (the big minis and such) stayed with HP, as did the printer business, but all of the innovative stuff that made HP great were part of the T+M business.
Anybody here remember Apollo Computer? HP9000/400? Nah, me either.
Yep, I remember running Mentor Graphics EDA software on them. The company bought some 68020 machines and it was a Big Effin' Deal when they were upgraded (mobo swap) to 68030s.
I can't believe we did Real Work on those boxes.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
