Germany was the first company to pull the vaccine. They did so in spite of the data.
Since this is not true, the rest of your comment is nonsensical speculating based on false data.
The first contry to temporarily stop using the AstraZenaca vaccine was Denmark, then Norway and Iceland. On sunday Netherlands and Ireland decided the same. Followed later by Spain, Italy, France and Germany on monday.
One of the major things Apple changed when they entered the US smart phone market...
Uh, didn't they CREATE the smart phone market? I mean, sure, there were some lame blackberries and Palm Pilots with cellular links, but wasn't the iPhone what really made the smartphone market?
No definitely not! There was lots of smart phone devices running Windows CE/Pocket PC and a larger shitload of devices running Symbian (Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Nokia). Speed and the high cost of the cellular networks at the time was the major limiting factors for their usefulness, along with some limits in the capabilities of the phone hardware. But the market was there, and would have exploded much in the same way when network and hardware evolved, even without Apple. Remember the first iPhone was just a lame iPod with cellular links, without the option to install apps.
With chip+pin all liability falls onto the cardholder, regardless of whether the chip was used or not, and whether a pin was entered or not, and the burden is on the cardholder to prove that they didn't do the fraudulent transaction.
Most of the world (Europe, Australia, Asia, ME and Africa) the consumers are apparently happy with being liable by default. For some reason consumers in the US don't want to allow the merchant+banks+issuers to shift the liability to the consumer.
I'd say that is not correct, chip+pin has not changed the liability. But, being a European we perhaps have more sane laws. Or slightly less scumbag banks.
For a while almost all have changed to chip+pin, but prior it was mag-stripe+pin. This is still available as backup, since nearly all terminals have both. Does not change anything with regards to liability tho.
In any case, most places here now also support RFID tapping. With pin mandatory for purchases over something like $20, in addition to every X purchase(4 or 5 I think).
> Master will be Host. Slave will be Client.
And there you already failed, and mixed the terms up.
Master is the one doing the query/ordering and Slave is the one to answer/respond. Exactly the opposite of what your alternative does. The Client is the one query/ordering and Host is the one to answer/respond.
What country have you worked in where workers are more empowered to make decisions, and trusted to act independently?
Obviusly you have newer worked in scandinavia. From experience it seems the Americans tend to go for more bureaucracy and shuffle all requred descissions up in the system. And you often get the impression it's more important to cover your own ass, than get things done.
Microsoft had tablets before they became popular, too, but they didn't kick off the tablet craze.
They did not become popular, but the major factor for that was simply price. Those tablet was ridicolusly expesive, they cost 3-10 times a similary specced laptop(CPU/RAM/Disk). What was sold, was geared to special user scenarious suporting dedicated use cases. Not general consumer use.
Had affordable devices been avalible, the form factor would have had much more success earlier. Wich again would have led to better touch UI, by evolution. The market side would have ended up close to todays levels, but not with the expolsive growth. But a 5-10 years head start would have evened that out.
For anything designed the last 5 years it's more than likely that those pesky old 8051s have been replaced by ARMs, Coretex M0s, M3s and M4s
Actually, its not. For many applications, this would require rewriting of the software stack, for a chip with roughly the same die size and possibly less funcionality. 8051 is a microcontroller, not a microprocessor.
And that is exactly what those ARMs are, they are microcontrollers. It's several years since the ARM microcontrollers started to dip below the $1 pricetag becoming a valid cometitior in most microcontroller designs. Those cheap ARMs have more or less taken over the market for 16 bit micros, and are doing heavy inroadds in the typical 8bit martkets. If you have started a microcontroller based design the last 5-10 years and not included one or more ARM microcontrollers in the evaluation process, you have not done it right.
I would bet you have more 8051 microcontrollers running *today* than the whole sum of their desktop chips, including the low power, embedded/hardened lines.
Perhaps, depending on the age distributon of the equipment. For anything designed the last 5 years it's more than likely that those pesky old 8051s have been replaced by ARMs, Coretex M0s, M3s and M4s. So a more accurate statement should be"I would bet you have more ARM microcontrollers running *today* than the whole sum of their desktop chips, including the low power, embedded/hardened lines.
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