Which sends data to Microsoft. Is that safer?

False. Sony Xperia has it officially supported since a year. http://developer.sonymobile.co... For the current state of OpenCL on smartphones, see: http://streamcomputing.eu/blog...

Does it have tools support for OpenCL? For Geforce there is no tools support and without it, and I've found out the hard way that it's too difficult to make it perform without proper insights that tools can give.

Don't bring up the US car industry her. That's mean.

The map on this page http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/how-oil-made-north-dakota-rich-in-one-map-20131212 also makes clear that oil makes the difference for Dakota. The "increase/decrease of income" completes the heatmap.

You are only repeating what the others already said. I thought Apple-users were original (think different) and found the environment important, but it seems neither is true - you all think the same different and don't give anything about the environment. You only care about design-decisions.

Doesn't matter. Just updating my image of Apple-users.

Say there are 1 million users who just bought latest iPhone and want to have spare chargers. That is extra income of $ 10 Million! In case they used micro-USB, this would have been $ 0.

I think laptops will be next. Not only MagSafe -> MagSafe 2, but all laptops have too many different connectors.

Thanks for the link. Release date of iPad 4 is December 2012 (!) and has a much higher resolution to handle. Snapdragon 800 was designed for use in a (high-end) phone. The active cooling suggests Tegra 4 is not fit for mobile devices - I still think the reason for this device is to dump their unsold processor tech.

I have to say I would welcome mini-computers in the range 15 - 30W. For notebooks this Tegra 4 would be interesting.

The battery is huge! An Iphone 5 has a 5.45Wh battery. With that battery the iPhone would easily survive over a week.

According to Anandtech only 74.8 GFLOPS - comparable to an iPad 4. Other sources say 96 GFLOPS, but only when in power-hungry overclock mode: image. The real winner for Q4 2013 will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 - 129 GFLOPS. That leaves Tegra 4 completely in the dust.

The main reason the Tegra 4 is in no tablet/phone, is because Tegra 3 real performance and power usage was worse than advertised/marketed, and therefore the tablet/phone makers did not trust Tegra 4 would be a good bet. Another (smaller) reason was that NVIDIA is quite pushing their own agenda and brand, whereas other vendors do not meddle with their customer's business so much. Unluckily they did not learn from their experience and suggest in their latest video (the face-demo) that Tegra 5 uses 2 to 3 Watts when under full load - truth is that the load was not given. NVIDIA knows a little too much about marketing...

There are several languages that are written on top of OpenCL - that is the whole idea of this API. But if your read the article, it seems this guy was the actual inventor of the wheel.

Same response happened when some guy made Rootbeer and let some marketeer write an alike article. It was suggested that you could just run existing Java-code on the GPU, but that was not true at all - you had to rewrite the code to the rootbeer-API. This Harlan-project is comparable: just beta-software that has not run into the real limits of GPU-computing - but still making big promises that in contrary to their peers they actually will fix the problem.
I'm not saying it can be in the future, but just that this article is a marketing-piece with several promises on future advancements.

Check out Aparapi and VexCL to name just two. There are loads and loads of these solutions - many of these wrappers slowly advance to higher level languages, and have been in the field a lot longer.

The logic of the table is that it predicts missing elements really well. Does this circular table do the same?

When there is a problem with Linux, you fix it. When there is a problem with Windows, you replace it. Make sure you have updated Windows images - this is possible by making a daily image of the system in VMWare is alike. Tweaking of software like databases is possible, but it is cheaper (in terms of hourly price) to just buy more memory and more processing power. Actually these tricks do pretty well on Unix-systems too as an extra solution. As you cannot look into the code, you have to trust others. So make sure you have a good firewall and antivirus-software. I'm not tryng to make fun of windows here; Windows is a black box, so you need to treat it as such.

According to http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3574 and other sources, this research is already years old. Europe has acted on the research in 2010 to ban the additive.