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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
Apple has a very good and easy to use recycling program. They send you a shipping label, you walk into any FedEx and mail it to them. Simples. These days they even give you a gift card if the machine has any value. The Apple stores accept s
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
People switching from buying x86 laptops or desktops switching to buying tablets instead. If the iPad/Android/Windows 8 tablet doesn't have an Intel processor in it then that's money lost for Intel.
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
Generally when a company dismisses a competitor in this way it usually finds itself on the wrong end of a disruptive collapse in 5 or so years. See Nokia, RIM, Palm. While its difficult to bet against Intel, it will be interesting to see ho
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
And there lies one of the cruxes of the issue. Companies want to recruit 'unicorns', people who are absolutely perfect for the job. People that they don't have to train and can be parachuted into a position and be 100% productive from day o
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
There are actually 3 types of H-1B candidates: Bodyshoppers - Faux consulting companies that recruit H1B workers from overseas with promises of a life in the US and a Green Card and place the "consultants" at US corporations to fill develop
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
One that could blow up their faces if the other vendors feel that Motorola is getting special treatment. The bigger worry for Google is if Samsung decides it doesn't need Google anymore, forks and goes it alone in an attempt to match Apple.
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by spiralpolitik 14y ago
Most interesting part that iOS 6 will support the iPhone 3GS which is now almost 3 years old. How many Android Phones from July 2009 will support Android 4.0 ? I think that says a lot.
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
While one of the characteristic of a RISC processor was a simpler instruction set its not the only one. There is also uniform instruction length to make instruction decoding logic simpler and quicker and that a single instruction doesn't ta
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Tanenbaum wasn't that far off. 1. In terms of pure Micro-Kernels he was off. It was tried, the benefits didn't outweigh the drawbacks so people moved to Hybrid Micro-Kernels (Windows NT, OS X, iOS et al) so from that perspective he was abou
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
While an interesting read, its pure idealism on the part of the author. For SIM cards to die as the author imagines the carriers would have to accept that in the future they nothing more than dumb data pipes. This would be excellent news fo
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
UNIX in general never transitioned well from single binary applications that could just be placed in /bin /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin as appropriate to multi-file applications that needed an array of libraries, resource files etc. That coupl
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
There seems to be trend toward ever increasing absurdity when it comes to interviewing for Software Engineers. In fact some of the recent HN posting about interview techniques are verging on being a parody of the Knights who say Ni from Mon
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
FYI I actually lived through the Thatcher years so witnessed first hand the effects of her policies. I lived in one of the communities that she destroyed through her policies of privatization (enriching her supporters in the process) leavin
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
UK Manufacturing died because of the decision by the Thatcher government to privatize previously nationalized industries and abandoning the policy of full employment, happily accepting 2-3 million unemployed if it meant cheaper goods and se
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
The monarch can refuse to sign legislation. However the refusal to sign would trigger the dismantling of the monarchy plunging the UK into a deep constitutional crisis not seen since Oliver Cromwell. And while technically the House of Commo
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Generally IMHO not paying overtime usually masks inefficiencies in your business. If someone is having to work 70-80 hour weeks to get the job done then something is messed up somewhere in your process. Paying overtime is an easy way to spo
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Its the obvious extension of the current model. Kudos to Canonical for giving it a go. I was expecting Apple or MS to move in this direction and I seem to recall a POC/patent application/Mock up from a few years back showing an iMac with a
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Ignore the power issues and think about the security issues. Would you give some random plug in the wall hardware access to your smartphone along the same cable that data goes? (See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-s
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Given the switch from PowerPC to Intel its unsurprising that Apple is keeping itself options open. I suspect that if Intel doesn't deliver the power consumption/performance ratio that Apple needs they would happily switch to a processor tha
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
Keeping in mind that Amazon has never released sales figures (apart from "its selling well") for any version of the Kindle so basically they are pulling numbers out of the air for that. Samsung stopped reporting their sales numbers "due to
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
The hardware buttons were one of the worst aspects of the Android experience and its good that their are finally going away. It's a shame that given the fragmentation and poor upgrade paths it will be at least a year before there is suffici
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
It's a good book to read, but not in anyway essential or required reading and its badly mis-titled as it contains very little discussion on actual UNIX programming. The main issue I had with the book was that ESR seem to conveniently decide
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
A couple reasons for this but the main one is for many a year the NHS was underfunded by the Conservative governments of the 80s and 90s in the hope that it would crawl into the corner and die so did not/does not have the resources (doctors
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
So basically we arrive at the same point that Apple did in the mid 90s. Will there be a lazarus like comeback in a couple of years or will the cloners eat the rest of RIMs already half consumed lunch ?
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
If it goes any lower the question will become who buys RIM and melts it down for scrap.
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
You can find the breakdown here. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... Currently 45% are on 2.2 with 2.3 approaching around 39%.
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by spiralpolitik 15y ago
So by the end of the year Android developers will have 5 different versions (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0 and 4.0) of Android in the wild and over 40% of which are running a version that's almost 18 months old (2.2) with no upgrade path. And they say