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being slow/laggy on complex designs on underpowered machines
Evernote-like data is certainly a good addition. Google Glass is even scarier -- the ultimate tool for behavior analysis.
hack into their servers, steal binaries of game server, modify client to work with local server.
Private companies don't fund fundamental/basic research, unless we have semi-monopolistic situation like with AT&T Bell Labs before breakup, and Microsoft Research today. If you're in highly competitive market, you simply can't fund things which don't improve your bottom line in foreseeable future.
Academic institutions provide highly trained employees for industry, without funding of academic research, quality of teaching will decrease significantly. Even if there is a problem in finding correlation between funding of public research and economic growth (which I find highly dubious, it goes against intuition and lots of examples) it definitely helps humanity as a whole, because knowledge is not locked up in borders. Although people who go with commercialization of an invention they've come up with while in academia, most commonly do it in their home country.
My bad.
>AMD part has 1.2B transistors on a 315mm^2 die and the Intel part has 1.16B transistors on a 216mm^2 die
Yeah, I recently read somewhere that AMD significantly improved die area and power consumption of next FX cpu by using tools from graphics division. So it looks like the difference is not only in Intel's process advantage.
There are many game types/genres which don't require collision detection or realtime AI.
What was their idea exactly? Be the first to adopt working capacitive touch technology for a phone, and implement absolutely obvious and natural user interface for it? Really? Idea?
To me their success lies in timely choice of technologies to use and good implementation. Not in unobvious ideas.
Personally, I hear about meritocracy not from people who want more just society for all, but from people who hate the weak and want more just society for themselves. "The Weak" are entitled to their opinion about their entitlement, and could pressure system to get what they want. But meritocracy works. Modern civilization is built on it.
Considering SU later become net subsidizer of Eastern Bloc, and that these countries were in pretty good shape right after SU dissolution, with all the limitations of "socialist economy", one-sided interpretation of history as exploitation, plunder, and atrocities and nothing more, sounds to me extremely stupid and narrow minded. As stupid as "killing his own people" meme. I'm disgusted by people who do moral interpretations of history with today's dominating moral standards. "Let's not forget atrocities of Roman Empire, plunder, enslavement, domination, exploitation of neighboring peoples ." Whole world history is one big atrocity.
Also, people who consider Soviet Union, a primitive oriental despotism, as a communist regime, without quotation marks - have no class.
So it looks like they used eastern bloc resources to restore Soviet Union devastated after the war. Explainable action under their their (enforced) ideology of socialist countries mutual aid etc
any evidence for that? In my understanding the USSR was dominating eastern bloc countries, hindering their democratic economic development by enforcing archaic hierarchical undemocratic regime. Exploiting? I haven't heard about that. Countries were pretty autonomous in all things unrelated to ideology/politics.