Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    nanotechnology

    Manufacturing an iPhone in the United States would cost about $65 more than manufacturing it in China, where it costs an estimated $8. This additional $65 would dent the profit Apple makes on each iPhone, but it wouldn't eliminate it. (The iPhone average selling price is about $600, and Apple's average gross margin is about 40%. So Apple's gross profit on each iPhone is probably in the neighborhood of $250.)

    $250 x 37 million iPhone units = 9.25 Billion US Dollars (possible) NET PROFIT just for iPhone alone.

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    For further reading:

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/you-simply-must-read-this-article-that-explains-why-apple-makes-iphones-in-china-and-why-the-us-is-screwed-2012-1#ixzz1kQzsvNV4

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    http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-child-labor-2012-1

    Posted in: Apple posts record $13.06 bil quarterly net profit

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    nanotechnology

    I think it is better for the US not to join to any UN agencies except security council. 50 years of being the greatest contributor in the whole planet to the whole UN is already enough. Divert the contributions to the American people. I also hope that if the US resume the contribution, don't include the backlog

    Let the mighty France cover the portion of the contributions that the US has taken-out.

    Posted in: Palestine becomes member of UNESCO; U.S. cuts funds

  • 2

    nanotechnology

    We highly welcome your arrival. Competition is really really good for the consumers and let the best smartphone win!

    Later, Nokia must apply your technology used in candy-bar phone to the smartphone... dual SIM which can both run at the same time and can be toggled back and forth. Very popular feature in Asia and africa this dual-SIM is.

    Nokia must be lucky that there is no more Jobs who would had stopped the release of this phone maybe due to Jurassic old Windows patent infringement since 1984, ...etc. etc. etc....blah-blah-blah-blah

    Let all products, good or a little bad, expensive or cheap, FLOAT IN THE MARKET and let the consumers decide

    Posted in: Nokia launches Windows smartphone

  • 0

    nanotechnology

    Well, there maybe a short of supply of iPhones and iPad: iPhone sales maybe nailed to 4 millions only

    -- "China orders Apple supplier plant closure over environmental concerns"

    (You Can GOOGLE this topic for further reading)

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    CHINESE AUTHORITIES have ordered an Apple supplier to close part of its plant in Suzhou after residents living nearby raised significant environmental concerns.--

    The Chinese government, widely criticized for its poor policies on environmental issues, has taken a tough stance with the Taiwanese company Catcher Technology, which makes metal casings for notebook computers including Apple's Macbook Air and Macbook Pro.

    Posted in: Apple sells more than 4 mil new iPhone models in 3 days

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    I think the Russians message is : We are watching you, you watch yourself!

    With Japan's extensive radar network and all remaining radar are planned to be upgraded to the most modern type J/FPS-4 and J/FPS-5, it will be the other way around. Japan can watch Russia's air space closer to the Russian Far-East region including Sakhalin Islands

    http://newpacificinstitute.org/jsw/?p=4011

    Posted in: Japan says Russian military conducting drills near its airspace

  • 0

    nanotechnology

    According to Steve Jobs in an interview in 1994: Good artists copy great artists steal

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

    -- Steven P. Jobs has bragged about his mastery of stealing ideas from others, stating , "Picasso had a saying - 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

    I. Apple Alters Reality With Photoshop

    But stealing other competitors' ideas isn't the only thing Apple is good at. Of late it's shown itself to be a burgeoning master of Photoshop. It was caught in Germany doctoring images (playing with perspectives and stretching pictures) to make its competitor's product look like its own.

    II. PHOTOSHOPPED Images Played Key Role in Sales Ban

    The recent incident, like the previous photoshopping, was identified by Dutch IDG publication Webwereld.nl. IDG quotes Mark Krul, a lawyer at the Dutch firm WiseMen and a specialist in IT and intellectual property law, who says the visual evidence was critical in a German court's decision to ban Samsung's tablet sales in the European Union via an ex parte injunction.

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    OTHER Sites as reference:

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/238488/appleagaincitesinaccurateevidenceinsamsungpatentcase.html

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    http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Apple+Caught+Photoshopping+Galaxy+Tab+101+to+Look+Like+iPad+for+Lawsuit/article22459.htm

    Posted in: Apple planning early 2012 launch for new iPad: WSJ

  • 0

    nanotechnology

    One of Tokyo University Professor (Professor KODAMA) also announced similar frightening revelation, during his privilege speech in the Diet Assembly, that from the beginning the Japanese government was lying to the public and there was GROSS NEGLIGENCE on the part of the government:

    For those who can understand Japanese, one may watch this link below:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sTLQSZfwo

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    /* Multilingual subtitles are available on this version.*/

    Part1:　http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlf4gOvzxYc

    Part2:　http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlEOmcALwQ

    Posted in: Maher says 'nobody' in Japan gov't was in charge early in nuclear crisis

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    nanotechnology

    hey guys, heat stroke is quite different from hydration. But of course, intake of proper amount of water is the key to good health not only this summer but even on winter season.

    -- > What heat stroke is really about is the inability of the body to regulate the body temperature without loosing the essential salt inside our body. The sweat glands make the body perspire by producing sweat out of the skin pores. The problem is that, at some instances, the sweat glands are producing and perspiring water from the body without filtering the salt (sodium) contents. They cannot stop the sodium not to go with the perspiration.

    --> Now, in order to recover from heat stroke, one should immediately intake water with a solution of salt and sugar. For every one liter of water, add about 1 gram of salt and 4 grams of sugar. This is almost similar to the intravenous solutions given to heat stroke patients when they are brought to the hospital.

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    The proper functioning of the sweat glands can be maintained through regular exercise in which your body actually sweat for more than 30 minutes everyday. South-east Asian countries are sweating whole year round since birth so very few among them suffer heat stroke.

    Posted in: 35 deaths, 7,071 hospitalized due to heatstroke in one-week period

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    nanotechnology

    You don't ground cars whenever there are accidents. You don't ground ships whenever there are sea mishaps. You don't ground planes whenever there is a crash. You investigate, think on how to improve and how to avoid accidents. That is the reason why there is bachelors/masters/PhD degree of Science and technology.

    I would rather live near a nuclear power plant with the 1990's technology rather than near a coal power plant.

    One nuclear reactor can generate 2,300Megawatt of electricity. Is there any replacement for such gigantic output?

    Obviously, the nearest replacement are coal, diesel, bunker-fuel and LNG power plant. The good-news though, it is ironic that, fossil fuel supplies may stay for centuries more.

    Posted in: 70% of Japanese oppose restarting closed reactors: poll

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    nanotechnology

    basically, SMS is using the bandwidth of the voice signal so if the technology hasn't change since the 1990's, SOFTBANK customers will suffer the most because they have crowded spectrum and they don't have the foothold in the platinum frequency of 800MHz. So if there is an earthquake, SMS may still not push through because it will compete with the voice spectrum usage. Since originally SMS is not packet-based (IP-based), there is no overhead of information, parity check etc. which you will never know if the recipient actually received it.

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    With the introduction of 3.5G (HSPA/HSPA+/LTE) these days which are all based in IP, perhaps, they devised an intermediate server converting all information into IP so that W-CDMA and CDMA-WIN(KDDI-AU) SMS formats will seamlessly push-through with each other networks. So what matter now is on how good do the fiber optic backbone/infrastructure that carries the data from the cell towers to the core network. Then if the fiber optic backbone are dead due to severe calamity, the company with back-up microwave/satellite networks will be the best company.

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  • 0

    nanotechnology

    Almost all of us grew up in an era of balanced, fearless and excellent broadcast and print media so we know what were the real situation in Three-mile Island (TMI) and Chernobyl. Whether TEPCO and the Japanese Government admit it or not, Fukushima situation is now in between the case of TMI and Chernobyl. it is time for a martial law or worldwide emergency in Fukushima and these marines and the special units mentioned in this article should be called upon and kick TEPCO's asses out and take over. The problem in Fukushima has been complex ever since day-1 and TEPCO is not revealing the truth.

    There were time in a day that TEPCO staff just go inside the pump building about 5 minutes only and return to their shelter for the rest of the day because of high radioactivity. They just keep on working outside pouring water to the 4 reactors. Compare to TMI which had radioactive Iodine only, Fukushima has a lot of Cesium and possible Plutonium. In TMI, with only one crippled reactor, both the government and the plant owner declared after one month that the risk of further meltdown was over. Tomorrow is the one-month anniversary of Fukushima and still the situation is considered "Extremely High".

    Posted in: U.S. Marine nuclear rescue team stands ready in Japan

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    nanotechnology

    While Russia and CHina are developing hypersonic missile to kill aircraft carrier group, the US is developing hypersonic missile for deep target penetration anywhere in the world. As story mentioned, the US is one or several step ahead in hypersonic missile testing. Test with X-51 with Mach 5 was successful from B-52. Sooner or later X-51 will be tested in Trident-II-D5 ICBM with a range of 6,500 miles. Perhaps the US might revive the star-war program when Russia and CHina have perfected this hypersonic missile.... for there is a an assertion that "He who control the space will rule the world".

    But as shown in the past world wars, the greatest weapon in the ocean is the intelligence. Naval Intelligence of inferior battle carrier group of the USN lead to the defeat of the mighty IJN in midway.

    Posted in: Hypersonic missiles could challenge U.S. naval supremacy

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    nanotechnology

    Kyoken said ... And then? Is invading N.Korea really an option? All that is, is one bully trying to threaten another bully. George Carlin called this kind of behaviour rightfully "bigger dick foreign policy".

    Are you saying that America's "business" includes invading North Korea?... no further discussion then

    Posted in: U.S., South Korea begin war games

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    nanotechnology

    Sending aircraft carrier group is one way of showing to the concerned parties that the US Govt mean "business".. And if they will not take that business message seriously, the US will send another message by sending B-52 nearby.

    Posted in: U.S., South Korea begin war games

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    nanotechnology

    Nice move Japan. You should implement it sooner.

    Without doing that, you will lose the territory because China is known for creeping-attack strategy. They will put (floating) buoy first near to the boundary then moving little by little to be followed with fishing boat loaded with special forces disguising as fishermen. Then if you don't drive them away, fishermen then will change clothes to a military uniform. Once in military uniform, Japan can no longer attack or capture using Coast Guard easily.

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    This move by Japan should have a complimentary action. The SDF should donate all their F-4 Phantoms to the Philippines who is with territorial dispute with China too. Replace all those F-4 with F-15 or or F-18 plus a squadron of spy plane thats can loiter in the air for more than 48 hours.

    Then China will have a big problem with the Philippines having F-4 because Spratly is just about 100 miles her coastline. I read an article that the Philippines was blasting all the (floating) buoy put by China using Vietnam-era vintage Huey and propeller-driven war-planes used in counter-insurgency (COIN planes) because that all She has. The Philippines has the weakest air-force in the whole Asia but in spite of that, has the guts to stand face-to-face with China in the Spratly.

    Posted in: Japan may form new unit to watch Chinese navy

  • 0

    nanotechnology

    I still trust Toyota and Honda, though my present car here in Japan is Nissan. Bad for Toyota because NHK and other Japan-based media are known and watched only in Japan. They don't have the obviously known nationalistic, US/UK-biased CNN, ABC, and BBC.

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    If you’ve been watching CNN, ABC or BBC in the past three weeks, they seem to have focused their concentrated attacks on Toyota’s problem of sudden acceleration of many cars across its model range. The problem has been isolated on two problem areas, either a floor mat that disturbs the gas pedal or the pedal itself. Toyota has already ordered a recall of millions of its cars in the US, with apologies from the Toyota CEO himself!

    -- While it is now true that Toyota is reeling from its technical problems, international (especially US )media outlets have apparently gone to town to magnify this problem to nauseating proportions. It is as if Toyota has done a grave sin that the other automakers (specially the US automakers) never made. It seems that these giant international media outlets are using their media power to destroy the reputation of Toyota, which makes us suspect that they must be doing this in order to promote their own moribund car industry. After all, selling cars makes the economy of a country strong.

    -- It seems that these giant international media outlets are using their media power to destroy the reputation of Toyota, which makes us suspect that they must be doing this in order to promote their own moribund car industry. After all, selling cars makes the economy of a country strong.

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    For CNN, ABC, BBC etc, you failed in destroying the customers confidence in Toyota. I will buy Toyota the next replacement cycle of my family car.

    Posted in: Toyota to expand disclosure to win back trust

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    nanotechnology

    This is not yet hacking because the insurgents cannot take control yet of the drones. It is rather called as just "sniffing". The unencrypted video feeds are just like video in television. They are just simple signal just like OFDM/CDMA-based digital TV broadcast. I think NHK/WOWOW, Direct-TV channels here in Japan is much even more difficult to sniff compare with that unencypted videos from the drones.

    The microprocessors of the drones and related systems are older generations so real-time monitoring is almost not possible, if encryption are done, delays will happen. Drones, Apaches, B2, F15, F18 etc are still using old microprocessors similar or equivalent to Intel-80286 to Intel-80236. Some are even older which is comparable to Zilog Z-80/800/8,000 series based in mid-1980's. The only thing they can encrypt for this technology I guess is the command-line and voice communications based in CDMA technology.

    Posted in: Insurgents in Iraq hack into U.S. drone spy videos

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    nanotechnology

    The Toyota transmission system is the future in car electronics. This is known as the "Fly-by-Wire" System currently used in Boeing 777, Airbus 320/319, Embraer 170 and later models. Perhaps , the circuitry is controlled by a software in which there is a bug. This will be the start of the cars that can be really controlled by James Bond 007 from his hand-held device.... because the next part of the car that will be controlled by "Fly-by-Wire" is the Steering wheel in which if you reverse the program, turning the steering into clockwise will turn the car on the left side :)

    Posted in: Toyota to replace gas pedals in 3.8 million vehicles in U.S.

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    nanotechnology

    If the US, China and India, Russia will not join this CO2 reduction project, Japan endeavor will be useless. On the contrary, manufacturing sectors in Japan will carry the financial burdens in realizing this 25%, thus making them more uncompetitive in worldwide commerce. In the end, Japan small- and medium- scale industries will suffer a lot. Large industries will go to other countries for mass-production bases. Therefore, the 25% reduction in Japan will become 25% addition in other countries.

    Japan is contributing only 4.5% of the world's greenhouse gases compare to 24% US and 18% China. 10% reduction commitment of these two countries is already more than 25% reduction commitment of Japan. These two countries should join and commit at least 8% reduction.

    Posted in: Hatoyama pledges on world stage 25% emissions cut by 2020

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    nanotechnology

    When I was in the US in the 1990's, I was using Qualcomm CDMA-one by Verizon. I don't like to use GSM. When I came here in Japan, I prefer to use the same technology so I chose IDO which is now AU. After more than a decade, AU will go to LTE, the exponent of GSM technology. On 2012, I will transfer to any phone companies who will be using CDMA-2000 (Rev.A/B) or OFDM/WiMax phone.

    -- AU's current CDMA-WIN (CDMA-2000 1xEVDO/Rev.A) will not be compatible with LTE. The network overlay will cost them a lot for maintaining two incompatible technologies. Therefore, AU in 2012 and onwards may overcharge thru hidden charges for maintaining expensive infrastructures.

    -- If I will be using fiber-optic speed-like wireless technologies, WIMAX/OFDM is the most cost-effective technologies. CATV operators in Kanto, Kansai and Tokai will soon offer WiMAx connectivity.

    Posted in: KDDI selects NEC, Motorola for LTE mobile network

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