It certainly does, however power loss over "thousands of kilmeters" is going to be pretty damn heavy, no matter how high you pump the voltage. Which is the whole point, suddenly you need more then double the field.
The main issue is cost of such move. Even if all the humanity decided this is needed and necessary, the raw materials needed to this change would alone like require global mining development investment that would dwarf budget of USA as most of these clean technologies tend to require (really) rare earths and certain chemical compounds that are quite scarce and unlikely to be made much cheaper even by economy of mass production due to natural scarcity in earth crust.
Not to even talk of much bigger bill of converting essentially all of industry to such clean standards as are proposed. So yes, technologically possible. Realistically impossible even if good will to for such project was global and all-consuming.
Even if we had enough raw materials or enough supply to construct such a solar panel field (we don't), how on earth do you plan to move all this energy to places that need it? Supraconductivity doesn't work all that well (read at all) in surface, or anywhere near Earth's surface temperatures. And no matter how high voltage you pump into lines, we're no longer talking a few hundred of kilometers at max. Even if such a project were possible from construction point of view (again - it isn't), logistics of moving the energy are largely unsolvable in this time frame.
What was the name of the company that has distribution rights to beatles' songs?
Coincidence or divine providence?
And dear fanboys/girls, for the love of Steve, fix your sarcasm meters already. I do have a lot of karma to burn, but the tug of war on the grandparent's mods is hilarious.
First of all, as said above most dual cores drain less power then single cores when only one core is in use. There has also been an implementation where a tri-core CPU was used. Two cores are designed for high-power scenarios like video playback, while third was a significantly slower low-power core that was designed to run low power scenarios like background operations relevant to the phone. In low power scenario, two of the three cores simply power off while in high power the third core powers off.
On the issue of low signal areas, this is a problem with the way phone handles networking, and is a totally separate issue. Hint: in most cases you can save a ton of battery longevity but setting your phone to 2G only mode when not using anything network-intensive. This causes phone to completely stop rescanning and re-attempting connection to 3G network, which is the main power drainer. 2G network is generally available everywhere (at least around here) so phone is pretty much always connected without power intensive "lose network, rescan, reconnect" cycles.
On my nokia 5800, I actually have a "scenario" set on home screen that shuts down 3G leaving only 2G up just for moments like those (for example when travelling between cities by train that has no 3G amplifier). It can make a significant difference to how long the phones battery will last.
I'm not talking about black and white. As for inevitability, you may want to read up on how prohibition was set up (specifically, just how widely your particular sentiment was spread about prohibiting alcohol), and how soundly it was ignored by those who were the target of these laws. The similarity to issue we're discussing is undeniable.
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Reminds me of people who spoke for prohibition, and before that, for abstaining from sex.
Former got essentially swallowed up by reality, latter got caught abusing young boys. Neither is "life-threatening to go without". Which goes to show that "well, just go without!" argument has some rather serious flaws.
If you want the fastest CPU, you buy Intel. If you want the lowest power consumption for the performance, you buy Intel (or ARM, at the very low end). If you want cheap, you buy AMD.
If Dell switched to only selling AMD CPUs, they'd lose all the markets other than the low end... which is where the profit margins are usually the worst.
Do you understand that vast majority of the market in PCs is not:
1. Low power consumption market 2. High end market.
These two are small niches. Most machines in office space and homes are bought because they are:
a. Cheap. b. Supported by vendor on a good warranty plan.
If dell can take all the markets by the two above by storm with this fusion, intel is going to suffer greatly. While the big profits are reaped on high end and low power, the real revenue stream is in the middle. AMD is hands down better in this segment then Intel in the most important aspect - efficiency (as in money paid per performance gained). Neither average home users nor corps give a rat's ass what CPU or motherboard are in that "magical box" that is a PC tower. They care that it's cheap, on a good warranty and does the job.
Imagine you're a theoretical large speculative investor. You talk to microsoft and nokia leaders, through investing money in both. You make a deal where MS shill is hired as a nokia CEO when nokia is ailing, with the ultimate goal of dismantling the company, selling it's devices-making part to MS and putting the rest under hammer.
How much would MS be willing to pay you off for the nokia stock that will allow you to get such shill elected as CEO and essentially save their dead on arrival WP7? I imagine we'd be talking quite a bit of profit. MS benefits from this in every way, nokia will likely get dismantled into pieces and sold off with those behind the deal walking off with hefty profit and execs with their golden parachutes.
You should know that most police and social workers will take report and file it into rubbish bin, or laugh you out of the door when reporting "spousal abuse by a female".
The laws, and attitudes were made to protect women from men. Not vice versa. This is a fairly well documented problem in criminology, but there's no real drive to fix it.
With a reported 500,000/week to support it, it only takes 500,001 people in the world to choose the 99c/week option to make it a net (yet tiny) profit.
Nope. It takes approximately 1.100.000 - 1.200.000 users minimum. Math is simple: Taxes (around 10-20% depending on a country), apple's share (suggested to be 50%). That said I suspect that over half of the price will most likely be paid not by users but by advertisers, because you can make your ads as intrusive as you want and there's nothing user can do about it.
If you sell through subsidiaries who call/advertise/etc you're looking at extra 20-40% costs too.
Forum link to ranting poster eventually admitting it really was water damage as #1 Same on #2. Same on #3.
Same for SE. Same for Samsung. Same for LG.
Apple? Norwegian officials investigating, people complaining about "tripped sensors by cold weather".
Truly takes a fanboy who resorts to profanity to ignore facts in his face and claim that those who state these facts are "paid by apple's competition".
We have a boatload of standard "I swear I didn't use it in the pouring rain/drop it into a puddle of water" cases which are usually retorted by engineers who simply send people a photo of utterly corroded main board. This is a plain case of real water damage not covered by warranty, as phones aren't water-proof. Which is exactly what happened in this case you mention.
On the other hand, apple is actually dumb enough to use sensor-based only reasons, with no other signs of water damage as proof of warranty voiding AND at the same time actually sells it's product in regions which are in sub-zero temperature for at least a quarter of a year AND finally uses crappy chinese sensors which apparently pop the moment you take the damn thing from sub-zero outside indoors. I.e. a small amount of condensed moisture triggers the sensor (nokia, SE, LG and Samsung at least generally do not suffer from this problem). Look up this particular case of idiocy and ivory tower syndrome in Norway, where consumer protection body is currently looking into apple's practice of claiming "sub-zero isn't covered by warranty" and notes that this is specifically running afoul of local laws.
Let me reiterate the point. Apple is the ONLY phone vendor operating in EU that is refusing warranty on this scale based on "water damage" claims. No one else has refusal rates anywhere near them.
You found a single thread, made by a ranting user who obviously used his phone in a pouring rain shower (he essentially admits it) obviously causing water damage (it's not a crappy "tripped sensor" issue apple bitches about - engineer actually photographed water still INSIDE THE PHONE and sent it to the user as a reason for warranty voiding).
I understand that considering your name, you can't really give any other reply, but could you at least try to find a reasonably comparable case? Or is this really the closest one you could find?
The protesters are using the Internet to organize. They're protesting to fix those "bigger problems" like a lack of free speech, corruption in government, and police brutality. Preserving their Internet access is preserving their ability to fight for what they want. I believe that's important.
Problem: their issues aren't ones you listed. The reasons for protests are:
1. Unemployment and poverty. 2. Government's policy towards Israel.
Everything else is secondary at best. The main reason why US and EU (Western Europe before that) supported Mubarak rather openly for about 30 years was because he is a very safe choice for a leader. He reigns in all anti-western majority-supported policies, defends the all-important Suez channel and as one of US diplomats put it "it's generally a lot easier to call the guy who's a dictator and tell him to do what we want done then a democratically elected one".
Problem for West now is that we have to pay lip-service to democracy movements in dictatorial regimes at least due to attitudes at home, and that hamstrings any open support for Mubarak. So now, we apparently supplied a West-backed "democratic" leader in El-Baradei (a very small player in Egypt's internal politics until now), who will be eventually marketed and installed as Egypt's leader so that policies that interest West such as Israel and Suez don't change.
As for unemployment, that's going to get worse at least in short term with capital running from country as fast as it can. Unless they elect someone like Chavez who just chokes the capital's influence down in favor of poor masses, but West learned that lesson in Venezuela all too well - any potential leaders who threaten capital's ability to buy whatever policies needed will most likely be buried asap.
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It certainly does, however power loss over "thousands of kilmeters" is going to be pretty damn heavy, no matter how high you pump the voltage. Which is the whole point, suddenly you need more then double the field.
The main issue is cost of such move. Even if all the humanity decided this is needed and necessary, the raw materials needed to this change would alone like require global mining development investment that would dwarf budget of USA as most of these clean technologies tend to require (really) rare earths and certain chemical compounds that are quite scarce and unlikely to be made much cheaper even by economy of mass production due to natural scarcity in earth crust.
Not to even talk of much bigger bill of converting essentially all of industry to such clean standards as are proposed. So yes, technologically possible. Realistically impossible even if good will to for such project was global and all-consuming.
Even if we had enough raw materials or enough supply to construct such a solar panel field (we don't), how on earth do you plan to move all this energy to places that need it? Supraconductivity doesn't work all that well (read at all) in surface, or anywhere near Earth's surface temperatures. And no matter how high voltage you pump into lines, we're no longer talking a few hundred of kilometers at max. Even if such a project were possible from construction point of view (again - it isn't), logistics of moving the energy are largely unsolvable in this time frame.
What was the name of the company that has distribution rights to beatles' songs?
Coincidence or divine providence?
And dear fanboys/girls, for the love of Steve, fix your sarcasm meters already. I do have a lot of karma to burn, but the tug of war on the grandparent's mods is hilarious.
When you're essentially a self-declared God with your own religion and following, living a private life is troublesome.
If your hypothesis above was correct, there would be no insurance business as we know it now.
First of all, as said above most dual cores drain less power then single cores when only one core is in use. There has also been an implementation where a tri-core CPU was used. Two cores are designed for high-power scenarios like video playback, while third was a significantly slower low-power core that was designed to run low power scenarios like background operations relevant to the phone. In low power scenario, two of the three cores simply power off while in high power the third core powers off.
On the issue of low signal areas, this is a problem with the way phone handles networking, and is a totally separate issue. Hint: in most cases you can save a ton of battery longevity but setting your phone to 2G only mode when not using anything network-intensive. This causes phone to completely stop rescanning and re-attempting connection to 3G network, which is the main power drainer. 2G network is generally available everywhere (at least around here) so phone is pretty much always connected without power intensive "lose network, rescan, reconnect" cycles.
On my nokia 5800, I actually have a "scenario" set on home screen that shuts down 3G leaving only 2G up just for moments like those (for example when travelling between cities by train that has no 3G amplifier). It can make a significant difference to how long the phones battery will last.
I'm not talking about black and white. As for inevitability, you may want to read up on how prohibition was set up (specifically, just how widely your particular sentiment was spread about prohibiting alcohol), and how soundly it was ignored by those who were the target of these laws. The similarity to issue we're discussing is undeniable.
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Reminds me of people who spoke for prohibition, and before that, for abstaining from sex.
Former got essentially swallowed up by reality, latter got caught abusing young boys. Neither is "life-threatening to go without". Which goes to show that "well, just go without!" argument has some rather serious flaws.
Which is what I said.
If you want the fastest CPU, you buy Intel. If you want the lowest power consumption for the performance, you buy Intel (or ARM, at the very low end). If you want cheap, you buy AMD.
If Dell switched to only selling AMD CPUs, they'd lose all the markets other than the low end... which is where the profit margins are usually the worst.
Do you understand that vast majority of the market in PCs is not:
1. Low power consumption market
2. High end market.
These two are small niches. Most machines in office space and homes are bought because they are:
a. Cheap.
b. Supported by vendor on a good warranty plan.
If dell can take all the markets by the two above by storm with this fusion, intel is going to suffer greatly. While the big profits are reaped on high end and low power, the real revenue stream is in the middle. AMD is hands down better in this segment then Intel in the most important aspect - efficiency (as in money paid per performance gained). Neither average home users nor corps give a rat's ass what CPU or motherboard are in that "magical box" that is a PC tower. They care that it's cheap, on a good warranty and does the job.
I would offer a different theory:
Imagine you're a theoretical large speculative investor. You talk to microsoft and nokia leaders, through investing money in both. You make a deal where MS shill is hired as a nokia CEO when nokia is ailing, with the ultimate goal of dismantling the company, selling it's devices-making part to MS and putting the rest under hammer.
How much would MS be willing to pay you off for the nokia stock that will allow you to get such shill elected as CEO and essentially save their dead on arrival WP7? I imagine we'd be talking quite a bit of profit. MS benefits from this in every way, nokia will likely get dismantled into pieces and sold off with those behind the deal walking off with hefty profit and execs with their golden parachutes.
Just a theory of course.
I think we all know what "microsoft embrace" is followed by.
Same reason why you would care if US was USSR in disguise.
There are multiple precedences where people were kidnapped from Europe and sent to both Guantanamo and Egypt/etc for torture and "vanishing".
It was called "extraordinary rendition".
You should know that most police and social workers will take report and file it into rubbish bin, or laugh you out of the door when reporting "spousal abuse by a female".
The laws, and attitudes were made to protect women from men. Not vice versa. This is a fairly well documented problem in criminology, but there's no real drive to fix it.
Quite clearly you have never ever dealt with Russian ladies.
If you did you would have known the difference between drama and WW3.
Let's not be dramatic.
Columbine is a better option then?
And they suffer the consequences. There are far harsher penalties in life for not being smart/savvy enough.
With a reported 500,000/week to support it, it only takes 500,001 people in the world to choose the 99c/week option to make it a net (yet tiny) profit.
Nope. It takes approximately 1.100.000 - 1.200.000 users minimum. Math is simple: Taxes (around 10-20% depending on a country), apple's share (suggested to be 50%). That said I suspect that over half of the price will most likely be paid not by users but by advertisers, because you can make your ads as intrusive as you want and there's nothing user can do about it.
If you sell through subsidiaries who call/advertise/etc you're looking at extra 20-40% costs too.
Ah, such eloquence. Let's see:
Forum link to ranting poster eventually admitting it really was water damage as #1
Same on #2.
Same on #3.
Same for SE. Same for Samsung. Same for LG.
Apple? Norwegian officials investigating, people complaining about "tripped sensors by cold weather".
Truly takes a fanboy who resorts to profanity to ignore facts in his face and claim that those who state these facts are "paid by apple's competition".
This actually sounds to be small enough to be caused by a number of potential software issues with the phone itself.
Because there aren't any.
We have a boatload of standard "I swear I didn't use it in the pouring rain/drop it into a puddle of water" cases which are usually retorted by engineers who simply send people a photo of utterly corroded main board. This is a plain case of real water damage not covered by warranty, as phones aren't water-proof. Which is exactly what happened in this case you mention.
On the other hand, apple is actually dumb enough to use sensor-based only reasons, with no other signs of water damage as proof of warranty voiding AND at the same time actually sells it's product in regions which are in sub-zero temperature for at least a quarter of a year AND finally uses crappy chinese sensors which apparently pop the moment you take the damn thing from sub-zero outside indoors. I.e. a small amount of condensed moisture triggers the sensor (nokia, SE, LG and Samsung at least generally do not suffer from this problem). Look up this particular case of idiocy and ivory tower syndrome in Norway, where consumer protection body is currently looking into apple's practice of claiming "sub-zero isn't covered by warranty" and notes that this is specifically running afoul of local laws.
Let me reiterate the point. Apple is the ONLY phone vendor operating in EU that is refusing warranty on this scale based on "water damage" claims. No one else has refusal rates anywhere near them.
You found a single thread, made by a ranting user who obviously used his phone in a pouring rain shower (he essentially admits it) obviously causing water damage (it's not a crappy "tripped sensor" issue apple bitches about - engineer actually photographed water still INSIDE THE PHONE and sent it to the user as a reason for warranty voiding).
I understand that considering your name, you can't really give any other reply, but could you at least try to find a reasonably comparable case? Or is this really the closest one you could find?
The protesters are using the Internet to organize. They're protesting to fix those "bigger problems" like a lack of free speech, corruption in government, and police brutality. Preserving their Internet access is preserving their ability to fight for what they want. I believe that's important.
Problem: their issues aren't ones you listed. The reasons for protests are:
1. Unemployment and poverty.
2. Government's policy towards Israel.
Everything else is secondary at best. The main reason why US and EU (Western Europe before that) supported Mubarak rather openly for about 30 years was because he is a very safe choice for a leader. He reigns in all anti-western majority-supported policies, defends the all-important Suez channel and as one of US diplomats put it "it's generally a lot easier to call the guy who's a dictator and tell him to do what we want done then a democratically elected one".
Problem for West now is that we have to pay lip-service to democracy movements in dictatorial regimes at least due to attitudes at home, and that hamstrings any open support for Mubarak. So now, we apparently supplied a West-backed "democratic" leader in El-Baradei (a very small player in Egypt's internal politics until now), who will be eventually marketed and installed as Egypt's leader so that policies that interest West such as Israel and Suez don't change.
As for unemployment, that's going to get worse at least in short term with capital running from country as fast as it can. Unless they elect someone like Chavez who just chokes the capital's influence down in favor of poor masses, but West learned that lesson in Venezuela all too well - any potential leaders who threaten capital's ability to buy whatever policies needed will most likely be buried asap.
Afaik, others use more reliable sensors. At least nokia does, as their phones are in fact tested in Finnish winter.
The issue here isn't a general sensor failure, but the fact that it's common for sensors used by apple to fail in normal outdoors usage during winter.