Yes. For mass production I wouldn't choose such expensive connectors, but I would choose connections with greater long term reliability and easier connection/disconnection that the usual trashy, ultra-cheap connectors used in cars.
The sheds are (or were) rotton old sheds. Interesting stuff may happened in them, but they're still sheds.
The crown jewel of Bletchley is the national museum of computing, which is apparently treated like shit by the people who control the property and think the manor is the good bit. It isn't.
>How about the weight penalty? I can't believe you put them on a "race car", what was it, a dragster? It was an F1 car. F1 cars are built lighter than the minimum weight so they add ballast at the floor of the car to bring them up to minimum. So there is no weight penalty. If you keep the wiring loom connections low down, there is no cog penalty either.
>why use heavy connectors when the cheap plastic ones work 99.99% as well? Because $100 per connector is nothing compared the cost of engineering other parts of an F1 car. But reliability is paramount. Losing a race for a cheap connector is not really acceptable when you're spending millions of dollars elsewhere.
Frame rate is for gamers. Programmers need pixels.
That's why TFA is missing the right angle. 4K is great for programming
1 - You can see more lines of code
2 - it doesn't require silly refresh rates) 4K for gaming is silly. It doesn't meet the basic requirements
1 - your card can't drive it
2 - the framerate is low)
Arguing that 4K is bad because it's no good for gamers is like arguing mobile phones are bad because you can't program on one effectively.
You must have a more finely tuned aesthetic sense than me. I'm completely untroubled by the handles. If I'd paid full price for it, I might expect more.
>the Chinese manufactures build it as awesomely or as cheaply as you tell them to.
This.
But manufacturers don't go to China because it's more expensive. It's either: 1) They have many customers in China. 2) China does manufacturing for less money at any quality level.
Just pull away any panel and look at the switches and connectors. They are the cheapest, nastiest bits of crap you own. It doesn't matter if it's a BMW or a Skoda. They use the same shite parts under the covers. Generally the radio or "Entertainment Center" puts the rest of the car to shame in terms of component quality.
I used to work on race cars and we used mil spec circular connectors. Those things didn't break for want of a little bit of plastic costing $0.00001.
The total added manufacturing cost to using half decent switches and connectors might be $200 for a normal car. So $1000 on the price. Would you pay an extra $1000 for a 'the electrics won't break in 4 years' guarantee?
We don't all live in AZ. My AC runs about 2 weeks in the year. My comcast box (if I had one) would run all year. The fridge runs on a thermostat. When the doors are closed, it rarely runs.
>This is very different from actual certification labels like UL where you have to send your product to a 3rd party and they check it.
Bullshit. CE Requires certification.
UL is coming from an attitude of testing all about fire safety, since UL stands for "Underwriters Laboratories" and was formed by the insurance companies. CE is more broad based. But they have converged over the years.
So the next time you find a guy pouring burning oil into your power supply and is requiring it to not be alight when it comes out of the vents at the bottom, you'll know you're a CE test house.
Handoff between APs on the same ESS is smoother, cleaner and quicker than cell handoff. It's all layer 2. Handoff between APs on unrelated APs is a case of starting fresh each time. You don't notice the first. You certainly notice the second.
Cell handoff is somewhere in between. A bunch of protocol occurs to prep the new cell and the network is using mIP so you see the same IP. It's slow and clunky, but good enough for voice and asynchronous data.
>When they come up with a version of wifi that works over the dozens of miles
When people stop telling people to turn on the 'security' on their wifi and instead suggest they all share and benefit from the widespread availability of open wifi.
Certain local governments did a deal with the devil, agreeing to let Verizon skip their common carrier requirements in return for which Verizon would install FTTH. So Verizon could cut the local ISPs out of the loop.
On DSL I paid the phone company for moving the bits (frame relay style) to the ISP and the mom-and-pop ISP for doing what ISP do. The ISP (dsl-only) was excellent in many ways.
This arrangement would have remained except Verizon wriggled out of it, so they can pull the crap they pull today, holding their customers hostage behind a content filter.
I don't understand why Verizon sold the area off to Frontier.
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Yes. For mass production I wouldn't choose such expensive connectors, but I would choose connections with greater long term reliability and easier connection/disconnection that the usual trashy, ultra-cheap connectors used in cars.
The sheds are (or were) rotton old sheds. Interesting stuff may happened in them, but they're still sheds.
The crown jewel of Bletchley is the national museum of computing, which is apparently treated like shit by the people who control the property and think the manor is the good bit. It isn't.
>How about the weight penalty? I can't believe you put them on a "race car", what was it, a dragster?
It was an F1 car. F1 cars are built lighter than the minimum weight so they add ballast at the floor of the car to bring them up to minimum. So there is no weight penalty. If you keep the wiring loom connections low down, there is no cog penalty either.
>why use heavy connectors when the cheap plastic ones work 99.99% as well?
Because $100 per connector is nothing compared the cost of engineering other parts of an F1 car. But reliability is paramount. Losing a race for a cheap connector is not really acceptable when you're spending millions of dollars elsewhere.
Frame rate is for gamers. Programmers need pixels.
That's why TFA is missing the right angle.
4K is great for programming
1 - You can see more lines of code
2 - it doesn't require silly refresh rates)
4K for gaming is silly. It doesn't meet the basic requirements
1 - your card can't drive it
2 - the framerate is low)
Arguing that 4K is bad because it's no good for gamers is like arguing mobile phones are bad because you can't program on one effectively.
Why pay $1000+ for a 4K monitor tomorrow when you can pay $500 for a TV today?
http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-i...
You must have a more finely tuned aesthetic sense than me. I'm completely untroubled by the handles. If I'd paid full price for it, I might expect more.
>the Chinese manufactures build it as awesomely or as cheaply as you tell them to.
This.
But manufacturers don't go to China because it's more expensive.
It's either:
1) They have many customers in China.
2) China does manufacturing for less money at any quality level.
Car technology is shit.
Just pull away any panel and look at the switches and connectors. They are the cheapest, nastiest bits of crap you own. It doesn't matter if it's a BMW or a Skoda. They use the same shite parts under the covers. Generally the radio or "Entertainment Center" puts the rest of the car to shame in terms of component quality.
I used to work on race cars and we used mil spec circular connectors. Those things didn't break for want of a little bit of plastic costing $0.00001.
The total added manufacturing cost to using half decent switches and connectors might be $200 for a normal car. So $1000 on the price. Would you pay an extra $1000 for a 'the electrics won't break in 4 years' guarantee?
>A cable box drawing "500 watts" would be cherry-red hot
And it's not even made by Nvidia.
>in Arizona our A/C runs about 20 hours a day
We don't all live in AZ. My AC runs about 2 weeks in the year. My comcast box (if I had one) would run all year.
The fridge runs on a thermostat. When the doors are closed, it rarely runs.
>This is very different from actual certification labels like UL where you have to send your product to a 3rd party and they check it.
Bullshit. CE Requires certification.
UL is coming from an attitude of testing all about fire safety, since UL stands for "Underwriters Laboratories" and was formed by the insurance companies.
CE is more broad based. But they have converged over the years.
So the next time you find a guy pouring burning oil into your power supply and is requiring it to not be alight when it comes out of the vents at the bottom, you'll know you're a CE test house.
Bigger cells. Coordination between those cells.
Handoff between APs on the same ESS is smoother, cleaner and quicker than cell handoff. It's all layer 2.
Handoff between APs on unrelated APs is a case of starting fresh each time.
You don't notice the first. You certainly notice the second.
Cell handoff is somewhere in between. A bunch of protocol occurs to prep the new cell and the network is using mIP so you see the same IP. It's slow and clunky, but good enough for voice and asynchronous data.
>But will Chinese-built cars be just as good as European-built cars
Yes.
Have you seen the quality of European built cars?
Have you noticed the vast Chinese manufacturing industry that assembles all the technology.
>When they come up with a version of wifi that works over the dozens of miles
When people stop telling people to turn on the 'security' on their wifi and instead suggest they all share and benefit from the widespread availability of open wifi.
I've taped them down just in case. I wouldn't want them to turn on me while I'm not looking.
What's wrong with the door handles? I haven't had any problems with them.
Well it's orange.
I'd love to. Please give me $50,000 to make up the difference.
I got me a 350Z convertible.
When you don't drive many miles, fuel efficiency is moot. Fun factor is not.
It sucks because it doesn't work until you download the drivers, install them and mess with the X configuration.
With Intel graphics, it just works, because the open source driver code is integrated into Linux.
And yet I'm looking at lots of pixels driven by Intel graphics, with no obvious inability to support the applications I use day to day.
Sure I have Nvidia in my windows gaming rig. But Linux is the topic here.
Intel seems to have the only graphics that doesn't suck horribly on Linux for normal day to day use.
In my local starbucks they provide wall sockets, near every chair. It works great.
I've had no issues except for the DNS which for which the donkey balls are well sucked.
8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and you're golden
Certain local governments did a deal with the devil, agreeing to let Verizon skip their common carrier requirements in return for which Verizon would install FTTH. So Verizon could cut the local ISPs out of the loop.
On DSL I paid the phone company for moving the bits (frame relay style) to the ISP and the mom-and-pop ISP for doing what ISP do. The ISP (dsl-only) was excellent in many ways.
This arrangement would have remained except Verizon wriggled out of it, so they can pull the crap they pull today, holding their customers hostage behind a content filter.
I don't understand why Verizon sold the area off to Frontier.