Why would Apple care if they were being copied if their primary motive is not to make money? They could still make quality products and be copied.
Apple is a publicly traded company. This means it is owned by numerous shareholders. The majority of those shareholders want Apple to make them lots of money. If that money is made with quality products, that's great. If Apple made quality products and not much money, those shareholders would be quite upset about that.
A typical person in the Western world uses, on average, 2+ kW. That's not 2kWh per day, that's 2+ kWh EACH AND EVERY HOUR.
Can you back this up a bit? You're saying that the average Westerner uses 48+ kWh every day. That's well over a megaWatt hour every month (and closer to 1.5 MWh). Does this figure include the average person's share of the power used for street lights, traffic lights, businesses, etc.?
I'm sure there would be less of them. Heck, I'm thinking about getting in on this bonanza, but if there were stricter regs and potential punishments, I'd never even consider it.
Dont' forget to add more criteria to ensure that only the iPad matches your bizarre metric of what makes the ultimate tablet. How about " can you suggest a different tablet with a screen resolution of 2048x1536 or higher, that is priced at or below $499, and is made by Apple"? That way there's no way he can name anything else.
Why do you need to send line-level audio at all. Any sound that is being sent from the device is from a digital source. Just send the audio signal digitally and have the dock do a D/A conversion.
Do you want BitCoin to be an anonymous currency with no involvement from major governments, or do you want government law enforcement to regulate the loss and track down who stole the money?
If you make a currency that is a parallel to major government currencies, they will not help you secure it and develop it.
going to a larger wafer size isn't about spoiled edge chips. If that were really an issue, we would be using square wafers. The ingots could be sliced up into squares quite easily.
The real advantage is that you produce more chips per wafer, and ideally, the per wafer processing time is unchanged, This has nothing to do with how good the chips are, or what they do. It is just to make more of them and make them cheaper.
I suppose if anyone really wanted to and could find the right equipment, they could make high end chips on 75mm wafers. Well maybe not those little 3" ones, but at least 100mm wafers could still have good equipment available. The reason they don't is that people using 300mm wafers would make close to 10 times as many wafers in the same amount of time.
I don't mean to pile on here, but even if your logic was correct and the increase was 50 x 50. 50 x 50 = 2500.
The diameter is increasing by 1.5 times (50% larger) the area is proportional to the radius squared so the increase is (1.5x1.5)= 2.25 times more area, 225% of the smaller size, or 125% more than the smaller size.
It's not just lithography equipment. Every single piece of equipment needs to be upgraded. Chemecal etch baths need to be bigger. Measurement equipment needs to be capable of taking 450mm wafers. Process reactors need to be bigger. The shipping containers that hold the wafers need to be bigger. Don't forget, at this size (and weight) a cassette of wafers will never be moved around the fab by hand, the robots that transport the wafers all need to be upgraded to handle the new size.
This is basically like requiring an entirely new fab.
I'm without mod points today, but you bring up an extremely important issue. Uniformity of processes across the surface of a 450mm wafer will be very difficult to achieve. I thought it was a pain in the ass to adjust some epitaxial processes for 200mm wafers when I was still working in the semi industry. I can't imagine the hassle of going to 300mm let alone 450mm. Litho is much easier as it's really just an optical process. Ensuring uniform reactor temperature, or solution chemistry across half a meter is a lot harder.
I didn't read TFA, but the summary suggests it's about a decision in a patent trial instigated by Apple. It also suggested that Samsung would be looking to bring their own suit in the future if an LTE iPhone makes the scene.
I think it would be helpful if everyone that shares anecdotes about their life involving their weight also mention their height. You may be 4'8", which would mean you still have a lot of weight to lose. You may also be 6'6" and be rather thin now.
Way to get him on a technicality. So should I keep going and try to twist it back around and say that Vitamin D is not a vitamin in the strict sense of the word? Vitamin D
"An organic chemical compound (or related set of compounds) is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet" source. Trivia bit, the word vitamin comes from vital amines (amines being a class of organic molecules).
My biggest problem with Drupal is that it constantly breaks module backwards compatibility when a new version comes out. Then you can only hope the team that made modules you need migrate to the new version. In this manner, you can have first hand knowledge of something easily done with Drupal 6, but when you try and implement it on Drupal 7, something is broke.
You are likely correct. I just wanted to emphasize that the improvements from doping are not uniform for all. It is possible that some individuals see much larger improvements than others. It is possible that a situation could arise where two athletes are doping, and in that state athlete A is better than B, but if they stop doping, athlete B may be better than A. Of course, it's also possible that two athletes could be doping, but one is only mildly so while the other is trying everything under the sun.
Oh! Of course! Human spaceflight will be too damn hard to figure out so, we'll discover how to transfer our minds into a machine! That is far more likely to happen than figuring out how to travel through space and stay alive.
I don't think people will be satisfied sending rovers to distant planets in stead of actually trying to get there. The delay in communications could be so great that the rover is essentially autonomous and we get to see what it was doing a couple of days ago or last month. (I am talking about planets farther away than Mars here, just like TFA)
I think he was saying the dude is full of it because it's not feasible to be "virtual explorers interacting with the environments of distant worlds" when the lag time for your interactions are minutes, hours, days or longer because that's how long the communications will take to go back and forth.
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Why would Apple care if they were being copied if their primary motive is not to make money? They could still make quality products and be copied.
Apple is a publicly traded company. This means it is owned by numerous shareholders. The majority of those shareholders want Apple to make them lots of money. If that money is made with quality products, that's great. If Apple made quality products and not much money, those shareholders would be quite upset about that.
A typical person in the Western world uses, on average, 2+ kW. That's not 2kWh per day, that's 2+ kWh EACH AND EVERY HOUR.
Can you back this up a bit? You're saying that the average Westerner uses 48+ kWh every day. That's well over a megaWatt hour every month (and closer to 1.5 MWh). Does this figure include the average person's share of the power used for street lights, traffic lights, businesses, etc.?
I'm sure there would be less of them. Heck, I'm thinking about getting in on this bonanza, but if there were stricter regs and potential punishments, I'd never even consider it.
Dont' forget to add more criteria to ensure that only the iPad matches your bizarre metric of what makes the ultimate tablet. How about " can you suggest a different tablet with a screen resolution of 2048x1536 or higher, that is priced at or below $499, and is made by Apple"? That way there's no way he can name anything else.
Those things all sound like data to me.
Why do you need to send line-level audio at all. Any sound that is being sent from the device is from a digital source. Just send the audio signal digitally and have the dock do a D/A conversion.
So they'd be really old hipsters?
Do you want BitCoin to be an anonymous currency with no involvement from major governments, or do you want government law enforcement to regulate the loss and track down who stole the money?
If you make a currency that is a parallel to major government currencies, they will not help you secure it and develop it.
going to a larger wafer size isn't about spoiled edge chips. If that were really an issue, we would be using square wafers. The ingots could be sliced up into squares quite easily.
The real advantage is that you produce more chips per wafer, and ideally, the per wafer processing time is unchanged, This has nothing to do with how good the chips are, or what they do. It is just to make more of them and make them cheaper.
I suppose if anyone really wanted to and could find the right equipment, they could make high end chips on 75mm wafers. Well maybe not those little 3" ones, but at least 100mm wafers could still have good equipment available. The reason they don't is that people using 300mm wafers would make close to 10 times as many wafers in the same amount of time.
I don't mean to pile on here, but even if your logic was correct and the increase was 50 x 50. 50 x 50 = 2500.
The diameter is increasing by 1.5 times (50% larger) the area is proportional to the radius squared so the increase is (1.5x1.5)= 2.25 times more area, 225% of the smaller size, or 125% more than the smaller size.
It's not just lithography equipment. Every single piece of equipment needs to be upgraded. Chemecal etch baths need to be bigger. Measurement equipment needs to be capable of taking 450mm wafers. Process reactors need to be bigger. The shipping containers that hold the wafers need to be bigger. Don't forget, at this size (and weight) a cassette of wafers will never be moved around the fab by hand, the robots that transport the wafers all need to be upgraded to handle the new size.
This is basically like requiring an entirely new fab.
I'm without mod points today, but you bring up an extremely important issue. Uniformity of processes across the surface of a 450mm wafer will be very difficult to achieve. I thought it was a pain in the ass to adjust some epitaxial processes for 200mm wafers when I was still working in the semi industry. I can't imagine the hassle of going to 300mm let alone 450mm. Litho is much easier as it's really just an optical process. Ensuring uniform reactor temperature, or solution chemistry across half a meter is a lot harder.
wait what. My phone has a removable battery.
I didn't read TFA, but the summary suggests it's about a decision in a patent trial instigated by Apple. It also suggested that Samsung would be looking to bring their own suit in the future if an LTE iPhone makes the scene.
don't forget the liquid bowel movements(usually forever)! Whoo hoo!
Maybe he's planning a new career in fetish videos?
I think it would be helpful if everyone that shares anecdotes about their life involving their weight also mention their height. You may be 4'8", which would mean you still have a lot of weight to lose. You may also be 6'6" and be rather thin now.
Way to get him on a technicality. So should I keep going and try to twist it back around and say that Vitamin D is not a vitamin in the strict sense of the word? Vitamin D
"An organic chemical compound (or related set of compounds) is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet" source. Trivia bit, the word vitamin comes from vital amines (amines being a class of organic molecules).
Radius, but it's spherically shaped, which is weird.
My biggest problem with Drupal is that it constantly breaks module backwards compatibility when a new version comes out. Then you can only hope the team that made modules you need migrate to the new version. In this manner, you can have first hand knowledge of something easily done with Drupal 6, but when you try and implement it on Drupal 7, something is broke.
I'll sell you back your foreskin for $3130. I don't think it'll fit you anymore though.
...and it can't be right either. It has no final goal.
Millions of years of evolution has created the platypus. That surely must be the pinnacle of life on Earth since Evolution has created it!
You are likely correct. I just wanted to emphasize that the improvements from doping are not uniform for all. It is possible that some individuals see much larger improvements than others. It is possible that a situation could arise where two athletes are doping, and in that state athlete A is better than B, but if they stop doping, athlete B may be better than A. Of course, it's also possible that two athletes could be doping, but one is only mildly so while the other is trying everything under the sun.
Oh! Of course! Human spaceflight will be too damn hard to figure out so, we'll discover how to transfer our minds into a machine! That is far more likely to happen than figuring out how to travel through space and stay alive.
I don't think people will be satisfied sending rovers to distant planets in stead of actually trying to get there. The delay in communications could be so great that the rover is essentially autonomous and we get to see what it was doing a couple of days ago or last month. (I am talking about planets farther away than Mars here, just like TFA)
I think he was saying the dude is full of it because it's not feasible to be "virtual explorers interacting with the environments of distant worlds" when the lag time for your interactions are minutes, hours, days or longer because that's how long the communications will take to go back and forth.