Yeah, but that's because you need a lot of torque at low revs and efficient running at high revs. Electric motors give you the torque. Cars use gearboxes, and these scale up to the power used by trucks well enough but get a bit unwieldy if you're dealing with the power needed by a railway locomotive.
Trucks use a direct transmission for a reason after all.
This thing has a dozen or so moving parts. Granted, the turbines move pretty damn fast but electric motors and generators are extremely reliable. Four indepenent motors and two turbines menas we have redundancy on top of that.
I'm a little suspicious of the emission claims though. How much of that is from plugin? I can't imagine turbine->electric->battery->motors is an efficient drive train.
I can see how this might be very useful for someone with an older HDTV that predates HDCP. Personally though I'd prefer a small box over a big case with a multi-core CPU. I imagine the scheme was designed with efficient hardware implementations in mind.
The comment I replied to seemed to come to the conclusion that consent was the issue. As far as expectation of privacy goes, I totally agree with you and so did the judge.
LOL! I know I shouldn't be too pedantic with silly joke comments like this, but have you seen a North Korean traffic cop? They're really not too hard on the eyes.
It could only have been considered interception ("wiretapping") if the person recording the interaction was not a participant and did not have the consent of either of the parties to distribute the recording.
I thought in Maryland both parties had to give consent.
The wiretapping law also includes recording private conversations, which is sort of reasonable. It does not and should not include recordings of conversations in a pubic place.
So, you'd withhold the protections of freedom of speech from the Washington Post? Let the government requisition hotels without payment for quartering troops? Allow the police to search the offices of any organisation that legitimately protests against the government?
True, but this is something tha can be licenced to other camera manufacturers. Apple aren't in direct competition with camera companies so may be willing to do this.
iOS is locked down which many geeks have issues with, and requires investment in Mac hardware (not an issue if you already own a mac). Android has a slightly smaller community and doesn't have the iTunes app store of you do want to sell your stuff.
So there's a certain amount of give and take here. There's really not a lot in it unless you have strong objections to the issues with apple's hardware.
It actually might not. The thing about Moore's law is it's something of a self fulfilling prophesy. Semiconductor companies start designing CPUs before the processes that they're going to be using are available, with a reliable expectation that the process will be available by that time. The fabs aren't going to offer a process that nobody yet wants. So both of them assume a doubling in transistor count every 18 months. If this remains possible with some sort of subatomic process it will very likely continue at that rate.
I mean I've always had the impression that facebook is a flaky piece of shit anyway. I don't care since it's stupid trivial chat and games (hey, I like stupid trivial chat and games, but I can just about survive without) and downtime rarely lasts that long.
Actually it does. As other people have mentioned in other comments, the article is slightly sensationalist. He hasn't reported his dog stolen. Should he do so then it's quite possible that one of the many exceptions to the data protection act will be valid.
So he can get his dog back. He just has to do it legitimately. What's he going to do if he gets the address anyway? Break in and steal it back? This really isn't the sort of behaviour we should encourage if there's a reasonable alternative.
There's more to 3D graphics than PC games. Last company I worked for used touchscreen display systems and used OpenGL since that let the vendor give us a choice between Windows, MacOS and Linux. The company I'm working for right now also uses OpenGL because that's what our 3rd party APIs use. The commercial aviation flight simulator company I interviewed with also wanted openGL. And the extremely similar OpenGL ES is supported by Android and iPhone.
OpenGL isn't going to go away until something an adequate cross platform replacement comes along.
Hmmm... I never did much low level 3D code when I was in the games industry, but our XBox 360 code could be ported pretty trivially to Windows. Not quite sure why the Wii is "fixed function madness". It works pretty much like any late 90's graphics card, which makes it a little old fashioned, and difficult to port between it and XBox360 (although that's not the only difficulty - the machines are different hardware generations) but easy enough if you've been in the business for a decade or so. Implementing OpenGL 1.2 on that wouldn't be too hard. Shaders were pretty much the same on PS3, Xbox360 and PC.
Never used the PS2. PSP has a decent API which has an OpenGL state machine like approach. Considering some of the samples are clearly written for PS2 (they expect 2 shoulder buttons), PS2 can't be that different.
Hmmm? So a guy who travels to work for an hour, works on a production line and travels home for an hour and gets $50,000 a year is lazy, whereas a guy who inherited a fortune and pays himself $1,000,000 as "CEO" works 20 times harder even though other people do most of the actual running of the company.
We help make the rich rich. We work for them, buy their products, generally the whole of society works to make them richer. That's all well and good but we expect them to pay a portion of the wealth that society has helped them create back into society.
And it's not about "farking them over". They can afford more. $1,000 taxed at 50% still leaves more money than $50,000 taxed at 0%. I have little sympathy for the poor millionaire.
This might just be the part of the world where you live.
Sydney to Dubai and cloud cover all the time I was over land. Also from London to Dubai to Singapore to Melbourne on the way out. Maybe I was just unlucky with the weather, but pretty certain this isn't a localised regional thing.
That said, the glimpse I saw through the window coming into Syndey at night made me realise I should have taken a window seat. Big cities are fantastic at night.
Absolutely! That is the point that most of the posters here seem to be completely missing. Note that they're saying "we could" do this as opposed to "we will". It's an observation about technical possibilities, not commercially likely ideas. Like the Boeing 787, they're explaining that they could make a plane primarily out of composites (although they appear to be suggesting clear plastic rather than carbon fibre).
Although actually the whole "unsinkable" thing wasn't really made a big deal of before it sunk. There were a few mentions, but White Star's advertising team were much more concerned with talking about speed and luxury than safety.
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Yeah, but that's because you need a lot of torque at low revs and efficient running at high revs. Electric motors give you the torque. Cars use gearboxes, and these scale up to the power used by trucks well enough but get a bit unwieldy if you're dealing with the power needed by a railway locomotive.
Trucks use a direct transmission for a reason after all.
Some older motorbikes could be made to fire flames out of their exhaust. Apparently a useful feature for exactly this reason.
This thing has a dozen or so moving parts. Granted, the turbines move pretty damn fast but electric motors and generators are extremely reliable. Four indepenent motors and two turbines menas we have redundancy on top of that.
I'm a little suspicious of the emission claims though. How much of that is from plugin? I can't imagine turbine->electric->battery->motors is an efficient drive train.
I'm sure they do. They also have the ability to receive text messages.
I find it quite useful to communicate with people without forcing them to interrupt what they're doing.
If any...
I can see how this might be very useful for someone with an older HDTV that predates HDCP. Personally though I'd prefer a small box over a big case with a multi-core CPU. I imagine the scheme was designed with efficient hardware implementations in mind.
The comment I replied to seemed to come to the conclusion that consent was the issue. As far as expectation of privacy goes, I totally agree with you and so did the judge.
LOL! I know I shouldn't be too pedantic with silly joke comments like this, but have you seen a North Korean traffic cop? They're really not too hard on the eyes.
It could only have been considered interception ("wiretapping") if the person recording the interaction was not a participant and did not have the consent of either of the parties to distribute the recording.
I thought in Maryland both parties had to give consent.
All this tells the cops is that next time, they need to beat the guy up and break his camera/phone bad enough that the video can't be recovered.
That's not going to be easy. You can breeak a camera easily enough but SD cards are exceedingly robust.
The wiretapping law also includes recording private conversations, which is sort of reasonable. It does not and should not include recordings of conversations in a pubic place.
So, you'd withhold the protections of freedom of speech from the Washington Post? Let the government requisition hotels without payment for quartering troops? Allow the police to search the offices of any organisation that legitimately protests against the government?
True, but this is something tha can be licenced to other camera manufacturers. Apple aren't in direct competition with camera companies so may be willing to do this.
It's not "stolen" according to the definition in the Theft Act, so it's not receiving stolen property.
iOS is locked down which many geeks have issues with, and requires investment in Mac hardware (not an issue if you already own a mac). Android has a slightly smaller community and doesn't have the iTunes app store of you do want to sell your stuff.
So there's a certain amount of give and take here. There's really not a lot in it unless you have strong objections to the issues with apple's hardware.
It actually might not. The thing about Moore's law is it's something of a self fulfilling prophesy. Semiconductor companies start designing CPUs before the processes that they're going to be using are available, with a reliable expectation that the process will be available by that time. The fabs aren't going to offer a process that nobody yet wants. So both of them assume a doubling in transistor count every 18 months. If this remains possible with some sort of subatomic process it will very likely continue at that rate.
I mean I've always had the impression that facebook is a flaky piece of shit anyway. I don't care since it's stupid trivial chat and games (hey, I like stupid trivial chat and games, but I can just about survive without) and downtime rarely lasts that long.
Actually it does. As other people have mentioned in other comments, the article is slightly sensationalist. He hasn't reported his dog stolen. Should he do so then it's quite possible that one of the many exceptions to the data protection act will be valid.
So he can get his dog back. He just has to do it legitimately. What's he going to do if he gets the address anyway? Break in and steal it back? This really isn't the sort of behaviour we should encourage if there's a reasonable alternative.
There's more to 3D graphics than PC games. Last company I worked for used touchscreen display systems and used OpenGL since that let the vendor give us a choice between Windows, MacOS and Linux. The company I'm working for right now also uses OpenGL because that's what our 3rd party APIs use. The commercial aviation flight simulator company I interviewed with also wanted openGL. And the extremely similar OpenGL ES is supported by Android and iPhone.
OpenGL isn't going to go away until something an adequate cross platform replacement comes along.
Hmmm... I never did much low level 3D code when I was in the games industry, but our XBox 360 code could be ported pretty trivially to Windows. Not quite sure why the Wii is "fixed function madness". It works pretty much like any late 90's graphics card, which makes it a little old fashioned, and difficult to port between it and XBox360 (although that's not the only difficulty - the machines are different hardware generations) but easy enough if you've been in the business for a decade or so. Implementing OpenGL 1.2 on that wouldn't be too hard. Shaders were pretty much the same on PS3, Xbox360 and PC.
Never used the PS2. PSP has a decent API which has an OpenGL state machine like approach. Considering some of the samples are clearly written for PS2 (they expect 2 shoulder buttons), PS2 can't be that different.
I'm sure things like copy protection codes are well within the remit of wikileaks.
Hmmm? So a guy who travels to work for an hour, works on a production line and travels home for an hour and gets $50,000 a year is lazy, whereas a guy who inherited a fortune and pays himself $1,000,000 as "CEO" works 20 times harder even though other people do most of the actual running of the company.
We help make the rich rich. We work for them, buy their products, generally the whole of society works to make them richer. That's all well and good but we expect them to pay a portion of the wealth that society has helped them create back into society.
And it's not about "farking them over". They can afford more. $1,000 taxed at 50% still leaves more money than $50,000 taxed at 0%. I have little sympathy for the poor millionaire.
This might just be the part of the world where you live.
Sydney to Dubai and cloud cover all the time I was over land. Also from London to Dubai to Singapore to Melbourne on the way out. Maybe I was just unlucky with the weather, but pretty certain this isn't a localised regional thing.
That said, the glimpse I saw through the window coming into Syndey at night made me realise I should have taken a window seat. Big cities are fantastic at night.
Absolutely! That is the point that most of the posters here seem to be completely missing. Note that they're saying "we could" do this as opposed to "we will". It's an observation about technical possibilities, not commercially likely ideas. Like the Boeing 787, they're explaining that they could make a plane primarily out of composites (although they appear to be suggesting clear plastic rather than carbon fibre).
LOL.
Although actually the whole "unsinkable" thing wasn't really made a big deal of before it sunk. There were a few mentions, but White Star's advertising team were much more concerned with talking about speed and luxury than safety.