I think Apple actually surprised Samsung by referring to the F700 as a copy of the iPhone after discovery, and Samsung hadn't expected to have to draw from it. This entire bunfight has to do with Koh allowing Apple to keep their references to the F700 as a copy while not allowing Samsung to add their own evidence.
So hang on. Apple is allowed to bring, after discovery, the existence of the F700 into evidence but Samsung is NOT allowed to bring the conception and design?
Foxconn is Chinese. Samsung is Korean. They are not subsidiaries of one company or even based in the same country. Please stop with the tinfoil-hat-"they stole a product which was predicted to be a flop"-conspiracy theories.
You haven't really answered the main question. Let's say in a few years your kids are pretty much grown up. You want to hold an 18th for one of them that doesn't involve having to hire an entire hall in a non-residential district and fork out the $$$. Your teenager, understandably, doesn't want a 10pm curfew. How do you intend to go about this? Move?
I'm curious, what then would be the best way for a neighbour to host an 18th/21st/30th/... party? Would you still call the police if they sent out "We apologise in advance for the noise" letters and wrapped the party up by 12:30? Where do you draw the line?
Similarly, what if they work late hours? Do you expect them to mow their lawn while at work, or would you complain about them mowing their lawn at 11pm?
I didn't say "rely solely on wind/solar". I specifically said NOT all or nothing. Use wind/solar to help the situation by producing some of the electricity locally. 'durrr' indeed...
It's not all or nothing. If a lot of people had some form of distributed power it would mean less has to be produced at a central location and then transmitted for long distances, thus easing the burden on the ageing infrastructure.
Pentathlon? Shooting, fencing, swimming, horse riding (show jumping), track running. Not only that, it is a proper competition, unlike the SEALS who have better equipment and intel than the other side ever will.
Only in 1st world countries, 3rd world countries children are cheaper to raise (no school/college fees) and provide useful labour around the house and surrounding property. The number of children per family also has strong correlations with women's rights in the respective country, so as that improves birth rates should drop in the rest of the world as well.
Something exacerbating the problem is the number of people we now have over the age of 70 - they never used to be particularly common (only in upper classes), whereas now the medical attention is widespread enough to keep people alive into their 90s on a fairly regular basis.
Unfortunately, your cellphone charger isn't at a 'significant power level' 100% of the time, and people are too lazy to plug/unplug every wall-wart every time they use it.
60Hz just isn't fast enough to limit current in an inductor the size of a wall-wart without using wire resistance to help, so there are lots of losses there. What is most efficient at the moment (for big low power at least) is to rectify, smooth, put a square wave AC into a little transformer at high frequency, then rectify and smooth at the output. This is what Apple did for the iPhone chargers, it's complicated but it does work well (for fixed input voltages, at least).
I have no problem with inductive step down/up transformers, it's just that they aren't suited to a single fixed frequency across varying sizes of transformers. Right now the frequency is optimal for the big ones the power companies use, but in our homes, we'd prefer to have something smaller than a garbage can charging our cellphone, so switching is actually more efficient. The other nifty feature switching has is that it can handle a whole slew of voltages without batting an eyebrow, so you don't need another ugly wall-wart to plug your wall-wart into while travelling.
Different places require different technology. For a pole-pig, inductance works well because of the relatively high inductance*frequency which means you aren't just sending all the power into eddy currents. In a wall-wart, there isn't enough size to get more than a mH or so of inductance, meaning they have to use resistance to keep the current down. If the frequency were around 1kHz then sure, wall warts would be nice and efficient. But at household size conversion and with 60hz input it is better to rectify, smooth, then square-wave-AC at high frequency into a little transformer which does the conversion with less current therefore less I*I*R losses.
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They didn't think they would need to, because Apple had never accused them of copying with the F700 before.
This set of documents was unsealed. Which is what counts.
I think Apple actually surprised Samsung by referring to the F700 as a copy of the iPhone after discovery, and Samsung hadn't expected to have to draw from it. This entire bunfight has to do with Koh allowing Apple to keep their references to the F700 as a copy while not allowing Samsung to add their own evidence.
So hang on. Apple is allowed to bring, after discovery, the existence of the F700 into evidence but Samsung is NOT allowed to bring the conception and design?
Patience, my young padawan. Acquiring a Raspberry Pi through haste does not come.
Yeah, but what if the defendant mentions that they were a butcher? Do they suddenly go free? Because Samsung is the defendant here...
Foxconn is Chinese. Samsung is Korean. They are not subsidiaries of one company or even based in the same country. Please stop with the tinfoil-hat-"they stole a product which was predicted to be a flop"-conspiracy theories.
You haven't really answered the main question. Let's say in a few years your kids are pretty much grown up. You want to hold an 18th for one of them that doesn't involve having to hire an entire hall in a non-residential district and fork out the $$$. Your teenager, understandably, doesn't want a 10pm curfew. How do you intend to go about this? Move?
Yeah, but that doesn't mean he has to provide a link to them every second post. That is what is commonly referred to as a 'shill'.
Have you seen his comment history?
http://slashdot.org/~Doctor+Matt
Of his last 8 posts, 3 have linked to MS Research, and another had an endorsement of Windows Server 2008.
I'm curious, what then would be the best way for a neighbour to host an 18th/21st/30th/... party? Would you still call the police if they sent out "We apologise in advance for the noise" letters and wrapped the party up by 12:30? Where do you draw the line?
Similarly, what if they work late hours? Do you expect them to mow their lawn while at work, or would you complain about them mowing their lawn at 11pm?
I didn't say "rely solely on wind/solar". I specifically said NOT all or nothing. Use wind/solar to help the situation by producing some of the electricity locally. 'durrr' indeed...
It's not all or nothing. If a lot of people had some form of distributed power it would mean less has to be produced at a central location and then transmitted for long distances, thus easing the burden on the ageing infrastructure.
Pentathlon?
Shooting, fencing, swimming, horse riding (show jumping), track running. Not only that, it is a proper competition, unlike the SEALS who have better equipment and intel than the other side ever will.
Linux users tend to be smarter than regular Windows users. I bet the piracy rate with the Linux client will be much higher than the Windows version.
FTFY
And the price of table salt would come down, as well.
Unfortunately the bible didn't stop at the commandments... there's a few other things in there that make it more than slightly detestable.
Better to catch in now though, then a generation later when there are 5x as many of them?
52.3 to be precise.
Until a meteorite hits Earth and sends everything back to pre-cambrian.
Only in 1st world countries, 3rd world countries children are cheaper to raise (no school/college fees) and provide useful labour around the house and surrounding property. The number of children per family also has strong correlations with women's rights in the respective country, so as that improves birth rates should drop in the rest of the world as well.
Something exacerbating the problem is the number of people we now have over the age of 70 - they never used to be particularly common (only in upper classes), whereas now the medical attention is widespread enough to keep people alive into their 90s on a fairly regular basis.
Just to be pedantic, why isn't 86% of the USA unemployed?
Having a RCL in series across your switch can help with arcing, and isn't something that can be done without permanent drain in an AC system.
Unfortunately, your cellphone charger isn't at a 'significant power level' 100% of the time, and people are too lazy to plug/unplug every wall-wart every time they use it.
60Hz just isn't fast enough to limit current in an inductor the size of a wall-wart without using wire resistance to help, so there are lots of losses there. What is most efficient at the moment (for big low power at least) is to rectify, smooth, put a square wave AC into a little transformer at high frequency, then rectify and smooth at the output. This is what Apple did for the iPhone chargers, it's complicated but it does work well (for fixed input voltages, at least).
I have no problem with inductive step down/up transformers, it's just that they aren't suited to a single fixed frequency across varying sizes of transformers. Right now the frequency is optimal for the big ones the power companies use, but in our homes, we'd prefer to have something smaller than a garbage can charging our cellphone, so switching is actually more efficient. The other nifty feature switching has is that it can handle a whole slew of voltages without batting an eyebrow, so you don't need another ugly wall-wart to plug your wall-wart into while travelling.
Different places require different technology. For a pole-pig, inductance works well because of the relatively high inductance*frequency which means you aren't just sending all the power into eddy currents. In a wall-wart, there isn't enough size to get more than a mH or so of inductance, meaning they have to use resistance to keep the current down. If the frequency were around 1kHz then sure, wall warts would be nice and efficient. But at household size conversion and with 60hz input it is better to rectify, smooth, then square-wave-AC at high frequency into a little transformer which does the conversion with less current therefore less I*I*R losses.