Or they've kicked off a campaign to make the public aware of the threat such that political action can take place to institute overbearing controls against it.
This thing isn't meant to supplant the entire supply in case of a blackout. It's meant to give the grid a few MW for a few minutes to prevent a brownout that could cause a blackout.
And it's probably not meant for a major portion of the grid, just a locale with an incipient supply problem.
25 kWh = 0.000021511 kT = 0.021511 T = 43 lbs of dynamite.
Not insignificant on a human scale, but pretty lame as nukes, or even conventional air-dropped bombs, go.
If it could release all the energy at once, in all directions, it'd probably make a mess of your house, if it were just sitting exposed in the living room. But, since the rotating part is well under ground level, the casing is evacuated, and the flywheel is made of the sort of impact-dissipating stuff car makers use to meet crash-safety requirements, it's going to be pretty lame as 43 lbs of dynamite goes, too.
I call this system less dangerous than a leaky gas pipe.
The smaller you make the mechanical losses in the system, the larger the relative contribution of coriolis effects becomes.
But since coriolis effects are static for a given angular momentum, latitude, and attitude, the force on the bearing would be constant so as long as the bearing surfaces are out of contact you're good.
maglevs aren't loss-free. eddy currents in the conductive elements. you'd have to get it to superconduct as well. then you might have perpetual motion, or as close to it as quantum losses will allow.
If they're targeting second-banana segments with their best-possible offer, they're aiming for continued marginalization.
This strategy will trade one AMD CPU out for one AMD GPU in. The number of additional sales they make on the integrated GPU will be a smaller fraction on top of that.
The money, btw, is still in the high end. Everything else is lower margin. Especially if it has an AMD sticker on it.
"It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU. That price point is in an area where their are few buyers."
If AMD wants to stay in business instead of rummaging in dumpsters for customers, it will do exactly that, and discover that they can take major desktop and notebook market share by selling lower power and lower unit cost at higher combined performance.
But that's only if Intel and nVidia don't smack them down in that segment, because AMD's best stuff is not nearly as good as theirs are.
"Of course it's very easy to beat Fusion with discrete parts, if it weren't the morons designing the discrete parts would be fired."
You're the idiot. Of course they could have put AMD's best designs into a Fusion part at the same time they were developing them for discrete use. But they didn't, and thus produced a toy-computer chip instead of a world-beater.
"you forgot that part where Intel was caught using it's dominant market position to keep integrators from using AMD products."
I didn't forget it, I left it out, the same way I left out news of the birth of a baby giraffe at the Columbus zoo. I do that with irrelevant facts. Leave them out of things where they aren't relevant. As for what Intel was caught at, it's hardly surprising that the pretty girl got more sex than the ugly one. And it's not hard at all to find AMD-based computers. Walk into any Best Buy or Fry's. They're there, out of proportion to AMD's actual market share, in fact.
AMD famously overpaid by 250% for ATI, then delayed any fusion products for 2 years, then wrote off all of the overpayment (which they had been required to carry as a "goodwill" asset). At that point, they lost the money.
Luckily for them, ATI was still good at its job, and kept up with nVidia in video HW, so AMD owned what ATI was, and no more. But their gamble on the synergy was a total bust. It cracked their financial structure and forced them to sell off their manufacturing plants, which drastically reduced their possible profitability.
What they have finally produced, years later, is a synergy, but of subunits that are substandard. This is not AMD's best CPU and ATI's best GPU melded into one delicious silicon-peanut-butter cup of awesomeness. It's still very, very easy to beat the performance of the combination with discrete parts.
And instead of leading the industry into this brave new sector, AMD gave its competition a massive head-start. So it's behind on GPGPU, and will probably never get the lead back. Not that its marketing department has a right to admit that.
Slashdot Mirror
Again, no list in TFA.
You have to dig through it to another article that links to a source article with a list:
http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-found-in-official-android-market-droiddream/
And that list is over two months old.
Which means this story's hardly viral. More like fungal.
Or they've kicked off a campaign to make the public aware of the threat such that political action can take place to institute overbearing controls against it.
Ask Sony what "electronic forms of protest" now means to them.
It's more the problem with "ad hoc".
I have no doubt a few of them can organize more synergistically than the undefined mass of them can.
And with the internet's designed-in anonymizing and scapegoating features, there isn't much a larger group can do to stop them.
You've got a 3-gill head in a 10-bludger hat.
This thing isn't meant to supplant the entire supply in case of a blackout. It's meant to give the grid a few MW for a few minutes to prevent a brownout that could cause a blackout.
And it's probably not meant for a major portion of the grid, just a locale with an incipient supply problem.
like small nuclear bombs
25 kWh = 0.000021511 kT = 0.021511 T = 43 lbs of dynamite.
Not insignificant on a human scale, but pretty lame as nukes, or even conventional air-dropped bombs, go.
If it could release all the energy at once, in all directions, it'd probably make a mess of your house, if it were just sitting exposed in the living room. But, since the rotating part is well under ground level, the casing is evacuated, and the flywheel is made of the sort of impact-dissipating stuff car makers use to meet crash-safety requirements, it's going to be pretty lame as 43 lbs of dynamite goes, too.
I call this system less dangerous than a leaky gas pipe.
Nope. Then gravity torque gives you a mess.
They probably didn't mount them perfectly vertically. They probably also dynamically balanced them.
You mean 100 kW for 15 minutes, per flywheel.
I would bet that losses in the transmission system are bigger than losses in the flywheels, and the more you need the flywheels the less that is.
The smaller you make the mechanical losses in the system, the larger the relative contribution of coriolis effects becomes.
But since coriolis effects are static for a given angular momentum, latitude, and attitude, the force on the bearing would be constant so as long as the bearing surfaces are out of contact you're good.
maglevs aren't loss-free. eddy currents in the conductive elements. you'd have to get it to superconduct as well. then you might have perpetual motion, or as close to it as quantum losses will allow.
>So, basically you are saying you are an Intel shill?
No, I'm saying I'm realistic about the disaster that is AMD.
>Actually the ATI revenue is what kept AMD in business the past 3 years.
That's what I said.
>Not to mention the 1.6 billion in settlement from Intel for copyright infringements.
For what? Dude. Seriously?
do you have change for a rubber ningi?
Probably this. I don't control the SW load on this box, so it's a rev or two behind on Firefox.
"The I3 is the first target and then the I5."
If they're targeting second-banana segments with their best-possible offer, they're aiming for continued marginalization.
This strategy will trade one AMD CPU out for one AMD GPU in. The number of additional sales they make on the integrated GPU will be a smaller fraction on top of that.
The money, btw, is still in the high end. Everything else is lower margin. Especially if it has an AMD sticker on it.
*WHOOSH*
People won't realize that until it stops doing stuff like this.
I got 8 FPS on a rather well-dressed machine.
JavaScript is nobody's first choice for code.
It's begging from those from whom it differs. How does that usually work out for the beggar?
"It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU. That price point is in an area where their are few buyers."
If AMD wants to stay in business instead of rummaging in dumpsters for customers, it will do exactly that, and discover that they can take major desktop and notebook market share by selling lower power and lower unit cost at higher combined performance.
But that's only if Intel and nVidia don't smack them down in that segment, because AMD's best stuff is not nearly as good as theirs are.
"Of course it's very easy to beat Fusion with discrete parts, if it weren't the morons designing the discrete parts would be fired."
You're the idiot. Of course they could have put AMD's best designs into a Fusion part at the same time they were developing them for discrete use. But they didn't, and thus produced a toy-computer chip instead of a world-beater.
"you forgot that part where Intel was caught using it's dominant market position to keep integrators from using AMD products."
I didn't forget it, I left it out, the same way I left out news of the birth of a baby giraffe at the Columbus zoo. I do that with irrelevant facts. Leave them out of things where they aren't relevant. As for what Intel was caught at, it's hardly surprising that the pretty girl got more sex than the ugly one. And it's not hard at all to find AMD-based computers. Walk into any Best Buy or Fry's. They're there, out of proportion to AMD's actual market share, in fact.
AMD famously overpaid by 250% for ATI, then delayed any fusion products for 2 years, then wrote off all of the overpayment (which they had been required to carry as a "goodwill" asset). At that point, they lost the money.
Luckily for them, ATI was still good at its job, and kept up with nVidia in video HW, so AMD owned what ATI was, and no more. But their gamble on the synergy was a total bust. It cracked their financial structure and forced them to sell off their manufacturing plants, which drastically reduced their possible profitability.
What they have finally produced, years later, is a synergy, but of subunits that are substandard. This is not AMD's best CPU and ATI's best GPU melded into one delicious silicon-peanut-butter cup of awesomeness. It's still very, very easy to beat the performance of the combination with discrete parts.
And instead of leading the industry into this brave new sector, AMD gave its competition a massive head-start. So it's behind on GPGPU, and will probably never get the lead back. Not that its marketing department has a right to admit that.
Or a link in TFA to the original release from "NetQin Mobile".
Seriously, since I don't have the malware on my phone, this information-free story is the real malware, here.
don't recall seeing the hoodie (i browed the site a few weeks ago) but there were definitely several pairs of aviator sunglasses
all it takes is for enough ignorami to click the + button in the firehose. and there are a LOT of ignorami on /.