TFA makes it sound like this has never been done before. I presume that the "productivity" being discussed here is basically Microsoft Office or, more likely, Google productivity apps.
Big whoop. These apps have been available on smart phones for years and (micro) HDMI ports have been on Android phones (as well as Blackberry's) for quite a while as well. I guess Apple's behind on this but...
As I went through this at RIM, I was underwhelmed by the utility of a smartphone being plugged into a monitor without a reasonably sized keyboard (and mouse).
Hey guys, it seems like the New Year cheer ran well into the new year at/. central as the work on summaries has been terrible.
I presume the subject title should be "Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S8 Smartphone Could Run AS a PC - Report" - I know TFA's title is poor, but you shouldn't be copying it along without some wordsmithing.
Simply because there aren't any jurisdictions which will allow autonomous driving anytime in the future.
I don't think there's even a full qual/cert process which will allow autonomous vehicles in any jurisdiction/let alone something like the entire United States.
But, it does keep Mr. Musk's name in the news in a positive light (and overshadows what's going on at SpaceX).
The biggest concern about EVs is the limited range and the need to constantly charge them.
Having cheap, wireless chargers that can be embedded into concrete means that drivers can constantly keep their vehicles charged - whether it's in the city in parking spots, at home or on trips where they should be getting out and walking around every 1.5 to 3 hours (100 to 200 miles) for their health. Every time they stop, their cars are being charged/topped up so they never have to worry about running out of charge.
If cities put in wireless chargers in street parking spots, they can provide a service that EV owners would be willing to pay for (and I imagine that the link/payment would be automatic and keyed to the car's license so it's convenient for the owners).
If businesses put in wireless chargers into their parking lots, then they have an additional source of revenue as well as a reason for EV owners to come directly to them.
As many people have noted, wireless charging isn't as efficient as a direct connection and there will be huge infrastructure costs to install the chargers, power to them and network connections as well as add them to existing EVs as well as design them into future vehicles, but there seems to be a pretty strong business case that will make this type of technology very desirable in the near future.
Just looking outside my house (Toronto, Canada), there are power & telephone lines and fairly high/mature trees. Not to mention, fairly volatile weather - ie it's snowing right now, just the kind of weather I would like a CARE package from 7-11 from if I didn't have to go out to get it.
It would be a significant challenge for a drone to be able to find a reasonable place to lower a package using it's own capabilities - trees and electrical lines randomly cover properties including driveways and backyards.
I haven't been to Reno in about 20 years and, it wasn't to spend time in the 'burbs, so could anybody comment on how appropriate the properties/landscape are for drone deliveries?
"The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material."
They don't care about anything unless it has to do with radioactive elements. I don't think they particularly care about power generation by nuclear power plants, when it comes right down to it.
The EIA deals with electrical power generation, distribution and use.
The big reason I can think of why you would use lasers for this experiment is that you need to know precisely how much energy is being applied to the anti-hydrogen atoms. As lasers produced only one wavelength (energy level) of light, this becomes a non-issue.
I imagine that the wavelength of laser light is different from the expected wavelength of the released photon from the anti-hydrogen atom, so it can be easily detected and not confused with light from any other source (ie the laser).
Note that the "laser" being used here is not the same one as you would find in a dollar store laser pointer.
Thank you for the update - I didn't realize how much the technology had improved over the past few years.
My 1-2metre/day was based on the first generation borers used in Toronto about ten years ago. The five year old models in Toronto worked at around 10metres/day and the latest (3rd generation) ones are doing significantly better (although I don't think they're making the 38metres/day of the Crossrail borers).
In terms of depth, that's what I thought - how deep do you have to tunnel to make sure you don't hit anything man-made? I'm also thinking of geo-thermal heating/cooling piping that can do down a couple of hundred feet.
Regardless of how deep, it will also have to be fast. I believe current borers (correct term?) drill at the rate of 1-2 metres per day. To be fair, a big part of what they do is mould concrete and rebar into a completed tunnel which is a big, complicated job, but for anything else to come about, it would have to be at least 10x faster - at that rate, you would do a kilometer every three months. This would be pretty good for the central city, but barely acceptable for going out to the burbs and not acceptable at all when anything beyond that is required - then you would want to have 100+ metres per day.
In "Oath of Fealty", Niven and Pournelle had a borer that seemed to reach this speed by melting rock rather than cutting it and making the rock cool to form the walls and ceiling of the tunnel.
Isn't running: - A car design and manufacturing company - A rocket launcher and capsule design and manufacturing company - A lithium batter design and manufacturing company - Managing a very high speed mass transportation concept enough for one person?
It's not like Tesla cars are perfect or that SpaceX launcher's aren't blowing up on the pad and I don't think battery one has come out of SolarCity yet.
Mr. Musk has come up with some great ideas, but I think he needs to keep his (business) interests limited to ensure that they are all successful and outstanding products.
Isn't what Director Alexander saying the Nuremberg defense?
How is saying "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes." any different than someone saying that they were "just following orders from a superior" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders)?
If a company gets to the size where the term CEO is meaningful (and it isn't some applied to a start up of five guys) then what do they do that software can't do?
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Agreed. The LG OLEDs are stunning and the blacks are perfect - I'm just waiting to see how they age.
As the AC says, it's all about the contrast ratio.
I did not know that - are there any products which are certified at the present time?
TFA makes it sound like this has never been done before. I presume that the "productivity" being discussed here is basically Microsoft Office or, more likely, Google productivity apps.
Big whoop. These apps have been available on smart phones for years and (micro) HDMI ports have been on Android phones (as well as Blackberry's) for quite a while as well. I guess Apple's behind on this but...
As I went through this at RIM, I was underwhelmed by the utility of a smartphone being plugged into a monitor without a reasonably sized keyboard (and mouse).
Hey guys, it seems like the New Year cheer ran well into the new year at /. central as the work on summaries has been terrible.
I presume the subject title should be "Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S8 Smartphone Could Run AS a PC - Report" - I know TFA's title is poor, but you shouldn't be copying it along without some wordsmithing.
I know I come across as somebody who knocks Mr. Musk, but we need more entrepreneurs like him pushing the barriers.
Nothing big. Just that the last explosion revealed a major issue with their approach to launch.
They've been expecting to fuel the rocket with astronauts on board but the latest explosion revealed that it might not be the best idea.
Simply because there aren't any jurisdictions which will allow autonomous driving anytime in the future.
I don't think there's even a full qual/cert process which will allow autonomous vehicles in any jurisdiction/let alone something like the entire United States.
But, it does keep Mr. Musk's name in the news in a positive light (and overshadows what's going on at SpaceX).
You sound like one of a characters in a Douglas Adams' book.
Had this waiting to be read since i saw "The Pacific". Terrific book on what it was like to be a Pacific island hopping Marine rifleman in WWII.
Picked up Dorsai! from a bookshelf and kept going through the other four books from there.
Definitely, the books I enjoyed re-reading the most this year.
How do you know a book is "good" before you read it?
That was the way I first read it - the headline made it sound like it would be putting out user information once it was installed.
The biggest concern about EVs is the limited range and the need to constantly charge them.
Having cheap, wireless chargers that can be embedded into concrete means that drivers can constantly keep their vehicles charged - whether it's in the city in parking spots, at home or on trips where they should be getting out and walking around every 1.5 to 3 hours (100 to 200 miles) for their health. Every time they stop, their cars are being charged/topped up so they never have to worry about running out of charge.
If cities put in wireless chargers in street parking spots, they can provide a service that EV owners would be willing to pay for (and I imagine that the link/payment would be automatic and keyed to the car's license so it's convenient for the owners).
If businesses put in wireless chargers into their parking lots, then they have an additional source of revenue as well as a reason for EV owners to come directly to them.
As many people have noted, wireless charging isn't as efficient as a direct connection and there will be huge infrastructure costs to install the chargers, power to them and network connections as well as add them to existing EVs as well as design them into future vehicles, but there seems to be a pretty strong business case that will make this type of technology very desirable in the near future.
Just looking outside my house (Toronto, Canada), there are power & telephone lines and fairly high/mature trees. Not to mention, fairly volatile weather - ie it's snowing right now, just the kind of weather I would like a CARE package from 7-11 from if I didn't have to go out to get it.
It would be a significant challenge for a drone to be able to find a reasonable place to lower a package using it's own capabilities - trees and electrical lines randomly cover properties including driveways and backyards.
I haven't been to Reno in about 20 years and, it wasn't to spend time in the 'burbs, so could anybody comment on how appropriate the properties/landscape are for drone deliveries?
Didn't you read the subject line?
He's calling in the trolls to start posting.
"The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material."
They don't care about anything unless it has to do with radioactive elements. I don't think they particularly care about power generation by nuclear power plants, when it comes right down to it.
The EIA deals with electrical power generation, distribution and use.
The big reason I can think of why you would use lasers for this experiment is that you need to know precisely how much energy is being applied to the anti-hydrogen atoms. As lasers produced only one wavelength (energy level) of light, this becomes a non-issue.
I imagine that the wavelength of laser light is different from the expected wavelength of the released photon from the anti-hydrogen atom, so it can be easily detected and not confused with light from any other source (ie the laser).
Note that the "laser" being used here is not the same one as you would find in a dollar store laser pointer.
Thank you for the update - I didn't realize how much the technology had improved over the past few years.
My 1-2metre/day was based on the first generation borers used in Toronto about ten years ago. The five year old models in Toronto worked at around 10metres/day and the latest (3rd generation) ones are doing significantly better (although I don't think they're making the 38metres/day of the Crossrail borers).
In terms of depth, that's what I thought - how deep do you have to tunnel to make sure you don't hit anything man-made? I'm also thinking of geo-thermal heating/cooling piping that can do down a couple of hundred feet.
Regardless of how deep, it will also have to be fast. I believe current borers (correct term?) drill at the rate of 1-2 metres per day. To be fair, a big part of what they do is mould concrete and rebar into a completed tunnel which is a big, complicated job, but for anything else to come about, it would have to be at least 10x faster - at that rate, you would do a kilometer every three months. This would be pretty good for the central city, but barely acceptable for going out to the burbs and not acceptable at all when anything beyond that is required - then you would want to have 100+ metres per day.
In "Oath of Fealty", Niven and Pournelle had a borer that seemed to reach this speed by melting rock rather than cutting it and making the rock cool to form the walls and ceiling of the tunnel.
Isn't running:
- A car design and manufacturing company
- A rocket launcher and capsule design and manufacturing company
- A lithium batter design and manufacturing company
- Managing a very high speed mass transportation concept
enough for one person?
It's not like Tesla cars are perfect or that SpaceX launcher's aren't blowing up on the pad and I don't think battery one has come out of SolarCity yet.
Mr. Musk has come up with some great ideas, but I think he needs to keep his (business) interests limited to ensure that they are all successful and outstanding products.
Following the patter, it seems like "apt purge anonymous coward" doesn't seem functional yet.
Isn't what Director Alexander saying the Nuremberg defense?
How is saying "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes." any different than someone saying that they were "just following orders from a superior" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders)?
Into court, legal services and awards for individuals that were illegally searched.
OR... will the airline employees and others be sued for carrying out an illegal search (for money)?
When it's all said and done, it will be the lawyers who get rich.
There were some good games in the '80s with Borje Salming, Tiger Williams, Mike Palmateer, Lanny McDonald, Rick Vaive.
They never did well in the playoffs but in the regular season there were more than enough good games to watch from the VCR.
If a company gets to the size where the term CEO is meaningful (and it isn't some applied to a start up of five guys) then what do they do that software can't do?