Their $35k car will be, according to Tesla, around 20% smaller than a Model S. Considering that the Model S is an enormous car, I don't see how you could call the Model 3 a "tiny little toy".
The statistics of the people who currently buy electric cars is not relevant, because you're comparing the statistics of early adopters to the mass market.
We've had electronic digital computers for 74 years, but it'd be silly to try to claim that a modern laptop is not "new technology" as compared to Konrad Zuse's 1941 Z3.
AA batteries have a volume if 7.7 cubic centimeters, so 300 cubic centimeters would be the volume equivalent of around 39 such batteries.
A typical NiMH AA battery has a capacity of 2.4 Wh, so around 94 Wh, versus 12 Wh for the new supercapacitors based on your math.
That is indeed rather low, I think existing supercapacitors are already a bit better than that. Perhaps the measurement for these new things was for the paper-thin variety, at which point it's 300 square centimeters, and it becomes a matter of how many layers you can stack in one centimeter of height.
You're way off. There are places in the southwestern United States that get 7 kilowatt hours per square meter per day (http://www.energy.ca.gov/2005publications/CEC-500-2005-072/CEC-500-2005-072-D.PDF), or 0.65 kilowatt hours per square foot, which is roughly 237 kilowatt horus per year.
The complexity seems to be wanting to swap inputs between split screens. If you give up that requirement, and simply say that input is tied to screen1, then there is an easy solution: a regular KVM for screen 1 with the first video output of each computer, and a simple HDMI switch on screen2 with the second video output of each computer.
Whatever computer you put on screen1 controls it, and you can then set screen2 to whichever computer you like.
So by your logic, Lenovo doesn't make PCs, and Google doesn't make Android or smartphones? Apple has never fabbed their own chips, and they still don't. They design them in-house. Yeah, they bought companies to get the resources to do that, in 2008 (P.A. Semi) and 2010 (Intrinsity). I think that 5 to 7 years is enough time that you can now consider Apple SoCs to be "in-house".
They started out by using off-the-shelf designs (licensed ARM cores) in their own SOCs (the A4 and A5) to build experience, and then graduated to a custom CPU (licensed ARM instruction set) with the A6. They're now on their fourth-generation custom processor, so it's not like they are new at this.
The tiny microphones and speakers in my flat phone sound as good as any handset that I've ever used. You can use your headset with your phone, but don't expect anybody else to think that a phone that can't be used as a phone without a headset is a good idea.
They used to own essentially the whole market. They now have 0.5% marketshare. Their revenue has been in freefall since 2011, and quarters with profits have been few and far between. If that's not struggling, I don't know what is.
That said, it looks like their revenue and marketshare is starting to stabilize, and they may be able to keep going as a boutique Android vendor. But they're essentially irrelevant to the market, with no influence on it. That's not really success, that's just life support.
How about the various circuit printers that are coming on the market now, like the Argentum or the Voltera? They're not cheap ($1500-2000), but they're probably a lot faster/cleaner/more precise than trying to etch it yourself. Voltera is capable of printing pseudo two-layer PCBs, since it has both a conductive solderable ink, and an insulating ink ink: when a trace needs to cross another, it uses the insulating ink to create a bridge, and then prints the second trace crossing over the first.
Maybe it would be a gigantic money pit. Apple, conveniently, has a gigantic pile of money with which to fill the giant money pit. Their cash reserves ($203 billion) are larger than the value of every major US automaker combined ($157 billion if you include Tesla), and their cash reserves grew by $38 billion in the last year alone.
People can't seem to wrap their head around just how much money Apple is sitting on. Buying General Motors would be pocket change to them. They could build a Tesla Gigafactory with couch cushion money.
I don't really understand this statement: it has a much smaller range than the F-35 (by every measurement, even combat range), and is less than a third as fast. It has far more loiter time, but the F-35 isn't intended for that role.
I think the F-35 is a joke, mind you, and should never have been built (and I still hope that we don't end up buying any in Canada) but I'm not sure why the A-29 would be considered in any way a replacement. It sounds more like it's a replacement for the A10, and it's not clear to me how it's better than the A10.
That wasn't my intent, my intent was to indicate that, for most developers, the ISA is completely irrelevant. It can be ugly or beautiful and they'll never need to know or care. If ISA mattered, we'd all be using MIPS.
Few developers need to have any exposure to the instruction set, especially on a platform like Android where most software is in a virtualized language like Java. There are exceptions, but the days of inline assembly are generally behind us.
Games were 20GB in the year 2000? News to me, few games were more than 700MB back then, since multi-CD games were pretty rare.
I don't think Apple is going to succeed this round, but I don't think it has anything to do with media size. I think it's because they're falling into the same trap that all these other companies trying break in are falling into (Ouya, nVidia, MadCatz, Razer, etc). The problem is that they're trying to leverage mobile games and hardware to get started, but that just doesn't cut it. Mobile games are generally designed for a very different sort of gaming experience from a console (in terms of attention span, controls, production budgets, monetization, etc). Of-the-shelf mobile hardware is generally not anywhere near the capabilities of console hardware. You can probably get a leg up if you design your own custom SoC that takes actual advantage of higher power and thermal thresholds (Sony's PS Vita was basically just a contemporary smartphone hardware, but double the CPU and GPU core counts), but nobody is doing that.
The strange thing is that Apple is well positioned to avoid those mistakes. From the hardware standpoint, they've got a modern SoC that is quite a bit more capable than most things on the market (the A9X) since it targets the thermal and power capabilities of a 13" tablet, and they've got the in-house design chops to put together a chip with multiple times the power to target a fixed platform if they wanted. They've got the money to buy exclusive console-class games. Heck, their cash hoard is so large that they could buy all of Sony, Nintendo, and EA... and that'd only take something like half their cash reserves. So Apple could certainly afford to buy themselves some exclusives, both by paying AAA developers for them, and buying developers themselves.
And yet, what do they do? They put out hardware with last-gen smartphone hardware (not even last-gen tablet hardware) and do the same "mobile games on your TV" approach that has failed time and time again.
So, I don't think Apple is serious about entering the gaming market.
If by "small number of people" you mean "majority of the population of North America", and by "a short time each year" you mean "half the year", then yes, I think that it's a problem that needs to be solved before fully automated vehicles are viable.
Also, no current automated car (including Google's) works at all when the roads are covered by snow, and large numbers of people live in areas that have at least some snow during the year. Purely automated cars are not practical in most of the US and Canada until they can handle that scenario.
The project to produce a GPU from Larabee was cancelled, but Larabee itself simply morphed into Intel MIC and they've released several generations of it to market. They now use the brand name "Xeon Phi" for it.
When I visit the US, I use a Canadian provider known as Roam Mobility. They roam on T-Mobile's network, and the network seems to fall apart any time there are large crowds. Most of the time it worked OK, but when I went to Universal Studios or Anime Expo, I basically had no cell reception the entire time I was at either of those events/places.
My friends who were roaming on AT&T had no issues.
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Their $35k car will be, according to Tesla, around 20% smaller than a Model S. Considering that the Model S is an enormous car, I don't see how you could call the Model 3 a "tiny little toy".
The statistics of the people who currently buy electric cars is not relevant, because you're comparing the statistics of early adopters to the mass market.
We've had electronic digital computers for 74 years, but it'd be silly to try to claim that a modern laptop is not "new technology" as compared to Konrad Zuse's 1941 Z3.
AA batteries have a volume if 7.7 cubic centimeters, so 300 cubic centimeters would be the volume equivalent of around 39 such batteries.
A typical NiMH AA battery has a capacity of 2.4 Wh, so around 94 Wh, versus 12 Wh for the new supercapacitors based on your math.
That is indeed rather low, I think existing supercapacitors are already a bit better than that. Perhaps the measurement for these new things was for the paper-thin variety, at which point it's 300 square centimeters, and it becomes a matter of how many layers you can stack in one centimeter of height.
You're way off. There are places in the southwestern United States that get 7 kilowatt hours per square meter per day (http://www.energy.ca.gov/2005publications/CEC-500-2005-072/CEC-500-2005-072-D.PDF), or 0.65 kilowatt hours per square foot, which is roughly 237 kilowatt horus per year.
The complexity seems to be wanting to swap inputs between split screens. If you give up that requirement, and simply say that input is tied to screen1, then there is an easy solution: a regular KVM for screen 1 with the first video output of each computer, and a simple HDMI switch on screen2 with the second video output of each computer.
Whatever computer you put on screen1 controls it, and you can then set screen2 to whichever computer you like.
So by your logic, Lenovo doesn't make PCs, and Google doesn't make Android or smartphones? Apple has never fabbed their own chips, and they still don't. They design them in-house. Yeah, they bought companies to get the resources to do that, in 2008 (P.A. Semi) and 2010 (Intrinsity). I think that 5 to 7 years is enough time that you can now consider Apple SoCs to be "in-house".
They started out by using off-the-shelf designs (licensed ARM cores) in their own SOCs (the A4 and A5) to build experience, and then graduated to a custom CPU (licensed ARM instruction set) with the A6. They're now on their fourth-generation custom processor, so it's not like they are new at this.
The tiny microphones and speakers in my flat phone sound as good as any handset that I've ever used. You can use your headset with your phone, but don't expect anybody else to think that a phone that can't be used as a phone without a headset is a good idea.
They used to own essentially the whole market. They now have 0.5% marketshare. Their revenue has been in freefall since 2011, and quarters with profits have been few and far between. If that's not struggling, I don't know what is.
That said, it looks like their revenue and marketshare is starting to stabilize, and they may be able to keep going as a boutique Android vendor. But they're essentially irrelevant to the market, with no influence on it. That's not really success, that's just life support.
How about the various circuit printers that are coming on the market now, like the Argentum or the Voltera? They're not cheap ($1500-2000), but they're probably a lot faster/cleaner/more precise than trying to etch it yourself. Voltera is capable of printing pseudo two-layer PCBs, since it has both a conductive solderable ink, and an insulating ink ink: when a trace needs to cross another, it uses the insulating ink to create a bridge, and then prints the second trace crossing over the first.
Maybe it would be a gigantic money pit. Apple, conveniently, has a gigantic pile of money with which to fill the giant money pit. Their cash reserves ($203 billion) are larger than the value of every major US automaker combined ($157 billion if you include Tesla), and their cash reserves grew by $38 billion in the last year alone.
People can't seem to wrap their head around just how much money Apple is sitting on. Buying General Motors would be pocket change to them. They could build a Tesla Gigafactory with couch cushion money.
sips gas, and can go anywhere
I don't really understand this statement: it has a much smaller range than the F-35 (by every measurement, even combat range), and is less than a third as fast. It has far more loiter time, but the F-35 isn't intended for that role.
I think the F-35 is a joke, mind you, and should never have been built (and I still hope that we don't end up buying any in Canada) but I'm not sure why the A-29 would be considered in any way a replacement. It sounds more like it's a replacement for the A10, and it's not clear to me how it's better than the A10.
They never claimed it was a bomb. They claimed it was a bomb hoax.
So you've invalidated two thirds of all TLS certificates. I'm sure this is a most practical solution.
That wasn't my intent, my intent was to indicate that, for most developers, the ISA is completely irrelevant. It can be ugly or beautiful and they'll never need to know or care. If ISA mattered, we'd all be using MIPS.
Few developers need to have any exposure to the instruction set, especially on a platform like Android where most software is in a virtualized language like Java. There are exceptions, but the days of inline assembly are generally behind us.
So? The instruction decoder makes up such a tiny part of a modern CPU that the instruction set is largely irrelevant in terms of efficiency.
Games were 20GB in the year 2000? News to me, few games were more than 700MB back then, since multi-CD games were pretty rare.
I don't think Apple is going to succeed this round, but I don't think it has anything to do with media size. I think it's because they're falling into the same trap that all these other companies trying break in are falling into (Ouya, nVidia, MadCatz, Razer, etc). The problem is that they're trying to leverage mobile games and hardware to get started, but that just doesn't cut it. Mobile games are generally designed for a very different sort of gaming experience from a console (in terms of attention span, controls, production budgets, monetization, etc). Of-the-shelf mobile hardware is generally not anywhere near the capabilities of console hardware. You can probably get a leg up if you design your own custom SoC that takes actual advantage of higher power and thermal thresholds (Sony's PS Vita was basically just a contemporary smartphone hardware, but double the CPU and GPU core counts), but nobody is doing that.
The strange thing is that Apple is well positioned to avoid those mistakes. From the hardware standpoint, they've got a modern SoC that is quite a bit more capable than most things on the market (the A9X) since it targets the thermal and power capabilities of a 13" tablet, and they've got the in-house design chops to put together a chip with multiple times the power to target a fixed platform if they wanted. They've got the money to buy exclusive console-class games. Heck, their cash hoard is so large that they could buy all of Sony, Nintendo, and EA... and that'd only take something like half their cash reserves. So Apple could certainly afford to buy themselves some exclusives, both by paying AAA developers for them, and buying developers themselves.
And yet, what do they do? They put out hardware with last-gen smartphone hardware (not even last-gen tablet hardware) and do the same "mobile games on your TV" approach that has failed time and time again.
So, I don't think Apple is serious about entering the gaming market.
If by "small number of people" you mean "majority of the population of North America", and by "a short time each year" you mean "half the year", then yes, I think that it's a problem that needs to be solved before fully automated vehicles are viable.
Also, no current automated car (including Google's) works at all when the roads are covered by snow, and large numbers of people live in areas that have at least some snow during the year. Purely automated cars are not practical in most of the US and Canada until they can handle that scenario.
200MB max app bundle size, 2GB max resources used at any given time, 2.2GB max initial install size, 20GB max hosted resources size.
All they've done is moved most content to the on-demand category, and the OS will download or delete that stuff as required to manage local storage.
And that sort of thing is just going to keep happening until they get rid of Steve Ballmer. Oh wait...
They were included for their work on the Daala codec, on which they also have patents, which has also received development time from Google and Cisco.
The router has two ethernet ports. One for the modem, one to connect to something else (like a switch if you'd like).
The project to produce a GPU from Larabee was cancelled, but Larabee itself simply morphed into Intel MIC and they've released several generations of it to market. They now use the brand name "Xeon Phi" for it.
When I visit the US, I use a Canadian provider known as Roam Mobility. They roam on T-Mobile's network, and the network seems to fall apart any time there are large crowds. Most of the time it worked OK, but when I went to Universal Studios or Anime Expo, I basically had no cell reception the entire time I was at either of those events/places.
My friends who were roaming on AT&T had no issues.