Not sure why I'm replying, but it's actually a pretty good workstation - and almost certainly better than whatever Sony's marketing intern uses to upload social media crap.
Who cares about WAN? I just got a very corporate workstation from HP and it has a bog-standard Intel gigabit ethernet port. Your WAN can pass 1 Tbps and it won't make your LAN go any faster.
But that's my point - this is entirely a problem with Comcast's marketing. The bandwidth-saving lower-res video concept is sound and accepted by consumers on other carriers. The way Comcast is rolling this out is completely inept.
Honestly this is just Comcast marketing being completely inept. T-Mobile manages to sell this behavior as a feature: Use our amazing video shrinkifyer and save your data! Comcast comes off more like: YOU USE TOO MUCH DATA. COMCAST SMASH. GIVE MORE MONEY.
This seems like a throwaway comment but it actually has me thinking. Exciting things hotter than ambient is very easy, as almost any energy input gets converted to heat. You can jiggle something physically or excite it with electromagnetism and it will get excited and slowly lose energy until it returns to ambient. Getting something to cool down requires creating moving energy from one place to another. It's not as "easy" technology-wise but actually it can be more efficient. So an electric blanket that warms via heat pump can be made a lot more efficient than an electric blanket that just pumps electricity into resistive heaters, but that blanket will be very complicated. Entropy plays a role in both a cooler-than-surroundings object and a hotter-than-surroundings object, so I'm not sure if that is the culprit here - the energy used is similar to cool 10 degrees or to warm 10 degrees.
So I think it just comes down to technology - in the absence of a tool of some sort, any activity will generate heat... that's the default. Once you start using technology, cooling and heating are the same problem (moving heat around) and it doesn't really matter. In other words, there are actually two problem sets here, and cooling is in one but not the other. An electric blanket using resistive heaters is not in the same problem set as an electric cooling blanket - that's a different class of problem that includes an electric heating blanket using a heat pump.
This is just me talking out my ass over coffee, so don't be too harsh:)
The new Roadster isn't actually out yet. Tesla is claiming it to be the quickest (acceleration) production car ever produced, as well as one of the fastest (top speed) currently available. It's academic in a way, as you can't have one for 2 years. But they are taking money, so they are technically competing with Ferrari even without an actual product.
Good point - thus far, production cars do not seem to require "thrust vectoring". I think that will change quickly as formula technology filters into high-performance production cars. I think you'd be a very foolish car company not to have electrics in development for your next generation.
The old Roadster did not have the endurance. The new Roadster is likely to make the list, IMHO.
Meh, it's the announced car's numbers that I used. I'm taking some liberties because I can't have one whether they are "available" now or in 2 years. To me, they aren't available.
Point is, they are absolutely competing with Ferrari.
Notice I said "quickest", as in acceleration. And they still rank far above any Ferrari in top speed, too. They don't hold lap records with the current Roadster, though that could change with this new one. It rather depends on how good of a thermal management job they do with the battery. One thing is clear - you need electric motors to hold a lap record these days.
All the top track cars have at least some electric component to their drivetrain - why do you think the Roadster will be a poor track car? I can see it having poor endurance due to battery overheating, but on paper it does not have any inherent problems with track performance.
Considering Tesla currently makes the quickest production car ever built, that is a strange statement to make. Claimed top speed of 250MPH would put it in the top 10 fastest cars in the world, well ahead of the fastest Ferrari at 217MPH.
Since the highest temperature ever recorded was in 1913, but the degree wasn't removed from the Kelvin standard until 1968, I think you are shaky ground here.
I haven't had driver problems (yet), but I know from experience to back up Windows drivers (and while I'm at it, make a full-drive image) straight out of the box. And while the drivers haven't yet been a problem, the first 3 days I had the laptop were spent with it sitting on the counter downloading and applying a gazillion Windows patches, rebooting itself, telling me it is done, me checking and nope - there are more, rinse, repeat. Fun times, fun times. Waiting for Apple to get their act together again.
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That would be one of those "once in a lifetime" kind of moments. A cure for criminal violence would be revolutionary.
I didn't say it wasn't "okay", Watson. I said it wasn't "conservative". It's the highest likely speed.
I doubt a 2 minute YouTube video requires a fatter pipe than 1gbps to do one's job effectively. That's not a business case.
Really? You think their summer intern posting 2 minute trailers to Youtube is being held back by gigabit speeds? Alrighty then.
Not sure why I'm replying, but it's actually a pretty good workstation - and almost certainly better than whatever Sony's marketing intern uses to upload social media crap.
Who cares about WAN? I just got a very corporate workstation from HP and it has a bog-standard Intel gigabit ethernet port. Your WAN can pass 1 Tbps and it won't make your LAN go any faster.
I love how your "conservative" estimate is the highest theoretical limit that a corporate PC is likely to be connected with to the internal network.
Prison isn't successful at reforming people, but it does an excellent job at removing someone from society.
For violent criminals, this is absolutely justified IMHO. For non-violent criminals, I'm not as sold on it.
But that's my point - this is entirely a problem with Comcast's marketing. The bandwidth-saving lower-res video concept is sound and accepted by consumers on other carriers. The way Comcast is rolling this out is completely inept.
Honestly this is just Comcast marketing being completely inept. T-Mobile manages to sell this behavior as a feature: Use our amazing video shrinkifyer and save your data! Comcast comes off more like: YOU USE TOO MUCH DATA. COMCAST SMASH. GIVE MORE MONEY.
This seems like a throwaway comment but it actually has me thinking. Exciting things hotter than ambient is very easy, as almost any energy input gets converted to heat. You can jiggle something physically or excite it with electromagnetism and it will get excited and slowly lose energy until it returns to ambient. Getting something to cool down requires creating moving energy from one place to another. It's not as "easy" technology-wise but actually it can be more efficient. So an electric blanket that warms via heat pump can be made a lot more efficient than an electric blanket that just pumps electricity into resistive heaters, but that blanket will be very complicated. Entropy plays a role in both a cooler-than-surroundings object and a hotter-than-surroundings object, so I'm not sure if that is the culprit here - the energy used is similar to cool 10 degrees or to warm 10 degrees.
So I think it just comes down to technology - in the absence of a tool of some sort, any activity will generate heat... that's the default. Once you start using technology, cooling and heating are the same problem (moving heat around) and it doesn't really matter. In other words, there are actually two problem sets here, and cooling is in one but not the other. An electric blanket using resistive heaters is not in the same problem set as an electric cooling blanket - that's a different class of problem that includes an electric heating blanket using a heat pump.
This is just me talking out my ass over coffee, so don't be too harsh :)
If your typical burglar has this technology, they would probably have pawned it long before they started breaking into homes.
Do you have a car company? Your numbers seem less plausible if you do not.
The new Roadster isn't actually out yet. Tesla is claiming it to be the quickest (acceleration) production car ever produced, as well as one of the fastest (top speed) currently available. It's academic in a way, as you can't have one for 2 years. But they are taking money, so they are technically competing with Ferrari even without an actual product.
I'm sorry I posted anything. Car people are worse than VIM/Emacs people :)
I'm obviously using the new Roadster numbers. You can call it vapor"wear" if you want to use it as an article of clothing.
Good point - thus far, production cars do not seem to require "thrust vectoring". I think that will change quickly as formula technology filters into high-performance production cars. I think you'd be a very foolish car company not to have electrics in development for your next generation.
The old Roadster did not have the endurance. The new Roadster is likely to make the list, IMHO.
Good luck buying one of those fancy hybrid Ferraris, then.
Meh, it's the announced car's numbers that I used. I'm taking some liberties because I can't have one whether they are "available" now or in 2 years. To me, they aren't available.
Point is, they are absolutely competing with Ferrari.
Right, no one buys a Tesla Roadster for bling. Sure.
Notice I said "quickest", as in acceleration. And they still rank far above any Ferrari in top speed, too. They don't hold lap records with the current Roadster, though that could change with this new one. It rather depends on how good of a thermal management job they do with the battery. One thing is clear - you need electric motors to hold a lap record these days.
All the top track cars have at least some electric component to their drivetrain - why do you think the Roadster will be a poor track car? I can see it having poor endurance due to battery overheating, but on paper it does not have any inherent problems with track performance.
Considering Tesla currently makes the quickest production car ever built, that is a strange statement to make. Claimed top speed of 250MPH would put it in the top 10 fastest cars in the world, well ahead of the fastest Ferrari at 217MPH.
Since the highest temperature ever recorded was in 1913, but the degree wasn't removed from the Kelvin standard until 1968, I think you are shaky ground here.
I haven't had driver problems (yet), but I know from experience to back up Windows drivers (and while I'm at it, make a full-drive image) straight out of the box. And while the drivers haven't yet been a problem, the first 3 days I had the laptop were spent with it sitting on the counter downloading and applying a gazillion Windows patches, rebooting itself, telling me it is done, me checking and nope - there are more, rinse, repeat. Fun times, fun times. Waiting for Apple to get their act together again.