The US generates a lot more electric power than that and the transition wouldn't happen overnight. A lot of the generating capacity goes unused during the night (when you could charge your car) because people don't consume as much electric power when they are sleeping. I have heard numbers that you could convert 1/3 of the vehicle fleet to all electric without doing any grid changes whatsoever. More than that and you would require more generating capacity.
From what I understood they ran into production delays in the Roadster due to changes in the design imposed by Musk. Then Musk said he couldn't handle production and canned him. Then they did design changes to make it like in the original design. The problem was namely in the transmission.
Just go to a park if you want to jog. Any reasonable city will have several parks... For me I am mostly concerned with noise levels. There should be strict standards on noise levels on apartments but there aren't. You should be able to at least know what the noise level is, these things can be measured, but good luck finding it.
Those "social" problems often are anything but. The way zoning is done in the US means it is hard to combine office buildings or commerce with habitation zones. Then there is the fact that a lot of money gets spent by the state on highways and nearly zilch on high-speed rail and you get to the present situation. Regardless the situation is more pressing in Japan. They don't have oil and space is at a premium so they selected the solution which made more sense to them.
At least Samsung actually conceived and manufactured the screens. There were other OLED screens in the market before but they were mind bloggling expensive. Apple just invents buzzwords.
1982 was 3 decades ago. It has nothing to do with the present situation. Bashar al-Assad wasn't even the ruler back then. His father isn't him. Daraa, which was the initial focal point of this Syrian civil war, is near the border but of course you prefer to gloss over that fact. You may try to spin this whichever way you want but the actors aren't the same this time around. You seem to be in favor of changing a secular regime with a bunch of religious fanatics.
If you are a Zionist you are certainly picking the wrong side this time. It is plainly obvious why Turkey and Saudi Arabia are funding this little enterprise. I guess you already forgot those clashes with ships flaying the Turkish flag near the coast of Israel not very long ago, or from where Al-Qaeda gets most of its funding. In contrast Syria was even in the side of the coalition during the first Gulf War. Clearly you do not understand the present situation. While the Sunni and Shia have separate agendas things will be mostly under control but seemingly you prefer Al-Qaeda's global caliphate instead.
The armed incidents started in the border. A lot of the people fighting against Assad are not Syrian but foreigners. This is similar to what happened in Libya where the fighting started along the Algerian border. Sure they have co-opted some of the local population as they gain a foothold on the region but it is quite clear that this fight was neither started nor is being led by any sort of national movement.
Yes AMD and other fabs using SOI (e.g. IBM) had manufacturing issues in the beginning. However AFAIK the problems were solved later on. One issue AMD had was that with only one fab available they had to be able to switch production for different products using the same assembly line without significantly hampering production. However if you look at other companies which don't use SOI like TSMC they also have had a lot of issues lately.
Even if they wanted to buy ATI they could have done it for much less. The deal was ruinous for AMD. In fact that deal put a lot of people from Intel Capital in court and ex-AMD CEO Hector Ruiz only didn't get sued himself because he agreed to testify as a witness in the case.
They did sell well but only the T2+ and latter processors supported multiple socket motherboards. There is not a lot of margin selling in the low end server market. Sun's problem was that UltraSPARC V and Rock designs flopped and this left them with no high-end processor and no high-margin product line. The T-series designers were originally hamstrung to work on single socket processors in order not to overlap with the high-end product which never happened.
Actually were it not the T2/T1 Sun wouldn't have a processor design they could sell in a server. T2/T1 was meant originally for entry level servers with only a couple of processor sockets and they worked well in that scenario. The UltraSPARC V, Rock designs for high-end servers flopped and that, compounded with a move towards Linux on x86 by the rest of the market, is what killed Sun. The T1 design was biased towards integer heavy multi-threaded applications such as web serving or running Java server programs but the later designs are better all round processors. The design concept was interesting at the time.
IBM's POWER CPU line has had Turbo mode for way longer than Intel did. They also have had SMT for a long time and they actually get it to perform well unlike Intel.
Intel wasn't free of chipset issues at that time either? Remember the Rambus DRAM chipsets full of bugs like the i820? AMD's own chipsets were pretty stable, even if they had somewhat obsolete feature sets back then. VIA's chipsets had less obsolete feature sets but were chock full of bugs. NVIDIA's nForce had a great feature set and lots of bugs. I actually got one of those. With the right drivers they worked pretty well...
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The US generates a lot more electric power than that and the transition wouldn't happen overnight. A lot of the generating capacity goes unused during the night (when you could charge your car) because people don't consume as much electric power when they are sleeping. I have heard numbers that you could convert 1/3 of the vehicle fleet to all electric without doing any grid changes whatsoever. More than that and you would require more generating capacity.
From what I understood they ran into production delays in the Roadster due to changes in the design imposed by Musk. Then Musk said he couldn't handle production and canned him. Then they did design changes to make it like in the original design. The problem was namely in the transmission.
There was an article in Popular Mechanics some time ago about the engine design lead.
Not to mention DeBeers and their ilk.
That table doesn't include VAT among other things.
Just go to a park if you want to jog. Any reasonable city will have several parks... For me I am mostly concerned with noise levels. There should be strict standards on noise levels on apartments but there aren't. You should be able to at least know what the noise level is, these things can be measured, but good luck finding it.
Those "social" problems often are anything but. The way zoning is done in the US means it is hard to combine office buildings or commerce with habitation zones. Then there is the fact that a lot of money gets spent by the state on highways and nearly zilch on high-speed rail and you get to the present situation. Regardless the situation is more pressing in Japan. They don't have oil and space is at a premium so they selected the solution which made more sense to them.
At least Samsung actually conceived and manufactured the screens. There were other OLED screens in the market before but they were mind bloggling expensive. Apple just invents buzzwords.
AMOLED. Not to mention they regularly put out the highest density DRAM and Flash in the market but hey who is counting...
If you are going to do that you should add the Samsung Galaxy S II sales as well.
Actually I was more interested in the Samsung Galaxy Note II than the iPhone 5. Different things for different people I guess.
You don't need a lot of performance in a laptop. Desktop sales have plummeted and Apple has negligible server sales. Make of that what you will.
Turkey is trying to annex Syria. It doesn't take a whole lot of insight to see it.
1982 was 3 decades ago. It has nothing to do with the present situation. Bashar al-Assad wasn't even the ruler back then. His father isn't him. Daraa, which was the initial focal point of this Syrian civil war, is near the border but of course you prefer to gloss over that fact. You may try to spin this whichever way you want but the actors aren't the same this time around. You seem to be in favor of changing a secular regime with a bunch of religious fanatics.
If you are a Zionist you are certainly picking the wrong side this time. It is plainly obvious why Turkey and Saudi Arabia are funding this little enterprise. I guess you already forgot those clashes with ships flaying the Turkish flag near the coast of Israel not very long ago, or from where Al-Qaeda gets most of its funding. In contrast Syria was even in the side of the coalition during the first Gulf War. Clearly you do not understand the present situation. While the Sunni and Shia have separate agendas things will be mostly under control but seemingly you prefer Al-Qaeda's global caliphate instead.
Try reading about Gerald Bull. Or about how Saddam got his hands on biological weapons such as anthrax
The armed incidents started in the border. A lot of the people fighting against Assad are not Syrian but foreigners. This is similar to what happened in Libya where the fighting started along the Algerian border. Sure they have co-opted some of the local population as they gain a foothold on the region but it is quite clear that this fight was neither started nor is being led by any sort of national movement.
Yes AMD and other fabs using SOI (e.g. IBM) had manufacturing issues in the beginning. However AFAIK the problems were solved later on. One issue AMD had was that with only one fab available they had to be able to switch production for different products using the same assembly line without significantly hampering production. However if you look at other companies which don't use SOI like TSMC they also have had a lot of issues lately.
The deal is the same that Google gets for their Android users. So I don't see what your beef with Google is.
The x86 overhead is less significant than a lot of people think and backwards compatibility is the hallmark of all successful computer architectures.
Even if they wanted to buy ATI they could have done it for much less. The deal was ruinous for AMD. In fact that deal put a lot of people from Intel Capital in court and ex-AMD CEO Hector Ruiz only didn't get sued himself because he agreed to testify as a witness in the case.
They did sell well but only the T2+ and latter processors supported multiple socket motherboards. There is not a lot of margin selling in the low end server market. Sun's problem was that UltraSPARC V and Rock designs flopped and this left them with no high-end processor and no high-margin product line. The T-series designers were originally hamstrung to work on single socket processors in order not to overlap with the high-end product which never happened.
Actually were it not the T2/T1 Sun wouldn't have a processor design they could sell in a server. T2/T1 was meant originally for entry level servers with only a couple of processor sockets and they worked well in that scenario. The UltraSPARC V, Rock designs for high-end servers flopped and that, compounded with a move towards Linux on x86 by the rest of the market, is what killed Sun. The T1 design was biased towards integer heavy multi-threaded applications such as web serving or running Java server programs but the later designs are better all round processors. The design concept was interesting at the time.
Intel's fabs weren't that efficient. It is just that Intel has a lot of fabs all around the world.
IBM's POWER CPU line has had Turbo mode for way longer than Intel did. They also have had SMT for a long time and they actually get it to perform well unlike Intel.
Intel wasn't free of chipset issues at that time either? Remember the Rambus DRAM chipsets full of bugs like the i820? AMD's own chipsets were pretty stable, even if they had somewhat obsolete feature sets back then. VIA's chipsets had less obsolete feature sets but were chock full of bugs. NVIDIA's nForce had a great feature set and lots of bugs. I actually got one of those. With the right drivers they worked pretty well...