By the time they're done refining it the R&D budget will be so massive that they'll have to sell it at prices nobody but the extremely well off will be able to afford anyway.
No it does not. All it tells us is that some women left the company. It doesn't tell us how many people were in her unit, and it doesn't give their personal accounts.
I know Slashdot loves a controversy, but it would be nice to have some facts for a change.
Their "niche" market is basically covered by any number of other vendors, so it's not really niche. Buy a laptop from somewhere else, install Linux. What you pay extra for is hardware that is guaranteed to run properly under Linux. Of course, you could just research this yourself and save your money. Why bother with their overpriced solution at all.
A few? Try well over a century. Inductive power transfer was invented in the 1800s and was used in transformers. Later in the 1973 it was used in the first iterations of RFID cards, where an electromagnetic field was used to power a passive circuit. By 1990 it was creeping in to consumer electronics devices like electric toothbrushes. In 2009 the QI standard was drafted which allowed for more efficient transfer of power to devices with under 5 watts of draw. While it is a better way of doing that specific job, the core technology is still ancient by our standards.
Assuming it follows the QI standard (and lets face it, this is Apple we're talking about so it probably won't) a charging station can be had for as little as $7 US.
You don't necessarily rip the jack out, but constant plugging and unplugging may eventually cause stress fractures in the solder. It hasn't happened to me personally on any of my USB devices, but it did happen to a friend of mine with his Nexus 7. I also remember it being a problem with an old Casio keyboard I had when I was a kid, although that was an AC power jack.
Even discounting that, not having to deal with yet another loose cable is nice.
You might be shocked how many TV shows and movies are shot in Canada. In Vancouver and Vancouver Island you get a lot of crews coming to shoot. I remember going out to watch the shooting of Godzilla several years back, a bunch of us made a day of it, and it was a lot of fun to BS with some of the actors and extras. They even had the train with the impressively large nuke prop on it parked on the CN railway tracks, and a strategically placed smoldering helicopter wreck.
Toronto also gets a lot of crews coming through. Why is this? Canada charges less than the US for outdoor scenes that can't be shot in a studio, making their overall production costs cheaper.
It's sort of a weird position the industry takes with Canadians given how much money Canada saves them.
They make it impossible, difficult, or prohibitively expensive to get the content, and then wonder why people just pirate it. Just look at Netflix. It took years for the libraries to get even close to equitable, but now that they are 5.2 of the 30 million Canadians now subscribe. Hulu, Pandora, HBO Go, and others refuse to offer service to Canadians because greedy American corporations refuse to license the content. Quality services that do find their way to Canada and are reasonably priced get snapped up. Google Music is a great example of a service which was quickly adopted by many.
Content creators need to stop worrying about the pirates, start worrying about the people who want to be legitimate users. You could be making a lot more money if you did.
I'm sure there is a lot going on. Just nothing useful to people just yet. My problem isn't really with tech reporting, it's with the reporters acting like everything is the next big thing.
Potentially you're even better off. As it turns out, it's much easier to update an article on the internet than it is to update the contents of a static book.
I know what you're thinking. "Did 'The Fundamentals of Physics' undergo ten revisions, or only nine?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is first year physics, the most powerful physics in the world, and would blow your layman head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
The only way it gets worse is if you're an Apple customer. There's no way for Apple to patent wireless charging. The smart consumers are jumping ship on them left and right making Apple's proprietary choices a non-issue for many.
Sure. It just wasn't a hot news item until there was actually a viable product. Batteries, unlike blu-ray constantly make the news even when there's nothing viable to show for it.
Apple will introduce some proprietary protocol between the apple device and the extremely expensive charging pad to ensure that you can't use just any cost effective QI charger.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else. Wake me when there's a product I can somehow use in my daily life.
Not that I disagree with his assessment, but Flipboard has a vested interest in consolidating news from multiple sources which means it is in his own best interests to preach this line of thinking. If only as a reminder to think critically we need to remember where his own personal bias comes from.
He needs to go away from topics like this because he's an engineer trying to talk about AI as if he has some clue. People seem to forget that Elon's success is largely due to the people who he surrounds himself with and not him specifically. The man is not an expert in all things.
Fortunately there are more options available than those two places. The most populous places on the planet are India and China which both have population issues - no other country is really attempting to control its population because it's not yet necessary. Canada for example is the second largest country in the world by available land and only has 35 million people living there. That many people live in California alone in the US. Russia is the largest country in the world, and it only has 143.5 million people living there compared to the entirety of the US which is 318 million people.
The problem isn't that the planet can't sustain more people - it's that certain countries can't sustain too many people living in concentrated locations.
...and yet you'll find all kinds of video footage that shows how packed these events are...
The problem with people like you is that you have it in your head that if you don't personally like something it must follow that nobody else likes it either. Let us know when you begin to live in reality again.
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11 hours. What an improvement! This is like saying "we used to allow murder all week, but now we've limited it only to the weekends".
By the time they're done refining it the R&D budget will be so massive that they'll have to sell it at prices nobody but the extremely well off will be able to afford anyway.
Learn to stop acting like a bitch and understand that one thing does not necessarily mean the other.
No it does not. All it tells us is that some women left the company. It doesn't tell us how many people were in her unit, and it doesn't give their personal accounts.
I know Slashdot loves a controversy, but it would be nice to have some facts for a change.
It's stable enough, it just doesn't hold a candle to the binary drivers when it comes down to features and performance.
Personally I prefer the driver which gets the job done, and while Nouveau is a solid effort, it just doesn't.
Their "niche" market is basically covered by any number of other vendors, so it's not really niche. Buy a laptop from somewhere else, install Linux. What you pay extra for is hardware that is guaranteed to run properly under Linux. Of course, you could just research this yourself and save your money. Why bother with their overpriced solution at all.
A few? Try well over a century. Inductive power transfer was invented in the 1800s and was used in transformers. Later in the 1973 it was used in the first iterations of RFID cards, where an electromagnetic field was used to power a passive circuit. By 1990 it was creeping in to consumer electronics devices like electric toothbrushes. In 2009 the QI standard was drafted which allowed for more efficient transfer of power to devices with under 5 watts of draw. While it is a better way of doing that specific job, the core technology is still ancient by our standards.
Assuming it follows the QI standard (and lets face it, this is Apple we're talking about so it probably won't) a charging station can be had for as little as $7 US.
You can't invent a set of natural laws, you can only discover them. Gravity is going to exist regardless of whether or not you know about it.
You don't necessarily rip the jack out, but constant plugging and unplugging may eventually cause stress fractures in the solder. It hasn't happened to me personally on any of my USB devices, but it did happen to a friend of mine with his Nexus 7. I also remember it being a problem with an old Casio keyboard I had when I was a kid, although that was an AC power jack.
Even discounting that, not having to deal with yet another loose cable is nice.
You might be shocked how many TV shows and movies are shot in Canada. In Vancouver and Vancouver Island you get a lot of crews coming to shoot. I remember going out to watch the shooting of Godzilla several years back, a bunch of us made a day of it, and it was a lot of fun to BS with some of the actors and extras. They even had the train with the impressively large nuke prop on it parked on the CN railway tracks, and a strategically placed smoldering helicopter wreck.
Toronto also gets a lot of crews coming through. Why is this? Canada charges less than the US for outdoor scenes that can't be shot in a studio, making their overall production costs cheaper.
It's sort of a weird position the industry takes with Canadians given how much money Canada saves them.
They make it impossible, difficult, or prohibitively expensive to get the content, and then wonder why people just pirate it. Just look at Netflix. It took years for the libraries to get even close to equitable, but now that they are 5.2 of the 30 million Canadians now subscribe. Hulu, Pandora, HBO Go, and others refuse to offer service to Canadians because greedy American corporations refuse to license the content. Quality services that do find their way to Canada and are reasonably priced get snapped up. Google Music is a great example of a service which was quickly adopted by many.
Content creators need to stop worrying about the pirates, start worrying about the people who want to be legitimate users. You could be making a lot more money if you did.
I'm sure there is a lot going on. Just nothing useful to people just yet. My problem isn't really with tech reporting, it's with the reporters acting like everything is the next big thing.
Potentially you're even better off. As it turns out, it's much easier to update an article on the internet than it is to update the contents of a static book.
I know what you're thinking. "Did 'The Fundamentals of Physics' undergo ten revisions, or only nine?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is first year physics, the most powerful physics in the world, and would blow your layman head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Well, at least we'd all get our damn flying cars!
The only way it gets worse is if you're an Apple customer. There's no way for Apple to patent wireless charging. The smart consumers are jumping ship on them left and right making Apple's proprietary choices a non-issue for many.
Sure. It just wasn't a hot news item until there was actually a viable product. Batteries, unlike blu-ray constantly make the news even when there's nothing viable to show for it.
And revolutionary!
Apple: fixing what isn't broken because fuck. We're out of ideas.
Apple will introduce some proprietary protocol between the apple device and the extremely expensive charging pad to ensure that you can't use just any cost effective QI charger.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else. Wake me when there's a product I can somehow use in my daily life.
Not that I disagree with his assessment, but Flipboard has a vested interest in consolidating news from multiple sources which means it is in his own best interests to preach this line of thinking. If only as a reminder to think critically we need to remember where his own personal bias comes from.
He needs to go away from topics like this because he's an engineer trying to talk about AI as if he has some clue. People seem to forget that Elon's success is largely due to the people who he surrounds himself with and not him specifically. The man is not an expert in all things.
Fortunately there are more options available than those two places. The most populous places on the planet are India and China which both have population issues - no other country is really attempting to control its population because it's not yet necessary. Canada for example is the second largest country in the world by available land and only has 35 million people living there. That many people live in California alone in the US. Russia is the largest country in the world, and it only has 143.5 million people living there compared to the entirety of the US which is 318 million people.
The problem isn't that the planet can't sustain more people - it's that certain countries can't sustain too many people living in concentrated locations.
...and yet you'll find all kinds of video footage that shows how packed these events are...
The problem with people like you is that you have it in your head that if you don't personally like something it must follow that nobody else likes it either. Let us know when you begin to live in reality again.