My first reaction to the seats turning to face each other was "so if the driver has to take control.... huge delay." My second reaction was "...and if you hit something, you'll be oriented sideways, which seems like a really bad idea."
They can go hand in hand; they don't have to go hand in hand. Generally speaking, efficiency of power conversion is fairly high, 95% isn't all that uncommon for a design that tries hard. Some of the problems are that when you're doing conversion at the KW level, 5% is 50 watts, which tends to be RFI (both direct and indirect) and heat - that's efficient in one sense, and a serious problem in another. Going from 95% to 97.5% cuts that to 25 watts; and that's not space saved once per installation, that's money saved and more energy for other things and less crap in the air every moment the conversion is ongoing.
In the case of houses and cars, where KW is the order of the day, space is a minor problem; efficiency is the major problem. I'd take a 97.5% efficient box at 10x the volume over at 95% converter any time. But it isn't even 10x the volume, generally speaking.
That's why the first thing I looked for was competition for conversion efficiency, and why I was a little put off by it not even being there.
One of the most compelling reasons I bought an S7 (don't have it yet... Verizon says by the 10th of March) is the wireless charging.
I'm having trouble understanding why you would plug a cable into the phone unless you had no other choice. Wireless is slower, but... so many advantages. So convenient. So easy to pick up and walk away with wireless charging, or conversely, to sit down and place on the charger. So much less wear on the device:
I have a Canon 6D... USB port now unreliable; a transcend card reader... USB port now unreliable; I've been though two Gear watch charger cradles, on my third now, as on both of the first two cradles, the USB ports became unreliable. USB is such a lowball connector standard, and the connectors are often mounted such that physically speaking, they aren't very robust. My Note III's charging port is getting flaky too. Normally a failure like that would make me look askance at the manufacturer, but it seems pretty clear to me that no one has really nailed down a reliable data/charge connector for plug-and-unplug service one or more times a day for years at a time. Wireless, though... oh yeah.
Well, different strokes and all that. If ya gotta plug... Sure am looking forward to the S7. Delighted they put card storage back in it. That kept me from buying a new phone from them for a while. Hoping for some more CPU ooomph, too, as compared to my Note III. The specs say I'll get it. I hope that turns out to the case in real-world applications.
Don't plan to either plug it into anything, or drop it in the water either. Even just to see. I know, I'm just no fun at all.:)
You can't utilize dedicated, non-virtualized graphics and networking in this way on a Mac, though, because you can't install multiple graphics or network cards in one.
It is factually inaccurate. Go on EBay. There are tons of multiple-card-model mac pros on there. You can have as many as you want.
If you want to make claims, make accurate claims. If specifics are called for, use them.
I run six monitors on my mac pro. 2008 vintage 2-cpu / 8-core. I don't game on it, but I do run real-time SDR software with constant 2D gfx loading spread across several monitors (3-monitor wide spectrum and waterfall) at the same time I'm doing any/everything else including compiling new versions of same and running one or two VMs. I would probably have upgraded the machine, even though I'm REALLY angry with Apple, but the new mac pro... ugh. Totally not what I had in mind.
Thinking about building up a multicore desktop tower, but it's been years (8) since I did that, so I have to figure everything out from scratch. Been putting it off. Lazy.:)
The above serves as an example of why slashdot moderation has to be ignored to use the site well. Posting facts often result in "I disagree" downmods.Those who utilize the mod system to choose what posts to see miss a great deal of good information.
Sure would be nice if the mod system was fixed. Accountability would go a long way, as would toxic moderation like the above actually being removed along with mod privileges. I'd love it if a downmod had to carry an accompanying explanation, too. No, I don't mean picking canned, insufficient answers from a list. And the 0-start for anonymous posts... that's always been a bad idea. A great deal of anon-supplied info never surfaces because of it.
These are all pipe dreams after all these years of the site ignoring the mod problems, but... sigh.
That's what the government uses civil law for. Well, that and implementing ex post facto punishment. Plenty of that going around.
Not that I have any confidence a no-buy-from-Apple bill is likely to pass anyway. Apple puts a lot of money in politician's pockets, both directly and indirectly. They're positioned at the control end of the system, not the controlled end. Mr. Political Hopeful just hasn't figured it out yet.
Unless the Chinese are arresting people based on a predictive analysis model, but who haven't carried out a terrorist attack yet, it's not "pre-crime".
Because only arrest interferes with a person, yes? No problem with no-fly, no-buy, no-work, no-school lists? No problem with civil processes that take their money? No problem with civil processes completely disjoint from criminal procedure that commit them for life? No problem with being forced to notify the authorities about your travel plans and residence? No problem with being refused a license for this or that, or a passport, or entry / exit at national borders? No problem with having one's children taken away? No problem with losing eligibility for various government and private undertakings because of being on some list?
It is truly sad how little many people understand what freedom is, and exhibit little to no awareness of the enormously corrosive forces being brought to bear against freedom. Not just in China either, not by any means.
It's not much different, that is true, but it is "pre-crime" in the "we have no evidence, so we're going fishing without a warrant, probable cause, oath or affirmation, and if we don't like what we find, you're going to see some consequences" sense.
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My first reaction to the seats turning to face each other was "so if the driver has to take control.... huge delay." My second reaction was "...and if you hit something, you'll be oriented sideways, which seems like a really bad idea."
Hmmm.
They can go hand in hand; they don't have to go hand in hand. Generally speaking, efficiency of power conversion is fairly high, 95% isn't all that uncommon for a design that tries hard. Some of the problems are that when you're doing conversion at the KW level, 5% is 50 watts, which tends to be RFI (both direct and indirect) and heat - that's efficient in one sense, and a serious problem in another. Going from 95% to 97.5% cuts that to 25 watts; and that's not space saved once per installation, that's money saved and more energy for other things and less crap in the air every moment the conversion is ongoing.
In the case of houses and cars, where KW is the order of the day, space is a minor problem; efficiency is the major problem. I'd take a 97.5% efficient box at 10x the volume over at 95% converter any time. But it isn't even 10x the volume, generally speaking.
That's why the first thing I looked for was competition for conversion efficiency, and why I was a little put off by it not even being there.
This doesn't seem to be about efficiency at all, but rather about power density (how much power can be converted in a particular cubic volume.)
Not that small isn't a worthy goal, but efficiency is important in any application where available power isn't both free and copiously oversupplied.
A stupid guy with a big gun can dominate a smart guy with none. Just saying.
One of the most compelling reasons I bought an S7 (don't have it yet... Verizon says by the 10th of March) is the wireless charging.
I'm having trouble understanding why you would plug a cable into the phone unless you had no other choice. Wireless is slower, but... so many advantages. So convenient. So easy to pick up and walk away with wireless charging, or conversely, to sit down and place on the charger. So much less wear on the device:
I have a Canon 6D... USB port now unreliable; a transcend card reader... USB port now unreliable; I've been though two Gear watch charger cradles, on my third now, as on both of the first two cradles, the USB ports became unreliable. USB is such a lowball connector standard, and the connectors are often mounted such that physically speaking, they aren't very robust. My Note III's charging port is getting flaky too. Normally a failure like that would make me look askance at the manufacturer, but it seems pretty clear to me that no one has really nailed down a reliable data/charge connector for plug-and-unplug service one or more times a day for years at a time. Wireless, though... oh yeah.
Well, different strokes and all that. If ya gotta plug... Sure am looking forward to the S7. Delighted they put card storage back in it. That kept me from buying a new phone from them for a while. Hoping for some more CPU ooomph, too, as compared to my Note III. The specs say I'll get it. I hope that turns out to the case in real-world applications.
Don't plan to either plug it into anything, or drop it in the water either. Even just to see. I know, I'm just no fun at all. :)
The logic (or lack of it) implied by your question:
1) Some people have murdered other people
2) Some new guy murders someone
3) It's not to be considered, because others did it before him
This is exactly what you said:
It is factually inaccurate. Go on EBay. There are tons of multiple-card-model mac pros on there. You can have as many as you want.
If you want to make claims, make accurate claims. If specifics are called for, use them.
Microsoft... makes shoes?
Mac user here. Amen.
I have three graphics cards in my mac pro. You have no idea what you're talking about.
That begs the question, whoosh?
I run six monitors on my mac pro. 2008 vintage 2-cpu / 8-core. I don't game on it, but I do run real-time SDR software with constant 2D gfx loading spread across several monitors (3-monitor wide spectrum and waterfall) at the same time I'm doing any/everything else including compiling new versions of same and running one or two VMs. I would probably have upgraded the machine, even though I'm REALLY angry with Apple, but the new mac pro... ugh. Totally not what I had in mind.
Thinking about building up a multicore desktop tower, but it's been years (8) since I did that, so I have to figure everything out from scratch. Been putting it off. Lazy. :)
And when you don't need a GUI, you don't have to have one. I love me some linux. :)
There's no problem there, he assures us. Big cores. BIG!
Sure. It's built right into the regular version. Buy the game this year. Buy another next year. Compare pricing. :)
Wat? '%' means "this is a binary number."
As in:
LDA #%01000010 * 42, of course
Just check the Motorola assembler programming manual for the 6800, 6809, etc. It's right there. It's been there since the mid-ish 1970s.
You kids.
Don't know much about human nature, do you? :)
You can't have inflation without someone's income going up
FTFY
The above serves as an example of why slashdot moderation has to be ignored to use the site well. Posting facts often result in "I disagree" downmods.Those who utilize the mod system to choose what posts to see miss a great deal of good information.
Sure would be nice if the mod system was fixed. Accountability would go a long way, as would toxic moderation like the above actually being removed along with mod privileges. I'd love it if a downmod had to carry an accompanying explanation, too. No, I don't mean picking canned, insufficient answers from a list. And the 0-start for anonymous posts... that's always been a bad idea. A great deal of anon-supplied info never surfaces because of it.
These are all pipe dreams after all these years of the site ignoring the mod problems, but... sigh.
That's what the government uses civil law for. Well, that and implementing ex post facto punishment. Plenty of that going around.
Not that I have any confidence a no-buy-from-Apple bill is likely to pass anyway. Apple puts a lot of money in politician's pockets, both directly and indirectly. They're positioned at the control end of the system, not the controlled end. Mr. Political Hopeful just hasn't figured it out yet.
Because only arrest interferes with a person, yes? No problem with no-fly, no-buy, no-work, no-school lists? No problem with civil processes that take their money? No problem with civil processes completely disjoint from criminal procedure that commit them for life? No problem with being forced to notify the authorities about your travel plans and residence? No problem with being refused a license for this or that, or a passport, or entry / exit at national borders? No problem with having one's children taken away? No problem with losing eligibility for various government and private undertakings because of being on some list?
It is truly sad how little many people understand what freedom is, and exhibit little to no awareness of the enormously corrosive forces being brought to bear against freedom. Not just in China either, not by any means.
i think you've been watching too much star trek. Spock, specifically. Quite seriously.
It's not much different, that is true, but it is "pre-crime" in the "we have no evidence, so we're going fishing without a warrant, probable cause, oath or affirmation, and if we don't like what we find, you're going to see some consequences" sense.
Communism? Are you saying the NSA and FBI are communist organizations?