You know the odd thing is regardless of the ticket price the number flights per day went down a lot so they needed more seats and fuller airplanes.
I was lucky enough to sit next to an analyst who worked with the airlines once about 20 years ago.
At the time only the small planes were profitable, most of the time. Ticket prices were higher (and dropping fast) but the large planes required to be 70% full for any profit to be made.
As the density increase on the planes, and the number of flights decreased, you presumably see a high chance of profit on a flight.
Since effectively they airlines all compete on price first, and they all cost the same to operate the same model if plane, itâ(TM)s almost like a garbage company. You make the money elsewhere; first class, foodstuffs, extra weight (which costs more for fuel), etc.
I suppose we should be happy to have so many options in flying, Iâ(TM)m amazed so many companies exist to chose from. Despite all being more or less the same ðY
Nvidia is not "crippling" their cards, they are trying to insure they keep market share and this is only one of many ways they are trying.
The real problem is the Lucid Hydra 200 chip ( http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646 )... because if you can have a mix of ati/nvidia cards in one system what is to keep you from mixing and matching to get the best of both worlds? Well now if you try you loose that virtually unused PhysX engine...
Now if they said locking down CUDA/OPENCL then they would get the crap kicked out of them in court.
Cheers!
Just to let you know Specific Absorbtion Rate, or SAR as the cell phone companies and FCC (and other world regulatory bodies) call it, actually measures how much it heats the FLUID in YOUR brain to use said cellular telephone.
They set up an artificial head, and test the phone at its output.
Interestingly enough though there are controls in place for 'maximum' SAR ratings there is never any indipendant verification of the ratings, at least in the good 'ol US of A. So we are just trusting the telephone manufacturers that despite complaints of dropped calls and poor signal strength (signs of low power phones) they are still withing the legal limit.
P.S. I have a cell phone, I use about 1200 minutes per month, I dont have a land line, My phone's SAR rating according to Verzion Wireless's website is 1.45.
I dunno, there is a company called sarshield, I from my tests their product doesnt work, but they do have a nice list of SAR rates on their website, sarshield.com. I'm personally testing a product called a Green8 right now. They are made in germany and available at green8usa.com.
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You know the odd thing is regardless of the ticket price the number flights per day went down a lot so they needed more seats and fuller airplanes. I was lucky enough to sit next to an analyst who worked with the airlines once about 20 years ago. At the time only the small planes were profitable, most of the time. Ticket prices were higher (and dropping fast) but the large planes required to be 70% full for any profit to be made. As the density increase on the planes, and the number of flights decreased, you presumably see a high chance of profit on a flight. Since effectively they airlines all compete on price first, and they all cost the same to operate the same model if plane, itâ(TM)s almost like a garbage company. You make the money elsewhere; first class, foodstuffs, extra weight (which costs more for fuel), etc. I suppose we should be happy to have so many options in flying, Iâ(TM)m amazed so many companies exist to chose from. Despite all being more or less the same ðY
I lease non electric cars for the same reason. Technology keeps getting better, am I supposed to decide gas or electric before my car is self driving?
It's as federal as federal express ðY
Nvidia is not "crippling" their cards, they are trying to insure they keep market share and this is only one of many ways they are trying. The real problem is the Lucid Hydra 200 chip ( http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646 ) ... because if you can have a mix of ati/nvidia cards in one system what is to keep you from mixing and matching to get the best of both worlds? Well now if you try you loose that virtually unused PhysX engine ...
Now if they said locking down CUDA/OPENCL then they would get the crap kicked out of them in court.
Cheers!
Well,
Just to let you know Specific Absorbtion Rate, or SAR as the cell phone companies and FCC (and other world regulatory bodies) call it, actually measures how much it heats the FLUID in YOUR brain to use said cellular telephone.
They set up an artificial head, and test the phone at its output.
Interestingly enough though there are controls in place for 'maximum' SAR ratings there is never any indipendant verification of the ratings, at least in the good 'ol US of A. So we are just trusting the telephone manufacturers that despite complaints of dropped calls and poor signal strength (signs of low power phones) they are still withing the legal limit.
P.S. I have a cell phone, I use about 1200 minutes per month, I dont have a land line, My phone's SAR rating according to Verzion Wireless's website is 1.45.
I dunno, there is a company called sarshield, I from my tests their product doesnt work, but they do have a nice list of SAR rates on their website, sarshield.com. I'm personally testing a product called a Green8 right now. They are made in germany and available at green8usa.com.
If you care at all.
Ta,
Ravi