I'm guessing you aren't aware of what a Tier-2 engine is. For that matter... what a Tier-4 engine has. The complexity of the engines today is a lot more than the old tractor engine connected to a synchronous generator of the olden days.
Since the gas is pressurized, the pipeline itself stabilizes for interruptions. Pressure drops slowly, but as long as you have a compressor at your end you can ride through.
The big impact to reliability is actually the requirement for automatic shut-off valves after the PG&E pipeline explosion in San Bruno. The pipelines are reliable today because they are almost impossible to isolate. Once that goes away you will either need a lot of local storage or a second source of fuel. The grid won't be any more reliable due to the amount of generation being done with natural gas.
Using diesel is a mess, but it seems like we are still a long time from being able to really use an alternative. Ironically, the EPA doesn't really help in this one either.
Yes, the 30-pin connector was designed (very well) for that. The new connector has some features that haven't fully been detailed yet, but I have heard some blather about USB3 and USB Host mode. Presumably, Apple didn't just do it for lock-in... they eliminated one good reason to not switch with the update. They must have some reason up their sleeves...
It is the pipe losses that make tank water heaters inefficient. What does make sense is tempering systems for hot water to warm up inlet water 10-20 degrees, ideally as heat pumps using the refrigeration for something else like a freezer or air conditioning.
Because if it is not completely, exactly, to the nth degree the same then it isn't a pure copy, and the lawsuit would not be won.
If you win a lawsuit against some trivially stupid shit (as almost all patent lawsuits seem to be), you have the power to enforce terms on the things that the law won't let you protect which may be more important to you.
Whoa, wait there, camper! What exactly is it that Google is doing that is so high and mighty? Selling your soul to advertisers? At least when you use Apple products you are the customer. When you use Google services, you are the product.
Nokia and Microsoft license agreements with Apple seem pretty fair: Apple agrees to license their patents if their competitors agree not to clone their devices or interfaces. Nokia has used the rubberbanding patent and others, and are not at issue as long as their designs are reasonably different from Apple's. The goal is clear: make your device immediately identifiable. The patent decision itself is a proxy for this much broader issue.
Now... Android. Should it be allowed to live if it was just an unispired copy of iOS? (No, I don't think it was.) The answer at this point is yes... although I can see where Apple would think they have some rights to be paid for every Android device sold, much like MS has. Hopefully that will help offset some of Apple's own licensing costs for FRAND patents.
Hell, for most small companies, two single drive NAS units that have automated failover and synchronization are all you need. Throw in external monitoring and plug-and-play backup redundancy for off-site and you are golden.
The MyBookLive units work pretty good in this respect, but I haven't bothered to do automated failover. We just use them for off-site backups with an rsync script that runs on the server.
Add in a nicer router like a Cisco ASDM 500, and you are fine until you need an accounting server... All for less than $1k.
Very wise advice... but would it change if the position was advertised as a growth-related opportunity? Given that most companies are really just one step from the nut-house... what is dysfunction really? Type-A owners/managers butting heads?
For me, my iPad keeps me from needing to bring a laptop to places it doesn't belong, and let's me use my BigHonkinDesktop for real work and a tablet in meetings to read supporting content. It ismfar from a perfect situation, and I need to bring the laptop in from home when I am doing a "war room" session.
It is great to be able to carry 500 pages of contract/design documents around on a construction job site. If I had the apps to properly tag a series of photos with comments and publish on letterhead, I would be golden.
When you need to do content creation on the go, would you rather dictate or fumble on the keyboard?
It is *far* from perfect, as trying to dictate this post showed me (ironically with a street sweeper passing ten feet away from me), but it gives an option. Some times the keyboard is a great way to transcribe thoughts, and sometimes it isn't.
While ubiquity has great value, things like GoodReader on the iPad can be used to move documents around quite easily wirelessly. Not perfect, but pretty darn good, and I don't have to find one of those "ubiquitous" USB sticks...
There are plenty of other solutions, like the MagSafe connector Apple uses on their laptops. Hadn't thought about it before, but MicroUSB isn't really a good type of connector for frequent insertion/removal cycles, at least when soldered directly to the board.
The question is if Samsung (and Apple) are negotiating in good faith on FRAND terms. By this type of action on Samsung's part, I would tend to argue they are not.
Please excuse my extreme ignorance in the matter, but wouldn't it be an order of magnitude cheaper just to use MTP fiber at 10Gb and split signals rather than push everything on to a single 100Gb link?
True that Apple's DAC isn't nearly as good as what you can get, but at the time it was released, it was considerably better than most. Moreover, the accessory costs if you had to put a DAC in every portable speaker would have been much higher due to component and licensing costs.
Looking at the dock connector with today's glasses on makes it only somewhat superfluous; at the time it was a visionary solution.
There was nothing like the iPod connector on the market when it was released. The fact that it has lived such a long life is why it is odd. There are a lot of legacy products designed around iPods initially that can't support MHL.
You cannot simultaneously send line-level analog audio, control, and power over a USB link, and MHL doesn't support that on four pins.
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I'm guessing you aren't aware of what a Tier-2 engine is. For that matter... what a Tier-4 engine has. The complexity of the engines today is a lot more than the old tractor engine connected to a synchronous generator of the olden days.
Since the gas is pressurized, the pipeline itself stabilizes for interruptions. Pressure drops slowly, but as long as you have a compressor at your end you can ride through.
The big impact to reliability is actually the requirement for automatic shut-off valves after the PG&E pipeline explosion in San Bruno. The pipelines are reliable today because they are almost impossible to isolate. Once that goes away you will either need a lot of local storage or a second source of fuel. The grid won't be any more reliable due to the amount of generation being done with natural gas.
Using diesel is a mess, but it seems like we are still a long time from being able to really use an alternative. Ironically, the EPA doesn't really help in this one either.
Sixteen, you insensitive clod!
The requirement is to provide an adapter from USB-A.
But MHL doesn't have a standardized connector...
Yes, the 30-pin connector was designed (very well) for that. The new connector has some features that haven't fully been detailed yet, but I have heard some blather about USB3 and USB Host mode. Presumably, Apple didn't just do it for lock-in... they eliminated one good reason to not switch with the update. They must have some reason up their sleeves...
It is the pipe losses that make tank water heaters inefficient. What does make sense is tempering systems for hot water to warm up inlet water 10-20 degrees, ideally as heat pumps using the refrigeration for something else like a freezer or air conditioning.
Because if it is not completely, exactly, to the nth degree the same then it isn't a pure copy, and the lawsuit would not be won.
If you win a lawsuit against some trivially stupid shit (as almost all patent lawsuits seem to be), you have the power to enforce terms on the things that the law won't let you protect which may be more important to you.
Whoa, wait there, camper! What exactly is it that Google is doing that is so high and mighty? Selling your soul to advertisers? At least when you use Apple products you are the customer. When you use Google services, you are the product.
The lawsuits are structured so they can be won. Don't mistake the battle for the war though.
Nokia and Microsoft license agreements with Apple seem pretty fair: Apple agrees to license their patents if their competitors agree not to clone their devices or interfaces. Nokia has used the rubberbanding patent and others, and are not at issue as long as their designs are reasonably different from Apple's. The goal is clear: make your device immediately identifiable. The patent decision itself is a proxy for this much broader issue.
Now... Android. Should it be allowed to live if it was just an unispired copy of iOS? (No, I don't think it was.) The answer at this point is yes... although I can see where Apple would think they have some rights to be paid for every Android device sold, much like MS has. Hopefully that will help offset some of Apple's own licensing costs for FRAND patents.
It is great until you have a drive failure, then the system turns to mush trying to rebuild, unless you are still using 250GB drives...
Hell, for most small companies, two single drive NAS units that have automated failover and synchronization are all you need. Throw in external monitoring and plug-and-play backup redundancy for off-site and you are golden.
The MyBookLive units work pretty good in this respect, but I haven't bothered to do automated failover. We just use them for off-site backups with an rsync script that runs on the server.
Add in a nicer router like a Cisco ASDM 500, and you are fine until you need an accounting server... All for less than $1k.
Very wise advice... but would it change if the position was advertised as a growth-related opportunity? Given that most companies are really just one step from the nut-house... what is dysfunction really? Type-A owners/managers butting heads?
For me, my iPad keeps me from needing to bring a laptop to places it doesn't belong, and let's me use my BigHonkinDesktop for real work and a tablet in meetings to read supporting content. It ismfar from a perfect situation, and I need to bring the laptop in from home when I am doing a "war room" session.
It is great to be able to carry 500 pages of contract/design documents around on a construction job site. If I had the apps to properly tag a series of photos with comments and publish on letterhead, I would be golden.
When you need to do content creation on the go, would you rather dictate or fumble on the keyboard?
It is *far* from perfect, as trying to dictate this post showed me (ironically with a street sweeper passing ten feet away from me), but it gives an option. Some times the keyboard is a great way to transcribe thoughts, and sometimes it isn't.
While ubiquity has great value, things like GoodReader on the iPad can be used to move documents around quite easily wirelessly. Not perfect, but pretty darn good, and I don't have to find one of those "ubiquitous" USB sticks...
There are plenty of other solutions, like the MagSafe connector Apple uses on their laptops. Hadn't thought about it before, but MicroUSB isn't really a good type of connector for frequent insertion/removal cycles, at least when soldered directly to the board.
Efficiency alone is such a big problem that it is hard to imagine it getting widely adopted before regulators kill it.
It is much more logical to push for common connectors.
The question is if Samsung (and Apple) are negotiating in good faith on FRAND terms. By this type of action on Samsung's part, I would tend to argue they are not.
Bigger keys in banking? Why do we still have the 14 bit pin codes then...
Please excuse my extreme ignorance in the matter, but wouldn't it be an order of magnitude cheaper just to use MTP fiber at 10Gb and split signals rather than push everything on to a single 100Gb link?
True that Apple's DAC isn't nearly as good as what you can get, but at the time it was released, it was considerably better than most. Moreover, the accessory costs if you had to put a DAC in every portable speaker would have been much higher due to component and licensing costs.
Looking at the dock connector with today's glasses on makes it only somewhat superfluous; at the time it was a visionary solution.
Hope the newer interface is equally effective.
There was nothing like the iPod connector on the market when it was released. The fact that it has lived such a long life is why it is odd. There are a lot of legacy products designed around iPods initially that can't support MHL.
You cannot simultaneously send line-level analog audio, control, and power over a USB link, and MHL doesn't support that on four pins.
...and doesn't specify a connector type. Samsung's SIII uses a non-standard 11-pin connector as well.