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iPad Air 2020 6 years ago

the A14 is a 6-core CPU, the A12Z is an 8-core CPU. So we'll have to wait for benchmarks to know for sure.

Light Year One 7 years ago

No, my claim is that their solar claim is not ridiculous ;)

Also, if I do the math on their AC charging. 35km/h gained --> 2905Wh energy. Standard 230AC, 16 amps is 3680W. So I guess the number there is also correct? Take about 85% efficiency, then you have 3000Wh in one hour from 230V AC

Light Year One 7 years ago

No, you must not. The energy required for the car to drive 12kms is 996 Wh. let's round to 1kWh.

Solar is DC. for instance Tesla powerwall is 97% efficiency for DC/DC conversion for charging its battery. So you need basically 1kW of solar to produce the needed energy to drive 12km (per hour). I think you are off by at least a factor of 3.

edit: at 20% solar efficiency that would require 5m^2.

Light Year One 7 years ago

I see, but that does not answer my question though. How is my math wrong? the expected range from solar in 1 hour equates to 996 Wh. You suggest they need 5.6kW of solar to achieve this?

Light Year One 7 years ago

I think I miss something in your numbers. They say 83 Wh/km. which means that they expect to get 996Wh in an hour. How did you reach 5.59KW?

Say, they do distribute it this way and are found guilty of patent infringement. Would they then need to pay for each copy downloaded? I have no idea how this works, it would be really helpful if somebody with some knowledge could chime in.

first you say "One day, your favorite website decides to switch entirely to SPDY, and you can't use Firefox anymore. It's natural to blame Google for this, since they invented SPDY and put the client into production. But really, it's that site's developer's fault for using nonstandard features."

then "Google and Mozilla are especially innocent, since Apple and Microsoft can easily steal any features they want from Chrome and Firefox. They're the only ones out in the open, and for that, I think they deserve to try new things for the web. If they stick, the other vendors can easily support the new features."

How would these features stick, if developers using them are to blame?

Let me make a point with an example. If Apple were to add a tv-streaming protocol to Safari (and opensource it). Would you consider it Google's duty to also add it to Chrome?

EDIT: I know my example is a bit far fetched, but it had to be something that is not in the interest of google.

The fact that they are opensource has very little to do with it. They are trying to push certain technologies into certain directions under the cover of opensource.

They are still in single control of the spec. This is not true with standard bodies where several companies can agree on it.