mikethemartian

macseeker said:

Wonder if it will be safe to be near. Too much RF radiation is bad for the body.

The visible light off a candle is probably more dangerous. To ionize an atom a photon (light quanta) has to have enough energy to knock an electron out of its orbit. The energy of a photon scales with frequency (E=h*f where h is Planck’s constant). The frequency of a visible photon is on the order of 10^14 Hz. I don’t know what the frequency of the RF this product uses but if it is about the same as a WiFi signal that would be about 10^9 Hz range. That means a visible light photon has about 100,000 times the energy of a GHz RF photon. I personally have never heard of a visible light photon having enough energy to ionize an atom. That occurs when you get in the x-ray regime of 10^16 Hz.

Also you can’t ionize an electron that requires a 10^16 Hz photon with 10,000,000 RF frequency photons even though added all together they would have the same energy as the one x-ray photon by itself. That is prohibited by Einstein’s photoelectric effect for which he won the Nobel prize in physics for.

ikomrad said:

My company tripled the Twitter marketing budget . We care about getting more customers, not politics.

Are you sure you can handle the $3.00?

mobird said:

Will we see a "desktop" version of Apple Silicon eventually, or is Apple of the school that it is not necessary? If the M series (especially the M3) achieves the lofty rumors of it's potential, would Apple be inclined to develop and release a real "desktop" version? What would the first iteration of Apple Silicon "desktop" bring to the table?

Supposedly the engineers who designed the M1 and then left Apple to start Nuvia originally wanted to make server grade chips at Apple but were told that it didn’t align with Apple’s business.

It is like we are living in a sitcom.

Xed said:

jacob_rad said:

Though I praise the ethical stand point that Apple has taken, doing so will ensure their loss. The data that these companies will provide will be infinitely smaller than the huge mountains of data that companies such as OpenAI and Google have.

Also, having to rely on third parties will only slow them down. There are claims that regulations will be passed which may hinder companies such as Google which is scraping the internet for data, I assure you nothing like that will happen in the states. Currently, the world is in a race and no country can afford to be behind, no government (barring EU, duh) is foolish enough to hinder this fledgling field.

Also, Apple is a hardware company unlike Google which is a true software company, they have more areas to integrate and monetise AI.

Google has more money than Apple?

Apple isn't a "true" software company is what respect? Because they also design HW?

As of September 2023 Google has $119.93 B of cash on hand and Apple has $61.55 B.

greginprague said:

mikethemartian said:

You also have to account for the 3% to 3.5% inflation from Jan, Feb, Mar 2023 to Jan, Feb, Mar 2024 earnings, respectively.

Inflation of what?  As far as I know Apple hasn’t raised the prices for any of their core products.

$94.8B in early 2023 is the equivalent of 94.8B(1.03)=$97.6B in early 2024, so the inflation corrected percentage change in revenue is actually ((90.75-97.6)/97.6)*100=-7.0%. You have to at least beat inflation to have a true growth in wealth.

Nunnyobizz said:

Another clueless a-hole dork eagerly tries to appear edgy by busting an extremely Apple expensive device through completely unrealistic and scientific testing, but is shocked and awed to discover glass actually has a breaking point.  Absolutely meaningless results.  

Next time let’s drop him from from those heights and see how long it takes his thick skull to break…

Because there is no difference between an inanimate object and a living creature.

It is no different than Apple constantly claiming “privacy and security” to lock down their platforms so that they can maximize profit.

After World War I the U.S. Navy with support from President Woodrow Wilson forced the British Marconi Company to sell its U.S. subsidiary (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America) to American company General Electric.

EDIT: This company then became RCA which was one of the most important US engineering companies of the 20th century.

JinTech said:

Don’t innovate anymore my ass. 

TVs using quantum dots in the displays have been sold at Best Buy for several years now.