If the connector was trying to provide 25 amps at 5 volts via the thin little wires, they would arc into gas almost immediately.
My phone charge does 5A at 5V without an issue, and my laptop doing 5A at 20V does so over tiny wires.
As an RV-er, I'm familar with both 12 volt and 120 volt systems. For a LED TV or other low wattage appliance, 12 volt is better, just because it directly comes from the batteries. However, for a load like a microwave, A/C, heater, or anything above 300 watts, trying to run that on 12 volts would require very fat, expensive cable.
You answer the question, then immediately forget the answer. You have AC at 240 (sigh, 110, if you must) and have outlets in some strategic areas (kitchens and for major appliances), and 12V or 48V everywhere else.
I think we should have a 48V internal wiring standard, with some 240V appliance plugs, for vacuums, refrigerators, washers and driers, and such. The dual-standard will complicate things slightly, but result in a large overall savings, as wall-warts are eliminated, and all their waste.
Nonetheless, I personally don't know any.
That's probably because you don't hang out with rednecks and other uneducated people much.
However, you're probably right about soccer.
that the Glowforge machine is a CNC laser cutter and engraver, not a 3-D Printer.
So what's it doing here, then?
bottom of the food chain
I do wish people would stop using that phrase incorrectly.
You do know that a flea is higher up it than you are, right?
So yeah C style C++ can be real crap.
It's better than C++ style C++, which wouldn't even work in a hard real-time system.
But I would prefer to see straight C used in these systems instead. I worked briefly on a project to compare an existing C++ system with one done with straight C and the SLOC was vastly smaller, and even the memory footprint was significantly lower. I don't think it's even that C++ itself can't be written tightly, it's that the C++ stuff has gotten really bloated by the way they define requirements and architect the systems; automatic code generation with DOORS doesn't help at all.
I can't imagine why they aren't already doing this, except maybe the technical challenge of storing video data in the "black box" where it'll survive a crash.
IBM T40. No Sound or WiFi on Windows 7. Both work fine on Scientific & Kali.
Asus Eee. Everything works on both, but the touchpad configuration utility (which was excellent on XP) doesn't work on 7.
Clevo D900T: Had problems getting sound on both Win 7 and CentOS driver didn't install by default. Can't get WiFi to work on either. Can't find a GeForce driver that will install on Win 7, so only get full resolution on Linux.
So for me Linux wins more often than it loses in the driver game.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.