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Comment Re:Will the wires catch on fire? (Score 1) 165

Behold the magic of differential twisted-pair signaling. It's not 100% immune to the outside world, but damn close. Add some shielding, and a robust receiver circuit (like the world-beating(?) Cypress FX2LP USB2.0 receiver I designed), and you're good to go. Faster transmission can trigger a 2cd-order higher power effect in that send/receive circuits are typically lower noise when biased at higher currents. So the tighter eye diagram requirements of the higher speeds may trigger higher power in the transceivers to cope. Or not. I haven't done IC analog circuit design in a while, so I'm not sure how FinFETs compare to planar FETs WRT noise.

Comment Only a problem during Tulip Mania (Score 1) 468

This will only be a problem until the world is well populated with digital coinage. Eventually, it will cost more in fuel than it is worth to mine. I have no idea what the timeline or carbon-line looks like though. Someone should do that math. Of course, the modeling of digital-currency-to-national-currency exchange rate would have to be a WA-WA-WAG.

Comment Re:Sucks how, exactly? (Score 1) 380

This is the post I came here looking for. Bluetooth connectivity, predictability, controllability, etc, are all horrific. And how is it that an S7 still can't play Netflix/YouTube with audio sync'd? And everybody refuses to put an AV sync slider anywhere. Why? The hardware behind bluetooth may be competent. But the software-verse is unimaginably horrible. And after 4 revs, nobody has cared to fix it. Or even acknowledge that it's broken.

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