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Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by lamby »

chime wrote: post #6
just_the_tip wrote: post #4

Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging in any peripheral into any port. The peripheral would automatically assign itself an IP address with zeroconf, assign itself a name with mDNS, and advertise its capabilities through…

Thanks for linking to the video. I'm 10mins in and loving it.

We need more guys like that. "We don't have refresh buttons in the user interface, because that would just be horrible."

Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by wmf »

psadauskas wrote: post #14
a2tech wrote: post #2

One standard to rule them all? Make it keyed like Firewire and it sounds like a real winner.

If its optical, and a single "conductor", it probably doesn't matter what orientation you have the cable. Make it round, like a headphone jack.

Usually optical cables have two fibers (for Tx and Rx); you can use one fiber but it's more expensive because of the splitters on each end.

Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by stcredzero »

lamby wrote: post #21
chime wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for linking to the video. I'm 10mins in and loving it.

We need more guys like that. "We don't have refresh buttons in the user interface, because that would just be horrible."

Natural Gas traders love interfaces like that. My former boss did a release once, where you could do all of these incredibly impressive, perfectly orthogonal mass-changes to disparate object types. But what the users were really crazy about was the "Refresh" button he put in as a request.

Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by stcredzero »

carl_ wrote: post #8

So in 2012 can we be expecting iphone (as cpu) > 10Gbps > Keyboard Video Mouse Network?

I hope they can build a fiber interface into the Magsafe jack. That way, you could have a monitor that's also a docking station, just plug in one cord! Apple's almost there as it is now. An inductive charging stand would be just as cool, especially if you could devise a data standard to work with it. Just set your laptop in the stand, and it would get power, be hooked up to the external monitor and all of the peripherals.

Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by lamby »

stcredzero wrote: post #24
lamby wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need more guys like that. "We don't have refresh buttons in the user interface, because that would just be horrible."

Natural Gas traders love interfaces like that. My former boss did a release once, where you could do all of these incredibly impressive, perfectly orthogonal mass-changes to disparate object types. But what the users were really crazy about was the "Refresh" button he put in as a request.

Am I understanding the story correctly - did the refresh button actually do anything?

Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

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Post by stcredzero »

lamby wrote: post #26
stcredzero wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Natural Gas traders love interfaces like that. My former boss did a release once, where you could do all of these incredibly impressive, perfectly orthogonal mass-changes to disparate object types. But what the users were really crazy about was the "Refresh" button he put in as a request.

Am I understanding the story correctly - did the refresh button actually do anything?

It did what you expected. But here's the kicker -- the system already had realtime refresh over JMS!
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