Someone go throw a drone up and get a live feed with audio. Problem solved.
Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
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Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know of at least five large data centers in the Sunnyvale / Santa Clara area.
Mind sharing names? My company shut down its Santa Clara DCs around two years ago for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread
A quick Google search would easily answer this for you, but I'll oblige.
Equinix SV2, SV4, SV6 are all in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, but Equinix also has 4 more very close by in Palo Alto, Mountain View, and/or San Jose.
CenturyLink has two DCs in Sunnyvale.
You can find a dozen more listed here:
http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/santa-clara/
And this doesn't include the many privately held by major internet brands in the Valley.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Not an expert on DC location or construction. What makes it any better or worse than somewhere else?
- land price - water/electricity price - local wages - internet bandwidth
I'll agree with most of your points as to why it's not likely the most cost effective, but the point re: internet bandwidth is just absurd.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind sharing names? My company shut down its Santa Clara DCs around two years ago for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread
A quick Google search would easily answer this for you, but I'll oblige. Equinix SV2, SV4, SV6 are all in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, but Equinix also has 4 more very close by in Palo Alto, Mountain View, and/or San Jose. CenturyLink has two DCs in Sunnyvale. You can find a dozen more listed here: http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/santa-clara/ And this doesn't include the many privately held by major internet br…
Thanks. Should've googled it myself. One of the first things I got to do when I joined my company(first job, just moving into the valley) was to tour our soon-to-be-dead DC. Was a really cool experience.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
They might not need it for OPSEC, but they do have a stock price to worry about. Financial analysts are making increasingly frequent statements that Apple needs a new market to be the game-changer in if they are to sustain their growth, and Cook has said that anything car-related and groundbreaking will, if it exists, be relatively far into the future. Thus the need to stoke the rumor mill.
While I find that claim much more credible, if I were Apple, I'd focus on breaking into new markets, instead.
I'm suggesting they're doing both, breaking into new markets as a long term strategy, increasing buzz/rumors as a short term strategy.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd need a good wind blocker on the mic, and you'd get a lot of drag from the 20' cable, but this seems doable.
Pardon my ignorance, but is it really feasible for a drone to carry a 20 foot cable with a mic? Wouldn't it drag pretty far behind the drone, making it unwieldy? Wouldn't you need 20 additional feet of clearance to avoid obstacles? There aren't a lot of tall buildings in Sunnyvale, but there are birds and other drones in the sky.
I think this thread is a bit pie in the sky and a bit of "just for fun" impracticality, but I do think one of the bigger octo drones, carefully piloted, could pull it off.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pardon my ignorance, but is it really feasible for a drone to carry a 20 foot cable with a mic? Wouldn't it drag pretty far behind the drone, making it unwieldy? Wouldn't you need 20 additional feet of clearance to avoid obstacles? There aren't a lot of tall buildings in Sunnyvale, but there are birds and other drones in the sky.
I think this thread is a bit pie in the sky and a bit of "just for fun" impracticality, but I do think one of the bigger octo drones, carefully piloted, could pull it off.
Ah, drones seem so magical and powerful to me that I didn't pick up on it :)
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#108I'm curious about the words "working-class neighborhood". Is this tongue-in-cheek? I've been trying to find housing in that area and it's on par with East Bay, if not worse.
I rented over there after college. I think working class is accurate. Lots of work trucks parked in the street, caltrain in the backyard and families with not a lot of income.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#109Quite obvious. The sound and the apple car is just them trying to get a DeLorean to travel back in time. That way they can get Steve Jobs back.
Wow - nobody thought this was funny?
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pardon my ignorance, but is it really feasible for a drone to carry a 20 foot cable with a mic? Wouldn't it drag pretty far behind the drone, making it unwieldy? Wouldn't you need 20 additional feet of clearance to avoid obstacles? There aren't a lot of tall buildings in Sunnyvale, but there are birds and other drones in the sky.
I think this thread is a bit pie in the sky and a bit of "just for fun" impracticality, but I do think one of the bigger octo drones, carefully piloted, could pull it off.
Remote-activated cable reel. Roll it up and get into position, then lower the skyhook. Pack it back up and fly off into the sunset! Now I want to do this. Yes you'd need a big wind screen (they make those and they're not crazy expensive) and a fairly large drone to deal with the extra weight of a condenser mic + XLR cable + 48v phantom power circuit + any reel mechanism, but considering the payload capacities of current drones in the 1-2kg range for a DJI Phantom 2 ( http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/flying-at-high-density-... ), it would require some engineering (and maybe removing the mic from the heavy casing or finding a really light mic), but definitely not impossible or even very challenging to do with off-the-shelf stuff and a bit of diddling.