No. It depends on the circuit design, which can vary quite a bit. In audio circuits, designers often try to avoid the use of electrolytic capacitors to couple audio signals between amplifier stages. What you have to worry about is a board where they saved a few bucks in parts costs by using parts that barely meet the requirements of the design. That's the sort of thing that results in poor performance and high failure rates after a year or two of use.
Perfectly good electrolytic capacitors can fail because the power supply design engineer tried to save money by using capacitors that were barely adequate for the circuit they were used in.
It doesn't have to be used that way. If I ran a company, i'd like to know about potential problems before they became major public relations disasters. Legitimate complaints about the company's products and practices are valuable information. You can't fix a problem if you don't know that it exists.
Would you prefer the use of an M2.50 Caliber Machine Gun?
These pirates are the scum of the Earth, and they are a major problem in certain areas of the world. Anyone who attacks an ocean-going ship with knives, automatic weapons, and RPGs, deserves a short trip at the end of a rope.
In-game duels just favor the person with the best stats, who is often some jerk who spends 20 hours a day building a uber-character.
In real life, if you piss off enough people, someone with nothing left to lose is going to show up on your doorstep with a shotgun.
The best assassins are the ones who are willing to sacrifice their life if needed to get the job done. This could work inside a game. Buy the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, sneak up on your enemy, and pull the pin. The grenade would permanently kill any characters within its effective range.
I recently bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9550 card (GV-R955128T) that is small, power efficient, and cheap ($60). It's low profile and doesn't need a fan or extra power connector. It does DirectX 9 and works in my old Intel D850GB (AGP 2x/4x) motherboard. I wanted to extend the useful life of the computer without spending a lot of money.
What about all of the people who don't care about first-person shooters or sports games? If the Xbox 360 has the same limited selection of games as the Xbox, I will not buy one. There is more to the world of games than Halo and Madden.
The world is a little more complicated than what is portrayed in Econ 101. That's why people get upset about price gouging, even though it may be "rational economic behavior".
It would also alienate many of their customers. I've been in that situation while shopping for a new car. If a model is popular, many dealers will adopt a snotty attitude and start adding bogus items to the sticker price, like ADM (additional dealer markup) and grossly overpriced dealer add-ons. That level of excessive greed pisses me off and I have a long memory.
It's very hard to do fast and large. Fast and small or slow and large are easy. Increasing the size of the cache also increases the delays in the circuits that manage the cache. Signals have to travel longer distances and drive more loads.
what is accomplished by leaving the clock on? It's trivial to receive a timecode as part of the initial handshake with a tower.
It allows the user to set the clock to the time zone of his choice. That's the way my current phone works. It asks if you want to reset the clock to the value broadcast by the base station. You can say no. It also provides for valid handset time in areas with poor or no signal.
why would the phone need to scan for keyboard input?
Because the power switch isn't a traditional power switch. It's just another switch connected to an I/O port. The software running on the CPU is what actually turns things on and off.
why would it be storing instructions or data in its volatile (working) memory?
Because it is cheap and simple to store user data in battery-backed CMOS RAM. The current drain is tiny when it is in an idle state. High-end calculators have done this for decades.
All of the cell phones that I have seen turn off the receiver and transmitter when they are turned off. The only things that stay on are the clock, keyboard scanning, battery charger controller and backup power for volatile memory.
24-bit color can be insufficient when you have synthetic images. Being limited to 8 bits per component can produce banding. 16-bit grayscale and 48-bit color are commonly used for digitized x-rays and medical imaging.
That isn't the way the government works. If they sold the hardware, the proceeds go into the government's general fund, not the NSA's budget. Only Congress has the power to allocate funds and authorize spending. The only way the NSA could get their hands on the money would be to ask Congress for a supplemental appropriation equal in value to the proceeds of the sale. They would probably get laughed at, since that isn't the way the budget process works.
The documentary said that the problem was that acidic wine was stored and reduced in lead vessels. Water, with a neutral PH, is not going to leach large amounts of lead from lead pipes. In modern times, similar problems have occurred when people store acidic liquids in lead crystal or lead-glazed pottery.
I watched part of a television show (BBC documentary) today that argued that lead poisoning was a significant factor in the fall of the Roman Empire. Much of the lead came from wine and products derived from wine. A religion that prohibited the consumption of wine and wine products would have given its followers a substantial advantage over their neighbors, who suffered the effects of chronic lead poisoning.
From what I've read, the Mexican government doesn't care as long as you have money and don't cause trouble. If they think that they can score brownie points with the USA by expelling you, you have a problem.
Think of it like banning any car that can go faster than 75 mph, because police cars have a maximum speed of 85 mph. They want to cripple and dictate the designs of data networks in order to make the life of a wiretapper easier. Since it was relatively easy to tap analog phone lines, they think they are entitled to similar ease-of-use in tapping digital voice and data networks.
The problem isn't bandwidth, it's cost, getting those high data rates on and off the fiber at a reasonable price. Wavelength division multiplexing can be used to attain insanely high data rates, if you have enough money.
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No. It depends on the circuit design, which can vary quite a bit. In audio circuits, designers often try to avoid the use of electrolytic capacitors to couple audio signals between amplifier stages. What you have to worry about is a board where they saved a few bucks in parts costs by using parts that barely meet the requirements of the design. That's the sort of thing that results in poor performance and high failure rates after a year or two of use.
Perfectly good electrolytic capacitors can fail because the power supply design engineer tried to save money by using capacitors that were barely adequate for the circuit they were used in.
It doesn't have to be used that way. If I ran a company, i'd like to know about potential problems before they became major public relations disasters. Legitimate complaints about the company's products and practices are valuable information. You can't fix a problem if you don't know that it exists.
These pirates are the scum of the Earth, and they are a major problem in certain areas of the world. Anyone who attacks an ocean-going ship with knives, automatic weapons, and RPGs, deserves a short trip at the end of a rope.
That doesn't work if the show you want to watch aired yesterday, and the DVR wasn't programmed to record it.
In real life, if you piss off enough people, someone with nothing left to lose is going to show up on your doorstep with a shotgun.
The best assassins are the ones who are willing to sacrifice their life if needed to get the job done. This could work inside a game. Buy the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, sneak up on your enemy, and pull the pin. The grenade would permanently kill any characters within its effective range.
I recently bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9550 card (GV-R955128T) that is small, power efficient, and cheap ($60). It's low profile and doesn't need a fan or extra power connector. It does DirectX 9 and works in my old Intel D850GB (AGP 2x/4x) motherboard. I wanted to extend the useful life of the computer without spending a lot of money.
What about all of the people who don't care about first-person shooters or sports games? If the Xbox 360 has the same limited selection of games as the Xbox, I will not buy one. There is more to the world of games than Halo and Madden.
The world is a little more complicated than what is portrayed in Econ 101. That's why people get upset about price gouging, even though it may be "rational economic behavior".
It would also alienate many of their customers. I've been in that situation while shopping for a new car. If a model is popular, many dealers will adopt a snotty attitude and start adding bogus items to the sticker price, like ADM (additional dealer markup) and grossly overpriced dealer add-ons. That level of excessive greed pisses me off and I have a long memory.
It's very hard to do fast and large. Fast and small or slow and large are easy. Increasing the size of the cache also increases the delays in the circuits that manage the cache. Signals have to travel longer distances and drive more loads.
Yes.
what is accomplished by leaving the clock on? It's trivial to receive a timecode as part of the initial handshake with a tower.
It allows the user to set the clock to the time zone of his choice. That's the way my current phone works. It asks if you want to reset the clock to the value broadcast by the base station. You can say no. It also provides for valid handset time in areas with poor or no signal.
why would the phone need to scan for keyboard input?
Because the power switch isn't a traditional power switch. It's just another switch connected to an I/O port. The software running on the CPU is what actually turns things on and off.
why would it be storing instructions or data in its volatile (working) memory?
Because it is cheap and simple to store user data in battery-backed CMOS RAM. The current drain is tiny when it is in an idle state. High-end calculators have done this for decades.
"Booze, Hookers and the Lash"? What am I doing in this handbasket?
All of the cell phones that I have seen turn off the receiver and transmitter when they are turned off. The only things that stay on are the clock, keyboard scanning, battery charger controller and backup power for volatile memory.
24-bit color can be insufficient when you have synthetic images. Being limited to 8 bits per component can produce banding. 16-bit grayscale and 48-bit color are commonly used for digitized x-rays and medical imaging.
Do any fish have an insulating layer of fat, like many mammals?
That isn't the way the government works. If they sold the hardware, the proceeds go into the government's general fund, not the NSA's budget. Only Congress has the power to allocate funds and authorize spending. The only way the NSA could get their hands on the money would be to ask Congress for a supplemental appropriation equal in value to the proceeds of the sale. They would probably get laughed at, since that isn't the way the budget process works.
The documentary said that the problem was that acidic wine was stored and reduced in lead vessels. Water, with a neutral PH, is not going to leach large amounts of lead from lead pipes. In modern times, similar problems have occurred when people store acidic liquids in lead crystal or lead-glazed pottery.
I watched part of a television show (BBC documentary) today that argued that lead poisoning was a significant factor in the fall of the Roman Empire. Much of the lead came from wine and products derived from wine. A religion that prohibited the consumption of wine and wine products would have given its followers a substantial advantage over their neighbors, who suffered the effects of chronic lead poisoning.
From what I've read, the Mexican government doesn't care as long as you have money and don't cause trouble. If they think that they can score brownie points with the USA by expelling you, you have a problem.
Now he knows how authors feel about the movie adaptations, or mutilations, of their work by "auteurs".
Think of it like banning any car that can go faster than 75 mph, because police cars have a maximum speed of 85 mph. They want to cripple and dictate the designs of data networks in order to make the life of a wiretapper easier. Since it was relatively easy to tap analog phone lines, they think they are entitled to similar ease-of-use in tapping digital voice and data networks.
It's been -48V DC everywhere I've lived.
The fundamental limits haven't changed.
The drift velocity of electrons in a conductor is actually very slow, 0.1 mm per second is a typical value. It depends on current density.