The problem isn't just use of bands outside of the permissible frequencies, it's also power levels and broadcast patterns. Ultimately it all falls under limiting interference, and with both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
An MVNO business is low margin (relative to iPhone margins) and requires a lot of marketing to become effective. If Apple were to launch an MVNO, they would have to massively increase their marketing budget for a low margin service, while competing directly with carriers that sell their phones AND provide their wholesale network access. Keep in mind average revenue per user is declining for wireless carriers and MVNOs. Apple has no interest in investing in a declining martgin service that hurts its ability to maximize phone sales.
It's not an attractive business model for Apple, while it may be for Google. Google doesn't make hardware (not even Nexus devices), while Apple does - quite profitably. Apple depends on carriers to sell that hardware for profitability, while Google wants to increase software (Android) and search usage, and low cost network access does just that.
The injury lawyers for the plaintiff are most likely working on a contingent basis, and even if they aren't, they're looking for someone who can pay out significant damages. The driver is 18; Snapchat is valued at around $16 Billion as of March. The injury lawyers smell cash only in the latter.
Except there's been a long history of bogus espionage cases against Chinese scientists, going all the way back to Quan Xuesen, one of the founders of the JPL. We suspected that he was sharing his knowledge with China, so we exiled him to China, where he became the father of the Chinese missile and space programs.
Your point may be valid in general, though in this specific case, the accused is from Taiwan and naturalized as a U.S. citizen, as the spelling of his name and a quick Google search confirmed. It's highly unlikely we would target and exile a Taiwanese born U.S. citizen as if they were from People's Republic of China.
The fundamental parts of the engine are all mechanical. They work without a battery.
Resilience to electrical failure is important.
The fundamental parts of the engine are all mechanical. They work without a battery.
Resilience to electrical failure is important.
Critical components of your engine, i.e. fuel injectors, ignition, your high pressure fuel pump all work with electricity from the 12V system. On most newer cars, so does the throttle body (it's no longer actuated by a cable from the accelerator).
Resilience to failure in an interference engine can be achieved by failing closed, i.e. if the valve actuators lose power, they should close to move out of the way of rising pistons.
The bigger reluctance on the part of auto manufacturers is probably reliability given actuators would need to sit near or on valves that are close to the combustion and therefore rapidly heat up and stay hot for drive cycles. Since electrical impedance changes as metals heat up, the issue is even more complicated. These parts are difficult to access and expensive to repair or replace if there are widespread reliability issues (think recalls). Finding a way to transmit the motion to control valves, e.g. via a pushrod, might help with some of these factors, but not eliminate them and reintroduce mechanical complexity.
Most garage door openers built in the last 20 years do not use the DIP switch codes. Since the mid 1990s, most manufactures switched to shared codes with a larger keyspace (~35bit) - using the "learn" button on the opener - and in early 2000s switched to rolling codes to limit code interception vulnerability.
Of course most garage doors are a quick pry bar movement away from opening, so security is all relative.
So far I've seen the following brands/companies affected:
McKinsey, Brookstone, U.S. Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Kroger, New York & Co, and Tivo.
Some additional clients of theirs include Best Buy, Fender, TIAA-CREF, MD Anderson, Visa, Kraft, Marriott International, and Johnston & Murphy/Genesco.
I expect that client list to shrink as more notifications go out.
The A380 is not a competitor or substitute for the 787. The A380 is Airbus's bold bet on hub-and-spoke flight operations, and most closely competes with the Boeing 747 series. The 787 is designed for a smaller number of passengers than the A380 while having long range options, making longer point-to-point routes possible. Airbus's answer to the 787 is the A350, which has been redesigned several times. The A350 has 505 "firm" orders, while the 787 has 840 "firm" orders.
Having managed old infrastructure boxes in the past, I know it's harder than it sounds. The reliability was rock solid, but as demands of the network grew - not only in numbers of nodes but the way the nodes were used - and security concerns mounted, it was no longer feasible to maintain the boxes as-is.
Compiler, library, and package management changes over that time period makes it difficult on *nix boxes and Windows support expirations likewise make it difficult in Windows land. You reach a point where the time invested to patch a system exceeds the cost of replacing the system. Additionally, the downtime from the patch process (good luck finding a decent staging server for something seven years old) offsets the purported reliability of the setup. Lose a major component on one of those machines and you'll get a crash course in starting over and modernization.
Good point, I hadn't thought of the high failure rate tolerance as a way to contribute to Intel's R&D. That's exactly the type of partnership value they'd seek.
"Guarantee us a higher temp CPU or we will switch to AMD...and tell everyone about it."
That's not really how the negotiation goes in this type of situation where there are two major supplier choices (AMD and Intel) and Google is a relatively small customer when compared with Dell, HP, IBM, etc.
In all likelihood, the negotiation is more of a partnership where both parties work together to create value. Google says, "We buy thousands upon thousands of your chips, but we also pay millions of dollars annually to cool them. We'd be willing to pay little premium and lock in more volume if you can help us save money by increasing the temperature inside our data centers." Google has done the math and comes prepared with knowledge of how much those specs can save them and forecast of chip need of the next 12-18 months, and the two work together to create value. For example, Google might offer to allow endorsements (as they did with Dell for their Google appliances) in exchange for favorable pricing and specifications.
The "do this or I'll switch" tactic only works well when there are many suppliers and products are relatively undifferentiated, like SDRAM or fan motors.
The number of valves should be divisible by the number of cylinders, so a 28 valve engine is possible on a 14 cylinder engine, which itself is rare. As far as I know the most valves per cylinder on a production automobile engine is five, common on some Audi, Volvo, and Mitsubishi engines. That rules out a seven valve per cylinder four cylinder engine.
Sure, the 1971 Plymouth RoadRunner my friend drives gets only about 10 miles to the gallon on a good day, the 383cid engine is mechanical or electromechanical in every part. The only transistors in this carburetor fed monster are in the factory AM/FM radio. Don't waste time installing a remote kill system on a car in which cruise control consists of placing an object (optional) under the gas pedal and mashing it down.
Now I just hope they don't ban lead substitute fuel additives before he replaces his valve seats...
I observed this exact behavior. The reason this was done was exactly as you mentioned - many lowest priority MXs are simply for store and forwarding backup and have no knowledge of the user database. This means the spammer can slam the server without getting rejections. That way the bounces go to the foraged address and the spam server's connection can close faster.
They are getting paid more. More than Indians, Chinese, and Eastern Europeans doing just the engineering work. The Americans are paid for their competency, managing the ideas behind the engineering. The engineers complaining about some of the other work, such as having to train and mentor other employees, are arrogant and selfish. If they don't want to help improve their company's talent pool, the company will move jobs to places where people are very eager to take these jobs - and mentor workers.
We are compensated by shifting lower skill jobs to cheaper places. It increases productivity, lowers the cost of goods and services and increases profits that are repatriated. As a whole, it forces entire workforces to move to higher value jobs, in this case jobs that manage ideas not just implement them. Only those unwilling to adapt to globalization will be left behind in the long term. Meanwhile we improve the standards of living of educated workforces in places like Bagalore, who buy things like HP and Dell PCs with Microsoft operating systems (I know, I know, Slashdot readers don't want Microsoft to make money), Proctor & Gamble household products for their homes, mobile phones using European and American technologies, etc. It makes the middle class wealthier in both the country outsorcing and providing the outsourced service.
A couple of years ago I enjoyed a speech and follow-up discussion with the Middle Tennessee Infragard president, who held (and currently holds) several high level security positions after many years of underground security experience. He worked closely with federal employees and appointees. His observation was not that the appointees were chosen by political affiliation or felt it necessary to follow a political agenda. The problem was that the appointees had to negotiate an unfamiliar system of red tape and even wait congress to approve certain measures. It is hard to act quick, something that cybersecurity often demands. The frustration leads to high turnover, especially when lucrative private sector offers enter the picture.
Which songs/ablums can easily you find pirated copies of on the Internet? It's the popular, new stuff.
I'd say that there are more versions of the popular stuff. Many of the more obsucre albums I own, I learned about because friends downloaded them from Napster or Kazaa. While they are certainly more likely to pay for something they can't find online, they are more likely to find those albums free in the P2P communities than they are to find them in the ITMS.
Really, the quality of the product being given away for free is also much lower than what is being sold.
Exactly, these are the hidden costs of "free" music priated from the internet, or cheap music downloaded online. Other hidden costs of music purchased online are lossy compression and lack of freedom due to DRM. Because of lack of adequate information, many people do not consider these costs.
For sake of argument, my personal price point would be more like $9.99 for physical CD's (and I'm not talking old/surplus stuff) and $6.99 or $7.99 for whole album downloads.
I think a lot of people would agree. I personally rarely pay more than $10 for a CD unless I really want it and can only find it at full price. BMG Music Club and sales at Tower Records help prevent me from paying full price. The only "purchased" music I have is given away free in the ITMS.
Recall though that in this rational actor paradigm, the record companies have ignored an important force: piracy. While the record companies have a point saying that increased demand should allow for price increases, the market has already made it clear that many consumers are not willing to follow their pricing model. This is why iTunes Music Store has been so successful. The low price and convenient media fill in for the labels' missed opportunity and for many users, the hidden costs of piracy. If labels start controlling price again, they may flush this success down the toilet for Apple and themselves.
If a recording was made to 16/44.1 stereo masters, there's absolutely no point in releasing it on high definition multichannel media.
This is true, but I believe most direct to digital (professional) recordings are recorded at 20bit or 24bit and 96KHz or higher and have been for the last few years. When 16bit/48KHz was the most common digital recording format, most artists/recording engineers still used high quality analog tapes for the recording process. Analog tapes are the source of many of the remastered to DVD-A and SACD releases on the market. These tapes provide much better quality than CDs, but without the error correction needed for mass-produced consumer products.
Here's an example: I run a Linux desktop. I have a server that runs a mail server, and use it for sending and receiving email via SMTP and POP3.
They don't have to be so complex if you're only using it for one or a few users, and especially if you are using it for local delivery only. Postfix is not designed for what you described, so it is a bit of an overkill. Take a look at mailx and TistedMail. There probably others out there as well. I left smail off the list because it has an unresolved buffer overflow vulnerability, but if that gets fixed it might be perfect for you.
the people who would be effected (still receive analog television) are more likely to be lower class
I don't have the national statistics, but I do know from the inner-city elementary school where my sister teaches that many people below the poverty line consider cable or satellite TV essential. All of her students have been on income-based meal assistance programs and many wear the same clothes every day. Still, they all seem to have ESPN, Spike, and often even HBO.
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The problem isn't just use of bands outside of the permissible frequencies, it's also power levels and broadcast patterns. Ultimately it all falls under limiting interference, and with both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
An MVNO business is low margin (relative to iPhone margins) and requires a lot of marketing to become effective. If Apple were to launch an MVNO, they would have to massively increase their marketing budget for a low margin service, while competing directly with carriers that sell their phones AND provide their wholesale network access. Keep in mind average revenue per user is declining for wireless carriers and MVNOs. Apple has no interest in investing in a declining martgin service that hurts its ability to maximize phone sales.
It's not an attractive business model for Apple, while it may be for Google. Google doesn't make hardware (not even Nexus devices), while Apple does - quite profitably. Apple depends on carriers to sell that hardware for profitability, while Google wants to increase software (Android) and search usage, and low cost network access does just that.
The injury lawyers for the plaintiff are most likely working on a contingent basis, and even if they aren't, they're looking for someone who can pay out significant damages. The driver is 18; Snapchat is valued at around $16 Billion as of March. The injury lawyers smell cash only in the latter.
Except there's been a long history of bogus espionage cases against Chinese scientists, going all the way back to Quan Xuesen, one of the founders of the JPL. We suspected that he was sharing his knowledge with China, so we exiled him to China, where he became the father of the Chinese missile and space programs.
Your point may be valid in general, though in this specific case, the accused is from Taiwan and naturalized as a U.S. citizen, as the spelling of his name and a quick Google search confirmed. It's highly unlikely we would target and exile a Taiwanese born U.S. citizen as if they were from People's Republic of China.
Product managers will love dealing with 7 year testing timelines.
Testing aside, what a ridiculous way to kill innovation.
The fundamental parts of the engine are all mechanical. They work without a battery.
Resilience to electrical failure is important.
The fundamental parts of the engine are all mechanical. They work without a battery.
Resilience to electrical failure is important.
Critical components of your engine, i.e. fuel injectors, ignition, your high pressure fuel pump all work with electricity from the 12V system. On most newer cars, so does the throttle body (it's no longer actuated by a cable from the accelerator).
Resilience to failure in an interference engine can be achieved by failing closed, i.e. if the valve actuators lose power, they should close to move out of the way of rising pistons.
The bigger reluctance on the part of auto manufacturers is probably reliability given actuators would need to sit near or on valves that are close to the combustion and therefore rapidly heat up and stay hot for drive cycles. Since electrical impedance changes as metals heat up, the issue is even more complicated. These parts are difficult to access and expensive to repair or replace if there are widespread reliability issues (think recalls). Finding a way to transmit the motion to control valves, e.g. via a pushrod, might help with some of these factors, but not eliminate them and reintroduce mechanical complexity.
China needs more cheap labor, increasing the population will ensure that
They need more consumers so they can rely less on exports.
Most garage door openers built in the last 20 years do not use the DIP switch codes. Since the mid 1990s, most manufactures switched to shared codes with a larger keyspace (~35bit) - using the "learn" button on the opener - and in early 2000s switched to rolling codes to limit code interception vulnerability.
Of course most garage doors are a quick pry bar movement away from opening, so security is all relative.
So far I've seen the following brands/companies affected:
McKinsey, Brookstone, U.S. Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Kroger, New York & Co, and Tivo.
Some additional clients of theirs include Best Buy, Fender, TIAA-CREF, MD Anderson, Visa, Kraft, Marriott International, and Johnston & Murphy/Genesco.
I expect that client list to shrink as more notifications go out.
The A380 is not a competitor or substitute for the 787. The A380 is Airbus's bold bet on hub-and-spoke flight operations, and most closely competes with the Boeing 747 series. The 787 is designed for a smaller number of passengers than the A380 while having long range options, making longer point-to-point routes possible. Airbus's answer to the 787 is the A350, which has been redesigned several times. The A350 has 505 "firm" orders, while the 787 has 840 "firm" orders.
Having managed old infrastructure boxes in the past, I know it's harder than it sounds. The reliability was rock solid, but as demands of the network grew - not only in numbers of nodes but the way the nodes were used - and security concerns mounted, it was no longer feasible to maintain the boxes as-is.
Compiler, library, and package management changes over that time period makes it difficult on *nix boxes and Windows support expirations likewise make it difficult in Windows land. You reach a point where the time invested to patch a system exceeds the cost of replacing the system. Additionally, the downtime from the patch process (good luck finding a decent staging server for something seven years old) offsets the purported reliability of the setup. Lose a major component on one of those machines and you'll get a crash course in starting over and modernization.
Good point, I hadn't thought of the high failure rate tolerance as a way to contribute to Intel's R&D. That's exactly the type of partnership value they'd seek.
"Guarantee us a higher temp CPU or we will switch to AMD...and tell everyone about it."
That's not really how the negotiation goes in this type of situation where there are two major supplier choices (AMD and Intel) and Google is a relatively small customer when compared with Dell, HP, IBM, etc.
In all likelihood, the negotiation is more of a partnership where both parties work together to create value. Google says, "We buy thousands upon thousands of your chips, but we also pay millions of dollars annually to cool them. We'd be willing to pay little premium and lock in more volume if you can help us save money by increasing the temperature inside our data centers." Google has done the math and comes prepared with knowledge of how much those specs can save them and forecast of chip need of the next 12-18 months, and the two work together to create value. For example, Google might offer to allow endorsements (as they did with Dell for their Google appliances) in exchange for favorable pricing and specifications.
The "do this or I'll switch" tactic only works well when there are many suppliers and products are relatively undifferentiated, like SDRAM or fan motors.
The number of valves should be divisible by the number of cylinders, so a 28 valve engine is possible on a 14 cylinder engine, which itself is rare. As far as I know the most valves per cylinder on a production automobile engine is five, common on some Audi, Volvo, and Mitsubishi engines. That rules out a seven valve per cylinder four cylinder engine.
Enter the classic car.
Sure, the 1971 Plymouth RoadRunner my friend drives gets only about 10 miles to the gallon on a good day, the 383cid engine is mechanical or electromechanical in every part. The only transistors in this carburetor fed monster are in the factory AM/FM radio. Don't waste time installing a remote kill system on a car in which cruise control consists of placing an object (optional) under the gas pedal and mashing it down.
Now I just hope they don't ban lead substitute fuel additives before he replaces his valve seats...
I observed this exact behavior. The reason this was done was exactly as you mentioned - many lowest priority MXs are simply for store and forwarding backup and have no knowledge of the user database. This means the spammer can slam the server without getting rejections. That way the bounces go to the foraged address and the spam server's connection can close faster.
They are getting paid more. More than Indians, Chinese, and Eastern Europeans doing just the engineering work. The Americans are paid for their competency, managing the ideas behind the engineering. The engineers complaining about some of the other work, such as having to train and mentor other employees, are arrogant and selfish. If they don't want to help improve their company's talent pool, the company will move jobs to places where people are very eager to take these jobs - and mentor workers.
We are compensated by shifting lower skill jobs to cheaper places. It increases productivity, lowers the cost of goods and services and increases profits that are repatriated. As a whole, it forces entire workforces to move to higher value jobs, in this case jobs that manage ideas not just implement them. Only those unwilling to adapt to globalization will be left behind in the long term. Meanwhile we improve the standards of living of educated workforces in places like Bagalore, who buy things like HP and Dell PCs with Microsoft operating systems (I know, I know, Slashdot readers don't want Microsoft to make money), Proctor & Gamble household products for their homes, mobile phones using European and American technologies, etc. It makes the middle class wealthier in both the country outsorcing and providing the outsourced service.
A couple of years ago I enjoyed a speech and follow-up discussion with the Middle Tennessee Infragard president, who held (and currently holds) several high level security positions after many years of underground security experience. He worked closely with federal employees and appointees. His observation was not that the appointees were chosen by political affiliation or felt it necessary to follow a political agenda. The problem was that the appointees had to negotiate an unfamiliar system of red tape and even wait congress to approve certain measures. It is hard to act quick, something that cybersecurity often demands. The frustration leads to high turnover, especially when lucrative private sector offers enter the picture.
Which songs/ablums can easily you find pirated copies of on the Internet? It's the popular, new stuff.
I'd say that there are more versions of the popular stuff. Many of the more obsucre albums I own, I learned about because friends downloaded them from Napster or Kazaa. While they are certainly more likely to pay for something they can't find online, they are more likely to find those albums free in the P2P communities than they are to find them in the ITMS.
Really, the quality of the product being given away for free is also much lower than what is being sold.
Exactly, these are the hidden costs of "free" music priated from the internet, or cheap music downloaded online. Other hidden costs of music purchased online are lossy compression and lack of freedom due to DRM. Because of lack of adequate information, many people do not consider these costs.
For sake of argument, my personal price point would be more like $9.99 for physical CD's (and I'm not talking old/surplus stuff) and $6.99 or $7.99 for whole album downloads.
I think a lot of people would agree. I personally rarely pay more than $10 for a CD unless I really want it and can only find it at full price. BMG Music Club and sales at Tower Records help prevent me from paying full price. The only "purchased" music I have is given away free in the ITMS.
Recall though that in this rational actor paradigm, the record companies have ignored an important force: piracy. While the record companies have a point saying that increased demand should allow for price increases, the market has already made it clear that many consumers are not willing to follow their pricing model. This is why iTunes Music Store has been so successful. The low price and convenient media fill in for the labels' missed opportunity and for many users, the hidden costs of piracy. If labels start controlling price again, they may flush this success down the toilet for Apple and themselves.
If a recording was made to 16/44.1 stereo masters, there's absolutely no point in releasing it on high definition multichannel media.
This is true, but I believe most direct to digital (professional) recordings are recorded at 20bit or 24bit and 96KHz or higher and have been for the last few years. When 16bit/48KHz was the most common digital recording format, most artists/recording engineers still used high quality analog tapes for the recording process. Analog tapes are the source of many of the remastered to DVD-A and SACD releases on the market. These tapes provide much better quality than CDs, but without the error correction needed for mass-produced consumer products.
That should read "TwistedMail"
The question is, do they HAVE to be so complex?
Here's an example: I run a Linux desktop. I have a server that runs a mail server, and use it for sending and receiving email via SMTP and POP3.
They don't have to be so complex if you're only using it for one or a few users, and especially if you are using it for local delivery only. Postfix is not designed for what you described, so it is a bit of an overkill. Take a look at mailx and TistedMail. There probably others out there as well. I left smail off the list because it has an unresolved buffer overflow vulnerability, but if that gets fixed it might be perfect for you.
the people who would be effected (still receive analog television) are more likely to be lower class
I don't have the national statistics, but I do know from the inner-city elementary school where my sister teaches that many people below the poverty line consider cable or satellite TV essential. All of her students have been on income-based meal assistance programs and many wear the same clothes every day. Still, they all seem to have ESPN, Spike, and often even HBO.