The old sideport implementations maxed out at DDR3-1333 speeds (10.6 GB/s) so they might as well add another channel of memory. Integrated GDDR5 would only be 40 GB/s and DDR4 system memory about half that so it does not really make sense at this point.
The APU supports unified access to system memory which should be a big advantage in heterogeneous computing applications but I have not seen it pan out yet.
The AMD processors which use socket AM2, AM2+, AM3, and AM3+ support ECC but the processors for the FM series of sockets including the APUs do not. The recent exceptions are the processors for the FP3 (notebooks) and AM1/FT3 (small form factor/mobile) processors which leaves ECC out for AMD's highest performance desktop Piledriver and Steamroller APUs.
AM1 with ECC looks great for lower power network appliances, servers, and disk storage but the only thing faster with ECC is AM3+ without the APU.:/
One of my requirements is ECC so I have been hobbling along with a Phenom II 940 and AM2+ which was less than half the price of the Intel equivalent at the time. The current Intel alternative would be a Xeon E3-1220 v3 to Xeon E3-1276 v3 which I will consider if I have to replace it but the Intel solution is still more expensive.
I inherited a GE dorm room microwave from a friend who gave it to me when it was getting weak. I had it in storage for a couple years before deciding that I needed it and all it required was a replacement ballast capacitor. It is at least 25 years old now and going strong.
The door interlock opens the primary side of the step-up power transformer. If this happens quickly enough, then there will not be significant modulation from the power line frequency. On one of my microwave ovens, the primary side interlock opens before the seal on the door separates.
That worked well when I replaced my refrigerator but failed miserably for my dish washer. It is not even energy efficient cleaning already cleaned dishes.
In many or most cases the Loudness Wars have resulted in CDs which sound just as bad as or worse than any compression artifacts introduced by mp3 compression so there is little or no difference. I was shocked when my own amateur live recordings from the sound board started sounding better than what I could buy on CD.
I looked into this years ago from the physical layer support for full duplex and half duplex nodes (this was fun since I am a hardware guy) all the way up to designing a node addressing scheme which both helped with routing and allowed dynamic adding and deleting nodes (not so much fun but an interesting problem). The largest problem I found was scaling which would have required tunnels (wormholes) to high traffic endpoints or to shunt traffic around congested areas. Discouraging free riders was handled with public-private key enforced tokens; passing traffic for others (especially through tunnels) earned tokens (reputation) while generating traffic used them and there was a scaling issue there was well; in retrospect that part operated like a modern cryptocurrency. Like the original IPv6, all traffic was encrypted between endpoints by design. CPU and RAM requirements back then were non-trivial but ARM has come a long way.
Which companies voluntarily turn over customer location data to the police? Please name names.
Any company which relies on government contracts or regulations. The telecommunications companies even got retroactive immunity for sharing customer data.
Explosives have the disadvantage of lacking non-destructive testing.
My favorite implementation for this sort of thing is a reed switch and externally mounted magnet. Tie the reed switch into the reset signal which is available in two different places, the front panel header and the power supply power good signal, and mount the reed switch so that either a magnet mounted to the floor or table under the chassis or inside of something sitting on the chassis is necessary for proper operation. The reed switch could also be used to disable a USB port though so operation would be through USBKill.
Too bad netburst was a highly inefficient architecture. I mean a Intel Atom E3815 @ 1.46GHz is 5% faster. and a Intel Atom D2701 @ 2.13GHz is twice as fast.
How fast are they with 1/4 to 1/8th of the memory bandwidth?
How would that work with the 5th amendment? Unless you used explosives or a trap or something to protect your data which could cause injury, it would not be covered by the public safety exception.
I assume that when they clip in their backup thingy, it would detect the 240VAC as a fault. If *I* was doing it, I would check the voltages with a multimeter before hooking anything up out of habit.
As far as protecting a system versus this kind of tampering, if it is home built then there are all kinds of things which can be done so that it shuts off when removed from the location.
Wireless has a much larger collision domain than wired with additional issues like hidden nodes. That among other things like RFI in the ISM bands makes wired more reliable and faster. Wireless is only more convenient.
We already have this in the form of radiation pressure. The hope here is for a drive which produces a lot more thrust for a given power than just radiation pressure would explain.
The Forbes article lists five criteria that would make it a more plausible claim. One stands out in particular: the thrust scales with power. The drive reportedly creates on order of 30-50 microNewtons (uN) at 100 W input power. 1 KW power at microwave frequencies really isn't that hard (most kitchen microwave ovens operate near or at this scale), and 10 KW shouldn't be beyond the skills of a decent microwave engineer. Beyond that and it gets into Serious Engineering.
This actually gets tricky at higher power levels. The output power from the magnetron (or output stage of your choice) goes *somewhere* and if it is not absorbed into the load and turned into heat, then it gets absorbed by the magnetron and turned into heat. At high power levels the standing waves become an issue and tend to cause problems like insulation breakdown. I have occasionally seen this happen with microwave ovens when operated with nothing to heat.
Whatever electromagnetic energy is not converted into thrust (apparently puny) or otherwise released is going to be turned into heat.
I wish the calculators has followed the test and measurement gear to Keysight. Based on support it seems that the calculator division has been disbanded again.
Which renders the 4th amendment meaningless because its normal enforcement mechanism is exclusion of evidence. If law enforcement does a search and/or seizure but does not introduce anything found in court, does the 4th amendment cover it or not? Apparently it does not.
While parallel construction may have been intended to protect national security, now it is used to avoid 4th amendment requirements.
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The old sideport implementations maxed out at DDR3-1333 speeds (10.6 GB/s) so they might as well add another channel of memory. Integrated GDDR5 would only be 40 GB/s and DDR4 system memory about half that so it does not really make sense at this point.
The APU supports unified access to system memory which should be a big advantage in heterogeneous computing applications but I have not seen it pan out yet.
The AMD processors which use socket AM2, AM2+, AM3, and AM3+ support ECC but the processors for the FM series of sockets including the APUs do not. The recent exceptions are the processors for the FP3 (notebooks) and AM1/FT3 (small form factor/mobile) processors which leaves ECC out for AMD's highest performance desktop Piledriver and Steamroller APUs.
AM1 with ECC looks great for lower power network appliances, servers, and disk storage but the only thing faster with ECC is AM3+ without the APU. :/
One of my requirements is ECC so I have been hobbling along with a Phenom II 940 and AM2+ which was less than half the price of the Intel equivalent at the time. The current Intel alternative would be a Xeon E3-1220 v3 to Xeon E3-1276 v3 which I will consider if I have to replace it but the Intel solution is still more expensive.
I inherited a GE dorm room microwave from a friend who gave it to me when it was getting weak. I had it in storage for a couple years before deciding that I needed it and all it required was a replacement ballast capacitor. It is at least 25 years old now and going strong.
The door interlock opens the primary side of the step-up power transformer. If this happens quickly enough, then there will not be significant modulation from the power line frequency. On one of my microwave ovens, the primary side interlock opens before the seal on the door separates.
That worked well when I replaced my refrigerator but failed miserably for my dish washer. It is not even energy efficient cleaning already cleaned dishes.
In many or most cases the Loudness Wars have resulted in CDs which sound just as bad as or worse than any compression artifacts introduced by mp3 compression so there is little or no difference. I was shocked when my own amateur live recordings from the sound board started sounding better than what I could buy on CD.
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Most people understand physics through Hollywood where cars sink immediately.
I looked into this years ago from the physical layer support for full duplex and half duplex nodes (this was fun since I am a hardware guy) all the way up to designing a node addressing scheme which both helped with routing and allowed dynamic adding and deleting nodes (not so much fun but an interesting problem). The largest problem I found was scaling which would have required tunnels (wormholes) to high traffic endpoints or to shunt traffic around congested areas. Discouraging free riders was handled with public-private key enforced tokens; passing traffic for others (especially through tunnels) earned tokens (reputation) while generating traffic used them and there was a scaling issue there was well; in retrospect that part operated like a modern cryptocurrency. Like the original IPv6, all traffic was encrypted between endpoints by design. CPU and RAM requirements back then were non-trivial but ARM has come a long way.
One point the researcher tried to make is that there will not be any patches. The locks have no ability to be updated short of replacement.
Any company which relies on government contracts or regulations. The telecommunications companies even got retroactive immunity for sharing customer data.
And Motel 6.
Explosives have the disadvantage of lacking non-destructive testing.
My favorite implementation for this sort of thing is a reed switch and externally mounted magnet. Tie the reed switch into the reset signal which is available in two different places, the front panel header and the power supply power good signal, and mount the reed switch so that either a magnet mounted to the floor or table under the chassis or inside of something sitting on the chassis is necessary for proper operation. The reed switch could also be used to disable a USB port though so operation would be through USBKill.
How fast are they with 1/4 to 1/8th of the memory bandwidth?
How would that work with the 5th amendment? Unless you used explosives or a trap or something to protect your data which could cause injury, it would not be covered by the public safety exception.
I assume that when they clip in their backup thingy, it would detect the 240VAC as a fault. If *I* was doing it, I would check the voltages with a multimeter before hooking anything up out of habit.
As far as protecting a system versus this kind of tampering, if it is home built then there are all kinds of things which can be done so that it shuts off when removed from the location.
If you are not sales, then you are overhead.
Why use switches instead of hubs?
Wireless has a much larger collision domain than wired with additional issues like hidden nodes. That among other things like RFI in the ISM bands makes wired more reliable and faster. Wireless is only more convenient.
We already have this in the form of radiation pressure. The hope here is for a drive which produces a lot more thrust for a given power than just radiation pressure would explain.
This actually gets tricky at higher power levels. The output power from the magnetron (or output stage of your choice) goes *somewhere* and if it is not absorbed into the load and turned into heat, then it gets absorbed by the magnetron and turned into heat. At high power levels the standing waves become an issue and tend to cause problems like insulation breakdown. I have occasionally seen this happen with microwave ovens when operated with nothing to heat.
Whatever electromagnetic energy is not converted into thrust (apparently puny) or otherwise released is going to be turned into heat.
The first time I saw the movie which was in a theater, *I* immediately identified her as Janice Rand.
Since she was the same actor playing the part as if she was the same character, she was playing Janice Rand.
Then she is the perfect person for the job. If anybody can break it, then she can.
She has experience breaking economies anyway so she has that going for her.
I wish the calculators has followed the test and measurement gear to Keysight. Based on support it seems that the calculator division has been disbanded again.
Which renders the 4th amendment meaningless because its normal enforcement mechanism is exclusion of evidence. If law enforcement does a search and/or seizure but does not introduce anything found in court, does the 4th amendment cover it or not? Apparently it does not.
While parallel construction may have been intended to protect national security, now it is used to avoid 4th amendment requirements.