My Phenom II desktop has ECC. The cost difference between it and an equivalent Intel system more than paid for a hardware raid controller and 4 big drives. My previous two desktops, a P4 and P3, both have ECC as well.
When AMD sold their fabs they had to renegotiate the x86 IP agreements with Intel. What difference would antitrust make if it delayed AMD's x86 development by years?
At the time a Mercedes engineer said that on every Mercedes, and in his opinion on every car sold, the brakes are about four times stronger than the engine. In other words, you can bring _any_ car with working brakes easily to a standstill by hitting the brakes hard until the car stands still, no matter what the engine tries.
This is certainly not the whole truth for my 2002 GMC pickup. After the engine dies, you get one or maybe two uses of the brakes before the vacuum reservoir is exhausted at which point the brakes become so stiff you literally have to hold onto the steering wheel with both hands and strongly hold yourself down in order to apply enough pressure to the brakes to begin stopping. When I tested this, I was not even able to lock the rear tires pushing as hard as I could.
Conveniently, GMC's anti-theft system prevents restarting the engine or even locks out the engine if you try to restart by just releasing the clutch. You MUST use the starter. You can not push start it either. If you have an almost dead battery or a starter failure, you are SOL unlike every manual transmission vehicle I have owned up until this time.
Had I known of these issues I would never have bought it and I will certainly avoid and recommend against GMC in the future.
It's fairly trivial to change the serial driver to use the RX lines as TX lines. They're the exact same circuits on the serial chip, it's the software that makes them work as RX or TX lines.
This is not possible on a standard UART like an 8255 or 16550 and even if it was, an external RS-232/422 transceiver will either be unidirectional or wired that way.
Even if it was possible, getting the other side to listen would require some other form of access.
I'm good with that. But keep in mind that regulation of interstate commerce is strictly a function of the federal government. My view is that it is reasonable function of the federal government to establish a standard of sales taxes and prohibit collection of sales taxes for internet businesses operating in particular regions, if the government managing that region has sales taxes which don't meet the standard.
Regulation of interstate commerce is certainly a function for the federal government but setting up the standards that states would have to meet to do it themselves is one means of doing that.
In 22 of the 50 states (according to Wikipedia), internet sales are already taxed as a "use tax" but many people do not report it on their state tax return, essentially committing tax fraud. Having online retailers collect the tax is simply a more effective way of collecting an existing tax, at least in those 22 states.
Why not enforce the use tax laws? If the punitive fines are high enough, it will encourage compliance and make up for lost tax revenue.
Are the states really arguing for vendor collected taxes because use taxes are too difficult to collect from individuals citizens of the state?
I have an alternative here. Have the federal government maintain an easy to use database of tax information. Sales tax for a location is federally recognized and imposed on internet transactions, if the sales tax data is in the database. We still have the problem of determining where people are and whether a federal bureaucracy has the ability to boot states or local governments from the database (and hence, refuse to collect sales tax for that government) on a spurious pretext, but I think those issues are addressable. There's still significant possibility of other government abuses (an issue which I will always be sensitive to), but it's greatly reduced over a single VAT and having the federal government handle an even larger portion of each state's budget.
I would probably have the individual states maintain the databases. Then the states can decide how complicated or even workable their sales tax rules are. The databases should be the last word as far as mistakes in favor of the vendor/buyer go and if the state overtaxes, the state should pay a penalty. If the database is unavailable do to the state's failure, then taxes during that time should not be applied.
I am going from memory on this so expect someone to correct me.
USB uses host programmed DMA which is supported by a state machine in the host controller. Devices can only initiate transfers to or from buffers controlled by the host. It would take a poorly written or malicious driver to be a security problem.
PCI supports actual bus mastering so PCI endpoints can pretty much do anything. An IOMMU of some type is needed to control access to main memory and some PCI bridges can control access between segments to at least a limited extent. The Thunderbolt controller acting as a PCI bridge may have some features to control access. PCIe bridge controllers would seem to be in a better position to control access but I have not dealt with them to know.
Firewire supports programmed DMA from any endpoint but apparently a lot of Firewire host controllers lack any sort of control or the low level drivers do not support it which is almost as bad. I have heard of cases where a IOMMU or PCI bridge has been used to enforce memory security onto a Firewire controller.
Leaking enough to be harmful to what? You can certainly feel 5 watts of RF under the right conditions like sticking your finger into a helical resonator but not from a diffuse source like a leaking seam or inadequate feedthrough.
That ground prong on the end of 6 feet of inductive power cord is not going to do anything for RF shielding even at a frequency an order of magnitude lower. The ground is for safety.
First of all, switching channels to avoid a microwave is futile... the magnetron isn't all that frequency stable and the peak tends to wander across the band as a result.
It is futile for another reason as well. The direct conversion receivers used in consumer level 802.11 equipment have atrocious out of channel rejection and dynamic range so the magnetron output only needs to be in the same band to cause significant problems.
No three register operations. This impacts pipelining because it is not possible not overwrite one of the source registers.
I wonder about this one. Adding 3 register instruction support also means adding an additional set of read ports to the register file. Is it better to execute more instructions in parallel at a higher clock rate or have 3 register instructions?
The common cold is not strep throat. They are two entirely different diseases. A cold is caused by viruses and there is no medical treatment on this planet, in any hospital anywhere, that can do anything to help. Strep throat is a bacterial infection. Idiot anti-science morons...it's people like you who go to the hospital and scream until you get prescribed something, anything, regardless of how it affects antibiotic resistance in the rest of the population.
I used to catch tonsillitis on a regular basis so am very familiar with the differences between it, strep, and the common cold. I never suggested inappropriate use of antibiotics.
The point of seeking medical attention in this case is to verify that it is NOT strep throat least it be left untreated which can lead to serious complications like rheumatic fever. Would you really expect a parent to be able to diagnose it or at least rule it out when doctors regularly culture test for it or use the rapid strep test?
You actually took your son to a hospital because he caught a cold? You have to be joking, right? Look, I'm a die hard social libertarian who sincerely believes that the founders understood that you can not have liberty without life, and you can not pursue happiness without liberty. But to waste the time of professionals on something as so ludicrous as suffering a runny nose is really absurd.
Exactly right! Strep throat is nothing to worry about.
Of course if it's Saturn sized, it might have large moons with a rocky surface, water, and possibly life. And while the sunsets on such a moon are likely spectacular, the eclipses would be even more amazing.
The eclipses would only be amazing until the nocturnal predators come out and start hunting down the crew and passengers one at a time.
In the past couple of years a number of handheld and larger HAM transceivers have gained the ability to do APRS natively. That basically IS text messaging but it is normally machine written and read automatically to transfer position information. Garmin has some GMRS handhelds which do something similar.
What is needed is an open standard for a combined voice and data modulation and encoding scheme. The current HAM radio digital voice standard, DSTARS, is proprietary and protected by patents and not really a replacement for narrow band FM anyway in adverse conditions.
Digital radio does not have to be all or nothing. Digital modulation and encoding schemes exist that degrade gracefully but they are usually more complicated and not part of the design requirement.
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Maybe California could get the designers of the Nimitz elevated freeway. They have experience.
My Phenom II desktop has ECC. The cost difference between it and an equivalent Intel system more than paid for a hardware raid controller and 4 big drives. My previous two desktops, a P4 and P3, both have ECC as well.
When AMD sold their fabs they had to renegotiate the x86 IP agreements with Intel. What difference would antitrust make if it delayed AMD's x86 development by years?
This is certainly not the whole truth for my 2002 GMC pickup. After the engine dies, you get one or maybe two uses of the brakes before the vacuum reservoir is exhausted at which point the brakes become so stiff you literally have to hold onto the steering wheel with both hands and strongly hold yourself down in order to apply enough pressure to the brakes to begin stopping. When I tested this, I was not even able to lock the rear tires pushing as hard as I could.
Conveniently, GMC's anti-theft system prevents restarting the engine or even locks out the engine if you try to restart by just releasing the clutch. You MUST use the starter. You can not push start it either. If you have an almost dead battery or a starter failure, you are SOL unlike every manual transmission vehicle I have owned up until this time.
Had I known of these issues I would never have bought it and I will certainly avoid and recommend against GMC in the future.
AMD's x86 IP licensing agreements with Intel are not transferable if AMD is bought. At best, the buyer would end up in a long legal fight with Intel.
This is not possible on a standard UART like an 8255 or 16550 and even if it was, an external RS-232/422 transceiver will either be unidirectional or wired that way.
Even if it was possible, getting the other side to listen would require some other form of access.
If approval voting does not provide an instant, clear-cut winner than neither does first-past-the-post voting.
If there are all these brits on the islands, why are they not fighting off the occupiers.
With what? Harsh language?
Even with the civilian firearms that they are not permitted, the correlation of forces and terrain would be unpleasant in that case.
"Yes, it was out of my sight while TSA agents inspected it."
After withholding consent to be searched and asking if you are free to go, have a panic attack and throw up on them.
Could a weeping angel be used as a Turing test? Or would a camera recording video also lock one in place? What about a long exposure camera?
Regulation of interstate commerce is certainly a function for the federal government but setting up the standards that states would have to meet to do it themselves is one means of doing that.
Why not enforce the use tax laws? If the punitive fines are high enough, it will encourage compliance and make up for lost tax revenue.
Are the states really arguing for vendor collected taxes because use taxes are too difficult to collect from individuals citizens of the state?
I would probably have the individual states maintain the databases. Then the states can decide how complicated or even workable their sales tax rules are. The databases should be the last word as far as mistakes in favor of the vendor/buyer go and if the state overtaxes, the state should pay a penalty. If the database is unavailable do to the state's failure, then taxes during that time should not be applied.
I am going from memory on this so expect someone to correct me.
USB uses host programmed DMA which is supported by a state machine in the host controller. Devices can only initiate transfers to or from buffers controlled by the host. It would take a poorly written or malicious driver to be a security problem.
PCI supports actual bus mastering so PCI endpoints can pretty much do anything. An IOMMU of some type is needed to control access to main memory and some PCI bridges can control access between segments to at least a limited extent. The Thunderbolt controller acting as a PCI bridge may have some features to control access. PCIe bridge controllers would seem to be in a better position to control access but I have not dealt with them to know.
Firewire supports programmed DMA from any endpoint but apparently a lot of Firewire host controllers lack any sort of control or the low level drivers do not support it which is almost as bad. I have heard of cases where a IOMMU or PCI bridge has been used to enforce memory security onto a Firewire controller.
Finger stock breaks up seams which otherwise would act as slot antennas. Sometimes mesh wire tubing is used.
Leaking enough to be harmful to what? You can certainly feel 5 watts of RF under the right conditions like sticking your finger into a helical resonator but not from a diffuse source like a leaking seam or inadequate feedthrough.
That ground prong on the end of 6 feet of inductive power cord is not going to do anything for RF shielding even at a frequency an order of magnitude lower. The ground is for safety.
It is futile for another reason as well. The direct conversion receivers used in consumer level 802.11 equipment have atrocious out of channel rejection and dynamic range so the magnetron output only needs to be in the same band to cause significant problems.
I wonder about this one. Adding 3 register instruction support also means adding an additional set of read ports to the register file. Is it better to execute more instructions in parallel at a higher clock rate or have 3 register instructions?
I used to catch tonsillitis on a regular basis so am very familiar with the differences between it, strep, and the common cold. I never suggested inappropriate use of antibiotics.
The point of seeking medical attention in this case is to verify that it is NOT strep throat least it be left untreated which can lead to serious complications like rheumatic fever. Would you really expect a parent to be able to diagnose it or at least rule it out when doctors regularly culture test for it or use the rapid strep test?
Exactly right! Strep throat is nothing to worry about.
The eclipses would only be amazing until the nocturnal predators come out and start hunting down the crew and passengers one at a time.
In the past couple of years a number of handheld and larger HAM transceivers have gained the ability to do APRS natively. That basically IS text messaging but it is normally machine written and read automatically to transfer position information. Garmin has some GMRS handhelds which do something similar.
What is needed is an open standard for a combined voice and data modulation and encoding scheme. The current HAM radio digital voice standard, DSTARS, is proprietary and protected by patents and not really a replacement for narrow band FM anyway in adverse conditions.
Digital radio does not have to be all or nothing. Digital modulation and encoding schemes exist that degrade gracefully but they are usually more complicated and not part of the design requirement.