it sounds like the problem was so bad, and infiltrated the industry to such a depth,
It was caused by poor quality product from (some of) the electrolyte manufacturers, supplying the capacitor manufacturers. The quote below is from Wikipedia:
The root cause of failure for bulging Taiwanese capacitors has been hypothesized to be dissolution of the aluminum into the electrolyte due to poor phosphate-electrolyte balance, rather than the normal evaporation of the electrolyte that all such capacitors undergo. This hypothesis has been confirmed by analyzing the electrolyte using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), which confirmed the presence of dissolved aluminum in the Taiwanese capacitors' electrolyte, but not in Japanese ones
In one case, the cause of failing electrolytic capacitors was industrial espionage gone wrong. Several Taiwanese electrolyte manufacturers began using a stolen formula that was incomplete, and lacked ingredients needed to produce a stable capacitor.
I said The BBC gets a £3 billion subsidy, the BBC says it gets £3.3 billion, The Times say the BBC gets £3.6 billion, The Guardian say the BBC gets £3.4 billion. It's a big subsidy.
The Conservatives have pledged to lay bare how the BBC spends its £3.4bn-a-year licence fee by giving the National Audit Office "full access" to the corporation's account.
Despite DAB+ solving DAB's numerous problems, Ofcom has scuppered any hopes of seeing it anytime soon. Channel 4 has made a serious investment in digital radio, and wanted to use DAB+ for stations on its national DAB multiplex, due to launch later this year. But light-touch regulator Ofcom wouldn't let them, and Channel 4 was ordered to use DAB instead.
I don't accept that they do "balance the crap", and I think it's wrong that British people who refuse to pay for a TV license to finance "the crap" can face a criminal prosecution.
There is no need for a taxpayer funded TV broadcaster to provide the nation with TV programmes of celebrity chefs, celebrity DIY, celebrity dancing, celebrity interview shows, or another US cops and robbers TV import. Which is what we currently get from the BBC.
If the BBC was limited to one national TV station, and one national radio station, it would focus their attention on quality. Providing that which commercial broadcasters could not.
The problem? There's already an industry standards body for British digital TV, and the BBC is a member - along with Pace, Microsoft and Sky. The DTG (Digital TV Group) publishes the "D Book", the product it says of 4,000 man hours of work developing detailed technical specifications for digital broadcasting standards. The Sixth Edition of the D Book came out in March.
I came across a possible explanation. Andrew Fish (the man credited with inventing EFI) is quoted saying:
...Open Firmware was not without its own technical challenges. The PC had started down a path of using the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) as its runtime namespace to describe the platform to the operating system. As I liked to say at the time, the only thing worse than one namespace is keeping two namespaces in sync. The other problem was the lack of third party support for Open Firmware. We invited the FirmWorks guys to come visit us at Dupont (WA), and we had a great talk. Given we had just gone through an exercise of inventing a firmware base from scratch, I think we were uniquely qualified to appreciate what Open Firmware had been able to achieve. Unfortunately, it became clear that the infrastructure to support a transition to Open Firmware did not exist. Given the namespace issue with Open Firmware and the lack of industry enabling infrastructure, we decided to go on and make EFI a reality.
...EFI has this cool shell, a loadable driver framework, and other nice
features. Where "nice" obviously means "much more complex than the simple
things they designed in the late seventies back when people were stupid
and just wanted things to work".
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As a budget consumer, or cheapskate, I like the prices of Seagate's hybrid drives.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a houseboat?
Douglas Carswell MP had already been inviting members of the public to contribute to a Great Repeal Bill.
It was caused by poor quality product from (some of) the electrolyte manufacturers, supplying the capacitor manufacturers. The quote below is from Wikipedia:
"Leaning heavily" is difficult to do well.
If your buyers are unpleasant to deal with, your suppliers will want your competitors to succeed.
I once found myself queuing behind a man with 'Fuck off' tattooed on the back of his neck. Lovely.
Er, no. A fixed grant is just one form of subsidy.
I said The BBC gets a £3 billion subsidy, the BBC says it gets £3.3 billion, The Times say the BBC gets £3.6 billion, The Guardian say the BBC gets £3.4 billion. It's a big subsidy.
From The BBC
From The Times:
From The Guardian:
The BBC get a £3 billion subsidy from the British taxpayer.
I think Ofcom are to blame for the DAB choice.
I don't accept that they do "balance the crap", and I think it's wrong that British people who refuse to pay for a TV license to finance "the crap" can face a criminal prosecution.
There is no need for a taxpayer funded TV broadcaster to provide the nation with TV programmes of celebrity chefs, celebrity DIY, celebrity dancing, celebrity interview shows, or another US cops and robbers TV import. Which is what we currently get from the BBC.
If the BBC was limited to one national TV station, and one national radio station, it would focus their attention on quality. Providing that which commercial broadcasters could not.
Anthony Jay suggested that the BBC should be limited to one national TV channel, and one national radio station. I agree.
If the rest of Europe are looking for a solution, then OpenIPTV is likely to be attracting their attention.
From El Reg:
In the UK, Acts of Parliament are recorded on vellum.
There's already a lot of metadata available that is ignored by search engines.
Back in 2006 Slashdot covered an analysis of the tag content of of 1 billion web pages.. Dublin Core tags/attributes were found to be widely used, but at that time were ignored by the search engines.
Douglas Crockford of Yahoo seems a bit 'meh' about HTML5, he thinks it should have been focused on security. (starts 1m33seconds into video clip).
He published an HTML5 wish-list back in 2007.
I keep meaning to work through The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a modern computer from first principles.
There's a website that supports the book, and a Google tech-talk video.
Ohhhhh, no they don't
If you're in the UK, you might be confusing John Lewis' two year warranty, with Apple.
I came across a possible explanation. Andrew Fish (the man credited with inventing EFI) is quoted saying:
I quite like Linus on EFI:
You can download a flash player uninstaller from Adobe.
Now that the New Labour Terror is over, things may be changing:
Windows 7 was released in July 2009. Do you really think that it is likely to have a 33% market share in March 2010?