The Bitcoin mining rig was an unintentional radiator - that is, something that does not have the purpose of transmitting RF. They responded normally for a problem with that type of device. It should be possible to modify the mining device so it does not create harmful interference.
Immediate confiscation and fines are usually reserved for intentional radiators - radio transmitters and jammers that transmit on the frequency of the service that is experiencing the interference. Those obviously cannot be modified to eliminate the harmful interference.
The first generation of Windows on ARM computers, the connected computers with cellular modems built in, won't have enough RAM for HyperV to be very useful. Nor does anybody expect people to use them in ways where it would be useful, given their performance limitations. If the concept gets enough market traction to get continued at all, HyperV will be added in time for use on systems that can actually take advantage of it.
The whole market doesn't collapse if people stop buying new smartphones. They'll spend the money on something else instead; a nicer house, meals out, a new TV, a Netflix subscription, seeing some plays, etc. The SMARTPHONE market might shrink but the capitalist system will not.
If you live in a densely populated area that's a good solution; it's easy to rent a truck, and having the space to store your old one is likely to be costly. If you live in a remote location the nearest place you can rent a truck may be a long way away, in which case you're better off keeping the old one. The cost of manufacturing the old truck is a sunk cost that won't be recovered by scrapping it.
Whether it's worthwhile to replace that old TV or monitor depends on how often it is used.
The main TV in the living room that's on for hours every day? Of course, replace it. The TV in the guest room that gets used a few times a year? Don't bother on the grounds of saving energy, though you might want to replace it to provide a better experience for your visitors. Your main monitor on your gaming system? Of course. The monitor that gets turned on a handful of times per year on your home server? Don't bother. (Most of the time you don't need it; you don't need to see what's on the server's screen or you can administer it remotely.)
The same logic may apply to the gas guzzler. If it's the car you drive to work every day, replacing it is a high priority. If it's a second car that you keep around for a couple of road trips each year, replacing it may not be justified.
The incandescent light bulbs? Yeah, replace them. Unless they're in your Easy-Bake Oven.
My point is more that you should choose a more appropriate file format for online reading if it is offered. And if it's not offered, it should be - publications that expect you to read PDFs online are making a mistake.
What the NYT has is a neoliberal slant. On economic issues that's nearly indistinguishable from a neoconservative slant. (Differences: neoliberals are less hostile to unions and more likely to favor some degree of antitrust regulation.) Neoliberals and neoconservatives are far apart on social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, and the NYT is on the liberal side of those.
The NYT has not been particularly friendly to progressive positions on economic issues. Nor have they been as active on social issues outside the white mainstream as some would wish; for example, they favor Black Lives Matter in theory but have not championed issues such as curbs on police. I suspect that's the right wing slant that you are speaking of.
The NYT has been hostile to most of the Trump administration agenda, as it is neither neoliberal nor neoconservative.
Trouble reading long articles on the screen? That's because you're reading things that are formatted for print, most likely PDF images of the print version. Or worse, one of those magazine reading sites that locks up the magazine in a proprietary format while still only presenting it as a print replica.
Try reading a proper e-book (EPUB or MOBI) using good e-reader software or a dedicated e-ink reading device instead. No moving around the page; the text automatically reformats to fit your screen. Just one column, always. No fonts that are too small; you can change them to a larger or smaller size to suit your eyesight.
Except for one little thing... the fact that I have to drive the car. If I take public transit I can read on the train or bus. If I drive I can't. And I have to deal with that annoying traffic, a big factor in the city.
Also, "can afford to" and "choose to afford to" are not the same thing. Unless one is Bill Gates level rich, every choice about spending has an opportunity cost of not having that money available for something else. That money I don't spend on maintaining and parking a car could instead be spent on meals out, a new phone, or any number of other things.
Cell phone internet works well in many areas... except for the severe data limits. 25 or 50 GB of data per month simply doesn't cut it in the modern landscape. My house (multiple adults) uses over a TERABYTE of data each month.
The cellular infrastructure isn't designed to let a significant number of people use that much data. Short of building cells on every street corner there is no way that it could be. Using that much data under current day cell contracts would cost a horrendous amount of money.
Wired telecommunications is not a free market. The cost of putting in the infrastructure is large and there are considerable economies of scale, so any market will have a very small number of providers; one in many cases. Because of that, government regulation to protect public interests is necessary.
Different players have different strengths. One of the nice things about VLC is that it will play just about everything, even ancient weird formats that nobody has used for years. That's something that the alternatives can't do.
The post says that "the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero". Bitcoin, the best established and most famous cybercurrency, will probably not be one of the ones that disappears, though it could well lose 90% of its value. Some of the newer and less established ones could disappear altogether; people will have them but there will be no buyers.
If you hear it even if you don't have speakers or headphones connected it's in the power supply, or in the switching regulators on the motherboard or video card. The lowest voltage provided by a typical computer power supply is 3.3 volts; the lower voltages that are used on modern CPUs and GPUs are produced by regulators elsewhere. In some Intel CPUs the regulator is on the CPU die.
SSDs don't contain coils or switching power supplies. But the motherboards and PSUs that provide power to them do, and they are a possible source of coil whine. Display noises can come from the switching power supply in the monitor as well as the one in the computer.
Another common source of noise is crosstalk between the audio circuits in the computer and other signals that are present. You won't hear that kind of noise if you don't have any speakers or headphones connected, and it will usually go away if you switch to a USB headset or an external audio interface.
Hearing sounds from the computer that are related to display activity is common; I have experienced it on both laptop and desktop computers. It's not that you're hearing the displayed electrons directly. The actual cause is crosstalk between the wires that carry the video signal and the ones that carry audio to your speakers or headphones.
One way to eliminate the problem is to move audio D/A conversion out of the computer. Listen through a USB headset or speakers, or use an external audio interface.
Another factor is that the US has a legal mandate for cars to have effective bumpers. Some of the cars sold elsewhere in the world do not, which means that even a trivial impact can cause substantial amounts of damage to the car. The downside is that the US versions of the cars are heavier and get worse fuel mileage.
In the short term it hasn't affected Amazon. But it might decrease future sales of Amazon devices, because they're not able to do one of the things that people would like to use them for.
Google Maps will fix this kind of problem. It already can do inter-system transit routing in a lot of places and almost certainly does it better than those rail systems did; it even uses real time data from systems that provide it. The biggest problem will be getting all the transit systems to provide accurate and timely data.
My understanding is that LibreOffice was a big sticking point for Munich. They had trouble dealing with documents in Microsoft formats that other people sent them. They could have used their government power to MANDATE the use of open formats and simply refused to deal with documents in Microsoft formats, a move that would have furthered open source adoption elsewhere, but they did not. Perhaps Barcelona will.
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The Bitcoin mining rig was an unintentional radiator - that is, something that does not have the purpose of transmitting RF. They responded normally for a problem with that type of device. It should be possible to modify the mining device so it does not create harmful interference.
Immediate confiscation and fines are usually reserved for intentional radiators - radio transmitters and jammers that transmit on the frequency of the service that is experiencing the interference. Those obviously cannot be modified to eliminate the harmful interference.
The first generation of Windows on ARM computers, the connected computers with cellular modems built in, won't have enough RAM for HyperV to be very useful. Nor does anybody expect people to use them in ways where it would be useful, given their performance limitations. If the concept gets enough market traction to get continued at all, HyperV will be added in time for use on systems that can actually take advantage of it.
If you're going to publish the complete list of limitations, you publish the complete list. Whether or not they are obvious to a technical reader.
ASUS is based in Taiwan, and thus harder for him to sue.
The whole market doesn't collapse if people stop buying new smartphones. They'll spend the money on something else instead; a nicer house, meals out, a new TV, a Netflix subscription, seeing some plays, etc. The SMARTPHONE market might shrink but the capitalist system will not.
If you live in a densely populated area that's a good solution; it's easy to rent a truck, and having the space to store your old one is likely to be costly. If you live in a remote location the nearest place you can rent a truck may be a long way away, in which case you're better off keeping the old one. The cost of manufacturing the old truck is a sunk cost that won't be recovered by scrapping it.
Whether it's worthwhile to replace that old TV or monitor depends on how often it is used.
The main TV in the living room that's on for hours every day? Of course, replace it. The TV in the guest room that gets used a few times a year? Don't bother on the grounds of saving energy, though you might want to replace it to provide a better experience for your visitors. Your main monitor on your gaming system? Of course. The monitor that gets turned on a handful of times per year on your home server? Don't bother. (Most of the time you don't need it; you don't need to see what's on the server's screen or you can administer it remotely.)
The same logic may apply to the gas guzzler. If it's the car you drive to work every day, replacing it is a high priority. If it's a second car that you keep around for a couple of road trips each year, replacing it may not be justified.
The incandescent light bulbs? Yeah, replace them. Unless they're in your Easy-Bake Oven.
My point is more that you should choose a more appropriate file format for online reading if it is offered. And if it's not offered, it should be - publications that expect you to read PDFs online are making a mistake.
What the NYT has is a neoliberal slant. On economic issues that's nearly indistinguishable from a neoconservative slant. (Differences: neoliberals are less hostile to unions and more likely to favor some degree of antitrust regulation.) Neoliberals and neoconservatives are far apart on social issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, and the NYT is on the liberal side of those.
The NYT has not been particularly friendly to progressive positions on economic issues. Nor have they been as active on social issues outside the white mainstream as some would wish; for example, they favor Black Lives Matter in theory but have not championed issues such as curbs on police. I suspect that's the right wing slant that you are speaking of.
The NYT has been hostile to most of the Trump administration agenda, as it is neither neoliberal nor neoconservative.
Trouble reading long articles on the screen? That's because you're reading things that are formatted for print, most likely PDF images of the print version. Or worse, one of those magazine reading sites that locks up the magazine in a proprietary format while still only presenting it as a print replica.
Try reading a proper e-book (EPUB or MOBI) using good e-reader software or a dedicated e-ink reading device instead. No moving around the page; the text automatically reformats to fit your screen. Just one column, always. No fonts that are too small; you can change them to a larger or smaller size to suit your eyesight.
Except for one little thing... the fact that I have to drive the car. If I take public transit I can read on the train or bus. If I drive I can't. And I have to deal with that annoying traffic, a big factor in the city.
Also, "can afford to" and "choose to afford to" are not the same thing. Unless one is Bill Gates level rich, every choice about spending has an opportunity cost of not having that money available for something else. That money I don't spend on maintaining and parking a car could instead be spent on meals out, a new phone, or any number of other things.
Cell phone internet works well in many areas... except for the severe data limits. 25 or 50 GB of data per month simply doesn't cut it in the modern landscape. My house (multiple adults) uses over a TERABYTE of data each month.
The cellular infrastructure isn't designed to let a significant number of people use that much data. Short of building cells on every street corner there is no way that it could be. Using that much data under current day cell contracts would cost a horrendous amount of money.
Wired telecommunications is not a free market. The cost of putting in the infrastructure is large and there are considerable economies of scale, so any market will have a very small number of providers; one in many cases. Because of that, government regulation to protect public interests is necessary.
Different players have different strengths. One of the nice things about VLC is that it will play just about everything, even ancient weird formats that nobody has used for years. That's something that the alternatives can't do.
The post says that "the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero". Bitcoin, the best established and most famous cybercurrency, will probably not be one of the ones that disappears, though it could well lose 90% of its value. Some of the newer and less established ones could disappear altogether; people will have them but there will be no buyers.
If you hear it even if you don't have speakers or headphones connected it's in the power supply, or in the switching regulators on the motherboard or video card. The lowest voltage provided by a typical computer power supply is 3.3 volts; the lower voltages that are used on modern CPUs and GPUs are produced by regulators elsewhere. In some Intel CPUs the regulator is on the CPU die.
SSDs don't contain coils or switching power supplies. But the motherboards and PSUs that provide power to them do, and they are a possible source of coil whine. Display noises can come from the switching power supply in the monitor as well as the one in the computer.
Another common source of noise is crosstalk between the audio circuits in the computer and other signals that are present. You won't hear that kind of noise if you don't have any speakers or headphones connected, and it will usually go away if you switch to a USB headset or an external audio interface.
Hearing sounds from the computer that are related to display activity is common; I have experienced it on both laptop and desktop computers. It's not that you're hearing the displayed electrons directly. The actual cause is crosstalk between the wires that carry the video signal and the ones that carry audio to your speakers or headphones.
One way to eliminate the problem is to move audio D/A conversion out of the computer. Listen through a USB headset or speakers, or use an external audio interface.
Have you tried Firefox Quantum (version 57 or later). It's not slow any more.
No real surprise. Employers want to pay programmers to do the same things they have done before. Programmers want to do things they haven't done yet.
It's possible that the lot was more full during the period when you were inside the store.
Another factor is that the US has a legal mandate for cars to have effective bumpers. Some of the cars sold elsewhere in the world do not, which means that even a trivial impact can cause substantial amounts of damage to the car. The downside is that the US versions of the cars are heavier and get worse fuel mileage.
In the short term it hasn't affected Amazon. But it might decrease future sales of Amazon devices, because they're not able to do one of the things that people would like to use them for.
Google Maps will fix this kind of problem. It already can do inter-system transit routing in a lot of places and almost certainly does it better than those rail systems did; it even uses real time data from systems that provide it. The biggest problem will be getting all the transit systems to provide accurate and timely data.
My understanding is that LibreOffice was a big sticking point for Munich. They had trouble dealing with documents in Microsoft formats that other people sent them. They could have used their government power to MANDATE the use of open formats and simply refused to deal with documents in Microsoft formats, a move that would have furthered open source adoption elsewhere, but they did not. Perhaps Barcelona will.