Yes it was cyrix, and where are they now? How many good systems run a cyrix proc? none. Partly because their manufacturing processes were so marginal that they could no longer compete with intel or AMD. The public felt ripped off when they found that the number on the chip didn't match the numbers "under the hood". This is a very bad move by AMD and will ultimately find themselves trying to justify why they feel the need to make their numbers appear bigger. Is it because they can't compete and they need to artificially raise/hide the perception of speed? No. Its a gimmick to play to the public. But the public will be the ones who ask why, and AMD will have to give a reason why every other chip has a MHz rating (no matter how irrelivant) but theirs is a model number... AMD does perform better on a MHz rating for now, but this makes them look cheep and deceptive and I think that the marketing department had better seriously re-think their competitive strategy or they may find themselves competing with Cyrix... again...
The internet is exactly what happens when you mix a bunch of unsupervised, money-hungry businesses with lots of (generally) open-minded people looking for porn.
For anyone who used to frequent the BBS scene "back in the day" you will probably remember that it was pretty similar, except with a lot more Trade Wars (tm)...
actually I think that transmission would be easily found. Casinos all over the world use small devices, cleverly disguised as just about anything that will indicate a stong RF field. As well if you are totally paranoid you could always buy a winkleman device (I think thats what its called) scanning the RF spectrum for any trace of a recognizable RF pattern, included spread spectrum transmissions audio and video. Of course the only safe almost undetectable way to export keystrokes without being detected these days is to modulate the light coming from the bottom of the optical mouse and use an optical pickup away from the computer... but I've said too much;)
OK just a thought here, but why not just get a clear keyboard (if you're worried deeply paranoid about this tech) and then you can see if they add/remove anything, classified or not...
I'm the forst one to say I totally hate the clear G3/G4 look on computer peripherals, but lets face it - that simple tech will cure this problem, classified or not.
It seems to me that I there was a study on Australian cyclists that showed caffiene (my personal favorite...) improved response times in olympic cyclists. I'm sure there are other "concentration" drugs which improve response times and focus attention, but I didn
t find a link to the study. If anyone else has ever heard this, please feel free to back me up... personal experience: caffiene definitely does provide faster response times to late night tech support calls.
Technical Note for cassettes: I used to work as a radio tech and in my experience cassette inputs on an amp are usually filtered to the frequency response of the average cassette deck. By the nature of their design, cassettes have strong bass characteristics and weak treble: tape speed should be about 3-4 times faster to reproduce good treble on tape, but then we would have 20 minute tapes... but this isn't a design forum... to compensate for this problem, we find a high pass filter located on most casette inputs on consumer and prosumer amps. On some decks there is a filter switch for this, since in cases like this, filters would decidedly suck.
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Yes it was cyrix, and where are they now? How many good systems run a cyrix proc? none. Partly because their manufacturing processes were so marginal that they could no longer compete with intel or AMD. The public felt ripped off when they found that the number on the chip didn't match the numbers "under the hood". This is a very bad move by AMD and will ultimately find themselves trying to justify why they feel the need to make their numbers appear bigger. Is it because they can't compete and they need to artificially raise/hide the perception of speed? No. Its a gimmick to play to the public. But the public will be the ones who ask why, and AMD will have to give a reason why every other chip has a MHz rating (no matter how irrelivant) but theirs is a model number... AMD does perform better on a MHz rating for now, but this makes them look cheep and deceptive and I think that the marketing department had better seriously re-think their competitive strategy or they may find themselves competing with Cyrix... again...
The internet is exactly what happens when you mix a bunch of unsupervised, money-hungry businesses with lots of (generally) open-minded people looking for porn.
For anyone who used to frequent the BBS scene "back in the day" you will probably remember that it was pretty similar, except with a lot more Trade Wars (tm)...
actually I think that transmission would be easily found. Casinos all over the world use small devices, cleverly disguised as just about anything that will indicate a stong RF field. As well if you are totally paranoid you could always buy a winkleman device (I think thats what its called) scanning the RF spectrum for any trace of a recognizable RF pattern, included spread spectrum transmissions audio and video. Of course the only safe almost undetectable way to export keystrokes without being detected these days is to modulate the light coming from the bottom of the optical mouse and use an optical pickup away from the computer... but I've said too much ;)
OK just a thought here, but why not just get a clear keyboard (if you're worried deeply paranoid about this tech) and then you can see if they add/remove anything, classified or not...
I'm the forst one to say I totally hate the clear G3/G4 look on computer peripherals, but lets face it - that simple tech will cure this problem, classified or not.
It seems to me that I there was a study on Australian cyclists that showed caffiene (my personal favorite...) improved response times in olympic cyclists. I'm sure there are other "concentration" drugs which improve response times and focus attention, but I didn t find a link to the study. If anyone else has ever heard this, please feel free to back me up... personal experience: caffiene definitely does provide faster response times to late night tech support calls.
Technical Note for cassettes: I used to work as a radio tech and in my experience cassette inputs on an amp are usually filtered to the frequency response of the average cassette deck. By the nature of their design, cassettes have strong bass characteristics and weak treble: tape speed should be about 3-4 times faster to reproduce good treble on tape, but then we would have 20 minute tapes... but this isn't a design forum... to compensate for this problem, we find a high pass filter located on most casette inputs on consumer and prosumer amps. On some decks there is a filter switch for this, since in cases like this, filters would decidedly suck.