As a user of ThinkPads for nearly as long I have a TP I cannot install a miniPCI wireless upgrade into without hacking my system because it is not an approved part for my specific ThinkPad. Even a miniPCI from another ThinkPad won't always work.
You are absolutely right! And since the most predatory company in business history is Intel I'm sure you will never use any of their products ever again...
According to an engineer I know who worked for Compaq in their heyday. Compaq had developed a superior data bus in the 90's and Intel had requested access to it so they could optimize their chips to utilize it. They signed the NDA and several months later Intel introduced a motherboard with the bus integrated. Copmaq threatened to sue if they didn't pull the board or license the technology. Intel said go ahead and sue...Oh by the way we will no longer sell you CPU's. Compaq licensed the tech to Intel free of charge.
This is a much better example than Photoshop. What's hilarious is the Vuvuzela app is $200 but the same company offers their universal translator app for $5.99
Never play semantics with a politician. To them a 6 Billion dollar tax hike is considered a tax cut because they were "considering" a 10 Billion dollar hike. I imagine businesses play these games too. I was working at Compaq when hp took over. They found out Compaq was paying a couple of dollars less than hp for the same HDD and they were pissed.
Not if they trade commodities. AIM has been entrenched in commodities trading for a very long time. AIM is used as deal confirmation system and if your company doesn't use AIM then other broker/traders don't like dealing with you. Companies are experiencing a chicken/egg conundrum. We've been looking at OCS (now called Lync) for at least 4 years as a replacement because of it's ability to communicate with AIM clients. Except the ability to do that costs extra (per seat) and it is no small fee. Especially when using the AIM client is free (IM recording backend not withstanding).
If you have pet rabbits -- or any other critters that chew cables out of instinct -- you need to cover your cables with this stuff. We had one chew through a lamp cord and it dang near cooked the little beast.
Just picked up a boatload of that from King Dollar "Nothing over $1.09"!
They come off the same line as the other ICs they just survived the higher/lower testing and thus received the special rating.
NOT TRUE!!!
Under-hood GRADE 0 parts are made with DIFFERENT PLASTIC to withstand -40C to +150C temperatures
They DO NOT "come off the same line"
TRUE!!! Once a chip on a wafer has passed thermal testing it is THEN labeled GRADE 0 and indeed made with a DIFFERENT PLASTIC!!!!!!!!!!! They do still, in fact, come from the same line (of wafers)
Good grief everyone wants to find fault. My assertion has of yet not been invalidated...simply expounded on. I didn't have time to write an exhaustive explanation and nobody would have read it had I.
Seriously...While temperature is a factor I assure you ECUs are not that special when it comes to temp/vibration. There are dampeners added to the mount and permacoat waterproofing on the board itself (really expensive rubber cement) but the board has no special anti-vibration temperature surviving aspects other than the ICs are spec'ed to handle higher/lower temps. They come off the same line as the other ICs they just survived the higher/lower testing and thus received the special rating.
The Raspberry Pi is more powerful than virtually every ECU ever produced but the ECU will cost you about 10x more. If the specs were known an ECU emulator and a harness to USB adapter could easily replace the ECU entirely.
And I know all too well about intermittent harness problems. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want to restore a newer classic.
As my first job out of school was for an AC Delco reman shop I know all too well how poorly ECUs are designed and manufactured. I would gladly replace the ECU with one of my own design if I could.
I would include semi-automatic, automatic and bolt action rifles and pistols both design and manufacture, along with appropriate ammunition
What kind of civilization is in need for automatic rifles? The kind "harvesting" neighboring states. No thanks.
Perhaps the ones needing to defend themselves from said harvesters? At the onset of a societal collapse there will be an order of magnitude more harvesters, as you put it, then there will be producing communities. Survival will most definitely depend on ones ability to defend against attack.
Except the US has this thing called The Constitution. Specifically the tenth amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Without an amendment to the constitution stripping the states of their power the state law trumps the international one in the US.
The reason people use Windows isn't that it is better than Linux or OSX in some platonic sense; it's because Windows runs everything they have, and the other desktop OSes don't.
By your own reasoning RIM is in a better position for mobile handsets since BB 10 (which I realize has been delayed several times) will run Android and possibly iOS apps as well as native apps. Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 can't even run legacy Windows apps.
Could you provide examples? Nothing is perfect but this statement flies in the face of over 10 years of industry use.
it works great with our company exchange server, no nasty useless poorly configured BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
Complex systems are complex. Novel Netware could do things 20 years ago that Active Directory can't do to this day but AD is simpler to use. I hated dealing with the Netware interface but lamented it's demise once I realized the things that were lost.
And when your company has a mandatory 30/60/90 day password policy what happens when you change your password? Your account get's locked, reset, locked again, reset, locked again until you realize you forgot to go in and change your password on every iOS/Android device that pulls email from Activesync. I get calls regularly from the SAME PEOPLE every 60 days here since we started allowing iOS devices. Support cost has increased despite our "Allowed but not supported" policy. Activesync actually goes down more often than RIM's infrastructure ever has and Apple and Microsoft can't identify why.
Because Apple is the company name and Windows is the name of a product line. If it were Microsoft RT then your argument might be valid. It would also be less confusing. If Samsung introduced a new laptop and called it the Samsung Galaxy LT I would expect it to run Android out of the box.
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Actually if you are running Windows or MacOS you just need Bluestacks.
As a user of ThinkPads for nearly as long I have a TP I cannot install a miniPCI wireless upgrade into without hacking my system because it is not an approved part for my specific ThinkPad. Even a miniPCI from another ThinkPad won't always work.
Who knew? And it's only 9.99
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You are absolutely right! And since the most predatory company in business history is Intel I'm sure you will never use any of their products ever again...
According to an engineer I know who worked for Compaq in their heyday. Compaq had developed a superior data bus in the 90's and Intel had requested access to it so they could optimize their chips to utilize it. They signed the NDA and several months later Intel introduced a motherboard with the bus integrated. Copmaq threatened to sue if they didn't pull the board or license the technology. Intel said go ahead and sue...Oh by the way we will no longer sell you CPU's. Compaq licensed the tech to Intel free of charge.
Microsoft did something similar to Citrix and STAC Electronics.
This is a much better example than Photoshop. What's hilarious is the Vuvuzela app is $200 but the same company offers their universal translator app for $5.99
Never play semantics with a politician. To them a 6 Billion dollar tax hike is considered a tax cut because they were "considering" a 10 Billion dollar hike. I imagine businesses play these games too. I was working at Compaq when hp took over. They found out Compaq was paying a couple of dollars less than hp for the same HDD and they were pissed.
Not if they trade commodities. AIM has been entrenched in commodities trading for a very long time. AIM is used as deal confirmation system and if your company doesn't use AIM then other broker/traders don't like dealing with you. Companies are experiencing a chicken/egg conundrum. We've been looking at OCS (now called Lync) for at least 4 years as a replacement because of it's ability to communicate with AIM clients. Except the ability to do that costs extra (per seat) and it is no small fee. Especially when using the AIM client is free (IM recording backend not withstanding).
If you have pet rabbits -- or any other critters that chew cables out of instinct -- you need to cover your cables with this stuff. We had one chew through a lamp cord and it dang near cooked the little beast.
Just picked up a boatload of that from King Dollar "Nothing over $1.09"!
They come off the same line as the other ICs they just survived the higher/lower testing and thus received the special rating.
NOT TRUE!!!
Under-hood GRADE 0 parts are made with DIFFERENT PLASTIC to withstand -40C to +150C temperatures
They DO NOT "come off the same line"
TRUE!!! Once a chip on a wafer has passed thermal testing it is THEN labeled GRADE 0 and indeed made with a DIFFERENT PLASTIC!!!!!!!!!!! They do still, in fact, come from the same line (of wafers)
Good grief everyone wants to find fault. My assertion has of yet not been invalidated...simply expounded on. I didn't have time to write an exhaustive explanation and nobody would have read it had I.
You mad bro?
Seriously...While temperature is a factor I assure you ECUs are not that special when it comes to temp/vibration. There are dampeners added to the mount and permacoat waterproofing on the board itself (really expensive rubber cement) but the board has no special anti-vibration temperature surviving aspects other than the ICs are spec'ed to handle higher/lower temps. They come off the same line as the other ICs they just survived the higher/lower testing and thus received the special rating.
BTW, nice one...that cell phone pager repair dig...I don't know if I'll ever recover.
The Raspberry Pi is more powerful than virtually every ECU ever produced but the ECU will cost you about 10x more. If the specs were known an ECU emulator and a harness to USB adapter could easily replace the ECU entirely.
And I know all too well about intermittent harness problems. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want to restore a newer classic.
As my first job out of school was for an AC Delco reman shop I know all too well how poorly ECUs are designed and manufactured. I would gladly replace the ECU with one of my own design if I could.
I would include semi-automatic, automatic and bolt action rifles and pistols both design and manufacture, along with appropriate ammunition
What kind of civilization is in need for automatic rifles? The kind "harvesting" neighboring states. No thanks.
Perhaps the ones needing to defend themselves from said harvesters? At the onset of a societal collapse there will be an order of magnitude more harvesters, as you put it, then there will be producing communities. Survival will most definitely depend on ones ability to defend against attack.
If cockroaches survived the last apocalypse then I suspect patent trolls will survive this one.
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Except the US has this thing called The Constitution. Specifically the tenth amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Without an amendment to the constitution stripping the states of their power the state law trumps the international one in the US.
I built a sterling engine using a 2 cats and a slice of buttered bread tied together once.
Exactly...With Activesync you can connect as many devices as you can get your hands on. With a BES only devices that have been activated can connect.
The reason people use Windows isn't that it is better than Linux or OSX in some platonic sense; it's because Windows runs everything they have, and the other desktop OSes don't.
By your own reasoning RIM is in a better position for mobile handsets since BB 10 (which I realize has been delayed several times) will run Android and possibly iOS apps as well as native apps. Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 can't even run legacy Windows apps.
BB is an exercise in frustration with email.
Could you provide examples? Nothing is perfect but this statement flies in the face of over 10 years of industry use.
it works great with our company exchange server, no nasty useless poorly configured BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
Complex systems are complex. Novel Netware could do things 20 years ago that Active Directory can't do to this day but AD is simpler to use. I hated dealing with the Netware interface but lamented it's demise once I realized the things that were lost.
And when your company has a mandatory 30/60/90 day password policy what happens when you change your password? Your account get's locked, reset, locked again, reset, locked again until you realize you forgot to go in and change your password on every iOS/Android device that pulls email from Activesync. I get calls regularly from the SAME PEOPLE every 60 days here since we started allowing iOS devices. Support cost has increased despite our "Allowed but not supported" policy. Activesync actually goes down more often than RIM's infrastructure ever has and Apple and Microsoft can't identify why.
The cost per unit of this sort of hardware isn't a lot and they only have to sell a few thousand to get their development costs back.
We lose money on each unit but we make it up by selling in volume.
Because Apple is the company name and Windows is the name of a product line. If it were Microsoft RT then your argument might be valid. It would also be less confusing. If Samsung introduced a new laptop and called it the Samsung Galaxy LT I would expect it to run Android out of the box.
Yes but it gives the machines something else to snack on. Thus they might not turn us into batteries...at least in the short term.