And people who hate how the UI seems to change every version. One version things act one way, the next and it acts another way.
It's why people don't complain so much about Chrome because the UI tends to be fairly stable. With Firefox, it's a game of "what did they change this time around?".
Things like the status bar, the URL bar (autocomplete only does the domain nowadays rather than the full URL... very annoying), etc. I think 16.0.1 did something with the zoom control now as well... like ti seems to persist the zoom settings across site loads and windows...).
Looks like you need to get a better Rx on your bifocals or perhaps a stronger magnifier (not an affiliate link). Plenty of instructions and parts here and elsewhere for 'less-than-user-repairable' designs. Let me guess, you think you can't change the oil on a modern car, either?
I've delved into a couple of iPods and my brother has repair at least three iPhones. No tougher than replacing bits on a modern laptop, and only slightly more involved than replacing bits in a modern tower PC. Had you mentioned the glued in batteries on the MacBook Air or the pentalobe screws, maybe you would have had a point, but 2004 iPod mini? That's a stretch.
Well, iFixit's "non-repairability" pretty much means "no neanderthal with a butterknife for a screwdriver can open it" these days. After all, if you use torx screws (which were rare just a few years ago as well, nevermind security torx), there's no dings for that. But use a special screw that oh-no-I-had-no-choice-but-to-make-it-and-sell-to-the-public-and-I-don't-want-to-sell-it-to-you and it's an instant "non-repairable").
Heck, the instant the MBP Retina got an EPEAT certification iFixit denounced it publicly, even the EPEAT guys had to say "Look, it passes based on our criteria. Which like what Apple complained of, are ancient. Our criteria currently concerns itself with end of life recyclability, not middle of life repairability or upgrades. If you want, you can partiticipate in helping make new criteria. Remember when the original criteria were created, nothing passed, and now we've evolved the industry." And heck, even the recyclers were happy - they make more money recycling an Apple computer (even a difficult one like the Retina MBP) than any other computer. And technically, the recyclers were thinking of putty knives to aid disassembly.
That's the problem with iFixit - I guess even if you made something that used a common screwdriver to take apart fully, you'd be faulted for putting on a "Warranty void if broken" sticker, or if your case was a bit too tight-fitting that they had to break out a spudger.
(And yes, pentalobe screws suck, but I treat it as an intelligence test - if you can't be bothered to buy the right tools, you probably shouldn't even attempt at trying to repair stuff. Too much "butterknife screwdrivers" and the like. If you think clueless computer users who double-click on every EXE file is bad, let them loose on trying to repair stuff...).
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Intel has made ARM processors in the past (xScale [wikipedia.org]), and, apparently, still retains an ARM license.
They were crap though. I have an XScale-based PDA lying around somewhere. They were truly the Netbursts of the ARM world: high clock speed and power consumption but low performance
Intel sold the ARM license to Marvell who owns the architectural license to it. Intel does re-license back the Xscale core for some of their networking processors though.
As for Xscale being crap - back in the day, StrongARM and Xscale were the top of the line - the PXA255 being one of the fastest ARM chips around. The next-generation chip was supposed to be even faster, but Intel sold it to Marvell who doesn't seem to have done anything with it.
While StrongARM was pushing 200MHz, other ARMs were barely breaking 133MHz and not very fast at it. When the PXA255 upped it to 400, it was no competition. Then ARM decided they had enough of being outclassed by Intel and designed some decent ARM11 cores and continued onward with the Cortex series.
When did the notion start to circulate that anything remotely related to wood is some kind of incendiary deathtrap? Is it when people stopped having to start fires with nothing more than minimal tools and careful arrangement of sticks?
Christ, you've got something designed to cut through plastics with a laser, plastics which are basically just waiting for some added heat to turn into sticky, flaming, hydrocarbon death, and nobody says a thing. Suddenly, terrifying wood,. notorious for perfunctory smoldering in response to heat, bursts onto the scene and everybody is freaking out about ignition. Kids these days.
Somehow, people have been practicing pyrography for millenia without bursting into flames.
Or no one can make a Makerbot Replicator. After all, its case is made of laser-cut wood (eek!), complete with the signature burnt edging. But then again, if the wood didn't burn up during the piece cutting stage, it could burn up while you're printing, after all, it's wood, there's a heated build platform, and a hot nozzle...
Oh yeah, laser-cut wood. If only we could figure out how to do that without igniting the wood.
Main difference is this board has a 8-bit 20 Msps A/D onboard and the UHFSDR has it offboard (assuming you'll use a "16" bit 44+ Ksps soundcard)
You can see quite a difference in implied project design here.... Is it even possible to pass FCC regs for IMD trying to transmit a 8-bit SSB signal, and obviously a audio soundcard doesn't sample wide enough to do wifi or whatever fast digital stuff you'd like. So its broadband digital strong signal type of toy as opposed to something like a UHFSDR which is the opposite.
Most SDRs use commonly available 192KHz/24bit ADCs and DACs these days which work fairly well (thanks to heavy commercialization of home theatre gear, these parts are cheap, common and work REALLY well).
I didn't see any switchable bandpass filters, or anything like that. I haven't found a schematic but you can just look at the board and figure out whats going on. It looks like its buildable for on board PCB antenna or external, like solder in the SMA jack OR the 0-ohm jumper at the arrow to connect the pcb antenna. Looks like 2 stages of RF amp MMICs before it hits a mixer. You can see the "I" and "Q" PCB traces in the upper left for both the TX and RX mixer. Apparently the design goals are all half duplex but the actual board design appears to use separate TX and RX stages at the hard/expensive end. Where's the VCOs or more likely DDS synths? I'm guessing on the other side of the board? I bet if I spent more than 5 minutes looking at it, perhaps with the wiki page open and looking at some of the device data sheets while looking at the PCB, I could tell you a lot more about the design.
Most SDRs are using I/Q encoding and decoding and then mxiing to bring the signal up to the desired frequency band. I say most because there are a few "direct conversion" SDRs that take an antenna input, broadband amplify it, and stick it into a ADC - you can get 250Msps 8/10/12/14/16 bit ADCs these days (thanks to Nyquist, that's DC to 125MHz or so). A bit pricey (you're looking at a couple hundred dollars per chip, in 1000 quantities), but doable. Of course, you'll need to find a way to offload that data or reduce it.
Can you really shove 20 Msps thru a USB reliably? I used to think no, but...
Depends on the bit-depth, but for USB 20-40MB/sec (160-320Mbps or 8/16 bit) is acheivable on most PCs. Though the problem is less USB bandwdith and more the lack of isochronous bandwidth. If you want to do this reliably, you need FireWire at a minimum (which even though is only 400Mbps, it can achieve those rates quite readily) or faster interface.
You're joking, but I'm always amazed when conservatives want to deregulate the government and leave us at the hands of big business. They believe that government is bad, and that the free market should be allowed to work without interference. Look at how that's working out for China. Massive water pollution, schools collapsing during earthquakes due to lax building codes, air that is not breathable, kids working ridiculous hours for puny wages, ubiquitous counterfeiting of foods and medications, and lots of other bizarre shit that just make you wonder if the free market without government regulation wouldn't simply be anarchy.
You're looking at it from a social equality perspective. Look at it from the other side - you have lots of money (and thus, power), connections with people equally powerful, and basically have it all. "Everyone else" now looks like a money-grubbing leech who wants to take your money (and power) away from you. Or enact laws restricting what you can do, further limiting your ROI and money making prospects.
So naturally you're opposed to big government (taxes - stealing your money!, legislation - stealing from your income and power with environmental/labour/etc laws, etc). You're opposed to anything that requires you to give up money (minimum wage laws), etc. Oh yeah, and to suppress dissent to prevent an uprising (ever wonder why they cracked down so quickly on Occupy?).
Hell, even philantropic companies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agendas.
It doesn't help that most politicians are also very far removed from "average joe" life - being able to own a house (or multiple), acres of land, salaries that are still a fairly big multiple of the average salary, pension plans unmatched by anyone else, etc).
As you've said, chances are any degradation are due to electrolytic capacitors drying out
Really? Electrolytic capacitors at 2.4GHz?/blockquote.
No, but in the power supply. Routers are built to a price, even the more expensive $200 ones.
If you've built a PC, you know skimping on a power supply is a sure way to end up with random reboots, BSODs, crashes, data corruption and other oddball behavior that makes absolutely no sense at all.
And guess where Linksys/Netgear/DLink/etc save pennies per router? Exactly.
First, the power adapter is never anything special - literally it costs around $1.50 to $2.50 for the adapter (more expensive routers maybe $5). This doesn't give much in the way of safety nor power cleanliness, especially after months of 24/7 operation.
A crapped out adapter is probably the root cause of most router problems - it provides the necessary power, but it's full of ripple and noise that the router itself craps out in random unexpected ways.
Next comes the power supplies IN the router itself - again, they save the penny by not including a reverse polarity protection diode, and you can bet the caps are like the ones in the adapter - the bottom of the barrel brand probably reused from the capacitor plague replacements (because they're cheap).
On the bright side, the big silicon parts tend to be good (as are the non-electrolytic caps), but the power feeding them is uneven and can exceed limits during high power use. So when that wireless power amplifier chip starts drawing power to transmit, the power rails dip (and with bad caps, can dip a lot) due ot inductance and the power amp struggles to amplify the signal, being starved of power. So RF output drops, and more importantly, RF output quality drops as well (a crappy strong signal is just as useless as a weak one).
Couple that with bottom of barrel UFL connectors and pigtails that oxidize and get loose due to metal fatigue
For safety though, I hope they add circuit breakers (a technology along with seat belts that seems to have been lost in the 25th century)."
Seat belts are actually re-introduced to star ships later in the 24th century on Riker's Starship Titan.
Not to mention the whole walled garden thing that even the captain doesn't have root access to the computer. After all, how often do the holodecks fail? And when they do, it appears you can't shut them down.
Or they get locked out of environmental/navigation/warp/transporter/impulse controls without the ability to override them? Or allow random people to go and lock out said controls from the bridge(s) and engineering.
Then again, I suppose Apple continues to exist so maybe it's time to buy some stock - my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren can thank me.
Samsung is licensing the SoCs for the US market only. The flagship products (Galaxy S II,III and Note) are all using Exynos for every other market.
The reason for this is because of legacy fallback mode - worldwide, Samsung can ship a GSM/HSPA/LTE phone. But in the US, that would get you only two providers - one major and one minor. If you want to have the other two major carriers, you need to add CDMA2000 support, and Samsung's chipsets don't have that. Qualcomm's does, though and in one chipset you can have GSM/CDMA/CDMA2000/HSPA/LTE support (iPhone, for example uses this). Of course the tricky bit is now the antennas and power amps - having all those basebands means you need to carefully decide which bands you want to support.
So far, chipset wise, there are three major players - Infineon (Intel), Qualcomm, and Broadcom - who make a complete end-to-end chipset for mobile telephony. It's not easy, and it's a huge patent minefield (and where patent exhaustion kicks in).
I'm no thermodynamic engineer, but it seems to me facebook's way would lose out on the fact that the hot air would mingle with the cold air on the way down and warm up a little
For office or building heating, Facebook's method is completely conventional - A/C comes from the roof tiles and dribbles down to the floor which mixes with the existing warmer office air (which is why A/C is on - in a lot of places, you use A/C year round), creating a somewhat even temperature vertically (the ceiling is not appreciably warmer than the floor - so you don't sweat while the floor gets cold). Likewise, you heat from the floor - the hot air rises, mixing with the colder air below to warm it up evenly vertically (instead of having the hot air stay unusefully at the ceiling while freezing on the floor).
For data centers, I think it's debatable as you have hot and cold aisles to begin with - it might make sense that the top server in a rack doesn't get hotter air than the bottom one (purely because it's warmer up top), as this stratification carries on to the hot aisle (the colder bottom server doesn't make the air as hot as the top server, making the hot aisle have hot air at the top).
Whether or not it affects server lifetime, I can't say.
I'm not exactly sure - but has Firefox FINALLY added UAC support? And by UAC sandboxing, I mean low-integrity mode?
Low-integrity mode is a limited-IPC mode where processes are sandboxed both on filesystem and registry access and cannot access files outside the sandbox. It's required to use IPC to communicate with helper processes with higher level priviledges, and since a low-integrity process can't do UI interactions with medium/high integrity processes (so they can't dismiss dialog boxes), the helper can pop up dialogs that say "Do you really want to download this file?" that can't be dismissed. (The low integrity browser downloads the file and the helper moves it out of the sandbox, having access to the entire filesystem).
From what I remember, IE 8+ has it, as does Chrome (though Chrome did have a Flash vulnerability because it oddly ran Flash at higher integrity). Firefox, being a monolithic application, didn't. Don't know if it does right now.
Digging up dirt on potential voters to keep them in line with some form of blackmail.
What system do we have to investigate these people should their massive campaigns succeed and their clients now have the power to pardon or otherwise shield them from the legal proccess after being elected.
Already demonstrated in Canada - the Robocall scandal. Basically the Conservative government *allegedly* (because there's no direct proof) called up a bunch of Liberal party supporters and told them their polling station had moved. Of course, people who knew better voted at their proper polling stations, but crowds gathered at the fake locations do attest to the effectiveness at voter disenfranchisement.
The election results have been tossed out by the court on at least one riding because the number of people who complained verifiably exceeded the margin of the win. What happens now is unknown - it's something the courts have never had to dealt with.
The number of complaints is also unknown - and investigations have ground to a halt because the owner of the account used a burner phone, and IP address logs have been lost.
The replica set was very far from an exact 1:1 duplicate. Just comparing pictures of it to the episodes themselves should illustrate that it's an approximation at best. Things are different colours, different shapes, in different places... The chairs stand out as particularly rough approximations, for example.
The Enterprise-D set was destroyed during filming of Star Trek Generations. A new Enterprise-E set was created for subsequent movies and that set was moved to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. The colors and stuff differ because of it. And don't confuse it with the Star Trek Exhibition that's running around (one of the sets is the TOS bridge, the other is the TNG bridge). From what appears to have happened, the E bridge was tossed into the backlot and the Exhibition was recreated.
It's also important to note that the E bridge has higher details because it was used in movies. The original D bridge could be pretty low-res because to this date, all Star Trek series have been filmed purely for SDTV, or more correctly, NTSC. A LOT of cheats go into that - what the TV camera cannot see, is not detailed. While TNG was filmed onto film, it still was processed for TV - you cannot use the film as-is.
It's important as the Blu-Ray TNG set requires basically adding a bunch of detail that never existed in the first place. It's also why there's lot of in-jokes that could appear - they'd never been seen unless the camera happened to do a real close-up.
And I bet the sets that people could walk through were "upscaled" as well because instead of having to be for the movie screen, it's now something that people can walk into and examine in detail far higher than the silver screen.
It's TV and movies. It's how they can use foam rubber weapons that still look real - they're "real enough" for the camera even though up close it looks clearly fake.
If AMD folds Intel will bend the consumer over and stuff them even harder than they are now. But if you like being penetrated by cement-filled pringles cans....
Intel won't let AMD die. Because Intel's under a LOT of scrutiny for anti-trust both in the US and abroad (remember the OEM case?).
If AMD dies, I'm certain the courts won't allow Intel to buy over the remains purely because of it (patents and such - too much would be concentrated in Intel's hands). And they'll be under heavier scrutiny once they're the only big guy in town making high-end processor chips.
And you can bet the EU would be ready to start applying lots of fines to Intel for anti-competitive practices.
So the alternative would be to find a way to prop up AMD (which Intel has apparently done by holding back their top of the line to at least make AMD more competitive), probably place orders for millions of AMD chips just to dump 'em in the landfill (to give AMD cash) or othe rmeasures. Or face years of litigation and fines over anti-trust violations and subsequent hamstringing of operations, which may even include splitting it into two - the foundry and the design.
...and I didn't have to read a disclaimer from Apple stating "Will not run OSX applications"...
That's because the things thta run OS X applications are called "Macs". Like a Mac Mini. iMac. Mac Pro. Macbook Pro. Macbook Air. And all combinations thereof . "Mac" is part of the name.
iPad and iPhone? There's no "Mac" in the name, so no expectation to run Mac apps. There's an expectation to run iPhone apps on iPad, and probably the other way around too (which doesn't work unless it's universal).
Hell, I bet there are more people complaining they can't run MacOS Classic apps (or OS X PowerPC) apps on their Macs these days than people complaining about iOS apps working on their Mac or vice-versa.
Even the iOS things in OS X like the launcher aren't shown on first boot unless you click on them, further accentuating the difference.
Windows RT though, looks a lot like regular x86 Windows. And I'm sure people think Windows apps should run on Windows. Windows 8 RT and Windows 8? It's bound to be horrendously confused. After all, there's what, Windows 8 RT, Windows 8 Standard, Windows 8 Professional?
Hell I've had people ask about running Windows apps back when I worked on Windows CE.
What would be great is if GoG would distribute some classic Mac games like Marathon or Escape Velocity. Or the 640x480 Mac version of Dark Forces. These games need to be more easily available.
Marathon is available - Bungie released the engine as open source and it became Aleph One. (I don't think bungie.org is the same as bungie.com, just a very popular fansite for all things Bungie, most popular of which is HBO).
It's also available for iOS, done with Bungie's blessing back in the day (the base game is free, in-app purcahses buy cheats and all that stuff). I think Marathon 2 might be out for it as well.
Yeah, I'm wondering that too. As of a few months ago my city put up electric charging stations all around the downtown area. If there wasn't a standard, then why did the stations lack any model information.
Technically, the standard for those charging stations would be the traditional 3 pin 15 amp socket that you plug anything into. Because every electric car can plug into a atandard 110V 15A socket (at least in North America).
Problem is, the end that goes into the car isn't standard, so those charging stations rely on the user to haul around the charging cable wherever they went. And the car end is important because it has to handle charging from a 110V15A socket, but the user at home may have bought a fast charger using 220V15A or higher. And perhaps you want DC if you're wanting alternative energy so instead of wasting energy inverting and then rectifying power, you can plug straight into your battery bank.
So this stadnard means charging stations can continue to offer standard 110V sockets (with owner-provided power cord) and provide the connector at the end of a cord (like gas station nozzles) so the owner doesn't need their car cable and the car can charge faster if it needs to.
No, like every other country there are limits to free speech (ie in the US you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, direct people to actively fight against the government, and "fighting words" may limit the punishment of your attacker in an assault case).
Or in the US, I'd call it free speech, except you're responsible for said speech. Yell fire in a theatre (untruthfully)? Responsible for chaos the ensues afterwards, including trampling and deaths (and probably the multimillion dollar lawsuits from said incident).
Same as egging on an attacker - if you requested it and he delivered, well, he's not totally responsible for it.
It makes the limits more bearable and understandable. And controversial topics like hate speech can be handled either way still (either they're just a wya to get higher punishments, or you're holding people to be responsible enough to not actively antagonize a group of people).
"typically associated with long hours". You mean Apple? Sure, the extra hours are optional, but if you want 500 RSUs instead of 100 this year, you're not going home at 7.
Let's see, AAPL is $638 as of this writing, so 500 RSUs would be $319,000 or so. 100 RSUs would be $63,800. With a difference like that, it could very well be worth it. If AAPL only pays you $100K, getting a stock bonus that triples it could be worthwhile.
A Chinese Foxconn worker makes around $400/month, $4800 year. A worker in the USA would cost about 10 times as much once benefits are included.
If it takes 500,000 chinese workers to make the phone, it would probably take 600,000 - 750,000 USA workers because USA workers aren't going to put in the same amount of overtime. But it if takes 500,000....500,000 times $50,000/year is $25B/year in labor costs alone and ignores the billions it would cost to build the factories.
That's assuming a 1:1 Chinese:USA factory worker ratio, which given the more expensive American labor, is not correct.
First, unskilled jobs in the US pay VERY low - minimum wage is typical and to be completely honest, you won't find enough workers because those jobs are among the most undesirable ones that will get filled with cheap Mexican labor.
Secondly, if Apple was to target American manufacture, assuming they can get the supply chain lined up, they would employ automated manufacture - i.e., robots. That's why US workers are typically 10 or more times as productive as the Chinese because the American worker is monitoring the robots while the robots do the assembly. Given Apple's expertise in mass manufacture, it'll go from parts to boxed and sealed without the touch of a human hand (well, maybe an inspector, but that can often be automated as well).
Of course, fully automated manufacture means it won't be very repairable - all those screws and stuff are difficult for robots to put together, so it'll go together with more adhesives and stuff.
As we've seen time and time again, people are simply willing to pay more for Microsoft products than Apple products.
So true! I mean, have you priced MacOS X? Apple wants what, $30 for it? Whereas Microsoft wants Windows 7 for over $100! And people buy it!
Ditto with Office. I mean, the basic suite is $300 from Microsoft, while Apple's offering is under $100. And what do we have? Microsoft Office is everywhere.
People have shown that yes, they're willing to pay more for Microsoft products than their obviously inferior cheaper knockoff Apple ones. Windows costs more than OS X, and Office costs more than iWork.
And don't get me started on this "free software" thing. Software for nothing? There's obviously a reason why they can't charge for it.
Obviously Microsoft has to price their stuff more than Apple to give it the premium appearance. I mean, who'd want a chintzy iPad when you can get a Surface? It costs more, it's definitely better!
This sounds shockingly similar to the (possibly still-ongoing, I'm not sure) controversy over 36-hour shifts for doctors. The only real justification is "We did it when we were young, so today's young'uns should do it too! Never mind what the data says!"
And probably why malpractice insurance is so high. It's one thing to force newcomers to do it out of tradition, another to expose patients to potentially substandard care. Oh yeah, and increasing insurance rates across the board because of it.
Edublogs took the offending text off their website when they were requested to. There was a backup copy though which WAS NOT ONLINE that triggered the takedown. So, fuck Pearson, fuck the hoster, and, on Edublogs' behalf, fuck you.
Doubly so, since Pearson should've contacted Edublogs directly using their DMCA page rather than having to go through their service provider. (You can get to that page by going to "Contact Us" and scrolling to DMCA)
ServerBeach provided the servers to Edublogs, yes, but Edublogs provided services to users to post blogs and have their own DMCA page in case their users post something infringing.
Though this brings a question - how far up should one go for a DMCA request? I mean, if you can get the hosting company to do it, could you get the ISP providing the internet link to the hosting company?
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Not to mention Samsung can make boats as well. So Nokia's screwed.
And people who hate how the UI seems to change every version. One version things act one way, the next and it acts another way.
It's why people don't complain so much about Chrome because the UI tends to be fairly stable. With Firefox, it's a game of "what did they change this time around?".
Things like the status bar, the URL bar (autocomplete only does the domain nowadays rather than the full URL... very annoying), etc. I think 16.0.1 did something with the zoom control now as well... like ti seems to persist the zoom settings across site loads and windows...).
Well, iFixit's "non-repairability" pretty much means "no neanderthal with a butterknife for a screwdriver can open it" these days. After all, if you use torx screws (which were rare just a few years ago as well, nevermind security torx), there's no dings for that. But use a special screw that oh-no-I-had-no-choice-but-to-make-it-and-sell-to-the-public-and-I-don't-want-to-sell-it-to-you and it's an instant "non-repairable").
Heck, the instant the MBP Retina got an EPEAT certification iFixit denounced it publicly, even the EPEAT guys had to say "Look, it passes based on our criteria. Which like what Apple complained of, are ancient. Our criteria currently concerns itself with end of life recyclability, not middle of life repairability or upgrades. If you want, you can partiticipate in helping make new criteria. Remember when the original criteria were created, nothing passed, and now we've evolved the industry." And heck, even the recyclers were happy - they make more money recycling an Apple computer (even a difficult one like the Retina MBP) than any other computer. And technically, the recyclers were thinking of putty knives to aid disassembly.
That's the problem with iFixit - I guess even if you made something that used a common screwdriver to take apart fully, you'd be faulted for putting on a "Warranty void if broken" sticker, or if your case was a bit too tight-fitting that they had to break out a spudger.
(And yes, pentalobe screws suck, but I treat it as an intelligence test - if you can't be bothered to buy the right tools, you probably shouldn't even attempt at trying to repair stuff. Too much "butterknife screwdrivers" and the like. If you think clueless computer users who double-click on every EXE file is bad, let them loose on trying to repair stuff...).
Intel sold the ARM license to Marvell who owns the architectural license to it. Intel does re-license back the Xscale core for some of their networking processors though.
As for Xscale being crap - back in the day, StrongARM and Xscale were the top of the line - the PXA255 being one of the fastest ARM chips around. The next-generation chip was supposed to be even faster, but Intel sold it to Marvell who doesn't seem to have done anything with it.
While StrongARM was pushing 200MHz, other ARMs were barely breaking 133MHz and not very fast at it. When the PXA255 upped it to 400, it was no competition. Then ARM decided they had enough of being outclassed by Intel and designed some decent ARM11 cores and continued onward with the Cortex series.
Or no one can make a Makerbot Replicator. After all, its case is made of laser-cut wood (eek!), complete with the signature burnt edging. But then again, if the wood didn't burn up during the piece cutting stage, it could burn up while you're printing, after all, it's wood, there's a heated build platform, and a hot nozzle...
Oh yeah, laser-cut wood. If only we could figure out how to do that without igniting the wood.
Most SDRs use commonly available 192KHz/24bit ADCs and DACs these days which work fairly well (thanks to heavy commercialization of home theatre gear, these parts are cheap, common and work REALLY well).
Most SDRs are using I/Q encoding and decoding and then mxiing to bring the signal up to the desired frequency band. I say most because there are a few "direct conversion" SDRs that take an antenna input, broadband amplify it, and stick it into a ADC - you can get 250Msps 8/10/12/14/16 bit ADCs these days (thanks to Nyquist, that's DC to 125MHz or so). A bit pricey (you're looking at a couple hundred dollars per chip, in 1000 quantities), but doable. Of course, you'll need to find a way to offload that data or reduce it.
Depends on the bit-depth, but for USB 20-40MB/sec (160-320Mbps or 8/16 bit) is acheivable on most PCs. Though the problem is less USB bandwdith and more the lack of isochronous bandwidth. If you want to do this reliably, you need FireWire at a minimum (which even though is only 400Mbps, it can achieve those rates quite readily) or faster interface.
You're looking at it from a social equality perspective. Look at it from the other side - you have lots of money (and thus, power), connections with people equally powerful, and basically have it all. "Everyone else" now looks like a money-grubbing leech who wants to take your money (and power) away from you. Or enact laws restricting what you can do, further limiting your ROI and money making prospects.
So naturally you're opposed to big government (taxes - stealing your money!, legislation - stealing from your income and power with environmental/labour/etc laws, etc). You're opposed to anything that requires you to give up money (minimum wage laws), etc. Oh yeah, and to suppress dissent to prevent an uprising (ever wonder why they cracked down so quickly on Occupy?).
Hell, even philantropic companies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agendas.
It doesn't help that most politicians are also very far removed from "average joe" life - being able to own a house (or multiple), acres of land, salaries that are still a fairly big multiple of the average salary, pension plans unmatched by anyone else, etc).
Not to mention the whole walled garden thing that even the captain doesn't have root access to the computer. After all, how often do the holodecks fail? And when they do, it appears you can't shut them down.
Or they get locked out of environmental/navigation/warp/transporter/impulse controls without the ability to override them? Or allow random people to go and lock out said controls from the bridge(s) and engineering.
Then again, I suppose Apple continues to exist so maybe it's time to buy some stock - my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren can thank me.
The reason for this is because of legacy fallback mode - worldwide, Samsung can ship a GSM/HSPA/LTE phone. But in the US, that would get you only two providers - one major and one minor. If you want to have the other two major carriers, you need to add CDMA2000 support, and Samsung's chipsets don't have that. Qualcomm's does, though and in one chipset you can have GSM/CDMA/CDMA2000/HSPA/LTE support (iPhone, for example uses this). Of course the tricky bit is now the antennas and power amps - having all those basebands means you need to carefully decide which bands you want to support.
So far, chipset wise, there are three major players - Infineon (Intel), Qualcomm, and Broadcom - who make a complete end-to-end chipset for mobile telephony. It's not easy, and it's a huge patent minefield (and where patent exhaustion kicks in).
For office or building heating, Facebook's method is completely conventional - A/C comes from the roof tiles and dribbles down to the floor which mixes with the existing warmer office air (which is why A/C is on - in a lot of places, you use A/C year round), creating a somewhat even temperature vertically (the ceiling is not appreciably warmer than the floor - so you don't sweat while the floor gets cold). Likewise, you heat from the floor - the hot air rises, mixing with the colder air below to warm it up evenly vertically (instead of having the hot air stay unusefully at the ceiling while freezing on the floor).
For data centers, I think it's debatable as you have hot and cold aisles to begin with - it might make sense that the top server in a rack doesn't get hotter air than the bottom one (purely because it's warmer up top), as this stratification carries on to the hot aisle (the colder bottom server doesn't make the air as hot as the top server, making the hot aisle have hot air at the top).
Whether or not it affects server lifetime, I can't say.
I'm not exactly sure - but has Firefox FINALLY added UAC support? And by UAC sandboxing, I mean low-integrity mode?
Low-integrity mode is a limited-IPC mode where processes are sandboxed both on filesystem and registry access and cannot access files outside the sandbox. It's required to use IPC to communicate with helper processes with higher level priviledges, and since a low-integrity process can't do UI interactions with medium/high integrity processes (so they can't dismiss dialog boxes), the helper can pop up dialogs that say "Do you really want to download this file?" that can't be dismissed. (The low integrity browser downloads the file and the helper moves it out of the sandbox, having access to the entire filesystem).
From what I remember, IE 8+ has it, as does Chrome (though Chrome did have a Flash vulnerability because it oddly ran Flash at higher integrity). Firefox, being a monolithic application, didn't. Don't know if it does right now.
Already demonstrated in Canada - the Robocall scandal. Basically the Conservative government *allegedly* (because there's no direct proof) called up a bunch of Liberal party supporters and told them their polling station had moved. Of course, people who knew better voted at their proper polling stations, but crowds gathered at the fake locations do attest to the effectiveness at voter disenfranchisement.
The election results have been tossed out by the court on at least one riding because the number of people who complained verifiably exceeded the margin of the win. What happens now is unknown - it's something the courts have never had to dealt with.
The number of complaints is also unknown - and investigations have ground to a halt because the owner of the account used a burner phone, and IP address logs have been lost.
The Enterprise-D set was destroyed during filming of Star Trek Generations. A new Enterprise-E set was created for subsequent movies and that set was moved to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. The colors and stuff differ because of it. And don't confuse it with the Star Trek Exhibition that's running around (one of the sets is the TOS bridge, the other is the TNG bridge). From what appears to have happened, the E bridge was tossed into the backlot and the Exhibition was recreated.
It's also important to note that the E bridge has higher details because it was used in movies. The original D bridge could be pretty low-res because to this date, all Star Trek series have been filmed purely for SDTV, or more correctly, NTSC. A LOT of cheats go into that - what the TV camera cannot see, is not detailed. While TNG was filmed onto film, it still was processed for TV - you cannot use the film as-is.
It's important as the Blu-Ray TNG set requires basically adding a bunch of detail that never existed in the first place. It's also why there's lot of in-jokes that could appear - they'd never been seen unless the camera happened to do a real close-up.
And I bet the sets that people could walk through were "upscaled" as well because instead of having to be for the movie screen, it's now something that people can walk into and examine in detail far higher than the silver screen.
It's TV and movies. It's how they can use foam rubber weapons that still look real - they're "real enough" for the camera even though up close it looks clearly fake.
Intel won't let AMD die. Because Intel's under a LOT of scrutiny for anti-trust both in the US and abroad (remember the OEM case?).
If AMD dies, I'm certain the courts won't allow Intel to buy over the remains purely because of it (patents and such - too much would be concentrated in Intel's hands). And they'll be under heavier scrutiny once they're the only big guy in town making high-end processor chips.
And you can bet the EU would be ready to start applying lots of fines to Intel for anti-competitive practices.
So the alternative would be to find a way to prop up AMD (which Intel has apparently done by holding back their top of the line to at least make AMD more competitive), probably place orders for millions of AMD chips just to dump 'em in the landfill (to give AMD cash) or othe rmeasures. Or face years of litigation and fines over anti-trust violations and subsequent hamstringing of operations, which may even include splitting it into two - the foundry and the design.
That's because the things thta run OS X applications are called "Macs". Like a Mac Mini. iMac. Mac Pro. Macbook Pro. Macbook Air. And all combinations thereof . "Mac" is part of the name.
iPad and iPhone? There's no "Mac" in the name, so no expectation to run Mac apps. There's an expectation to run iPhone apps on iPad, and probably the other way around too (which doesn't work unless it's universal).
Hell, I bet there are more people complaining they can't run MacOS Classic apps (or OS X PowerPC) apps on their Macs these days than people complaining about iOS apps working on their Mac or vice-versa.
Even the iOS things in OS X like the launcher aren't shown on first boot unless you click on them, further accentuating the difference.
Windows RT though, looks a lot like regular x86 Windows. And I'm sure people think Windows apps should run on Windows. Windows 8 RT and Windows 8? It's bound to be horrendously confused. After all, there's what, Windows 8 RT, Windows 8 Standard, Windows 8 Professional?
Hell I've had people ask about running Windows apps back when I worked on Windows CE.
Marathon is available - Bungie released the engine as open source and it became Aleph One. (I don't think bungie.org is the same as bungie.com, just a very popular fansite for all things Bungie, most popular of which is HBO).
It's also available for iOS, done with Bungie's blessing back in the day (the base game is free, in-app purcahses buy cheats and all that stuff). I think Marathon 2 might be out for it as well.
Technically, the standard for those charging stations would be the traditional 3 pin 15 amp socket that you plug anything into. Because every electric car can plug into a atandard 110V 15A socket (at least in North America).
Problem is, the end that goes into the car isn't standard, so those charging stations rely on the user to haul around the charging cable wherever they went. And the car end is important because it has to handle charging from a 110V15A socket, but the user at home may have bought a fast charger using 220V15A or higher. And perhaps you want DC if you're wanting alternative energy so instead of wasting energy inverting and then rectifying power, you can plug straight into your battery bank.
So this stadnard means charging stations can continue to offer standard 110V sockets (with owner-provided power cord) and provide the connector at the end of a cord (like gas station nozzles) so the owner doesn't need their car cable and the car can charge faster if it needs to.
Or in the US, I'd call it free speech, except you're responsible for said speech. Yell fire in a theatre (untruthfully)? Responsible for chaos the ensues afterwards, including trampling and deaths (and probably the multimillion dollar lawsuits from said incident).
Same as egging on an attacker - if you requested it and he delivered, well, he's not totally responsible for it.
It makes the limits more bearable and understandable. And controversial topics like hate speech can be handled either way still (either they're just a wya to get higher punishments, or you're holding people to be responsible enough to not actively antagonize a group of people).
Let's see, AAPL is $638 as of this writing, so 500 RSUs would be $319,000 or so. 100 RSUs would be $63,800. With a difference like that, it could very well be worth it. If AAPL only pays you $100K, getting a stock bonus that triples it could be worthwhile.
So true! I mean, have you priced MacOS X? Apple wants what, $30 for it? Whereas Microsoft wants Windows 7 for over $100! And people buy it!
Ditto with Office. I mean, the basic suite is $300 from Microsoft, while Apple's offering is under $100. And what do we have? Microsoft Office is everywhere.
People have shown that yes, they're willing to pay more for Microsoft products than their obviously inferior cheaper knockoff Apple ones. Windows costs more than OS X, and Office costs more than iWork.
And don't get me started on this "free software" thing. Software for nothing? There's obviously a reason why they can't charge for it.
Obviously Microsoft has to price their stuff more than Apple to give it the premium appearance. I mean, who'd want a chintzy iPad when you can get a Surface? It costs more, it's definitely better!
Here's the tricky bit. If you're hosting it off your broadband, the DMCA notice goes to your ISP who then decides if they want to cut you off or not.
If it's on a hosted box you rent, your hosting provider gets the notice and they take it down. Like what happened to Edublogs.
And with the multiplicative power, doing it to a bunch of comcast subscribers only takes say one, notice.
And probably why malpractice insurance is so high. It's one thing to force newcomers to do it out of tradition, another to expose patients to potentially substandard care. Oh yeah, and increasing insurance rates across the board because of it.
Doubly so, since Pearson should've contacted Edublogs directly using their DMCA page rather than having to go through their service provider. (You can get to that page by going to "Contact Us" and scrolling to DMCA)
ServerBeach provided the servers to Edublogs, yes, but Edublogs provided services to users to post blogs and have their own DMCA page in case their users post something infringing.
Though this brings a question - how far up should one go for a DMCA request? I mean, if you can get the hosting company to do it, could you get the ISP providing the internet link to the hosting company?