There may not be enough bandwidth if everybody maxes out their line all the time with eg. p2p. But in reality bandwidth is much like cpu power. 95% of the time you are only using a fraction of it, but it is nice to have when you need the extra power.
It's volume increases when it turns to ice. Of cause it's weight stays the same.
When you drop an ice cube in water it dispatches it's weight in water, but since it's volume is greater than than the water it dispatches, it floates and roughly 10% of the ice cube is above water.
And no if you freeze 1 oz of water you an ice cube bigger than one oz. But that has nothing to do with it's weight.
Digital content is not broadcast using ATSC in europe. We use the DVB standard.
They are both supersets of MPEG-2 but service information is encoded in a different way, and the tuner hardware is also different. And then there is the whole PAL/NTSC issue, but I'm not sure it applies to HDTV and almost all tv's nowdays can display both NTSC and PAL anyway.
There is another good reason for using linux in comsumer devices: royalties.
The profit margin is usually quite low on stuff like satellite recievers and other low end set-top boxes. Often the profit margin is lower than the price for putting windows on such a box.
More devices than you think is running linux (at least in europe where I live). They just don't brag about it because as you say it is not a major selling point unless to a few techies.
I will not buy a 40GB 2.5" harddrives because a 120GB 3.5" one have more storage and just a little bit more.
The main reason for buying am ipod mini is it's size . You can't measure mp3 player by price/GB alone. There are other factors (mainly design and size).
More people than you think is installing debian in strange ways.
I recently installed debian on a MIPS based Set Top Box, via a nfs mounted home directory and a serial console. I mainly did this because the linux system that came with it from the chip vendor was a screwed up redhat port and I liked Debian better when developing for the platform.
Guess they are thinking about people who do not use the compiled versions and compile and install it themselves, or use the compiled linux version (which is a tar ball).
All they are saying do not configure, make, make install without making sure you have cleaned out any previous install.
Actually the administrator account has the same the same control over the system as on other *NIX systems. Even thu the administrator account is not root he/she can always start a shell do a "sudo bash" and get a root shell.
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There may not be enough bandwidth if everybody maxes out their line all the time with eg. p2p. But in reality bandwidth is much like cpu power. 95% of the time you are only using a fraction of it, but it is nice to have when you need the extra power.
Just one question: Why do Ice float?
Water expands when it freezes. Period.
It's volume increases when it turns to ice. Of cause it's weight stays the same.
When you drop an ice cube in water it dispatches it's weight in water, but since it's volume is greater than than the water it dispatches, it floates and roughly 10% of the ice cube is above water.
And no if you freeze 1 oz of water you an ice cube bigger than one oz. But that has nothing to do with it's weight.
Can you please recharge my laptop because I'm not allowed to plug it into the grid, and I really need to hack this site.
Digital content is not broadcast using ATSC in europe. We use the DVB standard.
They are both supersets of MPEG-2 but service information is encoded in a different way, and the tuner hardware is also different. And then there is the whole PAL/NTSC issue, but I'm not sure it applies to HDTV and almost all tv's nowdays can display both NTSC and PAL anyway.
There is another good reason for using linux in comsumer devices: royalties.
The profit margin is usually quite low on stuff like satellite recievers and other low end set-top boxes. Often the profit margin is lower than the price for putting windows on such a box.
More devices than you think is running linux (at least in europe where I live). They just don't brag about it because as you say it is not a major selling point unless to a few techies.
That argument is about the same as:
I will not buy a 40GB 2.5" harddrives because a 120GB 3.5" one have more storage and just a little bit more.
The main reason for buying am ipod mini is it's size . You can't measure mp3 player by price/GB alone. There are other factors (mainly design and size).
More people than you think is installing debian in strange ways.
I recently installed debian on a MIPS based Set Top Box, via a nfs mounted home directory and a serial console. I mainly did this because the linux system that came with it from the chip vendor was a screwed up redhat port and I liked Debian better when developing for the platform.
Guess they are thinking about people who do not use the compiled versions and compile and install it themselves, or use the compiled linux version (which is a tar ball).
All they are saying do not configure, make, make install without making sure you have cleaned out any previous install.
Actually the administrator account has the same the same control over the system as on other *NIX systems. Even thu the administrator account is not root he/she can always start a shell do a "sudo bash" and get a root shell.