Because powering down PCs requires more infrastructure, you can't set up WOL without some pretty solid DHCP systems, and it's an added management concern. What happens when a PC doesn't wake like it's supposed to? another help desk call.
There's also the fact that power cycling reduces system life. Some businesses are still running horribly old unreliable systems, like this 1st-gen p4 at my desk. Turning it off every night will make it fail sooner, especially in the components that are already expensive and low reliability: power supplies and hard drives.
Non-natural born citizens are not denied the role of President due to any lower social status. The president must be natural born for security reasons, and as part of a large list of qualifications: age, and lack of criminal record some of the biggest.
Microsoft has influenced the resale price of the software package--Office Home & Student 2007--in an anticompetitive manner
The key here is Microsoft's multiple editions of the same software. Providing the same piece of software to multiple markets while pricing each market differently sounds a lot like price fixing to me.
Consider this: Office is unsurprisingly a product that is targeted for Offices. Other companies could produce a set of non-enterprise editing software and price it appropriately, for approximately the same that Microsoft charges for their student editions. Unfortunately for any would-be competitors the market is locked out; nobody is going to buy non-enterprise software when they can get enterprise for the same price, plus it's the same thing they're already using at work.
As near as I can tell, there is no requirement that another market force is already hurting from your practices to be anti-competitive. Merely stopping a potential market should be enough.
No, the technician did the correct thing by not filtering an internet line. High db drops and/or amplification of ip traffic tends to cause lots of problems, so the correct thing to do is split internet first, then filter/split everything else later.
Of course adding a consumer grade splitter before your internet connection is not a good idea, expect the splitter to randomly stop working at around 6 month intervals.
I can only guess they're referring to differently priced SSDs. Some cost in the thousands, but provide top-teir performance. Their price would be justified at approximately 1/3rd the current price, as that's what would be necessary to provide similar cost/performance to a raid array of rotational drives.
On the other hand, the low cost MLC ssds typically provide lower performance than a single rotational drive at a cost premium in the range of about 100x the cost of a rotational drive. These lower cost drives are frequently seen as needing an improvement to capacity to be worth considering, you see them in 64gb sizes and the like. They would have to be available at a price lower than rotational drives in similar capacities to be considered, which would a 100+ scale price reduction.
I'm not seeing the 3000x reduction necessary, I guess a small exaggeration for effect may be the source of that.
"Back In The Day", it was only possible to run Mac OS on Apple computers. While it may have been nice to get your hands on an updated version on your old Apple hardware, that same hardware wouldn't have been able to run it smoothly anyway.
Binary only free releases aren't typically very exciting, and are even less so when the only target platform is so decidedly small.
EVGA is just one of those companies that gives manufacturer support a good name. Even when their products are junk, and most of them are, they stand by and provide the best of customer service.
To all the naysayers: towing capacity has little to do with engine power and is more reliant on the frame toughness, drive-train, and transmission.
Chevrolet's 4-speed automatics were just as solid in 84 as they are now, and the frame was significantly tougher. Even the 200hp from a 305 that was popular back then is enough for towing quite a bit of weight, so long as you don't need to do it at 100mph.
The usefulness can actually be heavily limited. Nvidia and Intel, respectively the largest manufacturers of GPUs and CPUs both have horrible idle-power draws. An Nvidia GPU will typically pull over half of load watts while idle, and intel's processors generally just under half at idle. Pair that with one of the horribly inefficient northbridges from either intel or nvidia and you have a system that together actually uses a good bit more than half of full load at idle. Considering that even moderate usage is closer to idle than full load and the max usage is even less useful.
Case in point: first generation netbooks. Intel's ~5watts atom 270 was paired with a 945 chipset which can use up to 40 watts. Since the chipset power usage is flat, the maximum and typical power consumption is going to be almost identical (especially when used along with an SSD.)
The real problem with rating systems based on maximum load has to do with how much power a system pulls at idle or near idle state. An AMD processor/chipset/gpu system will idle at less than half of a competitive Intel/nvidia hybrid, while the AMD system will only use slightly less at full load.
Of course passing a vehicle incurs some risk; that doesn't stop the fact that sitting behind the offending vehicle often involves many others passing you. The ones who don't pass end up just forming a train of vehicles, which is what causes so many multi-car pile-ups.
I know the "weave" driving style, which requires someone to constantly change lanes in order to keep up their speed; it's insanely dangerous and not worth the risk. Unfortunately there's 10 times the drivers who won't pass at all, even where that's what is necessary for safety.
Liskov is a horrible author, and given my experience with her thoughts from "Program Development in Java," I would guess she is a horrible coder as well. Don't be conned into buying books based an award; her works are conflicting where they aren't simply wrong.
Ebay double and triple dips when it comes to listing fees. Depending on the listing you are charged for: base listing cost + some percentage of starting bid/reserve price; additionally you are charged for a percentage of the ending price.
Ebay does not charge more for listings based on the shipping fees, which is what encourages sellers to gouge so much.
It's more than just an inherent fear of diesel that's keeping diesel vehicles from being popular. Diesel is a higher cost option on new vehicles, and it's more expensive fuel. You can get a 40mpg jetta diesel or a 35mpg civic for around the same price, the volkswagen will be more expensive to maintain, less adequate on the road, and will cost you more in fill-ups. Apparently the only reason to buy a Volkswagon is if you're stuck on Brook Shields.
They (Microsoft) will happily charge you for an SDK and a compiler. Last I checked, Visual Studio + an MSDN subscription will cost you in the neighborhood of $1000.
Apple could get away with the same thing, and that's probably all Microsoft expects.
Yes, 54Mbps is plenty for a single HD stream. The maximum bit-rate allowed by the blu-ray standard is 40Mbits, which doesn't leave a whole lot of headroom, but even 1080p typical is usually more in the 20Mbps range.
That was posted a while ago. I know because I pointed out the authors misunderstandings in the firehose submission. Seeing as how "TechForensics" didn't realize his stupidity and have it pulled, I'd have to assume that he was intentionally spreading FUD.
You seem to be confusing the idea of currently online players with subscribers. Truth is, it's very difficult to tell how many users there were on any particular game back in 2000. Most of the games weren't strictly subscriber based, and without monthly fees even the ones that were (like TEN, Internet Gaming Zone, Mplayer, etc) all had free options so many users could have multiple accounts.
In truth there probably were a few less than 10 million users playing online games, but that's considering users played more than one game. I for example had accounts on TEN, IGZ, mplayer, and probably a few other services that I've forgotten by now. The same idea exists with WoW; check craigslist, I'm sure you'll find a few accounts being sold publicly for your area.
Blame the government for what? I've been watching DTV ads for over a year, and recently a lot of the local affiliates have even started their own recordings to reflect the changes.
When we push back the deadline a full 4 months it just makes infomercials less reliable, and will hamper any transition communication in the future.
The only thing I think that the DTV transition project can be faulted for is the coupon methods. 1, you have to request a DTV converter box coupon. 2, the coupon expires if it isn't used rather quickly (This is good for getting people to actually use them, but it's an extra complication.) 3, the store you buy a box from has to file the coupon. It's a lot of work for someone that doesn't subscribe to cable, off-the-grid folks don't usually like to be bothered with a multi-step paperwork process.
I'd be skeptical with regards to building an i7 laptop. Even the 920 is rated at 130watts; add an x58 and decent gpu to go along with it and you'll easily be up to 250-300 watts. Triple-channel memory (although not a requirement for i7 systems) requires more circuits, and there's a reason why the early x58-based boards were actually eATX.
It may be possible to squeeze that much power and bus width into a 17" notebook, but you'd sacrifice much-needed power management. A 19-21" form factor wouldn't be nearly as tight, and if you're lugging around 12+lbs, you might as well get a nice sized screen to go with it.
I've read through a lot of open software documentation, as well as some non-open documentation.
The only real difference seems to be the readability of open documentation; it's easy to read, but I wouldn't say I've found any form of doucmentation to be particularly reliable.
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Because powering down PCs requires more infrastructure, you can't set up WOL without some pretty solid DHCP systems, and it's an added management concern. What happens when a PC doesn't wake like it's supposed to? another help desk call.
There's also the fact that power cycling reduces system life. Some businesses are still running horribly old unreliable systems, like this 1st-gen p4 at my desk. Turning it off every night will make it fail sooner, especially in the components that are already expensive and low reliability: power supplies and hard drives.
For those who can't see through the trolling...
Non-natural born citizens are not denied the role of President due to any lower social status. The president must be natural born for security reasons, and as part of a large list of qualifications: age, and lack of criminal record some of the biggest.
I think you could include low-power, although that's not really a word.
The key here is Microsoft's multiple editions of the same software. Providing the same piece of software to multiple markets while pricing each market differently sounds a lot like price fixing to me.
Consider this: Office is unsurprisingly a product that is targeted for Offices. Other companies could produce a set of non-enterprise editing software and price it appropriately, for approximately the same that Microsoft charges for their student editions. Unfortunately for any would-be competitors the market is locked out; nobody is going to buy non-enterprise software when they can get enterprise for the same price, plus it's the same thing they're already using at work.
As near as I can tell, there is no requirement that another market force is already hurting from your practices to be anti-competitive. Merely stopping a potential market should be enough.
No, the technician did the correct thing by not filtering an internet line. High db drops and/or amplification of ip traffic tends to cause lots of problems, so the correct thing to do is split internet first, then filter/split everything else later.
Of course adding a consumer grade splitter before your internet connection is not a good idea, expect the splitter to randomly stop working at around 6 month intervals.
I can only guess they're referring to differently priced SSDs. Some cost in the thousands, but provide top-teir performance. Their price would be justified at approximately 1/3rd the current price, as that's what would be necessary to provide similar cost/performance to a raid array of rotational drives.
On the other hand, the low cost MLC ssds typically provide lower performance than a single rotational drive at a cost premium in the range of about 100x the cost of a rotational drive. These lower cost drives are frequently seen as needing an improvement to capacity to be worth considering, you see them in 64gb sizes and the like. They would have to be available at a price lower than rotational drives in similar capacities to be considered, which would a 100+ scale price reduction.
I'm not seeing the 3000x reduction necessary, I guess a small exaggeration for effect may be the source of that.
"Back In The Day", it was only possible to run Mac OS on Apple computers. While it may have been nice to get your hands on an updated version on your old Apple hardware, that same hardware wouldn't have been able to run it smoothly anyway.
Binary only free releases aren't typically very exciting, and are even less so when the only target platform is so decidedly small.
EVGA is just one of those companies that gives manufacturer support a good name. Even when their products are junk, and most of them are, they stand by and provide the best of customer service.
N00bs on my slashdot? Real gamers don't use arrow keys.
To all the naysayers: towing capacity has little to do with engine power and is more reliant on the frame toughness, drive-train, and transmission.
Chevrolet's 4-speed automatics were just as solid in 84 as they are now, and the frame was significantly tougher. Even the 200hp from a 305 that was popular back then is enough for towing quite a bit of weight, so long as you don't need to do it at 100mph.
The usefulness can actually be heavily limited. Nvidia and Intel, respectively the largest manufacturers of GPUs and CPUs both have horrible idle-power draws. An Nvidia GPU will typically pull over half of load watts while idle, and intel's processors generally just under half at idle. Pair that with one of the horribly inefficient northbridges from either intel or nvidia and you have a system that together actually uses a good bit more than half of full load at idle. Considering that even moderate usage is closer to idle than full load and the max usage is even less useful.
Case in point: first generation netbooks. Intel's ~5watts atom 270 was paired with a 945 chipset which can use up to 40 watts. Since the chipset power usage is flat, the maximum and typical power consumption is going to be almost identical (especially when used along with an SSD.)
The real problem with rating systems based on maximum load has to do with how much power a system pulls at idle or near idle state. An AMD processor/chipset/gpu system will idle at less than half of a competitive Intel/nvidia hybrid, while the AMD system will only use slightly less at full load.
"(and passing always incurs some risk)."
Of course passing a vehicle incurs some risk; that doesn't stop the fact that sitting behind the offending vehicle often involves many others passing you. The ones who don't pass end up just forming a train of vehicles, which is what causes so many multi-car pile-ups.
I know the "weave" driving style, which requires someone to constantly change lanes in order to keep up their speed; it's insanely dangerous and not worth the risk. Unfortunately there's 10 times the drivers who won't pass at all, even where that's what is necessary for safety.
Liskov is a horrible author, and given my experience with her thoughts from "Program Development in Java," I would guess she is a horrible coder as well. Don't be conned into buying books based an award; her works are conflicting where they aren't simply wrong.
Ebay double and triple dips when it comes to listing fees. Depending on the listing you are charged for: base listing cost + some percentage of starting bid/reserve price; additionally you are charged for a percentage of the ending price.
Ebay does not charge more for listings based on the shipping fees, which is what encourages sellers to gouge so much.
LS works great in the powershell. It's like cmd with a blue background PLUS ls!
It's more than just an inherent fear of diesel that's keeping diesel vehicles from being popular. Diesel is a higher cost option on new vehicles, and it's more expensive fuel. You can get a 40mpg jetta diesel or a 35mpg civic for around the same price, the volkswagen will be more expensive to maintain, less adequate on the road, and will cost you more in fill-ups. Apparently the only reason to buy a Volkswagon is if you're stuck on Brook Shields.
They (Microsoft) will happily charge you for an SDK and a compiler. Last I checked, Visual Studio + an MSDN subscription will cost you in the neighborhood of $1000.
Apple could get away with the same thing, and that's probably all Microsoft expects.
Yes, 54Mbps is plenty for a single HD stream. The maximum bit-rate allowed by the blu-ray standard is 40Mbits, which doesn't leave a whole lot of headroom, but even 1080p typical is usually more in the 20Mbps range.
That was posted a while ago. I know because I pointed out the authors misunderstandings in the firehose submission. Seeing as how "TechForensics" didn't realize his stupidity and have it pulled, I'd have to assume that he was intentionally spreading FUD.
You seem to be confusing the idea of currently online players with subscribers. Truth is, it's very difficult to tell how many users there were on any particular game back in 2000. Most of the games weren't strictly subscriber based, and without monthly fees even the ones that were (like TEN, Internet Gaming Zone, Mplayer, etc) all had free options so many users could have multiple accounts.
In truth there probably were a few less than 10 million users playing online games, but that's considering users played more than one game. I for example had accounts on TEN, IGZ, mplayer, and probably a few other services that I've forgotten by now. The same idea exists with WoW; check craigslist, I'm sure you'll find a few accounts being sold publicly for your area.
Blame the government for what? I've been watching DTV ads for over a year, and recently a lot of the local affiliates have even started their own recordings to reflect the changes.
When we push back the deadline a full 4 months it just makes infomercials less reliable, and will hamper any transition communication in the future.
The only thing I think that the DTV transition project can be faulted for is the coupon methods. 1, you have to request a DTV converter box coupon. 2, the coupon expires if it isn't used rather quickly (This is good for getting people to actually use them, but it's an extra complication.) 3, the store you buy a box from has to file the coupon. It's a lot of work for someone that doesn't subscribe to cable, off-the-grid folks don't usually like to be bothered with a multi-step paperwork process.
I'd be skeptical with regards to building an i7 laptop. Even the 920 is rated at 130watts; add an x58 and decent gpu to go along with it and you'll easily be up to 250-300 watts. Triple-channel memory (although not a requirement for i7 systems) requires more circuits, and there's a reason why the early x58-based boards were actually eATX.
It may be possible to squeeze that much power and bus width into a 17" notebook, but you'd sacrifice much-needed power management.
A 19-21" form factor wouldn't be nearly as tight, and if you're lugging around 12+lbs, you might as well get a nice sized screen to go with it.
I've read through a lot of open software documentation, as well as some non-open documentation.
The only real difference seems to be the readability of open documentation; it's easy to read, but I wouldn't say I've found any form of doucmentation to be particularly reliable.
My Creative Zen Sleek Photo from 2005 has an OLED screen, and I paid $65 for it (admittedly at a large discount).
It does make me feel cool until I realize that the thing is still a piece of junk.
The Prius is not an electric car, it's a hybrid. It doesn't use NiMH batteries either.