This is a good point, relevant to the not-quite-low-end. I went to build out a very quiet Shuttle with similar specs to the mac mini...
We bought a Shuttle SG33 for a project where we wanted a small form factor. We also wanted to use a PCI Express frame grabber card in the PCIe slot.
Well, it turns out that you can't use the PCIe slot for anything other than a video card, because setting the jumpers that enable the PCIe slot disables the onboard video. This bug isn't documented anywhere, not in their shitty manuals or their shitty web site. And the tech-support guy had the nerve to say, "well, if you called us and asked us before you bought the product, we would have told you." Yeah, right: "Hey, Mr Shuttle: can I use a PCIe frame grabber in your computer?" "Huh?"
So if you want to do any real work, avoid Shuttle.
Yes, but those tolls would not be taxes, they would be payments to entrepreneurs for services rendered. In the libertarian mindset, that's a MUCH different thing regardless of the relative magnitude of the costs. (In other words, being charged any amount a free-market provider is better than paying any amount by taxation for that same service, no matter what the relative costs.)
So once the free-market provider locks up all of the roads and it uses that monopoly status to double the toll, then what?
What would you have done with those dollars, instead? I suspect the common libertarian answer would have been to reduce taxes and allow people to keep the money. Then the free market would have stepped someone up to the plate to begin building a nationwide network of toll roads that though not free, would have provided better road service at no taxpayer expense.
Judge Wake is a good guy, he knows when a law is bad, when a law is good and when it is just marginal. He and Rep. Russell Pearce have worked together to enact some of the best laws we have here in Arizona.
"Pearce" and "good anything" is an oxymoron. and Pearce is a moron.
However, as I'm sure others will note, Democrats tend to support sales taxes. New York is highly Democrat, and you see 8.75% sales tax. I still don't see the purpose of this. Highly Republican Arizona isn't far behind, at 8.1%.
The only thing they had going for them once upon a time was Ensoniq's IP, which they proceeded to flush down the crapper.
The thing is, at the time of Ensoniq's implosion, they were eating Creative for breakfast in the soundcard biz. Ensoniq was first with PCI soundcards which were "Soundblaster compatible" (meaning they worked with old DOS games that talked directly to the SB16's ISA-bus register space; that's completely irrelevant now but a big deal back then) and Creative couldn't get their own stuff to work. And Gateway was buying Ensoniq's cards by the boatload, and other PC vendors were looking at doing the same.
It really is too bad that Ensoniq had issues that lead to Creative buying them. Basically, Creative didn't care about the musical instrument side of Ensoniq; Creative just bought Ensoniq to shut down their better competitor.
maybe someone would download the song...and the rest of that artist's oeuvre. At least if it goes as far as it sounds like you want it to. That doesn't make money for anyone, although it does give us plenty of free music. What about you like it and support the the artist by attending at a LIVE concert??? Why are those getting away with a business model in wich the "artist" only needs to play once in the lifetime and enjoys unlimited copyright?
Think it as: Can You live on a revenue from works you performed earlier? Should they?
Well, if one considers that most artists can't fill stadiums, and most club shows barely make the bands enough money to pay for gas, earning a living just by touring is very difficult.
Also, what if you live in a city or town that's usually skipped by touring bands? The only way most people can enjoy a band's music is through recordings, not live shows.
But the MacBook could have just one card reader (like SD).
Which card reader? You might want an SD card reader, but my camera has Compact Flash, and others may prefer Yet Another Type Of Card.
There are too many choices in the card-reader world, so Apple decided to save a few bucks on the BOM and punted. If the user needs a specific card reader, then he can get it anywhere for a few bucks.
NAND flash deteriorates with use. When used in a high-I/O situations like hard drives, just how much time will it be able to work correctly? If I recall correctly, NAND blocks are guaranteed to the order of 100000 writes.
Just a modest proposal: Every government employee - except for those working on confidential stuff - should have a 24-hour PUBLIC webcam on his desk ( The camera need not point at the desk, just at the person ) , his car, or wherever he/she works. Police / sheriff / prison employees / corrections officers, etc or anyone who may at some time have someone in custody should have two separate cameras in case one malfunctions.
What's to stop, say, the Bush Administration from declaring that everything they do has national security implications and thus everything they do is secret?
Is wire-wrap better for multi-layered circuits, or something?
No, PCBs are superior.
Not always. One of the advantages of wire wrap is that the signal lines can be randomly oriented among each other cutting down crosstalk. More info can be found in Johnson and Graham's book, High Speed Digital Design, a Handbook of Black Magic. I have that book, and its sequel, Advanced Black Magic. (These names must drive the Xtian right nuts!) And while the random orientation is interesting, you get much better signal integrity if you use proper planes and maintain uniform trace impedances. Wire wrap is fine for MSI stuff but anything modern causes it to fall down.
It's more educational to do it with MSI TTL and wire-wrap. You learn something about power distribution/filtering, race conditions, fan-in and fan-out, etc. All of the analog things that you need to know in the real world. Of course you need to understand power distribution and filtering for an FPGA board. And FPGA design is NOT software design (as much as people seem to think that "Verilog is like C"), so to do a proper FPGA design, you really DO need to understand things such as race conditions, fan-in, fan-out (yes, loading is important in an FPGA), as well as synchronous logic design.
I imagine there's some advantage of wire-wrap stuff for one-off, complex circuitry - but what's wrong with printed circuit boards? In small quantities, they're more expensive than wire-wrap, although it depends on what your time is worth. Of course you can spend your time laying out a PCB or spend it doing wire wrap. I'd do the PCB. Especially if I needed more than one.
Is wire-wrap better for multi-layered circuits, or something? No, PCBs are superior. Of course there are little details that are quite important, and if you don't know what you're doing, you can easily design a PCB that doesn't work. I think the guy did it with wire wrap because it's retro. Hey, whatever floats yer boat.
Wirewrap? That's crazy talk.
It's a senior design project to implement a CPU and such in an FPGA. Do the whole thing in a Xilinx Spartan 3A.
Don't cheat and use a Virtex-4 with the PowerPC core!
Would you care to contrast that with the other media outlets who are currently run by major contributors and/or political beneficiaries of the DNC?
Media is the currency by which political capital is exchanged in this country. If you want an informed opinion you have to form your own.
FoxNews was founded to fill an entertainment gap. A news channel with a fundamentally conservative outlook, in contrast to the liberal outlook promulgated by most other outlets.
Who modded this guy insightful? Inciteful, perhaps, meaning troll.
Fine, quibble over my word choice - point is, a tube adds (audible) elements of the signal that aren't originating (per se) from the signal source and thus is quite different from a solid state amp.
Perhaps a relevant question one should ask at this point is:
Why the fuck are you running your audio system to the point where it is distorting?
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We bought a Shuttle SG33 for a project where we wanted a small form factor. We also wanted to use a PCI Express frame grabber card in the PCIe slot.
Well, it turns out that you can't use the PCIe slot for anything other than a video card, because setting the jumpers that enable the PCIe slot disables the onboard video. This bug isn't documented anywhere, not in their shitty manuals or their shitty web site. And the tech-support guy had the nerve to say, "well, if you called us and asked us before you bought the product, we would have told you." Yeah, right: "Hey, Mr Shuttle: can I use a PCIe frame grabber in your computer?" "Huh?"
So if you want to do any real work, avoid Shuttle.
So once the free-market provider locks up all of the roads and it uses that monopoly status to double the toll, then what?
So the people who pay tolls are not taxpayers?
-a"It's OK if you are a Republican."
"Pearce" and "good anything" is an oxymoron. and Pearce is a moron.
The thing is, at the time of Ensoniq's implosion, they were eating Creative for breakfast in the soundcard biz. Ensoniq was first with PCI soundcards which were "Soundblaster compatible" (meaning they worked with old DOS games that talked directly to the SB16's ISA-bus register space; that's completely irrelevant now but a big deal back then) and Creative couldn't get their own stuff to work. And Gateway was buying Ensoniq's cards by the boatload, and other PC vendors were looking at doing the same.
It really is too bad that Ensoniq had issues that lead to Creative buying them. Basically, Creative didn't care about the musical instrument side of Ensoniq; Creative just bought Ensoniq to shut down their better competitor.
EVERYTHING that the airlines do is done in the worst possible way.
The above statement isn't trolling ... it's just stating the obvious. Sure, torture and war are perfectly acceptable, but sex? That's bad!
Except if your name is Warren Jeffs and then it's OK to have sex with underage girls.
in the War On Terror. Bushco does warrantless wiretaps, Musharrif blocks the internet. Lovely.
That said, FiOS can't be rolled out fast enough. Sadly, most people have either cable or DSL and sometimes only cable as a choice for broad band.
What makes you think Verizon (or whomever) won't throttle traffic on a FiOS network in the same way?
-aThe conspiracy theories question WHY the lines were cut, not that they were.
The average US citizen wants Iranian citizens to have 100% free and uncensored internet access.
Dubya and his neocon enablers want another war.
Think it as: Can You live on a revenue from works you performed earlier? Should they?
Well, if one considers that most artists can't fill stadiums, and most club shows barely make the bands enough money to pay for gas, earning a living just by touring is very difficult.
Also, what if you live in a city or town that's usually skipped by touring bands? The only way most people can enjoy a band's music is through recordings, not live shows.
Which card reader? You might want an SD card reader, but my camera has Compact Flash, and others may prefer Yet Another Type Of Card.
There are too many choices in the card-reader world, so Apple decided to save a few bucks on the BOM and punted. If the user needs a specific card reader, then he can get it anywhere for a few bucks.
Do a web search for "flash wear leveling."
-aWhat's to stop, say, the Bush Administration from declaring that everything they do has national security implications and thus everything they do is secret?
Oh, wait, they already do that ...
No, PCBs are superior.Not always. One of the advantages of wire wrap is that the signal lines can be randomly oriented among each other cutting down crosstalk. More info can be found in Johnson and Graham's book, High Speed Digital Design, a Handbook of Black Magic. I have that book, and its sequel, Advanced Black Magic. (These names must drive the Xtian right nuts!) And while the random orientation is interesting, you get much better signal integrity if you use proper planes and maintain uniform trace impedances.
Wire wrap is fine for MSI stuff but anything modern causes it to fall down.
In small quantities, they're more expensive than wire-wrap, although it depends on what your time is worth. Of course you can spend your time laying out a PCB or spend it doing wire wrap. I'd do the PCB. Especially if I needed more than one. Is wire-wrap better for multi-layered circuits, or something? No, PCBs are superior. Of course there are little details that are quite important, and if you don't know what you're doing, you can easily design a PCB that doesn't work.
I think the guy did it with wire wrap because it's retro. Hey, whatever floats yer boat.
Wirewrap? That's crazy talk. It's a senior design project to implement a CPU and such in an FPGA. Do the whole thing in a Xilinx Spartan 3A. Don't cheat and use a Virtex-4 with the PowerPC core!
Media is the currency by which political capital is exchanged in this country. If you want an informed opinion you have to form your own.
FoxNews was founded to fill an entertainment gap. A news channel with a fundamentally conservative outlook, in contrast to the liberal outlook promulgated by most other outlets.
Who modded this guy insightful? Inciteful, perhaps, meaning troll.
You do realize that we haven't had a draft since right after the Vietnam War?
Buy a spool of their wire and solder on the connectors of your choice.
Perhaps a relevant question one should ask at this point is:
Why the fuck are you running your audio system to the point where it is distorting?