I strongly disagree. The whole idea is nonsense. If there is a failure of the "command channel" in the table, everything I said is correct. Do you trust Ikea to make 100% reliable electronics?
A few days ago, at a store called Dollar Tree, I bought a Charge and Sync dock for $1. Wouldn't a dock be better than buying cheap-looking Ikea furniture, especially since the convenience is minimal or non-existent?
Who would EVER put an expensive phone flat on a table??? That's asking for trouble. It's easy to knock it off.
I'm NOT saying the $1 dock is better. I'm saying that a dock is better than laying a phone flat on a table. (The $1 dock needs a charging transformer, of course.)
Look at the Wikipedia page to which you linked! Quoting: "This article appears to be written like an advertisement."
Air core transformers, especially air core transformers with distance between the primary and secondary, don't transfer much energy. Do you want to wait longer because you bought an ugly-looking Ikea table?
Quote from the article: "The wireless charging works through an energy induction transfer."
Translation #1: There is a coil in the table. There is a coil in the back of the phone. The 2 coils act as a transformer with an air core. That only works if you bought a new phone. (And paid huge amounts for it including the 2-year contract.)
Problem: The coil in the table will also induct energy (induce electricity) into anything that conducts electricity.
So, if a child puts a phone on the charger area that is not one meant for rear-side induction, there will likely be problems.
Library books have chips with high-frequency antennas. The chips help libraries prevent theft. It is possible that putting electricity into the antennas will cause problems.
What else could go wrong? Lots. Some of the chemicals in your body are conductive. So, if you rest your hand on the table, the coil will cause electrical current in your hand.
Translation #2: The CEO of Ikea has no technical knowledge.
Jumping to page 3 of the article in SpritesMods.com: Parts on the [hard disk] PCB:"My target was to try and compromise the security of a system by using hard disk firmware mods."
Other people are not having that problem. That's what makes me think the problem is due to some weird interaction with the video driver. Maybe, instead of storing the video in memory, it is writing it to the paging file.
I just tried an 82 megabyte MP4 file with VLC 2.1.5 and had no problems selecting a time in the video well past the middle.
Then I tried a 3-hour VIDEO_TS on a dual layer DVD. I was able to select any time in the video instantly.
Ivy Bridge, i7-3770, 16 GB of memory, Win 7 Ultimate.
A next step would be to visit the web site of the manufacturer of the motherboard and install any newer versions of the BIOS or chipset drivers.
Sometimes motherboard manufacturers modify the Intel software, so it is necessary to deal with that. For example, the RAID drivers may have been modified.
Summary: Don't blame yourself for everything. Maybe your problems are at least partly due to the worsening dis-functionality of the entire U.S. culture.
I'm writing a book that provides far more detail, but it will be perhaps 2 years until my book is published.
Use Adblock Edge. By hiding what it was doing, Adblock Plus has killed itself.
By hiding what it was doing when it sneakily adopted Microsoft Bing search, calling it Yahoo search, Mozilla Foundation has done irreparable harm to Firefox. Mozilla Foundation seems to be driving users to the Pale Moon 64-bit version of Firefox with Adblock Latitude.
Often when someone complains about their experiences on Slashdot, someone else post a comment with a superior attitude, saying that he has never had that problem.
Please consider that maybe you don't understand the conditions.
The element of the U.S. culture in which males compete with each other is annoying and defeating.
Firefox is extraordinarily important to all of humanity. Without the
open-source Firefox, our communication with each other with web pages would be
severely limited by abusive managers of huge companies. For example, Microsoft's
Internet Explorer version 6 had an enormous number of quirks; web designers wasted
huge amounts of time dealing with that.
Mozilla Foundation has exhibited a combination of excellent and poor management, in my
opinion.
Add-ons are very useful. One of the most important aspects of Firefox is the
huge number of Add-ons available. Here are some I've found necessary:
Adblock Edge, ads were yesterday! Attacks sometimes pose as ads. Stop tracking.
Advertisers of run annoying ads.
Classic Theme Restorer, required because of Mozilla Foundation's bad management of
GUIs.
Close tabs to the left, title says it all. What? Why is that necessary? Why does
Firefox have only "Close tabs to the right"?
Cookies Manager+, needed because of poor management of Slashdot by the parent company,
Dice Holdings.
FEBE, backup your Firefox data. Restores only to the same profile. Use MozBackup to
restore to a different profile, such as when you move to the Pale Moon 64-bit version
of Firefox to get away from Mozilla Foundation bad management.
Ghostery, protect your privacy.
iMacros for Firefox, help jump through log-on hoops.
Mozilla Archive Format, save everything you see displayed on a web page.
NoScript, protect against attacks, stop tracking.
Nuke Anything, Enhanced, remove areas of a web page.
Restart-less Restart, Firefox frequently crashes when there are many windows and tabs,
because of the memory-hogging bug that Mozilla Foundation hasn't fixed in 9 years.
Session Manager, when Firefox crashes, go back to the Windows and tabs you had before
the crash.
Session Manager Export Tool, export windows and tabs of a Firefox session to HTML.
Snap Links Plus, opens multiple links inside a selected area.
Protecting citizens against public fraud is one of the major functions of a healthy government. As I said above, I can remember when the U.S. government protected its citizens against fraud.
If rich people and corporations are allowed to be extraordinarily destructive to everyone in the world as a way of making money, then there is effectively a dictatorship and citizens are, effectively, slaves.
Matt Taibbi gives a huge amount of detail about the collapse of U.S. society as we have known it: The Divide. Quoting from the Amazon web page: "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".
"Private or publicly listed firms received at least $138 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for government contracts for services that included providing private security, building infrastructure and feeding the troops."
After the public spent hundreds of billions of dollars to avoid cholesterol, now there is the understanding that cholesterol you eat does not affect your health. That has been known for many years.
The same fraud is happening now with gluten. Even foods that never had gluten are being advertised as gluten-free.
Foods advertised as "low-fat" or "reduced fat" are often foods with extra water that include various thickeners.
For more detail about U.S. government corruption, see Matt Taibbi's book, The Divide.
The U.S. government has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any country in the history of the world. (The rate of 707 prisoners per 100,000 population is artificially reduced because of all the exclusions.)
Part of the reason the prison rate is so high is that, in the U.S., prisons are a very profitable business, with little oversight and plenty of chances to be abusive. For some detail, see Matt Taibbi's book, The Divide.
Slashdot removes "& # 39;" HTML characters (Without spaces or quote marks that is an apostrophe.). So, there are many places in the above comment where the ' characters aren't shown.
"The memory leak? It simply doesnt exist." -- Part of the parent comment.
If I have a lot of windows and tabs open in Firefox, the memory usage begins
increasing even when I am doing nothing with Firefox. Eventually there is a
crash. With the most recent versions of Firefox, the crash seldom starts the
crash reporter. Instead of reporting the crash, the screen goes black. So, there
are more crashes than are being reported.
In 2006, there were only 12 excuses for the instability. Now there are many more.
Mozilla Foundation
Top 21 Excuses
for Not Fixing the
Firefox Memory and CPU Hogging bugs
These are actual excuses given at one time or another. They are not all the
excuses, just the top 21.
1) Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same memory and CPU
hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of TEN
years.]
2) Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug
eventually causes Firefox to take 100% of the power of one CPU, and makes
Windows 7 unusable, even after Firefox is killed. The bug affects the
heaviest users of Firefox, those who do a lot of research online.]
3) Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users
have reported the bug. See the links.]
4) Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did
a simplified test, which didnt show the bug.]
5) No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report,
they would know that there is often no TalkBack report, because the bug
crashes TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack cannot
generate a report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
6) If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They
didnt bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information
provided.]
7) This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is
invalid. [The other bugs arent specified.]
8) You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the
same use does not crash any version of Chrome or Opera.]
9) I dont like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didnt
read it or think about it.]
10) You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself.
[Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem,
and we may fix it.]
11) Many bugs that are filed arent important to 99.99% of the users.
12) If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be
trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is
beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to
magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is
the most unstable program in common use.]
13) Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are
extensions advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
14) Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has
been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports
discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely
clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The
CPU hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
15) If you are technically knowledgeable, you can spend several hours (or
days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic
- Firefox
"Chrome development seems to not only be heavy-handed, but sometimes smacks of the old days of Microsoft in terms of compatibility/heterogeneity."
I agree. That's why I stopped using Google's Chrome. On one computer Google installed three system services without notifying me:
Google Update Service (gupdate), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"/svc
Google Update Service (gupdatem), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"/medsvc
Google Updater Service (gusvc), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe"
Why does Google want to run programs every time I use that computer, rather than notifying me of available updates when I run Chrome? I wasn't asked if it was okay to do that.
Also shocking: Installing Google Chrome caused the installation of a Google Chrome plug-in into Firefox. Why does Google want to have control over my use of Firefox?
Slashdot Mirror
I strongly disagree. The whole idea is nonsense. If there is a failure of the "command channel" in the table, everything I said is correct. Do you trust Ikea to make 100% reliable electronics?
A few days ago, at a store called Dollar Tree, I bought a Charge and Sync dock for $1. Wouldn't a dock be better than buying cheap-looking Ikea furniture, especially since the convenience is minimal or non-existent?
Who would EVER put an expensive phone flat on a table??? That's asking for trouble. It's easy to knock it off.
I'm NOT saying the $1 dock is better. I'm saying that a dock is better than laying a phone flat on a table. (The $1 dock needs a charging transformer, of course.)
Look at the Wikipedia page to which you linked! Quoting: "This article appears to be written like an advertisement."
Air core transformers, especially air core transformers with distance between the primary and secondary, don't transfer much energy. Do you want to wait longer because you bought an ugly-looking Ikea table?
Quote from the article: "The wireless charging works through an energy induction transfer."
Translation #1: There is a coil in the table. There is a coil in the back of the phone. The 2 coils act as a transformer with an air core. That only works if you bought a new phone. (And paid huge amounts for it including the 2-year contract.)
Problem: The coil in the table will also induct energy (induce electricity) into anything that conducts electricity.
So, if a child puts a phone on the charger area that is not one meant for rear-side induction, there will likely be problems.
Library books have chips with high-frequency antennas. The chips help libraries prevent theft. It is possible that putting electricity into the antennas will cause problems.
What else could go wrong? Lots. Some of the chemicals in your body are conductive. So, if you rest your hand on the table, the coil will cause electrical current in your hand.
Translation #2: The CEO of Ikea has no technical knowledge.
We need open source hard drive firmware.
We also need open source integrated circuits.
Jumping to page 3 of the article in SpritesMods.com: Parts on the [hard disk] PCB: "My target was to try and compromise the security of a system by using hard disk firmware mods."
Interesting.
You said, "... poor program management, lack of requirements management, and often also marketing-driven decision-making."
Overall, that is poor management of technical projects. The biggest single problem? Dishonesty, on several levels.
The first step in improving management is to get everyone to understand that there is poor management.
"This is a cultural thing. Asian cultures are strongly hierarchical: you always agree with the guy above you. Never argue."
That's an important insight. I often talk about that with friends.
Other people are not having that problem. That's what makes me think the problem is due to some weird interaction with the video driver. Maybe, instead of storing the video in memory, it is writing it to the paging file.
I just tried an 82 megabyte MP4 file with VLC 2.1.5 and had no problems selecting a time in the video well past the middle.
Then I tried a 3-hour VIDEO_TS on a dual layer DVD. I was able to select any time in the video instantly.
Ivy Bridge, i7-3770, 16 GB of memory, Win 7 Ultimate.
Uninstalling and re-installing VLC may help.
Try the Intel Driver Update Utility. Possibly a newer version of the driver for the on-board video would help.
A next step would be to visit the web site of the manufacturer of the motherboard and install any newer versions of the BIOS or chipset drivers.
Sometimes motherboard manufacturers modify the Intel software, so it is necessary to deal with that. For example, the RAID drivers may have been modified.
Read the book, Why Men Are the Way They Are by Warren Farrell.
Summary: Don't blame yourself for everything. Maybe your problems are at least partly due to the worsening dis-functionality of the entire U.S. culture.
I'm writing a book that provides far more detail, but it will be perhaps 2 years until my book is published.
Use Adblock Edge. By hiding what it was doing, Adblock Plus has killed itself.
By hiding what it was doing when it sneakily adopted Microsoft Bing search, calling it Yahoo search, Mozilla Foundation has done irreparable harm to Firefox. Mozilla Foundation seems to be driving users to the Pale Moon 64-bit version of Firefox with Adblock Latitude.
Often when someone complains about their experiences on Slashdot, someone else post a comment with a superior attitude, saying that he has never had that problem.
Please consider that maybe you don't understand the conditions.
The element of the U.S. culture in which males compete with each other is annoying and defeating.
For me, it is very, very sad, but Google seems to be becoming a very abusive company. The days of "Do no evil" seem to be ended.
In a Windows command-line window, type:
/svc
/medsvc
services.msc
Right-click on Google services, choose "Properties", then choose "Disable" as the "Startup type".
Google installs at least 3 system services:
Google Update Service (gupdate), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"
Google Update Service (gupdatem), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"
Google Updater Service (gusvc), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe"
Firefox is extraordinarily important to all of humanity. Without the open-source Firefox, our communication with each other with web pages would be severely limited by abusive managers of huge companies. For example, Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6 had an enormous number of quirks; web designers wasted huge amounts of time dealing with that.
Mozilla Foundation has exhibited a combination of excellent and poor management, in my opinion.
Add-ons are very useful. One of the most important aspects of Firefox is the huge number of Add-ons available. Here are some I've found necessary:
Adblock Edge, ads were yesterday! Attacks sometimes pose as ads. Stop tracking. Advertisers of run annoying ads.
BetterPrivacy, "Super-Cookie Safeguard", eliminate sneaky tracking.
Classic Theme Restorer, required because of Mozilla Foundation's bad management of GUIs.
Close tabs to the left, title says it all. What? Why is that necessary? Why does Firefox have only "Close tabs to the right"?
Cookies Manager+, needed because of poor management of Slashdot by the parent company, Dice Holdings.
FEBE, backup your Firefox data. Restores only to the same profile. Use MozBackup to restore to a different profile, such as when you move to the Pale Moon 64-bit version of Firefox to get away from Mozilla Foundation bad management.
Ghostery, protect your privacy.
iMacros for Firefox, help jump through log-on hoops.
Mozilla Archive Format, save everything you see displayed on a web page.
NoScript, protect against attacks, stop tracking.
Nuke Anything, Enhanced, remove areas of a web page.
Restart-less Restart, Firefox frequently crashes when there are many windows and tabs, because of the memory-hogging bug that Mozilla Foundation hasn't fixed in 9 years.
Session Manager, when Firefox crashes, go back to the Windows and tabs you had before the crash.
Session Manager Export Tool, export windows and tabs of a Firefox session to HTML.
Snap Links Plus, opens multiple links inside a selected area.
SQLite Manager, manage any SQLite database.
Tab Mix Plus, fix Firefox's insufficient GUI design.
" basic versioning"
.BAK file name. The .BAK files can be in a special folder.
The free Notepad++ can make a backup of every save, with date and time in the
"Windows - the most insecure OS in the world."
Microsoft makes more money if Windows has vulnerabilities. See this article, for example: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster .
"This is not fraud, it's marketing."
Protecting citizens against public fraud is one of the major functions of a healthy government. As I said above, I can remember when the U.S. government protected its citizens against fraud.
If rich people and corporations are allowed to be extraordinarily destructive to everyone in the world as a way of making money, then there is effectively a dictatorship and citizens are, effectively, slaves.
Matt Taibbi gives a huge amount of detail about the collapse of U.S. society as we have known it: The Divide. Quoting from the Amazon web page: "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".
Read the book, House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war so that they could make money. One of hundreds of books and articles: Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War. Quoting:
"Private or publicly listed firms received at least $138 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for government contracts for services that included providing private security, building infrastructure and feeding the troops."
"I would suggest that, once again, things mentioned as "government fraud" are actually that great free market taking advantage of a situation."
Your idea is the dominant idea in the U.S. now, as Matt Taibbi covers in great detail in his book, The Divide.
No one, NO ONE in the U.S. financial system went to prison for the extreme corruption that caused the crash of 2008.
I can remember when the U.S. government protected its citizens against marketing fraud.
The U.S. now has extremely expensive mass surveillance. Citizens pay, and no longer have privacy.
Funny.
Since you are replying, I have a question: Isn't Dice top management rather ignorant about technology?
Slashdot is important. Dice top management doesn't seem to understand or value Slashdot.
If you want many examples of that idea being incorrect, read the book.
After the public spent hundreds of billions of dollars to avoid cholesterol, now there is the understanding that cholesterol you eat does not affect your health. That has been known for many years.
The same fraud is happening now with gluten. Even foods that never had gluten are being advertised as gluten-free.
Foods advertised as "low-fat" or "reduced fat" are often foods with extra water that include various thickeners.
For more detail about U.S. government corruption, see Matt Taibbi's book, The Divide.
The U.S. government has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any country in the history of the world. (The rate of 707 prisoners per 100,000 population is artificially reduced because of all the exclusions.)
Part of the reason the prison rate is so high is that, in the U.S., prisons are a very profitable business, with little oversight and plenty of chances to be abusive. For some detail, see Matt Taibbi's book, The Divide.
Slashdot removes "& # 39 ;" HTML characters (Without spaces or quote marks that is an apostrophe.). So, there are many places in the above comment where the ' characters aren't shown.
"The memory leak? It simply doesnt exist." -- Part of the parent comment.
If I have a lot of windows and tabs open in Firefox, the memory usage begins increasing even when I am doing nothing with Firefox. Eventually there is a crash. With the most recent versions of Firefox, the crash seldom starts the crash reporter. Instead of reporting the crash, the screen goes black. So, there are more crashes than are being reported.
I posted this +5 comment 9 years ago: Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.
In 2006, there were only 12 excuses for the instability. Now there are many more.
Mozilla Foundation
Top 21 Excuses
for Not Fixing the
Firefox Memory and CPU Hogging bugs
These are actual excuses given at one time or another. They are not all the excuses, just the top 21.
1) Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same memory and CPU hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of TEN years.]
2) Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug eventually causes Firefox to take 100% of the power of one CPU, and makes Windows 7 unusable, even after Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox, those who do a lot of research online.]
3) Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users have reported the bug. See the links.]
4) Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did a simplified test, which didnt show the bug.]
5) No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report, they would know that there is often no TalkBack report, because the bug crashes TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack cannot generate a report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
6) If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They didnt bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information provided.]
7) This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is invalid. [The other bugs arent specified.]
8) You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the same use does not crash any version of Chrome or Opera.]
9) I dont like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didnt read it or think about it.]
10) You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself. [Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem, and we may fix it.]
11) Many bugs that are filed arent important to 99.99% of the users.
12) If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.]
13) Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are extensions advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
14) Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The CPU hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
15) If you are technically knowledgeable, you can spend several hours (or days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic - Firefox
"Chrome development seems to not only be heavy-handed, but sometimes smacks of the old days of Microsoft in terms of compatibility/heterogeneity."
/svc
/medsvc
I agree. That's why I stopped using Google's Chrome. On one computer Google installed three system services without notifying me:
Google Update Service (gupdate), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"
Google Update Service (gupdatem), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe"
Google Updater Service (gusvc), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe"
Why does Google want to run programs every time I use that computer, rather than notifying me of available updates when I run Chrome? I wasn't asked if it was okay to do that.
Also shocking: Installing Google Chrome caused the installation of a Google Chrome plug-in into Firefox. Why does Google want to have control over my use of Firefox?