On a side topic, my company is looking for a source of low-cost, small RFID chips. They should be perhaps 1 centimeter (about 1/3 inch) square. Each must have a unique code, but they don't need to be re-programmable. We haven't been able to find a supplier.
T-Mobile in the U.S. unlocked our phones after 3 months of pre-paid use of their network. The unlocking was free. Ask them if they are still doing that.
We sent them the IMEI numbers, and they sent us unlock codes for our 4-band GSM phones.
I didn't say that Java failed. My point is that people often questioned Sun's management of Java. The sloppy management of Java was intensely negative public relations. That developed an impression of Sun management that seemed to also be indicated by other examples of weak management.
Anyway, it is a fact that Sun has been a relative failure. The issue doesn't go away if you don't like my opinion. What are your ideas about Sun's failure?
I think that Sun's handling of Java was one huge reason for Sun's downfall. The quirkiness of many Java programs gave the impression that Sun managers didn't know how to manage. That may have made it difficult to hire and keep good people.
I guess differently. My guess is that Intel allows orders of a minimum of 1,000 processors, and Newegg would sell that many of each kind in less than a week. That's only 52,000 of each kind of processor each year. I'm guessing that Newegg certainly sells that many, almost certainly more.
Counterfeits would come from units that tested bad made by Intel that were supposed to be thrown away, but were instead marked and sold by a counterfeiter.
Intel is extremely careful about security, so I imagine there is little chance of that happening.
That's a good question, and it worries me also. Certainly Newegg sometimes orders directly from Intel, I suppose.
This is a guess about what happened: A salesman from a distributor said they were giving a very good price because they were overstocked. The Newegg buyer bought from that distributor because the price was lower than the price from Intel.
Certainly it would be good to have a promise from each supplier that they bought directly from the manufacturer.
Exactly right. Be very careful with Intel's messy web site and confusing information. A higher model number may eliminate a feature.
Do you want hardware virtualization? Yes. You may want to install a program to test it, without taking a chance of causing trouble for your main OS installation. Sun VirtualBox is free for personal use.
My experience with Intel is that everything but processor and chipset design is amazingly poorly managed.
Agreed. Novell has been disfunctional since Netware version 3, in my opinion.
"It bought Wordperfect about the time it tanked, then couldn't make a go of it."
Novell buying WordPerfect for $885 million was an amazing decision. What amazed me most was that apparently Novell top managers apparently had no serious intention of being in the business of selling word processing software.
In 1996, 2 years later, Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel.
I see you posted that earlier. I didn't read it then. What is a Toyota Camry VSRM? What is VSRM? Is that taken from a manual on a Voltage-Sensitive Release Mechanism?
To me, that seems in the direction that inquiry should go.
I've done design like that myself, although less complicated. It's not the design itself that I suspect. It is a reasonable guess, among other guesses, that the problem is something that has been overlooked, but associated with the components discussed above.
The most relevant thing I've read about the problems with Toyota vehicles is this quote from the bottom of page 3 of that PDF linked above:
"... it was determined that [Toyota]
Electronic Control Module (ECM) malfunction detection strategies were not sufficient to
identify all types of fundamental APP sensor and/or circuit malfunctions. Some types of
Electronic Throttle Control (ECT) circuit malfunctions were detectable by the ECM, and
some were not. Most importantly, the Toyota detection strategies were unable to identify
malfunctions of the APP sensor signal inputs to the ECM. APP sensor signal circuits must be
undeniably correct to electrically convey the appropriate driver commands to the ECM."
Next paragraph:
"With the two APP sensor signals shorted together through a varying range of
resistances, all four Toyota vehicles tested thus far reacted similarly and were unable to detect the purposely induced abnormality. The types of signal faults introduced into the
APP circuit should have triggered the vehicles' ECM to illuminate a warning lamp within
seconds."
Bottom of page 4:
"In addition, the shorted APP signal
circuits were connected momentarily to the sensor's five-volt supply circuit with the vehicle
in drive. In all test vehicles, the ECM did not set a DTC and the engine speed increased
rapidly to full throttle. This result shows that unusual or sudden unintended acceleration of
the vehicle was possible in the ETC test vehicles."
General Motors has been making cars with poor reliability literally since I was a child. Read your library's old copies of Consumer Reports for verification.
Insufficient attention was given to the poor reliability of G.M. cars, in my opinion.
As long as G.M. cars could continue to be sold, making unreliable cars was more profitable. That's similar to making a sloppy computer operating system that is vulnerable to attacks. The sloppiness helps sell new versions.
It is useful to talk about photons when the wavelength is very short,
near the size of a molecule, and therefore the energy is very high, high
enough to act powerfully on one molecule.
At longer wavelengths, talking about wavelength is more relevant,
because that gives the proper idea: A long wavelength doesn't couple much
energy directly into any one molecule. Instead, all the molecules just vibrate
a little faster. Talking on a cell phone raises the temperature of the side of
your head due to absorption of microwaves an amount too small to be measured.
Note that this abstract of a paper said that the individuals were not
able to repeat their demonstration of sensitivity. That shows, probably, that
the individuals had some other way of determining whether the radiation was on
or off during the first test.
These are the problems in Physics: 1) The wavelength is too long to
couple much energy into any one molecule. 2) There is an enormous amount of
energy of approximately the same wavelength always present at room
temperature. It's known as heat. A wide bandwidth of microwave energy is
always there unless the temperature is absolute zero. Absolute zero is -459.67
degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius.
Planck's Constant is 1.054571628 x 10-27 erg-seconds. Twenty-seven is a lot of zeroes. See the sub-section, Black-body radiation. Anything that is warm radiates microwave energy.
I'm just guessing, and it's only my opinion, but it seems to me that
the Popular Science author is engaging in fraud. Definition of fraud: A
deliberate deception used to get a dishonest result.
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On a side topic, my company is looking for a source of low-cost, small RFID chips. They should be perhaps 1 centimeter (about 1/3 inch) square. Each must have a unique code, but they don't need to be re-programmable. We haven't been able to find a supplier.
Another example of technically knowledgeable people picking a really bad name.
Will Slashdot switch?
T-Mobile in the U.S. unlocked our phones after 3 months of pre-paid use of their network. The unlocking was free. Ask them if they are still doing that.
We sent them the IMEI numbers, and they sent us unlock codes for our 4-band GSM phones.
I read the book. It seemed very fair.
Note that the link you provided shows a graph. In 9 years, Java has gone consistently down from 27% to 17.5%.
I didn't say that Java failed. My point is that people often questioned Sun's management of Java. The sloppy management of Java was intensely negative public relations. That developed an impression of Sun management that seemed to also be indicated by other examples of weak management.
Anyway, it is a fact that Sun has been a relative failure. The issue doesn't go away if you don't like my opinion. What are your ideas about Sun's failure?
I think that Sun's handling of Java was one huge reason for Sun's downfall. The quirkiness of many Java programs gave the impression that Sun managers didn't know how to manage. That may have made it difficult to hire and keep good people.
I guess differently. My guess is that Intel allows orders of a minimum of 1,000 processors, and Newegg would sell that many of each kind in less than a week. That's only 52,000 of each kind of processor each year. I'm guessing that Newegg certainly sells that many, almost certainly more.
Counterfeits would come from units that tested bad made by Intel that were supposed to be thrown away, but were instead marked and sold by a counterfeiter.
Intel is extremely careful about security, so I imagine there is little chance of that happening.
That's a good question, and it worries me also. Certainly Newegg sometimes orders directly from Intel, I suppose.
This is a guess about what happened: A salesman from a distributor said they were giving a very good price because they were overstocked. The Newegg buyer bought from that distributor because the price was lower than the price from Intel.
Certainly it would be good to have a promise from each supplier that they bought directly from the manufacturer.
Exactly right. Be very careful with Intel's messy web site and confusing information. A higher model number may eliminate a feature.
Do you want hardware virtualization? Yes. You may want to install a program to test it, without taking a chance of causing trouble for your main OS installation. Sun VirtualBox is free for personal use.
My experience with Intel is that everything but processor and chipset design is amazingly poorly managed.
Agreed. Novell has been disfunctional since Netware version 3, in my opinion.
"It bought Wordperfect about the time it tanked, then couldn't make a go of it."
Novell buying WordPerfect for $885 million was an amazing decision. What amazed me most was that apparently Novell top managers apparently had no serious intention of being in the business of selling word processing software.
In 1996, 2 years later, Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel.
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
I see you posted that earlier. I didn't read it then. What is a Toyota Camry VSRM? What is VSRM? Is that taken from a manual on a Voltage-Sensitive Release Mechanism?
To me, that seems in the direction that inquiry should go.
I've done design like that myself, although less complicated. It's not the design itself that I suspect. It is a reasonable guess, among other guesses, that the problem is something that has been overlooked, but associated with the components discussed above.
The most relevant thing I've read about the problems with Toyota vehicles is this quote from the bottom of page 3 of that PDF linked above:
"... it was determined that [Toyota] Electronic Control Module (ECM) malfunction detection strategies were not sufficient to identify all types of fundamental APP sensor and/or circuit malfunctions. Some types of Electronic Throttle Control (ECT) circuit malfunctions were detectable by the ECM, and some were not. Most importantly, the Toyota detection strategies were unable to identify malfunctions of the APP sensor signal inputs to the ECM. APP sensor signal circuits must be undeniably correct to electrically convey the appropriate driver commands to the ECM."
Next paragraph:
"With the two APP sensor signals shorted together through a varying range of resistances, all four Toyota vehicles tested thus far reacted similarly and were unable to detect the purposely induced abnormality. The types of signal faults introduced into the APP circuit should have triggered the vehicles' ECM to illuminate a warning lamp within seconds."
Bottom of page 4:
"In addition, the shorted APP signal circuits were connected momentarily to the sensor's five-volt supply circuit with the vehicle in drive. In all test vehicles, the ECM did not set a DTC and the engine speed increased rapidly to full throttle. This result shows that unusual or sudden unintended acceleration of the vehicle was possible in the ETC test vehicles."
General Motors has been making cars with poor reliability literally since I was a child. Read your library's old copies of Consumer Reports for verification.
Insufficient attention was given to the poor reliability of G.M. cars, in my opinion.
As long as G.M. cars could continue to be sold, making unreliable cars was more profitable. That's similar to making a sloppy computer operating system that is vulnerable to attacks. The sloppiness helps sell new versions.
See this comment.
It is useful to talk about photons when the wavelength is very short, near the size of a molecule, and therefore the energy is very high, high enough to act powerfully on one molecule.
At longer wavelengths, talking about wavelength is more relevant, because that gives the proper idea: A long wavelength doesn't couple much energy directly into any one molecule. Instead, all the molecules just vibrate a little faster. Talking on a cell phone raises the temperature of the side of your head due to absorption of microwaves an amount too small to be measured.
It wasn't until later that I noticed that the article about Heidi Klum, to which I linked above, was also misleading.
It seems that there are a lot of people willing to take advantage of the low level of science knowledge.
Don't get too close to Heidi Klum. She radiates microwave energy! It's true!
But, of course, so do all women, and men, and everything else at the same temperature.
Note that this abstract of a paper said that the individuals were not able to repeat their demonstration of sensitivity. That shows, probably, that the individuals had some other way of determining whether the radiation was on or off during the first test.
These are the problems in Physics: 1) The wavelength is too long to couple much energy into any one molecule. 2) There is an enormous amount of energy of approximately the same wavelength always present at room temperature. It's known as heat. A wide bandwidth of microwave energy is always there unless the temperature is absolute zero. Absolute zero is -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius.
Planck's Constant is 1.054571628 x 10-27 erg-seconds. Twenty-seven is a lot of zeroes. See the sub-section, Black-body radiation. Anything that is warm radiates microwave energy.
I'm just guessing, and it's only my opinion, but it seems to me that the Popular Science author is engaging in fraud. Definition of fraud: A deliberate deception used to get a dishonest result.
"2) Energy of EM photons are proportional to frequency"
The energy is fixed at a low level, so that a local cell of a cell phone transmitter will not interfere with other cells.
Talking about "photons" doesn't really make sense until the wavelength is much shorter.
You were right. Fraud Alert, in my opinion.
When you want a car you should build your own iron foundry? Just because the people already making iron have not done a perfect job?
This: "Common man after the last time ... the lamp shade, two Chihuahuas and the weed waker, do you really have to ask?"
was meant to be a story about crazy behavior at a party:
"Come on, man... After the last time... The lamp shade, two Chihuahuas, and the weed whacker, do you really have to ask?"