Imagine that everyone stop saying, "Imagine a beowulf cluster." just to sound cool and hip because we all know that you don't actually understand what one is.
I use mine for automotive electrical troubleshooting with a card that turns it into a 2-channel oscilloscope. Then there's the OBD-II scan tool adapter that I use to interface with vehicle computers for more diagnostic work at the vehicle computer level. Then I use it to play solitaire when I'm not working on cars. What a useful tool.
Yeah right, you never searched for a job. You collected unscrupulous amounts of money from your state's unemployment fund, never searched for a job, and then asked for an extension when it ran dry like everyone else I know. At least in the fine state of California where you can get 9 months of unemployment and enver do shit except check a few boxes and cash the check.
Load up some back orifice so you can control the office and create small problems that they'll call you back for. In the end(after a few calls and a few grand later) "discover" that back orifice is on the computers and promptly remove it and they're cured of all their problems and you're up a few grand. This is a disclaimer that I would have enver done something like the aforementioned to some lame ass dot-bomb company to swindle them out of money after laying me off.
Instead of Intel and AMD just making processors with higher clock rates that generate more heat, lets see some significant architactural changes that fix the heat problem.
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Yeah, lets see if Lockheed Martin and NASA can mix up metric and standard measurements this time too.
Yes, but if you have the first-strike advantage then you might win. Why doesn't one daring company out there start fullying supporting OSes other than Windows? If a small company out there becamse the Mac Broadband Provider then those small percentages would add up to a lot for a small company.
Yeah, we still have excuses. Trouble codes can only tell you in what curcuit the problem lies. It can't tell you what condition exists to cause the problem or where in the circuit the problem is. You still have to get in there and run tests to determine the cause of the problem.
Those concerns are perfectly warranted. You ever notice how when something goes wrong with your car it's usually an electrical problem? I'm not yet convinced that a drive-by-wire steering system is safe. Sounds to me like it'll end up being a die-by-wire system.
SAE defind trouble codes are only defined to mean something within a certain range. There are manufacturer specific trouble codes that they can make mean whatever they want. Those are the codes that we don't know the definition of.
I'm an auto mechanic, been so for 6 years. About 25% of the mechanics I know are addicted to the internet. And yes, some do read slashdot regularly from previous exposure to interesting articles.
No, it does not allow them to do this with access to trouble code information. Tweaking modern day computers has already been accomplished with modifications to the engine's running paramaters through external chips and repogramming of PCMs. People's engines don't just catch fire because you chipped it and it now make 10 more horsepower. Engine fires occur, for example, when your cooling systems fails because you neglected it. Or, better yet, an unprotected electrical circuit such as the one I know morins like to put into their bumping sound system.
Reading and clearing diagnostic trouble codes doesn't allow you to reprogram an engine's powertrain control module. You need a factory tool to accomplish that. Those go for several thousand and I highly recommend you know how to use one before you start uploading PROM images to your PCM.
I'm not going to say that this PC shortwave reciever is better than some $1000 rig, but.. what I have noticed is that there's a trend geared towards integrating "things" into PCs and computers in general to make them cheaper and often times better.
A good example is an OBD-II scan tool used for diagnosing newer automobiles. If you were to buy a fully integrated stand-alone unit from some tool manufacturer you'd be looking at $600 on up to several thousands. But simply using a computer such as a palm OS based handheld and making an adapter and some software that can chew through the data stream from the OBD-II computer you can mkae yourself a scan tool. Having researched this I purchased one and was pleased to find out that I had essentially bought a $2500 scan tool for $250. Not factoring in the cost of my computer since everyone has 1 to 10 of those things anyways.
So, if a handheld computer can interface with my car and run diagnostics and read critical sensor data in real time for 10 times less what would be so hard about turning one into a radio for cheap? To simply put it, a radio is a capacior and an inductor. The value of one is varied to "tune in" to a certain frequency. Sure there's some A/D converter on this new pc card but that's not expensive. Would it seem so hard for a computer to take this digital data and do soemthing with it? No, it does that with a million of other things all the time(mouse, keyboard, digital camera, etc).
The point is that computers are powerful. More powerful than we realize I think. Combined with innovative ideas and software, they're making functions previously unimagined for a computer to do cheaper.
I don't know anything about the gaming scene so feel free to edit me as nescessary. But I think they make more money selling to the console market first then the PC market. Everyone knows that PC games are way better than console games so why not release a great game to the console and make a killing off it. Then announce that you're going to release it to the PC platform and then make another killing off it because that great game you've been playing on the console is surely to be better on the PC.
If 1 out of every 10 high speed internet subscribers stopped using Netflix and started downloading full DVDs off some online version of Netflix do you really think your broadband provider's business model and infrastructure could survive?
Currently no. I don't think the internet as a whole(bandwidth, price for bandwidth, etc.) is ready for the huge(by current standards) transfers that would insue from an online Netflix that distributed FULL DVDs. Not those stripped down versions that fit on one or two CDs.
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Yeah, right. More like a cheap translation to english spit out from some language converter.
Best idea I've heard in a while.
Imagine that everyone stop saying, "Imagine a beowulf cluster." just to sound cool and hip because we all know that you don't actually understand what one is.
I use mine for automotive electrical troubleshooting with a card that turns it into a 2-channel oscilloscope. Then there's the OBD-II scan tool adapter that I use to interface with vehicle computers for more diagnostic work at the vehicle computer level. Then I use it to play solitaire when I'm not working on cars. What a useful tool.
Yeah right, you never searched for a job. You collected unscrupulous amounts of money from your state's unemployment fund, never searched for a job, and then asked for an extension when it ran dry like everyone else I know. At least in the fine state of California where you can get 9 months of unemployment and enver do shit except check a few boxes and cash the check.
Load up some back orifice so you can control the office and create small problems that they'll call you back for. In the end(after a few calls and a few grand later) "discover" that back orifice is on the computers and promptly remove it and they're cured of all their problems and you're up a few grand. This is a disclaimer that I would have enver done something like the aforementioned to some lame ass dot-bomb company to swindle them out of money after laying me off.
If you don't like spam consider downloading that. So far it only works on POP accounts. Works like a charm to filter spam.
I can see it now. "K&N filters to enter lucrative PC market!"
Instead of Intel and AMD just making processors with higher clock rates that generate more heat, lets see some significant architactural changes that fix the heat problem.
Yeah, lets see if Lockheed Martin and NASA can mix up metric and standard measurements this time too.
Yes, but if you have the first-strike advantage then you might win. Why doesn't one daring company out there start fullying supporting OSes other than Windows? If a small company out there becamse the Mac Broadband Provider then those small percentages would add up to a lot for a small company.
"So once every 28 weeks, Mallet in the next cubicle is able to use my PC without authorization because the mouse mistook him for me."
That's like saying once every 28 weeks I identify the color green as orange.
"Or once every 28 weeks, my PC won't let me log on."
Those odds sure beats running an IBM hard drive, they don't even last 28 weeks.
"what's to say that the RIAA and their cronies will win?"
Me and the most powerful force on the internet, it's users. We seem to always have our way.
Yeah, we still have excuses. Trouble codes can only tell you in what curcuit the problem lies. It can't tell you what condition exists to cause the problem or where in the circuit the problem is. You still have to get in there and run tests to determine the cause of the problem.
Those concerns are perfectly warranted. You ever notice how when something goes wrong with your car it's usually an electrical problem? I'm not yet convinced that a drive-by-wire steering system is safe. Sounds to me like it'll end up being a die-by-wire system.
SAE defind trouble codes are only defined to mean something within a certain range. There are manufacturer specific trouble codes that they can make mean whatever they want. Those are the codes that we don't know the definition of.
I'm an auto mechanic, been so for 6 years. About 25% of the mechanics I know are addicted to the internet. And yes, some do read slashdot regularly from previous exposure to interesting articles.
No, it does not allow them to do this with access to trouble code information. Tweaking modern day computers has already been accomplished with modifications to the engine's running paramaters through external chips and repogramming of PCMs. People's engines don't just catch fire because you chipped it and it now make 10 more horsepower. Engine fires occur, for example, when your cooling systems fails because you neglected it. Or, better yet, an unprotected electrical circuit such as the one I know morins like to put into their bumping sound system.
Reading and clearing diagnostic trouble codes doesn't allow you to reprogram an engine's powertrain control module. You need a factory tool to accomplish that. Those go for several thousand and I highly recommend you know how to use one before you start uploading PROM images to your PCM.
I'm not going to say that this PC shortwave reciever is better than some $1000 rig, but.. what I have noticed is that there's a trend geared towards integrating "things" into PCs and computers in general to make them cheaper and often times better.
A good example is an OBD-II scan tool used for diagnosing newer automobiles. If you were to buy a fully integrated stand-alone unit from some tool manufacturer you'd be looking at $600 on up to several thousands. But simply using a computer such as a palm OS based handheld and making an adapter and some software that can chew through the data stream from the OBD-II computer you can mkae yourself a scan tool. Having researched this I purchased one and was pleased to find out that I had essentially bought a $2500 scan tool for $250. Not factoring in the cost of my computer since everyone has 1 to 10 of those things anyways.
So, if a handheld computer can interface with my car and run diagnostics and read critical sensor data in real time for 10 times less what would be so hard about turning one into a radio for cheap? To simply put it, a radio is a capacior and an inductor. The value of one is varied to "tune in" to a certain frequency. Sure there's some A/D converter on this new pc card but that's not expensive. Would it seem so hard for a computer to take this digital data and do soemthing with it? No, it does that with a million of other things all the time(mouse, keyboard, digital camera, etc).
The point is that computers are powerful. More powerful than we realize I think. Combined with innovative ideas and software, they're making functions previously unimagined for a computer to do cheaper.
In that case play CS and you can intereact with your peers by voice com.
I don't know anything about the gaming scene so feel free to edit me as nescessary. But I think they make more money selling to the console market first then the PC market. Everyone knows that PC games are way better than console games so why not release a great game to the console and make a killing off it. Then announce that you're going to release it to the PC platform and then make another killing off it because that great game you've been playing on the console is surely to be better on the PC.
If 1 out of every 10 high speed internet subscribers stopped using Netflix and started downloading full DVDs off some online version of Netflix do you really think your broadband provider's business model and infrastructure could survive?
Currently no. I don't think the internet as a whole(bandwidth, price for bandwidth, etc.) is ready for the huge(by current standards) transfers that would insue from an online Netflix that distributed FULL DVDs. Not those stripped down versions that fit on one or two CDs.
Maybe in the distant future.. say a year or two?
Just a friendly correction. The use is "moot", not "mute".
It wowed me too when it became a portable piracy device.