That's true, but few viruses bother to try and remove the read-only or system attributes from a file if they can't overwrite it. This technique can also work against some malware where deleting it causes it to simply recreate itself, though less effective now because most of them randomize the file names.
iTunes installs it's own service (well, several actually), one of which is responsible for monitoring for any iDevices being plugged into the computer. That's just one of the many reasons why I hate Apple's shitty Windows software.
Yes, but an equally useful thing would have simply been a 'Install program' menu item, that, when launched, looks on all removable media for autorun.inf files or whatever, and presents their devices, names, and icons in a little list where you pick one.
Actually, Windows 95 had something like that, though you had to go through the Control Panel instead of the Start Menu. At some point, not sure when, it was removed.
Are you sure it's not just the components? I know Antec and Asus are well regarded, but I've never found either brand to be reliable, both on AMD and Intel systems. Certainly not worth the price premium they charge.
I'll still give Intel the nod on reliability though. Intel boards with Intel chipsets are absolutely rock solid from my experience. This is coming from someone who's last 3 builds are AMD.
I got Windows 95 up to 49.7 days once too. Once I realized that the computer was close to the limit I actually calculated when it would hit, and made sure I was there when it happened. Nothing actually happened when the computer hit the limiit until until I tried moving the mouse then it bluescreened.
It would really only matter if you needed to know the absolute time very precisely. For your example, I don't see why a power plant would need to know the exact time for timing of the line frequency, all they really would need is a counter that can count off seconds very accurately.
I kind of suspect that in a lot of cases, the people designing these systems are introducing unnecessary complications by using UTC when all they really need is an accurate timer.
I don't think speed bumps like that are a good idea. Did you see the one car in that video that lost control and swerved into the other lane? Last thing you need is other people getting hurt or killed because of the speed bumps.
Windows 7 uses the same driver model as Vista. The only thing that really has changed is there has been more time for vendors to push out better drivers.
The problem is that you aren't paying bottom end prices for the Mac. For the price of any of the iMacs, you can put together a pretty nice gaming PC. Meanwhile, the graphics capabilities on the iMac are a joke.
I remember back when putting an unpatched Redhat system on the internet meant that you would get owned in a matter of minutes, much like Windows XP was. This was back in the Redhat 6.2 days, nearly a decade ago.
It doesn't even take marketing, the bean counters are enough. Embedded computers can be expensive, especially if you require lots of processing power or storage. PCs are cheap. Software development costs are also often cheaper on Windows than embedded hardware too.
They still make discrete sound cards. Also, there is nothing wrong with re-using an old PCI discrete sound card out of an old Pentium or whatever. Now that I've ditched the floppy drive I believe the sound card is now the oldest component of my PC.
Talk about totally missing the point of the parent's post. Better shielding isn't going to make a different for the SATA cable itself, but it could mean less EM interference coming from the cable, which could, in theory, be affecting other electronics. Computers are actually pretty noisy inside, with lots of high frequency components and often inadequate shielding since that kind of thing adds cost. If you plug a good set of headphones into the analog audio out in a computer while not playing anything and listen to the "silence", you can generally hear this noise through the soundcard, and typically this noise will change when the computer is busy versus when it is idle. Similar tricks can also be played with placing an AM radio next to the computer, though it isn't as dramatic anymore now that components are operating in the 100's of MHz to GHz range instead of the MHz range.
It is plausible that better shielding SATA cables would improve the sound provided that he was using the analog output on the computer (I would assume unlikely for an audiophile?) and changed the SATA cable in that actual computer. However, given that the SATA cable was in an external NAS located several meters away, presumably inside of a metal case of some sort, I'm going to call shenanigans.
But it's still an incremental improvement. "Let's take this device, make it smaller, make it hold more, and clean up the interface." That's what they did. They didn't invent or innovate anything.
If the US government tried to shut down two thousand industrial facilities at a stroke, the people would vote that administration out and rightly
What the US government would do is create another "clunkers" program which would give free taxpayer dollars to business owners that "retired" an old plant. It would cost the taxpayers billions, and no one would get voted out for it.
Well, you would have to vent the tires really fast if it's going to help in an emergency situation. And you would have to add in some kind of compressor system to automatically pump the tires back up again. I could see it in a luxury car, where the cost wouldn't matter as much and you would also have the benefit of never having to stop and add air to your tires.
If I recall correctly, the HUMVEE (the actual military vehicle) has a system like that to get more grip when offroading.
I don't see why things would have to be scaled up. ATI's Evergreen GPU already supports high resolutions like 7680x3200. Right now, you have to use multiple screens and span the image across them because the monitor technology doesn't exist, but if someone built a high resolution monitor such as 3800x2400, the card would be able to drive it.
They can easily reduce the dot pitch. For the first round, I would be happy if they took some of the laptop screens from a few years back (such as 1600x1200 @ 15"), put them in a case with a DVI port and called it a monitor.
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We have 17" 1080p right now. The only problem is you can only get the screen as part of a laptop. Where are the high DPI desktop screens?
That's true, but few viruses bother to try and remove the read-only or system attributes from a file if they can't overwrite it. This technique can also work against some malware where deleting it causes it to simply recreate itself, though less effective now because most of them randomize the file names.
iTunes installs it's own service (well, several actually), one of which is responsible for monitoring for any iDevices being plugged into the computer. That's just one of the many reasons why I hate Apple's shitty Windows software.
Actually, Windows 95 had something like that, though you had to go through the Control Panel instead of the Start Menu. At some point, not sure when, it was removed.
Are you sure it's not just the components? I know Antec and Asus are well regarded, but I've never found either brand to be reliable, both on AMD and Intel systems. Certainly not worth the price premium they charge.
I'll still give Intel the nod on reliability though. Intel boards with Intel chipsets are absolutely rock solid from my experience. This is coming from someone who's last 3 builds are AMD.
I got Windows 95 up to 49.7 days once too. Once I realized that the computer was close to the limit I actually calculated when it would hit, and made sure I was there when it happened. Nothing actually happened when the computer hit the limiit until until I tried moving the mouse then it bluescreened.
It would really only matter if you needed to know the absolute time very precisely. For your example, I don't see why a power plant would need to know the exact time for timing of the line frequency, all they really would need is a counter that can count off seconds very accurately.
I kind of suspect that in a lot of cases, the people designing these systems are introducing unnecessary complications by using UTC when all they really need is an accurate timer.
I don't think speed bumps like that are a good idea. Did you see the one car in that video that lost control and swerved into the other lane? Last thing you need is other people getting hurt or killed because of the speed bumps.
Windows 7 uses the same driver model as Vista. The only thing that really has changed is there has been more time for vendors to push out better drivers.
The problem is that you aren't paying bottom end prices for the Mac. For the price of any of the iMacs, you can put together a pretty nice gaming PC. Meanwhile, the graphics capabilities on the iMac are a joke.
I remember back when putting an unpatched Redhat system on the internet meant that you would get owned in a matter of minutes, much like Windows XP was. This was back in the Redhat 6.2 days, nearly a decade ago.
Now get off my lawn!
It doesn't even take marketing, the bean counters are enough. Embedded computers can be expensive, especially if you require lots of processing power or storage. PCs are cheap. Software development costs are also often cheaper on Windows than embedded hardware too.
As in 2680/1024 = 2617?
They still make discrete sound cards. Also, there is nothing wrong with re-using an old PCI discrete sound card out of an old Pentium or whatever. Now that I've ditched the floppy drive I believe the sound card is now the oldest component of my PC.
Talk about totally missing the point of the parent's post. Better shielding isn't going to make a different for the SATA cable itself, but it could mean less EM interference coming from the cable, which could, in theory, be affecting other electronics. Computers are actually pretty noisy inside, with lots of high frequency components and often inadequate shielding since that kind of thing adds cost. If you plug a good set of headphones into the analog audio out in a computer while not playing anything and listen to the "silence", you can generally hear this noise through the soundcard, and typically this noise will change when the computer is busy versus when it is idle. Similar tricks can also be played with placing an AM radio next to the computer, though it isn't as dramatic anymore now that components are operating in the 100's of MHz to GHz range instead of the MHz range.
It is plausible that better shielding SATA cables would improve the sound provided that he was using the analog output on the computer (I would assume unlikely for an audiophile?) and changed the SATA cable in that actual computer. However, given that the SATA cable was in an external NAS located several meters away, presumably inside of a metal case of some sort, I'm going to call shenanigans.
Why? Eminent domain (via the bulldoze tool) is cheap, easy, and fun.
That's only so long as they can control what goes into HTML5.
Actually, Origin now supports reading from SQL (and Access) databases:
http://www.originlab.com/index.aspx?go=Products/Origin/ImportingData/DatabaseAccess
Excel also supports importing from SQL databases, though I don't know if it plays nicely with anything other than MSSQL.
But it's still an incremental improvement. "Let's take this device, make it smaller, make it hold more, and clean up the interface." That's what they did. They didn't invent or innovate anything.
What the US government would do is create another "clunkers" program which would give free taxpayer dollars to business owners that "retired" an old plant. It would cost the taxpayers billions, and no one would get voted out for it.
Have you even looked at used car prices? Though I will grant you may be right about the first generation hybrids which are around 10 years old now.
Well, you would have to vent the tires really fast if it's going to help in an emergency situation. And you would have to add in some kind of compressor system to automatically pump the tires back up again. I could see it in a luxury car, where the cost wouldn't matter as much and you would also have the benefit of never having to stop and add air to your tires.
If I recall correctly, the HUMVEE (the actual military vehicle) has a system like that to get more grip when offroading.
I don't see why things would have to be scaled up. ATI's Evergreen GPU already supports high resolutions like 7680x3200. Right now, you have to use multiple screens and span the image across them because the monitor technology doesn't exist, but if someone built a high resolution monitor such as 3800x2400, the card would be able to drive it.
Generally speaking, I've found HDTV to be more expensive than computer monitors. Especially considering most TVs under 32" are only 720p.
They can easily reduce the dot pitch. For the first round, I would be happy if they took some of the laptop screens from a few years back (such as 1600x1200 @ 15"), put them in a case with a DVI port and called it a monitor.