Actually the iPhone has used NVMe not eMMC since the 6S:
http://www.thessdreview.com/da...
And all these flash "devices" are multi-die packages. The eMMC and NVMe controller is a separate die driving a stack of flash devices.
Your math is way off. Your LED bulb will cost you almost $80 per year, paying for a smarter switch very quickly.
0.06 x 24 x 365 = 525.6 KWH, $78.84 worth at a cheap 15c
I was given effectively the same advice by a recruiter when faced with a choice like this, but its a little more refined: write both your choices on folded pieces of paper and stick them in a hat. Pull one out, and as you open it decide if you are pleased or unhappy you got that one. That instant emotional response is your subconscious chiming in and almost certainly giving you the right answer that your higher brain can not get to.
And that is exactly the problem with a wealth tax. Property taxes are wealth taxes, and your example shows the argument against them. The same issue applies even more commonly for a retiree.
But don't get me started on California property taxes, and the ridiculous effects of the well-meaning Prop 13 which was supposed to help the retirees...
2 MHz was not all that remarkably fast for its today - the competing ZX Spectrum ran at 3.5 MHz. Although to be fair the 6502 does more per cycle than the Z80.
Smartphone designers struggle with the number of antennas required; and 5 GHz implies an additional antenna. They already have antennas for the cellular network, GPS, increasingly NFC, sometimes FM, WiFi and Bluetooth. The latter two are sometimes combined, but still, that is a lot to fit in a package that is very space constrained.
I'll second this also. I can get a 15" Macbook (17" would probably fit), Canon 50D, 17-55 f2.8, 70-300, big flash, chargers, compact camera, mini tripod, and a bunch of other junk in.
It is small enough to carry-on and put under the seat in front of you as your "personal item", at least in the US.
I love it!
It is easy without Windows - I just went through this with a Verizon DSL install. When I called and told them I was installing from a Mac, they talked me through logging directly into the modem from Safari, and setting it up through its web interface. No Windows required! (so is that the chicken, or the egg?)
I don't know why you think Google apps is business only, I use it for my personal email and it works great. You get all the benefits of gmail with your personal domain.
Many modern CDs are not only heavily compressed, but also, and much more importantly, heavily clipped. This adds audible distortion to the music as the waveform exceeds the digital range and becomes clipped flat against the max or min value. Look at a waveform (in Winamp for example) and you will see long flat tops in the waveform. This is the clear disadvantage of CDs, as vinyl does not clip if you over-drive it, all that happens is the grooves have to be further apart to accommodate the wider excursions, and therefore you lose playing time.
This clipping distortion manifests most obviously as the music being "tiring" to listen to. You can't tell what is wrong, only that the experience is not as satisfying. CDs mastered ten or more years ago sound delightful in comparison, though are obviously quieter.
Properly mastered CDs beat vinyl on most metrics of quality, and sound better to me.
Some of the Linksys routers support "Linksys parental control" whick allows you to set time limits and levels of access, locked to an account per user which you can tie to the MAC address. You can create custom "allowed lists", and control instant messaging too. They send you logs of every web site your kids look at. It costs about $50 per year. I can highly recommend it, and its a much more robust solution than net nanny software.
I never understood the need for putting the video and audio in the same cable.
It makes a lot of sense: one cable from each of your DVD/Satellite/DVR/Apple TV appliances to your receiver; then one cable from the receiver to the TV. Beautiful!
Yup, thats right. Cb/Cr are not NTSC/PAL encoded. The color info they carry needs to be modulated onto a sub-carrier frequency to generate composite.
So you are SOL if you want to watch the output of an AppleTV on a composite-only TV, until some enterprising soul comes up with an adapter that has the necessary electronics.
This is not true. While you can mix S-video this way as the chroma is still NTSC/PAL encoded on a sub-carrier frequency; but the Cb/Cr (aka Pb/Pr) signals on component video are simply levels, so if you mix them you will get black-and-white.
The wrapping process looks like it makes the player firmware easier:
- it strips out ID3 so it does not need to deal with that
- it tells the player how long the track time is
- it tells the player how many frames the track is
The content is still there in the clear. This sounds like very crude player software.
You do of course mean decoder. The DirecTV TIVO units receive an encoded digital stream which they record directly. The box is decode only.
The rest is true though - you are very unlikely to be able to upgrade an MPEG2 decoder to MPEG4 with a firmware update, as MPEG4 is much more complex.
As a Brit who lives in America, there are some curious differences between European (or British anyway) and American unions.
American unions seem only to be strong in a few selected industries, where British unionization is more widespread. However, where the unions are strong in the US they have a hold like the old pre-Thatcher British unions. Lots of silly rules to protect the members at all costs. If your company does a trade show in a unionized hall you are not allowed to carry anything in and out, you have to wait 2 hours for a union guy to come off his break and carry it for you.
Did anyone else wonder why is there serious power in the doors? Do you need 500V for the electric windows? From the article: "They know not to cut into a hybrid's doors -- that's where many of the cables are -- and to peel off the roof instead."
My girlfriend has this service at her house, and my experience with it is that the latencies are very noticeable. Web sites certainly load faster than dial up, but not as quickly as the slow (400K) DSL service I have at my house. I have not run ssh over it, but running xterms over my employers VPN service is fairly painful. In fact, the standard Nortel VPN service did not work at all as it timed out - the IT guys had to put me on a beta Cisco server.
We have also had a couple of outages over the last 2 months, where the whole service went down for a few hours, and their tech support acknowledged a system wide problem.
This service is only worth it if your only alternative is dial up.
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Actually the iPhone has used NVMe not eMMC since the 6S: http://www.thessdreview.com/da... And all these flash "devices" are multi-die packages. The eMMC and NVMe controller is a separate die driving a stack of flash devices.
Where do you find a 3W LED that produces the 800 lumens of a 60W bulb? The ones I see are 8-12W.
Oops. My math is way off. I assumed 60W sorry. Call it 8W for a 60W replacement LED, so better math: 0.008 x 24 x 365 x 0.15 = $10.51
Your math is way off. Your LED bulb will cost you almost $80 per year, paying for a smarter switch very quickly. 0.06 x 24 x 365 = 525.6 KWH, $78.84 worth at a cheap 15c
I was given effectively the same advice by a recruiter when faced with a choice like this, but its a little more refined: write both your choices on folded pieces of paper and stick them in a hat. Pull one out, and as you open it decide if you are pleased or unhappy you got that one. That instant emotional response is your subconscious chiming in and almost certainly giving you the right answer that your higher brain can not get to.
And that is exactly the problem with a wealth tax. Property taxes are wealth taxes, and your example shows the argument against them. The same issue applies even more commonly for a retiree. But don't get me started on California property taxes, and the ridiculous effects of the well-meaning Prop 13 which was supposed to help the retirees...
2 MHz was not all that remarkably fast for its today - the competing ZX Spectrum ran at 3.5 MHz. Although to be fair the 6502 does more per cycle than the Z80.
Smartphone designers struggle with the number of antennas required; and 5 GHz implies an additional antenna. They already have antennas for the cellular network, GPS, increasingly NFC, sometimes FM, WiFi and Bluetooth. The latter two are sometimes combined, but still, that is a lot to fit in a package that is very space constrained.
I'll second this also. I can get a 15" Macbook (17" would probably fit), Canon 50D, 17-55 f2.8, 70-300, big flash, chargers, compact camera, mini tripod, and a bunch of other junk in. It is small enough to carry-on and put under the seat in front of you as your "personal item", at least in the US. I love it!
Are you proposing a catapult instead of a train? Might be faster...
It is easy without Windows - I just went through this with a Verizon DSL install. When I called and told them I was installing from a Mac, they talked me through logging directly into the modem from Safari, and setting it up through its web interface. No Windows required! (so is that the chicken, or the egg?)
I don't know why you think Google apps is business only, I use it for my personal email and it works great. You get all the benefits of gmail with your personal domain.
Many modern CDs are not only heavily compressed, but also, and much more importantly, heavily clipped. This adds audible distortion to the music as the waveform exceeds the digital range and becomes clipped flat against the max or min value. Look at a waveform (in Winamp for example) and you will see long flat tops in the waveform. This is the clear disadvantage of CDs, as vinyl does not clip if you over-drive it, all that happens is the grooves have to be further apart to accommodate the wider excursions, and therefore you lose playing time. This clipping distortion manifests most obviously as the music being "tiring" to listen to. You can't tell what is wrong, only that the experience is not as satisfying. CDs mastered ten or more years ago sound delightful in comparison, though are obviously quieter. Properly mastered CDs beat vinyl on most metrics of quality, and sound better to me.
Some of the Linksys routers support "Linksys parental control" whick allows you to set time limits and levels of access, locked to an account per user which you can tie to the MAC address. You can create custom "allowed lists", and control instant messaging too. They send you logs of every web site your kids look at. It costs about $50 per year. I can highly recommend it, and its a much more robust solution than net nanny software.
I never understood the need for putting the video and audio in the same cable.
It makes a lot of sense: one cable from each of your DVD/Satellite/DVR/Apple TV appliances to your receiver; then one cable from the receiver to the TV. Beautiful!
Yup, thats right. Cb/Cr are not NTSC/PAL encoded. The color info they carry needs to be modulated onto a sub-carrier frequency to generate composite. So you are SOL if you want to watch the output of an AppleTV on a composite-only TV, until some enterprising soul comes up with an adapter that has the necessary electronics.
This is not true. While you can mix S-video this way as the chroma is still NTSC/PAL encoded on a sub-carrier frequency; but the Cb/Cr (aka Pb/Pr) signals on component video are simply levels, so if you mix them you will get black-and-white.
Its more like 8 light minutes from where I am sitting. Which planet are you on?
How about using this in medical implants: a body that changes shape when exposed to light! Imagine the possibilities...
The wrapping process looks like it makes the player firmware easier: - it strips out ID3 so it does not need to deal with that - it tells the player how long the track time is - it tells the player how many frames the track is The content is still there in the clear. This sounds like very crude player software.
You do of course mean decoder. The DirecTV TIVO units receive an encoded digital stream which they record directly. The box is decode only. The rest is true though - you are very unlikely to be able to upgrade an MPEG2 decoder to MPEG4 with a firmware update, as MPEG4 is much more complex.
An air gap is not going to help much to stop Bluetooth (unless its more than 15 feet...)
As a Brit who lives in America, there are some curious differences between European (or British anyway) and American unions. American unions seem only to be strong in a few selected industries, where British unionization is more widespread. However, where the unions are strong in the US they have a hold like the old pre-Thatcher British unions. Lots of silly rules to protect the members at all costs. If your company does a trade show in a unionized hall you are not allowed to carry anything in and out, you have to wait 2 hours for a union guy to come off his break and carry it for you.
Did anyone else wonder why is there serious power in the doors? Do you need 500V for the electric windows? From the article: "They know not to cut into a hybrid's doors -- that's where many of the cables are -- and to peel off the roof instead."
My girlfriend has this service at her house, and my experience with it is that the latencies are very noticeable. Web sites certainly load faster than dial up, but not as quickly as the slow (400K) DSL service I have at my house. I have not run ssh over it, but running xterms over my employers VPN service is fairly painful. In fact, the standard Nortel VPN service did not work at all as it timed out - the IT guys had to put me on a beta Cisco server. We have also had a couple of outages over the last 2 months, where the whole service went down for a few hours, and their tech support acknowledged a system wide problem. This service is only worth it if your only alternative is dial up.