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...not the end of why you are seeing manufacturers move so heavily from CRT to LCD. The reason is largely profit margin. Manufacturing costs on CRT products are pretty much as low as they are ever going to go. LCD's on the other hand are just getting to the point where dramatic decreases in the cost of manufacture are being seen. Now market prices don't react as fast as the drops in cost of materials and manufacturing do. This means that for the sales channel they are in a period of high margin sales on a popular product. They are able to use LCD panels that don't cut it as HDTV's for low end loss leader computer screens, and low end laptops. (where people aren't as "picky")
So tell me. Which would you do? Sell 7 CRT's with a 10% gross margin or 5 LCD's with a 25% gross margin? Your call.
I love it, moderated funny *sigh*..... I'm not being funny. Video Bang's (a with an ah sound) are all over the place. This is how the young 18-25 year old asians "socialize" and get to know each other without the risk of embaressment of undu pressure. Then once people meet or agree to meet they leave to go to a coffee shop or a resteraunt..... hmmmm
and my garbage was overturned. Now some may think its racoons, but we here at the C.O.A.H.R.E.O (Committy to Overturn All Human Rights Except Ours) know better. It's part of a secret Al-Qida plot to rifle our garbage and discover secrets, enableling them to overtake us by assuming our identities, and killing us all off one by one. You've seen them. Rifling through your garbage supposedly looking for scrap metal to pawn. (Another plot to gain money for Al-Qida)
C.O.A.H.R.E.O is now working in conjuction with Senate Majority and Sec. of State Condisending Rice to promote Senate Bill Fu-69T This Bill will require all residents be cleared by the Garbage Control Agency (GAO) before being allowed to dispose of Garbage in secured and Approved Trash Retention Centers.(TRC) Agents of the GAO will also stand gaurd around all open dumps/incinerators/and undwater dumping grounds to ensure that the Al-Qida terrorists are unable to to steal our identies. The C.O.A.H.R.E.O estimates that this will cost an average of 10 million dollars a day to implement but that it can be paid for by giving the states 6 months to comply or loose "No Child We Can Find" funding. (Not by actually giving them any money.) Allocation of 20 billion dollars from the federal slush fund (treasury) will be done to cover this. 19 billion for Haliburton and 1 billion just for showing around money.
hick1: "Whuts that there on yer movie playin box?" hickette1: "Paws Finger" hick1: "Yer Paws finger! Howd he losed it?" hickette: "He didn't, we-uns cut it offen him" hick1: "Cut'sd it awf. Whyin tarnation ya do that fer?" hickette1: "After he upt and died on us we's needed this hair finger to be ables to watched are movies."
I've two cell phones. One that works in dang near every country in the world.... except the US and one that dang near works in the US.
I had the distinct pleasure a number of years ago o sitting in on a meeting. I was chosen to sit in on this meeting because of my role in maintaining a Korea wide pager system for the US Military. In that meeting and a number of less formal ones over the years I came to understand the basic difference between the US attitude and the attitude of the rest of the world.
Locally we keep asking "What's our Value Add" "What's our IP" A number of Asian and European Businesss people have pointed out to me that they love to hear American Companies saying this. Why? because they know that by the time the Americans figure out their value add and their IP they will have a product on the market already that is light years ahead.
In 1999 living in Korea I could go 7 stories underground, or zip along on the Subway at 50mph all while talking on my cell phone. 20 stories in the air no problem. In a plane flying over the freaking country... no problem. The dang things just worked. Not only that, but they were about 1/4 the size of the phones selling for hundreds of dollars in the US and.... the phones where free. Phone charges were by the minute (If you started the call) no minute limit with a small (around 5 dollars US) monthly change just to exist. Here in the US we can't even cover a whole city. Yet China is rapidly approaching the whole country, In Africa getting a land line is a dream. But sitting on the corner is a man with a cell phone. BTW he IS the pay phone. Yet today in the US..... we still can't cover a block let alone a city with a 100k population.
Did you know that the US is the only place I've seen in the world that allows both sides of a call to be charged? Did you know that that is illegal on land lines?
As to why I expect my phone to work. I've got one that I've taken from Singapore, to Manila, through Banglor and Hong Kong up to Korea and Tokyo and I don't have to ask if people can hear me. Here in the silly con valley though..... 5 out of 10 places I go are either off net or barely serviced. So yes I do expect it to work. Mofo that is what I'm freaking paying you for. Not overloaded Cells spread to thin to be effective. If you'd spend as much on maintenance as you do on lunch stuff might work.
Last note. After 4 years of watching that poor slob on the Verizon commercial saying "can you here me now" you'd think he'd have found at least one point were someone could hear him.
Understood. However shred is not a file management tool, it works at a much lower level in that it's designed to change the state of blocks occupied by the file, not modify a file and rewrite. (If this worked then opening a file deleting the data contained therein and rewriting to the HDD would be sufficient.)
What you are talking about is the same as hoping that new data written over a file will obscure the old file. Doesn't work. Hence shred and what it does. It works irrespective of the data and works on the blocks assigned to a file called X. We aren't modifying a file so much as we are modifying the magnetic traces that define the file.
Remember though in the end the only viable way to destroy the data on a drive is either to melt it or to use an industrial grade shredder on the platten. So although you can do a NSA level wipe of the drive (though not NSA approved, there is a difference.) The real experts can still get viable data off of the drive.
Oh no I'm very well educated in what happens with the data collected. I've seen way to many cookies used to follow me around the net. Gage my surfing habits, then once certain companies compile the data in reference to my IP number, Internet account etc. All that remains is to let their servers get broken into and the lives and lifestyles of now it seems hundereds of thousands (not the original thousands as we were told originally) of Americans are wide open to identity theft. Not that the cookies were the only seed in the forest but rather a seed you don't want to sprout. Seems that the only way to be protected these days is to either be a crook or a polititian.... not being redundant at all.
As for the shear crap called adds. Sorry for years they have had highly targeted adds. (just under a different name so it has to be something different right? A rose by any other name is someones patent. One thing they have learned. 2 kinds of adds get noticed. Really Good ones. Really bad ones. Most people don't remember the company attached to the really good ones. Everyone remembers the company attached to the really bad ones. Guess which one causes the most revenue increase.... yep. The one you love to hate.
To wipe the drive insert a knoppix disk, once booted mount your partitions. Cd to a partition and type
# shred [options] *
man shred for specifics but shred does NSA style wipes of HDD with as many overwrites as you want (25 is stock) then follow it up with rm -Rf * (since shred destroys the data not the "name") then once all files on all partitions are "wiped" fdisk it, one big partition and put a new file system on it.
This can be done to NSA standards with a little bit of effort.
shred is beyond any doubt the most overlooked utility in Linux/Unix.
There is a Mandrake Duck though not in the sense of a real (as in dictionary name) In certain areas of the US the common Mallard is also know as a Mandrake.
As for the common rumor that it was named after the comic strip character. No it wasn't. I remember from the very early days (around the first release) in the e-mail list I mentioned the comic book character and the reaction I got was "The What?" "How old are you?" So no one there was thinking of anything but the root.
However there is a mildy known magician from the eary days of Vaudville called Mandrake, and IIRC Manduck was the character Donald Duck played in a number of Disney shorts. BTW the Comic book character is actually a rip off of the real Mandrake the magician IMHO but since he isn't a Company he doesn't count.
Finally corallary, The methodology of determining that moores law applies will change every six months as well. (It was mhz then mips then then then) problem is.. no matter how fast they get I still can't do realtime music composition and playback the way I could on my Amiga 500.
Well given that every 62 million years on earth there is a catastrophic destruction of Life world wide. Combined with the fact that the last time it happened was 65 million years ago. You need to be careful what you wish for. Oh and as a side note. If we end humans, despite what people have told you since elementary school. Geeks are human too. We don't get out of jail on this one.
For more info click here
translucency and shadows. Now that is beyond any doubt in my mind extremely useful in making a screen easy on the eye. The rest of the crap (and yes I mean crap) is well..... useless. I'm sorry but what I see is more stuff to turn off and disable.
I'm trying to get mail out to my number one client along with copies of 2 spreadsheets and an invoice. All the while my windows are flopping around laundry in a windstorm. Sorry. But there are other less bloated "features" needed.
While Intel responded saying, "Intel continues to believe its business practices are both fair and lawful."
Yep Every criminal in the pen is innocent, Standard Oil was justfied giving away gasoline in new markets and raising the price in old ones to offset the cost. Dalmer claimed that his victims "asked for it"
That's the problem with ego's. In the hands of those without morals and ethics they leave you thinking you are right because you appear to have succeeded. What Intel doesn't understand is, they have been found guilty in a court of law.
The other thing they don't understand is that it isn't a US court of law. It isn't even the US. They are a bunch of guylos (sp) who are not, despite what they may think, an inside player. As a damn American who has had the joy and frustration of living in asia for more than a decade I can attest that no matter how well you think you are in. No matter how many local faces you have, if the name on the card isn't a home grown mega company you are in second place flat out.
But iTold you this was the outcome. iKnow you believed that others where men and women of iNtegraty, Since you yourself are one. But iHave found that iNtegraty is not a virtue of the iCentury called 21. The iMoney is all that matters. We have reached to age of Hollywood goes to Washington. iHope we all survive.
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...not the end of why you are seeing manufacturers move so heavily from CRT to LCD. The reason is largely profit margin. Manufacturing costs on CRT products are pretty much as low as they are ever going to go. LCD's on the other hand are just getting to the point where dramatic decreases in the cost of manufacture are being seen. Now market prices don't react as fast as the drops in cost of materials and manufacturing do. This means that for the sales channel they are in a period of high margin sales on a popular product. They are able to use LCD panels that don't cut it as HDTV's for low end loss leader computer screens, and low end laptops. (where people aren't as "picky")
So tell me. Which would you do? Sell 7 CRT's with a 10% gross margin or 5 LCD's with a 25% gross margin? Your call.
True enough... I suppose it might have kept you away.
I love it, moderated funny *sigh* ..... I'm not being funny. Video Bang's (a with an ah sound) are all over the place. This is how the young 18-25 year old asians "socialize" and get to know each other without the risk of embaressment of undu pressure. Then once people meet or agree to meet they leave to go to a coffee shop or a resteraunt. .... hmmmm
The more I think about it the more I realize that the US is the wrong market .... Korea Japan Taiwan and China would however eat this idea up. .....
Is he going to dig up all of those old game cartridges from the Arizona desert to start the business?
and my garbage was overturned. Now some may think its racoons, but we here at the C.O.A.H.R.E.O (Committy to Overturn All Human Rights Except Ours) know better. It's part of a secret Al-Qida plot to rifle our garbage and discover secrets, enableling them to overtake us by assuming our identities, and killing us all off one by one. You've seen them. Rifling through your garbage supposedly looking for scrap metal to pawn. (Another plot to gain money for Al-Qida)
C.O.A.H.R.E.O is now working in conjuction with Senate Majority and Sec. of State Condisending Rice to promote Senate Bill Fu-69T This Bill will require all residents be cleared by the Garbage Control Agency (GAO) before being allowed to dispose of Garbage in secured and Approved Trash Retention Centers.(TRC) Agents of the GAO will also stand gaurd around all open dumps/incinerators/and undwater dumping grounds to ensure that the Al-Qida terrorists are unable to to steal our identies. The C.O.A.H.R.E.O estimates that this will cost an average of 10 million dollars a day to implement but that it can be paid for by giving the states 6 months to comply or loose "No Child We Can Find" funding. (Not by actually giving them any money.) Allocation of 20 billion dollars from the federal slush fund (treasury) will be done to cover this. 19 billion for Haliburton and 1 billion just for showing around money.
hick1: "Whuts that there on yer movie playin box?"
hickette1: "Paws Finger"
hick1: "Yer Paws finger! Howd he losed it?"
hickette: "He didn't, we-uns cut it offen him"
hick1: "Cut'sd it awf. Whyin tarnation ya do that fer?"
hickette1: "After he upt and died on us we's needed this hair finger to be ables to watched are movies."
God you are cheap. You must be in Congress and not the Senate. Prices are higher over here.
either that or they are all members of the ESR fan club. *grin*
.....does it run on Linux. Better question would be. Can you install Linux on it?
1. Production quality software out of Redmond is Beta Quality.
2. Slap a dress on a pig and somebody will ask it to dance.
*sigh*
I've two cell phones. One that works in dang near every country in the world.... except the US and one that dang near works in the US.
... no problem. The dang things just worked. Not only that, but they were about 1/4 the size of the phones selling for hundreds of dollars in the US and .... the phones where free. Phone charges were by the minute (If you started the call) no minute limit with a small (around 5 dollars US) monthly change just to exist. Here in the US we can't even cover a whole city. Yet China is rapidly approaching the whole country, In Africa getting a land line is a dream. But sitting on the corner is a man with a cell phone. BTW he IS the pay phone. Yet today in the US..... we still can't cover a block let alone a city with a 100k population.
I had the distinct pleasure a number of years ago o sitting in on a meeting. I was chosen to sit in on this meeting because of my role in maintaining a Korea wide pager system for the US Military. In that meeting and a number of less formal ones over the years I came to understand the basic difference between the US attitude and the attitude of the rest of the world.
Locally we keep asking "What's our Value Add" "What's our IP" A number of Asian and European Businesss people have pointed out to me that they love to hear American Companies saying this. Why? because they know that by the time the Americans figure out their value add and their IP they will have a product on the market already that is light years ahead.
In 1999 living in Korea I could go 7 stories underground, or zip along on the Subway at 50mph all while talking on my cell phone. 20 stories in the air no problem. In a plane flying over the freaking country
Did you know that the US is the only place I've seen in the world that allows both sides of a call to be charged? Did you know that that is illegal on land lines?
As to why I expect my phone to work. I've got one that I've taken from Singapore, to Manila, through Banglor and Hong Kong up to Korea and Tokyo and I don't have to ask if people can hear me. Here in the silly con valley though..... 5 out of 10 places I go are either off net or barely serviced. So yes I do expect it to work. Mofo that is what I'm freaking paying you for. Not overloaded Cells spread to thin to be effective. If you'd spend as much on maintenance as you do on lunch stuff might work.
Last note. After 4 years of watching that poor slob on the Verizon commercial saying "can you here me now" you'd think he'd have found at least one point were someone could hear him.
Understood. However shred is not a file management tool, it works at a much lower level in that it's designed to change the state of blocks occupied by the file, not modify a file and rewrite. (If this worked then opening a file deleting the data contained therein and rewriting to the HDD would be sufficient.)
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What you are talking about is the same as hoping that new data written over a file will obscure the old file. Doesn't work. Hence shred and what it does. It works irrespective of the data and works on the blocks assigned to a file called X. We aren't modifying a file so much as we are modifying the magnetic traces that define the file.
Some links
http://aplawrence.com/Words2005/2005_04_15.html
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secur
Remember though in the end the only viable way to destroy the data on a drive is either to melt it or to use an industrial grade shredder on the platten. So although you can do a NSA level wipe of the drive (though not NSA approved, there is a difference.) The real experts can still get viable data off of the drive.
Oh no I'm very well educated in what happens with the data collected. I've seen way to many cookies used to follow me around the net. Gage my surfing habits, then once certain companies compile the data in reference to my IP number, Internet account etc. All that remains is to let their servers get broken into and the lives and lifestyles of now it seems hundereds of thousands (not the original thousands as we were told originally) of Americans are wide open to identity theft. Not that the cookies were the only seed in the forest but rather a seed you don't want to sprout. Seems that the only way to be protected these days is to either be a crook or a polititian .... not being redundant at all.
As for the shear crap called adds. Sorry for years they have had highly targeted adds. (just under a different name so it has to be something different right? A rose by any other name is someones patent. One thing they have learned. 2 kinds of adds get noticed. Really Good ones. Really bad ones. Most people don't remember the company attached to the really good ones. Everyone remembers the company attached to the really bad ones. Guess which one causes the most revenue increase.... yep. The one you love to hate.
To wipe the drive insert a knoppix disk, once booted mount your partitions. Cd to a partition and type
# shred [options] *
man shred for specifics but shred does NSA style wipes of HDD with as many overwrites as you want (25 is stock) then follow it up with rm -Rf * (since shred destroys the data not the "name") then once all files on all partitions are "wiped" fdisk it, one big partition and put a new file system on it.
This can be done to NSA standards with a little bit of effort.
shred is beyond any doubt the most overlooked utility in Linux/Unix.
There is a Mandrake Duck though not in the sense of a real (as in dictionary name) In certain areas of the US the common Mallard is also know as a Mandrake.
As for the common rumor that it was named after the comic strip character. No it wasn't. I remember from the very early days (around the first release) in the e-mail list I mentioned the comic book character and the reaction I got was "The What?" "How old are you?" So no one there was thinking of anything but the root.
However there is a mildy known magician from the eary days of Vaudville called Mandrake, and IIRC Manduck was the character Donald Duck played in a number of Disney shorts. BTW the Comic book character is actually a rip off of the real Mandrake the magician IMHO but since he isn't a Company he doesn't count.
Finally corallary, The methodology of determining that moores law applies will change every six months as well. (It was mhz then mips then then then) problem is.. no matter how fast they get I still can't do realtime music composition and playback the way I could on my Amiga 500.
*sigh*
Well given that every 62 million years on earth there is a catastrophic destruction of Life world wide. Combined with the fact that the last time it happened was 65 million years ago. You need to be careful what you wish for. Oh and as a side note. If we end humans, despite what people have told you since elementary school. Geeks are human too. We don't get out of jail on this one. For more info click here
Dude, all that to run those two little speakers in the corner.... I detect overkill.
You can now open a Mozilla session in under a minute!
translucency and shadows. Now that is beyond any doubt in my mind extremely useful in making a screen easy on the eye. The rest of the crap (and yes I mean crap) is well..... useless. I'm sorry but what I see is more stuff to turn off and disable.
I'm trying to get mail out to my number one client along with copies of 2 spreadsheets and an invoice. All the while my windows are flopping around laundry in a windstorm. Sorry. But there are other less bloated "features" needed.
Yep Every criminal in the pen is innocent, Standard Oil was justfied giving away gasoline in new markets and raising the price in old ones to offset the cost. Dalmer claimed that his victims "asked for it"
That's the problem with ego's. In the hands of those without morals and ethics they leave you thinking you are right because you appear to have succeeded. What Intel doesn't understand is, they have been found guilty in a court of law.
The other thing they don't understand is that it isn't a US court of law. It isn't even the US. They are a bunch of guylos (sp) who are not, despite what they may think, an inside player. As a damn American who has had the joy and frustration of living in asia for more than a decade I can attest that no matter how well you think you are in. No matter how many local faces you have, if the name on the card isn't a home grown mega company you are in second place flat out.
But iTold you this was the outcome. iKnow you believed that others where men and women of iNtegraty, Since you yourself are one. But iHave found that iNtegraty is not a virtue of the iCentury called 21. The iMoney is all that matters. We have reached to age of Hollywood goes to Washington. iHope we all survive.
Is he using Gee-Dubya's speach writer again?