1) true 2) true 3) depends, I have a lot of hurry up and wait in my job.
I can do it in slightly better than real time, still not trivial, but very doable. I really liked my Archos, till it started having issues. My biggest gripe is that I can't play my preferred encoding schema in it. If they would support xvid I would buy a new one. Also,
The damn Phillips DVD player with MP4 support borkes on xvid as well, anyone know of some open firmware for that thing?
As to being worth it: All my DVDs are available in my house to any TV as video on demand. I do this with a big HDD, the Linksys NSLU2, and some modded xboxes. It is better than any commercial setup available. I no longer have to worry about my 2 year old wanting to watch a movie and trying to put the disk in the player herself. -nB
And in the meantime that hotel employee is reading all of them for data after the guest has left. Since there is no tampering with the computer, there is no audit trail that a guest has been comprimised. -nB
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"or if designed like a heat pump could even cool a room,"
Ever been on a test drive? All the dealerships in my area require it. 3 of the pawn shops require it. I really don't think it's all that unreasonable. -nB
In a way there is. If he kept a photo copy of the sellers drivers licence with the make/model/serial of the computer he bought the law would have left him alone upon production of said photo copy (they would likely still take his proceeds from the sale though). -nB
Did yours use the supply drawer the printer was sitting on as teh method to shave the block, thus getting color wax shavings all over the place (including in the carpet), which the janitorial staff dutifully vaccuumed up using the same cleaner the'd been using for the last hour (those get kinda warm), thus fusing the wax (some of it at least) into the carpet and brushes of the cleaner? cause mine did.
Our solution? Placed the printer in the controlled doc department so you had to sign for color prints. Boy did our costs (supply and maintenance) drop! -nB
Failures of the environment should be about as common as power failures.
Except: Users load the wrong paper in the wrong tray, mix up the color stix in the Phasor, etc. To be sure you could hire extra heads to do these things proactivly (sp?), but you don't have the budget for that. If you rely on the users to notify you then you are back where you started. Usually the user who thinks they know what they are doing are the ones who don't and fsck it up.
In the case of the power line, the system protects its self from the stupid people (or at least ensures they only try once). -nB
not entirly, Much of what Intel makes have fairly large die (chipsets, processors, many types of network Si). That may well be offset by flash memories and xscale processors. I'm not sure how much a 300 mm wafer costs, but depending on the process a 200 mm wafer costs between ~$970 and $3000. Take that and divide by the yeild of useful die (something else I don't know) and you get your die materials and labor costs.
What is not counted in this is the device packaging (the plastic parts we think of as a "chip"), testing, assembly costs, retail/bulk packaging, etc. and you have a hard cost per chip.
Still not counted is all the engineering staff needed to design and test the chip to a production worthy point, marketing, overhead and support staff (HR, Janitors, Finance, etc.) and there are still more costs involved.
Finally once the chip is in the field you need to support it with Failure Analysis, Applications engineers, etc. -nB
Those would all be VLSI chips, not discreet components. Discreet means that the chip contains just an op-amp (maybe several, all pinned out individually), logic gates, etc.
As soon as you make a chipset controller, Ethernet PHY, etc. That is not a discreet component. I realise that this is splitting hairs to some extent, but hopefully that is clear enough as to my intent. -nB
I basically do this already. I have my own mail host and simply ailias an e-mail address to may main inbox. offer.name@networkboy.net for example. Once I have what I want I redirect the e-mail address to a bullpen account that collects everything. If I find a lot of spam showing up then I redir the address again, this time to:blackhole: or:bounce: depending on the type of spam. Corp spam gets bounced, because they are likely to remove the e-mail address from their lists. Common zombie spam goes to:blackhole: for hopefully obvious reasons. -nB
Sorry,
They don't make simple logic chips, nor do they make op-amps. Intel is not in the business of making discreet components.
If you anre interested the Adjusted gross margin of the company (based on previous SEC filings) is roughly 48-52%. That would indicate that a $600 wholesale chip cost the company about $300 to produce, with the other $300 going to expansion, investment in new tech, shareholders dividends, into a bank account for a rainy day, etc.
I would tend to think that most of the profit is mature tech for which the R&D has been ammortized, such as the P3 chips, Xscale, etc.
I have a fairly reliable way of thinking that the P4 division, while a profit center, is not where the big money comes from. Most of that $400-$600 you spend on a CPU is covering other people's costs. (remember retailer markup)
They had a fan site for a local shopping mall. The mall developers tried to shut them down (for some inexplicable reason), so as part of defending themselves they registered several "sucks" domains including http://www.taubmansucks.com/ (Taubman is the name of the developer).
The guy was trying to defend himself for a long time and started to get dug into a hole, but eventually he found pro-bono representation and ultimately they won. Maybe there's some useful ideas for you in there.
Yup. I've done lots of research about gripe sites because of that C&D.
On a side note someone at farmers reads/. my hits from them are higher than normal:) -nB
The domain name is usually considered protected speech so long as the content is not actionable (slander/libel, (C) infringement, TM infringement, etc.)
For example: http://farmersreallysucks.com/ is a website about my experience with Farmers Insurance. All I say is either factual, or commentary. In the case of factual information, it is not actionable, in the case of commentary, that too is protected speech, even if inflammitory, so long as it is not represented as fact.
I can say: I think/believe/feel/am of the opinion/[any other qualifier] that Farmers is a bunch of scum sucking aholes, the bottom of the insurance barrel. I would believe it if you told me they ate their children and sacrificed policy holders in satanic rituals.
What I can not do is: Farmers, an insurance company, is comprised of asshats that eat children.
The former was a statement of opinion, the latter of fact (and not accurate, making it libel).
Take a moment and visit the takedown notice: http://farmersreallysucks.com/cgi-bin/QAD_CMS.pl?p age=E1_First_Takedown.html and you can read all the claims that the lawyers used to attempt to force the site down. All the counterclaims are in red, and while IANAL, I did have one read my response and he did greenlight it as accurate. Cheers, -nB
Nevermind that the reader can be as simple as a pair of paper clips and a notepad. The standard connector layout allows for a shorting block to be plugged in (shorts two signal lines to power) and the codes blink out on the check engine light morse code style. write them down and look them up;) -nB
I don't know about you, but the money I paid for my BOSE set was worth it.
I wear glasses and code all day long. The cheap ones do not fit well and end up pinching my ears. The BOSE kit surrounds the ear rather than resting on it, the result being comfort I can wear for 8 hour stretches if I need to. -nB
I work for a semiconductor manufacturer (arguably more parinoid than the government). When we had a lot of IBM drives fail (all the same lot code) I informed IBM that they were under warrenty, but that I could not release the drives to them without drilling them first (per IPSec policy). IBM said no problem, print this form for each drive, fill it out and mail it back, we don't need the drives, just their info.
On a side note I found out that the 20 gig IBM Deskstar platters were made out of glass! -nB
Actually all current drives use RLL encoding, you would have to write a very unique bitstring to cause all 0's (low magnetic value) to be written to the drive. writing logical 0000000000000 is going to produce something along the lines of 10011010010000 as the whole point of comm encoding (RLL, MLT3, 4DPAM5, etc) is to ensure a minimum number of transitions in a given length bitstring. For MLT3, it is an 11 bit XOR feedback (IIRC). -nB
Right, so after scrolling down a while and finding nothing on the actual topic of tools: 1) 2 metcal re-work stations 2) 2-3 rolls of solder, varying diameter 3) 2 bottles of liquid flux (someone will steal one) 4) IPA, swabs and cloth wipes 5) Machinist chest (small) loaded with the RightTools (TM) (ESD safe snips, strippers, pliers, etc.) 6) bin box for scrap devices and solder soaked wick for "proper" disposal 7) PC w/ 17" LCD, mounted on a swivel arm. 8) the kitchen sink.
other: * One bench with an inspection microscope for taking nice pictures like this: http://xbx.networkboy.net/modules/gallery/albums/a lbum24/TEEPE_2X402S_TO_1_603CAP_TO_GROUND_SHOT2.pn g (should have a pair of very fine tipped soldering irons for re-work) * Community station with a Zyphertronics and low temp solder (you can recover and reuse the solder a couple times, feels chincy to do, but that shit is pricy) * Solvent tank, if you can afford it and the OSHA regs, etc. Makes cleaning boards a breeze.
All the above is with re-work in mind, and if you need to do debug I highly suggest a seperate station or two with a good scope (I like Tek) and Logic analyzer, DMM (should have lots of these floating around any lab), etc.
If you want some pics of my bench setups for my lab let me know (email the admin of the site the pic came from). -nB
The failure rate for the target customer is a non issue. If MegaCorp is going to refresh the PCs in 3-4 years then any failures after that point is not their problem. -nB
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Maybe he meant gain as in "not lose"?
Getting to the top is easy. Staying there is comparitively much harder.
-nB
1) true
2) true
3) depends, I have a lot of hurry up and wait in my job.
I can do it in slightly better than real time, still not trivial, but very doable.
I really liked my Archos, till it started having issues. My biggest gripe is that I can't play my preferred encoding schema in it. If they would support xvid I would buy a new one.
Also,
The damn Phillips DVD player with MP4 support borkes on xvid as well, anyone know of some open firmware for that thing?
As to being worth it: All my DVDs are available in my house to any TV as video on demand. I do this with a big HDD, the Linksys NSLU2, and some modded xboxes. It is better than any commercial setup available. I no longer have to worry about my 2 year old wanting to watch a movie and trying to put the disk in the player herself.
-nB
Yes, I think the parent post has a grasp of that fact quite clearly :P
-nB
And in the meantime that hotel employee is reading all of them for data after the guest has left. Since there is no tampering with the computer, there is no audit trail that a guest has been comprimised.
-nB
"or if designed like a heat pump could even cool a room,"
Sorry to nitpick, but no, it couldn't.
-nB
Ever been on a test drive?
All the dealerships in my area require it.
3 of the pawn shops require it.
I really don't think it's all that unreasonable.
-nB
In a way there is. If he kept a photo copy of the sellers drivers licence with the make/model/serial of the computer he bought the law would have left him alone upon production of said photo copy (they would likely still take his proceeds from the sale though).
-nB
Did yours use the supply drawer the printer was sitting on as teh method to shave the block, thus getting color wax shavings all over the place (including in the carpet), which the janitorial staff dutifully vaccuumed up using the same cleaner the'd been using for the last hour (those get kinda warm), thus fusing the wax (some of it at least) into the carpet and brushes of the cleaner?
cause mine did.
Our solution? Placed the printer in the controlled doc department so you had to sign for color prints. Boy did our costs (supply and maintenance) drop!
-nB
Failures of the environment should be about as common as power failures.
Except:
Users load the wrong paper in the wrong tray, mix up the color stix in the Phasor, etc. To be sure you could hire extra heads to do these things proactivly (sp?), but you don't have the budget for that. If you rely on the users to notify you then you are back where you started. Usually the user who thinks they know what they are doing are the ones who don't and fsck it up.
In the case of the power line, the system protects its self from the stupid people (or at least ensures they only try once).
-nB
No.
He's the PHB, Dogbert is the consultant that talked him into doing it.
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And the outsourcing agency for the new IT staff.
-nB
not entirly, Much of what Intel makes have fairly large die (chipsets, processors, many types of network Si). That may well be offset by flash memories and xscale processors. I'm not sure how much a 300 mm wafer costs, but depending on the process a 200 mm wafer costs between ~$970 and $3000.
Take that and divide by the yeild of useful die (something else I don't know) and you get your die materials and labor costs.
What is not counted in this is the device packaging (the plastic parts we think of as a "chip"), testing, assembly costs, retail/bulk packaging, etc. and you have a hard cost per chip.
Still not counted is all the engineering staff needed to design and test the chip to a production worthy point, marketing, overhead and support staff (HR, Janitors, Finance, etc.) and there are still more costs involved.
Finally once the chip is in the field you need to support it with Failure Analysis, Applications engineers, etc.
-nB
Those would all be VLSI chips, not discreet components. Discreet means that the chip contains just an op-amp (maybe several, all pinned out individually), logic gates, etc.
As soon as you make a chipset controller, Ethernet PHY, etc. That is not a discreet component. I realise that this is splitting hairs to some extent, but hopefully that is clear enough as to my intent.
-nB
I basically do this already. I have my own mail host and simply ailias an e-mail address to may main inbox. offer.name@networkboy.net for example. Once I have what I want I redirect the e-mail address to a bullpen account that collects everything. If I find a lot of spam showing up then I redir the address again, this time to :blackhole: or :bounce: depending on the type of spam. Corp spam gets bounced, because they are likely to remove the e-mail address from their lists. Common zombie spam goes to :blackhole: for hopefully obvious reasons.
-nB
Sorry,
They don't make simple logic chips, nor do they make op-amps.
Intel is not in the business of making discreet components.
If you anre interested the Adjusted gross margin of the company (based on previous SEC filings) is roughly 48-52%. That would indicate that a $600 wholesale chip cost the company about $300 to produce, with the other $300 going to expansion, investment in new tech, shareholders dividends, into a bank account for a rainy day, etc.
I would tend to think that most of the profit is mature tech for which the R&D has been ammortized, such as the P3 chips, Xscale, etc.
I have a fairly reliable way of thinking that the P4 division, while a profit center, is not where the big money comes from. Most of that $400-$600 you spend on a CPU is covering other people's costs. (remember retailer markup)
They had a fan site for a local shopping mall. The mall developers tried to shut them down (for some inexplicable reason), so as part of defending themselves they registered several "sucks" domains including http://www.taubmansucks.com/ (Taubman is the name of the developer).
/. my hits from them are higher than normal :)
The guy was trying to defend himself for a long time and started to get dug into a hole, but eventually he found pro-bono representation and ultimately they won. Maybe there's some useful ideas for you in there.
Yup. I've done lots of research about gripe sites because of that C&D.
On a side note someone at farmers reads
-nB
"Dude, your title bar is misspelled on every page."
Thanks
I'll fix it when I get home.
-nB
The domain name is usually considered protected speech so long as the content is not actionable (slander/libel, (C) infringement, TM infringement, etc.)
p age=E1_First_Takedown.html and you can read all the claims that the lawyers used to attempt to force the site down. All the counterclaims are in red, and while IANAL, I did have one read my response and he did greenlight it as accurate.
For example: http://farmersreallysucks.com/ is a website about my experience with Farmers Insurance. All I say is either factual, or commentary. In the case of factual information, it is not actionable, in the case of commentary, that too is protected speech, even if inflammitory, so long as it is not represented as fact.
I can say: I think/believe/feel/am of the opinion/[any other qualifier] that Farmers is a bunch of scum sucking aholes, the bottom of the insurance barrel. I would believe it if you told me they ate their children and sacrificed policy holders in satanic rituals.
What I can not do is: Farmers, an insurance company, is comprised of asshats that eat children.
The former was a statement of opinion, the latter of fact (and not accurate, making it libel).
Take a moment and visit the takedown notice: http://farmersreallysucks.com/cgi-bin/QAD_CMS.pl?
Cheers,
-nB
:P
Nevermind that the reader can be as simple as a pair of paper clips and a notepad. The standard connector layout allows for a shorting block to be plugged in (shorts two signal lines to power) and the codes blink out on the check engine light morse code style. write them down and look them up ;)
-nB
I don't know about you, but the money I paid for my BOSE set was worth it.
I wear glasses and code all day long. The cheap ones do not fit well and end up pinching my ears. The BOSE kit surrounds the ear rather than resting on it, the result being comfort I can wear for 8 hour stretches if I need to.
-nB
I work for a semiconductor manufacturer (arguably more parinoid than the government). When we had a lot of IBM drives fail (all the same lot code) I informed IBM that they were under warrenty, but that I could not release the drives to them without drilling them first (per IPSec policy). IBM said no problem, print this form for each drive, fill it out and mail it back, we don't need the drives, just their info.
On a side note I found out that the 20 gig IBM Deskstar platters were made out of glass!
-nB
Actually all current drives use RLL encoding, you would have to write a very unique bitstring to cause all 0's (low magnetic value) to be written to the drive. writing logical 0000000000000 is going to produce something along the lines of 10011010010000 as the whole point of comm encoding (RLL, MLT3, 4DPAM5, etc) is to ensure a minimum number of transitions in a given length bitstring. For MLT3, it is an 11 bit XOR feedback (IIRC).
-nB
ob gollum quote.
-nB
Right, so after scrolling down a while and finding nothing on the actual topic of tools:
a lbum24/TEEPE_2X402S_TO_1_603CAP_TO_GROUND_SHOT2.pn g (should have a pair of very fine tipped soldering irons for re-work)
1) 2 metcal re-work stations
2) 2-3 rolls of solder, varying diameter
3) 2 bottles of liquid flux (someone will steal one)
4) IPA, swabs and cloth wipes
5) Machinist chest (small) loaded with the RightTools (TM) (ESD safe snips, strippers, pliers, etc.)
6) bin box for scrap devices and solder soaked wick for "proper" disposal
7) PC w/ 17" LCD, mounted on a swivel arm.
8) the kitchen sink.
other:
* One bench with an inspection microscope for taking nice pictures like this: http://xbx.networkboy.net/modules/gallery/albums/
* Community station with a Zyphertronics and low temp solder (you can recover and reuse the solder a couple times, feels chincy to do, but that shit is pricy)
* Solvent tank, if you can afford it and the OSHA regs, etc. Makes cleaning boards a breeze.
All the above is with re-work in mind, and if you need to do debug I highly suggest a seperate station or two with a good scope (I like Tek) and Logic analyzer, DMM (should have lots of these floating around any lab), etc.
If you want some pics of my bench setups for my lab let me know (email the admin of the site the pic came from).
-nB
The failure rate for the target customer is a non issue.
If MegaCorp is going to refresh the PCs in 3-4 years then any failures after that point is not their problem.
-nB