All that will manage to do is make them sue for more to make up for the loss.
How is it something like this would be snuck into a deal ? Did they just want the cash from MS and didn't look at the future ? bad lawyers maybe ? who in their right mind would let that go by ?
Oddly enough I found the opposite to be true , and the sad part is it is all regional. So good service can some times be county to county or even city to city:(
My dishnetwork was great , solid even during blizzard like snow falls. I am in the northeast as well right outside of boston actually and my dishnetwork setup never had issues even in heavy rain i would get some pixelation but very little loss of signal. And they had good quality HD. I switched to comcast because dish refused to swap out a dvr that they destroyed with a software update. My 622 would never tune a channel after the update. It just hung on the menu screen and kept checking for a satellite signal.
I swapped to comcast and my cost not only went up $15 but they are charging $15 for an hd dvr a month then $3 for the remote. and $5 per outlet. I am sore that I got rid of my dsl and dish for comcast.
I went over to a rather well off friends home who has fios, and looked at his channels to mine , he pays $26 less a month for tv alone. Then $5 less for phone and $20 less for internet. Thats $51 a month, which would be a nice $600 chunk in my pocket a year. Hey could feed my addiction to new procs every year. The phone is crystal clear , the picture is truly beautiful on the hd channels and much better on sd. The internet is rock solid and the damn thing hits 20 mbit without an issue. I wish my cable service was as cheap , solid , and as fast.
The major thing that sucks is like you said there is no perfect one , and it's always regional. Some areas are just better maintained and better managed then some and that is really what makes the difference in quality, except for satellite services which are nationwide.
Little more research is needed. When I bought my monitor, I searched the companies website for the pdf about the tv and checked the tuner section.
Words of advice , make sure it's the EXACT manual for the tv not a model # up or down.
I ordered a Panasonic Plasma Tv not realizing the one I ordered was 1 model # down and did not contain an atsc/ntsc tuner. So I had to return it and get another that did have it. Thankfully The company had panasonic come and get it and claim it was damaged on arrival (small blemish on the outside shell) and they replaced it with the next Model up which I wanted since it also included a cable card slot. Which Has since saved me $15 a month:)
Guess I expect to much of people to read links off of an article they obviously haven't seen before. Just keep modding them redundant because people are lazy. Great moderating.
7. Methods of Recovery for Data stored in Random-Access Memory Contrary to conventional wisdom, "volatile" semiconductor memory does not entirely lose its contents when power is removed. Both static (SRAM) and dynamic (DRAM) memory retains some information on the data stored in it while power was still applied. SRAM is particularly susceptible to this problem, as storing the same data in it over a long period of time has the effect of altering the preferred power-up state to the state which was stored when power was removed. Older SRAM chips could often "remember" the previously held state for several days. In fact, it is possible to manufacture SRAM's which always have a certain state on power-up, but which can be overwritten later on - a kind of "writeable ROM".
DRAM can also "remember" the last stored state, but in a slightly different way. It isn't so much that the charge (in the sense of a voltage appearing across a capacitance) is retained by the RAM cells, but that the thin oxide which forms the storage capacitor dielectric is highly stressed by the applied field, or is not stressed by the field, so that the properties of the oxide change slightly depending on the state of the data. One thing that can cause a threshold shift in the RAM cells is ionic contamination of the cell(s) of interest, although such contamination is rarer now than it used to be because of robotic handling of the materials and because the purity of the chemicals used is greatly improved. However, even a perfect oxide is subject to having its properties changed by an applied field. When it comes to contaminants, sodium is the most common offender - it is found virtually everywhere, and is a fairly small (and therefore mobile) atom with a positive charge. In the presence of an electric field, it migrates towards the negative pole with a velocity which depends on temperature, the concentration of the sodium, the oxide quality, and the other impurities in the oxide such as dopants from the processing. If the electric field is zero and given enough time, this stress tends to dissipate eventually.
The stress on the cell is a cumulative effect, much like charging an RC circuit. If the data is applied for only a few milliseconds then there is very little "learning" of the cell, but if it is applied for hours then the cell will acquire a strong (relatively speaking) change in its threshold. The effects of the stress on the RAM cells can be measured using the built-in self test capabilities of the cells, which provide the ability to impress a weak voltage on a storage cell in order to measure its margin. Cells will show different margins depending on how much oxide stress has been present. Many DRAM's have undocumented test modes which allow some normal I/O pin to become the power supply for the RAM core when the special mode is active. These test modes are typically activated by running the RAM in a nonstandard configuration, so that a certain set of states which would not occur in a normally-functioning system has to be traversed to activate the mode. Manufacturers won't admit to such capabilities in their products because they don't want their customers using them and potentially rejecting devices which comply with their spec sheets, but have little margin beyond that.
A simple but somewhat destructive method to speed up the annihilation of stored bits in semiconductor memory is to heat it. Both DRAM's and SRAM's will lose their contents a lot more quickly at Tjunction = 140C than they will at room temperature. Several hours at this temperature with no power applied will clear their contents sufficiently to make recovery difficult. Conversely, to extend the life of stored bits with the power removed, the temperature should be dropped below -60C. Such cooling should lead to weeks, instead of hours or days, of data retention.
It is a bad example because it was short , what I was saying is it has to count up it,can't go straight to 0. And that itself prevents the oxide outside from storing the content as another bit , unless it's left there for to long then obviously it gets damaged and falls to another value.
Exactly , it makes it a trivial task. Which is why I find it dumb to do it , just request an image of the drive , it's so much easier. And since they don't log it won't contain the ips.
I guess the judge could request the logs from the upstream switches and try and compare it with others logs on the box of people who actually do log their traffic, or a simple snmp stream from the upstream router and access to the other sites on the box if its hosting more then 1 site.
The reason ram "clears" is that the pointers are lost. It is very possible to retrieve data.
On ram a bit is only flipped high to change its value , if the bit is never flipped again the bit doesn't mysteriously drop to low again , it relies on being over written with a higher bit.
01 must go to 10 before it can reach 11 and must got to 11 before it can be "flipped" to 00 again. All memory works on the same concept.
There you have it my 2 bit example of ram:) Yes pun intended.
Actually you can still retrieve data from ram , just happens to be your stuck with only what was in ram before the ram was removed , which on most good servers would be the server actually going down . Maybe some pages that they were serving but not much else.
There is a reason both banks and the government destroy ram and hard drives when they cycle out computers now.
The here is if they do so there may be info still on those chips. Ram "clears" itself on power down but info can still be retrieved from it if it's carefully read.
This happens because ram doesn't erase itself after data is moved off of it.
The real victim here is the people like me who stop getting the email links on where to my Vi/-\gR/-\ cheap.
Really can't we just solve this issue by cutting off the funding ? Let's see company XXX does a back door deal with YYY to get out on spam lists. We go to company XXX and say we are fining you $500,000 a day per day until you stop spamming your crap out to the world. They move off shore then you go after the people selling the stuff to hawk to company XXX and if they go off shore you go up the chain until your done.
Cutting off funding is what will eventually stop it from being main stream. And Bot herders deserve to be processed per system they infect.
I I have worked at a couple places before here , and truly I have never seen engineers who actually care so much about the hardware and software they support. And it shows in how they take care of the customers. I know there are horror stories about Sun equipment and support ( as there are for every vendor ) but these guys really are some of the best and brightest I have come across in the industry.
They routinely put in hours of over time to help get issues resolved , and we are salary not hourly. They train us constantly on every new product in our platform. And we have good labs were we can test and learn.
At an unnamed firm I worked at , they often released the Os and worried later about training the engineers and support staff. Here we actually test it on our boxes during beta , now that is a great learning tool.
The level of engineers here is greatly increased by the access to the hardware and the access to the training facility.
I would place our engineers over Ms at any point and a close tie with IBM. Just this morning I was working with 2 engineers to get some issues resolved on a high profile case , the amount of tam work with in some of these groups is incredible , although it was slowly fading , the pride and team work is coming back and that in itself leads to great engineers.
Now if only the stock would go up a little so we can get more help in here we could do even better.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_design
/. because I am a self sustaining geek :)
It looks like from reading this that the cost of producing many little generators would incur a higher cost and make lower returns on the cost.
So building many small ones to get the power of one big one is not cost effective for them , or so it would seem.
I would like to put a small fan on a car alternator , removing the rectifier of course and see what one of these bad boys could generate for power.
Hopefully enough to power my laptop as I surf
All that will manage to do is make them sue for more to make up for the loss.
How is it something like this would be snuck into a deal ? Did they just want the cash from MS and didn't look at the future ? bad lawyers maybe ? who in their right mind would let that go by ?
Oddly enough I found the opposite to be true , and the sad part is it is all regional. So good service can some times be county to county or even city to city :(
My dishnetwork was great , solid even during blizzard like snow falls. I am in the northeast as well right outside of boston actually and my dishnetwork setup never had issues even in heavy rain i would get some pixelation but very little loss of signal. And they had good quality HD. I switched to comcast because dish refused to swap out a dvr that they destroyed with a software update. My 622 would never tune a channel after the update. It just hung on the menu screen and kept checking for a satellite signal.
I swapped to comcast and my cost not only went up $15 but they are charging $15 for an hd dvr a month then $3 for the remote. and $5 per outlet. I am sore that I got rid of my dsl and dish for comcast.
I went over to a rather well off friends home who has fios, and looked at his channels to mine , he pays $26 less a month for tv alone. Then $5 less for phone and $20 less for internet. Thats $51 a month, which would be a nice $600 chunk in my pocket a year. Hey could feed my addiction to new procs every year. The phone is crystal clear , the picture is truly beautiful on the hd channels and much better on sd. The internet is rock solid and the damn thing hits 20 mbit without an issue. I wish my cable service was as cheap , solid , and as fast.
The major thing that sucks is like you said there is no perfect one , and it's always regional. Some areas are just better maintained and better managed then some and that is really what makes the difference in quality, except for satellite services which are nationwide.
Little more research is needed. When I bought my monitor, I searched the companies website for the pdf about the tv and checked the tuner section.
:)
Words of advice , make sure it's the EXACT manual for the tv not a model # up or down.
I ordered a Panasonic Plasma Tv not realizing the one I ordered was 1 model # down and did not contain an atsc/ntsc tuner. So I had to return it and get another that did have it. Thankfully The company had panasonic come and get it and claim it was damaged on arrival (small blemish on the outside shell) and they replaced it with the next Model up which I wanted since it also included a cable card slot. Which Has since saved me $15 a month
Actually the landlord can't do much to prevent you from getting satellite tv. But the cable companies do have that attitude.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html#QA explains the dish/antenna thing better then I ever could.
Or he could call Dishnetworks or Directv and have them come and install a satellite setup for him.
to avoid redundant modding here is a link to the /. post concerning it.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238463&ci
Not whining , proving my point. Arguing with facts and findings instead of ignorance. Helps you to excercise your mind when you do that.
7. Methods of Recovery for Data stored in Random-Access Memory
Contrary to conventional wisdom, "volatile" semiconductor memory does not entirely lose its contents when power is removed. Both static (SRAM) and dynamic (DRAM) memory retains some information on the data stored in it while power was still applied. SRAM is particularly susceptible to this problem, as storing the same data in it over a long period of time has the effect of altering the preferred power-up state to the state which was stored when power was removed. Older SRAM chips could often "remember" the previously held state for several days. In fact, it is possible to manufacture SRAM's which always have a certain state on power-up, but which can be overwritten later on - a kind of "writeable ROM".
DRAM can also "remember" the last stored state, but in a slightly different way. It isn't so much that the charge (in the sense of a voltage appearing across a capacitance) is retained by the RAM cells, but that the thin oxide which forms the storage capacitor dielectric is highly stressed by the applied field, or is not stressed by the field, so that the properties of the oxide change slightly depending on the state of the data. One thing that can cause a threshold shift in the RAM cells is ionic contamination of the cell(s) of interest, although such contamination is rarer now than it used to be because of robotic handling of the materials and because the purity of the chemicals used is greatly improved. However, even a perfect oxide is subject to having its properties changed by an applied field. When it comes to contaminants, sodium is the most common offender - it is found virtually everywhere, and is a fairly small (and therefore mobile) atom with a positive charge. In the presence of an electric field, it migrates towards the negative pole with a velocity which depends on temperature, the concentration of the sodium, the oxide quality, and the other impurities in the oxide such as dopants from the processing. If the electric field is zero and given enough time, this stress tends to dissipate eventually.
The stress on the cell is a cumulative effect, much like charging an RC circuit. If the data is applied for only a few milliseconds then there is very little "learning" of the cell, but if it is applied for hours then the cell will acquire a strong (relatively speaking) change in its threshold. The effects of the stress on the RAM cells can be measured using the built-in self test capabilities of the cells, which provide the ability to impress a weak voltage on a storage cell in order to measure its margin. Cells will show different margins depending on how much oxide stress has been present. Many DRAM's have undocumented test modes which allow some normal I/O pin to become the power supply for the RAM core when the special mode is active. These test modes are typically activated by running the RAM in a nonstandard configuration, so that a certain set of states which would not occur in a normally-functioning system has to be traversed to activate the mode. Manufacturers won't admit to such capabilities in their products because they don't want their customers using them and potentially rejecting devices which comply with their spec sheets, but have little margin beyond that.
A simple but somewhat destructive method to speed up the annihilation of stored bits in semiconductor memory is to heat it. Both DRAM's and SRAM's will lose their contents a lot more quickly at Tjunction = 140C than they will at room temperature. Several hours at this temperature with no power applied will clear their contents sufficiently to make recovery difficult. Conversely, to extend the life of stored bits with the power removed, the temperature should be dropped below -60C. Such cooling should lead to weeks, instead of hours or days, of data retention.
It is a bad example because it was short , what I was saying is it has to count up it ,can't go straight to 0. And that itself prevents the oxide outside from storing the content as another bit , unless it's left there for to long then obviously it gets damaged and falls to another value.
Your not reading the "state" of the bit at all , but the damage the flow of electricity is doing to the oxide on the chip itself.
When the bit changes if its not changed long enough it leaves traces that can be read on the memory chip itself.
Read the link
_ del.html
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure
It's not always true. And depends on the ram.
To bad moderators here don't actually follow links instead just mod down when enough people try to prove it wrong.
No but there are other things like oxides that are capable of being read. While expensive they do it and it works.
Exactly , it makes it a trivial task. Which is why I find it dumb to do it , just request an image of the drive , it's so much easier. And since they don't log it won't contain the ips.
I guess the judge could request the logs from the upstream switches and try and compare it with others logs on the box of people who actually do log their traffic, or a simple snmp stream from the upstream router and access to the other sites on the box if its hosting more then 1 site.
Like I said depending on the ram.
_ del.html
/.ing.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure
Completely doable.
I bet this poor page is in for one hell of a
Think of how ram works.
:) Yes pun intended.
The reason ram "clears" is that the pointers are lost. It is very possible to retrieve data.
On ram a bit is only flipped high to change its value , if the bit is never flipped again the bit doesn't mysteriously drop to low again , it relies on being over written with a higher bit.
01 must go to 10 before it can reach 11 and must got to 11 before it can be "flipped" to 00 again. All memory works on the same concept.
There you have it my 2 bit example of ram
Yes , depending on the ram it can actually still maintain the pointers as well. Data is retrievable from ram same as its retrievable from flash also.
Actually you can still retrieve data from ram , just happens to be your stuck with only what was in ram before the ram was removed , which on most good servers would be the server actually going down . Maybe some pages that they were serving but not much else.
There is a reason both banks and the government destroy ram and hard drives when they cycle out computers now.
The here is if they do so there may be info still on those chips. Ram "clears" itself on power down but info can still be retrieved from it if it's carefully read.
This happens because ram doesn't erase itself after data is moved off of it.
And where do I sign up for this ?
The real victim here is the people like me who stop getting the email links on where to my Vi/-\gR/-\ cheap.
Really can't we just solve this issue by cutting off the funding ? Let's see company XXX does a back door deal with YYY to get out on spam lists. We go to company XXX and say we are fining you $500,000 a day per day until you stop spamming your crap out to the world. They move off shore then you go after the people selling the stuff to hawk to company XXX and if they go off shore you go up the chain until your done.
Cutting off funding is what will eventually stop it from being main stream. And Bot herders deserve to be processed per system they infect.
Disclaimer: I work at Sun.
I I have worked at a couple places before here , and truly I have never seen engineers who actually care so much about the hardware and software they support. And it shows in how they take care of the customers. I know there are horror stories about Sun equipment and support ( as there are for every vendor ) but these guys really are some of the best and brightest I have come across in the industry.
They routinely put in hours of over time to help get issues resolved , and we are salary not hourly. They train us constantly on every new product in our platform. And we have good labs were we can test and learn.
At an unnamed firm I worked at , they often released the Os and worried later about training the engineers and support staff. Here we actually test it on our boxes during beta , now that is a great learning tool.
The level of engineers here is greatly increased by the access to the hardware and the access to the training facility.
I would place our engineers over Ms at any point and a close tie with IBM. Just this morning I was working with 2 engineers to get some issues resolved on a high profile case , the amount of tam work with in some of these groups is incredible , although it was slowly fading , the pride and team work is coming back and that in itself leads to great engineers.
Now if only the stock would go up a little so we can get more help in here we could do even better.
I would to if i was an AC.
Probably because those are the people who have all the extra time to talk to them. The engineers are busy trying to get the OS on the shelves.
President Bush ?
Yeah I know I will get modded down , but it was well worth the laugh.