But often you're not supposed to turn off the cable/satellite tv decoder because it needs software/channel updates or other crap. Which is also why those things draw almost as much power on standby as when watching TV. They still have to maintain power to most of the reception stuff to be able to get such updates.
AT had a mechanical power switch which switched both PC and monitor. I have never seen a PC with a soft power button and a switched monitor power output and I would guess this is because of the cost of doing so.
I have heared claims that there were also some safety regs issues with passthroughs in some countries though I don't know whether that was BS or not.
The only machine i've seen that seemed to be using an electronic power switch on the monitor power output was the acorn risc pc.
The other thing people can do is to make sure they are using rechargable batteries for the remote control. Unfortunately most rechargables aren't particularlly good at keeping low drain devices running for a long time due to high self discharge.
roads and mass transit are about the most natural monopolies arround. Do you really want them in the hands of an unregulated buisness? The alternative is governemnt control either directly or through a regulated monopoly.
Not having state funded eduction means there is basically no chance for the bright from a poor background to realise thier potential (granted it isn't exactly easy for them to do it now but if they never got to go to school it would be basically impossible).
I won't get into details on universally availible healthcare (yes the US does have this, they just make you go broke and then wait until your condition becomes accute enough for the er first) and social security but I belive that they too are vital components of a civilised society.
In the short term high demand generally means higher prices. As the price rises demand decreases and supply may increase until supply and demand are once again balanced.
In the long term for manufactured goods high demand means that design, factory setup and other fixed costs can be amortised over more units. In a competive market where supply is plentifull that will drive prices down.
Changing the arrangement of components on a motherboard is NOT trivial. A motherboard has a huge number of tracks many of which are carrying very high speed signals and therefore have special routing requirements. If you move the components arround you have to re-route everything.
Integrated design is what makes the mac pro such a nice machine. Through custom layout apple has tamed the heat output from intel server grade hardware without making sever like levels of noise.
The problem is you design the product, it passes the safety checks and you put it on the market.
Some time later someone at a contract manufacturer in the third world makes a substitution that makes the product dangerous without telling you.
So really it is required to have testing after the product is introduced to check that the contract manufacuteres are still building to spec. Things get even more complex when multiple contract manufacuters are involved as you have to make sure you get samples from every manufacturers output.
My favorite is when both parents work and they pay for daycare that is frequently so expensive that it cancels out one parent's income Is it really so much as to cancel one parents income?
Even if it is one reason I can think of is the parent wants to maintain thier position, a kid is only preschool for about five year after that the child will be in school and the parent will only have to pay for after school care.
I'd think that any household that could afford to buy an xbox rather than more pressing needs is probably solvent enough to have a stay-at-home partner. A new game console every few years is a drop in the bucket when considering a household budget in the western world.
Even if the lower earning partner is just a bus driver in the UK losing thier salery would mean over £10K out of your annual household budget. That can easilly be the difference between having lots of disposable income and not even being able to pay the morgage/rent. I imagine the situation is similar in the USA.
End-user support isn't a job that can be easily outsourced, because you need to still have the guy there who knows how the hell to insert a PCI card. That works fine until the guy you are supporting is outsourced too.
My 3 year old daughter wanted one the first time she saw it. Sadly, I can't get one here in Europe... I'm sure they will show up on ebay once the "give one get one" shipments start.
Presumablly there will be a color difference or something so that you can tell the machine is one sold to a first worlder and not stolen from a third world kid.
It's more than brutal to vendors - three chargebacks and you lose your merchant account for 7 years. I can't belive the figure is anywhere near this low for big merchants. If it was none of them would be taking cards.
Isn't it "a part of", rather than "a close relative to"? Not sure, they are seperate binaries in the gnu compiler collection (gcc) but I think gij is part of the gcj project.
But to me "built with gcj" implies built with the gnu java compiler not built with some other compiler that happens to be running under gij/classpath.
My understanding is that with a laser the intensity at a given distance is proportional to 1/((d+c)^2) where d is the distance from the laser and c is a constant dependent on the particular laser. That is the light behaves as if it radiated from a point some distance behind the laser
So over sufficiantly short distances the intensity is roughly constant but over sufficiantly long distances it roughly obeys inverse square.
A successful buffer overflow against sendmail is going to allow arbitrary remote code execution anyway Indeed if you are using sendmail which does pretty much everything as root afaict then once they have broken sendmail your box is rooted anyway. IMO this is a good reason not to use sendmail.
more modern mail soloutions split the mail handling into multiple processes running with different privilages. If the user exploits a low privilage part and there are no local root exploits avilible the damage is limited. If there are local root exploits avilible then your box is rooted.
No software is perfect so the smart designer designs to limit the damage when a flaw is found. That means sensible privilage seperation in apps and making sure the machines running those apps don't have local root holes that will negate the benifit of the privilage seperation.
Besides- I can promise you this... if the hacker gets to the point where thy can remotely execute code via a sendmail buffer overflow- the box is toast anyway... right? Once a user gets root it becomes much easier for them to both do damage not limited to the mail transport service (e.g. mess with users mailboxes or attack your network with a mac flood so it can start sniffing) and to cover thier tracks.
* marketing requires a much lower monetary investment these days--time and creativity are more important Afaict the radio is still where most people hear new music and the radio is dominated by the big labels.
It seems to me that Radiohead has done quite well here, getting revenue into the millions from one album sold on a name-your-price basis. Radiohead have been through the major label system and come out the other end. Yes they have made a lot of money on this but only because they were already a well known band. When a band who has never had a record contract with a major manages this then I will be impressed. Until then this is just an insignificant stunt by one of the few bands with the staying power to go through the major label system and come out the other end.
But then, anything running closed source can be assumed to be compromised. Easy solution: just don't trust anything important to the yanks. Even suppose you use opensource software and that said software was compiled with an uncomprimised compiler the hardware could still be comprimised.
right, even the headline price is $9.99 higher than the one you gave earlier. Worse when you look at the conditions It seems you have to order a minimum of four copies of your board and there is a rather high freigt cost as well ($35 just for the US, probabblly more if you are elsewhere).
so it looks like the minimum price for getting a four layer designed fabbed by them is just under $200. If you are in the uk like I am it will probablly work out substantially higher once the VAT (a $30 package would be under the exememption threshold a $200 one would not) and VAT brokerage fees have been added.
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But often you're not supposed to turn off the cable/satellite tv decoder because it needs software/channel updates or other crap.
Which is also why those things draw almost as much power on standby as when watching TV. They still have to maintain power to most of the reception stuff to be able to get such updates.
but afaict it is NOT standard on the shit that ends up in cheap whiteboxes despite being required by regs at least in europe.
Many have the pass through socket but I have never seen an ATX one where that socket was switched.
AT had a mechanical power switch which switched both PC and monitor. I have never seen a PC with a soft power button and a switched monitor power output and I would guess this is because of the cost of doing so.
I have heared claims that there were also some safety regs issues with passthroughs in some countries though I don't know whether that was BS or not.
The only machine i've seen that seemed to be using an electronic power switch on the monitor power output was the acorn risc pc.
The other thing people can do is to make sure they are using rechargable batteries for the remote control.
Unfortunately most rechargables aren't particularlly good at keeping low drain devices running for a long time due to high self discharge.
The second link you link reffers the reader to
http://www.risingphoenixdesign.com/blackback.html
The only cite on that page is one that says "up to 20%" yet they seem to have interpreted that as an average of 20%.
I hope you were trying to make a joke.
roads and mass transit are about the most natural monopolies arround. Do you really want them in the hands of an unregulated buisness? The alternative is governemnt control either directly or through a regulated monopoly.
Not having state funded eduction means there is basically no chance for the bright from a poor background to realise thier potential (granted it isn't exactly easy for them to do it now but if they never got to go to school it would be basically impossible).
I won't get into details on universally availible healthcare (yes the US does have this, they just make you go broke and then wait until your condition becomes accute enough for the er first) and social security but I belive that they too are vital components of a civilised society.
It depends on what the product in question is.
In the short term high demand generally means higher prices. As the price rises demand decreases and supply may increase until supply and demand are once again balanced.
In the long term for manufactured goods high demand means that design, factory setup and other fixed costs can be amortised over more units. In a competive market where supply is plentifull that will drive prices down.
I don't have a copy handy but I bet the windows 95 version of simcity 2000 would run under wine.
Changing the arrangement of components on a motherboard is NOT trivial. A motherboard has a huge number of tracks many of which are carrying very high speed signals and therefore have special routing requirements. If you move the components arround you have to re-route everything.
Integrated design is what makes the mac pro such a nice machine. Through custom layout apple has tamed the heat output from intel server grade hardware without making sever like levels of noise.
Testing on introduction is not enough.
The problem is you design the product, it passes the safety checks and you put it on the market.
Some time later someone at a contract manufacturer in the third world makes a substitution that makes the product dangerous without telling you.
So really it is required to have testing after the product is introduced to check that the contract manufacuteres are still building to spec. Things get even more complex when multiple contract manufacuters are involved as you have to make sure you get samples from every manufacturers output.
My favorite is when both parents work and they pay for daycare that is frequently so expensive that it cancels out one parent's income
Is it really so much as to cancel one parents income?
Even if it is one reason I can think of is the parent wants to maintain thier position, a kid is only preschool for about five year after that the child will be in school and the parent will only have to pay for after school care.
I'd think that any household that could afford to buy an xbox rather than more pressing needs is probably solvent enough to have a stay-at-home partner.
A new game console every few years is a drop in the bucket when considering a household budget in the western world.
Even if the lower earning partner is just a bus driver in the UK losing thier salery would mean over £10K out of your annual household budget. That can easilly be the difference between having lots of disposable income and not even being able to pay the morgage/rent. I imagine the situation is similar in the USA.
End-user support isn't a job that can be easily outsourced, because you need to still have the guy there who knows how the hell to insert a PCI card.
That works fine until the guy you are supporting is outsourced too.
My 3 year old daughter wanted one the first time she saw it. Sadly, I can't get one here in Europe...
I'm sure they will show up on ebay once the "give one get one" shipments start.
Presumablly there will be a color difference or something so that you can tell the machine is one sold to a first worlder and not stolen from a third world kid.
can you remove the DRM with tools like that when you have already lost the ability to play the file?
It's more than brutal to vendors - three chargebacks and you lose your merchant account for 7 years.
I can't belive the figure is anywhere near this low for big merchants. If it was none of them would be taking cards.
Isn't it "a part of", rather than "a close relative to"?
Not sure, they are seperate binaries in the gnu compiler collection (gcc) but I think gij is part of the gcj project.
But to me "built with gcj" implies built with the gnu java compiler not built with some other compiler that happens to be running under gij/classpath.
My understanding is that with a laser the intensity at a given distance is proportional to 1/((d+c)^2) where d is the distance from the laser and c is a constant dependent on the particular laser. That is the light behaves as if it radiated from a point some distance behind the laser
So over sufficiantly short distances the intensity is roughly constant but over sufficiantly long distances it roughly obeys inverse square.
am I misremembering?
A successful buffer overflow against sendmail is going to allow arbitrary remote code execution anyway
Indeed if you are using sendmail which does pretty much everything as root afaict then once they have broken sendmail your box is rooted anyway. IMO this is a good reason not to use sendmail.
more modern mail soloutions split the mail handling into multiple processes running with different privilages. If the user exploits a low privilage part and there are no local root exploits avilible the damage is limited. If there are local root exploits avilible then your box is rooted.
No software is perfect so the smart designer designs to limit the damage when a flaw is found. That means sensible privilage seperation in apps and making sure the machines running those apps don't have local root holes that will negate the benifit of the privilage seperation.
Besides- I can promise you this... if the hacker gets to the point where thy can remotely execute code via a sendmail buffer overflow- the box is toast anyway... right?
Once a user gets root it becomes much easier for them to both do damage not limited to the mail transport service (e.g. mess with users mailboxes or attack your network with a mac flood so it can start sniffing) and to cover thier tracks.
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* marketing requires a much lower monetary investment these days--time and creativity are more important
Afaict the radio is still where most people hear new music and the radio is dominated by the big labels.
It seems to me that Radiohead has done quite well here, getting revenue into the millions from one album sold on a name-your-price basis.
Radiohead have been through the major label system and come out the other end. Yes they have made a lot of money on this but only because they were already a well known band. When a band who has never had a record contract with a major manages this then I will be impressed. Until then this is just an insignificant stunt by one of the few bands with the staying power to go through the major label system and come out the other end.
But then, anything running closed source can be assumed to be compromised. Easy solution: just don't trust anything important to the yanks.
Even suppose you use opensource software and that said software was compiled with an uncomprimised compiler the hardware could still be comprimised.
Do you *need* multilayer for what you're doing?
Not really, I was just querying your price as insanely low for multilayer.
As you say two layer PTH can be had at tolerable prices if you shop arround enough and are willing to wait a while.
right, even the headline price is $9.99 higher than the one you gave earlier. Worse when you look at the conditions It seems you have to order a minimum of four copies of your board and there is a rather high freigt cost as well ($35 just for the US, probabblly more if you are elsewhere).
so it looks like the minimum price for getting a four layer designed fabbed by them is just under $200. If you are in the uk like I am it will probablly work out substantially higher once the VAT (a $30 package would be under the exememption threshold a $200 one would not) and VAT brokerage fees have been added.