Posts by Metrognome 159 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Feb 2013
You'd be surprised!
From the main sources we have: 1.65" X 1.5" for the thicker of the two. So let's assume a surface of 2 square inches to plate (being generous as we have non-flat components to plate).
Also, let's be extremely generous and assume a tough wearing 10 micron thickness of plating (anything beyond 7 micron is suitable for hard wearing, oft-used jewellery that should last decades).
Finally, looking up the latest price let's generously assume $1200 per troy ounce.
Considering each micron costs around a dollar, the 10 micron thickness costs around a tenner.
Now, the proper jewellery type steels used (316L, 904L) can be had at up to $5k per tonne.
From the above you can assume that the thing is priced highly but costs nowhere near that.
And to close the pedantry full circle; at $10k that would be just over 8oz (250gr) in gold so unless the Apple thingy weighs more than that; then it's worth/sold at more than it's weight in gold.
Agreed on the ECC point.
I have yet to see ECC RAM fitted to any desktop from the humble Dell Minis all the way to powerful CAD workstations, enthusiast LAN party gaming rigs and everything in between.
In fact, outside of Xeon CPU's there's almost nothing for the desktop. (There's a few for lappies and embedded but not for desktop).
Haswell and Broadwell have only just started offering ECC support.
The sooner it gets decoupled from other services and stays optional, G+ may be fine.
There are people who would still like to use it and appreciate the flexibility of circles etc.
So long as membership to it, isn't tied to nearly everything in the G universe, G+ may do just fine for those that want it. Ramming it down peoples' throats just isn't going to cut it (just ask Sinofski).
The way I see it, ever since Twitter went public it has been under pressure to clamp down on "undesirables" and become more "mainstream" and "marketable".
This, fundamentally is at odds with Twitter's earlier self-proclamations of being the free speech wing of the free speech brigade. And yes, however regrettable, free speech can be upsetting, offensive to some, occasionally OTT.
We are who we are and while it's a sad indictment of the human race, I don't see Twitter's (or any other's) job to police people's expressions insofar as they are not in breach of laws (and even then; it's debatable as all the Arab Spring tweets shirly contravened some local laws but were allowed/encouraged nonetheless).
Twitter the ragtag restless agitator of old may have had some street cred; Twitter, the betied, upstanding corporate citizen, not so much.
Actually, count me in on that too.
Nexus 7 2013 here and the update very nearly killed mine.
Loads of apps misbehave now, going into the Wi-Fi settings takes a good minute or two (to the point that I thought it would never open the Wi-Fi settings ever again).
There's definitely something wrong there. Under 4.4 everything went buttery smooth with no bugs at all so whatever is doing this to the tab is the software.
http://www.edri.org/files/Czech_BBA09_EN.pdf Bottom of page 3:
"Persons are identified by their IP addresses, from which an unauthorized copyrighted material
sharing is taking place. This gives responsibility to the connection owner and not necessarily the real wrongdoer. Under the law innocent victims, with insufficiently secured networks can
be punished, such as public WiFi hotspot owners."
HADOPI 2
Guys,
Suspend your otherwise healthy cynicism and just look at the benefits without the names of the companies.
Why is it risible that a company shares in the (often considerable) expenses of adoption?
Similarly egg storage is not just used when females are "otherwise engaged" but very frequently in all sorts of fertility treatments that don't just spring from the female but also from the male.
At the end of the day, every government and medical council has established a code of ethics when it comes to these things and no employer's sponsorship can change these. If you must have a go at someone at least point do it at the right direction.
At least they don't suffer from a delusional strategy that steadfastly refuses to face facts like several other big tech players. If nothing else, they understand where they need to go and while their execution is lacklustre they have deep enough pockets to buy them time.
Besides, now that AMD hit the rocks they are practically on their own so they can focus on breaking into where they need.
As an aside, as power and brawn requirements evolve the headway that ARM designs have on Intel is diminishing.
On the point of Nokia going Android in 2009/10.
Their flagship N8 phone had a CPU a full generation behind the competition with pitiful RAM, Graphics and Storage capabilities.
What made Nokia special back in the day was being able to squeeze every last bit of performance from what were essentially weak and underpowered platforms (same as BB to an extent).
Compare the N8 with the Desire HD and if that Nokia was to run Android it would suck donkey's balls and only serve to infuriate customers further!
What do you think killed off BBerries too? Not the Android compatibility or lack thereof but the abysmal specs and the fact that when Androids were multitasking and acting as ad-hoc WiFi AP's BBerries would crash trying to load a page with more than 3 pictures on it.
The Android option on the then-current hardware was just not there.
Comparison Link: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3252&idPhone2=3468
You open the article with how modern ssd's are close to saturating the SATA-III/6 pipe, how top end drives go over PCI-E and then proceed to absolutely ignore the option.
It certainly can't be due the product being immature. I've had one of the first Z-drives from the old OCZ since 2010.
Why the anti-PCIe bias?
@ Tom 35: I beg to differ. There are tiles that are useful.
Weather, stock tickers, RSS headlines, music players, all sorts of other widgets.
Depending on how free you are to customise them and get them to do what the user wants they can be valuable.
And more generally, any fundamentalist opinion which pre-supposes that all users like or dislike a feature make me sceptical.
I guess my mum isn't as advanced in her years being in her late 70's so I keep the monitoring simple just checking on her location on G+ (used to be called latitude).
Uncharacteristically for people of her age she has discovered computers and smartphones and tablets in the last 5 years and now chooses which friends to accept invites from on the basis of their WiFi speed and resilience.
First of all, connexion by boeing was on lufthansa's long-haul since 2001.
The cost was a flat fee for the flight. I remember having a 3-way Skype while over the Atlantic approaching New Foundland. (Before you have a fit, it was on the top deck of a 747 and nowhere near anyone).
Pity the whole thing died by 2007-ish
The kid you are referring to is probably more tech savvy than you and if cash strapped, will almost certainly be doing VOIP instead of vanilla gsm.
And a question: I once packed my phone in an operating state and upon arrival I found those "welcome to country X" SMS's from Greece, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland. This was back in the blackberry days but seems to contradict the "can't get connected" argument.
Speak for yourselves.
Both of mine work just fine, their screen is beautiful (coming as they were from the first batches that had the better screens) and thanks to some neat ROM's I'm using the 4GB card as native memory space which means it can run everything (sloooooowly) and have 100+ apps installed.
Still, 4 years and 2 batteries later they're going strong. They're not my daily-use phone, but they've got pride of place on my bedside table, always ready to step in, in an emergency.
Best value for money ever.
Andrew, while the article may have merit the blatant use of weasel words like "the wealthy admins" detracts from the essence.
And on a point of pedantry, admins are also largely volunteers and not paid a salary by the WMF. The people you have in mind are the WMF devs.
Can some of the enlightened commentards or even any of the contributors explain to me how come Swisscom has reliable 4g to the tune of 40+/20+ over a good 90% percent of the population and falling back to full 3g elsewhere?
Swisscom faces way less competition by way fewer rivals. The terrain is way more challenging than in London or the UK, regulations about masts equally stringent and yet they deliver.
Could this, God forbid, be down to the fact it's nationalised? Any ideas or pointers, welcome.
Sadly that's because it is infinitely easier to make money with this model versus the ad-supported or the prepaid.
Thankfully, the EU (see what happens if you get on with the adults Mr. Farage?) is now demanding that apps featuring in app purchases cannot be listed under the "free" category as they are not free.
Thing is that the signal to noise ratio or, if you prefer, the ratio of good games to hurriedly botched knockoffs is unsustainable. There's too much garbage and while in the physical world availability would cease for unloved titles; in the age of the app store those zombies will live forever.
Minecraft has proven the viability of the paid for model but seriously; how many minecrafts can be sustained out there?
My ideal, use paid for only and utilise the trial period to return whatever falls clearly below par. If only we could have trial versions of paid apps to try them out before buying.
OK, let's admit that we both haven't measured Netflix's own HD bandwidth requirement.
Can we agree on the following facts:
1) Bandwidth requirements are dynamic and we need to focus on some sort of average/minimum bandwidth to give us a baseline?
2) How about the recommendations of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) that for HD the minimum you should need is 10 Mbps ( EBU - Tech 3334 - page 6)
FWITW cable and early satellite HD feeds were using around 15-17 Mbps. So, unless Netflix are magicians or science wizards they couldn't possibly squeeze the same amount of information, that everyone else uses, down to a third of the size without some loss. For if they did, they'd stand to make way more money by marketing the algorithm than all their streaming business combined.
A little smart design goes a long way.
I have been a happy user of UBS's app for ages and never had a problem and very unlikely will have one either because of a few simple steps:
1) Username/Password only allows you to view details and take no action
2) Username/Password AND physical NFC card AND its PIN allow ordinary banking transactions (bill payment, acct transfers, payment to known parties)
3) Any fresh payment to an unknown party or account cannot be enacted by the app but can only be keyed in and in waiting. Final authorisation must come either via e-banking or at an ATM or in person. Hence money transfer to first time accounts is impossible under all scenarios using the app. Needless to say that the authorisation also requires a combo of the card, its PIN, a unique series on digits and access to one's e-banking account on the web
If ALL the above fail, I still only expose my current/regular accounts there that never seem to have too much money anyway. All of the other accounts are not ebanking enabled and only accept deposits, not withdrawals.
No need to forgo convenience for the sake of a little forethought.
Agreed. What I was alluding to is the excuses employed to stop anyone granting proper data protection.
The EU, having repeatedly bent over to accommodate the yanks already is hardly likely to put up a fight.
As for China, I think there's a contradiction in terms if China starts defending data privacy (not a native English speaker but something about foxes and henhouses springs to mind).
You write: " I wonder how long that will last."
Long. VERY long. Simply because proper such protections will ultimately mean gunships.
Connect the dots: Data protection -> IP Piracy -> Money Laundering -> Drug Trafficking/Terrorism -> Frozen off USD denominated financial markets -> Commerce is severely hampered
So whoever decides on proper data protection will soon find themselves in the pervailing axis of badness of the time.
Swisscom proves that unlimited CAN be supported with quasi reasonable prices. (unlimited all you can use on net, landlines and mobes within and outside the country for around 90 gbp together with their equivalent iPlayer and catch up service).
Why is it so hard for everyone else? Especially given that torrenting is officially and formally A-OK which would normally point to even higher usage.
Sapphire and Ruby can be really versatile and have come a long way in the last few years:
Oskar Moser GmbH for a quick list of potential applications.
Disclaimer: they used to be a supplier of mine but haven't engaged them for over a decade now.
Nice to see them diversfying away from jewel bearings.
That's a bit of a circular reference problem. If two bits of kit have identical input and output, then they ARE by the very definition producing the same heat (ie emit energy in heat form).
What effect that energy/heat produces in terms of temperature elevation depends on other factors like size, thermal conductivity, materials, surrounding environment etc.
I'm with Cambridge professor McKay on this one. (http://www.withouthotair.com)
He made a very serious attempt at quantifying what it will take to be sustainable.
My best quote: "if everyone does a little, then all we can achieve is a little" (such a no brainer mathematically it makes you wonder why people didn't see through that 'every little helps' slogan).
At the end of the day if we want to really save energy our best bets are insulating our homes and assisting our boilers with solar panels or underground heat exchangers.
That may be so UNLESS you talking about Poulsbo.
The most abominable clusterfuck of crock ever to come from Intel's GPU team (admittedly they're an Imagination Technologies chip; but still).
No mate.
Just your insistence of stringing together unnecessarily long sentences that render them an unreadable nonsense. One way to demonstrate a deep understanding of any topic is the ability to explain it succinctly and in layman's terms.
However, your tirade had nothing to do with topics or issues that are difficult to grasp, just sentences that are badly put together and strewn with faux-smart leet-speak.
I'm with AC on that one.
The system exists and would be perfectly capable of exposing this without any gizmo or fancy modification.
The reason that these slipped through was that the Interpol database isn't directly and easily accessible by airlines (which makes sense given that check in agents would have the keys to thing, otherwise).
Argue about simplifying the access procedure, not about splashing out on unnecessary kit.
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