Posts by Aitor 1 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
Won't work.
There is a re-settable polymer fuse in the USB, and several capacitors plus a voltage divider for voltage sensing, and that will mean s short to ground.
You will kind of fry the computer, but no data will be lost.
So I think this is just a nuissance, with no practical use.
The "lost" usb with the trojan, that one is a good one..
By the time AMD goes tits up, our mobile phones will probably be our main computing devices.
As it is right now, it is only bad software that prevents us from using our phones as laptops/desktops: with BT 4.0 LP, and miracast we should be able to connect a keyboard, a mouse and a screen wirelessly while charging on a charge pad... and that should happen automatically..
If we had that smoothly done, good bye laptops and desktops.
It IS going to happen, and I hope soon, as current flagship phones have 4G ram and more CPU and GPU power than normaldesktops from 2 years ago that we consider perfectly ok to use.
then Intel will have a HUGE problem, as they don't own the mobile market.
It is a simple question of a bit higher fuel consumption.. but that looks like your engine can't compete.
So what you are saying is that it is unrealistic to have a Tour the France without performance enhancing drugs.
No. It is possible, and there are engines that are able to make it.
Nobody know the exact requirements, and how to properly test them.
And even if you knew, every little change in the system will be asking for trouble, and paying a lot of money.
At the end it is just a way for somedepartments to externalize risk and cost, to the IT department and/or the rest of the company.
It is starting to get available in plenty of places, and the coverage is going to be way better than Openreach, and fiber to the home, so no galvanic corrosion.
You are asking if Telefónica is going to provide 10Gbps, well, I am asking if openreach is going to provide (REAL) 6Mbps DSL for greater LONDON. Not parts of it, but all of it.
As for Albarracin, you have by chance found a small village near a mountain far away from main roads in the lowest density province of spain.
So, when is openreach going to provide that speed in Broadford, Skye?
That describes the problem prefectly ok.
Copper/alu requires either proper maintenance or crap service.
As maintence is expensive, most telcos have decided that crap service it is.
Still, ppl insist on copper, I don't see the reason.
For G.fast you have to install fibre equipped cabinets.
The copper/alu is, almost for sure, in bad shape.
Ppl WON'T get 300Mbps except maybe on trials as they will probably change the copper.
It will be "up to 300 Mbps", and then they will get a lot less.
If you have to change the copper to provide decente service, you might as well put fiber.
In Spain Telefónica offers 300 Mb FTTH as standard. They can raise it to 600Mbps or more if needed, including, for example, 10Gbps. And can be symmetrical.
Those "up to 330 Mbps" are already obsolete.
And fiber is reliable, and not affected by galvanic corrosion or cable theft.
It is also cheaper to mantain than metallic access, and almost as cheap to install.
It just doesn't make sense not to install FTTH.
It is true.
They won't come after you with hellfire missiles, but if you have significant income, certain taxes DO apply to you unless you take action.
I know an entrepeneur that had adquired US citizenship that renounced it (very expensive) in order to stop paying the IRS.
My wife, is an american born citizen, ans is required to pay taxes to the IRS. Not on income (she is below the limit), but if she sells a house, she would be required to pay tax, Boris style (but with way less money).
As for the article, I disagree.
I don't think it is a great idea to create a credit bubble, but at least you would have to admit that if we give credit to companies, we should do the same for individuals. Or ar we their slaves?
Hire more employees, then the software per employee cost will fall.
This is absurd, only a politician could come up with this nonsense.
I am all for removing Oracle, but seriously, license per employee? So in the "IT revolution" they pretend to spend less.. and expensive software that reduces headcount and saves money will be automatically discarded.
A free market with perfect competition would mean none could earn more tha enough to eat.
The market will regulate itself, that is true, but we won't like the result.
I would probably get the long straw, as I am an engineer with plenty of certifications and experience both in software and hardware, and in management and sales. That is the reason I am going to become a contractor in a few months (we are finishing a project).
This system would benefit me, but would be terrible for society. It would mean if you are less skilled, you get to either die of hunger or society has to give subsidies to the rich (ASDA, etc).
It is wrong, extremely wrong.
Sorry, but NO, you have NO clue.
Modern cars are still terrible.
When you accelerate more than a bit, they exit the "clean mode" and pollute as much as 20 year old. Same when cold and outside euro testing conditions... manufacturers tend to make the producto work when in the euro-IV-V.. conditions.. when outside those conditions, they still pollute A LOT.
Not to speak of particle filters.. when they burn those particles thay make things worse woth particles so small that can get into your blood stream.
ICE engines are also extremely inefficient.
As for 2 stroke engines, you are completely right. They should be banned.
That has been going on for the last 15 years. The reason was anticompetitive measures (blackmail) from Intel. Proven, yet only paid a fine.. I say that fine was a good investment.
Now that AMD is busted (it is) they no longer need to do that.
The current FX processors can't compete with Intel.
Thhe current gpus can barely compete with Nvidia.. and they have laid off so many ppl that support (drivers, etc) is way worse than Nvidia -> Nvidia is going to be the only player.
I am an economist, and do say stupid things from time to time.
For me, the Ukip is just another party blaming a minority for all the troubles. Not that diferent from NSM.
Of course, most of the things UKIP says are at least partly true, but many are put out of context.
As for the cost of being out of the EU.. it is not known. But not knowing IS A COST. Money is coward, and if you have to choose between places, not knowing is something that would be on the "cons" side.
As for trade restrictions, at the beginning there would be none. But then someone would point out, for example, that tomatoes from Spain receive money from the EU, so it might be fair for the UK to put Duty on that product. And lettuce, etc etc.
The EU might decide to put duty on car parts manufactured in UK, or a transaction fee on uk banks, and so in a few years the UK can't really export without problems to the EU. Both the EU and the UK would suffer.
Also, the unfair London tax haven would not work anymore.
I don't see a reason for this not to happen.
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