They're just Sysco resellers... the second highest margin items on menus are desserts, which are almost always Sysco microwave desserts or similiar preps.
I understand that NTFS has its own case folding table which is written once when the volume is formatted. This does seem to have stood the test of time and enormous usage so maybe it is not such a poor idea.
That doesn't sound great if somebody formats your USB stick in Turkey and suddenly speakers of western European languages can observe 'i' as case sensitive.
You insulate the motherboard. The aim is to allow only die contact the cup your N2 is in.
There are still problems like cpu/board/components not working due to low temperature or condensation. Generally they are solved by better insulation and trying different components until you find ones that work.
Overclocking is 25% cooling and 75% picking parts that can operate at low temperatures and high frequencies.
Don't forget the crazy binning for ram sticks, cpu dies, and graphics cards. There's a reason all the top guys have major sponsorships, it takes a lot of money to find the top 1% of parts.
That game is a labor of love by someone - I spent weeks playing it. So much fun solving puzzles and learning at the same time.
If I had a criticism is that I'm not sure much has stuck with me. I still use the same 10-15 commands and all the obscure tricks it taught me are gone.
Its worth the money just for the fun alone. Great to mess with on a laptop when you're on a plane.
the biggest problem is you buy the game for $25 and it only lasts 6 months, that seems a bit crap, doesn't really make sense to me to sell it as a limited time license, which is why I never bought it. But then I'm not exactly the target audience, I already know Vim, but I did enjoy the intro levels when I tried it a while back.
I dunno, I don't buy things when I don't think the pricing is fair, regardless of whether I can afford it, as a gamer, $25 gets you a lot of good games that you keep forever. This one, you don't keep, to me it just doesn't feel right. I'm sure others feel differently, but, just putting it out there why I chose not to buy it where otherwise I would have.
It doesn't say whther the intervention was assigned randomly (and those assigned all stuck with it). Home environment and parental support has a huge influence and also those who get tuition (or stick with assignment to the tuition group) probably have strong parental support.
It's unclear they even exist..or work..our could even theoretically work now we have digital. Their true enforcement strategy is to harass the small minority who don't pay the license fee.
They have started to - they extended the relevant law to close loopholes about “real time” vs “prerecorded” BBC broadcasts, now you need a licence if you use the iPlayer for anything. Which is fair, even if it forced me to get a license again. I expect at some point the law will either get more draconian (by requiring a license for any broadband contract at home) or the BBC will become an actual streaming service like Netflix, with regular subscription (which would be a bit of a disaster, since it would basically mean the end of the BBC as we know it).
Most young people don't watch iPlayer either. It heavily tilted towards older people.
It will only be an issue for people who watch it...
I'm heavily against the license fee, as the majority of content could be delivered commercially. I absolutely hate that i'm paying money towards soaps, cake shows, misses brown boys etc which I will never have an interest watching and get zero value from.
The small amount of state or non commercial stuff it produces could be paid for by tax or a much smaller license fee.
The money i save could be spent a couple of books or rentals instead which I would get value from.
I'm also for getting rid of the licence fee but instead increasing taxes by equal measure and funding it that way. Hopefully enshrine that funding into law. The license fee is just too easy to attack nowadays.
I find the argument for purely commercial a selfish one as public broadcasting provides a lot of public good through educational means. I mean, just tune into The One Show or Spring Watch on an an evening and you'll get what I mean. Plus no ads!
A 8086 processor requires approximately a maximum power of 1.8 watts, it means if you want to power the CPU from the power of the clock, the clock signal generator needs to be a radio transmitter with an output power of 32.5 dBm, not including insertion loss and power conversion loss at the load. This is beyond the maximum transmitting power of Wi-Fi allowed by the FCC. And it's a square wave clock, a 1 MHz clock can contain frequency components up to 100 MHz (or 1 GHz in modern digital logic), blasting out RF garbage everywhere. Just imagine the electromagnetic interference.
A typical crystal oscillator has a drive level of less than one miliwatt, 3 orders of magnitude lower.
But in principle, yes, I don't see why it's impossible.
I'm not sure why you would want to power a CPU through the clock. However, microcontrollers can get inadvertently powered through the I/O pin protection diodes if you don't hook up power and ground: https://www.eevblog.com/2015/12/18/eevblog-831-power-a-micro...
I once spent two days debugging a microcontroller circuit for my retrocomputing project because of this problem.
The microcontroller was an Atmel ATmega328P I extracted from an Arduino board, I used the chip as an external debugger and monitor. The first function I implemented was EEPROM reprogramming via a programming socket, the code was working without any sign of issue for two weeks, working as intended. I could burn a program to the ROM, plug the ROM in the 8-bit computer and execute instructions. Later I attempted to plug the microcontroller into the system bus of my 8-bit computer to add in-system reprogramming and memory debugging capabilities, so I don't have to plug and unplug the ROM every time I need to reprogram it. I planned to implemenet it by taking over the system bus of via DMA, so the running CPU would handover its the control to me. However, no matter how I changed the code, there were always some strange bugs. RAM reading and writing never worked reliably, there's random memory corruption, and the CPU was never able to continue executing the program correctly after the DMA had finished. It seems there were always some forms of bus contention bugs in the microcontroller, as if the GPIOs pins were not properly tristated/isolated before the beginning of a DMA cycle. But I was unable to find it at all in the code.
Eventually I realized the pin 7, Vcc, was not connected! I miswired the power to an I/O pin. From the beginning, the ATmega328P was operating without the main digital power supply and was sourcing all the power via the ESD diode on the I/O pin, and/or possibly the analog power supply AVCC. I was surprised that it was able to work for two weeks. On second thought, during EEPROM programming, the connection to the chip was direct, and tristate was mostly not used, the MCU had no problem driving it. But in memory debugging, the bus is long and the entire output was tristating on and off during a DMA cycle, the lack of a proper Vcc supply probably made the I/O driver to malfunction, especially the input/output selection, creating unpredictable output state.
Later on in another unrelated project, I encountered another problem due to an incorrect PCB footprint pinout. The 4-pin SMD crystal was connected to the wrong pins - only one side was connected to the chip. there's basically no system crystal at all. But the parasitic capacitance between the crystal pins was sufficient to start a weak oscillation (on the oscilloscope you can see a clock waveform with a very low amplitude, it's not at the proper logic level, as if it's an analog RF circuit), the chip was even able to start its 125 MHz PLL! But the logic was not fully functional until I dead-bugged soldering the crystal the correct way.
Lesson learned: Always double check. Just because the chip has power, doesn't mean the chip is receiving power correctly. Just because the chip has a clock output, doesn't mean the chip is receiving the clock correctly. And finally, if there's an external power-on reset, just because the chip was initialized after you apply power, doesn't mean the power-on reset circuit is functional.
