Recent content by Aaron Jones

Because criminals don't have phone chargers ... ? 🙄

That was exactly my point. It was to easily illustrate the math involved. I will be more specific below. Which was my point. MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failure; mean here being the arithmetic mean, or what most people call an average. If you have only 1 of the product, it would...

That isn't how MTBF works. If you have a product whose MTBF is 100,000 hours, and you buy 100 of that product, you can expect a higher failure rate at the start of their lives (the beginning of the bathtub curve) and then 1 failure every 1,000 hours or 6 weeks (the flat portion of the curve)...

No word on whether these ones will have immobilizers?

That's almost certainly it. For example, most system firmware written by Aptio is still modelled after the legacy BIOS interface (even today [1]), but almost anything Aptio has written since 2012 has been a UEFI [2]. Furthermore, they retain the conventional BIOS-like user interface even over a...

Except, again, as I explained, you can't just look at the CAS latency figures alone and conclude whether it's high or low. You need to take into account the clock rate as well, because CAS latency is specified in terms of number of clock cycles, not an amount of time. CL42 at 6400 MT/s is a 31%...

These aren't high-latency. CAS latency for modern synchronous DRAM is specified in terms of clock cycles, so CAS latency figures alone do not tell you how responsive it is. You need to take the clock rate into account as well. DDR stands for Double Data Rate, meaning that data is transferred on...

Hmm. Then they're right, this is going to be quite an attractive target during times of excess demand, especially considering the length involved (which is essentially unpatrollable) and the cost of sending someone out to fix it.

It being referred to as something else doesn't make the terms interchangeable (by the definition of interchangeable). People use the wrong names for things all the time (e.g. "Velcro" when they're talking about an entirely different brand/type of hook-and-loop strip or tape). I refer you to my...

The Oxford English dictionary defines "internet" as "a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols". The Wikipedia article for "World Wide Web" opens with "Not to be...

No, it isn't. The Internet is a network, the web is a service that runs on and is available on that network. Other services include e-mail, DNS, and the like -- you wouldn't call those the Internet either.

Yes, which is a web browser, not an Internet browser. Your cellphone is not a text messaging program.

Really, TechSpot? "Internet Browser"? Your editors of all people should know that the Internet and the web are not the same thing.

I'm almost absolutely sure that any "calamity" of sufficient-enough magnitude to destroy our important Earth-bound data (like our collection of knowledge on Chemistry and Physics) will be more than enough to also destroy every piece of equipment needed to communicate with whatever we install on...

That article is 5 years old and has nothing to do with the subject in question.