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3 minutes ago, Lingwendil said:

No.

 

DOCSIS is digital.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

Then it's not using a modem. The definition of which is a device that converts digital data into a format that can be sent over an analog transmission medium.

You might have been trained to call it a modem, but a "cable modem" is a marketing term. It's not actually a modem, but closer to a network bridge or router.

7 minutes ago, Lingwendil said:

 

Uh, no.

 

Former cable internet/tv/phone installer, and current systems installation guy here.

 

Anything a cable company provides still uses a modem. the usual recommendation is to use a separate modem and router for reliability, flexibility, and future expansion.

 

DOCSIS is one of the largest protocols and is used by a huge amount of Cable providers for internet- Providers such as Time Warner, Cox, Comcast, etc. They all use a DOCSIS cable modem (or often modem/router combo if you lease the equipment from them). In a lot of markets ADSL (AT&T, for example)fiber is unreliable trash or still unavailable at modern accepted speeds, so you see very hot competition from cable providers.

 

With Comcast, I use a standalone Arris SB6183 cable modem into a separate router and switch, that way I own my equipment and do not have a monthly lease/service fee, or need to be locked in to a providers wireless router arrangement and management.

So you are still sending analog signals? 

Modems don't really exist anymore, they are all routers. A modem is a MODulator DEModulater, and converts digital to analog and back again for sending data over the old analog phone lines. ADSL is using the excess capacity using a digital signal over those same copper lines, so unless you use dial up internet you don't use a modem.

Most emergency services use encrypted digital services these days, I am sure NZ is the same as most places. So it's pointless as you won't hear much. 

I don't know if it works on iPhone but i just connect my phone to windows via Bluetooth and get full screen mirroring on the PC. I can then setup alerts and features like auto lock and can attach a sound file to that action, so use that as an alert. 

A free Azure account from MS gives you a free windows VM or Linux VM. 750hrs a month on each OS.

You also get a bunch of other free services to use.

20 minutes ago, Spindel said:

How do you swipe on a touch screen?

Not by using a scroll wheel on a mouse that's for damn sure.

Is that actually the problem you are having? Because you describe scroll wheel direction not swiping on touchscreen, which is a different setting in windows. 

You want down to be up and up to be down and you're calling windows retarded?

If you have to ask if somewhere is legit it most likely isn't fact is that unless they are an official reseller of licenses then it is not legit and you may as well pirate because that's what you will be doing if you use grey market keys anyway. (cheap keys usually come from bulk licensing deals that you are not a part of so effectively you are not licensed). If you don't want to pay the real price for the software license then don't use the software. MS offer online versions of the office suite for free, Libre office exists for people not wanting to pay for MS licenses.

Just for clarity that website is apparently offering you the full 2021 pro plus license for 40 times less than MS charges....how legit do you think that is? I mean they are claiming a one time fee of a single monthly payment for office 365 for unlimited access to the software...it's bullshit.

Intel, AMD, Microsoft, ARM, Apple, Nvidia, Via, SG etc all do dodgy shit. If you blacklist them all you'd have no electronics.

I went with a 3600x because at the time it was a decent cpu and came with a stock cooler, so overall was slightly cheaper. These days they don't come with a cooler, so you may as well go intel because it's cheaper AND performs better.

2 laptops 1 cup...it's possible, but it doesn't take long to make it spew out complete shit.

In other words there is software that will do what you want it to (actually a lot is built into windows due to surface tables having this feature OTB) but i have never seen it work flawlessly on anything but day 1 initial testing. Startup lag is an issue, but it's the things like changing where you are in a video or document that really grind on you to the point you end up never using it...and your no longer friendly CFO starts whining about wasted hardware purchases.

Your search terms suck. I went to amazon, searched "2 port usb charger"...boom first result.

Dual has way to many variants over what it can mean 2 port is very specific.

For a start, you refer to your potential customers as "the local nerds" stop that. Next you bought multiple limited offers meaning that those same "local nerds" missed out on the deal. Lastly the "local nerds" know what they are buying and who they are buing from, they will not pay more than $20-$50 over what you paid for the parts because that's what most shops charge for assembly...without warranty.

Either offer a warranty though a legit business you setup or suck up the fact that you didn't do your research before jumping in with both feet. Honestly it sounds like you have a bad attitude and I wouldn't want to buy from you because of that alone. Local nerds indeed.

1 hour ago, vrexin said:

so you think a new psu would be good then? any recommendations?

No, you'd be spending $100 to get maybe 1 or 2 frames extra. Not at all worth it.

Which exact MB is it? Check the price isn't already lower elsewhere without the hoop jumping.

Gift cards are one of the worst gifts to give IMO. Give cash that can be spent or saved anywhere. Not cash that eventually expires and can only be used in one place.

I moved country from the UK to Europe, and have had the same issue. But in my case I told my old bank what my new bank details were, so when people paid into my old account by mistake, even with a closed account they simply forwarded the money. By law they have to offer this service free of charge. But unless you already did that you are SOL.

Your refund HAS to go to the card (account) that made the origional purchase, because that it what their terms and conditions say, it's also part of PCI DSS compliance, so you are not going to win any argument to do it another way. 

The only option you have is to wait, and hope they will see that your transaction failed, then they will come up with a process of contacting you for a refund.

Edir: I actually wrote that before reading the chat convo. But that's exsctly what you've been told. "If it does fail then wait for further instructions".

You don't seem willing to fix your own mistake, and are expecting google to foot the bill for your own life choices. Don't get pissy with the guy trying to help you, listen to what they are telling you to do and do it. The options were contact your old bank to find out what they can do (they will tell you to wait for the email) or just wait for the email. That's it.

The current price for a 4080 would build you a 13900k based system without a GPU. Let that sink in, the GPU costs more than the rest of an entire top tier build. The target market is not worried about saving $5 in electricity if they are paying used car prices for a fucking GPU.

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8 minutes ago, Heats with Nvidia said:

It totally is and there is the main problem. Who decides what is OK and what isn`t?  At least with a decentralized system there is the chance for some stability of that, and some influence for the people who use it, to decide that. With these centralized systems, they can change whatever they want, whenever they want it. So if anybody buys it, they rule. If they choose to delete all of it and switch the servers off, all is gone.

Mastodon servers are setup by each person who wants to play moderator, it's like yahoo groups with the userbase paying for hosting.

Yes, perfectly normal. The light emitter is the black box that the "tubes" go into, it then bounces around the 'light tube' and at the corners its more concentrated, so it's brighter. Basically a torch/flashlight shining into some fiberoptic cable with the shielding removed.

32 minutes ago, Neroon said:

Yeah I was thinking Starlink, surely that should work.

Starlink isn't currently fully working. At the moment it is acting like a relay between an on shore base station and the dish. So it requires you to be stationary. It used to be locked to one static area, but you can get it for RVs in some countries. So it's improving.

As for ships, you are currently limited to very close to shore locations, but once the satalites are all up and communicating with each other you'll be able to get it out in the middle of the Atlantic.

The issue isn't the why, what or when it's the how. I am a software dev, when I create a game (for example) on windows i just fire up my chosen IDE, grab a few assets, build with my chosen engine and release my new game, with Windows and Linux I'm done, I sit back and wait for the scathing reviews and inevitable bankruptcy from trying to keep the servers up...now with apple, before I release I have to recompile my code for their platform, no biggie but wait I can't use my 100+ core build farm for it....I need a Mac to be part of the build process which slows things down a bit, I also have to pay apple for a licence for permission to have the option to publish to their platform, I have to consistently re-release to avoid being delisted and now apple is directly part of my build schedule because when they change something I have to react as they are constantly deprecating libraries that I may have used, breaking my game.

The actual dollar cost of publishing to apple is negligible, but annoying that it is there, however the ongoing maintainance costs for developing for their platform is basically unsustainable for anyone but the biggest dev houses...and at that scale there just aren't enough gamers on mac to justify the cost.

Your variable declaration is wrong. That is to say it's correct and you should never not do this, but if you want to see how fast your machine can fill it's memory you need to handle memory allocation yourself. So instead of declaring variables like you do, you need to use "dynamic allocation", which is basically stopping the complier from handling memory allocation and importantly de-allocation. 

int *a = new int;

Notice the asterisk infront of the variable, that marks it as dynamic memory, so you are responsible to clean it up. Whack that in an endless loop and a few seconds later your machine will grind to a halt. You can "release" the memory again using delete on the variable.

delete a

Play around with it in a loop, declare an array that uses more memory to fill faster, limit the loop to make it not crash etc.