[ntp:questions] Strange NTP problem on AMD Geode LX cards.

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Tue Oct 13 21:15:29 UTC 2009


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>Dave Baxter wrote:
>> Best get it right the first time, it's cheaper in the
>>  long run too, but heck, how many carreer bean counters
>>  stay anywere for more than a year anyway.
>>  I know some so called "engineers" like that too.
>>  Get it to production asap, then leave.

>When people doing the manufacturing get paid ~$1.00 USD
> a day, to manufacture a million PCBs (a ripoff of some
>  other brand board they manufactured in the past), both
>  of the designs were likely two generations old by the
>  time they hit the streets, ...

> Not likely a lot more engineering going into something where
>  every penny spent is ~$10k USD less in someones pocket.

Yup. That is why you have regulations. It is clear that the present spread
spectrum approach is basically an end run around the regulations. The regs were
set up based on the idea that things that emit tend to be more or less
monofrequency ( radio transmitters, sidebands, microwave ovens, etc), so the
regulation framers ( mostly lawyers) regulated the obvious, and the manufacturers,
concerned as you say with pennies, did everything they could to fulfil the letter
of the law, damn the spirit. When the impact of the evasion hits some people in
some other country, it is the letter of the law that will rule, so the regulations
need to be more broadly crafted.



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