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Concorde to be Grounded
Goonie writes "This BBC article reports that Concorde flights are to come to an end in October. It may be a noisy and costly anachronism, but it's sad to see the end of perhaps the coolest commercial plane ever to fly." The financial wires carried a story the other day showing how much jet fuel demand has dropped recently.
You leave out oh so much on the AVR, and haven't even addressed the ATMega's which are the new generation mc's.
Also, what about cost? I bought 10 AT902313S-PC's for $2 a piece, and can program them very cheaply, and I can get a circuit up and running with very little power and extra circuitry.
Also, PWM is very easy. CodeVision C Compiler makes it extremely easy to write. PicBasic has no place in the embedded community. It should be called PicBaby. It requires a memory module to house all the bloated code.
Sales of Atmel microcontrollers have grown faster than any other microontroller!
I doubt that - there'll be a Mach 2 private jet along any minute to cater for THEM - by losing Concorde it's just JOE PUBLIC that once again loses access to the best technology - Steve Jobs, John Travolta, Larry Ellison and the rest will just continue as usual - glad not to have to mix with the plebs.
The loss of Concorde also makes Europe and the USA further apart than they've been for 25 years - and that's just sad.
That was classic intercourse!
log in or fuck off
and WTF is a 'wanka'?
That was classic intercourse!
you won't get any mod points until you log in you stupid cunt - why not try a sensible counterpoint instead?
or is debate beyond your feeble mental powers?
That was classic intercourse!