Yeah, we looked at QNX and it has a very sophisticated debug interface, but one of our prime requirements was to be able to handle wireless cards, which seems to pretty much mean Linux (and quite possibly using ndis wrapper onto a Windows binary... (although that woudln't work on the more obscure archotecture we were looking at).
You must admit Cambridge is kind of a weird exception, though: the town centre is far from car-friendly. Also, while your tactic works for light stuff, even with a trailer there's a limit to how many bottles of fruit juice you can carry in one trip! I'd also comment that relying on bicycles for travel in Cambridge kind of limits your shopping options -- to Sainsburys, or, er, the other Sainsburys... except for certain types of items, of course (cheese, meat, etc.).
While it may be an exception, it could also be an example to follow... also with shops close by we don't use the trailer much for carrying groceries. Admittedly we do use our car occasionally, and get a box delivery of organic vegetables and fruit once a week.
FWIW, last I heard about property prices in Cambridge, it's cheaper to commute from Lille... and yes, I know someone who did that! (Not so good if you want to see your kids for more than 3 days a week, obviously.)
Well we did buy our bottom of the market 90k ukp 3 bedroom semi 7 years ago, which seemed pricy at the time! I'm totally daunted by the prospects for first time buyers these days, and living in Lille might even seem to be a sensible option given the iminent opening of the Eurostar terminus at St. Pancras.
At least 10 (out of 50) of my colleagues, like me, live within 3 miles of our office (actually it's about 1 mile for me so I walk when I'm not delivering the children by bike to school), and many of them use their bikes. We either walk back from the shop with our groceries, or they're in the trailer with the baby. The 4 year old goes on a seat on the back of my bike, and the 6 year old cycles himself. But that's not uncommon in Cambridge (UK) - it's almost definitely cheaper to live in town than to live out of town and run 2 cars.
Living so close does mean there's not much time to listen to an iPod. We also don't have any FM receivers in the house any more - they're all digital only (my Nokia N70 has an FM receiver module, but that's where I store my portable music anyway!).
How could SED be used in a projector? The whole point is that there is a flat piece of glass with phospor dots on it like a CRT, behind which is an array of electron emitters (very much like an LCD grid).
The best idea I heard for projectors was a kind of CRT which lased in the direction of the electron beam. This meant it had continual focus, i.e. it was in focus at any distance. Some Russian guy I met about 10 years ago was talking about it but I don't know if it got anywhere. Something like http://www.turpion.org/php/paper.phtml?journal_id= qe&paper_id=4449 looks close to the idea.
The point about C++ vs C is that C++ encourages the use (and extension) of existing code. This often results in bulky implementations which run slower than if they'd been written in C directly.
It is often argued that C++ can be written in such a way as to be as fast as C and as memory efficient, but from my experience in the industry it nearly always results in code which is far larger, harder to debug and not as efficient at a low level. However it does sometimes allow the implementation of higher level algorithms which can contribute to overall efficiency, and imposes some structure which requires more discipline to present in coding directly in C.
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Yeah, we looked at QNX and it has a very sophisticated debug interface, but one of our prime requirements was to be able to handle wireless cards, which seems to pretty much mean Linux (and quite possibly using ndis wrapper onto a Windows binary... (although that woudln't work on the more obscure archotecture we were looking at).
You must admit Cambridge is kind of a weird exception, though: the town centre is far from car-friendly. Also, while your tactic works for light stuff, even with a trailer there's a limit to how many bottles of fruit juice you can carry in one trip! I'd also comment that relying on bicycles for travel in Cambridge kind of limits your shopping options -- to Sainsburys, or, er, the other Sainsburys ... except for certain types of items, of course (cheese, meat, etc.).
While it may be an exception, it could also be an example to follow... also with shops close by we don't use the trailer much for carrying groceries. Admittedly we do use our car occasionally, and get a box delivery of organic vegetables and fruit once a week.
FWIW, last I heard about property prices in Cambridge, it's cheaper to commute from Lille ... and yes, I know someone who did that! (Not so good if you want to see your kids for more than 3 days a week, obviously.)
Well we did buy our bottom of the market 90k ukp 3 bedroom semi 7 years ago, which seemed pricy at the time! I'm totally daunted by the prospects for first time buyers these days, and living in Lille might even seem to be a sensible option given the iminent opening of the Eurostar terminus at St. Pancras.At least 10 (out of 50) of my colleagues, like me, live within 3 miles of our office (actually it's about 1 mile for me so I walk when I'm not delivering the children by bike to school), and many of them use their bikes. We either walk back from the shop with our groceries, or they're in the trailer with the baby. The 4 year old goes on a seat on the back of my bike, and the 6 year old cycles himself. But that's not uncommon in Cambridge (UK) - it's almost definitely cheaper to live in town than to live out of town and run 2 cars.
Living so close does mean there's not much time to listen to an iPod. We also don't have any FM receivers in the house any more - they're all digital only (my Nokia N70 has an FM receiver module, but that's where I store my portable music anyway!).
How could SED be used in a projector? The whole point is that there is a flat piece of glass with phospor dots on it like a CRT, behind which is an array of electron emitters (very much like an LCD grid).
= qe&paper_id=4449 looks close to the idea.
The best idea I heard for projectors was a kind of CRT which lased in the direction of the electron beam. This meant it had continual focus, i.e. it was in focus at any distance. Some Russian guy I met about 10 years ago was talking about it but I don't know if it got anywhere. Something like http://www.turpion.org/php/paper.phtml?journal_id
It is often argued that C++ can be written in such a way as to be as fast as C and as memory efficient, but from my experience in the industry it nearly always results in code which is far larger, harder to debug and not as efficient at a low level. However it does sometimes allow the implementation of higher level algorithms which can contribute to overall efficiency, and imposes some structure which requires more discipline to present in coding directly in C.