Over the course of the last couple years I've reached the conclusion that Microsoft doesn't really care about money except for it's use as a catalyst for acheiving World Domination(tm). It seems as if they're always sacrificing large amounts of cash simply for the purpose of dominating yet another market - even when that market isn't very lucrative. I don't look forward to the day that MS stages their coup and forces their enemies into work camps.
I'm really only half joking.
It's not only real, it's not even that uncommon. This is one of the primary reasons that we have ECC RAM. I hear that it an even bigger risk at very high elevations where the atmosphere doesn't provide as much shielding.
My Dad pointed out an article about a month ago (in EDN?) about this phenomenon even affecting really dense SRAM now.
There is nothing specifically x86 about pc104. It's just an ISA bus (and PCI bus with pc104+) with funky connectors. Existing StrongARM chipsets (SA1111?) would work fine.
I think this falls under the category of "If you have to ask you'll never know". I mean this is like asking what the geek attraction to Monty Python is.
First, it's not really supposed to be a PDA. It just provides your contact list and schedule as transfered to from your real PDA.
Second while this one isn't really my style, I take exception to your comment about fossil watches in general. I happen to like my fossil watch. It's like this one except with a carbon fiber face.
You really beleive that the laws of thermodynamics are just lies propogated by energy providers? Watch out for the black helicopters and don't forget your aluminium foil hat.
Only if it's a dirt cheap POS camera. The article was specificaly talking about professional photographers. I presume their cameras are much more expensive than a few 128MB CF cards at $50 each.
I wouldn't necessarily say it's better to wait. More prudent perhaps.
Without early adopters it would take a lot longer for technologies to develop to the point were it will be suitable/affordable for the rest of us. You are welcome to wait but someone has to go first, and I think it can be admirable thing to do. They save the rest of you from waiting for the chicken/egg cycle to break.
Moore's law refers to the number of transistors that will be packed onto an integrated circuit. Doesn't say anything about processing power let alone massive computer arrays.
Qwest offers a (free) service to block calls that are caller-id blocked (as long as you already have caller-id). They will receive a message telling them how to temporarily unblock their caller-id blocking if they really want to talk to you.
If I understand correctly, this only applies when the encryption/obfuscation/kludgy protocol is being used to protect a copyrighted work. I could be wrong.
That is some of the most as backwards logic I've ever heard. Personally, I tend to look on people who deliberatly make communication difficult as neurotic, masochistic, and generally to be avoided. By your logic, if I want to be taken seriously, I should send out all my correspondence engraved on stone tablets.
To be fair, this may be the way some politicians actually think. I don't believe it should be encouraged though.
After some quick research, it appears that the nomad uses a programmable DSP for decoding. Wether this is hardware or software decoding is debateable. I think that my point still stands, that comparing playback on a nomad to a general purpose processor doesn't make much sense.
That Nomad Jukebox almost certainly has hardware codecs for mp3 and wma decoding. It probably has an 8-bit microcontroller for handling the display and reading the HD. Comparing it to a PC is apples and oranges.
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Over the course of the last couple years I've reached the conclusion that Microsoft doesn't really care about money except for it's use as a catalyst for acheiving World Domination(tm). It seems as if they're always sacrificing large amounts of cash simply for the purpose of dominating yet another market - even when that market isn't very lucrative. I don't look forward to the day that MS stages their coup and forces their enemies into work camps.
I'm really only half joking.
It's not only real, it's not even that uncommon. This is one of the primary reasons that we have ECC RAM. I hear that it an even bigger risk at very high elevations where the atmosphere doesn't provide as much shielding.
My Dad pointed out an article about a month ago (in EDN?) about this phenomenon even affecting really dense SRAM now.
There is nothing specifically x86 about pc104. It's just an ISA bus (and PCI bus with pc104+) with funky connectors. Existing StrongARM chipsets (SA1111?) would work fine.
I think this falls under the category of "If you have to ask you'll never know". I mean this is like asking what the geek attraction to Monty Python is.
First, it's not really supposed to be a PDA. It just provides your contact list and schedule as transfered to from your real PDA.
Second while this one isn't really my style, I take exception to your comment about fossil watches in general. I happen to like my fossil watch. It's like this one except with a carbon fiber face.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
You really beleive that the laws of thermodynamics are just lies propogated by energy providers? Watch out for the black helicopters and don't forget your aluminium foil hat.
if it uses 5 miles of cable? ;-)
Actually it's more like saying blueprints are the preferred method of communiction among civil engineers. And they are.
Anything worth backing up is worth backing up more than once.
Hmm..I should write that down...twice.
Only if it's a dirt cheap POS camera. The article was specificaly talking about professional photographers. I presume their cameras are much more expensive than a few 128MB CF cards at $50 each.
I wouldn't necessarily say it's better to wait. More prudent perhaps.
Without early adopters it would take a lot longer for technologies to develop to the point were it will be suitable/affordable for the rest of us. You are welcome to wait but someone has to go first, and I think it can be admirable thing to do. They save the rest of you from waiting for the chicken/egg cycle to break.
Most people seem to agree that the ultimate survial probability for humans is 0% ;-)
Moore's law refers to the number of transistors that will be packed onto an integrated circuit. Doesn't say anything about processing power let alone massive computer arrays.
What if features that have different advantages to different people are mutually exclusive?
Bam. Well it's comics really.
Qwest offers a (free) service to block calls that are caller-id blocked (as long as you already have caller-id). They will receive a message telling them how to temporarily unblock their caller-id blocking if they really want to talk to you.
Maybe 4 months ago, but if you check out crucial.com now they both run about the same price.
Compact flash already acts just like a hard drive, it just doesn't use the same connectors. From a logical/electrical standpoint they are identical.
If I understand correctly, this only applies when the encryption/obfuscation/kludgy protocol is being used to protect a copyrighted work. I could be wrong.
That is some of the most as backwards logic I've ever heard. Personally, I tend to look on people who deliberatly make communication difficult as neurotic, masochistic, and generally to be avoided. By your logic, if I want to be taken seriously, I should send out all my correspondence engraved on stone tablets.
To be fair, this may be the way some politicians actually think. I don't believe it should be encouraged though.
Like this?
Have they gotten rid of that "integrated desktop"? That was my single biggest grip about previous versions.
There is the (remote) possibility that the submitter actually knows somthing about particle physics and what it takes to create miniature black holes.
After some quick research, it appears that the nomad uses a programmable DSP for decoding. Wether this is hardware or software decoding is debateable. I think that my point still stands, that comparing playback on a nomad to a general purpose processor doesn't make much sense.
That Nomad Jukebox almost certainly has hardware codecs for mp3 and wma decoding. It probably has an 8-bit microcontroller for handling the display and reading the HD. Comparing it to a PC is apples and oranges.