this was a good one. why? because it was so well explained. the article says a lot of things that are undeniably true. sound travels very well thru bone tissue for instance so this implant is possible from a pure audiological perspective. the only "big" problems with something like this is power supply and antenna, while antennas could probably fit in the neighbor molar or be implanted somewhere else, batteries aren't good enough to present a lasting good solution. you will need something that is both small, be able to hold a fair bit of juice and be extremely resilient to degradation with is a huge problem with NiMH cells and simmilar batteries. I don't know any battery techology which is good enough for something like this. If YOU do then please tell me.
i'd probably say no to an implant that allows the government to track me though. and oh yes, don't bother saying i'm paranoid m'kay?
Over the years I've seen many use assembly for making Operating systems and library routines.
For use in Operating systems you will be better off using C for the most part and assembler where it is needed. Most mortals aren't so good that they can beat a C compiler at optimizing, so they are better off using C, as a bonus the code will be more readable and you will be more productive.
For library routines, for instance graphic routines assembler rocks, but here also assembler is mostly useful for the inner loops only. The biggest optimizing gains can be achieved at medium or high-level code, if your software algorithms suck than assembler sure won't help.
And yes I do have a talent for stating the obvious... i know. ^.^
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This just ticked in like half an hour ago. There's webcam links in it, but I can't spot anything yet. http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/view_news/2441/El-Hierro-volcano-Canary-Islands-Spain-continuing-earthquakes-and-tremor-feed-speculations-about-a-s.html
this was a good one. why? because it was so well explained. the article says a lot of things that are undeniably true. sound travels very well thru bone tissue for instance so this implant is possible from a pure audiological perspective. the only "big" problems with something like this is power supply and antenna, while antennas could probably fit in the neighbor molar or be implanted somewhere else, batteries aren't good enough to present a lasting good solution. you will need something that is both small, be able to hold a fair bit of juice and be extremely resilient to degradation with is a huge problem with NiMH cells and simmilar batteries. I don't know any battery techology which is good enough for something like this. If YOU do then please tell me. i'd probably say no to an implant that allows the government to track me though. and oh yes, don't bother saying i'm paranoid m'kay?
For use in Operating systems you will be better off using C for the most part and assembler where it is needed. Most mortals aren't so good that they can beat a C compiler at optimizing, so they are better off using C, as a bonus the code will be more readable and you will be more productive.
For library routines, for instance graphic routines assembler rocks, but here also assembler is mostly useful for the inner loops only. The biggest optimizing gains can be achieved at medium or high-level code, if your software algorithms suck than assembler sure won't help.
And yes I do have a talent for stating the obvious... i know. ^.^