this certainly raises some questions about the likelihood of successful privatization of the Space industry.
The government failed quite a few times before they got anything up. Let's not write off private space travel because of three failures.
That's kinda like saying "well, early air travel was dangerous so if the first five Boeing 777 Dreamliners crash, they should get a pass". IOW, Bullshit.
That's kinda like saying "well, early air travel was dangerous so if the first five Boeing 777 Dreamliners crash, they should get a pass". IOW, Bullshit.
No, it's not.
Comparing Boeing to SpaceX is more than a little apples-to-oranges. The Dreamliner (which is the 787 btw), has a fairly long heritage that it's building on (707, 717, 727, etc). SpaceX does not have any similar heritage to rely upon. Since Boeing and Lockheed probably aren't going to release a reference design of the Delta class, SpaceX is pretty much starting from scratch.
You might try looking at VS.PHP -- it's not free and it requires VisualStudio, but it does do a pretty good job with intellisense and auto-complete (it uses VisualStudio's own capabilities as a matter of fact). I haven't used it in a while (3 yrs or so), so it may not be as good as current alternatives, but it might be worth a look for you.
The PRADO framework for PHP implements a lot of ASP.NET-ish functionality, including Master Pages. I've used their page templates on a couple of my own sites with great success.
Agreed! AVR's are great little parts and are easy to get started working on. I believe Eclipse even has a plugin to use AVR-GCC and AVR libc for programming.
Well, actually the answer is probably "yes." If you actually want to make a difference you should vote in a way that enables that rather than voting in some idealistic attempt to make a statement. If you want to enable change, vote for the "right" people at a more local level where they stand a chance of getting into office where they can actually do something! Don't vote for someone who clearly has no chance of winning just to "make a statement" and then whine that things aren't how you want them. Change usually happens from the bottom up, only rarely from the top down.
If the editors read the article rather than posting shock stories, Python 2.6 will also be released at the same time and will not break backwards compatibility. Python is not pulling the rug out from under its developers as the summary would lead you to believe.
I've read up a little on the chip, and since the WMA decoding seems to be done on the chip itself (i.e. not in software), then it's SigmaTel who would have licensed WMA from Microsoft, and there shouldn't be any reason Apple would have to re-license it. Am I missing something?
Don't get me wrong, I think this lawsuit is hogwash, but I am genuinely confused as to why Apple would have to pay MS for this.
Problem is though if you leave enough space to absorb slowdowns, someone will invariably change lanes to take up that space. At least that's how it goes here in the crazy-driver land of LA.
Software-defined radio is broad, but I wouldn't say that it is imprecise. True, the operating mode of the chip can be changed, but the set of protocols that the chip understands (WiFi, WiMAX, and DVB-H) is not. Your assertion that there is SW running is not really correct either. There is no "software" per se running on the chip. It is just a collection of many finite state machines run in parallel to demodulate and decode the RF input. These state machines are immutable at runtime, so this is really just an aggregation of hardware-defined radios which can be activated or deactivated by software.
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This provides all the digital signal processing and forward error correction for these three protocols and the area is still comparable to three fixed function Asics This isn't really software-defined radio. Software-defined implies that the protocol level processing (i.e. DSP, FEC, etc.) are performed in software or firmware rather than in silicon (and hence changeable on the fly). While it is a pretty neat chip that has the potential to ease the convergence of these wireless standards, software radio it's not.
A complete schematic probably wouldn't help much. There isn't much mystery any more in putting together a computer. The challenge is in the layout -- placing high-speed narrow-pitch bus lines, etc. Heck, given a week or so I can research data sheets and put together a schematic for an ARM-based machine with PS/2 for input, LCD for display, and USB/IDE for storage. Slap Linux on it and there you go.
Does Max ever tell us where the money for this proposal is going to come from? Tech degrees aren't free; the money to pay the professors, buy lab supplies, etc., etc. has to come from somewhere... us taxpayers, probably.
MP3 is not the problem. Given a sufficiently high bitrate, MP3's are going to be indistinguishable from the CD (read: digital) audio that the producer is so overly concerned about. Even that is hugely dependent on what you're using to reproduce the audio.
The article mentions that the iPod and its cheap earbuds bear some of the responsibility for rendering this degradation in sound quality less objectionable. This is a good point... even if you're still stuck on 128kbps/44.1kHz audio, unless you're talking a real high-quality stereo with high-quality speakers with perfect linearity and a flat response, you're not going to hear the difference.
StarOffice includes some proprietary components like clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration. I'd say they just answered their own question. Google wants to court MS Office users. Is this a surprise in any way?
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That's kinda like saying "well, early air travel was dangerous so if the first five Boeing 777 Dreamliners crash, they should get a pass". IOW, Bullshit.
That's kinda like saying "well, early air travel was dangerous so if the first five Boeing 777 Dreamliners crash, they should get a pass". IOW, Bullshit.
No, it's not. Comparing Boeing to SpaceX is more than a little apples-to-oranges. The Dreamliner (which is the 787 btw), has a fairly long heritage that it's building on (707, 717, 727, etc). SpaceX does not have any similar heritage to rely upon. Since Boeing and Lockheed probably aren't going to release a reference design of the Delta class, SpaceX is pretty much starting from scratch.
You might try looking at VS.PHP -- it's not free and it requires VisualStudio, but it does do a pretty good job with intellisense and auto-complete (it uses VisualStudio's own capabilities as a matter of fact). I haven't used it in a while (3 yrs or so), so it may not be as good as current alternatives, but it might be worth a look for you.
The PRADO framework for PHP implements a lot of ASP.NET-ish functionality, including Master Pages. I've used their page templates on a couple of my own sites with great success.
Agreed! AVR's are great little parts and are easy to get started working on. I believe Eclipse even has a plugin to use AVR-GCC and AVR libc for programming.
Well, actually the answer is probably "yes." If you actually want to make a difference you should vote in a way that enables that rather than voting in some idealistic attempt to make a statement. If you want to enable change, vote for the "right" people at a more local level where they stand a chance of getting into office where they can actually do something! Don't vote for someone who clearly has no chance of winning just to "make a statement" and then whine that things aren't how you want them. Change usually happens from the bottom up, only rarely from the top down.
If the editors read the article rather than posting shock stories, Python 2.6 will also be released at the same time and will not break backwards compatibility. Python is not pulling the rug out from under its developers as the summary would lead you to believe.
I've read up a little on the chip, and since the WMA decoding seems to be done on the chip itself (i.e. not in software), then it's SigmaTel who would have licensed WMA from Microsoft, and there shouldn't be any reason Apple would have to re-license it. Am I missing something?
Don't get me wrong, I think this lawsuit is hogwash, but I am genuinely confused as to why Apple would have to pay MS for this.
Problem is though if you leave enough space to absorb slowdowns, someone will invariably change lanes to take up that space. At least that's how it goes here in the crazy-driver land of LA.
Software-defined radio is broad, but I wouldn't say that it is imprecise. True, the operating mode of the chip can be changed, but the set of protocols that the chip understands (WiFi, WiMAX, and DVB-H) is not. Your assertion that there is SW running is not really correct either. There is no "software" per se running on the chip. It is just a collection of many finite state machines run in parallel to demodulate and decode the RF input. These state machines are immutable at runtime, so this is really just an aggregation of hardware-defined radios which can be activated or deactivated by software.
And for added fun, ask them to say that their nose is glowing and watch it explode trying to resolve the paradox!
Or maybe the teleworkers should all buy robots to fill in for them?
A complete schematic probably wouldn't help much. There isn't much mystery any more in putting together a computer. The challenge is in the layout -- placing high-speed narrow-pitch bus lines, etc. Heck, given a week or so I can research data sheets and put together a schematic for an ARM-based machine with PS/2 for input, LCD for display, and USB/IDE for storage. Slap Linux on it and there you go.
Does Max ever tell us where the money for this proposal is going to come from? Tech degrees aren't free; the money to pay the professors, buy lab supplies, etc., etc. has to come from somewhere... us taxpayers, probably.