A Wal*Mart in Quebec unionized. One of the unions demands was more hours for the employers. Another union demand was more employees. So the union feels it should drive the company's business model? The store was closed shortly after with Wal*Mart citing economic reasons that were occurring before the unionization issue came up. I can easily understand guaranteeing more hours. But, guaranteeing more hours along with oh you must increase your workforce by 10%?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_07 /b3971115.htm
It comes down to comparing Japanese car companies to American companies is far from apples and oranges. Toyota is on top because they've completely reinvented the process of designing and manufacturing an automobile. There's other companies that have been successful with similar processes.
The local Toyota plant here is considered a gold-mine in terms of wages, benefits vs. the complexity of the job, and the hours spent on the job. Ford and GM and currently finding themselves battling the auto workers to bring their capacity down so that they could have something more sustainable. We're in a very painful situation for the workers, the unions, and the people who are under economies that benefit from them. You only have to read a few chapters on American labor history to understand why unions are important, and the benefits that they have literally bled for. But, sometimes it seems that the Unions are fighting tooth and nail against economic realities in a way that only puts the company they work for in deeper peril.
I agree. That's assuming the necessary contact points are A) exposed, and B) sufficient for a bed of nails test. Unless you're hacking thousands of these things. It's probably a lot more efficient just to solder the wires on to the board. It's not like it's a significant task for anyone with that kind of experience. It sounds like it's J-Tag so it's only 6 wires.
Well, most people lease their Cable/DSL modem from their ISP which is significantly worse than buying.
Highway department is a bad analogy since you're not actually buying a service from them. They provide a service that you're able to take advantage of even if you don't pay taxes (tourists, visitors, children).
Your electrical company is actually quote far removed from the appliance market. Besides, what are they going to sell you? There's billions of things that you can plug into the wall, are they going to cell all of them?
Also, if they did... would they give it to you for what amounts to practically free?
I'd say more people don't even consider buying new cell phones unless they're contract is up and the mobile phone company is offering them a new free one. Me, I pick the cheapest one that doesn't look like it's suffering from techno-osteoporosis (feels like it's falling apart in your hand). I just want a phone with some text messaging, an LCD I can see, and some robustness. I'm sure that's how most people feel. They just want a phone that works and perhaps one or two of the additional perks. Getting an unlocked phone and switching providers to save a few bucks would be an unwanted hassle.
Probably because the first couple years of iPhone will be a generally limited release as the work out the bugs and get their manufacturing ramped up. Giving an exclusive contract to AT&T probably allowed them to negotiate better margins and more cooperation from AT&T's technical side. Basically, they're not selling through other providers because they're not ready to.
I doubt it. The term "disk" will always be used with nostalgia. But, when it comes to selling these things and finally getting implemented into systems you'll most likely see them referred to as "Hard Drive", "Storage Devices", "Flash Drives", "SSD" (everybody loves acronyms!) or some marketing term their still dreaming up. Of course I imagine the successor to Windows Vista being out before SSDs are technically mainstream.
...and at that rate you lose 1 sector. That's assuming the disk manager was written poorly enough to actually do such a strange and unprecedented thing.
I did some poking around the net for information on NAND write cycles. They've already been quoted in the comments here (100,000 to 2,000,000) so I'm just going to post this neat white paper I found on Zeus drives that explains the endurance they get from their SSD Drive.
http://www.baydel.com/images/gallery/NAND%20flash% 20resilience.pdf
Then that leaves everything in the hands of a potentially corrupt elections board. So a year down the road when investigators suspect shady business they have no idea of knowing how many of the district's voters were registered at the grave yard vs. how many were turned away from the poll, or couldn't even make it to the poll. Corruption adores keeping secrets, and destroying voting records immediately after the fact is a perfect way of keeping secrets. Storing voting records will help keep the system transparent. It is something you can audit afterwards, and it's probably something that should absolutely be audited.
They're probably time stamping as way of preventing voter fraud and ballot stuffing. As for the list of voters being in the order they voted it, they're most likely publishing the logs as they written at the polls. It's a matter of two pieces of information being made public in their rawest form. Obviously the election office in this case lacked the oversight it would have taken to analyze the data they make available publicly for potentials like this.
It's not a matter of how proud you are of who you voted for. It's a matter of being able to vote for someone without the threat of intimidation or reprisal. It's not the matter of feeling a little tension when you're the only guy voting Democrat. It's more the matter voting your way on matters of gay marriage, slavery, and abortion in places there are people who would be openly hostile to your views. For the most part I believe that the developed world is much more civil than that. But, history dictates that sometimes the tide turns the other way.
But, for many embedded systems you have an over arching concern for cost, and time to market. Sure, you can get an ultra-powerful Virtex-5 but you're probably pricing yourself out of the market and that's before you consider the cost and complexity of designing your FPGA's insides. That's also assuming you're not trading off all your FPGA's bells and whistles to implement your cores. With the TILE64 your project starts and ends with C.
I am also extremely skeptical of any but the smallest Virtex-5 applications running at 1W. The smallest quiescent core current is 300mA for the smallest FPGA in the family at the lowest speed grade. 5 to 10W would be a more accurate (all though a ballpark) estimation. In fact most reference designs I've seen for Xilinx and Altera FPGA's involve some exceptionally beefy power supplies.
There's really no point in attacking their disbelief in evolution. I think they're backwards, a few think they're right, and the rest simply don't care to be that kind of critical about that kind of belief. That questions that need to be asked are the ones that go to the root of how their theocratic beliefs effect their political decisions. Do they believe that science should treated as a democratic entity. Do they constantly emphasize the things that we don't know, or the evidence that we have yet to uncover. Obviously you can't ask them how science works. Though, it would be interesting to here Rudy blather out his little tirade about what he thinks the scientific method is. To keep the question on the subject of evolution I would ask: What does your position on evolution say about the president you would be? Is this your position on this subject an important characteristic in the advisers your choose, and the friends abroad that we choose to build stronger allegiances with?
You seem to be using "instruction set" in place of "functionality", "programmability", or "architecture." FPGAs for the most part replace the non-programmable chips that you would say "have no instruction set." Today you can embed your own micro inside an FPGA, and some of the high end ones have actual cores embedded in the silicon.
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A Wal*Mart in Quebec unionized. One of the unions demands was more hours for the employers. Another union demand was more employees. So the union feels it should drive the company's business model? The store was closed shortly after with Wal*Mart citing economic reasons that were occurring before the unionization issue came up. I can easily understand guaranteeing more hours. But, guaranteeing more hours along with oh you must increase your workforce by 10%? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_07 /b3971115.htm
It comes down to comparing Japanese car companies to American companies is far from apples and oranges. Toyota is on top because they've completely reinvented the process of designing and manufacturing an automobile. There's other companies that have been successful with similar processes. The local Toyota plant here is considered a gold-mine in terms of wages, benefits vs. the complexity of the job, and the hours spent on the job. Ford and GM and currently finding themselves battling the auto workers to bring their capacity down so that they could have something more sustainable. We're in a very painful situation for the workers, the unions, and the people who are under economies that benefit from them. You only have to read a few chapters on American labor history to understand why unions are important, and the benefits that they have literally bled for. But, sometimes it seems that the Unions are fighting tooth and nail against economic realities in a way that only puts the company they work for in deeper peril.
I agree. That's assuming the necessary contact points are A) exposed, and B) sufficient for a bed of nails test. Unless you're hacking thousands of these things. It's probably a lot more efficient just to solder the wires on to the board. It's not like it's a significant task for anyone with that kind of experience. It sounds like it's J-Tag so it's only 6 wires.
Well, most people lease their Cable/DSL modem from their ISP which is significantly worse than buying. Highway department is a bad analogy since you're not actually buying a service from them. They provide a service that you're able to take advantage of even if you don't pay taxes (tourists, visitors, children). Your electrical company is actually quote far removed from the appliance market. Besides, what are they going to sell you? There's billions of things that you can plug into the wall, are they going to cell all of them? Also, if they did... would they give it to you for what amounts to practically free? I'd say more people don't even consider buying new cell phones unless they're contract is up and the mobile phone company is offering them a new free one. Me, I pick the cheapest one that doesn't look like it's suffering from techno-osteoporosis (feels like it's falling apart in your hand). I just want a phone with some text messaging, an LCD I can see, and some robustness. I'm sure that's how most people feel. They just want a phone that works and perhaps one or two of the additional perks. Getting an unlocked phone and switching providers to save a few bucks would be an unwanted hassle.
Probably because the first couple years of iPhone will be a generally limited release as the work out the bugs and get their manufacturing ramped up. Giving an exclusive contract to AT&T probably allowed them to negotiate better margins and more cooperation from AT&T's technical side. Basically, they're not selling through other providers because they're not ready to.
I doubt it. The term "disk" will always be used with nostalgia. But, when it comes to selling these things and finally getting implemented into systems you'll most likely see them referred to as "Hard Drive", "Storage Devices", "Flash Drives", "SSD" (everybody loves acronyms!) or some marketing term their still dreaming up. Of course I imagine the successor to Windows Vista being out before SSDs are technically mainstream.
...and at that rate you lose 1 sector. That's assuming the disk manager was written poorly enough to actually do such a strange and unprecedented thing.
I did some poking around the net for information on NAND write cycles. They've already been quoted in the comments here (100,000 to 2,000,000) so I'm just going to post this neat white paper I found on Zeus drives that explains the endurance they get from their SSD Drive. http://www.baydel.com/images/gallery/NAND%20flash% 20resilience.pdf
Then that leaves everything in the hands of a potentially corrupt elections board. So a year down the road when investigators suspect shady business they have no idea of knowing how many of the district's voters were registered at the grave yard vs. how many were turned away from the poll, or couldn't even make it to the poll. Corruption adores keeping secrets, and destroying voting records immediately after the fact is a perfect way of keeping secrets. Storing voting records will help keep the system transparent. It is something you can audit afterwards, and it's probably something that should absolutely be audited.
They're probably time stamping as way of preventing voter fraud and ballot stuffing. As for the list of voters being in the order they voted it, they're most likely publishing the logs as they written at the polls. It's a matter of two pieces of information being made public in their rawest form. Obviously the election office in this case lacked the oversight it would have taken to analyze the data they make available publicly for potentials like this.
It's not a matter of how proud you are of who you voted for. It's a matter of being able to vote for someone without the threat of intimidation or reprisal. It's not the matter of feeling a little tension when you're the only guy voting Democrat. It's more the matter voting your way on matters of gay marriage, slavery, and abortion in places there are people who would be openly hostile to your views. For the most part I believe that the developed world is much more civil than that. But, history dictates that sometimes the tide turns the other way.
But, for many embedded systems you have an over arching concern for cost, and time to market. Sure, you can get an ultra-powerful Virtex-5 but you're probably pricing yourself out of the market and that's before you consider the cost and complexity of designing your FPGA's insides. That's also assuming you're not trading off all your FPGA's bells and whistles to implement your cores. With the TILE64 your project starts and ends with C. I am also extremely skeptical of any but the smallest Virtex-5 applications running at 1W. The smallest quiescent core current is 300mA for the smallest FPGA in the family at the lowest speed grade. 5 to 10W would be a more accurate (all though a ballpark) estimation. In fact most reference designs I've seen for Xilinx and Altera FPGA's involve some exceptionally beefy power supplies.
There's really no point in attacking their disbelief in evolution. I think they're backwards, a few think they're right, and the rest simply don't care to be that kind of critical about that kind of belief. That questions that need to be asked are the ones that go to the root of how their theocratic beliefs effect their political decisions. Do they believe that science should treated as a democratic entity. Do they constantly emphasize the things that we don't know, or the evidence that we have yet to uncover. Obviously you can't ask them how science works. Though, it would be interesting to here Rudy blather out his little tirade about what he thinks the scientific method is. To keep the question on the subject of evolution I would ask: What does your position on evolution say about the president you would be? Is this your position on this subject an important characteristic in the advisers your choose, and the friends abroad that we choose to build stronger allegiances with?
You seem to be using "instruction set" in place of "functionality", "programmability", or "architecture." FPGAs for the most part replace the non-programmable chips that you would say "have no instruction set." Today you can embed your own micro inside an FPGA, and some of the high end ones have actual cores embedded in the silicon.