Ethanol, as produced in Brazil, doesn't need to (but most probably uses, since biodiesel here is more expensive than regular diesel). Even using diesel, amounts are small compared to energy production, crops are near the distillery. The distillery itself has a positive energy balance, not including the ethanol it delivers (co-generation, using heat to produce power). Heat comes from burning the biomass byproducts. For example, one ethanol producer in Brazil states in it's page an capacity of 940MW to be sold. http://www.raizen.com/pt-br/se... Some short info on Petrobras production of biodiesel: http://www.petrobras.com.br/en...
I wouldn't count on it taking any job from a CNC machine. it's a MIG welding machine and it's resolution/accuracy should be well over 1mm. It won't deal with a lot of metal also. No, it's not the one size fits all. It's very useful and interesting, allowing complex geometries more easily and I think local shops will have one once the techs (his and other techs for metal 3D printing) are mature.
I think you never had to use cygwin... Build time on modern computer could be an issue sometimes, but your statement that the performance of the binary is more important keeps valid. Not that the benchmark of the article makes any sense...
Those things are usually installed by engineers with very little knowledge/concern about security. In my field there's an urge for bluetooth connectivity for the industrial equipments, with all the security nightmares bluetooth poses on accessing a device. Wi-fi could be used with a much better security model, but it's considered too complicated...
I've made embedded programming in C++, in a rather efficient way. It makes a lot of things easier, but it's much harder to find someone that knows what that thing is doing. If you handle a task to an experienced C++ programmer and say no use of new, delete and exception handling are allowed, probably the task won't get accomplished unless it's very simple. I used to advocate the use o C++ on embedded, but gave up. In a larger environment with programmers of different experience levels, C is much easier to get running.
Hit the nail. If you have at least a little experience, you've already at least once gone through the codebase and asked who's the idiot that wrote that, checked the answer on the version control system to find that the idiot is yourself. On the other hand, sometimes the legacy code is so much patched that it's easier and faster to rewrite it. If this code is that much patched that you can't even follow the code flow anymore, bugs left are only the scary ones anyway. Rewriting that code is a high risk task, since many errors already solved will be done again, but may still be worth it.
Li-ion batteries (laptop batteries) have really small changes in voltage output until very near the end of the charge. There's indeed a very precise integrator calculating the estimated remaining energy on the battery by measuring current and voltage.
No, redundancy means excess capacity. Diversity means spreading the capacity through various locations/processes/etc. In this case we're talking about geographical diversity and the difference is simply distribution of the fabs around the world. If TSMC had its 15 factories spread over various locations, a single event couldn't shut down 100% of it's capacity. The last year's earthquake in Japan shot down 1/3 of the Renesas fabs. It was enough to make a huge problem, stop some auto manufacturers, but it kept running. Had Renesas all it's fabs on North Japan, it would be 100% down. The fabs were not redundant, as one could not cover for the lack of other.
It's about diversity, no redundancy. For semiconductor manufacturing, for example. There's quite a few plants around the world, not that much of small process nodes. If a major earthquake hits Taiwan, shutting down TSMC and UMC factories, you'll notice the effect all around the world pretty fast. This http://eetimes.com/ContentEETimes/Images/120514_icInsights_micron_800.png should give an idea.
Having compiled the same code for ARM, x86 and x86-64, with the same compiler, I dare saying that the ARM code is much smaller. Compiles using -Os and GCC for all cores. Embedded has code size as a limiting factor for quite some time now...
P.S. before saying that a sample size of one isn't evidence, I develop firmware for ARM and some other arch e frequently compile it on the PC for testing purposes.
No, they are not. Means for implementation by an expert should be provided. The C++ code would be just an example of implementation. Try coding a MPEG encoder in Lisp and see if you can patent it.
Indeed. Since FF4 I can't use online banking with FF. Now with FF5 Acrobat Reader locks and fails every now and then. Befor you put the fault at adobe, it doesn't on FF3 or IE. Basically FF is becoming useless for me very, very fast. And I'm the ordinary user. On the enterprise level here it's already forbidden.
You're always limiting the rights of other people, including their right to live, by asserting your rights. The problem is where to draw the line.
I disagree with that thesis entirely.
Their right to live does not mean in any way that I'm required to surrender mine. Just because you might need an organ donation, doesn't confer an obligation upon me to give it to you. The same as the "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" doesn't actually guarantee you a job or to be happy... merely the right to look for it.
I'd say you just confirmed my point. You don't have to surrender your right simply because the papers would be reversed then. Someone shouting that this or that genre of art is disgusting and should be forbidden is attacking a basic right (free speech) of someone else is just like someone shouting that organ donation should be compulsory is attacking a basic right (physical integrity or even your right to live). Also, you can give someone the right to look for a job or happiness with no feasible way to achieve the goal.
Because, as soon as you start doing the calculus of whose life is more valuable... you start using the poor as spare parts for the rich.
Sure. Don't we kinda do that already, in economic terms? (poor people's work pays rich people's health care while having (almost) none themselves)
In my opinion, both of your examples are nonsensical and contrived. That isn't about 'offending someone else's sensibilities'.... it's about making your own rights inferior to that of someone else. I don't see any ambiguity in where to draw the line you seem to think is a broad and fuzzy expanse... your rights can't extend past the security of my own person.
You may redefine the security of your own person to include quite a lot.
It's amazing how vocal people can be about making sure that the rights of other people are limited so as not to offend their own sensibilities.
Very true... Suppose there's a hungry vampire just in front of you, about to die if not by your blood. Which right to live is bigger? (from a book I read a long time ago). Let's get a not so hypothetical and fantastic case, let's say you're in front of a severe renal patient and known to be a compatible donor. You don't want to live with a single kidney, which right is more important, his right to live or your right not to have your organs harvested? You're always limiting the rights of other people, including their right to live, by asserting your rights. The problem is where to draw the line.
No, the problem is not money. The problem is bureaucracy, unwillingness to help and the arrogance, usually all present on TI departments. Or simply things like: ME: I need dotProject installed for use within my department. Could you deploy that? How should we proceed? IT: dotProject isn't in the list of allowed softwares, MS Project is on the list, you should use it. ME: 100 licenses of MS Project is too expensive, I need a simple service added to the linux box you already manage and have integrated with our domain. IT: Sorry, you must use MS project.
Laser diodes, used in CD/DVD/whatever have a terrible beam quality for cutting and a mostly inappropriate wavelength, but they can be switched on/off quite fast. Think of fiber optics... Other techs may be pretty slow to turn on/off, but have quite good beam quality for cutting. The most widely used is CO2 laser for that, which can take from 100's of us to a couple ms to turn on/off. With these lasers it's faster to move it optically away with mirrors of defocussing with lenses.
Stats here show increase in rear-endings, gotta find some reference... We have countdown timers, reasonable yellow and cameras. Accidents have gone down with the cameras, as well as risky situations. The increase of awareness of when the light would stop increased some rear-ending due to some people stopping too early, thus unexpectedly by who was coming behind. There's the bad habit here of driving very near, much less than the safety distance.
I would expect a big difference from low end consumer crap to high end industrial/server disks. Since price is still very high, probably we're talking about mostly consumer drives, some may even be incorrectly advertised as server. SD/CF cards for industrial use are pretty old and highly reliable on harsh environmental conditions and abuse. For some strange reason they're at least 2x more expensive than consumer ones from the same manufacturer, much more if compared with Chinese brand-less disposable ones.
I'd really like to see a summary of the specification. Do you have a link? Too lazy to google it now.
From the rather thin article or the summary, it looked a lot more like a shiny new look with some extra storage features for larger than 2TB systems. Although that is incompatible with the cited complexity.
Now, back to the interface... I mean, the pure text interface is much less inviting to mess with than a graphic and iconic interface. I'm really under the impression that when people have only a text they tend to give more importance to understanding what they are doing than when they have images to select what to do. I consider that to be true also with OS configuration or any software.
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Ethanol, as produced in Brazil, doesn't need to (but most probably uses, since biodiesel here is more expensive than regular diesel).
Even using diesel, amounts are small compared to energy production, crops are near the distillery.
The distillery itself has a positive energy balance, not including the ethanol it delivers (co-generation, using heat to produce power). Heat comes from burning the biomass byproducts.
For example, one ethanol producer in Brazil states in it's page an capacity of 940MW to be sold. http://www.raizen.com/pt-br/se...
Some short info on Petrobras production of biodiesel: http://www.petrobras.com.br/en...
I wouldn't count on it taking any job from a CNC machine. it's a MIG welding machine and it's resolution/accuracy should be well over 1mm. It won't deal with a lot of metal also.
No, it's not the one size fits all.
It's very useful and interesting, allowing complex geometries more easily and I think local shops will have one once the techs (his and other techs for metal 3D printing) are mature.
I think you never had to use cygwin...
Build time on modern computer could be an issue sometimes, but your statement that the performance of the binary is more important keeps valid.
Not that the benchmark of the article makes any sense...
Those things are usually installed by engineers with very little knowledge/concern about security. In my field there's an urge for bluetooth connectivity for the industrial equipments, with all the security nightmares bluetooth poses on accessing a device. Wi-fi could be used with a much better security model, but it's considered too complicated...
I've made embedded programming in C++, in a rather efficient way. It makes a lot of things easier, but it's much harder to find someone that knows what that thing is doing. If you handle a task to an experienced C++ programmer and say no use of new, delete and exception handling are allowed, probably the task won't get accomplished unless it's very simple.
I used to advocate the use o C++ on embedded, but gave up. In a larger environment with programmers of different experience levels, C is much easier to get running.
Unfortunately, not even that. They'll find an error in calculations, another doomsday theory or whatever....
Hit the nail.
If you have at least a little experience, you've already at least once gone through the codebase and asked who's the idiot that wrote that, checked the answer on the version control system to find that the idiot is yourself.
On the other hand, sometimes the legacy code is so much patched that it's easier and faster to rewrite it. If this code is that much patched that you can't even follow the code flow anymore, bugs left are only the scary ones anyway. Rewriting that code is a high risk task, since many errors already solved will be done again, but may still be worth it.
Li-ion batteries (laptop batteries) have really small changes in voltage output until very near the end of the charge. There's indeed a very precise integrator calculating the estimated remaining energy on the battery by measuring current and voltage.
No, redundancy means excess capacity.
Diversity means spreading the capacity through various locations/processes/etc. In this case we're talking about geographical diversity and the difference is simply distribution of the fabs around the world. If TSMC had its 15 factories spread over various locations, a single event couldn't shut down 100% of it's capacity.
The last year's earthquake in Japan shot down 1/3 of the Renesas fabs. It was enough to make a huge problem, stop some auto manufacturers, but it kept running. Had Renesas all it's fabs on North Japan, it would be 100% down. The fabs were not redundant, as one could not cover for the lack of other.
It's about diversity, no redundancy.
For semiconductor manufacturing, for example. There's quite a few plants around the world, not that much of small process nodes. If a major earthquake hits Taiwan, shutting down TSMC and UMC factories, you'll notice the effect all around the world pretty fast.
This http://eetimes.com/ContentEETimes/Images/120514_icInsights_micron_800.png should give an idea.
That's because there's no "sad but true" mod.
Having compiled the same code for ARM, x86 and x86-64, with the same compiler, I dare saying that the ARM code is much smaller.
Compiles using -Os and GCC for all cores.
Embedded has code size as a limiting factor for quite some time now...
P.S. before saying that a sample size of one isn't evidence, I develop firmware for ARM and some other arch e frequently compile it on the PC for testing purposes.
So far the problem only got worse, so all of these could very well be right on the supposition that it's now irreversible.
No, they are not.
Means for implementation by an expert should be provided. The C++ code would be just an example of implementation. Try coding a MPEG encoder in Lisp and see if you can patent it.
Indeed. Since FF4 I can't use online banking with FF. Now with FF5 Acrobat Reader locks and fails every now and then. Befor you put the fault at adobe, it doesn't on FF3 or IE. Basically FF is becoming useless for me very, very fast. And I'm the ordinary user. On the enterprise level here it's already forbidden.
I disagree with that thesis entirely.
Their right to live does not mean in any way that I'm required to surrender mine. Just because you might need an organ donation, doesn't confer an obligation upon me to give it to you. The same as the "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" doesn't actually guarantee you a job or to be happy ... merely the right to look for it.
I'd say you just confirmed my point. You don't have to surrender your right simply because the papers would be reversed then. Someone shouting that this or that genre of art is disgusting and should be forbidden is attacking a basic right (free speech) of someone else is just like someone shouting that organ donation should be compulsory is attacking a basic right (physical integrity or even your right to live).
Also, you can give someone the right to look for a job or happiness with no feasible way to achieve the goal.
Because, as soon as you start doing the calculus of whose life is more valuable ... you start using the poor as spare parts for the rich.
Sure. Don't we kinda do that already, in economic terms? (poor people's work pays rich people's health care while having (almost) none themselves)
In my opinion, both of your examples are nonsensical and contrived. That isn't about 'offending someone else's sensibilities' .... it's about making your own rights inferior to that of someone else. I don't see any ambiguity in where to draw the line you seem to think is a broad and fuzzy expanse ... your rights can't extend past the security of my own person.
You may redefine the security of your own person to include quite a lot.
It's amazing how vocal people can be about making sure that the rights of other people are limited so as not to offend their own sensibilities.
Very true... Suppose there's a hungry vampire just in front of you, about to die if not by your blood. Which right to live is bigger? (from a book I read a long time ago). Let's get a not so hypothetical and fantastic case, let's say you're in front of a severe renal patient and known to be a compatible donor. You don't want to live with a single kidney, which right is more important, his right to live or your right not to have your organs harvested?
You're always limiting the rights of other people, including their right to live, by asserting your rights. The problem is where to draw the line.
No, the problem is not money. The problem is bureaucracy, unwillingness to help and the arrogance, usually all present on TI departments.
Or simply things like:
ME: I need dotProject installed for use within my department. Could you deploy that? How should we proceed?
IT: dotProject isn't in the list of allowed softwares, MS Project is on the list, you should use it.
ME: 100 licenses of MS Project is too expensive, I need a simple service added to the linux box you already manage and have integrated with our domain.
IT: Sorry, you must use MS project.
He owl'n an own.
He owl's an own.
Laser diodes, used in CD/DVD/whatever have a terrible beam quality for cutting and a mostly inappropriate wavelength, but they can be switched on/off quite fast. Think of fiber optics...
Other techs may be pretty slow to turn on/off, but have quite good beam quality for cutting. The most widely used is CO2 laser for that, which can take from 100's of us to a couple ms to turn on/off. With these lasers it's faster to move it optically away with mirrors of defocussing with lenses.
Sorry for the reference in portuguese:
http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vidaecidadania/conteudo.phtml?tl=1&id=834409&tit=Com-aumento-de-acidentes-semaforos-sequenciais-sao-substituidos-em-Curitiba
Not exactly the yellow light...
Stats here show increase in rear-endings, gotta find some reference... We have countdown timers, reasonable yellow and cameras.
Accidents have gone down with the cameras, as well as risky situations. The increase of awareness of when the light would stop increased some rear-ending due to some people stopping too early, thus unexpectedly by who was coming behind. There's the bad habit here of driving very near, much less than the safety distance.
I would expect a big difference from low end consumer crap to high end industrial/server disks.
Since price is still very high, probably we're talking about mostly consumer drives, some may even be incorrectly advertised as server.
SD/CF cards for industrial use are pretty old and highly reliable on harsh environmental conditions and abuse. For some strange reason they're at least 2x more expensive than consumer ones from the same manufacturer, much more if compared with Chinese brand-less disposable ones.
I'd really like to see a summary of the specification. Do you have a link? Too lazy to google it now.
From the rather thin article or the summary, it looked a lot more like a shiny new look with some extra storage features for larger than 2TB systems. Although that is incompatible with the cited complexity.
Now, back to the interface...
I mean, the pure text interface is much less inviting to mess with than a graphic and iconic interface. I'm really under the impression that when people have only a text they tend to give more importance to understanding what they are doing than when they have images to select what to do. I consider that to be true also with OS configuration or any software.