As the online games has eveolved I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would fall to the temptation and earn some money off someone elses work. And of course it is a crime, just as breaking in to someone elses house and grab a valuable item.
With the current place and route programs that is a good idea... They place the cells all over the die.
And about drawing geometry, no other options if you want to use your silicon to the limit. At least you have to design the logic cells used in place and route the HDL generated netlist.
As anyone who has tried some hw-design software knows, all of them suck. And what is most annoying is that they cost, alot! So why don't anyone good at sw develop a good hw program?
I have been thinking many times how such a program should be designed, but I don'r have the time. And I don't know how to do it better than the programs that exists.
I am thinking about pdf and ps viewers when I read the patent. Anyone know how the ps-viewers looked before 1996? If they had thumbnails, that would invalidate this patent. Maybe only clickable side numbers in a list would be enough?
To be more serious though, according to you reasoning, what country in Europe weren't "terrrorists" at that time? From what I recollect every country (and king/queen) wanted to expand their land and attacked their neighbour when they had other things to do. And what about the colonies all over the world? Isn't that even worse than a colony breaking free?
What do you mean know "how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs"? By programming the serialport from the computer or building some electronics connected to the port and LCD?
I'm not sure the first is possible, but I don't know what signals the LCD want.
The later should be quite simple, I'm pretty sure there exists circuits that can do the job for you (that is communicating with the port and driving the LCD).
(for the record, I'm not familiar with the chip, just guessing from what I've read in the article)
The main part of that chip is probably a CMOS imaging sensor. That way they dont need a CCD chi . The reason for doing this is to be able to integrate everything on the same chip, and therefore get a more compact and robust system. Another advantage is that an ordinary CMOS process can be used instead of a CCD process, that will also reduce the pricetag.
You are right that this isn't news, maybe that they have put it in a phone, but not the chip.
I wouldn't call that multitasking but more suspending jobs from my brain.
I'm in almost the same situation, when a (complete) simulation takes some hours, I just can't sit and wait for it to finish. Then I suspend the job until the simulation is finished and do something else (there are always something else to do).
The reason I call it suspend is because I don't think about anything new when I wait for the simulation. And that is because I couldn't think of anything to do except start a simulation and see if the thing works or not...
From what I know, I haven't heard of an IC that have variable R, C or L. Also, tha main problem with RF IC are the L and C (well mostly the L) because it is only possible to make plane components in an IC.
I have read about the problems with opensource clients and AIM the times it comes up on slashdot. All the times something is said about competing IM systems, but almost never anything about ICQ.
So I wonder why? Everyone I talk to on the internet is using ICQ, I have never "met" an online person who doesn't use ICQ. Another advantage is that there are functioning open source clients for ICQ which work very well.
Conclusion: there isn't an IM war going on, and it has never been. ICQ is the only IM system to use. But I might have missed something.
What I've always though when seeing that because "it is a bandgap it behaves as a semiconductor and it can be used to make a transistor" is that a transistor can not be made without doping. And I haven't seen anything about doping and photonic bandgaps. And for this to happen some property working as equivalent to charge but for photons must be used. Well, these are just my random thoughts right now, and I hope that they are not too incomprehensible.
Well, i guess it's not full (eventhough you can read that the IP numberspace is full too often). But maybe "overpopulated" is the problem? If there are just enough routers to make internet work for the moment (humans are greedy after all, and routers cost cash), there will of course be problems when one goes down.
I think it is sad that windows is not stable without the ways to keep it stable. I made a fresh installation about a month ago and I've only installed some games, drivers for my hardware and updated IE to a newer version.
But after all it doesn't matter that much to me because I only use windows for my games and occasionally viewing files in one of the office programs.
I thought the main reason for using other materials in optoelectronics was that Si have an indirect bandgap. From what I could se in the article, this isn't meantioned at all.
Imagine that I create this wonder gadget (not software, but something else) and patent it in a small country (say Sweden). Can another company or person take this idea and patent it in the rest of the world?
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What I want to know is how they know the boomerang nebula is the coldest place in the universe. I would say "in the _known_ universe"...
As the online games has eveolved I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would fall to the temptation and earn some money off someone elses work. And of course it is a crime, just as breaking in to someone elses house and grab a valuable item.
With the current place and route programs that is a good idea... They place the cells all over the die.
And about drawing geometry, no other options if you want to use your silicon to the limit. At least you have to design the logic cells used in place and route the HDL generated netlist.
As anyone who has tried some hw-design software knows, all of them suck. And what is most annoying is that they cost, alot! So why don't anyone good at sw develop a good hw program?
I have been thinking many times how such a program should be designed, but I don'r have the time. And I don't know how to do it better than the programs that exists.
I am thinking about pdf and ps viewers when I read the patent. Anyone know how the ps-viewers looked before 1996? If they had thumbnails, that would invalidate this patent. Maybe only clickable side numbers in a list would be enough?
Hahahaha, funny comment!
To be more serious though, according to you reasoning, what country in Europe weren't "terrrorists" at that time? From what I recollect every country (and king/queen) wanted to expand their land and attacked their neighbour when they had other things to do. And what about the colonies all over the world? Isn't that even worse than a colony breaking free?
What do you mean know "how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs"? By programming the serialport from the computer or building some electronics connected to the port and LCD?
I'm not sure the first is possible, but I don't know what signals the LCD want.
The later should be quite simple, I'm pretty sure there exists circuits that can do the job for you (that is communicating with the port and driving the LCD).
(for the record, I'm not familiar with the chip, just guessing from what I've read in the article)
The main part of that chip is probably a CMOS imaging sensor. That way they dont need a CCD chi . The reason for doing this is to be able to integrate everything on the same chip, and therefore get a more compact and robust system. Another advantage is that an ordinary CMOS process can be used instead of a CCD process, that will also reduce the pricetag.
You are right that this isn't news, maybe that they have put it in a phone, but not the chip.
I wouldn't call that multitasking but more suspending jobs from my brain.
I'm in almost the same situation, when a (complete) simulation takes some hours, I just can't sit and wait for it to finish. Then I suspend the job until the simulation is finished and do something else (there are always something else to do).
The reason I call it suspend is because I don't think about anything new when I wait for the simulation. And that is because I couldn't think of anything to do except start a simulation and see if the thing works or not...
From what I know, I haven't heard of an IC that have variable R, C or L. Also, tha main problem with RF IC are the L and C (well mostly the L) because it is only possible to make plane components in an IC.
The technology descibed that don't use movable parts is PLC (also according to the article).
So I wonder why? Everyone I talk to on the internet is using ICQ, I have never "met" an online person who doesn't use ICQ. Another advantage is that there are functioning open source clients for ICQ which work very well.
Conclusion: there isn't an IM war going on, and it has never been. ICQ is the only IM system to use. But I might have missed something.
What I've always though when seeing that because "it is a bandgap it behaves as a semiconductor and it can be used to make a transistor" is that a transistor can not be made without doping. And I haven't seen anything about doping and photonic bandgaps. And for this to happen some property working as equivalent to charge but for photons must be used. Well, these are just my random thoughts right now, and I hope that they are not too incomprehensible.
Well, i guess it's not full (eventhough you can read that the IP numberspace is full too often). But maybe "overpopulated" is the problem? If there are just enough routers to make internet work for the moment (humans are greedy after all, and routers cost cash), there will of course be problems when one goes down.
But after all it doesn't matter that much to me because I only use windows for my games and occasionally viewing files in one of the office programs.
For everyday browsing I use konq now and I can't say it is unstable or anything. Well, it crashes sometimes, but not very often.
Half the clothes are facing away from the direct sunlight, but reflected light will also work (bot as well though).
I thought the main reason for using other materials in optoelectronics was that Si have an indirect bandgap. From what I could se in the article, this isn't meantioned at all.
I've another similar question.
Imagine that I create this wonder gadget (not software, but something else) and patent it in a small country (say Sweden). Can another company or person take this idea and patent it in the rest of the world?