GaN has some real advantages over GaAs for anything in the 1W output power ballpark and above. Final stages and high power switches make sense, but mostly no point for LNA's and gain stages.
So, as the poster stated it is not being done for fashion, but for real measurable performance improvement.
That thing is fugly. And most home printers are going to spit out crappy ABS that simply should not be used for structural elements in the first place. Maybe print a cupholder to justify your dum purchase?
Went to Ting, which subcontracts with Tmobile in my case. I average 14 bucks a month. Perfect for people like me who have light phone usage and rare data usage. I hate multi year contracts for anything.
Honest question here. We only make and launch one Hubble, one Jim Webb, etc. Design of these things is a large portion of the budget. The mirrors are the main item where the manufacturing cost greatly outstrips the design and tooling costs (I think?). So why don't we make a half dozen of each of these of these things instead of just one?
If it is smart phone based you now have to be sure that your phones will run the app for the next 15-20 years. What if your Prius app was on Blackberry and they saw no need to port it to iOS, or Android, let alone support it for whatever god awful carrier locked Android mashup your phone is stuck on?
Phones are the least stable technology platform at the moment (except maybe smart watches).
Same with Nissan, about $300 for a new fob and required programming. They have it locked out so that you have to do it at a dealer. It is on my list of things to avoid for the next car we buy.
List: Comfy back seats that fit a 6' passenger (3 year old is rather tall for his age, and the next car will likely be in use through high school) Real knobs with proper detents for the climate control Properly padded driver's arm rest so my elbow doesn't get sore sitting on hard plastic No 2G/3G/4G anything, or at least easy to disable. Air filter that can be replaced without dismantling half the dashboard TPMS that is user clearable. I hate that the tire order gets out of whack after a tire rotation and there is nothing I can do. Either 3 key fobs, or easy replacement for $100 or less a pop. Plain old key operation would be a big bonus. Ability to shut off the door is open but key is in alarm so I can listen to music in the garage would be great!
Precisely. Just because there's an App for that, doesn't mean that it is easier, or better. Just make the key fob small and inexpensive to replace (and give me more than 2 when I buy the car!). I want less electronics in my future cars. The engine and frame vastly outlive infotainment system and other connected crap they are shoveling into these cars.
Please get rid of: XM radio that I have to cycle through 3 selections of to get back to FM. Climate settings that are only displayed on the LCD, and often not displayed unless I am in the right mode. 2G, 3G, or 4G anything. I want to drive. I can login when I get there. Anything with sub-menus. I'm trying to drive, KISS. Ability to order a pizza. Recently saw this touted as a feature, WTF?
The 7 year old PC I just retired was a quad core i7-920. It had an upgraded GPU and an upgraded SSD drive that kept it nimble for quite a while.
My wife's poor iMac of a similar vintage couldn't readily be upgraded on either front so she got a new machine last year instead (Pro Tip: Mac's are still cheaper than marriage counseling or divorce lawyers). Pay more, get last year's mobile grade processor, and you can't upgrade the RAM or hard drive to keep it going. No wonder Apple expects machines to be upgraded so often.
The hardware Apple puts in their desktops is mobile grade stuff that is slower than the 7 year old PC I just retired.
I'd be interested in a Mac, even with the Apple tax, if the machine was decent. Instead you get small ram, a mobile processor, a non-upgradable screen, and a hard drive that is locked inside a glued together screen (some even have soldered down RAM, WTF?). Just give me a mini-tower so I can put in my own GPU, RAM, and extra SSD's.
So you get a lackluster machine that can't be upgraded easily to keep with the times. I'd have to upgrade it every couple years just to keep up with the trailing edge of the PC market.
Yeah, but the tinfoil hat guys ended up underestimating the mass surveillance the NSA was/is deploying against our citizenry. It is hard to see a situation where they would not do the exact same for fully traceable digital currency.
Equipment of this sort should be air gapped from the wild wild west of the internet. Frankly anything that is safety related (hospital equipment, elevators, and even HVAC systems) should be unreachable without badging into a building. While there are still ways to propagate things in via USB stick, it would keep clowns from pulling this kind of stuff.
And now the damn techies from both are pouring into Portland and making it un-affordable. We now have our own skyrocketing rents with similar angst and hand wringing. As a refugee from South Bay housing 10 years ago, it is all too familiar. Portland just seems to be about 20 years behind the curve (is that why the 90's are alive in Portland?).
Maybe companies should be lobbying for single payer healthcare instead of H1B's?
I find all this wellness crap to be very awkward on both sides, and usually in bad faith. The penalties for not meeting BMI (well debunked), cholesterol (often genetically driven), and so on are far worse than what the company actually invests to improve health. A once a year 2.5k fun run/walk is a joke, and usually an insult to the workers who are working long hours and catch flack for taking an hour off for even a company sponsored even.
The normal cycle of things is to disrupt, dominate, then protect.
Upstarts hate regulations, and try to find away around them, as they disproportionately hurt little guys than big guys (same amount of lawyer time spread over fewer sales). Once they get a chunk of the market however they want more regulations. If the law only supports the business model they want to pursue it removes risk (of competition). Regulatory capture ensues, where the regulators become dependent on the big companies rather than sitting above them.
So I expect that once Uber gets enough stakes into the heart of the traditional Taxi model, it will turn around and lobby for various regulations that will ultimately protect Uber. It is has a whiff of Animal Farm about it.
Yep, stupid. While there is an interesting mental excercise about an optimum design being once that worked flawlessly until the day it falls apart into dust, it misses the point. Given the hundreds of electronic components and many millions of transistors in a phone it is amazing they work in the first place, let alone trying to shave tolerances so they fail predictably.
Cell phone companies torture their devices all along the design process to see what fails early. The suppliers get their skulls cracked (or worse) for failures even during early builds and often there is very little or no cost or weight increase to be more robust, often it is simply a matter of figuring out how to properly test the sub-component to replicate a phone level stress event. ESD strikes are notoriously hard to replicate accurately at the sub-component level as an example.
Screens should be replaceable more easily then they are, as they are a major wear item, similarly it would be nice if the micro-USB's could be more easily replaced. For test equipment we often put sacrificial connectors onto instruments the day they come out of the box, and only remove them for truly important measurements. Similarly, a socketed micro-USB that could be user replaced when worn would be great. Either that or have the promise of wireless charging actually come to pass...
If you are flexible when negotiating and make it clear you value other things it can make it easier for HR or the hiring manager to meet your needs.
Often the easiest thing for HR to adjust during hiring is vacation. An extra week or two can be worth 2-5% to you, but not actually show up as a salary increase. Similarly you can negotiate for stock options, or bonus percentage that often does not require escalation for approval.
Just negotiating a higher salary often results in tiny raises until you come in line with your co-workers, but vacation sticks around.
I work on ASIC design, though I am on the Analog side of things. There are more people doing verification than design by roughly 2:1. I am told that in the smaller nodes and more complex designs that the ratio is even higher. Basically you can slap down some RTL code (verilog or VHDL) quickly, but torturing it through all exceptions is very hard. Then you have to synthesize and build it, which can introduce all sorts of timing and parastic kinds of problems that have to be double checked. Finally test vectors have to be created to double check the functionality of every transistor in the design to assure that what was built matches the masks.
It is truly phenominal that anything with Billions of gates ever works at all, let alone with the high yield and relatively low error count we have come to expect.
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GaN has some real advantages over GaAs for anything in the 1W output power ballpark and above. Final stages and high power switches make sense, but mostly no point for LNA's and gain stages.
So, as the poster stated it is not being done for fashion, but for real measurable performance improvement.
That thing is fugly. And most home printers are going to spit out crappy ABS that simply should not be used for structural elements in the first place. Maybe print a cupholder to justify your dum purchase?
Went to Ting, which subcontracts with Tmobile in my case. I average 14 bucks a month. Perfect for people like me who have light phone usage and rare data usage. I hate multi year contracts for anything.
Now if anyone of note actually goes to jail, then I actually will be shocked.
I won't be holding my breath.
Honest question here. We only make and launch one Hubble, one Jim Webb, etc. Design of these things is a large portion of the budget. The mirrors are the main item where the manufacturing cost greatly outstrips the design and tooling costs (I think?). So why don't we make a half dozen of each of these of these things instead of just one?
"Electronic security, if done properly"
It is safer to bet it will be badly implemented and unsupported after the fact. So far that is the track record for most electronic devices.
If it is smart phone based you now have to be sure that your phones will run the app for the next 15-20 years. What if your Prius app was on Blackberry and they saw no need to port it to iOS, or Android, let alone support it for whatever god awful carrier locked Android mashup your phone is stuck on?
Phones are the least stable technology platform at the moment (except maybe smart watches).
Same with Nissan, about $300 for a new fob and required programming. They have it locked out so that you have to do it at a dealer. It is on my list of things to avoid for the next car we buy.
List:
Comfy back seats that fit a 6' passenger (3 year old is rather tall for his age, and the next car will likely be in use through high school)
Real knobs with proper detents for the climate control
Properly padded driver's arm rest so my elbow doesn't get sore sitting on hard plastic
No 2G/3G/4G anything, or at least easy to disable.
Air filter that can be replaced without dismantling half the dashboard
TPMS that is user clearable. I hate that the tire order gets out of whack after a tire rotation and there is nothing I can do.
Either 3 key fobs, or easy replacement for $100 or less a pop. Plain old key operation would be a big bonus.
Ability to shut off the door is open but key is in alarm so I can listen to music in the garage would be great!
Precisely. Just because there's an App for that, doesn't mean that it is easier, or better. Just make the key fob small and inexpensive to replace (and give me more than 2 when I buy the car!). I want less electronics in my future cars. The engine and frame vastly outlive infotainment system and other connected crap they are shoveling into these cars.
Please get rid of:
XM radio that I have to cycle through 3 selections of to get back to FM.
Climate settings that are only displayed on the LCD, and often not displayed unless I am in the right mode.
2G, 3G, or 4G anything. I want to drive. I can login when I get there.
Anything with sub-menus. I'm trying to drive, KISS.
Ability to order a pizza. Recently saw this touted as a feature, WTF?
The 7 year old PC I just retired was a quad core i7-920. It had an upgraded GPU and an upgraded SSD drive that kept it nimble for quite a while.
My wife's poor iMac of a similar vintage couldn't readily be upgraded on either front so she got a new machine last year instead (Pro Tip: Mac's are still cheaper than marriage counseling or divorce lawyers). Pay more, get last year's mobile grade processor, and you can't upgrade the RAM or hard drive to keep it going. No wonder Apple expects machines to be upgraded so often.
The hardware Apple puts in their desktops is mobile grade stuff that is slower than the 7 year old PC I just retired.
I'd be interested in a Mac, even with the Apple tax, if the machine was decent. Instead you get small ram, a mobile processor, a non-upgradable screen, and a hard drive that is locked inside a glued together screen (some even have soldered down RAM, WTF?). Just give me a mini-tower so I can put in my own GPU, RAM, and extra SSD's.
So you get a lackluster machine that can't be upgraded easily to keep with the times. I'd have to upgrade it every couple years just to keep up with the trailing edge of the PC market.
Yeah, but the tinfoil hat guys ended up underestimating the mass surveillance the NSA was/is deploying against our citizenry. It is hard to see a situation where they would not do the exact same for fully traceable digital currency.
Why aren't they under scrutiny for not competing. Their fees are in lock step, and rather outrageous compared to their actual costs. Sure does stink.
Equipment of this sort should be air gapped from the wild wild west of the internet. Frankly anything that is safety related (hospital equipment, elevators, and even HVAC systems) should be unreachable without badging into a building. While there are still ways to propagate things in via USB stick, it would keep clowns from pulling this kind of stuff.
Data centers mostly us denser connectors like QSFP28. RJ45 is not high speed enough and is too big for 100GB.
Precisely, the nutters are the only ones crazy enough to use their free speech rights anymore.
No, the key was collecting underpants. Have you learned nothing?
Setting of a nuke is either a preemptive strike, or it is a statement.
If it is a preemptive strike more are on the way and it is very easy to figure out who is behind it.
If a bunch of yahoos set one off to make a statement, they will take credit for it or what's the point?
And now the damn techies from both are pouring into Portland and making it un-affordable. We now have our own skyrocketing rents with similar angst and hand wringing. As a refugee from South Bay housing 10 years ago, it is all too familiar. Portland just seems to be about 20 years behind the curve (is that why the 90's are alive in Portland?).
Maybe companies should be lobbying for single payer healthcare instead of H1B's?
I find all this wellness crap to be very awkward on both sides, and usually in bad faith. The penalties for not meeting BMI (well debunked), cholesterol (often genetically driven), and so on are far worse than what the company actually invests to improve health. A once a year 2.5k fun run/walk is a joke, and usually an insult to the workers who are working long hours and catch flack for taking an hour off for even a company sponsored even.
The normal cycle of things is to disrupt, dominate, then protect.
Upstarts hate regulations, and try to find away around them, as they disproportionately hurt little guys than big guys (same amount of lawyer time spread over fewer sales). Once they get a chunk of the market however they want more regulations. If the law only supports the business model they want to pursue it removes risk (of competition). Regulatory capture ensues, where the regulators become dependent on the big companies rather than sitting above them.
So I expect that once Uber gets enough stakes into the heart of the traditional Taxi model, it will turn around and lobby for various regulations that will ultimately protect Uber. It is has a whiff of Animal Farm about it.
Single again are you? I wonder why...
Yep, stupid. While there is an interesting mental excercise about an optimum design being once that worked flawlessly until the day it falls apart into dust, it misses the point. Given the hundreds of electronic components and many millions of transistors in a phone it is amazing they work in the first place, let alone trying to shave tolerances so they fail predictably.
Cell phone companies torture their devices all along the design process to see what fails early. The suppliers get their skulls cracked (or worse) for failures even during early builds and often there is very little or no cost or weight increase to be more robust, often it is simply a matter of figuring out how to properly test the sub-component to replicate a phone level stress event. ESD strikes are notoriously hard to replicate accurately at the sub-component level as an example.
Screens should be replaceable more easily then they are, as they are a major wear item, similarly it would be nice if the micro-USB's could be more easily replaced. For test equipment we often put sacrificial connectors onto instruments the day they come out of the box, and only remove them for truly important measurements. Similarly, a socketed micro-USB that could be user replaced when worn would be great. Either that or have the promise of wireless charging actually come to pass...
If you are flexible when negotiating and make it clear you value other things it can make it easier for HR or the hiring manager to meet your needs.
Often the easiest thing for HR to adjust during hiring is vacation. An extra week or two can be worth 2-5% to you, but not actually show up as a salary increase. Similarly you can negotiate for stock options, or bonus percentage that often does not require escalation for approval.
Just negotiating a higher salary often results in tiny raises until you come in line with your co-workers, but vacation sticks around.
I work on ASIC design, though I am on the Analog side of things. There are more people doing verification than design by roughly 2:1. I am told that in the smaller nodes and more complex designs that the ratio is even higher. Basically you can slap down some RTL code (verilog or VHDL) quickly, but torturing it through all exceptions is very hard. Then you have to synthesize and build it, which can introduce all sorts of timing and parastic kinds of problems that have to be double checked. Finally test vectors have to be created to double check the functionality of every transistor in the design to assure that what was built matches the masks.
It is truly phenominal that anything with Billions of gates ever works at all, let alone with the high yield and relatively low error count we have come to expect.