BGAs suck because they often accompany blind vias. Buried vias aren't bad because the signal has to surface sometime, but if it surfaces as a blind via to the bottom of a BGA, then you have no way of accessing it.
I miss packages with actual leads, where you could lift a single pin and blue wire it to something else, while keeping the rest of the chip in place.
They are still available. They generally cost 3-5 times as much as the SMT equivalents, but that doesn't make them expensive. Paying 5 cents for an axial resistor versus 1 cent for an 0402, or $3 for a DIP instead of $1 for the same chip in a BGA isn't going to break the bank for a hobbyist. The price differences are actually more significant for the big companies that sell a million widgets, where shaving a dollar of the BOM means a sizable boost to the bottom line.
Sadly you can't do much more than that these days. BGAs and COBs are great for making tiny, low cost electronics, but they're almost impossible to tinker with.
While I did enjoy those shows, they weren't really robots so much as tricked out RC cars. An actual robot fight might be interesting, but based on video I've seen of robot races and robot soccer games, a battle between robots would be as exciting as one between rabbits.
They can still sue you, and just claim you must have destroyed the evidence. But if they do find something, you're royally fucked.
It's like talking to cops. You can't talk yourself out of being arrested. You can talk yourself into deeper trouble. Take advantage of your rights, because no one else is going to have your interests at heart as much as you do.
That "the rich will just leave" canard is a lie propagated by (wait for it!) the rich!
They don't want to be taxed, so they threaten to leave if we tax them. But they won't leave, because where will they go? What country has lower taxes than America, while still having a good quality of life and top-notch infrastructure? You think the CEO of Megacorp, Inc, wants to manage his company from Peru? Fat chance.
If taxes were raised back to 1960s levels (around 80% for the top tax bracket), that might be enough to drive people off. But raising them back to Clinton-era levels certainly won't.
Oh, and for the record, my income is in the top 6%, according to Wikipedia. I'm fine with having my taxes go up, but only if the people who make more than I do also pay their fair share. It is beyond sickening that a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager pays a lower tax rate than a secretary.
Yes, there are lots of RICO list crimes that are frequently committed by individuals. Murder, for example. Lone murderers don't get charged under RICO, but mob hitmen do. Likewise, lone hackers wouldn't be charged, but mobsters collaborating on fake antivirus and botnets would.
Really, this is a complete non-issue, but because Obama is doing it, the right-wingers will find something to bitch about. These are the people who thought that the president telling little kids to stay in school was Soviet indoctrination. There's no limit to their hatred.
The man children of Anonymous aren't "civil dissidents". They're vandals and trolls. They delight in causing suffering for others, and then laughing at that suffering. They say so themselves. They do it "for the lulz". Arresting some of them doesn't hurt our liberty, it helps it.
You need to stop imagining Anon to be some white knights come to your rescue. You are seriously misunderstanding their motives. Today they may attack someone you hate. Tomorrow they may attack you. They have more in common with a pack of wild dogs than they do with civil dissidents.
We do need to raise taxes on the rich, among other things. The fact that the government isn't efficient doesn't mean we should reduce our revenues. That would just make us inefficient and broke. This isn't a company where it can go out of business and be replaced by a new one, at least not without massive suffering and bloodshed.
We should try to get the government to run more efficiently, but we should also pay our bills in the meantime.
There are some computer crimes that don't fall on the RICO Act's list, such as theft of confidential information, or spreading a virus with the intent of causing at least $5000 of damage, or bringing down a computer system on which public safety relies.
There are laws against belonging to a criminal organization, under the RICO Act. Those laws were introduced in the 1970s, long after Capone's time, precisely because going after mob leaders for tax evasion isn't a good strategy (after Capone, they started paying their taxes), and neither is letting the leader get away simply because he didn't get his hands dirty.
The RICO Act requires an organization to commit a pattern of certain crimes before it can be charged with racketeering. Among those crimes are theft, fraud, and money laundering, all of which can be applied to organized groups of hackers. It seems completely reasonable to apply the law in this way. Of course the Slashdot anarchists will decry any law enforcement whatsoever.
Oh look, a nitwit who thinks he knows something about science.
According to the article, which you didn't both reading before bashing, these wires use legitimate superconductivity. And I don't even know what you think is wrong with the second phrase you quoted. Do you think superconductors actually carry infinite current? They don't.
Note: I've done zero research on this bill the OP is talking about, so I don't know if he's lying or not. I'm just responding to the question of why someone would repeatedly post an argument that had been debunked.
They'd first need to come up with a good way to arrange the panels. I've only read one real comic book (Watchmen) but the panel arrangement and relative size is definitely a part of the medium. Replacing it with one panel per page, all the same size, would lose something. And e-ink has too low of a refresh rate to handle pan & zoom well.
If they make ruggedized books for kids, why not do the same with e-readers? Wrap the whole thing in an extra half in of plastic, get rid of the keyboard (kids probably won't be adding annotations to Dick and Jane), and waterproof everything else. Get it to the point where it can be tossed in a dishwasher when needed. It'd be a bit pricier, but still probably cheaper than replacing a bunch of dead tree books whenever they get vomited on.
Is that an argument for hand delivering all checks, or what? Any other method, whether by mail or electronic, has a risk of something going wrong. And if you decide to hand deliver your checks, the probability that you get mugged (small as it is) is probably greater than the odds of the USPS losing an envelope.
The dirty little secret of those private carriers you named is that, when delivering a package to a rural location, they hand it over to the USPS for delivery. That's why the Postal Service can't compete with Fedex, UPS, et al on cost... they need to maintain a huge workforce and vehicle fleet to cover the 100% of the population, whereas the private carriers only cover the cheapest 90%.
If the Postal Service fails, a lot of people out in the country will suddenly find that ordering a $5 replacement wiper blade from Amazon is gonna cost them $100 in shipping, or won't be available to their location at all.
If you had bothered to read the fine article, you'd have seen this tidbit:
"Earlier attempts at similar cloaking devices have hit problems because... they were insufficiently robust," said Adaptiv project manager Pader Sjolund at BAE Systems in a statement. By contrast, he explained, Adaptiv panels add to the armour on a fighting vehicle.
In other words, they have made similar panels before, but these are the first to be durable enough to actually double as part of the tank's armor. I'm sure they'd break if hit by an RPG, but the point is not to get hit by the RPG in the first place. By that point, they already know you're there, and the RPG would have wrecked your reactive armor anyway.
It's just a sound-byte meant to whip you into an outrage by equivocating advertising with slavery.
Company X provides a product. You, the customer, pay for it with tiny portions of your time. Company X then sells those bits of time to other companies.
You are not being sold. You are willingly looking at a few ads in exchange for a product. I know outrage feels good. It's like a drug. But find something real to be outraged over.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say there's a lot more energy involved in moving subway trains than your typical Prius. Perhaps the trick here is creating a system able to store so much energy efficiently?
We've had airplanes since the Wright brothers in 1903, and jetliners since the early 50s. That doesn't mean that Boeing's 787 is an old idea and not worth talking about. The real advances in engineering are always in the little fiddly bits that screw you over when you first try to scale up.
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BGAs suck because they often accompany blind vias. Buried vias aren't bad because the signal has to surface sometime, but if it surfaces as a blind via to the bottom of a BGA, then you have no way of accessing it.
I miss packages with actual leads, where you could lift a single pin and blue wire it to something else, while keeping the rest of the chip in place.
Newark is another good supplier.
They are still available. They generally cost 3-5 times as much as the SMT equivalents, but that doesn't make them expensive. Paying 5 cents for an axial resistor versus 1 cent for an 0402, or $3 for a DIP instead of $1 for the same chip in a BGA isn't going to break the bank for a hobbyist. The price differences are actually more significant for the big companies that sell a million widgets, where shaving a dollar of the BOM means a sizable boost to the bottom line.
Sadly you can't do much more than that these days. BGAs and COBs are great for making tiny, low cost electronics, but they're almost impossible to tinker with.
While I did enjoy those shows, they weren't really robots so much as tricked out RC cars. An actual robot fight might be interesting, but based on video I've seen of robot races and robot soccer games, a battle between robots would be as exciting as one between rabbits.
They can still sue you, and just claim you must have destroyed the evidence. But if they do find something, you're royally fucked.
It's like talking to cops. You can't talk yourself out of being arrested. You can talk yourself into deeper trouble. Take advantage of your rights, because no one else is going to have your interests at heart as much as you do.
You misspelled "vengeance" as "justice". Don't worry, it's a common mistake.
That "the rich will just leave" canard is a lie propagated by (wait for it!) the rich!
They don't want to be taxed, so they threaten to leave if we tax them. But they won't leave, because where will they go? What country has lower taxes than America, while still having a good quality of life and top-notch infrastructure? You think the CEO of Megacorp, Inc, wants to manage his company from Peru? Fat chance.
If taxes were raised back to 1960s levels (around 80% for the top tax bracket), that might be enough to drive people off. But raising them back to Clinton-era levels certainly won't.
Oh, and for the record, my income is in the top 6%, according to Wikipedia. I'm fine with having my taxes go up, but only if the people who make more than I do also pay their fair share. It is beyond sickening that a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager pays a lower tax rate than a secretary.
Yes, there are lots of RICO list crimes that are frequently committed by individuals. Murder, for example. Lone murderers don't get charged under RICO, but mob hitmen do. Likewise, lone hackers wouldn't be charged, but mobsters collaborating on fake antivirus and botnets would.
Really, this is a complete non-issue, but because Obama is doing it, the right-wingers will find something to bitch about. These are the people who thought that the president telling little kids to stay in school was Soviet indoctrination. There's no limit to their hatred.
The man children of Anonymous aren't "civil dissidents". They're vandals and trolls. They delight in causing suffering for others, and then laughing at that suffering. They say so themselves. They do it "for the lulz". Arresting some of them doesn't hurt our liberty, it helps it.
You need to stop imagining Anon to be some white knights come to your rescue. You are seriously misunderstanding their motives. Today they may attack someone you hate. Tomorrow they may attack you. They have more in common with a pack of wild dogs than they do with civil dissidents.
We do need to raise taxes on the rich, among other things. The fact that the government isn't efficient doesn't mean we should reduce our revenues. That would just make us inefficient and broke. This isn't a company where it can go out of business and be replaced by a new one, at least not without massive suffering and bloodshed.
We should try to get the government to run more efficiently, but we should also pay our bills in the meantime.
There are some computer crimes that don't fall on the RICO Act's list, such as theft of confidential information, or spreading a virus with the intent of causing at least $5000 of damage, or bringing down a computer system on which public safety relies.
Obama wants to add those to the RICO list.
There are laws against belonging to a criminal organization, under the RICO Act. Those laws were introduced in the 1970s, long after Capone's time, precisely because going after mob leaders for tax evasion isn't a good strategy (after Capone, they started paying their taxes), and neither is letting the leader get away simply because he didn't get his hands dirty.
The RICO Act requires an organization to commit a pattern of certain crimes before it can be charged with racketeering. Among those crimes are theft, fraud, and money laundering, all of which can be applied to organized groups of hackers. It seems completely reasonable to apply the law in this way. Of course the Slashdot anarchists will decry any law enforcement whatsoever.
Oh look, a nitwit who thinks he knows something about science.
According to the article, which you didn't both reading before bashing, these wires use legitimate superconductivity. And I don't even know what you think is wrong with the second phrase you quoted. Do you think superconductors actually carry infinite current? They don't.
Lots of people have ideas. It's the manager's job to figure out which ones are good ideas.
Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes "true".
Note: I've done zero research on this bill the OP is talking about, so I don't know if he's lying or not. I'm just responding to the question of why someone would repeatedly post an argument that had been debunked.
Hasn't Apple patented gestures? That's software, and should be considered obvious by any sane person.
They'd first need to come up with a good way to arrange the panels. I've only read one real comic book (Watchmen) but the panel arrangement and relative size is definitely a part of the medium. Replacing it with one panel per page, all the same size, would lose something. And e-ink has too low of a refresh rate to handle pan & zoom well.
If they make ruggedized books for kids, why not do the same with e-readers? Wrap the whole thing in an extra half in of plastic, get rid of the keyboard (kids probably won't be adding annotations to Dick and Jane), and waterproof everything else. Get it to the point where it can be tossed in a dishwasher when needed. It'd be a bit pricier, but still probably cheaper than replacing a bunch of dead tree books whenever they get vomited on.
Is that an argument for hand delivering all checks, or what? Any other method, whether by mail or electronic, has a risk of something going wrong. And if you decide to hand deliver your checks, the probability that you get mugged (small as it is) is probably greater than the odds of the USPS losing an envelope.
The dirty little secret of those private carriers you named is that, when delivering a package to a rural location, they hand it over to the USPS for delivery. That's why the Postal Service can't compete with Fedex, UPS, et al on cost... they need to maintain a huge workforce and vehicle fleet to cover the 100% of the population, whereas the private carriers only cover the cheapest 90%.
If the Postal Service fails, a lot of people out in the country will suddenly find that ordering a $5 replacement wiper blade from Amazon is gonna cost them $100 in shipping, or won't be available to their location at all.
If you had bothered to read the fine article, you'd have seen this tidbit:
"Earlier attempts at similar cloaking devices have hit problems because ... they were insufficiently robust," said Adaptiv project manager Pader Sjolund at BAE Systems in a statement. By contrast, he explained, Adaptiv panels add to the armour on a fighting vehicle.
In other words, they have made similar panels before, but these are the first to be durable enough to actually double as part of the tank's armor. I'm sure they'd break if hit by an RPG, but the point is not to get hit by the RPG in the first place. By that point, they already know you're there, and the RPG would have wrecked your reactive armor anyway.
"You are the product! Ooga-booga-booga!!1"
It's just a sound-byte meant to whip you into an outrage by equivocating advertising with slavery.
Company X provides a product.
You, the customer, pay for it with tiny portions of your time.
Company X then sells those bits of time to other companies.
You are not being sold. You are willingly looking at a few ads in exchange for a product. I know outrage feels good. It's like a drug. But find something real to be outraged over.
You just need a floating post office that companies can locate their HQ in as a tax dodge. Of course, they'll first need to pay the necessary fees...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say there's a lot more energy involved in moving subway trains than your typical Prius. Perhaps the trick here is creating a system able to store so much energy efficiently?
We've had airplanes since the Wright brothers in 1903, and jetliners since the early 50s. That doesn't mean that Boeing's 787 is an old idea and not worth talking about. The real advances in engineering are always in the little fiddly bits that screw you over when you first try to scale up.