Absolutely true. Although I stick to the computer/physics end of electrical engineering I've seen the tolerances for the 12V bus and there is absolutely no way a motherboard will survive the spikes and voltage swings that automotive componenets are designed to withstand. Of course you can always try to design your own conditioner, but that will take more than just soldering knowledge. I would think for efficiency sake 300 watt inverter maybe a bit much, but a personal descision.
Not necessarily true. Intel's ability to manufacture and bank roll their efforts is mind-boggling. Just the same, had AMD had those kinds of resources K5 would have very likely been quite a bit more than just a footnote in history.
For a while now AMD's philosophy has been to focus on efficiency of design to minimize their dependence on manufacturing, whereas Intel has had the ability to launch products that would have bankrupted AMD many times over and refine them until their become competitive. I believe many have accused Microsoft of the same thing, otherwise known as the monopoly tax.
As one of many Clie owners (N760C) that visited that page, I am curious as to why I need to email some guy at Sony to be able to use this player. As far as I understand programs written for Palm 5 today are still compiled for RISC ISA, and the sound API on Clies is documented, so what's the holdup?
As far as I understand grounding is only a concern for coax. When using CAT 5 patch cable that isn't a problem because the signaling is differential, thus any noise that induces current in one wire also induces current in the other wire, the difference between the two still remaining zero. (Similar techonology is also used in USB)
I'm not going to go into as great a detail as I'm sure many other posters will, but the best way to understand why is to go to a hardware site like Tom's Hardware or Anandtech and read a review of a motherboard or a chipset.
Of all the things that a motherboard (or more specifically the collection of microchips known as the chipset) connects together the connection between the memory and the processor is the fastest the most important to performance. No other link, except between the processor and the motherboard even comes close in importance. Also, another issue that comes up is what is known as latency. Latency is the delay the system experiences when it requests memory access. It's not just how much data you can transfer, but how quickly you can have it after you ask.
For all those reasons it almost always makes sense, especially at today's prices, to have all the same memory modules in your system and the fastest memory your system can support. Even if you are able to recycle memory I would avoid doing so unless stability is an issue as many technical issues arise when DIMMS are mixed and matched.
Indeed, I on occasion work in one (class 10). However, I think everyone is missing the point. Don't take the satellite to the clean room; take the clean room to the satellite. Although in my case the requirements for machines that take up rooms and caustic chemicals prevent the use of anything except for a clean room, I'm sure there are many people that have experience working with or building sterile enclosures. Considering that the only things that need to go in are parts and some instruments it would be more than feasible to try to build one for the satellite and construct it within. Otherwise you are screwed, because the cost of putting a clean room together will probably pale in comparison with the cost of maintaining it.
PS I would imagine that you will need to do some soldering, which will probably contaminate your clean room all too quickly.
From my use of batteries and what I've read on the matter, here are a couple of suggestions:
1. Use Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries - I'm sure there will be a thousand posts on this.
2. Keep you batteries charged!!! With NiMH, if the battery is discharged it looses hydrogen at the anode and thus looses capacity. With NiCads, it means the deactivation of reactants which yields the same results. That means keep the phone on the charger when not in use.
3. If you feel the batteries are loosing their capacity to recharge, the best thing to do is to drain them completely and recharge them at least twice.
"Seven miles off the coast of southern England, a group of American Internet entrepreneurs is planning to set up the world's first offshore data haven."
"Based on the independent principality of Sealand, the self-proclaimed smallest principality in the world, the new company called Havenco promises prospective clients complete security for their computer files and freedom from the laws and regulations of any government."
Prior art only applies if you can show it existed before the date the patent was filed. Since it takes years and years for patents to be granted, and that's without amendments, the only reason it matters when the patent is granted is because you have to wait until it is before you can sue.
I think the author of the article, Alan Dang, misspelled his name. It seems Dung fits him much better since it's also the quality of his article. Couple of points:
(1) Not a SINGLE comparison is between the same kind of cable. Every single comparison is between the regular RCA and Monster S-Video cable. What's next, comparing an optical cable with RCA?
(2) The article is completely devoid of any facts other than some really slowly loading screenshots.
(3) You need a monster cable like you need a lobotomy. Not only do many other cables found in big chain stores are just as good, remember this if you are actually considering buying one: That $20 cable costs about $2 to make, which might explain why other cables sell for so much less.
Make sure to get the facts first before you go looking for rope:
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site's offer to purchase his patents.
The company first contacted Woolston in 2000 with an interest in buying the patents. E-mail to that effect is expected to figure prominently in the case because it indicates that eBay knew about Woolston's patents but continued to infringe them, he said.
"We expect to be vindicated at trial," Woolston said. "They are rank infringers."...
At the heart of the case is patent paperwork Woolston filed less than five months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar spent Labor Day weekend of 1995 creating the first iteration of his auction site. Today, eBay is one of the most successful online businesses, with nearly $750 million in revenue last year and continued profitability."
I also hate to be the one to repeat myself, but as I said before, timothy is a moron. How hard can be to do a quick search for the headline on slashdot before posting it?
"The Intel COO also outlined LaGrande Technology (LT), which will be integrated into Intel processors in the future. LT technology will be the core hardware technology that helps create a safer computing environment for e-Business, enabling protected execution, memory and storage."
WTF? This is the most un-newsworthy headline I have seen on Slashdot. Up until now I had just thought that this guy's talent lies in reposting old stories. I guess I was wrong.
I think you missed the whole point. These chains aren't doing a consumer "a favor," they are distributing and making money from editing other people's work.
The real point is that when Spielberg or Redford makes a movie, that movie carries their message and says something about them. Cutting all the gruesome and objectionable parts from Shindler's List or Saving Private Ryan destroys the movies. If you want a kid-friendly version either edit it yourself or get their permission and give yourself the title of the editor, but don't put on their shoulders the responsibility for your creation.
I'm not sure if I understand what the point of this article is. Sure, it violates DMCA and the routermonkey broke many other laws (as many posters already mentioned), but what is the point. I understand, if not even agree, with the arguments for fighting RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, and even RedHat (care to guess what tool posted that story?), but why are we against Cisco?
I know my university (as well as many others in US) has to pay MS more than once for the OS (once as part of the purchase price and then a license for the site), but then again if it wasn't at a discount it take up the ENTIRE IT budget.
I will leave the rest of posters do deal will all instances in which many of those machines have found uses or even shapped the industry. My gripe is the assertion that x86 vanilla plain, because that is as far as you can get from the truth.
Even if you've never done assembly in x86 just the description of the hardware from sites like Tom's should send shivers down your spine. First, consider the fact that the x86 architecture is almost 30 years old. First there was the 4004, on which the IA for the 8088 was based. Now, dumb the 8088 down a little and you get 8086. Then you add some 32 bit instructions and 2 more modes for the 80286 and 80386. Sounds fine, but now we move the Floating Point Unit (someone say stack) on the chip and make some improvements for the 80486. Pentium is pretty big change, so lets save the introduction of SIMD (that would be the dead Single Instruction Multiple Data) for the Pentium MMX. Well, Pentium Pro is a completely different architecture on the inside, uops and all, so let's release Pentium II and wait to release the improved SIMD instruction set till Pentium III. Wait a second, Pentium III is getting it's ass kicked by the Athlon, that now has 2 of it's own SIMD instruction sets. So. let's add those and a third set, call it SSE2, hope it does something usefull, and in the mean time redesign the whole thing so at least it looks like it runs applications faster. Wellcome Pentium IV. Now, try to learn all those instruction and how to use them without having you PC run cripling slow and tell me it's not convoluted.
This company orignally announced this product a couple of months ago. A write-up on it and some pretty pictures can be found here and here. What is really cool is that the company was started by people from Transmeta and notebook designers for Apple and IBM. Their plans are to release this thing by Christmas, and with that kind of background I highly doubt they are just blowing smoke up the public's ass.
Is it me or are the lackies being hired at Tom's are getting dummer and dummer with time? I don't have time to run down the entire list of inaccuracies and errors in the article, but according to them DDR400 "corresponds to a performance level that SDRAM could only achieve at 400 MHz," and best of all, Nvidia was "Founded in 1997 by a handful of ex-SGI employees."
Reading this article I got an interesting idea. For this system to work it seems that you have to sample at an extremely fast rate. Given that, why couldn't you use the same hardware interface along with a DSP to extract signals of much lower frequencies, i.e.: Using FFT extract an FM signal. It would seem that we are at the cusp of being able to use one device to fulfill most of your all RF needs.
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Absolutely true. Although I stick to the computer/physics end of electrical engineering I've seen the tolerances for the 12V bus and there is absolutely no way a motherboard will survive the spikes and voltage swings that automotive componenets are designed to withstand. Of course you can always try to design your own conditioner, but that will take more than just soldering knowledge. I would think for efficiency sake 300 watt inverter maybe a bit much, but a personal descision.
Does this mean the next generation of Apples will run on Athlon64?
Not necessarily true. Intel's ability to manufacture and bank roll their efforts is mind-boggling. Just the same, had AMD had those kinds of resources K5 would have very likely been quite a bit more than just a footnote in history.
For a while now AMD's philosophy has been to focus on efficiency of design to minimize their dependence on manufacturing, whereas Intel has had the ability to launch products that would have bankrupted AMD many times over and refine them until their become competitive. I believe many have accused Microsoft of the same thing, otherwise known as the monopoly tax.
Internet Explorer, the most ubiquitous and most exploited application of all time.
As one of many Clie owners (N760C) that visited that page, I am curious as to why I need to email some guy at Sony to be able to use this player. As far as I understand programs written for Palm 5 today are still compiled for RISC ISA, and the sound API on Clies is documented, so what's the holdup?
As far as I understand grounding is only a concern for coax. When using CAT 5 patch cable that isn't a problem because the signaling is differential, thus any noise that induces current in one wire also induces current in the other wire, the difference between the two still remaining zero. (Similar techonology is also used in USB)
Of all the things that a motherboard (or more specifically the collection of microchips known as the chipset) connects together the connection between the memory and the processor is the fastest the most important to performance. No other link, except between the processor and the motherboard even comes close in importance. Also, another issue that comes up is what is known as latency. Latency is the delay the system experiences when it requests memory access. It's not just how much data you can transfer, but how quickly you can have it after you ask.
For all those reasons it almost always makes sense, especially at today's prices, to have all the same memory modules in your system and the fastest memory your system can support. Even if you are able to recycle memory I would avoid doing so unless stability is an issue as many technical issues arise when DIMMS are mixed and matched.
Indeed, I on occasion work in one (class 10). However, I think everyone is missing the point. Don't take the satellite to the clean room; take the clean room to the satellite. Although in my case the requirements for machines that take up rooms and caustic chemicals prevent the use of anything except for a clean room, I'm sure there are many people that have experience working with or building sterile enclosures. Considering that the only things that need to go in are parts and some instruments it would be more than feasible to try to build one for the satellite and construct it within. Otherwise you are screwed, because the cost of putting a clean room together will probably pale in comparison with the cost of maintaining it.
PS I would imagine that you will need to do some soldering, which will probably contaminate your clean room all too quickly.
From my use of batteries and what I've read on the matter, here are a couple of suggestions:
;)
1. Use Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries - I'm sure there will be a thousand posts on this.
2. Keep you batteries charged!!! With NiMH, if the battery is discharged it looses hydrogen at the anode and thus looses capacity. With NiCads, it means the deactivation of reactants which yields the same results. That means keep the phone on the charger when not in use.
3. If you feel the batteries are loosing their capacity to recharge, the best thing to do is to drain them completely and recharge them at least twice.
Just my two cents
Maybe here?
"Seven miles off the coast of southern England, a group of American Internet entrepreneurs is planning to set up the world's first offshore data haven."
"Based on the independent principality of Sealand, the self-proclaimed smallest principality in the world, the new company called Havenco promises prospective clients complete security for their computer files and freedom from the laws and regulations of any government."
Prior art only applies if you can show it existed before the date the patent was filed. Since it takes years and years for patents to be granted, and that's without amendments, the only reason it matters when the patent is granted is because you have to wait until it is before you can sue.
I think the author of the article, Alan Dang, misspelled his name. It seems Dung fits him much better since it's also the quality of his article. Couple of points:
(1) Not a SINGLE comparison is between the same kind of cable. Every single comparison is between the regular RCA and Monster S-Video cable. What's next, comparing an optical cable with RCA?
(2) The article is completely devoid of any facts other than some really slowly loading screenshots.
(3) You need a monster cable like you need a lobotomy. Not only do many other cables found in big chain stores are just as good, remember this if you are actually considering buying one: That $20 cable costs about $2 to make, which might explain why other cables sell for so much less.
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site's offer to purchase his patents.
The company first contacted Woolston in 2000 with an interest in buying the patents. E-mail to that effect is expected to figure prominently in the case because it indicates that eBay knew about Woolston's patents but continued to infringe them, he said.
"We expect to be vindicated at trial," Woolston said. "They are rank infringers."
At the heart of the case is patent paperwork Woolston filed less than five months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar spent Labor Day weekend of 1995 creating the first iteration of his auction site. Today, eBay is one of the most successful online businesses, with nearly $750 million in revenue last year and continued profitability."
I also hate to be the one to repeat myself, but as I said before, timothy is a moron. How hard can be to do a quick search for the headline on slashdot before posting it?
I believe that P3 is actually only 6 stage.
This of course would have nothing to do with the evils of Palladium , would it?
WTF? This is the most un-newsworthy headline I have seen on Slashdot. Up until now I had just thought that this guy's talent lies in reposting old stories. I guess I was wrong.
The real point is that when Spielberg or Redford makes a movie, that movie carries their message and says something about them. Cutting all the gruesome and objectionable parts from Shindler's List or Saving Private Ryan destroys the movies. If you want a kid-friendly version either edit it yourself or get their permission and give yourself the title of the editor, but don't put on their shoulders the responsibility for your creation.
I'm not sure if I understand what the point of this article is. Sure, it violates DMCA and the routermonkey broke many other laws (as many posters already mentioned), but what is the point. I understand, if not even agree, with the arguments for fighting RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, and even RedHat (care to guess what tool posted that story?), but why are we against Cisco?
That's not what it looked like in Armageddon.
I know my university (as well as many others in US) has to pay MS more than once for the OS (once as part of the purchase price and then a license for the site), but then again if it wasn't at a discount it take up the ENTIRE IT budget.
Right, marginal ideas.
I will leave the rest of posters do deal will all instances in which many of those machines have found uses or even shapped the industry. My gripe is the assertion that x86 vanilla plain, because that is as far as you can get from the truth.
Even if you've never done assembly in x86 just the description of the hardware from sites like Tom's should send shivers down your spine. First, consider the fact that the x86 architecture is almost 30 years old. First there was the 4004, on which the IA for the 8088 was based. Now, dumb the 8088 down a little and you get 8086. Then you add some 32 bit instructions and 2 more modes for the 80286 and 80386. Sounds fine, but now we move the Floating Point Unit (someone say stack) on the chip and make some improvements for the 80486. Pentium is pretty big change, so lets save the introduction of SIMD (that would be the dead Single Instruction Multiple Data) for the Pentium MMX. Well, Pentium Pro is a completely different architecture on the inside, uops and all, so let's release Pentium II and wait to release the improved SIMD instruction set till Pentium III. Wait a second, Pentium III is getting it's ass kicked by the Athlon, that now has 2 of it's own SIMD instruction sets. So. let's add those and a third set, call it SSE2, hope it does something usefull, and in the mean time redesign the whole thing so at least it looks like it runs applications faster. Wellcome Pentium IV. Now, try to learn all those instruction and how to use them without having you PC run cripling slow and tell me it's not convoluted.
This company orignally announced this product a couple of months ago. A write-up on it and some pretty pictures can be found here and here. What is really cool is that the company was started by people from Transmeta and notebook designers for Apple and IBM. Their plans are to release this thing by Christmas, and with that kind of background I highly doubt they are just blowing smoke up the public's ass.
Is it me or are the lackies being hired at Tom's are getting dummer and dummer with time? I don't have time to run down the entire list of inaccuracies and errors in the article, but according to them DDR400 "corresponds to a performance level that SDRAM could only achieve at 400 MHz," and best of all, Nvidia was "Founded in 1997 by a handful of ex-SGI employees."
Reading this article I got an interesting idea. For this system to work it seems that you have to sample at an extremely fast rate. Given that, why couldn't you use the same hardware interface along with a DSP to extract signals of much lower frequencies, i.e.: Using FFT extract an FM signal. It would seem that we are at the cusp of being able to use one device to fulfill most of your all RF needs.