I think that for this calculation to be reasonable you need to know the actual fuel usage while maintaining 100kph on a flat highway with no wind. I suspect that it is higher than 18 km/l, that sounds more like a rated highway fuel efficiency number which probably includes a lot more than just maintaining speed on a flat level road.
I thought this was happening to me, but now I think they are two separate accounts. I have 'matt.lastname@gmail.com'. I think the other person has 'matthewlastname@gmail.com', and some of his acquaintances occasionally send mail to 'mattlastname@gmail.com' instead of 'matthewlastname@gmail.com'.
Mine does a pretty good job when being chased around by 2 cocker spaniels and a toy poodle:) The dogs don't knock it around too much, but it does turn away from them when it hits them with the front bumper.
Seriously, I got one for my birthday a week ago and it works very well - much better than I expected. I'm very surprised what it can do for $200. It's a very ingenious design. It's neat to watch it and see the subsumption architecture in action: "Oh look, it changed from spiraling behavior to wall following. Now it's just going straight then turning when it finds a wall."
My guess is that the company that he ordered the cables from ended up on a list of companies that ship illegal copies, so all packages shipped from that company into the US are blocked. I furhter guess they didn't even check what's in the box, only the shipper's address/name.
Brynn showed me the sensor he was working on, it's amazing! A spinning laser rangefinder that works by controlling the speed of an oscillator based on the time-of-flight of the laser light. I can't wait to see it work.
FWIW, My robot 'Thermatron I' came in 17th in the senior division.
...just like all the TV shows, they're not robots, they're all remotely controlled. If you want to see a real robotics competition, go see the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest in Hartford, CT in a couple weeks. There's also a few throughout the country sponsored by local clubs such as Seattle Robotics.
Don't get me wrong, FIRST is great. I wish it was available when I was in high school! And Dean Kamen is my hero...
It may or may not be 'Wireless DSL', they don't say.
The funny thing about 'Wireless DSL' is it's based on the standard for cable modems! It would be more appropriate to call it 'Wireless Cable Modem', but that's even more confusing.
Well, not directly, though it's similar. It's closest to 'CMT' (coarse multi-threaded) in the article. Each microengine has 4 threads, and it siwtches to another thread on a memory access. If CMT can get a 166MHz processor with 6 cores to keep up with Gb line rate packet forwarding, I can't wait to see what SMT can do to the Alpha at 2GHz.
Intel's IXP1200 network processor already does something like this. It's a very spiffy little processor - one of these running at 166MHz can route IP packets at a Gb/s. Though you need to explicitly code your microcode this way, it's definitely not hidden from you like the Alpha chip will hide it.
Sounds like it may be time to make a new benchmark to cover multi-threaded processors.
A friend who's building his own MP3 player looked inside my Neo35, and recognized most of the chips - including the MP3 decoder chip. So no Vorbis support for this device...
Actually, the description sounds different, but hardly revolutionary. What they are saying is to run the stack in the IRQ handler; most stacks I've worked with just pull the packet out in the IRQ handler, and all the packet processing is done outside of the context of the interrupt handler.
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I absolutely agree. I've actually gotten most of my jobs through my wife, or her ex-coworkers. The one time I went through HR to get a job, it took them 2 1/2 months from my first interview to when I was hired!
Another thing to watch out for when using a recruiter is that they are motivated by which company will pay them well. I interviewed at Cisco through a recruiter, and he spent a long time on the phone with me trying to convince me to take that job - I am now very happy that I didn't. I'm certain the reason he kept trying to convince me that it was right for me was that he would have gotten paid big $$$ if I went there. He never got me an interview at a small company that I was much more interested in - I'm pretty sure it was because he didn't try hard enough because they don't pay him as well as Cisco would have.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's gotten worse since I was in high school. Though I may have had a unique experience - in class, I hung out with the "academic overacheivers", and outside of class I hung out with the misfits (rpg'ers, computer gamers, drama club, etc.). I got taunted by the jocks occasionally, but overall I had a good time in high school & would go back. (FYI, I graduated HS in 1989).
Are things really that much worse today? Or was I just very lucky?
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I think that for this calculation to be reasonable you need to know the actual fuel usage while maintaining 100kph on a flat highway with no wind. I suspect that it is higher than 18 km/l, that sounds more like a rated highway fuel efficiency number which probably includes a lot more than just maintaining speed on a flat level road.
Damn you! Now I'll have to go back.
I thought this was happening to me, but now I think they are two separate accounts. I have 'matt.lastname@gmail.com'. I think the other person has 'matthewlastname@gmail.com', and some of his acquaintances occasionally send mail to 'mattlastname@gmail.com' instead of 'matthewlastname@gmail.com'.
Mine does a pretty good job when being chased around by 2 cocker spaniels and a toy poodle :) The dogs don't knock it around too much, but it does turn away from them when it hits them with the front bumper.
Seriously, I got one for my birthday a week ago and it works very well - much better than I expected. I'm very surprised what it can do for $200. It's a very ingenious design. It's neat to watch it and see the subsumption architecture in action: "Oh look, it changed from spiraling behavior to wall following. Now it's just going straight then turning when it finds a wall."
My guess is that the company that he ordered the cables from ended up on a list of companies that ship illegal copies, so all packages shipped from that company into the US are blocked. I furhter guess they didn't even check what's in the box, only the shipper's address/name.
Brynn showed me the sensor he was working on, it's amazing! A spinning laser rangefinder that works by controlling the speed of an oscillator based on the time-of-flight of the laser light. I can't wait to see it work. FWIW, My robot 'Thermatron I' came in 17th in the senior division.
...just like all the TV shows, they're not robots, they're all remotely controlled. If you want to see a real robotics competition, go see the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest in Hartford, CT in a couple weeks. There's also a few throughout the country sponsored by local clubs such as Seattle Robotics.
Don't get me wrong, FIRST is great. I wish it was available when I was in high school! And Dean Kamen is my hero...
It may or may not be 'Wireless DSL', they don't say.
The funny thing about 'Wireless DSL' is it's based on the standard for cable modems! It would be more appropriate to call it 'Wireless Cable Modem', but that's even more confusing.
See answer 7 in the Wireless DSL consortium's FAQ. DOCSIS is the standard for cable modems.
Does anyone have any details on what Phoenix's proposal is? The news article is lacking in content of this area.
Well, not directly, though it's similar. It's closest to 'CMT' (coarse multi-threaded) in the article. Each microengine has 4 threads, and it siwtches to another thread on a memory access. If CMT can get a 166MHz processor with 6 cores to keep up with Gb line rate packet forwarding, I can't wait to see what SMT can do to the Alpha at 2GHz.
Intel's IXP1200 network processor already does something like this. It's a very spiffy little processor - one of these running at 166MHz can route IP packets at a Gb/s. Though you need to explicitly code your microcode this way, it's definitely not hidden from you like the Alpha chip will hide it.
Sounds like it may be time to make a new benchmark to cover multi-threaded processors.
A friend who's building his own MP3 player looked inside my Neo35, and recognized most of the chips - including the MP3 decoder chip. So no Vorbis support for this device...
Actually, the description sounds different, but hardly revolutionary. What they are saying is to run the stack in the IRQ handler; most stacks I've worked with just pull the packet out in the IRQ handler, and all the packet processing is done outside of the context of the interrupt handler.
I absolutely agree. I've actually gotten most of my jobs through my wife, or her ex-coworkers. The one time I went through HR to get a job, it took them 2 1/2 months from my first interview to when I was hired!
Another thing to watch out for when using a recruiter is that they are motivated by which company will pay them well. I interviewed at Cisco through a recruiter, and he spent a long time on the phone with me trying to convince me to take that job - I am now very happy that I didn't. I'm certain the reason he kept trying to convince me that it was right for me was that he would have gotten paid big $$$ if I went there. He never got me an interview at a small company that I was much more interested in - I'm pretty sure it was because he didn't try hard enough because they don't pay him as well as Cisco would have.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's gotten worse since I was in high school. Though I may have had a unique experience - in class, I hung out with the "academic overacheivers", and outside of class I hung out with the misfits (rpg'ers, computer gamers, drama club, etc.). I got taunted by the jocks occasionally, but overall I had a good time in high school & would go back. (FYI, I graduated HS in 1989).
Are things really that much worse today? Or was I just very lucky?