He's a troll. And now you've bit on his hook twice!
Trolls are bright people and usually disguise their trolls as informed, opinionated posts to lure people in. "FP" isn't a troll, no matter how hard you try.
So, considering that your post is likely the troll and not his, consider this my bite.
I really think/. should adopt a pseudorandom numbering scheme. You could keep the actual post order in the database but just display it as a pseudorandom number seeded with the actual post number and the article time or something. That way people could still link the actual comments with cid=whatever but nobody would really know what number they were.
It would end the FP bullshit but may just bring on another breed of loser. <sigh>
I have a laptop with supposedly good battery life. It' about a year old, and with minimal use and regular battery maintenance, mine only lasts about 20-40 minutes on a single charge with the screen brightness all the way down, no cd or floppy, and processor on "slow".
You've got a shit laptop or more likely a shit battery.
I've got a Hyperdata MediaGo960AGP. 14.1" TFT display with ATI Rage Pro LT 8MB AGP chipset, Cel300, 192MB RAM and DVD. I get about 3 hours of battery life from it decoding DVD or playing MP3s. That's on Win98 without any kind of CPU halt utility. I bet I could get close to 4 if I used rain or waterfall.
The key is a decent LiIon battery. Trash the NiCd or NiMH you've got now.
I don't think there's a single geek house that doesn't have something like this. Perhaps UCentric is just marketting it to the masses.
My home setup is very similar (or is in the works to be, some things aren't implemented yet):
Linux box for firewall (seperate right now) and CallerID
Linux box for everything else:
Two ES1371 sound cards (4 PCM channels, allows 4 seperate mp3 streams for various rooms)
Captures radio and TV for viewing later (programs while I'm at work, radio programs, etc.)
bigass backed up file system (so we don't lose the work the wife/kids/myself do)
ICQ reminder system (simple text parsing, i.e. R10 put wash in dryer) also will pop up callerID, doorbell, etc.
Eventually I'd like to overlay text right on the TV through a simple circuit
Eventually hook up a DVD-ROM or two (mp3s and video)
It's by far not the only system in existence and I'm sure that others have far better systems. Perhaps there should be some kind of unifying effort in this area? Yeah everyone has their own needs but there is a LOT of commonality and that should be put to use
Actually I'm making $1000/wk and supporting a family of two (soon three) kids, house, 2 cars and all the relevant bills. So yes, it is possible, even easily so. I'm not in Southern Cali though so there may be a fair conversion factor involved there.:-)
You are not a "Senior Software Engineer." You don't remotely have the experience to be a SSE. SSE is a well defined level of experience in the industry, your company does not follow the same convention for naming their engineering positions.
How about me, then?
24, been doing engineering (hardware and software development) for 5 years. Experiences (not just passing but in-depth) include industrial electronics design, power electronics, thermal design, firmware development (microvolt A/D hw/sw, closed loop control, I/O multiplexing, communications and failsafe operation), induction motor theory (squirrel cage, synchronous, wound rotor), wire-knowledge of industrial communications protocols (ModBUS, ProfiBUS, DeviceNet). Quality control, test and repair and onsite customer service. Not so thorough experience in variable frequency drive design, magnetics and analog design.
Education: High school. Do I "qualify" for a job title with senior in it?
Personally I always thought that "Senior" positions had over 10 years' experience (no fasttracking, you can't short-circuit experience no matter how good you are) and even if you were a crackerjack engineer you didn't have that prefix until you had that decade or so of experience.
I have to disagree on this one. I think as a general rule parents do take responsibility for their children. It only takes a small percentage who don't to really screw things up. Even a 1% "failure rate" (for lack of a better term) would be much worse than we have now.
I think we do have a greater "failure rate" these days than we did, say 25 or even 15 years ago. IIRC the teen birth rate has decreased over the years but the rate of single-parent rearing has skyrocketted. How many kids are being raised by single moms because the dads are totally irresponsible and want nothing to do with them? How many of these single moms lack the conviction that single moms of yesteryear had? How many single moms are working fulltime jobs (or even two jobs) and the kids are being raised by TV, sitters and neighbours?
Don't get me wrong... I am not saying all single parents are degenerates. I mean shit happens, right? I was raised by a single mom and she did a kick-ass job. However it's still my opinion that the parents of today are (on the whole) not as "capable" (wrong word) or as responsible (better word) than they were a generation or two ago.
The biggest issue at hand is not how, and when, and why to raise children, but if.
I realize this isn't directed at me but think about it for a second... How exactly do you propose parent licenses? How do you prevent people from fucking? This is one of those "reducto ad absurd" (I can't spell in Latin, ok?:-) arguments and I won't bother much more of a reply.
The average Joe won't even think twice about having children and boom, there's another whining brat. Don't get me wrong, I like kids on the average and they usually like me as well, but the people that whine about how they want children make me sick!
Perhaps the instinct to procreate hasn't made itself dominant in your mix of genes at this point, but it will. It's one of the lowest level IOCTLs, if you will. Don't forget, you too were once a "whining brat".
Trust me, there's plenty of human beings strolling around this planet. Should you decide not to procreate, I doubt anybody will really miss two or three extra children
Sez you. All lifeforms have a very strong desire to ensure that their particular mix of genetic material is passed on. Yours will too I imagine.
(read only if you're over 25) Have you ever listened to a teenager rant and rave about how bad the world is and how it should work their way and how you thought you were so right when you were a teen? It's amazing what getting a broader worldview does to the mind.
how long have we been hearing that solution? if no other cause for the crisis du jour seems immediately relevant: blame parents.
Are parents not legally and morally responsible for their children until their children reach adult age?
The reason that particular solution hasn't gone away yet is because as a general rule parents aren't taking responsibility for their children's upbringing. They pop 'em out, plunk them in front of the TV/computer/N64 and then blame everyone else when their kid turns out to be the next psychopath.
As a parent of two (soon three) children myself, I know damn well how much hard work it is to raise kids (and these kids aren't even old enough to cause real trouble yet!) -- many parents just don't realize how much effort is required and when they do, they slough it off since it's "too much".
Sewing machines are just the start. Soon we'll see Game Boy interfaces to sheet metal cutters, lathes, drop forges and welding robots.
About 3 years ago, I designed a Gameboy cartridge which interfaced with the Benshaw RSD series of soft starters (I'm the lead designer) and worked with the unit to provide preventative maintenance and other goodies. The director of engineering said it was a toy and nobody'd use it.
Now I'm working on the Palm version and people have been demanding it for the last eight months. I'm going to email the link to this guy and see what he says now.:-)
you have a specific capacity at X frequency, Example 108 MHZ - you have a maximum of 108Mbps if you were able to encode on every cycle of the carrier (impossible without generating nasty things)
<brandishing clue stick>
Ever hear of encoding multiple bits per cycle? BPSK, QAM, PAM (I think) are all methods to encode MULTIPLE (4 and 8 being common, but 64 and 256-QAM are available with fancy DSPs) bits per cycle. This is without generating nasty things. Hell your 9600 baud modem encodes 4 bits per baud!
If you can't stand the thin black lines on a Trinitron display, I don't know how you can stand an LCD display.
I detest the trinitron display's lines, but I use my 14.1" notebook every day and don't notice any blocking. Glasses are recent and keep everything in focus so I know I can see the grid effect. (in fact I do if I sit 6" in front of the screen) I prefer my 14.1" LCD to my 17" Philips 107s @ 1280x1024 (no flicker, just not as clear as the LCD)
It's like this. A switch prevents traffic which does not need to be broadcasted from being broadcasted. By broadcasted i mean, on an unbridged, unswitched network, that is, an ethernet network with only repeaters, when machine E communicates with machine W, all machines from A to Z get a copy of what they said.
You are correct, but the net effect is that it can seem to bring more bandwidth to the individual users through reducing and/or eliminating collisions. If I have a 100Mbps n-way switch, users A and C can talk at 100Mbps while users B and D talk at 100Mbps. The net effect is that there is approximately 200Mbps worth of traffic flowing in that network. If both these same four users tried to do the same thing on a hub they wouldn't get anywhere near 200Mbps total throughput, as the collisions and resultant delays would kill the transfer speed of both "transactions" to well under 100Mbps.
So yes, you are technically right, but the original poster also has a point, at least in n-way switched LANs.
And from that day forward, little Johnny had to live with the knowledge that were it not for some quirk of fate, his parents wouldn't have had him.
If it were not for some quirk of fate, none of us would be here. Think about it; the only reason we're here is because our parents were brought together by some quirk of fate, and their parents.... you get the picture.
Hell when my kids come to me and ask how they came around, I think my response will be "oops" for all three of them. None were planned but hell, does that make them less special than planned kids? Yes it makes it a little harder on the parents but it doesn't mean we love them any less. It was some quirk of fate which brought my wife and I together, another quirk of fate which had us together on the nights of their conceptions, and yet more quirks of fate which decided exactly which sperm and which egg came together.
I don't see a damn thing wrong with what these people did. If they were going to put their son up for adoption or treat him as a second class citizen then yeah, they've got a few screws loose. To me, it sounds like they wanted more kids, were scared of the risk of having multiply-diseased children and were finally convinced because it was possible to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
You are obviously not a real linux user! There is no way that any true linux user would want Internet Explorer for Linux, it only supports 90% of most standards, it's ugly, slow, and incompatible with many sites that are written perfectly correctly (according to W3C standards). Mozilla has been my default browser for many months now, and without doubt it is the fastest, most feature complete browser only any platform.
Bullshit. IE5.5 blows Netscape and Mozilla out of the water. I am a true Linux user and I crave IE5.5 for Linux. Why? Because it works. I'm going to give CVS Konq a try once I finish downloading the KDE2 tarballs but being a true Linux user has nothing to do with hating MS. For me, it has to do with what I happen to like. Perhaps being a true Linux zealot means anti-MS.
The Windows version outperforms IE, the Linux version outperforms Netscape 4, etc...
Which version of Moz outperforms IE? I tried M17 and it was by no means faster than IE5.5. put up some benchmarks or shut your mouth.
In the last month moz has produced huge leaps in the stablity, usablity, and bueaty.
When M18 comes out I'll try it again. I'm not holding my breath though.
If you don't have a clue what you're talking about, PLEASE don't post. The S/N ratio is bad enough as it is.
That was unnecessary.
RTLinux is in no way related to uClinux. uCLinux is a version of the linux kernel that runs on machines without a MMU. RTLinux runs on Alpha, PPC, and x86. Of course, a version of RTLinux could be made for uCLinux, if you needed a realtime OS for machines without a MMU.
I KNOW what uClinux is, and I knew that RTLinux was affilliated (associated, worked, take your pick) with it in some way. Whether RTLinux was a patch off uClinux and then ported to "regular" Linux, or a patch to Linux and then ported to uClinux was the question.
Of course, a version of RTLinux could be made for uCLinux, if you needed a realtime OS for machines without a MMU.
Here's were you're spewing disinformation. There already IS an RTLinux patch for uClinux. Go back and read my question before claiming I know nothing while at the same time claiming the opposite yourself.
I knew about RTLinux's benchmark and knew QNX was better, but damn that is good... I'm assuming this is on identical hardware?
RTLinux is a soft realtime platform if I'm not mistaken. It's a patched uClinux (does it patch against regular Linux?) which basically runs the kernel as "just another" process, which means your process(es) can pre-empt it. What kind of voodoo magic is QNX doing? Can RTLinux approach the 1uS mark?
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He's a troll.
And now you've bit on his hook twice!
Trolls are bright people and usually disguise their trolls as informed, opinionated posts to lure people in. "FP" isn't a troll, no matter how hard you try.
So, considering that your post is likely the troll and not his, consider this my bite.
Hate to break it to you but you are NOT a troll. Calling you a troll is like calling rocks intelligent.
I really think /. should adopt a pseudorandom numbering scheme. You could keep the actual post order in the database but just display it as a pseudorandom number seeded with the actual post number and the article time or something. That way people could still link the actual comments with cid=whatever but nobody would really know what number they were.
It would end the FP bullshit but may just bring on another breed of loser. <sigh>
I have a laptop with supposedly good battery life. It' about a year old, and with minimal use and regular battery maintenance, mine only lasts about 20-40 minutes on a single charge with the screen brightness all the way down, no cd or floppy, and processor on "slow".
You've got a shit laptop or more likely a shit battery.
I've got a Hyperdata MediaGo960AGP. 14.1" TFT display with ATI Rage Pro LT 8MB AGP chipset, Cel300, 192MB RAM and DVD. I get about 3 hours of battery life from it decoding DVD or playing MP3s. That's on Win98 without any kind of CPU halt utility. I bet I could get close to 4 if I used rain or waterfall.
The key is a decent LiIon battery. Trash the NiCd or NiMH you've got now.
I don't think there's a single geek house that doesn't have something like this. Perhaps UCentric is just marketting it to the masses.
My home setup is very similar (or is in the works to be, some things aren't implemented yet):
It's by far not the only system in existence and I'm sure that others have far better systems. Perhaps there should be some kind of unifying effort in this area? Yeah everyone has their own needs but there is a LOT of commonality and that should be put to use
And could you support a family on that?
Actually I'm making $1000/wk and supporting a family of two (soon three) kids, house, 2 cars and all the relevant bills. So yes, it is possible, even easily so. I'm not in Southern Cali though so there may be a fair conversion factor involved there. :-)
You are not a "Senior Software Engineer." You don't remotely have the experience to be a SSE. SSE is a well defined level of experience in the industry, your company does not follow the same convention for naming their engineering positions.
How about me, then?
24, been doing engineering (hardware and software development) for 5 years. Experiences (not just passing but in-depth) include industrial electronics design, power electronics, thermal design, firmware development (microvolt A/D hw/sw, closed loop control, I/O multiplexing, communications and failsafe operation), induction motor theory (squirrel cage, synchronous, wound rotor), wire-knowledge of industrial communications protocols (ModBUS, ProfiBUS, DeviceNet). Quality control, test and repair and onsite customer service. Not so thorough experience in variable frequency drive design, magnetics and analog design.
Education: High school. Do I "qualify" for a job title with senior in it?
Personally I always thought that "Senior" positions had over 10 years' experience (no fasttracking, you can't short-circuit experience no matter how good you are) and even if you were a crackerjack engineer you didn't have that prefix until you had that decade or so of experience.
I have to disagree on this one. I think as a general rule parents do take responsibility for their children.
It only takes a small percentage who don't to really screw things up. Even a 1% "failure rate" (for lack of a better term) would be much worse than we have now.
I think we do have a greater "failure rate" these days than we did, say 25 or even 15 years ago. IIRC the teen birth rate has decreased over the years but the rate of single-parent rearing has skyrocketted. How many kids are being raised by single moms because the dads are totally irresponsible and want nothing to do with them? How many of these single moms lack the conviction that single moms of yesteryear had? How many single moms are working fulltime jobs (or even two jobs) and the kids are being raised by TV, sitters and neighbours?
Don't get me wrong... I am not saying all single parents are degenerates. I mean shit happens, right? I was raised by a single mom and she did a kick-ass job. However it's still my opinion that the parents of today are (on the whole) not as "capable" (wrong word) or as responsible (better word) than they were a generation or two ago.
The biggest issue at hand is not how, and when, and why to raise children, but if.
I realize this isn't directed at me but think about it for a second... How exactly do you propose parent licenses? How do you prevent people from fucking? This is one of those "reducto ad absurd" (I can't spell in Latin, ok? :-) arguments and I won't bother much more of a reply.
The average Joe won't even think twice about having children and boom, there's another whining brat. Don't get me wrong, I like kids on the average and they usually like me as well, but the people that whine about how they want children make me sick!
Perhaps the instinct to procreate hasn't made itself dominant in your mix of genes at this point, but it will. It's one of the lowest level IOCTLs, if you will. Don't forget, you too were once a "whining brat".
Trust me, there's plenty of human beings strolling around this planet. Should you decide not to procreate, I doubt anybody will really miss two or three extra children
Sez you. All lifeforms have a very strong desire to ensure that their particular mix of genetic material is passed on. Yours will too I imagine.
(read only if you're over 25) Have you ever listened to a teenager rant and rave about how bad the world is and how it should work their way and how you thought you were so right when you were a teen? It's amazing what getting a broader worldview does to the mind.
how long have we been hearing that solution? if no other cause for the crisis du jour seems immediately relevant: blame parents.
Are parents not legally and morally responsible for their children until their children reach adult age?
The reason that particular solution hasn't gone away yet is because as a general rule parents aren't taking responsibility for their children's upbringing. They pop 'em out, plunk them in front of the TV/computer/N64 and then blame everyone else when their kid turns out to be the next psychopath.
As a parent of two (soon three) children myself, I know damn well how much hard work it is to raise kids (and these kids aren't even old enough to cause real trouble yet!) -- many parents just don't realize how much effort is required and when they do, they slough it off since it's "too much".
So yes, better parents is the answer.
Most of you would know that plants consume CO2 and produce O2.
If what I am remembering from my Bio days is correct, they only take in CO2 and produce O2 when lit. In the dark, they must use O2 like you and I.
Sewing machines are just the start. Soon we'll see Game Boy interfaces to sheet metal cutters, lathes, drop forges and welding robots.
About 3 years ago, I designed a Gameboy cartridge which interfaced with the Benshaw RSD series of soft starters (I'm the lead designer) and worked with the unit to provide preventative maintenance and other goodies. The director of engineering said it was a toy and nobody'd use it.
Now I'm working on the Palm version and people have been demanding it for the last eight months. I'm going to email the link to this guy and see what he says now. :-)
you have a specific capacity at X frequency, Example 108 MHZ - you have a maximum of 108Mbps if you were able to encode on every cycle of the carrier (impossible without generating nasty things)
<brandishing clue stick>
Ever hear of encoding multiple bits per cycle? BPSK, QAM, PAM (I think) are all methods to encode MULTIPLE (4 and 8 being common, but 64 and 256-QAM are available with fancy DSPs) bits per cycle. This is without generating nasty things. Hell your 9600 baud modem encodes 4 bits per baud!
always wondered can 2, or more, transmeta chips work in smp?
Doubtful; the microprocessors themselves have an integrated northbridge which would make this difficult.
If you can't stand the thin black lines on a Trinitron display, I don't know how you can stand an LCD display.
I detest the trinitron display's lines, but I use my 14.1" notebook every day and don't notice any blocking. Glasses are recent and keep everything in focus so I know I can see the grid effect. (in fact I do if I sit 6" in front of the screen) I prefer my 14.1" LCD to my 17" Philips 107s @ 1280x1024 (no flicker, just not as clear as the LCD)
No dumbass, silicone is.
And here I thought silicone was a man-made product...
Ohh... you meant silicon...
Tell us (without lying): have you ever seen a W2K bluescreen?
I have.
Abit BP6, try using the ATA66 controller with an older BIOS. Bluescreen every time.
I finally have something to do with that old 25MHz 486 in the closet!
Please allow 2-3 weeks for the kernel to compile.
Actual build time 2.2.16 kernel on an 80386DX/40 8MB RAM: 4hrs
It's like this. A switch prevents traffic which does not need to be broadcasted from being broadcasted. By broadcasted i mean, on an unbridged, unswitched network, that is, an ethernet network with only repeaters, when machine E communicates with machine W, all machines from A to Z get a copy of what they said.
You are correct, but the net effect is that it can seem to bring more bandwidth to the individual users through reducing and/or eliminating collisions. If I have a 100Mbps n-way switch, users A and C can talk at 100Mbps while users B and D talk at 100Mbps. The net effect is that there is approximately 200Mbps worth of traffic flowing in that network. If both these same four users tried to do the same thing on a hub they wouldn't get anywhere near 200Mbps total throughput, as the collisions and resultant delays would kill the transfer speed of both "transactions" to well under 100Mbps.
So yes, you are technically right, but the original poster also has a point, at least in n-way switched LANs.
And from that day forward, little Johnny had to live with the knowledge that were it not for some quirk of fate, his parents wouldn't have had him.
If it were not for some quirk of fate, none of us would be here. Think about it; the only reason we're here is because our parents were brought together by some quirk of fate, and their parents.... you get the picture.
Hell when my kids come to me and ask how they came around, I think my response will be "oops" for all three of them. None were planned but hell, does that make them less special than planned kids? Yes it makes it a little harder on the parents but it doesn't mean we love them any less. It was some quirk of fate which brought my wife and I together, another quirk of fate which had us together on the nights of their conceptions, and yet more quirks of fate which decided exactly which sperm and which egg came together.
I don't see a damn thing wrong with what these people did. If they were going to put their son up for adoption or treat him as a second class citizen then yeah, they've got a few screws loose. To me, it sounds like they wanted more kids, were scared of the risk of having multiply-diseased children and were finally convinced because it was possible to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
The last time I saw an aurora it was preceeded by blue acrid smoke coming out of the back of my monitor.
I think you mean corona.
You are obviously not a real linux user! There is no way that any true linux user would want Internet Explorer for Linux, it only supports 90% of most standards, it's ugly, slow, and incompatible with many sites that are written perfectly correctly (according to W3C standards). Mozilla has been my default browser for many months now, and without doubt it is the fastest, most feature complete browser only any platform.
Bullshit. IE5.5 blows Netscape and Mozilla out of the water. I am a true Linux user and I crave IE5.5 for Linux. Why? Because it works. I'm going to give CVS Konq a try once I finish downloading the KDE2 tarballs but being a true Linux user has nothing to do with hating MS. For me, it has to do with what I happen to like. Perhaps being a true Linux zealot means anti-MS.
The Windows version outperforms IE, the Linux version outperforms Netscape 4, etc...
Which version of Moz outperforms IE? I tried M17 and it was by no means faster than IE5.5. put up some benchmarks or shut your mouth.
In the last month moz has produced huge leaps in the stablity, usablity, and bueaty.
When M18 comes out I'll try it again. I'm not holding my breath though.
If you don't have a clue what you're talking about, PLEASE don't post. The S/N ratio is bad enough as it is.
That was unnecessary.
RTLinux is in no way related to uClinux. uCLinux is a version of the linux kernel that runs on machines without a MMU. RTLinux runs on Alpha, PPC, and x86. Of course, a version of RTLinux could be made for uCLinux, if you needed a realtime OS for machines without a MMU.
I KNOW what uClinux is, and I knew that RTLinux was affilliated (associated, worked, take your pick) with it in some way. Whether RTLinux was a patch off uClinux and then ported to "regular" Linux, or a patch to Linux and then ported to uClinux was the question.
Of course, a version of RTLinux could be made for uCLinux, if you needed a realtime OS for machines without a MMU.
Here's were you're spewing disinformation. There already IS an RTLinux patch for uClinux. Go back and read my question before claiming I know nothing while at the same time claiming the opposite yourself.
RTLinux ~10 microseconds
QNX ~0.8 microseconds
I knew about RTLinux's benchmark and knew QNX was better, but damn that is good... I'm assuming this is on identical hardware?
RTLinux is a soft realtime platform if I'm not mistaken. It's a patched uClinux (does it patch against regular Linux?) which basically runs the kernel as "just another" process, which means your process(es) can pre-empt it. What kind of voodoo magic is QNX doing? Can RTLinux approach the 1uS mark?
What, no Solitaire?