Ok, so if you tell them exactly how many extra hours you will be willing to work; get ready to work exactly that number of hours.
Your personal drive WILL be exploited, thats the way the system works. I've sat in on meetings where managers said "Yeah, I keep piling more stuff on so-and-so's plate and he keeps doing it. So don't worry, we'll give him this too".
The part you're not mentioning is the large, pork ridden company mentality: even while rome burns and you are "sacrificing" to prop up the company, there will be people in the cube next getting in at 9:01, leaving at 4:59, taking 2 hour lunches, and loudly flaunting their lack of interest in doing anything to support the bottom line all day long !
Got this set up on a Zaurus a few weeks ago. Wouldn't call it snappy response, but it works!
Somehow, using a PDA appeals to the low power "green" conscience a little better than having to leave a real box on 24/7 just to watch the lights turn on and off.
Good point. Flash can usually only be written/erased 100K to 1 million times. Writing data is inherently destructive to the tunnel oxide layer in each storage transistor. When you write applications storing data in flash you have to be aware of this or you can burn it out very quickly ! This is also the reason why flash cannot entirely replace hard drives. FWIW, some of the newer memory formats in development do not have this restrictions (MRAM, ovonic,etc )
>What I would like to see, and this is off-topic, > is XML menu specification. So you can download, >install a program, and then install a menu item > for it with whatever Window Manager you are > using.
I see this as a common problem with all OS's I've used to date. Once you have 100+ apps. Its hard to find or remember what they are. If you are lucky, they install themselves somewhere in a menu (Windows start bar, GNOME panel, KDE kicker, etc). But that place may not be where you might typically look!
Wouldn't it be great to have a dynamic menu system which would display apps by name OR by function, file type association, install date and more? All would be registered providing a keyword (or similar) description when the app is installed. Use a XML, text files, an SQL DB, something, anything as long as it is fast ! Would be cool if it was tied into RPM/APT/portage etc.
More and more I find myself manually searching my installed packages to find "hmmm-which sound recording apps do I have" or "gee-do I have a PNG viewer.." etc, etc. It is sickeningly inefficient. Not even sure how you would do this under Windows... search the registry ?
The drive to completely emulate the Windows GUI and APPS(!) completely hollows all of the arguments about superiority of alternative OS's. If all we can do is copy what is out there, we will never look or BE any better.
Not only are we unoriginal, but many of these "knock off" apps (for instance spreadsheets with all of the same menu options in all of the same places as Echsmell) would seem to me to be lawyer-bait to the N'th degree!
For those wanting ideas - what ever happened to pie menus ? Enlightenment (quite an original piece of work in its day) had a theme with them at one point...
Personaly, I think apps from 5 years ago were at least more original than the bulk of those floating around today! We are so caught up in trying to imitate Mr.Bill to provide a migration path from Windows that there really isn't anywhere to migrate TO...everything is the same. (unless you count the command line, of course)
I'm still running the Gnome 1 panel and Enlightenment because I can reconfigure it to look completely UNLIKE the stupid windows task bar/start button which I am forced to see at work every day!
Gotta be... article said they were testing in Arizona. Also, one of the photos on their site has the unmistakable form of Picacho Peak (right near Eloy) in the background.
Was down in Eloy, AZ last weekend checking out the 300 way skydiving world record and there was this large white sphere tied down in the desert. Thought it might be some kind of portable radar setup for the event 'till I get closer. It had two transparent "windows" near the bottom and two dinky propellers about 3/4 of the way up on opposite sides. The crew was loading stuff right into the spherical shape of it and were too busy to explain much other than to say that they were going to launch the thing soon. So, anyway, was later talking to somebody who had stuck around, he said they had in the air and were successfully maneuvering it.
But here's where it gets interesting. Later, when they were finished and had the ship tied down when a sudden wind storm blew in. Wouldn't you know it, he said the last thing he saw was the thing BLOWING AWAY into the sky "going going gone...". Hopefully they had some crew on board, though there's no way those tiny props could've fought any serious wind. We were guessing 1/4 mil was GONE (and we didn't know then that there might be comm. equipment aboard). Tough work being a pioneer in your field...
Totaly agreed. More than a half dozen companies have "mixed signal" SiGe BiCMOS (meaning high performance bipolar/analog and CMOS transistors together) processes in or nearing production including IBM, Motorola, TI, Infineon, Conexant, etc etc. The trick is that this is relatively new ground for Intel which has been focused on digital logic applications. Too bad for the rest of us... Though, FWIW, they have lots of catching up to do !
Expandability is not the point here. To date, all of the PDA add-ons offer reduced functionality for more money as compared to their stand-alone counterparts.
All I ever really use on my Palm are the basic PIM apps, maybe one or two more. The rest are "neat to have" in the showroom but are nearly valueless in the field. Having said that, we all want to add this or that specific app. which sold me on Palm/visor.
What is annoying about today's PDAs is the size. Was laughing at my office-mate's WinCE brick just the other day. Can hear the pick-up lines already: "is that a PDA in your pants or are you SUPER glad to see me?" Hell, most of them won't even fit in a pocket!
Anyway, a nice,unobtrusive credit-card sized PDA with calendar/alarm and addressbook is ideal.
If they offered a free development environment for this, I would pounce. (sure a few more MB of mem would be nice too...)
Yeah, you can speed up the machine, for a while.
But at reduced temps, especially LN2, hot carriers are generated very efficiently and will degrade those hard working MOSFETS much faster than normal.
Eventually the CPU will stop working...and where's the cost savings in that ?
The countermeasure is to lower the core voltage, but then you won't get quite as much of that coveted blazing speed!
You have the right idea here: Note that the article makes no claims about the minimum feature size...it is not about the technology of patterning circuits on the chip (photolithography).
The researchers have come up with a technique for creating short channel transistors without drawing them. This is useful for studying the operation of future devices, but will not directly impact the scaling of circuitry (and die sizes).
Think about it, thousands of "security experts" milked billions from all industry a whole by pushing Y2K paranoia.
Well, the big day has come and gone but these people still need to eat. Of course they are going to make every attempt to stay relevent and employed by making a huge scene out of every threatening VBS file they can find. (they probably pay MS to "accidentally" leave some security holes open)
"I heard there was a dangerous script somewhere on a computer once. Pay me money so you can feel better about it."
Meanwhile my work computer runs at about 1/3 efficiency because it is busy virus-scanning my text data files. (no,I'm not allowed to change the configuration...to suggest so would probably put me on some list somewhere)
Here in Arizona, the problem is power drain for Air Conditioning. I looked at the EV-1 and the salesman said that turning on the AC cuts the mileage by half. (perhaps the same can be said for slashdot comments)
Last time I read about flywheels for automobiles (~10 years ago), they were planning to balance the wheels in pairs turning in opposite directions to balance things out.
Right you are, 70nm is the lateral size. The critical "vertical" dimension, oxide thickness, was proposed to be 1.5nm (15A). At those dimensions the tunneling leakage current through the oxide is significant and will drive up the power consumption of a CPU to unprecidented levels. Sadly such consumption occurs even in standby unless the Transmeta-like approach of lowering voltages is taken. Also of concern are additional "stress induced leakage currents" which slowly increase with usage !
For these reasons there is a common concensus that such future technologies will be limited to the desktop (not your palm-pilot) and may even require bundled refrigeration.
FWIW, 70nm is just one "limit" that was thrown around at the IRPS conference. Another was 25nm!
What can I say, guilty as charged. We're mostly amateurs and especially in the short term, the bang for the buck(time invested) usually rests in the actual code. Sitting back for a second, I could argue that all of those beautiful professional comments won't do me much good if I can't see them !
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Your personal drive WILL be exploited, thats the way the system works. I've sat in on meetings where managers said "Yeah, I keep piling more stuff on so-and-so's plate and he keeps doing it. So don't worry, we'll give him this too".
The part you're not mentioning is the large, pork ridden company mentality: even while rome burns and you are "sacrificing" to prop up the company, there will be people in the cube next getting in at 9:01, leaving at 4:59, taking 2 hour lunches, and loudly flaunting their lack of interest in doing anything to support the bottom line all day long !
Motivation to break your own back ? I think not!
Got this set up on a Zaurus a few weeks ago. Wouldn't call it snappy response, but it works!
Somehow, using a PDA appeals to the low power "green" conscience a little better than having to leave a real box on 24/7 just to watch the lights turn on and off.
Good point.
Flash can usually only be written/erased 100K to 1 million times.
Writing data is inherently destructive to the tunnel oxide layer in each storage transistor.
When you write applications storing data in flash you have to be aware of this or you can burn it out very quickly !
This is also the reason why flash cannot entirely replace hard drives.
FWIW, some of the newer memory formats in development do not have this restrictions (MRAM, ovonic,etc )
Dunno, Mozilla crashed too badly after I installed it...
Greed is good
Greed is right,
Greed will kill this country.
(paraphrased juuust slightly)
>Sweet, so when can we have computers that come on crystals like in the superman movie.
Uhhh, so silicon is, uhh like, already a crystal, or something...
>What I would like to see, and this is off-topic, > is XML menu specification. So you can download,
>install a program, and then install a menu item
> for it with whatever Window Manager you are
> using.
I see this as a common problem with all OS's I've used to date. Once you have 100+ apps. Its hard to find or remember what they are.
If you are lucky, they install themselves somewhere in a menu (Windows start bar, GNOME panel, KDE kicker, etc). But that place may not be where you might typically look!
Wouldn't it be great to have a dynamic menu system which would display apps by name OR by function, file type association, install date and more? All would be registered providing a keyword (or similar) description when the app is installed. Use a XML, text files, an SQL DB, something, anything as long as it is fast ! Would be cool if it was tied into RPM/APT/portage etc.
More and more I find myself manually searching my installed packages to find "hmmm-which sound recording apps do I have" or "gee-do I have a PNG viewer.." etc, etc. It is sickeningly inefficient.
Not even sure how you would do this under Windows... search the registry ?
The drive to completely emulate the Windows GUI and APPS(!) completely hollows all of the arguments about superiority of alternative OS's. If all we can do is copy what is out there, we will never look or BE any better.
Not only are we unoriginal, but many of these "knock off" apps (for instance spreadsheets with all of the same menu options in all of the same places as Echsmell) would seem to me to be lawyer-bait to the N'th degree!
For those wanting ideas - what ever happened to pie menus ? Enlightenment (quite an original piece of work in its day) had a theme with them at one point...
Personaly, I think apps from 5 years ago were at least more original than the bulk of those floating around today! We are so caught up in trying to imitate Mr.Bill to provide a migration path from Windows that there really isn't anywhere to migrate TO...everything is the same. (unless you count the command line, of course)
I'm still running the Gnome 1 panel and Enlightenment because I can reconfigure it to look completely UNLIKE the stupid windows task bar/start button which I am forced to see at work every day!
Gotta be... article said they were testing in Arizona. Also, one of the photos on their site has the unmistakable form of Picacho Peak (right near Eloy) in the background.
But here's where it gets interesting. Later, when they were finished and had the ship tied down when a sudden wind storm blew in. Wouldn't you know it, he said the last thing he saw was the thing BLOWING AWAY into the sky "going going gone...". Hopefully they had some crew on board, though there's no way those tiny props could've fought any serious wind. We were guessing 1/4 mil was GONE (and we didn't know then that there might be comm. equipment aboard). Tough work being a pioneer in your field...
Totaly agreed. More than a half dozen companies have "mixed signal" SiGe BiCMOS (meaning high performance bipolar/analog and CMOS transistors together) processes in or nearing production including IBM, Motorola, TI, Infineon, Conexant, etc etc.
The trick is that this is relatively new ground for Intel which has been focused on digital logic applications. Too bad for the rest of us...
Though, FWIW, they have lots of catching up to do !
As much as it will drive some people nuts, the fact remains that many systems contain embedded DOS PCs. Every tester in my lab has one!
Would be great to change them over to Linux, but nobodys gonna invest the NRE. And FWIW, they are quite stable with such a simple OS.
Is Bill saying he doesn't give a rat's arse about these types of customers?
Its probably way off the MS product map, too little sophistication for WINCE...
The irony is that these are relatively high margin products!
From the movie: "That's why there ain't a repo man I know who don't take speed" (Or something to that dramatic and grammatically frightful effect)
All I ever really use on my Palm are the basic PIM apps, maybe one or two more. The rest are "neat to have" in the showroom but are nearly valueless in the field. Having said that, we all want to add this or that specific app. which sold me on Palm/visor.
What is annoying about today's PDAs is the size. Was laughing at my office-mate's WinCE brick just the other day. Can hear the pick-up lines already: "is that a PDA in your pants or are you SUPER glad to see me?" Hell, most of them won't even fit in a pocket!
Anyway, a nice,unobtrusive credit-card sized PDA with calendar/alarm and addressbook is ideal.
If they offered a free development environment for this, I would pounce. (sure a few more MB of mem would be nice too...)
Looks like the right answer to the RIGHT QUESTION. Anybody know anything substantive about these ?
Yeah, you can speed up the machine, for a while.
But at reduced temps, especially LN2, hot carriers are generated very efficiently and will degrade those hard working MOSFETS much faster than normal.
Eventually the CPU will stop working...and where's the cost savings in that ?
The countermeasure is to lower the core voltage, but then you won't get quite as much of that coveted blazing speed!
The researchers have come up with a technique for creating short channel transistors without drawing them. This is useful for studying the operation of future devices, but will not directly impact the scaling of circuitry (and die sizes).
If not, isn't it more than a little frightening if that were able to provide such a threat my just screwing around with general attacks ?
Chicken little may be right !
Well, the big day has come and gone but these people still need to eat. Of course they are going to make every attempt to stay relevent and employed by making a huge scene out of every threatening VBS file they can find. (they probably pay MS to "accidentally" leave some security holes open)
"I heard there was a dangerous script somewhere on a computer once. Pay me money so you can feel better about it."
Meanwhile my work computer runs at about 1/3 efficiency because it is busy virus-scanning my text data files. (no,I'm not allowed to change the configuration...to suggest so would probably put me on some list somewhere)
Here in Arizona, the problem is power drain for Air Conditioning. I looked at the EV-1 and the salesman said that turning on the AC cuts the mileage by half. (perhaps the same can be said for slashdot comments)
Last time I read about flywheels for automobiles (~10 years ago), they were planning to balance the wheels in pairs turning in opposite directions to balance things out.
For these reasons there is a common concensus that such future technologies will be limited to the desktop (not your palm-pilot) and may even require bundled refrigeration.
FWIW, 70nm is just one "limit" that was thrown around at the IRPS conference. Another was 25nm!
Don't the Adobe tools allow you to annotate: type and scribble over the original document ? Not that I've ever used this...
What can I say, guilty as charged. We're mostly amateurs and especially in the short term, the bang for the buck(time invested) usually rests in the actual code. Sitting back for a second, I could argue that all of those beautiful professional comments won't do me much good if I can't see them !
Last I heard all sets will be re-purchased if the service is terminated. Though I heard they are commanding some hefty sums on E-bay as collectors items!