Good luck getting the chip out of broadcom without an order for a billion units. (assuming you are equipped to deal with BGA packages in the first place).
Problem is you have to fine tune it to the specific patient's infection, you can't just write them a script. Can't really see the american system being too hot on that, because most of the price would be lab labour based, and wouldn't go to a drug company. hmmm.
I've had / seen several Nokias within the last.. 3-10 years? That were still made in Finland, Germany, etc. Some economy models were korean, IIRC. Lately I think they just say 'made by Nokia' or made in china. Way of the world I guess.
That was always one of the things I had liked about them. Of course I suppose a fair bit of the silicon was still third world, but... that's somewhat inevitable, right?
Problem with this is - I see the CE mark on many devices that (yes, [citation needed]) I'm almost entirely sure have not been tested, and don't qualify for CE/TuV/UL/etc. Random worthless electronics from china on ebay, for example.
The ICs are still almost entirely made in the third world. Even when the dies are made somewhere with standards, they're usually packaged somewhere poorer.
But then you can go further. Some poor bastard mined the tin and copper for the leads. Another processed the ore to raw metal, another stamped the sheet metal. Someone made chemicals for processing the ore, and making the epoxy. Someone trucked that stuff to the packaging facility. Chances are most of those people were working in pretty shitty conditions also.
I seem to recall some hype for early last fall, then pretty sure by december, then certainly january. Oh, *definitely* february. Looks like it's going to be march, at this rate.
Ignoring all the problems with it being catholic - it's bad even on an efficiency scale, ignoring religion. Damn near everywhere in my city, instead of building one large public school, they build two small schools, one of each. Then there are two publically funded boards, all with redundant structures, from grounds maintenance, to book/curiculum planners/editors, etc. Stupid as hell.
Some other weird things... When I was a kid, only catholic schools had french, so if you wanted your kids to learn french, the logic must follow you want them to be catholic. Only kids in french immersion got taxpayer funded bus service. Students in english classes (at the catholic or at a public school) had to walk. I never figured that one out. O_o
Well, sort of. Some archaic shit said that the largest minority gets it's own publicly funded school. I think there are a few very small protestant public school boards here and there, but generally they are catholic, as there are more protestants, generally - not sure what goes on in quebec.
dumb as hell and needs to be dropped, though. if you want god in your school, you pay for it.
Yeah, looks like they kept the same ugly case from years ago. For compatibility I suppose?
You'd think if you have enough cash for the new board, the case isn't really too relevant. Upgradable phone aspect is cool, sticking with the same form factor... but that only applies when the original doesn't suck!
it's a marshmallow-like paste, wet marshmallows I suppose. Sugar and egg, pretty much. You can put it on ice cream, deserts, etc. Weirdos put it on peanut butter sandwiches. ("fluffernutter").
I've never seen a 6-pack though. only in America, I guess.:-p
I've seen made in USA motherboards with foxconn ISA slots on them. Doesn't mean foxconn made the board, just the connector. Used to see their name on a lot of connectors, I suppose that's where foxconn comes from...
If you want to do it in the most horribly inefficient fashion, yeah, that will work.
Shunt regulators really suck for anything other than minuscule amounts of current, for a reference as example.
A shunt reg has to burn more than just the voltage drop (the extra in the zener, to keep the voltage level). It has to be sized to draw slightly more than the device's maximum draw at all times. So - say full load on the ipad is 2A, idle is 1A. We design this to draw say 2.2A, a little room so it doesn't drop out on peak - so we're burning 28V * 2.2A = 62W all the time, while the ipad is getting 5W average, or 10W peak (out of the 62W). 8% efficiency at idle. 16% at full load.
A better setup is a normal linear reg (which can be made up of discrete parts, or integrated like the venerable 7805), which will basically only burn the drop (there is a small amount for ref, but basically negligible) So 23V drop * 1A draw = 23W burnt. total consumption 28W. ~18% efficiency at idle or full load (this one is linear..)
Typically you wouldn't do this though, you'd use a transformer off the AC supply (assuming their is one) to get the voltage into the ballpark, then rectify and reg, to get efficiency up over 50%, maybe as much as 80% with decent design and low dropout reg. (transformers are heavy and bulky though - which is why planes use 400Hz).
SMPS is of course, the best, some modes exceeding 90% efficiency - but that didn't always exist. A lot of old military transceivers used dynamotors, which is the most efficient non-transistorized way to do DC-DC conversion. kinda... funny in a way, so very primitive, but also sort of genius. brute-brilliance, i guess... Heavy, loud, and high maintenance, though.
The planes weren't designed to be outdated in two years, though.
I'd also imagine that a lot of the devices in planes, if it is anything like the old mil electronics I've come across... are contracted by the DoD to whoever, it doesn't matter if the company still exists - the DoD still has the specs and can get someone else to build replacement units (not to mention they over bought spare parts in the first place). I'd also imagine most outfits involved still exist in some way, perhaps swallowed by other massive defense contractors.
Most of Canada doesn't have this either. Any time it's brought up in my region, rednecks 'don't want no one to tell me what to put on ma truck', bitch about how expensive tires are, etc. I'm sure the drop in accidents would probably make it cheaper in the long run, not to mention save time and lives. (aside from the fact that once purchased, you don't wear two tires out at once - they last twice as long, effectively. The only extra cost is the effort/price of changing them/getting them changed in fall and spring).
I think they're mandatory in Quebec, maybe they're a little more sane there.
I have winter tires every year, helps avoiding idiots with bald all-seasons, but unfortunately doesn't prevent them from running into you.
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If they ever implement the death penalty for 'legal persons', I'd like to see Monsanto as one of the first against the wall.
Good luck getting the chip out of broadcom without an order for a billion units. (assuming you are equipped to deal with BGA packages in the first place).
Yep, that soviet magic.
Problem is you have to fine tune it to the specific patient's infection, you can't just write them a script. Can't really see the american system being too hot on that, because most of the price would be lab labour based, and wouldn't go to a drug company. hmmm.
I've had / seen several Nokias within the last.. 3-10 years? That were still made in Finland, Germany, etc. Some economy models were korean, IIRC. Lately I think they just say 'made by Nokia' or made in china. Way of the world I guess.
That was always one of the things I had liked about them. Of course I suppose a fair bit of the silicon was still third world, but... that's somewhat inevitable, right?
<STRONG> Hand assembled in AMERICA. </STRONG>
<font class="miniscule">(using components manufactured in the third world)</font>
Problem with this is - I see the CE mark on many devices that (yes, [citation needed]) I'm almost entirely sure have not been tested, and don't qualify for CE/TuV/UL/etc. Random worthless electronics from china on ebay, for example.
That testing isn't cheap, you know.
The ICs are still almost entirely made in the third world. Even when the dies are made somewhere with standards, they're usually packaged somewhere poorer.
But then you can go further. Some poor bastard mined the tin and copper for the leads. Another processed the ore to raw metal, another stamped the sheet metal. Someone made chemicals for processing the ore, and making the epoxy. Someone trucked that stuff to the packaging facility. Chances are most of those people were working in pretty shitty conditions also.
I seem to recall some hype for early last fall, then pretty sure by december, then certainly january. Oh, *definitely* february. Looks like it's going to be march, at this rate.
Ignoring all the problems with it being catholic - it's bad even on an efficiency scale, ignoring religion.
Damn near everywhere in my city, instead of building one large public school, they build two small schools, one of each. Then there are two publically funded boards, all with redundant structures, from grounds maintenance, to book/curiculum planners/editors, etc. Stupid as hell.
Some other weird things... When I was a kid, only catholic schools had french, so if you wanted your kids to learn french, the logic must follow you want them to be catholic.
Only kids in french immersion got taxpayer funded bus service. Students in english classes (at the catholic or at a public school) had to walk. I never figured that one out. O_o
Well, sort of. Some archaic shit said that the largest minority gets it's own publicly funded school. I think there are a few very small protestant public school boards here and there, but generally they are catholic, as there are more protestants, generally - not sure what goes on in quebec.
dumb as hell and needs to be dropped, though. if you want god in your school, you pay for it.
Well, that's why it's $1000, of course. Economy of scale doesn't really kick in on things like this. Which is sort of.. self... perpetuating.
Yeah, looks like they kept the same ugly case from years ago. For compatibility I suppose?
You'd think if you have enough cash for the new board, the case isn't really too relevant.
Upgradable phone aspect is cool, sticking with the same form factor... but that only applies when the original doesn't suck!
it's a marshmallow-like paste, wet marshmallows I suppose. Sugar and egg, pretty much. You can put it on ice cream, deserts, etc. Weirdos put it on peanut butter sandwiches. ("fluffernutter").
I've never seen a 6-pack though. only in America, I guess. :-p
I've seen made in USA motherboards with foxconn ISA slots on them. Doesn't mean foxconn made the board, just the connector. Used to see their name on a lot of connectors, I suppose that's where foxconn comes from...
If you want to do it in the most horribly inefficient fashion, yeah, that will work.
Shunt regulators really suck for anything other than minuscule amounts of current, for a reference as example.
A shunt reg has to burn more than just the voltage drop (the extra in the zener, to keep the voltage level). It has to be sized to draw slightly more than the device's maximum draw at all times.
So - say full load on the ipad is 2A, idle is 1A. We design this to draw say 2.2A, a little room so it doesn't drop out on peak - so we're burning 28V * 2.2A = 62W all the time, while the ipad is getting 5W average, or 10W peak (out of the 62W).
8% efficiency at idle. 16% at full load.
A better setup is a normal linear reg (which can be made up of discrete parts, or integrated like the venerable 7805), which will basically only burn the drop (there is a small amount for ref, but basically negligible)
So 23V drop * 1A draw = 23W burnt. total consumption 28W.
~18% efficiency at idle or full load (this one is linear..)
Typically you wouldn't do this though, you'd use a transformer off the AC supply (assuming their is one) to get the voltage into the ballpark, then rectify and reg, to get efficiency up over 50%, maybe as much as 80% with decent design and low dropout reg. (transformers are heavy and bulky though - which is why planes use 400Hz).
SMPS is of course, the best, some modes exceeding 90% efficiency - but that didn't always exist. A lot of old military transceivers used dynamotors, which is the most efficient non-transistorized way to do DC-DC conversion. kinda... funny in a way, so very primitive, but also sort of genius. brute-brilliance, i guess... Heavy, loud, and high maintenance, though.
guess i rambled a bit much... hope it helps.
I was thinking of a situation when you've lost power, perhaps some sort of EMP has taken out your iPads too.
Might want a paper map to find somewhere nice to put 'er down, no..?
The planes weren't designed to be outdated in two years, though.
I'd also imagine that a lot of the devices in planes, if it is anything like the old mil electronics I've come across... are contracted by the DoD to whoever, it doesn't matter if the company still exists - the DoD still has the specs and can get someone else to build replacement units (not to mention they over bought spare parts in the first place).
I'd also imagine most outfits involved still exist in some way, perhaps swallowed by other massive defense contractors.
They should probably keep paper around, even if it isn't updated as often, as a backup.
It's going to suck to have nothing when your batteries die or the software fails.
$1.2M of fuel seems like a drop in the bucket for the amount of birds they keep in the air, and one falling out of it is worth far more.
I guess they did this exclusively for the pun.
Normally you call write once read many "ROM".
Sanders is sort of a rare beast among US politicians. I think he'd be one of the harder ones to buy.
I think a big chunk of that is that even a 5 year old desktop is fast enough for most consumer tasks now, no?
The market is rather saturated with fast desktops, not like the leaps between 486 -> P1 > P2/3. There's less incentive to upgrade regularly.
Doesn't have to be ARM, there are cheap x86 processors too. Problem is they are also slow.
Not quite as cheap, I suppose. Guess we'll have to see what their 'unbelievable prices' are.
Whatever happened to that Chinese endeavour.. Longsoon? Think that was MIPS based.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Most of Canada doesn't have this either. Any time it's brought up in my region, rednecks 'don't want no one to tell me what to put on ma truck', bitch about how expensive tires are, etc. I'm sure the drop in accidents would probably make it cheaper in the long run, not to mention save time and lives. (aside from the fact that once purchased, you don't wear two tires out at once - they last twice as long, effectively. The only extra cost is the effort/price of changing them/getting them changed in fall and spring).
I think they're mandatory in Quebec, maybe they're a little more sane there.
I have winter tires every year, helps avoiding idiots with bald all-seasons, but unfortunately doesn't prevent them from running into you.
There was an optional gas-fired heater, pretty much standard in this part of the world, that made bugs nice and toasty.
They'd joke the heater used more fuel than the engine.