Will there be a pinout available for hardware I2C, SPI, RS-232, USB and so on that aren't brought out to headers? Will there be open drivers for the above peripherals? How about real time clock and things like that.
Or will people be stuck having to run bitbanged communications like on other hacked Broadcom stuff, because there is no information available to use the hardware peripherals, at least without a NDA and (presumably) a large cheque. That and having to run an ancient kernel to use the broadcom binary blob drivers...
I'm hoping for something better than that, but if past experience is any indicator...
I'm not sure what is wrong with nokia these days. moving trainwreck, quite a shame.
Make awesome real linux phone, fail to market it.
Then switch to WP7, how disappointing. At the same time basically kill symbian. Although symbian is pretty quirky, being a ground up phone OS and therefore having a week of battery life was a nice feature.
I was looking forward to a whole bunch of maemo devices.:(
It would be more efficient to only light the pixels that need lighting, like say, OLED. Need more work in that dept.
But I guess recovering some amount of power is superior to not recovering anything, it's just never going to be as efficient as using less power in the first place.
Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know.... And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the doomsday^W money-printing machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.
[snip]
Well, it's remarkably simple to do that. When you merely wish to print money, there is no limit to the amount. After that they [printers] are connected to a gigantic complex of computers. Now then, a specific and clearly defined set of circumstances, under which the money is to printed, is programmed into a tape memory bank.
Plenty might be a bit of an overstatement (I do use it myself, though).
Plenty of folks drive ancient half tons, even though they don't support modern functionality like A/C or airbags, nor do they handle like a car. They still haul things however, better than linux^H^H^H^H^H^H cars.
Now hurd on the other hand, i'm not sure what vehicle that corresponds to.
I seem to find that banks seem to continuously be the worst for not allowing things other than [a-zA-Z0-9]. Which is rather funny, if it weren't sad. Usually stupid limits on length too, like 8 chars.
I've made a few over the years, soviets made the tubes by the truckload as late as 91 or so, I presume things ramped down when shit fell apart there.
The prices for the seem to double in price every couple years on ebay, maybe get while the getting is still good. With the prices of things I wouldn't be surprised if they dusted off one of the factories again (like they did for vacuum tubes).
On the same note, I bought some of the soviet nixie driver ICs last year, an analog of a model we quit making here by 1980 or so... In the past when I bought them they were old Soviet stock, but the last batch was date-coded 2010. I guess someone saw the prices and dusted off the litho bits in some old fab in Novosibirsk.
I guess it would be diesel/atompunk, which i consider everything from the depression for diesel, and atom from WWII until transistors became mainstream. That's just me though. Most nixie stuff was transistor driven anyway... So I guess really they're more space age than anything. Dekatrons are older though, I'd think.
Be neat to see what comes of it. Do they have to write code that runs on a bloody RCA 1802? Perhaps the ESA does things differently and has moved on to something a little more modern.;)
You don't need fractions though? That's the point of metric?
A day is 100 centidays long.
Go to work at 37.5cd (375millidays) aka 9h... high noon at.5d / 5dd / 50cd. So take your half hour lunch ( 2 centiday lunch). Come back to the office at 52cd Leave work at 71cd (17h). supper at 75cd (18h). etc. The 11oclock news is now on at 958md. They'd probably make it a nice number like.95day. "Late news nine five". Realistically these would end up being aligned with rounder numbers. Just like no one has an official shift start at 9:13.
1 centiday is roughly 15m (14.4m), so 4 centidays is almost an hour. So instead of meeting someone in an hour or 15m, you meet them in 4 cents, or a cent...
That all seems very weird but I'm sure it would be perfectly natural once adapted to, I would think. Just typing it up is a bit of a mindfuck, but I don't think people born into it would question it any more than they question our current time system.
The real problem is that there are 3600 seconds in a day, so you'd probably want to redefine a second as being 10 microdays (which is 864ms), which would break every other unit pretty much.
Leap seconds and that too. but yeah, that's what I've got right now.
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Will there be a pinout available for hardware I2C, SPI, RS-232, USB and so on that aren't brought out to headers? Will there be open drivers for the above peripherals? How about real time clock and things like that.
Or will people be stuck having to run bitbanged communications like on other hacked Broadcom stuff, because there is no information available to use the hardware peripherals, at least without a NDA and (presumably) a large cheque. That and having to run an ancient kernel to use the broadcom binary blob drivers...
I'm hoping for something better than that, but if past experience is any indicator...
Except the police are in bed with the ruling conservatives. That's generally how fascists operate.
'You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it,' -Harper
I'm also looking to the mandatory minimum sentences and other idiocy they'll be cooking up. I really wish we had PR.
I'm not sure what is wrong with nokia these days. moving trainwreck, quite a shame.
Make awesome real linux phone, fail to market it.
Then switch to WP7, how disappointing. At the same time basically kill symbian. Although symbian is pretty quirky, being a ground up phone OS and therefore having a week of battery life was a nice feature.
I was looking forward to a whole bunch of maemo devices. :(
Computing would look quite a bit different without the transistor, UNIX, and C, among many other things.
Obviously anything digital is related to DEC, duh. It says so right on their logo.
It would be more efficient to only light the pixels that need lighting, like say, OLED. Need more work in that dept.
But I guess recovering some amount of power is superior to not recovering anything, it's just never going to be as efficient as using less power in the first place.
The way I remember it, the Russians got the skin of the plane for analysis, though.
Part of the plane is in the museum just outside Belgrade, though.
Too bad they didn't have cameras to record the nazi-rage reaction face.
Actually, since they're probably children, it would end up being their mom's reaction face when she is doing the laundry. Ah well.
2118mg Au.
I think every mobile phone I've owned in close to a decade has had a built-in email client.
A little late to the game here, but for what it's worth, I've run OBSD on a atom with the 945 chipset in the past, no problem.
Of course it was on server duty (hence openbsd), so I have no idea if the onboard sound, etc, were functional :p
Funny thing how back in the day normal folks could afford to buy shoes made by normal folks, here. Even when they were made by unionized workers.
Perhaps the companies were somewhat less insanely profitable.
me too.
Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. ... And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the doomsday^W money-printing machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.
[snip]
Well, it's remarkably simple to do that. When you merely wish to print money, there is no limit to the amount. After that they [printers] are connected to a gigantic complex of computers. Now then, a specific and clearly defined set of circumstances, under which the money is to printed, is programmed into a tape memory bank.
Ask the psych/philosophy/history majors (and hell, engineers these days) working at starbucks.
Scarcity of a trade provides it with value... (yeah I know that is a small portion of knowledge)
Plenty might be a bit of an overstatement (I do use it myself, though).
Plenty of folks drive ancient half tons, even though they don't support modern functionality like A/C or airbags, nor do they handle like a car. They still haul things however, better than linux^H^H^H^H^H^H cars.
Now hurd on the other hand, i'm not sure what vehicle that corresponds to.
I seem to find that banks seem to continuously be the worst for not allowing things other than [a-zA-Z0-9]. Which is rather funny, if it weren't sad. Usually stupid limits on length too, like 8 chars.
it's the serial number of your account, ie. you are the 2021702nd user of /.
He is calling you a noob.
I've made a few over the years, soviets made the tubes by the truckload as late as 91 or so, I presume things ramped down when shit fell apart there.
The prices for the seem to double in price every couple years on ebay, maybe get while the getting is still good. With the prices of things I wouldn't be surprised if they dusted off one of the factories again (like they did for vacuum tubes).
On the same note, I bought some of the soviet nixie driver ICs last year, an analog of a model we quit making here by 1980 or so... In the past when I bought them they were old Soviet stock, but the last batch was date-coded 2010. I guess someone saw the prices and dusted off the litho bits in some old fab in Novosibirsk.
I guess it would be diesel/atompunk, which i consider everything from the depression for diesel, and atom from WWII until transistors became mainstream. That's just me though. Most nixie stuff was transistor driven anyway... So I guess really they're more space age than anything. Dekatrons are older though, I'd think.
That made me snicker.
Be neat to see what comes of it. Do they have to write code that runs on a bloody RCA 1802? Perhaps the ESA does things differently and has moved on to something a little more modern. ;)
You don't need fractions though? That's the point of metric?
A day is 100 centidays long.
Go to work at 37.5cd (375millidays) aka 9h... high noon at .5d / 5dd / 50cd. So take your half hour lunch ( 2 centiday lunch). Come back to the office at 52cd Leave work at 71cd (17h). supper at 75cd (18h). etc. The 11oclock news is now on at 958md. They'd probably make it a nice number like .95day. "Late news nine five".
Realistically these would end up being aligned with rounder numbers. Just like no one has an official shift start at 9:13.
1 centiday is roughly 15m (14.4m), so 4 centidays is almost an hour. So instead of meeting someone in an hour or 15m, you meet them in 4 cents, or a cent...
That all seems very weird but I'm sure it would be perfectly natural once adapted to, I would think. Just typing it up is a bit of a mindfuck, but I don't think people born into it would question it any more than they question our current time system.
The real problem is that there are 3600 seconds in a day, so you'd probably want to redefine a second as being 10 microdays (which is 864ms), which would break every other unit pretty much.
Leap seconds and that too. but yeah, that's what I've got right now.
How caveman do you think Libya is? They're on metric too.
AFAIK the only non-US nations de jure using imperial are Liberia and Burma.
Did a beetle run over your puppy or something? You're just trolling now.
Weren't they mandated in '64 or 65?
I have a 73, it has (shoulder) seatbelts. not sure what would have come in a '69.
i suppose comparable to other small cars from the era would have been better wording. superior to a motor bike at least :p