I've noticed that drivers actually stay out of the fucking passing lane in europe, too. Not the case in north america, primarily because it's never enforced. There's always some dildo sitting in the passing lane for ages.
getty ain't going to be losing serial support anytime soon.
But yes, serial console is awesome. Although not awesome enough to write an article about.
People really need to learn that "D" subminiature connectors are not inherently serial or parallel. A DB-25 with RS-232 on it is still RS-232. Nothing parallel about it, apart from the fact that a lot of printer cards used the same connector.
Not so much for standard parts, but more for oddball stuff that I "think I have some", design something around it, and then can't find it.
The bins are necessary, for sure. But they're not the end all. I hate looking through a thousand bins for a part you may or may not have (memory ain't as hot as it used to be). I must have a thousand+ different vacuum tubes, FFS. I don't know how many different ICs I have, but it's pretty ridiculous.
Of course, even if I had the thing, I probably wouldn't be too good about marking things as used, but... at least I could.
I think he means the SIM cards came with 'credit' on them, ready to rock; not that he paid with a CC.
Same deal in the balkans. $5 gets you a SIM with $5 credit on it, good for a year. No ID.
Here in Canada they rape you $30 for a SIM with no credit. fucking crooks. Think you have to phone the thing in to register it also, but it's been a while.
True, but modern (E)EPROM programmers / readers will still read EPROM chips dating to at least the late 70's.
A SD card has a lot more in common with a ROM chip than it does with a 30 year old spinning disk, the way I see it. You call pull data off it using SPI interface, which pretty well every microcontroller made in the last decade has in hardware, and if not, you can bit-bang it half-drunk and blindfolded. All the information is available, I just can't see it being lost to the sands of time if you can bang up a reader for peanuts.
Guys have hooked these up to (home) routers, bitbanging the data off GPIOs that were originally relegated to flickering LEDs, and are able to use them as storage. (under linux)
Here is a pdf on the interface. http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/pls/Simplified_Physical_Layer_Spec.pdf Section 7 is what I'm on about. The speed is reduced in the simple SPI mode, but if the data is important, I suppose that is irrelevant.
I don't know if ASCII would be the best example. It's been around 50+ years, and is still readable. Hell, it's the default / only supported format for a lot of things, still. (well backward compatible extensions at least, CP-437 et al). UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ascii for that matter, too.
I'm rather disappointed with the lack of unicode support for a lot of things, in 2010. (slashdot for example).
I'd Imagine SDRSUFHC (Secure Digital Really Super Ultra Fucking High Capacity) card readers will be backwards compatible to plain old SD too. Besides, SD cards fall back to a slower plain old SPI bus, and that isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Open maemo/meego, Qt, symbian (which is kinda long in the tooth, but still has a place, and sells a ton). Polar opposite of what some phone outfits do. *I* own the fucking phone, not some guy in Cupertino.
Qt's cross platformness is awesome.
Meego is a horribly lame name though, I liked maemo a lot better, name wise. Now if only I could afford a phone with maemo/meego on it. I currently have a couple symbian phones, and an older maemo tablet, which is pretty neat, but hurting for ram and a keyboard.
I would think it's more likely there is trace radioactive elements in the epoxy the chip is encapsulated in.
Actually, I recall reading that in the early solid state memory days, they had problems with this. I don't remember what the solution was, but I thought it was to make the circuit somewhat resilient to it, as it was impossible to get 100% neutral epoxy, there's always going to be traces of something radioactive.
I think they tested the cosmic ray theory by running the same chip with and without lead shielding, and did not find a significant difference in errors, they then assumed it was impurities in the chips themselves decaying.
Fido was entirely independent with their own set of towers at one point in time. (microcell). However Rogers bought 'em out and consolidated equipment/towers.
Every other GSM provider (up until recently / soon, but after the rogers-fido merger) just leases rogers' network, though. (7-11 and.. whoever else).
You can just use this struct and some preprocessor magic, and then you can define pins if you won't want to bitmask port reads and writes. typedef struct {
unsigned int bit0:1;
unsigned int bit1:1;
unsigned int bit2:1;
unsigned int bit3:1;
unsigned int bit4:1;
unsigned int bit5:1;
unsigned int bit6:1;
unsigned int bit7:1; } _io_reg;
Then you can just do this: if (TEMP)//PINB bit 5 is high
RELAY = 1;//engage relay (on PORTB bit 6) else RELAY = 0;
Makes things a little more readable vs. bitmasking: if(PINB & 0x20)//if pinb bit5 is high
PORTB |= 0x40;// set PB6 else PORTB &= ~0x40;// else clear PB6
I just use plain AVRs and the AVR port of GCC myself. Never bothered with the arduino stuff.
If only there was a "indict for crimes against humanity" button next to every site that has some sort of facebook like/link bullshit.
When I see banners on brick and mortar stores asking "Are we facebook friends yet?" I die inside a little bit. When I see newscasts saying to "check our facebook", i get nauseous.
B. Fix the traffic lights for minimal cost and offer some improvement on things.
But I guess since B doesn't remove cars entirely, we should do nothing right? That's pretty fucked logic you've got there. If doing this saves only 10% on urban fuel consumption, it will have the same effect as 1 out of 10 people stopping driving entirely. Seems like a net positive to me, and a lot more feasible than hoping 10% of people to give up their cars and start walking everywhere.
My route to work is horrible. I hit nearly every light, every day, even when coming home in the middle of the night. I'd like to send the city a bill for 20%+ of my gas, and half the cost of replacing brakes & clutch when the time comes, as this could have been easily saved by fixing the fucking lights. The rage induced by hitting every light probably knocked a few years off my life too.
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How will a $0.35 dioxin contaminated plastic plate and utensils, manufactured in China, and purchased at wal-mart, reduce exposure in the US?
Unfortunately Ripper mixed the grain alcohol with DHMO. (I think "Pure rain water" was the term he used).
Skylarov could have stayed in civil a country, and he wouldn't have been arrested.
I was under the impression they already had this for some time now, at least for certain labels/artists.
Doesn't it say below the video (on occasion) < $SONG_NAME - buy it now at $STORE >?
Obviously the detection is functional if that works.
I've noticed that drivers actually stay out of the fucking passing lane in europe, too. Not the case in north america, primarily because it's never enforced. There's always some dildo sitting in the passing lane for ages.
getty ain't going to be losing serial support anytime soon.
But yes, serial console is awesome. Although not awesome enough to write an article about.
People really need to learn that "D" subminiature connectors are not inherently serial or parallel. A DB-25 with RS-232 on it is still RS-232. Nothing parallel about it, apart from the fact that a lot of printer cards used the same connector.
Not so much for standard parts, but more for oddball stuff that I "think I have some", design something around it, and then can't find it.
The bins are necessary, for sure. But they're not the end all. I hate looking through a thousand bins for a part you may or may not have (memory ain't as hot as it used to be). I must have a thousand+ different vacuum tubes, FFS. I don't know how many different ICs I have, but it's pretty ridiculous.
Of course, even if I had the thing, I probably wouldn't be too good about marking things as used, but... at least I could.
This. Plurality breeds an apathetic voting class, and two bent parties.
I think he means the SIM cards came with 'credit' on them, ready to rock; not that he paid with a CC.
Same deal in the balkans. $5 gets you a SIM with $5 credit on it, good for a year. No ID.
Here in Canada they rape you $30 for a SIM with no credit. fucking crooks. Think you have to phone the thing in to register it also, but it's been a while.
No, the same way readers for SDHC and the new one (SDXC?) will still read plain old SD cards.
True, but modern (E)EPROM programmers / readers will still read EPROM chips dating to at least the late 70's.
A SD card has a lot more in common with a ROM chip than it does with a 30 year old spinning disk, the way I see it. You call pull data off it using SPI interface, which pretty well every microcontroller made in the last decade has in hardware, and if not, you can bit-bang it half-drunk and blindfolded. All the information is available, I just can't see it being lost to the sands of time if you can bang up a reader for peanuts.
Guys have hooked these up to (home) routers, bitbanging the data off GPIOs that were originally relegated to flickering LEDs, and are able to use them as storage. (under linux)
Here is a pdf on the interface.
http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/pls/Simplified_Physical_Layer_Spec.pdf
Section 7 is what I'm on about. The speed is reduced in the simple SPI mode, but if the data is important, I suppose that is irrelevant.
I don't know if ASCII would be the best example. It's been around 50+ years, and is still readable. Hell, it's the default / only supported format for a lot of things, still. (well backward compatible extensions at least, CP-437 et al). UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ascii for that matter, too.
I'm rather disappointed with the lack of unicode support for a lot of things, in 2010. (slashdot for example).
I'd Imagine SDRSUFHC (Secure Digital Really Super Ultra Fucking High Capacity) card readers will be backwards compatible to plain old SD too. Besides, SD cards fall back to a slower plain old SPI bus, and that isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Open maemo/meego, Qt, symbian (which is kinda long in the tooth, but still has a place, and sells a ton). Polar opposite of what some phone outfits do. *I* own the fucking phone, not some guy in Cupertino.
Qt's cross platformness is awesome.
Meego is a horribly lame name though, I liked maemo a lot better, name wise. Now if only I could afford a phone with maemo/meego on it. I currently have a couple symbian phones, and an older maemo tablet, which is pretty neat, but hurting for ram and a keyboard.
I would think it's more likely there is trace radioactive elements in the epoxy the chip is encapsulated in.
Actually, I recall reading that in the early solid state memory days, they had problems with this. I don't remember what the solution was, but I thought it was to make the circuit somewhat resilient to it, as it was impossible to get 100% neutral epoxy, there's always going to be traces of something radioactive.
I think they tested the cosmic ray theory by running the same chip with and without lead shielding, and did not find a significant difference in errors, they then assumed it was impurities in the chips themselves decaying.
It's not that they weren't capable of transmitting voice (AM), it that it needs way more power to get the same range as CW.
Fido was entirely independent with their own set of towers at one point in time. (microcell).
However Rogers bought 'em out and consolidated equipment/towers.
Every other GSM provider (up until recently / soon, but after the rogers-fido merger) just leases rogers' network, though. (7-11 and.. whoever else).
Troll harder. The problem is corruption; People aren't paying the existing taxes.
You can just use this struct and some preprocessor magic, and then you can define pins if you won't want to bitmask port reads and writes.
typedef struct
{
unsigned int bit0:1;
unsigned int bit1:1;
unsigned int bit2:1;
unsigned int bit3:1;
unsigned int bit4:1;
unsigned int bit5:1;
unsigned int bit6:1;
unsigned int bit7:1;
} _io_reg;
#define REGISTER_BIT(rg,bt) ((volatile _io_reg*)&rg)->bit##bt
#define TEMP REGISTER_BIT(PINB,5)
#define RELAY REGISTER_BIT(PORTB,6)
Then you can just do this:
//PINB bit 5 is high //engage relay (on PORTB bit 6)
if (TEMP)
RELAY = 1;
else RELAY = 0;
Makes things a little more readable vs. bitmasking:
//if pinb bit5 is high // set PB6 // else clear PB6
if(PINB & 0x20)
PORTB |= 0x40;
else PORTB &= ~0x40;
I just use plain AVRs and the AVR port of GCC myself. Never bothered with the arduino stuff.
900 billiard bits. Awesome.
+1 Fail would be nice, for when the sheer level of fail warrants others seeing it.
There is a reply button. Then messages are threaded. This makes things easier to follow.
If only there was a "indict for crimes against humanity" button next to every site that has some sort of facebook like/link bullshit.
When I see banners on brick and mortar stores asking "Are we facebook friends yet?" I die inside a little bit. When I see newscasts saying to "check our facebook", i get nauseous.
It's still single phase, just the transformer supplying the house has a centre tapped winding. "split-phase".
You must be new here.
Cars aren't going away any time soon. So we can:
A. Do nothing.
B. Fix the traffic lights for minimal cost and offer some improvement on things.
But I guess since B doesn't remove cars entirely, we should do nothing right? That's pretty fucked logic you've got there. If doing this saves only 10% on urban fuel consumption, it will have the same effect as 1 out of 10 people stopping driving entirely. Seems like a net positive to me, and a lot more feasible than hoping 10% of people to give up their cars and start walking everywhere.
My route to work is horrible. I hit nearly every light, every day, even when coming home in the middle of the night. I'd like to send the city a bill for 20%+ of my gas, and half the cost of replacing brakes & clutch when the time comes, as this could have been easily saved by fixing the fucking lights. The rage induced by hitting every light probably knocked a few years off my life too.