I don't know about that. Mediterranean drivers seem to drive like madmen, but they're focused madmen. I'll take that over the half comatose slob with a big mac and a cellphone, any day of the week.
I love how there'll be someone going 50 in a 65 here, in the left lane... You blink them and they sit there like a dildo. That doesn't happen in south europe.
I would say getting your asses kicked out of Vietnam, and the south being overrun is a loss. It didn't destroy the US, but there's no way you could construe it as a victory.
I don't know WTF you're on about. Open. Do you understand what that means? Big companies (or individuals) are free to make pay, gratis, or open source software that works with the standard, and we can use whatever we'd like. It's a win for consumers all around.
The alternative is a proprietary standard is implemented, the owner definitely profits. If you want to implement a alternative program, it's a pain in the ass to reverse engineer compatibility, and generally lags the proprietary version. Less choice for the consumer, not something I'd want enacted in law.
I remember reading an article years ago. ionizing radiation is all around us, in low amounts. Naturally, small amounts of radioactive particles will make it into the epoxy and such surrounding ICs, and at some point it will decay.
From what I remember reading, it was inevitable, so they had to change the design of the [memory, I think] to make it resistant to occasional decay events.
I seem to recall the article being from the dawn of solid state memory, i.e. right after core. I'm thinking it was about DRAM, as SRAM is inherently harder to flip a bit in.
That said, all the oldschool car computers from the 80's generally had a 680x micro, with 256b or so of SRAM on board, and maybe 64k of program ROM - So it shouldn't be prone to problems. Modern computers running.. whatever.. 68000's? x86? with globs of DRAM for infotainment stuff might be a little more prone to radiation flipping bits. I don't know.
I guess if they want to be hardass about it, they can use radhard RAM and ROM and a silicon-on-sapphire COSMAC [vomit] micro for the crucial driving bits, and a normal machine for the infotainment. This is the stuff they use (used?) in space.
Last I checked, Intersil still sold rad hardened 8086's and 1802's, at stupid prices - so presumably NASA and/or the army are still buying them.
I don't think an adapter cable counts as "on the laptop", otherwise I could say any computer has RCA's, if you get a $1 RCA - 1/8" TRS adapter.
Not to mention that TFS is about audio, not TV out. You should have known from the context that I meant RCAs for audio input, on the physical laptop, which I have never seen.
I've had a few linux and bsd boxen run off of CF cards, but even the fast ones are so bloody slow compared to even a slow harddrive. I suppose the lack of a buffer might be part of the problem - or do CF cards have small buffers of SRAM?
Just because the carriers in North America are fucked doesn't mean they are everywhere.
For $5 you get a SIM card and $5 credit. Prepaid, no monthly fees, no commitment, only stipulation is you must add money once a year or the SIM goes void. To send a text is $0.02 - $0.04 depending on the prepaid 'plan' you choose. So if your parking is $1, you pay $1.02 then... There are no other fees. I'm not entirely certain, but on purchases (like the parking) the SMS fee might be rolled into it, too. (so it would cost $1 even).
TFS seems to be rambling on about laptops though, and I've never seen a laptop with RCA connectors, ever.
That said, every: A) Motherboard with onboard sound B) Soundcard C) Laptop I've ever purchased has a line-in jack on it, so I'm really quite confused as to what the problem is.
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What irks me is the "I don't like/want it therefore it's crap" attitude
Quite the opposite for myself. It's crap, therefore I don't like/want it.
I won't be buying one either due to the locked down closed nature. But this really doesn't matter *at all* to most people.
Until they change something, that is.
But for the Ipad they could make it do even less and no one would care, as long as it still matches their turtle neck, and looks sharp in a starbucks.
errr tetromino. require coffee.
I've been playing Tetris for 20 years, and it's still not boring.
I love my soviet tetrahedron overlord.
Smoking? how do you figure?
Doesn't take much attention to smoke.
I don't know about that. Mediterranean drivers seem to drive like madmen, but they're focused madmen. I'll take that over the half comatose slob with a big mac and a cellphone, any day of the week.
I love how there'll be someone going 50 in a 65 here, in the left lane... You blink them and they sit there like a dildo. That doesn't happen in south europe.
You raise a bunch of good points.
I'd like to see the test done in Manhattan instead of Utah.
I'm still waiting on my patent on fire to go through.
I would say getting your asses kicked out of Vietnam, and the south being overrun is a loss.
It didn't destroy the US, but there's no way you could construe it as a victory.
I don't know WTF you're on about. Open. Do you understand what that means? Big companies (or individuals) are free to make pay, gratis, or open source software that works with the standard, and we can use whatever we'd like. It's a win for consumers all around.
The alternative is a proprietary standard is implemented, the owner definitely profits. If you want to implement a alternative program, it's a pain in the ass to reverse engineer compatibility, and generally lags the proprietary version. Less choice for the consumer, not something I'd want enacted in law.
Not bloody likely. OpenSSL and OpenSSH are a wee bit bigger than ubuntu, imo.
I remember reading an article years ago. ionizing radiation is all around us, in low amounts. Naturally, small amounts of radioactive particles will make it into the epoxy and such surrounding ICs, and at some point it will decay.
From what I remember reading, it was inevitable, so they had to change the design of the [memory, I think] to make it resistant to occasional decay events.
I seem to recall the article being from the dawn of solid state memory, i.e. right after core. I'm thinking it was about DRAM, as SRAM is inherently harder to flip a bit in.
That said, all the oldschool car computers from the 80's generally had a 680x micro, with 256b or so of SRAM on board, and maybe 64k of program ROM - So it shouldn't be prone to problems.
Modern computers running.. whatever.. 68000's? x86? with globs of DRAM for infotainment stuff might be a little more prone to radiation flipping bits. I don't know.
I guess if they want to be hardass about it, they can use radhard RAM and ROM and a silicon-on-sapphire COSMAC [vomit] micro for the crucial driving bits, and a normal machine for the infotainment. This is the stuff they use (used?) in space.
Last I checked, Intersil still sold rad hardened 8086's and 1802's, at stupid prices - so presumably NASA and/or the army are still buying them.
Here's their rad hard 8086:
http://www.intersil.com/products/deviceinfo.asp?pn=HS-80C86RH
Apparently good to 100k rad dose - any humans nearby will be pushing daises a very long time before that.
True, but it's not like the old days where you could pick up a TV, made in the US, with every single component inside also made in the US.
You're going to be waiting a lot longer than that.
Soviet union was totalitarian socialism, it's supposed to be a stage on the way to communism. Never made it there.
What about the computer you posted that on?
There are some things you can't get domestically.
No cure for cancer? pfft.
megasquirt is just fuel (spark too, for MS2) - so you'd still need a cable for the throttle.
unless you use megasquirt, and bang up your own $2 microcontroller for the pedal. I can't see it being that big of a deal.
I don't think an adapter cable counts as "on the laptop", otherwise I could say any computer has RCA's, if you get a $1 RCA - 1/8" TRS adapter.
Not to mention that TFS is about audio, not TV out. You should have known from the context that I meant RCAs for audio input, on the physical laptop, which I have never seen.
What made you switch away from Debian in the first place?
Ubuntu seems like a dumbed down, stupidly named, broken debian as far as I can tell.
How do you plan on sticking a whole date in 8 bits?
I've had a few linux and bsd boxen run off of CF cards, but even the fast ones are so bloody slow compared to even a slow harddrive. I suppose the lack of a buffer might be part of the problem - or do CF cards have small buffers of SRAM?
iowait drives me crazy.
Just because the carriers in North America are fucked doesn't mean they are everywhere.
For $5 you get a SIM card and $5 credit. Prepaid, no monthly fees, no commitment, only stipulation is you must add money once a year or the SIM goes void.
To send a text is $0.02 - $0.04 depending on the prepaid 'plan' you choose.
So if your parking is $1, you pay $1.02 then... There are no other fees. I'm not entirely certain, but on purchases (like the parking) the SMS fee might be rolled into it, too. (so it would cost $1 even).
TFS seems to be rambling on about laptops though, and I've never seen a laptop with RCA connectors, ever.
That said, every:
A) Motherboard with onboard sound
B) Soundcard
C) Laptop
I've ever purchased has a line-in jack on it, so I'm really quite confused as to what the problem is.
This is only in zones that already had paid parking. Normal residential areas are still free, of course.