According to this, I can not buy a computer with out an OS and still use the beta's that come with my MSDN subscription to see how I'm supposed to grab my ankles this time. I need to buy an OS, wipe it, then install the Beta...
And if I sneak the order in with our next major PC purchase Microsoft is going to give me hell for developing for and supporting the Microsoft OS.
It never fails to amaze me how a goverment funded TV network is considered a better/higher quality/Less Bias'd network than the 'free' commercial networks.
It falls in line with the son of the former head of the CIA lost the popular vote but still became president of the US.
org 0x20
START
; Code to setup all your I/O states
MAIN_LOOP
; code you execute in the main loop
goto MAIN_LOOP
INT_Vector
; code to save register states
; code to handle interrupt(s)
; usually time critical I/O and timing
; code to restore register states
retfie ; return from interrupt
I give you a complete embedded O/S. If you need more than this, please refer to rules 1 and 2.
This chip with a FTDIFT8U245AM latched onto Port D gives you a complete embedded 20Mhz USB device (with linux drivers).
You need an OS? That is the rumor that keeps Microsoft and Slashdot in the green.
The X-33 was nasa's selection of Lockheed Martins answer to the McDonald Douglas's DC-X program that was funded by the DOD to support launch requirements for SDI (Star Wars).
NASA jumped on the bandwagon when it saw that the DOD was making progress in SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) technologies. They took the technology away from the DOD and miss managed it into the ground, Crashed the DC-X, and have killed our future.
Let's hope the DOD can rise from the ashes.
After all this any operational vehicle should be named the Phoenix
Once Passport expands to protecting e-money and banks, then...
All your money belongs to them...
If microsoft was smart, it would scan all passport accounts that now belong to them and seize all the assets. Need to finance a new software product to take over the world, use the Passport users credit to take out the loan. For a down payment, use the money in the passport user's bank accounts...
Any spinning object has a gyroscopic efect that impeads the objects rotation about any axis that is not the same as the objects rotation...
In a nut shell, every time we spin a wheel that is not perfectly aligned with the earths axis of rotation we are slowing down the planets rotation.
The Fan in your computer, the wheels on your bike, the motor in your car, the generators at the local nuclear power plant. They are all slowing the earths rotation.
Funny thing is the cumlative effect of this is so small we are unable to measure it.
Just goes to show how tiny and puny we really are...
Effects.
We produce extra food to not be used...
This costs us labor and fuel that could be applied to other more usefull projects.
This requires us to use land and fisheries that would not be needed and could otherwise be used or left wild.
For every X hours of farm work, X2 people are injured and X3 people are killed...
I once saw an article that indicated ~27% of the food produced in the US is wasted, think about it, we use a third more land, a third more fuel, maime and kill a third more people than needed to keep ourselves fed.
This has nothing to do with tree hugging, and everything to do with wasted lives and opportunity. And yes I do not stockpile food to let it go bad.
My fridge is usually empty at the end of the week, and I have a policy of not letting food sit unused for more than two weeks... It's called JIT (Just in Time) for the home.
Microsoft turning up the screws on corporate america will only make corporate america balk at microsoft's products. They would rather spend $100 coming up with an alternative than pay an extra $1 to prove they are in compliance.
This could do what TUX was never able to do, nothing scares a Boss more than an audit, and they will go to great lengths to avoid being in a position where they can be audited.
From ISRO press release the problem was in the liquid strapon boosters, which where developed in India, not russia. The russian component was the cryogenic upper stage. It was never given a chance to prove itself...
Thanks for the info on the direction they are going after 157nm. Tells me which way to point our test equipment (Ashame our web mistress took our VACUUM UV products off the website).
And yes we do make test equipment that goes down to 13nm.
Excellent article, if you believe everything you read, they will completely skip 157nm and go straight to 13nm. I think 6 to 10 years is more realistic.
My guess, NASA has been turning over the data from the mars polar orbitor and they have been going over it a pixel at a time.
If I remember correctly, the lander was only supposed to be 2 to 3 pixels in size in the images. So I'm guessing they have a few pixels that don't look right.
As for being able to see the three landing legs, I think this is a Red Herring. Remember Lou Dobbs (space.com) like NASA is a little short on money these days. The legs are an artifact of either the reporter or the person that leaked the story...
If these pixels are not the lander, and not image defects, what are they...
They are quoting $10 each, using standard margins, it means they cost about $3.33 each to make... If the Chip and batery cost less than $3 I could believe it.
Or the flip side is they cost close to $10 to make, but plan on making the money back by selling addition minutes. Kinda like ink-jet printers and single use camera's.
The thing will fit nicely in my wallet next to my REX. A PCIMIA Sized PDA...
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Interesting,
According to this, I can not buy a computer with out an OS and still use the beta's that come with my MSDN subscription to see how I'm supposed to grab my ankles this time. I need to buy an OS, wipe it, then install the Beta...
And if I sneak the order in with our next major PC purchase Microsoft is going to give me hell for developing for and supporting the Microsoft OS.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
It never fails to amaze me how a goverment funded TV network is considered a better/higher quality/Less Bias'd network than the 'free' commercial networks.
It falls in line with the son of the former head of the CIA lost the popular vote but still became president of the US.
And Yes I like PBS/NPR and Bush I / II.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
If your using something large enough to require a OS, you either ...
1. Don't have an embedded application
2. Have over designed your product
Let's take a look at how you would code up a PIC 16C74 from Microchip.
org 0x00
goto START
org 0x04
goto INT_Vector
org 0x20
START
; Code to setup all your I/O states
MAIN_LOOP
; code you execute in the main loop
goto MAIN_LOOP
INT_Vector
; code to save register states
; code to handle interrupt(s)
; usually time critical I/O and timing
; code to restore register states
retfie ; return from interrupt
I give you a complete embedded O/S. If you need more than this, please refer to rules 1 and 2.
This chip with a FTDI FT8U245AM latched onto Port D gives you a complete embedded 20Mhz USB device (with linux drivers).
You need an OS? That is the rumor that keeps Microsoft and Slashdot in the green.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
A bit of history...
The X-33 was nasa's selection of Lockheed Martins answer to the McDonald Douglas's DC-X program that was funded by the DOD to support launch requirements for SDI (Star Wars).
NASA jumped on the bandwagon when it saw that the DOD was making progress in SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) technologies. They took the technology away from the DOD and miss managed it into the ground, Crashed the DC-X, and have killed our future.
Let's hope the DOD can rise from the ashes.
After all this any operational vehicle should be named the Phoenix
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
All you need to do is nudge a small space rock.
This could be done with non-nuclear rockets...
An ion engine with a couple thousand pounds of fuel comes to mind. Storable, Efficent, Hard to Detect...
Remember they estimate size of the rock that caused the 1908 siberian explosion is 50 meters (1/2 a foot ball field).
Link here
Doesn't take much to change the orbit of a rock that small.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Once Passport expands to protecting e-money and banks, then...
All your money belongs to them...
If microsoft was smart, it would scan all passport accounts that now belong to them and seize all the assets. Need to finance a new software product to take over the world, use the Passport users credit to take out the loan. For a down payment, use the money in the passport user's bank accounts...
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
because slashdot double posted the article, check out the other slashdot article.
Divide and be Conquered, Unite and Take Over the World..
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Any spinning object has a gyroscopic efect that impeads the objects rotation about any axis that is not the same as the objects rotation...
In a nut shell, every time we spin a wheel that is not perfectly aligned with the earths axis of rotation we are slowing down the planets rotation.
The Fan in your computer, the wheels on your bike, the motor in your car, the generators at the local nuclear power plant. They are all slowing the earths rotation.
Funny thing is the cumlative effect of this is so small we are unable to measure it.
Just goes to show how tiny and puny we really are...
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Sounds like wasted food to me...
...
Effects.
We produce extra food to not be used
This costs us labor and fuel that could be applied to other more usefull projects.
This requires us to use land and fisheries that would not be needed and could otherwise be used or left wild.
For every X hours of farm work, X2 people are injured and X3 people are killed...
I once saw an article that indicated ~27% of the food produced in the US is wasted, think about it, we use a third more land, a third more fuel, maime and kill a third more people than needed to keep ourselves fed.
This has nothing to do with tree hugging, and everything to do with wasted lives and opportunity. And yes I do not stockpile food to let it go bad.
My fridge is usually empty at the end of the week, and I have a policy of not letting food sit unused for more than two weeks... It's called JIT (Just in Time) for the home.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
True, but microsoft would go broke trying to support there own defective products... Or have to charge such $50,000 a seat a year.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Microsoft turning up the screws on corporate america will only make corporate america balk at microsoft's products. They would rather spend $100 coming up with an alternative than pay an extra $1 to prove they are in compliance.
This could do what TUX was never able to do, nothing scares a Boss more than an audit, and they will go to great lengths to avoid being in a position where they can be audited.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Mod up, those are the best links I have seen...
From ISRO press release the problem was in the liquid strapon boosters, which where developed in India, not russia. The russian component was the cryogenic upper stage. It was never given a chance to prove itself...
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
SpaceDaily is reporting a scrub due to a fire on the pad.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Thanks for the info on the direction they are going after 157nm. Tells me which way to point our test equipment (Ashame our web mistress took our VACUUM UV products off the website).
And yes we do make test equipment that goes down to 13nm.
Excellent article, if you believe everything you read, they will completely skip 157nm and go straight to 13nm. I think 6 to 10 years is more realistic.
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
So that's what they are hiding in area 51
...
My guess, NASA has been turning over the data from the mars polar orbitor and they have been going over it a pixel at a time.
If I remember correctly, the lander was only supposed to be 2 to 3 pixels in size in the images. So I'm guessing they have a few pixels that don't look right.
As for being able to see the three landing legs, I think this is a Red Herring. Remember Lou Dobbs (space.com) like NASA is a little short on money these days. The legs are an artifact of either the reporter or the person that leaked the story
If these pixels are not the lander, and not image defects, what are they...
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
How long until someone figures out how to setup a 486 linux box sever that fakes out the PS-2 and opens all the games.
I wonder...
And I wonder about little johnies phone bill...
Might work, might get hacked to death, I vote hacked!
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
They are quoting $10 each, using standard margins, it means they cost about $3.33 each to make... If the Chip and batery cost less than $3 I could believe it.
Or the flip side is they cost close to $10 to make, but plan on making the money back by selling addition minutes. Kinda like ink-jet printers and single use camera's.
The thing will fit nicely in my wallet next to my REX. A PCIMIA Sized PDA...
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
To much bay watch, my mistake...
And I quote from the FAQ at http://www.sun.com/desktop/sunblade100/faq.html#1
2. Is this memory proprietary?
No. The memory used in the Sun Blade 100 is industry standard.
3. Why buy Sun memory?
This family of memory products are priced competitively and are tested, approved and qualified by Sun.
Still, I want one...
It's proof that the vacuum tube is alive and well... "9600 PMT detectors". Let's see a silicone detector do that.
For a good reference on PMT's goto http://www.hamamatsu.com. I'd be willing to bet they made the PMT's.
.. or Ovaries. There are Female Geeks,
at least that's the rumor...
Why Palm?
Try Something smaller like a true REX palm top. My goodness you might as well be carrying arround an ENIAC.
And why use such a large virtual machine, last time I looked the FORTH compiler was only 4K, not the 191K of storage / 64K heap of PALM Python.
and all the jurors on computing can be paid for and supplied by microsoft ;-)
To bad the people you refer to are the majority, Just look at how popular Windows is... Nuf said ...
Don't look at me, I voted for the green minority... and use Forth as my OS.