I pay over $100:mo for a 4G HTC on Sprint with the hotspot, unlimited data. I was paying $30:mo for the hotspot. It's a work phone; our field service division uses them in conjunction with 4G fixed nodes at remote sites they service. We didn't get any real break on the price even though we've got hundreds of accounts and devices on the Sprint network. The 4G signal is nearly nonexistent except when we tune the fixed nodes to point at an antenna, and I'm in NYC. The Hotspot was not at all worth the price, especially considering its 90%+ unreliability as a mobile service. Data was "unlimited", but only by billing. The reality of Sprint's terrible network meant it was severely limited.
Any Hotspot cap at all is both an insult for the price, and a meaningless limit that real use couldn't reach because of network access. By the same token I'm hoping the cap inspires hackers to release a way for me to actually use the phone I paid $hundreds to own on the network I pay $thousands a year to access "unlimited" - but I know Sprint's network can't hold up it's end of the deal. And if I wanted to switch my phone to another "ISP": I can't. I'm locked into Sprint in so many ways I haven't tolerated on "computers" since the 1970s. And that was before I was literally surrounded with network connection everywhere I go, with a network device in my hands.
The Moon blasting out of the Earth's orbit on TV is the closest most of us have ever gotten to the Sun/Earth scenario I described.
I see your 6MDM->Salvage 1 and raise you the original season of UFO, and the Dinky die-cast SHADO Interceptor I used to conquer a beach in St Croix. Then I flip over a Quark garbage cruiser just for the titters from the crowd:).
I don't think Einstein ruled out Star Trek warp speed. Indeed I think it's relativity that warp speed depends on. Warping space to shrink the distance between points then traveled in less time at the same speed.
Speed of light (max). When a mass moves in space, its gravitational effect of warping space around it (to infinite distances, though infinitessimally at those distances) affects other masses in spaces at the speed of light. A year after it moves, the space distortion it presents finally arrives and moves masses a light year distant.
If the Sun suddenly accelerated off its current trajectory that carries the Earth with it, we'd start to pull along only about 8 minutes later. Not that we'd have much time to notice before we were destroyed by the effects, despite Space: 1999.
In book publishing, writers are notorious for taking an advance payment and never delivering the book. Usually it's never delivering the final draft, which some authors never agree is quite finished. Sometimes it's years of "writer's block", or distractions. The coke and hookers an advance can buy (or more typically booze and cigarettes) can interfere with the discipline part of the creative process. And some publishers will add to the advance to encourage a writer to finish when they get late.
Partly it's because the risks of authors failing to deliver are outweighed by the profits of actually successful books. Of course authors who deliver but whose books don't sell are indistinguishable in the bottom line from authors who never deliver. But partly it's because publishing is full of lame businesspeople who'd rather be book publishers, with the associated status, associations and perks than make more profits. Partly it's because often creativity and reliability are contradictory. Partly it's because the market is as fickle as the authors pool.
Usually the advance isn't nearly this big, and when it is it's unusual not to get a book out of it. But Assange is a celebrity author - the technical and even political market for his story isn't a big book market. So probably they gave the advance knowing they'd get something they could publish and sell while his name was still in the news. Or even set up the whole thing as a publicity stunt. In which case it's working perfectly.
I never said anything about Democrats. You did. But you did vote for Republicans every chance you got. You're a Republican.
Which is why the fact that Solyndra was a risk, not a guarantee, doesn't make any sense to you. Why Solyndra failing was a risk that the government took as it boosted a strategically important part of the US solar industry, a risk worth taking.
You're a Republican. You voted those clowns the power that destroyed the country. Until they did, the Republican Party was "the right party" for you. Now you're eating up the BS they feed you, tagged with "Solyndra". I bet that a couple years ago all you could say was "Reverend Wright", and last year "death panels".
But at least you looked at the Waltons role in Solyndra, even though you still don't understand the story at all.
You're on your own. Try not to be such a sucker all the time. Turn off Fox "News", or Limbo, or whatever other corporate drivel you're drowning in. Goodbye.
Oh, I see - now any investment is automatically a scam. That's not very Republican of you. Except when it's a Democrat's plan for investment. I get it now.
You are indeed a Republican. The big investors in Solyndra were the Wal-Mart family, the Waltons. Famously Republican, which is why they got Bush to approve the loan that Obama's administration carried over.
You are a Republican. They don't eat puppies, but they lie and talk nonsense. Like you. Goodbye.
Of course you're a Republican. That's who you vote for; that's who you are.
The idea that you'd call me a "Communist" just proves what a Republican you are. Since it's your response to my showing you're not making any sense at all.
Yes, Americans are nuts - especially the non-millionaires who insist on a broken country so millionaires can have a few extra thousand bucks a year to spend. Mostly spent on making more money, in a perpetual motion machine. Or spent on robbing them and breaking their country some more.
I mean really nuts. You can't show them proof, you can't ask them for compassion. It makes them bark at the moon, and wave their guns. They're wound-up suicide machines.
I make a lot of money, and I'm expecting my taxes to rise. I welcome it, when it's buying civilization. When it's just subsidizing the miseducation and pandering that creates these nuts, I have to wonder whether I'm just trapped.
You've shown that you're an idiot by using North Korea as any kind of comparison to the US, instead of the many countries that are comparable, like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia... But those wouldn't support your completely wrong point.
Then you proved you're an idiot by blurting that it was the first to come to mind, even though that's no defense. It's a good condemnation of you as an idiot, and you contributed it yourself.
You're an idiot. You're the only one who can't see it, even when it's spelled out for you. Which proves beyond all doubt that you're an idiot.
That's not even wrong. The Infrastructure Bank isn't subject to investment, it's a way to reserve infrastructure budgets protected from the general fund. The general fund that you Republicans have robbed at every step, except when it's not in a "lockbox".
Solyndra? You're a wind-up Republican blabberer. Goodbye.
All of the figures I cited are annual. And as I said, "according to your stats". Your stats, your link.
"Wealth creation activities" - just more Republican propaganda. Like trying to change the stats after you put them out, when they work against you. And failing to recognize that all the numbers are annual.
You Republicans aren't fit to argue about the most basic economics math, let alone actually set the laws governing them.
I have a pretty substantial PIC18F firmware that I've spent a lot of time getting to work well, with a lot of IO control and formatted data reporting to an HTTPD daughtercard. There's a lot of Arduino SW that I'd like to use, and a lot of Arduino developers to get to work on my system. So if I could compile the PIC source code to run on an Arduino chip, I could add to the Arduino SW from existing code or get Arduino developers to add new SW.
I'm not going to just throw away the PIC code. It's got a lot of value; more value than the benefit of switching to Arduino.
So if I have a lot of PIC code, and I want to add some features I can get already implemented in Arduino code, I can use an ATtiny chip and it will run both?
I don't think an ATtiny has the power to run my PIC18F code, let alone adding Arduino code to that.
Both of those products were kept from Americans for as long as possible by theocrat money. The continued hassle shows the theocrats still have power over our healthcare: theosocialized medicine.
FPSLIC was an 8bit AVR with FPGA up to 2300 cells. All the AVR did was manage the reconfig process. It doesn't look like an app on the AVR could actively invoke logic on the FPGA. The Zynq boots into Linux and leaves the FPGA as a peripheral for circuits to deliver data or interface with external HW. It can run Linux and its app processes on one core, leaving the other core "raw" for running processing directly, or embedded in the FPGA to optimize circuits factoring out ARM instructions from FPGA.
You think $15 is expensive for a dual-core ARM-A9 and a fat Artix FPGA, integrated in a fast AMBA bus? An ARM-A9 that can run Linux 2.6, and access the FPGA as a peripheral? In 28nm, with low power consumption? Even at $25 for hundreds-count it seems a great deal for the performance.
That AVR8 core is designed to run on "Butterfly One", which is a Spartan 3E. Which I think means that it would give me an Arduino running on the Zynq's FPGA, right? Except I'm not sure the Zynq offers the analog inputs the AVR8 expects. If I added the missing HW to the Zynq, would the board support all Arduino SW?
Is there a tool that recompiles PIC code into Arduino code that either "just works" or takes only about 10% extra hand-retooling time by a skilled PIC/Arduino developer to finish porting?
Xilinx is marketing Zynq, a new line of chips containing ARM-9 with embedded FPGA peripheral. Arduino is remarkable because its HW design is open-source, and reproducible without a license. So is there an Arduino "IP core" that can be configured on a Zynq FPGA, and then Arduino code run on that?
How about using that Arduino in FPGA on ARM to replicate the functions of this new Arduino/ARM chip? Would code targeting the Arduino/ARM chip "just work" on the Arduino/FPGA/ARM chip?
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How much does unlimited 4G on Clear cost? Is it available in NYC?
I pay over $100:mo for a 4G HTC on Sprint with the hotspot, unlimited data. I was paying $30:mo for the hotspot. It's a work phone; our field service division uses them in conjunction with 4G fixed nodes at remote sites they service. We didn't get any real break on the price even though we've got hundreds of accounts and devices on the Sprint network. The 4G signal is nearly nonexistent except when we tune the fixed nodes to point at an antenna, and I'm in NYC. The Hotspot was not at all worth the price, especially considering its 90%+ unreliability as a mobile service. Data was "unlimited", but only by billing. The reality of Sprint's terrible network meant it was severely limited.
Any Hotspot cap at all is both an insult for the price, and a meaningless limit that real use couldn't reach because of network access. By the same token I'm hoping the cap inspires hackers to release a way for me to actually use the phone I paid $hundreds to own on the network I pay $thousands a year to access "unlimited" - but I know Sprint's network can't hold up it's end of the deal. And if I wanted to switch my phone to another "ISP": I can't. I'm locked into Sprint in so many ways I haven't tolerated on "computers" since the 1970s. And that was before I was literally surrounded with network connection everywhere I go, with a network device in my hands.
Not if they're surfing neutrinos, evidently! :)
The Moon blasting out of the Earth's orbit on TV is the closest most of us have ever gotten to the Sun/Earth scenario I described.
I see your 6MDM->Salvage 1 and raise you the original season of UFO, and the Dinky die-cast SHADO Interceptor I used to conquer a beach in St Croix. Then I flip over a Quark garbage cruiser just for the titters from the crowd :).
I don't think Einstein ruled out Star Trek warp speed. Indeed I think it's relativity that warp speed depends on. Warping space to shrink the distance between points then traveled in less time at the same speed.
Speed of light (max). When a mass moves in space, its gravitational effect of warping space around it (to infinite distances, though infinitessimally at those distances) affects other masses in spaces at the speed of light. A year after it moves, the space distortion it presents finally arrives and moves masses a light year distant.
If the Sun suddenly accelerated off its current trajectory that carries the Earth with it, we'd start to pull along only about 8 minutes later. Not that we'd have much time to notice before we were destroyed by the effects, despite Space: 1999.
I'm entitled to the interest, too. You fucking Teabaggers are nothing but thieves.
Or how much Americans have paid into programmes like Social Security out of every paycheck that we're entitled to get back, like when we retire.
In book publishing, writers are notorious for taking an advance payment and never delivering the book. Usually it's never delivering the final draft, which some authors never agree is quite finished. Sometimes it's years of "writer's block", or distractions. The coke and hookers an advance can buy (or more typically booze and cigarettes) can interfere with the discipline part of the creative process. And some publishers will add to the advance to encourage a writer to finish when they get late.
Partly it's because the risks of authors failing to deliver are outweighed by the profits of actually successful books. Of course authors who deliver but whose books don't sell are indistinguishable in the bottom line from authors who never deliver. But partly it's because publishing is full of lame businesspeople who'd rather be book publishers, with the associated status, associations and perks than make more profits. Partly it's because often creativity and reliability are contradictory. Partly it's because the market is as fickle as the authors pool.
Usually the advance isn't nearly this big, and when it is it's unusual not to get a book out of it. But Assange is a celebrity author - the technical and even political market for his story isn't a big book market. So probably they gave the advance knowing they'd get something they could publish and sell while his name was still in the news. Or even set up the whole thing as a publicity stunt. In which case it's working perfectly.
I never said anything about Democrats. You did. But you did vote for Republicans every chance you got. You're a Republican.
Which is why the fact that Solyndra was a risk, not a guarantee, doesn't make any sense to you. Why Solyndra failing was a risk that the government took as it boosted a strategically important part of the US solar industry, a risk worth taking.
You're a Republican. You voted those clowns the power that destroyed the country. Until they did, the Republican Party was "the right party" for you. Now you're eating up the BS they feed you, tagged with "Solyndra". I bet that a couple years ago all you could say was "Reverend Wright", and last year "death panels".
But at least you looked at the Waltons role in Solyndra, even though you still don't understand the story at all.
You're on your own. Try not to be such a sucker all the time. Turn off Fox "News", or Limbo, or whatever other corporate drivel you're drowning in. Goodbye.
Oh, I see - now any investment is automatically a scam. That's not very Republican of you. Except when it's a Democrat's plan for investment. I get it now.
You are indeed a Republican. The big investors in Solyndra were the Wal-Mart family, the Waltons. Famously Republican, which is why they got Bush to approve the loan that Obama's administration carried over.
You are a Republican. They don't eat puppies, but they lie and talk nonsense. Like you. Goodbye.
Of course you're a Republican. That's who you vote for; that's who you are.
The idea that you'd call me a "Communist" just proves what a Republican you are. Since it's your response to my showing you're not making any sense at all.
The effective tax rates are in the page they themself cited.
Yes, Americans are nuts - especially the non-millionaires who insist on a broken country so millionaires can have a few extra thousand bucks a year to spend. Mostly spent on making more money, in a perpetual motion machine. Or spent on robbing them and breaking their country some more.
I mean really nuts. You can't show them proof, you can't ask them for compassion. It makes them bark at the moon, and wave their guns. They're wound-up suicide machines.
I make a lot of money, and I'm expecting my taxes to rise. I welcome it, when it's buying civilization. When it's just subsidizing the miseducation and pandering that creates these nuts, I have to wonder whether I'm just trapped.
You've shown that you're an idiot by using North Korea as any kind of comparison to the US, instead of the many countries that are comparable, like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia... But those wouldn't support your completely wrong point.
Then you proved you're an idiot by blurting that it was the first to come to mind, even though that's no defense. It's a good condemnation of you as an idiot, and you contributed it yourself.
You're an idiot. You're the only one who can't see it, even when it's spelled out for you. Which proves beyond all doubt that you're an idiot.
Goodbye.
That's not even wrong. The Infrastructure Bank isn't subject to investment, it's a way to reserve infrastructure budgets protected from the general fund. The general fund that you Republicans have robbed at every step, except when it's not in a "lockbox".
Solyndra? You're a wind-up Republican blabberer. Goodbye.
All of the figures I cited are annual. And as I said, "according to your stats". Your stats, your link.
"Wealth creation activities" - just more Republican propaganda. Like trying to change the stats after you put them out, when they work against you. And failing to recognize that all the numbers are annual.
You Republicans aren't fit to argue about the most basic economics math, let alone actually set the laws governing them.
I have a pretty substantial PIC18F firmware that I've spent a lot of time getting to work well, with a lot of IO control and formatted data reporting to an HTTPD daughtercard. There's a lot of Arduino SW that I'd like to use, and a lot of Arduino developers to get to work on my system. So if I could compile the PIC source code to run on an Arduino chip, I could add to the Arduino SW from existing code or get Arduino developers to add new SW.
I'm not going to just throw away the PIC code. It's got a lot of value; more value than the benefit of switching to Arduino.
So if I have a lot of PIC code, and I want to add some features I can get already implemented in Arduino code, I can use an ATtiny chip and it will run both?
I don't think an ATtiny has the power to run my PIC18F code, let alone adding Arduino code to that.
Both of those products were kept from Americans for as long as possible by theocrat money. The continued hassle shows the theocrats still have power over our healthcare: theosocialized medicine.
FPSLIC was an 8bit AVR with FPGA up to 2300 cells. All the AVR did was manage the reconfig process. It doesn't look like an app on the AVR could actively invoke logic on the FPGA. The Zynq boots into Linux and leaves the FPGA as a peripheral for circuits to deliver data or interface with external HW. It can run Linux and its app processes on one core, leaving the other core "raw" for running processing directly, or embedded in the FPGA to optimize circuits factoring out ARM instructions from FPGA.
You think $15 is expensive for a dual-core ARM-A9 and a fat Artix FPGA, integrated in a fast AMBA bus? An ARM-A9 that can run Linux 2.6, and access the FPGA as a peripheral? In 28nm, with low power consumption? Even at $25 for hundreds-count it seems a great deal for the performance.
That AVR8 core is designed to run on "Butterfly One", which is a Spartan 3E. Which I think means that it would give me an Arduino running on the Zynq's FPGA, right? Except I'm not sure the Zynq offers the analog inputs the AVR8 expects. If I added the missing HW to the Zynq, would the board support all Arduino SW?
Because?
Is there a tool that recompiles PIC code into Arduino code that either "just works" or takes only about 10% extra hand-retooling time by a skilled PIC/Arduino developer to finish porting?
Xilinx is marketing Zynq, a new line of chips containing ARM-9 with embedded FPGA peripheral. Arduino is remarkable because its HW design is open-source, and reproducible without a license. So is there an Arduino "IP core" that can be configured on a Zynq FPGA, and then Arduino code run on that?
How about using that Arduino in FPGA on ARM to replicate the functions of this new Arduino/ARM chip? Would code targeting the Arduino/ARM chip "just work" on the Arduino/FPGA/ARM chip?
The bridge to nowhere was nowhere near Anchorage.
You're a liar. A Republican liar.