Minor correction to my previous post. The year would have to be BCD encoded (99), the month would have to be regular hex encoded (1-C) otherwise you'd need a second digit to encode Oct-Dec, and the day could be either, since 09 is 09. It's contorted, either way you look at it.
The only way I can figure there'd be a problem is if someone were storing numbers-only as BCD instead of ASCII. dd/mm/yy becomes DDMYY, where each letter is BCD 0-9. 9/9/99 would become 09999h.
Kinda ironic too, seeing as how testing the function being discussed got me moderated down as offtopic, which in turn knocked down my "karma" level from a 2-level to 1-level score posting.
Ah well, such is life...
Add a dash of AFM technology...
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Combine a little AFM with massively paralleled MEMS robotics, and you have your nanotech assembler.
Do it using balls instead of wafers, and you could (in theory) build an entire microfab into a rod, say 5ft high, 2" diameter. But I digress...;-)
Is there any way to incorporate an "acknowledged" factor to the AC post moderation? i.e. If a logged-in user posts a reply to an AC post, the AC's post is considered "more valid", and automatically boosted up to a 1-level comment?
This way, lurk-readers can read at a 1-threshold and not miss out on context started by an AC post, and moderators need not worry about wasting points on "me-too/first" comments.
Thoughts?
(Aside: As a 2-level poster, it would be nice to be able to pre-moderate my comments down a notch when they're off-topic or off-the-cuff. Save the 2-level for more relevant/topical postings.)
You can find an outline of spec here. As for price, EMJ doesn't have the P2-333 listed, but the P-233 version is US$1061 in single quantities. I wouldn't expect the P2-333 to be much more than $1200-1500. Observed maximum power consumption is 14.1W; averages they give for Windows* are 4.2-3W.
You'll probably want (need, actually) to get one of these if you want to actually use the module; the CardPAC provides all the physical I/O. 3.75"x5.3"x1.1" dimensions. Costs $999 direct from Cell Computing.
Doesn't have SB-compatible audio; does have USB though.
Plug a 256MB DIMM in, boot off a CompactFlash card and you've got one screamin' machine!
Sun also does Community Source Hardware. In a nutshell, if you have the tools and the knowledge, you can brew your own picoJava or SPARC workstation on a chip.:-)
Caveat: I'm not qualified to offer expert legal advice, however if you are a (hardware) designer and don't work for Sun, I strongly suggest that you have your legal department (Intellectual Property advisor-person) look over their (or anyone's) licenses before you download any of the "open" cores.
These questions are prompted by something Alan mentioned in that brief Ottawa Citizen article I'd submitted a short while ago. Re. enabling Third-world intellectual infrastructure development.
How has the multicultural and multilingual participation affected the development of Linux as a whole?
Have you begun to see evidence of third-world participation effecting the progress of Linux yet, or is it still in the "hope to see soon" category? What needs to be done/changed to assist in the cross-cultural adoption of Linux? (Unicode?)
When can we expect to see a Linux Universal Translator Engine?:-)
Since I can afford neither their licensing fee nor the commercial software to create LZW-format according to their license, I have removed all gifs from my site.
Thought this one was over back when it was the "Compuserve-GIF" issue. Guess I was wrong; can't be bothered to beat this horse any more.
Well, I certainly hope they don't insist on charging me based on MP3 compression ratios!
After all, every audiophile worth their salt knows there's nothing quite like 8-channel Surround-sound style (corners of a cube, listener at centre, speaker placement) recordings at 176.4KHz.;-)
Remember, although Intel may not be designing and producing their own graphics chips, they still probably own a fair number of patents and the prior art being used in others'...
As long as any such patents remain in their portfolio, they stand to gain revenue through licensing.
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You have to have four 9's in a row though.
Minor correction to my previous post. The year would have to be BCD encoded (99), the month would have to be regular hex encoded (1-C) otherwise you'd need a second digit to encode Oct-Dec, and the day could be either, since 09 is 09. It's contorted, either way you look at it.
Just an observation. What they're describing sounds a lot like the way you drive a 3-phase induction motor.
The only way I can figure there'd be a problem is if someone were storing numbers-only as BCD instead of ASCII. dd/mm/yy becomes DDMYY, where each letter is BCD 0-9. 9/9/99 would become 09999h.
Kinda ironic too, seeing as how testing the function being discussed got me moderated down as offtopic, which in turn knocked down my "karma" level from a 2-level to 1-level score posting.
Ah well, such is life...
Combine a little AFM with massively paralleled MEMS robotics, and you have your nanotech assembler.
;-)
Do it using balls instead of wafers, and you could (in theory) build an entire microfab into a rod, say 5ft high, 2" diameter. But I digress...
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Is there any way to incorporate an "acknowledged" factor to the AC post moderation? i.e. If a logged-in user posts a reply to an AC post, the AC's post is considered "more valid", and automatically boosted up to a 1-level comment?
This way, lurk-readers can read at a 1-threshold and not miss out on context started by an AC post, and moderators need not worry about wasting points on "me-too/first" comments.
Thoughts?
(Aside: As a 2-level poster, it would be nice to be able to pre-moderate my comments down a notch when they're off-topic or off-the-cuff. Save the 2-level for more relevant/topical postings.)
Thanks for answering my questions!
Hope a few of the good 4-rated and 3-rated comments from this past round get thrown in the pot for the next edition of Ask Alan.
...but given the nature of the AM-LCD developement, 400-ppi should be within reach.
So by late next year, maybe the following year, e-books will indeed be on the horizon. :-)
How about this for future LCD screens?
...and 266-ppi panels should be out by the end of the year.
If I'm going to pay that much, I want to have an arrow pointing to my node that sez, "You Are Here." :-)
You can find an outline of spec here. As for price, EMJ doesn't have the P2-333 listed, but the P-233 version is US$1061 in single quantities. I wouldn't expect the P2-333 to be much more than $1200-1500. Observed maximum power consumption is 14.1W; averages they give for Windows* are 4.2-3W.
You'll probably want (need, actually) to get one of these if you want to actually use the module; the CardPAC provides all the physical I/O. 3.75"x5.3"x1.1" dimensions. Costs $999 direct from Cell Computing.
Doesn't have SB-compatible audio; does have USB though.
Plug a 256MB DIMM in, boot off a CompactFlash card and you've got one screamin' machine!
Sun also does Community Source Hardware. In a nutshell, if you have the tools and the knowledge, you can brew your own picoJava or SPARC workstation on a chip. :-)
Caveat: I'm not qualified to offer expert legal advice, however if you are a (hardware) designer and don't work for Sun, I strongly suggest that you have your legal department (Intellectual Property advisor-person) look over their (or anyone's) licenses before you download any of the "open" cores.
Let's see. It's wireless, it's aimed at businesses... Yes, spread-spectrum point-to-point tech is relatively secure, but radio is radio.
Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable using such a service without at least one level of encryption of the actual data-stream being involved. YMMV
These questions are prompted by something Alan mentioned in that brief Ottawa Citizen article I'd submitted a short while ago. Re. enabling Third-world intellectual infrastructure development.
:-)
How has the multicultural and multilingual participation affected the development of Linux as a whole?
Have you begun to see evidence of third-world participation effecting the progress of Linux yet, or is it still in the "hope to see soon" category? What needs to be done/changed to assist in the cross-cultural adoption of Linux? (Unicode?)
When can we expect to see a Linux Universal Translator Engine?
Since I can afford neither their licensing fee nor the commercial software to create LZW-format according to their license, I have removed all gifs from my site.
Thought this one was over back when it was the "Compuserve-GIF" issue. Guess I was wrong; can't be bothered to beat this horse any more.
The First NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware - lots of abstracts; full text if you have IEEE membership. Took place 19-21 July, 1999.
Circuit evolution raises yields on GHz chips - something of a more recent vintage. :-)
Ditto for us Canadians. I'd get one.
So, it's $0.74/15 minutes, eh?
;-)
Well, I certainly hope they don't insist on charging me based on MP3 compression ratios!
After all, every audiophile worth their salt knows there's nothing quite like 8-channel Surround-sound style (corners of a cube, listener at centre, speaker placement) recordings at 176.4KHz.
Can't remember if this is something I saw here in /. so just in case...
The Virtual Alchemists - how you'd design such a molecular computer.
...and of course if you can make it into an ink, you can just as easily tatoo a computer onto any part of yer body.
This type of Q&A article is definitely something I'd like to see more of. It's something unique to the /. approach - big pot of communal Q's to A.
It works! Keep it up!
Remember, although Intel may not be designing and producing their own graphics chips, they still probably own a fair number of patents and the prior art being used in others'...
:-)
As long as any such patents remain in their portfolio, they stand to gain revenue through licensing.
Just a little food fer thought.
Openness - Yoda, high (84%)
;-)
Conscientious - Mon Mothma, high (69%)
Extraversion - Ewoks, neither high nor low (42%)
Agreeableness - Obi-Wan Kenobi, very high (96%)
Neuroticism - Princess Leia - low (18%)
...I guess I'm a cross-dressing jedi with an excess of hair, set to live a most interesting life.