"Dr. Hugh Ross is an astrophysicist with a five-year post doctoral fellowship at Cal Tech, the author of many books including, The Creator and the Cosmos, and is President of Reasons to Believe."
just to see what compelling arguments he might have. It was part of the Veritas (as in "truth") forum. He used the high precision of numbers outlined in the article as evidence of the universe being designed by an being with a much more superior intellect than ours (The Designer). The funny part came when by the end of the talk he came to the conclusion that his Designer cannot be anything other than Jesus Christ and the whole trinity thing.
Where do you people get this? One of the points in application for H1 visas is that the employer has to pay a rate comparable to the top rates in the industry. As a foreign student i've been made an offer by a tech company that is about 10k over the offers my US friends are getting at the same company at the same time. I'm willing to bet that's not because of my great skills, but so that they can show the INS that they really want me to work for them and couldn't fill the position with a US citizen, which is true in this case.
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Here's a link to an earlier/. post about a NASA test, which concluded that at least for a short time bacteria can survive in space. Plus, it is possible that such a meteorite would hit water and be protected from UV radiation.
At the end of the day we don't need to invoke mysterious agents from the stars to explain the start of life on Earth.
We already have both religious and scientific explanaitions that satisfy all rational criteria for the origin of life.
Those explanations are not fact, they are theories. You choose the one that is more consistent with experiment and you go with it until a better refined theory is developed. You don't stop just because you get a warm-fuzzy about your results.
If you REAALY dont want to challenge yourself, and don't want to touch hardware, I would think a nice Lego mindstorms kit would be better suited and more flexable. Reconfigurable, and you can always buy more motors and sensors.
But you couldn't disconnect your Mindstorm from the mobile platform, put it in your pocket, and have an orgonizer and whatever else people use Palms for. And I'm sure there's hardware that has to be made in this project: H-bridges to drive the motors and maybe some sensor interface circuitry.
Anyway, the point is to make something cool with stuff that you might have lying around.
Neat idea. Those of us with TI and HP graphing calculators lying around might be able to hack together something similar, though, less powerfull.
Sticking a TI-92 on a mobile platform might be an overkill, but a TI-82 or an HP-48xx might make a nice robot brain.
Uhm, printing motherboards?
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The technique could be used, for instance, to print out a new motherboard for your computer....They can print features as small as 0.2 millimetres, and hope to halve that minimum size over the next couple of years.
Even in couple of years you won't be able to print a 4004 microporcessor which used a 10um manufacturing process.
Let the imagination run wild, but watch out, the universe has a thing about breaking the laws of physics.
Yeah, I could really watch Battlebots without the two dodos making stupid comments and trying to be all dramatic.
I enjoyed Robot Wars (a BBC show) on PBS much more for that reason, and because they had obstacles and stuff like that. I thought the house bots were a bit unfair at times, but overall Robot Wars is a hell of a lot better than Battlebots.
Ask your friend whether he has any friends in one of the five Russian cities that do not have the $100 limit. If so, ship it to them, and they will ship it locally to your friend.
There could be a chill here regarding writing GPL software "that could be used to do Evil," as defined by some big company. Of course this suit has to succeed.
So, if this happens, Microsoft will be suing all the security companies that wrote code to detect security holes in their software. And, if that happens, and they win.... OMG
Re:So what does linux on a microcontroller offer?
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I should say I'm not an expert at this, but I've got some ideas/questions:
o Wouldn't embedded Linux provide a higher layer of abstraction when coding for a uC-based system?
o There are already drivers for network cards, hard-drives (for those HD-based MP3 players), monitors, etc, which should be easy to port for embedded applications.
For example, it would be a fairly easy job to make a little webserver, which can control equipment in a far-away lab, using embedded Linux.
Cirrus has an ARM720T-base d SOC that is marketted as an MPEG decoder for hand-held devices, and it has Flash interface, graphical LCD controller, keypad interface, and more . The decoder is implemented in software, and you have to sign Cirrus's NDA to see the code.
First to expand on Cliff's note... I think people would rather have a manual handy to leaf through and bookmark. It seems like an "old" way to do things, but how many books have you read on your computer screen lately? So, it seems to me that if there's a substantial amount of reading to be done before the user should be capable of using the product, then print it. If it's just a quickie lookup manual, then give them a quick-start brochure with pointers to docs on CD and web, and burn the rest on a CD. Half the time, users wind up printing parts off of the CD manual, but it just doesn't seem that big of a deal. Also, when the software is distributed free with a service you provide, it seems that a lot less printed documentation comes with it. Another idea comes to mind. I ordered a Motorola DSP evaluation circuit board. It came with about a 40-page printed manual and no docs on the DSP architecture or programming interface. They had those on a CD that came with the board. There's no way I would use those PDFs unless totally cornered, so I had to order the printed manuals from Motorola. They were free. Motorola saves money by doing this because a department using their product might have a shelf of their manuals as opposed to every employee having one that came with the board. Just my $.02
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"Dr. Hugh Ross is an astrophysicist with a five-year post doctoral fellowship at Cal Tech, the author of many books including, The Creator and the Cosmos, and is President of Reasons to Believe."
just to see what compelling arguments he might have. It was part of the Veritas (as in "truth") forum. He used the high precision of numbers outlined in the article as evidence of the universe being designed by an being with a much more superior intellect than ours (The Designer). The funny part came when by the end of the talk he came to the conclusion that his Designer cannot be anything other than Jesus Christ and the whole trinity thing.
<sarcasm>That was a night well spent.</sarcasm>
Where do you people get this? One of the points in application for H1 visas is that the employer has to pay a rate comparable to the top rates in the industry. As a foreign student i've been made an offer by a tech company that is about 10k over the offers my US friends are getting at the same company at the same time. I'm willing to bet that's not because of my great skills, but so that they can show the INS that they really want me to work for them and couldn't fill the position with a US citizen, which is true in this case. bc
You're absolutely right. Point well taken.
At the end of the day we don't need to invoke mysterious agents from the stars to explain the start of life on Earth. We already have both religious and scientific explanaitions that satisfy all rational criteria for the origin of life.
Those explanations are not fact, they are theories. You choose the one that is more consistent with experiment and you go with it until a better refined theory is developed. You don't stop just because you get a warm-fuzzy about your results.
The information is there, and do the italics really obscure the content that much for you? Sheesh!
But you couldn't disconnect your Mindstorm from the mobile platform, put it in your pocket, and have an orgonizer and whatever else people use Palms for. And I'm sure there's hardware that has to be made in this project: H-bridges to drive the motors and maybe some sensor interface circuitry.
Anyway, the point is to make something cool with stuff that you might have lying around.
Sticking a TI-92 on a mobile platform might be an overkill, but a TI-82 or an HP-48xx might make a nice robot brain.
Even in couple of years you won't be able to print a 4004 microporcessor which used a 10um manufacturing process.
Let the imagination run wild, but watch out, the universe has a thing about breaking the laws of physics.
I enjoyed Robot Wars (a BBC show) on PBS much more for that reason, and because they had obstacles and stuff like that. I thought the house bots were a bit unfair at times, but overall Robot Wars is a hell of a lot better than Battlebots.
But that's just my opinion, I might be wrong.
Ask your friend whether he has any friends in one of the five Russian cities that do not have the $100 limit. If so, ship it to them, and they will ship it locally to your friend.
So, if this happens, Microsoft will be suing all the security companies that wrote code to detect security holes in their software. And, if that happens, and they win.... OMG
o Wouldn't embedded Linux provide a higher layer of abstraction when coding for a uC-based system?
o There are already drivers for network cards, hard-drives (for those HD-based MP3 players), monitors, etc, which should be easy to port for embedded applications.
For example, it would be a fairly easy job to make a little webserver, which can control equipment in a far-away lab, using embedded Linux.
Just my 2 cents
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First to expand on Cliff's note... I think people would rather have a manual handy to leaf through and bookmark. It seems like an "old" way to do things, but how many books have you read on your computer screen lately? So, it seems to me that if there's a substantial amount of reading to be done before the user should be capable of using the product, then print it. If it's just a quickie lookup manual, then give them a quick-start brochure with pointers to docs on CD and web, and burn the rest on a CD. Half the time, users wind up printing parts off of the CD manual, but it just doesn't seem that big of a deal. Also, when the software is distributed free with a service you provide, it seems that a lot less printed documentation comes with it. Another idea comes to mind. I ordered a Motorola DSP evaluation circuit board. It came with about a 40-page printed manual and no docs on the DSP architecture or programming interface. They had those on a CD that came with the board. There's no way I would use those PDFs unless totally cornered, so I had to order the printed manuals from Motorola. They were free. Motorola saves money by doing this because a department using their product might have a shelf of their manuals as opposed to every employee having one that came with the board. Just my $.02