Or how about Mary Schiavo? After all, she was spot-on when she stated that "even a small black hole would swallow the entire universe". Ugh. (I'll also fault CNN's Don Lemon for even entertaining the question of black holes in some way causing this...)
I can tolerate ignorance, mostly... what I can't tolerate is talking-head "experts" spouting off utter nonsense as if it was fact.
Not doubting you, but could you provide a link or two to these early reports? I've been trying to follow this pretty closely, but I don't recall hearing anything like this.
When I heard that exchange at an airport, I wanted to reach through the TV screen and strangle both of those idiots.
Look, not everyone's a scientist or engineer, but don't just start spouting off shit like you know what you're talking about. Lemon's question was inane, but Schiavo's answer was so absurd, my fourth-grade daughter, who's recently learned/of/ black holes, tilted her head in a "WTF?!?!" kind of way when I replayed that video for her the next day.
When I heard that exchange at an airport, I wanted to reach through the TV screen and strangle both of those idiots.
Look, not everyone's a scientist or engineer, but don't just start spouting off shit like you know what you're talking about. Lemon's question was inane, but Schiavo's answer was so absurd, my fourth-grade daughter, who's recently learned/of/ black holes, tilted her head in a "WTF?!?!" kind of way when I replayed that video for her the next day.
Sparkfun got caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Look, they're no longer 2 guys working out of their basement, it's a rather decent-sized operation that's capitalizing on the "Maker" wave. Good for them. But that doesn't let them play dirty pool. I'm not saying they commissioned the counterfeit design, I'd bet almost anything that some sweatshop in Shinzen has been stamping these things out for years.
It's clear that SparkFun over-reached on this one, the resemblance to Fluke meters goes way, way beyond the color. Others here have provided links and comparisons, they'll all correct.
One of my oldest & most durable meters, an HP 971A, is essentially the same yellow color, but no one is going to mistake it for a fluke: http://www.mytestsignal.com/wp...
Fluke isn't concerned about a legitimate competitor, they're worried about the typical cheap "10 cents on the dollar" Chinese knock offs that confuse consumers and de-value the Fluke brand.
Well, that's certainly one of the bigger "Fuck You!" I've seen the studios hand out, and they've got a track record of some pretty big middle fingers to the "other 99%" of us. But my question is, "When is this going to stop?" Not as long as people are paying $25 to park their asses in a theater seat to watch Brad Pitt mumble around, or $19.99 for a DVD they'll watch once or twice.
Their claim is that every device essentially gets its own 5/10/20 MHz of spectrum. Will be interesting to see if it actually works as well as it's being hyped.
Not to nitpick, but I believe it was the throttle, not the pedal, which was stuck open in the recent court cases.
The whole point of the evidence provided was that the throttle position could become decoupled from the commanded throttle (i.e., pedal position) due to defects in Toyota's Electronic Throttle Control.
I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to respect any firm that employs multiple people under the title "Happiness Hero". What exactly is it that a "Happiness Hero" does?
I'm sure he still writes his website's back-end in C++ too, lol.
But see there's the myopia (no offense intended). Who said anything about websites?
I'm not the OP, but I've also used C++ for about 20 years (C even longer). I develop firmware for safety-critical systems. Most of them have hard real-time deadlines. My colleagues and I have to understand assembly language, schematics, compilers and linkers, optimization opportunities, etc. Most of us are pretty strong in DSP. Most of us couldn't design a website, write a javascript program or tell you jack about Ruby on Rails.
C and C++ are the go-to languages in embedded systems. There was a LOT of code before the World Wide Web (even the internet), and you've probably used 10 embedded systems just since you woke up.
You're welcome to stay on my lawn, but please don't poop on it.
FWIW, and I know this is anecdotal, but I upgraded my iPhone4 to iOS7 and found the moderate slowdown to be acceptable. Personally, I really enjoy & appreciate many of the changes.
One thing in particular that I appreciate, now when I take a photo, the screen isn't unresponsive for a couple seconds after taking the photo. Said another way, the camera feels much "snappier" (no pun intended), even for taking single photos. I found this surprising and a bit odd, since some other things are actually a tad less responsive after the udpate.
I'm not a moth that's drawn to bright lights, but iOS7 looked interesting enough that I figured it was worth a try. (That, and the fact that I'll replace my 3-year-old phone soon enough anyway, be it an iPhone or something else.)
Mind you, I've been around the block, and I was burned badly when I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4 a few years back. Talk about an update bringing the phone to its knees! There were times when I'd press a button (usually while typing on the keyboard) and the phone wouldn't respond for 20 seconds. Talk about fucking the dog, that release had no business running on the 3G. Sure, it might have been a ploy to force people to upgrade their phones, but it really soured me.
Anyway, caveat emptor and all that, but if you've got an iPhone4, and you are on the fence about upgrading to iOS7, I would recommend you go for it. Just understand that certain things might not be quite as fast (power up being one of the most obvious, I haven't timed it but it's noticeably slower).
Reminds me of my first day (literally) on the job, out of school (EE/CE).
Tech lead held up a one-foot segment of wire (about 30cm for you metric-minded folks).
"Know what this is?"
"Yeah, a piece of wire."
"Yes, but it's also memory. This holds one bit." Then he held up a longer piece and said "And this holds a byte." Then he went on to explain (really, remind me) about propagation times, eye diagrams, etc....
Serious question, as I suspect there are quiet a few EE / CE folks here...
If your background (or degree) is in computer architecture / computer engineering, are you a "double E"?
Reason I ask: my degree is B.S.E.E., I'm an electrical engineer. In my studies, my concentration / specialization was "Computer Architecture" (one of a handful of specialties with our EE dept.) All EEs had to choose one specialization (signals & systems, power, etc.)
But at many schools, there are standalone "Computer Engineering" curriculums and even degrees. Upon discussion, I've realized they're essentially to what I did as a "double E" (including the other coursework such as circuit analysis, signals, etc.)
I guess my question is this: what do we consider to be an "electrical engineer"? (Please no snarky remarks about "what does your degree say?" or whatever - I'm working with a bunch of young engineers - mixture of EE, CE and CS, and this discussion got pretty lively within the group...) Would a "computer engineer" be an electrical engineer?
First of all, an organization where almost 50% of the staff (900 out of 2,000) is engineering sounds cool -- even most "technology" companies are much lower than that. When you consider marketing, sales, admin, HR, upper management, support, etc. it's easy to see why. But that's beside the point.
As others have said (and I'm saying this both as a guy whose been pitched to, and been doing the pitch), in a healthy organization, it just comes down to numbers (dollars, man hours, etc.) When I've been the decision maker, if a decent business case can be made for the spending, assuming the money is even possibly available, I'll go to bat and advocate (or just approve if I'm in that position). Things like monitors, faster computers, etc. translate pretty nicely into engineer productivity. And I've usually had data to back that up.
When I've been the one asking for money, I try to give 2 or 3 different "models" or scenarios, with anticipated costs and anticipated savings (or increase in productivity), **along with** ways that I believe we can demonstrate/measure the benefit. Just saying "We'll be 25% more productive" is vague and wishy-washy. Saying, "We think we'll cut 3 weeks off of this next 4 month cycle" is something that can be measured during & after the effort. Obviously, you don't just want to make stuff up, but if the numbers are grounded in reality, go for it.
For the stuff I do, it's usually not computers or software, it's oscilliscopes, logic analyzers, simulators, etc. But the result is the same: better equipment/tools should have a quantifiable benefit. Then there is a rational, unemotional basis for discussion. And even better, when you don't get what you've proposed, and things go sideways (usually schedule), you've got a paper trail documenting what you proposed as an alternative.
For those of you too young to know that you shouldn't be on my lawn...
If you're using (or have used) an MSP430 from Texas Instruments, you've used what is essentially a stripped-down version of the PDP-11.
My entire career has been spent doing embedded systems designs, and the little MSP430 is a great little chip. (Sometimes I wish it had been at the heart of the Arduino, but that's a different discussion!)
Even though most of my work nowadays is on the upper end of the ARM Cortex family, I still love me the occasional MSP430 (or other small embedded processor) design
What happens when a legitimate purchaser/owner has the file stolen/copied from his computer? Viruses, friends using his computer, old discarded & unwiped hard drive....
Now the copyright mafia comes banging on his door claiming he uploaded/pirated the book? WTF???
Just like taking an IP address and suing the user/owner of that IP for uploading music/movies, this tactic has no teeth. Unless someone has corroborating evidence, there's no proof that *I* am the source of the uploaded file. Only that it is the file that I originally purchased.
The whole copyright system, and behaviors of content owners, has gotten completely out of control...
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So I guess the "murdering dictator haircut" is in good company.
Or how about Mary Schiavo? After all, she was spot-on when she stated that "even a small black hole would swallow the entire universe". Ugh. (I'll also fault CNN's Don Lemon for even entertaining the question of black holes in some way causing this...)
I can tolerate ignorance, mostly... what I can't tolerate is talking-head "experts" spouting off utter nonsense as if it was fact.
Not doubting you, but could you provide a link or two to these early reports? I've been trying to follow this pretty closely, but I don't recall hearing anything like this.
When I heard that exchange at an airport, I wanted to reach through the TV screen and strangle both of those idiots.
Look, not everyone's a scientist or engineer, but don't just start spouting off shit like you know what you're talking about. Lemon's question was inane, but Schiavo's answer was so absurd, my fourth-grade daughter, who's recently learned /of/ black holes, tilted her head in a "WTF?!?!" kind of way when I replayed that video for her the next day.
When I heard that exchange at an airport, I wanted to reach through the TV screen and strangle both of those idiots.
Look, not everyone's a scientist or engineer, but don't just start spouting off shit like you know what you're talking about. Lemon's question was inane, but Schiavo's answer was so absurd, my fourth-grade daughter, who's recently learned /of/ black holes, tilted her head in a "WTF?!?!" kind of way when I replayed that video for her the next day.
Sparkfun got caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Look, they're no longer 2 guys working out of their basement, it's a rather decent-sized operation that's capitalizing on the "Maker" wave. Good for them. But that doesn't let them play dirty pool. I'm not saying they commissioned the counterfeit design, I'd bet almost anything that some sweatshop in Shinzen has been stamping these things out for years.
It's clear that SparkFun over-reached on this one, the resemblance to Fluke meters goes way, way beyond the color. Others here have provided links and comparisons, they'll all correct.
One of my oldest & most durable meters, an HP 971A, is essentially the same yellow color, but no one is going to mistake it for a fluke: http://www.mytestsignal.com/wp...
Fluke isn't concerned about a legitimate competitor, they're worried about the typical cheap "10 cents on the dollar" Chinese knock offs that confuse consumers and de-value the Fluke brand.
Well, that's certainly one of the bigger "Fuck You!" I've seen the studios hand out, and they've got a track record of some pretty big middle fingers to the "other 99%" of us. But my question is, "When is this going to stop?" Not as long as people are paying $25 to park their asses in a theater seat to watch Brad Pitt mumble around, or $19.99 for a DVD they'll watch once or twice.
Are you talking about something like the Artemis pCell system?
Their claim is that every device essentially gets its own 5/10/20 MHz of spectrum. Will be interesting to see if it actually works as well as it's being hyped.
Yes, but isn't that under the user's control? The iOS user decides if apps auto-update or not, correct?
On tonight's episode of "First World Problems": Bunny lost her Google Glass! Oh noes!!!
That hammering sound you hear?
Yes, that's the sound of the last nail being hammered into HP's coffin.
A quick search didn't turn up any answers that inspired confidence, I figured there must be people here who can answer...
Nice try, NSA.
Not to nitpick, but I believe it was the throttle, not the pedal, which was stuck open in the recent court cases.
The whole point of the evidence provided was that the throttle position could become decoupled from the commanded throttle (i.e., pedal position) due to defects in Toyota's Electronic Throttle Control.
I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to respect any firm that employs multiple people under the title "Happiness Hero". What exactly is it that a "Happiness Hero" does?
Bank of America saying that a "central counterparty" is required to verify the transaction and mitigate risk. Wonder if they have anyone in mind?
Is there any Perl that /doesn't/ look like the output of AES? I look back at some of my one-liners from a year ago, and it's like, "WTF?!?!"
So, what happened? Where is the amazing Mr. Fu and his wonderful, dazzling insights? All I hear is crickets.
I'm sure he still writes his website's back-end in C++ too, lol.
But see there's the myopia (no offense intended). Who said anything about websites?
I'm not the OP, but I've also used C++ for about 20 years (C even longer). I develop firmware for safety-critical systems. Most of them have hard real-time deadlines. My colleagues and I have to understand assembly language, schematics, compilers and linkers, optimization opportunities, etc. Most of us are pretty strong in DSP. Most of us couldn't design a website, write a javascript program or tell you jack about Ruby on Rails.
C and C++ are the go-to languages in embedded systems. There was a LOT of code before the World Wide Web (even the internet), and you've probably used 10 embedded systems just since you woke up.
You're welcome to stay on my lawn, but please don't poop on it.
FWIW, and I know this is anecdotal, but I upgraded my iPhone4 to iOS7 and found the moderate slowdown to be acceptable. Personally, I really enjoy & appreciate many of the changes.
One thing in particular that I appreciate, now when I take a photo, the screen isn't unresponsive for a couple seconds after taking the photo. Said another way, the camera feels much "snappier" (no pun intended), even for taking single photos. I found this surprising and a bit odd, since some other things are actually a tad less responsive after the udpate.
I'm not a moth that's drawn to bright lights, but iOS7 looked interesting enough that I figured it was worth a try. (That, and the fact that I'll replace my 3-year-old phone soon enough anyway, be it an iPhone or something else.)
Mind you, I've been around the block, and I was burned badly when I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4 a few years back. Talk about an update bringing the phone to its knees! There were times when I'd press a button (usually while typing on the keyboard) and the phone wouldn't respond for 20 seconds. Talk about fucking the dog, that release had no business running on the 3G. Sure, it might have been a ploy to force people to upgrade their phones, but it really soured me.
Anyway, caveat emptor and all that, but if you've got an iPhone4, and you are on the fence about upgrading to iOS7, I would recommend you go for it. Just understand that certain things might not be quite as fast (power up being one of the most obvious, I haven't timed it but it's noticeably slower).
Reminds me of my first day (literally) on the job, out of school (EE/CE).
Tech lead held up a one-foot segment of wire (about 30cm for you metric-minded folks).
"Know what this is?"
"Yeah, a piece of wire."
"Yes, but it's also memory. This holds one bit." Then he held up a longer piece and said "And this holds a byte." Then he went on to explain (really, remind me) about propagation times, eye diagrams, etc....
Serious question, as I suspect there are quiet a few EE / CE folks here...
If your background (or degree) is in computer architecture / computer engineering, are you a "double E"?
Reason I ask: my degree is B.S.E.E., I'm an electrical engineer. In my studies, my concentration / specialization was "Computer Architecture" (one of a handful of specialties with our EE dept.) All EEs had to choose one specialization (signals & systems, power, etc.)
But at many schools, there are standalone "Computer Engineering" curriculums and even degrees. Upon discussion, I've realized they're essentially to what I did as a "double E" (including the other coursework such as circuit analysis, signals, etc.)
I guess my question is this: what do we consider to be an "electrical engineer"? (Please no snarky remarks about "what does your degree say?" or whatever - I'm working with a bunch of young engineers - mixture of EE, CE and CS, and this discussion got pretty lively within the group...) Would a "computer engineer" be an electrical engineer?
First of all, an organization where almost 50% of the staff (900 out of 2,000) is engineering sounds cool -- even most "technology" companies are much lower than that. When you consider marketing, sales, admin, HR, upper management, support, etc. it's easy to see why. But that's beside the point.
As others have said (and I'm saying this both as a guy whose been pitched to, and been doing the pitch), in a healthy organization, it just comes down to numbers (dollars, man hours, etc.) When I've been the decision maker, if a decent business case can be made for the spending, assuming the money is even possibly available, I'll go to bat and advocate (or just approve if I'm in that position). Things like monitors, faster computers, etc. translate pretty nicely into engineer productivity. And I've usually had data to back that up.
When I've been the one asking for money, I try to give 2 or 3 different "models" or scenarios, with anticipated costs and anticipated savings (or increase in productivity), **along with** ways that I believe we can demonstrate/measure the benefit. Just saying "We'll be 25% more productive" is vague and wishy-washy. Saying, "We think we'll cut 3 weeks off of this next 4 month cycle" is something that can be measured during & after the effort. Obviously, you don't just want to make stuff up, but if the numbers are grounded in reality, go for it.
For the stuff I do, it's usually not computers or software, it's oscilliscopes, logic analyzers, simulators, etc. But the result is the same: better equipment/tools should have a quantifiable benefit. Then there is a rational, unemotional basis for discussion. And even better, when you don't get what you've proposed, and things go sideways (usually schedule), you've got a paper trail documenting what you proposed as an alternative.
For those of you too young to know that you shouldn't be on my lawn...
If you're using (or have used) an MSP430 from Texas Instruments, you've used what is essentially a stripped-down version of the PDP-11.
My entire career has been spent doing embedded systems designs, and the little MSP430 is a great little chip. (Sometimes I wish it had been at the heart of the Arduino, but that's a different discussion!)
Even though most of my work nowadays is on the upper end of the ARM Cortex family, I still love me the occasional MSP430 (or other small embedded processor) design
Now the copyright mafia comes banging on his door claiming he uploaded/pirated the book? WTF???
Just like taking an IP address and suing the user/owner of that IP for uploading music/movies, this tactic has no teeth. Unless someone has corroborating evidence, there's no proof that *I* am the source of the uploaded file. Only that it is the file that I originally purchased.
The whole copyright system, and behaviors of content owners, has gotten completely out of control...