Are you suggesting that one should use discrete components, or that any microcontroller would do? Since all the cool kids are using them, it means the dev tools are decent and tutorials and examples are plentiful, thus it's a good idea to use one. See x86, Windows, PC architecture for examples. At least they didn't plaster Arduino into the headline.
The first application I see is *finally* a decent braille screen for the blind. They can even dispense with the LCD screen altogether, to make the device affordable.
As was covered a few days ago, even if it's radioactive, it still will get mishandled. Maybe some reverse-psychology is in order, and some "not fragile; handle without care" and the like might cause it to be shipped in pristine condition?
Yes, we should first find a way to make people stop wanting to procreate, THEN we can make them live forever. Hmmm, maybe this website is a solution to the first?
It'd be nice to have a control, for example someone who has played racing video games a lot, but hasn't used this "exact physics" simulator. Otherwise, you don't know how well/bad someone would have done without the sim.
Nevermind going at the speed of light; do they get the physics right when you crash your simulated car and the thing burns you alive? I highly doubt it.
I bet the computer wished it could tell the researchers that the day they made it find the most boring day in history was itself the most boring for the poor computer.
The device they created was capable of measuring acceleration, orientation and temperature. But the task wasn't a slam-dunk. "Having a processor constantly awake and writing to an SD card takes a toll on a battery," Brettle says. "But by modifying our LabVIEW code, we were able to put the processor to sleep and selectively write to the SD card. That got us 74 hours of battery life." That's enough juice to gather data from a three-day trip. We were in business.
This thing was powered by an Energizer Energi To Go XP18000, which has an 18000 mAh capacity, and could only run for a little over three days?! What's happened to embedded designers? Maybe it was just a constraint of having to use an evaluation board, which isn't made for low-power battery operation.
Decently-written article, BTW. Usually magazines have articles full of grade-school humor, because the "journalist" can't keep serious for more than a couple of sentences at a time.
What killed local businesses was the local customers shopping elsewhere. And what caused that was the local businesses not offering what customers wanted. Your argument sounds like those of the MAFIAA talking of theft of potential sales.
It's a bit like how high-ranking government officials get nailed-- Nixon would have surely been impeached for at least conspiracy and obstruction of justice because of the tapes he took of his office (the irony of his paranoia is enough to fill several volumes)
I wonder whether close scrutiny of other oil drilling, or other industries altogether, would reveal similar widespreat lack of safety. It's easy to assume that this is just BP. And I'm not defending BP, but rather casting suspicion on all the others (and not just oil).
"and it'll also keep electric cars in the bin where they should be - what we *really* need from an ecological point of view is a lithium shortage right now"
WTF? There's NO shortage of lithium whatsoever. Absolutely NONE.
I'm at a loss as to how you read the above as him claiming there is a lithium shortage.
More capacity you say? I think we instead need to employ deep current inspection, and cut off this few percent who are hogging all the bandwi...current flow. If we can do it early, we can avoid some idiotic current neutrality laws gumming up the works.
Gold can't be counterfeited easily, as there are no printing presses that make it. Sure, its value fluctuates, even if one takes into account the part that is a reflection of the currency's value changing, but if you look at the long-term trend, it is stable.
And yet Wal Mart makes all its profit by... people voluntarily going in and buying stuff. Don't shop there, and if you want to blame someone for Wal Mart existing, blame the millions of people who spend money there.
The free market doesn't mean you're free to harm others without repercussions. This company caused great harm, and should thus be held accountable. If you think that government oversight would have helped, why do you think they couldn't be paid off (and weren't paid off in this very instance)? Bottom line, unless we hold our elected officials/judges accountable for applying the law, so that they hold those responsible accountable, nothing will be done to those responsible.
Macs... started with some apple proprietary garbage, to mini dvi, to mini displayport, and now on to light peak... 4 separate connectors in the same period of time, while managing to bypass anything that anyone actually uses for anything else.
You forgot the terrible HDI-45 connector on the early PowerMacs. I was just dealing with one today. Apple's adapter sticks out a good 8 inches, putting lots of stress on the connector.
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That's nothing! Did you know that you can't even run any of the apps on your Android? Talk about restrictions!
Are you suggesting that one should use discrete components, or that any microcontroller would do? Since all the cool kids are using them, it means the dev tools are decent and tutorials and examples are plentiful, thus it's a good idea to use one. See x86, Windows, PC architecture for examples. At least they didn't plaster Arduino into the headline.
And since we all know that porn drives things, I can imagine what the first use will be.
Even infinity reaches its limit at some point.
As was covered a few days ago, even if it's radioactive, it still will get mishandled. Maybe some reverse-psychology is in order, and some "not fragile; handle without care" and the like might cause it to be shipped in pristine condition?
Yes, we should first find a way to make people stop wanting to procreate, THEN we can make them live forever. Hmmm, maybe this website is a solution to the first?
It'd be nice to have a control, for example someone who has played racing video games a lot, but hasn't used this "exact physics" simulator. Otherwise, you don't know how well/bad someone would have done without the sim.
Nevermind going at the speed of light; do they get the physics right when you crash your simulated car and the thing burns you alive? I highly doubt it.
I bet the computer wished it could tell the researchers that the day they made it find the most boring day in history was itself the most boring for the poor computer.
In my day, all we had to take apart were rocks. You kids don't know how well you have it.
This thing was powered by an Energizer Energi To Go XP18000, which has an 18000 mAh capacity, and could only run for a little over three days?! What's happened to embedded designers? Maybe it was just a constraint of having to use an evaluation board, which isn't made for low-power battery operation.
Decently-written article, BTW. Usually magazines have articles full of grade-school humor, because the "journalist" can't keep serious for more than a couple of sentences at a time.
What killed local businesses was the local customers shopping elsewhere. And what caused that was the local businesses not offering what customers wanted. Your argument sounds like those of the MAFIAA talking of theft of potential sales.
I'm curious as to the irony you describe.
I wonder whether close scrutiny of other oil drilling, or other industries altogether, would reveal similar widespreat lack of safety. It's easy to assume that this is just BP. And I'm not defending BP, but rather casting suspicion on all the others (and not just oil).
The problem is still reviews. You don't have an amount of something countable; you have a number of them.
Besides, why pay when they perform entertaining foot-shooting acts like this for free?
I'm at a loss as to how you read the above as him claiming there is a lithium shortage.
More capacity you say? I think we instead need to employ deep current inspection, and cut off this few percent who are hogging all the bandwi...current flow. If we can do it early, we can avoid some idiotic current neutrality laws gumming up the works.
No. Choose one:
giant amounts of negative review
giant numbers of negative reviews
Gold can't be counterfeited easily, as there are no printing presses that make it. Sure, its value fluctuates, even if one takes into account the part that is a reflection of the currency's value changing, but if you look at the long-term trend, it is stable.
And yet Wal Mart makes all its profit by... people voluntarily going in and buying stuff. Don't shop there, and if you want to blame someone for Wal Mart existing, blame the millions of people who spend money there.
The free market doesn't mean you're free to harm others without repercussions. This company caused great harm, and should thus be held accountable. If you think that government oversight would have helped, why do you think they couldn't be paid off (and weren't paid off in this very instance)? Bottom line, unless we hold our elected officials/judges accountable for applying the law, so that they hold those responsible accountable, nothing will be done to those responsible.
Or lots of currency floods the market, thus making that under your mattress worth far less than when you put it there. Gold, on the other hand...
You forgot the terrible HDI-45 connector on the early PowerMacs. I was just dealing with one today. Apple's adapter sticks out a good 8 inches, putting lots of stress on the connector.