Yes, but ever since the demise of Bongo (the old www.utexas.edu VAX) the only non-departmental computing system on main campus of note is the IBM SP2 node running the administrative database stuff (grades, security, finances, etc... can't remember the name off the top of my head). That pales in comparison to the machines at J.J. Pickle Research Campus at the other end of Austin. Plus Pickle is where we hide the reactor.
OLED implies a thin-film organic LED. If it's an LED, I expect a device that behaves like a P-N junction and operates at low voltages like a standard silicon or other inorganic LED. Organic Electroluminescent is totally different. OEL is a monolithic material that fluoresces under high voltages and low currents. OEL is what is used for backlights for many portable devices and is ultimately not as efficient as OLED (because of the HV stepup) and does not have as easily a tunable color range as OLED.
So who told you that they were the same thing, huh?
Did anyone actually spot anything on their site that mentions that the display is OLED? Looks to me more like the OEL (Organic EL) display that some newer car stereos have (new Pioneers, etc). Last I heard blue OLED had some MTBF troubles...
Besides the fact that the Model M can be used to bludgeon evildoers, it can be fairly easily disassembled for cruft removal and even features channels around the spring holes and bottom edge to funnel spilt (or spit) coffee away from the precious contacts.
There was a game called Burn:Cycle that was pretty entertaining back in the day. It could be finished in about 2 hours. In fact, the whole premise is that your character had to solve the game in under two hours of wall time or he'd die. Meaning that you had only about four hours of gameplay if you count returning from savegames because you got killed in some other way. Too bad it sold for about $40.
It also seems to me that there has been a lot of talk about using magnetics in data transmision (not storage) for a long time without any real results.
Out of what orifice did you pull that definition? FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. Instead of 'neural pathways', the chip contains a crapload of cells (usually made of a couple of LUTs and some flops and a pile of MUXes) connected within a matrix of interconnects. At the termination of these matrices are the I/O blocks, which connect bits of these functions into the real world. The idea is that each one of these blocks can describe all or part of a logic function, and these functions can be arbitrarily wired together to form a CPU / ASIC / accelerator / whatever. It's a lot more complicated than that to use in practice, since things like propagation delays, clock skew, and amount of resources must be taken into account by both the compiler and the designer, much like in designing an ASIC. So it's not a click-and-drool development cycle, and the FPGA doesn't do any of this reconfiguration on its own (well, most of the time anyway).
Wing Commander was an excellent game series. Wing Commander the Movie actually made me vomit. It was so bad that they couldn't even get Mark Hamill (who played the lead character in the last three games' cutscenes) to show up as Blair.
The only reason that methanol is touted as the ideal solution for fuel cells as opposed to ethanol is because of various regional regulations on alcohol. You can't (or at least you shouldn't try to) drink methanol.
There's no real standard for LCD modules, even the PC variety. When designing an LCD into a system, one first needs the appropriate data sheet, which is usually hard to come by (requiring a phone call to a MFR rep or such) and ill-written. Then, you need to provide the appropriate voltage rails, many of which fall outside of the range of a normal PC supply (bias, contrast voltages). And that's not to mention the (often) high voltage backlight!
Once you've sorted all of that out and your LCD powers up, you will need to interface your video signal. There are not only many different physical connector schemes used in panels, but many pinouts and electrical / timing methods. Not to mention that the panel takes a serial or framed digital signal, while your PC probably emits an analog one (except DVI-D)
Once your panel is lashed up to a host, you would need to convince your OS to drive the panel with a VERY specific set of timings. Remember, this panel is a purely digital device and isn't tolerant of sloppy video or sync signals like the average glass boob is. And of course forget about baseband TV video unless you're prepared to do some scan conversion.
You could make it work. I occasionally have to spec and implement LCDs for projects at work. It's not easy to do even when you have a device designed to drive an LCD. Hell, some of the VIA Mini-ITX boards come with a LVD video output port for driving some panels. But still, you can see that there is more value in that flat panel monitor than just the LCD.
I don't know about everyone else, but my experience has been that Iomega magnetic disk drives and media are unreliable. I wouldn't trust my data to this even if it was 100GB/cart.
No, really, I wasn't being sarcastic. In fact, his insight kept me from wasting valuable work time as I was previously busy pondering the duality of a Mounds bar.
It's not that cooling makes the silicon faster. In fact, some circuits (analog bits like PLLs in particular) perform worse at temperatures outside their design target. The reason that cooling works is that hot silicon stops working. Inter-junction thermal voltages (same as in a thermocouple) increase as the temperature goes up. This adds noise to signals and screws the threshhold voltage of the gates on the silicon. This is also why overvolting a CPU can sometimes help: Increasing the supply voltage increases the S/N ratio of driven signals, up to a point.
We've had them for many years. It's called NiTiNOL. Nitinol is a metal alloy that, when used in wires, constricts when current is passed through it (heating phase) and stretches when it is idle (cooling phase). This is also the same material that those bend-proof wire glasses frames are made of. See http://www.dynalloy.com/AboutNitinol.html for just one manufacturer's info page.
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This opens the floodgates to a slew of DDOH (distributed denial of hunger) attack.
Ja, I used to be an admin for those Suns a few years back... ECE is a harsh mistress.
Yes, but ever since the demise of Bongo (the old www.utexas.edu VAX) the only non-departmental computing system on main campus of note is the IBM SP2 node running the administrative database stuff (grades, security, finances, etc... can't remember the name off the top of my head). That pales in comparison to the machines at J.J. Pickle Research Campus at the other end of Austin. Plus Pickle is where we hide the reactor.
OLED implies a thin-film organic LED. If it's an LED, I expect a device that behaves like a P-N junction and operates at low voltages like a standard silicon or other inorganic LED. Organic Electroluminescent is totally different. OEL is a monolithic material that fluoresces under high voltages and low currents. OEL is what is used for backlights for many portable devices and is ultimately not as efficient as OLED (because of the HV stepup) and does not have as easily a tunable color range as OLED.
So who told you that they were the same thing, huh?
Did anyone actually spot anything on their site that mentions that the display is OLED? Looks to me more like the OEL (Organic EL) display that some newer car stereos have (new Pioneers, etc). Last I heard blue OLED had some MTBF troubles...
Besides the fact that the Model M can be used to bludgeon evildoers, it can be fairly easily disassembled for cruft removal and even features channels around the spring holes and bottom edge to funnel spilt (or spit) coffee away from the precious contacts.
There was a game called Burn:Cycle that was pretty entertaining back in the day. It could be finished in about 2 hours. In fact, the whole premise is that your character had to solve the game in under two hours of wall time or he'd die. Meaning that you had only about four hours of gameplay if you count returning from savegames because you got killed in some other way. Too bad it sold for about $40.
I think you've stumbled upon the post - Toy Story naming paradigm. Should the next one be named Muffley or Guano?
It also seems to me that there has been a lot of talk about using magnetics in data transmision (not storage) for a long time without any real results.
Yes, it's called radio.
Out of what orifice did you pull that definition? FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. Instead of 'neural pathways', the chip contains a crapload of cells (usually made of a couple of LUTs and some flops and a pile of MUXes) connected within a matrix of interconnects. At the termination of these matrices are the I/O blocks, which connect bits of these functions into the real world. The idea is that each one of these blocks can describe all or part of a logic function, and these functions can be arbitrarily wired together to form a CPU / ASIC / accelerator / whatever. It's a lot more complicated than that to use in practice, since things like propagation delays, clock skew, and amount of resources must be taken into account by both the compiler and the designer, much like in designing an ASIC. So it's not a click-and-drool development cycle, and the FPGA doesn't do any of this reconfiguration on its own (well, most of the time anyway).
Wing Commander was an excellent game series. Wing Commander the Movie actually made me vomit. It was so bad that they couldn't even get Mark Hamill (who played the lead character in the last three games' cutscenes) to show up as Blair.
The only reason that methanol is touted as the ideal solution for fuel cells as opposed to ethanol is because of various regional regulations on alcohol. You can't (or at least you shouldn't try to) drink methanol.
My employer, for one. See this here Lead free packaging schedule. We're not completely in production yet, but are making our way there.
In a related Red Dwarf reference:
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Cat: Hey, it's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone. It's the policewoman's helmet and the suspenders I don't understand.
There's no real standard for LCD modules, even the PC variety. When designing an LCD into a system, one first needs the appropriate data sheet, which is usually hard to come by (requiring a phone call to a MFR rep or such) and ill-written. Then, you need to provide the appropriate voltage rails, many of which fall outside of the range of a normal PC supply (bias, contrast voltages). And that's not to mention the (often) high voltage backlight!
Once you've sorted all of that out and your LCD powers up, you will need to interface your video signal. There are not only many different physical connector schemes used in panels, but many pinouts and electrical / timing methods. Not to mention that the panel takes a serial or framed digital signal, while your PC probably emits an analog one (except DVI-D)
Once your panel is lashed up to a host, you would need to convince your OS to drive the panel with a VERY specific set of timings. Remember, this panel is a purely digital device and isn't tolerant of sloppy video or sync signals like the average glass boob is. And of course forget about baseband TV video unless you're prepared to do some scan conversion.
You could make it work. I occasionally have to spec and implement LCDs for projects at work. It's not easy to do even when you have a device designed to drive an LCD. Hell, some of the VIA Mini-ITX boards come with a LVD video output port for driving some panels. But still, you can see that there is more value in that flat panel monitor than just the LCD.
I don't know about everyone else, but my experience has been that Iomega magnetic disk drives and media are unreliable. I wouldn't trust my data to this even if it was 100GB/cart.
No, really, I wasn't being sarcastic. In fact, his insight kept me from wasting valuable work time as I was previously busy pondering the duality of a Mounds bar.
Thanks, Dr. Science.
Everyone knows the proper woodcut to put on the cover is a coconut, not some stupid dog.
It's not that cooling makes the silicon faster. In fact, some circuits (analog bits like PLLs in particular) perform worse at temperatures outside their design target. The reason that cooling works is that hot silicon stops working. Inter-junction thermal voltages (same as in a thermocouple) increase as the temperature goes up. This adds noise to signals and screws the threshhold voltage of the gates on the silicon. This is also why overvolting a CPU can sometimes help: Increasing the supply voltage increases the S/N ratio of driven signals, up to a point.
Their server seems to encountered a resonance cascade.
Here's one
RTFA. The workers that managed critical systems like... oh... THE GENERATORS went on strike and were replaced by unskilled and untrained dimwits.
We've had them for many years. It's called NiTiNOL. Nitinol is a metal alloy that, when used in wires, constricts when current is passed through it (heating phase) and stretches when it is idle (cooling phase). This is also the same material that those bend-proof wire glasses frames are made of. See http://www.dynalloy.com/AboutNitinol.html for just one manufacturer's info page.
BAH... since when did 'Plain Old Text' consider bracketed text as tokens?