Soon they will have the TV split into a nine part grid, with the show in the centre, and ads running constantly on the other 8 equal sized portions of the screen.
And they'll still have ads on the 'show' portion of the screen half the time.
Then you'll need to get a projector to get the show back to the size it is now.
More and more... whenever I see the internet bareback, or watch TV, or hear commercial radio broadcasts... I'm shocked by how excessive and incessant the advertising is. I don't remember it being quite that bad when I quit watching live TV / started using adblock / only listen to the public radio station.
Oh, and don't forget that the government tax load in Canada is more like 70% of your income. That is what it is going to take here as well, if not more. With the local taxes and state taxes added in you may find yourself getting 10% of your gross pay as take-home.
Whenever I see things like a $30 bench with heavy cast iron ends - made in china. How does it not cost that much just to ship the thing...
Why are Chinese iron frying pans cheaper than ours? Not a whole lot of labour involved really, but an awful lot of weight for shipping.
Then there's other things - I notice a lot of canned corn, for example, is made in Thailand. Canned fruit from South Africa, and more and more Chinese fruit and veg.
How the fuck is it possible to be cheaper than corn grown and packed in Iowa..? Totally mindboggling.
My definition was a somewhat smaller notebook, 10-12" or so, with top end components... as opposed to bottom barrel component netbooks.
IBM X-series thinkpads would be the holotype, I think... can't think of anyone else that did that first.
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You can turn one of the isotopes of mercury to gold in a reactor, but it is not cost effective, and presumably has some issues (I'd imagine if the mercury was not all the pure isotope, you would get other radioactive products...)
It's a lot easier to make them with comparators or opamps as opposed to discrete transistors.
They're pretty good at P, I, and D. Kinda what they were devised for... op[erational] amplifier. Analog math / computing.
Can be fairly simple circuits, but tuning takes some work (not that it doesn't in digital, either). Digital has the advantage of fitting a wider range of applications without needing physical component changes and so on.
I kind of feel sad when I see people replacing a mechanical thermostat, or simple analog circuit for the same purpose, with a much more expensive digital version that is optionally buggy and less accurate. (not saying that's what the article or summary are about, as I haven't read them).
I love microcontrollers, but it seems like analog is going to be a lost art at this rate.
They've since invented codes that go along with the book - required to view online information and submit assignments, if the teacher is using their online framework. Naturally the code is only functional for a single semester, so even if you buy a used book, or share a book, you need your own code to submit assignments.
They'll gladly sell you just the code, for the low fee of... almost as much as a new book+code cost.
They're talking about the thermocouples inside the RTG power source, I presume... 15% is shitty, but it's still 'free' power. Beats the alternatives of batteries, unwieldy solar panels, etc.
I don't see it happening. They've been trying for years, and what do we get.. Atom? That's not even close... they need to drop power consumption by an order of magnitude to compete.
And like you say, even if intel made a magical chip with ARM-esque power consumption, and better processing power.. they'd charge too bloody much for it, and wouldn't be able to compete still. Unless they dumped it at a loss... but that seems like a losing battle against all the ARM licensees.
On second thought, maybe racketeering is (was) right at least, when de beers pressured others to enter their cartel, using their near monopoly to become even more near monopoly...
But they ain't the only show in town anymore, and diamonds are still expensive...
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Soon they will have the TV split into a nine part grid, with the show in the centre, and ads running constantly on the other 8 equal sized portions of the screen.
And they'll still have ads on the 'show' portion of the screen half the time.
Then you'll need to get a projector to get the show back to the size it is now.
More and more... whenever I see the internet bareback, or watch TV, or hear commercial radio broadcasts... I'm shocked by how excessive and incessant the advertising is. I don't remember it being quite that bad when I quit watching live TV / started using adblock / only listen to the public radio station.
Oh, and don't forget that the government tax load in Canada is more like 70% of your income. That is what it is going to take here as well, if not more. With the local taxes and state taxes added in you may find yourself getting 10% of your gross pay as take-home.
-5, completely fucking wrong.
Why not BY-SA?
That freely allows mashups and chopping, but they have to release it under the same licence.
I think it's more likely Harper phoned, begging for it. He seems to go out of his way, looking for raw deals for Canada.
Yeah, komovica is the first thing that came to mind - it's very similar to grappa.
All the seeds and whatnot are quite woody, so there is less room for error distilling this stuff. (the wood makes methanol).
I thought they normally fed it to pigs, if not making liquor.
Yeah.. I had to read it three times, wondering why the British Pornographic Industry cares about music.
http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc11057s.pdf
16ch 12bit ADC (which, like on the old ones, is really a multiplexer on a single ADC).
2ch 16b DAC
9 32b timers
+1 32b timer for real time clock (presumably has 32768 crystal input, divided down, and runs at one second realtime)
Also has a bunch of UART/I2C/SPI channels, CAN, USB host/device, high speed SD card interface, ethernet MAC, ext. bus (for flash, etc).
etc
Every time I go to sparkfun I'm amazed by how much they overcharge. That's about $5 of parts in small quantity, and very little assembly. Nice margin.
Definitely a fan of the AVRs with hardware USB... I've been using them for everything lately.
I thought they said 3.5M. They took out a loan for it, too. Oops.
I agree this should be done - but the drink will still have carbs in it, real sugar or not... which is what the gp was on about.
Please point out these current (or past, for that matter) examples of communism.
Hint - there aren't any. Maybe some tiny communes or colonies come close.
'Authoritarianism' is the word you're looking for.
Artsy people. The creative types. Yeah, that's right, I want my utopia to have murals'n'shit instead of featureless concrete. Unless you're into that.
Speak for yourself. Brutalism is an art. An awesome one.
I for one look forward to a brutalist dystopia. At least then the buildings will match the general mental state of the populous.
It's mindboggling where that point is though.
Whenever I see things like a $30 bench with heavy cast iron ends - made in china. How does it not cost that much just to ship the thing...
Why are Chinese iron frying pans cheaper than ours? Not a whole lot of labour involved really, but an awful lot of weight for shipping.
Then there's other things - I notice a lot of canned corn, for example, is made in Thailand. Canned fruit from South Africa, and more and more Chinese fruit and veg.
How the fuck is it possible to be cheaper than corn grown and packed in Iowa..? Totally mindboggling.
My definition was a somewhat smaller notebook, 10-12" or so, with top end components... as opposed to bottom barrel component netbooks.
IBM X-series thinkpads would be the holotype, I think... can't think of anyone else that did that first.
You can turn one of the isotopes of mercury to gold in a reactor, but it is not cost effective, and presumably has some issues (I'd imagine if the mercury was not all the pure isotope, you would get other radioactive products...)
The bacteria doesn't make gold. correct.
Having read the thing now, digital is the way to go in this instance.
I'd have done it cheaper though :-p
I still see things all the time that really ought to be analog, which is what I was talking about anyway.
It's a lot easier to make them with comparators or opamps as opposed to discrete transistors.
They're pretty good at P, I, and D. Kinda what they were devised for... op[erational] amplifier. Analog math / computing.
Can be fairly simple circuits, but tuning takes some work (not that it doesn't in digital, either). Digital has the advantage of fitting a wider range of applications without needing physical component changes and so on.
I kind of feel sad when I see people replacing a mechanical thermostat, or simple analog circuit for the same purpose, with a much more expensive digital version that is optionally buggy and less accurate. (not saying that's what the article or summary are about, as I haven't read them).
I love microcontrollers, but it seems like analog is going to be a lost art at this rate.
They've since invented codes that go along with the book - required to view online information and submit assignments, if the teacher is using their online framework.
Naturally the code is only functional for a single semester, so even if you buy a used book, or share a book, you need your own code to submit assignments.
They'll gladly sell you just the code, for the low fee of... almost as much as a new book+code cost.
Cancerous as hell...
It's roughly a pound per gallon here.
When you trade 20lbs of bacon for a fill, that's when the price of fuel really hits home.
They're talking about the thermocouples inside the RTG power source, I presume... 15% is shitty, but it's still 'free' power. Beats the alternatives of batteries, unwieldy solar panels, etc.
MMRTG
You can have 51.51.51.51, but I've got dibs on 0x33333333.
Just apply the real cure already... This is so ridiculous.
I don't see it happening. They've been trying for years, and what do we get.. Atom? That's not even close... they need to drop power consumption by an order of magnitude to compete.
And like you say, even if intel made a magical chip with ARM-esque power consumption, and better processing power.. they'd charge too bloody much for it, and wouldn't be able to compete still. Unless they dumped it at a loss... but that seems like a losing battle against all the ARM licensees.
I was under the impression that small industrial diamonds, for grit and such, have been synthetic since the 50s... and fairly cheap.
Think general electric came up with the process.
Iron likes to eat carbon when it's hot - doesn't matter if it's coke or diamond.
On second thought, maybe racketeering is (was) right at least, when de beers pressured others to enter their cartel, using their near monopoly to become even more near monopoly...
But they ain't the only show in town anymore, and diamonds are still expensive...