In current society, access to computers is not evenly spread throughout all socioeconomic and racial classes. Poorer people are less likely to own home PCs than richer people. Even ignoring this effect, white people and asians of any given income level are more likely to own PCs than black and latino/a people of the same income. For statistics and pointers to sources, google turned up this; plenty more info exists on the 'net.
Explain why this is a problem! 'net voting is only being discussed as an option, not the sole method of voting. If we make it easier to vote for those that happen to have access to a computer, what is so bad about that?
So then, where do you get someone to solder your chip to the bga adapter? it still has the same problem, getting a reliable and solid connection between all pads on the BGA to the board/adapter.
Ahh...Try getting a flat square of copper and put the BGA chip on it...heat it up with a good, blunt soldering iron until the solder is all melted...with pliers, quickly switch the chip. That should do it.
It fit all specifications and would have been perfect. it is only available as a BGA and will never be produced as a QFPA per the sales and engineering people.
The solution to this is simple: just get a BGA adapter! I'm not sure what the size of this chip is, but bga-adapter.com would probably be a great place to start looking.
I realize that you're just making a generalization (and that you know that it's a generalization,) but I've never seen DSL gear that has a max. speed of 1.5Mbps; Can you tell me which equipment you're quoting?
At my apartment, cablemodem access is not available; we can only get DSL ranging from 144kbps to 1.5Mbps for residential connections. You can find companies in the area that will give you as much as 8Mbps, but the costs are in the $300+ per month range. Right now, I pay $80 a month to get a 1.5M/384k ADSL line, which is the fastest that my provider (Covad/Speakeasy) offer. I don't remember the make of my modem (Speedstream?) off the top of my head, but it IS capable of 1.5Mbps.
By contrast, my parents, who live 45 miles away have a cablemodem (Cox@Home). They pay something like $40 a month for it (actually less because of some combo deal with the cable company, but that's irrelevant). Depending on the site, I've gotten downloads as high as 300KB/sec, which if my math is correct works out to 2.4Mbps. I'm not sure what portions, if anything, are bandwidth-capped, but it definately seems to significantly faster for cheaper.
On a side note, I wonder how much bandwidth I could pull through the pipe with a number of simultaneous transfers on a cablemodem...I know my DSL has a definate cap on that.
If true, then why aren't all the DSL providers already competitors? I currently have a Time Warner cable modem in my house, but I qualify for and can easily switch to DSL.
DSL and cable modem are both widely regarded as
"broadband"...however, consider that DSL bandwidths are typically in the range of 144kbps-1.5Mbs and cable bandwidths are more on the order of 1-10Mbs. There's a BIG difference between cable and DSL access speeds! DSL is inferior in price/performance to cable, and thus they should be considered separately.
It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion about RSI...
I think that anyone that has used a keyboard for a serious amount of time has noticed those angry red areas that tend to show up on one's wrists, especially after a long day of typing.
This is NOT to be confused with ACTUAL repetitive strain injuries! This is like the difference between getting a headache, and having migranes...
I would think they could compartmentalize the areas with ink inside the sheets. They could make pre-folding sections that would have creases already there. as long as there are contacts running along the edge of the sheet to connect everything it "should" work.
Hmm, well, you're right on that: 10 cents per litre, according to the article...but I imagine that if this takes off, they might be able to find a way to extract it from the air, which is roughly 75% N.
For 90 years, scientists have dreamed about the eye-popping potential of superconductors. Superconductivity could make copper wire obsolete, shrink the size of motors by four-fifths and increase the carrying capacity of power grids by orders of magnitude. Brownouts and rolling outages like those plaguing California could become a thing of the past.
Is our power grid THAT lossy? This seems to be a bit on the grandiose side...more efficient cabling will certainly help, but I doubt that world's energy needs will be met by a mere decrease in transmission losses.
Let's be honest here...a plane hurtling into the ocean at Mach X is going to go straight to the bottom. Depending on where in the ocean it hits, this could be MILES deep.
Point two: a plane hurtling straight down at Mach X is going to get VERY hot...anyone who's ever put an ice cube in a glass that just came from the dishwasher knows what might happen to that plane once it hits the water. Also, if you've ever done a bellyflop into a pool, you know how hard water can be...
It would seem an absurd waste of taxpayer money to salvage the craft since 1.) it would probably break into a gazillion pieces and 2.) it would probably reside at unsalvageable depths.
It seems almost impossible for things to disappear from cyberspace these days. There's an incessant number of mirrors and archive servers and the like floating around to keep just about everything.
Example: don't you hate it when you're searching your favorite search engine and you keep getting old and completely useless Usenet posts? That stuff will never disappear...
Seriously, what's with the scientific community holding onto their discoveries until they're newsworthy? Makes me wonder how long ago the first of these 11 'newly discovered' planets were really found...
How do you see free-software companies like RedHat staying viable in an increasingly dot-com-hostile economy, when their main product can be obtained for free?
I've played plenty of violent video games....and I've yet to go postal. Perhaps Indianapolis can make an ordinance banning parents that don't know how to raise their kids?
*grin*...the smell of "hot phenolic resin"...and no, it wasn't overclocked, and the T-Bird 1.2 had a SuperOrb on it, so perhaps the core got crushed... *sigh*
AMD has faster, cheaper, more efficient CPU's...there's no doubt anywhere about that.
Unfortunately, these processors also run EXTREMELY hot, especially above 800Mhz, and they can melt. I've personally witnessed two AMD CPUs (one a Duron 600, one a T-Bird 1.2) spew out the smell of burnt silicon. Am I just a statistical fluke?
I still refuse to pay Intel's high prices, so I guess I'm forced to deal with sending back melted chips every so often...
:::grumble:::
They're not kidding... Of 3 T-birds I've seen, 2 melted! Guess it's the high price/high stability/low performace of Intel vs. the low price/low stability/high performance of AMD. Go figure.
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Explain why this is a problem! 'net voting is only being discussed as an option, not the sole method of voting. If we make it easier to vote for those that happen to have access to a computer, what is so bad about that?
Ahh...Try getting a flat square of copper and put the BGA chip on it...heat it up with a good, blunt soldering iron until the solder is all melted...with pliers, quickly switch the chip. That should do it.
I realize that you're just making a generalization (and that you know that it's a generalization,) but I've never seen DSL gear that has a max. speed of 1.5Mbps; Can you tell me which equipment you're quoting?
At my apartment, cablemodem access is not available; we can only get DSL ranging from 144kbps to 1.5Mbps for residential connections. You can find companies in the area that will give you as much as 8Mbps, but the costs are in the $300+ per month range. Right now, I pay $80 a month to get a 1.5M/384k ADSL line, which is the fastest that my provider (Covad/Speakeasy) offer. I don't remember the make of my modem (Speedstream?) off the top of my head, but it IS capable of 1.5Mbps.
By contrast, my parents, who live 45 miles away have a cablemodem (Cox@Home). They pay something like $40 a month for it (actually less because of some combo deal with the cable company, but that's irrelevant). Depending on the site, I've gotten downloads as high as 300KB/sec, which if my math is correct works out to 2.4Mbps. I'm not sure what portions, if anything, are bandwidth-capped, but it definately seems to significantly faster for cheaper.
On a side note, I wonder how much bandwidth I could pull through the pipe with a number of simultaneous transfers on a cablemodem...I know my DSL has a definate cap on that.
If true, then why aren't all the DSL providers already competitors? I currently have a Time Warner cable modem in my house, but I qualify for and can easily switch to DSL.
DSL and cable modem are both widely regarded as "broadband"...however, consider that DSL bandwidths are typically in the range of 144kbps-1.5Mbs and cable bandwidths are more on the order of 1-10Mbs. There's a BIG difference between cable and DSL access speeds! DSL is inferior in price/performance to cable, and thus they should be considered separately.
Why do that when you can spend:
$10K on a really kick-ass audio system
$80K on a ludicrous amount of hard disk storage...let's say mega-RAID with a rack and the whole deal
And $50K on a really, really fast 'net connection...
A technophile AND an audiophile's dream...
It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion about RSI...
I think that anyone that has used a keyboard for a serious amount of time has noticed those angry red areas that tend to show up on one's wrists, especially after a long day of typing.
This is NOT to be confused with ACTUAL repetitive strain injuries! This is like the difference between getting a headache, and having migranes...
Wow. just think...
What would happen if computing hardware technology reached hard atomic limits?
A new era would begin...programmers would actually have to write efficient code! The end of bloatware as we know it!
Moore's Law II: On average, every 15 months, code would suck 50% less...
Hmm, well, you're right on that: 10 cents per litre, according to the article...but I imagine that if this takes off, they might be able to find a way to extract it from the air, which is roughly 75% N.
>Its 1.5 mb of lisp and it doesn't know or want to be a better artist.
Heheh....1.5mb of lisp...let's see...that would be 750K of code and 750K of parentheses, right?
Yeah, but c'mon....they're Canadian Dollars...so that's really like 50 cents and a bottlecap.
Is it me, or is this just a blatant ad for Cisco? "Yay, we're Cisco, look how efficient we can be, blah, blah, blah..."
Let's be honest here...a plane hurtling into the ocean at Mach X is going to go straight to the bottom. Depending on where in the ocean it hits, this could be MILES deep.
Point two: a plane hurtling straight down at Mach X is going to get VERY hot...anyone who's ever put an ice cube in a glass that just came from the dishwasher knows what might happen to that plane once it hits the water. Also, if you've ever done a bellyflop into a pool, you know how hard water can be...
It would seem an absurd waste of taxpayer money to salvage the craft since 1.) it would probably break into a gazillion pieces and 2.) it would probably reside at unsalvageable depths.
It seems almost impossible for things to disappear from cyberspace these days. There's an incessant number of mirrors and archive servers and the like floating around to keep just about everything.
Example: don't you hate it when you're searching your favorite search engine and you keep getting old and completely useless Usenet posts? That stuff will never disappear...
Seriously, what's with the scientific community holding onto their discoveries until they're newsworthy? Makes me wonder how long ago the first of these 11 'newly discovered' planets were really found...
How do you see free-software companies like RedHat staying viable in an increasingly dot-com-hostile economy, when their main product can be obtained for free?
Two words: Crazy Taxi :)
My college has some courses similar to that which you mention, and believe it or not, it's a part of the history department...
I've played plenty of violent video games....and I've yet to go postal. Perhaps Indianapolis can make an ordinance banning parents that don't know how to raise their kids?
*grin*...the smell of "hot phenolic resin"...and no, it wasn't overclocked, and the T-Bird 1.2 had a SuperOrb on it, so perhaps the core got crushed... *sigh*
Unfortunately, these processors also run EXTREMELY hot, especially above 800Mhz, and they can melt. I've personally witnessed two AMD CPUs (one a Duron 600, one a T-Bird 1.2) spew out the smell of burnt silicon. Am I just a statistical fluke?
I still refuse to pay Intel's high prices, so I guess I'm forced to deal with sending back melted chips every so often...
:::grumble::: They're not kidding... Of 3 T-birds I've seen, 2 melted! Guess it's the high price/high stability/low performace of Intel vs. the low price/low stability/high performance of AMD. Go figure.