What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual What do you call a person who only speaks one language? American!
1. in the eyes of Pakistanis, I'm sure using drones rather than sending soldiers makes the US look extremely yellow and cowardly. 2. It makes war politically a lot easier to wage.
On the second point, people back home will get less upset when pilots and soldiers aren't coming home in body bags. It makes it much easier, therefore, for politicians to wage war (or war-like actions) since they know the opposition back home will be very small.
It wasn't in the GPL sense, at all. However, it was well *documented*, unlike the Broadcom stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I like the RPi, and I have one - but it does bother me that there's a lot of basic programming information for the hardware that's only available under NDA. The BBC Micro on the other hand, while not "open source" was well documented. *ALL* of the chips had data sheets with full information on how to use them avaialble, even if what was on the insides wasn't published. There were manuals like the BBC Advanced User Guide which covered how to use all the low level OS calls, how the hardware worked, all the hardware registers, how the frame buffer was laid out etc. It was fully documented and you didn't need to sign an NDA to go down to the register level of all the bits of hardware.
For other machines, such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the entire ROM was painstakingly documented by a book written by a 3rd party called the "Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly". Sinclair did not prevent Melbourne House from publishing this book, nor did they sue them for publishing it. If you did the same for the Broadcom GPU you'd get sued to smithereens.
It's really easy to eat cheaper than Mc.Donald's. It might not be cheaper in *time* but it certainly is in money. For example, I made this ( http://misrecetasdecomer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/sopa-de-papa-con-chorizo-espaol.html , use google translate if necessary) to bring in to work for lunch. That provided 4 days of lunches which are as filling as a standard size Big Mac meal but at half the cost, and while not exactly health freak food, I guarantee it contains less salt than a Big Mac meal, and almost certainly less fat (and IMHO much more tasty)
In the context of circuits, "by hand" means not autorouted. I laid out my last PCB "by hand" - no, I didn't draw it with a pen, but I placed each trace "by hand" in the CAD program instead of just autorouting it.
My kitchen has a set of 8 GU-10 style fittings on the ceiling, I replaced the 8 x 50W halogens with 8 x 7W LEDs which subjectively give out just as much light. I did in the past experiment with GU-10 8W compact fluorescents (but they take a long time to warm up, and have a relatively short life, and don't look very good). 7W is the minimum for replacing a halogen GU-10 being used as a primary light. Also look at the specification to see what angle of light they cast - some cheap ones put out a very narrow beam to look apparently as bright, but they just don't have the light output.
Cancel your order with RS and order it from Farnell (element 14). Farnell are currently shipping in 2 days I hear. RS have made some huge balls up it seems.
It doesn't need an HDTV to display. It can use any old analogue TV set - it has composite video out. It can also use any old DVI monitor. Being able to plug straight into both HDMI and DVI monitors cover the vast majority of monitors and TVs out there. The analogue composite video addresses those who can only get hold of a cast-off TV (most likely for free). USB keyboards and mice cost buttons.
The other thing is most school computers are locked down tighter than a duck's ass, and many schools will never entertain proper programming on the great majority of their computers. As such, the school might have a whole heap of PCs, but none are actually available to learn how a computer works, they are just glorified typewriters. This is a big problem in the UK - "IT classes" today are actually not information technology classes, they are just office skills classes, i.e. how to type, and how to use a spreadsheet (and a proprietary one at that). The Pi can be used as a standalone device which doesn't even need to be on the network, where a student is free to do whatever they want without making the IT department fear they will break something - because if the student buggers up the filesystem, for instance, you just reimage the SD card and you're done. The student can use their own SD card if they like. They can just use the keyboard, mouse and monitor of the computer the school won't let them use for programming.
Someone on my degree course at university had some type of severe disability (cerebral palsy I think) coupled with being pretty deaf and more or less unable to speak. He had a microphone like a pendant, he would give it to the lecturer. I'm pretty certain his hearing aid system was pretty dreadful - despite the mic being on the lecturer, you could hear feedback shriek very often from the other side of the room, from a device in this guy's ear - it didn't seem to bother him though (perhaps the frequency was one he couldn't hear at all).
All things being equal, perhaps - but you don't have to design all hulls the same way, especially if you don't have to carry nearly as much stuff to be able to support heavy aircraft (which need heavy life support systems for the pilot), but instead much lighter drones and cruise missiles. As an example, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's wave piercing catamaran ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Manannan - a former US navy vessel) is much, much faster (and accelerates better than) a US aircraft carrier, despite being perhaps a fifth of the length (if that). A Nimitz class goes about 30 knots, a high speed catamaran from 37 to 50 knots.
No, I'm not saying something the size of Mannanan can replace an aircraft carrier, the example is to just show that top speed in a displacing hull isn't merely due to the length of the vessel - you can design the hull(s) differently to make for a faster vessel.
Unfortunately, due to Twitter insisting on using oAuth for the API (and basically encryption everywhere), a modest microcontroller like an ATmega can no longer be used to tweet a modest 140 character message without help from outside.
My Dad's Peugeots would disagree, each did over 300,000 miles. My Audi would disagree about "notoriously unreliable", being 17 years old with 140,000 miles.
Saying a Sable is basically a Ford Taurus for those outside NA isn't helpful - the Taurus isn't sold outside NA either. I don't think Ford have an equivalent of the Sable/Taurus *at all* in Europe (the Ford in Europe that filled the same space in the market was the Granada, but Ford no longer produce a car larger than the Mondeo (Contour in NA) in Europe - the next larger thing in the Ford lineup in Europe are only SUVs, vans and people carriers (people carrier = minivan in the US. Not called a minivan in Europe because there was a Mini van, which as its name suggests was a Mini but with a van back end)). Ford basically ceded the space the Taurus fits in to BMW.
And of course all the Argentine government do if they feel their ratings are slipping is distract the population by bringing up the Falklands again. Then accusing Britain of being "provocative" when Britain increases the defence of the Falklands from all the belligerent talk from the Argentine government.
Whether this works or not to distract the Argentine population or rally them around the current government, I don't know (an article I saw on the Spanish TV news analysis programme, Informe Semanal, seems to suggest it no longer works)
A seven inch rod of the stuff plus beryllium - which turns it into a neutron source - making it pretty damned dangerous (much more dangerous than a mere alpha emitter).
I've seen both Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber (who designed the ARM instruction set and ARM hardware, respectively) talk. Both are still active in CPU design - Sophie Wilson now working for Broadcom designing processors for networking gear, and Steve Furber at Manchester University is a researcher.
Two interesting points: Sophie Wilson says there's no reason why Intel can't have the same power efficiency as ARM. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that in the small end of the computing world, Intel will be any good - Steve Furber pointed out in his talk when asked "since Intel x86 etc is now a RISC like core with a translator, where's ARM's advantage?" that *just* the part of the x86 that works out how long the next instruction is (just that part!) is as large as an entire ARM execution core. That's not to mention the much more complex circuitry needed to implement things like the pipeline, do branch prediction etc. This doesn't matter so much in a big system like a server where most of the die is taken up by cache, but in a small system it puts x86 at a big disadvantage. Especially a small multicore system.
The other thing that ARM has is they license their design so anyone cam make a SoC they want with the peripherals they want. With Intel, you get only what Intel gives you. So even if Intel got to the power efficiency of ARM for small systems, designers of small systems will still go with ARM partly due to backward compatibility and existing experience (ARM has a strangle hold here for the same reason as Intel has a desktop/server CPU stranglehold), and partly because they can make whatever SoC they want with ARM and aren't limited to what they get offered.
- The RMBK reactor design of Chernobyl was inherently "fail dangerous". Only the Soviets were insane enough to build reactors like this. Not even the Chinese are interested in fail dangerous designs. It had a positive void coefficient so when the coolant (water) boiled, the reaction rate went up, meaning it could get into a positive feedback loop and explode (and this is what it indeed did). - Fukushima was built in an area subject to tsunamis. If we keep reactors in geologically stable areas they aren't subject to this.
If the risks are so high with nuclear, why are we still using coal - which kills far more people?
Why are British called limeys? Because while other sailors were drinking beer and getting scurvy, the British sailors were drinking lime juice and not getting scurvy.
Not all of them. See some videos out there where private security on a commercial frieghter is giving serious fire to incoming pirates, but it still doesn't discourage them from trying to board the ship.
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What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual
What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual
What do you call a person who only speaks one language? American!
This is why.
The problem with drones is twofold:
1. in the eyes of Pakistanis, I'm sure using drones rather than sending soldiers makes the US look extremely yellow and cowardly.
2. It makes war politically a lot easier to wage.
On the second point, people back home will get less upset when pilots and soldiers aren't coming home in body bags. It makes it much easier, therefore, for politicians to wage war (or war-like actions) since they know the opposition back home will be very small.
If you're a person of normal means, immigration requirements of other countries (and the cost of moving) make it nearly impossible to move.
It wasn't in the GPL sense, at all. However, it was well *documented*, unlike the Broadcom stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I like the RPi, and I have one - but it does bother me that there's a lot of basic programming information for the hardware that's only available under NDA. The BBC Micro on the other hand, while not "open source" was well documented. *ALL* of the chips had data sheets with full information on how to use them avaialble, even if what was on the insides wasn't published. There were manuals like the BBC Advanced User Guide which covered how to use all the low level OS calls, how the hardware worked, all the hardware registers, how the frame buffer was laid out etc. It was fully documented and you didn't need to sign an NDA to go down to the register level of all the bits of hardware.
For other machines, such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the entire ROM was painstakingly documented by a book written by a 3rd party called the "Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly". Sinclair did not prevent Melbourne House from publishing this book, nor did they sue them for publishing it. If you did the same for the Broadcom GPU you'd get sued to smithereens.
It's really easy to eat cheaper than Mc.Donald's. It might not be cheaper in *time* but it certainly is in money. For example, I made this ( http://misrecetasdecomer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/sopa-de-papa-con-chorizo-espaol.html , use google translate if necessary) to bring in to work for lunch. That provided 4 days of lunches which are as filling as a standard size Big Mac meal but at half the cost, and while not exactly health freak food, I guarantee it contains less salt than a Big Mac meal, and almost certainly less fat (and IMHO much more tasty)
In the context of circuits, "by hand" means not autorouted. I laid out my last PCB "by hand" - no, I didn't draw it with a pen, but I placed each trace "by hand" in the CAD program instead of just autorouting it.
My kitchen has a set of 8 GU-10 style fittings on the ceiling, I replaced the 8 x 50W halogens with 8 x 7W LEDs which subjectively give out just as much light. I did in the past experiment with GU-10 8W compact fluorescents (but they take a long time to warm up, and have a relatively short life, and don't look very good). 7W is the minimum for replacing a halogen GU-10 being used as a primary light. Also look at the specification to see what angle of light they cast - some cheap ones put out a very narrow beam to look apparently as bright, but they just don't have the light output.
I won't be going back to the halogens.
> b) The A6 is simply a modified Arm instruction set processor. Not a entirely new CPU design
The processor core is ARM, but Apple had to design the SoC that went around it (which is probably the bulk of what's in the A6 package).
He who lives by the silly lawsuit, dies by the silly lawsuit.
Well, if the person just politely pointed it out I expect they wouldn't get banned.
But instead they labour the point, and bang on and on about it in an agressive and unhelpful manner.
Cancel your order with RS and order it from Farnell (element 14). Farnell are currently shipping in 2 days I hear. RS have made some huge balls up it seems.
It doesn't need an HDTV to display. It can use any old analogue TV set - it has composite video out. It can also use any old DVI monitor. Being able to plug straight into both HDMI and DVI monitors cover the vast majority of monitors and TVs out there. The analogue composite video addresses those who can only get hold of a cast-off TV (most likely for free). USB keyboards and mice cost buttons.
The other thing is most school computers are locked down tighter than a duck's ass, and many schools will never entertain proper programming on the great majority of their computers. As such, the school might have a whole heap of PCs, but none are actually available to learn how a computer works, they are just glorified typewriters. This is a big problem in the UK - "IT classes" today are actually not information technology classes, they are just office skills classes, i.e. how to type, and how to use a spreadsheet (and a proprietary one at that). The Pi can be used as a standalone device which doesn't even need to be on the network, where a student is free to do whatever they want without making the IT department fear they will break something - because if the student buggers up the filesystem, for instance, you just reimage the SD card and you're done. The student can use their own SD card if they like. They can just use the keyboard, mouse and monitor of the computer the school won't let them use for programming.
Someone on my degree course at university had some type of severe disability (cerebral palsy I think) coupled with being pretty deaf and more or less unable to speak. He had a microphone like a pendant, he would give it to the lecturer. I'm pretty certain his hearing aid system was pretty dreadful - despite the mic being on the lecturer, you could hear feedback shriek very often from the other side of the room, from a device in this guy's ear - it didn't seem to bother him though (perhaps the frequency was one he couldn't hear at all).
All things being equal, perhaps - but you don't have to design all hulls the same way, especially if you don't have to carry nearly as much stuff to be able to support heavy aircraft (which need heavy life support systems for the pilot), but instead much lighter drones and cruise missiles. As an example, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's wave piercing catamaran ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Manannan - a former US navy vessel) is much, much faster (and accelerates better than) a US aircraft carrier, despite being perhaps a fifth of the length (if that). A Nimitz class goes about 30 knots, a high speed catamaran from 37 to 50 knots.
No, I'm not saying something the size of Mannanan can replace an aircraft carrier, the example is to just show that top speed in a displacing hull isn't merely due to the length of the vessel - you can design the hull(s) differently to make for a faster vessel.
An underwater nuclear explosion 500m away probably would, though.
If you don't mind a thicker iPhone there are external battery packs you can get that clip to the back.
Unfortunately, due to Twitter insisting on using oAuth for the API (and basically encryption everywhere), a modest microcontroller like an ATmega can no longer be used to tweet a modest 140 character message without help from outside.
My Dad's Peugeots would disagree, each did over 300,000 miles. My Audi would disagree about "notoriously unreliable", being 17 years old with 140,000 miles.
Saying a Sable is basically a Ford Taurus for those outside NA isn't helpful - the Taurus isn't sold outside NA either. I don't think Ford have an equivalent of the Sable/Taurus *at all* in Europe (the Ford in Europe that filled the same space in the market was the Granada, but Ford no longer produce a car larger than the Mondeo (Contour in NA) in Europe - the next larger thing in the Ford lineup in Europe are only SUVs, vans and people carriers (people carrier = minivan in the US. Not called a minivan in Europe because there was a Mini van, which as its name suggests was a Mini but with a van back end)). Ford basically ceded the space the Taurus fits in to BMW.
And of course all the Argentine government do if they feel their ratings are slipping is distract the population by bringing up the Falklands again. Then accusing Britain of being "provocative" when Britain increases the defence of the Falklands from all the belligerent talk from the Argentine government.
Whether this works or not to distract the Argentine population or rally them around the current government, I don't know (an article I saw on the Spanish TV news analysis programme, Informe Semanal, seems to suggest it no longer works)
A seven inch rod of the stuff plus beryllium - which turns it into a neutron source - making it pretty damned dangerous (much more dangerous than a mere alpha emitter).
I've seen both Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber (who designed the ARM instruction set and ARM hardware, respectively) talk. Both are still active in CPU design - Sophie Wilson now working for Broadcom designing processors for networking gear, and Steve Furber at Manchester University is a researcher.
Two interesting points: Sophie Wilson says there's no reason why Intel can't have the same power efficiency as ARM. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that in the small end of the computing world, Intel will be any good - Steve Furber pointed out in his talk when asked "since Intel x86 etc is now a RISC like core with a translator, where's ARM's advantage?" that *just* the part of the x86 that works out how long the next instruction is (just that part!) is as large as an entire ARM execution core. That's not to mention the much more complex circuitry needed to implement things like the pipeline, do branch prediction etc. This doesn't matter so much in a big system like a server where most of the die is taken up by cache, but in a small system it puts x86 at a big disadvantage. Especially a small multicore system.
The other thing that ARM has is they license their design so anyone cam make a SoC they want with the peripherals they want. With Intel, you get only what Intel gives you. So even if Intel got to the power efficiency of ARM for small systems, designers of small systems will still go with ARM partly due to backward compatibility and existing experience (ARM has a strangle hold here for the same reason as Intel has a desktop/server CPU stranglehold), and partly because they can make whatever SoC they want with ARM and aren't limited to what they get offered.
Chernobyl and Fukushima are bad examples because:
- The RMBK reactor design of Chernobyl was inherently "fail dangerous". Only the Soviets were insane enough to build reactors like this. Not even the Chinese are interested in fail dangerous designs. It had a positive void coefficient so when the coolant (water) boiled, the reaction rate went up, meaning it could get into a positive feedback loop and explode (and this is what it indeed did).
- Fukushima was built in an area subject to tsunamis. If we keep reactors in geologically stable areas they aren't subject to this.
If the risks are so high with nuclear, why are we still using coal - which kills far more people?
Why are British called limeys? Because while other sailors were drinking beer and getting scurvy, the British sailors were drinking lime juice and not getting scurvy.
Not all of them. See some videos out there where private security on a commercial frieghter is giving serious fire to incoming pirates, but it still doesn't discourage them from trying to board the ship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnpY8HhTwU