Refusing to host obvious leaky ones will help, but I'd like to see some sort of memory/performance meter done well. Make it dead simple to see which extension/plugin is leaking. If one is behaving worse than some threshold value, encourage the user to look at the bad boy. Preferably with a solution available (reload or delete plugin/extension).
Any reason why you couldn't replace your ATmega with something like this Cortex M0 and have the same cheap DIP setup? With codesourcery lite you also have a compatible gcc version for free
Also did you benchmark the digitalWrite function? I don't really see any reason why digitalwrite won't compile to direct register access.
Unity is ready for tablet/smartphone usage design wise, but it's based on Gtk, which again draws its GUI with Cairo (unless things have changed in recent years). Looking at the Cairo website, their OpenGL backend is still experimental and latest update is 2010. For typical animation happy smartphone apps, it will likely be too slow. Just consider the complaints around Android without hardware acceleration, and Androids 2D backend Skia was reported as much faster than Cairo the last time I checked.
Then again regarding the apps themselves, unlike Android you'll have a hw acceleration friendly library just an "aptitude install qt5" away.
This certainly attests that a centralized DNS controlled by the US was a bug to begin with. I wonder if there exists any technical solution to this? If there was one, changing might not be that hard if you could get MS, Google, Apple, Mozilla and Opera in on it.
While it probably creates some noise, it shouldn't be that big of a problem for a camera. One video inside Chernobyl suggests this is not an issue. Another one from a robot inside.
No worries mate. It was pretty clear the first time that you didn't advocate it. I just wanted to argue that we may restrain our power not only due to moral, but also from the possibility of huge military implications from the rest of the planet afterwards.
It's easy to look at death counts and draw demonic conclusions, however it's a bit more complicated than that.
As a reference I found 6500 Arab Palestinian (AP) vs 1100 Israeli killed in the conflict since september 2000. These numbers comes from what appears as a rather anti-Israeli site. Bloodthirsty demons right? Not so fast. One thing is that they also include deaths by other APs (like from a not so distant Gaza civil war). But more importantly they also completely ignore how Hamas rockets are typically launched from civilian sites, while keeping the inhabitants hostage.
The above mentioned rockets doesn't kill that many. They're simply not precise enough. However they do cause a lot of terror. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night hearing a rocket strike close to your families house. Imagine this scenario goes on almost every day for years. Sooner or later, if not you, somebody you know well will die. What if you have the power to make it stop, but taking out the launch site, requires the death of 40 PA hostages. I suspect most would not wait for the death count to equal before taking action.
However even ignoring this, one have to remember this is an official war. Hamas, the official government, doesn't even bother to hide their intentions of throwing all of Israel out of the region. They regularly attack with any means on hand. As such the numbers are very low. In the Iran-Iraq war, as much as 900k Iranians died. In WW2 around 26 million Soviets died. Even for a superpower such as the US vs Iraq couldn't protect hundreds of thousands deaths.
While Islamic countries have next to no industry compared to western countries themselves, they do control most of what is todays most valuable resource, Oil. If the US and Europeans suddenly went bat shit crazy to do a Hitler style campaign of eliminating all Muslims, it would quickly turn into a west vs rest of the world fight. If not due to moral, the promises of cheap oil vs the risk of western countries controlling essentially all oil production, would make them come to the rescue creating an enormous true world war. The planet would probably be destroyed afterwards.
First of all: Many palestinians are indeed indigenous of the region. But so are many of the jews. In fact only a hundred years ago the word was generally used to refer to the jews in the region.
Second, Israel didn't get western backing before after the '67 war (perhaps initially much due to Arabs starting to side with the Soviets). Israel was not given away by the British either. The UN resolution and the promise from the British to get Israel dates back to WW1, but never actually happened. In '48 they simply pulled out, while the jews declared Israel as an independent country, accepting the UN resolution borders.
I'd say the situation is much closer to a conflict between Comanches vs Shoshones then a Indians vs British.
Nice representative statistics you've got there. As a fellow European, several people I've talked to express concern about Iran's nukes. Their leaders are rather unpredictable. Though I certainly hope no new war is needed.
HDMI for display is a no brainer imho. Many cheap ARM chips are coming with HDMI chip support these days, and essentially all TVs made in the last 5+ years comes with an HDMI port. For HD output, compatibility and low prices, there are no competitors.
USB would be a nice addition, but you're not seriously suggesting using USB as video out? I know there are adapters, but at 480 mbps video needs heavy recompression to output anywhere near HD output. Also copying movies through USB into the device sucks. Much more fun to stream it off the from a laptop or preferably a NAS.
Why stop there? Google is just a robot instead of a human that provides the information at your convenience. No! A thorough quest searching all the lands and oceans, involving 2 competing pirate clans, a fair lady and a magic unicorn, all spanning 7 years is the only thing that will allow you to not be ignorant.
Either that or you're confusing "ignorant" with "lazy"
Large AC motors should be controlled by a variable frequency converter. Their first step is usually to rectify the AC to DC. If you could supply DC directly, you would save components + slightly higher efficiency and reliability. In fact some bigger maritime engines are starting to do precisely that.
I just a job where I'll be traveling around 150 days per year, and have been thinking about this for a while. As of now the Transformer Prime looks hard to beat. Tegra 3, keyboard for real work, 18 hours of usage time! My only complain is lack of development tools made to run on Android, although not entirely nonexistent. Apparently you can get a simple C/C++ IDE, GCC, and BusyBox already.
If only I could get a straight port of QtCreator and CodeSourcery G++ Lite for it as well (no touch input changes necessary, as I'd never use it without a keyboard).
I often wonder why google users gets so much condescending comments about "being a product for advertisers" while getting free content/services.
It's a way better deal than TV/magazines/newspapers where you usually both pay for their content but still ends up with "being a product for advertisers".
Some labs have experimented with solid state pumps using a conductive coolant propelled using an electromagnetic system. Quiet as can be, but the expensive coolant (gallium alloy) renders them cost-prohibative.
Won't a conductive coolant corrode exposed heat sinks faster?
Not bad but 720p is certainly not "glorious" on a 70" TV. I was pretty impressed with blu ray movies on my 1080p 90" projector in the beginning. But it doesn't take that much time before you notice how much sharper things are on a 40" TV. I hope 4k ever gets to the mainstream.
Well written unpopular opinions often gets modded up in my reading experience, especially when written as a rant. I'm not convinced the group think is such a big problem as you're describing. IMHO Slashdot has still the best moderation system, and is the sole reason that I bother to come here.
Many distributors requires region monopoly to market and sell your product. Sometimes they will accept you selling the product directly online on your website if you set your prices ridiculously high
My comment was for the "well when we're finished this code, it will be worth 400k $" startups". On re-reading I can see I wasn't very clear about that.
However as much as I dislike and distrust MS, I'm still pretty sure that being called a "MS backed" company is worth something. Didn't MS next to save the Mac when MS ported Office to the Mac and Gates invested 150k in Apple? How would HTC be received in the west if they had not arrived as MS (only?) partner? This is not to say that one should forget how they back-stabbed and ruined Sendo before going to HTC with all their know-how. But for a tiny nobody it's a decent opportunity.
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Heavily is an understatement. The Lumia has supposedly the biggest marketing push in Nokias history.
Refusing to host obvious leaky ones will help, but I'd like to see some sort of memory/performance meter done well. Make it dead simple to see which extension/plugin is leaking. If one is behaving worse than some threshold value, encourage the user to look at the bad boy. Preferably with a solution available (reload or delete plugin/extension).
Any reason why you couldn't replace your ATmega with something like this Cortex M0 and have the same cheap DIP setup? With codesourcery lite you also have a compatible gcc version for free
Also did you benchmark the digitalWrite function? I don't really see any reason why digitalwrite won't compile to direct register access.
But this media is very controlled and predictable noise. Can't be impossible to filter.
Unity is ready for tablet/smartphone usage design wise, but it's based on Gtk, which again draws its GUI with Cairo (unless things have changed in recent years). Looking at the Cairo website, their OpenGL backend is still experimental and latest update is 2010. For typical animation happy smartphone apps, it will likely be too slow. Just consider the complaints around Android without hardware acceleration, and Androids 2D backend Skia was reported as much faster than Cairo the last time I checked.
Then again regarding the apps themselves, unlike Android you'll have a hw acceleration friendly library just an "aptitude install qt5" away.
This certainly attests that a centralized DNS controlled by the US was a bug to begin with. I wonder if there exists any technical solution to this? If there was one, changing might not be that hard if you could get MS, Google, Apple, Mozilla and Opera in on it.
While it probably creates some noise, it shouldn't be that big of a problem for a camera. One video inside Chernobyl suggests this is not an issue. Another one from a robot inside.
Nicely put. I agree
No worries mate. It was pretty clear the first time that you didn't advocate it. I just wanted to argue that we may restrain our power not only due to moral, but also from the possibility of huge military implications from the rest of the planet afterwards.
Actually it's likely much worse. In Q3 ex Nokia CEO now mobile analyst Tomi Ahonen says worldwide market share is currently as low as 1-2%.
The Lumia launch isn't looking all too optimistic either.
It's easy to look at death counts and draw demonic conclusions, however it's a bit more complicated than that.
As a reference I found 6500 Arab Palestinian (AP) vs 1100 Israeli killed in the conflict since september 2000. These numbers comes from what appears as a rather anti-Israeli site. Bloodthirsty demons right? Not so fast. One thing is that they also include deaths by other APs (like from a not so distant Gaza civil war). But more importantly they also completely ignore how Hamas rockets are typically launched from civilian sites, while keeping the inhabitants hostage.
The above mentioned rockets doesn't kill that many. They're simply not precise enough. However they do cause a lot of terror. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night hearing a rocket strike close to your families house. Imagine this scenario goes on almost every day for years. Sooner or later, if not you, somebody you know well will die. What if you have the power to make it stop, but taking out the launch site, requires the death of 40 PA hostages. I suspect most would not wait for the death count to equal before taking action.
However even ignoring this, one have to remember this is an official war. Hamas, the official government, doesn't even bother to hide their intentions of throwing all of Israel out of the region. They regularly attack with any means on hand. As such the numbers are very low. In the Iran-Iraq war, as much as 900k Iranians died. In WW2 around 26 million Soviets died. Even for a superpower such as the US vs Iraq couldn't protect hundreds of thousands deaths.
Israeli soldiers who shoot civilians and children on purpose, instead of covering it up.
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While Islamic countries have next to no industry compared to western countries themselves, they do control most of what is todays most valuable resource, Oil. If the US and Europeans suddenly went bat shit crazy to do a Hitler style campaign of eliminating all Muslims, it would quickly turn into a west vs rest of the world fight. If not due to moral, the promises of cheap oil vs the risk of western countries controlling essentially all oil production, would make them come to the rescue creating an enormous true world war. The planet would probably be destroyed afterwards.
How did this get modded up?
First of all: Many palestinians are indeed indigenous of the region. But so are many of the jews. In fact only a hundred years ago the word was generally used to refer to the jews in the region.
Second, Israel didn't get western backing before after the '67 war (perhaps initially much due to Arabs starting to side with the Soviets). Israel was not given away by the British either. The UN resolution and the promise from the British to get Israel dates back to WW1, but never actually happened. In '48 they simply pulled out, while the jews declared Israel as an independent country, accepting the UN resolution borders.
I'd say the situation is much closer to a conflict between Comanches vs Shoshones then a Indians vs British.
Nice representative statistics you've got there. As a fellow European, several people I've talked to express concern about Iran's nukes. Their leaders are rather unpredictable. Though I certainly hope no new war is needed.
HDMI for display is a no brainer imho. Many cheap ARM chips are coming with HDMI chip support these days, and essentially all TVs made in the last 5+ years comes with an HDMI port. For HD output, compatibility and low prices, there are no competitors.
USB would be a nice addition, but you're not seriously suggesting using USB as video out? I know there are adapters, but at 480 mbps video needs heavy recompression to output anywhere near HD output. Also copying movies through USB into the device sucks. Much more fun to stream it off the from a laptop or preferably a NAS.
Why stop there? Google is just a robot instead of a human that provides the information at your convenience. No! A thorough quest searching all the lands and oceans, involving 2 competing pirate clans, a fair lady and a magic unicorn, all spanning 7 years is the only thing that will allow you to not be ignorant.
Either that or you're confusing "ignorant" with "lazy"
Large AC motors should be controlled by a variable frequency converter. Their first step is usually to rectify the AC to DC. If you could supply DC directly, you would save components + slightly higher efficiency and reliability. In fact some bigger maritime engines are starting to do precisely that.
I just a job where I'll be traveling around 150 days per year, and have been thinking about this for a while. As of now the Transformer Prime looks hard to beat. Tegra 3, keyboard for real work, 18 hours of usage time! My only complain is lack of development tools made to run on Android, although not entirely nonexistent. Apparently you can get a simple C/C++ IDE, GCC, and BusyBox already.
If only I could get a straight port of QtCreator and CodeSourcery G++ Lite for it as well (no touch input changes necessary, as I'd never use it without a keyboard).
I often wonder why google users gets so much condescending comments about "being a product for advertisers" while getting free content/services.
It's a way better deal than TV/magazines/newspapers where you usually both pay for their content but still ends up with "being a product for advertisers".
Some labs have experimented with solid state pumps using a conductive coolant propelled using an electromagnetic system. Quiet as can be, but the expensive coolant (gallium alloy) renders them cost-prohibative.
Won't a conductive coolant corrode exposed heat sinks faster?
Not bad but 720p is certainly not "glorious" on a 70" TV. I was pretty impressed with blu ray movies on my 1080p 90" projector in the beginning. But it doesn't take that much time before you notice how much sharper things are on a 40" TV. I hope 4k ever gets to the mainstream.
Well written unpopular opinions often gets modded up in my reading experience, especially when written as a rant. I'm not convinced the group think is such a big problem as you're describing. IMHO Slashdot has still the best moderation system, and is the sole reason that I bother to come here.
Many distributors requires region monopoly to market and sell your product. Sometimes they will accept you selling the product directly online on your website if you set your prices ridiculously high
My comment was for the "well when we're finished this code, it will be worth 400k $" startups". On re-reading I can see I wasn't very clear about that.
However as much as I dislike and distrust MS, I'm still pretty sure that being called a "MS backed" company is worth something. Didn't MS next to save the Mac when MS ported Office to the Mac and Gates invested 150k in Apple? How would HTC be received in the west if they had not arrived as MS (only?) partner? This is not to say that one should forget how they back-stabbed and ruined Sendo before going to HTC with all their know-how. But for a tiny nobody it's a decent opportunity.