While BitTorrent is a twoderful thing (better than onederful *ahem*) everyone is aware that at least for most residential account users - it's in violation of your TOS? You know, that clause that states you will not run a server?
The dang thing runs on 2.4Ghz - I got rid of my 2.4Ghz wireless phones because they didn't play nice with my 802.11g network. "excuse me, I can't find a clear channel, would you mid turning off that useless interferring radio thing? Thanks...."
Bluetooth is a standard wireless protocol - they could have acheived everything they wanted, *WITHOUT* creating interference.
This all sounds vaguely familiar - remember a little complier company that caused all manner of outcry by writing a license agreement that said you couldn't use their complier to write an operating system. They sufficiently annoyed the developement community enough that it took years to get back the trust - and they never really recovered. You may remember the name - Borland?
Lawyers should not be allowed into the creative process.
Bless you for giving credit where credit is due! Halo my posterior. You can tell when kids are the ones writing the articles. (Kids defined as anyone 20 years younger than you are. )
As for the 'Uber-strong' metal - Sinclair molecular chain most likely (so they speculated on the Liar). Sinclair was probably a Protector from Home:) Yes, I'm a hardcore Niven fan.
Here's where something like this is a godsend, put it in a 20GB microdrive for photographers, and I'd be a happy person. Right now, I use 1GB flash cards in my camera, and shooting in RAW format, I only get about 100 shots per card. Contrary to what you might think, that's not all that much - especially for sports/action photography. Last weekend, at a 4 hour track meet, I shot 550 frames, from that, I'll probably find less than 50 keepers - but that's the nature of 'capturing' the shot.
Likewise, DVRs would also benefit from microdrives of this nature.
The split between Business/Embedded - as stated in the question. Done correctly, it's an iterative operation, for those of us that have to count the microseconds. Start with a good algorithm (like that needed to be said?) - and code the problem in the simplest form possible. This won't be the fastest - not even with an optimizing complier. But it allows you to prove your base correct with the easiest to read form. Now profile - and find the hotspots. *NOW* hand optimize them - and you'd be surprised what they are. Sometimes moving declarations around - or sometimes even where you make an assignment may make a difference - but you can't tell 'till it's built. Now for business, it's often not worth this level of optimizing - since the final version of the code may not look anything like the original 'algorithm', which may be more important to clarity of maintenance.
Ok, so they plan to try and tax cars by polling the odometer (or GPSr) or whatever.. I'd love to see how they plan to do that with my hand-built replicar. (or any other car that predates electronic speed controls..) Maybe my Cobra just got a lot more affordable to drive after all.
Apparenly (as I understand it) the talks could have been true - and then the FCC reminded both players "Boys, remember when we gave you your playground? you had to COMPETE?" To save face... "HOAX!!!, what, do you think we're stupid?"
So far as the difference between XM and Sirius: (I've got XM)the best way I've heard to describe it is XM is for those that like 'deeper' tracks, and Sirius is for those that like hearing music they know. Which is not to say that XM doesn't play music you know, but they do dig up some pretty deep stuff.
Somehow I have this image of the radar wave smashing into the car in front, crushing it into tiny little bits... - perhaps you meant braking, as in to brake, as in to decelerate? AAAAAARGHGHGHGH! I feel better now.
You know, the land of weak encryption or die? I have to wonder just how effective a smart card can be from a country that doesn't allow it's people strong personal encryption.
Okay peeps: 1) Replacing the shuttle. yes we should. No we haven't. But we've got that great big investment up there called the ISS. Shall we just abandon it? Didn 't think so. 2) 'Disasters' - We've had two. Fewer than the Apollo program. They suck. Really they do. And they have been attributed to the 'make it work anyway' group. Who, I might add, are usually under $$$ pressure from those who are screaming for better "return on investment for the taxpayer". This is still, contrary to popular belief, exploration, and *THINGS WILL HAPPEN* - it is not airflight.
3) 'We should develop -insert your favorite space technology here-', Some of those technologies do need testing in space now.
4) 'what about spaceship-one' - what was the payload capacity? 200kilo? Roughly?
yes, NASA has problems - but contrary to popular belief - we really need the shuttles flying, if only to develop the replacements!
They have to be confident. If the system goes for N days without contact, I suspect they'll have far greater worries than just overfull download buffers. Say like - why isn't our little lost machine talking to us?
Hmm Granted: No mention of sound quality. Battery life: Already stated at 15 hours on manufacturs site. Build quality: "Felt solid". Points out that the java install software did have an upgrade.. (btw, indirectly pointing out that it's third-party bundleware) Indirectly points out RF adaptor is avaliable RCA jacks make it usable for home.. and it apparently does seem to have some definite problems (which is why I would shy away from it for now) Though it does play OGG - a plus.
Not the greatest review, true - but the guy's not a professional writer - at least you know more than you did, no? If you want to rip someone, rip the editors, not the reviewer
No bet - didn't even bother to post origionally - for that very reason. (althought was surprised to see about a 70/30 split at the 10 message point - typo/content)
They're hard pressed to remember their own password, and whine about having to enter that. Now they want them to carry a secureID card, and enter 2 passwords? Can you say marketing fiasco? secureID works when you can FORCE employees to use it, but having people PAY for it Nah....
Not quite true for the secureID - it is a time-locked device. Unless of course the phisher uses the password within 60 seconds of getting it. Not bloody likely.
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This is why I love/loved my koyocera smartphone. It's a blend - a phone with a pda. only problem is mine is now going on 4 years old now, and getting long in the tooth, and since it's company owned they won't spring for the upgrade to the 7135 (smaller next gen) With it I was able to SSH in a pinch, browse, full PDA functions (PalmOS) as well as full CellPhone. Granted, it was a bit large, but then it's late 90's technology. The 7135 is smaller (about the size of a blackberry) and clamshell/color.
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Not uncommon actually. You'd be a little surprised if you look up the pharmocology of adderall though. It's the "kick-butt" version of Ritalin (loosely stated). It's a much, much stronger stimulant. Some cannot handle it - (my son wound up picking holes in his skin from the overstimulation, and I can't handle any form of the amphetamine based treatments - yes, it runs in the family)
Do be careful - This runs in my family, bipolar that is, not ADHD (now that we looked at it a bit more carefully) but it took a near disaster with the meds to trigger the 'careful look'. My son was diagnosed ADHD, and given the usual stimulant based treatment - at the same time, the rest of the family was screened, and *surprise* Dad showed up way high on the ADHD scale as well, though they were a little surprised that the battery of tests also showed moderate clinical depression (warning sign that was missed). The Psych put me on Wellbutrin. Great stuff - work was much better, got the best review I'd had in years about 4 months later - very productive. Fast forward another 3 months, I don't need to sleep much anymore (3 hours is plenty) - but my temper is very short, everything is done to deliberatly piss me off, it's always my fault, etc. At the same time my son is spiraling into a major depression. Next medcheck with Psych his eyes get *REAL* big as I'm relating all this and he starts asking lots of family history questions that probably should have been asked before (alchoholism in family? Yep! Suicides in family? Yep, 3 gens back on moms side, cycling insommnia? only since I was 17...) Change in diagnosis - Bipolar. Now on Welbutrin and Topomax, fairly balanced (my son is on a different mood stabilizer to offset the stimulant - same problem). Seems that the Welbutrin, being an antidepressant had a slingshot effect and put me in a state higher than my "normal" manic phase - and I'm one of the 'antisocial' manic types, not the 'happy' manic types. [Dysphoria vs Euphoria] The point of the blather - the meds can help, but do be careful, as a manic state Bipolar can appear as ADHD (and vice versa) and antidepressants used in the treatment of Bipolar misdiagnosed as ADHD without some form of stabilizer can cause a massive swing to manic - which is not pretty.
We use it as well, with appropriate hacks. It was fairly easy to tie in with our change control system, and the developers can't totally ignore their bugs - email is a bitch at times:)
The trick for dealing with fan noise is to run the fans at the speed needed. Larger fans can actually be more effective than their little brothers, at much slower speeds. For my home box, I've built a custom watercooler + peltier
system for my BP6 system. I use a PIC w/ a
number of Dallas Semi temperature sensors to monitor the state of the system. The radiator
is in a ducted box attached to the bottom of the
system unit, one temperature probe attached to
the outlet of the radiator, and one measureing
the incoming air. Fan power is PWM according
to how warm the water is WRT the incoming air,
with an idle speed of 10% duty. In general
the fan rarely gets above 40% - and hence is
very very quiet (I can ususally hear the pump
instead of the fan) The pelts are used to keep
the cold-sink at 20C, again PWM according to
the measured temp - which right now has
the processors running at about 29C. The pelts
are a new addition, but the rest of the cooling
system has been in place for over a year, with
no leaks. Total coolant is about 20oz, and I've
had to replace about 6oz of evaporative loss
through the plastic tubing. The nice thing with
the pelts is that my system now is isolated from
the room temp - which, in CA is a good thing, as I don't need te A/C running when I'm not home.
You are correct, any dolt can become a programmer. In my organization, the programmers are the lowest life form - just above testers. By programmer, I mean a code-monkey - someone that implements somebody else's algorithm or design. My degree is a 13 year old computer science degree. In addition to the theory of CS, I got some heavy math, and hardware design as well. And I use all of those things constantly in my position. All too often, I seen poor designs coming from people with current CS degrees, due to not understanding how the complier does things, or how the OS works, or even how the software is affected by the hardware and the hardware by the software.
Not likely, coilers tend to prefer using round electrodes for our safety gaps. The shut down faster. Just 'cause the gap fired, doesn't mean the coil needs to be shut down!
Actually, very true. I know Bert from the Tesla and Tesla-2 mailing lists. In addition to building quarter crushers, he builds fairly large tesla coils - if only mine were that big:) Jacobs' ladders? Small 'taters! Quarter crushing is more a sideline of the tesla work.
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While BitTorrent is a twoderful thing (better than onederful *ahem*) everyone is aware that at least for most residential account users - it's in violation of your TOS? You know, that clause that states you will not run a server?
The dang thing runs on 2.4Ghz - I got rid of my 2.4Ghz wireless phones because they didn't play nice with my 802.11g network. "excuse me, I can't find a clear channel, would you mid turning off that useless interferring radio thing? Thanks...."
Bluetooth is a standard wireless protocol - they could have acheived everything they wanted, *WITHOUT* creating interference.
We'll just not discuss the bloatware aspects....
This all sounds vaguely familiar - remember a little complier company that caused all manner of outcry by writing a license agreement that said you couldn't use their complier to write an operating system. They sufficiently annoyed the developement community enough that it took years to get back the trust - and they never really recovered. You may remember the name - Borland?
Lawyers should not be allowed into the creative process.
Bless you for giving credit where credit is due! Halo my posterior. You can tell when kids are the ones writing the articles. (Kids defined as anyone 20 years younger than you are. )
:)
As for the 'Uber-strong' metal - Sinclair molecular chain most likely (so they speculated on the Liar). Sinclair was probably a Protector from Home
Yes, I'm a hardcore Niven fan.
Here's where something like this is a godsend,
:)
put it in a 20GB microdrive for photographers, and I'd be a happy person.
Right now, I use 1GB flash cards in my camera, and shooting in RAW format, I only get about 100 shots per card.
Contrary to what you might think, that's not all that much - especially for sports/action photography. Last weekend, at a 4 hour track meet, I shot 550 frames, from that, I'll probably find less than 50 keepers - but that's the nature of 'capturing' the shot.
Likewise, DVRs would also benefit from microdrives of this nature.
Don't think big.. think small
The split between Business/Embedded - as stated in the question. Done correctly, it's an iterative operation, for those of us that have to count the microseconds. Start with a good algorithm (like that needed to be said?) - and code the problem in the simplest form possible. This won't be the fastest - not even with an optimizing complier. But it allows you to prove your base correct with the easiest to read form.
Now profile - and find the hotspots. *NOW* hand optimize them - and you'd be surprised what they are. Sometimes moving declarations around - or sometimes even where you make an assignment may make a difference - but you can't tell 'till it's built. Now for business, it's often not worth this level of optimizing - since the final version of the code may not look anything like the original 'algorithm', which may be more important to clarity of maintenance.
Ok, so they plan to try and tax cars by polling the odometer (or GPSr) or whatever..
I'd love to see how they plan to do that with my hand-built replicar. (or any other car that predates electronic speed controls..)
Maybe my Cobra just got a lot more affordable to drive after all.
Apparenly (as I understand it) the talks could have been true - and then the FCC reminded both players "Boys, remember when we gave you your playground? you had to COMPETE?"
To save face... "HOAX!!!, what, do you think we're stupid?"
So far as the difference between XM and Sirius: (I've got XM)the best way I've heard to describe it is XM is for those that like 'deeper' tracks, and Sirius is for those that like hearing music they know. Which is not to say that XM doesn't play music you know, but they do dig up some pretty deep stuff.
Somehow I have this image of the radar wave smashing into the car in front, crushing it into tiny little bits... - perhaps you meant braking, as in to brake, as in to decelerate?
AAAAAARGHGHGHGH! I feel better now.
You know, the land of weak encryption or die? I have to wonder just how effective a smart card can be from a country that doesn't allow it's people strong personal encryption.
Okay peeps:
1) Replacing the shuttle. yes we should. No we haven't. But we've got that great big investment up there called the ISS. Shall we just abandon it? Didn
't think so.
2) 'Disasters' - We've had two. Fewer than the Apollo program. They suck. Really they do. And they have been attributed to the 'make it work anyway' group. Who, I might add, are usually under $$$ pressure from those who are screaming for better "return on investment for the taxpayer". This is still, contrary to popular belief, exploration, and *THINGS WILL HAPPEN* - it is not airflight.
3) 'We should develop -insert your favorite space technology here-', Some of those technologies do need testing in space now.
4) 'what about spaceship-one' - what was the payload capacity? 200kilo? Roughly?
yes, NASA has problems - but contrary to popular belief - we really need the shuttles flying, if only to develop the replacements!
One wonders... caught with their pants down?
They have to be confident. If the system goes for N days without contact, I suspect they'll have far greater worries than just overfull download buffers. Say like - why isn't our little lost machine talking to us?
Hmm Granted: No mention of sound quality. .. (btw, indirectly pointing out that it's third-party bundleware)
Battery life: Already stated at 15 hours on manufacturs site.
Build quality: "Felt solid".
Points out that the java install software did have an upgrade
Indirectly points out RF adaptor is avaliable
RCA jacks make it usable for home..
and it apparently does seem to have some definite problems (which is why I would shy away from it for now)
Though it does play OGG - a plus.
Not the greatest review, true - but the guy's not a professional writer - at least you know more than you did, no? If you want to rip someone, rip the editors, not the reviewer
No bet - didn't even bother to post origionally - for that very reason. (althought was surprised to see about a 70/30 split at the 10 message point - typo/content)
They're hard pressed to remember their own password, and whine about having to enter that. Now they want them to carry a secureID card, and enter 2 passwords? Can you say marketing fiasco?
secureID works when you can FORCE employees to use it, but having people PAY for it Nah....
Not quite true for the secureID - it is a time-locked device. Unless of course the phisher uses the password within 60 seconds of getting it. Not bloody likely.
This is why I love/loved my koyocera smartphone. It's a blend - a phone with a pda. only problem is mine is now going on 4 years old now, and getting long in the tooth, and since it's company owned they won't spring for the upgrade to the 7135 (smaller next gen)
With it I was able to SSH in a pinch, browse, full PDA functions (PalmOS) as well as full CellPhone.
Granted, it was a bit large, but then it's late 90's technology. The 7135 is smaller (about the size of a blackberry) and clamshell/color.
Not uncommon actually. You'd be a little surprised if you look up the pharmocology of adderall though. It's the "kick-butt" version of Ritalin (loosely stated). It's a much, much stronger stimulant. Some cannot handle it - (my son wound up picking holes in his skin from the overstimulation, and I can't handle any form of the amphetamine based treatments - yes, it runs in the family)
Do be careful - This runs in my family, bipolar that is, not ADHD (now that we looked at it a bit more carefully) but it took a near disaster with the meds to trigger the 'careful look'. My son was diagnosed ADHD, and given the usual stimulant based treatment - at the same time, the rest of the family was screened, and *surprise* Dad showed up way high on the ADHD scale as well, though they were a little surprised that the battery of tests also showed moderate clinical depression (warning sign that was missed). The Psych put me on Wellbutrin. Great stuff - work was much better, got the best review I'd had in years about 4 months later - very productive. Fast forward another 3 months, I don't need to sleep much anymore (3 hours is plenty) - but my temper is very short, everything is done to deliberatly piss me off, it's always my fault, etc. At the same time my son is spiraling into a major depression. Next medcheck with Psych his eyes get *REAL* big as I'm relating all this and he starts asking lots of family history questions that probably should have been asked before (alchoholism in family? Yep! Suicides in family? Yep, 3 gens back on moms side, cycling insommnia? only since I was 17...) Change in diagnosis - Bipolar. Now on Welbutrin and Topomax, fairly balanced (my son is on a different mood stabilizer to offset the stimulant - same problem). Seems that the Welbutrin, being an antidepressant had a slingshot effect and put me in a state higher than my "normal" manic phase - and I'm one of the 'antisocial' manic types, not the 'happy' manic types. [Dysphoria vs Euphoria] The point of the blather - the meds can help, but do be careful, as a manic state Bipolar can appear as ADHD (and vice versa) and antidepressants used in the treatment of Bipolar misdiagnosed as ADHD without some form of stabilizer can cause a massive swing to manic - which is not pretty.
We use it as well, with appropriate hacks. It was fairly easy to tie in with our change control system, and the developers can't totally ignore their bugs - email is a bitch at times :)
The trick for dealing with fan noise is to run the fans at the speed needed. Larger fans can actually be more effective than their little brothers, at much slower speeds. For my home box, I've built a custom watercooler + peltier system for my BP6 system. I use a PIC w/ a number of Dallas Semi temperature sensors to monitor the state of the system. The radiator is in a ducted box attached to the bottom of the system unit, one temperature probe attached to the outlet of the radiator, and one measureing the incoming air. Fan power is PWM according to how warm the water is WRT the incoming air, with an idle speed of 10% duty. In general the fan rarely gets above 40% - and hence is very very quiet (I can ususally hear the pump instead of the fan) The pelts are used to keep the cold-sink at 20C, again PWM according to the measured temp - which right now has the processors running at about 29C. The pelts are a new addition, but the rest of the cooling system has been in place for over a year, with no leaks. Total coolant is about 20oz, and I've had to replace about 6oz of evaporative loss through the plastic tubing. The nice thing with the pelts is that my system now is isolated from the room temp - which, in CA is a good thing, as I don't need te A/C running when I'm not home.
You are correct, any dolt can become a programmer. In my organization, the programmers are the lowest life form - just above testers. By programmer, I mean a code-monkey - someone that implements somebody else's algorithm or design. My degree is a 13 year old computer science degree. In addition to the theory of CS, I got some heavy math, and hardware design as well. And I use all of those things constantly in my position. All too often, I seen poor designs coming from people with current CS degrees, due to not understanding how the complier does things, or how the OS works, or even how the software is affected by the hardware and the hardware by the software.
Not likely, coilers tend to prefer using round electrodes for our safety gaps. The shut down faster. Just 'cause the gap fired, doesn't mean the coil needs to be shut down!
Actually, very true. I know Bert from the Tesla and Tesla-2 mailing lists. In addition to building quarter crushers, he builds fairly large tesla coils - if only mine were that big :) Jacobs' ladders? Small 'taters! Quarter crushing is more a sideline of the tesla work.