You mean something like this? I'm more familiar with a similar drug that is used to counter overdoses. I've seen it used on monkeys that were stoned - they went from blissful to screaming in withdrawal in a few seconds. It was not pretty.
Doc Ruby,
I'd love to have an offline chat with you re: FPGAs and their use as combinatorial problem solvers. Please drop me an email at dtiller (at) captechNOSPAMPLEASEventures (dot) com. Remove NOSPAMPLEASE for great justice.
Thanks!
Yeah, that kinda makes a 10m contest pointless, doesn't it? I worked hundreds of DX stations with a 25W mobile station in 1989 or '90. Those were hot sunspot years.
My male cat started playing fetch on his own. One day I balled up a small piece of paper and threw it at a trash can. I missed - he ran over, grabbed it, and came trotting toward me. I held out my hand, and he dropped the paper in my palm. From that point on, I could ball up a piece of paper, throw it, and we'd engage in 10-15 minutes of fetch.
I've always wondered why our politicians get criticised for "flip-flopping", "back-flips", "u-turns" etc.
They get criticized because they never really believed in their position in the first place. They espouse whatever is politically expedient, and when the political wind changes, they spin around like a wind vane in a tornado.
...or a lake in the mountainsofVirginia. I've visited this station - it's very cool. The generators are the pumps - power in, water up. Water in, power out.
I couldn't agree more. The x86 architecture was the most hacked-up abomination I've ever seen. The 68k series is really slick, and completely symmetrical wrt what operations could be performed on what registers. I hate having certain ops limited to certain registers. Aaargh!
I use the Microchip PIC family now for hobby stuff, and grit my teeth whenever I have to deal with the obnoxious memory bank select bits.
The Z-80 was my first processor that I wrote machine code for. Note that I didn't say 'assembly' - I didn't have an assembler for my TRS-80, do I hand-assembled the instructions and POKEd them into memory.
I liked the dedicated I/O instructions, too, but they made porting unix to it difficult - the Unices of the day all assumed memory-mapped IO, not a separate I/O architecture. You could memory map the devices, I suppose, but that wasn't how it was back then. Oh well!
I got spoiled by having lots-o-registers on the Z-80 - when I 'graduated' the 6502, I was dismayed to find essentially 3 registers: A, X, and Y.
That's funny - I remember a friend spelling it "Queen Scryche' or somesuch. It came out as "Queen Skertch".
One of my favorite Tiller's Rule violations is a car that had 'Monocot' construction (I think they meant 'monocoque'). I didn't think cars were available with monocot or dicot construction.
Handset support should fall to Motorola/Samsung/Apple. If something like a calendar application on your phone is buggy, why should Verizon be trying to deal with it?
Verizon had to 'deal with it' because they insist on using non-standard firmware to disable features that circumvent their revenue stream model. Why do you think my Razr can't transfer images and ringtones via Bluetooth? Because that would get around their silly "Get It Now" storefront. Same for Java - no free apps; everything must go thru their store.
I don't blame the manufacturers one bit for punishing these clowns for crippling their phones - in fact, I'd love for the manufacturers to forbid resellers from ruining the manufacturers reputation by flashing sketchy custom firmware and still calling it a 'Company X, Brand Y' phone.
I'd rather the insulin patch be smart enough to stop injecting when the blood glucose level is ok. Perhaps it could detect changes in perspiration under the patch or the optical qualities of the blood (like an O2 sat meter).
According to some estimates, using an IFR would extend the lifetime of currently-mined Uranium to 500 years, and global supplies of nuclear fuels to over 100,000 years.
There is sufficient fuel to power IFR type facilities for well over 100 thousand years. This results because the IFR is a breeder reactor which can utilize uranium 238. Today's reactors only use uranium 235 which is less than 1% of the uranium found in nature. The IFR, with its fuel reprocessing capability, can use all the uranium. There is enough uranium that has been mined and placed in barrels (uranium 238) for IFR-type plants to provide all the electricity for the United States for over 500 years -- without mining. Also, the IFR can likely reprocess the spent fuel from today's reactors, and use the recovered materials for fuel. Uranium is as abundant in the earth as many of the commonly used materials such as bismuth, cadmium, mercury, silver, etc. In fact the uranium in a typical 1 ton block of granite (concentration of about 5 ppm) is the energy equivalent (if used in the IFR) of 10 tons of coal!
Here's a good one for you - my work phone was a Sanyo RL-4920 with service thru Sprint. Even if you lock the keypad, you can still dial 911. Good idea, right? Maybe, but the implementation on this particular phone almost guarantees that you WILL call 911 if the phone is in your pocket. Here's the deal:
lock the keypad.
dial any random sequence of digits. All will be ignored until you hit '9' - that 9 will be displayed on the screen as the first digit of a call.
Continue typing random numbers. All will be ignored until you hit '1' - that 1 will be displayed as the second digit of the outgoing call.
Guess what? The third digit acts the same way. To make matters worse, I'm not sure that the phone won't auto-dial when second 1 is typed, either!
So by typing random numbers on a locked keypad, you're guaranteed that 911 will be outbound number that's dialed!!!!
Imagine ethernet without a checksum, no CSMA/CD algorithm, and reply frame types that can only be told apart by knowing what the request was!!!
Truly frightening, IMHO. I wish they could break with backward compatibility and start fresh with a clean, all-digital, robust solution. They could learn a lot from the cell phone protocols - CDMA, GSM, etc. They deal with huge numbers of transmitters attempting to talk to a central resource - the exact same problem as ATC has.
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Rights are not granted by the constitution or any government, they are supposedly protected by the government.
... (DRM laden) ...
bin Laden's rapper brother?
The government doesn't exist to coodle your neurosis...
Say it isn't so! I've always fantasized about having my neuroses coodled by 'The Man'!
Aloha shirt. Stupid haole.
Since he got the Aloha part wrong, Stupid a-hole would probably work better. 8-)
You mean something like this? I'm more familiar with a similar drug that is used to counter overdoses. I've seen it used on monkeys that were stoned - they went from blissful to screaming in withdrawal in a few seconds. It was not pretty.
Doc Ruby, I'd love to have an offline chat with you re: FPGAs and their use as combinatorial problem solvers. Please drop me an email at dtiller (at) captechNOSPAMPLEASEventures (dot) com. Remove NOSPAMPLEASE for great justice. Thanks!
Yeah, that kinda makes a 10m contest pointless, doesn't it? I worked hundreds of DX stations with a 25W mobile station in 1989 or '90. Those were hot sunspot years.
My male cat started playing fetch on his own. One day I balled up a small piece of paper and threw it at a trash can. I missed - he ran over, grabbed it, and came trotting toward me. I held out my hand, and he dropped the paper in my palm. From that point on, I could ball up a piece of paper, throw it, and we'd engage in 10-15 minutes of fetch.
They get criticized because they never really believed in their position in the first place. They espouse whatever is politically expedient, and when the political wind changes, they spin around like a wind vane in a tornado.
...or a lake in the mountains of Virginia. I've visited this station - it's very cool. The generators are the pumps - power in, water up. Water in, power out.
I use the Microchip PIC family now for hobby stuff, and grit my teeth whenever I have to deal with the obnoxious memory bank select bits.
[I know that insolation will raise the temp, but I thought it was funny].
The Z-80 was my first processor that I wrote machine code for. Note that I didn't say 'assembly' - I didn't have an assembler for my TRS-80, do I hand-assembled the instructions and POKEd them into memory.
I liked the dedicated I/O instructions, too, but they made porting unix to it difficult - the Unices of the day all assumed memory-mapped IO, not a separate I/O architecture. You could memory map the devices, I suppose, but that wasn't how it was back then. Oh well!
I got spoiled by having lots-o-registers on the Z-80 - when I 'graduated' the 6502, I was dismayed to find essentially 3 registers: A, X, and Y.
One of my favorite Tiller's Rule violations is a car that had 'Monocot' construction (I think they meant 'monocoque'). I didn't think cars were available with monocot or dicot construction.
Verizon had to 'deal with it' because they insist on using non-standard firmware to disable features that circumvent their revenue stream model. Why do you think my Razr can't transfer images and ringtones via Bluetooth? Because that would get around their silly "Get It Now" storefront. Same for Java - no free apps; everything must go thru their store.
I don't blame the manufacturers one bit for punishing these clowns for crippling their phones - in fact, I'd love for the manufacturers to forbid resellers from ruining the manufacturers reputation by flashing sketchy custom firmware and still calling it a 'Company X, Brand Y' phone.
With all the Amazon 'Kindle' hype, did anyone else read this as a 'Kin-der', Gentler HTML?
Is a flobotomist someone who uses Flowbees to cut hair?
I'd rather the insulin patch be smart enough to stop injecting when the blood glucose level is ok. Perhaps it could detect changes in perspiration under the patch or the optical qualities of the blood (like an O2 sat meter).
Why are we ignoring this technology???
Food safety experts are having fits right about now - allowing raw poultry to warm to 60 on the countertop is a huge no-no.
So by typing random numbers on a locked keypad, you're guaranteed that 911 will be outbound number that's dialed!!!!
How much dumber can the algorithm be!?!?!
Imagine ethernet without a checksum, no CSMA/CD algorithm, and reply frame types that can only be told apart by knowing what the request was!!!
Truly frightening, IMHO. I wish they could break with backward compatibility and start fresh with a clean, all-digital, robust solution. They could learn a lot from the cell phone protocols - CDMA, GSM, etc. They deal with huge numbers of transmitters attempting to talk to a central resource - the exact same problem as ATC has.
Thanks for the info - I'll take a look at it.