Actually the 4G ipod's processor has usb-on-the-go so it can act like a host or a client. Apple hasn't implemented the host mode yet & it might be tricky to get ipod linux to do that because there are no examples of its use in the standard firmware.
Ha ha - his moderation keeps switching between "funny" and "insightful", so I guess the mods are having as tough of a time figuring out what he meant as I did.
I used to work for a 5-person company. We easily ported our main ap to linux, but a critical tool we used to build our code was developed for windows. It was gui-centric, so a port would be difficult, and besides, all the programmers were algorithm people, not gui people. Wine was a godsend - our old tool just worked, and it saved us a lot of time. Boycotting ourselves wouldn't have gotten us the needed people to port it.
The problem with what's described is that you must always carry the "clicker" and be vigilant to use it every time someone pulls out a camera.
The next-generation system will use pattern recoginition to automatically determine which faces to blur. All you need is a simple pattern on your face for the camera to recogonize & you never have to worry about accidental photos again.
I'll have to disagree; the parent (as I did too) acted totally professionally. The decision wasn't based on politics (that would require some sort of voting), it was based on the actions of the supplier. I think it was a good choice to avoid suppliers whose business practices you object to. Morals have to start somewhere (and they can't stop because you're working for a company) -- otherwise I'd be recommending stolen goods as the best value for the money.
Incidentally, SDRAM always offered significantly more value.
ah, nice link. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of, but I mistakenly thought Hop-on had done it. Oh well, it was a good EE Times article from a while back.
Amazing, though. How long has the transistor radio been out and, while they are really cheap, you don't see too many disposable radios except as trade show trinkets. Tie a person's cell phone number to it and people will want to keep it.
You're thinking of hop-on... they've been making vaporware and press releases for years, and it seems like the only phones they've been selling have been non-disposable. But the at this year's CES, they showed their new disposable phone without a screen, but still no price point. I don't know if I should hold my breath again this year...
Also the 123-on-top button layout is closer to rotary phones - the standard that everyone was moving from. On both dials, 1,2 & 3 are at the top, 456 in the middle, and 7890 at the bottom. True, the order of the digits is backwards (123 vs 321), but I don't think people would have stood for the 321 keyboard.
I haxored my camera - it's the new version of the disposable digital camera I hacked last year. This version took more work, mainly because it uses an obscure processor & has a complicated banked-memory scheme (128K of code in 16K window). I've been able to modify the firmware so that I can use the standard windows driver for another camera with this one -- so we can get images off of it. I'm working on other mods - hopefully a "picture frame mode" and maybe a kite-camera timer. Other people are developing camera "skins".
Wow, the TI-89 uses an RC oscillator for its clock! That kind of clock is one of the cheapest and least accurate, so I wouldn't want to run a real-time-clock off of it. I wonder if they have some sort of calibration mechanism on the production line, or if the processors are so underclocked already that they will surely work with a large variation of clock speeds. Even after leaving the production line, RC clocks drift and are more sensitive to temperature, so TI must always leave plenty of speed margin.
Take this classic example -- left, August 7, 2004; right, August 21, 2004 -- of a missing safety sign from the RNC convention in NYC this summer. Cryptome republished public-domain maps of major high-pressure, high-volume gas distribution lines in manhattan. One went under the Hudson River, near West 75th Street. There was a huge sign posted for ships that went over this pipeline: "Warning: Do not anchor or dredge - Gas pipeline crossing". I wonder who's going to take responsibility when one of the zillion boats that cross this point drops its anchor onto the pipeline? I don't feel safer at all & consider this lack of signage a threat to public safety.
Yes, they do. But unless anyone reports you, you have a huge antenna, you're putting out a lot of power, or your harmonics are stepping on someone else's band, you're probably safe.
Nikon's adapter is $450 and goes on a $2000 camera. I think that drastic price reduction (albeit to a more rational level) and moving features into a different market segment is innovation.
I'm about 1800 miles due west of Wappingers Falls. There are the great plains between us and I can climb the east side of the Rockies, but I don't know enough about radio wave propagation and the mountains around Wappingers Falls to know if it would be possible for me to hear the signal. Does the majority of the signal get bounced back from the atmosphere, or do I need to be east of the Alleghenies (like the receiver in the article)?
I am knowledgeable about radio waves in theory (I worked with satellites), but not so much about the practice of bouncing them off the different layers of the atmosphere.
Commenting on his remarkable success, Bill said "I've spent 25 years on 80 & 160 listening to below noise level signals..."
Below noise signals sounds paradoxical, but people do it all the time. If you're in a noisy restaurant, you can pick out individual noises even though they are much quieter than everyone else. The key is that you have an idea of what you expect to hear - you generally know the tone of their voice, know what sounds make words, know what words make understandable sentences.
Imagine if the signal had been spread-spectrum. Spread-spectrum signals are stealthy because, they to, can be recovered from below the noise floor. Basically, with an idea of what to expect, the receiver's processing can effectively raise the signal above the noise floor. Instead of sending short tones for each bit, a series of tones are sent for each bit (a chip) - one chip for zero, and a different chip for one. It's a lot easier process a sound and see which chip it sounds closer to than it is to see if one particular tone is there or not.
So, in summary, this guy's brain played a lot in the reception to pick out a signal from the noise. I wonder if the next record will be set with a spread spectrum transmitted signal and a digital processing receiver.
There's actually a third type of dead pixel -- two pixels stuck together. I had a screen where adjacent red and a green pixels were always at the same brightness level. It wasn't too distracting because it wasn't visible in a black or white field, but certain colors would make it stick out.
Two things: - They were probably not using short ints, but regular ints. In 1989, most compilers were 16 bits. It sounds like they just picked the default, especially because the better choice (unsigned int) wouldn't take any more room. - C has always had 24 bit integers.
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nice choice of italicized letters! (hidden message)
Actually the 4G ipod's processor has usb-on-the-go so it can act like a host or a client. Apple hasn't implemented the host mode yet & it might be tricky to get ipod linux to do that because there are no examples of its use in the standard firmware.
Even the most secure cars can be stolen, like this car owned by the head of Mercedes
Worked for verizon, too.
Ha ha - his moderation keeps switching between "funny" and "insightful", so I guess the mods are having as tough of a time figuring out what he meant as I did.
I used to work for a 5-person company. We easily ported our main ap to linux, but a critical tool we used to build our code was developed for windows. It was gui-centric, so a port would be difficult, and besides, all the programmers were algorithm people, not gui people. Wine was a godsend - our old tool just worked, and it saved us a lot of time. Boycotting ourselves wouldn't have gotten us the needed people to port it.
The problem with what's described is that you must always carry the "clicker" and be vigilant to use it every time someone pulls out a camera.
The next-generation system will use pattern recoginition to automatically determine which faces to blur. All you need is a simple pattern on your face for the camera to recogonize & you never have to worry about accidental photos again.
I'll have to disagree; the parent (as I did too) acted totally professionally. The decision wasn't based on politics (that would require some sort of voting), it was based on the actions of the supplier. I think it was a good choice to avoid suppliers whose business practices you object to. Morals have to start somewhere (and they can't stop because you're working for a company) -- otherwise I'd be recommending stolen goods as the best value for the money.
Incidentally, SDRAM always offered significantly more value.
ah, nice link. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of, but I mistakenly thought Hop-on had done it. Oh well, it was a good EE Times article from a while back.
Amazing, though. How long has the transistor radio been out and, while they are really cheap, you don't see too many disposable radios except as trade show trinkets. Tie a person's cell phone number to it and people will want to keep it.
You're thinking of hop-on... they've been making vaporware and press releases for years, and it seems like the only phones they've been selling have been non-disposable. But the at this year's CES, they showed their new disposable phone without a screen, but still no price point. I don't know if I should hold my breath again this year...
Also the 123-on-top button layout is closer to rotary phones - the standard that everyone was moving from. On both dials, 1,2 & 3 are at the top, 456 in the middle, and 7890 at the bottom. True, the order of the digits is backwards (123 vs 321), but I don't think people would have stood for the 321 keyboard.
I haxored my camera - it's the new version of the disposable digital camera I hacked last year. This version took more work, mainly because it uses an obscure processor & has a complicated banked-memory scheme (128K of code in 16K window). I've been able to modify the firmware so that I can use the standard windows driver for another camera with this one -- so we can get images off of it. I'm working on other mods - hopefully a "picture frame mode" and maybe a kite-camera timer. Other people are developing camera "skins".
my main PV2 camera page
Wow, the TI-89 uses an RC oscillator for its clock! That kind of clock is one of the cheapest and least accurate, so I wouldn't want to run a real-time-clock off of it. I wonder if they have some sort of calibration mechanism on the production line, or if the processors are so underclocked already that they will surely work with a large variation of clock speeds. Even after leaving the production line, RC clocks drift and are more sensitive to temperature, so TI must always leave plenty of speed margin.
Take this classic example -- left, August 7, 2004; right, August 21, 2004 -- of a missing safety sign from the RNC convention in NYC this summer. Cryptome republished public-domain maps of major high-pressure, high-volume gas distribution lines in manhattan. One went under the Hudson River, near West 75th Street. There was a huge sign posted for ships that went over this pipeline: "Warning: Do not anchor or dredge - Gas pipeline crossing". I wonder who's going to take responsibility when one of the zillion boats that cross this point drops its anchor onto the pipeline? I don't feel safer at all & consider this lack of signage a threat to public safety.
Here's the whole page that picture came from
Yes, they do. But unless anyone reports you, you have a huge antenna, you're putting out a lot of power, or your harmonics are stepping on someone else's band, you're probably safe.
Nikon's adapter is $450 and goes on a $2000 camera. I think that drastic price reduction (albeit to a more rational level) and moving features into a different market segment is innovation.
I'm about 1800 miles due west of Wappingers Falls. There are the great plains between us and I can climb the east side of the Rockies, but I don't know enough about radio wave propagation and the mountains around Wappingers Falls to know if it would be possible for me to hear the signal. Does the majority of the signal get bounced back from the atmosphere, or do I need to be east of the Alleghenies (like the receiver in the article)?
I am knowledgeable about radio waves in theory (I worked with satellites), but not so much about the practice of bouncing them off the different layers of the atmosphere.
Commenting on his remarkable success, Bill said "I've spent 25 years on 80 & 160 listening to below noise level signals ..."
Below noise signals sounds paradoxical, but people do it all the time. If you're in a noisy restaurant, you can pick out individual noises even though they are much quieter than everyone else. The key is that you have an idea of what you expect to hear - you generally know the tone of their voice, know what sounds make words, know what words make understandable sentences.
Imagine if the signal had been spread-spectrum. Spread-spectrum signals are stealthy because, they to, can be recovered from below the noise floor. Basically, with an idea of what to expect, the receiver's processing can effectively raise the signal above the noise floor. Instead of sending short tones for each bit, a series of tones are sent for each bit (a chip) - one chip for zero, and a different chip for one. It's a lot easier process a sound and see which chip it sounds closer to than it is to see if one particular tone is there or not.
So, in summary, this guy's brain played a lot in the reception to pick out a signal from the noise. I wonder if the next record will be set with a spread spectrum transmitted signal and a digital processing receiver.
Totally unrelated, but I just happen to be trying to sell 940,000 of the new 5GHz AMD chips -- can any fellow slashdotters hook me up with a buyer?
If 00000000 is an acceptable nuclear missle secret launch code, then 12345 has got to be NSA-level security!
There's actually a third type of dead pixel -- two pixels stuck together. I had a screen where adjacent red and a green pixels were always at the same brightness level. It wasn't too distracting because it wasn't visible in a black or white field, but certain colors would make it stick out.
Two things:
- They were probably not using short ints, but regular ints. In 1989, most compilers were 16 bits. It sounds like they just picked the default, especially because the better choice (unsigned int) wouldn't take any more room.
- C has always had 24 bit integers.
1333 4.02 PowerPC 7457 (1.5 year old 17" powerbook G4)
a delicious processed potato treat. They were developed in 1953 and introduced to a grateful public in 1954.
Ha Ha. Ever since then, tater tots have shredded the competition, especially following the potato reform act of 1955.
Liv Tyler was born in 1977, so she'll be 60 or 67 when the asteroid hits... uh, go ahead, take her, she's all yours!