Actually, it's a Visa card. It was so unsettling to see pie charts of my last year's spending. It's like some weird day of reckoning where I have to account for all my unwise purchases.
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RFID tags are the least of my worries. At least that tracking stops at the store's door. The range on an RFID tag is pretty limited. The important thing is how you paid for the purchase...
I recently got a letter from my credit card company, which broke down by percentage, etc, what I bought and what it was for. Travel, entertainment, food, pr0n, etc. I find that truly terrifying.
If you're paranoid and want to leave the grid, pay cash for everything.
I did this for Science Fair when I was in high school. The blast deflector isn't that bad, it cost about $50 from the local welding shop. The guy zipped it together in about 15 minutes, working from the sketches in the Teleflite book. 3/4" steel would be massive overkill, I used 1/2" which he said would stop a 30-06 rifle round. I made the casings from wallpaper paste and paper grocery bags, igniters from matches and steel wool, and a stationary test stand.
The charcoal, sulfur, and potassium mix is just black powder, and pretty much sucks for model rocketry. Stinky and low-yield. There are a lot of other recipes out there that work a lot better.
It's a shame, but you could never get this approved in today's high school environment. This was back in 1994 or so, and my chemistry teacher still made me do the construction at home.
Man, comparing that to Graffiti, I'll take Jot. The characters seems a bit more natural. I constantly screw up X and K. Stupid Graffiti, I shouldn't have to change my behavior to fit my handheld; this has been my biggest pet peeve with the Palm.
Of course, I got spoiled with the Newton. Don't listen to the detractors, they probably never used a late-model Newton for any length of time. Once it learned (!) your handwriting, it was all gravy. That thing kicked some serious butt. I used a MP2100 for years, then had to join the rest of the world with a Palm-OS piece of junk. There's nothing as elegant as the Newton interface today. Freaking work of art.
The PSoC can have three different types of A/D converters, with varying resolutions and speeds. For example, a 12-bit incremental will get a bit under 300 sps, a 6-bit SAR will get 333ksps.
No, no open source compilers yet. Only one from Image Craft. Actually, they are very responsive to bug fixes and feature adds.
There is no comparable part from any other manufacturer. This thing has incredible analog capability, such that you can filter those signals before you run them through an A/D, or any other of thousands of other analog signal chains. The chip is very flixible.
A while back I saw a whitepaper on an asynchronous design, but it was being done for low power applicatios. Basically, you had two lines for each bit. Condition 00 wasn't allowed and could be used to detect faults. 10 was one, 01 was zero, and 11 was idle. Nothing would happen until one of the lines dropped, so there was no clock but the CPU still knew when it was time to do something. It was a fully static design where no power was being used unless there was some user interaction. You could run it off a few nanoamps, so a piece of citrus fruit would run it until the fruit rotted. Simple chemistry.
I think this was from Seiko-Epson. I might have the states screwed up but that's the idea.
It's well known that ESR is a huge supporter of the gun lobby, and he's showing that the police are not necessarily there to protect the individual, but rather to protect the general populace. He's trying to show that case law has proven the individual is responsible for their own personal protection, and further that laws restricting gun ownership are dangerous to the individual.
I write this from a community which has banned handgun ownership altogether, but there has been no apparent reduction in firearms deaths or injuries.
I'll grant that Firewire will kill full-speed USB 1.1 any day, but USB 2.0 brings the performance gap way down. 2.0 is specced for 480Mb/s burst, which is way more than 1.1 at 12Mb/s.
I think USB 2.0 is a great way to go for external storage, where you'll have random accesses and bursty data transfers. Firewire / 1394 is better for streamed data (video) and will remain so for the forseeable future.
Intel bought the StongARM stuff from DEC / Compaq. I guess they realized how superior the ARM architecture is for low-power applications and couldn't get x86 to do it. Note that this thing only takes two AA batteries. I'd say that's pretty darn good for a CPU-intensive app like gaming.
..and they never will.
It's a personal thing between Michael Dell and Jerry Sanders (head honcho of AMD). This is pretty well known. At one point, Jerry said something like "If Michael Dell wants AMD processors, he can kiss my ass." Funny stuff.
Have you checked out the Linux support for the AMD Hammer? Granted, the silicon isn't available yet but the emulator is free. I don't think we have anything to worry about getting Linux to work on 64-bit architectures.
There were quite a few kids under 18, some with and some without parents. This was in Wisconsin, of all places. I thought they were more into disney flix. I had to lay the smack down on a kid after the show because she kept kicking my seat, etc. And her mother thought I was the rude one. Damn suburbanites.
Actually, in the telecom industry, it's not
uncommon to have 24 layer boards. Quite a few are
power and ground planes for noise problems, etc,
but the signal layers account for more than 3/4
of the board. Yes, they do get thick. You can
beat someone to death with some of the backplanes
I've seen.
OTOH, the thickest PC mobo I've heard of was about
8 layers.
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Actually, it's a Visa card. It was so unsettling to see pie charts of my last year's spending. It's like some weird day of reckoning where I have to account for all my unwise purchases.
RFID tags are the least of my worries. At least that tracking stops at the store's door. The range on an RFID tag is pretty limited. The important thing is how you paid for the purchase...
I recently got a letter from my credit card company, which broke down by percentage, etc, what I bought and what it was for. Travel, entertainment, food, pr0n, etc. I find that truly terrifying.
If you're paranoid and want to leave the grid, pay cash for everything.
I did this for Science Fair when I was in high school. The blast deflector isn't that bad, it cost about $50 from the local welding shop. The guy zipped it together in about 15 minutes, working from the sketches in the Teleflite book. 3/4" steel would be massive overkill, I used 1/2" which he said would stop a 30-06 rifle round. I made the casings from wallpaper paste and paper grocery bags, igniters from matches and steel wool, and a stationary test stand.
The charcoal, sulfur, and potassium mix is just black powder, and pretty much sucks for model rocketry. Stinky and low-yield. There are a lot of other recipes out there that work a lot better.
It's a shame, but you could never get this approved in today's high school environment. This was back in 1994 or so, and my chemistry teacher still made me do the construction at home.
Man, comparing that to Graffiti, I'll take Jot. The characters seems a bit more natural. I constantly screw up X and K. Stupid Graffiti, I shouldn't have to change my behavior to fit my handheld; this has been my biggest pet peeve with the Palm.
Of course, I got spoiled with the Newton. Don't listen to the detractors, they probably never used a late-model Newton for any length of time. Once it learned (!) your handwriting, it was all gravy. That thing kicked some serious butt. I used a MP2100 for years, then had to join the rest of the world with a Palm-OS piece of junk. There's nothing as elegant as the Newton interface today. Freaking work of art.
The PSoC can have three different types of A/D converters, with varying resolutions and speeds. For example, a 12-bit incremental will get a bit under 300 sps, a 6-bit SAR will get 333ksps.
No, no open source compilers yet. Only one from Image Craft. Actually, they are very responsive to bug fixes and feature adds.
There is no comparable part from any other manufacturer. This thing has incredible analog capability, such that you can filter those signals before you run them through an A/D, or any other of thousands of other analog signal chains. The chip is very flixible.
A while back I saw a whitepaper on an asynchronous design, but it was being done for low power applicatios. Basically, you had two lines for each bit. Condition 00 wasn't allowed and could be used to detect faults. 10 was one, 01 was zero, and 11 was idle. Nothing would happen until one of the lines dropped, so there was no clock but the CPU still knew when it was time to do something. It was a fully static design where no power was being used unless there was some user interaction. You could run it off a few nanoamps, so a piece of citrus fruit would run it until the fruit rotted. Simple chemistry.
I think this was from Seiko-Epson. I might have the states screwed up but that's the idea.
"to any particular individual citizen"
It's well known that ESR is a huge supporter of the gun lobby, and he's showing that the police are not necessarily there to protect the individual, but rather to protect the general populace. He's trying to show that case law has proven the individual is responsible for their own personal protection, and further that laws restricting gun ownership are dangerous to the individual.
I write this from a community which has banned handgun ownership altogether, but there has been no apparent reduction in firearms deaths or injuries.
But I'm not bitter...
I'll grant that Firewire will kill full-speed USB 1.1 any day, but USB 2.0 brings the performance gap way down. 2.0 is specced for 480Mb/s burst, which is way more than 1.1 at 12Mb/s.
I think USB 2.0 is a great way to go for external storage, where you'll have random accesses and bursty data transfers. Firewire / 1394 is better for streamed data (video) and will remain so for the forseeable future.
...and with those fancy Swiss watches, you can bet that they'll start EXACTLY on time.
Intel bought the StongARM stuff from DEC / Compaq. I guess they realized how superior the ARM architecture is for low-power applications and couldn't get x86 to do it. Note that this thing only takes two AA batteries. I'd say that's pretty darn good for a CPU-intensive app like gaming.
..and they never will. It's a personal thing between Michael Dell and Jerry Sanders (head honcho of AMD). This is pretty well known. At one point, Jerry said something like "If Michael Dell wants AMD processors, he can kiss my ass." Funny stuff.
Have you checked out the Linux support for the AMD Hammer? Granted, the silicon isn't available yet but the emulator is free. I don't think we have anything to worry about getting Linux to work on 64-bit architectures.
There were quite a few kids under 18, some with and some without parents. This was in Wisconsin, of all places. I thought they were more into disney flix. I had to lay the smack down on a kid after the show because she kept kicking my seat, etc. And her mother thought I was the rude one. Damn suburbanites.
Actually, in the telecom industry, it's not
uncommon to have 24 layer boards. Quite a few are
power and ground planes for noise problems, etc,
but the signal layers account for more than 3/4
of the board. Yes, they do get thick. You can
beat someone to death with some of the backplanes
I've seen.
OTOH, the thickest PC mobo I've heard of was about
8 layers.