Timex Bodylink
o Speed + Distance with Garmin GPS
o Digital Heart Rate Sensor
o Ironman Triathlon Bodylink Performance Monitor
and a Timex Data Recorder which connects to a PC and uploads all the above data for 2 second intervals.
Boards from every spin of the product that my team designs are given to the power supply engineers. These boards are never expected to be returned. They always find a way to fat probe power and ground traces and fry the components. I've even seen 1/2 oz. copper traces physically blown from the board.
One time they got a board in from some OEM and it didn't have overcurrent protection (but the OEM said it did). So they pulled so much current from it that it heated up. The parts were floaing on liquid solder when the PCB delaminated. I'd never seen anything like that. Oh, and a word of warning (from experience), don't touch.
Things are better with them around, though. They can design a regulated power supply that doesn't go up in flames when run overnight.
That's the same point the authors of "The Gorilla Game" by Moore, Johnson, and Kippola make. This is where companies that make high tech products with high switching costs and proprietary architecture naturally become the "gorilla" and no other company can best them until a "discontinuous invention" comes along and takes market share. They call AMD a chimp who will never reach gorilla status.
But, maybe things are changing. Is the switching costs from Intel to AMD that great anymore? I mean, most software runs on both systems without modification, right? I think Intel is in for some trouble in the long run.
Ever since the Internet became my source of news and information, I've quit buying computer magazines -- and I used to buy them frequently. Slashdot, C|Net, The Register, AMDZone, HackerNews, PalmStation, and MSNBC has taken their place. Now I only receive magazines that would give me free subscriptions (from when I co-op'ed last year).
Maybe magazines aren't going to all die, but they aren't of much use to me.
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Timex Bodylink
o Speed + Distance with Garmin GPS
o Digital Heart Rate Sensor
o Ironman Triathlon Bodylink Performance Monitor
and a Timex Data Recorder which connects to a PC and uploads all the above data for 2 second intervals.
Boards from every spin of the product that my team designs are given to the power supply engineers. These boards are never expected to be returned. They always find a way to fat probe power and ground traces and fry the components. I've even seen 1/2 oz. copper traces physically blown from the board.
One time they got a board in from some OEM and it didn't have overcurrent protection (but the OEM said it did). So they pulled so much current from it that it heated up. The parts were floaing on liquid solder when the PCB delaminated. I'd never seen anything like that. Oh, and a word of warning (from experience), don't touch.
Things are better with them around, though. They can design a regulated power supply that doesn't go up in flames when run overnight.
You can find more information about the planned expedition to the island here.
"SimNow!" was just made available in RPM format. Definitely worth a download if you want to play around with their new 64-bit mode.
You make have to log in to Toms Hardware Delphi forum to see this link, but here is the picture that fake was based on.
Think about it. Slashdot gets slashdotted everyday.
That's the same point the authors of "The Gorilla Game" by Moore, Johnson, and Kippola make. This is where companies that make high tech products with high switching costs and proprietary architecture naturally become the "gorilla" and no other company can best them until a "discontinuous invention" comes along and takes market share. They call AMD a chimp who will never reach gorilla status.
But, maybe things are changing. Is the switching costs from Intel to AMD that great anymore? I mean, most software runs on both systems without modification, right? I think Intel is in for some trouble in the long run.
Here's a link that has a good list of Athlon motherboards that have been announced, preannounced, or are available.
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Ever since the Internet became my source of news and information, I've quit buying computer magazines -- and I used to buy them frequently. Slashdot, C|Net, The Register, AMDZone, HackerNews, PalmStation, and MSNBC has taken their place. Now I only receive magazines that would give me free subscriptions (from when I co-op'ed last year).
Maybe magazines aren't going to all die, but they aren't of much use to me.
That Spiderman ride at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure kicks much ass. I've been on it a few times this semester.