In all the time that I've been reading Slashdot, I don't think I've ever seen a single comment bring out replies from CmdrTaco and Hemos... You should win a prize or something if you can get 3 single digit UID's responding..
Wow. When I read your post about 30k townhouses I was interested where you were talking about (I'm in Ottawa). But Elliot Lake?! That makes it fairly obvious why the prices are so low.
How many people live there anyway? Not making fun of it, just interested.
Actually it is possible to do microsurgery on silicon. It's just REALLY expensive, and obviously you need all the design information to know what wires you want to move around. It's a great resource for chip R&D, and I think it's absolutely amazing that they can do this.
But yeah, it's not something any hobbyist is going to do!
It's spelled their, not "thier". But that's beating a dead horse...
As far as comprehension, I understood the parent message, simple spelling mistakes are okay in my book. But I would find the use of 'ur' or 'could u send me...' insulting.
I think what you meant (correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you use a word that's not normally used in that context then you can trademark it. So Excel can be trademarked, but Office can't.
What confuses you about the term 'anti-radiation missile'? Things like the HARM or Shrike home on transmitting targets. Yes those are A-G, but they must have a similar package that can be put on a space capable missile. I haven't heard of any space based package for it, I'm just confused by your statement that there is no such thing as an anti-radiation missile. There's plenty.
Not to be stupid, but why doesn't Ohm's law fail at small observation limits? I mean, it's predicated on taking a macroscopic view of current flow. Consider looking at individual electrons, and it becomes a statistical average and can't predict the flow rate at really small quantities. Not meaning to be pendantic, but I don't see how a macroscopic prediction can be a law when we can't predict individual element movement. Might sound dumb, but there has to be concrete difference between a law and a theory.
Umm. Actually the electrons are moving at a good fraction of the speed of light (vibrating in place). But the net movement of electrons along the conductive path is slow, since they tend to zip around the same place. Also, the effect of the net electric field change should propagate down the wire at a rate relative to the RC time constant.
One way to AC-couple is to put a capacitor in series . I'm not sure what value you'd need, since you need to take into account the output resistance of the turntable as well as the input resistance of the pre-amp...
Easy, if you want to make a chip totally secure you do it through bonding options.
For the custom stuff that needs full programmability that you want to provide to 'secure' customers (i.e., milatary etc) you have a bonding option which enables all features.
For limited stuff for public consumption you have a bonding option that restricts setting certain internal registers or limiting the valid values.
Bonding options work by tying signals within the package to adjacent power pins, forcing the certain logic values into the internals of the chip which can logically disable/enable features.
By using bonding options you only have to produce one layout/chip, and you get the different products just through different packaging. The main NRE costs of ASICs are the layout/masks, while the packaging is very cheap.
Look at how CPU manufacturers can bond the dies to limit the availabe clock speeds... Common practice.
With the hardware internally restricted, there's nothing the programmers can do (as long as the internal restrictions are properly implemented). Of course you can chemically decap the chip and rebond the part, but this would be incredibly difficult/time consuming. No way you could do it in production quantities.
Yeah, I worked as a tech rep for an HVAC company, and a lot of people don't realize that at the stat the temp may be fine, but not all parts of the building are at that temp.
When I was working for a company doing commercial HVAC, we found that chills tended to be psychological. By putting a thermostat on the wall, but programming it to be inactive, we found that most people were then satisfied with the heating control. i.e., they thought they were controlling the temperature and were thus happy, though in reality they had no effect.
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In all the time that I've been reading Slashdot, I don't think I've ever seen a single comment bring out replies from CmdrTaco and Hemos... You should win a prize or something if you can get 3 single digit UID's responding..
Wow. When I read your post about 30k townhouses I was interested where you were talking about (I'm in Ottawa). But Elliot Lake?! That makes it fairly obvious why the prices are so low.
How many people live there anyway? Not making fun of it, just interested.
Good god man! Haven't you heard? Civ 4 has been released. Now that's motivation (and possible grounds for termination).
Actually it is possible to do microsurgery on silicon. It's just REALLY expensive, and obviously you need all the design information to know what wires you want to move around. It's a great resource for chip R&D, and I think it's absolutely amazing that they can do this.
But yeah, it's not something any hobbyist is going to do!
That's no moon!
(Queue Imperial march)
You think that's expensive? Try ASIC design software licenses .
Of course, no one would ever trust MS software for that...
It's spelled their, not "thier". But that's beating a dead horse...
As far as comprehension, I understood the parent message, simple spelling mistakes are okay in my book. But I would find the use of 'ur' or 'could u send me...' insulting.
Hmm, that's one of those accidental words that sounds like it has meaning. I think you mean Amerocentricity or Amerocentric.
Amerocentrocity sounds like a horrible event or catastrophe.
I think it's 46 days actually.
4e6 / 60 = 66.6e3 mins
66e3 mins / 60 = 1111hrs
1111hrs / 24 = 46 days.
I think what you meant (correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you use a word that's not normally used in that context then you can trademark it. So Excel can be trademarked, but Office can't.
What confuses you about the term 'anti-radiation missile'? Things like the HARM or Shrike home on transmitting targets. Yes those are A-G, but they must have a similar package that can be put on a space capable missile. I haven't heard of any space based package for it, I'm just confused by your statement that there is no such thing as an anti-radiation missile. There's plenty.
Not to be stupid, but why doesn't Ohm's law fail at small observation limits? I mean, it's predicated on taking a macroscopic view of current flow. Consider looking at individual electrons, and it becomes a statistical average and can't predict the flow rate at really small quantities. Not meaning to be pendantic, but I don't see how a macroscopic prediction can be a law when we can't predict individual element movement. Might sound dumb, but there has to be concrete difference between a law and a theory.
Umm. Actually the electrons are moving at a good fraction of the speed of light (vibrating in place). But the net movement of electrons along the conductive path is slow, since they tend to zip around the same place. Also, the effect of the net electric field change should propagate down the wire at a rate relative to the RC time constant.
I am Jack's colon. I get cancer, I kill Jack...
Maybe 'burn up' isn't a good phrase to use.
Umm... how about free-trade and job stability?
I always preferred Shadownrun. It was different than the normal 'fantasy' games. My only complaint was that sometimes the game system was TOO open.
One way to AC-couple is to put a capacitor in series . I'm not sure what value you'd need, since you need to take into account the output resistance of the turntable as well as the input resistance of the pre-amp...
What if you're using lynx?
You meant to say we DO support Linux and OSS, right?
Hmm...
/byte) = 21MB.
16 bit audio * 44kHz * 60 (sec/min) * 4min / (8 bits
Average mp3 size.. hmm. Say 5-6 megs.
Looks like about 25% reproduction. Maybe if we switch to mono we can get under the limit .
Easy, if you want to make a chip totally secure you do it through bonding options.
For the custom stuff that needs full programmability that you want to provide to 'secure' customers (i.e., milatary etc) you have a bonding option which enables all features.
For limited stuff for public consumption you have a bonding option that restricts setting certain internal registers or limiting the valid values.
Bonding options work by tying signals within the package to adjacent power pins, forcing the certain logic values into the internals of the chip which can logically disable/enable features.
By using bonding options you only have to produce one layout/chip, and you get the different products just through different packaging. The main NRE costs of ASICs are the layout/masks, while the packaging is very cheap.
Look at how CPU manufacturers can bond the dies to limit the availabe clock speeds... Common practice.
With the hardware internally restricted, there's nothing the programmers can do (as long as the internal restrictions are properly implemented). Of course you can chemically decap the chip and rebond the part, but this would be incredibly difficult/time consuming. No way you could do it in production quantities.
Yeah, I worked as a tech rep for an HVAC company, and a lot of people don't realize that at the stat the temp may be fine, but not all parts of the building are at that temp.
When I was working for a company doing commercial HVAC, we found that chills tended to be psychological. By putting a thermostat on the wall, but programming it to be inactive, we found that most people were then satisfied with the heating control. i.e., they thought they were controlling the temperature and were thus happy, though in reality they had no effect.
Not necessarily. The neural net would likely be programmed on a 7 day cycle, since with a full 365 day program, it would take too long to train up.