The worst part is that picture at the top of the page. Not only is it disgusting to draw a picture of a butterfly with schematic symbols of transistors, resistors, and diodes...but in multiple locations transistors are wired base-to-base alone! That'll never work!
This is nice. While Linux just isn't ideal for applications requiring stringent realtime control, it's great to have some order brought to the chaos.
A large amount of new silicon is hitting the market; the line between microcontrollers and computers keeps blurring. Some of these chips (mostly intended for the cell phone industry) run over 350MHz, include large amounts of memory, flash, and peripherals. Linux is an excellent way to manage all of that power, and ease the transfer of applications into embedded devices.
You will have that communicator/computer you want: has all the power you need, projects onto your eye or a wall, responds to speech input, has excessive bandwidth, captures video, etc. It's within my lifetime. And with the help of some standards like these, perhaps it will run some variant of Linux. You never know.
No kidding, every time I'm forced to type on my phone, it feels like I can't use half my body and the other half doesn't work well either.
Isn't funny, really. When using my phone to type, I can sympathize with how difficult it must be to always communicate with these kinds of methods, when speech, typing, sign language, and writing are out of the question.
You don't want to make it painstakingly slow for her to type out a sentence. That makes it really hard for even an oversized keyboard to work.
A keyboard with 2" keys will be over 28" wide. Moving from key to key will be even more difficult when her arm gets tired. Keyboards are optimized for two-hand use; it's tiring enough using even a regular keyboard with one hand. (Stop it! This is serious!)
A version of T9 input gets around the size limitation; she could operate a 6"x8" pad easily without moving too far. If there was a custom app that let her tree down through word lists, that would be ideal. Say she wants to say "granddaughter." She hits the 4-G-H-I key once and a pointer scrolls to the G's. Then she hits the 7-P-Q-R-S key three times to get to the gr's (a list of perhaps half a dozen words). She could hit the 2-A-B-C key once to narrow it down further, or use a scroller wheel to select the right word. If a word does not exist in the database, she can enter a non-matching mode to tap in the word so she can use it later.
Another method, if she has even less dexterity, is a joystick or wheel that can scroll through letters and words, perhaps in a directory-like fashion as above. Only requires two basic movements and a button press, and hardware is easily custom-built. Common phrases can be added, or even custom mad-libs type templates for common conversation topics, requests, etc.
Moore's Law is so perennially protean because its putative formulator never quite gave it a precise formulation.
I tried to read further, but started twitching uncontrollably. How about Mace's Law: "The skill of tech writers halves, and their pride doubles, every 12 months."
I always gave about the same credence to both Moore's Law and Murphy's Law.
Ok, I finished the article. I learned some history, saw some graphs, and care not one bit more about Moore and his infernal Law.
Most of the information is readily available to other eBay users. I think, however, that more information should be made public and readily accessible (with the exception of email addresses).
For example, the guy that sniped me a couple weeks ago, on a nice 24V, 6A power supply. I looked in his history, and saw that he'd recently bought some, ermmm, enhancement products. It's the little things (heh heh) like this that take the pain out of losing an auction.
See, states have been taxing cigarettes like mad. New York, for example. Some retailers in other states were doing a rather brisk business selling cigarettes online: no tax.
They all thought the government would clamp down on internet taxing before too long, and they were right. Not only do they get to claim they're protecting the world from smokers, but they grab some extra cash for the here and now. Never mind that sales taxes always have a chilling effect on spending. Technically, though, it's just the companies that are doing bad right now. Joe Six-pack has been spending his little heart out, and the economy hasn't budged.
So is it the state's fault for raising taxes on cigarettes, or the online retailers "cheating" the states out of the money they've already spent that was supposed to come out of smoke taxes?
I don't smoke, but think it's none of the government's business.
Try Microprocessor Designs. These are the guys who actually designed and built the brains behind the Segway HT, on contract from DEKA. They are also working on the advanced controls necessary for DEKA's Stirling engine.
In fact, these guys built Dean's dialysis unit, too. Pretty much DEKA's go-to guys for embedded work.
I spoke with Jeff, the president of Microprocessor Designs, a couple months ago (we were discussing job prospects). He seemed enthusiastic about the Segway and Dean's ideas (well, they do get cash money from every Deanstorm), but I think the Stirling engine is going to have the best chance of widespread use.
Head down to the local hobby store and pick up a few model rocket kits. Start with one of the ready-to-go plastic ones, then gradually work up to a multi-stage D engine model. Go to college and get a complement of engineering and science majors, all doctorates. Design and build a liquid-fuel launch vehicle, and place the satellite of your own design into orbit.
You could skip a few steps, and rubberband enough Estes model rockets to an 802.11 wireless access point, trailing a really long Ethernet cable.
Well, as the actual BIOS of the computer, you'd expect it to have most devices well under control, right? About the only thing you'd have to worry about is a non-integrated network card or modem.
It's something we've all wanted: a way to run your computer when the OS is hosed. Happened to me last night, actually. Booting off a floppy or CD-ROM is slow when you're in the tweak-reboot-tweak-reboot phase.
Also, it would be great to be able to get those drivers and updates, or even HOWTO's while fixing the computer.
Now, what I'd like to see added into this: The ability to instantly switch into the BIOS system. Then you could bring up a HOWTO, switch back and forth between your BIOS and struggling OS.
Computer guys are the ones that hack into computers in a minimum of keystrokes, and say "We're in." And they always develop some evil artificial intelligence that threatens the world, and they can get incredible detail from a blurry photo simply by saying "Enhancing." Everybody knows this stuff.
I don't think the portrayal is inaccurate at all. But then I'm an EE.
It's not that, it's just that through poor handling, "Ask Slashdot" is no longer taken seriously, and probably no longer read (unless it shows on the front page).
I think we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. I mean, it's really easy to slip up and identify a specific user agent, and serve a web page to it that has a content margin set to -30 pixels. We've all done it before, right?
No, you add value to raw products by turning them into refined products. Then, as you say, by doing things others cannot do, you charge a price that is higher than the value of the raw material and the skilled labor to produce the finished product.
If you'll recall something so trivial as the British Empire, you'll see that they were intent on receiving raw materials from their colonies, and then selling finished products back to them. This practice taken to its extreme, as in the British Empire, is called mercantilism. The goal of which was to sell finished products in order to conglomerate gold and cash (which at the time was gold) within the country. Obviously this is an extreme, but the intention and result was to keep wealth within the country. It stands to reason that the opposite behavior would be the other extreme: leeching wealth out of the country.
The T-shirts are a very low value commodity in the country of manufacture, and as you say they are in hopes of getting high-value commodities such as electronics. Essentially, if the trade were taking place with us, we would be getting the better end of the bargain because we can make electronics better than we can make T-shirts. Now, what is the situation when we send a relatively low value of money to a foreign country, and in return get engineering work or software? India can make software better than I can make money (now that I don't have a job). They get the better end of the deal.
No, the actions of a small company regarding a minor change of a secondary component of an opensource non-mainstream operating system
*breaths in*
is nothing at all like a major scientific discovery, or theory. The look of the Linux desktop is not something we all have to agree on, nor can it be proved to be a truth of some sort.
In fact, the look of the Linux desktop holds no disadvantages for opposing camps. There are no consequences for those who do not realize "the truth," and therefore room to continue the argument into infinity. Much like those toilet-paper roll arguments and thermometer spats that can cause rifts in familes for fifty years. Since the issue is non-scientific and illogical, neither party has to come over to the other side, and pride ensures that they never will.
By the way, the paper goes over the top so it's easy to reach.
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The worst part is that picture at the top of the page. Not only is it disgusting to draw a picture of a butterfly with schematic symbols of transistors, resistors, and diodes...but in multiple locations transistors are wired base-to-base alone! That'll never work!
This is nice. While Linux just isn't ideal for applications requiring stringent realtime control, it's great to have some order brought to the chaos.
A large amount of new silicon is hitting the market; the line between microcontrollers and computers keeps blurring. Some of these chips (mostly intended for the cell phone industry) run over 350MHz, include large amounts of memory, flash, and peripherals. Linux is an excellent way to manage all of that power, and ease the transfer of applications into embedded devices.
You will have that communicator/computer you want: has all the power you need, projects onto your eye or a wall, responds to speech input, has excessive bandwidth, captures video, etc. It's within my lifetime. And with the help of some standards like these, perhaps it will run some variant of Linux. You never know.
No kidding, every time I'm forced to type on my phone, it feels like I can't use half my body and the other half doesn't work well either.
Isn't funny, really. When using my phone to type, I can sympathize with how difficult it must be to always communicate with these kinds of methods, when speech, typing, sign language, and writing are out of the question.
Please go on. I'm waiting to hear your proof.
A dupe? Kinda mixed up eh?
What evidence do you have that gases are not dissolved in our body fluids?
Mod this puppy to the basement.
Couple of ideas here.
You don't want to make it painstakingly slow for her to type out a sentence. That makes it really hard for even an oversized keyboard to work.
A keyboard with 2" keys will be over 28" wide. Moving from key to key will be even more difficult when her arm gets tired. Keyboards are optimized for two-hand use; it's tiring enough using even a regular keyboard with one hand. (Stop it! This is serious!)
A version of T9 input gets around the size limitation; she could operate a 6"x8" pad easily without moving too far. If there was a custom app that let her tree down through word lists, that would be ideal. Say she wants to say "granddaughter." She hits the 4-G-H-I key once and a pointer scrolls to the G's. Then she hits the 7-P-Q-R-S key three times to get to the gr's (a list of perhaps half a dozen words). She could hit the 2-A-B-C key once to narrow it down further, or use a scroller wheel to select the right word. If a word does not exist in the database, she can enter a non-matching mode to tap in the word so she can use it later.
Another method, if she has even less dexterity, is a joystick or wheel that can scroll through letters and words, perhaps in a directory-like fashion as above. Only requires two basic movements and a button press, and hardware is easily custom-built. Common phrases can be added, or even custom mad-libs type templates for common conversation topics, requests, etc.
Hope this helps in some way!
Well, I figured I wasn't the first to cast a stone, so I overlooked my guiltiness.
;-)
Many of us have written worse during a caffeine-crazed schoolwork rampage, though we were paying good money for the chance.
Moore's Law is so perennially protean because its putative formulator never quite gave it a precise formulation.
I tried to read further, but started twitching uncontrollably. How about Mace's Law: "The skill of tech writers halves, and their pride doubles, every 12 months."
I always gave about the same credence to both Moore's Law and Murphy's Law.
Ok, I finished the article. I learned some history, saw some graphs, and care not one bit more about Moore and his infernal Law.
Most of the information is readily available to other eBay users. I think, however, that more information should be made public and readily accessible (with the exception of email addresses).
For example, the guy that sniped me a couple weeks ago, on a nice 24V, 6A power supply. I looked in his history, and saw that he'd recently bought some, ermmm, enhancement products. It's the little things (heh heh) like this that take the pain out of losing an auction.
It's smoking.
Yep, another thing to blame on the smokers.
See, states have been taxing cigarettes like mad. New York, for example. Some retailers in other states were doing a rather brisk business selling cigarettes online: no tax.
They all thought the government would clamp down on internet taxing before too long, and they were right. Not only do they get to claim they're protecting the world from smokers, but they grab some extra cash for the here and now. Never mind that sales taxes always have a chilling effect on spending. Technically, though, it's just the companies that are doing bad right now. Joe Six-pack has been spending his little heart out, and the economy hasn't budged.
So is it the state's fault for raising taxes on cigarettes, or the online retailers "cheating" the states out of the money they've already spent that was supposed to come out of smoke taxes?
I don't smoke, but think it's none of the government's business.
I think he got to keep 500k or something, the rest was taken away (by who I don't remember).
Erm...the IRS?
Sorry: fix help my comment by reversing "fix help."
Coffee time!
So that's how we're going to fix help the U.S. economy! Get as many European credit card numbers as possible!
And corner the pork market!
Try Microprocessor Designs. These are the guys who actually designed and built the brains behind the Segway HT, on contract from DEKA. They are also working on the advanced controls necessary for DEKA's Stirling engine.
In fact, these guys built Dean's dialysis unit, too. Pretty much DEKA's go-to guys for embedded work.
I spoke with Jeff, the president of Microprocessor Designs, a couple months ago (we were discussing job prospects). He seemed enthusiastic about the Segway and Dean's ideas (well, they do get cash money from every Deanstorm), but I think the Stirling engine is going to have the best chance of widespread use.
Head down to the local hobby store and pick up a few model rocket kits. Start with one of the ready-to-go plastic ones, then gradually work up to a multi-stage D engine model. Go to college and get a complement of engineering and science majors, all doctorates. Design and build a liquid-fuel launch vehicle, and place the satellite of your own design into orbit.
You could skip a few steps, and rubberband enough Estes model rockets to an 802.11 wireless access point, trailing a really long Ethernet cable.
*confused look*
Well, as the actual BIOS of the computer, you'd expect it to have most devices well under control, right? About the only thing you'd have to worry about is a non-integrated network card or modem.
That's pretty good.
I was just looking at DiskOnChip prices for a single-board computer I'm using, and it wasn't pretty.
How much is a 128MB USB keychain drive these days? CompactFlash?
How much do you think it would cost to put 128MB of flash directly on the motherboard (or simply provide a CompactFlash slot next to the BIOS)?
It's something we've all wanted: a way to run your computer when the OS is hosed. Happened to me last night, actually. Booting off a floppy or CD-ROM is slow when you're in the tweak-reboot-tweak-reboot phase.
Also, it would be great to be able to get those drivers and updates, or even HOWTO's while fixing the computer.
Now, what I'd like to see added into this: The ability to instantly switch into the BIOS system. Then you could bring up a HOWTO, switch back and forth between your BIOS and struggling OS.
Computer guys are the ones that hack into computers in a minimum of keystrokes, and say "We're in." And they always develop some evil artificial intelligence that threatens the world, and they can get incredible detail from a blurry photo simply by saying "Enhancing." Everybody knows this stuff.
I don't think the portrayal is inaccurate at all. But then I'm an EE.
I move that timothy be the first human subject to undergo the proposed revolutionary procedure.
Maybe the article didn't contain anything more than the submitter posted.
We don't need no steenkin' link!
It's not that, it's just that through poor handling, "Ask Slashdot" is no longer taken seriously, and probably no longer read (unless it shows on the front page).
I think we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. I mean, it's really easy to slip up and identify a specific user agent, and serve a web page to it that has a content margin set to -30 pixels. We've all done it before, right?
No, you add value to raw products by turning them into refined products. Then, as you say, by doing things others cannot do, you charge a price that is higher than the value of the raw material and the skilled labor to produce the finished product.
If you'll recall something so trivial as the British Empire, you'll see that they were intent on receiving raw materials from their colonies, and then selling finished products back to them. This practice taken to its extreme, as in the British Empire, is called mercantilism. The goal of which was to sell finished products in order to conglomerate gold and cash (which at the time was gold) within the country. Obviously this is an extreme, but the intention and result was to keep wealth within the country. It stands to reason that the opposite behavior would be the other extreme: leeching wealth out of the country.
The T-shirts are a very low value commodity in the country of manufacture, and as you say they are in hopes of getting high-value commodities such as electronics. Essentially, if the trade were taking place with us, we would be getting the better end of the bargain because we can make electronics better than we can make T-shirts. Now, what is the situation when we send a relatively low value of money to a foreign country, and in return get engineering work or software? India can make software better than I can make money (now that I don't have a job). They get the better end of the deal.
No, the actions of a small company regarding a minor change of a secondary component of an opensource non-mainstream operating system
*breaths in*
is nothing at all like a major scientific discovery, or theory. The look of the Linux desktop is not something we all have to agree on, nor can it be proved to be a truth of some sort.
In fact, the look of the Linux desktop holds no disadvantages for opposing camps. There are no consequences for those who do not realize "the truth," and therefore room to continue the argument into infinity. Much like those toilet-paper roll arguments and thermometer spats that can cause rifts in familes for fifty years. Since the issue is non-scientific and illogical, neither party has to come over to the other side, and pride ensures that they never will.
By the way, the paper goes over the top so it's easy to reach.