>This is what capitalism is all about right? >You have money SO, you can hire good lawyers SO, you can prolong the process making the necessary appeals to higher courts for a long long time... SO you bankrupt the other party SO, you win.
In my house we have XP and Vista - Vista only on my wife's laptop. XP on the other four machines.
I have nothing but grief with the Vista laptop. Doesn't like my printers, crappy 'you are an idiot' user interface, trouble with existing programs, it just goes on. I'd say at this point that installing Linux is less hassle than dealing with the fallout of a Vista machine in the house.
Besides the fact the Vista looking menu bar gave me the shudders, I had a sudden image of my computer being this dumb screen with a goldfish on it, nothing else, everything else being a click away on the Internet, paid for by the minute.
Thank God there are alternatives, even if I don't particularly like them.
Very much so. The hobby servo is one of the simplest devices to hook up to a microcontroller. It will run at 5v, and takes a 5v pulse to position it. The pinouts are very easy to find on the web, as is the software. I have my own code, which I'll publish if there is enough interest.
I too do this for a living. Although I understand the difference between > and <, unlike you, which makes it sound like you're actually a school kid. So let me educate you some more:
>smds: what's your solutions for bgas?
I don't use them. I use my brain and my engineer's instinct to design something without them.
Signal integrity - yes, you need that if design very high frequency circuits, but that doesn't discount the whole bloody exercise. There are *many* more circuits that can be designed with high cost cad tools than circuits that need them.
>You need files showing how the wires are routed on the pcb (assuming you're going to modify it somehow, why else would you go to all this trouble?). Oh and by the way you need > $1000 software to generate the files you'll send to manufacture the pcb
You clearly know nothing on the subject. Go google "EagleCad"
>And after you do that you'll have to locate and buy each of those components on the board, assuming they'll even sell you > 10 of them at a time
Go google "Farnell" or "Digikey"
>And after that you'll have to solder fine pitch leads
Slashdot Mirror
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6. Do a hard copy printout of the BIOS. Its flash memory will have become erased in 50 years.
7. Dito for any BIOS in your video hardware
8. Provide a schematic of the PC so they can identify all the tantalum and electrolytic capacitors, and replace them with new equivalents.
9. Forgot it all. Put a packet of cigarettes in there instead. It will be fun rediscovering the habit again.
>Basic mathematical patterns inherent in Euclidean geometry aren't going to be easily forgotten or abandoned.
You overestimate the power of the US education system.
>This is what capitalism is all about right? ... SO you bankrupt the other party SO, you win.
>You have money SO, you can hire good lawyers SO, you can prolong the process making the necessary appeals to higher courts for a long long time
That's not capitalism, that poker
>Tablets are rather useless without internet and a web browser.
I'm guessing it's just an off-line porn viewer, something that you can take to bed, and is easy to wash.
Unnfortuately I don't think there are many of us who could do the great, difficult work you people do. Certainly not on this forum :o)
a Beowulf cluster of these. Actually I don't need to; I live in surveillance UK :o)
>Why are electronic manufactures exempt from shoddy products that don't have some sort of reasonable lifespan
Because collectively we accept this. Sad but true.
ever thought of turning that philosophy on your own beliefs?
>At least words like "Developer" imply a human being
No it doesn't. It implies sodium hydroxide
Bollocks.
In my house we have XP and Vista - Vista only on my wife's laptop. XP on the other four machines.
I have nothing but grief with the Vista laptop. Doesn't like my printers, crappy 'you are an idiot' user interface, trouble with existing programs, it just goes on. I'd say at this point that installing Linux is less hassle than dealing with the fallout of a Vista machine in the house.
Besides the fact the Vista looking menu bar gave me the shudders, I had a sudden image of my computer being this dumb screen with a goldfish on it, nothing else, everything else being a click away on the Internet, paid for by the minute.
Thank God there are alternatives, even if I don't particularly like them.
>but I studied abroad in Lancaster University in England. They had computer science courses - they're taught in English
What other language would they have been taught in?
>mullets on women
On their armpits, unfortunately.
Very much so. The hobby servo is one of the simplest devices to hook up to a microcontroller. It will run at 5v, and takes a 5v pulse to position it. The pinouts are very easy to find on the web, as is the software. I have my own code, which I'll publish if there is enough interest.
>as compared to your mention of kph, which has a standard conversion for anyone who might be interested)
:o)
I'm curious as to what your target audience was for that point
Why is this marked as flamebait? He is absolutely correct.
There is more to software engineering than designing bloody websites.
>I'm calling Shenanigans on you for making this statement with a glaringly obvious lack of a basic understanding of how karma is doled out!
And I'm calling Shenanigans on you for making this statement with a glaringly obvious lack of a basic understanding of how sarcasm works!
Some idiot who didn't get your joke marked you as Insightful. That's actually funnier your joke!
I love slashdot
A suspicious meteorite? Did they think terrorists on the Moon are lobbing rocks at us? Me thinks someone's been reading a little too much Heinlein.
and then, hopefully, your enthusiasm will rub off on them.
I too do this for a living. Although I understand the difference between > and <, unlike you, which makes it sound like you're actually a school kid. So let me educate you some more:
>smds: what's your solutions for bgas?
I don't use them. I use my brain and my engineer's instinct to design something without them.
Signal integrity - yes, you need that if design very high frequency circuits, but that doesn't discount the whole bloody exercise. There are *many* more circuits that can be designed with high cost cad tools than circuits that need them.
>Now going to your user page brings up a set of random shit pulled from various parts of Slashdot
I second that. The new interface is shit.
>You need files showing how the wires are routed on the pcb (assuming you're going to modify it somehow, why else would you go to all this trouble?). Oh and by the way you need > $1000 software to generate the files you'll send to manufacture the pcb
You clearly know nothing on the subject.
Go google "EagleCad"
>And after you do that you'll have to locate and buy each of those components on the board, assuming they'll even sell you > 10 of them at a time
Go google "Farnell" or "Digikey"
>And after that you'll have to solder fine pitch leads
Go google "soldering SMDs"
Then go get lost.
>at least read Borges, Rushdie, or Eco instead.
Oh, yes, I can see that working.
"The Invention of Morel" as a video game anyone?
ZZZZzzzz.....
Doesn't waste energy making it, however