Actually, both. You're correct of course about Radio Shack ( and I was referring to Tandy ) - I've been out of the UK for a number of years and missed them pulling out.
I used to work for a Tandy store as a kid, for my sins, but that was over 25 years ago:o)
>and I feel bad for him since even radio shack doesn't carry what it used to.
It's the same where I live ( the UK ) Radio shack are no longer interested in supplying components, just crap white goods. I can understand why though; whats the profit margin on a resistor? And have you ever stood in line behind the electronics buff who is buying 20 components, and takes half an hour?
Personally, I think they should install vending machines in Radio Shack for components. I might start using them again if they did!
>We have regulations to stop people who are a few neurons shy of a full brain (probably from playing with too many chemicals) harming themselves or others.
Your gun laws would suggest otherwise.
>As far as I know, we don't have ways to detect inorganic life, do we?
If they land in a space ship and start shooting at us, then I would consider them detected, organic or not.
>"It's might still be CPU intensive today. But not next year."
Why do people still come out with this shit? Software should be written properly. If you write a bad algorithm then you should correct it rather than wait for CPU power / Memory / whatever to become cheap enough. Anything else is lazyness.
> What I still don't understand is if there are 72 million mobile phones in use in the UK, how come the UK population is only 60,776,238
Going by the rate that my daughter looses mobile phones, I would say 50% of those 72 million phones are rusting on the dirt.
>They used anti-terror laws against Iceland, who are not at all terrorists
No they didn't. The law covered terrorism *As well*, not exclusively. Check your facts next time you rant.
But that's no surprise - the data transferred when you read a page is only a few kb. Might have been a different story had it been a 'normal' web page!
It's the ENC28J60. The project has been covered in "Everyday Practical Electronics" issues Sept-Nov. I would suggest looking at the January 2009 issue though if you interested, which will be out sometime in December.
Or, just scan the web for PIC + ethernet. I'm not the only person doing this stuff.
that's running* a Microchip stack on a PIC micrcontroller in about 16KB of code. I bet I could get that down to less than 1KB if I knock much of the functionality out. Want to have a bet on it?
* it's running now. Not sure what a slashdotting would do to it.
Consumer pay-as-you-go electricity meters already address that by using a random delay on power-up before connecting the consumer. Can say they all do, but the ones I wrote s/w for did.
>The really paranoid part of me thinks that this makes it only a matter of time before possession of any data that could potentially be an encryption key will be a criminal offense
No problem. You can hide the key in a jpeg image. Let them work *that* one out.
Slashdot Mirror
>imagine a world where all your computing gets done "in the cloud"
Those of us over forty don't need to imagine it. It was a terminal connected to a mainframe. And man, I dont want to go back there.
>For example, those second rate .Net/PHP clickee-click web programmers.
I thought they all worked in McDonald's these days?
10 wait for new article
20 print "but does it run Linux?"
30 goto 10
There, fixed that for you
>so people are regularly fined and/or imprisoned for speaking against the government
Are you aware that there is a difference between speaking out against a government, and speaking out against a race?
>Left-Wing prefers to undermine peoples freedoms for "the good cause"
>Right-Wing prefers individual freedoms over the hissy-fits of a a few minorities
Nice balanced argument. You're a 14 year old idiot, aren't you?
>Are you thinking of Maplin?
Actually, both. You're correct of course about Radio Shack ( and I was referring to Tandy ) - I've been out of the UK for a number of years and missed them pulling out.
I used to work for a Tandy store as a kid, for my sins, but that was over 25 years ago :o)
>and I feel bad for him since even radio shack doesn't carry what it used to.
It's the same where I live ( the UK )
Radio shack are no longer interested in supplying components, just crap white goods. I can understand why though; whats the profit margin on a resistor? And have you ever stood in line behind the electronics buff who is buying 20 components, and takes half an hour?
Personally, I think they should install vending machines in Radio Shack for components. I might start using them again if they did!
>We have regulations to stop people who are a few neurons shy of a full brain (probably from playing with too many chemicals) harming themselves or others. Your gun laws would suggest otherwise.
Is your UID for sale by any chance?
Or capitalization at the beginning of sentences?
If he is watching 8 hours TV a day, no wonder he cant do division!
>As far as I know, we don't have ways to detect inorganic life, do we? If they land in a space ship and start shooting at us, then I would consider them detected, organic or not.
>"It's might still be CPU intensive today. But not next year." Why do people still come out with this shit? Software should be written properly. If you write a bad algorithm then you should correct it rather than wait for CPU power / Memory / whatever to become cheap enough. Anything else is lazyness.
wow, you two should get married. :o)
> What I still don't understand is if there are 72 million mobile phones in use in the UK, how come the UK population is only 60,776,238 Going by the rate that my daughter looses mobile phones, I would say 50% of those 72 million phones are rusting on the dirt.
>They used anti-terror laws against Iceland, who are not at all terrorists No they didn't. The law covered terrorism *As well*, not exclusively. Check your facts next time you rant.
Full Fennec details here : http://www.whitehouse.gov/
It survived!
But that's no surprise - the data transferred when you read a page is only a few kb. Might have been a different story had it been a 'normal' web page!
It's the ENC28J60. The project has been covered in "Everyday Practical Electronics" issues Sept-Nov. I would suggest looking at the January 2009 issue though if you interested, which will be out sometime in December.
Or, just scan the web for PIC + ethernet. I'm not the only person doing this stuff.
Mike.
No, just not many visitors yet. It's been powered up since the date is was last compiled, shown on the web page.
I'll post the time that it dies :o)
Any idiot ( even you ) could do a simple stack in much less than 11KB. It just depends on how much functionality you want to drop.
I've an IPv4 webserver running here:
http://mikehibbett.dyndns.org/
that's running* a Microchip stack on a PIC micrcontroller in about 16KB of code. I bet I could get that down to less than 1KB if I knock much of the functionality out. Want to have a bet on it?
* it's running now. Not sure what a slashdotting would do to it.
Consumer pay-as-you-go electricity meters already address that by using a random delay on power-up before connecting the consumer. Can say they all do, but the ones I wrote s/w for did.
>It was not written with linux program methodology, performance, or usability in mind. Thus it is not native to linux.
So what is Emacs then?
>not to mention your spigot bearing.
Is that something a doctor would sort out, or a mechanic?
>The really paranoid part of me thinks that this makes it only a matter of time before possession of any data that could potentially be an encryption key will be a criminal offense
No problem. You can hide the key in a jpeg image. Let them work *that* one out.