I find conclusion 7 a bit presumptuous. Soft errors are also caused by alpha particles emitted by contaminants in a chip's packaging in addition to cosmic rays. You could imagine that certain DIMMs might have lower quality (i.e. more contaminated) packaging than other DIMMs.
Make sure you get the physicists scopes that measure current going in the opposite direction.
/ducks, electrical engineer vs. physicists humor..
But seriously, you can't got wrong with Tek scopes they are everywhere, a good interface to learn, but not cheap. As far as analyzers, really depends on your needs and once again budget...
I feel like the norm is Tek scopes, Agilent (HP) analyzers, counters, supplies...Not that it's the best, just what I've used and seen throughout the years.
Just find your local sales reps, they'll gladly loan you some.
Some people talk about the internet, but we've always had a problem with [it], because it will always essentially be exclusive one way or the other. To assume that this technology is worldwide is kind of bollocks, y'know? It's not there in the same way. So, I mean, I also personally am one of these luddites. I want physically to have things. I want 12"s, and anyway, iTunes never has what I want.
The reason they don't sell on iTunes among other places is because they believe iTunes is not a great place to sell music since much of the world still doesn't access music via iTunes. That's straight from Thom Yorke's mouth. I'll try and find the interview later. Furthermore, they believe the music industry, at least as far as distribution is concerned is about to crumble and they'd rather wait and see what works out and then have control over it themselves.
Radiohead is actually happy they don't have to release albums anymore since their record contract is done.
Plus, I don't think they care. They sell out every show they ever schedule.
100 yrs ago when they were first bring electrical power to the masses perhaps AC was the right answer, but I believe our needs and priorities have changed in the past 100 yrs and perhaps the way we generate, distribute and use electricity is due for a new analysis.
Sorry dude, but you really need to learn more about power distribution before making blanket statements like that. Maybe a dedicated AC to DC converter in the home may be useful, but for the purposes of power distribution AC is the only choice.
As an example, do you have any idea how big a breaker would need to be for a DC system at substation becuase there is no zero crossing in DC?
Or the do you know the benefits or three phase?
How about the advantages of high voltage low current power lines?
Why do people try to see right and left in everything...the world isn't that simple or idiotic...Furthermore, NASCAR is moving to Sirius and Air America just moved to XM and they both have Fox News.
He's right, from an engineering point of view there is nothing special about the hardware in the iPod. In fact, the processor's battery-life and computational power is not impressive at all. What is impressive is the elegant design and user interface. That's where the iPod wins. The huge marketing budget doesn't hurt either...
Functions should be short and sweet, and do just one thing. They should fit on one or two screenfuls of text (the ISO/ANSI screen size is 80×24, as we all know), and do one thing and do that well.
The maximum length of a function is inversely proportional to the complexity and indentation level of that function. So, if you have a conceptually simple function that is just one long (but simple) case-statement, where you have to do lots of small things for a lot of different cases, it's ok to have a longer function.
However, if you have a complex function, and you suspect that a less-than-gifted first-year high-school student might not even understand what the function is all about, you should adhere to the maximum limits all the more closely. Use helper functions with descriptive names (you can ask the compiler to in-line them if you think it's performance-critical, and it will probably do a better job of it that you would have done).
Another measure of the function is the number of local variables. They shouldn't exceed 5-10, or you're doing something wrong. Re-think the function, and split it into smaller pieces. A human brain can generally easily keep track of about 7 different things, anything more and it gets confused. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now. --from Linux Kernel Coding Style
I find these rules very helpful. Secondly, many times your code evolves and changes, and it's important that you continuously re-examine your functions too see if there are newly created logical dividing points.
You have your whole life to work. Even if you think all you ever want to do is program, nothing beats those college summers for traveling, working interesting jobs like at summer camps, outdoor guides, etc. Live a little, you have your whole life to work. Obviously Joel is stressing internships for selfish reasons anyways. There's more to life than just your job. I love programming and I love computers, but I also loved those college summers I spent working with kids at summer camp, teaching swimming, camping, and hiking, traveling with my friends, going to the beach. Enjoy it!
Yeah, right after they design and build a printed circuit board (PCB) and get the board built, which at low quanties is not cheap and makes the $3 insignificant. Which leads back to my first point, the people who will be using these parts will be using them in bulk, so that statement is legitimate. Plus they said as low as $3. There is nothing misleading there.
No, not really. That's how electronic components are priced. Unless your doing some custom one-time job, bulk pricing is how you price your build-of-materials. In fact, many times the actual price is even lower than the list price. Especially if you order larger quantities.
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Colossus wasn't general purpose, so ENIAC was the first general purpose.
It was the first general purpose.
Colossus wasn't general purpose.
Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO of Box not Dropbox..
Dude that's nothing, Sports Center has whole stories base on one tweet...
..they were called rain forests, we decided we didn't need them and wanted to raise cattle instead...
We've known about them for a long time, why do you think there are three computers on the space shuttle...
I find conclusion 7 a bit presumptuous. Soft errors are also caused by alpha particles emitted by contaminants in a chip's packaging in addition to cosmic rays. You could imagine that certain DIMMs might have lower quality (i.e. more contaminated) packaging than other DIMMs.
1) Where does the energy come from to spray this water?
Duh...coal!
Make sure you get the physicists scopes that measure current going in the opposite direction.
But seriously, you can't got wrong with Tek scopes they are everywhere, a good interface to learn, but not cheap. As far as analyzers, really depends on your needs and once again budget...
I feel like the norm is Tek scopes, Agilent (HP) analyzers, counters, supplies...Not that it's the best, just what I've used and seen throughout the years.
Just find your local sales reps, they'll gladly loan you some.
The reason they don't sell on iTunes among other places is because they believe iTunes is not a great place to sell music since much of the world still doesn't access music via iTunes. That's straight from Thom Yorke's mouth. I'll try and find the interview later. Furthermore, they believe the music industry, at least as far as distribution is concerned is about to crumble and they'd rather wait and see what works out and then have control over it themselves.
Radiohead is actually happy they don't have to release albums anymore since their record contract is done.
Plus, I don't think they care. They sell out every show they ever schedule.
100 yrs ago when they were first bring electrical power to the masses perhaps AC was the right answer, but I believe our needs and priorities have changed in the past 100 yrs and perhaps the way we generate, distribute and use electricity is due for a new analysis.
Sorry dude, but you really need to learn more about power distribution before making blanket statements like that. Maybe a dedicated AC to DC converter in the home may be useful, but for the purposes of power distribution AC is the only choice.
As an example, do you have any idea how big a breaker would need to be for a DC system at substation becuase there is no zero crossing in DC?
Or the do you know the benefits or three phase?
How about the advantages of high voltage low current power lines?
Tesla knew.
Why do people try to see right and left in everything...the world isn't that simple or idiotic...Furthermore, NASCAR is moving to Sirius and Air America just moved to XM and they both have Fox News.
He's right, from an engineering point of view there is nothing special about the hardware in the iPod. In fact, the processor's battery-life and computational power is not impressive at all. What is impressive is the elegant design and user interface. That's where the iPod wins. The huge marketing budget doesn't hurt either...
I find these rules very helpful. Secondly, many times your code evolves and changes, and it's important that you continuously re-examine your functions too see if there are newly created logical dividing points.
Because the writer of the article doesn't understand some basic electricity princples, like the power equation and Ohm's law.
mirrors?
Glad you finally awoke to the world of DVRs; people have been doing this stuff with Tivos and other DVRs for years.
You have your whole life to work. Even if you think all you ever want to do is program, nothing beats those college summers for traveling, working interesting jobs like at summer camps, outdoor guides, etc. Live a little, you have your whole life to work. Obviously Joel is stressing internships for selfish reasons anyways. There's more to life than just your job. I love programming and I love computers, but I also loved those college summers I spent working with kids at summer camp, teaching swimming, camping, and hiking, traveling with my friends, going to the beach. Enjoy it!
just 60 areas that are up for sale (which is 300,000 in game cash not 30,000)
Which means he has to find 60 more people willing to pay $500 dollars each for a plot of virtual land? Good luck with that.
Make sure you block him on all the internets.
You'd think with all that super-computing power they'd be able to figure out the zipping JPEGs is retarted.
Yeah, right after they design and build a printed circuit board (PCB) and get the board built, which at low quanties is not cheap and makes the $3 insignificant. Which leads back to my first point, the people who will be using these parts will be using them in bulk, so that statement is legitimate. Plus they said as low as $3. There is nothing misleading there.
No, not really. That's how electronic components are priced. Unless your doing some custom one-time job, bulk pricing is how you price your build-of-materials. In fact, many times the actual price is even lower than the list price. Especially if you order larger quantities.