IMHO it was the cow that needed to be cleansed by bathing, while Lusti Gusti needed to get drowned to rid the town of bad luck...
Heh, S
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There were a few of us at my last job who wanted to take that idea and crank out a prototype USB accordion peripheral. Even more sad is how much time I spent researching the appropriate sensor tech to make this work:P
I think it still needs to be done, dammit! Break out the lederhosen! (and Pilsner)
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers whose brains are still trying to develop good impulse control always think rationally and choose abstinence when a member of their preferred sex is hot to trot for them. This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
Two words: Joule Thief -The kids get to play with electromagnetics (wind their own transformer) and see how very simple swichmode converters work. All for a very small outlay of parts, esp in quantity from someplace like digikey. Plus it's a way to drain some more joules out of batteries that are prob too dead to do anything else with:)
...or perhaps the new Disney(TM) tourism adventure will be to watch with satisfaction as indentured "employees" produce the bits of the House of The (DRM-Orwellian) Future for a dollar a day, just so the Disney Family(TM) can afford to have their food-identifying counter-top;)
Yeah; and he should stow his petty arrogance while he's at it. Quoting from TFA:
Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision. WTF? Does he mean that DJs like Kid Koala make music which is merely "OK" by this clown's standards? Maybe Elton should crawl out from under his pablum-encrusted career (Candle in the Wind, anyone?) and listen to some of the stuff he's dissing.
Now that the business of humour is out of the way; let's have a moment of silence in honour of someone who kicked a whole bunch of spammers in the huevos really hard:)
It's nice to hear from some other people that share my perspective on the state of current EDA offerings. I have used OrCAD and Protel (windoze) professionally, and have found OrCAD's bugs to be less annoying than those of Protel's recent offerings. I'm continually annoyed to find that bugs I reported to Protel *years* ago are still present in their software. I'm currently using Protel and curse it daily.
I've used various OrCAD versions since SDT, and while using 8&9 I was hassling them to toss the source for SDT (the core of which they told me they'd abandoned) into someplace like sourceforge. I, too, liked the interface of SDT (which I used in college) and found it very efficient.
I've looked at Eagle, PCB and gEDA, and also Lasagne (http://lasagne.sourceforge.net/). Lasagne looks like a *very* promising start, but I couldn't get it to compile and work on Linux/PPC so far. I do plan to email the developer to see if he'd like some help stamping out what look like wrong-endian-specific bugs. Eagle had some promise and recently added MacOS support, although I've never used it for any large jobs...
I agree with you completely on PCB's choice of units. WTF were they thinking? All new SMT components are defined in metric, not inches. gah. Eagle at least uses some resolution in microns (can't remember what, exactly, though) that made TSOP and TQFP footprint design relatively easy.
Go check out Lasagne, and note the units indicated in the screenshots:)
I think Adobe should put it's money where it's
mouth is, and pitch in to _pay_ for his legal
expenses. It only seems appropriate, seeing as
they made this whole problem happen in the first
place. Just dropping the charges in the interest
of the industry hasn't made Dmitry's problems
go away.
There's something to be said about taking
responsibility for one's actions, IMHO.
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These guys are neat for what they still sell and service, in addition to punch cards and hardware the process them:
http://www.cardamation.com/
wow - a guy named Borker being sent to prison really puts a new spin on "bork bork bork" :D
FTA: "... The WarMouse Meta goes where no mouse has gone before." - Engadget
Perhaps another way to say that is "Good riddance to daft rodents." ;)
S
IMHO it was the cow that needed to be cleansed by bathing, while Lusti Gusti needed to get drowned to rid the town of bad luck...
Heh,
S
There were a few of us at my last job who wanted to take that idea and crank out a prototype USB accordion peripheral. Even more sad is how much time I spent researching the appropriate sensor tech to make this work :P
I think it still needs to be done, dammit! Break out the lederhosen! (and Pilsner)
-SL
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers whose brains are still trying to develop good impulse control always think rationally and choose abstinence when a member of their preferred sex is hot to trot for them. This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
uhhh ..."such arousing success"? :p
Whee!
SG
...I can't possibly be the only one who has wished people "Happy VD!" on Valentine's Day :D
hehe
Two words: :)
Joule Thief
-The kids get to play with electromagnetics (wind their own transformer) and see how very simple swichmode converters work. All for a very small outlay of parts, esp in quantity from someplace like digikey. Plus it's a way to drain some more joules out of batteries that are prob too dead to do anything else with
Whee!
What else would you call it?
...or perhaps the new Disney(TM) tourism adventure will be to watch with satisfaction as indentured "employees" produce the bits of the House of The (DRM-Orwellian) Future for a dollar a day, just so the Disney Family(TM) can afford to have their food-identifying counter-top ;)
Whee.
whee.
I sense an oncoming joke about Administratium, what with all the talk of A-holes, peons, and things taking thousands of years to accomplish a task ;)
Whee!
Ummm...m l :p
:)
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.ht
-sorry it had to be posted, even though I agree with the fight at hand
Now that the business of humour is out of the way; let's have a moment of silence in honour of someone who kicked a whole bunch of spammers in the huevos really hard
whee!
-m
Well... have a look at Octree http://www.octree.de/html/frames/eng/f_octree.htm for some twisted mouse gesture functionality.
Check out the tutorial section for the dirt.
whee!
-m
It's nice to hear from some other people that share my perspective on the state of current EDA offerings. I have used OrCAD and Protel (windoze) professionally, and have found OrCAD's bugs to be less annoying than those of Protel's recent offerings. I'm continually annoyed to find that bugs I reported to Protel *years* ago are still present in their software. I'm currently using Protel and curse it daily.
:)
I've used various OrCAD versions since SDT, and while using 8&9 I was hassling them to toss the source for SDT (the core of which they told me they'd abandoned) into someplace like sourceforge. I, too, liked the interface of SDT (which I used in college) and found it very efficient.
I've looked at Eagle, PCB and gEDA, and also Lasagne (http://lasagne.sourceforge.net/). Lasagne looks like a *very* promising start, but I couldn't get it to compile and work on Linux/PPC so far. I do plan to email the developer to see if he'd like some help stamping out what look like wrong-endian-specific bugs. Eagle had some promise and recently added MacOS support, although I've never used it for any large jobs...
I agree with you completely on PCB's choice of units. WTF were they thinking? All new SMT components are defined in metric, not inches. gah. Eagle at least uses some resolution in microns (can't remember what, exactly, though) that made TSOP and TQFP footprint design relatively easy.
Go check out Lasagne, and note the units indicated in the screenshots
whee!
Mike
I think Adobe should put it's money where it's mouth is, and pitch in to _pay_ for his legal expenses. It only seems appropriate, seeing as they made this whole problem happen in the first place. Just dropping the charges in the interest of the industry hasn't made Dmitry's problems go away.
There's something to be said about taking responsibility for one's actions, IMHO.