Who is stupid enough to buy a knitted superhero outfit for $5500 even if they were well done they wouldn't be work $5500, and none of there were anywhere near well done. My grandmother could do twice the job in a few hours!
Don't spend large amounts of money, get the cheapest one you can find with reasonable features and quality and just allow for the fact that it needs to get replaced every so often. I'd much rather have to buy 10 $200 recorders instead of one $2000 which might get stolen misplaced or break in a fall. Get an expensive pair of sunglasses and you'll lose them in a week, get a cheap pair and you can't throw them away!!!
There was another "flying lawn mower" that was demonstrated during half-time of the NY Jets vs New England Patriots game in 1979. See the descriptionn as item 3 of "The 12 Worst Moments In NY Jets History" http://www.jetsinsider.com/features/full_story.asp ?storyid=43 At least one person died and a few were injured when the airplane lst control over the stands.
I looked into stack machine optimization some time ago, and all the material seemed to fall into the category called "stack folding" which basicly amounts to combining loads with ALU ops rather than pushing onto the stack and then performing the op, just do the op as the data won't be used again on the stack. VM optimization as opposed to HW stack machine optimization is a slightly diferent ballgame as you don't have the direct bottleneck issues of the hardware. The benifits of stack machines are that they have one bottleneck and that can be optimized, but this also means that that bottleneck is always there you are really limited in pipelining as to keep the stack valid you need to wait for each operation to complete in sequence. The reason to VM a stack arch is the simplicity, but the stack becomes the bottleneck so it isn't the best solution for speed. I think that Stacks make a lot of sense for HW but I'm unsure if there is a benifit in VM SW, seems to me that a VM RISC arch would remove all the stack maintainence issues and all else being equal being that you are running your VM on a machine that probably has multiple registers that the code using the underlying arch would be faster. The VM wants to be the greatest common denominator of all target arch's which isn't going to be simple but without direct stack support on the uP you will have a fair amount of overhead.
The site list the development version as discounted to $249 it makes mention of requiring JavaLobby membership. Everyone who is interested appears to be able to get the development version for the standard price./. should be checking the stories to see if they are true before posting.
This isn't true the only lock currently approved for DoD Spin locks is self powered it uses a LCD that indicated the current number being pointed to rather than a marked dial. You have to spin the lock a few time to generate enough power for it to work and then you dial in the combination. Batteries are a big no no in any sort of lock. If people are behind the door a mechanical override is given, the deadbolt or other locking mechanism is mechanical and as long as all mechanical items are internal it is allowed. The old drill throigh the locking bars is always a possibility but as with encyption its no really unbreakable just unbreakable in a reasonable period of time.
1. Open window (one on wall, not computer) 2. Pick up pussy (small furry animal, not woman) 3. Walk to window (one on wall, not computer) 4. Throw pussy out window (small furry animal, not woman) (one on wall, not computer) 5. Close window (one on wall, not computer) 6. Problem solved = Priceless!!!
Whats yours? Its a fair bit of effort to go through the entire installation process and some people like bare bones while other like everything to be automatic so the amount of people doesn't make it the best for anyone else. Ford sells more trucks than Chevy, that doesn't make Ford better, its more of a marketing issue than a quality indication.
Did I miss something? I didn't know that monkeys were having a problem producing sperm. I'm not sure what the mice are going to do with but it just makes one shudder. (Slow news day at/. huh?)
Well yes, look at cellphones cables drive people crazy getting caught, being in the way etc... Wireless has attempted to fix this with bluetooth but that just means another battery to run down, why replace a $1 headset with a $70 radio, economics and hassle just don't justify it. If the device could be smaller and closer to the users I/o ports (ears eyes etc...) then short cables would be fine. Pockets and belt clips aren't universal so that doesn't help much. Keeping the device within close proximity makes this so much easier and less prone to damage. So yes a collar mount would ba HUGE benifit.
"They care about profits, not people. They care about profits, not privacy. Wal*Mart is evil, and you should avoid their stores like the plague. Use local grocery stores and department stores whenever possible."
This is BS, while I may not think that Walmart is that great they certainly are not evil. The market has spooken a cheap stuff at cheap prices is what they want. Walmart needs to cut all the corners they can to "slash" prices. All these alarmist think "Oh, No, Walmart is going to track me a violate my privacy" I don't see how having a RFID tag on a box of razors is going to violate your privacy. The tag doesn't have your name, your address, it just has the product ID and maybe a serial number, which could be unique to you but the thing that eceryone seems to miss is that these tags are only good for a few inches at best, they can be scanned from more than approx 9 inches. There are sometags that read from longer distances but they need power and must contain a battery making them too expensive for common products. Anyway even if you walk out the door with your bag'o bootie and they try and scan your items they will all respond at the same time (short interval going past the reader) so its the old ethernet collision problem, they can't wait too send as they need to be close to the reader that is powering them passively and they need to use a low frequency to reduce power and this necessiates a low data rate. So they can't track you, they are just trying to track products in thier store to keep cost down. They can disable the tags at the register like the security devices commonly used on high value or likely to be stolen items which ought to make you happy. Calling them evil just shows how little you know. Maybe you should be more concerned with all the cookies your browser is collecting at porn sites. "Face it you have no privacy, get over it" - Scott MacNealy.
As I understand it, for a thermal coumpound you want a good thermal conductor but a electrical isolator. As the thermal paste is well a paste, it will move some dry hard as a rock but if the heat sink will be place and remove and replaced a paste is desirable, if it wipes off it may cause a short somewhere on the motherboard. So the question is do you really want silver? or what form is the silver contained in the paste? A silver soldered heatsink attached to the CPU at the factory would be the best solution.
This is another "my favorite color is blue" article. There are reasons to rewrite as opposed to patch old code. It is never black and white. Some features work well while others need work. Porting solid code that is mission critical is a good idea, but if you are adding support for a new file system (or something similar) then a rewrite that is more optimized to the new requirements is the better alturnative. Sure there are tweaks and bug fixes in existing code but there are also hacks and work arounds, if the new code is based on the old and diverges in code that wasn't effiecent then thats good and improves the quality and stability of the system. If its getting rewitten "just because I felt like it" then its a bad idea and should be avoided. So it entirely matters how stable and maintainable the old code is and what level of modification is required for new features. The old code may be stable but horribly ineffiencent and great performance gains maybe realized after the rewrite. They just isn't any simple answer to this issue it just depends!
Uh??? Rubber is an insolator which means that static can't disopate, anti static bags have conductive stripes or surfaces to help conduct static away from sensitive parts, if you buy a real anti static mat you will find that it has a conector to gound the pad an remove any static. Using an insolator is a common mistake that should be avoided. Anti static mats are one option and the fact that they are soft allows one to press on boards for cutting and stops small parts from sliding or blowing away. Professional setups usually have some sort of masonite top and then an antistaic mat with grounding points for both.
Other that that, lots of electrical outlets is a must bolting down a few outlet strips works well escpecially if you can find the industrial sort where plugs are a few inches part, nothing sucks worse than having six outlets but only being able to use 3 because the plus and transformers are too wide and block outlets on either side.
Most people seem to prefer the raised workbench, but that requires a raised chair..... I prefer a normal height table with as much depth a away from the wall, a few items like osilicopes, bench supplies and a PC take up a lot of space and while you don't touch them that often you still want them within reach, ossilicopes are ussually pretty long.
Some sort of tool holder is important, for screwdrivers, dental picks, pens, and all the little tools that you need to keep handy.
Lots of space is needed so you can leave out data sheets, manuals etc.. I have had good luck with two tables in a corner and a pivoting chair so that you can have as much stuff within arms reach as possible.
"Well, if you just read the article (joking, but it's really in there) it says that he got a piece of aluminum grate (pre drilled), layed it on top of the piece he cut, and drilled the holes all manually -- I imagine with a rotary drill. "
IBM beat Nintendo to this one! The "Quest for Fame" game for the PC had on screen cartoonish graphics that showed a high schooler's bderoom, in which you practiced with your V-Pick (virtual guitar pic). The V-pick was a triangular piece of plastic that contained two contacts, when you made a strumming motion the contacts touched and this was read by the PC's parallel port. They played classic rock songs from Aerosmith and others but featuring Aerosmith. You got scored as to how close your timing was compared to the song. After getting a passing score you graduated from bedroom to garage band to road house to club and finally to stadium where you "rocked" with Aerosmith. A lot of fun but I never got past the garage band level.
Whats wrong with a mouse? Touch scrrens are often more trouble than they are worth and often confuse users who are expected to switch between keyboard and mouse. Your post doesn't describe the application so its hard to say what you're priorities are. Touch screens are often expensive, screens get dirty and touch screens loose calibration and stop working. A keyboard with some sort of pointing device or a menu with numbers/letters is often easier for users anyway. Or you could go the ATM route and have keys along the side of the screen with text arranged to relate the on-screen prompts. Details of your app would make it a lot easier to help you.
It sounds more like the problem is not 2D but basic signal quality. 2D refers to drawing boxes on screen without the coordinate transforms and shading involved in 3D. Clarity of text is more an issue with signal quailty between the video card and the display with the possible exception of some anti aliasing that helps smooth 3D graphics but blurs text. Quality of the analog drivers, using the correct signal levels, sheilded cables so that parts of the green signal don't become part of the red (or which ever combination) and termination on the signal many times severe ghosting can be seen with copies of images or text a few inches to the right of the image. There is no reason other than anti alias filtering that text will look any more blurry from a 3D card as compared to 2D. As clock rates get faster the quaility of the signal becomes a bigger issue and the standard connectors and cables should be improved but have basicly remained the same since the 80's. Is your monitor really capable of the refresh rates? Newer cards have improved update rates but those higher speeds are near the limits of older monitors.
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Who is stupid enough to buy a knitted superhero outfit for $5500 even if they were well done they wouldn't be work $5500, and none of there were anywhere near well done. My grandmother could do twice the job in a few hours!
Don't spend large amounts of money, get the cheapest one you can find with reasonable features and quality and just allow for the fact that it needs to get replaced every so often. I'd much rather have to buy 10 $200 recorders instead of one $2000 which might get stolen misplaced or break in a fall. Get an expensive pair of sunglasses and you'll lose them in a week, get a cheap pair and you can't throw them away!!!
I got one word for you. ebay.
There was another "flying lawn mower" that was demonstrated during half-time of the NY Jets vs New England Patriots game in 1979. See the descriptionn as item 3 of "The 12 Worst Moments In NY Jets History" http://www.jetsinsider.com/features/full_story.asp ?storyid=43
At least one person died and a few were injured when the airplane lst control over the stands.
Old news,"Fantastic Voyage" had this years ago!!!
I looked into stack machine optimization some time ago, and all the material seemed to fall into the category called "stack folding" which basicly amounts to combining loads with ALU ops rather than pushing onto the stack and then performing the op, just do the op as the data won't be used again on the stack. VM optimization as opposed to HW stack machine optimization is a slightly diferent ballgame as you don't have the direct bottleneck issues of the hardware. The benifits of stack machines are that they have one bottleneck and that can be optimized, but this also means that that bottleneck is always there you are really limited in pipelining as to keep the stack valid you need to wait for each operation to complete in sequence. The reason to VM a stack arch is the simplicity, but the stack becomes the bottleneck so it isn't the best solution for speed. I think that Stacks make a lot of sense for HW but I'm unsure if there is a benifit in VM SW, seems to me that a VM RISC arch would remove all the stack maintainence issues and all else being equal being that you are running your VM on a machine that probably has multiple registers that the code using the underlying arch would be faster. The VM wants to be the greatest common denominator of all target arch's which isn't going to be simple but without direct stack support on the uP you will have a fair amount of overhead.
1500 lbs of water can be reclaimed this is just more eco BS. The manufactures could probably do better but this is alarmist.
The site list the development version as discounted to $249 it makes mention of requiring JavaLobby membership. Everyone who is interested appears to be able to get the development version for the standard price. /. should be checking the stories to see if they are true before posting.
This isn't true the only lock currently approved for DoD Spin locks is self powered it uses a LCD that indicated the current number being pointed to rather than a marked dial. You have to spin the lock a few time to generate enough power for it to work and then you dial in the combination. Batteries are a big no no in any sort of lock. If people are behind the door a mechanical override is given, the deadbolt or other locking mechanism is mechanical and as long as all mechanical items are internal it is allowed. The old drill throigh the locking bars is always a possibility but as with encyption its no really unbreakable just unbreakable in a reasonable period of time.
1. Open window (one on wall, not computer)
2. Pick up pussy (small furry animal, not woman)
3. Walk to window (one on wall, not computer)
4. Throw pussy out window (small furry animal, not woman) (one on wall, not computer)
5. Close window (one on wall, not computer)
6. Problem solved = Priceless!!!
Whats yours? Its a fair bit of effort to go through the entire installation process and some people like bare bones while other like everything to be automatic so the amount of people doesn't make it the best for anyone else. Ford sells more trucks than Chevy, that doesn't make Ford better, its more of a marketing issue than a quality indication.
Did I miss something? I didn't know that monkeys were having a problem producing sperm. I'm not sure what the mice are going to do with but it just makes one shudder. (Slow news day at /. huh?)
Well yes, look at cellphones cables drive people crazy getting caught, being in the way etc... Wireless has attempted to fix this with bluetooth but that just means another battery to run down, why replace a $1 headset with a $70 radio, economics and hassle just don't justify it. If the device could be smaller and closer to the users I/o ports (ears eyes etc...) then short cables would be fine. Pockets and belt clips aren't universal so that doesn't help much. Keeping the device within close proximity makes this so much easier and less prone to damage. So yes a collar mount would ba HUGE benifit.
"They care about profits, not people.
They care about profits, not privacy.
Wal*Mart is evil, and you should avoid their stores like the plague. Use local grocery stores and department stores whenever possible."
This is BS, while I may not think that Walmart is that great they certainly are not evil. The market has spooken a cheap stuff at cheap prices is what they want. Walmart needs to cut all the corners they can to "slash" prices. All these alarmist think "Oh, No, Walmart is going to track me a violate my privacy" I don't see how having a RFID tag on a box of razors is going to violate your privacy. The tag doesn't have your name, your address, it just has the product ID and maybe a serial number, which could be unique to you but the thing that eceryone seems to miss is that these tags are only good for a few inches at best, they can be scanned from more than approx 9 inches. There are sometags that read from longer distances but they need power and must contain a battery making them too expensive for common products. Anyway even if you walk out the door with your bag'o bootie and they try and scan your items they will all respond at the same time (short interval going past the reader) so its the old ethernet collision problem, they can't wait too send as they need to be close to the reader that is powering them passively and they need to use a low frequency to reduce power and this necessiates a low data rate. So they can't track you, they are just trying to track products in thier store to keep cost down. They can disable the tags at the register like the security devices commonly used on high value or likely to be stolen items which ought to make you happy. Calling them evil just shows how little you know. Maybe you should be more concerned with all the cookies your browser is collecting at porn sites. "Face it you have no privacy, get over it" - Scott MacNealy.
As I understand it, for a thermal coumpound you want a good thermal conductor but a electrical isolator. As the thermal paste is well a paste, it will move some dry hard as a rock but if the heat sink will be place and remove and replaced a paste is desirable, if it wipes off it may cause a short somewhere on the motherboard. So the question is do you really want silver? or what form is the silver contained in the paste? A silver soldered heatsink attached to the CPU at the factory would be the best solution.
It may not take 100 hrs but if you are installing M$ WinXP it may well feel like 100 hrs
This is another "my favorite color is blue" article. There are reasons to rewrite as opposed to patch old code. It is never black and white. Some features work well while others need work. Porting solid code that is mission critical is a good idea, but if you are adding support for a new file system (or something similar) then a rewrite that is more optimized to the new requirements is the better alturnative. Sure there are tweaks and bug fixes in existing code but there are also hacks and work arounds, if the new code is based on the old and diverges in code that wasn't effiecent then thats good and improves the quality and stability of the system. If its getting rewitten "just because I felt like it" then its a bad idea and should be avoided. So it entirely matters how stable and maintainable the old code is and what level of modification is required for new features. The old code may be stable but horribly ineffiencent and great performance gains maybe realized after the rewrite. They just isn't any simple answer to this issue it just depends!
This must be the slowest day ever at /. . Come on since when is "my monitor is older than yours a news story!!!!.
Uh???
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Rubber is an insolator which means that static can't disopate, anti static bags have conductive stripes or surfaces to help conduct static away from sensitive parts, if you buy a real anti static mat you will find that it has a conector to gound the pad an remove any static. Using an insolator is a common mistake that should be avoided. Anti static mats are one option and the fact that they are soft allows one to press on boards for cutting and stops small parts from sliding or blowing away. Professional setups usually have some sort of masonite top and then an antistaic mat with grounding points for both.
Other that that, lots of electrical outlets is a must bolting down a few outlet strips works well escpecially if you can find the industrial sort where plugs are a few inches part, nothing sucks worse than having six outlets but only being able to use 3 because the plus and transformers are too wide and block outlets on either side.
Most people seem to prefer the raised workbench, but that requires a raised chair
I prefer a normal height table with as much depth a away from the wall, a few items like osilicopes, bench supplies and a PC take up a lot of space and while you don't touch them that often you still want them within reach, ossilicopes are ussually pretty long.
Some sort of tool holder is important, for screwdrivers, dental picks, pens, and all the little tools that you need to keep handy.
Lots of space is needed so you can leave out data sheets, manuals etc.. I have had good luck with two tables in a corner and a pivoting chair so that you can have as much stuff within arms reach as possible.
"Well, if you just read the article (joking, but it's really in there) it says that he got a piece of aluminum grate (pre drilled), layed it on top of the piece he cut, and drilled the holes all manually -- I imagine with a rotary drill. "
??? is there a non rotary drill ????
IBM beat Nintendo to this one! The "Quest for Fame" game for the PC had on screen cartoonish graphics that showed a high schooler's bderoom, in which you practiced with your V-Pick (virtual guitar pic). The V-pick was a triangular piece of plastic that contained two contacts, when you made a strumming motion the contacts touched and this was read by the PC's parallel port. They played classic rock songs from Aerosmith and others but featuring Aerosmith. You got scored as to how close your timing was compared to the song. After getting a passing score you graduated from bedroom to garage band to road house to club and finally to stadium where you "rocked" with Aerosmith. A lot of fun but I never got past the garage band level.
http://www.rockthisway.de/game_questforfame.htm
Whats wrong with a mouse? Touch scrrens are often more trouble than they are worth and often confuse users who are expected to switch between keyboard and mouse. Your post doesn't describe the application so its hard to say what you're priorities are. Touch screens are often expensive, screens get dirty and touch screens loose calibration and stop working. A keyboard with some sort of pointing device or a menu with numbers/letters is often easier for users anyway. Or you could go the ATM route and have keys along the side of the screen with text arranged to relate the on-screen prompts. Details of your app would make it a lot easier to help you.
It sounds more like the problem is not 2D but basic signal quality. 2D refers to drawing boxes on screen without the coordinate transforms and shading involved in 3D. Clarity of text is more an issue with signal quailty between the video card and the display with the possible exception of some anti aliasing that helps smooth 3D graphics but blurs text. Quality of the analog drivers, using the correct signal levels, sheilded cables so that parts of the green signal don't become part of the red (or which ever combination) and termination on the signal many times severe ghosting can be seen with copies of images or text a few inches to the right of the image. There is no reason other than anti alias filtering that text will look any more blurry from a 3D card as compared to 2D. As clock rates get faster the quaility of the signal becomes a bigger issue and the standard connectors and cables should be improved but have basicly remained the same since the 80's. Is your monitor really capable of the refresh rates? Newer cards have improved update rates but those higher speeds are near the limits of older monitors.
Doom - nothing quite like fragging the boss with a rail gun. (Although that might put a damper on the ole career path ?!?)
"Hey babe, my transistor swicthes at 509GHz thats GHz not MHz"
Chicks just don't appreciate fast transistors anymore.