The one from Pu Dong airport in Shanghai has no vibration problems. In fact its super smooth at 430km/h. However, they have used an enormously thick concrete structure to be stiff enough to achieve that.
Not only was mini-disc very successful, mini-disc players and discs were made by just about any japanese consumer electronics maker you ever heard of. Sony definitely got everyone on board with this one. They were great little devices, until flash storage made them irrelevant.
The stripped an early 747-400 bare, loaded as much fuel as possible, and just about got it from London to Australia. I think an around the globe trip is definitely out of the question.
Damn right. $3 is the top end of the 8 bit price range, and for that you get a real system on chip, with complex peripherals taking a large part of the silicon area - LCD controller, high performance ADC, powerful timers, multiple serial ports, etc.
Atmel isn't the first to do this. Several others already have similar devices. An ARM core, 64K/128K flash, some RAM, but very limited peripherals. They are all in the $3-$4 range for similar features. When you load it with peripherals the price can rise quite a bit.
Consider power consumption. ARMs are famous for their power efficiency, but many 8 (and 16) bit devices beat them by a large margin for simple applications. A lot of 8 and 16 bitters go into battery powered applications. Power consumption really matters there.
The 4 bit market isn't so big there days. 8 bit devices go down to 25 cents these days, PICs included.
If you haven't seen a rusted CD, you either live in a very dry climate, or you haven't used them very long. A few years living near the coast, and you can say goodbye to them.
If you like, I can send you lots of examples for the original purchase price, plus postage:-)
Gee this population density argument is used so often by Americans I'm starting to think you have brainwashed yourselves into believing it.
Most broadband is delivered over telephone copper pairs and TV cable. Which country has more of its homes connected to both of these than any other?
Only a modest proportion of the population of the US is on such an enormous local loop that some form of ADSL will not work. I can't think of a country (except perhaps Holland) which has more people plumbed up with cable. Its true that a lot of the cable in the US is pretty old and nasty, and the amps might need replacing to allow a bidirectional flow. Still, the US does have more of the basic plumbing than almost anywhere else.
Water hyacinths have been used in sewage works in a number of places for many years to clean up the water. You can use the plants for fuel, and extract the pollutants from the ash.
Where do you get this wacky stuff? The press in HK is free. Like anywhere else, it tends to say what the rich folk who own it want, but that's as muzzled as it gets.
It really is size. Look at the iPAQs. The 5xxx models, which take a CF card, are a lot bigger than models like the 4150 which only takes SD. Try comparing those two and see if you could work out a way to make the 4150 have a CF slot without ending up as chunk as the 5xxx.
Come on. You know his information source. A 1001 really bad movies. I've met this kind of attitude about HK before, and it always seems to come from the movies. I've never figured out, after many years in HK, why the HK movies are so totally out of line with the reality of the place.
As others have said, the police here are first rate by world standards. Many worried that after China resumed rule of HK things would fall apart. It hasn't happened. This is still one of the safest places in the world, with a commendably low level of corruption. I have far more faith in the police here, than in my homeland, England.
Last week we were driving along the motorway beside the maglev track in PuDong. Someone said there was a train coming. We all turned to look, and had just a quick glimpse before it was gone. That thing really moves:-)
I don't know how many passengers it holds, but from the brief glimpse I got, it didn't look very big.
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The one from Pu Dong airport in Shanghai has no vibration problems. In fact its super smooth at 430km/h. However, they have used an enormously thick concrete structure to be stiff enough to achieve that.
Can you point out an ASIC in that design? I can't see one myself.
Incompetant? They won. :-)
Not only was mini-disc very successful, mini-disc players and discs were made by just about any japanese consumer electronics maker you ever heard of. Sony definitely got everyone on board with this one. They were great little devices, until flash storage made them irrelevant.
Yes, but oldest.pro is still available :-)
The stripped an early 747-400 bare, loaded as much fuel as possible, and just about got it from London to Australia. I think an around the globe trip is definitely out of the question.
Damn right. $3 is the top end of the 8 bit price range, and for that you get a real system on chip, with complex peripherals taking a large part of the silicon area - LCD controller, high performance ADC, powerful timers, multiple serial ports, etc. Atmel isn't the first to do this. Several others already have similar devices. An ARM core, 64K/128K flash, some RAM, but very limited peripherals. They are all in the $3-$4 range for similar features. When you load it with peripherals the price can rise quite a bit. Consider power consumption. ARMs are famous for their power efficiency, but many 8 (and 16) bit devices beat them by a large margin for simple applications. A lot of 8 and 16 bitters go into battery powered applications. Power consumption really matters there. The 4 bit market isn't so big there days. 8 bit devices go down to 25 cents these days, PICs included.
If you haven't seen a rusted CD, you either live in a very dry climate, or you haven't used them very long. A few years living near the coast, and you can say goodbye to them.
:-)
If you like, I can send you lots of examples for the original purchase price, plus postage
Gee this population density argument is used so often by Americans I'm starting to think you have brainwashed yourselves into believing it.
Most broadband is delivered over telephone copper pairs and TV cable. Which country has more of its homes connected to both of these than any other?
Only a modest proportion of the population of the US is on such an enormous local loop that some form of ADSL will not work. I can't think of a country (except perhaps Holland) which has more people plumbed up with cable. Its true that a lot of the cable in the US is pretty old and nasty, and the amps might need replacing to allow a bidirectional flow. Still, the US does have more of the basic plumbing than almost anywhere else.
Water hyacinths have been used in sewage works in a number of places for many years to clean up the water. You can use the plants for fuel, and extract the pollutants from the ash.
Where do you get this wacky stuff? The press in HK is free. Like anywhere else, it tends to say what the rich folk who own it want, but that's as muzzled as it gets.
It really is size. Look at the iPAQs. The 5xxx models, which take a CF card, are a lot bigger than models like the 4150 which only takes SD. Try comparing those two and see if you could work out a way to make the 4150 have a CF slot without ending up as chunk as the 5xxx.
Come on. You know his information source. A 1001 really bad movies. I've met this kind of attitude about HK before, and it always seems to come from the movies. I've never figured out, after many years in HK, why the HK movies are so totally out of line with the reality of the place. As others have said, the police here are first rate by world standards. Many worried that after China resumed rule of HK things would fall apart. It hasn't happened. This is still one of the safest places in the world, with a commendably low level of corruption. I have far more faith in the police here, than in my homeland, England.
Last week we were driving along the motorway beside the maglev track in PuDong. Someone said there was a train coming. We all turned to look, and had just a quick glimpse before it was gone. That thing really moves :-)
I don't know how many passengers it holds, but from the brief glimpse I got, it didn't look very big.