What about tactility? I would definitively miss the tactility of a mechanical keyboard... I've used touchscreen style keboard before (on kiosks, embedded systems, etc.) and found it difficult to adjust to...
An excellent source of information is located
at Sphere Research Corporation's Nixie Page. They have datasheets, pinouts, excellent links and, yes, you can buy all manners of Nixies from 'em!
Ken
I'm still waiting for Bacteriorhodopsin Memory to hit the market... Sci-Am did an article _years_ ago, and apparently there's been some successful 'wet-bench' runs since then...
Wonder if you have to feed the things or flush out the waste on a regular basis...
Over the years, I've come to accept the unfortunate fact that >80% of 'production' desktop software I'm going to run will crash on a regular basis.
However, I have zero tolerance when an embedded system crashes, be it a consumer box or a commercial/industrial process controller.
When was the last time the firmware in your Sony Flatscreen screwed up? VCR? Microwave? Granted, we're talking about way less lines of machine code, and a lot less data/processing flying through the pipes...
I guess my major concern is that the almost inherent buggyness that plagues computer software becomes "acceptable" in embedded systems. M$ has been the catalyst in more than one "slippery slope" over the years...
Slashdot Mirror
FTA, "The final jet pack model will also have integrated frame and fuel tank"
Wait a sec... The thing weighs 90 Lbs., and the fuel tank isn't even onboard yet?
This guy doesn't need an aeronautics engineer, he needs a reality check...
Tb.
A friend who works with NAS/SAN systems jokingly told me that a hard drive exists in only 2 states:
1) Failed
2) About to fail
Tb.
The 6800 has a keyboard built in... You flip part of the casing back and you get a split keyboard (each half on either side of the screen :)
Anybody remember ther Therac 25? It was a medical radiation machine, and killed a handful of people, due to a firmware bug...
Therac 25 Investigation
ToaterBoy
What about tactility? I would definitively miss the tactility of a mechanical keyboard... I've used touchscreen style keboard before (on kiosks, embedded systems, etc.) and found it difficult to adjust to...
I truly hope you're not overcompensating for something else ('it' being inversely proportional).
Tb.
An excellent source of information on RFID basics (quite technical, actually) is Microchip, Inc.
RFID Design Guides
NB, they're in PDF format.
Ken
An excellent source of information is located at Sphere Research Corporation's Nixie Page. They have datasheets, pinouts, excellent links and, yes, you can buy all manners of Nixies from 'em! Ken
I'm still waiting for Bacteriorhodopsin Memory to hit the market... Sci-Am did an article _years_ ago, and apparently there's been some successful 'wet-bench' runs since then...
Wonder if you have to feed the things or flush out the waste on a regular basis...
Ken
Over the years, I've come to accept the unfortunate fact that >80% of 'production' desktop software I'm going to run will crash on a regular basis.
However, I have zero tolerance when an embedded system crashes, be it a consumer box or a commercial/industrial process controller.
When was the last time the firmware in your Sony Flatscreen screwed up? VCR? Microwave? Granted, we're talking about way less lines of machine code, and a lot less data/processing flying through the pipes...
I guess my major concern is that the almost inherent buggyness that plagues computer software becomes "acceptable" in embedded systems. M$ has been the catalyst in more than one "slippery slope" over the years...
Ken.