"When a magnetic field is applied to the solders, two things happen. First, the iron particles heat up, locally melting the solder. This localized heating, which works on the same principle as inductive stoves, remains completely contained, keeping the surrounding area cool."
Quote from ScuttleMonkey, the Slashdot editor: "Details are scant..."
Neither the Slashdot editor or the writer of the linked article understand the physics. Magnetic fields cause something to heat only if the field is rapidly changing. Then the magnetic field causes everything conductive to heat, including iron particles.
However, the systems are sensibly divided. There are maybe 15 in a top-of-the-line vehicle, each with its own processors, sensors, devices, and code. Raising or lowering the windows can have no effect on the fuel delivery system.
Each system is kept as simple as possible. It's not difficult to understand the needs. It's not difficult to write vehicle code that is easy to understand.
I was talking to an acquaintance at Daimler who heads a programming project for Daimler trucks. The number of processors and lines of code in a Toyota is wildly exaggerated. The actual figure is somewhat the same as in Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
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Exactly. We need to have a way to protest, not just avoid.
I just checked. My AutoHotkey script is 1,639 lines, 52,140 bytes. That doesn't include the special scripts.
The source code is available, as is a GUI creator.
The AutoHotkey programming language is quirky.
AutoIt has a more standard language. AutoIt is better for complex automated installation scripts, for example. AutoHotkey is better for hotkeys. Both offer compilation of their scripts to.EXE files.
MOD PARENT UP for this: "This algorithm doesn't create absent data nor does it infer it, it just makes the uncertainties it has "nicer" than the usual smoothing."
Fraud alert: The title, "Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples" should have been "A better smoothing algorithm".
There is a lot more to the stories of the head of GoDaddy supporting violence and being involved with models. I just didn't have the time to add to what I already wrote.
Another comment from someone who didn't bother to read the article or
understand the issue.
Here's a quote from the Microsoft press release: "Upon completion of the migration, Go Daddy®
will have moved all its parked domains from Linux to the Windows
platform."
A "parked domain" is one with no real content, but just one small
static web page that says something like "coming soon". The implication is
that Microsoft Windows servers are fully capable of serving parked domains.
At the time, March 21, 2006, the story was that the Microsoft
marketing department got GoDaddy to make the change by offering a lucrative
deal. Why would Microsoft do that? This April 7, 2006 story explains: Microsoft
Server gains 4.7% market share of hosted domains.
A parked domain, even though it is never visited except by accident,
is a "hosted domain". Now it was possible for Microsoft sales people to talk
about how Microsoft Windows server software was rapidly gaining market share.
That would be entirely misleading, however.
Note that the press release misspelled GoDaddy as "Go Daddy", even
though it was spelled correctly a few words earlier. That gives a picture of
the level of competence involved at Microsoft's P.R. agency, Waggener Edstrom.
You may find it interesting that Pam Edstrom's daughter Jennifer and a
former Microsoft manager wrote the book, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. (August 15, 1998, eight years earlier) The Amazon.com review says the book "...
presents a harsher and messier history, sharply questioning Microsoft's ethics
and corporate wisdom..." The book seems authoritative; the authors
certainly had inside access to the facts. It's certainly unusual that the
daughter of one of the heads of Microsoft's P.R. agency would write a book
discussing Microsoft's abusiveness in detail.
Quote from the Slashdot story, KnujOn Updates Top 10
Spam-Friendly Registrars List: "Network Solutions and GoDaddy sister
company Wild West domains - have popped up on the [spammer-friendly] list." (2009-02-06)
Quote from the story, Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules: "Over a year ago ICANN moved to clean up misbehaving registrars like GoDaddy..." (2009-07-22)
Another quote from that Slashdot story: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so."
GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of extremely negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need and presenting them as valuable.
Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!
There was a piece about that on yesterday's 60 Minutes show: A Peek Inside the Bloom Box. The story is reported by Lesley Stahl, who was her usual self: "Wow! Gee Whiz! I want you to be impressed by technology, but I personally am not really interested in it."
Yes, "FETs have a doped source and drain." But my understanding is that there is the doping gradient is far less than that in transistors, and obviously it is done for a different purpose. The doping merely provides the conductivity in the FET body between the source and drain. In an FET, the gradient provides greater efficiency by reducing the resistance around the source and drain contacts.
In a junction transistor, the gradient is abrupt and necessary to the operation of the transistor.
See the Nature abstract: Nanowire transistors without junctions. Quote: "These devices have full CMOS functionality." I don't understand why they are talking about "doping gradients" when they are making FETs.
Wow! Nature.com charges $32 to see the full article!!
Wow! Nokia N900, $569.00. That must be very profitable. It's possible to buy a laptop with a 16" screen, a 500 GB hard drive, and 4 GB of memory for that much.
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"When a magnetic field is applied to the solders, two things happen. First, the iron particles heat up, locally melting the solder. This localized heating, which works on the same principle as inductive stoves, remains completely contained, keeping the surrounding area cool."
Quote from ScuttleMonkey, the Slashdot editor: "Details are scant..."
Neither the Slashdot editor or the writer of the linked article understand the physics. Magnetic fields cause something to heat only if the field is rapidly changing. Then the magnetic field causes everything conductive to heat, including iron particles.
I think both opposite opinions are true.
Vehicle computer systems are complex, yes.
However, the systems are sensibly divided. There are maybe 15 in a top-of-the-line vehicle, each with its own processors, sensors, devices, and code. Raising or lowering the windows can have no effect on the fuel delivery system.
Each system is kept as simple as possible. It's not difficult to understand the needs. It's not difficult to write vehicle code that is easy to understand.
Another thought: I'm guessing that this one Slashdot story will cost Toyota at least $10,000,000.
Multiply that by the hundreds of stories in other publications.
MOD PARENT UP. Thanks for saying that.
I was talking to an acquaintance at Daimler who heads a programming project for Daimler trucks. The number of processors and lines of code in a Toyota is wildly exaggerated. The actual figure is somewhat the same as in Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
Exactly. We need to have a way to protest, not just avoid.
AutoHotkey has its own free editor with syntax highlighting.
.EXE files.
I just checked. My AutoHotkey script is 1,639 lines, 52,140 bytes. That doesn't include the special scripts.
The source code is available, as is a GUI creator.
The AutoHotkey programming language is quirky.
AutoIt has a more standard language. AutoIt is better for complex automated installation scripts, for example. AutoHotkey is better for hotkeys. Both offer compilation of their scripts to
He's right. AutoHotkey is excellent. Change any key to anything else, or to a sequence of keystrokes.
"It's not fraud, it's just some editor being as sensationalist..."
Definition of fraud: A deliberate deception used to get an unfair result.
The editor wanted to get more attention for the article than the article deserved.
"This should have been obvious the second you saw the word "Wired" anyway."
If Wired is routinely fraudulent, that does not diminish the fact that tricking people to get attention is fraud.
The article is of interest only to mathematicians and those interested in smoothing data.
See this comment below. Quote: "The idea that we could use this algorithm for medical diagnosis is just nonsense."
MOD PARENT UP for this: "This algorithm doesn't create absent data nor does it infer it, it just makes the uncertainties it has "nicer" than the usual smoothing."
Fraud alert: The title, "Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples" should have been "A better smoothing algorithm".
See this story: Why I Don't Owe GoDaddy $6,579.51 (or $969).
"... radical feminist rant."
There is a lot more to the stories of the head of GoDaddy supporting violence and being involved with models. I just didn't have the time to add to what I already wrote.
For example: GoDaddy Super Bowl Ad Pulled After One Run. Quote: "The decision was prompted by NFL officials complaining to Fox..."
The image of the NFL being radical feminist makes me laugh.
"Another dumb freetard."
Another comment from someone who didn't bother to read the article or understand the issue.
Here's a quote from the Microsoft press release: "Upon completion of the migration, Go Daddy® will have moved all its parked domains from Linux to the Windows platform."
A "parked domain" is one with no real content, but just one small static web page that says something like "coming soon". The implication is that Microsoft Windows servers are fully capable of serving parked domains.
At the time, March 21, 2006, the story was that the Microsoft marketing department got GoDaddy to make the change by offering a lucrative deal. Why would Microsoft do that? This April 7, 2006 story explains: Microsoft Server gains 4.7% market share of hosted domains.
A parked domain, even though it is never visited except by accident, is a "hosted domain". Now it was possible for Microsoft sales people to talk about how Microsoft Windows server software was rapidly gaining market share. That would be entirely misleading, however.
Note that the press release misspelled GoDaddy as "Go Daddy", even though it was spelled correctly a few words earlier. That gives a picture of the level of competence involved at Microsoft's P.R. agency, Waggener Edstrom.
You may find it interesting that Pam Edstrom's daughter Jennifer and a former Microsoft manager wrote the book, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. (August 15, 1998, eight years earlier) The Amazon.com review says the book "... presents a harsher and messier history, sharply questioning Microsoft's ethics and corporate wisdom..." The book seems authoritative; the authors certainly had inside access to the facts. It's certainly unusual that the daughter of one of the heads of Microsoft's P.R. agency would write a book discussing Microsoft's abusiveness in detail.
Quote from the Slashdot story, KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List: "Network Solutions and GoDaddy sister company Wild West domains - have popped up on the [spammer-friendly] list." (2009-02-06)
Quote from the story, Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules: "Over a year ago ICANN moved to clean up misbehaving registrars like GoDaddy..." (2009-07-22)
Another quote from that Slashdot story: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so."
That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.
Judge for yourself. Here are some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)
Those are just the stories until July of 2008.
GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of extremely negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need and presenting them as valuable.
Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!
He uses women's bodies to advertise: Bob Parson's Video Blog.
There was a piece about that on yesterday's 60 Minutes show: A Peek Inside the Bloom Box. The story is reported by Lesley Stahl, who was her usual self: "Wow! Gee Whiz! I want you to be impressed by technology, but I personally am not really interested in it."
Yes, "FETs have a doped source and drain." But my understanding is that there is the doping gradient is far less than that in transistors, and obviously it is done for a different purpose. The doping merely provides the conductivity in the FET body between the source and drain. In an FET, the gradient provides greater efficiency by reducing the resistance around the source and drain contacts.
In a junction transistor, the gradient is abrupt and necessary to the operation of the transistor.
See the Nature abstract: Nanowire transistors without junctions. Quote: "These devices have full CMOS functionality." I don't understand why they are talking about "doping gradients" when they are making FETs.
Wow! Nature.com charges $32 to see the full article!!
The writer for EE Times seems to have been confused. The story describes a field-effect transistor. They never had junctions.
What is described is a novel method of making a field-effect transistor.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy?
Does anyone have experience with A2 Hosting? They seem more technically capable that most hosts, who want the customers who get 5 hits per week.
A2Hosting offers PostgreSQL 8.4.x, Shell Access (SSH), SQLite 3.x, Cron Jobs, and Version Control: CVS, Subversion, Git (over SSH), and Mercurial.
I'm not completely happy with Powweb.com, and am looking for another provider.
Why would ancient people make "tools" of those shapes when they could find stones of those shapes in a rock pile?
Those look like rocks to me, not "stone tools".
"to improve cost efficiency"
should be
"to lower the cost"
Wow! Nokia N900, $569.00. That must be very profitable. It's possible to buy a laptop with a 16" screen, a 500 GB hard drive, and 4 GB of memory for that much.