That's true, but among the demograpghic that would be interested in building an electroic timer for arial photography, there will be a lot more people who do have pic programmers and a lot more who do have an interest in buying/building one. All they need is a good project to get them into PICs.
There is the robots.txt file, you can always tell all bots to ignore those files...then again legitimate search engines do obey that file, and if it doesn't make in the search engines the ??AA might miss it.
I've never paid more than 20 cents for a 555, and I can think of at least 5 stores within 10 miles of my house that sell them for that price in single unit quantities.
Anyway, this is the 21st century. Why not do it the "right" way with a $1 PIC12F629?
How about creating a video in povray of a matrix of objects being. Call it MatrixRevolutions.avi and host it on your site. Make sure your site has clearly posted TOS that the MPAA and RIAA and all associated and employees are prohibited from accessing your site.
My guess is you'd need some non-volitile storage to keep track of the bad bits and the mappings. A little non-volitile memory will more than double the cost of the chip and the remapping will slow the memory down to much.
I don't know, but comparing the die size of the CPU to the area taken up by the chips on the memory module, it 'looks' like the memory is at least as dense as the CPU.
I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that a memory fab plant costs more to produce than a CPU plant, but the memory plant will produce far more chips over its lifetime.
Compare the transisitor count in a 256 meg DIMM to a CPU. That's 2 gigabits and a minimum of 1 transistor per bit, so at least 2 billion transistors. Intel and AMD barely have over 100 million in their newest CPUs, so the memory has 20 times the transistor count.
A lot more engineering goes into a CPU, but the price of memory compared to a CPU isn't really that surprising.
A lot of the microcontrollers I work with are basically a tiny sliver of processor on the edge of a large field of memory.
what advantage does it offer over using a regular pen and paper?
What advantages do computer filing systems have over paper systems?
You can your notes for every course you've ever taken with you in your notebook computer...If the prof starts talking about something you remember from 3 semesters ago, you'll can have your original notes from that lecture with you and you can look them up and refer to them during the class you're in.
You can "lend" your notes to a friend without worrying that you won't get them back until after the exam.
If you can't see advantages, it's only because you lack imagination (or considered school a 4-year drink-fest:) )
I really think people should be more careful about the toys they get. Do you drive your SUV off the cliff? If not, why expect a phone to survive a drop from a height that is 50 times its dimensions?
That's a very bad analogy. If I make a 1" model of my house out of toothpicks and paper, I would expect it to survive a fall of 50 times its dimentions (4 feet). Despite my real house being made of much stronger material, I wouldn't expect it to survive a fall of 50 times its dimesion (nearly half a mile).
Things don't scale linearly in size. Nothing does. Are you weaker than an ant because an ant can lift 50 times its weight and you can't even lift double yours?
Throw a dart by holding it by the tip and put a strong spin on it from a minimum of 10 feet from the dartboard. It will always hit the board tip first regardless of how much spin or how you vary the distance. Why? Once you figure that out, that's the same reason the heaviest part of the phone hits the ground first more often. It has nothing to do with which part falls faster.
It's a phone, it's meant to be thrown around. It's built to take that kind of abuse because the manufacturer understood how people use cell phones. I have no trouble with dropping my powerbook, but then quite often I leave the PB home because I know I'm going somewhere it might get banged around.
I've never dropped my PDA, but it spends a lot of time in my backback which gets thrown around. If it had a hard drive, it also wouldn't survive.
If I have to leave the cellphone home because I'm worried it might get damaged, then it's completely useless.
I've dropped my Nokia 5100 series about 5 feet from ear level to concrete several times. Except for a few scuffs (mostly on the battery, it must be the heaviest part), it's survived perfectly.
I doubt a phone with a hard drive can survive that kind of abuse.
Lifetime to most normal people means for the lifetime of the customer. To TiVo, it's the life of the hardware. If it breaks in 6 months and they replace the hardware under warranty you're still screwed. If you want to buy a newer and better receiver in a year or two, you'll be buying an new plan.
What a bunch of rip-off artists they are. TiVo makes MS look good in customer treatment. Remember this is all for channel guide data which is not worth anywhere near their insane prices, so most people wouldn't pay it (and didn't pay the $10 on 1st generation units). That's why they crippled 2nd gen and newer ones to extort their customers into paying. They even recently "accidently" broke all 1st gen units to force their customers to upgrade to newer crippled units.
I hate TiVo for their warped business model of charging extortive prices for a few kb of data a month. It's just insult to injury that they sell my viewing habits to the highest bidder after I pay them for the service that allows them to collect the data.
I have been a very happy netflix customer for a long time and I'm on one of the larger plans. If they go throught with this, I'll cancel my account, and I just emailed them to tell them that.
It has more details on the source of the rumor, and this is very old news that's been spreading around the web for a week. It was also on Macrumors and several other sites last week.
Microsoft will also support the activation of Windows XP throughout its life and will likely provide an update that turns activation off at the end of the product's lifecycle so users would no longer be required to activate the product.
So they guarantee that at the end of the product lifecycle (which is completely up to them to determine) they will stip providing the activation service. They also say they will "likely" turn off activation, that's legal-speak for never in a million years. Especially since they know if they don't turn it off, they will be forcing everyone to upgrade. Since when has MS ever let the right thing stand of the way of increased immediate profit?
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oh...you mean Dune didn't have the "in space" part.
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It must have been CS241 then. I didn't take CS251 (I took E&CE 221 towards the EEE option instead). This was also back when it was CS351, not CS251.
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Hey, I had McCool as a prof for CS 246 at UWaterloo.
That's true, but among the demograpghic that would be interested in building an electroic timer for arial photography, there will be a lot more people who do have pic programmers and a lot more who do have an interest in buying/building one. All they need is a good project to get them into PICs.
Jason
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There is the robots.txt file, you can always tell all bots to ignore those files...then again legitimate search engines do obey that file, and if it doesn't make in the search engines the ??AA might miss it.
I've never paid more than 20 cents for a 555, and I can think of at least 5 stores within 10 miles of my house that sell them for that price in single unit quantities.
Anyway, this is the 21st century. Why not do it the "right" way with a $1 PIC12F629?
Jason
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How about creating a video in povray of a matrix of objects being. Call it MatrixRevolutions.avi and host it on your site. Make sure your site has clearly posted TOS that the MPAA and RIAA and all associated and employees are prohibited from accessing your site.
My guess is you'd need some non-volitile storage to keep track of the bad bits and the mappings. A little non-volitile memory will more than double the cost of the chip and the remapping will slow the memory down to much.
I don't know, but comparing the die size of the CPU to the area taken up by the chips on the memory module, it 'looks' like the memory is at least as dense as the CPU.
I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that a memory fab plant costs more to produce than a CPU plant, but the memory plant will produce far more chips over its lifetime.
Jason
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Compare the transisitor count in a 256 meg DIMM to a CPU. That's 2 gigabits and a minimum of 1 transistor per bit, so at least 2 billion transistors. Intel and AMD barely have over 100 million in their newest CPUs, so the memory has 20 times the transistor count.
A lot more engineering goes into a CPU, but the price of memory compared to a CPU isn't really that surprising.
A lot of the microcontrollers I work with are basically a tiny sliver of processor on the edge of a large field of memory.
Jason
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what advantage does it offer over using a regular pen and paper?
:) )
What advantages do computer filing systems have over paper systems?
You can your notes for every course you've ever taken with you in your notebook computer...If the prof starts talking about something you remember from 3 semesters ago, you'll can have your original notes from that lecture with you and you can look them up and refer to them during the class you're in.
You can "lend" your notes to a friend without worrying that you won't get them back until after the exam.
If you can't see advantages, it's only because you lack imagination (or considered school a 4-year drink-fest
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The reviewer didn't say a digital pen and paper is a bad idea. All the negative comments in the article are aimed at this implementation.
The build quality is cheap, it's big and bulky, it requires MS Office, etc.
The reviewer seemed to like what the technology had to offer, this implementation was just junky.
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Look under "test dummy"
Yes, but they could only find 143 people willing to stand up in court and admit that they use windows.
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The main reason they do it is for bragging rights.
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I really think people should be more careful about the toys they get. Do you drive your SUV off the cliff? If not, why expect a phone to survive a drop from a height that is 50 times its dimensions?
That's a very bad analogy. If I make a 1" model of my house out of toothpicks and paper, I would expect it to survive a fall of 50 times its dimentions (4 feet). Despite my real house being made of much stronger material, I wouldn't expect it to survive a fall of 50 times its dimesion (nearly half a mile).
Things don't scale linearly in size. Nothing does. Are you weaker than an ant because an ant can lift 50 times its weight and you can't even lift double yours?
Throw a dart by holding it by the tip and put a strong spin on it from a minimum of 10 feet from the dartboard. It will always hit the board tip first regardless of how much spin or how you vary the distance. Why? Once you figure that out, that's the same reason the heaviest part of the phone hits the ground first more often. It has nothing to do with which part falls faster.
It's a phone, it's meant to be thrown around. It's built to take that kind of abuse because the manufacturer understood how people use cell phones. I have no trouble with dropping my powerbook, but then quite often I leave the PB home because I know I'm going somewhere it might get banged around.
I've never dropped my PDA, but it spends a lot of time in my backback which gets thrown around. If it had a hard drive, it also wouldn't survive.
If I have to leave the cellphone home because I'm worried it might get damaged, then it's completely useless.
Jason
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Can it survive being dropped?
I've dropped my Nokia 5100 series about 5 feet from ear level to concrete several times. Except for a few scuffs (mostly on the battery, it must be the heaviest part), it's survived perfectly.
I doubt a phone with a hard drive can survive that kind of abuse.
Jason
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Lifetime to most normal people means for the lifetime of the customer. To TiVo, it's the life of the hardware. If it breaks in 6 months and they replace the hardware under warranty you're still screwed. If you want to buy a newer and better receiver in a year or two, you'll be buying an new plan.
What a bunch of rip-off artists they are. TiVo makes MS look good in customer treatment. Remember this is all for channel guide data which is not worth anywhere near their insane prices, so most people wouldn't pay it (and didn't pay the $10 on 1st generation units). That's why they crippled 2nd gen and newer ones to extort their customers into paying. They even recently "accidently" broke all 1st gen units to force their customers to upgrade to newer crippled units.
I hate TiVo for their warped business model of charging extortive prices for a few kb of data a month. It's just insult to injury that they sell my viewing habits to the highest bidder after I pay them for the service that allows them to collect the data.
I have been a very happy netflix customer for a long time and I'm on one of the larger plans. If they go throught with this, I'll cancel my account, and I just emailed them to tell them that.
Then nobody except MS has root access on your machine :)
By reading this message you agree to grant me root access to your computer.
Sure..the IP address is 127.0.0.1 and, coincidently, the root password is the same as yours. Have fun.
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I read about this last Tuesday on Apple Insider
It has more details on the source of the rumor, and this is very old news that's been spreading around the web for a week. It was also on Macrumors and several other sites last week.
Jason
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Microsoft will also support the activation of Windows XP throughout its life and will likely provide an update that turns activation off at the end of the product's lifecycle so users would no longer be required to activate the product.
So they guarantee that at the end of the product lifecycle (which is completely up to them to determine) they will stip providing the activation service. They also say they will "likely" turn off activation, that's legal-speak for never in a million years. Especially since they know if they don't turn it off, they will be forcing everyone to upgrade. Since when has MS ever let the right thing stand of the way of increased immediate profit?