I've seen boards where all the decoupling caps are bunched together in a corner of the board, far away from the action.
Yeah, kinda defeats the purpose. I've seen something dumber though - many years back, a friend of a friend tried to get rid of the ignition noise coming over the radio in his car by installing a filter cap across the battery terminals and then wondered why it didn't make any difference. Guy was an electronics tech in the Navy, for crying out loud.
I've never experienced that, ever, in my 35 years of computing on various platforms and various text/document editors.
It happens to me occasionally on my Win7 box at work, and sometimes requires firing up Process Explorer to find out who still has a lock on the file if the file had been closed a while back. Getting out of the editor is the only thing that releases the lock in those cases. It's happened in Word, Notepad++, and UltraEdit.
Yes, I see those every day, and often have to wait for the same train twice on my way to work. FEC has five terminals over about 650 miles, which means there's still a lot of the coast that has to be served by truck.
I think more of the problem is so much stuff gets sent by truck when rail would be cheaper and faster. Unfortunately the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near the rail infrastructure that Europe does. I live about a mile from the Florida East Coast railway tracks. The next closest set of tracks belongs to CSX, and is about 100 miles away.
And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?
"Okay, turn left at the light and pull into the staging yard's second driveway on the left. Don't worry about the "deadly force authorized" signs - the ED-209 shouldn't bother you."
In the U.S. at least, it's very unusual to see a 60-ton truck on the highway - most are limited to 40 tons, with special permitting needed for heavier loads. Australia's a whole different story, but their road trains have many more brakes to distribute the energy across.
And that means it's going to take a while as that heat dissipates - the brakes will literally melt if you try to brute-force a shorter braking distance, for example by increasing braking system pressure.
Increasing the pressure will lock the wheels up (not taking ABS into account), at which point the rotors/drums aren't absorbing any more heat and stopping distance is determined by the friction of the sliding tires. That said, truck brakes are *big*, and are quite capable of handling a 50 mph panic stop without damage to the brakes.
Plus the bootloader firmware (although I guess you could call that part of the environment) - you can't just drop a stock AVR into the socket and have it work without it unless you use an external programmer to burn the sketch into the chip beforehand.
Which is ironic, because even in the mid-90s (i.e. almost as soon as the web had become popular), people were already slapping crappy, pixelated pre-rendered GIF animations of all manner of spinning crap onto their "home pages"!
I read somewhere (Can't remember where:/) that the fastest assembly code produced to date was written by a human, not a computer; again, google returns nothing.
Michael Abrash's ancient-but-awesome book, "The Zen of Graphics Programming", contains a chapter called "Heinlein's Crystal Ball, Spock's Brain, and the 9 Cycle Dare" that 's about Abrash's adventures in coming up with the fastest CPU-driven texture mapper he could write in hand-written assembly for his X-Sharp graphics library (he eventually ended up with 16 million texture-mapped pixels per second on a 90 MHz Pentium). Might that be what you're thinking of?
Shingles sucks, that's for sure. I had it make a visit via my trigeminal nerve when I was 29. The eye doctor was freaking out for a little while, but fortunately it ran its course without any eye complications.
I believe that the survivors are generally thought to be immune to further infection as well, so it's a bit scary that the virus can still find repositories in the body where it can hang out for longer periods of time.
It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.
I usually get one or two of these spammy mails every day. My favorite was one I got several years ago, which described an interesting opportunity, but I wasn't (and still am not) willing to relocate. So, I wrote back and asked the guy if the gig could be done via telecommuting. His response was "yes, but they require that you work from the office. Will that work for you?". I wrote back asking if he knew what "telecommuting" meant, and never heard back.
Serious question (from a non-American); can companies in the states increase the amount they charge you without notifying you first?
Depends on your contract. If the contract says they can, then they can and probably will at some point. Regardless, it pays to watch your bill like a hawk - plenty of U.S. providers, cellular providers in particular, have gotten in trouble for charging customers for stuff they didn't order. I've been fortunate, I guess. My provider hasn't tried to raise my prices, but they have tried to upsell me to higher tiers of service when they often can't provide the bandwidth I'm already supposed to be getting.
The heaviest haul vehicles *do* use electric drive. The vast majority of trains today, for example, are electric drive, and increasingly large haul trucks are switching to electric drive.
The crawlers that transported the Saturns and shuttles to the launch pads are also electric drive.
Yes, I know this. My point was that there may come a time in the not-too-distant future when insurance companies push for legislation to allow them to deny coverage/claims on that basis.
But of the people I know, $20k isn't even a tenth of their yearly "fun car money", and compared to the reoccurring cost of insurance coverage that is a sunk cost even if you are never in an accident, this method can be much much cheaper for them in the long run.
If you're making enough that you can spend $200K just on fun car stuff, then yes, it's quite likely you can self-insure and not worry about that. The vast majority of people that like to tinker with their cars aren't in that income bracket, though. As regards the $20K bond - good luck if that's all you have to pay for in a serious accident. That quite possibly won't even cover the cost of the other car if it's totalled, much less medical expenses for another party that's seriously injured.
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I've seen boards where all the decoupling caps are bunched together in a corner of the board, far away from the action.
Yeah, kinda defeats the purpose. I've seen something dumber though - many years back, a friend of a friend tried to get rid of the ignition noise coming over the radio in his car by installing a filter cap across the battery terminals and then wondered why it didn't make any difference. Guy was an electronics tech in the Navy, for crying out loud.
Not every power supply is the same, add a capacitor and/or line regulator to the input.
And don't be stingy with decoupling caps.
I've never experienced that, ever, in my 35 years of computing on various platforms and various text/document editors.
It happens to me occasionally on my Win7 box at work, and sometimes requires firing up Process Explorer to find out who still has a lock on the file if the file had been closed a while back. Getting out of the editor is the only thing that releases the lock in those cases. It's happened in Word, Notepad++, and UltraEdit.
Yes, I see those every day, and often have to wait for the same train twice on my way to work. FEC has five terminals over about 650 miles, which means there's still a lot of the coast that has to be served by truck.
I think more of the problem is so much stuff gets sent by truck when rail would be cheaper and faster. Unfortunately the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near the rail infrastructure that Europe does. I live about a mile from the Florida East Coast railway tracks. The next closest set of tracks belongs to CSX, and is about 100 miles away.
And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?
"Okay, turn left at the light and pull into the staging yard's second driveway on the left. Don't worry about the "deadly force authorized" signs - the ED-209 shouldn't bother you."
In the U.S. at least, it's very unusual to see a 60-ton truck on the highway - most are limited to 40 tons, with special permitting needed for heavier loads. Australia's a whole different story, but their road trains have many more brakes to distribute the energy across.
And that means it's going to take a while as that heat dissipates - the brakes will literally melt if you try to brute-force a shorter braking distance, for example by increasing braking system pressure.
Increasing the pressure will lock the wheels up (not taking ABS into account), at which point the rotors/drums aren't absorbing any more heat and stopping distance is determined by the friction of the sliding tires. That said, truck brakes are *big*, and are quite capable of handling a 50 mph panic stop without damage to the brakes.
So, write your OS in 90% C and optimize the remaining 10% in ASM
"A profiler? What's that?"
Plus the bootloader firmware (although I guess you could call that part of the environment) - you can't just drop a stock AVR into the socket and have it work without it unless you use an external programmer to burn the sketch into the chip beforehand.
Which is ironic, because even in the mid-90s (i.e. almost as soon as the web had become popular), people were already slapping crappy, pixelated pre-rendered GIF animations of all manner of spinning crap onto their "home pages"!
Don't forget the flashing text, too!
I read somewhere (Can't remember where :/) that the fastest assembly code produced to date was written by a human, not a computer; again, google returns nothing.
Michael Abrash's ancient-but-awesome book, "The Zen of Graphics Programming", contains a chapter called "Heinlein's Crystal Ball, Spock's Brain, and the 9 Cycle Dare" that 's about Abrash's adventures in coming up with the fastest CPU-driven texture mapper he could write in hand-written assembly for his X-Sharp graphics library (he eventually ended up with 16 million texture-mapped pixels per second on a 90 MHz Pentium). Might that be what you're thinking of?
They should just pick a number, convert it all to nickels and make the CEO shove them all up his ass.
Nickels are too small and smooth - Eisenhower dollar coins would be better,in uncirculated condition so that the reeding is nice and sharp.
Shingles sucks, that's for sure. I had it make a visit via my trigeminal nerve when I was 29. The eye doctor was freaking out for a little while, but fortunately it ran its course without any eye complications.
I believe that the survivors are generally thought to be immune to further infection as well, so it's a bit scary that the virus can still find repositories in the body where it can hang out for longer periods of time.
It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.
O.J. didn't have qualified immunity. The cop you're going to sue does, and the civil case is likely to be tossed as a result.
Carry on, my wayward company.
by the time dell got big, hp and compaq were both considered, at least in the people i know to be inferior products to others available at the time
And this was really a shame, because Compaq's early machines were awesome.
I usually get one or two of these spammy mails every day. My favorite was one I got several years ago, which described an interesting opportunity, but I wasn't (and still am not) willing to relocate. So, I wrote back and asked the guy if the gig could be done via telecommuting. His response was "yes, but they require that you work from the office. Will that work for you?". I wrote back asking if he knew what "telecommuting" meant, and never heard back.
and reaping the benefits by selling it at some indeterminate point in the future.
Or when the company declares a dividend, but that's a bit of a quaint idea nowadays.
"In that case, if you write me a check for $12,500 I'll start ripping this bed out right now and we'll both come out ahead!"
Serious question (from a non-American); can companies in the states increase the amount they charge you without notifying you first?
Depends on your contract. If the contract says they can, then they can and probably will at some point. Regardless, it pays to watch your bill like a hawk - plenty of U.S. providers, cellular providers in particular, have gotten in trouble for charging customers for stuff they didn't order. I've been fortunate, I guess. My provider hasn't tried to raise my prices, but they have tried to upsell me to higher tiers of service when they often can't provide the bandwidth I'm already supposed to be getting.
The heaviest haul vehicles *do* use electric drive. The vast majority of trains today, for example, are electric drive, and increasingly large haul trucks are switching to electric drive.
The crawlers that transported the Saturns and shuttles to the launch pads are also electric drive.
If they really wanted to line their pockets, they'd sell them to the black hats.
And who's to say that he doesn't have another three dozen that he knows about, but held back?
Yes, I know this. My point was that there may come a time in the not-too-distant future when insurance companies push for legislation to allow them to deny coverage/claims on that basis.
But of the people I know, $20k isn't even a tenth of their yearly "fun car money", and compared to the reoccurring cost of insurance coverage that is a sunk cost even if you are never in an accident, this method can be much much cheaper for them in the long run.
If you're making enough that you can spend $200K just on fun car stuff, then yes, it's quite likely you can self-insure and not worry about that. The vast majority of people that like to tinker with their cars aren't in that income bracket, though. As regards the $20K bond - good luck if that's all you have to pay for in a serious accident. That quite possibly won't even cover the cost of the other car if it's totalled, much less medical expenses for another party that's seriously injured.