I completely agree with you 100%. It's not meant to be the greatest film ever written. It's meant to be entertaining and that it is. I had the same experience; it's the only movie I've been to in the past 6 years that got a standing ovation at the end.
Smile, Life is good, enjoy it. This is not a film that's looking to win an academy award. It's supposed to fun / cool. If you want a good script read some Shakespeare or watch "Driving Miss Daisy"
Saying you can design/build/test/ship a device that can meet military specifications is like saying you can build your own space shuttle and fly it to the moon in a month. I work for a communications comapany that builds ruggedized military communications equipment. You can even test the battery in a month let alone an entire system.
They may have done it done but will those devices continue to operate a month after they are deployed in those conditions? Chances are the answers is NO.
This is a perfect example of the old saying "Just becuase you could doesn't mean you should!!!!!!!!!!!)
This alsmost as bad as the Toaster/Radio I say At JCPenny the other day.
FYI - I work for Moto as an Engineer. Everyone here is in cubes. The only ones that don't get cubes are the big execs. All engineers, S/W and H/W developers are all in cubes. Very few have offices. About 1%
I'd call IBM, Red Had or any other large vendor and ask them. If ther are big $$$$ involved which there probably are the vendors will jump through hoops for you. You'll have your own little circus.
Was any surprised that something of this caliber made onto slashdot.
Also modern CPU's (x86) cannot execute multiple instructions in one clock cycle. Pre-execution / branch prediction do not count since these operations are performed during idle CPU cycles and not during the execution of an instruction. It's perceived. Unless of course you have a dual core CPU or two separate CPU cores.
I agree with you 100%. Your a sharp guy. You are 100% correct. That is the only way to do it for the exact reasons that you mentioned. I have actually seen one but do not remeber who made it. The box that I saw was PCI to Cardbus PCMCIA. It would have been used to house a processor card for a high speed 4000 fps camera.
I don't think it matters that much. What's more important are the skill that learn. More importantly the talents and skill that you learn on your own.
For example. 1. Create your own projects that force to create and develop SW/HW that is outside of regular class room activities.
The more of these projects the better for a resume. Not only will it broaden your CS knowledge but it shows that you are a creative, intelligent individual with a passion for technology.
I didn't go to a fancy school and work as a HW/SW engineer for a extremely large communications company as part of a development team that makes ruggedized computers.
I disagree. I do believe that MS and Sony would be more interested in an older core than the latest core. From a price point it makes more sense that they would user a older, cheaper core. Especially since a lot of the work will be done by the GPU and not the CPU. Especially when you consider that theses devices will run custom OS's that are optimized for their application. It all boils down to money. Remember these deceives will cost in the 300$ price range. What ever CPU they use has to be cheap, (Sub 50$) Good luck licensing and Manufacturing the latest PPC for under 50$
I'm surprised at how many people suggested the use of batteries and an inverter. The ammount of batteries that you need to provide 8hours of 250v at 4amp would occupy an entire garage.
It would be a magnitude cheaper to just buy a gas/diesel generator.
My suggestion would be to aquire a small LCD or DLP projector. You could use this to project an image of almost any size. It's very easy to take a map and project it onto a wall as a 9ft by 9ft image. These projectors have shrunk considerably over the years some are smaller than a shoe box.
Local Library: These projectors have dropped considerably and you could probably pick one up used for a few hundred dollars.
Most local libraries have these projectors for either guest speakers or to show movies. It is very possible that someone might actually let you borrow one for a few weeks.
Seriously...
I'm not a huge fan of MS but I rarely ever need to reboot any of my XP machines. Unless it's a required reboot after new HW or SW is installed.
I have some serious doubts about the accuracy of those statitics.
These modems have been around for years. Motorola makes one called the PRM240 that's the similar but does almost 2 watts. Although on the specs they use baud rates like 19200 & 115200 these are not throughput rates. These are serial link rates which have nothing to do with sending data over the air.
The data rate in real life is less then that of a 14.4 half-duplex modem.
Any laptop with a Centrino sticker on will get 4-5 hrs battery life. All centrino laptops regardless of manuacturer are all the same, with the exception maybe of the video processor. Everything else is controlled by Intel (IE Chip set, CPU, WLAN).
The only exception would be if some Manufacturer decideds to cheap out on a battery pack. A 11.1V 6000mAh pack should get aprox 4-5 hrs depending on usage.
Sorry to tell you but this robot and robosapian are far more than a remote controled toy. I agree with you on the battle bots. The math that has to performed to keep these things up-right is mind boggeling.
The ER-1 is just plain cheesy. There's nothing impressive about that. It's just a PC on wheels.
If you have a degree then I agree you must do a better job selling yourself. Most importantly is make as many contacts as you can with others in the computer industry. Hopefully these contacts can get you in the door.
If you don't have a degree it's a tough place to be. I work for a large telecom/tech company and there's an unlimited supply of people with educations looking for jobs. Heck I ran into a guy with a B.S. in C.S. and a masters in Telecom working at the Home Depot.
If you don't have a degree you're competing with many many people that do.
I know a degree is just a peice of paper but it's a quick and easy demarcation line for employeers. A lot won't even look at your resume without an education.
Either way, good luck in your quest.
GSM is TDMA based.......
TDMA is a just a chanell access method.
(If you don't belive me do a little seach on the internet)
The main differance between USA TDMA based networks and GSM TDMA based networks stems mainly from the telcom equipment used in europe.
In the us the TDMA networks used T1's / Tx's from the message swtichs, TDMA sync is based off the T sync.
In europe they use E1 which is differnt hence the synch parameters are differnt.
Other than the TDMA in the US and TDMA used in european GSM are the same. Obviously this synch problem has been over come propably by using external clocks.
Did any one catch the error in the article.
GSM IS TDMA BASED.
QUOTE one of many in which he'she makes similar comments.
" so Cingular and AT&T gradually have been phasing out obsolete protocols (like TDMA and analog) and building out their GSM networks"
It's obvious that the author of this article doesn't really understand what he/she is talking about.
He seems to think that GSM and TDMA are some how similar. (It appears that he/she thinks that they are both chanel access methods, when in fact they are not)
TDMA is a chanell access method, GSM is just a mobile/cellular standard which uses TDMA as it's chanell access method.
How does this junk make it onto slashdot. Big deal, I see nothing exciting or ground breaking. This is a project that just about anyone with any real C.S. or Engineering knowledge can accomplish.
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I completely agree with you 100%. It's not meant to be the greatest film ever written. It's meant to be entertaining and that it is. I had the same experience; it's the only movie I've been to in the past 6 years that got a standing ovation at the end.
Peter!!!
Smile, Life is good, enjoy it. This is not a film that's looking to win an academy award. It's supposed to fun / cool. If you want a good script read some Shakespeare or watch "Driving Miss Daisy"
Saying you can design/build/test/ship a device that can meet military specifications is like saying you can build your own space shuttle and fly it to the moon in a month. I work for a communications comapany that builds ruggedized military communications equipment. You can even test the battery in a month let alone an entire system. They may have done it done but will those devices continue to operate a month after they are deployed in those conditions? Chances are the answers is NO.
This is a perfect example of the old saying "Just becuase you could doesn't mean you should!!!!!!!!!!!) This alsmost as bad as the Toaster/Radio I say At JCPenny the other day.
FYI - I work for Moto as an Engineer. Everyone here is in cubes. The only ones that don't get cubes are the big execs. All engineers, S/W and H/W developers are all in cubes. Very few have offices. About 1%
I'd call IBM, Red Had or any other large vendor and ask them. If ther are big $$$$ involved which there probably are the vendors will jump through hoops for you. You'll have your own little circus.
What the heck is the Nobel Piece Prize???? This is junk, just some sort of advertisment. Needs to be removed.
Was any surprised that something of this caliber made onto slashdot. Also modern CPU's (x86) cannot execute multiple instructions in one clock cycle. Pre-execution / branch prediction do not count since these operations are performed during idle CPU cycles and not during the execution of an instruction. It's perceived. Unless of course you have a dual core CPU or two separate CPU cores.
I agree with you 100%. Your a sharp guy. You are 100% correct. That is the only way to do it for the exact reasons that you mentioned. I have actually seen one but do not remeber who made it. The box that I saw was PCI to Cardbus PCMCIA. It would have been used to house a processor card for a high speed 4000 fps camera.
I don't think it matters that much. What's more important are the skill that learn. More importantly the talents and skill that you learn on your own.
For example.
1. Create your own projects that force to create and develop SW/HW that is outside of regular class room activities.
The more of these projects the better for a resume. Not only will it broaden your CS knowledge but it shows that you are a creative, intelligent individual with a passion for technology.
I didn't go to a fancy school and work as a HW/SW engineer for a extremely large communications company as part of a development team that makes ruggedized computers.
I disagree. I do believe that MS and Sony would be more interested in an older core than the latest core. From a price point it makes more sense that they would user a older, cheaper core. Especially since a lot of the work will be done by the GPU and not the CPU. Especially when you consider that theses devices will run custom OS's that are optimized for their application. It all boils down to money. Remember these deceives will cost in the 300$ price range. What ever CPU they use has to be cheap, (Sub 50$) Good luck licensing and Manufacturing the latest PPC for under 50$
I'm surprised at how many people suggested the use of batteries and an inverter. The ammount of batteries that you need to provide 8hours of 250v at 4amp would occupy an entire garage. It would be a magnitude cheaper to just buy a gas/diesel generator.
I'm not sure I get the point of this. Why not just get yourself in good physical condition and just peddle the bike to and from work???
My suggestion would be to aquire a small LCD or DLP projector. You could use this to project an image of almost any size. It's very easy to take a map and project it onto a wall as a 9ft by 9ft image. These projectors have shrunk considerably over the years some are smaller than a shoe box.
Local Library: These projectors have dropped considerably and you could probably pick one up used for a few hundred dollars.
Most local libraries have these projectors for either guest speakers or to show movies. It is very possible that someone might actually let you borrow one for a few weeks.
Hope this helps.
Seriously... I'm not a huge fan of MS but I rarely ever need to reboot any of my XP machines. Unless it's a required reboot after new HW or SW is installed. I have some serious doubts about the accuracy of those statitics.
These modems have been around for years. Motorola makes one called the PRM240 that's the similar but does almost 2 watts. Although on the specs they use baud rates like 19200 & 115200 these are not throughput rates. These are serial link rates which have nothing to do with sending data over the air.
The data rate in real life is less then that of a 14.4 half-duplex modem.
Any laptop with a Centrino sticker on will get 4-5 hrs battery life. All centrino laptops regardless of manuacturer are all the same, with the exception maybe of the video processor. Everything else is controlled by Intel (IE Chip set, CPU, WLAN).
The only exception would be if some Manufacturer decideds to cheap out on a battery pack. A 11.1V 6000mAh pack should get aprox 4-5 hrs depending on usage.
Sorry to tell you but this robot and robosapian are far more than a remote controled toy. I agree with you on the battle bots. The math that has to performed to keep these things up-right is mind boggeling. The ER-1 is just plain cheesy. There's nothing impressive about that. It's just a PC on wheels.
I doubt anyone would be willing to 1400$ for a toy, or could afford to blow 1400 on something like that.
So what technology did Alienware create here? None..
So they have one of the first MB's with two PCI Express slots. Big deal, soon MB's will contain many PCI-Express slots. Hopefully a lot more than 2.
If you have a degree then I agree you must do a better job selling yourself. Most importantly is make as many contacts as you can with others in the computer industry. Hopefully these contacts can get you in the door. If you don't have a degree it's a tough place to be. I work for a large telecom/tech company and there's an unlimited supply of people with educations looking for jobs. Heck I ran into a guy with a B.S. in C.S. and a masters in Telecom working at the Home Depot. If you don't have a degree you're competing with many many people that do. I know a degree is just a peice of paper but it's a quick and easy demarcation line for employeers. A lot won't even look at your resume without an education. Either way, good luck in your quest.
GSM is TDMA based....... TDMA is a just a chanell access method. (If you don't belive me do a little seach on the internet) The main differance between USA TDMA based networks and GSM TDMA based networks stems mainly from the telcom equipment used in europe. In the us the TDMA networks used T1's / Tx's from the message swtichs, TDMA sync is based off the T sync. In europe they use E1 which is differnt hence the synch parameters are differnt. Other than the TDMA in the US and TDMA used in european GSM are the same. Obviously this synch problem has been over come propably by using external clocks.
Did any one catch the error in the article. GSM IS TDMA BASED. QUOTE one of many in which he'she makes similar comments. " so Cingular and AT&T gradually have been phasing out obsolete protocols (like TDMA and analog) and building out their GSM networks" It's obvious that the author of this article doesn't really understand what he/she is talking about. He seems to think that GSM and TDMA are some how similar. (It appears that he/she thinks that they are both chanel access methods, when in fact they are not) TDMA is a chanell access method, GSM is just a mobile/cellular standard which uses TDMA as it's chanell access method.
Please excuse the harshness of my post. After hitting the post button I realized this probably isn't an appropriate post.
How does this junk make it onto slashdot. Big deal, I see nothing exciting or ground breaking. This is a project that just about anyone with any real C.S. or Engineering knowledge can accomplish.
This is childsplay.