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A little illustrative humor:
God and a molecular bioplogist are having a conversation about creating life. The scientist assures God that he can create life in just the same way the Almighty did, by starting with the compounds found in dirt, the 'dust of the earth.' The Almighty is suitably impressed that one of His children is up to this, and encourages him.
So, the scientist goes off and creates a new species, and shows it to God and tells him how he did it.
God says, "No, no, you don't understand. You gotta get your OWN DIRT!"
If we create life, we are but standing on the shoulders of a divine Giant, IMHO.
Come on, give me a break! Programmers will believe *ANYTHING* if it looks like it will increase their download rate! A fundamental ramification of Maxwell's equations, transmission line signal attenuation, means that this "Power Line Internet" will be only a few feet long before the 300-GHz signal disappears into oblivion! Sheesh!
Yes, thank you for mentioning Analog Devices. Yes, Virginia, there are other DSP manufacturers than TI. The top three are TI, Analog Devices, and Motorola, in that order. My company uses Analog Devices, and so do a lot of the sound board OEMs.
Another player in the field (Intel) only pushes the others toward excellence and is a Good Thing (tm). IMHO.
BTW, Intel doesn't make any analog-to-digital (A/D) or digital-to-analog (D/A) hardware, so systems OEMs integrating the Intel DSPs would have to go elsewhere for those. A/D's & D/A's are required for most DSP apps. So: monopoly? bah!
The latest y-chromosome genetic studies (as well as recent studies of the paleoentological record) show conclusively that Darwinian evolution did not occur in higher animals, beyond the species level. You have to have an enormous population and a very short generation cycle (time from birth to sexual maturity) to allow evolution to work. It works in bacteria, viruses, fruit flies, and now apparently, silicon. But humans, whales, apes--not a chance. Not enough time, not a large enough population. Think what you want about where they came from (seeded by God, extra-terrestrials, etc.) but these higher forms have been shown not to have evolved from lower forms. (Oh, boy, I better grab my thermal garb! Flames a comin'!) References: Michael F. Hammer, "A Recent Common Ancestry for Human Y Chromosomes," Nature, 378 (1995), pp. 376-378. L. Simon Whitfield, John E. Sulston, and Peter N. Goodfellow, "Sequence Variation of the Human Y Chromosome," Nature 378 (1995), pp. 379-380.
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A little illustrative humor:
God and a molecular bioplogist are having a conversation about creating life. The scientist assures God that he can create life in just the same way the Almighty did, by starting with the compounds found in dirt, the 'dust of the earth.' The Almighty is suitably impressed that one of His children is up to this, and encourages him.
So, the scientist goes off and creates a new species, and shows it to God and tells him how he did it.
God says, "No, no, you don't understand. You gotta get your OWN DIRT!"
If we create life, we are but standing on the shoulders of a divine Giant, IMHO.
Come on, give me a break! Programmers will believe *ANYTHING* if it looks like it will increase their download rate! A fundamental ramification of Maxwell's equations, transmission line signal attenuation, means that this "Power Line Internet" will be only a few feet long before the 300-GHz signal disappears into oblivion! Sheesh!
Another player in the field (Intel) only pushes the others toward excellence and is a Good Thing (tm). IMHO.
BTW, Intel doesn't make any analog-to-digital (A/D) or digital-to-analog (D/A) hardware, so systems OEMs integrating the Intel DSPs would have to go elsewhere for those. A/D's & D/A's are required for most DSP apps. So: monopoly? bah!
Hardware Guy by day, Linux slacker by nite,
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The latest y-chromosome genetic studies (as well as recent studies of the paleoentological record) show conclusively that Darwinian evolution did not occur in higher animals, beyond the species level. You have to have an enormous population and a very short generation cycle (time from birth to sexual maturity) to allow evolution to work. It works in bacteria, viruses, fruit flies, and now apparently, silicon. But humans, whales, apes--not a chance. Not enough time, not a large enough population. Think what you want about where they came from (seeded by God, extra-terrestrials, etc.) but these higher forms have been shown not to have evolved from lower forms. (Oh, boy, I better grab my thermal garb! Flames a comin'!) References: Michael F. Hammer, "A Recent Common Ancestry for Human Y Chromosomes," Nature, 378 (1995), pp. 376-378. L. Simon Whitfield, John E. Sulston, and Peter N. Goodfellow, "Sequence Variation of the Human Y Chromosome," Nature 378 (1995), pp. 379-380.