Forgot to mention what I was going to do with it: monitor conditions inside a ship's engine room. Kinda cool, was going to wirelessly acquire data onboard Navy vessels and assess the engine's health. Once the vessel's underway, they pretty much close the hatch to these engine rooms and don't want to have to send people into the room to go and read a dozen gauges, maybe just go in to read a single data display. Too bad we didn't get funded.:-/
I was looking at using an Advantech specialized panel PC system for a harsh environment application a while back, but I can't remember what the model number was. Anyway, here's a breakdown of its specs:
Operating Temperatures: -20C to +60C Storage Temperatures: -40C to +75C Relative Humidity: 99% condensing Salt Spray Tolerance: 5% at 38C for 48 hours Chemical Splash Tolerance: diesel fuel, oil, other automotive/machinery chemicals Vibration Tolerance: any axis, 24-2 kHz at 8G RMS (non-shock isolated) Shock Tolerance: 10G, fixtured Waterproofing: sealed to ±35kPa (±5 psi) vs. water/water vapor Electrostatic Tolerance: 15 kV discharge on any pin, air gap and conductive
Their catalog had a picture of this thing running underwater, I'd take that with a very large grain of salt. Hope this helps!
Don't know the timeline here, but PFE is the basis of Microchip's MPLab IDE for their PIC microcontrollers. Do we know if he just switched to commercial development for PFE? I still have PFE, started using it from my Win3.1 days. Very good.
Question for the Ask Slashdot original poster: which MicroEmacs are you using? I've had nothing but success with JASSPA MicroEmacs and nothing but grief from the original UEmacs and its brethren. Also in the JASSPA family is nanoEmacs (Emacs on a floppy!), haven't tried that one yet.
My question is, do you have a favourite commercial application you'd like to see AI used for?
Like a lot of R&D, I think that if you can get somebody interested in it as a money making/saving investment, advances will proceed quickly. I can see a few potential markets for this kind of thing, e.g. basic customer support via the phone: try to resolve some small % of calls, steer the rest to an actual person.
Very silly to pin the blame on one individual in the research group. Don't these guys read? Don't they know disgruntled physicists, especially when they're disgraced atomic/nuclear scientists, always come back as super-villains to wreak their vengeance on their enemies and an unsuspecting world?
How long before their suspect builds himself an atomic-powered titanium alloy suit with miniature particle accelerator blasters?
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My company does Department of Defense work almost to the exclusion of everything else. Believe me, when you do R&D for the DoD it is *really* important to get an acronym, and fast. Sometimes you get the acronym first and then design the system around that. You won't sell them on anything without one.
Man, I just watched the Simpsons' episode the other day where the local Mensa crowd takes over the town. Principal Skinner moved the town to metric time-I didn't know somebody was serious about this.
So now I'm wondering if Google cut a special deal for its power much like the folks in aluminum did. And whether in a future power crunch, we'd see Google opting to re-sell its power, much like the folks in aluminum did.
...but I really really wanted to know what their electricity bill was!
I hadn't thought about the inherent redundancy in Google's design before, so if one or a dozen boxes go down the system as a whole remains virtually intact. It's an interesting effect of that level of decentralization, I guess. Maybe they should be a model to other organizations with an eye towards security and survivability?
It's been suggested that one reason for the discrepancy in media coverage is the nature of the two cases. One little girl goes missing on the way to school IIRC, the other is taken from her home.
I don't know if I believe that necessarily, neither do I necessarily believe it's a case of black v. white or rich v. poor. All I know is, it seems the more content (TV, web, etc.) I get, the less actual information it contains. And above all else, the more I follow the news, the sadder the world seems.
Sigh. Can we get back to some good old-fashioned MS-bashing, please?
...has a version of SSH available for Unices, Windows, Macs, even the Nokia 200. Don't know how good it is, but they've got a fair amount of info on the site.
Reminds me of my job description, HR copied and pasted it straight from a generic description:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occassionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; stoop, kneel; and taste or smell.
I plan on retiring the day I'm asked to stoop/kneel and finger/taste anything.
I agree with the thrust of this comment, although it does look like the post did copy and paste it over straight from the article. At any rate, it's not just in technology but (I think) intellectual pursuits in general. I've worked with brilliant folks without even a high school diploma, and similarly I've worked with PhD's as smart as a bag of wet nickels. However many pieces of paper a person has or hasn't collected over the years isn't always a good measure of the person.
Back to the topic at hand, as somebody who recently started using FreeBSD for his desktop machine I'd like to thank Jordan for all his hard work down the years. Good interview.
that comes to mind when I think of a huge server farm like Google's: can you give a rough order of magnitude (# of zeros maybe) on what your electric bill is?
Thanks very much for Google. The more I use it the more I appreciate it.
I like it...I'm just the latest in a long line of webmasters for the site I run, my boss ran it before me. I will gleefully pull out his work for him anytime he gripes about the current incarnation.:)
Hysteresis. Ferromagnetic materials carry a "memory" of their magnetic history. AFAIK that's the basic principle behind our ability to track the motion of the magnetic pole over millions of years.
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are seriously cool...they can measure magnetic fields down to about 10^-10 gauss. They'll detect fields created by things like a fetal heartbeat or a car starting down the block.
What is that toxicologists say? Something like "the poison's in the dosage."
It's kind of like that with patents. I work for a small engineering R&D company, and if we couldn't patent what we developed we just couldn't develop it. But too many patents, and future innovation (ours included) is stifled.
By the way there are lots of other problems with the patent system. For example, the way the system is set up it tends to discourage collaboration, e.g. between private sector and universities by making the "who owns what IP" so convoluted as to price it out of feasibility for small companies.
Daniel 11:40
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the King of the North(west) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall (buffer)overflow and pass over.
Pretend I'm a prospective customer, and I'm mulling over my Big Purchase. I'm considering Red Hat, Sun, any number of *BSD/Linux DIYs, and now I've just heard about UL. Could you go over why I might want to choose UL over all the options available to me?
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Here in Austin TX Papa John's only has small, large, and extra-large. Tried ordering a medium pizza last night, ended up in a debate on semantics.
Forgot to mention what I was going to do with it: monitor conditions inside a ship's engine room. Kinda cool, was going to wirelessly acquire data onboard Navy vessels and assess the engine's health. Once the vessel's underway, they pretty much close the hatch to these engine rooms and don't want to have to send people into the room to go and read a dozen gauges, maybe just go in to read a single data display. Too bad we didn't get funded. :-/
I was looking at using an Advantech specialized panel PC system for a harsh environment application a while back, but I can't remember what the model number was. Anyway, here's a breakdown of its specs:
Operating Temperatures: -20C to +60C
Their catalog had a picture of this thing running underwater, I'd take that with a very large grain of salt. Hope this helps!Storage Temperatures: -40C to +75C
Relative Humidity: 99% condensing
Salt Spray Tolerance: 5% at 38C for 48 hours
Chemical Splash Tolerance: diesel fuel, oil, other automotive/machinery chemicals
Vibration Tolerance: any axis, 24-2 kHz at 8G RMS (non-shock isolated)
Shock Tolerance: 10G, fixtured
Waterproofing: sealed to ±35kPa (±5 psi) vs. water/water vapor
Electrostatic Tolerance: 15 kV discharge on any pin, air gap and conductive
Don't know the timeline here, but PFE is the basis of Microchip's MPLab IDE for their PIC microcontrollers. Do we know if he just switched to commercial development for PFE? I still have PFE, started using it from my Win3.1 days. Very good.
Question for the Ask Slashdot original poster: which MicroEmacs are you using? I've had nothing but success with JASSPA MicroEmacs and nothing but grief from the original UEmacs and its brethren. Also in the JASSPA family is nanoEmacs (Emacs on a floppy!), haven't tried that one yet.My question is, do you have a favourite commercial application you'd like to see AI used for?
Like a lot of R&D, I think that if you can get somebody interested in it as a money making/saving investment, advances will proceed quickly. I can see a few potential markets for this kind of thing, e.g. basic customer support via the phone: try to resolve some small % of calls, steer the rest to an actual person.And geek games, too. IIRC, it was also in Ultima VI, with a two-headed horse, right before you got the plans to the balloon.
Very silly to pin the blame on one individual in the research group. Don't these guys read? Don't they know disgruntled physicists, especially when they're disgraced atomic/nuclear scientists, always come back as super-villains to wreak their vengeance on their enemies and an unsuspecting world?
How long before their suspect builds himself an atomic-powered titanium alloy suit with miniature particle accelerator blasters?
My company does Department of Defense work almost to the exclusion of everything else. Believe me, when you do R&D for the DoD it is *really* important to get an acronym, and fast. Sometimes you get the acronym first and then design the system around that. You won't sell them on anything without one.
I've noticed in my short time in the world that Microsoft seems to be able to make things difficult for anyone.
Man, I just watched the Simpsons' episode the other day where the local Mensa crowd takes over the town. Principal Skinner moved the town to metric time-I didn't know somebody was serious about this.
So now I'm wondering if Google cut a special deal for its power much like the folks in aluminum did. And whether in a future power crunch, we'd see Google opting to re-sell its power, much like the folks in aluminum did.
...but I really really wanted to know what their electricity bill was!
I hadn't thought about the inherent redundancy in Google's design before, so if one or a dozen boxes go down the system as a whole remains virtually intact. It's an interesting effect of that level of decentralization, I guess. Maybe they should be a model to other organizations with an eye towards security and survivability?out of how many thousands each year.
It's been suggested that one reason for the discrepancy in media coverage is the nature of the two cases. One little girl goes missing on the way to school IIRC, the other is taken from her home.
I don't know if I believe that necessarily, neither do I necessarily believe it's a case of black v. white or rich v. poor. All I know is, it seems the more content (TV, web, etc.) I get, the less actual information it contains. And above all else, the more I follow the news, the sadder the world seems.
Sigh. Can we get back to some good old-fashioned MS-bashing, please?...has a version of SSH available for Unices, Windows, Macs, even the Nokia 200. Don't know how good it is, but they've got a fair amount of info on the site.
Have you cleared this with the neighbours, so they know to put the pool cover on that day in case you end up in their back yard?
Close...government contractor.
Don't tell me there're other poor souls with the same deal.
Reminds me of my job description, HR copied and pasted it straight from a generic description:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occassionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; stoop, kneel; and taste or smell.I plan on retiring the day I'm asked to stoop/kneel and finger/taste anything.
I agree with the thrust of this comment, although it does look like the post did copy and paste it over straight from the article. At any rate, it's not just in technology but (I think) intellectual pursuits in general. I've worked with brilliant folks without even a high school diploma, and similarly I've worked with PhD's as smart as a bag of wet nickels. However many pieces of paper a person has or hasn't collected over the years isn't always a good measure of the person.
Back to the topic at hand, as somebody who recently started using FreeBSD for his desktop machine I'd like to thank Jordan for all his hard work down the years. Good interview.
that comes to mind when I think of a huge server farm like Google's: can you give a rough order of magnitude (# of zeros maybe) on what your electric bill is?
Thanks very much for Google. The more I use it the more I appreciate it.
I like it...I'm just the latest in a long line of webmasters for the site I run, my boss ran it before me. I will gleefully pull out his work for him anytime he gripes about the current incarnation. :)
Hysteresis. Ferromagnetic materials carry a "memory" of their magnetic history. AFAIK that's the basic principle behind our ability to track the motion of the magnetic pole over millions of years.
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are seriously cool...they can measure magnetic fields down to about 10^-10 gauss. They'll detect fields created by things like a fetal heartbeat or a car starting down the block.
What is that toxicologists say? Something like "the poison's in the dosage."
It's kind of like that with patents. I work for a small engineering R&D company, and if we couldn't patent what we developed we just couldn't develop it. But too many patents, and future innovation (ours included) is stifled.
By the way there are lots of other problems with the patent system. For example, the way the system is set up it tends to discourage collaboration, e.g. between private sector and universities by making the "who owns what IP" so convoluted as to price it out of feasibility for small companies.
And here I thought it was only the FBI/CIA/NSA that found it interesting...
Don't worry, it all works out in the end...
Daniel 11:40
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the King of the North(west) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall (buffer)overflow and pass over.
Who knew?
Pretend I'm a prospective customer, and I'm mulling over my Big Purchase. I'm considering Red Hat, Sun, any number of *BSD/Linux DIYs, and now I've just heard about UL. Could you go over why I might want to choose UL over all the options available to me?