Manny manufactures already build redundancy in their TV chips. OK it is only in the larger memories in those chips but it defenitely helps!
Besides that I would like to invite the professor to have a look at a TV with those minor faults... I am sure he will come back on his statement. I have worked on a test system that tests all the chips that passed the normal testing, and I can tell you that most of these chips nobody wants to have in their TV....
The faster you get to 65, the faster money flows to Iran, Irak etc. And the more everyone depends on them. If that is what you want, then press the accelerator deeper the next time the trafic light jumps to green!
And I am not even starting about the extra air polution. Just remember my words, in say 15 years, when everyone *needs* to wear an air filter when they go outside. But I guess you do not care, there you car already has one, right?
[rant]It is more than just your electricity bill! The more energy you use the more oil, coal and atomic power will be used. Your electricity is porbably not generated by oil, but it is about a mind set. If you start thinking about energy is some thing limited and not only money things might change. I just read in the news that oil demand is up, basically due to larger demand of USA and China. Creating more and more dependencies on countries like Irak, Iran, and other large oil producing countries.
It is up to YOU, do you want to be depended on those countries for your life style? If not, stop thinking about the few (tens) of bucks you pay per month for gass or electricity and think about where that energy is coming from.
For example switch of your home server and let your web server be provided by an ISP where you can have a more efficient use of the cpu/energy. Many do ofer mysql and other nice to have tools too.
Buy a car that has a milage of 30 mpg or better. There is really no use of a car that consume more than that. Why do you need 200+ horse power, while that speed limit is 65mph anyway? My 130hp can do 120mph easily and not consume more than 15mpg at that speed. At a more normal speed it uses 30mpg. (if you want to know it is a 2.2 liter turbo (HDI) diesel) And I still have about the same room inside as I used to have in my Explorer.
I can improve on many things myself, and I will. In short, think about where the energy is coming from and if you want to depend on that. And I even did not start about the environment, there I know many people do not care about that....[/rant]
On the way to your DC, a switching power supply does also a DC to AC conversion. The mechanism is as follows: AC [high voltage]-> DC [high voltage]-> AC [high voltage][high frequency] -> Transformer [high frequency] -> AC [low voltage] -> DC [low voltage][high current]
what are you doing that you need that much memory?
you could use it for designing, validating and generating test patterns of the next generation processors for example. A reasonable chip layout for 90nm grows quickly over 8Gbyte...
It is also very expensive. You probably need around $1M just to buy the mask set and a batch of wafers. At least you end up with more than 10K of CPU's
yes of course it is a waste, but we are on/. right? You might not need to slap up the mirror up for each photo, do it once and then you only need to release the shutter. They are probably independed.
A web cam with a DSLR would not work. Although, actually it might, but you need to lock up the mirror. And the camera is not really build for doing so for long times. For the D70 it is possible to lock up the mirror for dust cleaning purposses.But I always try to keep the mirror up for the shortest time possible. I doubt the camera would survive the mirror to be locked up for very long times.
Does anyone has some experience with this on a D70?
As an electronics engineer with a few years of embedded engineering experience, I do not agree with your statement about JTAG. What you are telling is correct, however most modern cameras can be programmed by putting a special named file on your flash card and by selecting the right commands in the menu you can reprogram your OS or firmware in the camera.
On the Nikon D70 for example there are even 2 different firmwares you can update. Does anyone know which 2 processors are used in the D70? I understand one is used for the user interface and the other for the signal processing(DSP)
So no technical reason to stop us disassembling the code (lateste update for example) and make some changes or extensions and reprogram your camera.
With an JTAG connection debugging would be way easier. Although, we might be able to use the USB port for feeding debuging data back to a PC.
The only real problem I see, is if you really mess up the firmware, you might block the possibility to reprogram the firmware and you end up with a non functional camera...
In the case of the D70 we could start with the DSP only, assuming the other processor can still reprogram the firmware in case of an 'accident'.
Yes it does matter if you are selling electronics! The Chinees and Indien market for example, with over 2 bilion people together, is growing rapidly. If your sales is only a part of the 113B in the US, you are missing out big time....
Only half of/. readers are below median, not necesary below average. Look up you statistics, please. Your statement is only correct if we are distributed according to a gausian distribution, and of course, that will never the case;-)
The one mouse button. It is at least getting harder to bash Apple products.
from http://www.apple.com/macmini: And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard.
yep, I was lucky back then, my vesa local bus graphics card (sorry forgot which one) did work at 50 MHz. So I had the fastest computer of the whole lab, runing 50MHz all over, Yes! It was running OS/2 with a Gopher server and later my first web server. With all pages handcoded in HTML 1.0.
This only shows that anonymous readers, that apperently do not even know how a transistor looks like, should not be allowed to post articles about Si or CMOS technology on/.
I guess I have to say now: oh wait, this is/. to get moderated funny?
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Besides that I would like to invite the professor to have a look at a TV with those minor faults... I am sure he will come back on his statement. I have worked on a test system that tests all the chips that passed the normal testing, and I can tell you that most of these chips nobody wants to have in their TV....
Bug yes, but that is not one of those defects that is talked about in TFA.
The faster you get to 65, the faster money flows to Iran, Irak etc. And the more everyone depends on them. If that is what you want, then press the accelerator deeper the next time the trafic light jumps to green!
And I am not even starting about the extra air polution. Just remember my words, in say 15 years, when everyone *needs* to wear an air filter when they go outside. But I guess you do not care, there you car already has one, right?
[rant]It is more than just your electricity bill! The more energy you use the more oil, coal and atomic power will be used. Your electricity is porbably not generated by oil, but it is about a mind set. If you start thinking about energy is some thing limited and not only money things might change. I just read in the news that oil demand is up, basically due to larger demand of USA and China. Creating more and more dependencies on countries like Irak, Iran, and other large oil producing countries.
It is up to YOU, do you want to be depended on those countries for your life style? If not, stop thinking about the few (tens) of bucks you pay per month for gass or electricity and think about where that energy is coming from.
For example switch of your home server and let your web server be provided by an ISP where you can have a more efficient use of the cpu/energy. Many do ofer mysql and other nice to have tools too.
Buy a car that has a milage of 30 mpg or better. There is really no use of a car that consume more than that. Why do you need 200+ horse power, while that speed limit is 65mph anyway? My 130hp can do 120mph easily and not consume more than 15mpg at that speed. At a more normal speed it uses 30mpg. (if you want to know it is a 2.2 liter turbo (HDI) diesel) And I still have about the same room inside as I used to have in my Explorer.
I can improve on many things myself, and I will. In short, think about where the energy is coming from and if you want to depend on that. And I even did not start about the environment, there I know many people do not care about that....[/rant]
On the way to your DC, a switching power supply does also a DC to AC conversion. The mechanism is as follows: AC [high voltage]-> DC [high voltage]-> AC [high voltage][high frequency] -> Transformer [high frequency] -> AC [low voltage] -> DC [low voltage][high current]
you could use it for designing, validating and generating test patterns of the next generation processors for example. A reasonable chip layout for 90nm grows quickly over 8Gbyte...
Oh wait, this was 20 years ago on my 286 XT-PC....
It is also very expensive. You probably need around $1M just to buy the mask set and a batch of wafers. At least you end up with more than 10K of CPU's
yes of course it is a waste, but we are on /. right? You might not need to slap up the mirror up for each photo, do it once and then you only need to release the shutter. They are probably independed.
Does anyone has some experience with this on a D70?
On the Nikon D70 for example there are even 2 different firmwares you can update. Does anyone know which 2 processors are used in the D70? I understand one is used for the user interface and the other for the signal processing(DSP)
So no technical reason to stop us disassembling the code (lateste update for example) and make some changes or extensions and reprogram your camera.
With an JTAG connection debugging would be way easier. Although, we might be able to use the USB port for feeding debuging data back to a PC.
The only real problem I see, is if you really mess up the firmware, you might block the possibility to reprogram the firmware and you end up with a non functional camera...
In the case of the D70 we could start with the DSP only, assuming the other processor can still reprogram the firmware in case of an 'accident'.
sure, dream on
Yes it does matter if you are selling electronics! The Chinees and Indien market for example, with over 2 bilion people together, is growing rapidly. If your sales is only a part of the 113B in the US, you are missing out big time....
must be a typo, he probably means km (kilo meters) ;-)
the US price is without tax (VAT) the euro price does include 19% tax....
Not true
Only half of /. readers are below median, not necesary below average. Look up you statistics, please. Your statement is only correct if we are distributed according to a gausian distribution, and of course, that will never the case ;-)
from http://www.apple.com/macmini: And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard.
Your farscape boxed set does that include all 4 seasons and also the peacekeeper wars? Where can I buy that?
PS do you already have the extended extended (4 dvd) edition of the ROTK?
yep, I was lucky back then, my vesa local bus graphics card (sorry forgot which one) did work at 50 MHz. So I had the fastest computer of the whole lab, runing 50MHz all over, Yes! It was running OS/2 with a Gopher server and later my first web server. With all pages handcoded in HTML 1.0.
Last updated 2003-11-26 by netproject
hmmm, I did not read it yet, but is this still up to date and valid?
1) no, you can't
2) yes, I know
Found it, the cell is 0.143um2 and made in 32nm node. So your 0.157um2 was very close!!!
This only shows that anonymous readers, that apperently do not even know how a transistor looks like, should not be allowed to post articles about Si or CMOS technology on /.
I guess I have to say now: oh wait, this is /. to get moderated funny?
maybe a spell checker could help? --- I can make speling errors in more languages than most of you ;-)
where did you go to school? you just asked the wrath of 16 milion (dutch) people over your self... you better hide