I can't see $500k price tags being mainstream fro a while.
I'd have serious concerns about reliability etc. too. Consider that many sailing adventures end up with broken masts and similar misfortunes that people are able to recover from because they're using ancient technology. They can put together something that sails from broken masts and torn sails etc and limp in to port. Fixing up broken PV is probably not something you can just do armed with a hammer, saw and a knife.
Arrives late. Gives you a flower (yes, in this scenario you're a chick... well maybe not - it's a modern world). The flower has bugs in it.
You tell of the bugs. Not to worry... out comes the bug spray which is sprayed into your face, leaving the bugs intact.
Get into car. It's hot. Window doesn't open.....etc etc for a couple of hours.... Get back to His Place. He pulls out a condom with a bunch of holes in it (Expires in 1998, but patched to 2000...). Before you get any action he has a buffer overflow.....
As you run screaming down the street you see a Knoppix CD. Pick it up and take it home... manybe tomorrow night will be better.
However, General Relativity is not a proof, but a model. The various models that give us a way of understannding the world are only that: models, not laws per se.
When Newton explained gravity, he did not say that he was right. Indeed he said that the model he proposed was the best he could come up with given the limitations of his apparatus. He even predicted that his model would be superceded. And, for most people of today, the physical objects that they interact with can be adequately understood with Newtonian physics.
Einstein even said "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.". Just like Newton's models had limits and fell apart at some point, likely the same will happen to General Relativity when we're one day able to observe things beyond what the model can handle.
There is little evidence of companies caring much in the past (IBM & Nazis etc), and I doubt they will care in the future either. Very few will put ethics before a sale.
However, they do care about how they are are perceived to be acting because negative press can get in the way of other sales, so they might not sell to Chine etc if they think that might hurt selling to a more lucrative market. Don't for a minute confuse that with genuine ethical feelings though.
I think the Wifi is a winner. I would possibly get something like this for internet radio. But I choke on the idea of Windows/MS device. I'm sure this could run Linux, but running Linux on an MS device is not enough for me.
So you get two years instead of five years? If "the system" or whatever wants to get you, they won't do it in the public eye. They'll compensate and do it inside the prison and make that two years seem like hell.
The bulk of their activity is shutting down eBay trades. This is highly effective. They don't need a lawyer. eBay probably does it all for them using one of those watching scripts.
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I agree with parent that anything that just steal USB isn't really a USB device.
However it is worth noting that it is the power that really makes USB different from other interfaces (sure you can steal a few mA from RS232). I quite often use USB to power small electronic circuits (development boards etc) instead of a wallwart or a bench power supply, even if they are using some other connectivity.
You just have to look at how Christian groups etc use their powers to influence what could be a democratic process. The truth etc soon dies in favour of what is politically correct or is acceptable to people with enough passion to screw things up.
If you have an unstable system (BSOD-worthy), then it is probably best to rely on as few system resources as possible. THis includes GUIs etc. That's why a simple text-based BSOD or oops handler is a better idea than something that tries to do a whole bunch of cute graphics etc (which relies on a whole lot more hardware & software to be working properly).
If you were a true geek that grew up in the 70's and 80s you'd be one too. I used yo get the HP Journal every quarter (free subscription to anyone that bought a calculator back then) and read it cover to cover. I cut my programming teeth on an HP-29C (I have an HP-28S and HP-48SX that I still use on a daily basis).
TI calculators might be ahead now, but back then they were the second tier calculators for people who could not hack the real thing (kinda like Visual Basic is a programming language for people that can't use a proper programming language).
Flash does not have read cycle limitations. It has erasure/write limitations. However, in most typical usage scenarios this is a red herring or can be designed around quite simply with various wear levelling strategies.
MRAM, OTOH, does have read limitations too making it poor for execute in place applications. MRAM is also expensive (per byte) and not very dense, making it useless for most typical flash applicaitons.
At this stage NAND is the prefered flash for large arrays and file system applications because it is cheap, dense and very fast, but it cannot do execute in place. NOR is prefered for smaller applications, or where execute in place is desirable (boot code, and some other applications).
The real sadness in all this is that HP started off as an icon of geekdom, "The American Way", and many other pure and virtuous themes. Since then it has been Carley'ed and generally fucked over in many ways.
At one stage, HP was "the best". They made the best calculators, best test equipment, best everything they touched. Their slide probably started with getting into the commodity PC industry (PCs and printers).
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I'd have serious concerns about reliability etc. too. Consider that many sailing adventures end up with broken masts and similar misfortunes that people are able to recover from because they're using ancient technology. They can put together something that sails from broken masts and torn sails etc and limp in to port. Fixing up broken PV is probably not something you can just do armed with a hammer, saw and a knife.
OK, Newton explained how gravity behaves and was able to attach it to a mathematical model. Pre-Newton shit just fell on the floor.
They've redefined so many words, why just pick on their use of "genuine". Consider: windows, reliability, Start, exciting, innovation, micro....
You tell of the bugs. Not to worry... out comes the bug spray which is sprayed into your face, leaving the bugs intact.
Get into car. It's hot. Window doesn't open.....etc etc for a couple of hours.... Get back to His Place. He pulls out a condom with a bunch of holes in it (Expires in 1998, but patched to 2000...). Before you get any action he has a buffer overflow.....
As you run screaming down the street you see a Knoppix CD. Pick it up and take it home... manybe tomorrow night will be better.
However, General Relativity is not a proof, but a model. The various models that give us a way of understannding the world are only that: models, not laws per se.
When Newton explained gravity, he did not say that he was right. Indeed he said that the model he proposed was the best he could come up with given the limitations of his apparatus. He even predicted that his model would be superceded. And, for most people of today, the physical objects that they interact with can be adequately understood with Newtonian physics.
Einstein even said "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.". Just like Newton's models had limits and fell apart at some point, likely the same will happen to General Relativity when we're one day able to observe things beyond what the model can handle.
Would you be doing it on Windows?
However, they do care about how they are are perceived to be acting because negative press can get in the way of other sales, so they might not sell to Chine etc if they think that might hurt selling to a more lucrative market. Don't for a minute confuse that with genuine ethical feelings though.
I think the Wifi is a winner. I would possibly get something like this for internet radio. But I choke on the idea of Windows/MS device. I'm sure this could run Linux, but running Linux on an MS device is not enough for me.
If you don't like MS or Apple, but form onte of the other outfits.
So you get two years instead of five years? If "the system" or whatever wants to get you, they won't do it in the public eye. They'll compensate and do it inside the prison and make that two years seem like hell.
The bulk of their activity is shutting down eBay trades. This is highly effective. They don't need a lawyer. eBay probably does it all for them using one of those watching scripts.
However it is worth noting that it is the power that really makes USB different from other interfaces (sure you can steal a few mA from RS232). I quite often use USB to power small electronic circuits (development boards etc) instead of a wallwart or a bench power supply, even if they are using some other connectivity.
Amdahl's Law might have been written for Big Iron, but it applies even more so to smaller sytstems.
GM food gives both my heads an ache.
Also, if there is similar prior art, then getting a patent shows that yours is sufficiently different to not infringe.
You just have to look at how Christian groups etc use their powers to influence what could be a democratic process. The truth etc soon dies in favour of what is politically correct or is acceptable to people with enough passion to screw things up.
Kick up a big dust storm to get eyes off political issues that matter.
I think it is the blue that attracts my fist towards the screen.
This comes bundled with Human Condtion V1.0. For $19.99 you can upgrade to Navigation Power User.... or you can wait for MS Vista.
Wall St is packed with accountants and tie-wearing beancounter types isn't it? A tech award from them would surely be an insult to any true geek!
If you have an unstable system (BSOD-worthy), then it is probably best to rely on as few system resources as possible. THis includes GUIs etc. That's why a simple text-based BSOD or oops handler is a better idea than something that tries to do a whole bunch of cute graphics etc (which relies on a whole lot more hardware & software to be working properly).
TI calculators might be ahead now, but back then they were the second tier calculators for people who could not hack the real thing (kinda like Visual Basic is a programming language for people that can't use a proper programming language).
MRAM, OTOH, does have read limitations too making it poor for execute in place applications. MRAM is also expensive (per byte) and not very dense, making it useless for most typical flash applicaitons.
At this stage NAND is the prefered flash for large arrays and file system applications because it is cheap, dense and very fast, but it cannot do execute in place. NOR is prefered for smaller applications, or where execute in place is desirable (boot code, and some other applications).
Will PRAM make a big difference? We'll see.
Still, this is a forum that gives the industry a way of acknowledging key contributions. What's wrong with that?
At one stage, HP was "the best". They made the best calculators, best test equipment, best everything they touched. Their slide probably started with getting into the commodity PC industry (PCs and printers).