I use a low power stereoscopic microscope to inspect assembled printed circuit boards. I need to be able to drop the camera over the eyepiece, snap a.jpg, and email it to the board vendor when I see a defect. All with a minimial amount of hassle. Since I have a Win98 box next to me, a USB camera would work, but I'm having trouble getting the mechanics and optics to work. IBM's webcam has a nice integrated capture and email utility so they might be my first choice.
This post is not entirely accurate for all situations. If the telco can provision both sides of the ISDN line on the same Centrex group, the charge is closer to $40+$40/month with no bandwidth limit. If there is no bandwidth limit, it's trivial to setup a pinger to keep the link open full-time. I used Ascend Pipe 75's on both ends and they would handle bonding both channels for 128k and worked fine.
I used such a setup for nearly 4 years for my business internet connection until SDSL became available.
I read the article and I'm confused...
on
Microwave Steelmaking
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
The article talks about replacing the blast furnace with this microwave-based device and using it to make steel. Well, a blast furnace doesn't make steel, it makes pig iron, a different and much less useful material. According to what I've read, another process such as a bessemer converter is needed to turn the pig iron into steel.
I seem to recall that you have to blow hot air or oxygen through the melt to burn out excess carbon to convert the pig iron to steel. Maybe he hasn't gotten that far developing the process.
If indeed he has found a way to go from ore straight to steel, this is a pretty valuable process. There just isn't enough information to tell.
Induction heating is not used in bulk steelmaking. It's very useful for heating materials in a vacuum and for heating the surface skin of steel. By only heating the surface skin, you can harden it and leave the insides tough and non-brittle. Or "crunchy on the outside, chewy in the center" as a metalurgical engineer would say.
Then you whine about using an extra 4 bytes per pointer to address it. Seems to me that the number
of pointers relative to the amount of RAM is so small it's not an issue. Correct me if I'm wrong.
To a lot of men, myself included, I find the "fuck your teammate" concept of reality shows obnoxious and disturbing. There's nothing wrong with competition. Indeed, I like Jeopardy, pro football, and an occasional Nascar race.
I think it's the concept of not being able to trust a teammate that makes reality shows disturbing to me. I don't watch them.
To throw Linux at any and all embedded applications is a big mistake. Unless you need stuff like multiple TCP/IP servers and multitasking, you are better off with a smaller OS. There are millions of DOS-based controllers out there that won't be replaced with Linux anytime soon because they are cheaper than the hardware needed to support Linux. Likewise, PIC controllers can do things cheaper than DOS controllers for trivial tasks.
There is no one-size-fits-all in the embedded controller market. Linux has it's niche, but it can't fit everywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
That mice could produce sperm from Katz?
Yeah, stereoscopic goatse. I don't even want to think about it...
What an insightful comment. And by the way, what's a "bad rep"? Nice spelling poser.
Why all the top semiconductor manufacturers are either US or Asian.
I used such a setup for nearly 4 years for my business internet connection until SDSL became available.
I seem to recall that you have to blow hot air or oxygen through the melt to burn out excess carbon to convert the pig iron to steel. Maybe he hasn't gotten that far developing the process.
If indeed he has found a way to go from ore straight to steel, this is a pretty valuable process. There just isn't enough information to tell.
Induction heating is not used in bulk steelmaking. It's very useful for heating materials in a vacuum and for heating the surface skin of steel. By only heating the surface skin, you can harden it and leave the insides tough and non-brittle. Or "crunchy on the outside, chewy in the center" as a metalurgical engineer would say.
Well, at least it wasn't goat.se
Women who bitch too much instead of going to the kitchen and getting their man some pie.
I think the person that modded me down should go in the kitchen and make some pie.
Just to find a different wife? One that would go into the kitchen and make you some pie instead of bitching about cables?
I thought his tone was perfect.
Then you whine about using an extra 4 bytes per pointer to address it. Seems to me that the number of pointers relative to the amount of RAM is so small it's not an issue. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think it's the concept of not being able to trust a teammate that makes reality shows disturbing to me. I don't watch them.
I can't believe they haven't tried it yet.
There is no one-size-fits-all in the embedded controller market. Linux has it's niche, but it can't fit everywhere.
And it could be argued that Nixon paid the price with the economy.
We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.