Anyway, in my opinion, someone should yield to faster traffic no matter how fast that traffic is moving, as long as they can do so safely. I have come to this conclusion because most of the people I have seen who do not yield do so for one of three reasons:
1) They aren't paying any attention to the vehicles around them (yes, you should watch out for cars behind you, too). This makes them dangerous because, well, they aren't paying attention. Duh. 2) They feel as though they have been deputized by the state, and it's their personal responsibility to make sure that under no circumstances should you go above the speed limit, at all. This is just plain stupid, as that's what cops are for. 3) They're just lazy, and don't feel like moving. This typically means that they are sitting there driving in the left-most lane for absolutely no reason whatsoever, other than to simply be in the left-most lane.
I truly favor a system where everyone is required to drive in the right-most lane except while passing (I'm pretty sure this is how parts of Germany work, but I've never been there before, so I'm not going to say for sure). Of course, I guess this would never work properly, since it would require people to actually know how to change lanes correctly.
I remember my 7th grade biology teacher mentioned this as a theory that some people had. I was hoping someone would bring it up in regards to this article.
Yeah, acid-etching is great for simple designs, but anything requiring really small traces is out of the question. Double-sided boards and SMDs can be a bit of a trick, too, especially when you do both double-sided and surface mount.
There are tons of great, cheap PCB manufacturers out there, though. This Pad2Pad service is really only good (IMHO) if you have a lot (i.e. hundreds or thousands) of boards being made, and you can get them to assemble the majority of each board.
Olimex is a decent place to order from. 4PCB is also good, even more so if you're a student.
Also, if the board is small, you can possibly panel it to save some money (depends on how many you're making, etc.).
It doesn't look like they offer testing services. Their software will catch errors such as overlapping traces, etc., though.
There is absolutely no way for them to check your design to make sure it works, however. Unless you sit there and explain every detail to them, in which case they can still only moderately check certain aspects. There are just way too many different things involved in the design process for them to check every design. It would be like handing a company millions of lines of source code and telling them to check if it works, without running it first.
...just on a plastic model alone with some BS blueprints
Technically, I don't think you even need the model, just the blueprints. You basically have to give a good enough description that someone with a reasonable understanding of the technology could produce a working model.
The title implies that this technology could predict speech before it is said, but the article explains that it can simply read people's conscious thoughts as they are occurring. Those seem to be two completely different things to me.
This same business principle is a part of the reason why some 2.4 Ghz processors will run at 3 Ghz when overclocked.
This sounds like an economist's approach to an engineering problem.
But, this is not typically why 2.4 GHz processors may run at 3 GHz. It's because one of the processors in a batch failed to run at 3 GHz during testing, but passed at 2.4 GHz. Therefore, the entire batch was labeled as 2.4 GHz.
Of course, Intel did do something similar to what the parent post described, with an older processor (though the specific processor escapes me at the moment). Their manufacturing process originally yielded a fairly large number of processors running at a lower speed than originally designed, so they had 2 speed grades. But eventually they improved their process, and decreased defects. This yielded less of the slower processor than was needed to meet demand. So, they started labeling the less defective processors at the lower speeds, to keep that sector of the market.
Wit someone down with an analog clock who has never seen one before, and tell me how intuitive it is
As compared to a set of numbers separated by a colon? If you knew absolutely nothing about digital watches and time formats, how would you know which numbers were for hours, which for minutes, etc? In fact, there are many more digital time formats out there than analog ones.
On a personal note, I prefer analog because I don't have to even bother focusing my eyes if I simply want to know roughly what time it is. You just have to look at the relative positions of the hands.
On the one hand,the contact areas around the screw holes isn't typically (with one or two exceptions) connected to anything on the board, much less the board ground.
Go here to request your free laser processed samples:
http://www.versalaser.com/english/sample.html
I received one a while back. It was a small piece of wood with their logo burned onto it (if I can remember correctly). Useless, but cool none the less.
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so there goes the "fun", I have to tap it regularly not to make it feel deprived..
Funny, I have to do the same thing with my wife...
...travel generally 5 - 15 mpg over...
So, is that good fuel economy, or bad?
Anyway, in my opinion, someone should yield to faster traffic no matter how fast that traffic is moving, as long as they can do so safely. I have come to this conclusion because most of the people I have seen who do not yield do so for one of three reasons:
1) They aren't paying any attention to the vehicles around them (yes, you should watch out for cars behind you, too). This makes them dangerous because, well, they aren't paying attention. Duh.
2) They feel as though they have been deputized by the state, and it's their personal responsibility to make sure that under no circumstances should you go above the speed limit, at all. This is just plain stupid, as that's what cops are for.
3) They're just lazy, and don't feel like moving. This typically means that they are sitting there driving in the left-most lane for absolutely no reason whatsoever, other than to simply be in the left-most lane.
I truly favor a system where everyone is required to drive in the right-most lane except while passing (I'm pretty sure this is how parts of Germany work, but I've never been there before, so I'm not going to say for sure). Of course, I guess this would never work properly, since it would require people to actually know how to change lanes correctly.
I remember my 7th grade biology teacher mentioned this as a theory that some people had. I was hoping someone would bring it up in regards to this article.
Yeah, acid-etching is great for simple designs, but anything requiring really small traces is out of the question. Double-sided boards and SMDs can be a bit of a trick, too, especially when you do both double-sided and surface mount.
There are tons of great, cheap PCB manufacturers out there, though. This Pad2Pad service is really only good (IMHO) if you have a lot (i.e. hundreds or thousands) of boards being made, and you can get them to assemble the majority of each board.
Olimex is a decent place to order from. 4PCB is also good, even more so if you're a student.
Also, if the board is small, you can possibly panel it to save some money (depends on how many you're making, etc.).
It doesn't look like they offer testing services. Their software will catch errors such as overlapping traces, etc., though.
There is absolutely no way for them to check your design to make sure it works, however. Unless you sit there and explain every detail to them, in which case they can still only moderately check certain aspects. There are just way too many different things involved in the design process for them to check every design. It would be like handing a company millions of lines of source code and telling them to check if it works, without running it first.
...just on a plastic model alone with some BS blueprints
Technically, I don't think you even need the model, just the blueprints. You basically have to give a good enough description that someone with a reasonable understanding of the technology could produce a working model.
Before I read the article, I thought 'Fifth HOPE' was related to that movie 'The Fifth Element'.
There's a BIG difference. The FCC isn't out to sell a product, and isn't doing this to maintain a monopoly.
For Christ's sake, there are more important things in this world!
:)
That's right, like looking out for the next nipple to pop out.
Since the link on the mozilla.org homepage is still pointing to 0.8, here's a link to the official
Firefox 0.9 RC Release Notes.
Wow, finally when someone says that they hear voices in their head, they can prove it!
Make sure you include a chin strap...
The title implies that this technology could predict speech before it is said, but the article explains that it can simply read people's conscious thoughts as they are occurring. Those seem to be two completely different things to me.
This same business principle is a part of the reason why some 2.4 Ghz processors will run at 3 Ghz when overclocked.
This sounds like an economist's approach to an engineering problem.
But, this is not typically why 2.4 GHz processors may run at 3 GHz. It's because one of the processors in a batch failed to run at 3 GHz during testing, but passed at 2.4 GHz. Therefore, the entire batch was labeled as 2.4 GHz.
Of course, Intel did do something similar to what the parent post described, with an older processor (though the specific processor escapes me at the moment). Their manufacturing process originally yielded a fairly large number of processors running at a lower speed than originally designed, so they had 2 speed grades. But eventually they improved their process, and decreased defects. This yielded less of the slower processor than was needed to meet demand. So, they started labeling the less defective processors at the lower speeds, to keep that sector of the market.
Wit someone down with an analog clock who has never seen one before, and tell me how intuitive it is
As compared to a set of numbers separated by a colon? If you knew absolutely nothing about digital watches and time formats, how would you know which numbers were for hours, which for minutes, etc? In fact, there are many more digital time formats out there than analog ones.
On a personal note, I prefer analog because I don't have to even bother focusing my eyes if I simply want to know roughly what time it is. You just have to look at the relative positions of the hands.
On the one hand,the contact areas around the screw holes isn't typically (with one or two exceptions) connected to anything on the board, much less the board ground.
Three words: internal ground planes.
It may be a great idea if a mother is tracking her child. It's not such a great idea if a stalker is doing the same.
It is if you're the stalker...
In that case, why don't we just implant LoJack in all the students?
From Amulet's website:
"Products sold by Amulet Technologies, LLC have not been approved for use in critical medical, life-support, or life-saving devices or applications."
So I highly doubt you'll be seeing these in "life-and-death" medical devices anytime soon.
(Sorry, I just got tired of all the "Oh my god! My life support is gonna fail 'cause of these things!" jokes on here.)
Go here to request your free laser processed samples:
http://www.versalaser.com/english/sample.html
I received one a while back. It was a small piece of wood with their logo burned onto it (if I can remember correctly). Useless, but cool none the less.
If you notice, those are for the release candidates, not the final release. So this is nothing new.
...I'm looking forward to making my own food guide pyramid! Whoo-hoo!
For years I've waited to see beer as the most important food group, and now my dream can finally come true!
These statistics seem perfectly logical...
I mean, we all know that 100% of all people will resort to any means possible in order to obtain something, if they can't afford it.
Come on now, in this day and age, who among us really goes without something they want?
I would think it would make more sense to trademark the icon, not patent it. Wouldn't that give them a little more control over copies?
Only a true geek would need a search engine to determine what is considered "cool".