Catalogs/datasheets/white papers for electronic parts.
Any decent source? Most of stuff I find on the net are either very limited range, or just trade offers with very short descriptions (no pinout etc), or available only for a fee. Could you share your sources for that stuff?
If you want to store your budget, put it on bank account, buy a piece of real estate, some art or something. Every geek will tell you what will happen with your $3000+ if you invest it in a system with top-notch gfx cardhuge harddrive, 1G RAM and such stuff. Wait 3 years and you will lose like 90% of the price! Servers are NOT a good thing to store your budget!
Didn't you know the new CDs have special chips that using photometrics, measure their RPM, and once 56x CD speed equivalent is reached, they start a timer, which gives you exactly 1000 seconds to spin down (which resets the timer) and if you don't, a small C4 charge embedded in the inner ring of the disc is detonated?
This CAN be done but won't be "100% reliable". Imagine the signal is sent twice on two channels. One of them with 3min advance, and one "in realtime". The "in advance" signal goes to 3min-deep buffer, the realtime one is streamed. Once there's a disturbance in the "realtime" signal, you get switched to "backup copy" that was being made for 3 minutes before and for 3 mins, or until you regain normal signal, you get data from the buffer. Once you're outside the "problem area", you're switched back to "realtime" and buffer starts filling again. Still, if some disturbance appears exactly 3 mins apart (or there's a lot of "line noise" or it lasts as long etc) you won't have "backup copy" of what's about to be played (it didn't record 3 mins ago) and there's a break.
Other method: A piece, say 3 mins of the program (but maybe more) is replayed over and over on fast forward - a moving "resend" window, buffered and played in "slow motion"=normal. So as long as you don't run out of buffer space, it's enough you regain transmission for a short moment to fill your buffer and play from it until you regain connection again. Could be made as "packet transmission" - say, every 1s fragment of the stream gets resent 200 times in 1s intervals (simultaneously with next packets added to the "moving window" and "expired" (sent 200 times already) removed), replayed 200s later (once last piece is sent), and TV at the other end reassembles them and catches only those missing in the "puzzle". Of course this creates 200 times more "air traffic" than normal...
Not tops, but valleys between them. Most roads in highland area run through valleys (signal obscured in >>50% cases, depending on valley orientation) or mountain slopes (signal obscured in less than 50%, when it's the N, NE, NW side of the mountain) don't they? And that usually includes longer periods of time (needed to drive from behind a mountain, rather large objects, they are) so you'd need really huge buffer and a deep lag after realtime program to have transmission there uninterrupted.
In cities, you'd think you drive past a skyscrapper, and no problem, buffer helps. You forget about such "obstacles" as traffic lights, traffic jams and such though, that can hold you longer than your buffer could stand it.
There are large chunks of country covered with forests too, so that's not 5s break if you drive through some either. Luckily for you, there's fewer and fewer of those.
...how well do those work under viaducts, in tunnels, in cities behind big buildings, in high mountains, in forests and mostly everywhere where large part of the sky is obscured.
he makes the SAME generalization about the open source community, that most of the Linux users (of which I am not one of them) make about the Windows community, and suddenly HE is the bad guy?
Excuse me... Generalization1: "Microsoft's prices are a outrageous and their marketing strategy is evil" Generalization2: "GNU prices are a outrageous and their marketing strategy is evil".
And while I say "1", I complain someone says "2". Am I wrong?
I can't really imagine a LiveCD (Knoppix-like) system to complain about FSCK. Installing harddrives in systems without power backup and automatic power-failure shutdown systems IS asking for (exactly such) trouble.
Purchase new microwave power grid and you get unique remote moon-based beam weapon base to fry remotely anyone on Earth you dislike.
Thank you very much, I'd prefer not to see that thing in hands of americans. (just think what if the beam gets -purposedly- directed at areas outside the "receiver"?)
What are obvious Good Things in your WILI world wouldn't actually make the product great.
Yes. But they would make it helluva better.
When I bought it, I deeply believed I'll be able to do interesting stuff with it through USB, use it as a modem and such stuff. "That phone has USB" was one of catch phrases. The other was QWERTY keyboard. I like to write stuff and often find myself without any kind of writing tools when I have some cool idea. I hoped it would work as my personal notepad. - "If it has a keyboard, it obviously must have some software to use that keyboard" - was another blatant assumption on its capabilities.
Disappointment.
As I said, person who gave the basic design was very enthusiastic. That's a Good Thing and N5510 has many great things in it. But if they showed the project to a geek who actually likes his work, he would IMMEDIATELY point out the weaknesses I pointed out here. (with outrage: "What? You have THIS and don't include THAT?!")
Think about it in category of computer that has ATA100 harddrive on a PIO controller and 14" B&W monitor plugged into newest GForce.
Yes, "simple tasks" are harder on Linux. You need to learn harder. That's the "sqrt(x)" curve which starts very steeply. Nothing is "very easy". On Windows (x^2), startup is very easy.
But once you are past the "simple tasks" and get further on axis X (real problem difficulty) suddenly above "1" ("average tasks") you see Linux is no harder than windows. And once you get into really hard stuff (say, order of "10"), on Linux it's just slightly harder than "average" (3.3). On Windows, it becomes plain impossible (100).
So, for those who can't get past "medium difficulty projects", Windows is obviously easier. For those who want to perform really difficult tasks, Linux is the system of choice. Not as IQ test. As a tool that makes -such- work easier rather than harder.
And of course, since most "desktop users" never get around to such problems, they find Windows easier. WAN routing? Database clusters? Heavy duty servers? What desktop user would ever want those?
I have Nokia 5510. I can say the person who gave the ideas for the phone must have been very enthusiastic but quite clueless. Person who created the actual design and had clue about stuff definitely lacked that enthusiasm... and built a phone that mostly sucks.
1) Qwerty keyboard. Great for SMS, but there's no "notepad", phonebook entries are really short, in most cases the great keyboard is wasted. 2) Voice dialing, MP3 player, radio, analog audio input But no voice notes/recording. Was it so hard to hook up the microphone to the audio input? 3) Standard dialtones despite MP3 player. You can listen to MP3/radio only through earphones. 4) USB link to upload MP3. Works as "USB harddrive" and you can use it to transfer arbitrary data, but the phone can make use only of specially modified MP3s. To upload logos, ringtones, gfx SMS, "blankers" and all that stuff you need a special cable that goes into some strange slot under the battery. Same with using it as modem. USB for music only.
In short, this is a box with several devices that are simply not interconnected or very loosely connected. Things that would be trivial weren't done. (took me 5 mins to build a "powered microphone" to record voice over analog input) The idea was great, the final product sucks. Even greatest OS won't do any good if people won't use their imagination and do some obvious Good Things.
In great most cases Apple and PC are two separate niches of market and neither Apple users will switch to PC (no matter what it runs) nor opposite. Plus I really haven't heard ANY voices about "kiosks" running on MacOS:)
Twisting the learning curve from one that looks like "sqrt(x)" to windowsish "x^2" (from "beginning hard, later very easy" to "Look how easy it is... until you see how hard it is") or at least to y=x.
Average IQ of 100 is simply too low to get past some beginning stages of Linux - before you start being productive. Linux is made by intelligent people for intelligent people and idiots simply get lost.
It's enough for IBM to ship machines "Born to run Linux". Build hardware and preinstall Linux on it, "Buy hardware, OS gratis". They don't need any extras about that but surely they take care of their baby, if people are to buy hardware that runs Linux, Linux must be good enough for that.
I see a "internet kiosk" in front of my school being hacked for at least a 3 months. Some soft already installed, popup commercial spam, "smart monkeys" (program to generate clicks on the web to earn you money for "login time" with spyware), etc. All under Windows. I've seen a bankomat nearby with error popup. I've seen dull, dead windows desktop on a "commercial bigscreen". I've seen BSOD on railway station screens. I've seen info booth with train schedule rebooting. I've seen SMS boxen on walls frozen, with some Windows requester unable to gain focus. I've seen a shopkeeper rebooting his cash register, booting W98SE. Gosh, I even surfed the net from the bank "account checking" booth after the app died during heavy rain that broke net transmission, leaving me with desktop and basic apps.
If Linux is to crash on that things, I'll gladly give it a try and would like to give it a try. Maybe Linux is not ready for that stuff - we don't know. But what we know: Windows is not ready for them, for sure!
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Do they include more info on delivering Pizza to Samba authors?
Companies have a tendency to claim that their products are unique...
Our NEW Washing Powder, with UNIQUE formula!
Really unique stuff.
Obvious thinking: Software is not missing from the office: It means it wasn't stolen.
Nope. Use a toy RC helicopter control.
...even those who put their deepest faith in "close-source voting software" as the key to their political career, must be shocked.
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Thanks! It's great!!!
Catalogs/datasheets/white papers for electronic parts.
Any decent source? Most of stuff I find on the net are either very limited range, or just trade offers with very short descriptions (no pinout etc), or available only for a fee. Could you share your sources for that stuff?
If you want to store your budget, put it on bank account, buy a piece of real estate, some art or something. Every geek will tell you what will happen with your $3000+ if you invest it in a system with top-notch gfx cardhuge harddrive, 1G RAM and such stuff. Wait 3 years and you will lose like 90% of the price! Servers are NOT a good thing to store your budget!
Didn't you know the new CDs have special chips that using photometrics, measure their RPM, and once 56x CD speed equivalent is reached, they start a timer, which gives you exactly 1000 seconds to spin down (which resets the timer) and if you don't, a small C4 charge embedded in the inner ring of the disc is detonated?
I really don't understand this, RAID costs $0 when done in software.
But then you wouldn't be able to recommen on Windows for that... And who would pay for writing an article that says "Windows is out of question"?
This CAN be done but won't be "100% reliable". Imagine the signal is sent twice on two channels. One of them with 3min advance, and one "in realtime". The "in advance" signal goes to 3min-deep buffer, the realtime one is streamed. Once there's a disturbance in the "realtime" signal, you get switched to "backup copy" that was being made for 3 minutes before and for 3 mins, or until you regain normal signal, you get data from the buffer. Once you're outside the "problem area", you're switched back to "realtime" and buffer starts filling again. Still, if some disturbance appears exactly 3 mins apart (or there's a lot of "line noise" or it lasts as long etc) you won't have "backup copy" of what's about to be played (it didn't record 3 mins ago) and there's a break.
Other method: A piece, say 3 mins of the program (but maybe more) is replayed over and over on fast forward - a moving "resend" window, buffered and played in "slow motion"=normal. So as long as you don't run out of buffer space, it's enough you regain transmission for a short moment to fill your buffer and play from it until you regain connection again.
Could be made as "packet transmission" - say, every 1s fragment of the stream gets resent 200 times in 1s intervals (simultaneously with next packets added to the "moving window" and "expired" (sent 200 times already) removed), replayed 200s later (once last piece is sent), and TV at the other end reassembles them and catches only those missing in the "puzzle". Of course this creates 200 times more "air traffic" than normal...
Not tops, but valleys between them. Most roads in highland area run through valleys (signal obscured in >>50% cases, depending on valley orientation) or mountain slopes (signal obscured in less than 50%, when it's the N, NE, NW side of the mountain) don't they? And that usually includes longer periods of time (needed to drive from behind a mountain, rather large objects, they are) so you'd need really huge buffer and a deep lag after realtime program to have transmission there uninterrupted.
In cities, you'd think you drive past a skyscrapper, and no problem, buffer helps. You forget about such "obstacles" as traffic lights, traffic jams and such though, that can hold you longer than your buffer could stand it.
There are large chunks of country covered with forests too, so that's not 5s break if you drive through some either. Luckily for you, there's fewer and fewer of those.
...how well do those work under viaducts, in tunnels, in cities behind big buildings, in high mountains, in forests and mostly everywhere where large part of the sky is obscured.
he makes the SAME generalization about the open source community, that most of the Linux users (of which I am not one of them) make about the Windows community, and suddenly HE is the bad guy?
Excuse me...
Generalization1:
"Microsoft's prices are a outrageous and their marketing strategy is evil"
Generalization2:
"GNU prices are a outrageous and their marketing strategy is evil".
And while I say "1", I complain someone says "2". Am I wrong?
I can't really imagine a LiveCD (Knoppix-like) system to complain about FSCK. Installing harddrives in systems without power backup and automatic power-failure shutdown systems IS asking for (exactly such) trouble.
Purchase new microwave power grid and you get unique remote moon-based beam weapon base to fry remotely anyone on Earth you dislike.
Thank you very much, I'd prefer not to see that thing in hands of americans. (just think what if the beam gets -purposedly- directed at areas outside the "receiver"?)
Any day now, your RAM chips may become self-conscious.
When I boot Windows, I think that happened already.
What are obvious Good Things in your WILI world wouldn't actually make the product great.
Yes. But they would make it helluva better.
When I bought it, I deeply believed I'll be able to do interesting stuff with it through USB, use it as a modem and such stuff. "That phone has USB" was one of catch phrases. The other was QWERTY keyboard. I like to write stuff and often find myself without any kind of writing tools when I have some cool idea. I hoped it would work as my personal notepad. - "If it has a keyboard, it obviously must have some software to use that keyboard" - was another blatant assumption on its capabilities.
Disappointment.
As I said, person who gave the basic design was very enthusiastic. That's a Good Thing and N5510 has many great things in it. But if they showed the project to a geek who actually likes his work, he would IMMEDIATELY point out the weaknesses I pointed out here. (with outrage: "What? You have THIS and don't include THAT?!")
Think about it in category of computer that has ATA100 harddrive on a PIO controller and 14" B&W monitor plugged into newest GForce.
Yes, "simple tasks" are harder on Linux. You need to learn harder. That's the "sqrt(x)" curve which starts very steeply. Nothing is "very easy". On Windows (x^2), startup is very easy.
But once you are past the "simple tasks" and get further on axis X (real problem difficulty) suddenly above "1" ("average tasks") you see Linux is no harder than windows. And once you get into really hard stuff (say, order of "10"), on Linux it's just slightly harder than "average" (3.3). On Windows, it becomes plain impossible (100).
So, for those who can't get past "medium difficulty projects", Windows is obviously easier. For those who want to perform really difficult tasks, Linux is the system of choice. Not as IQ test. As a tool that makes -such- work easier rather than harder.
And of course, since most "desktop users" never get around to such problems, they find Windows easier. WAN routing? Database clusters? Heavy duty servers? What desktop user would ever want those?
...some intelligent geeks for design.
I have Nokia 5510. I can say the person who gave the ideas for the phone must have been very enthusiastic but quite clueless. Person who created the actual design and had clue about stuff definitely lacked that enthusiasm... and built a phone that mostly sucks.
1) Qwerty keyboard. Great for SMS, but there's no "notepad", phonebook entries are really short, in most cases the great keyboard is wasted.
2) Voice dialing, MP3 player, radio, analog audio input But no voice notes/recording. Was it so hard to hook up the microphone to the audio input?
3) Standard dialtones despite MP3 player. You can listen to MP3/radio only through earphones.
4) USB link to upload MP3. Works as "USB harddrive" and you can use it to transfer arbitrary data, but the phone can make use only of specially modified MP3s. To upload logos, ringtones, gfx SMS, "blankers" and all that stuff you need a special cable that goes into some strange slot under the battery. Same with using it as modem. USB for music only.
In short, this is a box with several devices that are simply not interconnected or very loosely connected. Things that would be trivial weren't done. (took me 5 mins to build a "powered microphone" to record voice over analog input) The idea was great, the final product sucks. Even greatest OS won't do any good if people won't use their imagination and do some obvious Good Things.
In great most cases Apple and PC are two separate niches of market and neither Apple users will switch to PC (no matter what it runs) nor opposite. Plus I really haven't heard ANY voices about "kiosks" running on MacOS :)
Twisting the learning curve from one that looks like "sqrt(x)" to windowsish "x^2" (from "beginning hard, later very easy" to "Look how easy it is... until you see how hard it is") or at least to y=x.
Average IQ of 100 is simply too low to get past some beginning stages of Linux - before you start being productive. Linux is made by intelligent people for intelligent people and idiots simply get lost.
It's enough for IBM to ship machines "Born to run Linux". Build hardware and preinstall Linux on it, "Buy hardware, OS gratis". They don't need any extras about that but surely they take care of their baby, if people are to buy hardware that runs Linux, Linux must be good enough for that.
I see a "internet kiosk" in front of my school being hacked for at least a 3 months. Some soft already installed, popup commercial spam, "smart monkeys" (program to generate clicks on the web to earn you money for "login time" with spyware), etc. All under Windows. I've seen a bankomat nearby with error popup. I've seen dull, dead windows desktop on a "commercial bigscreen". I've seen BSOD on railway station screens. I've seen info booth with train schedule rebooting. I've seen SMS boxen on walls frozen, with some Windows requester unable to gain focus. I've seen a shopkeeper rebooting his cash register, booting W98SE. Gosh, I even surfed the net from the bank "account checking" booth after the app died during heavy rain that broke net transmission, leaving me with desktop and basic apps.
If Linux is to crash on that things, I'll gladly give it a try and would like to give it a try. Maybe Linux is not ready for that stuff - we don't know. But what we know: Windows is not ready for them, for sure!