The tinfoil hat in me fully expects them to use this to kill the used phone market, jail breaking, and any number of other things that are consumer-unfriendly. "Oh, you lost your phone and don't qualify for a new free one yet? Sorry, you can't buy a used one from your bud. You have to buy a new one from VZW/ATT/etc."
This is a solution rife with problems for the consumer.
I've got one of these on my desk as I write. I've actually been working with it for several months now, and it's pretty sweet. It's intended to be a DSP co-processor coupled to an FPGA. The company I work for (BittWare) has invested heavily in Adapteva, and we are introducing some boards featuring a handful of 16-core Epiphany chips (which we have rebranded as "Anemone") and an Altera Stratix 5 FPGA.
The tools are Linux-only at this point, but that's more than OK by me. I think this is the first time I've ever not been forced to use Windows to develop code for a new processor.
The target application is anything that requires lots of DSP but can't burn many watts.
I think the "Testing the Bike and Lights" segment was testing whether or not it got attention from the chicks. They both turned their heads, so I guess it passed.
I would like to put some PV cells on the roof, but it really bugs me that even though they produce DC (which I need), I'd have to convert it to AC, deliver it to my equipment, and then convert back to DC again inside the device's power supply. These cascaded conversions take their toll - if 80% each, I have a total conversion efficiency of only 64%. Ouch. That really hurts if you're trying to squeeze all you can out of a PV setup.
I thought of a possibly viable path the industry could offer for converting to DC. What if a computer manufacturer started offering desktop machines with an UPS integrated into the power supply? The marketing reasons for this are somewhat compelling - it makes the desktop behave more like a laptop. No need for a separate UPS, etc.
They could at the same time take the further step of providing UPS-backed DC outlets on the PS itself, and then sell other equipment that would plug into these DC outlets - routers, cable modems, printers, monitors, etc. One advantage gained by the manufacturer here is that they would no longer need to provide region-specific wall-warts for small equipment.
Alternatively, a manufacturer could make an UPS with DC outlets as well, so this wouldn't be limited to desktop systems.
Third parties would spring up to provide cables to connect the router you already have to this DC outlet in place of the wall-wart. Why buy a $60 router when you could get the same effect for a $5.00 replacement cable?
Once those devices become widely deployed, it's a short jump to DC outlets in the walls. Once that happens, the desktop no longer needs an UPS-backed AC supply - it could just have a DC cable like all the other gear. From there it's a short hop to in-home, battery-backed, off-grid (or aux-grid) power, be it PV or wind, or whatever. Then my innernets would stay up even when an ice storm takes out the grid.
I usually touch it in a frantic bid to find the "open door" button. My feeble mind can never disentangle the subtleties between <|> and >|< in the few milliseconds available when I wish to hold the door for someone. I take comfort in knowing that my mistakes do not hasten the door's closing, but I take umbrage at the thought that if the elevator didn't have the placebo button, I could find <|> more quickly and to better effect.
I read an article in the Washington Post ~20 years ago about people waiting in lines. A hotel was constantly receiving complaints about the speed of their elevators. They kept tweaking the elevators, but the complaints continued to roll in (despite the quantifiable improvements). Rather than continuing to pursue the problem with technology, they turned to psychology and installed mirrors in the elevator lobby. Seems that if people have something interesting to look at (to them at least), the time passes more quickly and they do not notice that the elevators are slow. After they made this final change, the complaints stopped. I think about this every time I see a mirror in an elevator lobby.
Just how much skin does it take to make a pint of blood? I would think a lot, but not having read the article, I wouldn't know.
Seems to me they invented the reverse of the process that's really needed. It's a lot harder to get enough skin for grafting than it is to get blood for transfusions. Wouldn't blood-to-skin be a better conversion?
iPads are just a teardrop on the ocean. What about phone browsers? My guess is that browsing from a phone is becoming a bigger part of the pie, and IE just isn't in that game. Note that the browsers that are growing are the ones available for phones.
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Goto. I use that (in C) for error handling all the time, and frankly, it is about the cleanest way to do it I have seen.
Yes, but this one is better.
I bet 4896 combinations should have been 4096 combinations.
This has nothing to do with distrust of the Apple, or paranoia of the NSA. It has everything to do with the recently imposed sanctions.
Not to mention if you call your voicemail.
Unless Gavin King grows some serious facial hair, Ceylon is a doomed language.
Somebody forgot to call Miss Utility! Again!
Oops - didn't mean to post that anonymously. That's my post. Really.
I have to second Basic Instructions. It is consistently hilarious.
That must be what they use to make inkjet printer ink.
What does "almost infinite" even mean?
It also comes with either a 16- or 64-core floating-point Epiphany chip.
He hated it. He quit practicing and became a sysadmin, but still maintains his license.
An ex-attorney friend of mine once observed, "We do not have a justice system. We have a legal system." It's an important thing to remember.
The tinfoil hat in me fully expects them to use this to kill the used phone market, jail breaking, and any number of other things that are consumer-unfriendly. "Oh, you lost your phone and don't qualify for a new free one yet? Sorry, you can't buy a used one from your bud. You have to buy a new one from VZW/ATT/etc." This is a solution rife with problems for the consumer.
So if you had enough of these, you could air condition your house with them?
I've got one of these on my desk as I write. I've actually been working with it for several months now, and it's pretty sweet. It's intended to be a DSP co-processor coupled to an FPGA. The company I work for (BittWare) has invested heavily in Adapteva, and we are introducing some boards featuring a handful of 16-core Epiphany chips (which we have rebranded as "Anemone") and an Altera Stratix 5 FPGA.
The tools are Linux-only at this point, but that's more than OK by me. I think this is the first time I've ever not been forced to use Windows to develop code for a new processor.
The target application is anything that requires lots of DSP but can't burn many watts.
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I think the "Testing the Bike and Lights" segment was testing whether or not it got attention from the chicks. They both turned their heads, so I guess it passed.
I bet dogs are a lot cheaper than snifferbots.
I thought of a possibly viable path the industry could offer for converting to DC. What if a computer manufacturer started offering desktop machines with an UPS integrated into the power supply? The marketing reasons for this are somewhat compelling - it makes the desktop behave more like a laptop. No need for a separate UPS, etc.
They could at the same time take the further step of providing UPS-backed DC outlets on the PS itself, and then sell other equipment that would plug into these DC outlets - routers, cable modems, printers, monitors, etc. One advantage gained by the manufacturer here is that they would no longer need to provide region-specific wall-warts for small equipment.
Alternatively, a manufacturer could make an UPS with DC outlets as well, so this wouldn't be limited to desktop systems. Third parties would spring up to provide cables to connect the router you already have to this DC outlet in place of the wall-wart. Why buy a $60 router when you could get the same effect for a $5.00 replacement cable?
Once those devices become widely deployed, it's a short jump to DC outlets in the walls. Once that happens, the desktop no longer needs an UPS-backed AC supply - it could just have a DC cable like all the other gear. From there it's a short hop to in-home, battery-backed, off-grid (or aux-grid) power, be it PV or wind, or whatever. Then my innernets would stay up even when an ice storm takes out the grid.
I usually touch it in a frantic bid to find the "open door" button. My feeble mind can never disentangle the subtleties between <|> and >|< in the few milliseconds available when I wish to hold the door for someone. I take comfort in knowing that my mistakes do not hasten the door's closing, but I take umbrage at the thought that if the elevator didn't have the placebo button, I could find <|> more quickly and to better effect.
I read an article in the Washington Post ~20 years ago about people waiting in lines. A hotel was constantly receiving complaints about the speed of their elevators. They kept tweaking the elevators, but the complaints continued to roll in (despite the quantifiable improvements). Rather than continuing to pursue the problem with technology, they turned to psychology and installed mirrors in the elevator lobby. Seems that if people have something interesting to look at (to them at least), the time passes more quickly and they do not notice that the elevators are slow. After they made this final change, the complaints stopped. I think about this every time I see a mirror in an elevator lobby.
True, but that still doesn't make skin easier to come by than blood.
Seems to me they invented the reverse of the process that's really needed. It's a lot harder to get enough skin for grafting than it is to get blood for transfusions. Wouldn't blood-to-skin be a better conversion?
iPads are just a teardrop on the ocean. What about phone browsers? My guess is that browsing from a phone is becoming a bigger part of the pie, and IE just isn't in that game. Note that the browsers that are growing are the ones available for phones.