In my experience, the primary goal of QA is to generate documentation to prove the project owners did due diligence, and then in a distant second place, to actually find bugs and faults.
Did I mention they use a $15 hair dryer to keep some of their valves warm at high altitudes? It will be interesting how far they get using this approach.
Then consider this: The excitement of this single project will probably make many more kids in Denmark want to enter science than any previous marketing driven campaign for recruiting engineering students. It shows the awesome feeling of putting theory into practice and how far you can get if you have one determined team of talented folks.
In fact, they're ready to share the design details openly. They even call it an open source rocket. Let's see if anyone wants them after the first test.
Judging from your top level domain, you don't see the conflict in the first place. The EU system seems to be closely modelled on the French way of government, i.e. non-transparent decision making, the European School system for EU employee's kids (my sons are in one of these) are resembling the insane way the French conduct their education system, the EU hiring competitions (French as well) plus the insane and bureaucratic francophone administrators employed in the system.
Did you ever read the annual audit reports from the EU court of auditors? Left page: EU Court of Auditors: "We think the commission didn't provide enough documentation to show where billions of Euros went in agricultural support" EU commission response: "We don't see the problem....". The list goes on.
Incidentally, the previous EU commissioner of anti-corruption was implicated in a major corruption case in his home country.
Not to mention the lack of an investigation into the case of Antonio Quatraro. The EU commission prevented the Belgian police from investigating their premises for several hours after his death. Any investigation into this case has been obstructed by the commission and even the whistle blower from the EU court of Auditors, Douglas Watt, lives in hiding in fear of his life.
Understand that this culture of corruption is contrary to the customs in some other (typically northern) EU member countries.
...it's like LCD TVs, people also thought they consumed less power than conventional CRTs. Personally, I can warm my hands if I stick the palms up in front of my 32" LCD which chugs away at 152W when fully "lit" (powersave mode off).
A 32" Philips HD ready CRT was around 100-110 W at the time I looked.
However, this is highly dependent on brand as well.
My compact MPV (Toyota Corolla Verso) drinks 6.1L (diesel) per 100 km, and still has room for strapping in 3 child seat across the back seat and plenty of torque for hauling trailers. On the other hand I only need to commute 30 km, so....
4 cylinders isn't the end of the world.
What do you expect? A reinvention of quantum physics??
Die shrink on that scale is an impressive engineering feat, where you need creativity and innovation to even just come up with all the new materials in the process, enabling the shrink.
Moreover, all the transistor/inductor/trace models are changing completely when going to a new silicon process, so you even have to redo the layout and timing analysis of the processor. If the changes are profound enough, you even have to revise your overall architecture.
And no: 65nm and 40nm are *not* at all the same, just as 90nm and 65nm were completely different from a mechanical/electrical perspective.
And another example: Even if it seems transparent to the end user, the transision to lead-free components has been a major shift for electronics companies. You would be surprised to learn how many resources and how much ingenuity this has required.
It's more likely they'll contribute to increasing the yield from each manufactured wafer, making the maybe not so crazy fast desktop processors cheaper. Also, the material and chemical usage will decrease per "good" cpu die, so there's an environmental angle here, which isn't bad either, I suppose.
Because export-oriented entrepeneurs in small countries know that the potential danish-speaking overseas market wanting weed robots is rather limited in size.
It's called adaptation.
With the speed of globalization, I guess it will be common to find a Mandarin langauge version of such pages soon.
That might be true, but I still remember a couple of years back, when the French and Belgians wanted to use EU regulation, prohibiting chocolate producers from calling their products chocolate if the contents of cocoa wasn't high enough thereby causing milk or white chocolate not to be called chocolate anymore.
My point: Buy chocolate from the EU, as they generally care more about the quality of their foodstuffs than the producers who want to cut costs.
In other news: Denmark is allowed to keep its laws against trans fatty acids, as the European commission decided to prioritize public health over profit margins of mega-corporations. (PS: it really didn't take the industry long to find feasible replacements of the trans fatty acids and on the plus side we save hundreds of lives in a country of only 5 million people)
Well, you're effectively killing off French wine here in Europe, with all that Australian, Chilean, South African and (gasp!) American red wines you export to us. I read that Chile alone has experienced a 700% growth in wine exports to europe over the last few years
Not that I mind, we never buy the French stuff anyway, as we think it's just overpriced French farmer morning wee.
So let me just give some thanks to the aussies/chlieans/boers/yanks that you're getting the complacent French out of their comfort zone.
No, you are wrong. Here in the Western part of the Baltic sea there are lots and lots of yachts with radar equipment. If you compare the price of the radar to the price of a new c&c yacht, you'll see that the cost such of a piece of extremely helpful safety equipment is peanuts. Especially if you're a Microsoft manager.
Besides, a radar is not a gadget, and you don't have it switched on all the time. This is safety equipment to support you if you're caught up in fog/bad weather/darkness etc. I would never compare using a radar to bringing a computer on board. I mean, did you ever try steering a boat or ship through pitch black darkness? My bet is you would start appreciating any piece of safety equipment you can get.
I don't know about you, but when I watched the fog banks roll in from the Pacific, standing on the coastline on Marin county next to SF, I thought to myself that these waters are way more rough than what you'd ever see in the Baltic. Since your TLD is.fi I guess this is your frame of reference as well.
If you're in a 40-foot sail boat in foggy conditions, you would almost certainly use your radar if you possess the tiniest amount of seamanship. If you're a Microsoft manager and can afford a 40-foot yacht in the tech-fetischist USA, you're almost certain to own some sort of small radar for recreational vehicles.
But then again, the guy started sailing at age 53, so what do you expect? Did you ever encounter another motorist, who acquired his/her driver's license at 50+ years? Yup, that would be the same as for poor Jim Gray here.
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In my experience, the primary goal of QA is to generate documentation to prove the project owners did due diligence, and then in a distant second place, to actually find bugs and faults. Did I mention they use a $15 hair dryer to keep some of their valves warm at high altitudes? It will be interesting how far they get using this approach.
Then consider this: The excitement of this single project will probably make many more kids in Denmark want to enter science than any previous marketing driven campaign for recruiting engineering students. It shows the awesome feeling of putting theory into practice and how far you can get if you have one determined team of talented folks.
In fact, they're ready to share the design details openly. They even call it an open source rocket. Let's see if anyone wants them after the first test.
Judging from your top level domain, you don't see the conflict in the first place. The EU system seems to be closely modelled on the French way of government, i.e. non-transparent decision making, the European School system for EU employee's kids (my sons are in one of these) are resembling the insane way the French conduct their education system, the EU hiring competitions (French as well) plus the insane and bureaucratic francophone administrators employed in the system.
Did you ever read the annual audit reports from the EU court of auditors? Left page: EU Court of Auditors: "We think the commission didn't provide enough documentation to show where billions of Euros went in agricultural support" EU commission response: "We don't see the problem....". The list goes on.
Incidentally, the previous EU commissioner of anti-corruption was implicated in a major corruption case in his home country.
Not to mention the lack of an investigation into the case of Antonio Quatraro. The EU commission prevented the Belgian police from investigating their premises for several hours after his death. Any investigation into this case has been obstructed by the commission and even the whistle blower from the EU court of Auditors, Douglas Watt, lives in hiding in fear of his life.
Understand that this culture of corruption is contrary to the customs in some other (typically northern) EU member countries.
*Mmmmm*
Yup, democracy sucks if you're on the losing team.
(I'm sure Al Gore thought that in 2000)
Good to have you guys back.
We missed you.
And in Polish. Can we settle on that it seems to be a Slavonic word, mmmm'kay?
You mean the 486DX2/66s have one? Awwwwww.....now I'll never get Vista Ultimate and Kubuntu to dual boot....
...it's like LCD TVs, people also thought they consumed less power than conventional CRTs. Personally, I can warm my hands if I stick the palms up in front of my 32" LCD which chugs away at 152W when fully "lit" (powersave mode off).
A 32" Philips HD ready CRT was around 100-110 W at the time I looked.
However, this is highly dependent on brand as well.
My compact MPV (Toyota Corolla Verso) drinks 6.1L (diesel) per 100 km, and still has room for strapping in 3 child seat across the back seat and plenty of torque for hauling trailers. On the other hand I only need to commute 30 km, so.... 4 cylinders isn't the end of the world.
What do you expect? A reinvention of quantum physics?? Die shrink on that scale is an impressive engineering feat, where you need creativity and innovation to even just come up with all the new materials in the process, enabling the shrink. Moreover, all the transistor/inductor/trace models are changing completely when going to a new silicon process, so you even have to redo the layout and timing analysis of the processor. If the changes are profound enough, you even have to revise your overall architecture. And no: 65nm and 40nm are *not* at all the same, just as 90nm and 65nm were completely different from a mechanical/electrical perspective. And another example: Even if it seems transparent to the end user, the transision to lead-free components has been a major shift for electronics companies. You would be surprised to learn how many resources and how much ingenuity this has required.
Sorry for my bad english, I meant RTFA in the past tense.
Just RTFA. It's about RFID chip optimization. But at the 65nm node it's relevant for general CMOS designs as well, including CPU die.
It's more likely they'll contribute to increasing the yield from each manufactured wafer, making the maybe not so crazy fast desktop processors cheaper. Also, the material and chemical usage will decrease per "good" cpu die, so there's an environmental angle here, which isn't bad either, I suppose.
Because export-oriented entrepeneurs in small countries know that the potential danish-speaking overseas market wanting weed robots is rather limited in size. It's called adaptation. With the speed of globalization, I guess it will be common to find a Mandarin langauge version of such pages soon.
...a meta voyeur...!
That might be true, but I still remember a couple of years back, when the French and Belgians wanted to use EU regulation, prohibiting chocolate producers from calling their products chocolate if the contents of cocoa wasn't high enough thereby causing milk or white chocolate not to be called chocolate anymore.
My point: Buy chocolate from the EU, as they generally care more about the quality of their foodstuffs than the producers who want to cut costs.
In other news: Denmark is allowed to keep its laws against trans fatty acids, as the European commission decided to prioritize public health over profit margins of mega-corporations. (PS: it really didn't take the industry long to find feasible replacements of the trans fatty acids and on the plus side we save hundreds of lives in a country of only 5 million people)
Cote d'Or always worked for me... YUM.
Well, you're effectively killing off French wine here in Europe, with all that Australian, Chilean, South African and (gasp!) American red wines you export to us. I read that Chile alone has experienced a 700% growth in wine exports to europe over the last few years
Not that I mind, we never buy the French stuff anyway, as we think it's just overpriced French farmer morning wee.
So let me just give some thanks to the aussies/chlieans/boers/yanks that you're getting the complacent French out of their comfort zone.
No, you are wrong. Here in the Western part of the Baltic sea there are lots and lots of yachts with radar equipment. If you compare the price of the radar to the price of a new c&c yacht, you'll see that the cost such of a piece of extremely helpful safety equipment is peanuts. Especially if you're a Microsoft manager.
.fi I guess this is your frame of reference as well.
Besides, a radar is not a gadget, and you don't have it switched on all the time. This is safety equipment to support you if you're caught up in fog/bad weather/darkness etc. I would never compare using a radar to bringing a computer on board. I mean, did you ever try steering a boat or ship through pitch black darkness? My bet is you would start appreciating any piece of safety equipment you can get.
I don't know about you, but when I watched the fog banks roll in from the Pacific, standing on the coastline on Marin county next to SF, I thought to myself that these waters are way more rough than what you'd ever see in the Baltic. Since your TLD is
I take it BMX Bandit would be a PC and Angel Summoner a Mac???
If you're in a 40-foot sail boat in foggy conditions, you would almost certainly use your radar if you possess the tiniest amount of seamanship. If you're a Microsoft manager and can afford a 40-foot yacht in the tech-fetischist USA, you're almost certain to own some sort of small radar for recreational vehicles.
But then again, the guy started sailing at age 53, so what do you expect? Did you ever encounter another motorist, who acquired his/her driver's license at 50+ years? Yup, that would be the same as for poor Jim Gray here.
In fact, I'm told that in the Catalan translation of Fawlty Towers Man(u)el says he's from Madrid.
But since this is an early eighties UK tv production, they surely didn't get all the Spanish vs. Catalan cultural differences right.
If anybody at AMD had watched Fawlty Towers, maybe they would have opted for Madrid instead.
(Manuel with thick Spanish accent:) Mr. Fawlty! I'm from Barcelona, I know *notheeeng*!
They have been laying or selling off in their telecom chip business since June.