..unfortunately. We, who had an MP3 artist account, had all our songs converted to RealAudio. Because of the firewall setup in my company, now it's impossible to get RA streams through, even though it is possile with MP3.
I sense the/. crowd's skepticism, but think about it: just because it's described in the Bible, doesn't mean there isn't some truth behind the story, and some physical evidence of thet may still exist.
The problem with the stories in the Bible is, they have been used, abused, overused by Hollywood for adventure and horror movies. So much so that the contemporary man has this reflex of dismissing everything in the Bible as a figment of someone's imagination. And yet, it doesn't necessarily have to be so. Some of the events described there might have happened, in some form.
I am not sure I get your point. I don't ever replace the "battery" in my mobile phone. I recharge it once every 4 to 5 days. Without talk it would last even longer.
I've had it with the TI graphing calculators. What is this nonsense on insisting on 64x96 resolution, when even the crappiest Nokia mobile phone has more + 64K colors?
And in fact, TI should watch it's back, as service and content providers my start selling Symbian applications that do just that: graphing! Note that some mobile phones have those flip full-QUERTY keyboards, so the "lack of keys" argument doesn't hold, either.
So which one would you rather buy, a TI graphing calc that stikk offers only 96x64 B&W resolution, or a software for your mobile phone, that will fit in a smaller formfactor, offer better graphics and be upgradeable.
Yeah, that kinda makes more sense. Though the 6502 was not a bad CPU (at 1 MHz was roughly as powerful as a Z80 at 2 MHz), I doubt it would satisfy the requirements of modern fast software development. What I mean is, to produce the kind of stuff the contemporary calculators can, with a 6502, you would need to program in assembler with some very carefully optimized code.
Wait a freaking minute: this thing runs on a 6502? Does this mean, the 6502 lives on in an actual product designed and implemented in the 21st century?
As a Commodore 64 fan, I can only rejoyce at this.
Where can I find any further info on the hardware architecture of this calculator?
Now, I know I will be jeered for this: I have not, actually, played the game itself. So I can't say whether the movie is based on a good game or not, but I think it's an excellent movie. An outstanding sci-fi horror, and for once, it's placed in a well-illumonated high-tech setting. Also, Milla Jovovich featured an amazing performance. She really gave a touch of warmth and humanity to the movie. The real kind of warmth, not the phoney one, which you see in so many movies nowadays. Yes, I'm that impressed with her acting. Better (another jeer coming up, I guess) than in "5th element".
I'm totally with you on this one. Fortunately, Philips being the creator of the technology, I think we can expect many implementors that will compete with Sony. It will be just like with DVD pllayers today: I can go downtown into any electronics store (Helsinki) and buy a cheap-ass United DVD player, that has the added benefit of being easily hackeable with the remote control.
And you are exactly correct: an engineer-turned-marketer at Sun told me that the main point of the Niagara project is to dramatically improve throughput. Putting several cores onto one die is not the challenge here - the challenge is the memory manager and memory interface.
Sorry for spoiling your pleasure to poo-poo your parent post. The fact is that he/she has an excellent point. A solution using an AVR or PIC MCU would not only be cheaper. It would be much more reliable, as it would use less active components.
You also have to write a program in a low-level language, which means you introduce the possibility of a lot more bugs, and it will take longer to program.
Wrong. You obviously never worked in the real world, otherwise you'd know that there you typically program these devices in C, but you can opt to use BASIC, if C is too difficult for you. Or you can choose to develop in Pascal, or Forth or many other languages. In contrast, the LOGO can be programmed with C only. With AVR or PIC you have a host of debugging tools. And you have several free options for simulators. I don't know if I should explain how important the possibility to simulate the behaviour of the device really is. Also, there are (pricey) in-circuit emulation tools, that can dramatically enhance the debugging and proofing of your design.
The fact that you're using a significantly less reliable and less testable solution for applications in the chemical industry could get you in trouble.
Why would one pay for the Siemens LOGO, when you can get much more functionality and speed from a cheap EPLD or FPGA? Heck, even a simple PAL or GAL should be more powerful, at a fraction of the price.
I don't know what you mean by "our". The american court actually found Lindows in the right. It was the Belgian court that ruled in favor of Microsoft. And in fact, there are signs that the belgian judiciary is really corrupt.
Actually, this thing is tiny! It's smaller and thinner than the original N-Gage, which wasn't too big to begin with. I have no idea where you got the idea the QD is too big?!?
Many have already written that the lead is in the glass of the CRT. If I'm not mistaken, lead is added to glass to improve it's clarity.
However, the lead in the soldering alloy is significant, too: the so-called "eutectic" alloy contains 37 to 40 % lead and the rest is tin (Sn). Eutectic alloys have a lower melting point than any of it's components. That's exactly the reason why lead is added to tin, in soldering alloys. Another very efficient dopant is silver - it decreases considerably the melting point. Unfortunately, it's expensive.
Tin is basicly innocuous, while lead is toxic. The problem with lead is that it causes a chronic poisoning called saturnism, where your brain suffers considerable damage - in fact, largely unrecoverable. I should add here that there are historians that think one reason for the fall of the roman empire lies in the use of lead cups for drinking wine. These lead cups were quite popular in the roman army, and it's not inconceivable that this might have decreased the soldier's mental and physical abilities.
The problem with the lead-free soldering technologies is exactly the higher melting temperature of pure tin compared to the eutectic alloys. Reflow and other technologies have to be fine-tuned for higher temperatures, and the risk of damaging some of the components is significantly higher. I, for one, prefere much more to use normal, eutectic alloy for my hobby work.
Except for the fact that you didn't add the $1.6B to those $2B, and the fact that within the last 11 quarters Sun did have profitable ones (in fact, it pulled off a profitable year with 1B net profit, fiscal year ended on 30th of june 01), I agree with you that Sun is in a very shaky financial situation.
However, I don't understand your overexcited mumbo-jumbo about investing in Sun or pulling out or whatnot. Do you think every person on this planet invests their money in stocks? And why are you so over-the-top like you're on a high or something. Chill out, chief.
No need for the defensive stance, I think. But I believe you put the tags there out of humor rather than anything else.
As for you not needing N1: I think that you might still need it, expecially if you move to a larger number of smaller identical systems. You might not be able to use it, but that's different from needing.
All that said, N1 might still fail, and so might Sun (too bad, because I really love the way Sun organizes it's documentation, both Solaris and Java). I say this because I'm old enough to have seen excelent technology that the world of IT really did need, but didn't embrace no mater how much money they could have saved with it.
REal has listened to a collective "fuck you RealPlayer" because of very legitimate complaints. I had a problem sympathizing with Real in it's battle with Microsoft, because of exactly those issues.
I feel that Now Real is back home.
The only thing that spoils my good mood is that it took a media powerhouse (powerful because of it's fantastic popularity (yeah, I love car talk, too)) like Car Talk to make a difference. Obviously, users, no matter how many are, are powersless if they are disorganized.
Your (attempt at) analogy with the early adoption of Ethernet and TCP/IP on each machine is interesting, but I would like to expand it:
if you look at Sun's offering, including their x86 servers, they offer LOM on all models. They are also going to offer N1 as a standard management system that will become incredibly handy with blade servers. We are seriously thrilled at the prospect of using N1 to install our distributed software on large clusters of Sun blades (NOT the Blade workstations!!!).
I predict that this kind of management options will have to become ubiquitous eventually, as the number of clustered nodes grows and the need for managing software on such configurations becomes more pressing.
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In the last 6 months he gave more interviews and opinions (even when not asked) than ever before, combined. Apparently, he enjoys the spotlight.
Understandable, but not necessarily very professional.
Could he, at least once, address the issue of KDE's future, now that the largest supporter is within Novell, and Ximian has a say, too.
..unfortunately. We, who had an MP3 artist account, had all our songs converted to RealAudio. Because of the firewall setup in my company, now it's impossible to get RA streams through, even though it is possile with MP3.
I sense the /. crowd's skepticism, but think about it: just because it's described in the Bible, doesn't mean there isn't some truth behind the story, and some physical evidence of thet may still exist.
The problem with the stories in the Bible is, they have been used, abused, overused by Hollywood for adventure and horror movies. So much so that the contemporary man has this reflex of dismissing everything in the Bible as a figment of someone's imagination. And yet, it doesn't necessarily have to be so. Some of the events described there might have happened, in some form.
I am not sure I get your point. I don't ever replace the "battery" in my mobile phone. I recharge it once every 4 to 5 days. Without talk it would last even longer.
I've had it with the TI graphing calculators. What is this nonsense on insisting on 64x96 resolution, when even the crappiest Nokia mobile phone has more + 64K colors?
And in fact, TI should watch it's back, as service and content providers my start selling Symbian applications that do just that: graphing! Note that some mobile phones have those flip full-QUERTY keyboards, so the "lack of keys" argument doesn't hold, either.
So which one would you rather buy, a TI graphing calc that stikk offers only 96x64 B&W resolution, or a software for your mobile phone, that will fit in a smaller formfactor, offer better graphics and be upgradeable.
Yeah, that kinda makes more sense. Though the 6502 was not a bad CPU (at 1 MHz was roughly as powerful as a Z80 at 2 MHz), I doubt it would satisfy the requirements of modern fast software development. What I mean is, to produce the kind of stuff the contemporary calculators can, with a 6502, you would need to program in assembler with some very carefully optimized code.
Wait a freaking minute: this thing runs on a 6502? Does this mean, the 6502 lives on in an actual product designed and implemented in the 21st century?
As a Commodore 64 fan, I can only rejoyce at this.
Where can I find any further info on the hardware architecture of this calculator?
Now, I know I will be jeered for this: I have not, actually, played the game itself. So I can't say whether the movie is based on a good game or not, but I think it's an excellent movie. An outstanding sci-fi horror, and for once, it's placed in a well-illumonated high-tech setting. Also, Milla Jovovich featured an amazing performance. She really gave a touch of warmth and humanity to the movie. The real kind of warmth, not the phoney one, which you see in so many movies nowadays. Yes, I'm that impressed with her acting. Better (another jeer coming up, I guess) than in "5th element".
I'm totally with you on this one. Fortunately, Philips being the creator of the technology, I think we can expect many implementors that will compete with Sony. It will be just like with DVD pllayers today: I can go downtown into any electronics store (Helsinki) and buy a cheap-ass United DVD player, that has the added benefit of being easily hackeable with the remote control.
Two thumbs up to Philips who are the actual creators of this "paper-like" display.
Two thumbs way down to Sony for implementing it tied to DRM and content expiration. Thanks for nothing, Sony.
And you are exactly correct: an engineer-turned-marketer at Sun told me that the main point of the Niagara project is to dramatically improve throughput. Putting several cores onto one die is not the challenge here - the challenge is the memory manager and memory interface.
Sorry for spoiling your pleasure to poo-poo your parent post. The fact is that he/she has an excellent point. A solution using an AVR or PIC MCU would not only be cheaper. It would be much more reliable, as it would use less active components.
You also have to write a program in a low-level language, which means you introduce the possibility of a lot more bugs, and it will take longer to program.
Wrong. You obviously never worked in the real world, otherwise you'd know that there you typically program these devices in C, but you can opt to use BASIC, if C is too difficult for you. Or you can choose to develop in Pascal, or Forth or many other languages. In contrast, the LOGO can be programmed with C only. With AVR or PIC you have a host of debugging tools. And you have several free options for simulators. I don't know if I should explain how important the possibility to simulate the behaviour of the device really is. Also, there are (pricey) in-circuit emulation tools, that can dramatically enhance the debugging and proofing of your design.
The fact that you're using a significantly less reliable and less testable solution for applications in the chemical industry could get you in trouble.
Why would one pay for the Siemens LOGO, when you can get much more functionality and speed from a cheap EPLD or FPGA? Heck, even a simple PAL or GAL should be more powerful, at a fraction of the price.
Yes, I read the linked brochure.
I thought "hot babe" would be a winner. Much better than "Windows", "Doors", "Cupboard"... it even beats "Beer", in my humble opinion.
Imagine the headlines: "lindows changes it's name to "Hot babe" - Linux community in turmoil".
I don't know what you mean by "our". The american court actually found Lindows in the right. It was the Belgian court that ruled in favor of Microsoft. And in fact, there are signs that the belgian judiciary is really corrupt.
Firstly theyt purposefully chose the name to rhyme with windows, hoping to cash in with average joe's familiarity with the term windows.
I know a company that did that before Lindows: the name totally rhymes with windows: it is, in fact, windows! Can't get much smarter than that.
What company, you ask? I'll give you a hint: their name rhymes with Microsoft.
Actually, this thing is tiny! It's smaller and thinner than the original N-Gage, which wasn't too big to begin with. I have no idea where you got the idea the QD is too big?!?
Many have already written that the lead is in the glass of the CRT. If I'm not mistaken, lead is added to glass to improve it's clarity.
However, the lead in the soldering alloy is significant, too: the so-called "eutectic" alloy contains 37 to 40 % lead and the rest is tin (Sn).
Eutectic alloys have a lower melting point than any of it's components. That's exactly the reason why lead is added to tin, in soldering alloys.
Another very efficient dopant is silver - it decreases considerably the melting point. Unfortunately, it's expensive.
Tin is basicly innocuous, while lead is toxic. The problem with lead is that it causes a chronic poisoning called saturnism, where your brain suffers considerable damage - in fact, largely unrecoverable.
I should add here that there are historians that think one reason for the fall of the roman empire lies in the use of lead cups for drinking wine. These lead cups were quite popular in the roman army, and it's not inconceivable that this might have decreased the soldier's mental and physical abilities.
The problem with the lead-free soldering technologies is exactly the higher melting temperature of pure tin compared to the eutectic alloys. Reflow and other technologies have to be fine-tuned for higher temperatures, and the risk of damaging some of the components is significantly higher. I, for one, prefere much more to use normal, eutectic alloy for my hobby work.
Is it so that Air Canada is actually a French-owned company?
I wonder if, by hitting the correct frequency, they could collapse the building. "Dude, that music was POWERFUL!"
Except for the fact that you didn't add the $1.6B to those $2B, and the fact that within the last 11 quarters Sun did have profitable ones (in fact, it pulled off a profitable year with 1B net profit, fiscal year ended on 30th of june 01), I agree with you that Sun is in a very shaky financial situation.
However, I don't understand your overexcited mumbo-jumbo about investing in Sun or pulling out or whatnot. Do you think every person on this planet invests their money in stocks? And why are you so over-the-top like you're on a high or something. Chill out, chief.
No need for the defensive stance, I think. But I believe you put the tags there out of humor rather than anything else.
As for you not needing N1: I think that you might still need it, expecially if you move to a larger number of smaller identical systems. You might not be able to use it, but that's different from needing.
All that said, N1 might still fail, and so might Sun (too bad, because I really love the way Sun organizes it's documentation, both Solaris and Java). I say this because I'm old enough to have seen excelent technology that the world of IT really did need, but didn't embrace no mater how much money they could have saved with it.
REal has listened to a collective "fuck you RealPlayer" because of very legitimate complaints. I had a problem sympathizing with Real in it's battle with Microsoft, because of exactly those issues.
I feel that Now Real is back home.
The only thing that spoils my good mood is that it took a media powerhouse (powerful because of it's fantastic popularity (yeah, I love car talk, too)) like Car Talk to make a difference. Obviously, users, no matter how many are, are powersless if they are disorganized.
Your (attempt at) analogy with the early adoption of Ethernet and TCP/IP on each machine is interesting, but I would like to expand it:
if you look at Sun's offering, including their x86 servers, they offer LOM on all models. They are also going to offer N1 as a standard management system that will become incredibly handy with blade servers. We are seriously thrilled at the prospect of using N1 to install our distributed software on large clusters of Sun blades (NOT the Blade workstations!!!).
I predict that this kind of management options will have to become ubiquitous eventually, as the number of clustered nodes grows and the need for managing software on such configurations becomes more pressing.
So, I can't say anymore I never met people like you. But I'm not sure I wanted to know *all* of what you shared with me :o)))))