Accurate laser rangefinder - inclinometer and (probably not so accurate) compass combinations have recently been developed for aiding in mapping caves. I saw one of these recently advertised, can't remember where, though.
That means your mini-ITX board with ZIF would suddenly cost A LOT more.
Probably in the range of $25 - $50 more.
This would probably add a noticable amount to the
price of your mommaboard. Subtract the cost of the cpu to get the cost of a mini-ITX mobo without a CPU, then see how much the price of the zip socket is compared to the mobo cost. My guess is that it would be about 30%.
I read a review the other day of the efficeon chip. Their conclusion: efficieon = looser
- the cpu power/watt wasn't anything to brag about.
- the cpu wasn't all that fast.
- choose an Athon XP-M or the new low power intel chip instead.
For an embedded application, the processor only needs to be sufficiently fast to perform the given application. It only adds to the cost of producing the product if a more expensive processor is used in the product. In fact it could even be detremental. A faster processor may require more power, thereby reducing battery life.
You're comparing the new Geode with an older Geode. This would make the new Geode look good. But if you compare the new Geode with an ARM chip, as the grandparent was suggesting, you find the ARM base chips 'spank the pants off' the Geode. IIRC some of the new ARM cores use only.2 Watts of power, vs 6 for the Geode. That's a big difference in power consumption.
Since the Geode was targeted at embedded applications, it would be competing against ARM based chips, not just x86 type chips. The grandparent is justified in comparing the two.
The high end embedded market is dominated by ARM chips IIRC. There's really not a big demand for these chips to be x86 compatible chips, as thay don't have to run any existing software base.
AMD might have some success with these chips in PDA type devices. We will see.
You're right. That just wouldn't happen by accident. The farmer probably collected the seed from the edge of his field, that was next to his neigbor's Roundup Ready crop. He would know that there would be a good probability that a lot of the seed would be contaminated. Normally I would think that he would take the seed from a section of the field that was not next to a source of potential contamination. It was intentional. That level of contamination doesn't happen by accident. He intended get Roundup Ready plants without paying Monsanto.
Better yet, invent one that causes some mild, not permanent illness, and a medication for the illness.
You can charge them once for getting the disease, and charge them again for the cure.
Replying to my own post.
The study was not a person's own belief and praying for him/herself, but rather other the effects of other people praying for an ill person.
I think you have to consider the original Star Wars Films relative to what Sci Fi films looked like before these were made. The original Star Wars was the first one where the animations for the space ships and such had a realistic appearance. Take a look at what other Sci Fi films of that and you'll find their animations looked really artificial and corny.
Lucas was also the first to realize that objects of the future need not always appear new.
The land speeder on Tatooine looked very worn and beat up. Prior to this film, if you would have something like this in the film, it would always look brand spanking new. The concept that space ships and such would sometimes be old and beat up was new to the Star Wars films.
Another new concept of the films was the immense size of some of the ships, like cities in space. Look at other sci-fi films of the era and you'ld be doing good to find a representation that was much larger than a large airliner. The 'Enterprise' of the original 'Star Trek' series was about the largest one would have seen. The opening scene shows a star destroyer passing overhead. At first viewers get a close up of a small part of the ship. The scene is meant to leave the viewer in total awe of the immense size of the ship.
When people view the films now, they don't understand the novelty of these effects as they were to the first viewers.
Grading should always be as objective as possible.
The grade received on a paper should never depend on who the student is. If you are an instructor, you can certainly comment on the fact that you feel that the work wasn't up to the student's usual standards, or that the work exceeded the usual standards, but the actual grade should not depend on the student.
If the student's are that much different in abilities, they shouldn't be in the same class. One class, one standard for grading. If you were a teacher in my school district, I'ld see that you'ld be fired I ever found out you were doing this shit!
I'll agree with you. It should be fairly easy to scam the system since I doubt that the software analyzes the content of the essays all that well. I'm sure the program can look for good grammer, sentence structure, and spelling. It may also be able to do some analyitical reasoning on the text. But I doubt it would be able to really do a good job of determining things like paragraph cohesion or analyzing reasoning that depends on intelligence commonly shared by the readers.
I see as a potential problem the fact the the software was probably 'trained' using text written by students/participants expecting a human grader. When the students know that there essays are graded by computers, they likely will write essays that they know will give them a good grade, and not necessarily write what most human readers would call a good essay.
IIRC, the coldfire has been around for about 8 or 9 years (possibly longer). I don't think it was ever really popular. I think it was really marketed the same way that ARM markets the ARM cpu, as an IP core around which chip designers can design embedded controllers.
Apparantly the parent hasn't heard of chips like the atmel AVR, or PIC chips. The concept of on-chip memory (both program and RAM) is HUGELY popular among embedded microcontrollers. These can be incredibly inexpensive as well.
I thought I had read someplace that the peak would be more like 10 billion (somewhere about that same time frame). Even so, it is expected to reach a plateau.
Note that the 2 watts is just the processor core. To make a meaningful comparison with say a pentium, you would have to include the power consumption of cache and a memory management unit as well. I would still bet that the ARM solution would come in at substantially less than an AMD or Intel solution even if after these are accounted for.
Did you mean to say
"More simultaneously executing threads = more power"?
A single cpu can exeucte multiple threads, just that the cpu switches among them and executes only one at a given instant, which does not lead to higher performance.
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Accurate laser rangefinder - inclinometer and (probably not so accurate) compass combinations have recently been developed for aiding in mapping caves. I saw one of these recently advertised, can't remember where, though.
Or as he may have written
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Probably in the range of $25 - $50 more. This would probably add a noticable amount to the price of your mommaboard. Subtract the cost of the cpu to get the cost of a mini-ITX mobo without a CPU, then see how much the price of the zip socket is compared to the mobo cost. My guess is that it would be about 30%.
windows isn't an embedded application.
I read a review the other day of the efficeon chip. Their conclusion: efficieon = looser - the cpu power/watt wasn't anything to brag about. - the cpu wasn't all that fast. - choose an Athon XP-M or the new low power intel chip instead.
For an embedded application, the processor only needs to be sufficiently fast to perform the given application. It only adds to the cost of producing the product if a more expensive processor is used in the product. In fact it could even be detremental. A faster processor may require more power, thereby reducing battery life.
Since the Geode was targeted at embedded applications, it would be competing against ARM based chips, not just x86 type chips. The grandparent is justified in comparing the two.
AMD might have some success with these chips in PDA type devices. We will see.
You're right. That just wouldn't happen by accident. The farmer probably collected the seed from the edge of his field, that was next to his neigbor's Roundup Ready crop. He would know that there would be a good probability that a lot of the seed would be contaminated. Normally I would think that he would take the seed from a section of the field that was not next to a source of potential contamination. It was intentional. That level of contamination doesn't happen by accident. He intended get Roundup Ready plants without paying Monsanto.
You should have used Roundup (TM Monsanto) on that field.
Better yet, invent one that causes some mild, not permanent illness, and a medication for the illness. You can charge them once for getting the disease, and charge them again for the cure.
Replying to my own post. The study was not a person's own belief and praying for him/herself, but rather other the effects of other people praying for an ill person.
The studies I've read about concluded that prayer has absolutely no influence on a person's medical condition. None.
Lucas was also the first to realize that objects of the future need not always appear new. The land speeder on Tatooine looked very worn and beat up. Prior to this film, if you would have something like this in the film, it would always look brand spanking new. The concept that space ships and such would sometimes be old and beat up was new to the Star Wars films.
Another new concept of the films was the immense size of some of the ships, like cities in space. Look at other sci-fi films of the era and you'ld be doing good to find a representation that was much larger than a large airliner. The 'Enterprise' of the original 'Star Trek' series was about the largest one would have seen. The opening scene shows a star destroyer passing overhead. At first viewers get a close up of a small part of the ship. The scene is meant to leave the viewer in total awe of the immense size of the ship.
When people view the films now, they don't understand the novelty of these effects as they were to the first viewers.
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If the student's are that much different in abilities, they shouldn't be in the same class. One class, one standard for grading. If you were a teacher in my school district, I'ld see that you'ld be fired I ever found out you were doing this shit!
I see as a potential problem the fact the the software was probably 'trained' using text written by students/participants expecting a human grader. When the students know that there essays are graded by computers, they likely will write essays that they know will give them a good grade, and not necessarily write what most human readers would call a good essay.
You forgot to mention Korea, VietNam and Cambodia. All of which had Civil Unrest that was actively, militarily supported by China.
The US and Russia ought to be finishing up their use of the ISS in about 2020, the time frame for which China wants a space station.
IIRC, the coldfire has been around for about 8 or 9 years (possibly longer). I don't think it was ever really popular. I think it was really marketed the same way that ARM markets the ARM cpu, as an IP core around which chip designers can design embedded controllers.
Apparantly the parent hasn't heard of chips like the atmel AVR, or PIC chips. The concept of on-chip memory (both program and RAM) is HUGELY popular among embedded microcontrollers. These can be incredibly inexpensive as well.
I thought I had read someplace that the peak would be more like 10 billion (somewhere about that same time frame). Even so, it is expected to reach a plateau.
Note that the 2 watts is just the processor core. To make a meaningful comparison with say a pentium, you would have to include the power consumption of cache and a memory management unit as well. I would still bet that the ARM solution would come in at substantially less than an AMD or Intel solution even if after these are accounted for.
"More simultaneously executing threads = more power"?
A single cpu can exeucte multiple threads, just that the cpu switches among them and executes only one at a given instant, which does not lead to higher performance.