Not quite. $13 may represent 1% of the total you paid for 100 CDs but unless you are saying they should have been free I don't think you can say the settlement is only giving you 1% of what you were overcharged.
If someone is developing a robot the absolute least of their complexity worries is an RS232 transceiver. There's nothing wrong with coupling your home built robot to the PC. That at least lets you send it data and likewise allows it to send you data. Wireless is also an option with the low cost modules that are now available.
As far as having a processor on the robot, obviously if they are sending RS232 data down to the robot then they must have a processor resident on it that is interpreting those commands.
That makes sense given everything they do: processors, memories, networking ICs, bla bla bla. To be honest I am surprised that they have only shipped a billion x86 chips.
Yeah, as enjoyable as a visit to the dentist. In my younger days:), several years ago I used to get a kick out of recompiling the kernel with different options and seeing what worked and what didn't. Then, I got a life and decided staying up till 2AM on work nights was not all that fun. Some of us have better things to do. Same goes for recompiling KDE a thousand times!
Does anyone remember when you were considered a non-techincal wimp if you used anything other than the command line configuration for the kernel? Yuck.
I get phone calls daily from people trying to get me to sign up for trade journals and people trying to get me to sign up for their credit cards. It's a big time waster. Questions is, would this do-not-call list work for a business? Or would that somehow mean that other legitimate but unsolicited calls would not be allowed? For instance, a semiconductor company rep that is just calling to check up on things.
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Well, I thought the purpose of twm was to provide a barebones WM that would work if X11 was installed properly. In other words, it's just for testing.
I wonder why these big three manufacturers are recalling drives and Western Digital isn't? My guess is that they should be recalling drives but instead have decided to stick it to the customer. At least the other guys are being honest.
I was under the impression that the licensing already allowed corporate users to have a copy on a home machine as long as the copy at work was not being used by someone. At least that is what I was told by our MIS person.
Do these documents just dissapear forever? Or does the gov't keep electronic copies? It seems very strange that all that information can just be destroyed. It does mention that Sun is scanning the documents but I would think the gov't should keep copies of everything.
Your damn straight Americans are too lazy to walk. How many of us have walked up to our car in the supermarket parking lot while some lazy person decides he/she can't drive a few more spaces down and has to wait for us to pull our car out so they can be 20 feet closer to the store? How about when they have the nerve to make others wait behind THEM while they wait for the spot? Are Americans too lazy to walk? Oh yeah.
For commercial and medical products we have to design based on certain electromagnetic immunity requirements. What's the deal with the equipment on airplanes? I realize that wireless lans probably produce a fair amount of radiation that has to be handled but that's no excuse. I would think EVERY piece of electronics in an airplane would be designed to handle far worse. Why is that stuff so fragile?
Dot matrix printers are used where reliability is a great concern. When I worked at Raytheon the systems we shipped to the gov't used dot matrix printers for logging. They're like the energizer bunny. They just keep going and going and going and...
...to be familiar with state charts is that there are some good tools out there that can generate code straight from a state chart diagram. The implementation from IAR (www.iar.com) even handles real-time designs.
I don't know how powerful the Cray-1 was but it seems that even back then it was probably faster at some/most things than the average computer today. Are there any sites out there that actually compare the old Crays to current computers? How do you know your machine is faster than a Cray-1?
"The Patriot Act has been an extremely useful tool, a demonstrated success, and we don't want that to expire on us,"
My ass! Demonstratable to who? Everything the agencies do under the act is a secret and the public has no lawful way to find out how/why they are using/abusing their powers. If they can't demonstrate the usefullness to the public, then in my opinion it needs to be stopped.
I'm not going to go back and search, but maybe 6 months ago or so there was a story posted here on Slashdot about how one expert feels the warming trend will eventually bring us into a "mini" ice age. In short, as the poles melt they greatly decrease the amount of salt in the water in the northern atlantic which then "clogs" this thing they call the Great Conveyer. The GC is a water system in the ocean that runs from the south, to the north and back south again. It helps distribute heat evenly. The story was an interesting read and the scientist had interesting simulations you could view on his page. I believe he was a top scientist at NOAA.
We all take for granted that every year prices on our favorite tech toys will drop. The real question is, how low can this stuff really go? Do you REALLY expect that LCD pricing should drop year after year? I think it's entirely possible that in a lot of technology product areas we have pretty much hit rock-bottom as far as pricing goes. I mean come on, they can't make the stuff for free regardless of how long they have been producing something.
Well, personally I could care less if flash dissapears. Why is that? Because the ONLY way it can is if something better comes along. Flash is far too important, not only because it makes it convenient to store pics from our digital cams but also because of the lower level applications. Most importantly program memory in microcontrollers and configuration memories for FPGAs etc. Without that you could kiss the idea of updating firmware in your router/MP3 player/camera or whatever else goodbye.
Programmers, like any engineer, don't make laws. Engineers/programmers are not God. We use the laws of nature to solve a problem. We don't invent new ones.
Programmers solve problems just like any other engineer does. The tools and the domain of the problem are different but it's still engineering.
That really wasn't the point of the article. I believe that regardless of what type of engineer you think you are, if you are not a licensed professional engineer then you can't represent yourself as one outside of the company. When I worked for a company in Richardson, TX (Dallas suburb) all of our business cards said "Telecommunication Hardware Engineering." I was told at the time (back in 96) that this was because you couldn't put engineer on your business card unless you were licensed. Oddly enough, the company I am at now seems to not have a problem with it. But then I think it's because they are unaware of the issue.
I know I have seen the term "authors" used before when talking about people that create Flash aps. Can someone educate me here? Is there a reason why these people aren't considered developers? Is it not a programming environment? I don't know anything about "authoring" with Flash so it would be interesting to hear.
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Hopefully it won't give away to the stewardess that I hav a deep vein throbosses from watching here walk up and down the aisle.
Not quite. $13 may represent 1% of the total you paid for 100 CDs but unless you are saying they should have been free I don't think you can say the settlement is only giving you 1% of what you were overcharged.
If someone is developing a robot the absolute least of their complexity worries is an RS232 transceiver. There's nothing wrong with coupling your home built robot to the PC. That at least lets you send it data and likewise allows it to send you data. Wireless is also an option with the low cost modules that are now available.
As far as having a processor on the robot, obviously if they are sending RS232 data down to the robot then they must have a processor resident on it that is interpreting those commands.
That makes sense given everything they do: processors, memories, networking ICs, bla bla bla. To be honest I am surprised that they have only shipped a billion x86 chips.
Yeah, as enjoyable as a visit to the dentist. In my younger days :), several years ago I used to get a kick out of recompiling the kernel with different options and seeing what worked and what didn't. Then, I got a life and decided staying up till 2AM on work nights was not all that fun. Some of us have better things to do. Same goes for recompiling KDE a thousand times!
Does anyone remember when you were considered a non-techincal wimp if you used anything other than the command line configuration for the kernel? Yuck.
I get phone calls daily from people trying to get me to sign up for trade journals and people trying to get me to sign up for their credit cards. It's a big time waster. Questions is, would this do-not-call list work for a business? Or would that somehow mean that other legitimate but unsolicited calls would not be allowed? For instance, a semiconductor company rep that is just calling to check up on things.
Well, I thought the purpose of twm was to provide a barebones WM that would work if X11 was installed properly. In other words, it's just for testing.
I wonder why these big three manufacturers are recalling drives and Western Digital isn't? My guess is that they should be recalling drives but instead have decided to stick it to the customer. At least the other guys are being honest.
I was under the impression that the licensing already allowed corporate users to have a copy on a home machine as long as the copy at work was not being used by someone. At least that is what I was told by our MIS person.
Do these documents just dissapear forever? Or does the gov't keep electronic copies? It seems very strange that all that information can just be destroyed. It does mention that Sun is scanning the documents but I would think the gov't should keep copies of everything.
Your damn straight Americans are too lazy to walk. How many of us have walked up to our car in the supermarket parking lot while some lazy person decides he/she can't drive a few more spaces down and has to wait for us to pull our car out so they can be 20 feet closer to the store? How about when they have the nerve to make others wait behind THEM while they wait for the spot? Are Americans too lazy to walk? Oh yeah.
For commercial and medical products we have to design based on certain electromagnetic immunity requirements. What's the deal with the equipment on airplanes? I realize that wireless lans probably produce a fair amount of radiation that has to be handled but that's no excuse. I would think EVERY piece of electronics in an airplane would be designed to handle far worse. Why is that stuff so fragile?
Dot matrix printers are used where reliability is a great concern. When I worked at Raytheon the systems we shipped to the gov't used dot matrix printers for logging. They're like the energizer bunny. They just keep going and going and going and...
No kidding. Maybe if they can get their hands on enough of these new AMD chips they can build a system capable of withstanding the load.
Maybe that will be part of their stance. If all the other messaging services already have these features, is it really fair to call it "advanced"?
...to be familiar with state charts is that there are some good tools out there that can generate code straight from a state chart diagram. The implementation from IAR (www.iar.com) even handles real-time designs.
I don't know how powerful the Cray-1 was but it seems that even back then it was probably faster at some/most things than the average computer today. Are there any sites out there that actually compare the old Crays to current computers? How do you know your machine is faster than a Cray-1?
"The Patriot Act has been an extremely useful tool, a demonstrated success, and we don't want that to expire on us,"
My ass! Demonstratable to who? Everything the agencies do under the act is a secret and the public has no lawful way to find out how/why they are using/abusing their powers. If they can't demonstrate the usefullness to the public, then in my opinion it needs to be stopped.
Perhaps no one if when VisiCalc came out a unix machine wasn't an ungodly sum of money.
I'm not going to go back and search, but maybe 6 months ago or so there was a story posted here on Slashdot about how one expert feels the warming trend will eventually bring us into a "mini" ice age. In short, as the poles melt they greatly decrease the amount of salt in the water in the northern atlantic which then "clogs" this thing they call the Great Conveyer. The GC is a water system in the ocean that runs from the south, to the north and back south again. It helps distribute heat evenly. The story was an interesting read and the scientist had interesting simulations you could view on his page. I believe he was a top scientist at NOAA.
We all take for granted that every year prices on our favorite tech toys will drop. The real question is, how low can this stuff really go? Do you REALLY expect that LCD pricing should drop year after year? I think it's entirely possible that in a lot of technology product areas we have pretty much hit rock-bottom as far as pricing goes. I mean come on, they can't make the stuff for free regardless of how long they have been producing something.
Well, personally I could care less if flash dissapears. Why is that? Because the ONLY way it can is if something better comes along. Flash is far too important, not only because it makes it convenient to store pics from our digital cams but also because of the lower level applications. Most importantly program memory in microcontrollers and configuration memories for FPGAs etc. Without that you could kiss the idea of updating firmware in your router/MP3 player/camera or whatever else goodbye.
Programmers, like any engineer, don't make laws. Engineers/programmers are not God. We use the laws of nature to solve a problem. We don't invent new ones.
Programmers solve problems just like any other engineer does. The tools and the domain of the problem are different but it's still engineering.
That really wasn't the point of the article. I believe that regardless of what type of engineer you think you are, if you are not a licensed professional engineer then you can't represent yourself as one outside of the company. When I worked for a company in Richardson, TX (Dallas suburb) all of our business cards said "Telecommunication Hardware Engineering." I was told at the time (back in 96) that this was because you couldn't put engineer on your business card unless you were licensed. Oddly enough, the company I am at now seems to not have a problem with it. But then I think it's because they are unaware of the issue.
I know I have seen the term "authors" used before when talking about people that create Flash aps. Can someone educate me here? Is there a reason why these people aren't considered developers? Is it not a programming environment? I don't know anything about "authoring" with Flash so it would be interesting to hear.