It's tit-for-tat. The American boarder guards started doing the same thing to Canadians years ago. Pretty much anything on a record gets a Canadian the same treatment from US border guards.
You can download v1.0 of the distro right there. There's a post-install script you have to run to get the sound drivers set up then you're off to the races.
I haven't yet had the pleasure to rip apart a 90x or 100x model, but the 701B I have at home has the SSD soldered to the mainboard.
Apparently the 701A had an expansion connector (not populated on the 701B) and the SSD that fit in there just had a USB2.0 interface.
Q: How can you tell the difference between an American tourist and a Canadian Tourist?
A: The Canadian tourist only has *one* Canadian flag on his backpack.:)
The first time I did assembly programming was in technical school. (On 286's and 386's, the good ol' DOS days).
I found out that the text font table on the video cards were stored in RAM. You could read and write them. You could also read them, reverse them and write them back. Each letter would show up, but printed backwards on the monitor.:)
I added my little executable to a friend's AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Took him a couple of hours to figure it out.
Canada has had a "Free Trade" agreement with the US for years now.
It's quite an abusive relationship - the US will impose tariffs on softwood lumber to protect their corporation's interests... Yet Canada is prevented from imposing tariffs on agricultural products while the US heavily subsidizes their farming operations. (Those are two examples of many... the same type of things happen with coal, steel, and a number of other commodities.)
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) unilaterally benefits the US because of this selected enforcement of "free" trade. Yet the Canadian government refuses to withdraw from NAFTA for fears that the US will retaliate (economically, of course). The US is our largest trading partner by far.
Now that Mexico has entered into NAFTA as well, they're being exploited just as badly. This disparity is really pissing off a lot of people.
The only other thing to think about is the yield of the wafer (ie. how many good dies you get from each wafer).
Some circuits are harder to build or more prone to failures in the manufacturing process - ADCs, DACs and high-speed opamps come to mind. Some of the flaws are inherent in the way the wafer was grown.
Especially in a pipelined microprocessor, the distribution of the clock signal plays a crucial role in the performance of the circuit.
There are control signals and decode logic that cannot be part of the pipeline - they're supposed to keep the pipeline operating properly. This is the part of the chip where extremely long wire runs frequently occur, and where chip designers spend the VAST majority of their time.
The wires have considerable capacitance - you're right on the mark there. The gate inputs also load the clock drivers... You have to design the chip to have the same load on each drive output without making the clock distribution take up half the die area. It starts to get really crazy with 100 million transistors to a die.
I'm designing a nifty little RISC microcontroller at work... It's not nearly as hefty as the P4 or the Athlon, but even at just a few square millimetres the clocks can be tricky.
Nope. The FCC testing is supposed to say that your VCR isn't as likely to interfere with your computer, but they can't guarantee it. RF is kinda like black magic.
If you read the FCC label on a Part 15 device (digital electronics or low power radio), it states that "Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any harmful interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."
Part 15 doesn't guarantee that the device won't interfere with something else (or be interfered with!).
I worked in a test lab that did Part 15 testing - you'd be surprised at how much useless EM radiation your computer can spew.
They're not worried about the cellphone interfering with airport communications systems. They're worried that 200 passengers will all get on their 600mW cellphone radios and transmit at the same time, all inside a big metal tube (that reflects the power back into the plane, btw).
That definately has the potential to mess up navigation systems and all kinds of on board electronics.
The aircraft go through some hellish tests to try to make sure they won't crash if that ever happened, but it's probably better to err on the side of caution with something like this.
(Try looking up DO-160E standard testing - that's the standard that all commercial aircraft systems must meet to be allowed in the air. I worked for a lab that did those tests -- believe me, they're harsh.)
Actually, even a verbal promise isn't legally binding. There must be some "consideration" for the promise. Orkut had to receive something explicitly in return for the promise in order for it to be binding... A least in courts derived from Britain, like Canada and the US.
What my current employer has done is word the employment contract so that them giving me a job is consideration. Dunno if it'll hold up in court, but I don't really want to find out, either.
If nothing else, I got that much from my contract law course.
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It's tit-for-tat. The American boarder guards started doing the same thing to Canadians years ago.
Pretty much anything on a record gets a Canadian the same treatment from US border guards.
FLOPS = FLoating Point Operations Per Second
The C64 has no floating point unit in hardware. All floating point math had to be done through software emulation. It's a lot of extra work.
The C64 may have "fast" bytewise integer math in comparison, but there's a lot of overhead when you try to do floating point in an integer system.
It's your lucky day!
http://www.eeebuntu.org/
You can download v1.0 of the distro right there. There's a post-install script you have to run to get the sound drivers set up then you're off to the races.
I haven't yet had the pleasure to rip apart a 90x or 100x model, but the 701B I have at home has the SSD soldered to the mainboard. Apparently the 701A had an expansion connector (not populated on the 701B) and the SSD that fit in there just had a USB2.0 interface.
I have a little Raritanium kicking around... You're welcome to it. :)
Q: How can you tell the difference between an American tourist and a Canadian Tourist? :)
A: The Canadian tourist only has *one* Canadian flag on his backpack.
I've got one.
:)
The first time I did assembly programming was in technical school. (On 286's and 386's, the good ol' DOS days).
I found out that the text font table on the video cards were stored in RAM. You could read and write them. You could also read them, reverse them and write them back. Each letter would show up, but printed backwards on the monitor.
I added my little executable to a friend's AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Took him a couple of hours to figure it out.
Good times.
That's why they invented outsourcing...
:)
Problem solved!
Canada has had a "Free Trade" agreement with the US for years now.
It's quite an abusive relationship - the US will impose tariffs on softwood lumber to protect their corporation's interests... Yet Canada is prevented from imposing tariffs on agricultural products while the US heavily subsidizes their farming operations. (Those are two examples of many... the same type of things happen with coal, steel, and a number of other commodities.)
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) unilaterally benefits the US because of this selected enforcement of "free" trade. Yet the Canadian government refuses to withdraw from NAFTA for fears that the US will retaliate (economically, of course). The US is our largest trading partner by far.
Now that Mexico has entered into NAFTA as well, they're being exploited just as badly. This disparity is really pissing off a lot of people.
*sigh* I guess I'll stop the rant here.
I hear Konqueror is pretty slick. :)
*ducks*
Well, you've basically got it.
The only other thing to think about is the yield of the wafer (ie. how many good dies you get from each wafer).
Some circuits are harder to build or more prone to failures in the manufacturing process - ADCs, DACs and high-speed opamps come to mind. Some of the flaws are inherent in the way the wafer was grown.
I started using duel montiors...
:)
Cool! En Garde!
Especially in a pipelined microprocessor, the distribution of the clock signal plays a crucial role in the performance of the circuit.
There are control signals and decode logic that cannot be part of the pipeline - they're supposed to keep the pipeline operating properly. This is the part of the chip where extremely long wire runs frequently occur, and where chip designers spend the VAST majority of their time.
The wires have considerable capacitance - you're right on the mark there. The gate inputs also load the clock drivers... You have to design the chip to have the same load on each drive output without making the clock distribution take up half the die area. It starts to get really crazy with 100 million transistors to a die.
I'm designing a nifty little RISC microcontroller at work... It's not nearly as hefty as the P4 or the Athlon, but even at just a few square millimetres the clocks can be tricky.
Yarr! That looks to be a good idea, matey! :)
It's not like it's actually being hosted on Windows... :)
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=sco.com
(I've really gotta learn to make a clickable link...)
Nope. The FCC testing is supposed to say that your VCR isn't as likely to interfere with your computer, but they can't guarantee it. RF is kinda like black magic.
If you read the FCC label on a Part 15 device (digital electronics or low power radio), it states that "Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any harmful interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."
Part 15 doesn't guarantee that the device won't interfere with something else (or be interfered with!).
I worked in a test lab that did Part 15 testing - you'd be surprised at how much useless EM radiation your computer can spew.
they should wrap the passenger compartment with copper mesh,ground it..
:)
How do you propose to do this on a plane that's several thousand feet in the air?
They're not worried about the cellphone interfering with airport communications systems. They're worried that 200 passengers will all get on their 600mW cellphone radios and transmit at the same time, all inside a big metal tube (that reflects the power back into the plane, btw).
That definately has the potential to mess up navigation systems and all kinds of on board electronics.
The aircraft go through some hellish tests to try to make sure they won't crash if that ever happened, but it's probably better to err on the side of caution with something like this.
(Try looking up DO-160E standard testing - that's the standard that all commercial aircraft systems must meet to be allowed in the air. I worked for a lab that did those tests -- believe me, they're harsh.)
When we all talk to a room full of people who are our clones it's got to get pretty boring.
/. then? :)
What are you doing posting on
And this MUM will be a small one, weighing less than a kilogram for a length of only 50 centimeters.
Just being picky... Is that its weight on Earth or on Mars?
You might have a long wait to get into Canada... The US government has pretty much started to dictate Canadian immigration procedures.
:)
We can't just let people move all willy-nilly anymore.
Actually, even a verbal promise isn't legally binding. There must be some "consideration" for the promise. Orkut had to receive something explicitly in return for the promise in order for it to be binding... A least in courts derived from Britain, like Canada and the US.
What my current employer has done is word the employment contract so that them giving me a job is consideration. Dunno if it'll hold up in court, but I don't really want to find out, either.
If nothing else, I got that much from my contract law course.
And it's addictive!
I don't know where you're from, but it's not Alberta or BC. Long distance is deregulated, but you have the choice of Telus or... Telus.
At least they have cheap DSL.
...the loss of the one customer...
If Telus operates in a province in Canada, it has a monopoly for the entire province. There's no loss of customers here...
For good or for worse, we're a captive 'audience'.