There are embedded controllers with integrated LCD controllers built right into them. That's the way to 'easily' drive an LCD. Granted, that's for a low pixel count LCD, say one with 100 total elements to drive.
LCD display interfaces heavily parallel. There are going to be a lot of interconnects. If you have a bare LCD or even one with fine pitch flex board/cable coming off it, you can forget it. It's an expensive and tricky proposition just to cobble up a prototype, of a device that will have a final market value of $18, in development labs.
This kind of stuff in pre-production is always horrendously expensive, i.e. $500 for a fine pitch 100 pin prototype socket isn't unusual.
I've built tons of prototypes and breadboards. Haven't burned myself with a soldering iron in decades. If you're burning yourself with the soldering iron, maybe you're cut out to be an engineer, not a technician. Let's see how badly you can damage the breadboard Friday night at 9 PM (after everybody else has gone home) by innocently trying to move two wires...
In some businesses I've worked for, your clients want to send you files in Microsoft formats AND require that information that you send to them is in Microsoft formats.
So you license Star Office. And for those rare documents Star Office won't import, you download the free Microsoft Office Viewer. You haven't offered up anything that can't and isn't worked around. For a significant savings (Star Office is far cheaper than MS Office) I might add.
No, Free Software and Linux are succeeding. And in the process rendering Microsoft's 'monopoly' a moot point. Much to the chargrin of people who invested in Novell or WordPerfect.
Symantic has been 'in there' since the Dos 6.0 days when Microsoft licensed their Anti-virus program. And their defragmenting program. And when Symantec bought Central Point Software, and Microsoft licensed in key technologys first previewed in PC Tools for Windows, some elements of which became core parts of Explorer.exe. Symantec has been deeply bundled into Windows since before Windows 95.
McAfee is part of Computer Associates now, isn't it? Another huge conglomerate. Or am I tagging the wrong brands to the wrong conglomerates?
In any case, neither company you mentioned is an independent 'little fish' Microsoft is about to devour.
Please, oh please, don't pretend that Marc Andreesen didn't want to corner and control the market in Web Browsers. Hell, Netscape was really really big on introducing special features and proprietary tags. They wanted to tie the whole web to their Browser and Server technology.
Andreesen was a dink about it, he got on the stage and said 'neaner neaner' to Microsoft, and he got his teeth busted out for it. So goes life.
A good trick is to get your +1 but then post everything still at +1. Then you're guaranteed the right to post all kinds of comments that get slapped down, as long as you post enough that still get marked up, too.
I can think of nothing more important than to make sure that your opinion has enough 'bite' in it that it riles up people who disagree with you.
And that's not speaking as a 'troll.' There are and always will be people who it's necessary to piss off.
It looks like an interesting article about a stick-up-the-butt Federal bureacracy saying 'you can't have that car, you'd better spend a bunch of money getting your papers in order.'
So, I fault Bill Gates and Paul Allen for giving the bureaucrats the satisfaction of playing their game. And it looks like a bunch of people now get to drive cool cars that were formerlly verboten by the gummint.
How's that a bad thing? Your whole attitude seems to be based in envy, nothing more.
Actually, you end up with somebody else's beat up truck, which has 276,000 miles on it. Your original truck still had the sticker in the window, and 1,300 miles on the odometer.
Well, in making my first judgement of a book, I look to see how many screen shots it has. Books that mainly consist of screenshots are often a waste of paper. Have you mentioned every screen shot in the book? If so, it doesn't sound like that bad a book.
You think the print dialogue is essential to effective use of this tool? Enough that an 'out of date' screenshot of the print dialogue turns you away from it?
Copulation is not the overwhelming compulsion that you make it out to be. Particularly not copulation with sweaty overgrown boys playing boyhood games.
One of the things I find amazing is that Iomega marketing decided to call one of their later products (the 'Click' drive) after the sound (click of death) from a failed earlier product.
That would be like Microsoft coming out with the new Windows version and calling it Microsoft Bluescreen.
I was offered a Jazz drive and several disks for free once. Turned them down. I have some internal Zip drives out in the garage in old Mac chassis' (what is the plural of chassis?). Not worth pulling to list on eBay.
I don't see how the chickens could be more efficient. The Oxen will drag a plow with tines that penetrate significantly deeper than the size of chickens themselves. What are the chickens going to pull? Little bitty plows that scratch little pencil lines in the soil.
It's a colorful analogy not meant to be taken too far.
And it's worth noting, for the uninformed, that the reason Slash puts in the spaces is that there used to be a problem with page-widening fucks screwing up the comments sections with deliberately wide strings.
I think it would be a good thing for the to start charging.
Mainly because I get very nervous whenever I notice that another good independent project has been sucked into the SourceForge borg.
Why is it seen as a good thing that all the independent projects are becoming dependent on a big entity for their hostspace? All it would take is for VA Linux, or whatever it's called now, to become even more shaky than it always is, and all that work goes down in a big noisy way.
Development should be decentralized. Codebases shouldn't all be hosted out of a single 'hive.'
I'd be a Debian user, too. Except every time I install it, and that has been on Intel boxes, SparcStations, and an RS/6000 box, I find myself mired in the dreaded 'dpkg swamp' and can't get my way out of it.
So I use NetBSD, and Slackware, and even Solaris. I don't think my problem is that I don't know how to install Unix. I started working with this stuff back in 1993 and have installed Slackware, RedHat, Yggdrasil Linux; FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, A-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and even Xenix. Not all of those are 'plug in the CD and watch. But none of them land me mired in a swamp of dependency bullshit.
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There are embedded controllers with integrated LCD controllers built right into them. That's the way to 'easily' drive an LCD. Granted, that's for a low pixel count LCD, say one with 100 total elements to drive.
LCD display interfaces heavily parallel. There are going to be a lot of interconnects. If you have a bare LCD or even one with fine pitch flex board/cable coming off it, you can forget it. It's an expensive and tricky proposition just to cobble up a prototype, of a device that will have a final market value of $18, in development labs.
This kind of stuff in pre-production is always horrendously expensive, i.e. $500 for a fine pitch 100 pin prototype socket isn't unusual.
I've built tons of prototypes and breadboards. Haven't burned myself with a soldering iron in decades. If you're burning yourself with the soldering iron, maybe you're cut out to be an engineer, not a technician. Let's see how badly you can damage the breadboard Friday night at 9 PM (after everybody else has gone home) by innocently trying to move two wires...
In some businesses I've worked for, your clients want to send you files in Microsoft formats AND require that information that you send to them is in Microsoft formats.
So you license Star Office. And for those rare documents Star Office won't import, you download the free Microsoft Office Viewer. You haven't offered up anything that can't and isn't worked around. For a significant savings (Star Office is far cheaper than MS Office) I might add.
No, Free Software and Linux are succeeding. And in the process rendering Microsoft's 'monopoly' a moot point. Much to the chargrin of people who invested in Novell or WordPerfect.
I love how you misspelled Ray Boorda's name.
Do you have a competitor who has failed because of your business practices, who he can buy cheap? He'd like to sue you out of spite.
Furthermore, because everyone uses Microsoft Office, you have to buy Microsoft Office if you want to exchange documents with other people.
Yes, and you're required to wear a shirt and shoes to go into certain resturants.
You're not forced by this to put on a shirt and shoes.
Symantic has been 'in there' since the Dos 6.0 days when Microsoft licensed their Anti-virus program. And their defragmenting program. And when Symantec bought Central Point Software, and Microsoft licensed in key technologys first previewed in PC Tools for Windows, some elements of which became core parts of Explorer.exe. Symantec has been deeply bundled into Windows since before Windows 95.
McAfee is part of Computer Associates now, isn't it? Another huge conglomerate. Or am I tagging the wrong brands to the wrong conglomerates?
In any case, neither company you mentioned is an independent 'little fish' Microsoft is about to devour.
Other companes just aspire to be Microsoft.
Please, oh please, don't pretend that Marc Andreesen didn't want to corner and control the market in Web Browsers. Hell, Netscape was really really big on introducing special features and proprietary tags. They wanted to tie the whole web to their Browser and Server technology.
Andreesen was a dink about it, he got on the stage and said 'neaner neaner' to Microsoft, and he got his teeth busted out for it. So goes life.
A good trick is to get your +1 but then post everything still at +1. Then you're guaranteed the right to post all kinds of comments that get slapped down, as long as you post enough that still get marked up, too.
I can think of nothing more important than to make sure that your opinion has enough 'bite' in it that it riles up people who disagree with you.
And that's not speaking as a 'troll.' There are and always will be people who it's necessary to piss off.
It looks like an interesting article about a stick-up-the-butt Federal bureacracy saying 'you can't have that car, you'd better spend a bunch of money getting your papers in order.'
So, I fault Bill Gates and Paul Allen for giving the bureaucrats the satisfaction of playing their game. And it looks like a bunch of people now get to drive cool cars that were formerlly verboten by the gummint.
How's that a bad thing? Your whole attitude seems to be based in envy, nothing more.
Actually, it's a way of saying 'I have a library card' and 'cakeboxes full of CDRs were on sale last month.'
Actually, you end up with somebody else's beat up truck, which has 276,000 miles on it. Your original truck still had the sticker in the window, and 1,300 miles on the odometer.
Bad hotdogs at some lame sporting event sounds like a sure thing strategy.
Well, in making my first judgement of a book, I look to see how many screen shots it has. Books that mainly consist of screenshots are often a waste of paper. Have you mentioned every screen shot in the book? If so, it doesn't sound like that bad a book.
You think the print dialogue is essential to effective use of this tool? Enough that an 'out of date' screenshot of the print dialogue turns you away from it?
Copulation is not the overwhelming compulsion that you make it out to be. Particularly not copulation with sweaty overgrown boys playing boyhood games.
Don't be such a pessimist. Maybe they'll do as good as the NetWinder did.
Actually, Sun makes it's money selling Servers. Sparc and Intel/AMD based servers. I think they threw in the towel on workstations awhile back.
There's no forced either/or proposition here. People can dislike the GPL and not be Microsoft partisans.
It isn't the black/white world you make it out to be.
Sun didn't pass money under the table to SCO. They paid SCO above the table and openly.
(I am not defending this action of theirs, just pointing out they weren't covert about it in any way.)
One of the things I find amazing is that Iomega marketing decided to call one of their later products (the 'Click' drive) after the sound (click of death) from a failed earlier product.
That would be like Microsoft coming out with the new Windows version and calling it Microsoft Bluescreen.
I was offered a Jazz drive and several disks for free once. Turned them down. I have some internal Zip drives out in the garage in old Mac chassis' (what is the plural of chassis?). Not worth pulling to list on eBay.
I don't see how the chickens could be more efficient. The Oxen will drag a plow with tines that penetrate significantly deeper than the size of chickens themselves. What are the chickens going to pull? Little bitty plows that scratch little pencil lines in the soil.
It's a colorful analogy not meant to be taken too far.
Also, it'll probably be easier to get all the chickens pointed in the right direction with my dog.
Wow. You've never worked with chickens and dogs before, have you?
The chicks are out at Tractor Supply right now, BTW.
Aw gee. C'mon. You're screwing up the handwaving festival.
And it's worth noting, for the uninformed, that the reason Slash puts in the spaces is that there used to be a problem with page-widening fucks screwing up the comments sections with deliberately wide strings.
It's not a 'bug' in the slashcode.
I think it would be a good thing for the to start charging.
Mainly because I get very nervous whenever I notice that another good independent project has been sucked into the SourceForge borg.
Why is it seen as a good thing that all the independent projects are becoming dependent on a big entity for their hostspace? All it would take is for VA Linux, or whatever it's called now, to become even more shaky than it always is, and all that work goes down in a big noisy way.
Development should be decentralized. Codebases shouldn't all be hosted out of a single 'hive.'
I'd be a Debian user, too. Except every time I install it, and that has been on Intel boxes, SparcStations, and an RS/6000 box, I find myself mired in the dreaded 'dpkg swamp' and can't get my way out of it.
So I use NetBSD, and Slackware, and even Solaris. I don't think my problem is that I don't know how to install Unix. I started working with this stuff back in 1993 and have installed Slackware, RedHat, Yggdrasil Linux; FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, A-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and even Xenix. Not all of those are 'plug in the CD and watch. But none of them land me mired in a swamp of dependency bullshit.