It's not desktop vs. mobile, it is manufacturer X vs. manufacturer Y. ARM is just the core- the company doesn't make chips. They license their core to people who design with it. What is fragmented is everything outside the core- that is, the value that each licensee adds to the core to make their own product. They're embedded processors- they get surrounded by many peripherals such as analog to digital converters, interrupt controllers, serial ports, memory interfaces... the list goes on and on.
To me, it brings back memories of the early PC era, where you may have had a game with *awesome* graphics and sound, but you had to spend hours fiddling with the IRQs and other settings to get the program to work reliably.
Open? How is ARM open? ARM is a very popular but *licensed* core that you must pay a good deal of money to license. According to the Wikipedia article on ARM, in 2006 it cost about $1,800,000 per license.
I travel with hand made electronic boards in my carry-on luggage on virtually every flight I've taken since 2006 (as part of my job), and I fly about 2-4 times/month. The only time my bag has been searched (triggered by the x-ray scan) was when I was travelling with a isolation transformer (about a pound of steel and copper). If what Blogger Bob is talking about was commonplace, I'm sure I'd at least have gotten my bags hand-screened a few more times.
Yup- I should have known this- I didn't think my answer through. The link between MAC and PHY is pretty deterministic and shouldn't affect timing. I don't know why I didn't make that inference.
Realistically, the accuracy of NTP is in the millisecond range, not close to what you need for CDMA. There is a standard (IEEE1588) that can get you to better than a microsecond, but that requires a specialized hardware PHY.
GPS can give you continuous accuracy on the order of hundreds of nano-seconds easily, and it's not a huge expense to get to 10s of nanoseconds.
Cellular service from CDMA providers Sprint could be disrupted as they use GPS trained oscillators to ensure synchronization between towers. Others could be affected as well, but I'm not sure of all that they use for time synchronization. I'd be suprised if they didn't use GPS, as GPS makes an extremely accurate clock very, very, cheap and low power. Sprint uses CDMA which needs decent time synchronization. It is very possible for CDMA to run without a good time reference, but it takes longer (really it's a tradeoff with time, power and hardware) to start up- why a GPS takes some finite amount of time to find your position, for example.
I've got a History degree and I make six figures you insensitive clod!
I've got a History degree, make six figures, and I work as an *engineer*, you insensitive clods!
I've got an engineering degree and I know that "six figures" is meaningless if you don't indicate the radix, the location of the radix point, and the units!
I think there is very much an unfair designation from the "skilled trades" and the professionally exempt- take machinists- typically today they have to have mastery of all sorts of machining code, mechanical structures, but are relegated to skilled trades. I'm convinced that the designation is mostly a matter of what is convenient and cost effective for the employer. Many of the skilled trades I've worked with were damn skilled, had great understanding of the tools and what they could make- maybe it was more on an experiential level than an analytical measure, but the results are effective, and they should not be relegated to a lower level in the hierarchy.
Yes, but a very typical dividing line is the duties- once it gets into trade school type duties, the position is usually under FLSA. The typical IT worker is classified as "professionally exempt"- From http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html:
"Professionally exempt workers must have education beyond high school, and usually beyond college, in fields that are distinguished from (more "academic" than) the mechanical arts or skilled trades."
If they set the precedent that IT is a skilled trade, you would have MBA's heads popping all over the place from the impact upon tech companies bottom lines.
Yup. But once you start looking at the position as something you can get out of a trade school, the position is no longer FLSA-exempt, and you gotta pay them overtime. That can't happen, since they'll probably be expecting them to work lots of (uncompensated) overtime.
Considering the two transmitter one reciever idea, doesn't multipath eliminate the gains, or at least make the cancellation not reliably predictable, significantly reducing the cancellation in a non-ideal environment?
Teachers don't want to get fired! I live near Austin, TX and the Austin Independent School District just announced plans to lay off 450 teachers next year due to budget cuts. Administrators will be looking to anything to give them an excuse to fire a teacher- for cause: no unemployment... Bonus! The problem lies in the extremely vocal minority of parents that protest (generally anything that falls outside of their narrowly defined set of "values"). They get the administrator's attention, and the teacher gets fired. When there is a need to re-hire, there are plenty of underqualified Teach-for-America supplied teachers (who, as new teachers, get paid much less). While the TFA teachers may be qualified on the subject matter, they don't have much basis on *Teaching* the subject matter- an entirely different skill. Don't worry, most of the TFA teachers get a hard dose of reality (low pay, no respect, long hours) and quit teaching in a few years.
[my wife is a teacher (15 years teaching), she's just glad she's got an engineer husband to support her teaching habit... I'm just an enabler, I guess]
Heck, I've edited the registry on my windows machines to disable the key anyway. Only gets me into trouble. Be nice to map it into something else. Definitely not a key that has much use anyway.
What's worse than samzenpus is that this bit of dreck is getting repeated, over, and over again. Now this guy will be probably be posting lens flares as UFOs and "rods" as an undiscovered lifeform.
So, which apps? I've RTFA and it doesn't mention which apps were removed. I also wonder if this is done silently, or if there is some mention in the installer/Android Market that tells you what has happened.
Yep, they can do this, and I still trust Google. Yes, they are a big company and have the potential to do nefarious things, but I don't really see it happening.
Yes they are heating the fuel, but they're also heating the air charge simply by compressing it- I think they are using a combination of the two to achieve the temperatures needed for self ignition. The injection process will always have some cooling involved, since you have to have a pressure differential to get the fuel into the chamber, and as it goes into the chamber, it will lose some temperature.
This isn't a fuel saving device, this is a different engine, with enough different about it, that I believe that there is potential. On the other hand, it is mostly a variant on a Diesel cycle engine (note, I did not say Diesel fuel)- direct injection, with gasoline and no spark.
With the increased temperature of ignition, how does this perform with respect to emissions? Since the atmosphere is mostly Nitrogen, and with higher combustion temperature, the greater the NOx. I scanned TFA, but there doesn't seem to be anything on how this technology performs WRT combustion byproducts (by this, I mean beyond CO2 and H20).
This reminds me of articles in Popular Science during the 70's touting columnist (and notable mechanic) Smokey Yunick and his super efficient engine that also used pre-heating of the intake charge, but I think the technology of fuel injection hadn't moved far enough to get to this level of direct injection.
TiVo *MUST* get back with DirecTV ASAP. TFA mentions it, but the reunion of DirecTV and TiVo (with HD) is what I'm waiting for, and why I've stayed with DirecTV without even considering other services. I've tried other DVRs, and compared to TiVo, they uniformly suck. Couple TiVo with the direct recording of the digital stream... and you've got nearly the perfect combination in terms of user interface and picture quality. I was going to stick with my old tube TV and Standard Def DirecTiVo, but a lightning hit took 'em out. Went to the DirecTV HD DVR... slow, featureless, small capacity, and leased. I don't want a separate box, as ultimately that solution is a kludge and would bring forth other issues (not counting the picture degradation by the multiple encoding/decoding).
They are already at least 6 months past the first promised date for the HD DirecTiVo. Don't know what is holding it up, but both DirecTV and TiVo should have this as a corporate priority. If Dish switched to TiVo, I'd switch in an instant, even with the termination fees I'd suffer.
I was under the impression that 100% ethanol was dangerous to drink straight because of its hygroscopic properties- as it would essentially draw the moisture out of the lining of your throat, creating what the body would treat as a burn- inflammation, swelling, generally something you don't want associated with your airway.
Did you actually drink it, or was it more of a 'slurping' type of aerosolization?
Read the book by William R. Forstchen: One Second After about America after an EMP attack. Our grid (and all our semiconductors) are exceedingly vulnerable.
Does this mean that illegal activity originating from an IP address tied to me cannot be used in court as evidence against me? (Like in the RIAA cases?)
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To me, it brings back memories of the early PC era, where you may have had a game with *awesome* graphics and sound, but you had to spend hours fiddling with the IRQs and other settings to get the program to work reliably.
Open? How is ARM open? ARM is a very popular but *licensed* core that you must pay a good deal of money to license. According to the Wikipedia article on ARM, in 2006 it cost about $1,800,000 per license.
I travel with hand made electronic boards in my carry-on luggage on virtually every flight I've taken since 2006 (as part of my job), and I fly about 2-4 times/month. The only time my bag has been searched (triggered by the x-ray scan) was when I was travelling with a isolation transformer (about a pound of steel and copper). If what Blogger Bob is talking about was commonplace, I'm sure I'd at least have gotten my bags hand-screened a few more times.
Yup- I should have known this- I didn't think my answer through. The link between MAC and PHY is pretty deterministic and shouldn't affect timing. I don't know why I didn't make that inference.
Realistically, the accuracy of NTP is in the millisecond range, not close to what you need for CDMA. There is a standard (IEEE1588) that can get you to better than a microsecond, but that requires a specialized hardware PHY. GPS can give you continuous accuracy on the order of hundreds of nano-seconds easily, and it's not a huge expense to get to 10s of nanoseconds.
Cellular service from CDMA providers Sprint could be disrupted as they use GPS trained oscillators to ensure synchronization between towers. Others could be affected as well, but I'm not sure of all that they use for time synchronization. I'd be suprised if they didn't use GPS, as GPS makes an extremely accurate clock very, very, cheap and low power. Sprint uses CDMA which needs decent time synchronization. It is very possible for CDMA to run without a good time reference, but it takes longer (really it's a tradeoff with time, power and hardware) to start up- why a GPS takes some finite amount of time to find your position, for example.
I've got a History degree and I make six figures you insensitive clod!
I've got a History degree, make six figures, and I work as an *engineer*, you insensitive clods!
I've got an engineering degree and I know that "six figures" is meaningless if you don't indicate the radix, the location of the radix point, and the units!
I think there is very much an unfair designation from the "skilled trades" and the professionally exempt- take machinists- typically today they have to have mastery of all sorts of machining code, mechanical structures, but are relegated to skilled trades. I'm convinced that the designation is mostly a matter of what is convenient and cost effective for the employer. Many of the skilled trades I've worked with were damn skilled, had great understanding of the tools and what they could make- maybe it was more on an experiential level than an analytical measure, but the results are effective, and they should not be relegated to a lower level in the hierarchy.
"Professionally exempt workers must have education beyond high school, and usually beyond college, in fields that are distinguished from (more "academic" than) the mechanical arts or skilled trades."
If they set the precedent that IT is a skilled trade, you would have MBA's heads popping all over the place from the impact upon tech companies bottom lines.
Yup. But once you start looking at the position as something you can get out of a trade school, the position is no longer FLSA-exempt, and you gotta pay them overtime. That can't happen, since they'll probably be expecting them to work lots of (uncompensated) overtime.
Considering the two transmitter one reciever idea, doesn't multipath eliminate the gains, or at least make the cancellation not reliably predictable, significantly reducing the cancellation in a non-ideal environment?
Curious- why do you ask?
[my wife is a teacher (15 years teaching), she's just glad she's got an engineer husband to support her teaching habit... I'm just an enabler, I guess]
Heck, I've edited the registry on my windows machines to disable the key anyway. Only gets me into trouble. Be nice to map it into something else. Definitely not a key that has much use anyway.
What's worse than samzenpus is that this bit of dreck is getting repeated, over, and over again. Now this guy will be probably be posting lens flares as UFOs and "rods" as an undiscovered lifeform.
So, which apps? I've RTFA and it doesn't mention which apps were removed. I also wonder if this is done silently, or if there is some mention in the installer/Android Market that tells you what has happened. Yep, they can do this, and I still trust Google. Yes, they are a big company and have the potential to do nefarious things, but I don't really see it happening.
Microchip has an "Internet Radio" with an OLED display as a demo board: http://www.microchipdirect.com/ProductSearch.aspx?keywords=DM183033 It is completely hackable, the complete source is available.
Yes they are heating the fuel, but they're also heating the air charge simply by compressing it- I think they are using a combination of the two to achieve the temperatures needed for self ignition. The injection process will always have some cooling involved, since you have to have a pressure differential to get the fuel into the chamber, and as it goes into the chamber, it will lose some temperature.
This isn't a fuel saving device, this is a different engine, with enough different about it, that I believe that there is potential. On the other hand, it is mostly a variant on a Diesel cycle engine (note, I did not say Diesel fuel)- direct injection, with gasoline and no spark.
This reminds me of articles in Popular Science during the 70's touting columnist (and notable mechanic) Smokey Yunick and his super efficient engine that also used pre-heating of the intake charge, but I think the technology of fuel injection hadn't moved far enough to get to this level of direct injection.
They are already at least 6 months past the first promised date for the HD DirecTiVo. Don't know what is holding it up, but both DirecTV and TiVo should have this as a corporate priority. If Dish switched to TiVo, I'd switch in an instant, even with the termination fees I'd suffer.
I was under the impression that 100% ethanol was dangerous to drink straight because of its hygroscopic properties- as it would essentially draw the moisture out of the lining of your throat, creating what the body would treat as a burn- inflammation, swelling, generally something you don't want associated with your airway. Did you actually drink it, or was it more of a 'slurping' type of aerosolization?
Read the book by William R. Forstchen: One Second After about America after an EMP attack. Our grid (and all our semiconductors) are exceedingly vulnerable.
Does this mean that illegal activity originating from an IP address tied to me cannot be used in court as evidence against me? (Like in the RIAA cases?)
I like your list- I'd also like to see "All Information that is collected about me without anonimization by any private entity can be viewed"
If it is truly deleted, that's all right. If people keep the information around about me, I want access to it.