Ordered mine on "release day"... still waiting for delivery. Not much in the mood to do research for a piece of (presently, from my perspective) vapourware. Perhaps a lucky person who can actually work with the things already has the answer.
Perhaps in the future they can spin a larger board (at a ~$5 premium) that includes mounting holes? No re-design required apart from repaneling. Of course, they have connectors coming off from every side, so the mounting holes are going to be making connectors sink in from the edges....
I'm sure it was a decision for smaller cheaper boards, not an oversight. (smaller boards == more boards per panel == cheaper)
O.K. - this is a selfish request for info I'm too lazy to look up for myself...
What's the ETA and source for direct connect digital camera support? I know there's USB support through the standard Linux stack, but there's that tantalizing little camera port on the Pi that gets mentioned every so often.
Will it support multiple cameras?
Will it support higher bandwidth than USB?
Will it have any decent general purpose driver support?
Is it just a phantom port like the one on the Beagle/Panda boards where there's not actually any camera on the market that connects to it?
My future four-eyed autonomous rover wants to know!
iCaps are weird no matter how you do them... I treat the word as a proper noun, with a stupid lowercase letter that has no place in any grammatical history prepended.
When I was fresh out of college, I could have moved anywhere, done anything, and done it for less than the going rate and had plenty to live on... as it happened, I took a job with a dodgy looking company based on an ad in the local paper - it worked out, good gig for 12 years. When that gig was up, I had a wife, 2 yr old kid and another on the way, mortgage to pay, etc. etc.
There was an intriguing job offer on a beach in Costa Rica, if it weren't for the kids we might have gone for it...
I know a few "real life" physicists, most of physics "ain't exactly rocket science," even the particle guys spend a lot of time doing some very simple-minded stuff.
I studied Electrical Engineering (specialization in Computer Engineering, granted, but digital design, hardware, not software), got a Master's Degree, and then went and got a job writing software - for 12 years. Went from there to a "Real EE" job for 2.5, then did a couple of gigs as "Director of Software Development" that included hands-on programming, and my title is now "Software Engineer"...
Titles don't matter much, and unless you're applying to a big company that has a square hole for you to insert your diploma into, degrees are pretty flexible too.
Personally, I'd rather see the "Computer Related Disciplines" all given a well rounded picture of theory and practice.
Not that this should ever happen, but I had a student in digital design once tell me that they didn't have to know how to create a sub-directory in their simulator software account because "that's not what this class is about." Likewise, there are waaaay too many engineers who will implement a quick hack that "works" with no regard for the theory/science aspects of the problem that would point out that their "working" solution is only 1% efficient and won't scale with significant volume increases.
Can we study the same things in other departments without having a dedicated Computer Science niche to go with Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.?
Florida was sitting on a vast, untapped groundwater reserve 100 years ago.
50 years ago it was starting to get tapped.
50 years from now, if usage trends don't change, Florida will need high powered desalination plants just to provide potable water to the populace, agriculture will be dead, and the whole place will bear more than a passing resemblance to the deserts of the Middle East.
It took mankind a couple of millennia to turn the fertile crescent into a wasteland, thanks to fossil fuels, we can lay waste to fertile land much faster now.
How big a sun-shade can you make out of a 500 ton asteroid? And, can they maneuver it to selectively shadow the ocean in the path of an oncoming Cat5 Hurricane? Effectively divert one of those away from a major city and you've made back your $26B, kinda hard to collect, but the players involved here don't seem like they really need ROI anyway.
I had an assistant manager when I worked at a grocery store in college. He was 22 years old, had a wife, 2 kids, house, and a career that was "going places." His boss, the store manager, was just like him but 15 years further on - making six figures and managing one of the highest traffic stores in the chain. That man, 37 years old, looked like he was 65, and acted like he felt he was 65. The way the cocky 22yo am was going at things, chain smoking, creeping around corners to "keep tabs" on everyone, blowing a gasket when things didn't go his way, he was going to look worse than the gm by the time he hit 35.
The gm was starting to mellow out, only worry about the important stuff, didn't really ever get mad anymore, he was much more effective than the hair-trigger assistant - but it was a hard lesson for him to learn.
On the other hand, I know a guy who's about 62, owns his own company of 100 employees, comes to work 3 or 4 days a week for 5-6 hours a day, does what he likes, treats everyone more or less fairly, and is having a great life. At 62, he's in much better shape than the 37 year old general manager who learned the hard way what stressing out really does for you.
For a moment, I thought this was a libertarian article about the Middle Ages being the crowning achievement of human evolution, or civilization...
I hope I am not giving them an idea...
I had this thought, with the logical support that since the Middle Ages humanity has increasingly protected the genetically weak and infirm and thus stopped the "survival of the fittest" evolution.
Of course, today we're selectively breeding by different criteria....
Net number is down, with more reductions in the way.
And, my favorite statistic, is that we're still winding down from WWII - yes, spending more than the rest of the world on military endeavors, but no, as a country we are still dropping our percentage of GDP devoted to the military and percentage of population directly employed in the military, by more than half since the Korean war.
There are all kinds of ways to draw the graphs to make whatever point you want to make. When I was turning 18, the statistic that was important to me was my probability of getting drafted and ordered to go get myself killed. That has improved substantially in the U.S. during my lifetime.
My take is that "traditional therapy" is a pretty low bar to pass, Sparx isn't necessarily doing much better than random chance (and neither is traditional therapy.)
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Ordered mine on "release day"... still waiting for delivery. Not much in the mood to do research for a piece of (presently, from my perspective) vapourware. Perhaps a lucky person who can actually work with the things already has the answer.
Perhaps in the future they can spin a larger board (at a ~$5 premium) that includes mounting holes? No re-design required apart from repaneling. Of course, they have connectors coming off from every side, so the mounting holes are going to be making connectors sink in from the edges....
I'm sure it was a decision for smaller cheaper boards, not an oversight. (smaller boards == more boards per panel == cheaper)
O.K. - this is a selfish request for info I'm too lazy to look up for myself...
What's the ETA and source for direct connect digital camera support? I know there's USB support through the standard Linux stack, but there's that tantalizing little camera port on the Pi that gets mentioned every so often.
Will it support multiple cameras?
Will it support higher bandwidth than USB?
Will it have any decent general purpose driver support?
Is it just a phantom port like the one on the Beagle/Panda boards where there's not actually any camera on the market that connects to it?
My future four-eyed autonomous rover wants to know!
iCaps are weird no matter how you do them... I treat the word as a proper noun, with a stupid lowercase letter that has no place in any grammatical history prepended.
That is why we need to get proficiency at doing it first.
When I was fresh out of college, I could have moved anywhere, done anything, and done it for less than the going rate and had plenty to live on... as it happened, I took a job with a dodgy looking company based on an ad in the local paper - it worked out, good gig for 12 years. When that gig was up, I had a wife, 2 yr old kid and another on the way, mortgage to pay, etc. etc.
There was an intriguing job offer on a beach in Costa Rica, if it weren't for the kids we might have gone for it...
If you were really worth 3x the newbie salary rate, you'd be able to mentor them.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/i'm-gonna-put-salsa-on-my-crotch
https://www.google.com/search?q=soc
I believe you are looking for result #2.
I know a few "real life" physicists, most of physics "ain't exactly rocket science," even the particle guys spend a lot of time doing some very simple-minded stuff.
I studied Electrical Engineering (specialization in Computer Engineering, granted, but digital design, hardware, not software), got a Master's Degree, and then went and got a job writing software - for 12 years. Went from there to a "Real EE" job for 2.5, then did a couple of gigs as "Director of Software Development" that included hands-on programming, and my title is now "Software Engineer"...
Titles don't matter much, and unless you're applying to a big company that has a square hole for you to insert your diploma into, degrees are pretty flexible too.
Check out the stock chart for CitiBank (C) - pretty much the definition of flat-lined.
Personally, I'd rather see the "Computer Related Disciplines" all given a well rounded picture of theory and practice.
Not that this should ever happen, but I had a student in digital design once tell me that they didn't have to know how to create a sub-directory in their simulator software account because "that's not what this class is about." Likewise, there are waaaay too many engineers who will implement a quick hack that "works" with no regard for the theory/science aspects of the problem that would point out that their "working" solution is only 1% efficient and won't scale with significant volume increases.
Can we study the same things in other departments without having a dedicated Computer Science niche to go with Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.?
Florida was sitting on a vast, untapped groundwater reserve 100 years ago.
50 years ago it was starting to get tapped.
50 years from now, if usage trends don't change, Florida will need high powered desalination plants just to provide potable water to the populace, agriculture will be dead, and the whole place will bear more than a passing resemblance to the deserts of the Middle East.
It took mankind a couple of millennia to turn the fertile crescent into a wasteland, thanks to fossil fuels, we can lay waste to fertile land much faster now.
http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2010/06/07/firegpg-discontinued/
http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2010/06/07/firegpg-discontinued/
Soon to be not, and already not... if this is an actual plan.
Know how you make a small fortune in the movie business?
How big a sun-shade can you make out of a 500 ton asteroid? And, can they maneuver it to selectively shadow the ocean in the path of an oncoming Cat5 Hurricane? Effectively divert one of those away from a major city and you've made back your $26B, kinda hard to collect, but the players involved here don't seem like they really need ROI anyway.
I had an assistant manager when I worked at a grocery store in college. He was 22 years old, had a wife, 2 kids, house, and a career that was "going places." His boss, the store manager, was just like him but 15 years further on - making six figures and managing one of the highest traffic stores in the chain. That man, 37 years old, looked like he was 65, and acted like he felt he was 65. The way the cocky 22yo am was going at things, chain smoking, creeping around corners to "keep tabs" on everyone, blowing a gasket when things didn't go his way, he was going to look worse than the gm by the time he hit 35.
The gm was starting to mellow out, only worry about the important stuff, didn't really ever get mad anymore, he was much more effective than the hair-trigger assistant - but it was a hard lesson for him to learn.
On the other hand, I know a guy who's about 62, owns his own company of 100 employees, comes to work 3 or 4 days a week for 5-6 hours a day, does what he likes, treats everyone more or less fairly, and is having a great life. At 62, he's in much better shape than the 37 year old general manager who learned the hard way what stressing out really does for you.
For a moment, I thought this was a libertarian article about the Middle Ages being the crowning achievement of human evolution, or civilization...
I hope I am not giving them an idea...
I had this thought, with the logical support that since the Middle Ages humanity has increasingly protected the genetically weak and infirm and thus stopped the "survival of the fittest" evolution.
Of course, today we're selectively breeding by different criteria....
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector
Figures don't lie, liars figure.
Net number is down, with more reductions in the way.
And, my favorite statistic, is that we're still winding down from WWII - yes, spending more than the rest of the world on military endeavors, but no, as a country we are still dropping our percentage of GDP devoted to the military and percentage of population directly employed in the military, by more than half since the Korean war.
There are all kinds of ways to draw the graphs to make whatever point you want to make. When I was turning 18, the statistic that was important to me was my probability of getting drafted and ordered to go get myself killed. That has improved substantially in the U.S. during my lifetime.
My take is that "traditional therapy" is a pretty low bar to pass, Sparx isn't necessarily doing much better than random chance (and neither is traditional therapy.)