There is some room left in the suitcase. They could have fit more battery packs in there - especially if they are Li-ion so as to not weigh a ton. Also, they could have provided some folding solar panels (it's not clear form the article if they are included or not).
Story: I walked into the Detroit airport a couple years ago while wearing the Video Coat. The nice TSA people marked my entire family's boarding passes SSSS. They inspected us thoroughly, including the eight 5 AH Chinese LiPo battery packs used to power the coat. These are the no-protection-board version with the factory connectors that let you plug two batteries together like BIG 9V batteries. They will happily put out 100 amps.
Had we been 'the type', we could have started four fires in the cabin that day.
This article is so right! He has found a way to express something that's been bugging me for a long time. I love his comparison of a policeman to a song writer.
The other thing about copyright is that it's not the creative people who make money forever off of their own work, it's the corporations that manufacture the plastic discs who make the money forever off of the songwriters' work.
I have a real account, and I manage a couple groups. One (a local bike ride) receives a steady stream of requests for new members to join the group. Half of these are fake Chinese or Indian accounts - it's obvious from their profiles. The rest are real local folks. I have no idea how that maps into the total number of fake IDs.
My wife has a high-tech wooden leg, so I'm familiar with how long they last, about five years. I also have a 3D printer, but I've never considered printing a leg socket. I'd expect the fingers in this hand to eventually break, as the wearer tests the limits. Fortunately, printing a single component is not expensive at all.
The idea of using the 3D printer to make the fiddly bits is excellent. It's also possible to use regular materials to make limb pieces. PVC pipe has been used in India.
In the long run, a local prosthetics cottage industry that relies on commonly available components and supplies should be self-sustaining, if the cost of materials is borne by humanitarian agencies.
If time started less than 10,000 years ago, then sure, we've existed since the beginning of time. Time periods longer than that are very difficult for people to wrap their heads around.
Tee hee. I have a fine counterexample. About 15 years ago, my company (a producer of VMEbus and CompactPCI boards) designed a video module. We used a Trident mobile graphics chip. Unfortunately, we were attempting to use it with a PowerPC, not an x86 CPU. We had the big user manual for the chip, but when we programmed all the registers according to the published configuration info, it refused to initialize. We then were given the BIOS object code from the factory (they wouldn't share the x86 assembly source code). We disassembled the code. It was such a tangled web of spaghetti that we never did figure out how to get the part initialized, and the factory app engineering team was unable to tell us how to do so either. We eventually dumped the part and used an Intel part with C source code available. It worked just fine.
The other trick was that they always left the filaments burning. The filaments are most likely to fail during warm-up. The failures due to reduced emission were preventable by replacing tubes after x thousand hours.
The last time I went there, last week, the credit card reader machine was new. I don't know when it went in, as I hadn't been there for a month or two before that.
MicroBlaze doesn't provide anywhere near the CPU processing power that a Raspberry Pi provides. This project looks like a fine way to get some hardware acceleration on the standard open hacker computer platforms. You know, with Linux!
The historical fact that 20% per year die shrinkage was possible for 50 years running, just means that atoms are a lot smaller than the first IC features.
That's not much data by radio astronomy standards. The typical millimeter-wave VLBI experiment records data about 10 times that fast in aggregate, onto hard disk drives that are shipped to a central correlator facility.
That would work, if a person were to buy those 6 million (?) units and run them all through a "rebranding". The secure boot isn't an issue if you re-flash the CPU. They'd also need some new packaging.
As an American, it made no sense to me that a person would consider that the respect towards their superior was worth more than the lives of two hundred people.
It doesn't matter, because the owners of the "IP" (which is not a real thing) will tie up the cloner in court for a long time, whether or not they have a valid claim. That's how the legal system appears to work.
Had management been on the ball, it would have begun a lifecycle evaluation in the eighties and replaced the PDP-11 in the nineties with a suitable 8 or 16 bit micro. As it is, they're rather stuck.
Working in a place like a nuclear power plant will change your perspective on replacement of old stuff. The computer HAS to work. A PDP-11 is simple enough that it can be completely understood, so it's possible for a human to certify that it will work correctly. A modern computer is too complex for a human to understand, so there's no way to be sure that it's going to do the right thing. (If you don't believe me, then tell me every task that your computer's doing and why it's doing them.)
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There is some room left in the suitcase. They could have fit more battery packs in there - especially if they are Li-ion so as to not weigh a ton. Also, they could have provided some folding solar panels (it's not clear form the article if they are included or not).
Story: I walked into the Detroit airport a couple years ago while wearing the Video Coat. The nice TSA people marked my entire family's boarding passes SSSS. They inspected us thoroughly, including the eight 5 AH Chinese LiPo battery packs used to power the coat. These are the no-protection-board version with the factory connectors that let you plug two batteries together like BIG 9V batteries. They will happily put out 100 amps.
Had we been 'the type', we could have started four fires in the cabin that day.
This article is so right! He has found a way to express something that's been bugging me for a long time. I love his comparison of a policeman to a song writer.
The other thing about copyright is that it's not the creative people who make money forever off of their own work, it's the corporations that manufacture the plastic discs who make the money forever off of the songwriters' work.
I have a real account, and I manage a couple groups. One (a local bike ride) receives a steady stream of requests for new members to join the group. Half of these are fake Chinese or Indian accounts - it's obvious from their profiles. The rest are real local folks. I have no idea how that maps into the total number of fake IDs.
My wife has a high-tech wooden leg, so I'm familiar with how long they last, about five years. I also have a 3D printer, but I've never considered printing a leg socket. I'd expect the fingers in this hand to eventually break, as the wearer tests the limits. Fortunately, printing a single component is not expensive at all.
The idea of using the 3D printer to make the fiddly bits is excellent. It's also possible to use regular materials to make limb pieces. PVC pipe has been used in India.
In the long run, a local prosthetics cottage industry that relies on commonly available components and supplies should be self-sustaining, if the cost of materials is borne by humanitarian agencies.
If time started less than 10,000 years ago, then sure, we've existed since the beginning of time. Time periods longer than that are very difficult for people to wrap their heads around.
Tee hee. I have a fine counterexample.
About 15 years ago, my company (a producer of VMEbus and CompactPCI boards) designed a video module. We used a Trident mobile graphics chip. Unfortunately, we were attempting to use it with a PowerPC, not an x86 CPU. We had the big user manual for the chip, but when we programmed all the registers according to the published configuration info, it refused to initialize.
We then were given the BIOS object code from the factory (they wouldn't share the x86 assembly source code). We disassembled the code. It was such a tangled web of spaghetti that we never did figure out how to get the part initialized, and the factory app engineering team was unable to tell us how to do so either.
We eventually dumped the part and used an Intel part with C source code available. It worked just fine.
The other trick was that they always left the filaments burning. The filaments are most likely to fail during warm-up. The failures due to reduced emission were preventable by replacing tubes after x thousand hours.
This must mean something, or not.
How many acres of hard drives would it take to store everyone's cellphone conversations?
MicroBlaze doesn't provide anywhere near the CPU processing power that a Raspberry Pi provides. This project looks like a fine way to get some hardware acceleration on the standard open hacker computer platforms. You know, with Linux!
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Those flat board feet are no match for the terrain. A few metatarsals would go a long ways toward stabilizing its stance on uneven surfaces.
Today's Facebook echo chamber was echoing a lot of Lou Reed songs. That was all the news that mattered today.
Once the patches stop and they all get infected, they'll be so busy sending junk to each other that they won't have time to compute anything.
That's not much data by radio astronomy standards. The typical millimeter-wave VLBI experiment records data about 10 times that fast in aggregate, onto hard disk drives that are shipped to a central correlator facility.
That would work, if a person were to buy those 6 million (?) units and run them all through a "rebranding". The secure boot isn't an issue if you re-flash the CPU. They'd also need some new packaging.
As an American, it made no sense to me that a person would consider that the respect towards their superior was worth more than the lives of two hundred people.
Rachel is a she.
It doesn't matter, because the owners of the "IP" (which is not a real thing) will tie up the cloner in court for a long time, whether or not they have a valid claim. That's how the legal system appears to work.
Choice of CPU is at the board level, sure, but with a Raspberry Pi selling for $35, is that really a problem?
I can't hear the whine of a CRT any more, because they no longer exist in any room that I spend time in.
Had management been on the ball, it would have begun a lifecycle evaluation in the eighties and replaced the PDP-11 in the nineties with a suitable 8 or 16 bit micro. As it is, they're rather stuck.
Working in a place like a nuclear power plant will change your perspective on replacement of old stuff. The computer HAS to work. A PDP-11 is simple enough that it can be completely understood, so it's possible for a human to certify that it will work correctly. A modern computer is too complex for a human to understand, so there's no way to be sure that it's going to do the right thing. (If you don't believe me, then tell me every task that your computer's doing and why it's doing them.)