As an EE I can tell you you're just wrong. Multiple ground pads exist for signal integrity reasons, not "redundancy". If any one of those GND pads isn't connected, you're setting yourself up for instability and problems. Look at any BGA processor or SoC, they still have all those grounds. They're not "redundancy". You're taking a far too simplistic view of how digital electronics work.
To be fair, on vehicles with stability control it's the exact same system. Stability control is basically just a more advanced traction control, and I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that most vehicles have stability control now.
...and the Pandaboard, which is the only device that joe-shmoe can buy off the shelf, download the Android Open-Source Project code, and start developing on instantly. I'm very afraid of how Amazon might ruin the OMAP for the rest of us if they buy it.
This is Slashdot, News for nerds, as it says on the top. I'm afraid you're in the minority here. I'd assume that most/.ers either know what single link vs dual link DVI is, or would be interested to learn.
He's a fool. [for MBTI at least] you don't want a 100% match for finding a SO, they say. 50 or 75% match is ideal. The logic behind this is that if you have a very similar personality, you're more likely to clash when you disagree on something. But slight differences make it not so bad.
If you think about this, it makes sense. I wouldn't want to live with me.:P
It's not really a big deal. I have a 10Mbps DSL connection with no cap for $40 a month from SaskTel. They actually offer connections up to 25Mbps (DSL, I kid you not), but they cost nearly $100 a month. Still though, no caps. VDSL
It was a residential street. Don't be stupid, of course it's as bad as it sounds.
Don't get me wrong, I drive an LS1 Trans Am, and I have a heavy foot. But a residential street? No. Never. That's just stupid.
That's what you may prefer, but you are the aging generation. If you look at the cell phone market you will quickly realize that smartphones, or even just "texting" dumbphones with full keyboards are becoming very popular. You don't even want to know how many highschool girls walk around with Blackberries. I'm sorry, but you are going to start noticing less and less cellphones without full keyboards.
Sounds like Directed Electronics Inc (DEI). If you want a car starter you either buy a Compustar or a DEI...there is nobody else left. Over the years DEI has bought out several competitors, if only for their patents. Viper, Clifford, Python...all DEI (now), and all sell the exact same products.
Some/.s might know that Viper (a DEI company) just released an iPhone interface for their starters. Pretty neat idea, no? I thought so, I was going to do something similar for my 4th year EE progect at school...until this came out. Anyway, while researching this I noticed that Clifford filed a patent for this in 1989, 11 years before being bought out by DEI, only to have DEI sell a product using that patent under their own name 9 years after that.
Crazy how this stuff works.
One power supply for the whole rack may very well work, but not for the whole datacenter. If you start trying to send that much power to all those servers at 12V DC, you're going to be pushing a LOT of amps and require very thick wires to avoid transmission losses. And if you're not useing low voltage DC, you're going to need some sort of PSU at the server level anyway.
Okay, so the physical sign on the side of the road didn't change, but all the sudden you can get a ticket if you are going X speed. Saying that the speed limit hasn't changed is kind of nitpicking.
I think most people can use common sense and realise they should be going slower. (without the need for a sign clearly outlining "sunny & dry: 100/ wet: 90/ Snow: 70")
I also just bought an x61 tablet. I completly agree that the out of box experience is awful. However, the reason for that is mostly Lenovo crapware related. I quickly reinstalled Vista, and now everything runs great.
My point? I think it's a little stupid to compare an OEM Windows install with a nice, custom Linux install.
And while I love Linux, I really doubt that the tablet experience can compair with Vistas. Even XP can't come close to Vista on a tablet.
That said, if you know of any sweet Linux tablet apps, fill me in. (is there anything that can even come close to the "Tablet PC Input Panel" in vista?)
Where I live, if you are in a 100km/h zone doing 100km/h when it is blizarding (for example) you can get a wreckless driving ticket. So I would argue that (at least in Canada) speed limits are not exaclty always the same.
I doubt that. Do you really think that in 7 years our internet bandwidth will be able to support that? Most US ISPs can't even handle a few bittorrent users, do you think they will be able to handle every used storing all their photos and videos somewhere else?...that's not even taking into account things like the increasingly large size of computer games, etc. I have a hard time believing that we will move back towards a "server with many terminals" type type system any time soon. The cost of a personal computer doing everything locally is just too low.
Nobody said anything about a backlight keyboard. There is no backlight keyboard. The [i]screen[/i] has an LED backlight, but that's hardly new, even for a Thinkpad (see x60s and x60s)
I think you'd be surprised. It really doesn't take much video horsepower to run Aero smoothly. I've not seen any modern integrated video not be able to handle it (and handle it well, at that).
A notebook with a ULV CPU, does [b]not[/b] need anything more. There is no such thing as a sub-15" gaming laptop.
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As an EE I can tell you you're just wrong. Multiple ground pads exist for signal integrity reasons, not "redundancy". If any one of those GND pads isn't connected, you're setting yourself up for instability and problems. Look at any BGA processor or SoC, they still have all those grounds. They're not "redundancy". You're taking a far too simplistic view of how digital electronics work.
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To be fair, on vehicles with stability control it's the exact same system. Stability control is basically just a more advanced traction control, and I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that most vehicles have stability control now.
...and the Pandaboard, which is the only device that joe-shmoe can buy off the shelf, download the Android Open-Source Project code, and start developing on instantly. I'm very afraid of how Amazon might ruin the OMAP for the rest of us if they buy it.
I've always wanted a couple thousand dollars to spend at tims...
This is Slashdot, News for nerds, as it says on the top. I'm afraid you're in the minority here. I'd assume that most /.ers either know what single link vs dual link DVI is, or would be interested to learn.
He's a fool. [for MBTI at least] you don't want a 100% match for finding a SO, they say. 50 or 75% match is ideal. The logic behind this is that if you have a very similar personality, you're more likely to clash when you disagree on something. But slight differences make it not so bad.
:P
If you think about this, it makes sense. I wouldn't want to live with me.
Maybe your comment is going over my head, but the article actually says that cash transactions will be rounded to the nearest. Not up or down.
It's not really a big deal. I have a 10Mbps DSL connection with no cap for $40 a month from SaskTel. They actually offer connections up to 25Mbps (DSL, I kid you not), but they cost nearly $100 a month. Still though, no caps. VDSL
Google charges per click though.
It was a residential street. Don't be stupid, of course it's as bad as it sounds. Don't get me wrong, I drive an LS1 Trans Am, and I have a heavy foot. But a residential street? No. Never. That's just stupid.
I'm from Saskatchewan too. I thought we called it "western Canada". East is the maritimes...I think that leaves Ontario to be the center.
All you at work in Kanata, get back to work!
That's what you may prefer, but you are the aging generation. If you look at the cell phone market you will quickly realize that smartphones, or even just "texting" dumbphones with full keyboards are becoming very popular. You don't even want to know how many highschool girls walk around with Blackberries. I'm sorry, but you are going to start noticing less and less cellphones without full keyboards.
Sounds like Directed Electronics Inc (DEI). If you want a car starter you either buy a Compustar or a DEI...there is nobody else left. Over the years DEI has bought out several competitors, if only for their patents. Viper, Clifford, Python...all DEI (now), and all sell the exact same products. Some /.s might know that Viper (a DEI company) just released an iPhone interface for their starters. Pretty neat idea, no? I thought so, I was going to do something similar for my 4th year EE progect at school...until this came out. Anyway, while researching this I noticed that Clifford filed a patent for this in 1989, 11 years before being bought out by DEI, only to have DEI sell a product using that patent under their own name 9 years after that.
Crazy how this stuff works.
One power supply for the whole rack may very well work, but not for the whole datacenter. If you start trying to send that much power to all those servers at 12V DC, you're going to be pushing a LOT of amps and require very thick wires to avoid transmission losses. And if you're not useing low voltage DC, you're going to need some sort of PSU at the server level anyway.
Not true, we have health care! :D
In his next prison sentence, his inbox will be stuffed and it will probably be unsolicited.
What used to be his outbox will now be his inbox...
Okay, so the physical sign on the side of the road didn't change, but all the sudden you can get a ticket if you are going X speed. Saying that the speed limit hasn't changed is kind of nitpicking.
I think most people can use common sense and realise they should be going slower. (without the need for a sign clearly outlining "sunny & dry: 100/ wet: 90/ Snow: 70")
I also just bought an x61 tablet. I completly agree that the out of box experience is awful. However, the reason for that is mostly Lenovo crapware related. I quickly reinstalled Vista, and now everything runs great. My point? I think it's a little stupid to compare an OEM Windows install with a nice, custom Linux install. And while I love Linux, I really doubt that the tablet experience can compair with Vistas. Even XP can't come close to Vista on a tablet. That said, if you know of any sweet Linux tablet apps, fill me in. (is there anything that can even come close to the "Tablet PC Input Panel" in vista?)
Where I live, if you are in a 100km/h zone doing 100km/h when it is blizarding (for example) you can get a wreckless driving ticket. So I would argue that (at least in Canada) speed limits are not exaclty always the same.
I doubt that. Do you really think that in 7 years our internet bandwidth will be able to support that? Most US ISPs can't even handle a few bittorrent users, do you think they will be able to handle every used storing all their photos and videos somewhere else? ...that's not even taking into account things like the increasingly large size of computer games, etc. I have a hard time believing that we will move back towards a "server with many terminals" type type system any time soon. The cost of a personal computer doing everything locally is just too low.
Wow, you appear to be correct. In my defense, it's a very common misconception. There goes my first +5 ...
Nobody said anything about a backlight keyboard. There is no backlight keyboard. The [i]screen[/i] has an LED backlight, but that's hardly new, even for a Thinkpad (see x60s and x60s)
I think you'd be surprised. It really doesn't take much video horsepower to run Aero smoothly. I've not seen any modern integrated video not be able to handle it (and handle it well, at that). A notebook with a ULV CPU, does [b]not[/b] need anything more. There is no such thing as a sub-15" gaming laptop.