LEDs generate light, don't they? Granted, I know there's rise-time characteristics and for LEDs they probably suck, and that might be the difficulty you mention.
Thanks for the clarification on the glass thing. I knew Si was involved somehow...heh.
Isn't SiO2 used in chips? How hard could it be to make SiO?
And I thought that this thing handled that big trick. I mean, 60 microns by 100 microns is pretty big in terms of processor size features. But if you could multiplex a whole bus of 100+ bits into one single glass tube...
Put some small, fast phototransistors into silicon. Use glass tubes (glass = Si) to propagate the signal to the next point, free of capacitance; maybe we can even tune the permittivity of the glass so the light can propagate faster. Build these crystals and tie them into the silicon to sense the signal and turn it back into a logic level.
Ideal for long hauls where the capacitance is a major factor in the switching speed, or clock distribution trees. The lowered capacitance, and possible increased permittivity, would definitely lead to less skew as well.
All assuming that this technology can switch sufficiently fast.
I thought something was funny when I read about the suit being filed in East Texas.
According to techdirt, there's a federal judge in Marshall, Texas (a district in East Texas) who almost universally grants injunctions against patent infringers. Said judge is a favorite of patent trolls.
According to this pdf, the case is filed in...gasp...Marshall, TX.
ITG has hand steps. Either you have to hit more than two arrows at once, or you have to be planted on two freeze arrows and still hit other arrows.
Not quite the same, but it involves more than your feet. Especially in Double mode - Bend Your Mind Expert Double has four freeze arrows you have to hold down simultaneously, and then you need to hit two more arrows. It does a number on your knees though.
Theft of services implies that there is some kind of contract for payment before services are rendered, yes? That might fly if the person advertised selling access to their WiFi. Hmmm...I wonder what the TOS for their ISP says about that sort of thing...
Perhaps you mean denying the person the use of their own bandwidth? Hardly a problem if you aren't torrenting or doing anything else stupid, so I doubt it would have any meaningful impact on the person's intertubes.
Maybe in some jurisdictions you could get away with "unauthorized access to a network" but if the WiFi is wide open without any form of encryption I think defining authorized access becomes awkward.
And as far as this high-level/low-level thing goes, I'd call C a "mid-level" language.
I agree entirely, and I'm glad I'm not the first person to have thought so. Rather than shifting low level around to encompass C, why not make a mid-level classification and shove C in there? After all, it helps a bit to know about the architecture you're compiling to when writing C, but it's not necessary like assembly.
Coils are bad for high-speed circuits. They generate inductance, i.e. there's some energy stored in the magnetic field induced by the flow of electrons, and this energy resists changes in current.
If you think resisting changes in current is good, remember that current doesn't continually flow in these circuits, but instead ebbs and flows to charge/discharge load capacitance. So we essentially have resistance to overcome to start charging/discharging that cap.
Disclaimer: I only have a B.S. in Comp. Eng., so some of that may sound like BS to those who know way more than I do...but I'm pretty sure I got the explanation right.
Despite the trollish tone of the parent, the point is valid.
Possibilities, off the top of my head...
1) Different channels for different departments 2) An "all" channel where you can broadcast messages to everyone 3) Short, simple, impromptu meetings that can easily be logged 4) A variety of clients with varying degrees of friendliness, from mIRC to GAIM; or develop your own to fit the needs of your company
It was a joke and not intended to be taken seriously. I understand and agree with your point, because it's quite similar to the economics of the Long Tail.
My point: I hardly think the Government is interested in what I am asking my wife to make for dinner tonight, or whether I need to pick up anything at the store on the way home to help in making said dinner.
You're absolutely right.
However, if you're a member of the opposing political party trying to maintain your incumbency, or seeking to gain an incumbent's seat, I would bet dollars to pesos that they are interested in what you're saying.
They could be (and are) interested in someone else, but you feel that's okay because it's not you? Personally, I feel that just because they aren't interested in me doesn't mean it's okay.
And with no judicial/congressional oversight and no accountability, there's no way to know if I'm right or wrong. And I am afraid I'm right.
I don't buy it. The information I've read indicates roll/pitch/yaw/x/y/z sensing, which implies an IMU. A 2-axis accelerometer cannot possible provide all that information without making some pretty strict assumptions, and even then I doubt it.
Preface: I'm not sure if you're actually trying to establish a functional method, or just trying to prove a point. I'm going to assume for the purposes of this comment that you intend on your method being functional.
First, if I read your statements correctly, your setup requires six accelerometers, compared to one accel/one gyro, and unless one gyro costs the same as five accels, the accel/gyro combo (also known as an Inertial Measurement Unit, or IMU) will be less expensive.
Second, unless the accels are all placed far enough apart, the noise floor for the sensors is going to prevent you from having accuracy that even approaches gyros. IIRC, gyros are supposed to be highly accurate devices, with a small caveat that they have some drift, but the drift is very slow and can be corrected when the device is stable.
Third, if you tilt the controller so that gravity doesn't conveniently line up along any of the axes, and you start shaking it up and down while moving it from side to side and rotating it, I'm not so sure you could extract enough information from the sensors to derive the direction of gravity at any point in time. You might be able to, but that would take some mighty impressive filtering, as opposed to how much cleaner the data coming from the IMU will be.
So component cost, component count, and design simplicity all seem to favor an IMU.
That is to say, it can sense translation in the x/y/z dimensions (3 translational axes) and it can sense rotation as roll/pitch/yaw (3 rotational axes).
Using purely accelerometers, it would be impossible to accurately detect the rotational axes. The gravity vector would be necessary to determine the rotation of the device. You can break any algorithm relying on an accelerometer to detect the gravity vector by subjecting the controller to translational accelerations - these would interfere with extracting the gravity vector from sensor data, even if you use multiple accelerometers.
Imagine that the sensor knows gravity points downward at 9.81 m/s^2. Now start moving it to the left. You have one vector pointing down, and one vector pointing left. You can assume that the one pointing down is gravity, but what if the controller is tilted? How far is it tilted? You'd have to know which way gravity is pointing in order to subtract the gravity vector.
With a gyroscope, however, you can calibrate the controller when it is obviously only under the influence of gravity. Then, you can use the gyro to decouple the effect of gravity from other accelerations; the gyro lets you know which way gravity is pointing, and some simple vector subtraction leaves you with the translational data.
And just because big third parties aren't frothing at the mouth doesn't mean anything. I'm FAR more interested in titles like Sadness. These less-known developers are going to take risks that you won't see any big third party developer take.
This philosophy that we can just restrict the activities of the new generation of adolescents to what the government deems appropriate is just priming them to have the rest of their civil liberties raped when they're adults. We should be giving these young people the tools necessary to protect themselves and survive in a world where danger is real.
I use myspace to stay connected to a large network of friends. I can post a bulletin about what I'm doing later that day, and some of my friends may take notice. I can see friends of friends and get in touch with people I may have only seen once or twice and intended on getting to know better.
Another good aspect is the connectedness through schools. A lot of my former high school classmates have found me on myspace, some people who I thought I would never see again.
Stupid people will do stupid things regardless of the existence of social networking web sites. Do you really think child molestation began with the advent of the Internet and sites like myspace?
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LEDs generate light, don't they? Granted, I know there's rise-time characteristics and for LEDs they probably suck, and that might be the difficulty you mention.
Thanks for the clarification on the glass thing. I knew Si was involved somehow...heh.
Isn't SiO2 used in chips? How hard could it be to make SiO?
And I thought that this thing handled that big trick. I mean, 60 microns by 100 microns is pretty big in terms of processor size features. But if you could multiplex a whole bus of 100+ bits into one single glass tube...
You shop on the internet wirelessly?
Hey, buddy ol pal...remind me again what access points you frequent?
Put some small, fast phototransistors into silicon. Use glass tubes (glass = Si) to propagate the signal to the next point, free of capacitance; maybe we can even tune the permittivity of the glass so the light can propagate faster. Build these crystals and tie them into the silicon to sense the signal and turn it back into a logic level.
Ideal for long hauls where the capacitance is a major factor in the switching speed, or clock distribution trees. The lowered capacitance, and possible increased permittivity, would definitely lead to less skew as well.
All assuming that this technology can switch sufficiently fast.
I thought something was funny when I read about the suit being filed in East Texas.
According to techdirt, there's a federal judge in Marshall, Texas (a district in East Texas) who almost universally grants injunctions against patent infringers. Said judge is a favorite of patent trolls.
According to this pdf, the case is filed in...gasp...Marshall, TX.
ITG has hand steps. Either you have to hit more than two arrows at once, or you have to be planted on two freeze arrows and still hit other arrows.
Not quite the same, but it involves more than your feet. Especially in Double mode - Bend Your Mind Expert Double has four freeze arrows you have to hold down simultaneously, and then you need to hit two more arrows. It does a number on your knees though.
Theft of services implies that there is some kind of contract for payment before services are rendered, yes? That might fly if the person advertised selling access to their WiFi. Hmmm...I wonder what the TOS for their ISP says about that sort of thing...
Perhaps you mean denying the person the use of their own bandwidth? Hardly a problem if you aren't torrenting or doing anything else stupid, so I doubt it would have any meaningful impact on the person's intertubes.
Maybe in some jurisdictions you could get away with "unauthorized access to a network" but if the WiFi is wide open without any form of encryption I think defining authorized access becomes awkward.
WTF is with all these property analogies?
If I use your open WiFi, I am not stealing your bike/car/whatever. Theft involves the loss of property.
Doesn't anyone remember that copyright infringement != theft?
I agree entirely, and I'm glad I'm not the first person to have thought so. Rather than shifting low level around to encompass C, why not make a mid-level classification and shove C in there? After all, it helps a bit to know about the architecture you're compiling to when writing C, but it's not necessary like assembly.
So you have observed all people, and know that each and every one drives worse on a cell phone?
What about those people who become less aggressive beause they're on the phone and they take extra precautions for just that reason?
I believe your sample size is too small to be statistically useful.
I didn't know Truman had investments in the beer industry.
Actually, it's silicon-germanium.
Coils are bad for high-speed circuits. They generate inductance, i.e. there's some energy stored in the magnetic field induced by the flow of electrons, and this energy resists changes in current.
If you think resisting changes in current is good, remember that current doesn't continually flow in these circuits, but instead ebbs and flows to charge/discharge load capacitance. So we essentially have resistance to overcome to start charging/discharging that cap.
Disclaimer: I only have a B.S. in Comp. Eng., so some of that may sound like BS to those who know way more than I do...but I'm pretty sure I got the explanation right.
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Despite the trollish tone of the parent, the point is valid.
Possibilities, off the top of my head...
1) Different channels for different departments
2) An "all" channel where you can broadcast messages to everyone
3) Short, simple, impromptu meetings that can easily be logged
4) A variety of clients with varying degrees of friendliness, from mIRC to GAIM; or develop your own to fit the needs of your company
It was a joke and not intended to be taken seriously. I understand and agree with your point, because it's quite similar to the economics of the Long Tail.
Get it? Allofmp3, and being from Russia?
*gasp*
Did you just say companies shouldn't make as much as humanly possible?
You must be from Russia, because you're obviously not from the US.
You're absolutely right.
However, if you're a member of the opposing political party trying to maintain your incumbency, or seeking to gain an incumbent's seat, I would bet dollars to pesos that they are interested in what you're saying.
They could be (and are) interested in someone else, but you feel that's okay because it's not you? Personally, I feel that just because they aren't interested in me doesn't mean it's okay.
And with no judicial/congressional oversight and no accountability, there's no way to know if I'm right or wrong. And I am afraid I'm right.
What about gothic-horror title Sadness. According to some forums you'll be using the Wiimote to slit people's throats.
SLIT PEOPLE'S THROATS! What's this about family-oriented strategy?
Care to provide any evidence?
I don't buy it. The information I've read indicates roll/pitch/yaw/x/y/z sensing, which implies an IMU. A 2-axis accelerometer cannot possible provide all that information without making some pretty strict assumptions, and even then I doubt it.
Oh, yeah. The plural of axis is axes.
Preface: I'm not sure if you're actually trying to establish a functional method, or just trying to prove a point. I'm going to assume for the purposes of this comment that you intend on your method being functional.
First, if I read your statements correctly, your setup requires six accelerometers, compared to one accel/one gyro, and unless one gyro costs the same as five accels, the accel/gyro combo (also known as an Inertial Measurement Unit, or IMU) will be less expensive.
Second, unless the accels are all placed far enough apart, the noise floor for the sensors is going to prevent you from having accuracy that even approaches gyros. IIRC, gyros are supposed to be highly accurate devices, with a small caveat that they have some drift, but the drift is very slow and can be corrected when the device is stable.
Third, if you tilt the controller so that gravity doesn't conveniently line up along any of the axes, and you start shaking it up and down while moving it from side to side and rotating it, I'm not so sure you could extract enough information from the sensors to derive the direction of gravity at any point in time. You might be able to, but that would take some mighty impressive filtering, as opposed to how much cleaner the data coming from the IMU will be.
So component cost, component count, and design simplicity all seem to favor an IMU.
The PS3 controller has 6 degrees of freedom.
That is to say, it can sense translation in the x/y/z dimensions (3 translational axes) and it can sense rotation as roll/pitch/yaw (3 rotational axes).
Using purely accelerometers, it would be impossible to accurately detect the rotational axes. The gravity vector would be necessary to determine the rotation of the device. You can break any algorithm relying on an accelerometer to detect the gravity vector by subjecting the controller to translational accelerations - these would interfere with extracting the gravity vector from sensor data, even if you use multiple accelerometers.
Imagine that the sensor knows gravity points downward at 9.81 m/s^2. Now start moving it to the left. You have one vector pointing down, and one vector pointing left. You can assume that the one pointing down is gravity, but what if the controller is tilted? How far is it tilted? You'd have to know which way gravity is pointing in order to subtract the gravity vector.
With a gyroscope, however, you can calibrate the controller when it is obviously only under the influence of gravity. Then, you can use the gyro to decouple the effect of gravity from other accelerations; the gyro lets you know which way gravity is pointing, and some simple vector subtraction leaves you with the translational data.
Say what?
There are lots of games coming out for the Wii.
And just because big third parties aren't frothing at the mouth doesn't mean anything. I'm FAR more interested in titles like Sadness. These less-known developers are going to take risks that you won't see any big third party developer take.
...for authoritarian rule.
This philosophy that we can just restrict the activities of the new generation of adolescents to what the government deems appropriate is just priming them to have the rest of their civil liberties raped when they're adults. We should be giving these young people the tools necessary to protect themselves and survive in a world where danger is real.
Onimusha 2 had support for pressure-sensitive buttons.
If you press R1, you target an enemy.
If you press R1 hard, you also charge up your weapon.
It was kind of awkward.
I use myspace to stay connected to a large network of friends. I can post a bulletin about what I'm doing later that day, and some of my friends may take notice. I can see friends of friends and get in touch with people I may have only seen once or twice and intended on getting to know better.
Another good aspect is the connectedness through schools. A lot of my former high school classmates have found me on myspace, some people who I thought I would never see again.
Stupid people will do stupid things regardless of the existence of social networking web sites. Do you really think child molestation began with the advent of the Internet and sites like myspace?