Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in/. mod's? If only the mod threshold was <= not >=, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in/. mod's?
If only the mod threshold was =, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
Have not met a democrat with an altar to any human being at all.
You forgot the/sarcasm tag. Or do you not have a single friend or relative obsessed with the anointed One, Barack H. Obama? You oughta see my my grandmother 'n laws Obama shelf.
The nightly news turned into a BHO worship service for many during the campaign. Chris Matthews Obsession culminated into an Orgasm on a live news show while speaking of Him. Thank God he kept his clothes on and his willy in his pants while his leg was tingling.
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip.
I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
Fuck my Karma, its funny b/c its true. Stereotypes save time. You know you have seen someone like this at a stoplight downtown, blaring NPR on their way to a Yoga class
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip.
I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
Thanks, I never understood that before, I guess because I always heard it on the radio where you can't see hyphens. I also sure as hell didn't know what a compound adjective was.
"Seven anti-war protesters were arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday during a protest rally and march which targeted the Army Experience Center, a high-tech recruitment center which uses PC and Xbox games and simulations to attract potential recruits...
It looks like they meant anti-war ralliers or war protesters, not anti-war protesters. The media in general constantly seems to repeat this phrase incorrectly.
Now they can design a special chip enabling their mouse to have more than one button. This multi-button mouse would be useful AND aesthetically pleasing! Just what will that Steve Jobs think of next?
Hydrogen does not equal Fuel Cell. Sure, you can use a Hydrogen fuel cell... but that is not the only way to use Hydrogen.
Did you know...
You can power a gasoline engine on straight hydrogen, if you advance the timing enough? Hydrogen gas fed into the cylinder... works wonders.
You get hydrogen by running a DC current through water. It is that simple. Drop a 9volt battery in a glass of water. Watch bubbles form at each terminal. One side, the bubbles are Oxygen. The other side, Hydrogen.
There are improved electrolysis techniques which are making the possibility of hydrogen production on-the-fly feasible. This means that it is not only conceivable, but attainable to have a personal transportation vehicle, with an internal combustion that used to run on gasoline, that now runs on water.
Did you know it requires more energy to convert water to hydrogen than you get out of the hydrogen it produces? I know thats a smartass question and you knew this already and are just being silly with this idea right?
Yep
Yep.
Put water (or urine, or any H20 based liquid) into the gas tank, the water is converted on the fly to Oxygen and Hydrogen, the Oxygen is bled off into the atmosphere and the Hydrogen is burned as fuel. Not only would your exhaust be free Oxygen and water vapor, but you would CLEAN the air as you drove through it... because if the way that Hydrogen burns.
No Fuel Cell involved. Just thought you should know.
Thank to you for defend glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Everyone man should know that we are not in process of building UFO landing pad, we have always had it! Most nations jealous that we are #1 in Alien tourism. Especially Jewtown, no like make visit to Jewtown.
I wanted to mod your comment insightful but got distracted when I tried to scroll down with the arrow keys on the keyboard b/c I saw another interesting comment below yours. This of course scrolled the moderation menu down to flamebait and this became submitted when I clicked on the page. Stupid slashdot javascript. I'm a big boy and I can handle a submit button.
So because the only way I could find to cancel it is to submit this boring comment. Oh well
How effective do you really think miserable teachers are going to be at teaching?
In high school, I had quite a few teachers who were happy to come in, do the minimum, and take as many sick/vacation days as possible.
Maybe, it is the curriculum. I didn't start to enjoy school until my second year in electrical engineering. From there every year became more and more interesting. Math and science are highly interactive disciplines. I never learned much of anything listening to a lecture, but I did doing homework and projects. The more my classes began focusing on computer simulation tools like Matlab, the more fun I had.
Perhaps if school was more interactive and showed applications that use the concepts, learning would be more fun. For example, when I first learned imaginary numbers, I had no idea why we needed to know them.
Had I been shown how to make a fractal, or how they can be used to describe and predict, from Physics to Digital Signal Processing, then I would have become interested in school, and I'm sure others would have too. The point is we need to make the concepts seem at least a little applicable and make learning interactive, not passive.
There is really very little incentive to make learning more fun though when the government forces you to go to the school in your district. We are left with depending on parents for motivation until something changes.
And someone needs to tell the AP English teachers that sometimes a fish is just a fish, and a boat is a boat. What a waste of time that class was.
is a pretty useless gauge of intelligence. Jeff Hawkins makes some good points about what intelligence really is (from wikipedia):
His unified theory of the brain argues that the key to the brain and intelligence is the ability to make predictions about the world by seeing patterns....He argues that attempts to create an artificial intelligence by simply programming a computer to do what a brain does are flawed and that to actually make an intelligent computer, we simply need to teach it to find and use patterns, not to attempt any specific tasks.
I checked on Dell's site and it says LED also. Does this mean its using sometype of Light Emitting Diode Display? Or is this a misprint on engadget and Dell.
as a solution:
For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time [wsj.com]
Many high school guidance counselors would lose it if they heard you say this but there is just so much truth to this. Trade schools are underrated. So is real world experience and job experience. How many people do you know from the local university that wasted 5 years away on getting a Political Science, English, Communications etc degree, or even dropped out of those degrees. The only two things they proved is that they can read and write.
In nuclear fusion roughly 0.3% of the mass of fused atoms is converted to active energy. In thermonuclear weapons (see nuclear weapon yield) some of the bomb mass is casing and non-reacting components, so the efficiency in converting passive energy to active energy, at 6 kilotons TNT equivalent energy output per kilogram of bomb mass (or 6 megatons per metric ton bomb mass), does not exceed 0.03%.
If a magnet is sticking to something where is it getting its energy from?
Son, you need to logout and post on your own slashdot account like a big boy. Don't ruin your father's Karma just because he left his account logged in.
I don't believe linux will run on this device, not without some majorly difficult hacks. There is no external memory interface,
which you need for Linux b/c of its very limited RAM.
Only the sam9x series will run linux.
Aside from power, weight and poor tolerance to extreme temperature changes, try controlling a servo or stepper
with a laptop in a critical realtime environment, like with sensors. You might be able to do this with a
parallel port, but it would be extremely unreliable without a true realtime OS and alot of hacking, also expensive.
Unless you admire Rube Goldberg this would be foolish. You can actually guarantee better response time with a
fairly slow embedded processor.
There's much more to the computing world than X86 processors. In fact laptops, desktop, and servers are
in the minority as far as computing chips are concerned.
The L series is a typical AT91SAM7 32bit chip that should work with the usual openocd toolset. It does not look like HP is using an RTOS like FreeRTOS which, among other things, has a udp/tcp/ip stack that I like to use on the AT91SAM7X series which contain an embedded MAC (no apple fanbois, thats a Medium Access Controller). The code is using IAR compilers:( so you can't just dive in to using the Gnu arm toolchain without some serious homework 1st creating a makefile and tweeking various files.
The engineers did populate the connectors for the JTAG and provide unpopulated pads for ADC, PWM, SPI, and basic digital I/O, so I would say that anyone looking to get started in embedded electronics could start here, they'd just be locked into using IAR. Also a display is awesome for providing a UI, something most embedded dev kits lack!
Thanks HP, it really is nice that you guys considered the hacker community as customers.
Obama sold his soul to the Chicago Political Machine decades ago.
You don't have a clue. Next time you're here in Chicago, come see me. I'll buy you lunch in the diner on Washington St. around the corner from City Hall and introduce you to some people who will, I guarantee, that Obama absolutely did not "sell his soul to the Chicago Political Machine". In fact, they are still pissed about it.
However, they're smart enough to know a real leader when they see one, so they actually either got out of the way or lent a hand to Barack's work here in town.
I can also introduce you to some of Obama's former colleagues at the Univ of Chicago Law School who, I guarantee, can convince you that Obama's grasp of and love for the Constitution is so strong, so deep, and that his administrative skills are so tight, that his Justice Department will be one of the best. At least as long as he can purge the Monica Goodling political operatives that were put on the job after they signed loyalty oaths to the Republican Party.
Now that that's out of the way, why don't you go fuck yourself?
+5 Insightful on a comment like that?
Maybe while he's there you could introduce him to the pastor of the church he joined to gain political points in his district.
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Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in /. mod's? If only the mod threshold was <= not >=, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in /. mod's?
If only the mod threshold was =, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
How about this: Windows 7 isn't bad, asterisk*
*as long as you don't compare it to XP or Win2k
Have not met a democrat with an altar to any human being at all.
You forgot the /sarcasm tag. Or do you not have a single friend or relative obsessed with the anointed One, Barack H. Obama? You oughta see my my grandmother 'n laws Obama shelf.
The nightly news turned into a BHO worship service for many during the campaign. Chris Matthews Obsession culminated into an Orgasm on a live news show while speaking of Him. Thank God he kept his clothes on and his willy in his pants while his leg was tingling.
Praise be to Obama.
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip. I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
Fuck my Karma, its funny b/c its true. Stereotypes save time. You know you have seen someone like this at a stoplight downtown, blaring NPR on their way to a Yoga class
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip. I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
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Thanks, I never understood that before, I guess because I always heard it on the radio where you can't see hyphens. I also sure as hell didn't know what a compound adjective was.
"Seven anti-war protesters were arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday during a protest rally and march which targeted the Army Experience Center, a high-tech recruitment center which uses PC and Xbox games and simulations to attract potential recruits...
It looks like they meant anti-war ralliers or war protesters, not anti-war protesters. The media in general constantly seems to repeat this phrase incorrectly.
It might have four buttons but its impossible to use them. Do you have one? I had to take my wife's back and get a logitech laser mouse.
This new Apple product has a whole keyboard in one wheel. I can't wait to get one.
Now they can design a special chip enabling their mouse to have more than one button. This multi-button mouse would be useful AND aesthetically pleasing! Just what will that Steve Jobs think of next?
Just a note.
Hydrogen does not equal Fuel Cell. Sure, you can use a Hydrogen fuel cell... but that is not the only way to use Hydrogen.
Did you know...
You can power a gasoline engine on straight hydrogen, if you advance the timing enough? Hydrogen gas fed into the cylinder... works wonders.
You get hydrogen by running a DC current through water. It is that simple. Drop a 9volt battery in a glass of water. Watch bubbles form at each terminal. One side, the bubbles are Oxygen. The other side, Hydrogen.
There are improved electrolysis techniques which are making the possibility of hydrogen production on-the-fly feasible. This means that it is not only conceivable, but attainable to have a personal transportation vehicle, with an internal combustion that used to run on gasoline, that now runs on water.
Did you know it requires more energy to convert water to hydrogen than you get out of the hydrogen it produces? I know thats a smartass question and you knew this already and are just being silly with this idea right?
Yep
Yep.
Put water (or urine, or any H20 based liquid) into the gas tank, the water is converted on the fly to Oxygen and Hydrogen, the Oxygen is bled off into the atmosphere and the Hydrogen is burned as fuel. Not only would your exhaust be free Oxygen and water vapor, but you would CLEAN the air as you drove through it... because if the way that Hydrogen burns.
No Fuel Cell involved. Just thought you should know.
Thank to you for defend glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Everyone man should know that we are not in process of building UFO landing pad, we have always had it! Most nations jealous that we are #1 in Alien tourism. Especially Jewtown, no like make visit to Jewtown.
I wanted to mod your comment insightful but got distracted when I tried to scroll down with the arrow keys on the keyboard b/c I saw another interesting comment below yours. This of course scrolled the moderation menu down to flamebait and this became submitted when I clicked on the page. Stupid slashdot javascript. I'm a big boy and I can handle a submit button. So because the only way I could find to cancel it is to submit this boring comment. Oh well
"I'm probably going to get....willing to attempt the learning curve, not when it's this steep."
+5 interesting for this drivel? Come on Mods!
How effective do you really think miserable teachers are going to be at teaching?
In high school, I had quite a few teachers who were happy to come in, do the minimum, and take as many sick/vacation days as possible.
Maybe, it is the curriculum. I didn't start to enjoy school until my second year in electrical engineering. From there every year became more and more interesting. Math and science are highly interactive disciplines. I never learned much of anything listening to a lecture, but I did doing homework and projects. The more my classes began focusing on computer simulation tools like Matlab, the more fun I had.
Perhaps if school was more interactive and showed applications that use the concepts, learning would be more fun. For example, when I first learned imaginary numbers, I had no idea why we needed to know them.
Had I been shown how to make a fractal, or how they can be used to describe and predict, from Physics to Digital Signal Processing, then I would have become interested in school, and I'm sure others would have too. The point is we need to make the concepts seem at least a little applicable and make learning interactive, not passive.
There is really very little incentive to make learning more fun though when the government forces you to go to the school in your district. We are left with depending on parents for motivation until something changes.
And someone needs to tell the AP English teachers that sometimes a fish is just a fish, and a boat is a boat. What a waste of time that class was.
His unified theory of the brain argues that the key to the brain and intelligence is the ability to make predictions about the world by seeing patterns....He argues that attempts to create an artificial intelligence by simply programming a computer to do what a brain does are flawed and that to actually make an intelligent computer, we simply need to teach it to find and use patterns, not to attempt any specific tasks.
Glossy 8.9 inch LED display (1024X600)
I checked on Dell's site and it says LED also. Does this mean its using sometype of Light Emitting Diode Display? Or is this a misprint on engadget and Dell.
Many high school guidance counselors would lose it if they heard you say this but there is just so much truth to this. Trade schools are underrated. So is real world experience and job experience. How many people do you know from the local university that wasted 5 years away on getting a Political Science, English, Communications etc degree, or even dropped out of those degrees. The only two things they proved is that they can read and write.
Specifically:
If a magnet is sticking to something where is it getting its energy from?
Son, you need to logout and post on your own slashdot account like a big boy. Don't ruin your father's Karma just because he left his account logged in.
Thanks,
Management
I don't believe linux will run on this device, not without some majorly difficult hacks. There is no external memory interface, which you need for Linux b/c of its very limited RAM. Only the sam9x series will run linux.
Aside from power, weight and poor tolerance to extreme temperature changes, try controlling a servo or stepper with a laptop in a critical realtime environment, like with sensors. You might be able to do this with a parallel port, but it would be extremely unreliable without a true realtime OS and alot of hacking, also expensive. Unless you admire Rube Goldberg this would be foolish. You can actually guarantee better response time with a fairly slow embedded processor.
There's much more to the computing world than X86 processors. In fact laptops, desktop, and servers are in the minority as far as computing chips are concerned.
The L series is a typical AT91SAM7 32bit chip that should work with the usual openocd toolset. It does not look like HP is using an RTOS like FreeRTOS which, among other things, has a udp/tcp/ip stack that I like to use on the AT91SAM7X series which contain an embedded MAC (no apple fanbois, thats a Medium Access Controller). The code is using IAR compilers :( so you can't just dive in to using the Gnu arm toolchain without some serious homework 1st creating a makefile and tweeking various files.
The engineers did populate the connectors for the JTAG and provide unpopulated pads for ADC, PWM, SPI, and basic digital I/O, so I would say that anyone looking to get started in embedded electronics could start here, they'd just be locked into using IAR. Also a display is awesome for providing a UI, something most embedded dev kits lack!
Thanks HP, it really is nice that you guys considered the hacker community as customers.
You don't have a clue. Next time you're here in Chicago, come see me. I'll buy you lunch in the diner on Washington St. around the corner from City Hall and introduce you to some people who will, I guarantee, that Obama absolutely did not "sell his soul to the Chicago Political Machine". In fact, they are still pissed about it.
However, they're smart enough to know a real leader when they see one, so they actually either got out of the way or lent a hand to Barack's work here in town.
I can also introduce you to some of Obama's former colleagues at the Univ of Chicago Law School who, I guarantee, can convince you that Obama's grasp of and love for the Constitution is so strong, so deep, and that his administrative skills are so tight, that his Justice Department will be one of the best. At least as long as he can purge the Monica Goodling political operatives that were put on the job after they signed loyalty oaths to the Republican Party.
Now that that's out of the way, why don't you go fuck yourself?
+5 Insightful on a comment like that?
Maybe while he's there you could introduce him to the pastor of the church he joined to gain political points in his district.