I built a PVP11 "supercluster" and started with Xilinx. The hardware is great, but their software toolset is horrendous.
After months of free time development, I switched over to surplus Altera Stratix II video decoder hardware, got a copy of Quartus II, and was moving within weeks. Altera would be my suggestion for any geek who wants to try something similar!
Listen timothy, just give up now. Convince taco to let ME take your place. Although this surpasses your understanding, it would be a lot better for you in the long run and a lot better for Slashdot immediately. Scram man, nobody likes you.
Well, looks like another first post. Here I am, 1:35 in the morning, jacking off to goatse, and I see that you got an article up. And it looks gay as usual, douche tool. First post.
The conventions are not analogous as you are trying to make them, but they are indeed completely analogous. Consider the amount of work that it would take to change the electronics convention in education. You have scientists and engineers who have long been using the incorrect convention and do not want to change because all of their work has been based on it. On the other hand, you have students who are trying to learn a model that is physically wrong, and they are wasting time and energy doing it. When you get to semiconductors, things REALLY suck.
Abstract: 1. You have a sucky method to begin with. 2. It takes a huge amount of time, energy, and money to change the sucky method. 3. In the long term, it is much preferable to fix said sucky method, but it is far easier and cheaper in the short and medium terms to remain here.
You just have to understand that some things that people say are more abstract than you may be able to comprehend. If you haven't spent time with microelectronics (many here have), this might not be your argument to fight.
If you're still lost, think about it this way. Medical equipment is a huge expense, and it's neither cheap nor trivial to just go in and replace it without costing the industry probably billions of dollars in the short term which means that you and I pay these billions of dollars. Got it?
Why is it that in the engineering world, current still flows from positive to negative poles? Should be simple to get in there and change the convention, shouldn't it?
...or bothered to examine the actual nature of the problem?
If you're connecting an air hose to an IV, there is something really wrong. Any nurse who does something like this is purely incompetent. I know several RNs and talk to a few on a daily basis. It is a somewhat stressful and fast-paced job, but you cannot ethically exceed your working pace. Every nurse should physically trace each tube to its receptacle. If there are two tubes in the vicinity but not even in proximity, extra care should be taken to trace the tube tactilely. The government-protectionist tone here ("Critics say the tubing problem, which has gone on for decades, is an example of how the FDA fails to protect the public.") is absurd and gives you NO excuse to shed the responsibility for your actions.
Now there are plenty of circumstances where standardization is called for, and I am for it. Some nurses are overworked and have to work long shifts, and there are plenty of times when the medical staff have only minutes to save a patient. There is also the case that everyone makes mistakes at some points, even after a single check, double check, or triple check unless someone else is there for an extra set of eyes. Standardization would really help here, and I am for it. I, however, am NOT going to rely solely on the FDA to "protect" me from someone's mistakes. Those in the medical field are going to have to regulate themselves as much as possible because federal bureaucracies sure as heck aren't going to set regulations quickly enough for changing industries, and they SURE as heck aren't going to know every little problem that can occur.
Likely another Intel fanboy trying to spread FUD about the company that he doesn't like and at the same time getting his username posted on the front page.
AMD may not have the resources that Intel does, but it isn't as though Intel is walking AMD around on a leash. This mindset gets annoying after a while.
Hey, I modded you up in some non-troll posts with my last three modpoints. (I don't want to be metamoderated to where I lose my modpoints.) Should be back to positive karma.
Shows where Google's priorities (rightly) are. We have been waiting for years and can't even get a decently-working version of flash for Linux. Foreshadowing, perhaps?
Yes, by one wire, the Playstation required a piece of steel wire, AKA a spring to hold the "door closed" button down when the door was open. The more invasive method would be to take a copper wire and solder the circuit closed instead of using the spring.
Load a "legit" game and pull the disc out, and stick in your burned copy of another game, and voila! The burned copy runs. You never even needed a modchip to begin with.
The forum link is broken. The video does not say anything about how they did it or how it works. It's merely a suggestion that the product does work and then is a link to where to buy it.
There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.
I thought they had a rule that you could not patent a perpetual motion machine?
Why would that be?
Because it has been tried so many times that the USPTO was sick and fed up with it and decided to make this exception.
"With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing."
Kind of true here. They're running a little thin on marketable materials if the scene addition is a short little 15-30 second clip that adds nothing to the plot. There are probably a few more deleted scenes that will be released in the next ten years.
For me, it's a complete turnoff. I went to see the digitized releases of IV, V, and V in the theaters in the late '90s. It took away from the movies. Then they keep changing things within the scenes. Han shot first. Live with it. After I, II, and III came out, they removed the original ghost of Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi and replaced him with the Canadian actor that played Anakin Skywalker in II and III. WHY?
As Mel Brooks pointed out 23 years ago, it's all along the lines of "Moichandizing! Moichandizing!". They know that they have a franchise that they can milk for years to come. Some sci-fi geeks take things a little too far, and where there is this amount of submission, you can bet that the pocket books are open. Don't get me started about my small collection of pewter TNG starships.:)
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I built a PVP11 "supercluster" and started with Xilinx. The hardware is great, but their software toolset is horrendous.
After months of free time development, I switched over to surplus Altera Stratix II video decoder hardware, got a copy of Quartus II, and was moving within weeks. Altera would be my suggestion for any geek who wants to try something similar!
Listen timothy, just give up now. Convince taco to let ME take your place. Although this surpasses your understanding, it would be a lot better for you in the long run and a lot better for Slashdot immediately. Scram man, nobody likes you.
Yeah, warning on link.......
Well, looks like another first post. Here I am, 1:35 in the morning, jacking off to goatse, and I see that you got an article up. And it looks gay as usual, douche tool. First post.
--TrisexualPuppy
This design looks like a militarized gyrocopter.
Ruggedness, anyone? Now we have big flying targets well over the horizon to be seen by snipers and guys with RPGs.
Will I be sued or downmodded for this? Only one way to find out. Push it to the limit! (Put it to the test.)
Assuming P=IV, RMS, and in-phase:
P = (26 A)(100E6 V) = 2.6GW, more than twice the amount of power required to travel from 1985 to 1955 or vice versa.
And energy is measured in joules, not amperes...
The conventions are not analogous as you are trying to make them, but they are indeed completely analogous. Consider the amount of work that it would take to change the electronics convention in education. You have scientists and engineers who have long been using the incorrect convention and do not want to change because all of their work has been based on it. On the other hand, you have students who are trying to learn a model that is physically wrong, and they are wasting time and energy doing it. When you get to semiconductors, things REALLY suck.
Abstract:
1. You have a sucky method to begin with.
2. It takes a huge amount of time, energy, and money to change the sucky method.
3. In the long term, it is much preferable to fix said sucky method, but it is far easier and cheaper in the short and medium terms to remain here.
You just have to understand that some things that people say are more abstract than you may be able to comprehend. If you haven't spent time with microelectronics (many here have), this might not be your argument to fight.
If you're still lost, think about it this way. Medical equipment is a huge expense, and it's neither cheap nor trivial to just go in and replace it without costing the industry probably billions of dollars in the short term which means that you and I pay these billions of dollars. Got it?
Why is it that in the engineering world, current still flows from positive to negative poles? Should be simple to get in there and change the convention, shouldn't it?
...or bothered to examine the actual nature of the problem?
If you're connecting an air hose to an IV, there is something really wrong. Any nurse who does something like this is purely incompetent. I know several RNs and talk to a few on a daily basis. It is a somewhat stressful and fast-paced job, but you cannot ethically exceed your working pace. Every nurse should physically trace each tube to its receptacle. If there are two tubes in the vicinity but not even in proximity, extra care should be taken to trace the tube tactilely. The government-protectionist tone here ("Critics say the tubing problem, which has gone on for decades, is an example of how the FDA fails to protect the public.") is absurd and gives you NO excuse to shed the responsibility for your actions.
Now there are plenty of circumstances where standardization is called for, and I am for it. Some nurses are overworked and have to work long shifts, and there are plenty of times when the medical staff have only minutes to save a patient. There is also the case that everyone makes mistakes at some points, even after a single check, double check, or triple check unless someone else is there for an extra set of eyes. Standardization would really help here, and I am for it. I, however, am NOT going to rely solely on the FDA to "protect" me from someone's mistakes. Those in the medical field are going to have to regulate themselves as much as possible because federal bureaucracies sure as heck aren't going to set regulations quickly enough for changing industries, and they SURE as heck aren't going to know every little problem that can occur.
Likely another Intel fanboy trying to spread FUD about the company that he doesn't like and at the same time getting his username posted on the front page.
AMD may not have the resources that Intel does, but it isn't as though Intel is walking AMD around on a leash. This mindset gets annoying after a while.
It's spelled B'Elanna. Where's the Voyager Sucks troll when you need him?
My name is Adrian Lopez. I like tacos y burritos.
tacos! tacos! tacos! burrrrrrritos!!!
This is Slashdot. You need to use a car analogy instead.
No, no, you got that all wrong. Let's start again, and I'll give you a little hint...
That's no moon.
Hey, I modded you up in some non-troll posts with my last three modpoints. (I don't want to be metamoderated to where I lose my modpoints.) Should be back to positive karma.
Shows where Google's priorities (rightly) are. We have been waiting for years and can't even get a decently-working version of flash for Linux. Foreshadowing, perhaps?
Care to explain how this works? Similar to glitching in DTV cards?
Ju jitsu? I'm gonna learn Ju jitsu.
Yes, by one wire, the Playstation required a piece of steel wire, AKA a spring to hold the "door closed" button down when the door was open. The more invasive method would be to take a copper wire and solder the circuit closed instead of using the spring.
Load a "legit" game and pull the disc out, and stick in your burned copy of another game, and voila! The burned copy runs. You never even needed a modchip to begin with.
The forum link is broken. The video does not say anything about how they did it or how it works. It's merely a suggestion that the product does work and then is a link to where to buy it.
Nothing to see here.
There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.
Our source was the New York Times.
I thought they had a rule that you could not patent a perpetual motion machine? Why would that be?
Because it has been tried so many times that the USPTO was sick and fed up with it and decided to make this exception.
"With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing."
You cannot patent a lamp without a working prototype of a lamp
Wrong. You do not have to have a prototype or even prove that your idea is realizable to receive a patent on it.
The ROTJ lightsaber scene isn't the only new piece of footage going into the BluRay disc set. It's just the one he showed at Celebration V.
See?
NERDS!!!
Kind of true here. They're running a little thin on marketable materials if the scene addition is a short little 15-30 second clip that adds nothing to the plot. There are probably a few more deleted scenes that will be released in the next ten years.
:)
For me, it's a complete turnoff. I went to see the digitized releases of IV, V, and V in the theaters in the late '90s. It took away from the movies. Then they keep changing things within the scenes. Han shot first. Live with it. After I, II, and III came out, they removed the original ghost of Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi and replaced him with the Canadian actor that played Anakin Skywalker in II and III. WHY?
As Mel Brooks pointed out 23 years ago, it's all along the lines of "Moichandizing! Moichandizing!". They know that they have a franchise that they can milk for years to come. Some sci-fi geeks take things a little too far, and where there is this amount of submission, you can bet that the pocket books are open. Don't get me started about my small collection of pewter TNG starships.