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Jak Decidus wrote: Big Industry doesn't want to buy into it, because there is 0 demand for
this product and no known purpose
Most likely they didn't know how to sell this to the "big guys", as they don't mention to who or how they tried to sell this, i can't tell, but taking this product to the graphics industry (Nvidia, AMD, etc.) or to the cell phone makers (an insanely powerful cellphone, anyone?), probably would have given them better results. I can think of several outlandish uses for an insanely powerful pocket computer: realtime (put what you want here) recognition, neural networks, an emulated brain, run the Matrix, etc.
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Thanks for this reply Jack. When I clicked on that FAQ link all I got was another Home page with no information on the memory question.
Being a computational scientist in an industrial HPC center, I can imagine all sorts of things I could do with something like this board, if it will run generic Ubuntu or some other Linux distribution, and all the associated tools, programming tools included.
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More than enough for Mandelbrot sets and a lot of other CPU intensive fractal generation.
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At $100, the computer could be used for a lot of mundane tasks too. The project shows, overall, that it is possible to build an inexpensive computer that can be used for things like micro-tasking. To date though, such a machine has not appeared in a form that runs a standard OS and is mass-purchasable.
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Now why does this remind me of the Transputer?
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Among the hottest buzzwords in the IT industry these days is "big data," but the "big" is something of a misnomer: big data is not just about volume, but also about velocity and variety.... If we draw a picture of the design space for big data along these three dimensions of volume, velocity, and variety, then we get the big-data cube. LINQ, Reactive Extensions and big, bad mobile data.
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One thing I run into when working with legacy code that I haven't really seen addressed anywhere else: how to assess the difficulty of working with a particular code base. Why is this important? Because we are going to be asked to estimate the amount of time it will take to fix a bug or add a feature to said code base. If you wrote it yourself? Easy. But you didn't write it, so...
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Nick Holonyak was sure the LED would replace the incandescent light bulb when he presented it to GE executives 50 years ago. While the incandescent is still king in homes across the nation, the LED has transformed lighting in more ways than Holonyak could have imagined. From those first dim red diodes to powerful streetlights in major cities, the LED has made its mark on the world. Camenzind's timer + Holonyak's LED = a generation of beep-beep, flash-flash fun.
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You may not know his name, but you've encountered Hans Camenzind's designs countless times. He was also one of the first independent semiconductor designers, famed for hitting a home run with his first solo design–the 555 timer chip that has been incorporated into countless inexpensive electronic devices. Incredibly, over one billion 555 timer chips are sold each year. It's a simple little 10 cent device that makes it possible to build devices that flash, buzz or turn on and off at variable intervals. Incredibly, he created the chip alone, spending a year designing it by hand as a freelancer. Flip-flop, flip-flop... silence.
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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RIP.
I used the NE555 timer several times when I was hacking hardware in the 70s.
/ravi
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I gave myself an electric shock using a 555 timer when I was an apprentice.
I was using it as a timer to generate a 50hz cycle as part of a 12Vdc to 240Vac inverter I was making as a little project. Damn what a kick I got from the ac side!
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Yikes!
Did you also play with the Intersil 8038 (function gen)? One of my favorite chips! I built a neat VCO (sine, square and triangle outputs) for next to nothing using the chip's standard application circuit guide. Amazing little device! Sometimes I miss the smell of burning solder...
/ravi
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It’s a big day here at Bitbucket HQ. The Bitbucket team is unveiling a brand new, redesigned Bitbucket. Our goal for this huge release was to rethink and rebuild the Bitbucket web experience from the ground up. Today, we’re are excited to introduce the new Bitbucket – faster, easier and more beautiful than ever. It looks a lot like Github... and that ain't a bad thing.
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Once a year we are given carte blanche to commune with the dead, to cast spells and to become the evil that we otherwise fear in the world. We let the fear in, let it dance around in our heads and give us nightmares. This year, we're digging up a few buried horrors for you, and we've called upon the spirit of the NES to conjure up some newer scares as well. From the sublimely terrifying to the ridiculous, here are 15 games full of 8-bit scares to fill your Octoberween. Click through the links to get in the spirit and play, purchase or download each of these retro scare-fests. Out in those woods, in the dark... something... that's pixelated.
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Another website that makes you click 16 times to be able to view each item.
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Microsoft has been working for the past few years to convince users, especially business users, they don't need to wait until the first service pack to deploy a new Windows release. With Windows 8, Microsoft officials believe they've gotten a step closer, by rolling out via Windows Update on October 9 the “Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 General Availability Cumulative Update.” This update provides post-RTM (release to manufacturing) updates around performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility. Bonus: you'll have updates waiting as soon as you install. Oh happy days!
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A new survey finds that the more women executives that are involved in a startup, the more likely it is to succeed. Here's one theory why... [ITworld]
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Alternate theory hypothesis: there are so few women in startups, the ones that are there are the top of the pack. If they look at the top men running startups, the percentage would probably be higher (especially if the criterion for "top men" means the ones that are successful ).
A similar perspective is that men are more likely to take risks, and so are more likely to be involved and to fail.
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I agree with the second hypothesis - it can be hard for women to be taken seriously in the IT business. Consequently, if they are good, then they tend to be darn good.
I say this as one of the few women in the business who is basically just coasting along
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There's nothing wrong with a bit of coasting, in fact I recommend it as an anti-burnout strategy.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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If there were far more women in the IT field it would be a much better place to work since so much has become a daily experience in brutality as a result of outsourcing and the continued use of incompetent managers.
More women would make them feel less inclined to act like men and be more of themselves, which would most likely bring a calming effect to a field that has been fraught with high stress, ridiculous expectations, massive project failure, and just general poor working conditions...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com
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I couldn't agree more.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Steve Naidamast wrote: If there were far more women in the IT field it would be a much better place to
work since so much has become a daily experience in brutality as a result of
outsourcing and the continued use of incompetent managers.
Incorrect. Women would not alter either of those.
Steve Naidamast wrote: More women would make them feel less inclined to act like men and be more of
themselves, which would most likely bring a calming effect to a field that has
been fraught with high stress, ridiculous expectations, massive project failure,
and just general poor working conditions...
If you are suggesting that women would fix that then no that is not correct.
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