I would buy the surface 2 (the ARM version) if it was a Baytrail atom.

I am not interested in the pro (I have a PC for that) but I need a decent Baytrail tablet and Surface 2 could be it.

Same has been going on with Iranian scientists.

Iranian scientists which work for government organizations have been banned from publishing in American journals and those journals which do business in the US. As an example science direct and others.

Isn't that pure B.S.?

Very well said , thank you.

Most of the available boards including RaspberiPi are not suitable for embedded design experiments (that's my personal opinion though). I prefer to program low level I/O code using C or even assembly for such purposes than writing a linux code (which in the case of RaspberyPi is several giga bytes).

I guess older versions of Arduino used to be what I want. I bought a few cheap Chinese boards (ARM and AVR) from ebay a few years ago and they are exactly what I want.

Btw. I built my first radio (the circuit board using Acids and so on) in 5th grade and designed an FM transmitter in 8th grade. Even now at 40 I enjoy playing with these things as a hobby from time to time. Though I enjoy FPGA design as much. I somehow regret that I changed my field from electronics engineering to computer science for masters and PhD.

Iran has already done it. It has built an Intranet like network which connects to outside world through few gateways. The transition of the network users to the new Intranet is being done at the time being and will complete in year.

The main purpose is the:

1- Avoid the internal Iranian traffic to travel over the internet (i.e. unknown countries).
2- To control in/out traffic (deep packet inspection, control access to outsider websites, attack and spying control, allow access to Iran-only websites just from inside Iran, emergency kill switch).
3- Force Iranian organizations to host their website in Iranian data centers.
4- Save traffic costs.
5- Flourish local hosting and cloud business and local peering between ISPs. ....

What a kind title. How about apologizing (and kissing) each other and finishing things kindly!

How about using google to find out?

http://datawarehouse4u.info/OLTP-vs-OLAP.html

@Toad-san :

You see how denial of the existence of cows turned out? I guess you disappointed those sensitive creatures.

I just found it. It was called UKEU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKeU). It was a famous effort which ended in am ugly shutdown.

Didn't UK try to build an online university almost 7-8 years ago which ended in a disaster (millions of wasted money and eventual shutdown of the website) and house hearings?

They were supposed to provide masters courses for 6000 pounds but the costs exceeded the estimates and forced them to stop the whole thing.

I have a Nexus 7. On nexus 7 it is painful to read books and academic paper at least for my 40 yo eyes. I previously had a 8.9" tablet and it was quite ok.

On 10" W510 tablet things are ideal but it is a bit heavy and carrying it around is less comfortable (it is like you always have a book with you).

- Cash may change several hands before returning to ATM.
- You may receive some of that cash from someone and not from ATM.
- The list of the things you obtained cannot easily be tracked back to you.

Still it makes sense that a 14nm circuit use 30% lower power than a 22nm (I guess even a bit more than that would make sense).

You use it as a tablet on the Go (mostly with touch enabled software) but you have the option to run older apps when you are at home or office with bluetooth mouse and keyboard. That's exactly what I do with my Iconia W510.

I have an android phone, a nexus 7 and a W510. W510 is way better than Nexus in my opinion. Android sometimes makes me crazy doing simple things. With W510 I connect to my PC (via file sharing), copy a buggy program, edit it and ftp to the server in 2 minutes. On Android that same task would take 5-10 minutes.

Whatever it is consumers have win. ARM, Android and Windows RT put enough pressure on Intel to force them optimize their CPUs for lower power consumption.