I often work on fancy PCB designs and can always use more resolution and a bigger screen, within limits. There's no point in having a screen so wide that my head is always moving like at a tennis match.
But more resolution makes editing quicker and easier.
Bah. You PC board wusses. Try doing physical design on a custom ASIC (note my sig).
More pixels definitely helps. I have been using a 30" 2560x1600 (Dell for about $1200), but more pixels for half the money seems like a great deal! The down side is less glass itself, so the pixels are smaller. My old eyes would probably have a hard time staring at text at that resolution. Yes, I know that I can change fonts, but I am a strong believer in more monitors in general. You can have the layout on the big glass, and terminal and/or EMACS windows on the side monitors. Now THAT is a productivity boost. The problem is that with your side monitors having a significantly different pixel density from the main monitor make having an ideal font size impossible. Either too big on the side monitors or too small on the big, central monitor.
So, assuming that this IS real, any suggestions on FOSS encryption for those without access to BitLocker?
On a side-note, how could TrueCrypt be actually broken? Even if the encryption is broken, that can be fixed in a later release. There is a LOT of stuff in TC (boot manager, GUI, etc.), and you cannot tell me that ALL of it is bad.
The best trolls are indistinguishable from serious comments.
No, not trolling. Sorry, but there IS a grain of truth in geek misogyny. This toon is a humorous example:
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/20...
Also, when was the last time that you saw a woman depicted in a video game that was less than a "C" cup? Sorry, but if you were to go back a few centuries and give a woman a sword and armor, I am pretty sure that the armor would cover more than about six square inches of her body. Sorry, but in video games, women are sex objects (Metroid is the one notable exception that I can think of). Even as protagonists, they will dress scantily, while standing next to a male character that is so covered in so much armor that you can only see his eyes.
Perhaps part of it is that women are, in general, under-represented in geek culture. Guys are attracted to girls, but there are damn few of them floating around in geek circles. So, they go from being "people" to becoming something closer to a "trophy."
Which is sad because the country has quite a bit of history
It really is a shame. That part of the world used to be known for arts, sciences, and education. I wish that it were still that way...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire
At hundreds of miles per hour, the car aerodynamics would probably be closer to an aircraft. Why not use some sort of air brake -- little flaps that stick out causing wind resistance? Once you get down to, say, 300 MPH, there are certainly commercial car brakes that can handle that -- NASCAR does it every day.
FYI: Atmel does have ARM processors too, along with all the usual goodies (ADC, DAC, timers, UARTs, etc.). Prices for their ARM stuff starts below $2.00 also.
However, the one thing that Atmel does *NOT* have is a DIP package, which, IMHO, is kind of a big deal. A dip package is probably one of the best things that you can do to be hobbyist-friendly. The other things that hobbyists like are a free tool chain and a low-cost programmer. Atmel does those OK.
Disclaimer: I work for Atmel.
It is also possible that people use guns to defend themselves.
Australia really cracked down on gun ownership back in the 1980's. Since then, murder went down a little, but violent crime in general went up by 40%. For each person NOT murdered, over six hundred additional people are a victim of violent crime...
Yet gun deaths went way down, so I am sure that a lot of people trumpeted success. Too bad that stabbing and beating deaths made up most of the difference.
Because guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
Interesting how you think that the link you shared somehow means something. In Russia, guns in civilian hands are VERY scarce, yet the murder rate as a whole is rather higher than it is in the US.
Well, I suppose it makes sense if every gun death is a tragedy, but if somebody is stabbed or beaten to death, it is no big deal.
Clue for you: a person stabbed to death is just as dead as somebody shot to death. But I suppose that does not fit in with your agenda, so you happily ignore that fact.
Ah yes. The famous "gun deaths" myth. Let me use a simple analogy (apparently I will have to keep it simple so that you can follow along).
Suppose that you have a relative that was run over by a red car. So, you go on a "red car" crusade and manage to make red an illegal color for cars. Soon, the number of deaths due to red cars plummets to zero, so you loudly trumpet success. You did, in fact, eliminate deaths due to red cars, but is anybody really any safer?
I feel that it is necessary to point out what is obvious to most people: somebody shot to death is just as dead as somebody stabbed or beaten to death with a club. In fact, if I had to choose, I would rather be shot dead instead of bludgeoned to death.
Russia has far fewer gun deaths due to the fact that civilian guns are very scarce, yet their murder rate is much higher than ours. Would you prefer that our crime statistics were more in line with Russia?
Now, if you want to talk overall violent crime rate and murder rate, that is fair game. Australia make gun ownership MUCH harder a few decades ago. The end result is that their murder rate, which was already rather low, went down a little. However, overall violent crime increased by 40%. I calculated that for each person NOT murdered that the tradeoff is that approximately 660 additional people were the victims of robery, assault, or sexual assault. Yes, 660. That is NOT a typo. I used data from the Australian government and adjusted for population. Gun deaths did indeed go down, but stabbings went up, making up most of the difference.
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