Check out Invensense (http://www.invensense.com). They have been making single-chip motion sensor/processors for years, and their products look to be smaller than what was pictured in the OA. Maybe the newness is in the particular manufacturing/packaging process.

You are not always in a car when this thing will be most useful. How about when your combat team is inside the corridors of a building?

I arrived in NZ to live on Oct 1, 2006. That happened to be the first Sunday in October, and according to the rules was the day that Daylight Time started in 2006. During 2007 there was rather intense lobbying to have the start date of Daylight Time be moved earlier so the extra daylight could be enjoyed sooner.

The change happened, and for 2007 the changeover date was set to be the last Sunday in September going forward. My what an outcry there was from many people protesting the awful disruption that change would cause them for days on end. Really, just bitter protests!

It turned out that the last Sunday of September in 2007 was September 30. So, compared to 2006, the change happened all of 1 day earlier. I really had to laugh at all the heat of the protests that had been put forward for really no reason. It was a hoot!

Unless things have changed a lot since I went through the process, it is necessary to pick a research problem and get it approved by the faculty of your department to be worthy of research. I don't think most people know what their problem will be the summer before they start the graduate program. I sure did not. I had to get some experience before I could identify a good topic.

How sad it is to discover someone young enough and ignorant enough to not know who Dave Winer is.

Way off topic post. What on earth do you think you are trying to say? I certainly cannot make any sense of this post.

And New Zealand does have an army (and an air force) in addition to a navy. All organizations are very small, and are not set up for offensive warfare. They are most often used for humanitarian missions. There is a contingent of the NZ Army SAS active in Afghanistan for several years now.

And, going back to the original posting, the proper term for the navy of NZ is "Royal New Zealand Navy", not "New Zealand Royal Navy". "Royal Navy" is British.

Disagree! "Orthagonal" would be pronounced quite differently from "Orthogonal". But I hope you wouldn't try, because "orthagonal" is not a word.

When I saw this, my first thought was that it looked a lot like suits that sci-fi moviemakers have imagined over the years.

As a US citizen living in a small foreign country subject to the bullying of the US over these kinds of matters, I feel ashamed of what the US is doing. AND it is not funny!

Compilers compile to "object code" or "machine code", not "assembler language". It may be that some simple compilers produce output in assembler language that has to be separately "assembled". And the object code generated by some compilers may have to be interpreted by another program, such as the Java virtual machine.

In American English, one says and writes "oriented". In British English, the word "orientated" is used for the same purpose. Something I had to learn when I left the USA.

Perhaps you cannot remember a time before C++ existed. Object-oriented ideas existed before C++ and some people wanted to use them in their code.

Of course you can write object-oriented code in C. It has been done many times.

An object-oriented language has lots of syntactic help for the purpose, but all languages compile to some type of runtime code structure. If you understand what code gives the object-oriented behavior you want, then you can write it in C.

And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language, I would guess. I do remember writing a C routine once which had an initialized array containing hex representations of machine code to do a particular highly specialized task, and then using some coding wizardry to get the locus of control into that array when needed. Ah, those were the days.

No, I do not recall that incident, but as you tell it, I can visualize the result. That is a good story.