Comment Re:normal people can probably do it too (Score 1) 347
It starts by de-humanising people by calling them something inferior (cockroaches, rats,
Be aware if you want to prevent the next Holocaust
It starts by de-humanising people by calling them something inferior (cockroaches, rats,
Be aware if you want to prevent the next Holocaust
Have they been asked? Do they keep a copy?
I guess that's why you won't see them with an Android load and a discount. MS has probably contracted with ASUS not to do that.
I mean, does a tablet with a removable CPU card make any sense whatsoever?
ah you've heard of the openmoko and the openpandora, then? how long did their designs take, and did the components go end-of-life in one case before they'd completed the design?
the micro-engineering board being referred to is this:
http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_engineering_board/
that's what's being shipped. although the tablet itself using rapid prototyping for the casework shouldn't be too far behind.
Yes, warrentless wiretapping is a problem. (I'll not talk about Britain here)
But spot the difference between allowing police to track specific phones for investigations and the NSA recording all communications for everyone, forever.
The police can be held accountable. There is a paper trail of who accessed what and how often. These stats are made available. That's the difference.
Yes, the Data Retention Directive is problematic, and we should push to limit the storage time limit to 2 weeks. The fight against this directive is still ongoing, as it is costly and unnecessarily invasive to privacy.
Well, the big philosophical idea is that ANY EOMA-68 CPU card slots in ANY EOMA-68 machine (note that EOMA is not entirely, or even primarily about tablets -- that's just the first hardware product using it), and works. That's why Luke (aka lkcl) is quite adamant there are no "optional" features in the spec -- the only exception is for interfaces (e.g. USB, 10/100/1000-BASE-T) that can fully autonegotiate in both directions, so that there's neither a slow-machine/fast-cpu-card, nor slow-cpu-card/fast-machine case where it becomes incompatible.
yup. that's about the long and short of it. although it's at first consideration a complete pain for system designers on both sides of the interface - a nuisance for CPU Card designers because they have to substitute extra ICs such as USB-to-SATA in cases where they pick a SoC that doesn't have SATA - and bewilderment for I/O Board designers because why would they use a CPU Card in e.g. a tablet that has features they don't need such as Ethernet?? - the alternatives are absolute chaos.
the advantage: you can tell the average end-user "just buy one of these, it will work".
the alternative: think about this scenario as it is in many other standards such as Q-Seven , where you allow ethernet to be "optional" and you allow the I/O boards to "recreate" ethernet say using USB-to-Ethernet. how do you route that? well, if you think about it what you have to do is actually put down an Ethernet Hub IC on *every single I/O board*, and some sort of crazed switching, as well as put down a USB-to-Ethernet converter IC and probably a USB Hub IC as well... because the designers of the I/O board will never know if an end-user is going to plug in a CPU Card that has native Ethernet or is expecting it to be left up to the I/O Board using USB.
now expand that chaos out to SATA as well, as well as any other interfaces, and you can see immediately that a non-optional standard results in instant chaos. it's fine for Q-Seven (well... it's not. not really) where the expectation is that the Q-Seven Cards will never be removed from their carrier boards, but then why build a standard where the end-user is never expected to upgrade their system without needing a specialist degree in engineering in order to assess if the upgrade will even work?
the guiding principles behind the EOMA standards are: it must be SIMPLE, it must be OPEN, and it must work in HUGE volume.
the A10 is out-of-date so we're using the pin-compatible A20 instead. dual core ARM Cortex A7.
I think every country that has a roman-based judicature and uses funky words like judicature qualifies as a descendent.
Here's a foreign word missing in this discussion: De-escalation.
While I applaud the engineer's efforts, I wish his employer (Google), would spend a bit more of resources in making its maps aplication more functional [for me].
Here's my gripe, and I am not alone:
Why is it that there's no way to make routing avoid toll roads by default?
I have got a solution: I use Waze but worried that if Google's ambitions with it (Waze) go through, they may disable this feature.
You sometimes wonder why things so basic, take so long to implement. Why?
Because that's not a product they sell? Go to a car navigation company (TomTom, Garvin, Navit come to mind) and give them money, they do what you want. Why you expect more than something basic from a free service is beyond me.
Still, I think in this century materials and systems will be developed which can detect neutrinos 1000 times better than today. That opens up new possibilities in astronomy (solar neutrinos, AGN, looking past the CMB just to name a few).
Yes, neutrinos start the SN explosion according to current models. However, the timing results for SN 1987a were actually inconclusive, as observatories were not connected to calibrated precision timing systems.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford