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by gregsq 14y ago
I think it's a little too general to recommend not using CAS, as at a low enough level it's useful, but cache lines, as you say, are probably the most important functional issue. It's possible to implement algorithms independently of data
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by gregsq 14y ago
This is the kind of thing going on with the Omap5. http://www.phytec.com/pdf/OMAP5_product_brief.pdf
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by gregsq 14y ago
There's so many aspects to that question, but I'll have a go. The first thing to point out from the materials aspect is that there are compliances everywhere with vinyl records. They are essentially lubricated with plasticisers which are ne
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by gregsq 14y ago
You're right, my language was imprecise, and I'm conflating two events. The Icelandic government declined to recapitalize failing banks, even when under enormous pressure to do so by the UK government and others. The pressure you may know w
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by gregsq 14y ago
Except for one complication. Japan's public debt is largely owed to it's own citizens, such a large proportion being internal debt. Even if they defaulted on the external component, they'd still have a problem of the type Iceland could avoi
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by gregsq 14y ago
I hear that a lot, that most countries in the world have worse health care than the US. This is a highly contentious claim, and I think you might need to justify that, with reference to mental health in particular. In a comment above, where
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by gregsq 14y ago
In Australia the policy has been to essentially close institutions and make mental health a community care based solution. Once upon a time the methodology for dealing with schizophrenics and other more severe cases of mental illness was to
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by gregsq 14y ago
And there's something of an irony. I'm glad to see that rational distinction prevails in this smaller forum. It's difficult to derive an as useful moderator as yours is here to the much larger colosseum of Facebook. Anyone can be a deputy o
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by gregsq 14y ago
Companies don't pay VAT. It's somewhat more complicated than that.
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by gregsq 14y ago
There's lots of prior art here, thinking of patents. You might want to look at Atmel's maXTouch capacitive sensors. In particular what's going on with the noise floor, or signal to noise that's a relevant factor for resolution [1]. And a si
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by gregsq 14y ago
Well expanding the money supply devalues the currency, and lowers the value of savings when compared to other currencies, or gold or whatever. That is an inflationary factor as you say. The banking system nonetheless had their trading posit
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by gregsq 14y ago
I see what you are saying. Evasion is avoidance by deceit. However minimisation is defined as reducing something to a least possible amount, and so cannot be avoidance, or combined with deceit, evasion, if that least possible amount is dete
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by gregsq 14y ago
Minimisation and avoidance are of course different, for example when minimising or avoiding risk. Part of the issue here is the politically convenient conflating of the two descriptions. Related to this is your second point, about profits.
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by gregsq 14y ago
I don't think it's that difficult to get. The UK government has been partly naive, though many would say typically liberal, about corporate activity. In truth, the only reason this is coming up now is because some elected politicians equate
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by gregsq 14y ago
Yeah but, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)
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by gregsq 14y ago
It's possible to do video rates on e-ink. Epson make some very good chips like the S1D19120 or S1D13M01. How they've managed this in this form though, I'm not at all sure. Time to do some digging.
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by gregsq 14y ago
I'm interested too to see what happens there with TI after their decision to refocus on embedded. The Omap5 is an interesting chip as it contains a highly deterministic Cortex-m4 as well as an A15, though so far documentation is hard to fin
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by gregsq 14y ago
Yeah, thanks for that. I'm a little surprised you haven't had more of a response to your perspective on all this actually. There's so many analogies that one could use that I dare not attempt one. Like if C is like metallurgy, the C++ is li
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by gregsq 14y ago
I don't think gigabit Ethernet is common ( yet ). 10/100 is. The Arnedale board, with an Exynos 5 has sata and 10/100. Samsungs on a push in South Korea with partners. It's happening a little in the US too with TI partnering with Phytec and
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by gregsq 14y ago
In response to this, here is a summary copied directly from a reputable source. [1] Thorium is a radioactive element similar to uranium. Formerly used to make gas mantles, it is about three times as abundant in the earth’s crust as uranium.
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by gregsq 14y ago
There's no insinuation in my posting this link, and it's not directly pertinent to Thorium reactors, but the free PDF downloadable from here is a good reference for these kinds of discussions, I think. Helped me with perspective anyway. ht
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by gregsq 14y ago
Absolutely. On these devices the OS or even RTOS's for them are just the basis for further coding to accomplish this different conception of value added functionality. But unlike, say an iOS app, which leverages an underlying software platf
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by gregsq 14y ago
However software is becoming commoditised, while hardware is now appearing to involve quite a degree of inventiveness, a characteristic following from the growth in low powered ARM devices, among others. You can get a Som board with a Texas
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by gregsq 14y ago
I'm not going to attempt to predict unpredictable disruptive technology, but the landscape is certainly changing, though by how much is still predictably uncertain. The cost reductions available to Apple are also available more widely. Ther
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by gregsq 14y ago
Good advise. If you can at all stay out of a hospital, the better your chances of avoiding these highly selected bugs. It makes sense that feeders are nursing homes or establishments that have some palliative care, as many patients there ha
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by gregsq 14y ago
No. Either the value started as a signed value, and then was converted to an unsigned ( something well warned about by observing compile warnings or Lint ), or it was unsigned all along. Either way the same result would have occurred. Sligh
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by gregsq 14y ago
And again on hardware, piping with message boxes in RTOS's is a normal facility. The language in the pipe is not defined, unlike un*x, though serialisation protocols may be. Examples over net layers might be Thrift and Protocol Buffers. A s
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by gregsq 14y ago
That was one lesson. There were others as well, and they're related. It was a temptation to believe that they were a kind of magic bullet that acted as a scoped resource scavenger. Mostly vtable jump resource cleanups through dtors in the u
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by gregsq 14y ago
Didn't need to say it at all. I probably wasn't being clear enough but I was referring to early versions that were called smart precisely because they removed the need for the programmer to count because they counted themselves. Hence 'smar
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by gregsq 14y ago
Agree in the main. Even before smart_ptr's were integrated into the standard, bespoke versions that appeared to some to remove scoping confusion had a tendency to propagate like weeds. In the majority of cases, const correctness, mutability

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