Re: Buses, huh?
So THAT'S how starts are born!
Posts by Dark Horse
25 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2008
Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink
Curiosity finds organics on Mars, but possibly not of Mars
Tuesday 4th December 2012 09:42 GMT
terrestrial or martian carbon?
In the "graph" picture, it mentions that it's indeterminate that the carbon from the chlorinated carbons could be martian or terrestrial and that further analysis is required.
I thought carbon is carbon. How would you tell if it was from Earth or not? "Made in China" labels on the protons?
First eyes EVER SEEN (by definition) appeared 700 million years ago
Arduino barebones board upgraded with 32-bit ARM
Tuesday 23rd October 2012 10:30 GMT
Re: The title is too long!
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I'm sure you know more about this than I do, but I'm struggling to understand how an 89MHz ARM CPU is better suited to realtime operation than a 700MHz ARM CPU. I'm assuming that it's the connectivity (Arduino pin selection vs the Pi GPIO header) that makes the distinction?
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There is a difference between embedded and real-time.
A real time system is a system that will guarantee a response within a set time to an event. You don't want commands to a nuke reactor cool down to be delayed a few milliseconds because the linux kernel decides to spend too much time sorting out its memory paging or something. :)
You can get customised versions of the Linux kernel that can be realtime.
But, the arduino would be coded for a specific task, and only that task. You don't expect to run bittorrent in the background. :) Plus, a 89MHz processor would be cheaper than a 700MHz, for a washing-machine control board.
New electronic labels squeal to spare you from food poisoning
75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August
Wednesday 16th May 2012 09:34 GMT
Here we go again... :-)
It made me laugh when the Pi's were being bought on ebay for 100+ quid. Nutters! You could've bought a much better platform (beagleboard, pandaboard, cubox, snowball, etc) for not much more with more memory, faster processor (even with hardware floating point!) and more on-board peripherals.
As for the arduino vs pi argument, I definitely agree with the sentiment that they're different tools for different jobs.
Depending on the project, you could use the Pi as the main processor with the arduino (or the leaflabs maple, or even a bare-bones ATmega with arduino bootloader) as an "intelligent" I/O daughter board powered and communicated via the Pi's USB host.
Leaked Twitter accounts 'mostly banned spammers'
Spotify dances onto iPad
Ex-NASA space shuttle to touch down on aircraft carrier
Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?
Wednesday 8th June 2011 09:57 GMT
PVRs? IDTVs?
There will always be needs for HDDs.
Just because mobile applications are going cloudy, and maybe documents too, don't forget that there are other uses for HDDs.
More and more TVs and STBs (Freesat+, Sky+, Virgin with TiVo, etc) are being built with internal hard-drives for recording purposes.... and I'm guessing a lot more people have TVs than PCs...
Popular gamers 'should play for free' – Valve boss
The Sun still not shining on Nintendo's 3DS
Wednesday 6th April 2011 16:31 GMT
probably a case of..
it's probably a case of:-
doctor: "subject has high pulse after playing the game. as expected, due to adreneline, etc"
reporter: "pulse is high. gotcha. what would be the effects of resting pulse was that high, normally?"
doctor: "not good."
reporter, writing headline: "playing 3DS makes your heart go boom!"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
