Posts by BillG 1483 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2010
"Only when dealing with 8-bit data; and you don't do that often"
Um, what??? What planet are you on? Almost all embedded applications work with 8-bit data because you are dealing with embedded CONTROL-oriented applications, NOT MATH-oriented applications.
Outside of cryptology and some motor control applications, 32-bit will ALWAYS be less efficient that a 8-bit in EMBEDDED applications ALWAYS.
@Wilco1, everything you wrote is wrong because what you wrote is 20 years out of date.
1. A RISC DOES need more instructions than a CISC to do work. C'mon, that's the classic RISC vs CISC debate right there!!! A RISC is a ***REDUCED*** Instruction Set. Especially today - look at all the single-cycle CISC microcontrollers out there. A CISC machine can get it done with less instructions and less cycles.
2. A 32-bit core most definitely does NOT do more work than an 8-bit core. Control-oriented applications work on 8-bit data, so in a 32-bit you are wasting 24-bits on every clock cycle.
3. 32-bit microcontrollers use 4-times the power of an 8-bit because a 32-bit has 4-times the data paths. That's 4x more logic outside the core to switch, period.
4. You usually need a 32-bit core when you have to manage many threads that require a sophisticated RTOS. THAT is why you need 32-bits - to manage 32-bit status registers and semaphores! But this is also where 32-bit falls down because 8-bit can do bit manipulation and semaphore operations more efficiently than 32-bit.
Article says: "These cores are expected to be wrapped up in flash and RAM in the order of scores of kilobytes, driven by a clock frequency of at most 50MHz, and draw 9 millionths of an amp per MHz on a 1.2V supply."
Most of these low power embedded applications require clock frequencies of less than 8MHz. And "9 millionths of an amp per MHz on a 1.2V supply"" is a whopping 9uA/MHz, which is hot and a lot - there are 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers out there that require less than 10% of that massive power draw.
ARM is targeting a market they can't win. No matter what you do to a 32-bit, you can build an 8-bit that will use one-quarter the power, period. That's physics.
These applications are NOT about power, they are about EFFICIENCY and 32-bit will always be less efficient that a 16-bit or especially an 8-bit.
Jeremy Hammond talked about prior arrests, talked about prior activities, used his home internet connection, stored illegal data on a stranger's server, admitted during chats to using stolen credit cards, and implicated his partners. And that's not even half of it.
This guy did everything but run around with a T-shirt that said "Arrest me". Google Jeremy Hammond and you'll why this guy should be featured on next week's episode of "World's Dumbest Criminals"
A better option is to install DroidWall. It's a free firewall that let's you block apps from accessing the internet. About half my apps are blocked, including cameras, games, books, barcode scanner, calender storage, contacts, and video players. Also blocks ads on those apps.
I feel safer, my phone runs faster and gets better battery life.
"The soldier's defence lawyers are claiming that he was emotionally troubled and shouldn't have been given access to classified data."
Translation:
It's the USA's fault for giving classified access to someone who will leak classified documents.
Hey, let's open up the jails and let everyone loose! After all, it's society's fault for putting someone in society who could be a criminal! Not their fault they mugged your grandmother!
Not dismantled, but reorganized. The Catholic Church is a hierocracy (a holy caste) where those on the top have all the power. No consensus, no voting, no democracy. In such an environment, a few small vipers can create complete chaos.
"Devil himself was stalking the corridors of the Holy See and was ultimately behind the wave of scandals convulsing the Catholic Church" = "People are seeking power for power's sake and the Church is just a vehicle"
No bubble to burst. But in the case of Apple, let's face it, they are selling an IMAGE and a BRAND. Nobody buys a Blu-Ray disc player to express their independent, creative side. Meanwhile, Apple's commercials show a connected people that are SHARing and COMPASSIONATE. Let's coordinate a meeting with our friends at a coffee shop. There's an app for that, right?
Yeah, most people in Western society don't care, as long as they get it cheap. But Apple users are supposed to caaaaaaare. The Apple brand says that they are not like most people.
Truth is, people who buy iPhones are not different from most people. They are not just a part of the herd, they ARE the herd.
P.S. There are no public records of Mr. Jobs giving any money to charity.
"40,000 people change their mind when told the new iphone 5 will cost £1000. Honestly I dont get how naive people are"
iPhone users aren't naive - they just don't care.
Apple makes about 600% profit on iPhones. They can afford manufacturing where people don't die, but they would rather profit more off the sheeple.
It makes me wonder how indifferent iPhone users are to Apple's deadly manufacturing.
Not surprised that the buyout wasn't approved.
I'm also not surprised that U.S. company AT&T agreed to pay Deutsche Telekom $3Billion because the deal didn't go through. Germans are ruthless business negotiators.
When you look at the whole thing, Deutsche Telekom played AT&T like a fiddle!!!
"Carrier IQ insists, that its technology is not designed as a tool for lawful interception but as a means for carriers to diagnose handset and network problems"
Why do carriers need a Third Party to help them diagnose handset and network problems, when the data Carrier IQ sends and receives is THE SAME DATA THE CARRIER sends and receives over IT'S OWN NETWORK?
Why is a third party trying to do what the carrier already does with their own network?
Doesn't Carrier IQ's explanation make their application ridiculously redundant?
Right back at ''cha. There's been so much publicity surrounding this that the courts can't get away with anything.
And who doubts that if this was anyone else, Assange would have been extradited to Sweden by now? Does anyone doubt that anyone else would already been extradited? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
For crying out loud, the British legal system is practically standing on it's head, bending over backwards, and just being plain silly to accommodate each and every request by Assange.
Assange will not be tried in England. He is being EXTRADITED. The only thing England needs to do is verify that it is a legal and valid extradition order.
But those of you that want England to decide if Assange is guilty of any crime in Sweden - that would be a blatant and horrible violation of the boundaries of international law
Of course, those that support Assange don't care about the law, do you?
Lookout's value is in information, we want information, information...
Lookout includes a mandatory service called Find My Phone. Lookout will not allow you to install the app unless you enable Find My Phone, which allows Lookout to monitor your phone's location 24 hours a day, every day. If you have GPS turned off, don't worry - Lookout's draconian permissions allow it to turn your GPS on and off without your involvement. However, they have worded this on their website very cleverly to make it SEEM like they can only read your GPS if you have your GPS turned on - not so. Read their TOS very carefully.
Oh, I forgot, Lookout can read your phone's contacts, too! If you look at Lookout's permission's list, the application has every single Android permission - every single one. There is not one single Android permission that Lookout doesn't have, including adding and deleting contacts. Lookout has more control over your phone than you do.
I tried installing Lookout bit I did not want to enable Find My Phone. If you do not enable it, Lookout is not enabled. If you email tech support, yes, they will respond, but the link you get requires you to register. If you do not register (Name, email address, postal address, mobile number, etc) you cannot read their response.
If you do not register, you get another email one week later telling you how wonderful Find My Phone is and how to enable it.
One week later you get a support email asking you to fill out a survey. But first you must register, give us your information, information...
It's the "information broker" business model:
Stage 1: Get registered users any way and every way you can.
Stage 2: Collect as much personal information about those users
State 3: Change the product and the TOS to monetize those users information.
Lookout has not reached Stage 3 yet.
I am not a number - I am a FREE MAN!
Adobe Flash was buggy since they bought out Macromedia. It kept getting buggy and bloated, a sure sign that the original developers took the highway while the less-than-talented stayed on.
I will never forgive Adobe for breaking Flash's backwards compatibility. I had a money-making online eLearning business built on complex Flash lessons that all suddenly stopped working when Adobe introduced Flash 10. My income suddenly dropped to zero.
Goodbye, Flash.
> I do fit some of those categories. But sometimes is it absolutely justified
> because companies will do the reverse.
You seem to be reinforcing this excerpt from the article:
"The main outcome was that of the four traits they tested for, the strongest correlation with cyber-smearing was a belief that ethics are relative and that there is no objective right and wrong:"
Worldwide, these people are called "Hypocrites". In the USA, these people are called "Liberals".
I had the exact same problem when searching for Windows errors. My solution was obvious - I use Bing to search for Microsoft-related information. It was out of frustration that Google was not returning results that I wanted.
For the past TWO WEEKS I noticed that the + sign didn't force Google to include terms I absolutely needed, but BING does! More and more I've been using Bing because it gives me better results.
This is an urban myth. There is no record of the U.S. government giving smallpox blankets to Native Americans, officially or unofficially.
However, during the French and Indian War, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America seriously considered sending infected blankets to hostile tribes. Google for "Lord Jeffrey Amherst smallpox"
> You've heard of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires, at least, right?
Which of those empires practiced ritual infant sacrifice? You know, when they dropped a one-month old child onto a bed of burning coals and slowly roasted the child alive in order to appease the gods for a good harvest?
By Statler and Waldorf, do you mean Obama and Congress?
PEOPLE MUST BE INSPIRED. I've been in management for over 20 years and in the beginning I thought it was just about telling people what to do. I soon learned that People Must Be Inspired. You want to mobilize a nation, you want to make people proud? PEOPLE MUST BE INSPIRED!
Why do you think China wants to go to the moon? They want to motivate and inspire their people with the achievement, make them FEEL PROUD
Statler and Waldorf were losers with no accomplishments that sat on the sidelines.
> we make commercially viable efforts to automatically
> filter confidential personally identifiable information
> such as UserID, password, credit card numbers, and account numbers
They admit that they can take the most private of personal information - but they, uh, what?
They make "commercially viable" efforts. WTF is "commercially viable"???
They "filter" (but not block)?
What kind of moron would install their software, anyway???
Well, I think that if Assange can release confidential data in return for humongous cash donations, then why can't Berg delete data in return for cash?
There's also the unwarranted assumption that Berg deleted the data with without Assange's consent. If we are led to believe the unbelievable - that Assange the Infallible had (gasp!) no backups of the data (really?) - then I wonder if this is all just play-acting and Assange took a hefty sum from BoA et al to delete data.
Defending Android and its partners??? Not very likely.
Based on Google's recent behavior, Yes, Google will defend Android - but only at Motorola.
LG, Sony, et all will get the short end in the form of late releases. Of course, Android firmware engineers that sit down with rivals can pass on their phone plans on to Motorola.
What OS will everyone else go with now?
(Microsoft enters Stage Left)
Where is Obama's leadership? Last week Gallop has his approval rating at only 40%. His own party won't listen to him. He's been frozen out of the budget talks by Pelosi who won't even let him into the room.
It's sad that Obama has to tweet like a teenager desperate for attention.
This was a dumb thing for Anonymous to do. I've worked in Italy. Historically, their government is known for "broadly" interpreting the law in their favor, including search warrants.
Expect Italy to passionately step up their search for Anonymous members. Expect the people at CNAIPIC to make Anonymous their top priority.
I have very harsh firewall rules. I know that some streaming video won't play on my browser until I switch from "harsh" to "normal".
From my research, I learned that most people don't get infections from old viruses that are two years old, or even two weeks old. You get infections from new viruses that are two hours old.
I had this problem four months ago with Firefox. My Trend Micro antivirus was up-to-date and my Outpost Firewall is solid. I was searching for and wanted to watch a security video that wouldn't load. Outpost told me it wanted a connection, so I allowed it. Later, I noticed that many of my Google search results when clicked want to strange websites filled with ads. I later figured out I had an infection.
Trend Micro, McAfee, Spybot, and Symantec scanners all turned up nothing. I had to research it myself and eventually found the problem myself. I quarantined the infected file so I could test other antivirus programs with it (Only the Sophos & Avira scanners detect it). My computer ended up with all sorts of network-related problems (not virus, but damage from deleted files & deleted registry entries), which I had to correct myself. I now use Avira Antivirus.
Look, I'm an advanced computer user and I got infected. Common antivirus programs didn't detect the problem.
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