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My PowerBook meets its new baby brother - an Asus eee PC. Think the PowerBook has cause to be jealous...
The Asus is a £200 Wifi enabled laptop with flash memory (no hard drive) and a built-in web cam. It runs Linux - though you can put Windows XP on it (and OS X if you're kerrrrazy).
Now blogged here: www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2007/11/asus-eee-pc/
ASUS Eee Netbook
Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit,
Intel Atom N450 2×1.67Ghz CPU,
2GB DDR2 RAM,
160GB Hard drive,
Webcam, Wifi, card reader, ethernet and 3 USB ports.
This netbook is in fantastic condition and everything works correctly. Charger is included and battery lasts an estimated 6...
EEE Magazine
August 1970
Volume 18, Number 8
p38
Nick DeWolf Of Teradyne Speaks Out: Speed Kills (cont'd)
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when I say "slow" with reference to IC characteristics I don't mean glacial. When you do something in 50 nanoseconds, you're taking less time than it takes a typewriter key to move a quarter the wavelength of light. That's speed, no matter how you cut it. The problem is that what most people really want, if they only realized it, is results, not speed. They want to perform a given job in the shortest amount of time. People who test devices often use the term "productivity." Let me use an example to show that productivity and speed are not the same thing.
Suppose you're testing transistors, many thousands of them a shift, making 10 tests on each one and throwing them into bins on the basis of tests passed. Suppose each test takes 20 milliseconds. You can double productivity by cutting that test time down to 10 milliseconds, right? Wrong.
First, you find yourself bumping into some laws of physics. The transistor needs some time to achieve the desired test state and a measurement made too early might be invalid. Second, at 20 milliseconds a test you are probably already testing transistors faster than your mechanical handlers can operate. Third, you can really increase productivity by working out a test procedure that will eliminate superfluous and redundant test - in other words, one that will drop the transistor into the right bin with the smallest possible number of tests. This kind of planning can increase productivity by 30 or 40 percent.
Then figure out how to multiplex and time-share and use distribution curves and yield data to set bin priorities, and you might raise throughput by another 100 percent or so. That's what productivity is all about - not trying to puch ICs to their last nanoseconds.
Or, to put the matter in the latest context, consider the problems confronting those who want to test LSI devices. The fastest ICs anyone has dreamed up still fall pitifully short of doing the trick, because now you're involved in making, instead of a few dozen tests per device, n to the nth to the nth of them. Here speed doesn't kill; it simply fails. So again we attack the problem by reducing the number of tests required, through the generation of complex patterns.
Another factor that makes the speed race pretty academic is the amount of time required to program computer-controlled systems. And let's face it, computer control will soon overspread the whole range of electronic instrumentation. Once you enter the computer world, the key limitation isn't imposed by the speed of the magnetic memories, but by the level of complexity that you can tolerate. (Law: All things are as complex as the people involved can tolerate.)
A gang of monkeys sitting at typewriters for 40 years couldn't write the programs for what a computer-controlled test system can now accomplish in half a second. And future generations of test systems will even further outstrip programming ability.
That's the heart of the argument, really. We already have more speed than we know how to use. Our ability to absorb, reduce, and use information is limited not by some DTL gate plodding along at 50 nanoseconds but by the bandwidth of the people operating the system. There's a new paper shredder outside mu office. It shreds the paper none of us has time to read, and I have a dark suspicion that it is the paper shredder that ultimately will set the pace for all of us.
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Who is Nick DeWolf
Even his friends feel that Nick DeWolf is a bit of a maverick. The president, director and cofounder of Teradyne just doesn't do things the way most of us would. When he left his job as chief electronics engineer of Transitron 10 years ago (he was the second employee), he didn't just shift into a job that was waiting for him. Instead, he took a year off to think and plan or, to use his own words, "to scheme."
He decided he wanted a partner so, instead of looking for a man with his own background and ideas, he sought one with entirely different experience. He found an old school buddy, Alex d'Arbeloff, who had been involved in South American real estate and who had worked for several companies that folded. This was Nick's way of preparing for lean years - but they never came. Teradyne has been an outstandingly successful manufacturer of equipment for automatic component testing.
Nick is a tall, gangly redhead who punctuates his remarks with frequent laughs, flailing gestures and a variety of sound effects. His family wanted him to be a banker but, as he expresses it, "I'm too skinny and I never played football well enough."
He calls his design philosophy creative pragmatism, which he spells out in terms of building better Mack trucks or doing well known things well. Despite his talk of sticking to "known" things, he's a compulsice inventor and has been since he took his BSEE at MIT in 1948. But he prefers to see himself as an architect. Thus, he didn't "invent" his company's SLOT machine (a Sequential LOgic Tester), he "architectured" it.
Nick, who walks to work (briskly), and his wife Maggie have six little DeWolfs and the biggest milk bill on Beacon Hill. When he's not running Teardyne, Nick is a sometimes (and expert) photographer, an avid skier and a civic leade who specializes in crossing the generation gap.
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- gente, olha quem tá entrando... tava demorando!
- a bi Kyr Royal! (coro)
- olha a roupinha dela hoje, pelamor...
- e esse cabelo descolorido cor de mexirica?
- fora o gel né...
- ela tá mais tostada que da última vez...
- e a camisa aberta com esse músculo de chester fake?
- ela tá parecendo o... o... He-Man!
- uia. ma não seria mais... She-Man ou He-Ha?
- He-Ha com certeza! (coro)
o Ritz é o melhor lugar do mundo
4 tipos de hamburgues perfeitos e Onion Rings, Salada, Batata Frita, Bolinho de Arroz...
e Gin tônica, Bloody Mary, cerveja, coca-cola, água com gás, café
e Brownie com sorvete, torta de maçã, e petit gateâu...
a gente ama o Ritz! a Reunião é tudo de bom!
volta Luisa!
:D*
na banca examinadora: Zélena, Juliani e Mowna
I was in a meeting in an adjacent building when I saw this picture. The only trouble is the light had changed by the time the meeting finished and the shadows of the trees were no longer on the building front panels. Oh well. Maybe I should have stopped the meeting and grabbed the shot.
September 25, 2007 | www.breakfastinamerica.me | Copyright © Gary Allman, all rights reserved
computers are so cheap now, even unemployed people can afford them!
free markets + competition + specialization + division of labor + technological innovation = prosperity for everyone (eventually)
oh yeah, this comes with linux on it too! linux is a free operating system built by lots of individual contributors all over the world. so maybe we should add passion and generosity to that list. thanks linux community!
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Nikon F-801s
Zeiss ZF 85mm ƒ1.4 + faux tilt + 180º flip
Kodak Ektachrome 100D_5285 Cine film [exp. 2008]
Unicolor E6 - off temp.
2-panel stitch
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Eee PC 1005 HAB Netbook running Windows XP Intel Atom Processor 1.6 GHz 1 GB of Ram 10.1" screen 160GB HD
Mounted underneath my desk, running Ubuntu linux. Right now it's just an asterisk server, I'm hoping to get some file sharing going with it soon!
Eee PC Asus review, infelizmente rodando o Mula. Incrivelmente pequeno e robusto comparado ao Palm.
- Processador Intel Celeron M 353 ULV 900 MHz;
- Memória RAM DDR2, 667 MHz, de 512 MB (expansível até 2 GB);
- Memória Flash de 4 GB (em substituição ao HD);
- Tela LCD TFT de 7" e resolução de 800x480 pixels;
- Webcam de 0,3 megapixels;
- 3 portas USB 2.0;
- 1 porta Ethernet;
- Saídas para microfone e fone de ouvido;
- Saída VGA;
- Leitor de cartões de memória SD/MMC;
- Microfone embutido;
- Wireless 802.11b/g Atheros AR5BXB63;
- Bateria de 4 células, Li-Ion, 5200 mAh;
- Touchpad com botão e rolagem de tela;
- Áudio Realtek ALC6628;
- Vídeo Intel GMA 900;
- Entrada Kensington lock para prender o Eee PC a um cabo de segurança.