Feb27th
Last week
Posted by Dave Wilson.
Last week, a missile fired from a US Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean hit a malfunctioning reconnaissance satellite about 153 nautical miles above the Earth. (more…)
Archive for February, 2008
Feb20th
Those that are porting their software over to GPUs are enjoying some astonishing rewards
Posted by Dave Wilson.
Much has been written over the past few years about the potential performance increase that you’re likely to see when you finally send your old single-processor-core-based PC to the recycling heap and purchase one of those brand spanking new two, or four- processor-core models. (more…)
Feb13th
Spending hours slaving over a manuscript of badly written
Posted by Dave Wilson.
Spending hours slaving over a manuscript of badly written, or technically inaccurate, material to patch it up so that it’s palatable to a reader is not only very frustrating, but also quite taxing on the mind. (more…)
Feb6th
No one likes unwanted visitors
Posted by Dave Wilson.
No one likes unwanted visitors. Especially noisy ones that outstay their welcome. And so it was when the squirrels came to build a home in my loft last winter. They would come into the place whenever they saw fit, and then party like noisy animals all night long. It was unacceptable behaviour, and they had to be evicted. (more…)
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Engineeringtalk and this Editor's Blog is now edited by Dave Wilson
Dave was the Editor of Digital Design, Electronic Systems Design and The OEM Integrator in the US between 1980 and 1990. More recently, he founded e4engineering (now The Engineer Online) at the start of 2000 and Technology Horizons in 2006, both for Centaur Media. His mood varies with the fortunes of the NASDAQ and Nikkei indices.
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