I know I’m going to sound like a member of the tinfoil hat brigade if I say “trust no one”. But, this is just another case that shows that even the people you trust the most can steal your identity. In fact, your trust probably makes it much, much easier for them.
Our cat Daisy has had a rough life in only two years. She was given up once and kicked out a few times. That probably left her with some serious abandonment issues. So, I guess she can be forgiven for being a little needy.
But, she’s driving me up a wall with her toy mice. See, she has to “get” them, then whine until we come see her prey and validate her for being a “good huntress”. After we go back to what we were doing, she hunts the same mouse and then whines for us to see it again.
I was woken up by “meow…meow…meow….meow…” this morning, and it kept going until a few minutes ago. Methinks I’m going to start hiding the toys and tell her she was such a good hunter, she got all the mice.
On a side note, Yahoo! has a new site just for women: Shine. I should see if they can send any promotional materials to my girlfriend Shine at the shelter. I’m sure she’d love a Shine blanket.
Microcontrollers are usually one-chip solutions. They’re simple CPUs with a plethora of output pins, and small amounts of RAM and flash, and that’s about it. Like the presenter says, they’re found in other things. Your car stereo has a microcontroller, as does your microwave oven, your alarm clock, your washing machine, etc. Your car has 60 or more for everything from power locks to controlling the engine.
This demo won the “wild” category at Breakpoint 2008. It runs on a 20MHz AVR microcontroller, which is generating its own low-res VGA signal and multi-voice sound as well as doing all the calculations for the plasma effect, etc. The board he’s using looks to be about the size of a playing card, and runs off a 9V battery.
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