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How hard is it to land a job at such places like Intel/AMD/ATI/NVIDIA ?

I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say 70k in California is nothing. I agree that the pay around here is not proportional to the ridiculous cost of living, such that it probably is financially beneficial to make less and live somewhere else. But, if you want to live and work in the...
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- Post #112
- Oct 11, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Dr. Martens Moc-Toe Oxfords - $29.97

Has anyone actually received theirs yet to confirm if the size you should order is in fact the US size and not the UK size (I understand the CSR said it's US, but for some reason I'm still skeptical...)? Thanks!
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- Post #43
- Jan 23, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Searching for a Senior Design Project

Well, I didn't make it look like a monkey, but I did do something like this (with 2 others) for my senior project a few years ago. We built a structure that held 8 bottles in a semi-circle, with a rotating platter below. The platter would rotate the cup under the proper bottle, and pour a shot...
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- Post #7
- Jan 6, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Experience with 555 Timer Chips

One easy way to test you can do to confirm that your LED circuit is correct is to disconnect the output of the 555 circuit, and directly connect the gate of the drive FET to VCC and GND (not at the same time, of course!), and make sure the LEDs turn on/off. If the LEDs behave as expected, you...
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- Post #6
- Jan 6, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Identify this part for me

As others have mentioned, it's simply a normally open circuit (the dark sides on the left and right of the snaky orange part are conducting, and the snaky part is non-conducting), that becomes closed when the button is pressed (the bottom side of the button will have a conductive material)...
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- Post #5
- Oct 17, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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what makes boards from some manufactorer's oc better than others?

Well, there are many more issues in a system design besides the power supplies that would contribute to the limits in max. operating speeds. Also, it's not just as simple as putting in more expensive parts. It also has a lot to do with the engineering resources that go into the overall board...
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- Post #6
- Sep 20, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Computer without hdd?

I don't think hard drives are as big of a bottleneck as you're implying. Sure, they're orders of magnitude slower than DRAM, which is orders of magnitude slower than SRAM, but that's why computers have memory hierarchies. By having the smaller, faster memory closer to the cpu, and the slower...
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- Post #4
- Sep 20, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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what makes boards from some manufactorer's oc better than others?

This is not true. Take a look at a motherboard. There are thousands of components and thousands of traces to route the components. It's all about margins. The more you skimp on component (such as capacitors, both in quantity and quality), and the less thought/time/engineering effort you put...
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- Post #4
- Sep 20, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Free the video card!

I respectfully disagree with your logic here. When you say you will not be losing any money because it costs the same amount to make all the chips, you are only looking at the supply side of the story. But, to get the whole picture, you always need to take both supply and demand into account...
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- Post #39
- Sep 19, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional

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