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I did see that smugmug site, but he doesn't have anything there newer than August 8th. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it's updated, but I won't hold my breath.

Sucks that it was someone that i'll never be able to get ahold of, because looking through the left turn over the hill after china beach I could clearly see someone taking the occasional picture of me following my instructor, and I'd love to see how they turned out. Oh well, in the extreme off-chance anyone ears of anything let me know, i'd love to see some.

it was a good day on the track with some of you guys, and i realized later in the day that there were a lot more OR peeps there than I got to say hi to, so I'll just have to go again and make sure to play nice with everyone. jinu was entertaining as always, and nate, sorry to hear to went down, but hope you're fine and everything's easily recoverable. it really was hot as hell, but overall it was a blast and now I can see why people flock to Mid-O, it's a titties track. quick question - i saw people taking pictures by the afternoon on the track, are those just regular people or was there a photographer there that we can look at pictures from?

wait, do you think it's safe?

you'll make just make a gangbang anywhere, huh?

Tommy George for best mullet of 2010...

my friend Dave and I will be there tomorrow (the 10th), so see you guys all there...

Your bike with a police car or officer.

<suspend sheep-fucking> OK, I'm finishing up getting the track bike back in shape after my get-off last year (i know it's been a while), but I'm finally buttoning things up and I notice that the fast idle cable on my left clip-on seems to be missing a bracket. I can see how the mounting should work by allowing the cable tension to be adjusted, but it would need to be held in two points and I only have one bracket left on the cable after the wreck. My question is this - does anyone seem to have the parts fiche or a picture of the OEM assembly for the fast idler cable on a 2003 GSXR 600? I need to know what I'm missing, but I can't seem to find it in the service manual, or on the normal parts fiche sites I go to. I need to get this finished before I go to Mid-O next week, so I'm hoping with the better part of 5k people here nowadays, someone out there knows how this little cable housing works. <resume sheep-fucking>

whoa, whoa....does that boat say DTC on it?? I'm going to say that whale was simply retaliating for whatever those sheep-skewers were likely doing to the local wildlife

in soviet russia, al gore blames you!

what's this nonsense?

This. Dustin made it a point before he left to tell us that his dad can do it for the same price at the same shop.

i see jbot has moved on from puppies to curb-stomping hondas...

mathematica is the care-bears of complex math systems. she's a ME or some such nonsense, they can't be expected to know real engineer programs. and yes, matlab is what the adults use.

i'll stop bumping the thread now.

Q: Why can't women ski? A: There's no snow between the bedroom and the kitchen.

after reviewing the curb-stomping film... deer > jbot

I'll cede that I'm the victim of my own argument here. I did use the term too loosely before. The point of the argument was attempting to convey that the A4 is a much more self-contained "System-in-Package" than any of the competing chips right now because it needs no other external chips to operate, i.e. memory, and that it's memory is lower-latency because of it's proximity to the CPU itself. My nomenclature was somewhat unchecked until we got into the semantics portion of this wonderful James Carville escapade... They wire-bond two 128MBx64-bit DDR SDRAM substrates (so 256MB of ultra-low latency RAM in the package) in a flip-chip arrangement, in an offset stack right above the Cortex-A8 CPU. This is the cross-section: That big blue section is the main CPU. The upper two blue parts that are offset are the two SDRAM dies. This is all within the single A4 package. No one else has this setup right now. Ok, well in that case, the TI OMAP series, as is current from TI right now, states that the biggest OMAP model has the standard L1/L2 cache, and has an additional 64K RAM and 32K ROM (built as NAND Flash, which I didn't know, and is actually pretty cool) in the package. This is all well and good, but you still need external LPDDR memory to support any real functionality. This is the main point of the A4 - those external RAM dies (both 64-bit 128MB) were bonded to the CPU in the package. No external RAM chips on the PCB.

First of all, in my time in the digital design world, you're the first person I've ever run into to argue that the SoC and SiP nomenclatures are different enough to disqualify one from comparison to the other. But if we're really going to argue over semantics, then the A4 is both a SoC and a SiP chip. The Cortex-A8 is a SoC for exact same reasons the snapdragon is. The CPU core has many intrinsic functions that used to be on separate chips in a system. Fine, they're both SoC's. The thing is, after that, the A4 goes a step further and binds that with other silicon substrates to make it a SiP chip as well. So it's both, it's neither, it's whatever, but it is better*. Call Tiger Woods black, call him asian, it doesn't matter, he's still better. And gets more white women. *(until something new comes out)