When I got my first digital camera I sent about $10 worth of the same images to two vendors (Snapfish and Kodak) then I compared the results. Kodak won hands down. I could have tried a larger set of services. Kodak had a scenario where you could pick up the prints at CVS or Walgreens with no shipping charges, but that ended I think. So you may want to take into account how to avoid shipping./Ed
On my first business trip I went to Australia, left 90F weather for 45F. After 26 hours of travel I went right from the airport to the unheated warehouse where we were staging for a trade show. Half of my equipment didn't show up so I had to recode my demo with the equipment that had arrived. The software package was buggy and if you did certain operations you'd lose your work.
The warehouse had 2 refrigerators, one with all beer. The other was all chocolate./Ed
I talked about the importance of studying Math and Science, defined what an engineer was and talked about the semiconductor revolution engulfing the planet...
I brought **loads** of props they could pass around the room:
1.) vacuum tube (I kept this), transistor, 1980's ASIC, 1990's ASIC, 2000's ASIC 2.) I talked about Moore's law and drew the shrinking linewidths compared to a human hair 3.) I bought a diskette, CD, DVD asking how much data they thought was on each and showed the amount on the board 4.) Showed them how they can count to 32 (0..31) on one hand 5.) Then I tied all of this stuff back to the things they know and love, iPods, cell phones, Gameboy's, etc.
Well congrats, Tony and Wilson and Peter and all my other SiCortex buddies I hope you sell a ton of them. Wilson recently gave an interesting talk about verifying the SiCortex system and ASICs http://www.veripool.com/papers.html. He's also a huge open source contributor.
My car has wireless tire pressure monitors. They worked fine for the first year+. Now they keep firing - only the message says "check tire pressure system". NOT a specific TIRE. The tire pressures are fine, in fact, I know a spot of highway I can drive by which causes the light to go off.
When there's a faulty sensor the on board computer does not store any failure code. The error has to be happening for them to capture it.
The dealer has been worse than clueless and has replaced the computer and all of the tire pressure sensors (some multiple times). The manufacturer is getting involved now. Was supposed to be on a conference call with them yesterday but they never rang./Ed
PS: Weeks before the first instance I had rented a car and I unknowingly had run over a nail. The tire pressure sensor in that car worked and the console said "check left rear tire" and voila, a nail!
"In the presentation, Robert Stanzione, ARRIS Group chief executive, downloaded a 30- second, 300- megabyte television commercial in a few seconds while a standard modem took 16 minutes."/Ed
>I think having two monitors is totally unnecessary, simply because they make very big single monitors now.
Not true, it depends on your work environment. We were given the option of one 22" (or was it 24") or two 20" LCD displays. I chose the latter. Our work environment includes VNC-ing down to a Linux farm (left display) and email/PDF-reader/browser/etc. in the right monitor. What makes it "right" is that when wireless my laptop and 20" display use the same resolution so I just have everything crammed back on the single monitor. Using a super wide VNC on a single monitor means loss of productivity when home or in a conference room.
Sounds like you're using Vera because 'e' does not allow separate compilation - but then I've never used SystemVerilog.
You probably should have asked at http://www.verificationguild.com.
We've never had a problem with the "single compilation" when using Vera - although we tend to compile "the environment" as one compile and the testcase as another. There can be issues (you have to generate a master header file, forward referencing certain classes, etc.)./Ed
/* Copyright (C) 1985,86,87,88,92,93,94 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/*
* unexec.c - Convert a running program into an a.out file.
*
* Author: Spencer W. Thomas
* Computer Science Dept.
* University of Utah
* Date: Tue Mar 2 1982
* Modified heavily since then.
*
emacs-21.1/src/unexec.c line 1/1267 2%
This has been done in GNU Emacs for years - at the process level. I used to use some commercial EDA (Unix) software which required some of the source from emacs (unexec.c rings a bell) with some modifications.
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Hopefully it will have Tesla superchargers along the route :-)
Sounds like Danny Deckchair! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/
There's really nothing to see here, it is just a compliance vehicle. Move on.
Happy Tesla Model S owner.
When I got my first digital camera I sent about $10 worth of the same images to two vendors (Snapfish and Kodak) then I compared the results. /Ed
Kodak won hands down. I could have tried a larger set of services. Kodak had a scenario where you could pick up the prints at CVS or Walgreens with no shipping charges, but that ended I think. So you may want to take into account how to avoid shipping.
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On my first business trip I went to Australia, left 90F weather for 45F. After 26 hours of travel I went right from the airport to the unheated warehouse where we were staging for a trade show.
Half of my equipment didn't show up so I had to recode my demo with the equipment that had arrived. The software package was buggy and if you did certain operations you'd lose your work.
The warehouse had 2 refrigerators, one with all beer. The other was all chocolate. /Ed
I talked about the importance of studying Math and Science, defined what an engineer was and talked about the semiconductor revolution engulfing the planet...
I brought **loads** of props they could pass around the room:
1.) vacuum tube (I kept this), transistor, 1980's ASIC, 1990's ASIC, 2000's ASIC
2.) I talked about Moore's law and drew the shrinking linewidths compared to a human hair
3.) I bought a diskette, CD, DVD asking how much data they thought was on each and showed the amount on the board
4.) Showed them how they can count to 32 (0..31) on one hand
5.) Then I tied all of this stuff back to the things they know and love, iPods, cell phones, Gameboy's, etc.
But then again, I'm an ASIC guy. /Ed
I thought the kids who were taunting the tiger actually lived and this guy tried to distract the tiger from mauling them. /Ed
Well congrats, Tony and Wilson and Peter and all my other SiCortex buddies I hope you sell a ton of them. Wilson recently gave an interesting talk about verifying the SiCortex system and ASICs http://www.veripool.com/papers.html. He's also a huge open source contributor.
/Ed - not affiliated with SiCortex
My car has wireless tire pressure monitors. They worked fine for the first year+.
/Ed
Now they keep firing - only the message says "check tire pressure system". NOT
a specific TIRE. The tire pressures are fine, in fact, I know a spot of highway
I can drive by which causes the light to go off.
When there's a faulty sensor the on board computer does not store any failure code.
The error has to be happening for them to capture it.
The dealer has been worse than clueless and has replaced the computer and all of the
tire pressure sensors (some multiple times). The manufacturer is getting involved now.
Was supposed to be on a conference call with them yesterday but they never rang.
PS: Weeks before the first instance I had rented a car and I unknowingly had run over a
nail. The tire pressure sensor in that car worked and the console said "check left rear
tire" and voila, a nail!
This is my favorite part of the original article:
/Ed
"In the presentation, Robert Stanzione, ARRIS Group chief executive, downloaded a 30- second, 300- megabyte television commercial in a few seconds while a standard modem took 16 minutes."
>I think having two monitors is totally unnecessary, simply because they make very big single monitors now.
/Ed
Not true, it depends on your work environment. We were given the option of one 22" (or was it 24") or two 20" LCD displays. I chose the latter. Our work environment includes VNC-ing down to a Linux farm (left display) and email/PDF-reader/browser/etc. in the right monitor. What makes it "right" is that when wireless my laptop and 20" display use the same resolution so I just have everything crammed back on the single monitor. Using a super wide VNC on a single monitor means loss of productivity when home or in a conference room.
Verizon has a free service to back up your phone numbers. /Ed
I used it before I switched phones last year.
Time for some Ice-9?
"Someday son, this will all be yours"
I use this too - my wife and I can synchronize our schedules and the kids' appointments/soccer games, etc. And its usable from any PC, any OS... /Ed
Sounds like you're using Vera because 'e' does not allow separate compilation - but then I've never used SystemVerilog.
/Ed
You probably should have asked at http://www.verificationguild.com.
We've never had a problem with the "single compilation" when using Vera - although we tend to compile "the environment" as one compile and the testcase as another. There can be issues (you have to generate a master header file, forward referencing certain classes, etc.).
I'm convinced it should be GNU/Linux...
Carly, what's the Linux story for the new HP?
Ceding that space to IBM?
Anyone remember the Vonnegut book (Cat's Cradle?) where the Chinese figured out how to shrink people...
/* Copyright (C) 1985,86,87,88,92,93,94 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/*
* unexec.c - Convert a running program into an a.out file.
*
* Author: Spencer W. Thomas
* Computer Science Dept.
* University of Utah
* Date: Tue Mar 2 1982
* Modified heavily since then.
*
emacs-21.1/src/unexec.c line 1/1267 2%
This has been done in GNU Emacs for years - at the process level. I used to use some commercial EDA (Unix) software which required some of the source from emacs (unexec.c rings a bell) with some modifications.
reminds me of ice 9 from that vonnegut book...