Re:The Apocalypse after the Apocalypse after the..
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Apocalypse 3
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Does anyone see the irony in having a third Apocalypse, let alone a second:)
Not if you understand that apocalypse means 'revelation' (from the greek apokalypto, to reveal) and that the only reason its connoted with the end of the world is because of the similarly-titled last book of the bible...
And it's a great idiocy to write this response without having read the bloody article. I quote:
It (an encryption back door) would cause problems, for instance, for a rebel fighter in Kosovo, whose brother e-mailed Zimmermann to tell him the technology was being used to relay messages from command center to command center, eliminating the need for human couriers.
I guess at least two people under a repressed government thought PGP was useful...
A quote I saw in a Hunter S. Thompson book once...
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
-- Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941, US Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939)
Re:programming FPGAs... It's not that hard
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FPGA Supercomputers
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They go on to describe a hierarchical GUI that connects functional block to make bigger functional blocks. Somebody with years of experience in traditional programming probably won't find their skills translate too easily.
In my digital logic class in university we had FPGA boards from Altera in the lab. To program them, you defined your components in VHDL, then connected them in a GUI that resembled that of any other visual object-oriented IDE (which I admittedly don't use). If you want the output of one component to feed into the input of another component, you just draw a line between them. This is not difficult. From this GUI you can easily pull up the VHDL description of any component and edit it if you need to.
Reading the 'Programming VIVA' section on Star Bridge's homepage, they're environment is remarkably similar. Trust me: if some of the folks in my class could make things work in this kind of environment, no programmer worth the name should have any difficulty adapting...
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Not if you understand that apocalypse means 'revelation' (from the greek apokalypto, to reveal) and that the only reason its connoted with the end of the world is because of the similarly-titled last book of the bible...
What was that sound?
That was a paradigm shifting without a clutch...