I remember an IBM seminar for OS2 that asked the question "How many of the audience open windows 2.1 just to play Solataire?"... and about 95% of the audience put up their hands.
It wasn't really until reliable WYSIWYG editors came about that windoz really began to get popular.
VHDL is easier to use than Verilog (for me, at least). Verilog only appears C like on the surface, and it is exactly this which will catch you out in the long run.
I would also disagree with Jake73's assertion that Verilogs syntax is more familiar. VHDL would be familiar to any who have used Pascal. (And, more to the point, VHDL is obviously a subset of ADA)
Exactly why are you paying this guy 100k a year? For 100k, He really should be looking at all the available "tools", as some will expose vulnerabilities that others will miss, etc. It might be different if you were only paying the guy 25K a year. At that rate, you might not expect the person to be too bright. (In fact, as is well known. If you pay peanuts, all you will get is monkeys!)
I imagine its not for batteries, but for permanent magnets. The strongest permanent magnets all rely on "rare earths", most of which come from china, as the article implies.
Ah, but what is the actual dot pitch of the "1080" plasma. Often, it is nowhere near 1080...
The one thing missing from HDMI was some form of "capture" to hold the cable in place. (Rather than just relying on friction.) I assume the Automotive version addresses this somehow.
And anyone who has tried to use CPM86 noted that it had the same flaw as CPM... BDOS ERROR ON DRIVE A/B/C/D when you flipped open the wrong floppy drive. There goes another days work!
Bing Crosby... M$ are using something that is already a proprietary trade name (who'd have guessed!)
Bing Crosby again... I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Its not only racist, but flies in the face of many other religions.
It's the noise so many things make when their finished.
In Australia, it is slang for an accident (well, bingle is...) So I guess it may be appropriate anyway, and potentially descrptive of the search result!
You obviously did not take the time to read the article... More $ doesn't always mean better!
I do wonder if they upgraded each of the four boxes from each the manufacturers before they did the testing though. Often, equipment as shipped has early release software, and it is expected that the IT techs upgrade ASAP when installing.
VLC isn't supported very well and should be your last-resort if all else fails.
Wat planet do you come from?
Ever since I found that VLC plays virtually everything you can throw at it, it has become my primary media player. It is TINY compared to M$ offering, and you never get the bloody ridiculous "looking for a suitable CODEC... Could not download a suitable Codec" thing that happens with the excretable media player software. I recommend VLC to everyone having problems with their media files, and these people generally make it their default media player as well!
Really, no body expects anyone in the armed services to be as prudent as a politician might be. (Oh, wait a moment...). Actually if you know many people in the Armed services, they routinely do the things that these people have admitted to on tape. It would have been more surprising if the people involved had claimed any differently. Even priests (eventually) admit to a bit of hanky panky every now and then. (Admittedly, generally with young boys...)
I am somewhat amazed that these "politicians" have backed down... I was getting ready to use a proxy in another country, just like those in China must be using!
Don't forget, those of the US of A have a baseball competition called the World Series... totally ignoring the rest of the world as the players are all from the US of A!
Truth, Justice, and the American way. (Quote from the old Superman series)
Actually, a long (200mm) thin rod sharpened at one end, and the other end clamped by your teeth worked well for the old 78 RPM records. (You hear it quite loudly due to bone conduction.) Getting the speed right isn't as hard as you might think either.
Oh, you mean like SCO UNIX? Which was designed to run on the same boxes that MS dos ran on.
Oh wait, it's not 1993 anymore...
SCO now rests in the place it deserves to be. Had they done it the right way, they could have where microsoft is today! But at >$1500 a seat, they were just to greedy!
But... 95% of staff only use their PC for word processing, email, some spreadsheets, and perhaps database retrieval. All of which can be done happily on non-Microsoft systems (at much reduced prices...) The few percent that really do require M$ machines because the software they use has not yet been ported to other OS's can easily be supported as special cases.
The staff's excuses that they need M$ can generally be shot down in flames... (in fact, many people don't realise that they are no longer running Windows when Ubuntu was installed over the weekend!
Because we all know that movie script writers always do their homework to get their science right and never ever engage in simple-minded fearmongering.
Oh really! In the very first Star Wars (which purports to be a "Science Fantasy") there is a glaring error where Parsec is used as a time. As every good nerd knows, parsec is a distance! The parsec ("parallax of one arcsecond", symbol pc) is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 trillion kilometres (about 19 trillion miles), or about 3.26 light-years.
I suspect that George Lucas received so much flak over this that later (MUCH LATER) stories attempt to cover up this incredible gaffe!
Parec: See wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
The code is simple, elegant, and should "speak for itself". Well it doesn't. Not to someone trying to maintain it.
I hate this... the crap you hear about code maintenance from those who think they know better. Good code is good code, whether or not it has "good comments". If the idiot employed to maintain it can't follow it, this does not mean it's bad code, it means the maintainer is nowhere near as intelligent as the original programmer. (Little wonder that person no longer works your company...).
So what happens... the smart, well written code that executes quickly gets replaced by crappy (probably very buggy) code, but gee whiz, the halfwit manager who does the code reviews can now follow it, so it must be better! Believe me, I have watched this happen so many times its not funny. Code originally written by 2 or 3 people gets maintained (in the end) by teams of 20 to 40 people. Code gets slower, code gets bloated, code gets very buggy, but hey, look, the managment are proud of how maintainable it is!
It really comes down to "when is a Gaming Console not a computer?"... Once you can use the gaming console to browse the web (say) you could claim that the device is not purely just a gaming console.
This patent should never have been granted in the first place... and would tumble given the slightest challenge.
Perhaps if the high res camera's stream uncompressed data... but MPEG4/H264 camera streams have already thrown away significant amounts of "fine detail" data. So the system will probably report 1000 sightings a second of Saddam Hussein, 2000 sightings a second of Osama Bin Laden, 20 an hour of Mickey Mouse, 100 an hour of Barbara Eden...
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I remember an IBM seminar for OS2 that asked the question "How many of the audience open windows 2.1 just to play Solataire?" ... and about 95% of the audience put up their hands.
It wasn't really until reliable WYSIWYG editors came about that windoz really began to get popular.
VHDL is easier to use than Verilog (for me, at least). Verilog only appears C like on the surface, and it is exactly this which will catch you out in the long run.
I would also disagree with Jake73's assertion that Verilogs syntax is more familiar. VHDL would be familiar to any who have used Pascal. (And, more to the point, VHDL is obviously a subset of ADA)
Exactly why are you paying this guy 100k a year? For 100k, He really should be looking at all the available "tools", as some will expose vulnerabilities that others will miss, etc. It might be different if you were only paying the guy 25K a year. At that rate, you might not expect the person to be too bright. (In fact, as is well known. If you pay peanuts, all you will get is monkeys!)
If the Chinese have their way, it will all be named unobtanium.
I imagine its not for batteries, but for permanent magnets. The strongest permanent magnets all rely on "rare earths", most of which come from china, as the article implies.
Ah, but what is the actual dot pitch of the "1080" plasma. Often, it is nowhere near 1080 ...
The one thing missing from HDMI was some form of "capture" to hold the cable in place. (Rather than just relying on friction.) I assume the Automotive version addresses this somehow.
Why didn't you put in the bit about mice being the most intelligent creatures on earth, followed by the dolphins.
And anyone who has tried to use CPM86 noted that it had the same flaw as CPM ... BDOS ERROR ON DRIVE A/B/C/D when you flipped open the wrong floppy drive. There goes another days work!
How about "Let me BONG that for you? (What were they smoking?)
See at least two things wrong ...
... M$ are using something that is already a proprietary trade name (who'd have guessed!) ... I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Its not only racist, but flies in the face of many other religions. ...) So I guess it may be appropriate anyway, and potentially descrptive of the search result!
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby again
It's the noise so many things make when their finished.
In Australia, it is slang for an accident (well, bingle is
You obviously did not take the time to read the article ... More $ doesn't always mean better!
I do wonder if they upgraded each of the four boxes from each the manufacturers before they did the testing though. Often, equipment as shipped has early release software, and it is expected that the IT techs upgrade ASAP when installing.
VLC isn't supported very well and should be your last-resort if all else fails.
Wat planet do you come from?
... Could not download a suitable Codec" thing that happens with the excretable media player software. I recommend VLC to everyone having problems with their media files, and these people generally make it their default media player as well!
Ever since I found that VLC plays virtually everything you can throw at it, it has become my primary media player. It is TINY compared to M$ offering, and you never get the bloody ridiculous "looking for a suitable CODEC
Really, no body expects anyone in the armed services to be as prudent as a politician might be. (Oh, wait a moment ...). Actually if you know many people in the Armed services, they routinely do the things that these people have admitted to on tape. It would have been more surprising if the people involved had claimed any differently. Even priests (eventually) admit to a bit of hanky panky every now and then. (Admittedly, generally with young boys ...)
I am somewhat amazed that these "politicians" have backed down ... I was getting ready to use a proxy in another country, just like those in China must be using!
Don't forget, those of the US of A have a baseball competition called the World Series ... totally ignoring the rest of the world as the players are all from the US of A!
Truth, Justice, and the American way. (Quote from the old Superman series)
The reason people use US American is that they generally don't wish to insult the rest of the people living in either North or South America ...
Of course, as the rest of the world knows well, to most of those in the US of A, there is no rest of the world, or if there is, it doesn't count!
Actually, a long (200mm) thin rod sharpened at one end, and the other end clamped by your teeth worked well for the old 78 RPM records. (You hear it quite loudly due to bone conduction.) Getting the speed right isn't as hard as you might think either.
This is known as still having the media, but no longer possessing the right hardware to read it!
Oh, you mean like SCO UNIX? Which was designed to run on the same boxes that MS dos ran on.
Oh wait, it's not 1993 anymore...
SCO now rests in the place it deserves to be. Had they done it the right way, they could have where microsoft is today! But at >$1500 a seat, they were just to greedy!
But ... 95% of staff only use their PC for word processing, email, some spreadsheets, and perhaps database retrieval. All of which can be done happily on non-Microsoft systems (at much reduced prices ...) The few percent that really do require M$ machines because the software they use has not yet been ported to other OS's can easily be supported as special cases.
... (in fact, many people don't realise that they are no longer running Windows when Ubuntu was installed over the weekend!
The staff's excuses that they need M$ can generally be shot down in flames
http://xkcd.com/424/
Because we all know that movie script writers always do their homework to get their science right and never ever engage in simple-minded fearmongering.
Oh really! In the very first Star Wars (which purports to be a "Science Fantasy") there is a glaring error where Parsec is used as a time. As every good nerd knows, parsec is a distance! The parsec ("parallax of one arcsecond", symbol pc) is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 trillion kilometres (about 19 trillion miles), or about 3.26 light-years.
I suspect that George Lucas received so much flak over this that later (MUCH LATER) stories attempt to cover up this incredible gaffe!
Parec: See wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
The code is simple, elegant, and should "speak for itself". Well it doesn't. Not to someone trying to maintain it.
I hate this ... the crap you hear about code maintenance from those who think they know better. Good code is good code, whether or not it has "good comments". If the idiot employed to maintain it can't follow it, this does not mean it's bad code, it means the maintainer is nowhere near as intelligent as the original programmer. (Little wonder that person no longer works your company ...). ... the smart, well written code that executes quickly gets replaced by crappy (probably very buggy) code, but gee whiz, the halfwit manager who does the code reviews can now follow it, so it must be better!
So what happens
Believe me, I have watched this happen so many times its not funny. Code originally written by 2 or 3 people gets maintained (in the end) by teams of 20 to 40 people. Code gets slower, code gets bloated, code gets very buggy, but hey, look, the managment are proud of how maintainable it is!
It really comes down to "when is a Gaming Console not a computer?" ... Once you can use the gaming console to browse the web (say) you could claim that the device is not purely just a gaming console.
This patent should never have been granted in the first place ... and would tumble given the slightest challenge.
Perhaps if the high res camera's stream uncompressed data ... but MPEG4/H264 camera streams have already thrown away significant amounts of "fine detail" data. So the system will probably report 1000 sightings a second of Saddam Hussein, 2000 sightings a second of Osama Bin Laden, 20 an hour of Mickey Mouse, 100 an hour of Barbara Eden ...
I'm sure the Russian Mafia" would be willing to host the database for free!