It can be argued that this is often the exact opposite case. Chickens and cows as species are doing phenomenal with no end in the foreseeable future for the sole reason that they are tasty and we've decided to keep them around.
But I'd argue that it is still more complicated than need be, as determined that people don't remember it. Why not just make it "const modifies the thing that preceded it. Final". Or maybe more English-like where the adjective precedes the noun.
Wristwatches - Not a chance. I've tried doing it since my last watch broke, but have hated it the entire time. Can't wait until I can get the inclination to go find a new watch.
Bedside alarm clocks - Possibly, but if my blackberry is any indication, they really need to improve the software. Kind of sad that it still only allows 1 alarm.
MP3 players - Seem to be on their way towards overtaking them.
Landline home phones - I know several people including myself who haven't had a landline phone in a while.
Compact digital cameras - How long until they offer anything comparable to a decent digital camera. They replace the cheap point-and-click thing, sure, but anything respectable?
Netbooks - Too small and no keyboard.
Handheld games consoles - It's hard to replace the dedicated hardware. Maybe someday though.
Paper - How many times has this been claimed?
Thinking – If we count this category, then hasn't thinking been replaced for a while now? Either we consider thinking as already having been replaced or cell phones won't make change things much more.
Personally, I never buy a game unless I think it's something that I want to keep.
I don't either. However, I'm one who has a hard time justifying 60 dollars for a game either way. However, I'm usually not one in a rush to get the latest and greatest so I just wait a couple years, buy the game for $15 and still play it the 60 hours or so. It's all an issue of how much you're willing to hold out for though.
I'd say I'm right about in the position you're talking about. I'm getting close to finishing my degree and a lot of the work I've done has been with FPGA's. My introductory class to the area used verilog (although no procedural, code for flip flops was given to us to instantiate). The next course we used VHDL and have used VHDL extensively since then. Both VHDL and Verilog have there strength and weaknesses but overall, for anything an undergrad will be doing, there are no significant difference in functionality. The only real difference I could see coming into play here is which would be easier to pickup.
Verilog has a syntax similar to C. Operators are the same, variable declarations are similar. This is in stark opposition to VDHL that has a syntax that is distinct from anything other language I've ever seen. Then VHDL really contains 2 languages in itself, concurrent and procedural, which for whatever reason have completely different syntax. I still find myself on occasion referencing the syntax for some parts of procedural. So actually learning the syntax, I give it to Verilog. It is familiar looking (I'm assuming everyone taking said class will at least have some background in C) and easy to catch onto.
The real kicker for me to advise VHDL over Verilog is that VHDL is strongly typed where Verilog isn't. Being a beginning class, you can expect the students to make a lot of mistakes. VHDL will complain at compile time and just crash throwing out a million error messages. Verilog will happily try to run it if at all possible meaning you may not find the bug until you've searched through the simulation results which can take a while. This is something that can get prevented(ie. 4 bit addition being stored to a 3 bit variable or comparing an unsigned value to a negative) by VHDL strongly typed nature. At least for me, and probably most students, it's nicer to get the complaint when I compile it than it is to go search for an error in the output.
Lastly, this I'm not as familiar with, but I understand that Verilog is more heavily used in industry whereas most government contracted stuff is done in VHDL. I don't know if this factors into your decision or not.
So my suggestion, if the students seem competent and can avoid simple mistakes, either language will do but Verilog might be slightly quicker to learn. But if it seems that they will be error prone, VHDL is probably the better choice.
Everyone is thinking about this wrong. You say Harrison Ford in Crystal Skull didn't work because he was too old. That since this is a comedy anyways, what could be more amusing than watching a bunch of 60 year olds break their backs just putting on their backup, and that's before they run into the 20 year old ghost.
I think they mean that he was only charged with theft. The receiving stolen property charge was leveled against the realty office for accepting their stolen hard drive.
Just in case anyone here was wondering about the reliability of Wikipedia, here's what I found after a little research. "Studies suggest that Wikipedia's reliability has improved in recent years, and it is increasingly used as a tertiary source." [1].
until recently it was illegal to publish pictures of dead soldiers to quell public outrage. Had we seen daily pictures of dead soldiers on TV for seven years, the public acceptance would have been far lower and diminished far faster than it did.
Sorry for being sensitive to the families of the dead soldiers and not letting the corpses of their dead sons be posted everywhere in "stop the war" posters.
Now, yeah the news is a farce. They split us down the middle every 4 years to turn the nation against one another, simplifying our political decisions into an us versus them, red versus blue game.
I always saw it used as the American Idol for the news networks myself.
Actually, the real reason that there are no standard plans is that, if I'm not mistaken, there have been no plants built in the past 30 years. And this is because of regulations. All you have to do hear is mention nuclear, and the masses think or Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and then fight you in court for the next decade until it is no longer economically worth it. It has nothing to do with the latest and greatest.
I will miss there little maze trivia game whatever it was called. But then again, I guess I haven't used encarta in years, so maybe I won't really miss it.
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About 2 Libraries of Congress.
Maybe he meant George Washington?
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Ahh, critiquing the critique. I see what you did there. Now for my critique of your critique of the Ninja Warrior critique...
But I'd argue that it is still more complicated than need be, as determined that people don't remember it. Why not just make it "const modifies the thing that preceded it. Final". Or maybe more English-like where the adjective precedes the noun.
No, I think there are plenty of competent managers. Most of them are smart enough to stay out of management.
I was speaking of cell phones being too small and lacking a keyboard which I would need to replace a netbook.
Phone boxes - Good riddance
Wristwatches - Not a chance. I've tried doing it since my last watch broke, but have hated it the entire time. Can't wait until I can get the inclination to go find a new watch.
Bedside alarm clocks - Possibly, but if my blackberry is any indication, they really need to improve the software. Kind of sad that it still only allows 1 alarm.
MP3 players - Seem to be on their way towards overtaking them.
Landline home phones - I know several people including myself who haven't had a landline phone in a while.
Compact digital cameras - How long until they offer anything comparable to a decent digital camera. They replace the cheap point-and-click thing, sure, but anything respectable?
Netbooks - Too small and no keyboard.
Handheld games consoles - It's hard to replace the dedicated hardware. Maybe someday though.
Paper - How many times has this been claimed?
Thinking – If we count this category, then hasn't thinking been replaced for a while now? Either we consider thinking as already having been replaced or cell phones won't make change things much more.
If you can be counted on to design a system that reliably works without killing people, you're an engineer.
So are defense contractors automatically disqualified from the engineering fields?
Personally, I never buy a game unless I think it's something that I want to keep.
I don't either. However, I'm one who has a hard time justifying 60 dollars for a game either way. However, I'm usually not one in a rush to get the latest and greatest so I just wait a couple years, buy the game for $15 and still play it the 60 hours or so. It's all an issue of how much you're willing to hold out for though.
Publisher's must hate me though.
I'd say I'm right about in the position you're talking about. I'm getting close to finishing my degree and a lot of the work I've done has been with FPGA's. My introductory class to the area used verilog (although no procedural, code for flip flops was given to us to instantiate). The next course we used VHDL and have used VHDL extensively since then. Both VHDL and Verilog have there strength and weaknesses but overall, for anything an undergrad will be doing, there are no significant difference in functionality. The only real difference I could see coming into play here is which would be easier to pickup. Verilog has a syntax similar to C. Operators are the same, variable declarations are similar. This is in stark opposition to VDHL that has a syntax that is distinct from anything other language I've ever seen. Then VHDL really contains 2 languages in itself, concurrent and procedural, which for whatever reason have completely different syntax. I still find myself on occasion referencing the syntax for some parts of procedural. So actually learning the syntax, I give it to Verilog. It is familiar looking (I'm assuming everyone taking said class will at least have some background in C) and easy to catch onto. The real kicker for me to advise VHDL over Verilog is that VHDL is strongly typed where Verilog isn't. Being a beginning class, you can expect the students to make a lot of mistakes. VHDL will complain at compile time and just crash throwing out a million error messages. Verilog will happily try to run it if at all possible meaning you may not find the bug until you've searched through the simulation results which can take a while. This is something that can get prevented(ie. 4 bit addition being stored to a 3 bit variable or comparing an unsigned value to a negative) by VHDL strongly typed nature. At least for me, and probably most students, it's nicer to get the complaint when I compile it than it is to go search for an error in the output. Lastly, this I'm not as familiar with, but I understand that Verilog is more heavily used in industry whereas most government contracted stuff is done in VHDL. I don't know if this factors into your decision or not. So my suggestion, if the students seem competent and can avoid simple mistakes, either language will do but Verilog might be slightly quicker to learn. But if it seems that they will be error prone, VHDL is probably the better choice.
Everyone is thinking about this wrong. You say Harrison Ford in Crystal Skull didn't work because he was too old. That since this is a comedy anyways, what could be more amusing than watching a bunch of 60 year olds break their backs just putting on their backup, and that's before they run into the 20 year old ghost.
I think they mean that he was only charged with theft. The receiving stolen property charge was leveled against the realty office for accepting their stolen hard drive.
Just in case anyone here was wondering about the reliability of Wikipedia, here's what I found after a little research. "Studies suggest that Wikipedia's reliability has improved in recent years, and it is increasingly used as a tertiary source." [1].
until recently it was illegal to publish pictures of dead soldiers to quell public outrage. Had we seen daily pictures of dead soldiers on TV for seven years, the public acceptance would have been far lower and diminished far faster than it did.
Sorry for being sensitive to the families of the dead soldiers and not letting the corpses of their dead sons be posted everywhere in "stop the war" posters.
Now, yeah the news is a farce. They split us down the middle every 4 years to turn the nation against one another, simplifying our political decisions into an us versus them, red versus blue game.
I always saw it used as the American Idol for the news networks myself.
Actually, the real reason that there are no standard plans is that, if I'm not mistaken, there have been no plants built in the past 30 years. And this is because of regulations. All you have to do hear is mention nuclear, and the masses think or Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and then fight you in court for the next decade until it is no longer economically worth it. It has nothing to do with the latest and greatest.
I will miss there little maze trivia game whatever it was called. But then again, I guess I haven't used encarta in years, so maybe I won't really miss it.
After watching the scifi channel yesterday, it now seems that we should start looking for the crystal skulls to patch up the field.