FWIW, The system architecture of Talisman was designed by some software/system types in a R&D group under Alchin. They wrote the model in C and threw it over the wall to a design group in San Diego (names withheld to protect the innocent) who wrote the verilog. Mind you.... wrote it not tested it. My design group of IC designers, yet in another company...... who's name rimes with Cirrus..... would simulated the verilog against the C model. Ever time we found problems with the C model and told Redmond, of course the problem was ours not theirs.....until of course they "discovered it themselves". They would then pass the changes to San Diego.... who would then pass the Verilog to us. All the time management in Redmond just couldn't understand why it wasn't just P&R. The fact that their friggin architecture didn't even work was a minor point.
Oh.... and yes, you can just imagine how long it took to try and coordinate 3 different design groups in 3 different locations all trying to work on the same devices. Cripe, I had enough challenges on previous designs I'd worked on when everybody was in the same building.
Needless to say, we all have seen how successful that endeavor was....I mean there are so many products that used it right?????????????
I had the miss-pleasure of working on a graphics ASIC with MicroSquish back around the late 90's on a project called Talisman.
Never, and I say NEVER let a bunch of software engineers try to design a hardware chip. This was the biggest CF I'd seen in all my years (30+) as a chip designer. That they did it again, and with such stupidity again is no friggin surprise.
It is not that software engineers should not be involved, of course they should but when they drive the architecture in complete void of any practical chip design constraints..... and continually refuse to listen to any reason from the hardware designers..... well as they say, garbage in, garbage out.
I'm sure there is a hidden back door to the RIAA to get your IP address so they can come knock on your door because you stole someones music in singing your own songs
So does someone want to explain to me why, at my son's recent graduation from ASU's engineering school, 75% of the BSEE's, 90% of the MSEE and 100% of the PHd's were foreign?
I use to radiate parts for Motorola back when I worked for the Military Electronics group. We use to use the Gamma cell over at ASU. We put in a cockroach one Friday and came back Monday to check on it. Can't remember if it was the new gamma cell or the old one. The new one was around 20KRads/Min the old one was around 1KR/min. Either way, it was in the chamber for about 3 days or about 4320 mins. Bounded it got between 86Mega Rads or 4.3Mega Rads. It lived. There is little or no water in a cockroach so there is nothing to absorb the radiation. To Gamma radiation, they are immune. To be a correct experiment they would need to expose across a broad range of particles and radiation and not just Gamma.
Cassinni is using the same transponders as Voyager. They were "left over" from the original build. The loop caps were replaced. The problem somewhat discussed above is it took FOREVER to qual all of the devices used for the electronics. Once they were finally qualified, they were obsolete. In the case of this specific transponder we (Motorola) actually had to convince TI to restart one of their LSTTL fab lines (for you young whippersnapers you can Google what that is) because we needed some replacement parts and these were qualified and rad-hard so we could not replace them with anything else.
On the Anti-aging we see it all around where US companies are out-sourcing so much technology and the old farts are all being "right sized" or simply retire. In one sense a deep understand of old technology at some point becomes immaterial (Who needs an SXN7 or an AU25.....google that too!) but if the basic problem solving skills are gone to then we are in deep shit if we ever need to do something ourselves.
What is little known externally except by those that actually worked on this project is that the radios work at all is amazing. Motorola GEG built the radios in the Voyager spacecraft. Right after launch of both space crafts there was a failure of a critical capacitor that sets the bandwidth of the acquisition loop filter. The net result of that failure was that the signal acquisition of the radios was severely impaired. In order to compensate for this NASA engineers developed an emperical model of the entire spacecraft while it was on it's initial loop around the sun for it's slingshot to Jupiter. Since it was relatively close they could hit the spacecraft with a very large signal thus ensuring acquisition of the transmitted commands. The model consisted of predicting exactly where the front end input LO would be depending upon the temperature of the space craft, the added doppler due to movement, aging of the crystals, etc, etc. Basically anything that could effect the LO was factored in. Once the model was complete, the ground stations would then use and probably still use, this model to predict what the frequency for lockup needs to be. Due to the efforts of the engineers at NASA, they were able to "save" both spacecraft and the mission. And they still work today!!! Pretty amazing.
This is simply good marketing coupled with an opportunity when OSS is finally in a position where real money is finally being made. I've worked in semiconductors for over 30 years. In that business if you start a new company, if you are not a direct threat to the big guys....they all just simply sit back and wait until you are finally making some money. Once that happens the lawyers from Intel, TI, IBM, etc., etc. etc. all line up at your door. They come in and say "Gee, we think you are violating our patents. Tell you what, we've decided the stack you violate is 8' high. Now, we can litigate each one...............or for today only, we will offer you this screaming deal of 30K/inch plus a royalty of 0.05% on every product you make........hell, we will even throw in a set of Ginsu Knives with the deal cause we are such nice guys!"
The have enough clout in the marketplace to make you look bad with their FUD. They can shut you down. This is simply legal extortion plain and simple. Tony Soprano would be proud.
Now, more than ever, it has much more to do with $$$$$$$$$ than technology. The cost of a next generation fab is between 3-5 Billion dollars. That's Billion with a capital B. A single mask set for your new design has been typically double for every new design rule node. We are currently way above 1 Million for a mask set going to 2-3 Million. Economics are driving next generation technology more than anything and will continue to do so.
That is exactly my point. About 15% of all memory access are L1 & L2 cache misses. You double the speed of only about 15% of your memory access. Taken overall your total system performance increases less than 10%. For the expense it is not really worth it.
Your DRAM in a PC is essentially an L3 cache. Your disk, an L4. With todays CPU's hitting 90%+ L1 cache hits, and 85% L2 cache hits what they've done is double the speed of 15% of your cache misses. BFD. Net overall system performance increase is maybe 5% depending upon your application.
Yea..........and 640K will be plenty of memory.......... And the world will only need 4 computers................... And no one would ever need a computer at home..............
Sheesh......where do they come up with this stuff?
No, for real teachers try 10 - 12 hours a day. You think it is such a free lunch, go try it, especially for the pittance you will get paid. I think your tune will change.
Go talk to a real teacher instead of reading reports. My wife has been a teacher for over 15 years and has only just now crossed that median salary you mention above. I don't know where those numbers are coming from but they don't mention what the experience/longevity is for the wage they mention. Those median salaries take 10-15 years to reach. Those numbers are close to starting salaries for IT so there is a 10 year spread. In addition the cap on teaching wages vs the cap in the tech industry probably differ by a factor of 3 or 4 with the obvious maximum earning potential in industry. My daughter just quit being a teacher after two years as her net take home pay would qualify her for food stamps. In addition to the low wage, most teachers especially in the K-8 range typically spend $500- $1000 of THEIR own money, not reimbursed, for supplies for their classroom. They are required to continue education every year, ON THEIR OWN DIME. The good teachers will spend 2-3 hours/day grading and preparing for next days class as well as spending most weekends grading papers.
Most companies OTOH will pay for you to take extra classes and training. Who in the world donates real cash to buy supplies for their company and does not expect to be reimbursed. The only equivalence I see is in most high tech companies, we all work rediculous hours, just as teachers do.
These bastards almost shut down the sale of my home due to incorrect info in their database and then they want me to pay to correct it. If I had my way they should require me to approve who they want to sell my info to before a sale goes through and then I deserve a cut of every sale.
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Unless he is offering ponies with it. Ponies with wings!!!!!!!
So are we going to start announcing Abacus parties next??????????
Will someone please tell these people to go get a life! Maybe the "Evil" Capt. Kirk can go do that.
FWIW, The system architecture of Talisman was designed by some software/system types in a R&D group under Alchin. They wrote the model in C and threw it over the wall to a design group in San Diego (names withheld to protect the innocent) who wrote the verilog. Mind you .... wrote it not tested it. My design group of IC designers, yet in another company...... who's name rimes with Cirrus..... would simulated the verilog against the C model. Ever time we found problems with the C model and told Redmond, of course the problem was ours not theirs.....until of course they "discovered it themselves". They would then pass the changes to San Diego .... who would then pass the Verilog to us. All the time management in Redmond just couldn't understand why it wasn't just P&R. The fact that their friggin architecture didn't even work was a minor point.
Oh.... and yes, you can just imagine how long it took to try and coordinate 3 different design groups in 3 different locations all trying to work on the same devices. Cripe, I had enough challenges on previous designs I'd worked on when everybody was in the same building.
Needless to say, we all have seen how successful that endeavor was....I mean there are so many products that used it right?????????????
I had the miss-pleasure of working on a graphics ASIC with MicroSquish back around the late 90's on a project called Talisman.
Never, and I say NEVER let a bunch of software engineers try to design a hardware chip. This was the biggest CF I'd seen in all my years (30+) as a chip designer. That they did it again, and with such stupidity again is no friggin surprise.
It is not that software engineers should not be involved, of course they should but when they drive the architecture in complete void of any practical chip design constraints..... and continually refuse to listen to any reason from the hardware designers..... well as they say, garbage in, garbage out.
I'm sure there is a hidden back door to the RIAA to get your IP address so they can come knock on your door because you stole someones music in singing your own songs
....would seriously shorten the cat's life not to mention my allergies would kill me. Probably be a tossup as to who died first.
Give me a break. Turn your house up 1 degree in the summer and down 1 degree in the winter and you will save more money than that!
So does someone want to explain to me why, at my son's recent graduation from ASU's engineering school, 75% of the BSEE's, 90% of the MSEE and 100% of the PHd's were foreign?
I use to radiate parts for Motorola back when I worked for the Military Electronics group. We use to use the Gamma cell over at ASU. We put in a cockroach one Friday and came back Monday to check on it. Can't remember if it was the new gamma cell or the old one. The new one was around 20KRads/Min the old one was around 1KR/min. Either way, it was in the chamber for about 3 days or about 4320 mins. Bounded it got between 86Mega Rads or 4.3Mega Rads. It lived. There is little or no water in a cockroach so there is nothing to absorb the radiation. To Gamma radiation, they are immune. To be a correct experiment they would need to expose across a broad range of particles and radiation and not just Gamma.
Now we are all going to have to get jobs working for Inetech fixing the Y4D problem with computers........
Cassinni is using the same transponders as Voyager. They were "left over" from the original build. The loop caps were replaced. The problem somewhat discussed above is it took FOREVER to qual all of the devices used for the electronics. Once they were finally qualified, they were obsolete. In the case of this specific transponder we (Motorola) actually had to convince TI to restart one of their LSTTL fab lines (for you young whippersnapers you can Google what that is) because we needed some replacement parts and these were qualified and rad-hard so we could not replace them with anything else.
On the Anti-aging we see it all around where US companies are out-sourcing so much technology and the old farts are all being "right sized" or simply retire. In one sense a deep understand of old technology at some point becomes immaterial (Who needs an SXN7 or an AU25.....google that too!) but if the basic problem solving skills are gone to then we are in deep shit if we ever need to do something ourselves.
What is little known externally except by those that actually worked on this project is that the radios work at all is amazing. Motorola GEG built the radios in the Voyager spacecraft. Right after launch of both space crafts there was a failure of a critical capacitor that sets the bandwidth of the acquisition loop filter. The net result of that failure was that the signal acquisition of the radios was severely impaired. In order to compensate for this NASA engineers developed an emperical model of the entire spacecraft while it was on it's initial loop around the sun for it's slingshot to Jupiter. Since it was relatively close they could hit the spacecraft with a very large signal thus ensuring acquisition of the transmitted commands. The model consisted of predicting exactly where the front end input LO would be depending upon the temperature of the space craft, the added doppler due to movement, aging of the crystals, etc, etc. Basically anything that could effect the LO was factored in. Once the model was complete, the ground stations would then use and probably still use, this model to predict what the frequency for lockup needs to be. Due to the efforts of the engineers at NASA, they were able to "save" both spacecraft and the mission. And they still work today!!! Pretty amazing.
A liberal guise to stop the Republican agenda. Just like those nasty Surgeon Generals and all of their "Real Science"
OMG........The visual of that is staggering........."Ooooo Meesa thinks that is too big for there!!!"
Which ever format the majority of Porn distributors pick will win.
This is simply good marketing coupled with an opportunity when OSS is finally in a position where real money is finally being made. I've worked in semiconductors for over 30 years. In that business if you start a new company, if you are not a direct threat to the big guys....they all just simply sit back and wait until you are finally making some money. Once that happens the lawyers from Intel, TI, IBM, etc., etc. etc. all line up at your door. They come in and say "Gee, we think you are violating our patents. Tell you what, we've decided the stack you violate is 8' high. Now, we can litigate each one...............or for today only, we will offer you this screaming deal of 30K/inch plus a royalty of 0.05% on every product you make........hell, we will even throw in a set of Ginsu Knives with the deal cause we are such nice guys!"
The have enough clout in the marketplace to make you look bad with their FUD. They can shut you down. This is simply legal extortion plain and simple. Tony Soprano would be proud.
Point well taken.....just emphasizing a point. Either way, it's a lot of fucking money.................
Now, more than ever, it has much more to do with $$$$$$$$$ than technology. The cost of a next generation fab is between 3-5 Billion dollars. That's Billion with a capital B. A single mask set for your new design has been typically double for every new design rule node. We are currently way above 1 Million for a mask set going to 2-3 Million. Economics are driving next generation technology more than anything and will continue to do so.
That is exactly my point. About 15% of all memory access are L1 & L2 cache misses. You double the speed of only about 15% of your memory access. Taken overall your total system performance increases less than 10%. For the expense it is not really worth it.
Your DRAM in a PC is essentially an L3 cache. Your disk, an L4. With todays CPU's hitting 90%+ L1 cache hits, and 85% L2 cache hits what they've done is double the speed of 15% of your cache misses. BFD. Net overall system performance increase is maybe 5% depending upon your application.
Yea..........and 640K will be plenty of memory..........
And the world will only need 4 computers...................
And no one would ever need a computer at home..............
Sheesh......where do they come up with this stuff?
No, for real teachers try 10 - 12 hours a day. You think it is such a free lunch, go try it, especially for the pittance you will get paid. I think your tune will change.
Go talk to a real teacher instead of reading reports. My wife has been a teacher for over 15 years and has only just now crossed that median salary you mention above. I don't know where those numbers are coming from but they don't mention what the experience/longevity is for the wage they mention. Those median salaries take 10-15 years to reach. Those numbers are close to starting salaries for IT so there is a 10 year spread. In addition the cap on teaching wages vs the cap in the tech industry probably differ by a factor of 3 or 4 with the obvious maximum earning potential in industry.
My daughter just quit being a teacher after two years as her net take home pay would qualify her for food stamps. In addition to the low wage, most teachers especially in the K-8 range typically spend $500- $1000 of THEIR own money, not reimbursed, for supplies for their classroom. They are required to continue education every year, ON THEIR OWN DIME. The good teachers will spend 2-3 hours/day grading and preparing for next days class as well as spending most weekends grading papers.
Most companies OTOH will pay for you to take extra classes and training. Who in the world donates real cash to buy supplies for their company and does not expect to be reimbursed. The only equivalence I see is in most high tech companies, we all work rediculous hours, just as teachers do.
Just in time for Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy..............
These bastards almost shut down the sale of my home due to incorrect info in their database and then they want me to pay to correct it. If I had my way they should require me to approve who they want to sell my info to before a sale goes through and then I deserve a cut of every sale.