Eyesore is a perfect description.
Frank Gehry is to architecture what Philip Glass or Andrew Lloyd Weber are to classical composition.. an unmitigated hack.
All of his stuff looks like it belongs in Toontown.
While I am sure that there are probably better examples of deadly serious microcontrollers out there, I have to say that Microchip's products really satisfy the hacker impulse in me. I cut my teeth on 8080's (conditional calls and returns? WOOHOO!) and 6502's (gotta love those flag behaviours) and the PIC families rock if you're into major algorithmic gymnastics. Everything you could possibly want in a uP is there, and executed beautifully if you're a cycle counting maniac like I am. Microchip's tools are basic, yes, but they *are* free, mostly, and perform as advertised. Braving the win environment is just something you'll have to put up with if you want to stay on the bleeding edge of what they offer. As other posters have mentioned, however, there exist GNU style tools that I suspect might fulfill your needs. I must mention, however, that the real power of the PIC products can only be accessed fully by coding to the metal directly. Know the chip that you're using intimately. A logic analyzer might help also, since you're going to be twiddling ports in a rather brazen fashion.
Warren Buffet had a good idea to challenge those who game the stock market (almost everybody:) Simply tax gains and prorate losses based on the holding time of a stock. In other words, if you make a killing on some sort of quick runup in a security, you take a 99% tax hit if it's the same day, 95% after 7 days, 90% for a 30 day window, on a sliding time scale. Similarly, if you buy in on a 'hot tip' at 9am, and lose your shirt by afternoon, you can only deduct 1% of your losses. Further out, you can deduct progressively more. The whole idea is to discourage trading stocks on temporary price, and encourage trading on long term value and real earnings. Sounds like something worth trying, if you ask me.
I like the Brak Show. It's creative. It free associates. That inspires me. I hate games. My *I* doesn't feel inspired in any way whilst navigating someone else's artificial universe according to their personal rules. I've had quite enough of that dealing with egotistical assholes, tankyooveddymuch:) I have no intention of engaging in more of the same for (shudder) so-called entertainment. I pity all that fail to understand the difference.
Excellent book, though, also. His answer to the Big Question(tm) "What's this all about, REALLY?" was far more satisfying than the blase' pseudo-existential skirting of the issue conclusion Hitchhiker provided.
I dunno why, but I have always *hated* games, even as a child. They seem so utterly pointless. If I'm gonna invest the mental firepower that would be needed to become accomplished at some sort of (yuck!) GAME, then I want to see an actual *result* that matters in THIS world when I'm done. Games are mere mental masturbation, IMHO. A total waste of time.
My original post about the gaskets was a bit tounge-in-cheek, but I've definitely gotta weigh in on hammers. The best hammers, in my experience (I've done carpentry, too) are either all steel, or a steel head w/a wood handle, assuming that you have a decent hammering style. If you swing like I, and a lot of pros do, by basically palming the very end of the handle, like a swivel, and letting the hammer work of its own weight, all of the impact is borne by the head with *very little* reverse feedback up the handle into your hand and arm. It's possible to drive a 20 penny uncoated nail into oak in three strokes effortlessly once you've got the techique down. Fiberglass fouls up the resonances of the whole delivery system somehow, while wood dissipates and damps them, in a good way. Steel delivers a really good *thwack*, but you lose that mysterious form of control that wood seems to amplify for some reason. Steel handles, for me=more bent nails. Fiberglass = fatigue. Wood just felt good. BTW, Estwings really are overrated.
is, as an auto tinkerer that's been burned on this issue numerous times.. What's a GASKET SET for this puppy go for?? You'll need one in order to assemble it, yes? I'm betting *well* in excess of $1E6. 8-P
My Slashdot postings are typed as quickly as possible to avoid missing too much work. So don't type that fast. Don't post at work. Calm down. Neurons don't do high clock rates. Work *with* your nervous system (you have no other choice). One thing at a time. Try it.
WHEW! That bastard was a true player of 'the system'. A total parasite.. a trader on the efforts and intelligence of others. No conscience. No gratitude for what others had contributed before. A user to the nth degree. Hmm... Maybe he's a model for all that is wrong with modern (emphasis on the 'modern' part) capitalism? Past Kapitalism as well. Kommunism, too....
Your prospects might improve substantially if you paid some attention to spelling, grammar, and composition. If what you're sending out reads anything like what you just posted here, it's not at all amazing you're getting consistently shit-canned.
Thanks much for the ramble..:) It's called a 'Zilla for a reason! I'm fine with it on my 400mhz PII. Splitting the functions will result in the same sort of chaos we see when.gov departments go asunder.. Replication of effort and functionality, crossover and conflict between what used to be cozy relationships.. I'm OPPOSED!
I find the suite more.. integrated. And configurable in a manner that works well for me. Plus, Composer is a none-too-shabby WYSIWYG authoring tool for quickly knocking out and tweaking some html. Between that and Bluefish (or Arachnophilia on doze) for the odd tag massaging I'm pretty much set. Break out Composer separately and globalise prefs between the various suite components so that I'm not suddenly using IE as my browser after my bro-in-law is done at zone.msn.com (on our dozenboxen) and I'll be less insistent on the monolithic Moz manifestation. For now, though, even for multiple users, it just seems more flexible. Firebird on Win98 is damned fast, however. I've got all of the kids here converted, and they prefer it to IE not just for speed, and the popup suppression, but for the 'cool factor'. It's not their 'parent's' browser, which carries a certain cache'.
I think it's a doggone hoot to pull the latest mods from cvs and build it yourself every week or two, even though you get the occasional squirrely behaviour in the bargain. Right now I'm on 1.7a and having a wonderful time! It's great fun playing around with CFLAGS and stuff to see how quick you can make it execute, though I'm back at a conservative -O3 these days, since even that takes 4 hrs to compile on my feeble hardware. Anyone else doing it?
An interesting point that always seems to come up for me when eulas are discussed is this: if software embodies patented concepts, doesn't that sort of make it an actual capital "P" PRODUCT that that can be held to standards of fitness for use, safety, performance, implied warranties, etc, regardless of what the eula says? Otherwise, why should it deserve patent protection at all? It seems to me that if for software to enjoy patent protection, it would have to be considered just another product like, say, a toaster, and all the liability that implies. Might be a rather strong incentive AGAINST the filing of and holding of software patents, if you get my drift... Now for an inventive lawyer to explore this rather novel theory in the courts..
Another really interesting sentiment-free romantic film is Linklater's Before Sunrise I truly wish more people had seen that most worthy effort. Thankfully, there's a sequel in the works. I was just DYING to see how that relationship turned out (or not). Linklater ROOLZ!
Believe it or not, there actually exist some of us that find LOTR an unreadable morass of marginal 'prose stylings', at best. Any book that requires a map in its' appendix to make it comprehensible is a piece of doodoo. Tolkien's buddy C.S. Lewis absolutely smokes his ass in the wordsmithing department. Depth of concept as well. It's not even a close contest. Cmon, folks.. there HAVE to be a few souls out there who agree with me!
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Eyesore is a perfect description. Frank Gehry is to architecture what Philip Glass or Andrew Lloyd Weber are to classical composition.. an unmitigated hack.
All of his stuff looks like it belongs in Toontown.
Hey! :)
And the low power stuff that can go months on 2 aa cells, as well!
(I've done it
That's cheating!
(AOL!)
Same here!
(/AOL!)
While I am sure that there are probably better examples of deadly serious microcontrollers out there, I have to say that Microchip's products really satisfy the hacker impulse in me.
I cut my teeth on 8080's (conditional calls and returns? WOOHOO!) and 6502's (gotta love those flag behaviours) and the PIC families rock if you're into major algorithmic gymnastics.
Everything you could possibly want in a uP is there, and executed beautifully if you're a cycle counting maniac like I am.
Microchip's tools are basic, yes, but they *are* free, mostly, and perform as advertised.
Braving the win environment is just something you'll have to put up with if you want to stay on the bleeding edge of what they offer.
As other posters have mentioned, however, there exist GNU style tools that I suspect might fulfill your needs.
I must mention, however, that the real power of the PIC products can only be accessed fully by coding to the metal directly.
Know the chip that you're using intimately.
A logic analyzer might help also, since you're going to be twiddling ports in a rather brazen fashion.
Warren Buffet had a good idea to challenge those who game the stock market (almost everybody :)
Simply tax gains and prorate losses based on the holding time of a stock.
In other words, if you make a killing on some sort of quick runup in a security, you take a 99% tax hit if it's the same day, 95% after 7 days, 90% for a 30 day window, on a sliding time scale.
Similarly, if you buy in on a 'hot tip' at 9am, and lose your shirt by afternoon, you can only deduct 1% of your losses. Further out, you can deduct progressively more.
The whole idea is to discourage trading stocks on temporary price, and encourage trading on long term value and real earnings.
Sounds like something worth trying, if you ask me.
I like the Brak Show. It's creative. It free associates. That inspires me. :)
I hate games. My *I* doesn't feel inspired in any way whilst navigating someone else's artificial universe according to their personal rules.
I've had quite enough of that dealing with egotistical assholes, tankyooveddymuch
I have no intention of engaging in more of the same for (shudder) so-called entertainment.
I pity all that fail to understand the difference.
Excellent book, though, also.
His answer to the Big Question(tm) "What's this all about, REALLY?" was far more satisfying than the blase' pseudo-existential skirting of the issue conclusion Hitchhiker provided.
I dunno why, but I have always *hated* games, even as a child. They seem so utterly pointless.
If I'm gonna invest the mental firepower that would be needed to become accomplished at some sort of (yuck!) GAME, then I want to see an actual *result* that matters in THIS world when I'm done.
Games are mere mental masturbation, IMHO.
A total waste of time.
My original post about the gaskets was a bit tounge-in-cheek, but I've definitely gotta weigh in on hammers.
The best hammers, in my experience (I've done carpentry, too) are either all steel, or a steel head w/a wood handle, assuming that you have a decent hammering style.
If you swing like I, and a lot of pros do, by basically palming the very end of the handle, like a swivel, and letting the hammer work of its own weight, all of the impact is borne by the head with *very little* reverse feedback up the handle into your hand and arm. It's possible to drive a 20 penny uncoated nail into oak in three strokes effortlessly once you've got the techique down.
Fiberglass fouls up the resonances of the whole delivery system somehow, while wood dissipates and damps them, in a good way.
Steel delivers a really good *thwack*, but you lose that mysterious form of control that wood seems to amplify for some reason. Steel handles, for me=more bent nails. Fiberglass = fatigue. Wood just felt good.
BTW, Estwings really are overrated.
is, as an auto tinkerer that's been burned on this issue numerous times..
What's a GASKET SET for this puppy go for??
You'll need one in order to assemble it, yes?
I'm betting *well* in excess of $1E6.
8-P
Gawd, I'm such a geek :)
You haven't lived until you've actually prototyped monitor code on an 8 bit micro in precisely that way.
My Slashdot postings are typed as quickly as possible to avoid missing too much work.
So don't type that fast.
Don't post at work.
Calm down.
Neurons don't do high clock rates. Work *with* your nervous system (you have no other choice).
One thing at a time.
Try it.
WHEW!
That bastard was a true player of 'the system'.
A total parasite.. a trader on the efforts and intelligence of others.
No conscience. No gratitude for what others had contributed before. A user to the nth degree.
Hmm...
Maybe he's a model for all that is wrong with modern (emphasis on the 'modern' part) capitalism?
Past Kapitalism as well.
Kommunism, too....
Your prospects might improve substantially if you paid some attention to spelling, grammar, and composition.
If what you're sending out reads anything like what you just posted here, it's not at all amazing you're getting consistently shit-canned.
Is Juggernaut.
Slick hollywood fare, yes, but far better than most.
Definitely *not* your typical 'cut the green wire' kinda pic.
Thanks much for the ramble.. :) .gov departments go asunder..
It's called a 'Zilla for a reason!
I'm fine with it on my 400mhz PII.
Splitting the functions will result in the same sort of chaos we see when
Replication of effort and functionality, crossover and conflict between what used to be cozy relationships..
I'm OPPOSED!
I find the suite more.. integrated. And configurable in a manner that works well for me.
Plus, Composer is a none-too-shabby WYSIWYG authoring tool for quickly knocking out and tweaking some html. Between that and Bluefish (or Arachnophilia on doze) for the odd tag massaging I'm pretty much set.
Break out Composer separately and globalise prefs between the various suite components so that I'm not suddenly using IE as my browser after my bro-in-law is done at zone.msn.com (on our dozenboxen) and I'll be less insistent on the monolithic Moz manifestation.
For now, though, even for multiple users, it just seems more flexible.
Firebird on Win98 is damned fast, however. I've got all of the kids here converted, and they prefer it to IE not just for speed, and the popup suppression, but for the 'cool factor'.
It's not their 'parent's' browser, which carries a certain cache'.
I think it's a doggone hoot to pull the latest mods from cvs and build it yourself every week or two, even though you get the occasional squirrely behaviour in the bargain.
Right now I'm on 1.7a and having a wonderful time!
It's great fun playing around with CFLAGS and stuff to see how quick you can make it execute, though I'm back at a conservative -O3 these days, since even that takes 4 hrs to compile on my feeble hardware.
Anyone else doing it?
Even though it's not smart enough to truly qualify :)
Must be an Englit major!
I can't quite explain why, but that *HAS* to be one of the funniest jokes I've read in a really, really, long time. :}
Thank you.
An interesting point that always seems to come up for me when eulas are discussed is this:
if software embodies patented concepts, doesn't that sort of make it an actual capital "P" PRODUCT that that can be held to standards of fitness for use, safety, performance, implied warranties, etc, regardless of what the eula says?
Otherwise, why should it deserve patent protection at all?
It seems to me that if for software to enjoy patent protection, it would have to be considered just another product like, say, a toaster, and all the liability that implies.
Might be a rather strong incentive AGAINST the filing of and holding of software patents, if you get my drift...
Now for an inventive lawyer to explore this rather novel theory in the courts..
Another really interesting sentiment-free romantic film is Linklater's Before Sunrise
I truly wish more people had seen that most worthy effort.
Thankfully, there's a sequel in the works.
I was just DYING to see how that relationship turned out (or not).
Linklater ROOLZ!
Sorry, dude, but I find tolkien mind bogglingly dull and obvious.
I stand by my assessment.
Believe it or not, there actually exist some of us that find LOTR an unreadable morass of marginal 'prose stylings', at best. Any book that requires a map in its' appendix to make it comprehensible is a piece of doodoo.
Tolkien's buddy C.S. Lewis absolutely smokes his ass in the wordsmithing department. Depth of concept as well.
It's not even a close contest.
Cmon, folks.. there HAVE to be a few souls out there who agree with me!