Your Marines friends, if they even exist, sound like excellent torturers. We used to have people like you denying that Marines would ever torture someone. Thank you for explaining that torture is embraced by Marines, instead of being rejected as cruel, counterproductive and illegal by sane people upholding their duty to protect the Constitution.
Even if Pelosi were a "dingbat", that has nothing to do with how crazy are Palin and O'Donnell. No one can make Palin sound like a Rhodes scholar.
Meanwhile, "dingbat" Pelosi has successfully managed the House Speaker office for 4 years. You say she's a "dingbat" because you disagree with her. But you just demonstrated that your logic and evaluation skills don't qualify you to accuse someone else of being a dingbat.
You're just like the rest of the Teabaggers: you exploit an audience's fairness in letting you speak to say anything, no matter how nonsensical, to attack your enemies. Right down to accusing in one sentence your enemies of precisely what you just did yourself in the sentence before it. Nuts and evil.
I've been posting on Slashdot for years, and elsewhere before that, about layering a memory plastic grid on a touchscreen to raise bumps defining a dynamic textures and bounded areas for touch feedback.
You love to just say stuff as if that makes it true. Like how your family living in the USSR, which had even worse propaganda and no alternative for facts than does the US today, somehow means you know how it really worked. You responded to the statement that the 1930s US government got us out of the recession with the statement that the government got us into it, which does not refute the original statement but rather supports it by demonstrating the government's power without saying anything to contradict it. That is known as "tacit acknowledgement", even if you try to assert otherwise - again, without saying anything actually contradicting the original statement, but rather simply insisting that you're not acknowledging it. Just saying stuff doesn't mean it has any value. You say that US labor organization didn't have anything to do with US economic strength, but if all that was operating was a lack of competition then low-paid US workers wouldn't have benefited from it, by definition. You don't bother to acknowledge that basic fact, or refute it - all you've got is some tautology that "they were cheap enough to be hired", even though they were making more than any workers elsewhere, or in the US before. Of course they were cheap enough to be hired - that doesn't mean they were cheap. I'm cheap enough to be hired by my employers, but I'm not cheap. You just want to say stuff that doesn't even connect to anything. The Soviet Union wasted its productive capacity on its military and on controlling its population in no small part because it was prevented from having markets for anything, by the Cold War. If Europe had bought products from Soviet factories, those factories would have produced them.
You're a "libertarian", which is really just a corporate anarchist, like its best-known fictionalizer Ayn Rand (another Soviet emigre who liked to just say stuff about economics). "Libertarian" management of the economy was the deregulation of the stock market that let people buy stocks speculatively on credit, which was what funded the equity bubble that crashed. That credit didn't come from the government, it came from private banks, which got money from the unregulated government. Very libertarian, very Great Depression. You said that "the government" created the Great Depression (again, while tacitly acknowledging that "the government" fixed it), but there were two very different governments. Libertarians love to say that all governments are the same, but they're not.
And Krugman understands inflation, as people better qualified to judge than either you or I agree. But since you cannot respond to anything I said legitimately, and indeed ignore what I said as well as conventional logic, I really don't care. This will go nowhere, like arguing with a character in a novel about economics. Goodbye.
No, an investment is the spending of money with the expectation of growth in returns by the time the investment is liquidated.
And as I said, which you just recognized, the SS payouts do not come from the current pay ins. They come from the interest on the bonds bought with the old pay ins.
The US doesn't "buy bonds from itself". One agency buys bonds from another agency. The seller of the bonds has other means of income than the money from the seller. In fact actual greater returns are always given in cash to the people who invested with their SS withholding. This is an undeniable fact, just as if the bonds were bought from someone at "arm's length" (there is no such thing in the economy anyway, as the government regulates, taxes, and spends on every financial entity).
During Bush Jr's terms, you were going around saying the US Federal debt could be ignored "because we owe it to ourselves". You and the rest of Glenn Beck's economics university have to stop just making stuff up because it's scary when you're not in charge, and other stuff because it's calming when you are in charge.
No it's not. Once every many years the Federal government sets some minimum wage that is decided by negotiation in Congress. Inflation is a factor, but then years of inflation pass. The inflation adjusted minimum wage history shows how it gets lifted periodically to some middle-low value, then decays from there.
You say the government created the Great Depression as some kind of argument that "paying people to dig ditches" didn't get us out of it. The government did create the Great Depression by letting people borrow unlimited amounts to spend on credit-inflated stock and the rest of an inflated economy (including hugely inflated liquor during the concurrent Prohibition). But that is totally irrelevant to the fact that "the" government got us out of the Great Depression. You tacitly concede that the government got us out of it, but you talk as if you've somehow proved something. BTW, there were two extremely different governments, not just "the" government: Republicans controlled the House, Senate and White House the entire 1920s that created the Great Depression, and Democrats controlled that elected trifecta during the entire 1930s-1940s that got us out of it.
You're also wrong about "cheap labor in the form of the soldier". The returning soldiers did not work cheap. They were largely unionized and were well paid, which is a big part of what they fought to protect from Fascists (and from Communists, too, as well as slavers before that and lords before that). It's the organization and consequent power of American workers that could demand high pay, despite the organization and consequent power of capital owners that would (and does) insist on paying low despite any other fact, that made America's postwar economy "the envy of the world".
Indeed, the main postwar benefit to America's economy was its large working industrial capacity paired to the rest of the world's destroyed production capital (and consequent huge demand for new production, including production of productive capital). Coupled with the Bretton Woods system of global finance that uses the dollar as the global trade reserve currency, requiring foreign stockpiles of dollars they buy from us. But without Americans getting paid a good share of that new income, America's economy wouldn't have been the envy of anyone in the world - except the various tyrannies that we either created in former colonies of our WWII allies or opposed in the clutches of our new Communist enemies. Without locking the Soviet Union into a box, the Soviet industrial capacity (and its - literally - rocketlike growth) would have resupplied Europe instead of the US doing so. Which points at the last major feature of managing the global economy that we did right but which is now lacking: we used global politics to direct global economics to prefer American exports instead of our "Communist" rival's. The US didn't export nearly as much inflation (the world's homegrown inflation from destroyed and wasted assets dwarfed what the US spilled abroad) as it did assets, which is the opposite of inflation.
Plus Krugman certainly understands inflation better than you do. Reading what you've written here, against what he's written elsewhere, I can see that he understands it better than you do.
It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's an investment in somewhat low interest but extremely low risk US government bonds. You're paying into SS every paycheck, which the SS Admin takes and buys Treasury bonds. Those bonds pay off about 150% in usually 30 years, then get rolled over again. The total fund pool into which those rolling payoffs are reinvested pays you starting when you retire, as every year new 30-year old bonds mature to cash.
Ponzi schemes don't gain any income. SS is not a Ponzi scheme, and even without any changes at all is good for another quarter century. Simply raising or eliminating the $100,000 cap on annual income against which SS is paid in would keep it liquid indefinitely.
The Pentagon/intel budget at over $1T a year is entirely a Ponzi scheme. Cutting it to $300B annually would eliminate all debt except SS bonds within 15 years, perhaps as little as 10. Taxing banks and bankers the amount they cost the public would speed the paydown by several years. Taxing the petrofuel corps what they cost the public would speed it by several more years.
Americans don't have savings. We have net debt - nearly every one of us. Especially when counting our mortgages, credit cards, car and student loans, which of course totally count. When you count the $14T public debt (nearly $100,000 per taxpayer), which of course does also totally count, probably the entire "bottom" 98% of Americans are net in debt. The savings are just a cashflow account.
But "iInflation" is not universal just because there's more currency in use than assets it values. Printing more money doesn't automatically increase incomes. But when incomes rise with inflation, debtors benefit just as if their debts shrank at the inflation rate. Americans whose incomes rise with inflation can inflate out of debt. That includes the government. But Americans who can't get even worse, as they keep their old debts, but don't get more income to pay for new consumption, which leads to new debt or starvation. If the government inflates its way out of debt, those Americans won't have as much public debt to pay, but their personal economies will be even worse off than before, even as the rest of the society gets past the debt.
And how much of the rest of the Kuwait Times' stories are also total bullshit that they just printed without spending a dime to see if it was true, or even plausible?
How much of the rest of the "news"? What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.
So the broke-ass, deficit-obsessed USA cannot afford to keep the Space Shuttle or any other NASA launch programme in operation for science, but no problem funding an even better shuttle for the CIA/NSA. Because those spooks are doing such a great job protecting us from the Qaeda and copycats, protecting our allies from N Korean bombing, protecting the world from Iranian nuke programmes...
I also note that on 9/11/2001 there were no Emergency Broadcast System alerts issued, even in NYC, or in DC, as both the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were violently attacked. Despite several generations of Americans being trained that such an attack would be followed by such an alert, "in the event of an actual emergency".
It looks like the FPGA is connected to the ARM by an AXI bus, which I don't think allows FPGA directly connected to memory. The FPGA is more of a peripheral to the (dual core) ARM, though perhaps the FPGA pins off the chip can connect to RAM to which the FPGA can act as a controller. Take a look at the architecture points at the link I provided to Xilinx.
I've got an industrial control project that's been designed so far around an embedded Atom PC and a custom PCB for sensor/actuators. We might be able to port the custom PCB to this FPGA, leaving only voltage transformers/transistors/relays outboard. Which could save us a lot of money in production, and even more in maintenance/upgrades. There are existing PPC and ARM devices, but our existing SW is for x86. Which is why an Atom/FPGA part could be a great savings for us. And of course ours is a very typical situation.
Though the ARM/FPGA parts are competitive, since our code is userspace, and can be easily recompiled for ARM Linux instead of x86 - if the parts are otherwise competitive. This competition will make our choices even better alternatives than they are now.
This part will be sold in PCs with large parallel connectors for interfacing multiple or complex devices to the FPGA pins, along with the rest of the HW that supports a smart embedded device. You won't be soldering directly to the part.
But it's not really designed for "home use", except for embedded home automation developed by serious engineers. Which could be a DIY, but mostly won't be.
Actually I'm excited about the possibility of inserting a chip like this into my Hammond M-100A organ, then running Linux apps on it that control all its keys and switches. If I could embed just the tone generator electromechanics and chip in a cabinet, with effects loops and MIDI, I could have all the various hardhack Hammond mods available, and new ones, in a small cabinet. I could even have room for several Hammonds at once, making chorus/phaser/vibrato and really complex combos. Keyed either from software or from a better manual than the ones on the $200 Hammonds I buy. Who knows - maybe controlling a Leslie with multi speeds, dynamic crossover, etc is in the cards. I'm a software developer, so rather than learning lots of AC electronics hacks I could just experiment on one of these little brains.
Two problems holding back CPU+FPGA products were power consumption (and related heat dissipation) and price. Those limits also are finally holding back CPU products (or rather the products they're embedded in) overall, which is why there's a market for Atom or ARM chips at all. Meanwhile, overall market demand for embedded PCs that contain complex, high performance logic is growing very quickly, especially in automotive and energy industries. So the stars seem to be crossing each other right this time, after years of FPGA vendors learning what to avoid in the products and their marketing.
Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform parts are supposedly manufactured, and planned for sale in early 2011. I've been hearing about their progress for over a year from a friend who's a top Xilinx engineer.
Right now I can't do anything, except wait to hear that they've crashed and I can send the pictures as evidence it was their fault. I didn't say blinkers, I said actually dangerous driving. Though that often includes not using blinkers.
I don't expect 911 to "tell me" anything. I expect them to send highway patrol and catch the criminal I spotted who's endangering everyone else on the road.
Xilinx this year introduced a whole new architecture embedding an ARM Cortex A-9 in a large FPGA, designed to run primarily as the CPU, including FPGA functions as the developer specifies through software.
Can I run Linux and Eclipse on one of these new CPUs locally, and use a good Eclipse module to port Linux kernel functions (like IO logic) from iterated procedures to the FPGA, then test them? Which Eclipse modules would support that development?
I wish I could text pictures or video from the highway. I see people driving so dangerously that it's effectively assault, all the time. I can't drive 5 miles on the highway, or 5 minutes in a town/city, without seeing people texting while driving as they do something dangerous. I sometimes pull up next to them and take a picture with them with my phone that I keep in my dashboard, which used to get most of them to stop (though the past year or two it often sends them into an insane self-righteous rage).Taking the picture isn't distracting to me as I drive; it's about as distracting as punching an FM preset button, and I make sure I'm not changing lanes or in any other complex driving situation when I snap the picture. I yearn for the day when my car has 360 degree video all the time as part of its security system, which should connect to my phone or a car WWAN.
I wish I could then press a button to send the picture, or (even better) video, to 911. I'd then voice call 911 (on speakerphone), and give details. If the other driver were really nuts I might even follow them for a while, or just watch them careen off into traffic, updating the cops. I'd get their license plate in the shot. I'd show up to testify against them in court, swearing to the video evidence. And then maybe these lunatics might keep their deranged driving off the roads.
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Your Marines friends, if they even exist, sound like excellent torturers. We used to have people like you denying that Marines would ever torture someone. Thank you for explaining that torture is embraced by Marines, instead of being rejected as cruel, counterproductive and illegal by sane people upholding their duty to protect the Constitution.
Even if Pelosi were a "dingbat", that has nothing to do with how crazy are Palin and O'Donnell. No one can make Palin sound like a Rhodes scholar.
Meanwhile, "dingbat" Pelosi has successfully managed the House Speaker office for 4 years. You say she's a "dingbat" because you disagree with her. But you just demonstrated that your logic and evaluation skills don't qualify you to accuse someone else of being a dingbat.
You're just like the rest of the Teabaggers: you exploit an audience's fairness in letting you speak to say anything, no matter how nonsensical, to attack your enemies. Right down to accusing in one sentence your enemies of precisely what you just did yourself in the sentence before it. Nuts and evil.
I've been posting on Slashdot for years, and elsewhere before that, about layering a memory plastic grid on a touchscreen to raise bumps defining a dynamic textures and bounded areas for touch feedback.
You love to just say stuff as if that makes it true. Like how your family living in the USSR, which had even worse propaganda and no alternative for facts than does the US today, somehow means you know how it really worked. You responded to the statement that the 1930s US government got us out of the recession with the statement that the government got us into it, which does not refute the original statement but rather supports it by demonstrating the government's power without saying anything to contradict it. That is known as "tacit acknowledgement", even if you try to assert otherwise - again, without saying anything actually contradicting the original statement, but rather simply insisting that you're not acknowledging it. Just saying stuff doesn't mean it has any value. You say that US labor organization didn't have anything to do with US economic strength, but if all that was operating was a lack of competition then low-paid US workers wouldn't have benefited from it, by definition. You don't bother to acknowledge that basic fact, or refute it - all you've got is some tautology that "they were cheap enough to be hired", even though they were making more than any workers elsewhere, or in the US before. Of course they were cheap enough to be hired - that doesn't mean they were cheap. I'm cheap enough to be hired by my employers, but I'm not cheap. You just want to say stuff that doesn't even connect to anything. The Soviet Union wasted its productive capacity on its military and on controlling its population in no small part because it was prevented from having markets for anything, by the Cold War. If Europe had bought products from Soviet factories, those factories would have produced them.
You're a "libertarian", which is really just a corporate anarchist, like its best-known fictionalizer Ayn Rand (another Soviet emigre who liked to just say stuff about economics). "Libertarian" management of the economy was the deregulation of the stock market that let people buy stocks speculatively on credit, which was what funded the equity bubble that crashed. That credit didn't come from the government, it came from private banks, which got money from the unregulated government. Very libertarian, very Great Depression. You said that "the government" created the Great Depression (again, while tacitly acknowledging that "the government" fixed it), but there were two very different governments. Libertarians love to say that all governments are the same, but they're not.
And Krugman understands inflation, as people better qualified to judge than either you or I agree. But since you cannot respond to anything I said legitimately, and indeed ignore what I said as well as conventional logic, I really don't care. This will go nowhere, like arguing with a character in a novel about economics. Goodbye.
No, an investment is the spending of money with the expectation of growth in returns by the time the investment is liquidated.
And as I said, which you just recognized, the SS payouts do not come from the current pay ins. They come from the interest on the bonds bought with the old pay ins.
The US doesn't "buy bonds from itself". One agency buys bonds from another agency. The seller of the bonds has other means of income than the money from the seller. In fact actual greater returns are always given in cash to the people who invested with their SS withholding. This is an undeniable fact, just as if the bonds were bought from someone at "arm's length" (there is no such thing in the economy anyway, as the government regulates, taxes, and spends on every financial entity).
During Bush Jr's terms, you were going around saying the US Federal debt could be ignored "because we owe it to ourselves". You and the rest of Glenn Beck's economics university have to stop just making stuff up because it's scary when you're not in charge, and other stuff because it's calming when you are in charge.
No it's not. Once every many years the Federal government sets some minimum wage that is decided by negotiation in Congress. Inflation is a factor, but then years of inflation pass. The inflation adjusted minimum wage history shows how it gets lifted periodically to some middle-low value, then decays from there.
You say the government created the Great Depression as some kind of argument that "paying people to dig ditches" didn't get us out of it. The government did create the Great Depression by letting people borrow unlimited amounts to spend on credit-inflated stock and the rest of an inflated economy (including hugely inflated liquor during the concurrent Prohibition). But that is totally irrelevant to the fact that "the" government got us out of the Great Depression. You tacitly concede that the government got us out of it, but you talk as if you've somehow proved something. BTW, there were two extremely different governments, not just "the" government: Republicans controlled the House, Senate and White House the entire 1920s that created the Great Depression, and Democrats controlled that elected trifecta during the entire 1930s-1940s that got us out of it.
You're also wrong about "cheap labor in the form of the soldier". The returning soldiers did not work cheap. They were largely unionized and were well paid, which is a big part of what they fought to protect from Fascists (and from Communists, too, as well as slavers before that and lords before that). It's the organization and consequent power of American workers that could demand high pay, despite the organization and consequent power of capital owners that would (and does) insist on paying low despite any other fact, that made America's postwar economy "the envy of the world".
Indeed, the main postwar benefit to America's economy was its large working industrial capacity paired to the rest of the world's destroyed production capital (and consequent huge demand for new production, including production of productive capital). Coupled with the Bretton Woods system of global finance that uses the dollar as the global trade reserve currency, requiring foreign stockpiles of dollars they buy from us. But without Americans getting paid a good share of that new income, America's economy wouldn't have been the envy of anyone in the world - except the various tyrannies that we either created in former colonies of our WWII allies or opposed in the clutches of our new Communist enemies. Without locking the Soviet Union into a box, the Soviet industrial capacity (and its - literally - rocketlike growth) would have resupplied Europe instead of the US doing so. Which points at the last major feature of managing the global economy that we did right but which is now lacking: we used global politics to direct global economics to prefer American exports instead of our "Communist" rival's. The US didn't export nearly as much inflation (the world's homegrown inflation from destroyed and wasted assets dwarfed what the US spilled abroad) as it did assets, which is the opposite of inflation.
Plus Krugman certainly understands inflation better than you do. Reading what you've written here, against what he's written elsewhere, I can see that he understands it better than you do.
It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's an investment in somewhat low interest but extremely low risk US government bonds. You're paying into SS every paycheck, which the SS Admin takes and buys Treasury bonds. Those bonds pay off about 150% in usually 30 years, then get rolled over again. The total fund pool into which those rolling payoffs are reinvested pays you starting when you retire, as every year new 30-year old bonds mature to cash.
Ponzi schemes don't gain any income. SS is not a Ponzi scheme, and even without any changes at all is good for another quarter century. Simply raising or eliminating the $100,000 cap on annual income against which SS is paid in would keep it liquid indefinitely.
The Pentagon/intel budget at over $1T a year is entirely a Ponzi scheme. Cutting it to $300B annually would eliminate all debt except SS bonds within 15 years, perhaps as little as 10. Taxing banks and bankers the amount they cost the public would speed the paydown by several years. Taxing the petrofuel corps what they cost the public would speed it by several more years.
Americans don't have savings. We have net debt - nearly every one of us. Especially when counting our mortgages, credit cards, car and student loans, which of course totally count. When you count the $14T public debt (nearly $100,000 per taxpayer), which of course does also totally count, probably the entire "bottom" 98% of Americans are net in debt. The savings are just a cashflow account.
But "iInflation" is not universal just because there's more currency in use than assets it values. Printing more money doesn't automatically increase incomes. But when incomes rise with inflation, debtors benefit just as if their debts shrank at the inflation rate. Americans whose incomes rise with inflation can inflate out of debt. That includes the government. But Americans who can't get even worse, as they keep their old debts, but don't get more income to pay for new consumption, which leads to new debt or starvation. If the government inflates its way out of debt, those Americans won't have as much public debt to pay, but their personal economies will be even worse off than before, even as the rest of the society gets past the debt.
And how much of the rest of the Kuwait Times' stories are also total bullshit that they just printed without spending a dime to see if it was true, or even plausible?
How much of the rest of the "news"? What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.
So the broke-ass, deficit-obsessed USA cannot afford to keep the Space Shuttle or any other NASA launch programme in operation for science, but no problem funding an even better shuttle for the CIA/NSA. Because those spooks are doing such a great job protecting us from the Qaeda and copycats, protecting our allies from N Korean bombing, protecting the world from Iranian nuke programmes...
I also note that on 9/11/2001 there were no Emergency Broadcast System alerts issued, even in NYC, or in DC, as both the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were violently attacked. Despite several generations of Americans being trained that such an attack would be followed by such an alert, "in the event of an actual emergency".
I wonder if those nuke warheads even work.
Various outlets are selling for $150 a 7" Augen Gentouch78. Is it any good, considering that low, low price?
It looks like the FPGA is connected to the ARM by an AXI bus, which I don't think allows FPGA directly connected to memory. The FPGA is more of a peripheral to the (dual core) ARM, though perhaps the FPGA pins off the chip can connect to RAM to which the FPGA can act as a controller. Take a look at the architecture points at the link I provided to Xilinx.
I've got an industrial control project that's been designed so far around an embedded Atom PC and a custom PCB for sensor/actuators. We might be able to port the custom PCB to this FPGA, leaving only voltage transformers/transistors/relays outboard. Which could save us a lot of money in production, and even more in maintenance/upgrades. There are existing PPC and ARM devices, but our existing SW is for x86. Which is why an Atom/FPGA part could be a great savings for us. And of course ours is a very typical situation.
Though the ARM/FPGA parts are competitive, since our code is userspace, and can be easily recompiled for ARM Linux instead of x86 - if the parts are otherwise competitive. This competition will make our choices even better alternatives than they are now.
This part will be sold in PCs with large parallel connectors for interfacing multiple or complex devices to the FPGA pins, along with the rest of the HW that supports a smart embedded device. You won't be soldering directly to the part.
But it's not really designed for "home use", except for embedded home automation developed by serious engineers. Which could be a DIY, but mostly won't be.
Xilinx EPP puts an ARM Cortex A-9 in the die with a large Xilinx FPGA. Is that the dream of integrated FPGA fabric come true?
Actually I'm excited about the possibility of inserting a chip like this into my Hammond M-100A organ, then running Linux apps on it that control all its keys and switches. If I could embed just the tone generator electromechanics and chip in a cabinet, with effects loops and MIDI, I could have all the various hardhack Hammond mods available, and new ones, in a small cabinet. I could even have room for several Hammonds at once, making chorus/phaser/vibrato and really complex combos. Keyed either from software or from a better manual than the ones on the $200 Hammonds I buy. Who knows - maybe controlling a Leslie with multi speeds, dynamic crossover, etc is in the cards. I'm a software developer, so rather than learning lots of AC electronics hacks I could just experiment on one of these little brains.
Two problems holding back CPU+FPGA products were power consumption (and related heat dissipation) and price. Those limits also are finally holding back CPU products (or rather the products they're embedded in) overall, which is why there's a market for Atom or ARM chips at all. Meanwhile, overall market demand for embedded PCs that contain complex, high performance logic is growing very quickly, especially in automotive and energy industries. So the stars seem to be crossing each other right this time, after years of FPGA vendors learning what to avoid in the products and their marketing.
Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform parts are supposedly manufactured, and planned for sale in early 2011. I've been hearing about their progress for over a year from a friend who's a top Xilinx engineer.
Right now I can't do anything, except wait to hear that they've crashed and I can send the pictures as evidence it was their fault. I didn't say blinkers, I said actually dangerous driving. Though that often includes not using blinkers.
I don't expect 911 to "tell me" anything. I expect them to send highway patrol and catch the criminal I spotted who's endangering everyone else on the road.
You are stupid. Stay away from traffic.
Because they are actually driving dangerously, while I am not. As I explained in detail. You're stupid. Stay away from traffic.
Xilinx this year introduced a whole new architecture embedding an ARM Cortex A-9 in a large FPGA, designed to run primarily as the CPU, including FPGA functions as the developer specifies through software.
Can I run Linux and Eclipse on one of these new CPUs locally, and use a good Eclipse module to port Linux kernel functions (like IO logic) from iterated procedures to the FPGA, then test them? Which Eclipse modules would support that development?
I wish I could text pictures or video from the highway. I see people driving so dangerously that it's effectively assault, all the time. I can't drive 5 miles on the highway, or 5 minutes in a town/city, without seeing people texting while driving as they do something dangerous. I sometimes pull up next to them and take a picture with them with my phone that I keep in my dashboard, which used to get most of them to stop (though the past year or two it often sends them into an insane self-righteous rage).Taking the picture isn't distracting to me as I drive; it's about as distracting as punching an FM preset button, and I make sure I'm not changing lanes or in any other complex driving situation when I snap the picture. I yearn for the day when my car has 360 degree video all the time as part of its security system, which should connect to my phone or a car WWAN.
I wish I could then press a button to send the picture, or (even better) video, to 911. I'd then voice call 911 (on speakerphone), and give details. If the other driver were really nuts I might even follow them for a while, or just watch them careen off into traffic, updating the cops. I'd get their license plate in the shot. I'd show up to testify against them in court, swearing to the video evidence. And then maybe these lunatics might keep their deranged driving off the roads.