Not to be a pedant or anything (spare the thought!) but ARM don't actually make any processors. They own and control the core IP that is licensed by various processor and SoC manufacturers.
However, ARM processors do seem to be the most popular processors for embedded systems. Which I think is what you meant.
Not much to say other than I have to disagree about Lua. Its so incredibly lightweight I've found it to work absolutely fine on an embedded (ARM based, 64MB RAM) system (ok, that is a fair bit of RAM I guess). I imagine if you wanted every library under the sun for it, then it might start to weigh in:-) Don't know tons about Ruby but I'd imagine that might be a little too heavy for the same system though.
Oh and I've rebuilt busybox (and recreated of the rest of the root filesystem), but the initial system that came from the vendor comes with a seperate bash binary. I've kept it on the flash but I've found I haven't actually needed to use it for any shell scripts yet. Busybox's Bourne shell has been enough. I love busybox. Lots.
Don't want to start googling for it 'cos I'm at work, but I'm pretty sure a wireless butterfly (or a similar type of wearable, err, thing) already exists. Might be a mobile phone peripheral though (which isn't really practical to wear constantly)
Sad. I wonder how this thread would have differed (not just the parent's post but some of the other replies) if the GP had said 'I was talking to my 23 year old brother'. Sorry, off-topic I know, and no I'm not new here (just lurked for years before signing up).
Someone mentioned the phone's ability to receive OTA firmware updates... I guess that means that in future they could decide to implement the ability to install other applications. As it is, from the start, having a load of functionality out of the box that you wouldn't normally have does seem like a plus. But with the ability for the firmware to be updated, nothing is set in stone.
You could always, y'know, just turn that feature off. I love Visual Studio, but I always spend a minute or two configuring a fresh install to how I want it. However I like the fact that I have those options available to me.
You are correct though, give some coders notepad/emacs/vi/cat and a compiler rather than their usual fully-featured IDE and they're completely lost. But one thing I've noticed (especially recently, working with EEs who often write firmware but don't consider themselves developers) is that not having the time/experience to completely memorise the entire set of library functions available doesn't make someone less of a skilled developer.
When someone says they want complete control over the locations of bits on a drive that could be taken to mean the actual magnetic domains (which aren't simply digital values anyway) or it could just mean the logical digital values that are seen by the OS and filesystem drivers. I wonder if by using phrases like 'magnetic hard drive platter' and mentioning Reed-Solomon encoding, kidcharles has made people think of the lowest level meaning of 'location of bits', whereas in actual fact he just wants something like/dev/sda.
'A free and open source solution' is mentioned.. but theres no mention of what form this solution might take. In the case of a custom HDD controller (which people have suggested as a solution) this would mean something like a VHDL or Verilog implementation (but it would be highly vendor and model specific, plus there'd probably be IP issues). But when people say 'a free and open source solution' they tend to mean software running on a common desktop OS. Oh and I guess there's the question about 'any good utilities' which suggests that kidcharles isn't after an entirely programmatic approach.
So, if I'm correct, any decent disk editor will supply the required level of control. I can't be bothered to look any up (Google will help out here) but I know there are plenty (open source, free or proprietry) for Linux, DOS and Windows. Hell, you could possibly do it all with shell scripting under Linux if you so desired:-)
Alternatively, maybe kidcharles wants to make spirograph like artwork for creatures that can see in the magnetic spectrum.
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ARM is the embedded processor maker
Not to be a pedant or anything (spare the thought!) but ARM don't actually make any processors. They own and control the core IP that is licensed by various processor and SoC manufacturers.
However, ARM processors do seem to be the most popular processors for embedded systems. Which I think is what you meant.
plug all the holes
Fnarr fnarr!
Maybe you have to make a big show of pretending to throw stuff away. Maybe in front of some other, more modern hardware. That'll trick 'em!
Not much to say other than I have to disagree about Lua. Its so incredibly lightweight I've found it to work absolutely fine on an embedded (ARM based, 64MB RAM) system (ok, that is a fair bit of RAM I guess). I imagine if you wanted every library under the sun for it, then it might start to weigh in :-)
Don't know tons about Ruby but I'd imagine that might be a little too heavy for the same system though.
Oh and I've rebuilt busybox (and recreated of the rest of the root filesystem), but the initial system that came from the vendor comes with a seperate bash binary. I've kept it on the flash but I've found I haven't actually needed to use it for any shell scripts yet. Busybox's Bourne shell has been enough.
I love busybox. Lots.
Of course, that stopped with the A500+
But you had ARexx still... and that was all kinds of awesome fun.
For someone, somewhere.
Possibly.
Oh and I'm pretty sure AMOS was just a computer game that looked like a programming environment :-)
Are you saying that /. should become an OSS announce website? But then there won't be room for all the iStories and Microsoft bashing as well!
As opposed to £5 USD or $5 GBP?
Don't want to start googling for it 'cos I'm at work, but I'm pretty sure a wireless butterfly (or a similar type of wearable, err, thing) already exists. Might be a mobile phone peripheral though (which isn't really practical to wear constantly)
I don't think anyone would want an airliner to fly through their balls.
Sad. I wonder how this thread would have differed (not just the parent's post but some of the other replies) if the GP had said 'I was talking to my 23 year old brother'.
Sorry, off-topic I know, and no I'm not new here (just lurked for years before signing up).
Someone mentioned the phone's ability to receive OTA firmware updates... I guess that means that in future they could decide to implement the ability to install other applications. As it is, from the start, having a load of functionality out of the box that you wouldn't normally have does seem like a plus. But with the ability for the firmware to be updated, nothing is set in stone.
You could always, y'know, just turn that feature off.
I love Visual Studio, but I always spend a minute or two configuring a fresh install to how I want it. However I like the fact that I have those options available to me.
You are correct though, give some coders notepad/emacs/vi/cat and a compiler rather than their usual fully-featured IDE and they're completely lost. But one thing I've noticed (especially recently, working with EEs who often write firmware but don't consider themselves developers) is that not having the time/experience to completely memorise the entire set of library functions available doesn't make someone less of a skilled developer.
When someone says they want complete control over the locations of bits on a drive that could be taken to mean the actual magnetic domains (which aren't simply digital values anyway) or it could just mean the logical digital values that are seen by the OS and filesystem drivers. I wonder if by using phrases like 'magnetic hard drive platter' and mentioning Reed-Solomon encoding, kidcharles has made people think of the lowest level meaning of 'location of bits', whereas in actual fact he just wants something like /dev/sda.
'A free and open source solution' is mentioned.. but theres no mention of what form this solution might take. In the case of a custom HDD controller (which people have suggested as a solution) this would mean something like a VHDL or Verilog implementation (but it would be highly vendor and model specific, plus there'd probably be IP issues). But when people say 'a free and open source solution' they tend to mean software running on a common desktop OS. Oh and I guess there's the question about 'any good utilities' which suggests that kidcharles isn't after an entirely programmatic approach.
So, if I'm correct, any decent disk editor will supply the required level of control. I can't be bothered to look any up (Google will help out here) but I know there are plenty (open source, free or proprietry) for Linux, DOS and Windows. Hell, you could possibly do it all with shell scripting under Linux if you so desired :-)
Alternatively, maybe kidcharles wants to make spirograph like artwork for creatures that can see in the magnetic spectrum.