the equation while mostly meant as a discussion starter as was already mentioned, really says how many civs exist in the lifetime of a galaxy. not at this point in time. the chances of any even remotely similar civilizations (on the evolutionary scale) meeting are tiny. either one is like us and one is a bacteria, or we are the bacteria..
mythtv likes firewire tuners, comcast's boxes have firewire outputs. quite a nice match in my household.
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there are lots of uses for FPGAs in radar processing, image recognition, you can even do small floating point kernels REALLY fast on FPGAs if done correctly. granted on most of them you have to know verilog or vhdl to use them, but there are a couple companies that have fully functional C/Fortran programming environments that take it all the way down onto an FPGA. using those general codes can run faster on FPGAs. plus they are really low power. a room full of general computers running a teraflop takes large amounts of power, fpga based systems take 1/20th or so the watts.
not so custom really if you go with the right integrator. SRC computers puts out FPGA based systems that has a nice 32bit floating point fft library already in their development environment. Most customers using the fft are for radar image processing where the best PC solution is 50 times slower then the fpga based solution. Think UAVs with smart tracking off their radar. http://www.srccomputers.com/
plus the computer company SRC computers http://www.srccomp.com/ who makes fpga based computers now and their software development environment isnt vaporware.
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but I think my brain worked best 10-15 years ago
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used one for years now. or at least I gave up a landline for cell only.
the equation while mostly meant as a discussion starter as was already mentioned,
really says how many civs exist in the lifetime of a galaxy. not at this point in
time. the chances of any even remotely similar civilizations (on the evolutionary
scale) meeting are tiny. either one is like us and one is a bacteria, or
we are the bacteria..
inside emacs with color coding turned on.
a nice crisp somewhat large font and life is good.
I suspect they just wanted to make sure they got all
the letters out before the students went home for the
summer.
it does vary by market yet. my dct-3416 comcast box shoves
EVERYTHING out the firewire port and expects the other end
to honor the 5C flag.
mythtv likes firewire tuners, comcast's boxes have firewire outputs.
quite a nice match in my household.
there are lots of uses for FPGAs in radar processing, image recognition, you can even do small
floating point kernels REALLY fast on FPGAs if done correctly.
granted on most of them you have to know verilog or vhdl to use them, but there are a couple
companies that have fully functional C/Fortran programming environments that take it all
the way down onto an FPGA. using those general codes can run faster on FPGAs.
plus they are really low power. a room full of general computers running a teraflop
takes large amounts of power, fpga based systems take 1/20th or so the watts.
I always thought 'fold' meant "doubled this many times" or 2^24 in this case.
not so custom really if you go with the right integrator.
SRC computers puts out FPGA based systems that has a nice
32bit floating point fft library already in their development
environment. Most customers using the fft are for radar image
processing where the best PC solution is 50 times slower
then the fpga based solution. Think UAVs with smart
tracking off their radar.
http://www.srccomputers.com/
plus the computer company
SRC computers
http://www.srccomp.com/
who makes fpga based computers now and their
software development environment isnt vaporware.