I skipped the yearly trip to Vegas and invested some time and money in small scale solar for the house. Best 1K I ever spent. Running the entire outdoors media system and lights on solar.
...besides, high-level programmers often underestimate just how big a sector embedded programming is. The $IDIOTS_PET_LANGUAGE is for a PC. Now get me more RAM and better CPU for all the devices running embedded software, that are in my sight range as I look around:
- my cell phone. - 6 different monitors (OSD doesn't happen magically. Something remembers the settings...) - a videoserver - 2 cheap switches - a regulated power supply - a heat-controlled soldering iron - a regular phone - 3 PC keyboards (hey, neither PS2 nor USB protocols happen by themselves) - 3 computer mice (optical, meaning pretty advanced image analysis) - my hand watch - a battery charger - a USB hub - a security motion sensor - an MP3 player - a webcam - a multimeter - a car alarm remote - a pendrive.
These all were programmed either in VHDL, Asembler, or C. The phone has some J2ME code too. Think of upgrading each of these devices so much that its firmware could be rewritten in, say, Perl. Or C#.
Also, think about how much embedded programming is in every PC. Each device controller has its own firmware... my bet is any average house contains more embedded programs (in embedded devices) than PC applications on the "family PC" and stored on media.
High-level programming languages are nice and have their place, but considering embedded "a niche not worthy of attention" is a bad mistake. The proportions between amounts of server:desktop:embedded software are much closer to 1:1:1 than most "high-level" programmers are willing to admit.
The PIC micro-controller pic18F series and above have several nice C language tools that make embedded programming pretty nice.
I'm not sure I spelled that right, but anyway, Microsoft did manage to unload a boatload of V1.0 on the Navy at the least. I remember playing with it on the 286's the military had no clue what to do with. Instead of the infamous solitaire game it use to have reversie - a digital version of the othello game.
Even years late I was still happier with DOS 6.1 and Quarterdeck memory/application management. It was the only way to go to host a BBS and still have a little room to work on it while it was up.
Ah the good 'ol days when I was considered a genius simply because I did my own memory upgrades to my Tandy 1000...
I did contracting for NAVSEA and NAVMASSO back then on the SNAP program. We sold a lot of 286 boxes just so people could run WordStar on DOS and WordMARC on PCs. I still have (somewhere) my old DOS 1.0 , Netscape 1.0 and Windows 1.0 disks.
The LHC is designed with very good fail-safes so that random events like this won't shut down the accelerator for huge amounts of time. It would mean at most a day or two of no beam before things got started again. These kinds of safety trips are to be expected a couple of times a month with a machine as huge and complicated as the LHC.
My house is on a main tie power line substation that once was connected to a Al plant here. Now the power goes to two large semiconductor fabs that have contracts for power with massive penalties for loss of production. I think I have had less than a hour of outage in 20 years.
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Fascinating how the aliens only seem to infest US Chair Force nuclear weapons sites and personnel... But not Navy or Army sites and personnel.
Some shit just needs to be left alone.
...in the limbo of development. Chances are we will see the second coming of the Christ before it's released.
or the "Spontaneous creation" of another universe.
http://www.kgw.com/news/Car-accident-victims-dressed-like-zombies-confuse-crash-witnesses-98157894.html
Portland Police Sergeant Greg Stewart told the news station, "We're glad that everyone is alive, despite being 'undead.'"
I skipped the yearly trip to Vegas and invested some time and money in small scale solar for the house. Best 1K I ever spent. Running the entire outdoors media system and lights on solar.
DIY Solar project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspook/sets/72157622934371746/show/
Sorry, all the KGB blackmail porn was on Betamax tapes. The transcribed copies might still be in there somewhere.
http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2002/07/08/32009.html
>>In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.
>Jake 2.0 reference? I def miss that show...
NSA. Really.
At least since the 70's, probably earlier.
sr
Jake 2.0? Had to look that up.
http://themanagementexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/in_god_we_trust.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51StlHFz0CL._SS500_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OJB2mzbOL._SS400_.jpg
https://antipolygraph.org/documents/nsa-polygraph-leaflet.pdf
The first thing they teach is how to cheat the test. Full bladder.
http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/14/somalia/
One wasn't looking for WMD, he was into 20 8 year olds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."[
Uncle Sugar knows more about my history than my own family. They don't even care if the form is "lost" every ten years.
...besides, high-level programmers often underestimate just how big a sector embedded programming is. The $IDIOTS_PET_LANGUAGE is for a PC. Now get me more RAM and better CPU for all the devices running embedded software, that are in my sight range as I look around:
- my cell phone.
- 6 different monitors (OSD doesn't happen magically. Something remembers the settings...)
- a videoserver
- 2 cheap switches
- a regulated power supply
- a heat-controlled soldering iron
- a regular phone
- 3 PC keyboards (hey, neither PS2 nor USB protocols happen by themselves)
- 3 computer mice (optical, meaning pretty advanced image analysis)
- my hand watch
- a battery charger
- a USB hub
- a security motion sensor
- an MP3 player
- a webcam
- a multimeter
- a car alarm remote
- a pendrive.
These all were programmed either in VHDL, Asembler, or C. The phone has some J2ME code too. Think of upgrading each of these devices so much that its firmware could be rewritten in, say, Perl. Or C#.
Also, think about how much embedded programming is in every PC. Each device controller has its own firmware... my bet is any average house contains more embedded programs (in embedded devices) than PC applications on the "family PC" and stored on media.
High-level programming languages are nice and have their place, but considering embedded "a niche not worthy of attention" is a bad mistake. The proportions between amounts of server:desktop:embedded software are much closer to 1:1:1 than most "high-level" programmers are willing to admit.
The PIC micro-controller pic18F series and above have several nice C language tools that make embedded programming pretty nice.
My off-grid solar battery energy storage monitor using a pic18f8722 controller.
http://www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=4252648643
Early build construction slide-show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspook/sets/72157622934371746/show/
The TOP SECRET/FORNPORN is the good stuff.
I'm not sure I spelled that right, but anyway, Microsoft did manage to unload a boatload of V1.0 on the Navy at the least. I remember playing with it on the 286's the military had no clue what to do with. Instead of the infamous solitaire game it use to have reversie - a digital version of the othello game.
Even years late I was still happier with DOS 6.1 and Quarterdeck memory/application management. It was the only way to go to host a BBS and still have a little room to work on it while it was up.
Ah the good 'ol days when I was considered a genius simply because I did my own memory upgrades to my Tandy 1000...
I did contracting for NAVSEA and NAVMASSO back then on the SNAP program. We sold a lot of 286 boxes just so people could run WordStar on DOS and WordMARC on PCs. I still have (somewhere) my old DOS 1.0 , Netscape 1.0 and Windows 1.0 disks.
I'll say again BFWOTE
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Some Hot No Nukes Porn.
http://hansv.com/trojan_implosion/index.html
Direct mind-computer interfaces always makes me think of this classic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97JZHTCVbM
We still make damn good ones. Say you need a vacuum for cleaning up ASH3 waste inside a semiconductor plant.
Nilfisk has one and it's only $5000.
http://www.nilfiskcfm.com/vacuum-applications/electronics-semiconductors.aspx
The LHC is designed with very good fail-safes so that random events like this won't shut down the accelerator for huge amounts of time. It would mean at most a day or two of no beam before things got started again. These kinds of safety trips are to be expected a couple of times a month with a machine as huge and complicated as the LHC.
Dumping up to 1.45GJ from each segment during an event every week won't be very good for system reliability. That's about the power of a 700Lb bomb exploding at every shutdown.
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/e96/PAPERS/MOPG/MOP021G.PDF
http://www.militarypower.com.br/missil-bombas%20Mk.jpg
The Marine dozing off in the corner of the crypto room.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zaruka/2946414133/in/set-72157608078635808/
Sparkfun from the good old days.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Old_Sparky.jpg
http://www.slate.com/id/32298/
I think this is in bit heaven.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/harris/brochures/Harris_Systems_Brochure_Nov81.pdf
My house is on a main tie power line substation that once was connected to a Al plant here. Now the power goes to two large
semiconductor fabs that have contracts for power with massive penalties for loss of production. I think I have had less than a hour of outage in 20 years.
When California disconnects my lights do get a little brighter. http://www.bpa.gov/power/pl/columbia/4-gal-1.htm