Where do I get a toolchain for only 100s of MB? I just downloaded Xilinx's ISE software for school and the installer was 8GB (you can get this down to 6.5GB if you download the Windows-only installer). I don't want to think about how much of my hard drive I lost when I uncompressed/installed it. I've used Altera's software as well, and it's also measured in GB.
Presumably the FPGA vendors mean to punish their users because they know their users like it.
Don't fight. Make your diagrams, make your plans, make your reports and recommendations, gently push for more access, do the best you can under the idiotic conditions. Don't make waves, stick with it for 18 months, then jump ship with with your shiny new resume item to a much higher paying position in an organization that respects you. If it matters to you, you can always return a few years later at a higher level later with actual authority and put things right. They will love you because you didn't make waves. You probably won't care about them any more.
about 13% of web servers supporting IPv6...As of September 2013, over 33% of all users on Verizon had IPv6.
... Your alleged "fiasco" is nowhere to be seen.
Hah. It's a huge indictment that even with 13% of web servers supporting it, only 1% of traffic goes over it. That means that when users have the choice they choose something else.
Another sign of failure is when the defenders get shrill. You are shrill.
There is exactly one thing that will get people to use IPv6, and that is, forcing them. No choice. Take it or fuck yourself. Which has basically been the deployment strategy, brainchild of Vint Cerf. Even with that... 20 years later... 1%. Feh.
Imagine what could have been accomplished if the project leader was actually competent and didn't try to pretend that backward compatibility doesn't matter.
They probably also found a selfie you sent, automatically applied the latest AI image analysis techniques to it using a whole airplane hanger full of compute servers, and determined that you are not sufficiently, ahem, *equipped* to work at Google.
IPv6 ought to keep Vint Cerf up at night, as he played a central role in that monumental fiasco.
IPv6 is working perfectly, both as native dual stack where ISPs have made it available and also through the various tunneling transition mechanisms. The only fly in the ointment has been that a lot of the bigger ISPs have been dragging their heals a bit in rolling out dual stack, but even that hasn't stopped IPv6's exponential adoption curve. It's coming along nicely, year by year.
Whatever "fiasco" you're talking about, it exists in your head alone.
As of 2014, IPv4 still carries more than 99% of worldwide Internet traffic. By any definition, that is a fiasco. Imagine if Microsoft introduced a new version of Windows and after 20 years, the old version was still being used for 99% of computer work. Would we call that a fiasco? We sure would. Now, some loose cannon with mod points apparently thinks that Vint Cerf's shit does not stink like that.
False dichotomy alert: not having Apple or Google infesting my car does not mean that I do not want in-vehicle technology. Or (removing the double negative) I may want in-vehicle technology even if I do not want Apple or Google to supply that technology.
In my opinion, neither Apple or Google is steered by a shred of moral principle, and allowing either to control my automobile or any significant portion of it constitutes a clear and present danger to my privacy and security. Both these organizations envy and aspire to attain the level of corporate depravity pioneered so successfully by Microsoft.
The explicit violence just doesn't seem necessary.
Have you seen The Pacific? It's way gorier than Game of Thrones, and from what I have heard, not anywhere near as cruel or gory as the actual events depicted. Toning it down would be a lie.
In fact, Game of Thrones is arguably even less depraved that what is going on right now in the real world in any number of places. South Sudan, Syria and North Korea just off the top of my head. Compared to the perps running amok in those places, the horrible people depicted in Game of Thrones are just a bunch of lovable kittens.
In decent societies, HR is actually there to enforce employee protection and heaalth and safety laws and to protect the staff from the worst abuses of upper management. Since this is akin to socialism, it's no wonder all the Americans on slashdot hate them so much.
Americans hate HR because of what HR does, not because of what HR is supposed to do.
In any company, HR is the most completely useless department.
Anybody who has worked in tech for more than a month knows that HR is just the mindless, obedient enforcement arm of management, and not even top management at that. Never, ever share your issues with HR.
Total stack rank shop. Google does it too, not so widely known. Slightly watered down calibration system compared to Mordorsoft, but just as destructive.
All major operating systems are written in C, including Linux, the BSD/MacOS kernel and the Windows kernel.
The Symbian kernel is written in c++, proving that that there is no technical obstacle. The real reason that (nearly) all major kernels are written in C is that these kernels predate the time when c++ was suitably mature. Things have changed. OSv is an example of a new kernel written in c++. A bit simplistic at the moment, but then so was Linux when it arrived on the scene.
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Ubuntu is Debian Sid plus some additional cruft, some of it actually useful but nothing indispensable.
Ubuntu and desktop and Ubuntu server are essentially the same, the only substantive difference is which packages are initially installed.
Where do I get a toolchain for only 100s of MB? I just downloaded Xilinx's ISE software for school and the installer was 8GB (you can get this down to 6.5GB if you download the Windows-only installer). I don't want to think about how much of my hard drive I lost when I uncompressed/installed it. I've used Altera's software as well, and it's also measured in GB.
Presumably the FPGA vendors mean to punish their users because they know their users like it.
I bet the rPI runs faster than the CPU core on your $20 FPGA.
truth is... you don't need a board to "get your feet wet".
You only need a simulator.
Presumably you have already played with the simulator by the time you get the itch to try something real.
Don't fight. Make your diagrams, make your plans, make your reports and recommendations, gently push for more access, do the best you can under the idiotic conditions. Don't make waves, stick with it for 18 months, then jump ship with with your shiny new resume item to a much higher paying position in an organization that respects you. If it matters to you, you can always return a few years later at a higher level later with actual authority and put things right. They will love you because you didn't make waves. You probably won't care about them any more.
Google admires Microsoft
It's also creepy when Googlers with mod points get on Slashdot and mod down comments that they really should think seriously about instead.
about 13% of web servers supporting IPv6...As of September 2013, over 33% of all users on Verizon had IPv6.
... Your alleged "fiasco" is nowhere to be seen.
Hah. It's a huge indictment that even with 13% of web servers supporting it, only 1% of traffic goes over it. That means that when users have the choice they choose something else.
Another sign of failure is when the defenders get shrill. You are shrill.
There is exactly one thing that will get people to use IPv6, and that is, forcing them. No choice. Take it or fuck yourself. Which has basically been the deployment strategy, brainchild of Vint Cerf. Even with that... 20 years later... 1%. Feh.
Imagine what could have been accomplished if the project leader was actually competent and didn't try to pretend that backward compatibility doesn't matter.
There's only one thing to do: buy real estate in Greenland.
It's creepy either way. The want people to help make it creepier. The best way to find those is to see how they respond to a creepy opener.
But Google values spaghetti code above all else, so you're good.
They probably also found a selfie you sent, automatically applied the latest AI image analysis techniques to it using a whole airplane hanger full of compute servers, and determined that you are not sufficiently, ahem, *equipped* to work at Google.
IPv6 is working perfectly, both as native dual stack where ISPs have made it available and also through the various tunneling transition mechanisms. The only fly in the ointment has been that a lot of the bigger ISPs have been dragging their heals a bit in rolling out dual stack, but even that hasn't stopped IPv6's exponential adoption curve. It's coming along nicely, year by year.
Whatever "fiasco" you're talking about, it exists in your head alone.
As of 2014, IPv4 still carries more than 99% of worldwide Internet traffic. By any definition, that is a fiasco. Imagine if Microsoft introduced a new version of Windows and after 20 years, the old version was still being used for 99% of computer work. Would we call that a fiasco? We sure would. Now, some loose cannon with mod points apparently thinks that Vint Cerf's shit does not stink like that.
Too bad it won't motivate us all to trash these contraptions.
While at it, what about trashing the perps and the beneficiaries?
Your cell phone packs considerably more compute power than a Cray 1.
False dichotomy alert: not having Apple or Google infesting my car does not mean that I do not want in-vehicle technology. Or (removing the double negative) I may want in-vehicle technology even if I do not want Apple or Google to supply that technology.
In my opinion, neither Apple or Google is steered by a shred of moral principle, and allowing either to control my automobile or any significant portion of it constitutes a clear and present danger to my privacy and security. Both these organizations envy and aspire to attain the level of corporate depravity pioneered so successfully by Microsoft.
IPv6 ought to keep Vint Cerf up at night, as he played a central role in that monumental fiasco.
The explicit violence just doesn't seem necessary.
Have you seen The Pacific? It's way gorier than Game of Thrones, and from what I have heard, not anywhere near as cruel or gory as the actual events depicted. Toning it down would be a lie.
In fact, Game of Thrones is arguably even less depraved that what is going on right now in the real world in any number of places. South Sudan, Syria and North Korea just off the top of my head. Compared to the perps running amok in those places, the horrible people depicted in Game of Thrones are just a bunch of lovable kittens.
In decent societies, HR is actually there to enforce employee protection and heaalth and safety laws and to protect the staff from the worst abuses of upper management. Since this is akin to socialism, it's no wonder all the Americans on slashdot hate them so much.
Americans hate HR because of what HR does, not because of what HR is supposed to do.
In any company, HR is the most completely useless department.
Anybody who has worked in tech for more than a month knows that HR is just the mindless, obedient enforcement arm of management, and not even top management at that. Never, ever share your issues with HR.
Total stack rank shop. Google does it too, not so widely known. Slightly watered down calibration system compared to Mordorsoft, but just as destructive.
Manager passionately disagrees with complaints of managers abusing staff, did I get that right?
All major operating systems are written in C, including Linux, the BSD/MacOS kernel and the Windows kernel.
The Symbian kernel is written in c++, proving that that there is no technical obstacle. The real reason that (nearly) all major kernels are written in C is that these kernels predate the time when c++ was suitably mature. Things have changed. OSv is an example of a new kernel written in c++. A bit simplistic at the moment, but then so was Linux when it arrived on the scene.