Actually, there are specific means of blocking even resellers of any "infringed item" known as the Internation Trade Commission. US manufacturers can essentially sue anyone who make a profit from an infringed device, and order customs to prohibit items from being allowed into the US. See http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch20/20c040.html for a description.
While it is probably more oriented towards graduate students and faculty, online journals directly linked to our libraries search pages were a great addition. IEEE and physics journals tend to be used by a large number of students and might be a place to start.
I am afraid that I must disagree with many of the comments posted concerning FPGAs. First off, FPGAs have been successfully demonstrated in the multiple GHz frequency range using SiGe as a base material (Dr. Jack McDonald's group at RPI has done such an implimentation with SiGe BiCMOS based systems.) Further, the contention that FPGAs are "difficult" to program, is I believe an oversimplification of the hardware/software relation in general. Are FPGAs more difficult to program than to implement C++ code on a PC? Yes, but they are also significantly more powerful pieces of hardware than the current computer architecture. For example, one of the most visionary uses of high speed FPGAs would be to replace component cards in the PC of today. For example, in a base system today, one typically has a video, audio, and I/O type card (i.e. hard disk/floppy disk/CD-CDRW-DVD). Imagine now a computer that consists of a large number of FPGAs, essentially reconfiguarable hardware. Now drivers can be reset on the fly, power up ready OSs with no boot time (using non-volatile configurations), and a host of other interesting and desirable properties are possible. If you want to send email the FPGA bank can reconfigure itself into a network or wireless ethernet card. This has some significant advantages over the current paradigm.
Several readers commented concerning the adoption of FPGAs is not going to happen quickly(i.e. no development support) or that the problems with bus interface speeds are nontrivial. However, these difficult problems are not the problem of the hardware, and attempting to interface it to the standard PC, however kludgy, is a rational approach. Criticizing the implimentation here is a bit like telling someone that they should have used a Porsche instead of a Pinto to build a time machine.
As media content and access providers continue to merge, what will be the effect? What will happen when someone hosting a website posts something critical of the parent company of the hosting service? Orwell seems to have been mistaken, it will not be the government that controls you, but the Heinz ketcup bottle in your refrigerator that report use of generic condiments to their masters. Heinz ketsup doesn't play well with others.
Try the following:
1. Go to the Dartmouth home page,
2. Search for Farid,
3. Click on Farid's link,
4. Click on the address for his home page.
Obviously this 404 error page must have a hidden message. Results of wavelet compression analysis will be posted later.
This article on a number of levels troubles me. One, the Beijing Review, as alluded to earlier by mgarraha is not a "Review" by any means. It is magazine only published, to my knowledge, in English for foreign consumption and is little more than a propaganda rag for the Communist Party. The articles in it are the English equivalent to The People's Daily on the mainland, which is the generally regarded as good for reading what the Party's stance is, and for using, not reading in the loo. Lead article currently, how China's students are practicing democracy in their classrooms.
Secondly, why is the BBC using this as a "legitimate" source of news? What's next, taking an IRA newspaper and use it to show a changing cultural historical perspective on a free Ireland?
Perhaps part of the reason for adapting for a new technology also comes from the marketing department, i.e. how can we strategically increase sales? Changing supported software requires upgrades of hardware, requires more training courses and of course allows companies to help dictate future directions of emerging standards.
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Actually, there are specific means of blocking even resellers of any "infringed item" known as the Internation Trade Commission. US manufacturers can essentially sue anyone who make a profit from an infringed device, and order customs to prohibit items from being allowed into the US. See http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch20/20c040.html
for a description.
While it is probably more oriented towards graduate students and faculty, online journals directly linked to our libraries search pages were a great addition. IEEE and physics journals tend to be used by a large number of students and might be a place to start.
I am afraid that I must disagree with many of the comments posted concerning FPGAs. First off, FPGAs have been successfully demonstrated in the multiple GHz frequency range using SiGe as a base material (Dr. Jack McDonald's group at RPI has done such an implimentation with SiGe BiCMOS based systems.) Further, the contention that FPGAs are "difficult" to program, is I believe an oversimplification of the hardware/software relation in general. Are FPGAs more difficult to program than to implement C++ code on a PC? Yes, but they are also significantly more powerful pieces of hardware than the current computer architecture. For example, one of the most visionary uses of high speed FPGAs would be to replace component cards in the PC of today. For example, in a base system today, one typically has a video, audio, and I/O type card (i.e. hard disk/floppy disk/CD-CDRW-DVD). Imagine now a computer that consists of a large number of FPGAs, essentially reconfiguarable hardware. Now drivers can be reset on the fly, power up ready OSs with no boot time (using non-volatile configurations), and a host of other interesting and desirable properties are possible. If you want to send email the FPGA bank can reconfigure itself into a network or wireless ethernet card. This has some significant advantages over the current paradigm.
Several readers commented concerning the adoption of FPGAs is not going to happen quickly(i.e. no development support) or that the problems with bus interface speeds are nontrivial. However, these difficult problems are not the problem of the hardware, and attempting to interface it to the standard PC, however kludgy, is a rational approach. Criticizing the implimentation here is a bit like telling someone that they should have used a Porsche instead of a Pinto to build a time machine.
As media content and access providers continue to merge, what will be the effect? What will happen when someone hosting a website posts something critical of the parent company of the hosting service? Orwell seems to have been mistaken, it will not be the government that controls you, but the Heinz ketcup bottle in your refrigerator that report use of generic condiments to their masters. Heinz ketsup doesn't play well with others.
Try the following: 1. Go to the Dartmouth home page, 2. Search for Farid, 3. Click on Farid's link, 4. Click on the address for his home page. Obviously this 404 error page must have a hidden message. Results of wavelet compression analysis will be posted later.
This article on a number of levels troubles me. One, the Beijing Review, as alluded to earlier by mgarraha is not a "Review" by any means. It is magazine only published, to my knowledge, in English for foreign consumption and is little more than a propaganda rag for the Communist Party. The articles in it are the English equivalent to The People's Daily on the mainland, which is the generally regarded as good for reading what the Party's stance is, and for using, not reading in the loo. Lead article currently, how China's students are practicing democracy in their classrooms.
Secondly, why is the BBC using this as a "legitimate" source of news? What's next, taking an IRA newspaper and use it to show a changing cultural historical perspective on a free Ireland?
Perhaps part of the reason for adapting for a new technology also comes from the marketing department, i.e. how can we strategically increase sales? Changing supported software requires upgrades of hardware, requires more training courses and of course allows companies to help dictate future directions of emerging standards.