Careful with your comments there - DRAM is relatively slow because the capacitors used are tiny, so sensing the charge state is slow. The need to refresh is because it's a capacitor with non-zero leakage. Refresh cycles sometimes will delay normal accesses, but are not the reason that DRAM is slower than SRAM. The speed of memresistor memory reads will depend on the speed of sensing the state, and the speed of writes will depend on the speed of changing the flux.
I suspect that there are physical processes that will break stuff before 1400 years have passed. I've never seen any calculations, but when I learned about semiconductor physics, it was apparent to me that the diffusion of impurities into silicon (which is how transistors are formed) is extremely slow at room temp, but it still is happening (kind of like how glass supposedly flows slowly). Given enough years, the junctions in chips will fail, even if they are powered off. I don't know whether that will require just 100's of years, or epochs.
I know about semi's - I don't know about any other things in the devices. How will FR-4 age? Will solder joints fail just by sitting around?
Granted, I could use this to sniff the 433 MHz signal from the ultrasound sensor in my driveway that tells me when someone drives up, or to pickup the signal from my wireless themometer, BUT, is there a cheaper way to get either of those signals to a PC ?
Icarus operates fairly well. I only occasionally stumble across a legitimate verilog construct that it doesn't like, and a workaround is rarely difficult. I don't think the synthesis side of it works that well, but it's first and foremost a simulator.
Another simulator was just released as open source, Veriwell (it's on sourceforge). It's reportedly 4x faster than Icarus, but Windows support is uncertain (it works under cygwin), and it doesn't support newer verilog updates (the 2000 updates, vpi, and such).
I haven't tried the free VHDL simulator yet.
There's another protocol out there that's targetting home automation, Z-wave. A friend that develops products in that space complained that Zigbee is somewhat bloated, and he's going the Z-wave route instead. Z-wave is from Zensys, and it may be starting out as their protocol, but to last, it will have to be somewhat open, like X10.
In the [US...] pre-1972 sound recordings are encumbered by state law exclusive rights until 2067. On what basis is karadar.com's claim valid in the United States?
Karadar/Cocoa appear to be Italy based, so they probably only researched the US at the federal level, if at all. IANAL, and I'm not associated with Karadar.
It's easy to understand the bank's actions if you pretend you are a bank President.
You've shown that your system can be used to hurt his bank, so he will try to prevent that from happening ever again. The FBI will arrive shortly to impose a Mitnick order (that you must never use a computer ever again).
(What kind of world did you think you lived in, anyways?)
Always speculate about the upside and the downside of doing something. For this, the upside is learning sysadmin stuff, maybe a little respect, and maybe there's a threat of this being necessary to keep your job. But the downside can be nightmarish - problems will come up that take you away from the programming work, leading to diminished project responsibilities, spiraling until your main task is sysadmin, followed by hiring a real sysadmin, and then you're low man on the project totem pole.
re: worries about accepting code from Cuba due to legal concerns...
Check with Ry Cooder (musician/producer). He produced a documentary and soundtrack (and perhaps some followups) of Cuban musicians (Buena Vista Social Club), in Cuba. I think one may have gotten an Oscar or Grammy.
What would be the diffence between music/film that was partially developed in Cuba and code that was?
Hey, the pictures of Logan must be after July 2003, because that's when my suitcase was lost there, and I just now spotted it - some jackass handler apparently tossed it up on the roof of a jetway.
If you were doing windows-to-windows, IPX might be a solution - the VPN client intercepts all IP traffic, but not IPX. Can you get an IPX client working on the MAC?
Now, if only the Linksys WRT54G would bridge IPX (since it won't route it)... My wife uses her laptop wirelessly, and can't get to any printers on our wired network when she has her VPN connected.
These VPNs that block local access are going to any more and more of us as time goes on, it seems.
Actually, the Xilinx tools do a great job of taking care of the low level details. I've done many moderately aggressive designs with no floorplanning at all.
If you have a design that has trouble making timing, you are better off going back and reworking the RTL. Try to visualize how your RTL is getting mapped to flops and logic ("use the force"). If you can talk to several experienced designers about your design, they can give you good insights.
I'll tempt the purists to tell me to RTFB and work it out for myself, but maybe someone has a good answer to this...
What determines whether a smaller body collides with or falls into orbit around a larger body? I guess that the relevant parameters are the starting velocity (with vector - the vector implies what the closest distance would have been without gravity), radius of the objects, and mass of the objects.
Are all collision scenarios simply situations in which the orbit's closest approach (perigee) is less than the radius of the large object?
Furthermore, insist that if anyone at your company wants to reach you when you are home, they must pay your phone bill, and if you need to read anything in the evening when you're at home, they have to pay for your power bill. Your union should be able to present these demands in a reasonable manner.
Ummm, a substance abuse problem can be a disability and as such be protected by the ADA. (Incoming!). As a previous poster noted, if it doesn't affect performance...
A proper experiment would be an application where the developers made no attempt to find security problems. Any volunteers ? Anyone want to install such an application. (Nevermind all the joking about MSoft having already volunteered and how it's widely installed).
Exactly. Corporations use standards to level the playing field and encourage competition. In the datacom/telecom space, standards bodies are wrestling rings where the game is often to standardize what Cisco is doing, but with enough changes that their release that meets the standard is about the same time as other vendors'. Usually that means just enough changes that the hardware doesn't have to change.
Karma-whoring here...
My solution to the opt-in/opt-out arguement would be that the routers/CMTS/DSLAM that do the filtering would allow "smart" users to use SNMP to control the filtering on their ports, requiring the same username/password authentication used to connect to service. The default settings would handle 95% of users, and standard scripts would be around for gamers/p2p'ers/etc. Authentication is necessary so that virii don't drop the filters (I'm assuming that passwords wouldn't be stored where virii could sniff them out, but I may be wrong).
Whoops - there are several in the series now. What I read was "The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-To-Be". That was back in '95, when (I think) it had just come out.
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Careful with your comments there - DRAM is relatively slow because the capacitors used are tiny, so sensing the charge state is slow. The need to refresh is because it's a capacitor with non-zero leakage. Refresh cycles sometimes will delay normal accesses, but are not the reason that DRAM is slower than SRAM. The speed of memresistor memory reads will depend on the speed of sensing the state, and the speed of writes will depend on the speed of changing the flux.
I know about semi's - I don't know about any other things in the devices. How will FR-4 age? Will solder joints fail just by sitting around?
Does that mean that when this tanks, the funding may be pulled on everydns?
Granted, I could use this to sniff the 433 MHz signal from the ultrasound sensor in my driveway that tells me when someone drives up, or to pickup the signal from my wireless themometer, BUT, is there a cheaper way to get either of those signals to a PC ?
And if you have occasional problems with ssh sessions being interrupted, use autossh (which requires keys to work properly - and that's a good thing).
Icarus operates fairly well. I only occasionally stumble across a legitimate verilog construct that it doesn't like, and a workaround is rarely difficult. I don't think the synthesis side of it works that well, but it's first and foremost a simulator. Another simulator was just released as open source, Veriwell (it's on sourceforge). It's reportedly 4x faster than Icarus, but Windows support is uncertain (it works under cygwin), and it doesn't support newer verilog updates (the 2000 updates, vpi, and such). I haven't tried the free VHDL simulator yet.
There's another protocol out there that's targetting home automation, Z-wave. A friend that develops products in that space complained that Zigbee is somewhat bloated, and he's going the Z-wave route instead. Z-wave is from Zensys, and it may be starting out as their protocol, but to last, it will have to be somewhat open, like X10.
Uh, check your math... 625 gallons will take you 25,000 miles at 40 MPG.
Karadar/Cocoa appear to be Italy based, so they probably only researched the US at the federal level, if at all. IANAL, and I'm not associated with Karadar.
karadar.com (with Cocoa.itc.it) has old performances of a ton of classical works, which are claimed to no longer be covered by copyright.
You've shown that your system can be used to hurt his bank, so he will try to prevent that from happening ever again. The FBI will arrive shortly to impose a Mitnick order (that you must never use a computer ever again).
(What kind of world did you think you lived in, anyways?)
Always speculate about the upside and the downside of doing something. For this, the upside is learning sysadmin stuff, maybe a little respect, and maybe there's a threat of this being necessary to keep your job. But the downside can be nightmarish - problems will come up that take you away from the programming work, leading to diminished project responsibilities, spiraling until your main task is sysadmin, followed by hiring a real sysadmin, and then you're low man on the project totem pole.
Check with Ry Cooder (musician/producer). He produced a documentary and soundtrack (and perhaps some followups) of Cuban musicians (Buena Vista Social Club), in Cuba. I think one may have gotten an Oscar or Grammy.
What would be the diffence between music/film that was partially developed in Cuba and code that was?
Hey, the pictures of Logan must be after July 2003, because that's when my suitcase was lost there, and I just now spotted it - some jackass handler apparently tossed it up on the roof of a jetway.
Now, if only the Linksys WRT54G would bridge IPX (since it won't route it)... My wife uses her laptop wirelessly, and can't get to any printers on our wired network when she has her VPN connected.
These VPNs that block local access are going to any more and more of us as time goes on, it seems.
If you have a design that has trouble making timing, you are better off going back and reworking the RTL. Try to visualize how your RTL is getting mapped to flops and logic ("use the force"). If you can talk to several experienced designers about your design, they can give you good insights.
What determines whether a smaller body collides with or falls into orbit around a larger body? I guess that the relevant parameters are the starting velocity (with vector - the vector implies what the closest distance would have been without gravity), radius of the objects, and mass of the objects.
Are all collision scenarios simply situations in which the orbit's closest approach (perigee) is less than the radius of the large object?
Does anyone else think that maybe the original post was just a pretense to bring attention to worldthreats.com?
Furthermore, insist that if anyone at your company wants to reach you when you are home, they must pay your phone bill, and if you need to read anything in the evening when you're at home, they have to pay for your power bill. Your union should be able to present these demands in a reasonable manner.
Ummm, a substance abuse problem can be a disability and as such be protected by the ADA. (Incoming!). As a previous poster noted, if it doesn't affect performance...
A proper experiment would be an application where the developers made no attempt to find security problems. Any volunteers ? Anyone want to install such an application. (Nevermind all the joking about MSoft having already volunteered and how it's widely installed).
Find a nun. Look for one with a ruler. Profit.
Exactly. Corporations use standards to level the playing field and encourage competition. In the datacom/telecom space, standards bodies are wrestling rings where the game is often to standardize what Cisco is doing, but with enough changes that their release that meets the standard is about the same time as other vendors'. Usually that means just enough changes that the hardware doesn't have to change.
Karma-whoring here...
My solution to the opt-in/opt-out arguement would be that the routers/CMTS/DSLAM that do the filtering would allow "smart" users to use SNMP to control the filtering on their ports, requiring the same username/password authentication used to connect to service. The default settings would handle 95% of users, and standard scripts would be around for gamers/p2p'ers/etc. Authentication is necessary so that virii don't drop the filters (I'm assuming that passwords wouldn't be stored where virii could sniff them out, but I may be wrong).
Whoops - there are several in the series now. What I read was "The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-To-Be". That was back in '95, when (I think) it had just come out.