I remember reading the Belgariad (first book is Pawn of Prophecy), and enjoying it a lot when I was younger, rereading it several times. It's a very easy read, and is definitely suitable for a younger audience.
I'm not sure, you would have the contact the company for more information (not my department to sell things;) ). I would guess it's closer to the $5K-$10k range though.
Disclaimer: I work for Vecima networks, but this system does do exactly what you want, and is already being used in that capacity in many other places, including some hotels.
Read the Lost Fleet series ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Fleet ) by Jack Campbell. He's got self-consistently handled space battles, and the same kind of light-hours/light-minutes lag, with fleets of ships essentially making high speed passes at each other, shooting for a miniscule fraction of a second, then turning around and doing it again. Obviously has some fantasy technology like deflector shields and artificial gravity, but still awesome.
Seconding this. I felt much the same. I visited this for the first time about a month ago, and was very impressed. Definitely one of the best museums I have ever been to.
They have a large room with a bunch of military vehicles/artillery as well, spanning from bore loaded cannons to Leopard Tanks and M109 Mobile Guns. Some of these have decent signage (most of the tanks, and vehicles along the outer building wall), while a lot of the stuff in the middle is interesting, but unfortunately not presented with any documentation.
The main galleries, however, are excellent, as described. If you're going soon, there's an exhibit about camouflage that's currently running there, created in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum in London, that was quite interesting. If you're hardcore into museums, as you seem to be, allocate a full day for this one.
This can't happen (it used to about a year and a half ago with the old timecard selling system). With PLEX though, as soon as you purchase the PLEX, the time is immediately credited to your account, and the PLEX is used up, so you can't resell the thing.
My workplace is primarily a Verilog shop (FPGA design only, no ASICs), though we're forced to use VHDL on occasion when a piece of IP is written in it, or to interface with Xilinx's EDK toolchain, which is mostly written in VHDL. We haven't switched to using System Verilog, but we do attempt to stick to the Verilog 2001 style coding, instead of the Verilog 95 standard. Verilog 95 makes the same code significantly longer and more annoying to change. Things like generate statements and parameter passing have been in place in Verilog since that standard, and all the toolchains that we've used (Xilinx, Altera, Synplicity) support it, albeit only fully since the latest ISE 11 software release in Xilinx's case.
Having only done a minimal amount of VHDL, I can tell you that I can't stand it due to the excessive verbosity that is required to do anything in the language, though one of my wishes is that Verilog removed implicit variable declaration, as occasionally a typo will cause a design not to function correctly, which as mentioned will not happen in VHDL. A compiler option for that one would be nice;).
To answer your question as to which you should teach, I would go with Verilog as I find it's easier to use (which may be bias on my part, having used it far more than VHDL), but make sure that you teach "clean" ways of writing the HDL. I've seen a fair bit of excessively verbose, hard to read Verilog code (a lot of the code Xilinx provides for their parts is like this) which could be a lot cleaner if it was written differently.
Another thing that I think would be a useful thing to go over is each step of the FPGA build and what it's actual purpose is. What is the output of the synthesizer? What is the output of the mapper?
It takes all kinds to for different MMOs, saying one is superior (or requires an higher IQ) is like saying that strawberry ice cream is superior to chocolate.
Given that strawberry icecream is in fact superior to chocolate ice cream, it would seem by analogy that some MMOs are indeed superior to others;)
Apparently a farmer near the town of Estevan, Saskatchewan, got in trouble with the law for doing something like this. He was only a few miles from the powerplant and built a shed with a large transformer in it underneath the high voltage lines and pulled power from it to run parts of his farm.
From what I heard, he did this for several years before being caught.
I think that these kind of clauses in the TOS (particularly the YouTube one listed) have to do with the fact that they aren't going to go through all their data backups and guarantee they delete your video submissions, even if you delete it from the site. When you think of it in that context, it makes a lot of sense for them to cover their asses.
David Eddings' novels were some of the first I read when I was younger (likely the 9 to 12 age range) and I quite enjoyed them. I still don't mind them now, though they're a little bit simplistic compared to other novels I read now. I would suggest starting with "The Belgariad."
It seems possible to me. I'm a computer engineer who specializes in HDL (I design custom logic that runs in FPGAs, basically). For a project I've worked on, with a relatively mid-range FPGA I've done real time MPEG packet analysis as well as UDP checksums, etc... on a 12.8 Gbps datastream.
What I've done isn't the same as what Procera is doing, but it's at least similar enough that I don't doubt that they're also using FPGAs to do this. That also gives them the ability to upgrade to detect new protocols, which the article mentions.
When you're dealing with FPGA fabric, doing analysis on multiple gigabits of traffic going through the device simultaneously with minimal latency isn't anything that's beyond the capability of modern devices.
Regarding Battlefield 2142: I've never found the in game advertising to be problematic, or even obtrusive. The only thing I've seen it used for so far is tasteful advertising for the expansion pack (by showcasing the new EU and PAC vehicles) or Intel CPU advertising, which while a little more out of place, is sometimes humorous ("Core 2 Duo: Still good after 139 years" for instance), doesn't detract from the game play either.
A lot of people seem to hate on in-game adds, but as long as they're well done, and sit in the background (the way advertising should be), they aren't a big deal.
I've got a better one:
I'm a network admin for a residence at the University of Saskatchewan (not one of the main residences, so we have to provide our own internet. The university's sucks anyways).
We were running the building, which has 50 residents, about 45 of which had PCs, on one shaw business line. It worked great, speeds were good, especially since we are the only ones on our cable hub. However, Shaw decided to cut the service when we downloaded 320GB and uploaded 35B in one month (about 4 or 5 people were heavy downloaders of TV shows).
Since, I've switched the building over to Sasktel's fastest DLS line, and no more problems. No monthly usage quotas like shaw, amen.
Agreed. I use a Pilot HighTecPoint V-5 Ultra-Fine pen. Best pens I have ever had.
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I just read it, it's a great book. As to copying and such, it does get touched on, and becomes an important part of the plot.
Travel for the super rich is instantaneous... you have a clone of yourself whereever you want to go, and you just upload yourself to the clone, do whatever you need to do, then upload yourself back to your home body.
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Agreed, this series is excellent, and takes a very interesting look at exactly this sort of thing.
I remember reading the Belgariad (first book is Pawn of Prophecy), and enjoying it a lot when I was younger, rereading it several times. It's a very easy read, and is definitely suitable for a younger audience.
By QAM to analog RF, they mean digital QAM64B or QAM256B to analog NTSC video, so it is in fact the correct box.
That said, it seems like it's likely a lot more expensive than a bank of set top boxes, which would likely be a better choice.
I'm not sure, you would have the contact the company for more information (not my department to sell things ;) ). I would guess it's closer to the $5K-$10k range though.
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http://www.vecima.com/products.php?line=1026&item=1083
Disclaimer: I work for Vecima networks, but this system does do exactly what you want, and is already being used in that capacity in many other places, including some hotels.
Seconding this, this game is excellent from that perspective, and is much slower moving than most modern RTSes.
Read the Lost Fleet series ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Fleet ) by Jack Campbell. He's got self-consistently handled space battles, and the same kind of light-hours/light-minutes lag, with fleets of ships essentially making high speed passes at each other, shooting for a miniscule fraction of a second, then turning around and doing it again. Obviously has some fantasy technology like deflector shields and artificial gravity, but still awesome.
As someone who writes Verilog for a living, I would have to say yes!
This is definitely an excellent museum, and I recommend visiting if you're going across Western Canada in your trip.
They have a large room with a bunch of military vehicles/artillery as well, spanning from bore loaded cannons to Leopard Tanks and M109 Mobile Guns. Some of these have decent signage (most of the tanks, and vehicles along the outer building wall), while a lot of the stuff in the middle is interesting, but unfortunately not presented with any documentation.
The main galleries, however, are excellent, as described. If you're going soon, there's an exhibit about camouflage that's currently running there, created in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum in London, that was quite interesting. If you're hardcore into museums, as you seem to be, allocate a full day for this one.
This can't happen (it used to about a year and a half ago with the old timecard selling system). With PLEX though, as soon as you purchase the PLEX, the time is immediately credited to your account, and the PLEX is used up, so you can't resell the thing.
My workplace is primarily a Verilog shop (FPGA design only, no ASICs), though we're forced to use VHDL on occasion when a piece of IP is written in it, or to interface with Xilinx's EDK toolchain, which is mostly written in VHDL. We haven't switched to using System Verilog, but we do attempt to stick to the Verilog 2001 style coding, instead of the Verilog 95 standard. Verilog 95 makes the same code significantly longer and more annoying to change. Things like generate statements and parameter passing have been in place in Verilog since that standard, and all the toolchains that we've used (Xilinx, Altera, Synplicity) support it, albeit only fully since the latest ISE 11 software release in Xilinx's case. Having only done a minimal amount of VHDL, I can tell you that I can't stand it due to the excessive verbosity that is required to do anything in the language, though one of my wishes is that Verilog removed implicit variable declaration, as occasionally a typo will cause a design not to function correctly, which as mentioned will not happen in VHDL. A compiler option for that one would be nice ;).
To answer your question as to which you should teach, I would go with Verilog as I find it's easier to use (which may be bias on my part, having used it far more than VHDL), but make sure that you teach "clean" ways of writing the HDL. I've seen a fair bit of excessively verbose, hard to read Verilog code (a lot of the code Xilinx provides for their parts is like this) which could be a lot cleaner if it was written differently.
Another thing that I think would be a useful thing to go over is each step of the FPGA build and what it's actual purpose is. What is the output of the synthesizer? What is the output of the mapper?
I hope this translates into further speed ups for EVE online down the road.
It takes all kinds to for different MMOs, saying one is superior (or requires an higher IQ) is like saying that strawberry ice cream is superior to chocolate.
Given that strawberry icecream is in fact superior to chocolate ice cream, it would seem by analogy that some MMOs are indeed superior to others ;)
Apparently a farmer near the town of Estevan, Saskatchewan, got in trouble with the law for doing something like this. He was only a few miles from the powerplant and built a shed with a large transformer in it underneath the high voltage lines and pulled power from it to run parts of his farm. From what I heard, he did this for several years before being caught.
Seems like a generally good idea.
I think that these kind of clauses in the TOS (particularly the YouTube one listed) have to do with the fact that they aren't going to go through all their data backups and guarantee they delete your video submissions, even if you delete it from the site. When you think of it in that context, it makes a lot of sense for them to cover their asses.
David Eddings' novels were some of the first I read when I was younger (likely the 9 to 12 age range) and I quite enjoyed them. I still don't mind them now, though they're a little bit simplistic compared to other novels I read now. I would suggest starting with "The Belgariad."
It seems possible to me. I'm a computer engineer who specializes in HDL (I design custom logic that runs in FPGAs, basically). For a project I've worked on, with a relatively mid-range FPGA I've done real time MPEG packet analysis as well as UDP checksums, etc... on a 12.8 Gbps datastream. What I've done isn't the same as what Procera is doing, but it's at least similar enough that I don't doubt that they're also using FPGAs to do this. That also gives them the ability to upgrade to detect new protocols, which the article mentions. When you're dealing with FPGA fabric, doing analysis on multiple gigabits of traffic going through the device simultaneously with minimal latency isn't anything that's beyond the capability of modern devices.
Regarding Battlefield 2142: I've never found the in game advertising to be problematic, or even obtrusive. The only thing I've seen it used for so far is tasteful advertising for the expansion pack (by showcasing the new EU and PAC vehicles) or Intel CPU advertising, which while a little more out of place, is sometimes humorous ("Core 2 Duo: Still good after 139 years" for instance), doesn't detract from the game play either. A lot of people seem to hate on in-game adds, but as long as they're well done, and sit in the background (the way advertising should be), they aren't a big deal.
Look, it even comes with samples of the music from the soundtrack!
Agreed. The whole GTA series is amazing.
I've got a better one: I'm a network admin for a residence at the University of Saskatchewan (not one of the main residences, so we have to provide our own internet. The university's sucks anyways). We were running the building, which has 50 residents, about 45 of which had PCs, on one shaw business line. It worked great, speeds were good, especially since we are the only ones on our cable hub. However, Shaw decided to cut the service when we downloaded 320GB and uploaded 35B in one month (about 4 or 5 people were heavy downloaders of TV shows). Since, I've switched the building over to Sasktel's fastest DLS line, and no more problems. No monthly usage quotas like shaw, amen.
Agreed. I use a Pilot HighTecPoint V-5 Ultra-Fine pen. Best pens I have ever had.
I just read it, it's a great book. As to copying and such, it does get touched on, and becomes an important part of the plot. Travel for the super rich is instantaneous... you have a clone of yourself whereever you want to go, and you just upload yourself to the clone, do whatever you need to do, then upload yourself back to your home body.