It is such a difference in attitude to developers between Atmel (Norway) and various other chip companies (Taiwan):
Free software with documentation available from the web site and dirt cheap professional looking devkits for 26 pounds, versus thousands of pounds (official ARM software)/hundreds of dollars (CodeSourcery) and hundreds of euros (segger j-link).
Or you can try hobby project software and hardware for ARM, but it is a lot more DIY. Admitedly there are other options for students, but you would think chip manufacturers would want small companies to like their stuff. So I am a fan of Atmel's attitude and hope that the Arduino project has legs for the next few years.
The internal tools for various companies proprietary chips may well be nice, but they are restricted from students or the general public, which seems counterproductive to me (but that is their choice).
Which language is that in? I thought C and C++ initialize global variables (.bss section) to zero as standard in the startup sequence. It's on the manufacturers programming checklist for chips I have worked on also (for assembly code or other languages). (Check that all SRAM is initialised to known values on startup). That seems a pretty basic thing to check (much easier than uninitialised local variables, and less overhead than checking for stack overflow). Also see 0xDEADBEEF. Is there a reason why you would not have done that on your system?
Starring Darwin the dolphin and Wil Wheaton as Wesley, I mean Mathew Waterhouse as Adrick, I mean Jonathan Brandis as Lucas.
Woah, I didn't know he killed himself aged 27 because of the flak over that role (or other reasons). That's really unfortunate. I liked him in it! (and the other two characters I mentioned).
And note that you probably can't claim unemployment benefit if you do 1 or 2, in the UK and I suspect Australia anyway.
Not to mention in case anyone hadn't noticed there have been thousands of people laid off in the games industry in the last few months, which makes it harder to get a new games job.
Also the "anti-compete" clause in your contract will probably forbid you from going to another games company (if the boss were not fleeing the country anyway).
I am not sure about the situation in California/Texas/Quebec/BC/Japan would be though.
Of course you will want to see if the bugs were producing output that people liked as well!
It is particularly nasty if a low-level pointer/bounds/uninitialized variable bug happens to (usually) hide a high-level design bug, and fixing it causes the design bug to be revealed...
Limiting the fictional person's rights does not limit real persons' rights.
Come on, Lisa Simpson has had her human rights upheld against pr0n pictures being made of her, why shouldn't all fictional characters have human rights?
IIRC during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, more Russian lives were lost to bullying than to the enemy! Hopefully that is not the case with US soldiers now.
Huh? I saw a couple of glasses-free 3d televisions last week and they didn't seem that bad; in fact they looked better than the glasses-wearing ones (which had poor encoding on the content they were playing, leading to artefacts).
If they keep improving, I don't see that you can just dismiss them.
Don't forget, thanks to Hollywood people might be:
Thinking American students must be terrible at passing exams, since they are still in high school at the age of 27 (Glee) or more (90210, Buffy etc.)
Not buying American cars, because if you so much as scratch them at 10 miles per hour, they will explode in a huge fireball. Or is that just Ford?
Security cameras - "enhance, enhance, rotate" (in 3d to get the view from behind the obstruction!)
Every single computer is made by Sony or Apple.
Microsoft Windows does not exist (hey!)
Think that it takes 30 seconds to delete a single tiny text file, with a countdown dialog... but then Microsoft implemented that in their operating systems, in a case of life imitating art.
Think that the speed of light == the speed of sound.
On a serious note, think that "911" is the emergency phone number, instead of "999" or "111" or "112" as appropriate for your country (I think in the UK these are now all routed to the same place for that reason).
Considering the entire population of New Zealand has volunteered to be extras in The Hobbit, I don't think they need to make them CGI. They might even need to add a few battle sequences to get everyone in:-)
5 to 10 years ago, cameras were banned in the nightclubs I went to. The bouncers would confiscate them at the door. Now it is rare for someone not to have one on them at all times (although if they are Apple fanboys at least they can't take pictures indoors or at night time or in hi-res!)
The bands' performances are on youtube the next day from various angles in the crowd, and my picture (in the background, or in a group) will appear on facebook in an album by someone who I don't know, tagged as me by someone who knows me and the third person.
I think the bouncers would act if you pointed the cameras in the direction of a celebrity (who wasn't the act that evening), but in general your expectation of privacy has diminished a lot in the last ten years.
Let alone the fact that I will probably be on CCTV from the moment I leave my front door until I get to the nightclub - when the authorities get face recognition working we will really lose all pretense at privacy.
But surely I would want to buy magic water that has covalent bonds at a different angle from normal water, or a mutated exercise bike that will turn me into a bodybuilder with just 2 minutes exercise a day.
Has there ever been a recorded incident where an unwitting passenger caused an explosion?
April 17, 1986: A pregnant Irishwoman was duped by her Muslim boyfriend, Nezar Hindawi, into carrying a bomb onto an aircraft at Heathrow.
Fortunately it was an El Al flight, so they had actual security instead of the pretend type they have for US/European airlines and she was stopped before boarding.
But here you have the situation where all the existing innovation (let alone future innovation) is disabled for the American market because the carriers don't like the consumers having more features unless they get a cut.
A mobile phone, bought without a contract, is often upwards of a few hundred dollars here in America.
That is because mobile phones are one of the few things (along with healthcare) where Americans get a raw deal compared to the rest of the world.
Most things (rent, food, gadgets) are cheaper in the USA but it seems phones and healthcare are not.
The UK normally is an expensive country (gadgets cost twice the US price) but you can get a "pay as you go" phone (no contract) for £8.97 which is $14 - including tax and delivery.
So you can see why teenagers just throw one into the river and get a new one without thinking much about it.
God knows why phones are more expensive and so lacking in features over there in the USA - the healthcare is less of a mystery (from conversations I have had, USians are happy that their health care is overly expensive as long as that means that immigrants don't get treated).
I saw homeless people sleeping in Shinjuku station in 1996.
No where near as many as in UK or USA at the time though.
UK has got rid of most of its rough sleepers since then (change of government).
I think there are still homeless in USA though.
Don't forget not having holidays! In the UK we get five weeks holiday plus public holidays - in the US it is just two weeks I have heard. That would be the killer for me.
I certainly drink from the tap in London - any water that has been through seven kidneys already must be pure!
It was amusing when the Coca Cola company tried to set up a bottled water company here (called Dasani) and tests showed that their product failed the health rules, even though the water they were supplied with was fine (they added dodgy chemicals to it in the factory).
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Free software with documentation available from the web site and dirt cheap professional looking devkits for 26 pounds, versus thousands of pounds (official ARM software)/hundreds of dollars (CodeSourcery) and hundreds of euros (segger j-link).
Or you can try hobby project software and hardware for ARM, but it is a lot more DIY. Admitedly there are other options for students, but you would think chip manufacturers would want small companies to like their stuff. So I am a fan of Atmel's attitude and hope that the Arduino project has legs for the next few years.
The internal tools for various companies proprietary chips may well be nice, but they are restricted from students or the general public, which seems counterproductive to me (but that is their choice).
Which language is that in? I thought C and C++ initialize global variables (.bss section) to zero as standard in the startup sequence. It's on the manufacturers programming checklist for chips I have worked on also (for assembly code or other languages). (Check that all SRAM is initialised to known values on startup). That seems a pretty basic thing to check (much easier than uninitialised local variables, and less overhead than checking for stack overflow). Also see 0xDEADBEEF. Is there a reason why you would not have done that on your system?
i thought it went bust last year anyway!
Woah, I didn't know he killed himself aged 27 because of the flak over that role (or other reasons). That's really unfortunate. I liked him in it! (and the other two characters I mentioned).
Not to mention in case anyone hadn't noticed there have been thousands of people laid off in the games industry in the last few months, which makes it harder to get a new games job.
Also the "anti-compete" clause in your contract will probably forbid you from going to another games company (if the boss were not fleeing the country anyway).
I am not sure about the situation in California/Texas/Quebec/BC/Japan would be though.
you left Celine Dion off your list.
Isn't she Swiss? :-)
Huh? A VGA cable let you view 1600*1200 pixels nearly 20 years ago, in hi resolution analog glory.
Of course you will want to see if the bugs were producing output that people liked as well! It is particularly nasty if a low-level pointer/bounds/uninitialized variable bug happens to (usually) hide a high-level design bug, and fixing it causes the design bug to be revealed...
Limiting the fictional person's rights does not limit real persons' rights.
Come on, Lisa Simpson has had her human rights upheld against pr0n pictures being made of her, why shouldn't all fictional characters have human rights?
I just know that from Lave, you should try to get to Zaonce and Isinor to build up your credits...
IIRC during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, more Russian lives were lost to bullying than to the enemy! Hopefully that is not the case with US soldiers now.
But only the sick poor! And US voters in Massachusetts have recently shown what their opinions about them are :-(
If they keep improving, I don't see that you can just dismiss them.
Considering the entire population of New Zealand has volunteered to be extras in The Hobbit, I don't think they need to make them CGI. They might even need to add a few battle sequences to get everyone in :-)
British Telecom tried to claim that their patents on Teletext/Prestel covered it. But (quite rightly) failed.
For the EU there is the European Court of Justice.
The bands' performances are on youtube the next day from various angles in the crowd, and my picture (in the background, or in a group) will appear on facebook in an album by someone who I don't know, tagged as me by someone who knows me and the third person.
I think the bouncers would act if you pointed the cameras in the direction of a celebrity (who wasn't the act that evening), but in general your expectation of privacy has diminished a lot in the last ten years.
Let alone the fact that I will probably be on CCTV from the moment I leave my front door until I get to the nightclub - when the authorities get face recognition working we will really lose all pretense at privacy.
But surely I would want to buy magic water that has covalent bonds at a different angle from normal water, or a mutated exercise bike that will turn me into a bodybuilder with just 2 minutes exercise a day.
April 17, 1986: A pregnant Irishwoman was duped by her Muslim boyfriend, Nezar Hindawi, into carrying a bomb onto an aircraft at Heathrow.
Fortunately it was an El Al flight, so they had actual security instead of the pretend type they have for US/European airlines and she was stopped before boarding.
But here you have the situation where all the existing innovation (let alone future innovation) is disabled for the American market because the carriers don't like the consumers having more features unless they get a cut.
That is because mobile phones are one of the few things (along with healthcare) where Americans get a raw deal compared to the rest of the world.
Most things (rent, food, gadgets) are cheaper in the USA but it seems phones and healthcare are not.
The UK normally is an expensive country (gadgets cost twice the US price) but you can get a "pay as you go" phone (no contract) for £8.97 which is $14 - including tax and delivery.
So you can see why teenagers just throw one into the river and get a new one without thinking much about it.
God knows why phones are more expensive and so lacking in features over there in the USA - the healthcare is less of a mystery (from conversations I have had, USians are happy that their health care is overly expensive as long as that means that immigrants don't get treated).
I saw homeless people sleeping in Shinjuku station in 1996. No where near as many as in UK or USA at the time though. UK has got rid of most of its rough sleepers since then (change of government). I think there are still homeless in USA though.
Don't forget not having holidays! In the UK we get five weeks holiday plus public holidays - in the US it is just two weeks I have heard. That would be the killer for me.
It was amusing when the Coca Cola company tried to set up a bottled water company here (called Dasani) and tests showed that their product failed the health rules, even though the water they were supplied with was fine (they added dodgy chemicals to it in the factory).