Who hasn't had the same issue with drop-down menus in standard software? Unfortunately there is no 'bitch-slap' feedback button to the designers or the software producer.
Menus are designed with so called logically ordered groups, but in many cases have things underneath each other which look the same, but have different effects. And a slip of the mouse sometimes makes the wrong selection.
I am busy desiging a CPU using the Spartan-6 FPGA. The problem with designing a CPU on an FPGA is that you need to learn the strengths and weaknesses of FPGAs.
Coding a simple CPU in VHDL is indeed possible. And I have been able to build a 230 MHz CPU. Unfortunately, that was with up to 8kB of memory. When using larger memories, there is a big delay involved.
The problem with FPGAs is that there are big interconnection delays. So I am now re-designing the system using a cache and pipelining. But I am still busy on the instruction fetch part: main memory, cache and IF, and the system is not even 32 bit, only 16 bit.
The telegraph embodies everything that is necessary to know in modern digital electronics: transmission lines, the relationship between bandwidth and frequency, and the basis for information theory.
The first thing the project management is responsible for is the product, I suppose. Or at least they should work together (closely) with the product manager.
But what is the level you are talking about? I work in a small team (14 people), where five of us are responsible for five differentations of our software, and we have five people responsible for the more general part. These differentiations serve about 1000 users worldwide.
Our level of project management is about evolving the software either for features requests, re-factoring work, bug fixing or adaptation due to changing platform specifications.
We are all very close to the metal, but we do need some kind of project management, and our project manager helps to see the forest from the trees.
Sorry, no. Having lived in Belgium, between christian-democrats (CVP/CD&V), liberal-democrats (PVV/VLD) and then between Germany, Holland and France, there has never been a centre right party in power in the vicinity who was willing to arrest public servants in order to proceed their goals.
The Partido Popular has always struck me as the heirs of Franco, and this move only confirms it.
Especially in the software world, there is the notion that everything that is not programming is documentation. What is not recognised is that a whole lot of this documentation is plans: requirements are a plan, for testing you need a plan, architecture is a plan. Meeting notes and reports act as version control information on the plans, to record on how the plans changed, on what the ideas are behind the plans.
Design of electric and electronic circuits, mechanical engineering, building all needs plans. Consider that in software engineering a real part of so called documentation are actually plans needed to provide a overview of what needs to be implemented.
reverse computation back. Honestly, or was it 1997? Unfortunately, I dumped all my old Bytes due to not enough space, but I know that somewhere in the second half of the 1990's there was already an article about reversible computing. Since in those 20 years time, there haven't been further advancements in this field, I would think that this an idea that is born dead.
Also, as reversible computing can be thought of as the electronic equivalent of a weight-counterweight system, I do not see that his helps Moore's law. It would just use twice the number of logic. Reversible logic has only to do with trying to use less energy.
Slashdot Mirror
I think that AC/DC and Status Quo where known for their three-chord songs?
Who hasn't had the same issue with drop-down menus in standard software? Unfortunately there is no 'bitch-slap' feedback button to the designers or the software producer.
Menus are designed with so called logically ordered groups, but in many cases have things underneath each other which look the same, but have different effects. And a slip of the mouse sometimes makes the wrong selection.
Unfortunately my mod points are expired.
I am busy desiging a CPU using the Spartan-6 FPGA. The problem with designing a CPU on an FPGA is that you need to learn the strengths and weaknesses of FPGAs.
Coding a simple CPU in VHDL is indeed possible. And I have been able to build a 230 MHz CPU. Unfortunately, that was with up to 8kB of memory. When using larger memories, there is a big delay involved.
The problem with FPGAs is that there are big interconnection delays. So I am now re-designing the system using a cache and pipelining. But I am still busy on the instruction fetch part: main memory, cache and IF, and the system is not even 32 bit, only 16 bit.
This is actually not a new problem. Read Dickens, he wonders at the way that people also in his time mismanaged money.
The telegraph embodies everything that is necessary to know in modern digital electronics: transmission lines, the relationship between bandwidth and frequency, and the basis for information theory.
Closures and functional programming are as old as the first real programming language, 1959, Lisp.
The main problems with them are not the ideas, but the handling of them through automatic memory management.
Except if you have a dachshund...
The first thing the project management is responsible for is the product, I suppose. Or at least they should work together (closely) with the product manager.
But what is the level you are talking about? I work in a small team (14 people), where five of us are responsible for five differentations of our software, and we have five people responsible for the more general part. These differentiations serve about 1000 users worldwide.
Our level of project management is about evolving the software either for features requests, re-factoring work, bug fixing or adaptation due to changing platform specifications.
We are all very close to the metal, but we do need some kind of project management, and our project manager helps to see the forest from the trees.
Reminds of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit. Now, if Gates plays the role of Martin Chuzzlewit or of Scadder, that is something for you to decide.
Reminds me also of the X-Man somewhere at the end of the eighties, but that could have been in Siberia.
Sorry, no. Having lived in Belgium, between christian-democrats (CVP/CD&V), liberal-democrats (PVV/VLD) and then between Germany, Holland and France, there has never been a centre right party in power in the vicinity who was willing to arrest public servants in order to proceed their goals.
The Partido Popular has always struck me as the heirs of Franco, and this move only confirms it.
And Rajoy shows his true colors, wanting to be the true heir of Franco.
This description of the airplane cabin seems to have a lot in common with my current workplace.
I am reminded of playing Civilisation, the original one, where at a certain point you could start to win the game by buying opponent cities.
Barnaby Rudge
"De chaos van het slagveld" an in-depth analysis about the evolution of the Belgian army in the trenches in WWI
Sandman, "The Kindly Ones"
"American Gods"
Mutt!
Especially in the software world, there is the notion that everything that is not programming is documentation. What is not recognised is that a whole lot of this documentation is plans: requirements are a plan, for testing you need a plan, architecture is a plan. Meeting notes and reports act as version control information on the plans, to record on how the plans changed, on what the ideas are behind the plans. Design of electric and electronic circuits, mechanical engineering, building all needs plans. Consider that in software engineering a real part of so called documentation are actually plans needed to provide a overview of what needs to be implemented.
Philip K. Dick wrote science-fiction, not manuals!
reverse computation back. Honestly, or was it 1997? Unfortunately, I dumped all my old Bytes due to not enough space, but I know that somewhere in the second half of the 1990's there was already an article about reversible computing. Since in those 20 years time, there haven't been further advancements in this field, I would think that this an idea that is born dead. Also, as reversible computing can be thought of as the electronic equivalent of a weight-counterweight system, I do not see that his helps Moore's law. It would just use twice the number of logic. Reversible logic has only to do with trying to use less energy.
all posts about AI are completely overblown.
What are they?
Just use gvim already. It is graphical and has a 'g' in front!
It's also called soccer in the Commonwealth.
Vapor = steam, fueled by adding 3000 jobs to the firebox.