But I don't know if it was Citroen or Renault that my father did not want to buy, because one of them used non-standard screws and and so on, so if he wanted to work on his car, he had to buy an expensive set of tools from that specific car manufacturer. That was more than 30 years ago.
I discovered microprocessors around 1980, when I was 14 years old, but here in little Belgium I was never able to do something with that knowledge at that time, but my interest got me a bachelors degree in electronics, and a good (better) understanding on how software works. I was always interested in FPGA, but it is only since 2010-2012 that I got finally a possibility to do more than programming. I got my master degree in electronics, and on the way I learned VHDL (one of the reasons that I wanted to go for my master degree), and got an interesting school assignment about on the fly reconfigurable hardware and a thesis involving the Spartan-6 Atlys board.
Also, since 2004 I have been working on and off studying Common Lisp, and processor emulators.
Well, since September 2012 I have been designing a simple microprocessor, for which I first did the implementation of an assembler in Common Lisp, and a simulator, and start of this September I finally got around implementing the simple computer system in VHDL. I was surprised how easy it was, given that I only have about 1 to 2 hours a day in the evening to work on things. It is currently a 16-bit thing which uses 64kB of FPGA block RAM.
Thus, with software knowledge and VHDL, it should become even easier to build custom microprocessors.
And I am not even crossing this line. It has always interested me to go for both hard- and software, but due to circumstances I ended up more on the side of software.
Having the room for doing electronics properly is not that easy. One needs a place committed to it, which can not be used by other people in the family. For that reason, I like the concept of FPGA development boards. It lets me do what I want to, without needing to invest in dedicated space.
The Atlys board gives me all I need for growing in the future. The first part should be to make the system run using the on-board serial controller, so that I can control it through a terminal program, having access to a keyboard and a character terminal.
And I am not done with software, because one of my goals is to write a Lisp system for running on the system, and then start to optimize the ISA for better performance. Other things: go to a 32-bit implementation and start using the on-board 128 MB RAM memory.
In his main book, Michel Montignac also talks about this, about a person who never drank, but got cirrosis due to alcohol forming in his body. Unfortunately, he generalises it too much, saying that everybody can get it by eating too much fruit after dinner.
When the religious fascist really take over, educated geeks are the first to dispose of, because of the fact that they can see through all the bullshit.
I am married for fifteen years, and have a daughter of nine, but I sympathise with Snowden, not with the likes of NSA, CIA or FBI, or other likewise organisations.
As a middle class engineer who has to comply with all kinds of regulations and laws and has to pay taxes, I want that the organisations which are created by the lawmakers also obey the law.
Also, whistle blowers should be by default protected by the judiciary.
After graduating, he held several musical posts across Germany: he served as Kapellmeister (director of music) to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-KÃthen, Cantor of Thomasschule in Leipzig, and Royal Court Composer to August III.[4][5]
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, and I used to play games like *Psssst*. I have always felt that I was better at moving through thick crowds because of this. My wife always takes the wrong ways through crowds, moving to the places with most people, whereas I see al the holes in the crowd.
Some things are naturally disgusting. I was brought up to eat everything that was served, but I cannot stand anything intestinal. I could never understand why my family liked liver. To me, it smells and tastes disgusting. This is not something I learned, this is something innate.
I am pretty sure that evolution took care that the people who liked insects or grub had more offspring than those who did not.
I have seen a lot of things about eating insects, but there are two things to add.
Some insects just taste like dirt or earth or mould. I once bit into a plum which was infested with larvae, and it really tasted horrific. Escargots are tasty because they are fed on grape leaves, but normal snails also taste like dirt (my father in law once accidentally ate one on a strawberry).
Second, keratin is not digestible, and the smaller the insect, the more keratin it contains versus digestible parts. What is crunchy in some insects is just shell.
There is no doubt that grasshoppers contain enough protein to e.g. stop kwashiorkor.
I think the world would be better suited with learning people that they do not need to eat so much meat. Meat should rise in price, less meat should be produced over all. This would have two effects: more people could live by producing meat, because they would not need to raise as much animals. The health of people would also rise, because of consuming less meat.
Slashdot Mirror
There is a nice book about composing complex systems from more primitive ones: Structure and interpretation of Computer Programs
Yes, with the whole thing unraveling I too had the thought that Dave Mustaine is, in addition to a good musician, a visionary about such things.
Isn't reactionary by definition not "paleo"?
But I don't know if it was Citroen or Renault that my father did not want to buy, because one of them used non-standard screws and and so on, so if he wanted to work on his car, he had to buy an expensive set of tools from that specific car manufacturer. That was more than 30 years ago.
Clobbering time?
I am a fan of the people who build their own computers from MSI components.
I discovered microprocessors around 1980, when I was 14 years old, but here in little Belgium I was never able to do something with that knowledge at that time, but my interest got me a bachelors degree in electronics, and a good (better) understanding on how software works. I was always interested in FPGA, but it is only since 2010-2012 that I got finally a possibility to do more than programming. I got my master degree in electronics, and on the way I learned VHDL (one of the reasons that I wanted to go for my master degree), and got an interesting school assignment about on the fly reconfigurable hardware and a thesis involving the Spartan-6 Atlys board.
Also, since 2004 I have been working on and off studying Common Lisp, and processor emulators.
Well, since September 2012 I have been designing a simple microprocessor, for which I first did the implementation of an assembler in Common Lisp, and a simulator, and start of this September I finally got around implementing the simple computer system in VHDL. I was surprised how easy it was, given that I only have about 1 to 2 hours a day in the evening to work on things. It is currently a 16-bit thing which uses 64kB of FPGA block RAM.
Thus, with software knowledge and VHDL, it should become even easier to build custom microprocessors.
And I am not even crossing this line. It has always interested me to go for both hard- and software, but due to circumstances I ended up more on the side of software.
Having the room for doing electronics properly is not that easy. One needs a place committed to it, which can not be used by other people in the family. For that reason, I like the concept of FPGA development boards. It lets me do what I want to, without needing to invest in dedicated space.
The Atlys board gives me all I need for growing in the future. The first part should be to make the system run using the on-board serial controller, so that I can control it through a terminal program, having access to a keyboard and a character terminal.
And I am not done with software, because one of my goals is to write a Lisp system for running on the system, and then start to optimize the ISA for better performance. Other things: go to a 32-bit implementation and start using the on-board 128 MB RAM memory.
"I always do what Teddy says"
In his main book, Michel Montignac also talks about this, about a person who never drank, but got cirrosis due to alcohol forming in his body. Unfortunately, he generalises it too much, saying that everybody can get it by eating too much fruit after dinner.
Where's old Stoneface when you need him?
No, it was someone brilliant who impersonated as the NSA to publish SELinux.
When the religious fascist really take over, educated geeks are the first to dispose of, because of the fact that they can see through all the bullshit.
No, no, what is wrong with Bill Gates? (My personal take says: everything)
Gates does not seem to be able to distinguish technology from the way people work.
I am married for fifteen years, and have a daughter of nine, but I sympathise with Snowden, not with the likes of NSA, CIA or FBI, or other likewise organisations.
As a middle class engineer who has to comply with all kinds of regulations and laws and has to pay taxes, I want that the organisations which are created by the lawmakers also obey the law.
Also, whistle blowers should be by default protected by the judiciary.
The Invincible, by Stanislaw Lem
Trombone LinSock!
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
After graduating, he held several musical posts across Germany: he served as Kapellmeister (director of music) to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-KÃthen, Cantor of Thomasschule in Leipzig, and Royal Court Composer to August III.[4][5]
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, and I used to play games like *Psssst*. I have always felt that I was better at moving through thick crowds because of this. My wife always takes the wrong ways through crowds, moving to the places with most people, whereas I see al the holes in the crowd.
The return of the luggable ...
Some things are naturally disgusting. I was brought up to eat everything that was served, but I cannot stand anything intestinal. I could never understand why my family liked liver. To me, it smells and tastes disgusting. This is not something I learned, this is something innate.
I am pretty sure that evolution took care that the people who liked insects or grub had more offspring than those who did not.
Caviar and oysters are tasty. Escargots taste fine too, but the way they are cooked is too greasy to be healthy.
I have seen a lot of things about eating insects, but there are two things to add.
Some insects just taste like dirt or earth or mould. I once bit into a plum which was infested with larvae, and it really tasted horrific. Escargots are tasty because they are fed on grape leaves, but normal snails also taste like dirt (my father in law once accidentally ate one on a strawberry).
Second, keratin is not digestible, and the smaller the insect, the more keratin it contains versus digestible parts. What is crunchy in some insects is just shell.
There is no doubt that grasshoppers contain enough protein to e.g. stop kwashiorkor.
I think the world would be better suited with learning people that they do not need to eat so much meat. Meat should rise in price, less meat should be produced over all. This would have two effects: more people could live by producing meat, because they would not need to raise as much animals. The health of people would also rise, because of consuming less meat.
Read a good book, go for a walk, be creative with something, cook, garden, there is no need for TV.
"Works" came long before Office, there was even a non-GUI DOS version of "Works", somewhere back in the beginning of the 90's.
This thing reminds me of the vehicles of Zorglub.