Ba Humbug! Verilog is far more intuitive and easy to use than VHDL. Verilog is more akin to the C language; whereas, VHDL is more like (Ugh!) COBOL, or to be slightly more charitable -- ADA, the DOD's failed computer software language.
Many small hand help circular power saws come with a vacuum bag and system that sucks the debris into the bag. That should take care of most particulate matter, but if it's an out-gassing problem of some kind then you probably need better ventilation.
Oh No, are they finally going to crash it into the planet to get atmospheric data? I'm retired now, but I'm one of the thousands at JPL who worked on Cassini (I wrote the firmware for the BAIL subsystem among other things). I was kind of hoping they would just let it orbit Saturn in perpetuity just as the Voyager spacecraft will still exist long after Earth is gone (unless of course one or both crashes into something).
I used to get regular email updates on Cassini, but I've moved around and changed email addresses so many times I somehow stopped receiving them.
I'm actually replying to your "signature" line advertisement for Dreamhost. Their claim of 180GB storage and 1.8TB of monthly traffic is complete and total BS. I opened an account with them once when I actually had over 100GB of video data (legitimately my own files, not copyrighted or pirated stuff) to upload. Within a few hours of my beginning to upload all this data I began to receive "urgent" emails from Dreamhost telling me to cease and desist uploading files because I had exceeded both my allocated storage space and my traffic limit. When I did not comply (because after all, their claim to provide all that storage was the only reason I had opened an account with them in the first place), they deleted my account and refused to refund my first years payment. They're all crooks at Dreamhost.com as far as I am concerned.
They have your credit card and a contract that says you promised to pay, and the credit card company will simply pay it and bill you. You won't have a leg to stand on when you complain.
That's why I use Citi-bank disposable credit card numbers whenever possible, so that I can cancel the credit card number I used for the purchase anytime I please (I create a unique credit card number for each merchant), and also limit the amount of money that can be charged to each credit card number to whatever I specify (as well as setting its expiration date to whatever I want).
Ever since an automatic update of Ubuntu trashed its own partition to the point where it would not boot at all, I decided to switch to a different distribution but have not yet decided which because they all seem to have a different set of problems. Any suggestions?
I have no idea why your post is rated as "Funny", when it is almost certainly the truth and should have been rated as "Insightful". I hope Bruce Schneier has some comments on this.
You are the only person I know of other than myself to call a credit card company and ask them to lower my credit limit. I have to repeat it every few years however, because they insist on raising my credit limits a little each year. Next time I will ask about locking it at the lower limit. Thanks for the tip.
I file important things like financial documents in a filing cabinet (oldest stuff purged after seven years or so) and toss the rest either into the trash, a crosscut shredder, or a cardboard box. I fill one cardboard box each year. At the end of the year I seal it, store it, and burn the oldest cardboard box and its contents which is typically three years old at that point.
FPGAs have been dynamically reprogrammable for years. You could load one with whatever special "hardware" custom instructions you wanted on the fly. Yes, custom logic is faster, but is inflexible.
"Load an EntroPay card from a personal credit or debit card: 4.95%"
Almost 5% transaction fee to use your "virtual card"? Are you kidding? A person would have to be a fool to pay that kind of fee. Have any customers yet?
Citibank still has virtual credit card numbers (one time use for a single merchant with user selectable maximum charge and expiration date). You can generate using one of their websites, or (if you use Windows) you can run a small application that lets you generate them without visiting a web browser.
It was a long, long time ago, but if I recall correctly Mars Polar Lander was a "Class C" project (meaning that QA requirements weren't very strict, and it didn't have to pass the much more stringent requirements like dual-fault tolerance, etc., that are enforced for class A and class B projects). The breadboard for the meteorology subsystem was a one hundred dollar 8031 CPU board purchased off the Internet from some company whose name I forget. The project couldn't even afford an In Circuit Emulator for the meteorology subsystem CPU.:-(
Since moving to Oregon from California, I was inundated with junk calls and even automated harassing messages from bill collectors trying to contact people I've never heard of (presumably previous owners of what is now my telephone number), until I discovered that the new set of wireless Panasonic landline telephones I recently purchased can themselves (as a function of the telephone itself using the caller's "caller ID") block telephone numbers from ringing my telephone without any special service from the telephone company except caller ID and rejection of calls that do not supply a caller ID.
When I block a number using that function of my telephone (and it can be ANY telephone number even if it is a charity or government caller which are normally exempt from "Do Not Call" regulations), the telephone itself silently answers, delivers a short verbal warning that their telephone number is blocked, and then hangs up. It quickly put a stop to all the recurring harassing calls I had been getting, but it does require that the telephone company reject callers that do not supply a caller ID.
We already did something very similar to this on the BAIL backup subsystem of the Cassini spacecraft many years ago, and it didn't require a "special" processor.
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... I'm wondering what useful applications will be made with this.
Target acquisition for the new micro-UAVs the DOD is developing with armed weaponry. They need test subjects.
Ba Humbug! Verilog is far more intuitive and easy to use than VHDL. Verilog is more akin to the C language; whereas, VHDL is more like (Ugh!) COBOL, or to be slightly more charitable -- ADA, the DOD's failed computer software language.
Many small hand help circular power saws come with a vacuum bag and system that sucks the debris into the bag. That should take care of most particulate matter, but if it's an out-gassing problem of some kind then you probably need better ventilation.
I used to get regular email updates on Cassini, but I've moved around and changed email addresses so many times I somehow stopped receiving them.
I'm actually replying to your "signature" line advertisement for Dreamhost. Their claim of 180GB storage and 1.8TB of monthly traffic is complete and total BS. I opened an account with them once when I actually had over 100GB of video data (legitimately my own files, not copyrighted or pirated stuff) to upload. Within a few hours of my beginning to upload all this data I began to receive "urgent" emails from Dreamhost telling me to cease and desist uploading files because I had exceeded both my allocated storage space and my traffic limit. When I did not comply (because after all, their claim to provide all that storage was the only reason I had opened an account with them in the first place), they deleted my account and refused to refund my first years payment. They're all crooks at Dreamhost.com as far as I am concerned.
Marijuana must truly be a "mind expanding" drug then, because the more stoned I am the more easily distracted and forgetful I am. :-|
They have your credit card and a contract that says you promised to pay, and the credit card company will simply pay it and bill you. You won't have a leg to stand on when you complain.
That's why I use Citi-bank disposable credit card numbers whenever possible, so that I can cancel the credit card number I used for the purchase anytime I please (I create a unique credit card number for each merchant), and also limit the amount of money that can be charged to each credit card number to whatever I specify (as well as setting its expiration date to whatever I want).
Ever since an automatic update of Ubuntu trashed its own partition to the point where it would not boot at all, I decided to switch to a different distribution but have not yet decided which because they all seem to have a different set of problems. Any suggestions?
According to my Chinese wife, it is the latter.
I have no idea why your post is rated as "Funny", when it is almost certainly the truth and should have been rated as "Insightful". I hope Bruce Schneier has some comments on this.
You are the only person I know of other than myself to call a credit card company and ask them to lower my credit limit. I have to repeat it every few years however, because they insist on raising my credit limits a little each year. Next time I will ask about locking it at the lower limit. Thanks for the tip.
I file important things like financial documents in a filing cabinet (oldest stuff purged after seven years or so) and toss the rest either into the trash, a crosscut shredder, or a cardboard box. I fill one cardboard box each year. At the end of the year I seal it, store it, and burn the oldest cardboard box and its contents which is typically three years old at that point.
I am astounded they would be orienting runways according to the magnetic poles and not the "true" cardinal directions.
FPGAs have been dynamically reprogrammable for years. You could load one with whatever special "hardware" custom instructions you wanted on the fly. Yes, custom logic is faster, but is inflexible.
I suggest you take a Geiger counter with you on your next trip to the crater before you go mucking about too much there.
Look at the search results for cambrioleurs aspirateur monoprix.
Absurd? You don't think you're owned or that you're a slave? Think again.
Yes, but cross breeding between for example, spider genes and potato genes is relatively new.
"Load an EntroPay card from a personal credit or debit card: 4.95%"
Almost 5% transaction fee to use your "virtual card"? Are you kidding? A person would have to be a fool to pay that kind of fee. Have any customers yet?
Citibank still has virtual credit card numbers (one time use for a single merchant with user selectable maximum charge and expiration date). You can generate using one of their websites, or (if you use Windows) you can run a small application that lets you generate them without visiting a web browser.
They're here now, although they are a little expensive.
It was a long, long time ago, but if I recall correctly Mars Polar Lander was a "Class C" project (meaning that QA requirements weren't very strict, and it didn't have to pass the much more stringent requirements like dual-fault tolerance, etc., that are enforced for class A and class B projects). The breadboard for the meteorology subsystem was a one hundred dollar 8031 CPU board purchased off the Internet from some company whose name I forget. The project couldn't even afford an In Circuit Emulator for the meteorology subsystem CPU. :-(
Since moving to Oregon from California, I was inundated with junk calls and even automated harassing messages from bill collectors trying to contact people I've never heard of (presumably previous owners of what is now my telephone number), until I discovered that the new set of wireless Panasonic landline telephones I recently purchased can themselves (as a function of the telephone itself using the caller's "caller ID") block telephone numbers from ringing my telephone without any special service from the telephone company except caller ID and rejection of calls that do not supply a caller ID.
When I block a number using that function of my telephone (and it can be ANY telephone number even if it is a charity or government caller which are normally exempt from "Do Not Call" regulations), the telephone itself silently answers, delivers a short verbal warning that their telephone number is blocked, and then hangs up. It quickly put a stop to all the recurring harassing calls I had been getting, but it does require that the telephone company reject callers that do not supply a caller ID.
We already did something very similar to this on the BAIL backup subsystem of the Cassini spacecraft many years ago, and it didn't require a "special" processor.
If you like the ADA programming language (Yuk!), then choose VHDL. If you prefer the C programming language, then choose Verilog.