You bring up some good points, although I don't think "Configware" is a very flattering term for what electronic circuit design engineers used to do, har, har.;-) I taught myself enough Verilog a couple of years ago as a hobby in my spare time to design and implement a working version of a fairly complex integer factorization algorithm (Lenstra's ECM factoring method), and was amazed to find that Verilog is simply another programming language and that I need not even understand Ohm's law, much less worry about parts libraries, availability, etc., in order to design circuits/algorithms with Verilog. Since Verilog can be translated into an actual schematic circuit diagram I'm never sure whether to call a Verilog source listing a "program" or a "circuit design", ha!
I've come to think of "Software" as consisting of high level languages like C, C++, Java, etc., and "Firmware" as usually having been written in assembly language and stored in non-volatile memory for execution on an embedded RISC processor, but designing algorithms with Verilog is like a step below RISC assembly language in that you start with a blank slate and are not constrained by the sequential nature of most computer architecture, so it's as though languages like Verilog and VHDL are one step beneath "firmware," but retaining a programmable/algorithmic nature. Essentially Verilog and VHDL allow one to easily construct non-deterministic finite state machines as well as deterministic finite state machines.
Incidentally, I checked out Bluespec and found them to be a vendor of proprietary software tools using the SystemVerilog language. Is SystemVerilog your language of choice and does it offer significant advantages over plain old Verilog? Are there any opensource or inexpensive implementations of SystemVerilog that you are aware of? (I've already checked SourceForge). Thanks.
In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000lbs (3,200-kg) science satellite hit the Earth's atmosphere.
It rained down over the Gulf, a few thousand miles from where they first predicted it would crash.
Dreams are actually a side effect of the return to equilibrium of chemicals in the brain. Conscious thought involves pumping chemicals around the brain (see Membrane potential for example). During dreaming resting membrane potentials are restored to normal, etc.
My solution was to have the telephone company come out and disconnect their wires from my home entirely. It is very effective in preventing calls from coming in, besides - why should I pay for both a land line and a cell phone?
Laws are written by the rich, for the rich (regardless of country). Myself and my computers are protected by several "firewalls," including a 12 gauge firewall, a 45 caliber firewall, a 44 magnum "dirty Harry" firewall, and several other surprises for anyone attempting to invade the sovereignty of my domain - regardless of warrant or lack thereof. I'm fed up with being pushed around by little tin self appointed gods who think they're supposed to rule us instead of representing us. We The People created government, and we can abolish it. As the Declaration of Independence says:
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I realize this type of BS is happening mostly in the UK right now, but it will be coming to the United Socialist States of America very soon. I refuse to live a life without dignity while living in fear of the "authorities." They can't retrieve encryption keys from a dead man.
I'm old enough to be one of those who was in college before the advent of hand held calculators, when all science/engineering students were intimately familiar with their slide rules.
Only for transmitting, not receiving. When I was a young child I made a serviceable AM radio receiver with nothing more than a Gillette Blue Blade (old fashioned double edged razor blade with a silicon coating) to act as a rectifier, a piece of wire for an antenna, and a cheap 99 cent ear piece to hear with. Fortunately for me, there was only one local station broadcasting with enough power to be heard through my jury-rigged radio receiver (KCOK in Tulare, California) otherwise I'd have had all sorts of interference problems.:-)
It was a good way for a young geek to spend a rainy afternoon when the power went out due to the storm, in the days before battery operated transistor radios became ubiquitous.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Unless the fuel tank has a membrane that has a pressurized gas on one side in order to maintain constant pressure on the fluid and prevent the formation of voids (aka; bubbles), such as my under-the-counter reverse osmosis water filter tank has in it.
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
$2.3 trillion -- that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.
"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
How ironic it will be when the general public finally comes to the realization that the executive branch of government (viz; Cheney/Bush) and their covert helpers, actually are the terrorists!!!
Imagine if we could send out several exploratory robotic atomic fission powered spacecraft that could accelerate at 1 G (or some significant fraction of G) continuously until the halfway mark is reached, and then decelerate the rest of the way.
If for example, a spacecraft were able to attain an average velocity of 0.9999C, the journey to a star system 10 light years away would only require about two months for the passengers (if any) so food and water supplies needn't be extensive, and we could expect a reply back within slightly more than the time it takes light to travel back and forth. For a star system 10 light years away, that would mean we could receive a reply back in little more than 20 years!!! Avoiding all the obstacles along the way might be a bit of a problem however.:-|
Plans for fission powered rocket engines are on the drawing boards, but the ignorance of the general public is likely to prevent any from being built and launched because of the irrational fear of earthly contamination. Duh, where do the fools think the Uranium/Plutonium or whatever came from in the first place, bleh.
Wish I had some mod points to rid you of the "Flamebait" moniker, because that moderation is blatantly unfair considering the fact that you have some good points - in particular that there might be some far better way to improve hurricane prediction than to launch more satellites. Perhaps better study of the dynamics of hurricanes or even ground based observation radar would be more cost effect and accurate.
Nonsense. Verilog is a very popular programming language for small projects, and within a Verilog program, EVERYTHING happens all in parallel unless you specifically structure your Verilog program to execute groups of instructions serially with a state machine of some kind (and doing this explicitly with a CASE statement or other construct is usually necessary, except for purely combinatorial functions). Verilog programming is on par with assembly language as far as difficulty of learning the language, and many of the operators, etc., use C language syntax. As FPGA's become larger, more popular, and easily reconfigurable "on-the-fly", expect more employers to start looking for people who know a Hardware Description Language (HDL) like Verilog, VHDL, etc. Verilog can also be used to design VLSI ASIC's.
This Memorial Day, I'm remembering those who we have killed for no reason whatsoever.
Here is some interesting aerial footage of the Pentagon as it would have been seen by the "hijackers" of American Flight 77 on September 11, 2001: The Flight of American 77 It was produced by a pilots association and is based upon the flight data recorder "black box" data.
Ha ha ha.
I have a dedicated server and I only get 1200GB per month bandwidth included, so if you want more than that, expect to be paying at least $200 per month rental.
I presently have a Bluehost.com account for $6.95/month that provides 300GB of webspace and 3TB of bandwidth per month, plus I pay an extra $30/year for a dedicated IP address.
I also have a really crappy account with Startlogic.com that provides 300GB of webspace and 3TB of bandwidth per month for $5.95/month, but I can't get a dedicated IP address from them and they don't have shell access among other shortcomings.
The reason I need lots of bandwidth is that I'm hosting about 140GB of video and other material pertaining to the 9/11 hoax and other government false flag operations. See: http://crypt.cryptomania.info/911_Information/
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I would be happy if our legistraitors would at least read the bills before they pass them into law!
You bring up some good points, although I don't think "Configware" is a very flattering term for what electronic circuit design engineers used to do, har, har. ;-) I taught myself enough Verilog a couple of years ago as a hobby in my spare time to design and implement a working version of a fairly complex integer factorization algorithm (Lenstra's ECM factoring method), and was amazed to find that Verilog is simply another programming language and that I need not even understand Ohm's law, much less worry about parts libraries, availability, etc., in order to design circuits/algorithms with Verilog. Since Verilog can be translated into an actual schematic circuit diagram I'm never sure whether to call a Verilog source listing a "program" or a "circuit design", ha!
I've come to think of "Software" as consisting of high level languages like C, C++, Java, etc., and "Firmware" as usually having been written in assembly language and stored in non-volatile memory for execution on an embedded RISC processor, but designing algorithms with Verilog is like a step below RISC assembly language in that you start with a blank slate and are not constrained by the sequential nature of most computer architecture, so it's as though languages like Verilog and VHDL are one step beneath "firmware," but retaining a programmable/algorithmic nature. Essentially Verilog and VHDL allow one to easily construct non-deterministic finite state machines as well as deterministic finite state machines.
Incidentally, I checked out Bluespec and found them to be a vendor of proprietary software tools using the SystemVerilog language. Is SystemVerilog your language of choice and does it offer significant advantages over plain old Verilog? Are there any opensource or inexpensive implementations of SystemVerilog that you are aware of? (I've already checked SourceForge). Thanks.
Satellite could plummet to Earth
Dreams are actually a side effect of the return to equilibrium of chemicals in the brain. Conscious thought involves pumping chemicals around the brain (see Membrane potential for example). During dreaming resting membrane potentials are restored to normal, etc.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to publish anonymously.
~ Publius
My solution was to have the telephone company come out and disconnect their wires from my home entirely. It is very effective in preventing calls from coming in, besides - why should I pay for both a land line and a cell phone?
I'm old enough to be one of those who was in college before the advent of hand held calculators, when all science/engineering students were intimately familiar with their slide rules.
Only for transmitting, not receiving. When I was a young child I made a serviceable AM radio receiver with nothing more than a Gillette Blue Blade (old fashioned double edged razor blade with a silicon coating) to act as a rectifier, a piece of wire for an antenna, and a cheap 99 cent ear piece to hear with. Fortunately for me, there was only one local station broadcasting with enough power to be heard through my jury-rigged radio receiver (KCOK in Tulare, California) otherwise I'd have had all sorts of interference problems. :-)
It was a good way for a young geek to spend a rainy afternoon when the power went out due to the storm, in the days before battery operated transistor radios became ubiquitous.
We the people of the United States
Unless the fuel tank has a membrane that has a pressurized gas on one side in order to maintain constant pressure on the fluid and prevent the formation of voids (aka; bubbles), such as my under-the-counter reverse osmosis water filter tank has in it.
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
That's because the government's been spending the money on bullshit wars and losing it through criminal incompetence. For example, the Defense Department Cannot Account for $2.3 Trillion
Couldn't you use the -L, -M, or -b tar options to create a multi-file backup and to restrict the individual file sizes of the backup to less than 4GB?
I'm not that familar with tar or with Linux yet, but Linux usually seems to have a way of doing pretty much anything you want, one way or another.
a box of Cigars!
Imagine if we could send out several exploratory robotic atomic fission powered spacecraft that could accelerate at 1 G (or some significant fraction of G) continuously until the halfway mark is reached, and then decelerate the rest of the way.
:-|
If for example, a spacecraft were able to attain an average velocity of 0.9999C, the journey to a star system 10 light years away would only require about two months for the passengers (if any) so food and water supplies needn't be extensive, and we could expect a reply back within slightly more than the time it takes light to travel back and forth. For a star system 10 light years away, that would mean we could receive a reply back in little more than 20 years!!! Avoiding all the obstacles along the way might be a bit of a problem however.
Plans for fission powered rocket engines are on the drawing boards, but the ignorance of the general public is likely to prevent any from being built and launched because of the irrational fear of earthly contamination. Duh, where do the fools think the Uranium/Plutonium or whatever came from in the first place, bleh.
Wish I had some mod points to rid you of the "Flamebait" moniker, because that moderation is blatantly unfair considering the fact that you have some good points - in particular that there might be some far better way to improve hurricane prediction than to launch more satellites. Perhaps better study of the dynamics of hurricanes or even ground based observation radar would be more cost effect and accurate.
Excellent post Rei. The only thing I can add is to suggest that everyone watch the video The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Apple should have embedded the purchaser's credit card number into the music, then it would very unlikely to be released into the wild! LOL.
:-|
P.S.
At least for five minutes until they figured out how to strip the data out from the music.
Nonsense. Verilog is a very popular programming language for small projects, and within a Verilog program, EVERYTHING happens all in parallel unless you specifically structure your Verilog program to execute groups of instructions serially with a state machine of some kind (and doing this explicitly with a CASE statement or other construct is usually necessary, except for purely combinatorial functions). Verilog programming is on par with assembly language as far as difficulty of learning the language, and many of the operators, etc., use C language syntax. As FPGA's become larger, more popular, and easily reconfigurable "on-the-fly", expect more employers to start looking for people who know a Hardware Description Language (HDL) like Verilog, VHDL, etc. Verilog can also be used to design VLSI ASIC's.
I also have a really crappy account with Startlogic.com that provides 300GB of webspace and 3TB of bandwidth per month for $5.95/month, but I can't get a dedicated IP address from them and they don't have shell access among other shortcomings.
The reason I need lots of bandwidth is that I'm hosting about 140GB of video and other material pertaining to the 9/11 hoax and other government false flag operations. See: http://crypt.cryptomania.info/911_Information/