Much much better to work with those lovely fluffy Israelis. What have THEY ever done against human rights?
Hmmm. Would you rather be a Muslim in Israel, or a Jew in pretty much any Muslim country? Please explain which you would choose, why, and what your expected life span would be.
You realise that you're talking about Israel, an actual nuclear-weapon-equipped power, right? This is part of why the region is as it is.
I can't believe that I am replying to an anonymous coward, but you could not be more wrong.
Israel has had nukes for DECADES. How many times have they used one? (hint: the number is an integer between -0.5 and +0.5)
If Iran or Syria had a nuke, how long would they wait to use it? Weeks? Hours?
When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.
At least Israel HAS an interest in technology that does not go "boom." If you will recall, the Intel Core Architecture was invented in Israel (derived from Pentium M). Israel is actually a hotbed of technology and science. See here.
One with a keyboard and mouse attached to it, and one monitor. The other would be just video -- or you could even use a cheap HDMI switch for this one.
This would allow you to have the keyboard and mouse tethered to one monitor, while the other monitor was independent.
For extra-fancy operation, you could even use an HDMI splitter to have the same video input going to both switches, if you needed to.
The only down side is two separate boxes to control, but you could probably rig up an Arduino or something to keep them flying in formation.
Finally, engineers get some attention -- for something bad.
And, in a couple of weeks the attention will die away, and the public will laud somebody who can sing more than somebody who can create devices that make peoples lives better.
I am married and have five kids (three adopted). I could quit and make almost as much money under that plan. Why work? Never mind that I have a masters degree in engineering.
Forget ASIC design, unless you want to get a 2nd mortgage to license the tool chain for one year. Plus, mask sets will run anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000 (depending on the geometry) to get the chip produced.
Learning an FPGA is actually surprisingly attainable. You can get many boards with smaller parts for under $100. The tool chain is free, but you are stuck with proprietary software.
My own experience is with Xilinx, but they recently went to a new "Vivaldi" software suite that supports the newer chips. Older chips are stuck using "ISE" software, which does not run on Windows 8 and up without hacking (yuck). So, if you buy Xilinx, make sure that you get something supported by Vivaldi. I understand that Vivaldi also supports SystemVerilog -- VERY nice to have for testbenches, but not a lot for RTL code. Altera is also VERY popular and worth a look, and I believe that Lattice and Actel might still be in business.
Next, you need to learn RTL (register transfer language) -- VHDL or Verilog. Both have their pros and cons, but I prefer Verilog. It is very much like programming in something like "C", but every "always" block runs CONCURRENTLY! In other words, all code runs at the same time. This makes sense because all transistors are running at the same time. There is a web site called "World of ASIC" that has some nice tutorials.
I would also check the "hack a day" web site. They had links to tutorials using a $20 board a few weeks ago.
I was playing around with putting an Apple 2 on an FPGA (yeah, I know. Been done before). I design ASICs for a living. But staring as hit clock generation circuitry, I could not make heads or tails of how the darned thing actually worked!
Given the specifications, I have do doubt that I could make a circuit that would do the same thing in a more straightforward way, but it would probably be bigger and cost more.
Waz is extremely clever in optimizing things. FYI. If you have not heard the story, reading how the floppy drive controller was developed is an extremely interesting story.
I am NOT an Apple fanboy. I do not own a single Apple product except an Apple 2. I hate the way that the current Apple locks everything down.
Downton Abbey is on PBS. All you need is an antenna, and you can have it for FREE!
I have gotten pretty good as reducing monthly expenses. I built a home theater PC with four tuners connected to an antenna. I pay for basic Netflix streaming + 2 DVDs per month. My internet is naked DSL from a company that does not throttle bandwidth (CenturyLink), and I use MagicJack for phone ($30 per year). My total for everything is under $60/month for phone, internet, and TV. Comcast would happily sell me something similar for around $100/month (for the first year, price goes to $500/month after that).
I would like to get some more channels like SciFi (or SyFy, or ScyFye, or whatever), and Discovery, but it is not worth $50/month for a bundle that includes those.
#1 and #2 are great ideas. Tough ideas, but great if you can pull it off without crippling the economy.
Things start to fall apart around #3. As I have stated before, laws disproportionately affect those who are honest enough to follow them. Guns laws will REALLY stop honest people from getting them, and you HOPE that a little splashes over to the criminals. And if you have a criminal without a gun, you still have a criminal.
Look at the UK. I dare you to do this: do a Google image search for "stop knife violence." Since England has mostly tamed the gun beast, they are now turning their sights on knives, since people who intend to kill use whatever tools are at hand. Do you carry a Leatherman tool? I have heard (but no 1st hand knowledge) that you can get arrested for that in London since it has a locking blade.
And even if you DID manage to get rid of all knives, people would switch to another tool. "Stop cricked bat violence" anyone?
If get get rid of a gun, the criminal can use other tools. If you get rid of the criminal, you have NO reason to fear guns. It is as simple as that.
The point of laws is to describe what bad behavior is, and determine a punishment.
Outlawing murder does NOT stop a murder from happening, it just allows you to punish the criminal once they are caught, and provides a deterrent. If a person is willing to commit a murder and break that law, what logical process leads you to believe that this person will suddenly worry about gun laws too?
Ultimately guns laws are a disproportional burden to the honest people. Did France's gun laws stop the attack on the magazine office? And yet it is the honest people of France that have to obey those laws.
Please think just a little deeper than a knee-jerk reaction.
The Kessel Run was covered in one of the novels. I am guessing that the novels are no longer canon.
Actually, what IS the story? Supposedly the new movie covers the Solo kids based on what happened in the novels, but the prequals (1-3) totally crapped on the back story of Boba Fett.
I also saw Chewy, but he died in one of the novels too.
The vast majority of mass shootings happen in "gun free zones." And yet the likes of Obama and CNN seem to be amazed that a criminal would walk right past this sign.
Are you really that dumb? Of course criminals obey SOME laws. Otherwise, rounding up criminals would be easy, as you just arrest the guy crossing the street a dozen time because jaywalking is illegal.
My point is that criminals do not mind breaking laws if it benefits them. Honest citizens, in general, will obey the laws.
If a criminal can 3D print a gun, he will. Getting jail time is just an occupational hazard for a criminal.
An honest citizen, one with children that they are responsible for, will generally not do things that will get them locked up for years.
Don't forget unintended consequences. Jimmy loves to hunt, so he is afraid to see a shrink lest the cops show up to grab his guns. So, he never gets any help. Is this really an improvement?
I am currently at a cube. It is a no-brainer to simply detach the work surface from the cube and stick it back in a couple of feet higher. If you want to sit, get something the height of a bar stool, and you are golden.
For home use, I used an Ikea table-style desk and raised it up as far as it would go. Not tall enough, so I purchased some bed risers (Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, etc.) to raise it up an extra five or six inches. Problem solved for not much coin.
So, short of hiring a psychic to predict future crime, what else do you suggest as far as a background check? Do you have a criminal record? Have you been declared mentally incompetent?
Anything beyond that is a judgement call, and who gets to make that call? On what basis?
Keep in mind that every year, less than one out of every 30,000 gun is used in a murder.
Actually, most people, including myself, are just honest. While I could get pirated movies, I would rather be able to live with myself and I follow the law willingly. Note that I do use VLC so I don't have to watch the FBI warnings and previews (probably breaking the law somehow).
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Hmmm. Would you rather be a Muslim in Israel, or a Jew in pretty much any Muslim country? Please explain which you would choose, why, and what your expected life span would be.
So, it is better to rely on Russia for all of our space needs? Name one other proven way to get living human beings to the ISS.
I can't believe that I am replying to an anonymous coward, but you could not be more wrong.
Israel has had nukes for DECADES. How many times have they used one? (hint: the number is an integer between -0.5 and +0.5)
If Iran or Syria had a nuke, how long would they wait to use it? Weeks? Hours?
When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.
At least Israel HAS an interest in technology that does not go "boom." If you will recall, the Intel Core Architecture was invented in Israel (derived from Pentium M). Israel is actually a hotbed of technology and science. See here.
Wow! It is great to hear about one country in that part of the world who is interested in rockets WITHOUT explosives attached. Good job, Israel!
It sounds to me like you need TWO kvm switches.
One with a keyboard and mouse attached to it, and one monitor. The other would be just video -- or you could even use a cheap HDMI switch for this one.
This would allow you to have the keyboard and mouse tethered to one monitor, while the other monitor was independent.
For extra-fancy operation, you could even use an HDMI splitter to have the same video input going to both switches, if you needed to.
The only down side is two separate boxes to control, but you could probably rig up an Arduino or something to keep them flying in formation.
Finally, engineers get some attention -- for something bad.
And, in a couple of weeks the attention will die away, and the public will laud somebody who can sing more than somebody who can create devices that make peoples lives better.
And if you could get a basic living from not working, why work? That would drive the GDP way down, and ruin the economy.
I could work at Burger King or some other McJob that has a LOT less stress than designing ASICs, and would be strictly limited to 40 hours per week.
You don't want to know what happens to engineers as tape-out time starts to loom...
I am married and have five kids (three adopted). I could quit and make almost as much money under that plan. Why work? Never mind that I have a masters degree in engineering.
Let me guess: female and alive.
Forget ASIC design, unless you want to get a 2nd mortgage to license the tool chain for one year. Plus, mask sets will run anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000 (depending on the geometry) to get the chip produced.
Learning an FPGA is actually surprisingly attainable. You can get many boards with smaller parts for under $100. The tool chain is free, but you are stuck with proprietary software.
My own experience is with Xilinx, but they recently went to a new "Vivaldi" software suite that supports the newer chips. Older chips are stuck using "ISE" software, which does not run on Windows 8 and up without hacking (yuck). So, if you buy Xilinx, make sure that you get something supported by Vivaldi. I understand that Vivaldi also supports SystemVerilog -- VERY nice to have for testbenches, but not a lot for RTL code. Altera is also VERY popular and worth a look, and I believe that Lattice and Actel might still be in business.
Next, you need to learn RTL (register transfer language) -- VHDL or Verilog. Both have their pros and cons, but I prefer Verilog. It is very much like programming in something like "C", but every "always" block runs CONCURRENTLY! In other words, all code runs at the same time. This makes sense because all transistors are running at the same time. There is a web site called "World of ASIC" that has some nice tutorials.
I would also check the "hack a day" web site. They had links to tutorials using a $20 board a few weeks ago.
Good luck!
Woz is AWESOME!
I was playing around with putting an Apple 2 on an FPGA (yeah, I know. Been done before). I design ASICs for a living. But staring as hit clock generation circuitry, I could not make heads or tails of how the darned thing actually worked!
Given the specifications, I have do doubt that I could make a circuit that would do the same thing in a more straightforward way, but it would probably be bigger and cost more.
Waz is extremely clever in optimizing things. FYI. If you have not heard the story, reading how the floppy drive controller was developed is an extremely interesting story.
I am NOT an Apple fanboy. I do not own a single Apple product except an Apple 2. I hate the way that the current Apple locks everything down.
And yet you can download the source code yourself and compile it.
Downton Abbey is on PBS. All you need is an antenna, and you can have it for FREE!
I have gotten pretty good as reducing monthly expenses. I built a home theater PC with four tuners connected to an antenna. I pay for basic Netflix streaming + 2 DVDs per month. My internet is naked DSL from a company that does not throttle bandwidth (CenturyLink), and I use MagicJack for phone ($30 per year). My total for everything is under $60/month for phone, internet, and TV. Comcast would happily sell me something similar for around $100/month (for the first year, price goes to $500/month after that).
I would like to get some more channels like SciFi (or SyFy, or ScyFye, or whatever), and Discovery, but it is not worth $50/month for a bundle that includes those.
#1 and #2 are great ideas. Tough ideas, but great if you can pull it off without crippling the economy.
Things start to fall apart around #3. As I have stated before, laws disproportionately affect those who are honest enough to follow them. Guns laws will REALLY stop honest people from getting them, and you HOPE that a little splashes over to the criminals. And if you have a criminal without a gun, you still have a criminal.
Look at the UK. I dare you to do this: do a Google image search for "stop knife violence." Since England has mostly tamed the gun beast, they are now turning their sights on knives, since people who intend to kill use whatever tools are at hand. Do you carry a Leatherman tool? I have heard (but no 1st hand knowledge) that you can get arrested for that in London since it has a locking blade.
And even if you DID manage to get rid of all knives, people would switch to another tool. "Stop cricked bat violence" anyone?
If get get rid of a gun, the criminal can use other tools. If you get rid of the criminal, you have NO reason to fear guns. It is as simple as that.
The point of laws is to describe what bad behavior is, and determine a punishment.
Outlawing murder does NOT stop a murder from happening, it just allows you to punish the criminal once they are caught, and provides a deterrent. If a person is willing to commit a murder and break that law, what logical process leads you to believe that this person will suddenly worry about gun laws too?
Ultimately guns laws are a disproportional burden to the honest people. Did France's gun laws stop the attack on the magazine office? And yet it is the honest people of France that have to obey those laws.
Please think just a little deeper than a knee-jerk reaction.
And no mention on the leakage power. Curious. Smaller transistors have less dynamic power, but higher static power.
The Kessel Run was covered in one of the novels. I am guessing that the novels are no longer canon.
Actually, what IS the story? Supposedly the new movie covers the Solo kids based on what happened in the novels, but the prequals (1-3) totally crapped on the back story of Boba Fett.
I also saw Chewy, but he died in one of the novels too.
What is canon and what isn't?
The vast majority of mass shootings happen in "gun free zones." And yet the likes of Obama and CNN seem to be amazed that a criminal would walk right past this sign.
Are you really that dumb? Of course criminals obey SOME laws. Otherwise, rounding up criminals would be easy, as you just arrest the guy crossing the street a dozen time because jaywalking is illegal.
My point is that criminals do not mind breaking laws if it benefits them. Honest citizens, in general, will obey the laws.
If a criminal can 3D print a gun, he will. Getting jail time is just an occupational hazard for a criminal.
An honest citizen, one with children that they are responsible for, will generally not do things that will get them locked up for years.
Don't forget unintended consequences. Jimmy loves to hunt, so he is afraid to see a shrink lest the cops show up to grab his guns. So, he never gets any help. Is this really an improvement?
I am currently at a cube. It is a no-brainer to simply detach the work surface from the cube and stick it back in a couple of feet higher. If you want to sit, get something the height of a bar stool, and you are golden.
For home use, I used an Ikea table-style desk and raised it up as far as it would go. Not tall enough, so I purchased some bed risers (Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, etc.) to raise it up an extra five or six inches. Problem solved for not much coin.
So, short of hiring a psychic to predict future crime, what else do you suggest as far as a background check? Do you have a criminal record? Have you been declared mentally incompetent?
Anything beyond that is a judgement call, and who gets to make that call? On what basis?
Keep in mind that every year, less than one out of every 30,000 gun is used in a murder.
And you miss the bigger picture. Making it illegal for an honest citizen to print a 3D gun will not stop the criminals from doing it.
That is the biggest problem with gun control -- criminals do not obey laws.
Actually, most people, including myself, are just honest. While I could get pirated movies, I would rather be able to live with myself and I follow the law willingly. Note that I do use VLC so I don't have to watch the FBI warnings and previews (probably breaking the law somehow).