Use a writeable archival CD and/or DVD
MAM-A Archival disks
and/or add a couple different flash devices (USB, CF, SD, etc) formatted with different file systems. As well as the full datasheet for the flash IC(s) contained inside the devices. If the form factors are non-existant, someone could still read the flash device with some kind of future flash reading apparatus.
Or at least carve the full part numbers for the memory sticks and ICs into stone so that the exhumer can look up the datasheet using his/her hive-mind-galaxy-web implants.
Rockstar should give this guy a percentage for all the free marketing. Without the controversy and media attention would GTA sales be as tremendous as they are? I mean the guy invented the term "Pixelante".
Peter Jackson and New Line playing nice again?!? Maybe this means that we will actually see a Blu-Ray set of LOTR at some point. They must have heard me desperately clicking the reload button with the hope that one day it would be real
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Could HP Beat Moore's Law?
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So they are not beating Moore's law, they improve chip space use in FPGAs to become similar to what todays dies with fixed routing achieve
Agreed, but if the article were titled "HP Enables Increase in FPGA Logic Density", it would have never made it to a slashdot headline.
ever delete personal email?? Even back when hard disks were much smaller, stored email represented a fraction of a fraction of your available space. The potential that one of those swiftly deleted emails might prove to be important weeks or years after it was recieved is enough to stop me from ever deleting even the most trivial personal email. I've still got emails hanging around from over 12 years ago. I backup all my email constantly, because I consider it content, just as I would consider old family photos or an old diary.
The only exceptions I could think of are SPAM and un-necessarily large attachments.
I don't know if I agree with that. I had some pretty violent reactions to Dr. Mario back in the day. Also, if you've played Marble Madness at any point in your life, then you know the true meaning of rage.
I have come to the conclusion that all video games must cause violence. Public Service Announcement: Video games are the new terrorists, pile up and burn all of your game consoles before you unintentionally start World War 3.
I see blogs not as the new personal website, but as an extension of the concept of forums. Publishing little gems of knowledge and interest extracted from every day tedium characterizes blogs as public diarys.
I have to say that when I ask a friend about an event in their life and they respond "read my blog" or "check out my website" I consider it a little rude. Expecting your friends to have read and memorized all of your blog entries seems to kind of de-personalize the friendship. A couple years ago it was a bit more novel and uncommon to have a web presence, but it scares me that many people now let these message boards become their life.
My idea of a personal website has become more of a scrapbook than a diary. It takes more effort to put it together but the publisher has more creative freedom.
Yes, the epson 4870 is an excellent slide and negative scanner, its cheap (~$400) and it is a real workhorse. I have scanned about 1000 4x5 negatives and medium format slides at 1200 dpi and I haven't had a single problem. It's a huge improvement from transparency adapters which I've used with sketch results at best
Does anyone have information on CD/DVD stamping as a possible archive method, as opposed to dye based CDRs? Are there any articles/research projects that talk about the permanence difference between the two? Does anyone know of a service that will stamp a small run of disks for a reasonable price?
I wonder if the conductive ink will decay over time? Similar to the way that dye in a recordable CD fades. Maybe each board will have to be printed with an estimated expiration date.
I don't think the obfuscation from real hardware terminology is necessary. Just like the renaming of processor models by AMD or RAM speeds was unnecessary. If consumers can keep track of something labelled "Level X" then they can keep track of something called "X Gigahertz" or "X Megabytes". If a potential computer owner can't understand that the bigger X is better (usually) then they should be shopping with the help of a knowledgable friend.
It's like someone shopping for tires pointing at a tire and asking "I have a Ford, will this work?" If you don't have at least some understanding of the features of a product or are unwilling to learn some of the basics (eg. car model, year), it would be unwise to spend lots of money on accessories, like software or tires.
Kazaa dumped 100K into the same schools and started a new educational program educating kids about their rights when it comes to fileshareing? The program could include a tutorial on how to install and use Kazaa.
...the GUI should probably consist of a web server (so that the BIOS can be configured over the net) and a built-in, simple web browser...
Interesting... a standard BIOS web server would have to be REALLY bulletproof. Wouldn't want script kiddies h4x0ring your CPU frequency so they can beat you at UT2003!
"...running on hardware lacks the visibility needed to do debug..."
There's a neat tool called Chipscope Pro that ships with the ML300 that acts as an internal logic analyzer. You can trigger on a real signal and get back a sample of signals occuring in the FPGA. Very usefull for debugging designs that you don't want to put the work in to simulate.
Overall though, I'll have to agree that thoroughly simulating your design is the best way to go. The Swift model of the PPC is really usefull in that regard, you can have more confidence that your design will work with the real processor.
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Use a writeable archival CD and/or DVD MAM-A Archival disks and/or add a couple different flash devices (USB, CF, SD, etc) formatted with different file systems. As well as the full datasheet for the flash IC(s) contained inside the devices. If the form factors are non-existant, someone could still read the flash device with some kind of future flash reading apparatus. Or at least carve the full part numbers for the memory sticks and ICs into stone so that the exhumer can look up the datasheet using his/her hive-mind-galaxy-web implants.
Rockstar should give this guy a percentage for all the free marketing. Without the controversy and media attention would GTA sales be as tremendous as they are? I mean the guy invented the term "Pixelante".
Peter Jackson and New Line playing nice again?!? Maybe this means that we will actually see a Blu-Ray set of LOTR at some point. They must have heard me desperately clicking the reload button with the hope that one day it would be real
So they are not beating Moore's law, they improve chip space use in FPGAs to become similar to what todays dies with fixed routing achieve
Agreed, but if the article were titled "HP Enables Increase in FPGA Logic Density", it would have never made it to a slashdot headline.
MySpace is a much more efficient way to communicate anyways.
Next: a location chip implanted in your head so your personal desktop can follow you around.
Yes, you're absolutely right, they instead need Palm Treos.
ever delete personal email?? Even back when hard disks were much smaller, stored email represented a fraction of a fraction of your available space. The potential that one of those swiftly deleted emails might prove to be important weeks or years after it was recieved is enough to stop me from ever deleting even the most trivial personal email. I've still got emails hanging around from over 12 years ago. I backup all my email constantly, because I consider it content, just as I would consider old family photos or an old diary. The only exceptions I could think of are SPAM and un-necessarily large attachments.
where can I pre-order my exo-skeleton?
I don't know if I agree with that. I had some pretty violent reactions to Dr. Mario back in the day. Also, if you've played Marble Madness at any point in your life, then you know the true meaning of rage. I have come to the conclusion that all video games must cause violence. Public Service Announcement: Video games are the new terrorists, pile up and burn all of your game consoles before you unintentionally start World War 3.
Toads?
When I saw the subject line I immediately thought of BattleToads rampaging across Australia smashing thing with huge fists and feet.
...an announcement from Gates:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
The world should no longer fear emails of mass destruction, the tyrannical rule of spam is over!
I just saw Santa Claus at the mall. So there!
Seriously, just imagine if it shipped on any top 40 cds, just before xmas! Lanterns and pitchforks @ sony HQ on Dec 26th...
or bowling?
I see blogs not as the new personal website, but as an extension of the concept of forums. Publishing little gems of knowledge and interest extracted from every day tedium characterizes blogs as public diarys.
I have to say that when I ask a friend about an event in their life and they respond "read my blog" or "check out my website" I consider it a little rude. Expecting your friends to have read and memorized all of your blog entries seems to kind of de-personalize the friendship. A couple years ago it was a bit more novel and uncommon to have a web presence, but it scares me that many people now let these message boards become their life.
My idea of a personal website has become more of a scrapbook than a diary. It takes more effort to put it together but the publisher has more creative freedom.
Yes, the epson 4870 is an excellent slide and negative scanner, its cheap (~$400) and it is a real workhorse. I have scanned about 1000 4x5 negatives and medium format slides at 1200 dpi and I haven't had a single problem. It's a huge improvement from transparency adapters which I've used with sketch results at best
Here is a site that talks about how long printed images will last, Wilhelm Research seems to be an authority on the subject:
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/
They talk about cheap inks to avoid and various paper/ink combinations among many other factors.
Does anyone have information on CD/DVD stamping as a possible archive method, as opposed to dye based CDRs? Are there any articles/research projects that talk about the permanence difference between the two? Does anyone know of a service that will stamp a small run of disks for a reasonable price?
I wonder if the conductive ink will decay over time? Similar to the way that dye in a recordable CD fades. Maybe each board will have to be printed with an estimated expiration date.
I don't think the obfuscation from real hardware terminology is necessary. Just like the renaming of processor models by AMD or RAM speeds was unnecessary. If consumers can keep track of something labelled "Level X" then they can keep track of something called "X Gigahertz" or "X Megabytes". If a potential computer owner can't understand that the bigger X is better (usually) then they should be shopping with the help of a knowledgable friend.
It's like someone shopping for tires pointing at a tire and asking "I have a Ford, will this work?" If you don't have at least some understanding of the features of a product or are unwilling to learn some of the basics (eg. car model, year), it would be unwise to spend lots of money on accessories, like software or tires.
Kazaa dumped 100K into the same schools and started a new educational program educating kids about their rights when it comes to fileshareing? The program could include a tutorial on how to install and use Kazaa.
...the GUI should probably consist of a web server (so that the BIOS can be configured over the net) and a built-in, simple web browser...
Interesting... a standard BIOS web server would have to be REALLY bulletproof. Wouldn't want script kiddies h4x0ring your CPU frequency so they can beat you at UT2003!
"...running on hardware lacks the visibility needed to do debug..."
There's a neat tool called Chipscope Pro that ships with the ML300 that acts as an internal logic analyzer. You can trigger on a real signal and get back a sample of signals occuring in the FPGA. Very usefull for debugging designs that you don't want to put the work in to simulate.
Overall though, I'll have to agree that thoroughly simulating your design is the best way to go. The Swift model of the PPC is really usefull in that regard, you can have more confidence that your design will work with the real processor.
The bulk of the cost of the ML300 is not in the FPGA. The peripherals on the board and the accessories in the kit constitute a lot of the price.
If you're interested in a "standalone" development board those are also available.