Try verilog in conjunction with a rule based formal verification language for bug free code instead of using a draconian approach like VHDL to enforce correctness.
VHDL has so much overhead and is cumbersome to write in in my opinion. Verilog also seems to generally simulate faster. Also the free (GPLed) icarus verilog simulator is better than any free VHDL simulator I've been able to find:).
Also when it comes to writing behavoural testbenches I could never live without fork/join.
Lastly many of the deficiencies in verilog have been corrected in the Verilog 2000 spec.
To keep information in freenet all you have to do is have a cron job that periodically requests the files. I just request the files and dump 'em to/dev/null
You are right. Licenced airwaves are a good thing. What is missing is the right kind of taxes. Like any natural resource the "profits" need to be taxed out of the resource. See www.henrygeorge.org for background.
Thats "Adobe Illustrator" - I've seldom heard it called "Illustrator" and if I heard the word Illustrator I wouldn't be sure it was Adobe Illustrator being refered to.
As long as we keep the current taxation methodology technical progress will NOT free us from long hours and hard work - especially since population is still growing. Read the stuff and do the quiz at http://www.henrygeorge.org to understand why.
Whilst I agree with your first paragraph I don't fully agree with the second. Especially the It's Apple's property and they can do as they like part. The US government (and presumably therefore the people of the US) chose to give certain limited legal privilages we call "Intellectual property" to ideas, words and such like, BUT there ain't no guarantee that it will stay that way. If there is enough abuse and misuse (i.e. theft from the public good**) of intellectual property "rights" and enough people decide that its no longer such a great or applicable idea then expect change.
** If anyone knows who originally said this please post here or email me - thanks.
I'm also learning Esperanto - but very slowly since there are no classes available in my area. Are you teaching yourself or are you taking a class? My personal hope is to travel to several different countries over the years and visit with Esperantists.
I like the idea of a sandbox but how about using non-private circumstance as a deterent - keep all the computers/monitors located so that people walking by can see the monitors through a window? Most people wanting to view something naughty(!?) will be uncomfortable if they know their actions are visible to others.
I'm buying Corel Draw as soon as possible. I have used xfig + the gimp to do business graphics for some time and can do everything I need but not easily. I really wish the Gimp had a vector graphics tool. There are just too many things that are easy to do with vectors that are a struggle with bitmaps.
Anyone know if it will be possible to get a windows and linux version together for the same price?
Ghost in the Shell is excellent - no doubt about it. However I wouldn't have a 7 year old watch it. No comparison. Also the art work in Titan AE is much more memorable than Ghost in the Shell in my opinion.
For a family friendly flick I thought Titan AE was great. Not too scary or gory to take the 7 year old and exciting enough that I didn't find myself getting bored. The art work and animation was excellent and I liked how the hero wasn't so numb that he was able to clue in reasonably quickly to the fact that his dad had cared about him and that the folks holding on to the hope for a future for humankind were right to do so. Like the Desiderata poem says: Dispite its sham, drudgery and trickery it is still a beautiful world.
Take some time, smell the roses, appreciate the work these guys did to produce an hour and a half mildly thought provoking, fun, and exciting movie. There are so many "nega-holics" over-analyzing, criticising and berating the works of others with out balance and perspective that I'm to the point where I don't trust reviews to help me decide what to see.
I'm curious, what movies, apropriate for general viewing, meet your stringent requirements?
Maybe because english sucks? It's one more stupid rule to remember - I say boycott English - spell how you damn well want and to hell with the English police.
This is bullshit. Santa Clara county already wasted money on the boondoggle of light rail, to no avail.
Face it; people want private vehicles because they are more practical than mass transit.
But the fascists keep pushing it anyhow. Ugh.
If the life style I experienced in Phoenix, Arizona and LA, California are what you are refering to by "more practical than mass transit" then you can have it. I don't love my auto so much that I want to spend multiple hours a day admiring my dash board whilst burning gasoline (that will steadily get more expensive as the middle east production passes its peak) and traveling at an average of 10 miles an hour.
So I found a high tech job paying similar to what I'd get in Silicon Valley where I have a $180k house on 14 acres with a 15 minute comute and no stop lights. Sailing, hiking, yada, yada, yada - lots to do for the outdoorsy types. Nice city within 20 minutes with all the cultural amentities. Won't catch me back in Phoenix.
When in Oregon and Arizona I remember hearing the term "Californication" - where Californians where moving in and pushing prices up and lowering quality of life. Good word.
In the US more than 95% of the privately held land is owned by only 3% of the population.
This sounds like bullshit to me. Where do you get that statistic.
I got it from http://www.henrygeorge.org. I was rather surprised and a little sceptical when I first saw it but as I read and learn more it does seem to be (frightenly) true. I'd be interested in any information that anyone has that counters this.
Either build a bunch of high rise apartments and other high density living and then add some decent public transportation or -- de-populate a little.:)
How many thousands of acres of top quality land in the Valley is tied up in freeways and roads? Stop subsidizing the usage of the automobile - tax the land used up by highways and freeways and pay for it with gasoline and other auto related taxes. (see http://www.henrygeorge.org for some related ideas on this subject).
Exactly which government is paying the housing subsidy, the feds or the state? If its the feds then as a non-californian US taxpayer I'm outraged to be subsidizing stupid Californian socio-political choices.
Didn't seem like flamebait to me. It did make me wonder - would it be technically feasible to have a parallel nameservice database? Here's what I imagine: Extend bind to send any request for a domain not ending in/\.(com|edu|org|biz|??)$/ to the "geek" root server(s). Create a decentralized organisation to manage and distribute this shadow namespace. IP space would have to be mapped from existing "real" domains. E.g. you could register ashehidhhtss.com in the regular space but call it www.linux.secrets in the "geek" space. I'm sure you can think of lots of other more interesting and, uh, colorful root names.:)
So you could then pepper your home page with URL's that point into "geek space". Only those who are willing to use the extended bind would be able to (easily) get to your stuff. Could be fun eh?
Some time ago someone on SlashDot pointed out the some time in the 1800's (early 1900's?) Corporations were given rights similar to induhviduals. I think its long overdue time to take that right away from Corporations. As a rule they haven't proved themselves responsible with property ownership rights - both land and intellectual property. How 'bout only induhviduals being allowed to own intellectual property and land? No doubt something would be lost and something gained (didn't Mark Twain say that for something lost there is always something gained or vice versa?).
I think in part this boils down to some fundamental policies in this country. One of which is our (i.e. US) aproach to property ownership - especially land. I think the bulk of the profits from natural resources should be taxed away and given back to "the people". Check out http://www.henrygeorge.org for some background and thoughts on this. I'm not sure how much the wind in the corporate sails would be affected by this. The other big thing I'd like to see would be the complete revoking of the corporate ability to own property. Why should something that is neither human nor even alive be allowed to own any form of property? Let corporations only lease land, patents, and copyrights.
For an alternative aproach to living your life in this messy system read "Your Money or Your Life" I don't have the authors names handy but I'm sure you'll find it at http://powellsbooks.com.
I believe that RTF has problems and is not a stable standard. I.e. it changes with each release of Word. MIF (the FrameMaker interchange Format) on the other hand is very easy to parse and is very stable. I have written many scripts to manipulate MIF and find it to be a very easy to understand format. The biggest downside to MIF IMO is how verbose it is. I suspect this is a problem with any human readable document format however.
Just a comment about the value of domain names (I know - he's selling an entire site). I'd like to see a shadow DNS system set up. Say you are the owner of axd4zlj.com and would like folks to find your business at www.super.cool you register with the shadow DNS folks. Could it be done? Could a distributed database be set up that is similar to current DNS and yet is independant of it. Groups could be set up to control the four letter top level names. Extentions could be written for bind and whatever it is that runs on Windows that forward requests for any four letter top level to the distributed system and return either the numbers or the original DNS address. Anyhow the idea would be to wrest control from the "authorities" over the whole domain name thing and to allow names like www.microsoft.sucks:)
Then this guys question would be more a function of how valuable his business is and less a question of how valuable the domain name is.
I should've mentioned: I'm considering selling my domain name (ocean.net) and have had one offer for ~8k. My first business failed and I have to decide - attempt another or sell the domain name - any ideas?
I think there should be an 80% tax on the sale of domain names. The tax could be given back to building internet infrastructure or something.
There would be minimal incentive to squat on a name but still some incentive to sell. This is similar to the ideas put forward by Henry George with respect to land. Well, maybe:)
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VHDL has so much overhead and is cumbersome to write in in my opinion. Verilog also seems to generally simulate faster. Also the free (GPLed) icarus verilog simulator is better than any free VHDL simulator I've been able to find :).
Also when it comes to writing behavoural testbenches I could never live without fork/join.
Lastly many of the deficiencies in verilog have been corrected in the Verilog 2000 spec.
As long as we keep the current taxation methodology technical progress will NOT free us from long hours and hard work - especially since population is still growing. Read the stuff and do the quiz at http://www.henrygeorge.org to understand why.
Whilst I agree with your first paragraph I don't fully agree with the second. Especially the It's Apple's property and they can do as they like part. The US government (and presumably therefore the people of the US) chose to give certain limited legal privilages we call "Intellectual property" to ideas, words and such like, BUT there ain't no guarantee that it will stay that way. If there is enough abuse and misuse (i.e. theft from the public good**) of intellectual property "rights" and enough people decide that its no longer such a great or applicable idea then expect change.
** If anyone knows who originally said this please post here or email me - thanks.
Saluton!
I'm also learning Esperanto - but very slowly since there are no classes available in my area. Are you teaching yourself or are you taking a class? My personal hope is to travel to several different countries over the years and visit with Esperantists.
I like the idea of a sandbox but how about using non-private circumstance as a deterent - keep all the computers/monitors located so that people walking by can see the monitors through a window? Most people wanting to view something naughty(!?) will be uncomfortable if they know their actions are visible to others.
Perhaps not for you. For me and my 7 and 9 year old kids it was great. Accept the fact that you have grown up and that your tastes have changed.
Perhaps you could choose to turn off the critical adult and let loose the fun loving kid inside once in a while - you might have more fun - really.
Anyone know if it will be possible to get a windows and linux version together for the same price?
Ghost in the Shell is excellent - no doubt about it. However I wouldn't have a 7 year old watch it. No comparison. Also the art work in Titan AE is much more memorable than Ghost in the Shell in my opinion.
Take some time, smell the roses, appreciate the work these guys did to produce an hour and a half mildly thought provoking, fun, and exciting movie. There are so many "nega-holics" over-analyzing, criticising and berating the works of others with out balance and perspective that I'm to the point where I don't trust reviews to help me decide what to see.
I'm curious, what movies, apropriate for general viewing, meet your stringent requirements?
Sorry for ranting.
Of course English was always a struggle for me :)
This is bullshit. Santa Clara county already wasted money on the boondoggle of light rail, to no avail.
Face it; people want private vehicles because they are more practical than mass transit.
But the fascists keep pushing it anyhow. Ugh.
If the life style I experienced in Phoenix, Arizona and LA, California are what you are refering to by "more practical than mass transit" then you can have it. I don't love my auto so much that I want to spend multiple hours a day admiring my dash board whilst burning gasoline (that will steadily get more expensive as the middle east production passes its peak) and traveling at an average of 10 miles an hour.
So I found a high tech job paying similar to what I'd get in Silicon Valley where I have a $180k house on 14 acres with a 15 minute comute and no stop lights. Sailing, hiking, yada, yada, yada - lots to do for the outdoorsy types. Nice city within 20 minutes with all the cultural amentities. Won't catch me back in Phoenix.
When in Oregon and Arizona I remember hearing the term "Californication" - where Californians where moving in and pushing prices up and lowering quality of life. Good word.
In the US more than 95% of the privately held land is owned by only 3% of the population.
This sounds like bullshit to me. Where do you get that statistic.
I got it from http://www.henrygeorge.org. I was rather surprised and a little sceptical when I first saw it but as I read and learn more it does seem to be (frightenly) true. I'd be interested in any information that anyone has that counters this.
How many thousands of acres of top quality land in the Valley is tied up in freeways and roads? Stop subsidizing the usage of the automobile - tax the land used up by highways and freeways and pay for it with gasoline and other auto related taxes.
(see http://www.henrygeorge.org for some related ideas on this subject).
Exactly which government is paying the housing subsidy, the feds or the state? If its the feds then as a non-californian US taxpayer I'm outraged to be subsidizing stupid Californian socio-political choices.
Its those unintended consequences again...
So you could then pepper your home page with URL's that point into "geek space". Only those who are willing to use the extended bind would be able to (easily) get to your stuff. Could be fun eh?
Some time ago someone on SlashDot pointed out the some time in the 1800's (early 1900's?) Corporations were given rights similar to induhviduals. I think its long overdue time to take that right away from Corporations. As a rule they haven't proved themselves responsible with property ownership rights - both land and intellectual property. How 'bout only induhviduals being allowed to own intellectual property and land? No doubt something would be lost and something gained (didn't Mark Twain say that for something lost there is always something gained or vice versa?).
What would happen?
For an alternative aproach to living your life in this messy system read "Your Money or Your Life" I don't have the authors names handy but I'm sure you'll find it at http://powellsbooks.com.
I believe that RTF has problems and is not a stable standard. I.e. it changes with each release of Word. MIF (the FrameMaker interchange Format) on the other hand is very easy to parse and is very stable. I have written many scripts to manipulate MIF and find it to be a very easy to understand format. The biggest downside to MIF IMO is how verbose it is. I suspect this is a problem with any human readable document format however.
Just a comment about the value of domain names (I know - he's selling an entire site). I'd like to see a shadow DNS system set up. Say you are the owner of axd4zlj.com and would like folks to find your business at www.super.cool you register with the shadow DNS folks. Could it be done? Could a distributed database be set up that is similar to current DNS and yet is independant of it. Groups could be set up to control the four letter top level names. Extentions could be written for bind and whatever it is that runs on Windows that forward requests for any four letter top level to the distributed system and return either the numbers or the original DNS address. Anyhow the idea would be to wrest control from the "authorities" over the whole domain name thing and to allow names like www.microsoft.sucks :)
Then this guys question would be more a function of how valuable his business is and less a question of how valuable the domain name is.
Yikes! I knew folks with guns were dangerous but really, if I meet someone who is armed I'm gonna get shot? Everytime!?
As far as the TiVo and commercials - the scariest solution will be when they start putting banner ads on TV to get around the TiVo type machines...
I should've mentioned: I'm considering selling my domain name (ocean.net) and have had one offer for ~8k. My first business failed and I have to decide - attempt another or sell the domain name - any ideas?
matt@ocean.net
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There would be minimal incentive to squat on a name but still some incentive to sell. This is similar to the ideas put forward by Henry George with respect to land. Well, maybe :)
And my favourite...
rec.crafts.metalworking
For fun look for altavous (sp?).
If you have a question even remotely related to metalworking someone on rcm has an answer.