A lot of people compare Verilog to C, and VHDL to Pascal (ADA lite?). Either way I find that a) you will need to know both, if you are going to be in this business, b) Companies that enforce A language, in the US, enforce Verilog, companies that leave it to teams, use either VHDL or Verilog. So if you had to choose just one, and you live in the US, I say choose Verilog;) That said, the first ASIC I did was in VHDL (which I learned in school). I continued that in single-person FPGAs which I wrote, without objection. In my present company I was forced to learn Verilog, and I can't say that I long to go back to VHDL or have "been converted".
Both languages are designed to simulate, not synthesize. As such, the language ultimately is just the tool, "thinking hardware" in terms of the synthesizeable subsets of the languages and the realization of hardware the tools come up with is identical in both languages. The constructs that produce a given hardware are generally very parallel (in fact there's a book out there, I forget the name, that puts VHDL right next to Verilog for a given construct). Neither language is especially more compact or "R.A.D." than the other. VHDL expect to spend more time fighting your compiler and subjugating the strongly-typed aspect. Verilog expect to spend more time debugging subtle and unexpected results of improper use of the language (like C, it will do what you ask, but not always what you meant!).
I've found that Icarus is a great free Verilog simulator for Linux, and I love it, so that's a good budget choice. In general though, consider your simulation tools as the driving force in your choices. Some professional tools are better at VHDL or better at Verilog (which has a number of "versions", adding very nice features that aren't always available in a given sim). Some run far faster with one language or another. In the long run this will all balance out, but we've been saying that for a decade and there are still (increasingly small) imbalances. Examine your simulation/verification model, identify which features you may want (things like "do I want to use a large randomly accessed text file for input vectors?") and see which language offers the most robust support with your tool, and if it requires proprietary language extensions to make that happen (very common with verilog).
Most synthesizers take both and work pretty much equally with either language.
Yes, and I don't doubt that the amount of money you contribute, your position in the outside world, etc., weighs more heavily in their justice system than other factors.
But if you're a believer in their church and you feel their rulings are legitimate and binding...who are we to interfere? I would rather err on the side of apathy when it comes to what adults do with their life, no matter how deluded.
The part about how they treat the outside is definitely evil, although primarily evil insofar as they have a lot of money and intend on doing harm.
The rest doesn't seem at all like a double standard or inherently malevolent. We're all free to get along and settle our differences outside of court. The courts inherently exist only for the cases when no agreement can be reached, but action is required. Definitely it's a huge drain on society to have people dragging one another in there for every trivial piece of bullshit infighting that may occur. Get along, as much as possible.
I don't especially want to take my sister to court because she didn't pay me that $100 back that I loaned her in high school. Nor is there a double standard if I should take my phone company to court if they refuse to reimburse me for making a mistake on my bill. I might be able to agree with my sister, or decide that it's not worth the family hostility, but the phone company is (at best) nobody to me.
R2-45 may go a long way to allow others to conclude Hubbard thought his religion was a joke. I do wonder if you invest your entire life saving in religion, whether you actually meant a self R2-45 but were just too squeamish.
For EE's the guys with the degrees draw the schematics/code the design/document the test plans, but all that can (and increasingly is) sent over a wire. In most places we work in the lab to to test the design. Someone in a factory somewhere actually builds the devices.
But all of that can be done overseas, all businesses care about, and all customers see, are the mass produced parts that arrive by boat.
My degree is increasingly worthless, unless I want to join that brain-dead area of business called "engineering management" or worse "engineering marketing".
There's a lot to be said for trade schools as viable employment, but I'm not sure I'd tell my kid to give up studying just yet.
amen. The same mentality which worries about addiction to MMOGs, worries about gambling addictions, drug adictions, alcohol addictions, porn addictions, adrenaline addictions, sex addictions, etc. You've told him what you think, he's rejected it, pushing further is just going to cement his position.
A person has the right to destroy himself if he so desires. It is neither your place, nor your obligation to intercede in the matter, except when he is hurting others who can't help themselves in the process (i.e. his children).
If he isn't holding up his end of your living arrangement, then you should take action. But friendship only goes so far, and let's face it, he's not much of a friend when he's glued to his monitor.
If you want to be his friend, help him when he (inevitably) gives up on the game.
All major corps always have senior positions available, all the time.
They have open reqs, but trust me they aren't exactly filling them. A lot of companies with branch offices keep reqs open just to determine interest by area. Others have reqs open in the hopes that an applicant from a competitor will apply (i.e. pretrained for a specific job, knowledgable about tools and processes used elsewhere, and potentially a bit of a sting when you steal him).
If you send your resume around to some of these places, no matter how well qualified, you never hear back.
You mean a show that spent an entire year doing nothing at all except beating a contrived and uninteresting love parallelogram to death?
That show jumped the polar bear when it forgot that what was interesting was the Island, not the characters. The characters are mostly whiny, amoral scum who would otherwise have been imprisoned or suicided. Yet we spend an entire year watching them rot in their own folly.
I find it hard to believe that you could have a plot slower and more frustrating than LOST.
There will always be a bias, but there's a long way from CNN/FOX to neutral.
In any event, Slashdot is a news aggregate, I'm not sure we should expect it to have unbiased coverage. Honestly I read the articles looking for ammunition, and read the comments looking for good arguments. It's not a huge stretch that occasionally good arguments will make the headlines, and I'm not sure it devalues the site.
I only worry that the bias is sometimes so far out that it caters to people who are at times, not very glued in to the real world, or completely overlook some severe faults in their choices.
There's a difference between creating your own reality, and living an alternate reality.
I think Christian sensitivities have little to do with it. No one wants a picture of their 2" schlong, or evidence they're on the rag plastered all over the internet.
It doesn't matter if it's a felony, once it's out there, it's there forever. Imagine if we had evidence that Dick Cheney was as poorly named as we suspect?
No I think the question we're all wondering is "why is this necessary". As invasive as that is, if you have a vested interest in defeating it, you could do so. The only people who are violated are the ones who aren't doing anything wrong.
I don't realistically see the price of gas as being that significant. It seems like gas gets most consumed in commutes, that is determined by where you live relative to work. When choosing a house you concern yourself with house cost, property taxes, neighborhoods and commute distance. I doubt that even last year cost of gas figured in to people's housing choices.
In fact, the US has steadily increased the number of cars on the road for over 4 decades, and there has been no great surge as efficiencies have increased. Our supply of local oil since the 70s has declined somewhat, our demand for oil has increased due to the number of vehicles on the road, foreign oil and increased efficiency has to fill that gap.
His statistic may be true, but it has all the correlation of the decline in pirates and the rise of global-warming.
The difference is you can attach a large volume behind the windows purchase, while you can't attach that volume to the linux purchase. The question they ask themselves is will it pay out?
If they want to sell lucrative support contracts with every purchase, they want to make sure they can make money on them;)
His question was neither technical nor legal. He was asking if he should do it or not.
I think the answer given here is no, let Wikileaks do it. Good reasons for doing so are technical and legal, which I think is really the justification he was looking for.
Other factors to consider might be whether he believes the document is "real", whether it has some supporting evidence and whether it can be used to do some good.
Your issue isn't with scientific inaccuracies so much as plot holes. Sci-fi, even hard sci-fi, is a lot of hand waving with varying degrees of effort to remain internally consistent.
Fringe is intentionally screwball, hence the name "Fringe". It's not intended to be anything like real science, in any way, in fact is usually a blatant exaggeration or misrepresentation. For gods sake the last episode presented spontaneous combustion of humans as "plausible" while "pyrokinesis" was "that Stephen King thing". It makes for a good show, but I wouldn't put down my physics textbook if I had a final coming up. It is the definition of brain-candy sci-fi.
Star Trek sometimes attempts to be very "realistic" in that everything they present has traditionally fell under the category of "plausible". Transporters, warp drives, energy weapons, etc. I still think it's a bit hokey to poke holes in their view of science, it is, after all, created for your viewing pleasure.
I haven't watched the new Star Trek, I probably will have to wait until DVD thanks to having a 14 month old, but thus far Starfleet has never really shown itself to be a very top-down organization. The Star-ship captains seem to have wide latitude for making policy, and are given extreme lenience on broken rules.
What would be a huge let down is if this is a war/sex driven soap opera, and not a somewhat more cerebral presentation of conflicting ideals. It would be very disappointing if BSG, previously the goofiest of 70s campware, became more intellectual than Star Trek.
If it comes to getting sued, it will be more like:
Defendant: "It's not a bug, it's a feature" Plaintiff: "No, it says right here this shouldn't happen." Defendant: "OK then, you are doing it wrong, that use case is not supported" Plaintiff: "You didn't provide directions!" Defendant: "EXACTLY!"
Even within the confines of the corporate world with managers acting as judge, jury and executioner, it's impossible to call a behavior a "bug" and assign it to the correct individual, more often than not. Trying to do that in a court of law, forget it.
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I agree, meet their threat with another threat: invalidate their copyrights in the US. Let's show them how China really works.
A lot of people compare Verilog to C, and VHDL to Pascal (ADA lite?). Either way I find that a) you will need to know both, if you are going to be in this business, b) Companies that enforce A language, in the US, enforce Verilog, companies that leave it to teams, use either VHDL or Verilog. So if you had to choose just one, and you live in the US, I say choose Verilog ;) That said, the first ASIC I did was in VHDL (which I learned in school). I continued that in single-person FPGAs which I wrote, without objection. In my present company I was forced to learn Verilog, and I can't say that I long to go back to VHDL or have "been converted".
Both languages are designed to simulate, not synthesize. As such, the language ultimately is just the tool, "thinking hardware" in terms of the synthesizeable subsets of the languages and the realization of hardware the tools come up with is identical in both languages. The constructs that produce a given hardware are generally very parallel (in fact there's a book out there, I forget the name, that puts VHDL right next to Verilog for a given construct). Neither language is especially more compact or "R.A.D." than the other. VHDL expect to spend more time fighting your compiler and subjugating the strongly-typed aspect. Verilog expect to spend more time debugging subtle and unexpected results of improper use of the language (like C, it will do what you ask, but not always what you meant!).
I've found that Icarus is a great free Verilog simulator for Linux, and I love it, so that's a good budget choice. In general though, consider your simulation tools as the driving force in your choices. Some professional tools are better at VHDL or better at Verilog (which has a number of "versions", adding very nice features that aren't always available in a given sim). Some run far faster with one language or another. In the long run this will all balance out, but we've been saying that for a decade and there are still (increasingly small) imbalances. Examine your simulation/verification model, identify which features you may want (things like "do I want to use a large randomly accessed text file for input vectors?") and see which language offers the most robust support with your tool, and if it requires proprietary language extensions to make that happen (very common with verilog).
Most synthesizers take both and work pretty much equally with either language.
Not really. You don't have to report crimes against you, if you don't want to.
It's when they are unable to keep it internal, or when there are people involved who can't represent themselves that lines get crossed.
Yes, and I don't doubt that the amount of money you contribute, your position in the outside world, etc., weighs more heavily in their justice system than other factors.
But if you're a believer in their church and you feel their rulings are legitimate and binding...who are we to interfere? I would rather err on the side of apathy when it comes to what adults do with their life, no matter how deluded.
The part about how they treat the outside is definitely evil, although primarily evil insofar as they have a lot of money and intend on doing harm.
The rest doesn't seem at all like a double standard or inherently malevolent. We're all free to get along and settle our differences outside of court. The courts inherently exist only for the cases when no agreement can be reached, but action is required. Definitely it's a huge drain on society to have people dragging one another in there for every trivial piece of bullshit infighting that may occur. Get along, as much as possible.
I don't especially want to take my sister to court because she didn't pay me that $100 back that I loaned her in high school. Nor is there a double standard if I should take my phone company to court if they refuse to reimburse me for making a mistake on my bill. I might be able to agree with my sister, or decide that it's not worth the family hostility, but the phone company is (at best) nobody to me.
Wikipedia 2 - Rise of the Thetans
That sounds like something Hubbard would cook up!
Nano has syntax highlighting. Grep does the rest. I mean I am familiar with Eclipse...it's just usually not worth the aggravation.
The cure for post-traumatic bitterness disorder is ketchup?
Notepad++ is my "IDE" for windows. nano works great for linux. This works for C, C++, Verilog, VHDL, Perl, HTML/CSS, PHP, etc.
R2-45 may go a long way to allow others to conclude Hubbard thought his religion was a joke. I do wonder if you invest your entire life saving in religion, whether you actually meant a self R2-45 but were just too squeamish.
You know, we don't hear enough of that lately: "Won't you please think of the toilets?"
For EE's the guys with the degrees draw the schematics/code the design/document the test plans, but all that can (and increasingly is) sent over a wire. In most places we work in the lab to to test the design. Someone in a factory somewhere actually builds the devices.
But all of that can be done overseas, all businesses care about, and all customers see, are the mass produced parts that arrive by boat.
My degree is increasingly worthless, unless I want to join that brain-dead area of business called "engineering management" or worse "engineering marketing".
There's a lot to be said for trade schools as viable employment, but I'm not sure I'd tell my kid to give up studying just yet.
amen. The same mentality which worries about addiction to MMOGs, worries about gambling addictions, drug adictions, alcohol addictions, porn addictions, adrenaline addictions, sex addictions, etc. You've told him what you think, he's rejected it, pushing further is just going to cement his position.
A person has the right to destroy himself if he so desires. It is neither your place, nor your obligation to intercede in the matter, except when he is hurting others who can't help themselves in the process (i.e. his children).
If he isn't holding up his end of your living arrangement, then you should take action. But friendship only goes so far, and let's face it, he's not much of a friend when he's glued to his monitor.
If you want to be his friend, help him when he (inevitably) gives up on the game.
All major corps always have senior positions available, all the time.
They have open reqs, but trust me they aren't exactly filling them. A lot of companies with branch offices keep reqs open just to determine interest by area. Others have reqs open in the hopes that an applicant from a competitor will apply (i.e. pretrained for a specific job, knowledgable about tools and processes used elsewhere, and potentially a bit of a sting when you steal him).
If you send your resume around to some of these places, no matter how well qualified, you never hear back.
It feels like a scam some days.
You mean a show that spent an entire year doing nothing at all except beating a contrived and uninteresting love parallelogram to death?
That show jumped the polar bear when it forgot that what was interesting was the Island, not the characters. The characters are mostly whiny, amoral scum who would otherwise have been imprisoned or suicided. Yet we spend an entire year watching them rot in their own folly.
I find it hard to believe that you could have a plot slower and more frustrating than LOST.
There will always be a bias, but there's a long way from CNN/FOX to neutral.
In any event, Slashdot is a news aggregate, I'm not sure we should expect it to have unbiased coverage. Honestly I read the articles looking for ammunition, and read the comments looking for good arguments. It's not a huge stretch that occasionally good arguments will make the headlines, and I'm not sure it devalues the site.
I only worry that the bias is sometimes so far out that it caters to people who are at times, not very glued in to the real world, or completely overlook some severe faults in their choices.
There's a difference between creating your own reality, and living an alternate reality.
I think Christian sensitivities have little to do with it. No one wants a picture of their 2" schlong, or evidence they're on the rag plastered all over the internet.
It doesn't matter if it's a felony, once it's out there, it's there forever. Imagine if we had evidence that Dick Cheney was as poorly named as we suspect?
No I think the question we're all wondering is "why is this necessary". As invasive as that is, if you have a vested interest in defeating it, you could do so. The only people who are violated are the ones who aren't doing anything wrong.
I don't realistically see the price of gas as being that significant. It seems like gas gets most consumed in commutes, that is determined by where you live relative to work. When choosing a house you concern yourself with house cost, property taxes, neighborhoods and commute distance. I doubt that even last year cost of gas figured in to people's housing choices.
In fact, the US has steadily increased the number of cars on the road for over 4 decades, and there has been no great surge as efficiencies have increased. Our supply of local oil since the 70s has declined somewhat, our demand for oil has increased due to the number of vehicles on the road, foreign oil and increased efficiency has to fill that gap.
His statistic may be true, but it has all the correlation of the decline in pirates and the rise of global-warming.
The difference is you can attach a large volume behind the windows purchase, while you can't attach that volume to the linux purchase. The question they ask themselves is will it pay out?
If they want to sell lucrative support contracts with every purchase, they want to make sure they can make money on them ;)
His question was neither technical nor legal. He was asking if he should do it or not.
I think the answer given here is no, let Wikileaks do it. Good reasons for doing so are technical and legal, which I think is really the justification he was looking for.
Other factors to consider might be whether he believes the document is "real", whether it has some supporting evidence and whether it can be used to do some good.
In the US clamoring is acceptable.
Pluto is a dog's dog. Goofy is a dog trying to be a man.
If I ran around sniffing crotches and licking my goods, I'd...never get out of the house. What was my point again?
Your issue isn't with scientific inaccuracies so much as plot holes. Sci-fi, even hard sci-fi, is a lot of hand waving with varying degrees of effort to remain internally consistent.
Fringe is intentionally screwball, hence the name "Fringe". It's not intended to be anything like real science, in any way, in fact is usually a blatant exaggeration or misrepresentation. For gods sake the last episode presented spontaneous combustion of humans as "plausible" while "pyrokinesis" was "that Stephen King thing". It makes for a good show, but I wouldn't put down my physics textbook if I had a final coming up. It is the definition of brain-candy sci-fi.
Star Trek sometimes attempts to be very "realistic" in that everything they present has traditionally fell under the category of "plausible". Transporters, warp drives, energy weapons, etc. I still think it's a bit hokey to poke holes in their view of science, it is, after all, created for your viewing pleasure.
I haven't watched the new Star Trek, I probably will have to wait until DVD thanks to having a 14 month old, but thus far Starfleet has never really shown itself to be a very top-down organization. The Star-ship captains seem to have wide latitude for making policy, and are given extreme lenience on broken rules.
What would be a huge let down is if this is a war/sex driven soap opera, and not a somewhat more cerebral presentation of conflicting ideals. It would be very disappointing if BSG, previously the goofiest of 70s campware, became more intellectual than Star Trek.
Vista was WindowsME, Windows 7 is Vista SP3. They just want to get rid of the name "Vista" since it's become synonymous with "Fail".
If it comes to getting sued, it will be more like:
Defendant: "It's not a bug, it's a feature"
Plaintiff: "No, it says right here this shouldn't happen."
Defendant: "OK then, you are doing it wrong, that use case is not supported"
Plaintiff: "You didn't provide directions!"
Defendant: "EXACTLY!"
Even within the confines of the corporate world with managers acting as judge, jury and executioner, it's impossible to call a behavior a "bug" and assign it to the correct individual, more often than not. Trying to do that in a court of law, forget it.