> There was actually an area of silicon that could not be used because there was an electrical outlet on the wall that they needed for something in the office, so they just didn't draw on that part. Being curious, I just had to look at the actual chip layout in the online simulator to see if this was true. You can see a pair of rectangular voids left of the center, near the edge, the lower of which seems to have the right dimensional ratio to have been a space for a wall socket.
It's fascinating to hear the lost bit of engineering history that explains something would otherwise have forever remained a mystery. Somebody should forward this anecdote to the visual6502.org guys.
Why can't we sue them for practicing medicine without a license? They aren't doctors, but they are attempting to force medical prescriptions on children based on their limited knowledge.
Unless you are a doctor and can claim to have more than "limited knowledge", I hereby nominate you for a "Hypocrite of the Year" award.
It was a tough choice, given all the other slashbots blabbing about a subject they obviously know nothing about (as many have pointed out, ADHD meds make normal kids hyperactive, not zombies) but you post stands out among the rest.
It only works if people work together, are largely self-organising, and don't deliberately chuck roadblocks into other teams paths to get them off their own joblist. Oh, and if management can largely get out of the way and not constantly interfere with the process.
True. However, when those conditions are met, the effectiveness of scrum is nothing short of absolutely astounding.
WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system that is capable of running 32-bit applications and is included on all 64-bit versions of Windows -- including Windows 2000 Limited Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, IA-64 and x64 versions of Windows Server 2003 and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
>What about convincing a customer they have a need for your product, when they really don't? I have a little thing called scruples that prevents me from doing this. Perhaps you should look into getting some.
The headline is misleading. Donald Knuth represents the epitome of the solitary super-programmer stereotype, so it's only natural that he sees no need for unit tests to catch mistakes or extreme programming to improve team development practices. I don't think he's necessarily saying that those things are without value for ordinary programmers.
>FPGA's are being built with PPC cores now. So there. Verilog is a programming language
Fail. The PPC CPUs never even see anything derived from the Verilog. The netlists compiled from the Verilog are only used to configure the FPGA part of the chip.
By your asinine definition, a dump truck full of loose vacuum tubes is also Turing complete. There's the little matter of the actual structuring of the gates into something capable of satisfying Turing completeness that you left out.
>It's not. It's a programming language for programming a type of CPU called an FPGA. It is a programming language (that is, it is turing complete), but the programming paradigm is rather different from that of an ALGOL language like C, even if the syntax is similar.
Parent post is uninformed garbage.
Verilog is a hardware description language used to describe blocks of logic and the interconnections between them. It has only the most superficial similarities to a conventional procedural programming language.
FPGAs are the Swiss Army knife of digital logic, a large blob of programmable logic gates that can be configured to perform the function of any digital circuit that can fit within it. They do not normally contain a CPU and those that do use the CPU to supplement the gate array.
>So they are using a name to categorize political bias in the news with a politically biased name. Brilliant. I know, I know, it's short for BLog + nEWS = BLEWS, but, duh.
I agree. To be fair to the entire political spectrum, it should have been BLOEWS instead.
Nice try at misdirecting people away from the main point but it doesn't disguise the fact that you have no meaningful response to the contention that UNIX is not the final word in OS design.
I also thank you for the factual correction, but it still stands that Rob Pike is a highly respected OS researcher with an in-depth understanding of the architecture of UNIX.
Name a single operating systems researcher that wouldn't laugh at you for suggesting that UNIX is the apothesis of operating systems. Hell, ask Rob Pike what he thinks; he was part of the team that wrote the original Unix.
To even suggest such a ridiculous thing is to display a painful level of ignorance and lack of imagination.
>that you meant "is the wii's popularity playing into effect of how hard it is to find?" the answer to that question is an obvious "yes".
Are you guys under the impression that Nintendo has to dig it's consoles out of underground mines, sifting through tons of dirt to find just one rare Wii or something?
Nintendo could flood the channel with Wii's anytime they darn well please just by contracting out to additional manufacturers. They don't because they know the lack of availability gives them good hype and gullible people will keep lapping it up. "Oh, gawrsh, it's been so hard to find for so long therefore it must be super-popular. I just gotta have me one too!"
AKA junk sci-fi fed to credulous geeks who don't know any actual space science. It's the nerd equivalent of Creationism.
Stross quite correctly points out that there is no known (or even theoretically possible) energy source or propulsion system that will make interstellar exploration economically self starting and maybe not even viable. Not fission, not fusion, not antimatter, not some quantum whamadoodle, *nothing*.
I have yet to see any of these people calling Stross an idiot provide anything better than pie-in-the-sky trash as an answer.
The first situation was that of a common, public belief in the "sound barrier." The myth of the sound barrier had its beginning in 1935, when the British aerodynamicist W. F. Hilton was explaining to a newsman about some of the high-speed experiments he was conducting at the National Physical Laboratory. Pointing to a plot of airfoil drag, Hilton said: "See how the resistance of a wing shoots up like a barrier against higher speed as we approach the speed of sound." The next morning, the leading British newspapers were misrepresenting Hilton's comment by referring to "the sound barrier."41 The idea of a physical barrier to flight --that airplanes could never fly faster than the speed of sound-- became widespread among the public. Furthermore, even though most engineers knew differently, they still had uncertainty in just how much the drag would increase in the transonic regime, and given the low thrust levels of airplane powerplants at that time, the speed of sound certainly loomed as a tremendous mountain to climb.
The same source also notes:
But Mach devised a special optical arrangement (called a shadowgraph) by which he could see and photograph shock waves. In 1887, he presented a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Vienna where he showed a photograph of a bullet moving at supersonic speeds.
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> There was actually an area of silicon that could not be used because there was an electrical outlet on the wall that they needed for something in the office, so they just didn't draw on that part.
Being curious, I just had to look at the actual chip layout in the online simulator to see if this was true. You can see a pair of rectangular voids left of the center, near the edge, the lower of which seems to have the right dimensional ratio to have been a space for a wall socket.
It's fascinating to hear the lost bit of engineering history that explains something would otherwise have forever remained a mystery. Somebody should forward this anecdote to the visual6502.org guys.
Unless you are a doctor and can claim to have more than "limited knowledge", I hereby nominate you for a "Hypocrite of the Year" award.
It was a tough choice, given all the other slashbots blabbing about a subject they obviously know nothing about (as many have pointed out, ADHD meds make normal kids hyperactive, not zombies) but you post stands out among the rest.
Congratulations!
True. However, when those conditions are met, the effectiveness of scrum is nothing short of absolutely astounding.
Mens rea , dude, look it up. Don't they teach basic civics in school anymore?
>I presume you mean Windows CE?
No, he means Embedded Windows, like Windows XP Embedded: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/products/whichproduct/default.mspx.
(What scares me is that you work on embedded systems and have never heard of it. I've never even touched embedded systems work and I know about it.)
>What about convincing a customer they have a need for your product, when they really don't?
I have a little thing called scruples that prevents me from doing this. Perhaps you should look into getting some.
>He wrote:
Bzzt, wrong. That section is quoted text from the linked blog posting by Steven Poole.
Obviously, Mr. Pogue is sympathetic to the sentiment, though, otherwise he wouldn't have quoted it.
The headline is misleading. Donald Knuth represents the epitome of the solitary super-programmer stereotype, so it's only natural that he sees no need for unit tests to catch mistakes or extreme programming to improve team development practices. I don't think he's necessarily saying that those things are without value for ordinary programmers.
>FPGA's are being built with PPC cores now. So there. Verilog is a programming language Fail. The PPC CPUs never even see anything derived from the Verilog. The netlists compiled from the Verilog are only used to configure the FPGA part of the chip.
>Z80 is a set of gates and interconnections.
By your asinine definition, a dump truck full of loose vacuum tubes is also Turing complete. There's the little matter of the actual structuring of the gates into something capable of satisfying Turing completeness that you left out.
>It's not. It's a programming language for programming a type of CPU called an FPGA. It is a programming language (that is, it is turing complete), but the programming paradigm is rather different from that of an ALGOL language like C, even if the syntax is similar.
Parent post is uninformed garbage.
Verilog is a hardware description language used to describe blocks of logic and the interconnections between them. It has only the most superficial similarities to a conventional procedural programming language.
FPGAs are the Swiss Army knife of digital logic, a large blob of programmable logic gates that can be configured to perform the function of any digital circuit that can fit within it. They do not normally contain a CPU and those that do use the CPU to supplement the gate array.
>So they are using a name to categorize political bias in the news with a politically biased name. Brilliant. I know, I know, it's short for BLog + nEWS = BLEWS, but, duh.
I agree. To be fair to the entire political spectrum, it should have been BLOEWS instead.
>Because we all know that the most effective way to be informed is by only talking with and listening to people you already agree with. /sarcasm
And yet you're here on Slashdot?
Nice try at misdirecting people away from the main point but it doesn't disguise the fact that you have no meaningful response to the contention that UNIX is not the final word in OS design.
I also thank you for the factual correction, but it still stands that Rob Pike is a highly respected OS researcher with an in-depth understanding of the architecture of UNIX.
Any other debate trickery you'd care to attempt?
Name a single operating systems researcher that wouldn't laugh at you for suggesting that UNIX is the apothesis of operating systems. Hell, ask Rob Pike what he thinks; he was part of the team that wrote the original Unix.
To even suggest such a ridiculous thing is to display a painful level of ignorance and lack of imagination.
>Well, historically the rest of the server OS universe HAS bee command-line-oriented and script-heavy
The '60s called, they want their server administration paradigm back.
There are pluses and minuses to both GUI and CLI tools depending on the task. Inisisting on one or the other is the sign of an inflexible fossil.
Hey, I didn't say they weren't great. I said the the fact that it's scarce doesn't have anything to do with whether it's great or not.
>that you meant "is the wii's popularity playing into effect of how hard it is to find?" the answer to that question is an obvious "yes".
Are you guys under the impression that Nintendo has to dig it's consoles out of underground mines, sifting through tons of dirt to find just one rare Wii or something?
Nintendo could flood the channel with Wii's anytime they darn well please just by contracting out to additional manufacturers. They don't because they know the lack of availability gives them good hype and gullible people will keep lapping it up. "Oh, gawrsh, it's been so hard to find for so long therefore it must be super-popular. I just gotta have me one too!"
>A standards committee is not designed as a battlezone.
Can you really be that naive? Standards bodies have been corporate battlegrounds ever since they came into being.
>I know, Microsoft is big and scary now as well, but I am pretty happy to see a new 300 pound gorilla in the room standing up to IBM.
Fixed. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Welcome to our new corporate overlords, same as the old ones.
>Generation ships. Suspended animation. Bussard Ramjets.
AKA junk sci-fi fed to credulous geeks who don't know any actual space science. It's the nerd equivalent of Creationism.
Stross quite correctly points out that there is no known (or even theoretically possible) energy source or propulsion system that will make interstellar exploration economically self starting and maybe not even viable. Not fission, not fusion, not antimatter, not some quantum whamadoodle, *nothing*.
I have yet to see any of these people calling Stross an idiot provide anything better than pie-in-the-sky trash as an answer.
No, that was a myth created by ignorant journalists. From http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html:
The same source also notes:
>We will have a patents that covers not-being-evil and one on not-being-an-asshole.
AHA! That explains Bender. I guess Farnsworth couldn't afford to license the necessary patents at the time.
Always wondered about that.
IBM did it. so it's good.
The very sentence made my brain explode.
You punks under 35 probably have no idea why.