Fujitsu has a 2.5" SATA plus the 2.5" SAS drives are out too. Admittedly, they are both just now on the market (and might not be shipping in volume yet).
I agree that life would suck with emulators. However, despite my support for the Hindsight vendor, I don't believe they "will change debugging as we know it" which they claim on their website.
But you are absolutely right. In my own experience with embedded developement, emulators were often all you hand until the eval boards showed up and those were usually hogged by the bootstrap teams who could careless about emulation and were only interested in real hardware. Same deal with the prototype boards.
That said, I know of nobody who ever prefered to run anything on an emulator. Everyone was stoked to get access to the real deal.
In the cases of the mysterious bugs, again I think the solution is to use the often overlooked and unused builtin debugging facilities on most embedded processors and chipsets today. Often these require some proprietary assembly programming and fun compilers (I wish the chip vendors would just do this). However, the results are clear debugging/tracing of activities in real hardware environments.
In the case of the space shuttle and other similar systems like real flight simulators, I doubt software emulation is the solution for the code. Instead you would use the actual hardware, but emulate the I/O (the sensors, motors, etc). That way you are really testing the real platform, but you are generating a fake environment in order to limit risking life, limb, and expensive equipment.
Hindsight is a service within their platform emulator. While it sounds nifty, and I'm all for it... emulators never behaive the same as the real platform... especially in embedded environments. The timing of peripherals is never the same on the emulator as the platform. The result is that lots of time is spent debugging the emulator environment that bares little fruit for the platform environment.
What would be far more useful, would be to write tools that took advantage of many of the onboard hardware debugging capabilities of some of the common embedded chip architectures.
It's simple. If you die and leave an estate, the estate becomes income for the recipient and should rightfully be taxed.
What about when you're alive. Should children be forced to pay their parents rent? Pay for schooling and cleaning services? For the gas and use of the parents car? Where do you draw the line? It's not so simple.
Social motives aside, the death tax costs this country far more than the revenue it produces in wasted estate-planning entity structures and accounting schemes designed to avoid the estate-tax. With unexpected deaths, heirs are forced to suddenly raise large amounts of cash to offset "income" from newly inherited assets, especially privately owned businesses and real estate.
The result is that these inherited assets are either sold in "fire sales" to quickly generate the capital, or the dead guy wasted enumerable amounts of money establishing estate-tax proof trusts and holdings, special life-insurance, and lots of lawyers and accountants. Private companies get sold to public ones, etc. People who "worked for the family" for decades suddenly find themselves working for a less-caring public corporation. Either result is a burden on society. People should have to pay taxes, but if they choose to give their earned assets to AIDS research or their children they shouldn't have to pay taxes on that as well.
Despite the liberals claim that "The Estate Tax is one of the crucial things that stop the US from becoming more of an oligarchy..." historical evidence proves that since the adoption of the estate tax, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased. Look at the Kennedy's, the Melons, the Rockefellers, etc and you'll see rich families that seem to have found ways around the estate tax.
The death tax actually is a burden on the wealthy - but not the super rich politcal class to which you refer. The super rich can afford half of their assets to be wacked by the government when they die. (have of a few billion is still a lot). The majority of those who pay the estate tax only have a few million in assets when they die.
The death tax is a penalty on people for dying. It hurts our society by causing a loss in productivity and wasted resources. The revenue it brings in is trivial compared to the other federal and state revenue sources. In summary, it is unfair, unjust, and impractical.
The example I discussed was linkage. In more detail:
The issue of the non-GPL modules linking to GPL modules, what "linking" legally means/implies and what happens when virtual hardware deprecates the traditional concepts of "static linking" and "dynamic linking", and how non distributed non-GPL code linked into GPL code should be treated. The issue of what constitutes a "derived work" is also somewhat fuzzy.
I believe there is quite a bit of lack of clarity around certain elements of the GPL and several other "open" licenses out there. I believe the business community (for lack of a better term) would like to see these licenses tested in court around the issues of linkage was is covered by GPL and what is not, was is reasonable disclosure and what is not, etc. Law alone is no substitute for case history. I don't profess to be a lawyer, but as a business owner, I'm aware of the confusion and misgivings over this issue.
No doubt. The first thing you start with is a CUSTOMER. Start with an idea that customer wants - not something you think customers will want, but what an acutal customer is asking for. Makes life easier.
The suit was a big help in Linux because the impending failure of SCO has boosted confidence in the Linux platform from Enterprise community.
The next real challenge will be the GPL. The GPL has yet to have its "day in court". Such suits clarify the unclear, and let's face it: there are some unclear issues in the original GPL.
Bill Gates is not a Republican. He's a registered Independent, socially liberal, and against repealing the death tax.
Sure he's given to some Republican campaigns, but also note the gifts to Harry Reid (Democrat Minority Leader of the Senate) and to Tom Daschill (former Minority Leader of the Senate). He spreads it around pretty even.
I'm surprised North Korea hasn't just hacked the Voyager crafts yet. It wouldn't take much programming skills (just a seriously powerful transmitter/receiver) to upload your own firmware into those suckers that locked out anyone else's signal.
Maybe they should just open source the sucker. Let the open source community run the science. Put the sucker on sourceforge and give us access to the transmitters everyone once in a while.
...after receiving carte-blanche from the US Bush/Cheney regime...
I'd just like to point out for the record that Microsoft employees contribute more to the Democratic party than any other company in the United States and that the Microsoft itself has made only negligible political contributions to both parties. Bill Gates is certainly no conservative.
The idea that the Bush/Cheney regime as you call it should be determining whether a browser should be embedded into an OS is rediculous. The last thing we want is our elected officials telling us how to package and sell our software. Let's press them on software patents, not bundling issues.
I could help you, or just buy Windows or Mac OS-X. What is up with this insistance in pursuing a desktop OS that toughts "modem" support as its key feature?
Quit it with the FUD on eating children. It's a time honored tradition and in the right circumstances. I'm sick of/.'ers on their endless rampage against Satan, like they don't all run windows like everyone else.
Why the BSD people of course. Everyone knows the BSD triangle of NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are out to get Linux. BSD stands for BKill SDamn DPenguin. What other free OS is there that could feel threatened?
They find more fucking useless ways to spend our money here on Earth. Taxpayers should be allowed to opt out of having to foot the NASA bill. Thank God for space debris! It only costs $600,000,000 every time they launch the shuttle.
For many of you the goals of going into space has been a dream since childhood. Well, unfortunately, you're fired. Go get a real job. These Lego mindstorms make better astronaughts than your sorry asses. If your dream had been to be a media mogul, you might have earned enough doe to catch a flight on Branson's Virgin Rocket. But on NASA severance pay, you won't be able to afford the rent on your trailer home.
All kidding aside, this is exactly how I remember the manuals and literature of the day. The author clearly captured the "you figure it out" style of documentation from that era. Documentation has really advanced in the past 30 years.
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Fujitsu has a 2.5" SATA plus the 2.5" SAS drives are out too. Admittedly, they are both just now on the market (and might not be shipping in volume yet).
You'd think that just SATA would be plenty (maybe SAS for leading edge). Why would want to go to small form factor and use parallel ATA drives?
I agree that life would suck with emulators. However, despite my support for the Hindsight vendor, I don't believe they "will change debugging as we know it" which they claim on their website.
But you are absolutely right. In my own experience with embedded developement, emulators were often all you hand until the eval boards showed up and those were usually hogged by the bootstrap teams who could careless about emulation and were only interested in real hardware. Same deal with the prototype boards.
That said, I know of nobody who ever prefered to run anything on an emulator. Everyone was stoked to get access to the real deal.
In the cases of the mysterious bugs, again I think the solution is to use the often overlooked and unused builtin debugging facilities on most embedded processors and chipsets today. Often these require some proprietary assembly programming and fun compilers (I wish the chip vendors would just do this). However, the results are clear debugging/tracing of activities in real hardware environments.
In the case of the space shuttle and other similar systems like real flight simulators, I doubt software emulation is the solution for the code. Instead you would use the actual hardware, but emulate the I/O (the sensors, motors, etc). That way you are really testing the real platform, but you are generating a fake environment in order to limit risking life, limb, and expensive equipment.
Too bad Gene Roddenberry was prescient about the Tricorder and not the mini-skirt uniforms.
Great. Have Barbra pay for it.
Hindsight is a service within their platform emulator. While it sounds nifty, and I'm all for it... emulators never behaive the same as the real platform... especially in embedded environments. The timing of peripherals is never the same on the emulator as the platform. The result is that lots of time is spent debugging the emulator environment that bares little fruit for the platform environment.
What would be far more useful, would be to write tools that took advantage of many of the onboard hardware debugging capabilities of some of the common embedded chip architectures.
If it gets a PG-13 rating, then Lucas won't be able to bring his date to the premier...
What about when you're alive. Should children be forced to pay their parents rent? Pay for schooling and cleaning services? For the gas and use of the parents car? Where do you draw the line? It's not so simple.
Social motives aside, the death tax costs this country far more than the revenue it produces in wasted estate-planning entity structures and accounting schemes designed to avoid the estate-tax. With unexpected deaths, heirs are forced to suddenly raise large amounts of cash to offset "income" from newly inherited assets, especially privately owned businesses and real estate.
The result is that these inherited assets are either sold in "fire sales" to quickly generate the capital, or the dead guy wasted enumerable amounts of money establishing estate-tax proof trusts and holdings, special life-insurance, and lots of lawyers and accountants. Private companies get sold to public ones, etc. People who "worked for the family" for decades suddenly find themselves working for a less-caring public corporation. Either result is a burden on society. People should have to pay taxes, but if they choose to give their earned assets to AIDS research or their children they shouldn't have to pay taxes on that as well.
Despite the liberals claim that "The Estate Tax is one of the crucial things that stop the US from becoming more of an oligarchy..." historical evidence proves that since the adoption of the estate tax, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased. Look at the Kennedy's, the Melons, the Rockefellers, etc and you'll see rich families that seem to have found ways around the estate tax.
The death tax actually is a burden on the wealthy - but not the super rich politcal class to which you refer. The super rich can afford half of their assets to be wacked by the government when they die. (have of a few billion is still a lot). The majority of those who pay the estate tax only have a few million in assets when they die.
The death tax is a penalty on people for dying. It hurts our society by causing a loss in productivity and wasted resources. The revenue it brings in is trivial compared to the other federal and state revenue sources. In summary, it is unfair, unjust, and impractical.
The example I discussed was linkage. In more detail:
The issue of the non-GPL modules linking to GPL modules, what "linking" legally means/implies and what happens when virtual hardware deprecates the traditional concepts of "static linking" and "dynamic linking", and how non distributed non-GPL code linked into GPL code should be treated. The issue of what constitutes a "derived work" is also somewhat fuzzy.
I believe there is quite a bit of lack of clarity around certain elements of the GPL and several other "open" licenses out there. I believe the business community (for lack of a better term) would like to see these licenses tested in court around the issues of linkage was is covered by GPL and what is not, was is reasonable disclosure and what is not, etc. Law alone is no substitute for case history. I don't profess to be a lawyer, but as a business owner, I'm aware of the confusion and misgivings over this issue.
No doubt. The first thing you start with is a CUSTOMER. Start with an idea that customer wants - not something you think customers will want, but what an acutal customer is asking for. Makes life easier.
The suit was a big help in Linux because the impending failure of SCO has boosted confidence in the Linux platform from Enterprise community.
The next real challenge will be the GPL. The GPL has yet to have its "day in court". Such suits clarify the unclear, and let's face it: there are some unclear issues in the original GPL.
Bill Gates is not a Republican. He's a registered Independent, socially liberal, and against repealing the death tax.
Sure he's given to some Republican campaigns, but also note the gifts to Harry Reid (Democrat Minority Leader of the Senate) and to Tom Daschill (former Minority Leader of the Senate). He spreads it around pretty even.
I'm surprised North Korea hasn't just hacked the Voyager crafts yet. It wouldn't take much programming skills (just a seriously powerful transmitter/receiver) to upload your own firmware into those suckers that locked out anyone else's signal.
Maybe they should just open source the sucker. Let the open source community run the science. Put the sucker on sourceforge and give us access to the transmitters everyone once in a while.
I'd just like to point out for the record that Microsoft employees contribute more to the Democratic party than any other company in the United States and that the Microsoft itself has made only negligible political contributions to both parties. Bill Gates is certainly no conservative.
The idea that the Bush/Cheney regime as you call it should be determining whether a browser should be embedded into an OS is rediculous. The last thing we want is our elected officials telling us how to package and sell our software. Let's press them on software patents, not bundling issues.
Not only is the "weight limit" comment bush league, but the "larger" comment is equally as silly: things can be larger and still less massive.
I could help you, or just buy Windows or Mac OS-X. What is up with this insistance in pursuing a desktop OS that toughts "modem" support as its key feature?
Quit it with the FUD on eating children. It's a time honored tradition and in the right circumstances. I'm sick of /.'ers on their endless rampage against Satan, like they don't all run windows like everyone else.
Why the BSD people of course. Everyone knows the BSD triangle of NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are out to get Linux. BSD stands for BKill SDamn DPenguin. What other free OS is there that could feel threatened?
They find more fucking useless ways to spend our money here on Earth. Taxpayers should be allowed to opt out of having to foot the NASA bill. Thank God for space debris! It only costs $600,000,000 every time they launch the shuttle.
For many of you the goals of going into space has been a dream since childhood. Well, unfortunately, you're fired. Go get a real job. These Lego mindstorms make better astronaughts than your sorry asses. If your dream had been to be a media mogul, you might have earned enough doe to catch a flight on Branson's Virgin Rocket. But on NASA severance pay, you won't be able to afford the rent on your trailer home.
Without Tom Baker there is no Dr. Who.
You can grep a PDF file. It just treats it as a binary type.
WinFS is faster than grep because it builds the indexes in advance of the queries for faster lookup times.
All kidding aside, this is exactly how I remember the manuals and literature of the day. The author clearly captured the "you figure it out" style of documentation from that era. Documentation has really advanced in the past 30 years.
What would be really interesting is for Microsoft to compare a desktop WinFS deployment use scenario to a system with NTFS with file indexing enabled.