Methane from cows is a serious problem, since it is a far more effective greenhouse gas than co2. No it is not. The Methan the cows produce would also be produced if the plants they eat would simply rot. Methan is split up in the upper atmosphere. So the amount of cows only set the "base level". More cows, that level is higher. But unlike our CO2 production, which increases CO2 levels continuously, the methane level caused by cows basically stays constant.
Windows 95 was actually very stable, it had a networking stack and 3D graphics, no idea about what you are talking. Not sure about the colours though:P
It's very easy to write hello world in assembly and have it come out to 400 bytes of machine code Probably less even.
Perhaps you can convince the dictionary writers that they finally write loosing how it is pronounced and not how it is wrongly kept in the dictionaries since 200 years.
Sorry, you write now nite instead of night, but can not accept to write loose instead of lose? Makes no sense.... funnily loose is not red underlined, seems my spelling correction accepts it somehow.
The curse of the last century and probably still going on into ours is simple: Weapon technology evolved faster than any human mind can comprehend, or any human ethics evolved with same speed. The previous Iraq war killed probably 5 million people. But it is downplayed as surgery strikes. And the aftermath probably is about to kill 20 million due to the ISIS crisis which no one dares to tackle.
For reference: WWII is considered to have killed 50 million. Bombing Iraq back into the "middle ages" and having ISIS running mad in that area is already approaching 50% of that death toll.
Actually it was simple:D Hence the misunderstandings in the thread.
The software in the Apollo systems had not even 1000 lines of code... the space shuttle had a bit more than a million. No idea why you post about software when the only thing you do is trying to explain us why embedded is so complicated and can only done if you know how to xor a register with itself to set it to zero 1 cycle faster.
A correct prediction allows for better use of energy production that can take time to set up and get ready due to complex solar and wind energy production problems. Yes, and we work with correct prognoses since decades. My old customer EnBW, buys prognosis data from about 10 providers. The average, sometimes a weighted one, from the 3 providers that were the most accurate over the last 3 or 4 hours are used for the next hour. This is corrected every 15 minutes. So your feared "other power plants react to slow" scenario never happened the last 20 years....
Actually we don't call it prediction, we call it prognosis. And there are plenty of companies like https://www.windfinder.com/ who do this since decades.
So you're saying the Apollo command and lunar module flight software was simple BECAUSE the CPUs weren't all that powerful and there wasn't much RAM? No, they were simple because they did simple tasks.
Even there, you face challenges not seen in the server or desktop world. Yes, but such a "challenge" is just another "part of the spec".
You sound more like a stereotypical PHB that thinks programming is just a bunch of typing so it must be easy. No, I'm a software developer. And in my experience the challenge is in requirements engineering... I at least never had any problem to develop anything. There is no special trick in doing embedded development...
And I had to wonder, why (other than the 'hipster' angle) they were using pricey Mac's at all Because developers love macs. Wow, it never occurred to you.
Why would I buy a development system as premiumly-priced as the Macs to target a platform that might be successful in a few years? Because Macs run OS X or macOS. It is even preinstalled. A random hardware does not.
Why Mac haters don't shut up is beyond me. If you have no use/need for macOS, fine. then simply shut up, idiots.
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Methane from cows is a serious problem, since it is a far more effective greenhouse gas than co2.
No it is not. The Methan the cows produce would also be produced if the plants they eat would simply rot. Methan is split up in the upper atmosphere. So the amount of cows only set the "base level". More cows, that level is higher. But unlike our CO2 production, which increases CO2 levels continuously, the methane level caused by cows basically stays constant.
I installed Win95 from a CD. And the network stack was included ... and my ISDN card worked out of the box. But it might be I got it 1996 :P
Well, I don't know any better. And convincing 300 FB "friends" and make them convince their friends, too, would be very very time consuming.
When you suppress free speech with violence, you are not fighting fascism - you are the fascist!
You seem to mix me up with someone.
I'm a democrate not a fascist.
Then it is 2000 lines, rofl.
Does not make a big difference.
Anyway it was not the topic, the topic was that some people on /. always claim embedded development would be close to magic, it is not.
Windows 95 was actually very stable, it had a networking stack and 3D graphics, no idea about what you are talking. Not sure about the colours though :P
It's very easy to write hello world in assembly and have it come out to 400 bytes of machine code
Probably less even.
World of warcraft always worked fine for me.
Only the german version of Warcraft II had a bug they never fixed, which was a bit annoying if you wanted to play multi player games via the internet.
Perhaps you can convince the dictionary writers that they finally write loosing how it is pronounced and not how it is wrongly kept in the dictionaries since 200 years.
Sorry, you write now nite instead of night, but can not accept to write loose instead of lose? Makes no sense .... funnily loose is not red underlined, seems my spelling correction accepts it somehow.
The curse of the last century and probably still going on into ours is simple:
Weapon technology evolved faster than any human mind can comprehend, or any human ethics evolved with same speed. The previous Iraq war killed probably 5 million people. But it is downplayed as surgery strikes. And the aftermath probably is about to kill 20 million due to the ISIS crisis which no one dares to tackle.
For reference: WWII is considered to have killed 50 million. Bombing Iraq back into the "middle ages" and having ISIS running mad in that area is already approaching 50% of that death toll.
Actually it was simple :D
Hence the misunderstandings in the thread.
The software in the Apollo systems had not even 1000 lines of code ... the space shuttle had a bit more than a million. No idea why you post about software when the only thing you do is trying to explain us why embedded is so complicated and can only done if you know how to xor a register with itself to set it to zero 1 cycle faster.
But thanks to the internet many things are easy to look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Have a nice day.
Did you ever organize a gathering of 1000 or more people internationally?
See ...
Why don't you make a FB account and try it for a while? No one forces you to tell your private life there ... I never posted anything private there.
Wow, no one ever called me a fascists.
Hint you can google what the term actually means.
Ah :D
Did he not also say, democracy is the worst system, but we don't know any better, or something like that?
A correct prediction allows for better use of energy production that can take time to set up and get ready due to complex solar and wind energy production problems. ....
Yes, and we work with correct prognoses since decades. My old customer EnBW, buys prognosis data from about 10 providers. The average, sometimes a weighted one, from the 3 providers that were the most accurate over the last 3 or 4 hours are used for the next hour. This is corrected every 15 minutes.
So your feared "other power plants react to slow" scenario never happened the last 20 years
Actually we don't call it prediction, we call it prognosis.
And there are plenty of companies like https://www.windfinder.com/ who do this since decades.
When you compare speech to child abuse, you're trivialising child abuse. ...
A good deal of child abuse is speech
And there is nothing trivial about abuse/harassing by speech.
That is more difficult than you think.
Or why do you think people who have an unhealthy walking style don't change it?
There are plenty of legitime uses for FB, e.g. organizing events.
You obviously are not a FB user, so why do you claim things about stuff you have no clue about?
Oh, I thought hipsters are just a variation of nerds.
I actually prefer geeks over nerds.
So you're saying the Apollo command and lunar module flight software was simple BECAUSE the CPUs weren't all that powerful and there wasn't much RAM?
No, they were simple because they did simple tasks.
Even there, you face challenges not seen in the server or desktop world.
Yes, but such a "challenge" is just another "part of the spec".
You sound more like a stereotypical PHB that thinks programming is just a bunch of typing so it must be easy. ... I at least never had any problem to develop anything. There is no special trick in doing embedded development ...
No, I'm a software developer. And in my experience the challenge is in requirements engineering
It is probably all written in Hebrew ... how many people can read that? 5million? 10 million? 20 million?
And I had to wonder, why (other than the 'hipster' angle) they were using pricey Mac's at all
Because developers love macs. Wow, it never occurred to you.
You know, usually you just "close" the laptop and it suspends ... unless it is a weird "brand" of linux, though.
https://embeddedartistry.com/b...
Why would I buy a development system as premiumly-priced as the Macs to target a platform that might be successful in a few years?
Because Macs run OS X or macOS. It is even preinstalled. A random hardware does not.
Why Mac haters don't shut up is beyond me. If you have no use/need for macOS, fine. then simply shut up, idiots.