..you told him it was a USB watch? Hmmn. And what if a data thief has a Sandisk combo SD/USB stamp-sized card in his belt buckle? Ah, but *he* lied about having it.
Great security. Relies on thieves being honest enough to confess. About as smart as the DHS asking whether you are a terrorist or not (yes, they really do: read form I-94W).
t->overflow_flag = 1;/* set the overflow flag to 1 */
Stupid moron! I can bloody well read that you're setting it to 1. WHY are you setting it to 1. What does 1 mean anyway? Jesus. And this code is supposed to go into anti-lock brakes.
My old prof for assembly programming used to get so sick of reading stupid comments he wrote a stupid comment generator. It would parse the.asm file and then add comments automatically. Like:
INC X ; add 1 to X register
Of course, none of the dumb students doing this got the joke. I guess to these people irony is what you add carbony to when you make steely.
Jeez. After DECADES of research (much sponsored by the USN) into real-time scheduling we get real-time Linux running "frames". Also known as "a big loop of code run as fast as possible". Makes me want to retch.
I've never been in such a whacky country. 40C in Summer. -40 in Winter. That's amazing.
Anyone in Toronto this summer wouldn't have said "frozen" as the response to "Canada" in the word-association game. My worry on immigrating is not cold, but how I can get aircon working when the Ontario Hydro is in such a mess (hint to Ontarians: PUT THE PRICE OF ELECTRICITY UP).
My skilled worker application has been in 18 months and I'm still waiting. I have plenty of points (a PhD in computing, cash to invest, a wife with a degree, ten years running a company, fluent in English, still in my 30s). My cousin, similarly qualified, has just put his application in, and he's been told not to even think about calling for THREE YEARS.
What a mess. Makes the US look like a well-adminstered nation.
OK. Here's a test. Talk about source code to a lawyer. I sold a tech business. I NEVER got the lawyers (ours and theirs) to understand what source code was. I CONSTANTLY had to edit the agreements to change "source codes" to "source code". I think they file it in their brains under "secret nuclear launch codes type things; dangerous; can cause company to explode; must be kept top secret, dual keys, vetted staff, keep out cameras".
Morons. Trouble comes when a company needs to use tech, but is run by lawyers. Bah.
Element 105, named after Igor Kurchatov, father of the hyrdogen bomb. In the Soviet Union. Actually, there were some whiny types that didn't agree with the naming and it's now called Rutherfordium. Or Rutherfordum.
Then there's Helum, that noble gas. And Kurchatovum, that incredibly unstable element. And Lithum, of which batteries are made. Not forgetting Valum, for people too depressed to worry about spelling.
Yes, yes, I know, a whole continent of people can't spell that metal's name. It's just like the English who wrote "cocoa" when they should have written "cacao". Amazing how an illiterate in the wrong place at the wrong time can screw up a dictionary.
I know Stefan Poledna, quoted in the article. I know the TTTech people: they were competitors of a company I set up. These people are excellent engineers. The management is composed of engineers. If there is one company in the embedded safety critical systems industry I would trust to do a proper job, it is TTTech.
Furthermore, the TTTech "chip" is a communications chip only. It doesn't do anything at the application level. It is designed to provide fault tolerant multi-channel redundant communication. In any case, a hazard analysis of the actual control unit connected to the TTTech chip should include the case where the chip fails (however remote a chance that it would).
Finally, the whole move towards "off the shelf" components is one designed to increase safety. A device that has been examined and used in the millions (e.g. in automotive) is one that is well tested in the field. Compared to a paper-perfect-but-never-flown design I'd stake my life on the field tested one any day.
I worked for ten years in the automotive industry writing embedded software and tools for people who wrote automotive embedded software. You obviously worked for one of the suppliers who had better practices than most. I saw a Japanese supplier that used cp -r for its version control. I met people who proposed using Java for window lift motor control. I encountered car makers who demanded that silicon suppliers characterised what happened to their silicon when the supply voltage wandered all over the place. I saw an operating system design that had infinite recursion in the API. And the trend is now towards huge bloated specs for software standards that result in huge bloated lumps of code that have to fit somehow into the available silicon. Costs are rising and reliability is tanking. In my view we're going to see the late '90s and early 00s as a high water mark in automobile reliability.
Then the price would be set by demand and the tax payers would have got fair value. Sheesh, you'd think that after 250 years of capitalism in the Land of the Free that people would have "got it" by now?
The committee want $$$ to get the *spec*. How much they want for conformance testing is anyone's guess.
If they want this to become widespread they need to get little innovative companies on board and ordinary experimenters. Paying several thousand dollars for a document is not a good start.
In the UK a TV licence is required to operate a television receiver (a television receiver being a device that receives television, television being moving picture signals broadcast from afar, afar including cable and satellite but not CCTV cameras). Neither ownership nor watching TV per se require a licence.
Someone outside a house peering in through the window cannot reasonably be said to be operating a television.
K.
This idea of "theft" is one put about by RIAA and MPAA. Don't confuse things.
A better analogy than stealing hifi would be if looked through your window and watched your TV that you left turned on. Is that illegal? Is it immoral?
Pity no-one cared when Creationism gets top priority in science lessons in schools, or when people don't want cellphone masts near schools (but still smoke cigarettes).
Well, America, if you think science is a dirty discipline that gets in the way of policy and religion, what you gonna expect?
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>Do these big companies *really* lack so much imagination!?
Yes.
..you told him it was a USB watch? Hmmn. And what if a data thief has a Sandisk combo SD/USB stamp-sized card in his belt buckle? Ah, but *he* lied about having it.
Great security. Relies on thieves being honest enough to confess. About as smart as the DHS asking whether you are a terrorist or not (yes, they really do: read form I-94W).
K.
Reviewing a piece of software today:
/* set the overflow flag to 1 */
.asm file and then add comments automatically. Like:
t->overflow_flag = 1;
Stupid moron! I can bloody well read that you're setting it to 1. WHY are you setting it to 1. What does 1 mean anyway? Jesus. And this code is supposed to go into anti-lock brakes.
My old prof for assembly programming used to get so sick of reading stupid comments he wrote a stupid comment generator. It would parse the
INC X ; add 1 to X register
Of course, none of the dumb students doing this got the joke. I guess to these people irony is what you add carbony to when you make steely.
K.
Jeez. After DECADES of research (much sponsored by the USN) into real-time scheduling we get real-time Linux running "frames". Also known as "a big loop of code run as fast as possible". Makes me want to retch.
K.
I've never been in such a whacky country. 40C in Summer. -40 in Winter. That's amazing.
Anyone in Toronto this summer wouldn't have said "frozen" as the response to "Canada" in the word-association game. My worry on immigrating is not cold, but how I can get aircon working when the Ontario Hydro is in such a mess (hint to Ontarians: PUT THE PRICE OF ELECTRICITY UP).
K.
My skilled worker application has been in 18 months and I'm still waiting. I have plenty of points (a PhD in computing, cash to invest, a wife with a degree, ten years running a company, fluent in English, still in my 30s). My cousin, similarly qualified, has just put his application in, and he's been told not to even think about calling for THREE YEARS.
What a mess. Makes the US look like a well-adminstered nation.
K.
OK. Here's a test. Talk about source code to a lawyer. I sold a tech business. I NEVER got the lawyers (ours and theirs) to understand what source code was. I CONSTANTLY had to edit the agreements to change "source codes" to "source code". I think they file it in their brains under "secret nuclear launch codes type things; dangerous; can cause company to explode; must be kept top secret, dual keys, vetted staff, keep out cameras".
Morons. Trouble comes when a company needs to use tech, but is run by lawyers. Bah.
K.
No, you do. The US is one of the few countries that has this wicked regime of taxing foreigners living abroad (to quote Monty Python).
K.
Element 105, named after Igor Kurchatov, father of the hyrdogen bomb. In the Soviet Union. Actually, there were some whiny types that didn't agree with the naming and it's now called Rutherfordium. Or Rutherfordum.
K.
Then there's Helum, that noble gas. And Kurchatovum, that incredibly unstable element. And Lithum, of which batteries are made. Not forgetting Valum, for people too depressed to worry about spelling.
Yes, yes, I know, a whole continent of people can't spell that metal's name. It's just like the English who wrote "cocoa" when they should have written "cacao". Amazing how an illiterate in the wrong place at the wrong time can screw up a dictionary.
K.
Oh yes, most definitely maybe able to possible resist scratches. Unlike glass, which only possibly could be able to resist scratches.
Did the midget mind who wrote this glowing pap even read their own article back before submitting it?
K.
With "it's" spelt wrong. Ignoramus.
K.
I had a little bird
It's name was Enza
I opened the window
And in flew Enza
A kids nursery rhyme from 1918.
K.
I know Stefan Poledna, quoted in the article. I know the TTTech people: they were competitors of a company I set up. These people are excellent engineers. The management is composed of engineers. If there is one company in the embedded safety critical systems industry I would trust to do a proper job, it is TTTech.
Furthermore, the TTTech "chip" is a communications chip only. It doesn't do anything at the application level. It is designed to provide fault tolerant multi-channel redundant communication. In any case, a hazard analysis of the actual control unit connected to the TTTech chip should include the case where the chip fails (however remote a chance that it would).
Finally, the whole move towards "off the shelf" components is one designed to increase safety. A device that has been examined and used in the millions (e.g. in automotive) is one that is well tested in the field. Compared to a paper-perfect-but-never-flown design I'd stake my life on the field tested one any day.
K.
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17987. htm
K.
I worked for ten years in the automotive industry writing embedded software and tools for people who wrote automotive embedded software. You obviously worked for one of the suppliers who had better practices than most. I saw a Japanese supplier that used cp -r for its version control. I met people who proposed using Java for window lift motor control. I encountered car makers who demanded that silicon suppliers characterised what happened to their silicon when the supply voltage wandered all over the place. I saw an operating system design that had infinite recursion in the API. And the trend is now towards huge bloated specs for software standards that result in huge bloated lumps of code that have to fit somehow into the available silicon. Costs are rising and reliability is tanking. In my view we're going to see the late '90s and early 00s as a high water mark in automobile reliability.
K.
Then the price would be set by demand and the tax payers would have got fair value. Sheesh, you'd think that after 250 years of capitalism in the Land of the Free that people would have "got it" by now?
K.
That's going to be a popular format for home-made wedding videos then, isn't it?
I don't know why these Studio wonks are wasting our time. DVD is good enough for my purposes. They can all go screw themselves.
K.
Alas you it is that has the problem.
K.
The committee want $$$ to get the *spec*. How much they want for conformance testing is anyone's guess.
If they want this to become widespread they need to get little innovative companies on board and ordinary experimenters. Paying several thousand dollars for a document is not a good start.
K.
In the UK a TV licence is required to operate a television receiver (a television receiver being a device that receives television, television being moving picture signals broadcast from afar, afar including cable and satellite but not CCTV cameras). Neither ownership nor watching TV per se require a licence. Someone outside a house peering in through the window cannot reasonably be said to be operating a television. K.
This idea of "theft" is one put about by RIAA and MPAA. Don't confuse things.
A better analogy than stealing hifi would be if looked through your window and watched your TV that you left turned on. Is that illegal? Is it immoral?
K.
So someone who funded people who killed civilians to change a regime would also be a terrorist, right?
K.
The morality tax should have different levels, and plugging of loopholes should attract a particularly high rate. Say, 100%.
K.
Pity no-one cared when Creationism gets top priority in science lessons in schools, or when people don't want cellphone masts near schools (but still smoke cigarettes).
Well, America, if you think science is a dirty discipline that gets in the way of policy and religion, what you gonna expect?
K.