Very good points. I, myself, often find my arguments getting lost in my emotional vigor about the issues. Sometimes, everyone needs reminded to argue more logically and less emotionally.
I am quite intrigued by this offer. I've heard of this project before and was interested when I first heard of it.
Now that they are ready to offer the hardware, I find myself seriously considering purchasing one.
My question is this:
Given that I am an experienced software developer (C, C++, Java, Perl, etc, etc, etc) that has spent most of his career on business and financial systems (though I have done some device driver development and near-real-time processing systems [Currently working on control systems and UI for Radiation Monitors for ports of entry]) and that I've always had a lot of interest in graphics programming, what could I do with something like this?
In other words, if I've never done any FPGA programming and not much 3-D graphics programming (though I am familiar with matrix algebra and such and have read the OpenGL Bible cover-to-cover a couple of times), but, could I have FUN with this thing? Anyone with any experience with this type of thing have any opinion?
Look forward to people's ideas and recommendations.
No, the NSA IS NOT part of the DOD. DOD is Department of Defense. There are 3 to 4 branches, depending on how you count: Army, Navy(Marines), Air Force.
Yes, technically "The Marines" are part of the Navy.
Oh, and by full of crap, I literally mean you ingest it daily. At every meal in fact. I have it on good authority that when you open your mouth, shit drizzles out of your mouth.
I also hear that you like to have sex with chickens and young boys.
So, will you ever stop having sex with young boys? Will you?
We need fewer H1B visas, not more.
I am currently working on a government (ironically funded by DHS) project. We have a team of about 10 developers. 1/2 of the developers are H1B candidates. Not one of the H1B candidates have made ANY meaningful contribution ot the project.
They are all being paid an enormous sum of money to "learn". It has actually had a negative impact on the project because I, and others, spend so much time mentoring them, teaching them, and fixing their inevitable screw-ups.
This is a fraud on the American public, American Citizenry, and American Taxpayers.
Meanwhile, here in the rust belt, while these supposedly necessary H1B candidates who produce NOTHING get paid salaries in the top 5% of the North-Eastern Ohio, the people born and bred here, see their incomes decline year after year while they are told their skills are not worth something, that there is no way for them to obtain new skills, and that "Oh, well, that's just global competition".
It's a recipe for failure of the greatest magnitude. People won't stand for it for much longer.
I've worked with more than 20 H1B people who are supposedly necessary because there aren't any citizens to fill the jobs. Of the 20, 2 were worth something. The other 18 may as well have been fungus on the bottom of a coffee cup. (I'm talking about skills, not them as people. They were quite nice people.)
The H1B thing is nothing but a scam perpetrated on the American people!
...there is no recourse than to lose all respect for the law, lawyers, courts, and the legal system. It's time to have a revolution and kill all these fuckers! Yes, many innocents will die, but, so what.
Law in this country is becoming a weapon of the few (powerful) to be used against the many (average people). I say, "Fuck 'em all!"
North America does not *need* China in any sense of the word. That is a complete fallacy. We could cease all trade with China tomorrow and we would be perfectly fine. In fact, we'd probably be better off.
Don't start in about all the "goods" we'd be missing. So what! We'd make 'em here. They'd be more expensive, but, that'd be a good thing.
By the way, this WILL happen. As the oil reserves in the world dwindle, all nations will increasingly turn inward. Sorry to say it, but all the "international trade" and talk about "free trade" is economic voodoo!
It's about to get UGLY! Real UGLY! Prepare for feudal times!
By the way, this means the decline of human civilization and our inevitable extinction from this Galaxy.
Free Trad, Schmree Trad. It won't matter one bit!
Television is interesting and fulfilling to the intellectually lazy and/or comforting to the overworked (not everyone is lazy, sometimes they're just tired from slaving away at work). So, it encourages someone to watch. When someone wants to watch, they need a place to sit, so they buy couches. The demand for couches makes someone else want to provide couches. So, couches get made. Therefore, Fat men in proximity to TV's "make" couches. Q.E.D.
I like Java. I develop extensive systems in it. I also have developed extensive systems in C, C++, Perl, Python, Progres 4GL, Clipper, VB, Delphi, Basic (Tandy Co-Co no less), Assembler (Co-Co,C64,AppleIIe), Lisp/REP/Scheme/Guile (My personal favorites), Javascript (really just Lisp with syntactic sugar), etc, etc, etc.
All of them are "nice" and productive languages. But, let's make one thing clear, a language like Java was not invented to solve a technical problem. It was invented to solve a commercial problem. That problem, "How does Sun sell their hardware and O/S when all the developers are developing for Microsoft/Win32?"
So, trying to introduce new developers to Java under the false assumption that Java is needed to solve some class of problems that predecessor languages were inadequate to solve it complete and utter "BuuuuuuulShiiiiiit"!
I've found that rolling them up in a ball, like one would yarn, works absolutely perfectly. It never tangles. It's compact. It's easy. It seems a little counter-intuitive, but, if you think about it, why do women who knit or crotchet wrap their yarn in balls? Because it works!
I don't know, it seems like perfectlry fernaculat language to me!
Seriously though, I see nothing wrong with that sentence. I'm tired of everyone wanting everything to be written at a forth-grade level. Please, don't go into some dissertation about "clear communication" and such. Yes, I agreee, if everything is written at a forth-grade level, nearly everyone will understand. But, let's be honest, that can be extremely boring.
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Very good points. I, myself, often find my arguments getting lost in my emotional vigor about the issues. Sometimes, everyone needs reminded to argue more logically and less emotionally.
Any recommendations for someone interested in exploring, in a hobby fashion, the world of VHDL programming and FPGAs?
Thanks for the response. That was the kind of "expert" opinion I was hoping for. Anyone else?
I am quite intrigued by this offer. I've heard of this project before and was interested when I first heard of it. Now that they are ready to offer the hardware, I find myself seriously considering purchasing one. My question is this: Given that I am an experienced software developer (C, C++, Java, Perl, etc, etc, etc) that has spent most of his career on business and financial systems (though I have done some device driver development and near-real-time processing systems [Currently working on control systems and UI for Radiation Monitors for ports of entry]) and that I've always had a lot of interest in graphics programming, what could I do with something like this? In other words, if I've never done any FPGA programming and not much 3-D graphics programming (though I am familiar with matrix algebra and such and have read the OpenGL Bible cover-to-cover a couple of times), but, could I have FUN with this thing? Anyone with any experience with this type of thing have any opinion? Look forward to people's ideas and recommendations.
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No, the NSA IS NOT part of the DOD. DOD is Department of Defense. There are 3 to 4 branches, depending on how you count: Army, Navy(Marines), Air Force. Yes, technically "The Marines" are part of the Navy.
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This is exactly why GNU/Linux/FLOSS WILL replace proprietary MS, OS/X etc.
Mod parent up!
Oh, and by full of crap, I literally mean you ingest it daily. At every meal in fact. I have it on good authority that when you open your mouth, shit drizzles out of your mouth. I also hear that you like to have sex with chickens and young boys. So, will you ever stop having sex with young boys? Will you?
Xenophobia implies fear. Nothing to fear from what I've seen. We can easily out-compete them.
We need fewer H1B visas, not more. I am currently working on a government (ironically funded by DHS) project. We have a team of about 10 developers. 1/2 of the developers are H1B candidates. Not one of the H1B candidates have made ANY meaningful contribution ot the project. They are all being paid an enormous sum of money to "learn". It has actually had a negative impact on the project because I, and others, spend so much time mentoring them, teaching them, and fixing their inevitable screw-ups. This is a fraud on the American public, American Citizenry, and American Taxpayers. Meanwhile, here in the rust belt, while these supposedly necessary H1B candidates who produce NOTHING get paid salaries in the top 5% of the North-Eastern Ohio, the people born and bred here, see their incomes decline year after year while they are told their skills are not worth something, that there is no way for them to obtain new skills, and that "Oh, well, that's just global competition". It's a recipe for failure of the greatest magnitude. People won't stand for it for much longer.
I've worked with more than 20 H1B people who are supposedly necessary because there aren't any citizens to fill the jobs. Of the 20, 2 were worth something. The other 18 may as well have been fungus on the bottom of a coffee cup. (I'm talking about skills, not them as people. They were quite nice people.) The H1B thing is nothing but a scam perpetrated on the American people!
Mod Parent Up!
Having been working on such a project for the last 8 months, I can personally tell you the cost is Ginormous!
...there is no recourse than to lose all respect for the law, lawyers, courts, and the legal system. It's time to have a revolution and kill all these fuckers! Yes, many innocents will die, but, so what.
Law in this country is becoming a weapon of the few (powerful) to be used against the many (average people). I say, "Fuck 'em all!"
and here in Ohio all the Steel plants sit idle because it's too expensive to produce the Steel here because of cheap imports. I call BULLSHIT!
North America does not *need* China in any sense of the word. That is a complete fallacy. We could cease all trade with China tomorrow and we would be perfectly fine. In fact, we'd probably be better off. Don't start in about all the "goods" we'd be missing. So what! We'd make 'em here. They'd be more expensive, but, that'd be a good thing. By the way, this WILL happen. As the oil reserves in the world dwindle, all nations will increasingly turn inward. Sorry to say it, but all the "international trade" and talk about "free trade" is economic voodoo! It's about to get UGLY! Real UGLY! Prepare for feudal times! By the way, this means the decline of human civilization and our inevitable extinction from this Galaxy. Free Trad, Schmree Trad. It won't matter one bit!
Couldn't have said it better myself. And I'm 37, not 20!
Television is interesting and fulfilling to the intellectually lazy and/or comforting to the overworked (not everyone is lazy, sometimes they're just tired from slaving away at work). So, it encourages someone to watch. When someone wants to watch, they need a place to sit, so they buy couches. The demand for couches makes someone else want to provide couches. So, couches get made. Therefore, Fat men in proximity to TV's "make" couches. Q.E.D.
I like Java. I develop extensive systems in it. I also have developed extensive systems in C, C++, Perl, Python, Progres 4GL, Clipper, VB, Delphi, Basic (Tandy Co-Co no less), Assembler (Co-Co,C64,AppleIIe), Lisp/REP/Scheme/Guile (My personal favorites), Javascript (really just Lisp with syntactic sugar), etc, etc, etc.
All of them are "nice" and productive languages. But, let's make one thing clear, a language like Java was not invented to solve a technical problem. It was invented to solve a commercial problem. That problem, "How does Sun sell their hardware and O/S when all the developers are developing for Microsoft/Win32?"
So, trying to introduce new developers to Java under the false assumption that Java is needed to solve some class of problems that predecessor languages were inadequate to solve it complete and utter "BuuuuuuulShiiiiiit"!
I'd rather try to keep things honest.
I've found that rolling them up in a ball, like one would yarn, works absolutely perfectly. It never tangles. It's compact. It's easy. It seems a little counter-intuitive, but, if you think about it, why do women who knit or crotchet wrap their yarn in balls? Because it works!
I don't know, it seems like perfectlry fernaculat language to me!
Seriously though, I see nothing wrong with that sentence. I'm tired of everyone wanting everything to be written at a forth-grade level. Please, don't go into some dissertation about "clear communication" and such. Yes, I agreee, if everything is written at a forth-grade level, nearly everyone will understand. But, let's be honest, that can be extremely boring.
Oops! Did the reference wrong.
Gravity Waves are theorized to propogate at the speed of light. If not, cause and effect can be violated.