This looks on the surface similar to the Ariane-5 failure in '96. Which, as we all know, was eventually traced to an unprotected 64-bit double to 16-bit integer conversion overflow...
Reduce pollination? What, on earth, does plant birth control have to do with toyota? Unless they're going for umbrella corporation status, that sort of thing would be way outside their usual line of business.
Of course, if they ARE...
1. Get a (the) Spartan-3 starter board. It's got the 500 variant of the Spartan-3 on it which is big enough to implement even small processors. The board also has some very limited VGA output, and a heap of other things that makes it fun to work with (Serial I/F, etc). The manual for this board is one of the better ones for beginners, as well. I broke my own teeth on this board. It's 149 US schmucks from digilent.
2. Get Xilinx's free tool suite; its nicely compatible with that board. Free download from the web. Heck, you can even download and play with it without the / any board (but then you don't, of course, get the blinkenlights.) You can however try out and simulate designs before going to FPGA, and thus figure out why the (redacted) it doesn't (redacted) work. Simulations are your main way of verifying your design once you're past 20-odd gates.
3. Learn the HDL of your choice. Read the books. One warning only: it is NOT a programming language - the entire model in your head about how software works needs to be replaced. Case statements are king. Productivity with HDL's are generally way lower than software; don't be surprised by this.
4. Do points 1 through 3 in reverse order. Having a shiny 150 schmucker board won't help anything if you still have to spend two weeks grokking HDL's.
erm.
A beowulf cluster won't perform worse than any individual machine in it. The limitation is the cpu to memory path, which becomes saturated when you have N cores. And in a beowulf, you'd have many many of those paths, meaning you would still get a speedup - BUT each individiual machine is limited as per TFA.
Those are some expensive radios! I understand that they have to be durable, encrypted, frequency shifting, long range, long lasting battery, ect, but 15,000$? are they gold plated or something?
Wouldnt really surprise me if they were. Add in the green paint (EMP / EM Shielding - heres where the gold plating comes in handy), not off-the-shelf crypto circuitry (if it was OTS it'd be a lot less secure; these guys are that careful), the cost of milspec VS commercial silicon, and the need to make it stupidly rugged; on the order of being able to drop it onto concrete, pick it up, and call HQ.
These factors leads to a distinctly different design then a commercial unit. A poster argued that commercial radios with similar capabilities cost a fraction of the price; i bet those same commercial radios are not in fact milspec rated, and thus are not as reliable as this kit.
Of course, the discussion could be wether to buy the gold-plated milspec stuff or about 10 commercial units. No offense, but if i was a footslogger, I would take the (heavier) milspec kit; I can only carry so many commercial units to switch out when they fail, but the milspec one will work in almost any condition.
It was the Tamil Tigers that hacked it, and inserted this insidious command! The threat of terrorists is everywhere!
This would have been preveneted if we had kept up the war on terror.
'female mobile gamers' has to be the smallest marketshare category mentioned today. I predict mediocre, if not lower, sales, subsequent move into mainstream mobile gamer apparel, and then the company will fold.
I think it is too early to draw any conclusions from this deal. It could still go any which way - better films, worse films, more web X.0 content, more DRM, and so on and on. I'd say we need about half a year before any 'conclusion' on this deal is more then mere speculation.
With that in mind, allow me to say: WOHOO! all the backlog of (quality) disney movies on my ipod!
So far we've had Cryogenics, Nemesis, and a discussion on how small town economics works. And now an article on long lasting spacecraft programs. Is there some sort of space theme building?
And is slashdot really the best place to recruit colonists?
'And now we're here, open the cryostasis and everyone out, including their mothers! inflate the inflatable basements! and dont forget to wake the women we brought along!'
'Sir, we were unable to bring any women! they refused to live in basements!'
'Well, dang'.
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There's an assumption there that Georgian prisons have either of those things. I'm not holding my breath.
Neither do the french ones.
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This looks on the surface similar to the Ariane-5 failure in '96. Which, as we all know, was eventually traced to an unprotected 64-bit double to 16-bit integer conversion overflow
Reduce pollination? What, on earth, does plant birth control have to do with toyota? Unless they're going for umbrella corporation status, that sort of thing would be way outside their usual line of business. Of course, if they ARE...
Oh wait. Pollution.
1. Get a (the) Spartan-3 starter board. It's got the 500 variant of the Spartan-3 on it which is big enough to implement even small processors. The board also has some very limited VGA output, and a heap of other things that makes it fun to work with (Serial I/F, etc). The manual for this board is one of the better ones for beginners, as well. I broke my own teeth on this board. It's 149 US schmucks from digilent.
2. Get Xilinx's free tool suite; its nicely compatible with that board. Free download from the web. Heck, you can even download and play with it without the / any board (but then you don't, of course, get the blinkenlights.) You can however try out and simulate designs before going to FPGA, and thus figure out why the (redacted) it doesn't (redacted) work. Simulations are your main way of verifying your design once you're past 20-odd gates.
3. Learn the HDL of your choice. Read the books. One warning only: it is NOT a programming language - the entire model in your head about how software works needs to be replaced. Case statements are king. Productivity with HDL's are generally way lower than software; don't be surprised by this.
4. Do points 1 through 3 in reverse order. Having a shiny 150 schmucker board won't help anything if you still have to spend two weeks grokking HDL's.
HTH.
I'd set that exercise. Its a perfectly good educational exercise, both in critical thinking and security.
To be a white hat you need to think like a black hat.
erm. A beowulf cluster won't perform worse than any individual machine in it. The limitation is the cpu to memory path, which becomes saturated when you have N cores. And in a beowulf, you'd have many many of those paths, meaning you would still get a speedup - BUT each individiual machine is limited as per TFA.
These factors leads to a distinctly different design then a commercial unit. A poster argued that commercial radios with similar capabilities cost a fraction of the price; i bet those same commercial radios are not in fact milspec rated, and thus are not as reliable as this kit.
Of course, the discussion could be wether to buy the gold-plated milspec stuff or about 10 commercial units. No offense, but if i was a footslogger, I would take the (heavier) milspec kit; I can only carry so many commercial units to switch out when they fail, but the milspec one will work in almost any condition.
You change to become IT management. At the same place.
let me spell it out:
1. Change to management
2. Get paid more
3. Profit!!!!
0x4583AFE6 0xDD452E98 0xAC381B47 Here, have some of mine, I'm not using them anymore.
It was the Tamil Tigers that hacked it, and inserted this insidious command! The threat of terrorists is everywhere! This would have been preveneted if we had kept up the war on terror.
find, grep, less, and cat. Seriously, if a combination of that doesnt find what I'm after, and cant display it, there is something wrong.
In soviet america, JPEGs play you.
(yeah, i know it was poor).
Seriously though.
'female mobile gamers' has to be the smallest marketshare category mentioned today. I predict mediocre, if not lower, sales, subsequent move into mainstream mobile gamer apparel, and then the company will fold.
I think it is too early to draw any conclusions from this deal. It could still go any which way - better films, worse films, more web X.0 content, more DRM, and so on and on. I'd say we need about half a year before any 'conclusion' on this deal is more then mere speculation.
With that in mind, allow me to say: WOHOO! all the backlog of (quality) disney movies on my ipod!
So far we've had Cryogenics, Nemesis, and a discussion on how small town economics works. And now an article on long lasting spacecraft programs. Is there some sort of space theme building? And is slashdot really the best place to recruit colonists? 'And now we're here, open the cryostasis and everyone out, including their mothers! inflate the inflatable basements! and dont forget to wake the women we brought along!' 'Sir, we were unable to bring any women! they refused to live in basements!' 'Well, dang'.