essentially an arduino with a 32 bit processor. They have even taken great care to make sure that the programming environment is identical and many of the Arduino shields work with minor code or hardware modifications.
https://www.digilentinc.com/Pr...
Actually, maybe I am stupid and ill-informed. There were a couple that had CPU/ABI option as "Atom(x86)". However, it has now been about 4 minutes on my 8 core i7 machine with 6GB of RAM, running nothing but ADT, the emulator, and this web browser and Android is yet to finish booting inside the emulator even running the "Atom(x86)".
With VirtualBox + x86 Android images, even from cold boot it takes maybe 40 seconds and if I resume from a paused VM it takes seconds. Now at minute 6 and the ADT emulator still hasn't finished loading. Conclusion, VitrualBox+x86 Android images is infinitely better.
How exactly do you launch the x86 android emulator? When I go to the Android Virtual Device Manager and try every single one of the options in the "Device:" pulldown menu and subsequently try to change the "CPU/ABI:" pulldown menu, the only option is "ARM (armeabi-v71)".
So, if such an option exists, they sure make it hard to find (or I am just stupid and ill-informed, so please inform me).
Pretty simple and super fast. Now, I suppose that the Android Development environment could include a stripped down virtual machine, but no one has done it yet (I think the current emulator uses QEMU to actually emulate ARM).
http://kamyanskiy.blogspot.com...
you just have to find the right one (possibly not an easy process). I attended Engineering State at Utah State University and had a lot of fun. It helped me decide between computer engineering and electrical engineering.
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/htm/engineering-news/e-state
Why try to optimize Octave for ARM? Instead you should spend time optimizing the {BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, sparse matrices, etc.} libraries on which Octave depends. I don't think there is a lot in the Octave source code itself that would benefit from a lot of time spent on optimization. For the most part, if there are processor optimized version of the aforementioned libraries, then Octave will perform quite well for vectorized code.
I have been contributing small bit to Octave for a couple of years now. I can attest to the fact that the core Octave developers are helpful, do good work, and are always looking for more help. Currently I work on two different parts: an IDE for Octave called OctaveDE (which I am looking for more help on, but is more UI work than math work) and I am rewriting the image reading and writing routines to be Matlab compatible. There is also a lot of OpenGL work going on implementing a faster plotting backend as an alternative to GNUPlot. Because Octave is ofttimes in "Matlab catchup mode", any help would be greatly appreciated and you would be given direction on the best way to contribute early while you get used to the code base and the way the core developers work.
As for whether you own your own ideas or not, many companies make you sign away patent right for anything you come up with (while working for them, whether on the job or not) that is related to their business interests. Sometimes very skilled or well-known people can weasle their way out of clauses like this, but for the most part you probably signed away your right to patent tech stuff when you signed you offer acceptance letter. go read it.
I believe there is a package in OctaveForge to allow the creation and use of Java object. At least I remember it being discussed on the mailing lists a while back. I'm not sure how it compares to Matlab's ability to create Java objects though.
I have been using Octave heavily over the past few years (and done a little light development), and I can say for certain that development is accelerating. In the last few years, there have been several new large contributors. One of them has made significant improvements to getting the bleeding edge Octave running with all the bells and whistles and installers on Windows, another dedicated to putting out binaries for Macs. All the core distributions have fully optimized Octave packages available. Most of the handle graphics compatibility has been done in the last 12 months. I know there is a push by people who are not the core developers to make an IDE (some based on Eclipse, others on GtkSourceView/VTE, others on QT). There has been work to make the debugger better.
I guess my point is that a lot of project like this can take time to develop critical mass and that I think Octave is well on its way. Just as an aside, I think the design and implementation of Octave is great. It is the first kindof big open source project that I have really been able to wrap my head around in terms of understanding the code base and where things are/how to hack on it.
I would expect on Slashdot....wait, I am on slashdot
"The prospect of China, ruled by a totalitarian regime that asserts its power through force and terror, being the first, perhaps the only country to return to the Moon and access its resources, would be a tragedy of historic dimensions. It would signal the beginning of the end of the United States as a super power and the commencement of the Chinese Century."
You think ed is bloated?/usr/bin/yes takes a whopping 34K on OSX. What in the name of all that is good and right in this world is Steve Jobs doing with my CPU cycles inside of/usr/bin/yes? On my old DOS box I probably could have done this in a few lines of assembly.
Good thing we're not socilaists then;) (obligatory note that I'm in the US). I think strict capitalism promotes excellence. People are motivated to be the best by both ambition and salary. If I can't have Dr Mark David Iannettoni operating on me, I want his best student. And if him having a big salary and a big name and a big university allow him to get the best minds to study under him....so be it. The best attract the best and produce the best, and we need more of the cream of the crop in this world.
I will say it again, I believe that strict capitalism begets excellence, just as natural selection produces excellence.
I have to disagree with you completely on 2 counts.
First, I think that many MBAs do it because they are trying to extend their sphere of influence. There are a lot of people in this world who are ambitious. Regardless of the motivation, they have ambitions to become better than they are now in one form or another. Some get an MBA, some get another graduate degree, and some become the best in their field through working in their field. I think many people change jobs, go back to school, or start a new business because of the very fact that their current situation is not aiding them in their path to fulfill their ambitions.
My second argument is your statement about your President having an MBA. Some of my best presidents, CEOs, and project managers were engineers who returned to school for an MBA. To claim that most people with MBAs are "bright but not brilliant" is a subjective argument based on a self asessment of your own intelligence (which is rarely ever correct).
So once again, Slashdot is proven to be a forum of generalization and logical fallacies that get scored "Insightful". Haha;)
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I guess what I was trying to say (as indicated by the website links you gave), is that the *really* reliable and often-launched Russian specraft does not have the delta-V and cargo capabilities that the shuttle does. In aerospace there are always trade-offs. The websites you gave show that very clearly. The Russian "pickup-truck" hasn't been launched since 1988.
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essentially an arduino with a 32 bit processor. They have even taken great care to make sure that the programming environment is identical and many of the Arduino shields work with minor code or hardware modifications. https://www.digilentinc.com/Pr...
Actually, maybe I am stupid and ill-informed. There were a couple that had CPU/ABI option as "Atom(x86)". However, it has now been about 4 minutes on my 8 core i7 machine with 6GB of RAM, running nothing but ADT, the emulator, and this web browser and Android is yet to finish booting inside the emulator even running the "Atom(x86)". With VirtualBox + x86 Android images, even from cold boot it takes maybe 40 seconds and if I resume from a paused VM it takes seconds. Now at minute 6 and the ADT emulator still hasn't finished loading. Conclusion, VitrualBox+x86 Android images is infinitely better.
How exactly do you launch the x86 android emulator? When I go to the Android Virtual Device Manager and try every single one of the options in the "Device:" pulldown menu and subsequently try to change the "CPU/ABI:" pulldown menu, the only option is "ARM (armeabi-v71)". So, if such an option exists, they sure make it hard to find (or I am just stupid and ill-informed, so please inform me).
Pretty simple and super fast. Now, I suppose that the Android Development environment could include a stripped down virtual machine, but no one has done it yet (I think the current emulator uses QEMU to actually emulate ARM). http://kamyanskiy.blogspot.com...
you just have to find the right one (possibly not an easy process). I attended Engineering State at Utah State University and had a lot of fun. It helped me decide between computer engineering and electrical engineering. http://www.engineering.usu.edu/htm/engineering-news/e-state
Why try to optimize Octave for ARM? Instead you should spend time optimizing the {BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, sparse matrices, etc.} libraries on which Octave depends. I don't think there is a lot in the Octave source code itself that would benefit from a lot of time spent on optimization. For the most part, if there are processor optimized version of the aforementioned libraries, then Octave will perform quite well for vectorized code.
I have been contributing small bit to Octave for a couple of years now. I can attest to the fact that the core Octave developers are helpful, do good work, and are always looking for more help. Currently I work on two different parts: an IDE for Octave called OctaveDE (which I am looking for more help on, but is more UI work than math work) and I am rewriting the image reading and writing routines to be Matlab compatible. There is also a lot of OpenGL work going on implementing a faster plotting backend as an alternative to GNUPlot. Because Octave is ofttimes in "Matlab catchup mode", any help would be greatly appreciated and you would be given direction on the best way to contribute early while you get used to the code base and the way the core developers work.
http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html The victim has become the offender.
As for whether you own your own ideas or not, many companies make you sign away patent right for anything you come up with (while working for them, whether on the job or not) that is related to their business interests. Sometimes very skilled or well-known people can weasle their way out of clauses like this, but for the most part you probably signed away your right to patent tech stuff when you signed you offer acceptance letter. go read it.
I believe there is a package in OctaveForge to allow the creation and use of Java object. At least I remember it being discussed on the mailing lists a while back. I'm not sure how it compares to Matlab's ability to create Java objects though.
I have been using Octave heavily over the past few years (and done a little light development), and I can say for certain that development is accelerating. In the last few years, there have been several new large contributors. One of them has made significant improvements to getting the bleeding edge Octave running with all the bells and whistles and installers on Windows, another dedicated to putting out binaries for Macs. All the core distributions have fully optimized Octave packages available. Most of the handle graphics compatibility has been done in the last 12 months. I know there is a push by people who are not the core developers to make an IDE (some based on Eclipse, others on GtkSourceView/VTE, others on QT). There has been work to make the debugger better. I guess my point is that a lot of project like this can take time to develop critical mass and that I think Octave is well on its way. Just as an aside, I think the design and implementation of Octave is great. It is the first kindof big open source project that I have really been able to wrap my head around in terms of understanding the code base and where things are/how to hack on it.
I would expect on Slashdot....wait, I am on slashdot "The prospect of China, ruled by a totalitarian regime that asserts its power through force and terror, being the first, perhaps the only country to return to the Moon and access its resources, would be a tragedy of historic dimensions. It would signal the beginning of the end of the United States as a super power and the commencement of the Chinese Century."
You think ed is bloated? /usr/bin/yes takes a whopping 34K on OSX. What in the name of all that is good and right in this world is Steve Jobs doing with my CPU cycles inside of /usr/bin/yes? On my old DOS box I probably could have done this in a few lines of assembly.
Good thing we're not socilaists then ;) (obligatory note that I'm in the US). I think strict capitalism promotes excellence. People are motivated to be the best by both ambition and salary. If I can't have Dr Mark David Iannettoni operating on me, I want his best student. And if him having a big salary and a big name and a big university allow him to get the best minds to study under him....so be it. The best attract the best and produce the best, and we need more of the cream of the crop in this world.
I will say it again, I believe that strict capitalism begets excellence, just as natural selection produces excellence.
I have to disagree with you completely on 2 counts. First, I think that many MBAs do it because they are trying to extend their sphere of influence. There are a lot of people in this world who are ambitious. Regardless of the motivation, they have ambitions to become better than they are now in one form or another. Some get an MBA, some get another graduate degree, and some become the best in their field through working in their field. I think many people change jobs, go back to school, or start a new business because of the very fact that their current situation is not aiding them in their path to fulfill their ambitions. My second argument is your statement about your President having an MBA. Some of my best presidents, CEOs, and project managers were engineers who returned to school for an MBA. To claim that most people with MBAs are "bright but not brilliant" is a subjective argument based on a self asessment of your own intelligence (which is rarely ever correct). So once again, Slashdot is proven to be a forum of generalization and logical fallacies that get scored "Insightful". Haha ;)
I guess what I was trying to say (as indicated by the website links you gave), is that the *really* reliable and often-launched Russian specraft does not have the delta-V and cargo capabilities that the shuttle does. In aerospace there are always trade-offs. The websites you gave show that very clearly. The Russian "pickup-truck" hasn't been launched since 1988.