I do somewhat doubt this. I drive a 929cc Honda CBR, which is by no means designed for fuel efficiency. I commute 25 miles daily on this, and get an average of 35-38 MPG (depends largely on the tire pressure and temperature). If I do solid highway driving I get very close to 50 MPG. And for the person who suggested that motorcycles are impractical and only for joyriding, I find that silly. I use this thing daily for Silicon Valley commuting and have for the last 6 years. It cuts my commute time to about 1/3 by giving me HOV access and occasional lane splitting, costs $10K for a very high performance, fun vehicle, and gets top notch gas mileage to boot! Sounds practical to me.
Another great option is the Hauppage MediaMVP. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16815116617
The guys over at MVP Media Center (MVPMC) http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main have ported a mythtv client to it, as well as a replay client, nfs, and other useful transports. It's as thin a set top box as you could ask for (about the size of DSL modem) and costs $80 US (I've heard rumors as low as $40).
The forums are active and help is easy to come by and friendly (unlike the MythTV forums at times).
Heck of a lot easier, cleaner, smaller, quieter, and cheaper than a DIY box. I almost prefer it to my normal mythfrontend at this point.
This attack in the US back in the 90's was a moving van packed with home built explosives, parked on the street. It effectively destroyed a rather large building.
Londoners: My thoughts are with you. There is no excuse for this, but somehow we need to figure out how to fight back effectively without lowering ourseleves to their level.
The problem with your argument is, the people who chug a six pack on the couch also don't buy $8 beer. They are quite possibly in the $4 camp.
I think the people who buy $8 beer are likely to just drink a glass with dinner, as a replacement for wine. I believe a good beer can be just as good an accompaniment as wine. Just depends on the food, or your mood.
Ok, i'll bite. What about if the WTO, who is trying to implement globalization, actually mandated a global minimum wage, maximum workweek, OSHA style safety conditions? What would be you opinion of that? My opinion is this is the only way globalization can work for the benefit of all, but IANAE. This should be the charter of the WTO. Otherwise, it seems to me that "unfair" labor practices and unethical corporate behaviour are just going to gut the middle class worldwide.
Another thing you didn't mention is that despite the cost tradeoff, FPGAs are MUCH slower than ASICs for the same logic. They do not run as fast (which you touch on in a subsequent reply) but they also cannot do even close to same amount of work at the same speed often due to wiring congestion/routing issues. You usually have to do more than a linear amount of pipelining, put it that way.
As far as aerospace applications, i doubt this very much. Being that they are a vast sea of SRAM, charged particles and radiation in outerspace would make the sram grids very unreliable. bits could be flipping right and left and totally changing the behavior of the underlying logic. you'd have to have massive error correction going on. heavy duty ECC that would make it not too practical.
as far as high level tools for hw, you hit it on the head there. hardware design needs to be done at the gate level with verilog. there is way too much optimization needed for timing and efficiency to depend on some BS java crap. java is stupid and inefficent for software and make me laugh when applied to hardware design. but i'm the kind of guy who still thinks assembly code is the way real men optimize:) I consider C a convenient macro language for assembly. But we hardware guys are all about cycle per cycle efficiency and most CS guys are all about development time. It's a tradeoff.
Hey, don't blame "you americans" for this one. The citizens of the US weren't behind this, and, as you pointed out we are hurt by it too in the form of horrendously expensive lumber. It's the US lumber companies that are profiting, and profiting big. Everyone else, you and the common American, are getting screwed.
This is the kind of generalization that has to stop. "Americans" are not warmongers. George Bush is, and through our once sided censored "free" media, we are coerced into bobbling our heads. "Americans" are not tariff imposing Canadian haters. That's the US deep pocket lumber mills talking. "Ameicans" are not Muslim hating Israel supporting oppressors. That's the massively over represented jewish lobby that can pass ridiculous one-side anti-palestinian legislation while representing a very small percentage of the actual american population.
In reality, most americans are very nice people. we respect our canadian neighbors, care for and love our children, attend church, mosque, synogogue, or whatever, and rarely think ill or arrogant thoughts about other countries. Except maybe these days. Damned french ruining our invasion plans:)
EXACTLY! Thank you for finally pointing this out. It's fine to compete on merit, but when the incompatible economic and monetary systems don't mesh, it isn't competetion. It's completely outside your control and is unfair. That is when the gov't steps in to protect their own frickin' country.
Globalism can not work for the people (of course it'll work for the suits, at least the elite ones) until the monetary system itself is global. Otherwise it's just national suicide.
There are different kinds of disabilities. Mental and physical. The web site doesn't differentiate between them, so the original posters statement, while crude, was not off-base.
I have primarily used it only for syntax checking when I am not connected to the office LAN (vcs needs access to the license server) since it will not work with my verification environment. In recent builds it seems to do fine as far as the compile goes. My main problem is it does not fully support the TF PLI library and I have written a TF PLI app in C that embeds a PERL interpreter into the verilog models so I can use PERL to generate stimulus from inside. At some point I will migrate the code (there isn't much of it) over to VPI which is more completely implemented in Icarus. But without a testbench, I haven't been able to really stress Icarus in real world HDL development.
Icarus (http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/) is a competent Verilog (not VHDL) open source simulator. It even has some support for sythesizing to some FPGA libraries. Verilog is more common than VHDL in the US, so this is the only open source HDL tool I've used. Primarily, we are still slaves to Synopsis and Cadence though.
This looks interesting, but way too expensive to break down any barriers in the short term. Actually, being hardware (ASIC) designer, many of the embedded software guys know their hardware as well as the designers. Some, however, need their hands held every step of the way and can't understand why we put all those damned interrupt capabilities in there. Just makes the software harder to write! I'd love to see something like this out in the market in a lower price range. It's great to have GNU software tools to write code inexpensively, and to have hardware as well would really be fun and useful. Sharing cool hardware accelerator HDL with others would be great. I've used Icarus recently and it is becoming quite a useable open source alternative to vcs, verilog xl, nc verilog, etc.
What about weight distribution on the CD? If not properly balanced, these smart cards, photodectors, and diodes could cause big wobble problems when spinning up at 48X+ speeds.
Well, there's no DMCA in the Netherlands (was that where the DeCSS was broken) or Russia, but that doesn't stop our Music/Video Gestapo FBI from going after these "criminals." Seriously, I know this is a cliche, but don't they have real criminals or even terrorists to worry about?
Not to meantion incompetent foreign workers as well. Don't be fooled into thinking all H1s are awesomely intelligent hard workers. There are just as many duds as among US nationals.
An analogous transaction would be the act of me buying a box of worms from a bait shop. Do you think for one minute that the purchase obligates a fish to bite my hook???
Well, no, but if a fish nibbles at said worm, I sure as hell expect him to bite it, and this is the sense of entitlement that the broadcasters feel as well. Is it valid? Probably not, but it doesn't keep me from feeling pissed off when my worm is stolen.
Wow, let me guess, this is your first startup? This is the religion we all believed going into the first one and believe me the CEO is the preacher who keeps feeding this gospel to his flock. You really will learn that killing yourself to make VCs and upper management rich while deluding yourself into thinking it is really you that you work for is only going to make you jaded and burned out. I've worked at a couple startups, and I do like the startup environment. This probably won't be my last either. But you have to realize why you are working and that is to put real money in the bank while enjoying what you do and who you work with. I too like having options, but I treat them as a very sweet special bonus that may or may not pan out one day. If not, I'm not going to lose my house because I believed they were actually real money I can depend on.
That is an excellent idea that I haven't heard before. Brilliance! Pure Brilliance. Of course, because it makes so much sense, it could never possibly happen.
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I do somewhat doubt this. I drive a 929cc Honda CBR, which is by no means designed for fuel efficiency. I commute 25 miles daily on this, and get an average of 35-38 MPG (depends largely on the tire pressure and temperature). If I do solid highway driving I get very close to 50 MPG. And for the person who suggested that motorcycles are impractical and only for joyriding, I find that silly. I use this thing daily for Silicon Valley commuting and have for the last 6 years. It cuts my commute time to about 1/3 by giving me HOV access and occasional lane splitting, costs $10K for a very high performance, fun vehicle, and gets top notch gas mileage to boot! Sounds practical to me.
Another great option is the Hauppage MediaMVP. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16815116617
The guys over at MVP Media Center (MVPMC) http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main have ported a mythtv client to it, as well as a replay client, nfs, and other useful transports. It's as thin a set top box as you could ask for (about the size of DSL modem) and costs $80 US (I've heard rumors as low as $40).
The forums are active and help is easy to come by and friendly (unlike the MythTV forums at times).
Heck of a lot easier, cleaner, smaller, quieter, and cheaper than a DIY box. I almost prefer it to my normal mythfrontend at this point.
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This attack in the US back in the 90's was a moving van packed with home built explosives, parked on the street. It effectively destroyed a rather large building.
Londoners: My thoughts are with you. There is no excuse for this, but somehow we need to figure out how to fight back effectively without lowering ourseleves to their level.
The problem with your argument is, the people who chug a six pack on the couch also don't buy $8 beer. They are quite possibly in the $4 camp.
I think the people who buy $8 beer are likely to just drink a glass with dinner, as a replacement for wine. I believe a good beer can be just as good an accompaniment as wine. Just depends on the food, or your mood.
Ok, i'll bite. What about if the WTO, who is trying to implement globalization, actually mandated a global minimum wage, maximum workweek, OSHA style safety conditions? What would be you opinion of that? My opinion is this is the only way globalization can work for the benefit of all, but IANAE. This should be the charter of the WTO. Otherwise, it seems to me that "unfair" labor practices and unethical corporate behaviour are just going to gut the middle class worldwide.
Another thing you didn't mention is that despite the cost tradeoff, FPGAs are MUCH slower than ASICs for the same logic. They do not run as fast (which you touch on in a subsequent reply) but they also cannot do even close to same amount of work at the same speed often due to wiring congestion/routing issues.
:) I consider C a convenient macro language for assembly. But we hardware guys are all about cycle per cycle efficiency and most CS guys are all about development time. It's a tradeoff.
You usually have to do more than a linear amount of pipelining, put it that way.
As far as aerospace applications, i doubt this very much. Being that they are a vast sea of SRAM, charged particles and radiation in outerspace would make the sram grids very unreliable. bits could be flipping right and left and totally changing the behavior of the underlying logic. you'd have to have massive error correction going on. heavy duty ECC that would make it not too practical.
as far as high level tools for hw, you hit it on the head there. hardware design needs to be done at the gate level with verilog. there is way too much optimization needed for timing and efficiency to depend on some BS java crap. java is stupid and inefficent for software and make me laugh when applied to hardware design. but i'm the kind of guy who still thinks assembly code is the way real men optimize
Hey, don't blame "you americans" for this one. The citizens of the US weren't behind this, and, as you pointed out we are hurt by it too in the form of horrendously expensive lumber. It's the US lumber companies that are profiting, and profiting big. Everyone else, you and the common American, are getting screwed.
:)
This is the kind of generalization that has to stop. "Americans" are not warmongers. George Bush is, and through our once sided censored "free" media, we are coerced into bobbling our heads. "Americans" are not tariff imposing Canadian haters. That's the US deep pocket lumber mills talking. "Ameicans" are not Muslim hating Israel supporting oppressors. That's the massively over represented jewish lobby that can pass ridiculous one-side anti-palestinian legislation while representing a very small percentage of the actual american population.
In reality, most americans are very nice people. we respect our canadian neighbors, care for and love our children, attend church, mosque, synogogue, or whatever, and rarely think ill or arrogant thoughts about other countries. Except maybe these days. Damned french ruining our invasion plans
EXACTLY! Thank you for finally pointing this out. It's fine to compete on merit, but when the incompatible economic and monetary systems don't mesh, it isn't competetion. It's completely outside your control and is unfair. That is when the gov't steps in to protect their own frickin' country.
Globalism can not work for the people (of course it'll work for the suits, at least the elite ones) until the monetary system itself is global. Otherwise it's just national suicide.
There are different kinds of disabilities. Mental and physical. The web site doesn't differentiate between them, so the original posters statement, while crude, was not off-base.
I have primarily used it only for syntax checking when I am not connected to the office LAN (vcs needs access to the license server) since it will not work with my verification environment. In recent builds it seems to do fine as far as the compile goes. My main problem is it does not fully support the TF PLI library and I have written a TF PLI app in C that embeds a PERL interpreter into the verilog models so I can use PERL to generate stimulus from inside. At some point I will migrate the code (there isn't much of it) over to VPI which is more completely implemented in Icarus. But without a testbench, I haven't been able to really stress Icarus in real world HDL development.
Icarus (http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/) is a competent Verilog (not VHDL) open source simulator. It even has some support for sythesizing to some FPGA libraries.
Verilog is more common than VHDL in the US, so this is the only open source HDL tool I've used. Primarily, we are still slaves to Synopsis and Cadence though.
This looks interesting, but way too expensive to break down any barriers in the short term. Actually, being hardware (ASIC) designer, many of the embedded software guys know their hardware as well as the designers. Some, however, need their hands held every step of the way and can't understand why we put all those damned interrupt capabilities in there. Just makes the software harder to write!
I'd love to see something like this out in the market in a lower price range. It's great to have GNU software tools to write code inexpensively, and to have hardware as well would really be fun and useful. Sharing cool hardware accelerator HDL with others would be great. I've used Icarus recently and it is becoming quite a useable open source alternative to vcs, verilog xl, nc verilog, etc.
What about weight distribution on the CD? If not properly balanced, these smart cards, photodectors, and diodes could cause big wobble problems when spinning up at 48X+ speeds.
Well, there's no DMCA in the Netherlands (was that where the DeCSS was broken) or Russia, but that doesn't stop our Music/Video Gestapo FBI from going after these "criminals." Seriously, I know this is a cliche, but don't they have real criminals or even terrorists to worry about?
CS is Quake II based if memory serves.
Not to meantion incompetent foreign workers as well. Don't be fooled into thinking all H1s are awesomely intelligent hard workers. There are just as many duds as among US nationals.
An analogous transaction would be the act of me buying a box of worms from a bait shop. Do you think for one minute that the purchase obligates a fish to bite my hook???
Well, no, but if a fish nibbles at said worm, I sure as hell expect him to bite it, and this is the sense of entitlement that the broadcasters feel as well. Is it valid? Probably not, but it doesn't keep me from feeling pissed off when my worm is stolen.
Just for the purpose of being picky, it would be "Voltage Levels between -12.000000 and +12.000001" for a 16550 series UART.
Wow, let me guess, this is your first startup? This is the religion we all believed going into the first one and believe me the CEO is the preacher who keeps feeding this gospel to his flock. You really will learn that killing yourself to make VCs and upper management rich while deluding yourself into thinking it is really you that you work for is only going to make you jaded and burned out. I've worked at a couple startups, and I do like the startup environment. This probably won't be my last either. But you have to realize why you are working and that is to put real money in the bank while enjoying what you do and who you work with. I too like having options, but I treat them as a very sweet special bonus that may or may not pan out one day. If not, I'm not going to lose my house because I believed they were actually real money I can depend on.
That is an excellent idea that I haven't heard before. Brilliance! Pure Brilliance. Of course, because it makes so much sense, it could never possibly happen.