I agree we do lived in a death and gore sanitised world. I don't like such gore as entertainment like we get now with Dexter or any number of other splatter fantasies as it's not tempered in the west with the agony of injury and pain and the finality of death. Gimme living boobs anyday for entertainment! I remember visiting an Indian friends house and a newspaper he had showed a large front page picture of the woman who blew up Rajif Ghandi pieced back together as much as possible - head, arms and legs only. It was pretty jolting to see as a teenager but I think the West needs more of such doses reality.

Given the creator of Windows and US government can, sufficiently compelled, walk into any Windows system that is internet connected at any time they desire what's the frickin' point? Everything else is security theatrics. Do what the old security honcho of MS has done and drop out.

... factories that make $5 wrenchs. I heard they are set to make a killing soon.

My bleary memory now recalls it was probably about PROMIS and INSLAW. Read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro

I recall reading about a hushed up brouhaha ages ago concerning backdoored USA compiled software run on Australian government systems in the 80's or early 90's. Google seems to disavow all knowledge damnit.

How do you get a decent image if you have to peer through the sticky tape used to grab the graphene?

Australian and New Zealand ./ers will understand this as "Google Releases Glass Factory System Image, Completely Fucking Broken Bootloader"

Did they try NOT eating surströmming at lunch in the vicinity of the experiment?

I agree. At my age I am at the point where I want development to be more of a hobby and do work activities that don't involve sitting in front of a CAD tool, CRO or debugger any more anyway. Time for a career change? Probably.

The snotty little wet-behind-the-ears original poster needs to show some obviously lacking maturity and get some perspective instead of just whining like a little spoilt bitch.

> They want you current but do nothing to provide you the necessary tools or the time to stay current. Every single damned company I have worked for (all engineering and IT) have all insisted any new learning is to be done on your own time and expense, even if it benefits the organisation in the long run. Oh, but they still expect you to keep on top of the latest and greatest and contribute to the bottom line at all times.

Oh I dunno, maybe outside of work he has plenty of other crap to think about like raise a family. Once the kids come you can forget the countless hours hacking away learning new things yourself for the sake of it like you used to.

... is spinning in his grave. Call me when the OP trips over this Wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goertzel_algorithm

Fine, don't use BeRTOS (or whatever RTOS). Ditch that and still use the free AVR avr-gcc compiler suite from Atmel along with Codelite and gdb that comes along for the ride.

Well if free gets you bent out of shape you can *actually pay* for things like BeRTOS and FreeRTOs if you like.

BeRTOS is very nice for the money (free), is going in the right direction and is more than libre enough. Develop for ARM or AVR in Windows or Linux. Don't see why other core's and SoCs can't be added. It has a nice Pyython/QT configuration manager, lots of abstraction and can be debugged with GDB in conjuction with CodeIite though I have used AVRStudio4 to do the same. It just needs some lovin'. http://www.bertos.org/ A pox on my first AC post on the subject.