A link to an FTP site where you can down load the code works as an medium of exchange.

Sheesh!

Why did it take them so bloody long to reply then?

Some other points not brought up - since the guy is in India, there are some specific Indian Culture issues working here too. The big one that has been pointed out to me by Indian folks I've worked with is that Mom & Dad expect their kids to be MANAGERS within a couple of years of graduating or the kids are considered failures! So even FINDING someone in India with 15 years of relevant experience is HARD. They DO exist, but more than likely, they came over to the US then went back home!

Finally - having just gone through a project with 3 oldsters pushing 50+ & three young guns just out of school (one a PHD & the other two youngsters Masters degree holders) I can tell you with certainty that the company took over a year recovering from the mistakes made by the newbies.

BS to the whole thing. I'm 56 and still a working technologist.

How is a company defending a legitimate copyright imply anything about the quality of their machines.

We are all about enforcement of the GPL to protect our rights in the free software movement, yet when a company uses EXACTLY the same laws that give us the freedom to choose alternate software everyone gets up-in-arms about the big bad business pursuing a claim against someone who has essentially stolen their copyrighted work and is using it to make money?

It has already been done, but the RP doesn't have enough horse power by itself, it takes two! Look up ghpsdr & John Melton (the original author) He has some blog entries about getting this going.

Yep - the Computer Interface to our Radios is wired into the guts of Linux. The ham radio digital protocol AX25 has been supported by Linux since the early days, almost as long as Linux has had a TCP/IP stack! Why you might ask?? Well - Alan Cox is a ham!

Let me be a little more specific for you - ghpsdr3-alex is what you are looking for. This is really two apps. The first is the processing software that hooks up to very simple hardware the implements the Software Defined Radio, all the signal processing, etc. Then there This is usually run on a PC. This software is capable of registering itself so it can be found through the internet. Then there is a graphical piece of software with clients for PC, Android and Iphone that let you see the Pan Adapter display of a chunk of spectrum and play back the audio for whatever you've tuned in. This is the control head for the processing software (Think client-server).

Maybe it isn't such a bad idea? If individuals had to publicly humiliate themselves for bringing false and expensive lawsuits, maybe there would be fewer of them. But then - I've always thought we should bring back the racks!

Dude - get your Damn story straight! The Bush DOJ DID prosecute them. Then the new appointee from the Obama administration canceled the prosecution, i.e. interfered with the process. Several career prosecutors quite over the affair. I LOVE how you guys try to rewrite history.

If you live in the US - you really don't understand how the First Amendment operates.

You are correct that the right is limited - but it is ONLY limited by that speech which might create a public panic, etc. Yelling FIRE! in a crowed room is against the law. However - saying something that is hurtful to someone else is NOT and CANNOT be illegal, for within that realm comes ALL political speech which is fundamental to the operating of a democratic form of government.

As soon as you start limiting such speech you manage to disenfranchise some segment of the population to the vagaries of the majority. If the offended minority can't stand up and defend themselves VERBALLY - what is left? It becomes a two way street.

What CAN NOT be allowed is for the minority's offense to itself become illegal, or for that minority to cause violence to the person causing the offense. THAT is where we draw the line in the US. Mr. Ban Ki-Moon can jump off of the UN building if he doesn't like it.

Yes it was - but it was all a rumor put out by the New York Mayor's office. This is the next thing Bloomberg is planning on banning from entering New York City. So he figured he get ahead of the curve and justify his ban on the fact that there was ALREADY a shortage!

"Of course, it is sometimes a matter of interpretation what the purpose of anybody's words is..."

This is the entire problem with the any description of "Hate Speech." It is left to the eye of the beholder - which is the very definition of subjective.

How can you have free speech when another persons interpretation can turn it into a crime?

Look - there is nothing in the Constitution about being guaranteed a right to not be uncomfortable with what someone else says, but rather the guarantee is to the person causing the discomfort! If someone chooses to make an extreme comment - then judge them as you will, but it shouldn't be a crime unless someone is harmed physically, or property is destroyed by the person doing the speaking!

Okay - I'm stepping in here because I actually do chip design for a living. The difference between hand laid-out and machine generated chips can be as much as a 5X performance difference. The facts are that physical design isn't the same as compiler writing. It's a harder problem to crack - first it's a multi-dimensional problem. Next, it has to follow the laws of physics, themselves complicated ;-)

Both processes DO rely on the quality of input. When my designs don't run fast enough, the likely fix is to go back to the source and fix it there instead of trying to come up with some fix within placement and routing. The other simple fact is that in timing a physical design - you have to consider EVERY path that the logic takes in parallel. There is not such thing as the "inner-most" loop of the algorithm for determining where the performance goes. Finally once you have a good architecture for timing, the placement of the physical gates dominates the process.

A human - with their common sense is always going to give better performance than an algorithm. I mentioned a 5X difference between hand-drawn & compiled hardware. That is about what I see on a daily basis between what my tools can do for me, and what Intel gets out of their hand-drawn designs for a given technology node.

Seems like you don't get the point of the article - and fall back on the same old failed meme.

1) The "Great Society" approach doesn't work.
2) Stimulus through investment in basic research is a better expenditure of limited resources.

It really comes down to the old parable about if you buy a man a fish - he eats for a day. If you teach him how to fish he eats for a lifetime. When you spend money on direct relief of poverty by paying for that apartment or providing food stamps. You are dealing with the symptoms, not the problem. Yet the easiest, most straight-forward method of getting out of poverty is education, something that we also do poorly in this country. Finally, the people in our society that take responsibility for themselves, and choose to work to improve themselves almost uniformly DO improve their lot in life.

I'm done now with the lecture. Go back to your daily whining about the 1%.

Of course if you are in death valley - it is completely natural! ;-) It has been mined there for around 100 years.