Last time I checked (a month ago) Xilinx ISE and Vivado did not work under Win8 (Java issues,) and Xilinx had no roadmap to fix this. You cannot sit on your hands for an undefined number of months, waiting for a fix, when a perfectly good Win7 runs all that just fine and right now. You take that Win8 and scrap it. Win8 is too troubled to be even considered in a business.
I would rather walk 30 meters on a cobblestone road to my local shop, surrounded by thousand year-old architecture, then spend 30 seconds in a car suffocated in concrete and traffic.
It's not an option to select. Not here, at least. Many US roads are not designed for walking. You can be killed by a car, or arrested for jaywalking. There are no sidewalks on many roads. The road that I live on does not have sidewalks for at least 5 miles. It's just a property of the locale. You can, of course, find a place to live that is more designed for walking... it's called ghetto. You will find plenty of people walking there. Just don't come close to them. IMO, 50 miles would be a good, safe distance.
The food too is not even comparable for the crap that passes in the U.S. In Europe, you can be relatively poor and live like a king.
Well, the only way to eat reasonably healthy food here is either to cook it for yourself, or to pay big bucks for dinner at a good restaurant. (Note: Olive Garden and Red Lobster do not qualify. At Denny's you can be assaulted. I do not even know where a good, not franchised, restaurant might be nearby.)
Almost everything you purchase is locally grown, locally made, and locally sold. It's a completely different way of living that Americans don't understand.
In the USA you will find megastores, megaparking, and megaconsumption. Those tiny stores would have a hard time surviving. They wouldn't have access to anything local because in most places there is nothing local. Territories specialize in something, and that's it. When I buy apples, they likely were grown a thousand miles away, if not more. I have lemons in my backyard, and plums, and peaches, and some apples (in season.) Those are local. Everything else is coming from all over the world.
Who in their right mind would spend 30 minutes in a store? You don't have to do that Europe. Most of your shopping consists of little artisan shops that provide local produce, cheese, wine, meats, and takes you only a minute to order.
Our stores can easily be 100 x 100 meters long. It will take you a while to get to the right shelf even if you know where it is. However every store has its own layout, even stores of the same company.
If you live your life going from point A to point B, you will find it severely lacking. You miss out on the good stuff. You will consequently have fewer friends, less sex, and fewer thoughts.
It is often said that work, work and more work is a national obsession of americans. Europeans are laughed at for taking long vacations and working sparingly. I, personally, prefer to work; not necessarily for the man - I have plenty of hobbies. But none of them involve socialization. I deal with machines - they can be trusted. Humans... maybe in some parallel Universe.
Case in point: When I lived in Europe, I got a little something extra from the baker's cute daughter.
I hope that it was easily treatable. Modern medicine is pretty good
if you shop frequently, your average time in the store per visit is more like 5-10 minutes. You know exactly where everything is, since you go there so frequently, and you figure out ways to make it more efficient (like always using the "15 items or less" check-out lane when possible).
There are fixed costs of going into the store (getting to and from, standing in line) and variable costs (walking and picking items; loading time.) The fixed component is significant enough. You do not want to stand in line even for five minutes every day - this amounts to loss of 10 hours per week. The "fast" check-out lane is often the longest, by the way, and it doesn't move any faster.
You can plan your daily buying pattern to get the best goods from those small shops that specialize
Small grocery stores do not exist anymore in the USA. There is a bakery, but it specializes in birthday cakes and such, and I wouldn't want to spend $10 on a loaf of simple bread. Their costs are necessarily higher. Probably 7/11 can be called a small shop, but they do not send anything substantial there. I haven't been to a small shop since 1991, probably. Today most of remaining small shops are franchised restaurants.
What the heck do you think people did before cars? Do you think no one ever bought in bulk?
They used horses and carts; or just a wheelbarrow. Carrying things in hands is just not efficient.
Guess what -- they make insulated bags for just these kinds of situations!
I have and use those. The 40 minute drive home is far longer than walking for 200 meters.
But, from a broader perspective, when you shop daily, you need to buy less frozen food. You can just buy fresh vegetables and fruits when they are season
I have no desire to replace frozen meat with fresh one. I prefer it to be frozen - it is safer this way, and more convenient. I can eat it whenever I want - today or a week later. I have no schedule what to eat on any given day. Not all vegetables are sensitive to storing in a refrigerator. Cabbage can be stored for months, for example. You only need your salad to be fresh. I eat them when I have them; and at other times I can get a sandwich somewhere. This is a non-problem.
We have self-service lanes in some stores, like Home Depot, but not in grocery stores. The potential for fraud is extreme. I do like those machines, and they indeed make shopping much faster. However food comes in too many shapes and forms; one has to look at it to correctly identify it. With many items being bought, it's a huge temptation for many to scan that bottle of alcohol as a bottle of vinegar. Or "forget" to scan it at all. The culture and responsibility of US population is far from being uniform. There are people who will approach you and hit you in the face just for sport. Some victims get killed this way. There are places ("food deserts") that have no grocery stores at all, because the locals will steal everything that is on the shelves; and then they steal the shelves.
Wouldn't it be more practical to replace a VAX with an R-Pi or BBB? You gain performance this way, and save a lot of electric power
Regardless, I seriously doubt that there are recent builds of any other software for VAX; so what's the point of having BSD on them if there isn't much else to run?
In other words, the number of stupid questions is inversely proportional to your perceived value to the company. An experienced employee can easily walk away if he does not like your questions - and what then will you tell your boss who is desperate to fill that Project Lead position? Especially if the boss was also present at the interview? Good Project Leads are hard to find. You won't even talk to a good Code Monkey every day.
Sorry, I haven't noticed this little detail. I obtained my textbooks from the university's library... for free. I never had to buy textbooks. This is one of few things that the old, bad USSR got right.
A significant portion of the group "Christians" can't read well enough to read their holy book, even if they wanted to, let alone comprehend it.
Most, if not all, holy books cannot be comprehended even if you know the language and can read the words. The books are just too illogical, and they are never written in a plain, simple language. Quite contrary to that ideal, they are written from multiple, conflicting viewpoints, and they depict the same events differently, and they use archaic phrases. Translation further destroyed some of the original content. This is why every priest has to "explain" what this or that passage means; his explanation, of course, is subjective.
If you are looking for a holy book that is consistent, you may pick this one up.
I do have a similar bag of rice, but I don't eat rice too often - it has hardly any vitamins. I try to keep that in mind.
I am not attached to eating grasses in part because I don't find them tasty, and in part because they cannot be guaranteed to be clean. Quite a few food-borne epidemics happen in the USA - basically, every year - just because it's all but impossible to ensure that all this cabbage, lettuce, or what's its name, a plant that grows outdoors, on huge fields, is protected from contaminants of all kinds. At best they wash the leaves, but that's not enough.
Meat is better controlled, and the way I cook it (super well done) guarantees that it's safe to eat. Experience proves it. Considering the way I like my meat prepared, it makes absolutely no difference if the original meat was mooing five minutes ago or five months ago. I do not care about taste, and I do not care about eating. I eat to live. If only I could eat a little pill once per year that would replace all the food in that year, I'd take it and say thanks. Eating is a waste of time. I have more interesting things to do.
Living some distance away from the city, and from everyone else, is also healthy. I have fresh air here. There are no random strangers sneezing into your face. One can live for years without getting a flu even once. When I lived in a large city (population 10M) I got sick twice per year - there was no escape from the virus. I would not want to go back to the crowded city.
fictitious, adj
1. not genuine or authentic; assumed; false: to give a fictitious address.
2. of, related to, or characteristic of fiction; created by the imagination
Link. Usable here, IMO, though "fictional" may still be more appropriate.
Meat stores pretty well if frozen. I have a freezer. Unless you keep chickens or something (I can, but I don't have time to bother) the store-bought meat has unknown provenance, even if you buy a small piece of it every day. Another option is to personally know the butcher. Few do.
I can grow a lot of salad materials if I want to. But I don't have time to do that either. I can buy a few bags of greens when I am at the store. They last me a week without loss in quality (that I can perceive.) I am not an avid eater of grass.
I know you think this may take up a lot of time, but frankly it's worth it -- for the better quality of fresh food.
I bake my own fresh bread. Can't be more fresh than that. Takes about 5 minutes to mix the ingredients for the machine. Cost: hard to measure. A comparable loaf from the store will cost you $3, and it will contain ingredients that you do not need or want (such as those that preserve freshness for weeks.) When I make my own bread I know exactly what goes into it.
And time-wise... yes, it is important. Use a stopwatch and time the visit to the store. I don't think I can do it faster than in 15 minutes, considering parking, walking, selecting goods, standing in line, paying, loading the purchases into the car, and leaving the parking lot. 15 minutes * 20 days * 12 months = 60 hours of your life or almost three days per year spent standing in lines in a store! What a joy! Wouldn't you find some better use of that time? We do not live forever, and your time is not free to waste. Buying in bulk also costs less, and refrigerators are quite a handy invention.
I know this sounds crazy but some people go to the market every day.
Yes, some people do that. Other people have better things to do with their life than to spend 30 minutes every day in a store. I buy food maybe once in two weeks. Some of it is in cans, other is dry (pasta, rice, flour) and other is frozen, so it can be stored nearly forever. I load the car pretty well on those trips. The store is in about 40 minutes of driving from my home. (There are stores closer than that; the closest is about 15 minutes away, but I dislike it.) I usually stop by the better store when I am in the area for other reasons; and when you are free to pick the day, it's not difficult to find time.
Sometimes the basket gets quite heavy, but it's still something I could carry 100 meters with little problem. And that's 1+ weeks of groceries for me (yeah I'm single).
This works if you buy often, and only in small packages. This is expensive. I tend to buy stuff in large packages, they cost far less per unit of food. But one gallon container will be pretty heavy. There is also an issue of how fast can you deliver frozen food to your own freezer. I guess a short trip on a bicycle is not any worse than a long trip in a car, but in some cases this is a factor (for example, pushing a cart for a mile in hot sun vs. driving an a/c car for 5 miles.) Your family may not like melted ice cream.
Two months is barely enough to understand the problem and to start reading top level documents. Not even looking at the code. Most of those tasks are system-level, and it will be essential to understand what data formats each of those entities wants - before some poor code monkey is given signed requirements to generate that data.
[in a newspaper]
We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal.
