Well, they built the aqueduct...

Verilog gives you enough rope to easily hang yourself. VHDL gives you so little rope you'll want to hang yourself. As a vehicle for teaching H/W design though, I think VHDL would be better. It's much more explicit and rules oriented, and looks like you're describing H/W. Once you've learned VHDL, picking up Verilog is fairly trivial. I would think going in the other direction would be a bit harder. Language Bias Disclaimer: I've been using VHDL for 10 years, and Verilog for 2...

Umm, EVERYONE normal in Norway...hmmm no not so much. Anyone familiar with the Black Metal scene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Norwegian_black_metal_scene and the suicide/murder shenanigans between Mayhem and Burzum might not call that behavior normal. You know, rearranging your dead friends body for pictures, making necklaces out of his skull, all sorta not normal in my world...

I'm really surprised that there has only been the ONE mention of GLONASS. GPS/GLONASS receivers have been available for years, but with collapse of the USSR, GLONASS almost became totally useless.

Now however, they've been launching 6 satellites a year and have a nearly full, and quite usable constellation. The accuracy is not quite as good as GPS and it's a much harder system to work with, but, quite useful shoudl anything happen to GPS.

CF bulbs are not designed for short on cycles. They're a poor choice for a hallway where the light is only turned on for a minute or two, or in a laundry room.

I think you're mistaken. I know, because I watch TV! Mythbusters looked at lightbulb myths recently. Actually, I'm not sure what you have in mind when you say CFs are not "designed" for short cycles. If you mean that they will burn out faster, that's certainly possible, but I doubt it. If you're referring to power-up energy costs, CFLs' energy-savings start at 15 milliseconds, so it's generally OK to turn off the bulb.

I think he was referring to the fact that bulbs take a minute or two to get up to full output. I have one CFL in my house that my wife complains about incessantly because it takes "sooooo long" to get to ful brightness. I've heard other people state that they like that side-effect -- it gives the eyes a few minutes to adjust.

Personally, I can see the commenter's point that if you just need to flip the light on to get through the hallway, then it gets turned off again, it would be nice if it came on at full brightness.

All my life, in my surroundings, if someone asked you the date something was going to happen, you'd say "August 22nd"

Wow, what a boring place. What did you guys do for the other 364 days?