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Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @12:26AM from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? 185

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:47PM from the control-your-basement's-trap-door dept.

Doug writes "I've recently been inspired to take up amateur electronics, specifically with FPGAs. I have an understanding of the basics, plus a solid programming background. From my research so far I've concluded that I should start with a simple FPGA development board and a couple of books on Verilog and/or VHDL and go from there. I found this Ask Slashdot discussion on Verilog vs VHDL very useful, but it focuses more on the development language rather than hardware. I'd be very interested in hearing peoples' recommendations for an entry-level kit that is simple, flexible, and affordable (sub-£200), and preferably Linux-friendly, and indeed any other wise words that experienced FPGA developers (professional or amateur) might have for a novice just starting out in the world of circuit design."

Comment Re:IPv6 (6lowpan) replaces zigbee (Score 1) 170

by gregcook on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @12:20AM (#28105025) Attached to: ZigBee Pro, the New Home Automation Standard?

Two things are wrong with what you say:
1) The ZigBee Alliance have published a series of specifications. You could argue the line between specification and standard, but the many and varied industry members of the ZigBee Alliance would probably argue that it IS a standard.
2) The ZigBee Alliance have begun incorporating 6lowpan into their portfolio of "standards". The two understand the pervasiveness of IP networking.

Comment Nautronix (Score 1) 236

by gregcook on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:12PM (#18323555) Attached to: Patent Filed for Underwater GPS

A company in Fremantle (Western Australia) called Nautronix has been doing something like this for at least 4 years now. It's not as basic as simple sonar pulses; they actually modulate digital information onto the sonar signal (hence the likening to GPS). I didn't have time to read the patent application, but it would seem to me that Nautronix have prior art here.

N.B. I'm fairly sure they just (last month) got bought out by a US defence super-company (one that buys up lots of small companies to exploit they're IP), so I'm wondering if this patent application has something to do with that...

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