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Comment Re:America (Score 1) 120

The difference between Europe and America: European people generally have the ability to differentiate between "country" (a political thing, e.g. United States of America, or USA for convenience) and "continent" (a geographical thing, e.g. America). It gets a little trickier for us Europeans once we take "state" and "nation" into consideration too, but that is a different story.

Comment Internal workings vs. flight characteristics (Score 1) 113

> Flight simulators do not model the internal workings of an airplane, but rather the flight characteristics.

Do you know that for a fact? I am not familiar at all with flight simulators, but I am familiar with car and motorcycle simulation software such as computer games. The reason I am asking you this is because some of these do emulate the internal workings of the cars, to the point that, after a race, you can generate the exact telemetry log file that the real thing would generate, in the very same format used by major race ECU manufacturers such as Motec. I know for a fact that this feature is being used by professional race teams at present day. The guy in charge for the telemetry system in a bike team told me this became a common feature in specific software some time in the '90s.

Like I said, I do not know about flight simulators, but I would presume they do a bit of both (flight characteristics / internal workings), and I would be surprised if they are significantly behind car and motorcycle simulators in terms of technology.

Comment Re:Any police killed in the crossfire? (Score 1) 143

I replied to another post by this gentleman to say it was heavily biased to say the least. This one is much worse. Things here are simply not like that. I don't know where this guy lives, but I live in Madrid where most of these demonstrations take place and his description is totally wrong. What is really sad about so much population being extremists (either like this man or the exact opposite end) is that we end up trapped in an endless bi-partisanship situation that hurts the country more than any other problems that we face.

Comment Re:FPGAs (Score 1) 92

I was about to post this. In fact, I bet the resulting HDL code for this particular computer can be implemented in a technology that's cheaper than FPGA, like perhaps commercial flash PLD. Also things seem to be moving towards OpenCL which is behavioural and C-like, which may help people who are used to that paradigm, like people who do MCUs including the Raspberry Pi.

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