When did Kuci move to Santa Barbara?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I hadn't been born in the mid 1980s.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I haven't been into downtown SB much - it's a pain to bike in and the last time I went I got lost for about an hour. I mostly bike down along the coastal bike trail and go to Goleta Beach, or the movie theater/plaza across from the office.

There's also an IHOP 2 minutes' bike ride away

(I assume most clubs wouldn't let me in - I'm not 21 for six months.)

No need to bike. There is an Amtrak station in Goleta off Hollister where you can get a train into downtown.

It's a shame about you not being 21 yet as the clubs in Santa Barbara are off the hook with UCSB hotties. Still, maybe you could head down to Isla Vista and get some free beer at one of the parties on Del Playa. If you're bored one day try going down to the Goleta Pier; my friends and I used to catch some huge lobsters there. Nothing like a free lobster dinner.

BTW how did you get lost? Hollister is the big road running eat-west by your work and if you follow it all the way down (like 5 miles) it turns into State St which is the main street in downtown SB.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I've been in Santa Barbara since mid-May. I'm working for the Texas Instruments office there this summer.

I leave in about a month.

I still "live" in Northern Virginia (though I'll be there a total of... maybe 20 days this year?)

Are you designing pocket calculator software?

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Asher


Are you designing pocket calculator software?

That would've been my dream job in high school (though for HP, not TI ... my HP 48 had much more power back then).

[Dinner]

A buddy of mine still lives in Elwood (just west of where you are) and I was in SB about a month ago. If I had know you were there I'd have bought you a beer.

[snoopy369]

Encouraging underage drinking

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Are you designing pocket calculator software?

I know this is a troll, but I'll answer anyway

TISB makes the RTOS that runs on TI DSPs (and, fairly recently, the ARMs as well), as well as a product called Codec Engine, which makes it ridiculously easy to plug and play various codecs and use them transparently on the local ARM or DSP, or a remote ARM or DSP, or an accelerator, or however you've configured it.

TISB also makes this massive... thing... called RTSC (Real-Time Software Components) which essentially grafts namespaces and OOP and some things that you can't even do in C++ onto C, with literally zero performance overhead (through clever use of whole-program optimization). It's even available for systems that only have a tiny subset of the C standard library. The real wtfamazing thing about it is that it allows full configuration of even pre-built binary libraries.

That said, it borders somewhere between amazing and horrific. The configuration is all done via Javascript... so yeah.

I'm working on an OS abstraction library (really just a threading library, at this point) that will be one of the standard RTSC runtime packages (though not imported automatically if you don't need it).

[Asher]

Can LordShiva watch Gladiator on his pocket calculator with this technology?

[Kuciwalker]

No, but he can on his cell phone with it. TI makes the chips for something like 60% of mobile phones sold worldwide.

[Dinner]

Lord Shiva probably has last year's top 10 releases stored on his pocket calculator.

[Winston]

Ich bin der Musikant mit Taschenrechner in der Hand

[Asher]

Does the TI chip support h264?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Winston
Ich bin der Musikant mit Taschenrechner in der Hand

**** off and speak a grown-up language.

[Winston]

Kraftwerk. You should check it out.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Does the TI chip support h264?

Obviously it depends on the chip. They have h264 (and even HD h264) codecs, but not all chips have the horsepower to actually do the decoding in real time, at least at HD resolutions.