Макфол, Microchip PIC32MZ Starter Kit и камелии |
[Nov. 30th, 2013|11:56 pm]
Yuri Panchul
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Макфол выложил свое выступление перед какими-то поклонниками, на что я тут же украсил его комментарием:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KBXmQwAUY
Yuri Panchul: Mr.McFaul: You said B-2 visas are OK, but what about B-1 visas?
You got a question during the meeting from a teacher who wanted to get B-2 tourist visa to go to a vacation in Florida. You told her "no problem, you are likely to get a visa".
Is it the same situation for B-1 business/scientific visitor visa? I noticed that a lot of business travelers and scientists working in the areas of semiconductors, solid state physics, embedded systems, image recognition etc - have serious problems getting B-1 visas. Because of the delays in processing due to some sort of extra checking they cannot attend meetings and conferences on time.
For example, I am making a presentation on a conference in Arizona next year with a lot of invited Russian scientists ( http://rustec.asu.edu/ ), and I noticed they warn for my Russian colleagues about such delays.
From an external observer these actions of the US Government send the following message: "We would like Russians to like America and be stupid. We support their vanity desires to go to Disneyworld in Florida but oppose their intents to connect with their US colleagues in anything important like real science or technology. Weak things like Skolkovo is OK; everybody else will be scrutinized like potential spies, delayed and rejected".
Еще Макфол выложил какие-то свои слайды, про которые я тут же, не отходя от кассы, внес свои пару центов:
http://www.slideshare.net/usembassyru/obama-worldview-11262013en
Yuri Panchul: I read these slides with great interest. However I can identify a few issues with the 'innovation' part. The slides emphasize Skolkovo-MIT deal and Intel, but they ignore the US-created obstacles with export control and unreasonable scrutinizing business and scientific visitors to the US.
Let's enumerate some of these issues:
1. The reaction of people in scientific and technological community to Skolkovo-MIT deal is not entirely positive. One issue is a transparency in spending $302M of Russian taxpayer's money. Another issue is the value of abstract classes on 'multidisciplinary entrepreneurship' and 'innovation' - versus more traditional classes on computer architecture, system on chip design, embedded systems and other real stuff Silicon Valley is quietly doing under the flashy PR events of Intel and Apple.
2. As far as I know Intel is mostly doing compiler and other software work in Russia. It is not clear whether Intel can drive the development of Russian chip design and related hardware areas.
3. The current practices of US export control, governed by Bureau of Industry and Security, are not transparent. The hitech business community at large still has no clue about the reasons of BIS blacklisting a Russian supercomputer company T-Platforms that had customers even in the United States.
4. Many Russian scientists and business people working in semiconductor, embedded systems, computer vision and other areas - face significant delays when they are trying to get visas to go to US conferences and to meet with US partners. Apparently some recent laws (back in 2008? under Obama?) made these problems worse.
5. The actions of the US government create an impression that the US government would like to suppress the technological development in Russia in certain areas to avoid creating another China ('modernization without democratization'). This is consistent with the following statements from the book of Michael McFaul 'Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can':
Michael McFaul: 'In the developing world over the past 50 years, there is no correlation between modernization and democratization'
Michael McFaul: 'In the economic growth race in the developing world, autocracies are the hares and the snails, while democracies are the tortoises. On average, democracies have a slower rate of growth than the best autocratic performers but a much better rate of growth than most autocratic regimes'
Michael McFaul: 'Over the past 10 years, economic modernization in Russia has undermined, not promoted, democratic development.'
Потом я решил запустить новый Microchip PIC32MZ Starter Kit и обнаружил, что он не запускается без каких-то прагм, которые я для PIC32MZ еще не знаю. Вот такое работает (прагмы скопированы из примера):
#define PIC32_STARTER_KIT
// DEVCFG3 // USERID = No Setting
#pragma config FMIIEN = ON #pragma config FETHIO = ON #pragma config PGL1WAY = ON #pragma config PMDL1WAY = ON #pragma config IOL1WAY = ON #pragma config FUSBIDIO = OFF
// DEVCFG2
#pragma config FPLLIDIV = DIV_3 #pragma config FPLLRNG = RANGE_8_16_MHZ #pragma config FPLLICLK = PLL_POSC #pragma config FPLLMULT = MUL_50 #pragma config FPLLODIV = DIV_2 #pragma config UPLLFSEL = FREQ_24MHZ #pragma config UPLLEN = ON
// DEVCFG1
#pragma config FNOSC = SPLL #pragma config DMTINTV = WIN_127_128 #pragma config FSOSCEN = OFF #pragma config IESO = OFF #pragma config POSCMOD = EC #pragma config OSCIOFNC = ON #pragma config FCKSM = CSDCMD #pragma config WDTPS = PS1048576 #pragma config WDTSPGM = STOP #pragma config WINDIS = NORMAL #pragma config FWDTEN = OFF #pragma config FWDTWINSZ = WINSZ_25 // DMTCNT = No Setting #pragma config FDMTEN = OFF
// DEVCFG0
#pragma config EJTAGBEN = NORMAL #pragma config DBGPER = PG_ALL #pragma config FSLEEP = OFF #pragma config FECCCON = OFF_UNLOCKED #pragma config BOOTISA = MIPS32 #pragma config TRCEN = OFF #pragma config ICESEL = ICS_PGx2 #pragma config JTAGEN = OFF #pragma config DEBUG = ON
// DEVCP0
#pragma config CP = OFF
#include "p32xxxx.h"
void main (void) { TRISH = 0; PORTH = 7; }
Теперь также надо попробовать оживить DBINIT/DBPRINTF для отладочной выдачи на консоль, после чего можно будет послать пару комплектов PIC32MZ в Киев революционным массам для моральной поддержки из Америки.
Так как DBINIT/DBPRINTF сразу не заработал, я чтобы отвлечься наваял пост о камелиях:
http://camellia-sasanqua.com/2013/11/30/gingetsu-perkins/
I got this plant from Tom Nuccio. Tom told me that he got it from a person named Perkins under the name 'Gingetsu'. Obviously this plant is not 'Gingetsu' because the real 'Gingetsu' is a well-known white Camellia sasanqua, from Higo-sazanka group of cultivars, originated in Japanese province of Kumamoto.
I suspect this misnamed 'Gingetsu Perkins' might be a cross between C. sasanqua and C. reticulata. Its flower size is unusually big for sasanqua, but it has a good sun tolerange. It is also fast growing, upright and somewhat loose. It is much easier to cross C. sasanqua with C. reticulata than to cross C. sasanqua with C. japonica because of their chromosome counts. Both C. sasanqua and C. reticulata usually have 90 chromosomes, while C. japonica - just 30. For more information about Camellia chromosomes see Camellia sasanqua botany (with pictures).

Крупнее:

One of my 'Gingetsu Perkins' plants got what looks like a bud mutation, and produced a flower with petaloids:


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