I do not see how this type of project is sanctioned by the Indian government.
Half the population is living in slums
Most parts of the country have only intermittant electricty
There is almost no safe water (by Western European standards)
The majority of the population is functionally illiterate.
The roads are amongst the most dangerous in the world
Pollution (air, water, and waste) is a HUGE problem
I suggest that this money could be better spent addressing those problems
I could be wrong, but I feel that progress needs to happen on all fronts. Research, industry, infrastructure, quality of life, etc. are all things that need to be invested in at the same time. The problems you speak of don't have silver-bullet cures - you have to work on them for generations. What will you do till then? Suspend all research spending?
At any rate, I'm amazed at the conviction you demonstrate when discussing such issues. You're either a genius (who really has solutions) or someone who hasn't thought this through well enough.
If you switch to Dvorak, another thing to consider is using VIM/Emacs keyboard shortcuts. Granted, these are customizable, but apparently my brain thinks of shortcuts as "this sequence to save and quit", and not ":wq". So when you move to Dvorak, you start hitting the QWERTY locations of ":wq", and not the Dvorak locations of ":", "w", and "q". Oh, and I'm yet to see someone in the 110wpm range get a speed increase from moving to Dvorak.
I'm also assuming that he has some sort of tracking mount. The exposure times listed ran into hours, and I don't think you can produce images this sharp without tracking mounts.
I saw my wife playing Assassin's Creed on the iPhone today. I can't imagine a game of that quality being remade in Javascript unless it comes with some funky O3D-like capabilities.
Our experiment (LHCb, not to be confused with the collider, called the LHC) looks for specific types of particle collisions. The rate of the collisions determines the frequency of sampling the sensors, and the number of sensors (and the number of bits read out from each sensor) determines the size of each sample. But with a combination of some really fast electronics and a large cluster of general-purpose servers we end up getting this rate down to somewhere between 150 to 300 MB/sec. This is (designed to) read out about 8-9 hours a day for 9 months a year. The design was quite interesting, mainly because at each level, you had to have a team that had people with deep knowledge of detectors, physics, electronics, and computer systems to decide what to retain, how to retain, and how to discard what. I've been told that it's been a long time since we just read out everything that came out of a detector and analysed it later. (IANAP)
I worked for one of the detectors at CERN, and I strongly agree with the notion of Science being a data management problem.
We (intend to:-) pull a colossal amount of data from the detectors (about 40 TB/sec in case of the experiment I was working for). Unsurprisingly, all of it can't be stored. There's a dedicated group of people whose only job is to make sure that only relevant information is extracted, and another small group whose only job is to make sure that all this information can be stored, accessed, and processed at large scales. In short, there is a lot that happens with the data before it is even seen by a physicist.
Having said that, I agree that very few people have a real appreciation and/or understanding of these kinds of systems and even fewer have the required depth of knowledge to build them. But this tends to be a highly specialized area, and I can't imagine it's easy to study it as a generic subject.
1. If the work you do allows you to dabble in a few areas and enables you to get a lot of experience in a couple of them, then your work experience may be just as valuable or more valuable than master's studies done for the same period.
2. If the work you do is basically mundane, run-of-the-mill stuff (say maintaining a very stable project with limited scope for engineering work and/or development) , it certainly won't give you the depth of knowledge that you could possibly be getting if you go back to school.
3. Someone else has also said this a while back - a master's degree is sometimes a pre-requisite for some jobs and certainly helps if you ever think of migrating to a different country for work.
I recently interviewed for a position with a prominent company that prides itself on being non-evil. _All_ documents mailed back and forth are in odt and txt. There's no trace of Word anywhere. I find that quite cool. I for one save all my stuff in odt, and if I need to send it to someone, then export to Word/PDF.
I just opened amazon.com, slashdot.org, Google docs, and PicasaWeb in different tabs in FF and Opera. I'm on FC7 i686, and I see on 'top' that Opera has virt about 30 MB less than FF and res is about the same. So while my test is by no means complete or conclusive, it would appear that there isn't a serious difference in their memory footprints.
"We're not competing, we're just kids. MS Office rocks." That's a smart thing to say while you siphon off whatever customers you can. A much smarter thing than, say, Andreessen's famous "Netscape will reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers" statement. Evil or no evil, Google is definitely clever.
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I do not see how this type of project is sanctioned by the Indian government. Half the population is living in slums Most parts of the country have only intermittant electricty There is almost no safe water (by Western European standards) The majority of the population is functionally illiterate. The roads are amongst the most dangerous in the world Pollution (air, water, and waste) is a HUGE problem I suggest that this money could be better spent addressing those problems
I could be wrong, but I feel that progress needs to happen on all fronts. Research, industry, infrastructure, quality of life, etc. are all things that need to be invested in at the same time. The problems you speak of don't have silver-bullet cures - you have to work on them for generations. What will you do till then? Suspend all research spending? At any rate, I'm amazed at the conviction you demonstrate when discussing such issues. You're either a genius (who really has solutions) or someone who hasn't thought this through well enough.
Excellent. I can already see more guys being apprehended for using "white text on black screens."
. . . to look like it's been Photoshopped!
. . . it's "KHAN", not "KAHN".
. . . better than they can find WMDs.
If you switch to Dvorak, another thing to consider is using VIM/Emacs keyboard shortcuts. Granted, these are customizable, but apparently my brain thinks of shortcuts as "this sequence to save and quit", and not ":wq". So when you move to Dvorak, you start hitting the QWERTY locations of ":wq", and not the Dvorak locations of ":", "w", and "q". Oh, and I'm yet to see someone in the 110wpm range get a speed increase from moving to Dvorak.
Nope, it's "ripples in the time-space continuum".
How was twitter going to make money anyway?
When the car gets here, we, the inhabitants of Pike's peak, will welcome our new Audi-driving robotic overlords.
I'm also assuming that he has some sort of tracking mount. The exposure times listed ran into hours, and I don't think you can produce images this sharp without tracking mounts.
"Police in YOUR_COUNTRY_HERE arrest man for Joke on Bomb-Thread Joke on Twitter."
"Police in arrest man for Joke on Bomb-Thread Joke on Twitter."
I saw my wife playing Assassin's Creed on the iPhone today. I can't imagine a game of that quality being remade in Javascript unless it comes with some funky O3D-like capabilities.
Microsoft chooses YOU!
The video disclaimer says that this is the "product vision". Are there videos of the actual product itself in use?
before we run out of uranium!!
Well, what about: "OMG that sounds hideous. I'm _never_ going to buy that track." :-)
Our experiment (LHCb, not to be confused with the collider, called the LHC) looks for specific types of particle collisions. The rate of the collisions determines the frequency of sampling the sensors, and the number of sensors (and the number of bits read out from each sensor) determines the size of each sample. But with a combination of some really fast electronics and a large cluster of general-purpose servers we end up getting this rate down to somewhere between 150 to 300 MB/sec. This is (designed to) read out about 8-9 hours a day for 9 months a year. The design was quite interesting, mainly because at each level, you had to have a team that had people with deep knowledge of detectors, physics, electronics, and computer systems to decide what to retain, how to retain, and how to discard what. I've been told that it's been a long time since we just read out everything that came out of a detector and analysed it later. (IANAP)
I worked for one of the detectors at CERN, and I strongly agree with the notion of Science being a data management problem. We (intend to :-) pull a colossal amount of data from the detectors (about 40 TB/sec in case of the experiment I was working for). Unsurprisingly, all of it can't be stored. There's a dedicated group of people whose only job is to make sure that only relevant information is extracted, and another small group whose only job is to make sure that all this information can be stored, accessed, and processed at large scales. In short, there is a lot that happens with the data before it is even seen by a physicist.
Having said that, I agree that very few people have a real appreciation and/or understanding of these kinds of systems and even fewer have the required depth of knowledge to build them. But this tends to be a highly specialized area, and I can't imagine it's easy to study it as a generic subject.
1. If the work you do allows you to dabble in a few areas and enables you to get a lot of experience in a couple of them, then your work experience may be just as valuable or more valuable than master's studies done for the same period. 2. If the work you do is basically mundane, run-of-the-mill stuff (say maintaining a very stable project with limited scope for engineering work and/or development) , it certainly won't give you the depth of knowledge that you could possibly be getting if you go back to school. 3. Someone else has also said this a while back - a master's degree is sometimes a pre-requisite for some jobs and certainly helps if you ever think of migrating to a different country for work.
In SuSE, gcc is not installed by default, and is not even on their online repository. What good is a laptop that doesn't have gcc?
Since forever? You must be new here.
I recently interviewed for a position with a prominent company that prides itself on being non-evil. _All_ documents mailed back and forth are in odt and txt. There's no trace of Word anywhere. I find that quite cool. I for one save all my stuff in odt, and if I need to send it to someone, then export to Word/PDF.
I just opened amazon.com, slashdot.org, Google docs, and PicasaWeb in different tabs in FF and Opera. I'm on FC7 i686, and I see on 'top' that Opera has virt about 30 MB less than FF and res is about the same. So while my test is by no means complete or conclusive, it would appear that there isn't a serious difference in their memory footprints.
"We're not competing, we're just kids. MS Office rocks." That's a smart thing to say while you siphon off whatever customers you can. A much smarter thing than, say, Andreessen's famous "Netscape will reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers" statement. Evil or no evil, Google is definitely clever.