Lets face it, life is really only a "good time" until you graduate college and gave to get a day job that sucks the life out of you just like everyone else. After that you're just a working stiff mindlessly going about your day exhausted, stressed, and boring.
We should be focused on extending the fun years before the hell begins. I sure don't want more years as a 60 yr old, I want more as a 20 yr old.
3. AI is irrelavant because cheaper bandwidth means that machines and people can hook up with cheap overseas human brains. Why invent cheap brains when we have billions of starving eager brains around the world?
Becasue AI will be one big brain, massively cheaper, faster, and smarter then human brains at any price. At which point humans won't be running the corps that run things anyway. You're already obsolete;)
Fear not... India is losing jobs to China faster then they are gaining them. And China will lose them just as fast to Open Source(TM) programmers in the western world that work for free.
Go Linux! We will laugh last!
And if Bush wins, the H1-B problem goes away, since noone from outside the US will dare to come here (except the 4k/day across the mexican border) even to visit with all the anal probing involved.
I got my share of calls at 5am from system admins freaking out back in the distributed.net days because I was the DNS contact. We've had people get fired for running Folding@home too. This is actually not as rare as you would think.
We do everything we can to tell poeple NOT to do this, and they KNOW they are doing something wrong.
I feel bad for the guy, but only as bad as I feel for people that choose to live in Florida and then bitch about hurricanes.
When you're hiring someone, it's absolutely CRITICAL not to pay someone enough to be "comfortable". It removes all motivation, and makes for unmotivated and uninterested employees.
Management 101, and a quick lession any hiring manager would learn if they didn't already know.
Giving people piles of cash in options, is one of the mistakes startups make over and over and over. And this is normal to the process.
But, that's the fun isnt it;) Yes Google will retain maybe 5% of the millionares, yes they move on to other things, and yes they knew this would happen.
All money flows as fast as possible to where it can grow the fastest.
Think you can double you money fast in US stocks? Fat chance. But in China companies are growing like crazy.
The US has peaked because everyone is already consuming at 110%, about set for a complete economic meltdown. China has a billion poor people, just waiting to spend all their money on stuff, and they don't speak English. *gasp*
That and a PhD researcher will cost you like $US 200/month.
But back in my d.net days, we estimated that about 1/3 to 1/2 of all installs were zombies or forgotten. The original 5 proxies (hardcoded IP's, including my old dorm IP) probably still get pounded on after all these years.
That means the little old lady driving 35 in the left lane on the highway will save a ton of money as she nearly (or really) kills dozens of people a day.
The black box will think she's the perfect driver.
It's a firewire harddrive with the right drivers. Noone looks twice at the thing, becasue most people think it's just for music, so your boss isn't gonna think you're smuggling out sourcecode.
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Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don't stand to make money
Wow... and ouch... just throw the #1 problem, in many peoples eyes, of the GPL in their faces and rub it in why don't you.
Again, ouch...
Awww, don't hate... even criminals need to do banking. And Paypal is PERFECT for them, designed to serve their exact needs.
Remember the Paypal slogan "We are not a bank".
Free today, subscription tommorow... soon with extra commercials like cable TV.
I assume someone will get congres to "mysteriously reassigned" the soon to be empty AM and FM bandwidth?
Long live NPR!
Social engineering will always work, and will always be very easy, because users are stupid.
Phishing is just technology-enabled social engineering.
The last geek that cared about playing well with others died years ago.
Oh you'll pay... you'll definately pay...
;)
Just not yet
Lets face it, life is really only a "good time" until you graduate college and gave to get a day job that sucks the life out of you just like everyone else. After that you're just a working stiff mindlessly going about your day exhausted, stressed, and boring.
We should be focused on extending the fun years before the hell begins. I sure don't want more years as a 60 yr old, I want more as a 20 yr old.
3. AI is irrelavant because cheaper bandwidth means that machines and people can hook up with cheap overseas human brains. Why invent cheap brains when we have billions of starving eager brains around the world?
;)
Becasue AI will be one big brain, massively cheaper, faster, and smarter then human brains at any price. At which point humans won't be running the corps that run things anyway. You're already obsolete
Fear not... India is losing jobs to China faster then they are gaining them. And China will lose them just as fast to Open Source(TM) programmers in the western world that work for free.
Go Linux! We will laugh last!
And if Bush wins, the H1-B problem goes away, since noone from outside the US will dare to come here (except the 4k/day across the mexican border) even to visit with all the anal probing involved.
I got my share of calls at 5am from system admins freaking out back in the distributed.net days because I was the DNS contact. We've had people get fired for running Folding@home too. This is actually not as rare as you would think.
We do everything we can to tell poeple NOT to do this, and they KNOW they are doing something wrong.
I feel bad for the guy, but only as bad as I feel for people that choose to live in Florida and then bitch about hurricanes.
Solar power woohoo... lets put it on a vehicle that weighs as much as a small house!
Brilliant!
For very large values of 8?
You're talking about the opposite problem, but yea, that too.
Pay them too little (your point) and they wait to bail. Pay them too much, and they don't need the job.
Look, I know you dont want to hear this... but...
;) Yes Google will retain maybe 5% of the millionares, yes they move on to other things, and yes they knew this would happen.
When you're hiring someone, it's absolutely CRITICAL not to pay someone enough to be "comfortable". It removes all motivation, and makes for unmotivated and uninterested employees.
Management 101, and a quick lession any hiring manager would learn if they didn't already know.
Giving people piles of cash in options, is one of the mistakes startups make over and over and over. And this is normal to the process.
But, that's the fun isnt it
Grains and grapes are both good for you even if you let them rot... er, I mean ferment. Of course alchohol in ANY quantity is not good for you.
Gee, I wonder who funded this one...
All money flows as fast as possible to where it can grow the fastest.
Think you can double you money fast in US stocks? Fat chance. But in China companies are growing like crazy.
The US has peaked because everyone is already consuming at 110%, about set for a complete economic meltdown. China has a billion poor people, just waiting to spend all their money on stuff, and they don't speak English. *gasp*
That and a PhD researcher will cost you like $US 200/month.
*laughs*
Um, no, we really wouldn't appreciate you doing that with our software. And it is against our terms of use. http://vsp27.stanford.edu/license.txt
But back in my d.net days, we estimated that about 1/3 to 1/2 of all installs were zombies or forgotten. The original 5 proxies (hardcoded IP's, including my old dorm IP) probably still get pounded on after all these years.
you certainly didn't bought your graphic card in this purpose
Actually, I did.
*chuckles* I love this, people are saying how old this tech is by talking about projects from a year ago.
/. about how cool their "new" toys are.
The concept of using a CPU to do I/O and other "OS stuff" for a vector processor is a wee bit older then that.
Maybe you remember the Cray 1? Or all those i860's we used to use on cards back in the 286 days?
Those who forget history are doomed to post on
That means the little old lady driving 35 in the left lane on the highway will save a ton of money as she nearly (or really) kills dozens of people a day.
The black box will think she's the perfect driver.
How is this more than a zip-code structured Orkut [orkut.com] community system?
Oh! Oh! I know!
Because his one isn't an exclusive gated community.
Simple enough.
Hrm, I can think of a handful of similar apps, it's hardly even nerd news.
How much for a front page posting? Seems like many stories these days are just ads.
How much does one of these obvious ad posts cost anyway?
Please send pricing.
Unless you really get around, you're gonna use your home PC, a primary one at work or school, so it's not an issue.
... o so cute.
And they make these short little cables
It's a firewire harddrive with the right drivers. Noone looks twice at the thing, becasue most people think it's just for music, so your boss isn't gonna think you're smuggling out sourcecode.
Oh, and it plays music.