Users post personal data for identity thieves to download.
After that, all other "bugs" are 100% irrelevant, anything you would want to hack it already willingly posted. So a big fat security *yawn* on this one.
There are 3 completely different things here, and they have almost nothing to do with each other.
1. Computer Science. This is what academic CS is faculty and Ph.D's, theory, applied math, R&D. 2. Software Engineering - designing software, Apple, MS, Google "try" to hire these people. 3. Programming - writing code, already 90% offshored to the lowest bidder and not worth talking about.
When you got a B.S. degree in CS, you wanted #2 but probably just went into CS for the money and ended up with #3 if you can even code a FOR loop at all. In fact, you can't really learn #2 in school since the faculty are #1, you have to do it since you're 8-10 years old, screw up a lot, and learn from it.
Jobs in #3 are gone, forget about it. #2 are still in very high demand if you're good at it, but very few people are. #1 is where all the cutting edge stuff and new companies come from, and is also alive and doing very well, but is not for most people.
People often lump all 3 together and any statement you make about that is going to be wrong.
If you want to cater to 99.% of users, you target Win32, Linux, and OS X. Xcode does x86+PPC for you without any work so that doesnt matter. Windows and Linux are trivial to throw into a VM, which is handy.
So you setup an Intel Mac, VM Win/Linux, write Python, Perl, PHP, or C, to minimize the testing needed and you're done. Add another 3-5 flavors of Linux because the various distributions are complete assh*les and can't standardize on all the libraries of course, so your code won't run on Redhat and SUSE without tweaks. Or just forget Linux and be happy with 99%.
Back even 10 years ago that list would have been 20 systems, not 3.
I am an anti-packrat, I purge all the junk every time I transfer to a new hard drive (they never last long do they) and so I keep it pretty trim, having "stuff" is generally just more of a headache. Deleting email attachments you don't need also goes a long way, those 10MB.doc files that say the same thing as the paragraph of ASCII.
I will admit the digital camera turned it from a CD into a DVD of backups, but I just need to get a really good 3-4MP camera, instead of a rather bad 8MP one. Also just deleting all the duds right away is a good 20x savings.
The problem is, everything is duplicated, a LOT. All those copies needs to be stored tho, so here we are swimming in data.
My work machine that I backed up a couple weeks ago, was a 30MB zip file, and 3/4 of that was my local CVS tree. So out of a 30GB, less then 1/3000th was not OS, software, or just copied locally from a data store.
At home, I've saved every email, every picture, everything from my Windows, Linux, OSX and every other box I've every had since ~1992, and that's barely a few GB uncompressed.
The amount of non-duplicate useful material is far far smaller then your would think.
Hey, if they paid me as much as they pay k-12 teachers and had to go through what they do every day dealing with stupid myspace-surfing kids, I probably wouldn't give a shit either.
This finally explains why Google needs 5000+ PhD's to finish an email application in a lightning fast 3? years. They have them all working on tax avoidance for all the money they pimping out our eyeballs to advertisers.
DNA that isn't functional has a high rate of change.
If it's wrong and functional it dies, and only correct copies live on. If it's just data, being wrong does nothing and just keeps degrading further. This is also how we figure out how far distant relatives or species are apart as well, the "junk" DNA will diverge at a fairly steady rate over time.
For 1.6 Billion you can't just hire someone in India/China for 25cents/hour to screen the massive ~5 videos a minute that get posted at 99.99% accuracy instead of a buggy program?
They would save a fortune only having to host a couple dozen videos a day that only get a few hits rather then the popular stuff.
One morning, we'll wake up and find out the media companies spent the weekend writing and setting up their own video site, with ads intact. YouTube will have a pile of takedown notices for 99% of the pirated content on their site and cops seizing their servers. Only a matter of time.
YouTube is the kid running a lemonade stand trying to negotiate with the local Mafia boss.
Oh, and when did YouTube remove all the English content, it's getting hard to find...
Game companies are FURIOUS at the farmers, not because they do what they do, but because they can't figure out how to cut them out and just charge for each level or item in the game without losing players. Most companies are probably setting up fake front companies to do it, because there is now far more money in the farming then in hosting the game.
Any game with the X dollars/month pricing model is guaranteed to be tedious, boring, and unsuitable for anyone with a life or a clue. Heck even idiots should see through it. Which is perfect, since that means it keeps the 1/3 of kids that drop out of high school off the streets!:)
Welcome to virtual reality, please insert your credit card.
I thought all of Google's revenue was from domain squatters, spyware programs, and viagra/stock/scam spammers. That's the first page no matter what you search for these days.
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Users post personal data for identity thieves to download.
After that, all other "bugs" are 100% irrelevant, anything you would want to hack it already willingly posted. So a big fat security *yawn* on this one.
There are 3 completely different things here, and they have almost nothing to do with each other.
1. Computer Science. This is what academic CS is faculty and Ph.D's, theory, applied math, R&D.
2. Software Engineering - designing software, Apple, MS, Google "try" to hire these people.
3. Programming - writing code, already 90% offshored to the lowest bidder and not worth talking about.
When you got a B.S. degree in CS, you wanted #2 but probably just went into CS for the money and ended up with #3 if you can even code a FOR loop at all. In fact, you can't really learn #2 in school since the faculty are #1, you have to do it since you're 8-10 years old, screw up a lot, and learn from it.
Jobs in #3 are gone, forget about it. #2 are still in very high demand if you're good at it, but very few people are. #1 is where all the cutting edge stuff and new companies come from, and is also alive and doing very well, but is not for most people.
People often lump all 3 together and any statement you make about that is going to be wrong.
If you want to cater to 99.% of users, you target Win32, Linux, and OS X. Xcode does x86+PPC for you without any work so that doesnt matter. Windows and Linux are trivial to throw into a VM, which is handy.
So you setup an Intel Mac, VM Win/Linux, write Python, Perl, PHP, or C, to minimize the testing needed and you're done. Add another 3-5 flavors of Linux because the various distributions are complete assh*les and can't standardize on all the libraries of course, so your code won't run on Redhat and SUSE without tweaks. Or just forget Linux and be happy with 99%.
Back even 10 years ago that list would have been 20 systems, not 3.
You got it.
Shhhh... It's Google we're talking about, THEY came up with this groundbreaking shift in how data is handled.
Praise the Google, don't point out they are just doing the same thing as everyone else.
Google is watching.
I am an anti-packrat, I purge all the junk every time I transfer to a new hard drive (they never last long do they) and so I keep it pretty trim, having "stuff" is generally just more of a headache. Deleting email attachments you don't need also goes a long way, those 10MB .doc files that say the same thing as the paragraph of ASCII.
I will admit the digital camera turned it from a CD into a DVD of backups, but I just need to get a really good 3-4MP camera, instead of a rather bad 8MP one. Also just deleting all the duds right away is a good 20x savings.
The problem is, everything is duplicated, a LOT. All those copies needs to be stored tho, so here we are swimming in data.
My work machine that I backed up a couple weeks ago, was a 30MB zip file, and 3/4 of that was my local CVS tree. So out of a 30GB, less then 1/3000th was not OS, software, or just copied locally from a data store.
At home, I've saved every email, every picture, everything from my Windows, Linux, OSX and every other box I've every had since ~1992, and that's barely a few GB uncompressed.
The amount of non-duplicate useful material is far far smaller then your would think.
Hey, if they paid me as much as they pay k-12 teachers and had to go through what they do every day dealing with stupid myspace-surfing kids, I probably wouldn't give a shit either.
I'm sure there is some other explanation...
This finally explains why Google needs 5000+ PhD's to finish an email application in a lightning fast 3? years. They have them all working on tax avoidance for all the money they pimping out our eyeballs to advertisers.
Seriously, that does explain a lot.
Count real, usable FLOPS. GPU's don't win.
But for ~$500, it's what's going to be used.
Don't mention the wattage...
And the second rule of teraflop club...
Don't mention the wattage...
Back here in the real world where we PAY FOR ELECTRICITY, we're waiting for some nice FLOPS/Watt, keep trying guys.
And they announced this some time ago didn't they?
DNA that isn't functional has a high rate of change.
If it's wrong and functional it dies, and only correct copies live on. If it's just data, being wrong does nothing and just keeps degrading further. This is also how we figure out how far distant relatives or species are apart as well, the "junk" DNA will diverge at a fairly steady rate over time.
So, cute trick, but that's all.
So is the U.K. filling up with radical militant Christian future terrorists (Evangelicals) pushing intelligent design bull too?
In any case, looks more like budget tweaking compared to the overall budget then a mass cutback.
For 1.6 Billion you can't just hire someone in India/China for 25cents/hour to screen the massive ~5 videos a minute that get posted at 99.99% accuracy instead of a buggy program?
They would save a fortune only having to host a couple dozen videos a day that only get a few hits rather then the popular stuff.
Must be running already, but only in English. Now all I see on the top-X lists on YouTube are clips from non-English shows.
Still not much non-copyrighted content, it's just from other countries now.
No more reason to care about YouTube, hahahahahahahhahahaha.
Hey, if advertisers are stupid enough to pay Google 10 times to show an ad to the same person, they deserve what they get...
Which is to have to sell stuff at such a high markup noone buys them. HA HA!
Wow, you sure did claim a lot of credit for 40 year old tech in that post.
At least at distributed.net and Folding@home we never claimed we invented anything ancient.
I think It's awesome that the BBC is going to have YouTube foot the bill for their bandwidth instead of making the UK citizens do it.
Rock on BBC!
Knuth has neither.
One morning, we'll wake up and find out the media companies spent the weekend writing and setting up their own video site, with ads intact. YouTube will have a pile of takedown notices for 99% of the pirated content on their site and cops seizing their servers. Only a matter of time.
YouTube is the kid running a lemonade stand trying to negotiate with the local Mafia boss.
Oh, and when did YouTube remove all the English content, it's getting hard to find...
Nope, FOlding@home and the article are talking about he same thing.
:)
We do over 420 years of compute time ever day tho
It's called an iPhone, they already announced the product, it does all the stuff I do on my 12" iBook, only thanks to AT&T noone can afford it.
Apple must be cooking up a AT&T-free version.
Any second now, some archaeologist is gonna scream "So that's what that was!"
:)
I can't wait to see the references in the paper
Game companies are FURIOUS at the farmers, not because they do what they do, but because they can't figure out how to cut them out and just charge for each level or item in the game without losing players. Most companies are probably setting up fake front companies to do it, because there is now far more money in the farming then in hosting the game.
:)
Any game with the X dollars/month pricing model is guaranteed to be tedious, boring, and unsuitable for anyone with a life or a clue. Heck even idiots should see through it. Which is perfect, since that means it keeps the 1/3 of kids that drop out of high school off the streets!
Welcome to virtual reality, please insert your credit card.
I thought all of Google's revenue was from domain squatters, spyware programs, and viagra/stock/scam spammers. That's the first page no matter what you search for these days.
Guess we learn something new every day!