Iowa State pays me almost $80K/yr in salary and
TSA (plus some really nice benefits like 41 days off), but the real money is in consulting where I can equal a week's salary in a day (but, of course, you get no insurance, etc with that).
The SOL rocked.
Back about '81 or so, my friend Rich
who live a couple floors below in the dorms
had one -- we built a disco light machine
out of it for dorm parties. I did the
hardware -- parallel port to opto-isolators
to TRIACs to strings of xams lights:)
Rich did the software, it had a little editor
that you'd enter strings
like:
If this thing truly is cyclical (not just a one-month-wonder), then it seems to me that
the N systems out there with mis-set clocks
have been infecting other systems
most of which are now sitting quiet, and
on the 1st all those quietly infected systems
will go into scanning mode.
This will be the seed for August -- will this
be a big number or a small number?
Judging from
the apparent lack of action by IIS sysadmins on this campus (or perhaps they're just procrastinating)
I'd suggest a significant percentage of machines are still unpatched.
So my guess is the curve will start faster this time, but reach a lower peak (because surely somebody has to have applied the patch).
No, it's B&N that wants this machine.
No excess stock, no shelf space, no
reshelving,
no warehousing, no transportation costs.
Heck you could probably automate the whole
store!
Customer sits down at screen, searches for,
previews titles, selects, enters cash or
credit card, walks to end of machine,
walks away with actual real book.
I've seen several references to that school district here and frankly, if they are true and representative, then that school is seriously screwed up, in my opinion.
I can tell you that our school system (for the record, I am on the School Board) greatly appreciates all our volunteers (esp., since the state legislature insists on meddling with our budgets).
If the administartor truly did put the fear of god
into the boy, than that was surely a contributing factor, but what I haven't seen discussed is the father's actions -- what kind of dad would just go back to work and leave their kid home along after that!?!
IBM deserves any and all DB misfortune (including
pissing away a billion dollars) for the crime of destroying the far superior QUEL query language from Ingres with 'the EBCDIC of query languages', SQL!
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Give 'em non-weapons grade uranium and it ends up where?
I'm thinking depleted-uranium SUVs
-- how else are we going to make them heavy enough in the future?
Be the first on your block with a new Ford Excrescent!
Apache is a great general purpose web server,
but if you really need all-out performance,
it is not the answer.
Probably the highest performance architecture
for an all-dynamic-content site is
a very small, simple, single-process httpd (say based on thttpd),
which connects (via sockets, shared memory,
or fd-passing) to one or more persistant server
process(es) dedicated to your task (probably written in C).
The server now handles around 50,000 emails
totaling nearly a couple of gig of data,
How does it work on something much bigger?
We have about 40,000 users spread over 6
POP servers (Pentium 600s or something).
And we have people like me with about 1/4
million messages in our folders...
I'd love to see us do IMAP, but I think
it would choke without racks and racks
of servers.
At the very least be aware that "here there be dragons".
More often than not when I run across some piece of code that makes me exclaim
"What brain-damage is this?!?"
I later discover that some other bletcherous mess is depending on that particular flavor of brain-damage.
If a piece of code has a tight enough interface specification that you can actually get away with the 'school-taught software-engineering, it's a black box we change the insides at will' mentality -- then chances are that code isn't
crying out for a rewrite in the first place.
16,000 km/hr (10,000 mph) is not all that fast for a spacescraft -- IIRC the shuttle is doing more than twice that -- it orbits the earth in 90 minutes.
If they are up for a promotion against an equally skilled minority, of COURSE they should get the promotion, because they're automatically more skilled.
I think you mistake arrogance for racism.
When I'm up for a promotion or whatever,
I always assume I'm the more skilled,
it wouldn't matter if my competition was Richie, Pike, and Torvalds.
And I expect everyone else around me to believe the same thing about them.
P.S. When I (poor white trailer trash) took freshman engineering, I had zero, zippo, nada
experience with a computer.
So don't just assume Joe White Boy had
a privileged upbringing, either.
Some of us worked our asses off too.
No kidding, this has been the snowiest month ever in Iowa and it's only December -- I am already sick of shovelling -- if this keeps up, by February I doubt I'll have the strength to heave it on top of the pile...
If only someone could invent some machine which spews the cremated remains of dinosaurs into the air while shovelling my snow for me...:)
1: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : TEACH
then, of course, I agree.
However, when you say indoctrination, most people think of:
2: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
and that is a perjorative view that I do not accept.
...in the business of teaching according to the wishes of their master - the government
Right, and that government, the local school board, serves at the pleasure of the populace.
I would argue that, as a general rule, the smaller and more local a government is, the better it reflects the wishes of its consituency, and therefore, most school boards are, I would argue, among the better functioning governments.
If you are an anarchist and see NO use for government, then we probably have no common ground upon which to continue a conversation.
...outperforming even high-income public school children...
High family income is actually fairly far down on the list of factors for success.
Of course, "parental involvement" is hard to measure in objective ways, but IIRC, (don't have it here in front of me) recent studies have shown
mother's educational attainment to be at the top of the list (which I would suggest is probably a good predictor for valuing and therefor being involved in their childrens education).
...the government compells them at gunpoint to place them in schools...
Not true, else home schooling would be illegal.
You can argue it, but it has been ruled by the courts that society has a compelling interest in seeing that each generation is educated.
BTW, the study was literally the 1st one Google gave me, I keep that 'school stuff' at home. so I did not have any at hand.
...filled with grammar and spelling mistakes...
I can't speak to the items you mentioned in your school district, nor am I in a position to correct them, but you are...
...it takes 25% of the budget to hire the
bureaucrats to implement and oversee the regulations. If you don't understand that,
please resign in favor of someone who might have the balls to tell the feds to go to hell and retain local control.
And you, obviously, have a corresponding ignorance about our district.
In our current budget, our federal revenue
is $557,839 out of a total of $33,682,860)
Of that $33.6M, $26.3M is personnel costs,
and of that only $1.9M goes to administration
(bureaucrats, to use your word, but in fact,
the largest share of those are elementary principals). Hardly 25% of our budget!!!
Sheesh!
I think all you've done is move the problem onto the chip (which may well be an advantage, but the basic problem remains).
Crossbars are for anywhere you have more than 1 source and/or more than one destination and you want to have multiple flows going at the same time -- imagine a bus architecture as an old thinwire ethernet and a crossbar architecture as an ethernet switch.
That is, CPU A can be fetching from memory bank 2
at the same time as CPU C is writing to bank 3:
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Weird but true.
My condolences.
Perhaps if you improved your spelling you could get a raise.
Rich did the software, it had a little editor that you'd enter strings like:
0.......
.0......
..0.....
...0....
.0...0..
0...0...
to show the time sequence of which light strings you wanted lit.
OK, it's not exactly rocket science, but we thought it was pretty cool :)
Judging from the apparent lack of action by IIS sysadmins on this campus (or perhaps they're just procrastinating) I'd suggest a significant percentage of machines are still unpatched.
So my guess is the curve will start faster this time, but reach a lower peak (because surely somebody has to have applied the patch).
Heck you could probably automate the whole store!
Customer sits down at screen, searches for, previews titles, selects, enters cash or credit card, walks to end of machine, walks away with actual real book.
I can tell you that our school system (for the record, I am on the School Board) greatly appreciates all our volunteers (esp., since the state legislature insists on meddling with our budgets).
If the administartor truly did put the fear of god
into the boy, than that was surely a contributing factor, but what I haven't seen discussed is the father's actions -- what kind of dad would just go back to work and leave their kid home along after that!?!
I'm thinking depleted-uranium SUVs -- how else are we going to make them heavy enough in the future?
Be the first on your block with a new Ford Excrescent!
Probably the highest performance architecture for an all-dynamic-content site is a very small, simple, single-process httpd (say based on thttpd), which connects (via sockets, shared memory, or fd-passing) to one or more persistant server process(es) dedicated to your task (probably written in C).
How about: vote with your feet!
Example: the official Free-Unix student organization here on campus has 2 of us from Academic IT as "faculty" advisors...
How does it work on something much bigger?
We have about 40,000 users spread over 6 POP servers (Pentium 600s or something). And we have people like me with about 1/4 million messages in our folders...
I'd love to see us do IMAP, but I think it would choke without racks and racks of servers.
At the very least be aware that "here there be dragons". More often than not when I run across some piece of code that makes me exclaim "What brain-damage is this?!?" I later discover that some other bletcherous mess is depending on that particular flavor of brain-damage.
If a piece of code has a tight enough interface specification that you can actually get away with the 'school-taught software-engineering, it's a black box we change the insides at will' mentality -- then chances are that code isn't crying out for a rewrite in the first place.
Is there anyplace outside the U.S. with small enough 'lag' to rally compete?
P.S., Canada doesn't count until the have FPS-Hockey :)
distance = 1/2 * acceleration * time^2
so, if half way from the earth to mars is 8e10 meters, and 1 week is about 6e5 seconds, I make that only about .44 meters/second^2
or 1/20 of a Gee.
(surely I've bollixed the math someplace :)
I think you mistake arrogance for racism. When I'm up for a promotion or whatever, I always assume I'm the more skilled, it wouldn't matter if my competition was Richie, Pike, and Torvalds. And I expect everyone else around me to believe the same thing about them.
P.S. When I (poor white trailer trash) took freshman engineering, I had zero, zippo, nada experience with a computer. So don't just assume Joe White Boy had a privileged upbringing, either. Some of us worked our asses off too.
So (if actually legal) this clause says that if any previous owner of your property has ever had Sprint, Sprint has these rights over you?
Yikes!
If only someone could invent some machine which spews the cremated remains of dinosaurs into the air while shovelling my snow for me... :)
If by indoctrination, you mean:
then, of course, I agree. However, when you say indoctrination, most people think of: and that is a perjorative view that I do not accept.Right, and that government, the local school board, serves at the pleasure of the populace. I would argue that, as a general rule, the smaller and more local a government is, the better it reflects the wishes of its consituency, and therefore, most school boards are, I would argue, among the better functioning governments.
If you are an anarchist and see NO use for government, then we probably have no common ground upon which to continue a conversation.
High family income is actually fairly far down on the list of factors for success. Of course, "parental involvement" is hard to measure in objective ways, but IIRC, (don't have it here in front of me) recent studies have shown mother's educational attainment to be at the top of the list (which I would suggest is probably a good predictor for valuing and therefor being involved in their childrens education).
Not true, else home schooling would be illegal.
You can argue it, but it has been ruled by the courts that society has a compelling interest in seeing that each generation is educated.
BTW, the study was literally the 1st one Google gave me, I keep that 'school stuff' at home. so I did not have any at hand.
I can't speak to the items you mentioned in your school district, nor am I in a position to correct them, but you are...
And you, obviously, have a corresponding ignorance about our district. In our current budget, our federal revenue is $557,839 out of a total of $33,682,860) Of that $33.6M, $26.3M is personnel costs, and of that only $1.9M goes to administration (bureaucrats, to use your word, but in fact, the largest share of those are elementary principals). Hardly 25% of our budget!!! Sheesh!
Crossbars are for anywhere you have more than 1 source and/or more than one destination and you want to have multiple flows going at the same time -- imagine a bus architecture as an old thinwire ethernet and a crossbar architecture as an ethernet switch.
That is, CPU A can be fetching from memory bank 2 at the same time as CPU C is writing to bank 3:
A--[_4x4__]--0
B--[_cross]--1
C--[__bar_]--2
D--[switch]--3