Previously if you were caught writing such a message on the walls , you would have to erase it and then were suspended for 10 days for the action. Now if you do it on Facebook, apparently you get expelled, rather than having the opportunity to redact such statements and make a public apology / amends for it.
People should be allowed to be young, make mistakes, face consequences of their actions and learn from them. It's called growing up. This is not the way to go about it at all.
I at least given credit to Blockbuster. They saw the writing on the wall and are at least trying to change their business model. Yes they have to close over a third of their stores, yes they still can't compare to Netflix/Redbox/Internet, but they are at least trying. Not going to be an overnight change to put them back into the number one slot for video rentals.
Music industry... definitely missed the ball on digital music and iTunes snatched that up. Definitely missed the ball on Youtube/Internet Radio Streaming. Is it too much to ask they ask think forwards instead of backwards, like every other company who plans on staying in business and remaining competitive?
Apparently the pilot is supposed to evaluate whether this is more cost-effective than serving warrants and the like. What's interesting to me, there isn't much available in terms of national data for effects of truancy: http://gradworks.umi.com/32/58/3258431.html
"An important implication of this study is that researchers are not able to examine the true extent of truancy in this country because each state has a different way of defining truancy. This also makes it impossible to interpret the statistical data on truancy rates because there is no system or statewide information. The lack of consistency in defining truancy makes it difficult to make comparisons. "
How many times has Slashdot said "IT should not be the solution to the business/societal/cultural issue"? Prime example right here, the GPS device should not be doing the job of the parent(s) and the community.
This is a FRESHMEN course. It is VERY LIKELY the concepts of "Linux" / OS, "Apache" / Web Server, "MySQL" / Database, "Perl/PHP/Python/whatever" / Scripting are all completely new to them. You want to throw all four concepts at a group of 18-year olds who may have never seen them. Fine, maybe as an optional reading for those interested, but not as a requirement.
Look up North Carolina State University's E115 course. It is a required one-hour course all College of Engineering (including CS students) must take discusses computer fundamental. Physical/Mathematical Science students have a similar course as well. However, it is something fundamentally required as a part of the curriculum. Freshmen with the knowledge may take a self-study test and exempt out of the course. Those without, there's where the introductory knowledge comes in.
In a paper published in the Dec. 24 issue of Science Magazine, the IBM researchers report that domain walls have mass and do indeed take a bit of time to speed up to peak velocity, and to slow down. Knowing this, they'll be able to move and retrieve data on a racetrack trip accurately.
There's still a lot of work to be done before racetrack becomes a reality, but according to Parkin, the biggest questions -- whether an electric charge would move these domain walls, and whether or not they have mass -- have now been answered.
Now the problems are more practical and less theoretical: how do you build a racetrack chip that works reliably with millions or even billions of these racetracks, for example. "Those are the questions that we can only address by building prototypes and testing them for a period of time," Parkin said.
While I applaud the idea of citizens becoming more involved in their government to help cut wasteful spending, the initiative is looking/starting in the wrong place.
Total annual US budget: $3.55 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget)
NSF annual budget: $6.87 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation)
Percentage of total budget: 0.193% (http://www.google.com/search?q=6.87+billion+%2F+3.55+trillion)
Even if the NSF budget were to somehow to cut by half through meticulous scrutiny... that would save ~$3.5 billion per year, or less than 0.01% of the annual US budget.
Can we start with just one of the other heavy hitters first, Defense/Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, which represent 58.7% of the total budget? (http://www.google.com/search?q=(677.95+billion+%2B+453+billion+%2B+290+billion+%2B+663.7+billion)+%2F+3.55+trillion). No this isn't easy, but, cut 5% of wasteful spending in just one of those programs, much more significant impact. Or is this considered political suicide to talk about cutting any one of these elephants in the room?
I recently visited Dallas Ft. Worth national cemetery . They had a computerized system in place in the visitors lobby. I know it allowed name / grave lookup. Not sure what else it provided. Am I missing something where Arlington can't scale up something similar that's already in place / use?
I can see several legitimate uses for tracking people WITH consent (think wristbands in amusement parks for tracking lost children). WITHOUT consent, valid point.
Parent got modded "Funny", but should have instead been modded "Insightful" for new business idea to cost cuts. Unless, of course, IBM has already patented that idea...
IBM's profit margins are no longer in hardware. The acquisition of Sun for its hardware will be a perk, but not the real reason behind this. They are doing it to acquire the intellectual property and plan to reap the long-term benefits. See "cloud computing" and "virtualization", both items which are now just becoming a bit more mature and ready for the enterprise market.
One of the best Comp. Sci courses I took in college was assembly. Why? The instructor kept it interesting. Try showing Three Stooges video at the beginning of class and then relate it to the lecture. Happened frequently. You want to keep folks interest to a reasonable degree, keep the content fresh and original. Bill Nye, Captain Planet, Daily Show, etc. Try retrojunk.com if you want to pull some old school commercials out of the hat.
Syfy more clearly captures the mainstream appeal of the world's biggest entertainment category, and reflects the network's ongoing strategy to create programming that's more accessible and relatable to new audiences. Syfy will continue to celebrate the traditional roots of the genre, while opening the brand to accommodate a broader range of imagination-based entertainment.
I think the name choice is horrible, but I agree with the business tactics the SciFi channel is undertaking. They realize their cash flow is about to come to a screaming halt and quickly. Producing a show as GOOD as Battlestar Galactica that pulls ratings and advertising money consistently isn't trivial. Look at rinse and repeat that occurs with many major network televisions series until a show finally sticks well enough for a season or two.
NBC realizes something needs to change with their business model to pull in more advertising money. This is their attempt at making that change. As other posts have mentioned, there are better methods for gaining advertising dollars, but, this isn't something NBC is interested in pursuing, as its outside their core competencies and skillsets. Be interesting to see if successful long-term, or, if they ultimately plan to divest the newfounded and newly failed SyFy. My guess is latter. Be a good business case study to read up on in 5 to 10 years.
Actually, most in-depth studies of Enron know blame management from a number of different perspectives. Many of the previously submitted stories and current posts are blaming Circuit City management. I'm sure there will be plenty of case studies on Circuit City in a few years, also blaming management. This is Slashdot, but would you kindly not generalize? Thanks.
"Bankers should have noted that very small changes in their underlying assumptions could result in very large changes in the correlation number."
Any mathematical, statistical, financial, etc. model has underlying assumptions built into the model. In academia, you are taught to check the assumptions of these models before you EVER consider using them as a part of the solution. In the real-world, this doesn't happen as often as it should. Agreed, nothing wrong with the models. Wrong application of the models.
Most (decent) applications can configured for silent updates. Firefox and Windows both have this ability, and it's great. The length of time that annoying Windows popup asking you to reboot comes up can also be customized.
I agree with parent that observing results, and measuring results are two different things.
I find it interesting 14% of those who responded to the survey classified themselves as a job role in "information technology". This is the third highest behind sales (24%) and management (20%).
Not necessarily a result of job role, but rather, of company culture towards such losses.
1) Programming isn't the only thing CS majors do. Go talk to your academic advisor and alma mater career center about options and career paths.
2) Figuring out a company culture is more important than how much they pay you. If you hate where you work because you don't "click", they won't be able to pay you (with reason) to stay.
3) Forget the degree, what's your passion? Just because you graduate with a degree does not mean you have to follow it for a career path. Granted, you are better prepared by following it... but, you'll do better following what you are passionate about.
A good VPN solution should include the minimum of two-factor authentication schema, one being an ever-changing hardware-based component (RSA SecureID as one example), and the other a software-based component (LDAP passwords are pretty common). Anyways, if you keep sensitive/confidential company information on your company laptop, and it gets confiscated, give your company's legal counsel a call. Let them figure it out.
"Many of these journals take two or more years to print an article after it has been submitted" With a significant other in a PhD program who publishes frequently, I can tell you this statement is grossly inaccurate.
Random Musing: Is it considered bad etiquette on Slashdot to have to ASK to have an article to read?
The argument goes, so far as I understand: Mathematics education has "declined"
since 1990; therefore, this is the single cause of nine billion pounds of lost gain to the economy. No, sorry, there are many other factors contributing to this supposed "decline".
I think it would do Reform some good to learn some basics of sociology first. THEN, they are welcome to try writing an unbiased research study telling us why mathematics have gone downhill.
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Previously if you were caught writing such a message on the walls , you would have to erase it and then were suspended for 10 days for the action. Now if you do it on Facebook, apparently you get expelled, rather than having the opportunity to redact such statements and make a public apology / amends for it.
People should be allowed to be young, make mistakes, face consequences of their actions and learn from them. It's called growing up. This is not the way to go about it at all.
I at least given credit to Blockbuster. They saw the writing on the wall and are at least trying to change their business model. Yes they have to close over a third of their stores, yes they still can't compare to Netflix/Redbox/Internet, but they are at least trying. Not going to be an overnight change to put them back into the number one slot for video rentals.
... definitely missed the ball on digital music and iTunes snatched that up. Definitely missed the ball on Youtube/Internet Radio Streaming. Is it too much to ask they ask think forwards instead of backwards, like every other company who plans on staying in business and remaining competitive?
Music industry
Did anybody else read this as "Middle Earth" internet scorecard and hear a subtle "my precious" being hissed?
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112617.html
http://www.ecs.org/ecs/ecscat.nsf/WebTopicView?OpenView&count=-1&RestrictToCategory=Attendance--Truancy
Apparently the pilot is supposed to evaluate whether this is more cost-effective than serving warrants and the like. What's interesting to me, there isn't much available in terms of national data for effects of truancy: http://gradworks.umi.com/32/58/3258431.html
"An important implication of this study is that researchers are not able to examine the true extent of truancy in this country because each state has a different way of defining truancy. This also makes it impossible to interpret the statistical data on truancy rates because there is no system or statewide information. The lack of consistency in defining truancy makes it difficult to make comparisons. "
How many times has Slashdot said "IT should not be the solution to the business/societal/cultural issue"? Prime example right here, the GPS device should not be doing the job of the parent(s) and the community.
What about guards at the plant? Will we finally see sharks with laser beams?
How did this get modded up?
This is a FRESHMEN course. It is VERY LIKELY the concepts of "Linux" / OS, "Apache" / Web Server, "MySQL" / Database, "Perl/PHP/Python/whatever" / Scripting are all completely new to them. You want to throw all four concepts at a group of 18-year olds who may have never seen them. Fine, maybe as an optional reading for those interested, but not as a requirement.
Look up North Carolina State University's E115 course. It is a required one-hour course all College of Engineering (including CS students) must take discusses computer fundamental. Physical/Mathematical Science students have a similar course as well. However, it is something fundamentally required as a part of the curriculum. Freshmen with the knowledge may take a self-study test and exempt out of the course. Those without, there's where the introductory knowledge comes in.
Courtesy of a better writeup at:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9202379/IBM_s_racetrack_memory_moves_closer_to_the_checkered_flag?taxonomyId=147
In a paper published in the Dec. 24 issue of Science Magazine, the IBM researchers report that domain walls have mass and do indeed take a bit of time to speed up to peak velocity, and to slow down. Knowing this, they'll be able to move and retrieve data on a racetrack trip accurately. There's still a lot of work to be done before racetrack becomes a reality, but according to Parkin, the biggest questions -- whether an electric charge would move these domain walls, and whether or not they have mass -- have now been answered. Now the problems are more practical and less theoretical: how do you build a racetrack chip that works reliably with millions or even billions of these racetracks, for example. "Those are the questions that we can only address by building prototypes and testing them for a period of time," Parkin said.
And the official IBM press release:
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/press/us/en/pressrelease/33291.wss
I see more data center utilization for this technology rather than consumer devices. Be nice if I could get a home NAS on one of these in 5-10 years.
While I applaud the idea of citizens becoming more involved in their government to help cut wasteful spending, the initiative is looking/starting in the wrong place.
... that would save ~$3.5 billion per year, or less than 0.01% of the annual US budget.
Total annual US budget: $3.55 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget)
NSF annual budget: $6.87 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation)
Percentage of total budget: 0.193% (http://www.google.com/search?q=6.87+billion+%2F+3.55+trillion)
Even if the NSF budget were to somehow to cut by half through meticulous scrutiny
Can we start with just one of the other heavy hitters first, Defense/Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, which represent 58.7% of the total budget? (http://www.google.com/search?q=(677.95+billion+%2B+453+billion+%2B+290+billion+%2B+663.7+billion)+%2F+3.55+trillion). No this isn't easy, but, cut 5% of wasteful spending in just one of those programs, much more significant impact. Or is this considered political suicide to talk about cutting any one of these elephants in the room?
I recently visited Dallas Ft. Worth national cemetery . They had a computerized system in place in the visitors lobby. I know it allowed name / grave lookup. Not sure what else it provided. Am I missing something where Arlington can't scale up something similar that's already in place / use?
I can see several legitimate uses for tracking people WITH consent (think wristbands in amusement parks for tracking lost children). WITHOUT consent, valid point.
Parent got modded "Funny", but should have instead been modded "Insightful" for new business idea to cost cuts. Unless, of course, IBM has already patented that idea...
For those with a significant investment in the cloud, how do you plan for disaster recovery?
IBM's profit margins are no longer in hardware. The acquisition of Sun for its hardware will be a perk, but not the real reason behind this. They are doing it to acquire the intellectual property and plan to reap the long-term benefits. See "cloud computing" and "virtualization", both items which are now just becoming a bit more mature and ready for the enterprise market.
One of the best Comp. Sci courses I took in college was assembly. Why? The instructor kept it interesting. Try showing Three Stooges video at the beginning of class and then relate it to the lecture. Happened frequently. You want to keep folks interest to a reasonable degree, keep the content fresh and original. Bill Nye, Captain Planet, Daily Show, etc. Try retrojunk.com if you want to pull some old school commercials out of the hat.
Syfy more clearly captures the mainstream appeal of the world's biggest entertainment category, and reflects the network's ongoing strategy to create programming that's more accessible and relatable to new audiences. Syfy will continue to celebrate the traditional roots of the genre, while opening the brand to accommodate a broader range of imagination-based entertainment.
I think the name choice is horrible, but I agree with the business tactics the SciFi channel is undertaking. They realize their cash flow is about to come to a screaming halt and quickly. Producing a show as GOOD as Battlestar Galactica that pulls ratings and advertising money consistently isn't trivial. Look at rinse and repeat that occurs with many major network televisions series until a show finally sticks well enough for a season or two.
NBC realizes something needs to change with their business model to pull in more advertising money. This is their attempt at making that change. As other posts have mentioned, there are better methods for gaining advertising dollars, but, this isn't something NBC is interested in pursuing, as its outside their core competencies and skillsets. Be interesting to see if successful long-term, or, if they ultimately plan to divest the newfounded and newly failed SyFy. My guess is latter. Be a good business case study to read up on in 5 to 10 years.
Actually, most in-depth studies of Enron know blame management from a number of different perspectives. Many of the previously submitted stories and current posts are blaming Circuit City management. I'm sure there will be plenty of case studies on Circuit City in a few years, also blaming management. This is Slashdot, but would you kindly not generalize? Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1C9Q5JheOE
"Bankers should have noted that very small changes in their underlying assumptions could result in very large changes in the correlation number."
Any mathematical, statistical, financial, etc. model has underlying assumptions built into the model. In academia, you are taught to check the assumptions of these models before you EVER consider using them as a part of the solution. In the real-world, this doesn't happen as often as it should. Agreed, nothing wrong with the models. Wrong application of the models.
Most (decent) applications can configured for silent updates. Firefox and Windows both have this ability, and it's great. The length of time that annoying Windows popup asking you to reboot comes up can also be customized. I agree with parent that observing results, and measuring results are two different things.
I agree, Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment
I find it interesting 14% of those who responded to the survey classified themselves as a job role in "information technology". This is the third highest behind sales (24%) and management (20%). Not necessarily a result of job role, but rather, of company culture towards such losses.
1) Programming isn't the only thing CS majors do. Go talk to your academic advisor and alma mater career center about options and career paths. ... but, you'll do better following what you are passionate about.
2) Figuring out a company culture is more important than how much they pay you. If you hate where you work because you don't "click", they won't be able to pay you (with reason) to stay.
3) Forget the degree, what's your passion? Just because you graduate with a degree does not mean you have to follow it for a career path. Granted, you are better prepared by following it
A good VPN solution should include the minimum of two-factor authentication schema, one being an ever-changing hardware-based component (RSA SecureID as one example), and the other a software-based component (LDAP passwords are pretty common). Anyways, if you keep sensitive/confidential company information on your company laptop, and it gets confiscated, give your company's legal counsel a call. Let them figure it out.
"Many of these journals take two or more years to print an article after it has been submitted"
With a significant other in a PhD program who publishes frequently, I can tell you this statement is grossly inaccurate.
Random Musing: Is it considered bad etiquette on Slashdot to have to ASK to have an article to read?
Full report here: http://www.reform.co.uk/documents/The%20value%20of%20mathematics.pdf)
The argument goes, so far as I understand: Mathematics education has "declined" since 1990; therefore, this is the single cause of nine billion pounds of lost gain to the economy. No, sorry, there are many other factors contributing to this supposed "decline".
I think it would do Reform some good to learn some basics of sociology first. THEN, they are welcome to try writing an unbiased research study telling us why mathematics have gone downhill.