1W maximum draw. The system isn't being stressed that much so probably 1W draw. I'm pretty sure the surface of the die should be able to disipate that much energy without going over 30C.
Exactly. It amounts to asking them if they like the internet. For example if you've never had the option to have your own vehicle and someone asks you if you like the bus. You'd say yeah, because it sure is better than walking. But if you've had your own car etc, you might say "no it is damned in convienent to have to wait for the bus to come". Its all a matter of the options you have. If you've never seen something you might settle for what you have.
Well clearly then you need to trottle the P2P users to speeds much much lower than 2kBps so that you free up the bandwidth for the "legal" users:)
Got to love it when service providers get to choose who's data is more important. Sorry sir you get less than you paid for because we don't like your protocol. Have a nice day and thank you for calling X.
The full context is as referenced in http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/major/mtc-00030631_ex4.htm :
There's no level of performance or specific application of corporate information systems that we don't intend to go after... [and] there won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. That's because this new, electronic world of the information highway will generate a higher volume of transactions than anything to date, and we're proposing that Windows be at the center, servicing those transactions.
How evil a company that wants to have the market. How many large companies do you know that only want a part of the market they compete in? You go for 100% and settle for whatever the free market gives you. Has MS been anti-competitive sure. But this quote (which probably came from a public announcement or a board meeting etc) is all that the representative of a company can be expected to say.
You don't hear a president say "America is a pretty good country, probably in the top 10". You hear them say "the greatest country in the world", and those that disagree with them are "an axis of evil" etc. A car salesmen doesn't sell many used Jalopies by saying it is alright, but by saying "I got just the thing for you" to every customer that comes in the lot.
Don't use a public terminal for private work. Duh. Even at home you aren't guaranteed privacy, but when someone else controls the device, and anyone that wants to hack the device has physical access to the hardware your screwed.
I don't think he mentioned anything about the liberal arts college being large. I don't think for most people it matters much how big the school is as far as being able to find friends, even a "small" school of 5k is still much larger than most high-schools, and you don't see too many high school students without friends.
It can help to have friends from different areas but usually they won't have much of a say in a hiring process until they've moved up in their company a bunch to the point that they know that the boss is looking for a new coder or whatever. But with the techy friends you have more options.
They know what you are good at and have seen it, they might go into business with you, there career path will generally put them in a position to know about tech job availablity before the arts friends will.
Regardless, you don't want your career to be on hold until one of your friend's gets far enough along on theirs so that they can lend a hand. You are better off with people that are looking for the same types of jobs. Even though your competing for the same job they probably would let you know about it. Stuff like "hey Google's here today lets go apply". The idea is you might both get hired not that you might get the one spot that they wanted.
My concept of a tech college might be different then others though. Are people thinking of those accelerated bachelors schools, or a full blown university with a reputation for tech like stanford, MIT etc? I don't think the little accelerated schools (I'm thinking 200 students total) would get you a wide peer group, but even a small general university should have enough diversity.
Good for you. For the most part that is true, but for the 10-25% of cases in my experience employers are screening if by no other means then that they have the job fairs at the tech schools and not at the arts schools.
I went to a top school (consistently in the top 3 for the ACM tests, top school all around in my country for 5 years in a row), MS gave crap loads of money to us, Nortel did, RIM did, etc etc. They also took several students each term for co-op, and hired several every year. You simply won't see that at a school that doesn't have a large well respected tech program.
Once you have experience your school hardly matters, but getting that experience often will be determined on whether the person interviewing you:
a) likes you
b) recognizes you as having a good academic background (marks, courses you took, and school you went to)
Why do people that are disabled think that things that are not necessary need to be changed to accommidate them? I have a deaf mother, she works around it, she doesn't ask everyone to create a written copy of song lyrics etc.
Similarly with the internet. The internet is a mostly visual medium. Newspaper makers don't have to distribute a audio disk of their paper and nor should the websites. It is simple economics: does the added market justify the expense? Unless you are selling white canes NO!
More should be done to make the internet better for the masses and available at a lower cost. This in turn could drop the bar as far as making a for the blind website to the point where it is feasible.
In conclusion: people lived just fine 20 years ago when they didn't have the internet and they will survive without it. Does it suck that they can't experience everything that is part of modern culture? Yeah, but that is part of being disabled, by definition you can't do everything someone "normal can". Just like your little Johny can't be a brain surgeon if he is "smart like dumptruck".
Unless you have a minor that the arts college really attracts you to, I'd suggest the Tech college. Several reasons:
1) Some companies look for someone from a good tech college. If they are doing resume mining you can be sure they aren't looking for U of Nowhere. Also for example my current employer has half its staff from the same school. They see the school name and have an idea of what someone graduating from there should know.
2) If you get a more specialized interest as you go through school you'll be more likely to find courses/research supervisors for your interest. If you are in a small faculty you might get lucky. But if you are in a large one you'll almost certainly have someone in any niche you are thinking about.
3) You'll get a wider peer group from which to use for future job info, business partners etc. Plus in a small school you might date the one girl in your program and have it not work out. At a big school you can choose between several geek girls, or go to another department.
4) You also can be more selective with your friends/project team mates, you don't have much choice with a small program because either you will clump up with a couple people and do projects together, or some other group with form and force you into a group by default. You don't want to be forced to work with people you can't stand. It happens enough in the real world why experience more of it than you have too?;)
I think it is a logical thing for banks to put in writing. They can't be held responsible for some else's poor management of there system. Are the common home users network security experts? Probably not. But if they don't want to take the risk on (which is unusually large because of their said lack of knowledge/implementation in that area) then they can live with going to an ATM or a teller.
It isn't like you have to do internet banking. If you can't do it safely don't do it. Same thing with someone that can't drive properly, or can't afford proper maintenance on their vehicle, if you can't do it right you shouldn't do it.
You make some good points however the general public isn't paying for a 99.99% 90% of quoted capacity or something. They are just paying for "up to 50Mbps".
Does this suck? Yeah, because the average Joe is going to take his 4.5GB DVD divide by the speed (lets be honest here, he will usually divide by 50MBps not 50Mbps) and say hey I can get that DVD in roughly one and a half minutes. A big challenge is that our connections aren't symetric which isn't very good for P2P. You can't download as fast as you have for a download cap, you can download as fast as your share of the upload capacity of the sharers you connect to. If you have say 5 seeds with 5 connections each you will get about what the average upload cap is which is typically 512kb-1Mbps currently.
So you still have room in your pipe, what to do with it? Download 26 episodes of CSI, and every movie currently in theatres simulaneously of course. We change our web habits to match what we are allowed to do. If the ISP kills our BitTorrent connections then we try Limewire, if that doesn't work we look for the stuff on YouTube, etc.
I might only want to try out that series that I'm downloading, but it seems like a waste to get 50KB/s for one episode that will take 4hrs to download, so I download them all and then see if I like the one episode. I think forcing upload speeds to be unnecessarily slow creates wasteful downloading behavior which gives the ISPs something to bitch about. They can keep there 50/5 service if there was a 15/15 service that would be the one for me.
"No, the low-use users have simply gotten frustrated from not being permitted to use all that they paid for and have adjusted their habits, and Comcast takes advantage of that fact."
Data centre of the world? Well maybe not right away, but they have the ability to increase there bandwidth by 700Gb/s which should be enough for a few large companies datacentres I would imagine. Plus building large datacentres would take a year or two during which time new lines could be run. Iceland should be a big winner, less cooling needs as the average annual temperature is around 5C (you might actually want the heat:), the energy is clean, and they are equidistant to both Europe and North America.
Hum then I guess you don't like C++ or pretty much any standard committee. see http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C++0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html where Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++) describes the standard process. You have to pay (something like 5k) to be a voting member. Mostly the only ones that are going to care enough to pay that kind of money are companies. Thus companies make the standards. That isn't necessarily bad either as say the major software vendors ruled the next C++ standard.
I think anyone should be able to standardize anything. MS is saying here is a file format we want to use, and we want to standardize it so everyone knows exactly how it works. How is this a bad thing? You don't have to like the implementation and you don't have to develop against it if you don't want to. You still are stuck for the most part because you need to interopt with Office users but how is this different then know? At least you'd know for sure what the file format is supposed to be rather than have to reverse engineer (which probably violates a crap load of EULAs and patents) as you currently have to do.
A lot of retail outlets still use 98 or whatever they used at the time they had their last internal app rewrite. Ex. I've seen small video rental chains that are still using DOS based programs from the Win 95 days. If it works and your people know how to use it a lot of companies won't touch it.
I think a bigger problem than Application upgrades for most people will be drivers. People are going to come with their latest gadget and try to attach it to their XP machine and there won't be a driver for it. I'm finding similar problems with Win 2000 now. Basic this has broken can I repair it reinstall it type issues there will still be plenty of support for. After all most IT guys will still remember how to do stuff from the XP days, and if there still is a bunch of corporate workstations that haven't been upgraded then there is still a bunch of IT guys tinkering with XP all the time.
I think EOLing XP is the way to go. XP is old technology, people still have another 5 years at some level of support, I think 10 years is plenty of time for supporting an OS. I don't agree with taking down existing documentation from your website though. It can't be more than a few GB's, heck lets say it is 1TB, wants the big deal? A few hundred dollars worth of disk. Your new product should sell itself, your old products manuals should still be available, but the industry should be giving a compelling reason to upgrade hardware/software.
Social activity leads to "rubbing shoulders" with those with the ability to affect your career. Argo:
Social activity with beer would likely lead to scientist's getting tenure; most people will agree that tenure doesn't help produce "quality" papers (defined as those likely to be sited a lot and in prestigious journals). Just like most nobel prize winners tend to do little productive work in their field after that accomplishment. I'm from a physics background, our nobel prize winners have been known to go into such great research areas as "proving aliens exist" and throwing temper tantrums that quantum mechanics doesn't "feel" right to them.
Not to say that the tenure system is bad, we need independence/security for researchers so they aren't forced too much to do what will get them grants and keep them in a position. As well, I'd rather have the heavy beer drinking crowd safely behind a desk then operating a crane above my office. However, I don't think it is great that the entire university heirachy revolves around getting tenure as a status symbol. No one's job should be so secure that they cease having to try.
I think it is a matter of that fact that your signal strength goes down with distance. The less the contrast is between the signal and the background noise the more often you'll have to resend things so your effective bandwidth goes down. I think you still can transmit at full speed, it just won't all get there which usually won't be useful to you (you might be better off skipping a frame if your streaming video rather than going back for the missing one but in most cases you want all the data to get to the other side).
A single drive especially for a laptop isn't a big deal. But a big system say a sun workstation with a few mirrored drives starting up can be quite loud (though a lot of that is the fans going crazy to get the air circulating). I think where the noise reduction will be most felt is in data centres. Less noise to begin with, then less fans needed to cool everything, big power savings and it will sound less like a jet hanger.
Exactly my thoughts. 1.27M per research group will be about enough to setup a lab and run it for 1-2 years. Yippy. They might be able to buy enough solar cells to power there computers:)
There is a big push to use coal power because the US has so much natural reserves of the stuff and it will help develop the some of the areas of the country that currently have little job prospects. I think the worry with solar is that you'd find a great way to manufacture the cells, but then all the manufacturing would go overseas. Less US jobs created + you still don't have energy independence.
Yep. No one will dispute the need from "proper" security in airports but this is getting a little ridiculous. Already if you are doing an internal flight (especially in countries this small) you spend more time getting to the airport, waiting (because you are early) and going though the security screens. Now your going to have to line up and get finger printed too. Great that is what airports need another line.
The electricity has to come from somewhere. If electric power plants are still burning coal, gas/oil etc what does it matter? Gas has an energy density of 45MJ/kg (~33MJ/L). A car gets about 13km/L. So for every 13km you burn about 33MJ of energy. With north america's typical 220A/120V home service P=IV gives 22kW of power or 33MJ/22kW = 25 mins. So you need 25 minutes using all the power available to your car for every 13km you drive to charge assuming complete power efficiency in the electrolysis and comparable efficiency in the engine.
But wait a minute: north america suffers brown outs with current electricity loads and electricity is relatively stable here than in most of the world. All this makes electric cars are a very tough sell with current technology.
Chances are good aren't unemployed but will move for a more interesting job. Sell the job to them (if they apply you know they think they will like the work).
Another thing is keep you eyes open for vendors/suppliers etc that might be good. A little hard if your a dev company but I know of a lot of IT guys (support, server/app admin) that were recuited from or to my company. Its a bonus if you are the vendor and can grab the support guy from one of your customer sites (without killing the customer of course) as they are already trained and know what they are getting into already.
And another thing. I'd say about 80% of the pics I see of them are them sitting on a porch step somewhere. What they want to rule the country again but they couldn't even scavenge up the resources for a chair:) If they weren't pointed out as Taliban I would have thought Afganistan had a lot of beggars (probably do anyways though now that I think of it). They always look real sad; I guess a warlord without anyone to abuse if a sad warlord.
Just a quick thought. Doesn't the Taliban have to wear the black turbans for religious reasons? How about putting a nerve agent in all black cloth? Everyone stops buying black clothing except of course the Taliban that has too:) Nothing against turbans but the Taliban must have the ugliest way of tying them ever invented, it seems everytime I see a picture of one of them it looks like they were born with a deformed (and probably empty) head. We need to find a way to turn them into a weapon:)
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1W maximum draw. The system isn't being stressed that much so probably 1W draw. I'm pretty sure the surface of the die should be able to disipate that much energy without going over 30C.
Exactly. It amounts to asking them if they like the internet. For example if you've never had the option to have your own vehicle and someone asks you if you like the bus. You'd say yeah, because it sure is better than walking. But if you've had your own car etc, you might say "no it is damned in convienent to have to wait for the bus to come". Its all a matter of the options you have. If you've never seen something you might settle for what you have.
Got to love it when service providers get to choose who's data is more important. Sorry sir you get less than you paid for because we don't like your protocol. Have a nice day and thank you for calling X.
How evil a company that wants to have the market. How many large companies do you know that only want a part of the market they compete in? You go for 100% and settle for whatever the free market gives you. Has MS been anti-competitive sure. But this quote (which probably came from a public announcement or a board meeting etc) is all that the representative of a company can be expected to say.
You don't hear a president say "America is a pretty good country, probably in the top 10". You hear them say "the greatest country in the world", and those that disagree with them are "an axis of evil" etc. A car salesmen doesn't sell many used Jalopies by saying it is alright, but by saying "I got just the thing for you" to every customer that comes in the lot.
Don't use a public terminal for private work. Duh. Even at home you aren't guaranteed privacy, but when someone else controls the device, and anyone that wants to hack the device has physical access to the hardware your screwed.
It can help to have friends from different areas but usually they won't have much of a say in a hiring process until they've moved up in their company a bunch to the point that they know that the boss is looking for a new coder or whatever. But with the techy friends you have more options.
They know what you are good at and have seen it, they might go into business with you, there career path will generally put them in a position to know about tech job availablity before the arts friends will.
Regardless, you don't want your career to be on hold until one of your friend's gets far enough along on theirs so that they can lend a hand. You are better off with people that are looking for the same types of jobs. Even though your competing for the same job they probably would let you know about it. Stuff like "hey Google's here today lets go apply". The idea is you might both get hired not that you might get the one spot that they wanted.
My concept of a tech college might be different then others though. Are people thinking of those accelerated bachelors schools, or a full blown university with a reputation for tech like stanford, MIT etc? I don't think the little accelerated schools (I'm thinking 200 students total) would get you a wide peer group, but even a small general university should have enough diversity.
I went to a top school (consistently in the top 3 for the ACM tests, top school all around in my country for 5 years in a row), MS gave crap loads of money to us, Nortel did, RIM did, etc etc. They also took several students each term for co-op, and hired several every year. You simply won't see that at a school that doesn't have a large well respected tech program.
Once you have experience your school hardly matters, but getting that experience often will be determined on whether the person interviewing you:
a) likes you
b) recognizes you as having a good academic background (marks, courses you took, and school you went to)
Similarly with the internet. The internet is a mostly visual medium. Newspaper makers don't have to distribute a audio disk of their paper and nor should the websites. It is simple economics: does the added market justify the expense? Unless you are selling white canes NO!
More should be done to make the internet better for the masses and available at a lower cost. This in turn could drop the bar as far as making a for the blind website to the point where it is feasible.
In conclusion: people lived just fine 20 years ago when they didn't have the internet and they will survive without it. Does it suck that they can't experience everything that is part of modern culture? Yeah, but that is part of being disabled, by definition you can't do everything someone "normal can". Just like your little Johny can't be a brain surgeon if he is "smart like dumptruck".
1) Some companies look for someone from a good tech college. If they are doing resume mining you can be sure they aren't looking for U of Nowhere. Also for example my current employer has half its staff from the same school. They see the school name and have an idea of what someone graduating from there should know.
2) If you get a more specialized interest as you go through school you'll be more likely to find courses/research supervisors for your interest. If you are in a small faculty you might get lucky. But if you are in a large one you'll almost certainly have someone in any niche you are thinking about.
3) You'll get a wider peer group from which to use for future job info, business partners etc. Plus in a small school you might date the one girl in your program and have it not work out. At a big school you can choose between several geek girls, or go to another department.
4) You also can be more selective with your friends/project team mates, you don't have much choice with a small program because either you will clump up with a couple people and do projects together, or some other group with form and force you into a group by default. You don't want to be forced to work with people you can't stand. It happens enough in the real world why experience more of it than you have too? ;)
It isn't like you have to do internet banking. If you can't do it safely don't do it. Same thing with someone that can't drive properly, or can't afford proper maintenance on their vehicle, if you can't do it right you shouldn't do it.
Does this suck? Yeah, because the average Joe is going to take his 4.5GB DVD divide by the speed (lets be honest here, he will usually divide by 50MBps not 50Mbps) and say hey I can get that DVD in roughly one and a half minutes. A big challenge is that our connections aren't symetric which isn't very good for P2P. You can't download as fast as you have for a download cap, you can download as fast as your share of the upload capacity of the sharers you connect to. If you have say 5 seeds with 5 connections each you will get about what the average upload cap is which is typically 512kb-1Mbps currently.
So you still have room in your pipe, what to do with it? Download 26 episodes of CSI, and every movie currently in theatres simulaneously of course. We change our web habits to match what we are allowed to do. If the ISP kills our BitTorrent connections then we try Limewire, if that doesn't work we look for the stuff on YouTube, etc.
I might only want to try out that series that I'm downloading, but it seems like a waste to get 50KB/s for one episode that will take 4hrs to download, so I download them all and then see if I like the one episode. I think forcing upload speeds to be unnecessarily slow creates wasteful downloading behavior which gives the ISPs something to bitch about. They can keep there 50/5 service if there was a 15/15 service that would be the one for me.
"No, the low-use users have simply gotten frustrated from not being permitted to use all that they paid for and have adjusted their habits, and Comcast takes advantage of that fact."
Data centre of the world? Well maybe not right away, but they have the ability to increase there bandwidth by 700Gb/s which should be enough for a few large companies datacentres I would imagine. Plus building large datacentres would take a year or two during which time new lines could be run. Iceland should be a big winner, less cooling needs as the average annual temperature is around 5C (you might actually want the heat :), the energy is clean, and they are equidistant to both Europe and North America.
I think anyone should be able to standardize anything. MS is saying here is a file format we want to use, and we want to standardize it so everyone knows exactly how it works. How is this a bad thing? You don't have to like the implementation and you don't have to develop against it if you don't want to. You still are stuck for the most part because you need to interopt with Office users but how is this different then know? At least you'd know for sure what the file format is supposed to be rather than have to reverse engineer (which probably violates a crap load of EULAs and patents) as you currently have to do.
I think a bigger problem than Application upgrades for most people will be drivers. People are going to come with their latest gadget and try to attach it to their XP machine and there won't be a driver for it. I'm finding similar problems with Win 2000 now. Basic this has broken can I repair it reinstall it type issues there will still be plenty of support for. After all most IT guys will still remember how to do stuff from the XP days, and if there still is a bunch of corporate workstations that haven't been upgraded then there is still a bunch of IT guys tinkering with XP all the time.
I think EOLing XP is the way to go. XP is old technology, people still have another 5 years at some level of support, I think 10 years is plenty of time for supporting an OS. I don't agree with taking down existing documentation from your website though. It can't be more than a few GB's, heck lets say it is 1TB, wants the big deal? A few hundred dollars worth of disk. Your new product should sell itself, your old products manuals should still be available, but the industry should be giving a compelling reason to upgrade hardware/software.
Social activity leads to "rubbing shoulders" with those with the ability to affect your career. Argo:
Social activity with beer would likely lead to scientist's getting tenure; most people will agree that tenure doesn't help produce "quality" papers (defined as those likely to be sited a lot and in prestigious journals). Just like most nobel prize winners tend to do little productive work in their field after that accomplishment. I'm from a physics background, our nobel prize winners have been known to go into such great research areas as "proving aliens exist" and throwing temper tantrums that quantum mechanics doesn't "feel" right to them.
Not to say that the tenure system is bad, we need independence/security for researchers so they aren't forced too much to do what will get them grants and keep them in a position. As well, I'd rather have the heavy beer drinking crowd safely behind a desk then operating a crane above my office. However, I don't think it is great that the entire university heirachy revolves around getting tenure as a status symbol. No one's job should be so secure that they cease having to try.
I think it is a matter of that fact that your signal strength goes down with distance. The less the contrast is between the signal and the background noise the more often you'll have to resend things so your effective bandwidth goes down. I think you still can transmit at full speed, it just won't all get there which usually won't be useful to you (you might be better off skipping a frame if your streaming video rather than going back for the missing one but in most cases you want all the data to get to the other side).
A single drive especially for a laptop isn't a big deal. But a big system say a sun workstation with a few mirrored drives starting up can be quite loud (though a lot of that is the fans going crazy to get the air circulating). I think where the noise reduction will be most felt is in data centres. Less noise to begin with, then less fans needed to cool everything, big power savings and it will sound less like a jet hanger.
There is a big push to use coal power because the US has so much natural reserves of the stuff and it will help develop the some of the areas of the country that currently have little job prospects. I think the worry with solar is that you'd find a great way to manufacture the cells, but then all the manufacturing would go overseas. Less US jobs created + you still don't have energy independence.
Don't you mean "you must be on ACID to use IE 6 or 7"? Kudos seem to go to Safari on this one, and I just started working at a Mac shop, yeah me :)
Yep. No one will dispute the need from "proper" security in airports but this is getting a little ridiculous. Already if you are doing an internal flight (especially in countries this small) you spend more time getting to the airport, waiting (because you are early) and going though the security screens. Now your going to have to line up and get finger printed too. Great that is what airports need another line.
But wait a minute: north america suffers brown outs with current electricity loads and electricity is relatively stable here than in most of the world. All this makes electric cars are a very tough sell with current technology.
good + unemployed/looking = rare
Chances are good aren't unemployed but will move for a more interesting job. Sell the job to them (if they apply you know they think they will like the work).
Another thing is keep you eyes open for vendors/suppliers etc that might be good. A little hard if your a dev company but I know of a lot of IT guys (support, server/app admin) that were recuited from or to my company. Its a bonus if you are the vendor and can grab the support guy from one of your customer sites (without killing the customer of course) as they are already trained and know what they are getting into already.
And another thing. I'd say about 80% of the pics I see of them are them sitting on a porch step somewhere. What they want to rule the country again but they couldn't even scavenge up the resources for a chair :) If they weren't pointed out as Taliban I would have thought Afganistan had a lot of beggars (probably do anyways though now that I think of it). They always look real sad; I guess a warlord without anyone to abuse if a sad warlord.
Just a quick thought. Doesn't the Taliban have to wear the black turbans for religious reasons? How about putting a nerve agent in all black cloth? Everyone stops buying black clothing except of course the Taliban that has too :) Nothing against turbans but the Taliban must have the ugliest way of tying them ever invented, it seems everytime I see a picture of one of them it looks like they were born with a deformed (and probably empty) head. We need to find a way to turn them into a weapon :)