One of the few marketing catalogues I actually use. Sometimes flipping through a book can show you products you didn't know existed. http://www.iebmedia.com/
Yep. IT network administration and industrial networks are very very different, and require totally different mind-sets. I've been in plants where the people from the company's IT department aren't allowed on the factory floor. Deterministic behaviour and safety systems just aren't things your business IT guys ever think of. Conversely, network security is not something automation technologists have needed to deal with until recently, thus all the problems lately.
Smart phone for everyday use, tablet for the beach, laptop for the road, and AN E-INK READER FOR READING. I've been reading ebooks regularly on a handheld computer since the Apple Newton. e-ink was a huge game changer. My kindle keyboard gives me so much less eye strain compared to laptops, tablets, iphones etc. Use the right tool for the job. As much as I hate the idea of DRM, having one device specifically for reading means it rarely gets in the way.
I seem to recall touching on differential equations in high school calculus. And, yes, programmers do use math to determine/understand/compare the efficiency of algorithms.
Yes. Keep it interesting. Robots. Arduino. Massive parallelism. Maybe a joint project with art and music clubs (i.e. girls) doing something with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_mapping using VPT or Madmapper since you've probably got a bunch of projectors available.
My 8th grade shop class had a Bell & Howell "Black Apple" II+. My instructor lent me a really great book on AppleSoft BASIC. I remember sitting at home with the book, my brain on fire, scribbling code on paper, and then taking it in the next day and typing it in expecting wondrous things to happen. But, of course, none of it worked right away. I'd like to find a PDF of the book somewhere. None of the net copies of various AppleSoft BASIC manuals from the day seem to match. I think it had the old multicolor apple logo on it. And I remember it being very fun in it's tone, unlike the very dry business-like manuals apple produced later.
Good advice. Only thing I'll add is: travel light. Staff and other travelers often live off the proceeds of theft and depending on where you are, it may not be advisable to keep anything as valuable as a laptop in your hotel room or even the hotel's safe. So, take gear small and light enough that you won't mind taking it with you on a day hike. This won't be even close to everywhere, but when you need to, you'll be happy not to have to worry.
Anybody who works in the media industry knows that if you are shooting/broadcasting/whatever on private property, you need permission and if you are on public property, you usually need a permit. This is true in Manhattan. It is true in Mumbai. Not doing this is called "stealing a location". Stealing from a country like Nepal that has trouble paying to keep it's power on more than 4 hours a day is pretty shameful.
The more I read about what these guys were doing--and I mean the stuff they've admitted to, not just been accused of--the more I think they are getting what they deserve. Breaking into someone's network to get at information that the public should know is political. Breaking into someones network and racking up charges on personal credit card numbers is criminal. They're like the idiots that smash store windows during street protests.
Tried it a few weeks ago while seeing what kind of cool apps are available from a chormebook. This isn't one of them. It takes forever to upload source files, so pretty much any cloud video editing is going to frustrate people. Add to that WeVideo's terrible interface, and you want your time back from even trying this. Your phone's video editing is more intuitive and has more features. Need more than what's on your phone? Lightworks (NLE) and Davinci Resolve (grading) are available for free.
Will you just run Windows and Linux? If not, what? What is your budget? How complex will your virtual network be? What are your security requirements? What are your performance requirements? Are the vms more for desktop user or will they be network server? Do you need high-availability and live vm migration? Does your virtualization setup need to work with an existing storage solution? If you simply don't know, and want to get something quick, the easy, but expensive, way to go is vmware.
Same with housing. Building with concrete or steel is expensive, and will turn your house into an E-Z Bake Oven as well. That would increase electricity needs for running AC, which would lead to more pollution, which would cause more deaths.
Well, I guess having more kids to replace the ones you lost is cheaper, since they are technically free to create.
People in Guatemala, and I dont mean rich people, build homes out of cinderblock and lots of rebar because they get an earthquake once a month. It can't be that much more than wood construction.
BTW, concrete buildings are cooler, not hotter. Thus all the stone/adobe/cinderblock buildings in hot places.
50Mbps DSL gear is readily available now. Still plenty of room on copper pipes; no need for fiber. I've found the best solution to lazy incumbent former-monopoly service providers is to not use them for that service. We get our cable tv from what used to be the big telco, and our internet and phone from what used to be the cable tv company.
So develop your services using popular open frameworks that can easily be moved. Unless you are an idiot, you are already set up to move quickly as part of your business continuity / disaster recovery system.
There isn't OpenCL for Intel chip Mac either. I haven't tried it, but am told that the Windows OpenCL stuff is dog slow on the Intel 4000. Perhaps it isn't worth bothering with?
For better or worse, Apple tries to sheild its customers from the driver instability/incompatibility that has affected (mostly) DOS/Windows over the last couple decades. Yes, they have given up a lot of choice in graphics cards, but most Mac users would rather have graphics that only run at 85% speed but that crashes much less often.
I'm not sure that former owners of anti-virus companies are really all that interesting, and this one seems to have a fuller life than most.
Nope. These decadent, entitled, narcissistic expats are a dime a dozen in the third world. The locals get tired of the drugs and prostitutes and the related crimes and kick them out.
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One of the few marketing catalogues I actually use. Sometimes flipping through a book can show you products you didn't know existed. http://www.iebmedia.com/
Yep. IT network administration and industrial networks are very very different, and require totally different mind-sets. I've been in plants where the people from the company's IT department aren't allowed on the factory floor. Deterministic behaviour and safety systems just aren't things your business IT guys ever think of. Conversely, network security is not something automation technologists have needed to deal with until recently, thus all the problems lately.
Slashdotters aren't even reading the summary any more let alone the linked article?
Smart phone for everyday use, tablet for the beach, laptop for the road, and AN E-INK READER FOR READING. I've been reading ebooks regularly on a handheld computer since the Apple Newton. e-ink was a huge game changer. My kindle keyboard gives me so much less eye strain compared to laptops, tablets, iphones etc. Use the right tool for the job. As much as I hate the idea of DRM, having one device specifically for reading means it rarely gets in the way.
You get a group of 10 together because you have a 400 man-hour project due in a week, not to make your code better.
I seem to recall touching on differential equations in high school calculus. And, yes, programmers do use math to determine/understand/compare the efficiency of algorithms.
Yes. Keep it interesting. Robots. Arduino. Massive parallelism. Maybe a joint project with art and music clubs (i.e. girls) doing something with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_mapping using VPT or Madmapper since you've probably got a bunch of projectors available.
And, it's still barely profitable to mine with GPUs
I think this is only true with stolen power at this point.
My 8th grade shop class had a Bell & Howell "Black Apple" II+. My instructor lent me a really great book on AppleSoft BASIC. I remember sitting at home with the book, my brain on fire, scribbling code on paper, and then taking it in the next day and typing it in expecting wondrous things to happen. But, of course, none of it worked right away. I'd like to find a PDF of the book somewhere. None of the net copies of various AppleSoft BASIC manuals from the day seem to match. I think it had the old multicolor apple logo on it. And I remember it being very fun in it's tone, unlike the very dry business-like manuals apple produced later.
Good advice. Only thing I'll add is: travel light. Staff and other travelers often live off the proceeds of theft and depending on where you are, it may not be advisable to keep anything as valuable as a laptop in your hotel room or even the hotel's safe. So, take gear small and light enough that you won't mind taking it with you on a day hike. This won't be even close to everywhere, but when you need to, you'll be happy not to have to worry.
Anybody who works in the media industry knows that if you are shooting/broadcasting/whatever on private property, you need permission and if you are on public property, you usually need a permit. This is true in Manhattan. It is true in Mumbai. Not doing this is called "stealing a location". Stealing from a country like Nepal that has trouble paying to keep it's power on more than 4 hours a day is pretty shameful.
The more I read about what these guys were doing--and I mean the stuff they've admitted to, not just been accused of--the more I think they are getting what they deserve. Breaking into someone's network to get at information that the public should know is political. Breaking into someones network and racking up charges on personal credit card numbers is criminal. They're like the idiots that smash store windows during street protests.
Tried it a few weeks ago while seeing what kind of cool apps are available from a chormebook. This isn't one of them. It takes forever to upload source files, so pretty much any cloud video editing is going to frustrate people. Add to that WeVideo's terrible interface, and you want your time back from even trying this. Your phone's video editing is more intuitive and has more features. Need more than what's on your phone? Lightworks (NLE) and Davinci Resolve (grading) are available for free.
Cameras make people uncomfortable. It really is that simple. There will be beatings.
Will you just run Windows and Linux? If not, what? What is your budget? How complex will your virtual network be? What are your security requirements? What are your performance requirements? Are the vms more for desktop user or will they be network server? Do you need high-availability and live vm migration? Does your virtualization setup need to work with an existing storage solution? If you simply don't know, and want to get something quick, the easy, but expensive, way to go is vmware.
Because people hate apple's interface designs. Oh, wait...
Same with housing. Building with concrete or steel is expensive, and will turn your house into an E-Z Bake Oven as well. That would increase electricity needs for running AC, which would lead to more pollution, which would cause more deaths.
Well, I guess having more kids to replace the ones you lost is cheaper, since they are technically free to create. People in Guatemala, and I dont mean rich people, build homes out of cinderblock and lots of rebar because they get an earthquake once a month. It can't be that much more than wood construction. BTW, concrete buildings are cooler, not hotter. Thus all the stone/adobe/cinderblock buildings in hot places.
50Mbps DSL gear is readily available now. Still plenty of room on copper pipes; no need for fiber. I've found the best solution to lazy incumbent former-monopoly service providers is to not use them for that service. We get our cable tv from what used to be the big telco, and our internet and phone from what used to be the cable tv company.
So develop your services using popular open frameworks that can easily be moved. Unless you are an idiot, you are already set up to move quickly as part of your business continuity / disaster recovery system.
I'm a straight married guy.
Are you sure google doesn't know something about you that even you don't? http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/11/218221/facebook-knows-if-youre-gay-use-drugs-or-are-a-republican
There isn't OpenCL for Intel chip Mac either. I haven't tried it, but am told that the Windows OpenCL stuff is dog slow on the Intel 4000. Perhaps it isn't worth bothering with?
For better or worse, Apple tries to sheild its customers from the driver instability/incompatibility that has affected (mostly) DOS/Windows over the last couple decades. Yes, they have given up a lot of choice in graphics cards, but most Mac users would rather have graphics that only run at 85% speed but that crashes much less often.
I'll bet there are. And I'll bet you can pay them less than minimum wage, too, as part of some kind of "therapy" program.
Seeing as how most TB is in places where FDA has no jurisdiction, I don't think that will be a problem.
I'm not sure that former owners of anti-virus companies are really all that interesting, and this one seems to have a fuller life than most.
Nope. These decadent, entitled, narcissistic expats are a dime a dozen in the third world. The locals get tired of the drugs and prostitutes and the related crimes and kick them out.