Every time there is an article mentioning super computers, parallel computers, quantum computers etc. someone has the very smart, original, and funny hey, lets hook up a Beowulf out of these post.
I don't know if the poster(s) think that their comments are funny or intelligent, but either way, please stop, because I doubt anyone else does.
I'm not quite certain what you mean by "unsustainable assumptions"? Assumptions of what -- that human beings require physical contact with others? I doubt I am the first person to propose that hypothesis.
I understand the importance of electronic communication for some people: those who live in isolated locals might have no other contact with people of similar interests, etc. But I firmly believe that electronic comm. should supplement one's existence, not be the whole of it.
I don't understand why you felt my message was juvenile (puerile, for the thesaurus crowd). Perhaps the word "chicks" and the phrase "female flesh" could have been changes to gender/orientation neutral terms, but other than that I am bewildered. I had assumed people of all ages felt desires to have friends and be loved. If I am wrong in my assumption than I am indeed naive, but I doubt it.
I also fail to see why one who was embarrassed to read something would feel no shame in telling the world that he had done so.
I agree with you. Computer science should be called Computer Mathematics, but then you would really scare away the morons (maybe for the best). Math is something much, much more beautiful and elegant than science.
Until the web (or its offspring) can transmit non-written conservation like language pitch and context, and body language - "rich conversation" - I don't think it's going to feasible to cut oneself off entirely from the outside world
Who would want to. Don't you need to see people smile, stare at chicks, see random people walking in the street, and partake of the occasional piece of female flesh?
Now this is not flamebate, but anyone who chooses to eliminate human contact for virtual contact is a complete freak. The net is great and fun, but it is a poor substitute for real life.
Class action suits where no one was "harmed" are a bunch of nonsense.
To quote the NYT: They note that the three lawyers behind the California suit -- Gross, Daniel J. Mogin of San Diego, and Francis O. Scarpulla of San Francisco -- are experienced state class-action lawyers who have worked for two decades on antitrust cases involving products ranging from snack foods to tires.
These guys will claim that everyone who bought windows is entitled to damages. MS will respond by offering $5 discounts on purchase of future OS, not really costing them anything. But the shyster lawyers will keep 1/3 of $5 * number of windows users, i.e. a huge ammount of money.
These guys make their (much more than comfortable) living by convincing a bunch of people that they are owed a couple of bucks from some company. The lawyers make a hugh chunk.
I run windows on a couple of systems. After finding out ms was a monopoly I did not feel as though I was incredibly harmed, and owed money. Most people probably feel as I do. But these slime balls decide it is an incredible opportunity to make some big bucks.
It is sick. Protecting people against death-trap autos - Good, making a quick $100M when no one was hurt - Bad.
I have lawyers in my family. I do not think that everyone who practices that profession is corrupt, but I really think the laws need to be changed to prevent laywers bring suits for THEIR financial gain.
I have to agree with the CNet piece: a lot of the mainstream PC mags just don't have anything special to say anymore. They can't compete with the internet as a source of breaking info; people don't trust (probably unfairly) their product reviews, especially when loads of 'unbiased' reviews are available on the net; and there is not too much interesting stuff happening with mainstream computing: the machines are almost all the same, everyone runs the same software, etc.
However, the decline of the user-oriented PC mag, does not mean that all computer mags are going to die. Developer/Programmer mags will still be sucessful because they provide overviews of recent changes. A developer is not going to change his environment, style, language, overnight, but flipping through a mag while in the can or taking the train will allow him to see what is newly out there and what different people are doing. In this situation a paper mag is even better than online, I think.
General purpose hi-tech mags (wired) will still be sucessful, because people turn to them to learn what is out there, and to read interesting views on technology etc. written by smart people. (Except when they have those boring "our economy is the best" issues).
I also think hobbiest mags (not for general users) would also be sucessful, because they are a source of neat things you can do with your computer (overclock your graphics card, etc.) from a trusted source and give a general guide of what is out there.
For finding info about a new product relase or a specific product, the web is a much better source of info because it is the most current and incredibly vast. But for "browsing" and being exposed to cool things you would not even now where to look for, a paper mag is much better.
Having said that, it's still an impressive win for Linux.
Win, yes. Impressive? So one company now runs one machine with linux. A start but not that big of a deal. I don't even understand why this story got posted.
My code was a victim of constantly expanding project definition (CEPD). It was impossible to keep it nice b/c new features were requested so we could demo to some client, etc. Mgmt. was more concerned with showing it off that having it built soundly and they got what they paid for. It actually could have been nice, but whenever they felt I was "idle" (i.e. not showing them a new feature every 2nd day, but fixing what was behind the sceens) they would find a new feature to add or have me work on some other project.
I worked at the same web shop for 3 years while in college. What started off as a no pay internship turned into a $60/hour job, mainly because my code was valuable and it would have been impossible for someone else to figure out what I did and how it worked. Every time I mentioned other job offers, they just raised what they were paying me. It would have taken months for some fool to understand my code and do anything useful with it. I decided to continue in grad. school and I feel kinda bad leaving them with an expensive mess of spaghetti. If they pay $100/hour I'll spend my winter break making it understandable.
I don't know where you live, but CMU offers an MS in software engineering offered in their Pittsburg campus and also at a NYC site.
Having an engineering PhD would show that you could easily handle the intellectual material, and your programming knowledge is probably enough to qualify.
You, as a hiring manager, would like to hire the people who will deliver the maximum "bang" for the buck: people who know the specific systems/languages your organization uses, so you waste no time training them.
However, a person is much better off having a general CS education than specific skills. They can apply the theory they have learned to new problems/systems/etc. and are much more "expandable".
Systems and languages change all the time. A person is much better off knowing what an operating system is, than just knowing all about NT x.0.
Once some one has mastered the basics of CS (BS or even MS) they should get specific certification if it helps them earn more money, but they should never choose the certification over a general education.
I find it hard to believe that one can actually think that present philosophies that have a clear origin can legitimately claim that they are actually older than they really are
What exactly are you talking about? All present philosophies are developed by man, and therefore have been influenced by human experience and ideas that have come before. Nothing is created in a vacuum.
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I can wait to wire a couple of these transistors together an hook up a Beowulf cluster on them.
Hey, do you think we can port linux to one of them(to a single transistor)?
Windows sux! I hope Bill Gates doesn't try to force us to upgrade to these new transistors so we can run Windows 2k.
Do you think the NSA can use these transistors to monitor our emails? BOMB, NUCLEAR, IRAQ, CHINA, ALLAH.
What did I leave out?
Every time there is an article mentioning super computers, parallel computers, quantum computers etc. someone has the very smart, original, and funny hey, lets hook up a Beowulf out of these post.
I don't know if the poster(s) think that their comments are funny or intelligent, but either way, please stop, because I doubt anyone else does.
I'm not quite certain what you mean by "unsustainable assumptions"? Assumptions of what -- that human beings require physical contact with others? I doubt I am the first person to propose that hypothesis.
I understand the importance of electronic communication for some people: those who live in isolated locals might have no other contact with people of similar interests, etc. But I firmly believe that electronic comm. should supplement one's existence, not be the whole of it.
I don't understand why you felt my message was juvenile (puerile, for the thesaurus crowd). Perhaps the word "chicks" and the phrase "female flesh" could have been changes to gender/orientation neutral terms, but other than that I am bewildered. I had assumed people of all ages felt desires to have friends and be loved. If I am wrong in my assumption than I am indeed naive, but I doubt it.
I also fail to see why one who was embarrassed to read something would feel no shame in telling the world that he had done so.
I agree with you. Computer science should be called Computer Mathematics, but then you would really scare away the morons (maybe for the best). Math is something much, much more beautiful and elegant than science.
Until the web (or its offspring) can transmit non-written conservation like language pitch and context, and body language - "rich conversation" - I don't think it's going to feasible to cut oneself off entirely from the outside world
Who would want to. Don't you need to see people smile, stare at chicks, see random people walking in the street, and partake of the occasional piece of female flesh?
Now this is not flamebate, but anyone who chooses to eliminate human contact for virtual contact is a complete freak. The net is great and fun, but it is a poor substitute for real life.
I agree.
But lawyer should not be allowed to bring suit for their own financial gain.
Class action suits where no one was "harmed" are a bunch of nonsense.
To quote the NYT:
They note that the three lawyers behind the California suit -- Gross, Daniel J. Mogin of San Diego, and Francis O. Scarpulla of San Francisco -- are experienced state class-action lawyers who have worked for two decades on antitrust cases involving products ranging from snack foods to tires.
These guys will claim that everyone who bought windows is entitled to damages. MS will respond by offering $5 discounts on purchase of future OS, not really costing them anything. But the shyster lawyers will keep 1/3 of $5 * number of windows users, i.e. a huge ammount of money.
These guys make their (much more than comfortable) living by convincing a bunch of people that they are owed a couple of bucks from some company. The lawyers make a hugh chunk.
I run windows on a couple of systems. After finding out ms was a monopoly I did not feel as though I was incredibly harmed, and owed money. Most people probably feel as I do. But these slime balls decide it is an incredible opportunity to make some big bucks.
It is sick. Protecting people against death-trap autos - Good, making a quick $100M when no one was hurt - Bad.
I have lawyers in my family. I do not think that everyone who practices that profession is corrupt, but I really think the laws need to be changed to prevent laywers bring suits for THEIR financial gain.
I have to agree with the CNet piece: a lot of the mainstream PC mags just don't have anything special to say anymore. They can't compete with the internet as a source of breaking info; people don't trust (probably unfairly) their product reviews, especially when loads of 'unbiased' reviews are available on the net; and there is not too much interesting stuff happening with mainstream computing: the machines are almost all the same, everyone runs the same software, etc.
However, the decline of the user-oriented PC mag, does not mean that all computer mags are going to die.
Developer/Programmer mags will still be sucessful because they provide overviews of recent changes. A developer is not going to change his environment, style, language, overnight, but flipping through a mag while in the can or taking the train will allow him to see what is newly out there and what different people are doing. In this situation a paper mag is even better than online, I think.
General purpose hi-tech mags (wired) will still be sucessful, because people turn to them to learn what is out there, and to read interesting views on technology etc. written by smart people. (Except when they have those boring "our economy is the best" issues).
I also think hobbiest mags (not for general users) would also be sucessful, because they are a source of neat things you can do with your computer (overclock your graphics card, etc.) from a trusted source and give a general guide of what is out there.
For finding info about a new product relase or a specific product, the web is a much better source of info because it is the most current and incredibly vast. But for "browsing" and being exposed to cool things you would not even now where to look for, a paper mag is much better.
Having said that, it's still an impressive win for Linux.
Win, yes. Impressive?
So one company now runs one machine with linux. A start but not that big of a deal.
I don't even understand why this story got posted.
What the hell are you talking about.
What % of the indian population lives/works in the US?
Something on the order of 10^5/10^9.
Hey AC, I don't want to start a war, but why don't you post some solid, maintainable code so some of us children can learn from a master.
My code was a victim of constantly expanding project definition (CEPD).
It was impossible to keep it nice b/c new features were requested so we could demo to some client, etc.
Mgmt. was more concerned with showing it off that having it built soundly and they got what they paid for.
It actually could have been nice, but whenever they felt I was "idle" (i.e. not showing them a new feature every 2nd day, but fixing what was behind the sceens) they would find a new feature to add or have me work on some other project.
I worked at the same web shop for 3 years while in college.
What started off as a no pay internship turned into a $60/hour job, mainly because my code was valuable and it would have been impossible for someone else to figure out what I did and how it worked.
Every time I mentioned other job offers, they just raised what they were paying me. It would have taken months for some fool to understand my code and do anything useful with it.
I decided to continue in grad. school and I feel kinda bad leaving them with an expensive mess of spaghetti. If they pay $100/hour I'll spend my winter break making it understandable.
I don't know where you live, but CMU offers an MS in software engineering offered in their Pittsburg campus and also at a NYC site.
Having an engineering PhD would show that you could easily handle the intellectual material, and your programming knowledge is probably enough to qualify.
CMU is a top 4 CS school in America.
You, as a hiring manager, would like to hire the people who will deliver the maximum "bang" for the buck: people who know the specific systems/languages your organization uses, so you waste no time training them.
However, a person is much better off having a general CS education than specific skills. They can apply the theory they have learned to new problems/systems/etc. and are much more "expandable".
Systems and languages change all the time. A person is much better off knowing what an operating system is, than just knowing all about NT x.0.
Once some one has mastered the basics of CS (BS or even MS) they should get specific certification if it helps them earn more money, but they should never choose the certification over a general education.
What exactly are you talking about?
All present philosophies are developed by man, and therefore have been influenced by human experience and ideas that have come before.
Nothing is created in a vacuum.
check the source