Lots of electrical engineering and non-technical companies. No pure software engineering once again. In fact I've never seen a software engineering firm listed in this study. Of the hardware/software companies, the reason they get on this list is probably their hardware side. I wonder why software is so hard to manage effectively. Is it because you don't have a reliable measurement of employee productivity? Is is because software is hard to modularize?
As far as I know, the US population has been declining for the last 15 months and is expected to decline dramatically for the next 3 years. Anyone who wants a job is moving to Asia. H1B reform feels good but economics have already taken care of most of the issue.
If the free software project is smaller than what your boss is doing, your boss's project is a derivative of the free software project, which can stay open.
If the free software project is bigger than what your boss is doing, the free software project is a derivative of your boss's project and has to be taken down.
If robots could be less expensive and more general purpose than they are now, they would be the next big thing. Two late 90's inventions which made robots come back in style were inexpensive IC accelerometers and inexpensive IC tilt sensors, allowing machines to orient themselves for under $100. The next problem is reducing the cost of power transistors and machine parts. It's real expensive to build machine parts which perform useful work.
The only problem is biology is something everyone wants to do. It's what all the highest rated TV shows are about. The people who do it are celebrities on not just geek websites but real news. You have to spend a long time in school and a lot of money to get an entry level position anywhere in it because all the fellowships are taken by celebrities. By the way, biology is not a good degree to go into bioinformatics. Chemistry is where you should be.
Copy protection makes all the difference. You can't download a game from the internet to a console like you can on a PC and the feature set has finally lured consumers away from the power they had with general purpose computers.
After having 5 free hosts go out of business throughout the 90's, I finally moved to sourceforget in 2000 when linuxbox.com went out of business. While Sourceforget has reduced it's services in the recession years it's managed to stay alive. The fact that Tony Guntharp invented Sourceforget and for his effort was laid off is something to keep in mind as you embark on your computer science careers.
The reason why expectations are up: the internet. People know what to expect based on what they read on dv.com about professional products or what their google searches turn up in Sony's professional division without looking at the price. They expect the same thing out of Best Buy, and they wind up dissapointed.
My Samsung camcorder's viewfinder failed after 3 months. However, my JVC camcorder's tape transport failed after 2 years. Reliability costs money. With $30,000 professional camcorders being compared to $300 consumer camcorders there isn't much difference between consumer brands.
Consumer electronics are what they've always been: for consumers. Reliability has always been the domain of professional products. There was never a time when Sony walkmans lasted more than a few months but no-one expected that reliability from a consumer product in the first place back in 1992. Consumer electronics are degraded in quality to reach the price point that consumers can attain. Recently, there has been such a demand for consumer electronics that people have begun to notice all the quality traits that differentiate consumer electronics from professional electronics. The price to get professional quality isn't 2 - 3 times but 10 times. If you want a reliable DVD player, consider a professional $1000 DVD player.
So what DLL's does this source code require in order to encode? Does it require Win NT, Win 2000, Win 98, Win XP, or Win XP Professional DLL's? Quicktime or Direct X?
It's often said that satellite services benefit and cable services suffer from PVR. It's never been clear why this is the case other than the idea that satellite services have embraced PVR while cable services have shunned it. Maybe the satellite services require users to own equipment while cable services lease equipment. Leasing equipment isn't profitable because cable companies go out of business every 10 seconds. Maybe by association with user liability, the PVR is more profitable. It's sure not a technological issue.
Even with the terrible management and the useless scientific experiments making it into the mission plans it sure looks cool. The least they could do is perform a wider variety of science instead of the never ending effects of weightlessness experiments.
Mentor Arc originally developed their power PC board as a reference board for embedded systems dedicated to a particular purpose. You see, most embedded systems don't use general purpose motherboards but build their own custom board around a reference, hence the added value. The Mentor Arc board was so unreliable that it's no surprise that they finally opened up to the idea of general purpose computing in the end. As wonderful as custom boards are, sometimes you need to let the customer figure out what to do with it so you can work out the kinks.
After watching vapor about terraforming Mars for 5 years I realized it would be more productive to terraform Earth. There are millions of square miles of useless desert which would be far easier to convert to forests and lakes than terraforming Mars. Once we converted all the Earth to useful land we could think about terraforming Mars and might be better equipped.
The tools make probably 10% of the process easier. The ability to cut and paste text is the biggest gain from tools, with every other tool declining in return for investment. Fundamental to tools is the fact that every time a tool comes out to fix a certain problem, we increase the magnitude of the problem until the tool is ineffective. Secondly, tools don't give you a competitive advantage because everyone has the same tools. The human brain and the ability of the people is still the only thing making a difference.
When they get up to 10 miles they're going to need to pump more fuel than an electric pump or a pressure sphere can generate. They'll need to build a turbopump and run it at its bursting point. This will require an engine redesign to recirculate propellant through the turbopump and be hundreds of times harder than what they've been doing for the last 2 years.
When they get to 20 miles they're going to need to heat the fuel beyond the melting point of their engine casing and they'll need to circulate fuel in the engine casing to cool it. This will require yet another engine redesign. There are so many problems in getting altitude that if it took 2 years to get to 100 feet it'll take hundreds of years to get to 150 miles. Anything less than 150 miles for a spacecraft just isn't practical.
Well if $2000 settop box/PC's, a $150 PDA wristwatch, another $300 handheld organizer, and a $150 cell phone which gives you 56k internet access for 3 months is all there is, there isn't much need to go. Maybe if the prices on slashdot weren't so terrifying, someone would go.
If they're really seeing the actual surface features of the sun to this detail without synthesizing data then maybe the same technique can be applied to extrasolar planets to image details as small as life forms.
I probably won't ever have a need to hand paint hundreds of thousands of frames in Film Gimp, but by the way he's been promoting this thing it's a good bet that someone is jockying for an award of some kind next April. Evangelism of a free software product as having a major impact on the film industry is just the kind of thing that gets an award.
The exact degree to which "ILM" and "Dreamworks" really use it and the exact number of screenshots of Film Gimp we see outside the Robin Rowe columns in Linux Journal are beside the point. The movie industry is a game and we're seeing someone who knows how to play it.
How many tarballs you make, how many websites you upload to sourceforge, and how much evangelism you preach is what drives the industry.
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Lots of electrical engineering and non-technical companies. No pure software engineering once again. In fact I've never seen a software engineering firm listed in this study. Of the hardware/software companies, the reason they get on this list is probably their hardware side. I wonder why software is so hard to manage effectively. Is it because you don't have a reliable measurement of employee productivity? Is is because software is hard to modularize?
As far as I know, the US population has been declining for the last 15 months and is expected to decline dramatically for the next 3 years. Anyone who wants a job is moving to Asia. H1B reform feels good but economics have already taken care of most of the issue.
If the free software project is smaller than what your boss is doing, your boss's project is a derivative of the free software project, which can stay open.
If the free software project is bigger than what your boss is doing, the free software project is a derivative of your boss's project and has to be taken down.
30 MB/sec is the physical limit of platter storage. There will never be anything faster, no matter how new the bus is.
You mean thousands of slashdot articles have nothing to do with anything?
If robots could be less expensive and more general purpose than they are now, they would be the next big thing. Two late 90's inventions which made robots come back in style were inexpensive IC accelerometers and inexpensive IC tilt sensors, allowing machines to orient themselves for under $100. The next problem is reducing the cost of power transistors and machine parts. It's real expensive to build machine parts which perform useful work.
I hear their economy didn't get wiped out.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976828.html
The only problem is biology is something everyone wants to do. It's what all the highest rated TV shows are about. The people who do it are celebrities on not just geek websites but real news. You have to spend a long time in school and a lot of money to get an entry level position anywhere in it because all the fellowships are taken by celebrities. By the way, biology is not a good degree to go into bioinformatics. Chemistry is where you should be.
Copy protection makes all the difference. You can't download a game from the internet to a console like you can on a PC and the feature set has finally lured consumers away from the power they had with general purpose computers.
After having 5 free hosts go out of business throughout the 90's, I finally moved to sourceforget in 2000 when linuxbox.com went out of business. While Sourceforget has reduced it's services in the recession years it's managed to stay alive. The fact that Tony Guntharp invented Sourceforget and for his effort was laid off is something to keep in mind as you embark on your computer science careers.
The reason why expectations are up: the internet. People know what to expect based on what they read on dv.com about professional products or what their google searches turn up in Sony's professional division without looking at the price. They expect the same thing out of Best Buy, and they wind up dissapointed.
My Samsung camcorder's viewfinder failed after 3 months. However, my JVC camcorder's tape transport failed after 2 years. Reliability costs money. With $30,000 professional camcorders being compared to $300 consumer camcorders there isn't much difference between consumer brands.
Consumer electronics are what they've always been: for consumers. Reliability has always been the domain of professional products. There was never a time when Sony walkmans lasted more than a few months but no-one expected that reliability from a consumer product in the first place back in 1992. Consumer electronics are degraded in quality to reach the price point that consumers can attain. Recently, there has been such a demand for consumer electronics that people have begun to notice all the quality traits that differentiate consumer electronics from professional electronics. The price to get professional quality isn't 2 - 3 times but 10 times. If you want a reliable DVD player, consider a professional $1000 DVD player.
So what DLL's does this source code require in order to encode? Does it require Win NT, Win 2000, Win 98, Win XP, or Win XP Professional DLL's? Quicktime or Direct X?
It's often said that satellite services benefit and cable services suffer from PVR. It's never been clear why this is the case other than the idea that satellite services have embraced PVR while cable services have shunned it. Maybe the satellite services require users to own equipment while cable services lease equipment. Leasing equipment isn't profitable because cable companies go out of business every 10 seconds. Maybe by association with user liability, the PVR is more profitable. It's sure not a technological issue.
Even with the terrible management and the useless scientific experiments making it into the mission plans it sure looks cool. The least they could do is perform a wider variety of science instead of the never ending effects of weightlessness experiments.
Mentor Arc originally developed their power PC board as a reference board for embedded systems dedicated to a particular purpose. You see, most embedded systems don't use general purpose motherboards but build their own custom board around a reference, hence the added value. The Mentor Arc board was so unreliable that it's no surprise that they finally opened up to the idea of general purpose computing in the end. As wonderful as custom boards are, sometimes you need to let the customer figure out what to do with it so you can work out the kinks.
After watching vapor about terraforming Mars for 5 years I realized it would be more productive to terraform Earth. There are millions of square miles of useless desert which would be far easier to convert to forests and lakes than terraforming Mars. Once we converted all the Earth to useful land we could think about terraforming Mars and might be better equipped.
If slashdot advertized the service plans as much as the phones maybe I'd actually buy something instead of just commenting on it.
The tools make probably 10% of the process easier. The ability to cut and paste text is the biggest gain from tools, with every other tool declining in return for investment. Fundamental to tools is the fact that every time a tool comes out to fix a certain problem, we increase the magnitude of the problem until the tool is ineffective. Secondly, tools don't give you a competitive advantage because everyone has the same tools. The human brain and the ability of the people is still the only thing making a difference.
When they get up to 10 miles they're going to need to pump more fuel than an electric pump or a pressure sphere can generate. They'll need to build a turbopump and run it at its bursting point. This will require an engine redesign to recirculate propellant through the turbopump and be hundreds of times harder than what they've been doing for the last 2 years.
When they get to 20 miles they're going to need to heat the fuel beyond the melting point of their engine casing and they'll need to circulate fuel in the engine casing to cool it. This will require yet another engine redesign. There are so many problems in getting altitude that if it took 2 years to get to 100 feet it'll take hundreds of years to get to 150 miles. Anything less than 150 miles for a spacecraft just isn't practical.
Well if $2000 settop box/PC's, a $150 PDA wristwatch, another $300 handheld organizer, and a $150 cell phone which gives you 56k internet access for 3 months is all there is, there isn't much need to go. Maybe if the prices on slashdot weren't so terrifying, someone would go.
Forget I said that.
If they're really seeing the actual surface features of the sun to this detail without synthesizing data then maybe the same technique can be applied to extrasolar planets to image details as small as life forms.
I probably won't ever have a need to hand paint hundreds of thousands of frames in Film Gimp, but by the way he's been promoting this thing it's a good bet that someone is jockying for an award of some kind next April. Evangelism of a free software product as having a major impact on the film industry is just the kind of thing that gets an award.
The exact degree to which "ILM" and "Dreamworks" really use it and the exact number of screenshots of Film Gimp we see outside the Robin Rowe columns in Linux Journal are beside the point. The movie industry is a game and we're seeing someone who knows how to play it.
How many tarballs you make, how many websites you upload to sourceforge, and how much evangelism you preach is what drives the industry.