I suspect that much of this is the increase in bureaucracy at all levels that has happened since 1980. Universities gained increased oversight needs, which required increased bureaucratic skills by scientists, creating a system in which some of the best 'scientists' are not basically grant writers who do little to no science at all and have a team of undergraduate and graduate students do the work. This slows things down because one of the driving forces of science is theory generation, which is best had in the field by the experimenter... So when we started valuing bureaucratic needs over scientific needs things changed. And mode 2 science over mode 1 science is also an issue... in that change also around the late 80s early 90s, science no longer had to serve science itself, but all science must serve commercial interests. When that happens, you derailed scientific production as you can rightly imagine because a whole new set of priorities shifted and added new bureaucracies.
take their money for the labor, sign the non-compete (make sure it is in perpetuity) wait two years, release the code.
There is not a court in the land that will let an in perpetuity non-compete clause stand. Contracts have to have a termination date, a renewal date, or related clause that let's you opt out. california already threw out unreasonable non-competes.
they sue you, you counter-sue for restraint of trade, you win.
Well it is clear that the U.S. needs to have physically trained, fit workforce.... so we can draft them and send them to fight, having anything other than an ideology of winning in such situations is just foolhardy.
boxes and wires always is more stable than code, it is underwritten by a much more significant infrastructure, whereas code's infrastructure is much more ephemeral.
filson 258 laptop bag, that's what i've been using. it is indestructible, and i tend to destroy things. it is heavy, and it is stylish, if you like that style, which is leather and heavy cotton duck that is oil treated. it takes a while to break it in, but once it fits you, you'll have it for life.
then why didn't apple pay for it? it is supposed to be for research, i think we just need to see that it is actually used for research. does anyone know how many other clusters virginia tech currently has on campus?
what are they doing with it? we all here the happy talk that it could be used for this and that, but are they. just how many people in the world are actually doing research that requires a system like this? on average how many free cycles is this computer wasting daily? will it ever be fully utilized? by whom and for what?
let us ponder for a moment these questions of supply and demand.
the more that i think about this, the more this seems very much like a boondoggle. I don't begrudge its creators their innovation, but i do question the usefulness of that innovation, but the more that i think about it, this investment seems somewhat misguided until we actually see people using it and see the real outcomes of that research.
you can get a cheaper ipod at audible if you join their service, i highly recommend going this route. it gives you quite a bit of interesting content for a little money each month.
it doesn't appear as if Roland has any point about spam or blacklists, but that his article is primarily about an isp using bad practices and thus causing him hassles. If people would take the time to read and understand what he claims occured, it seems to me that he had issues with any access, which isn't a spam blacklist, it is probably a route drop or universal block, and that can happen for many more reasons than spam.
in any case, i don't think this has anything to do with spam, nor does it speak poorly about blacklists. in fact, properly used, blacklists are very effective against spam and form a vital part of the anti-spam toolbox as any filter system does.
well, just a thought, chances are significant that there is likely some code in any given project that is actually or obviously derivative of code that was gpl'd. if you can show that, then you can argue that the whole of the code should be gpl'd much easier. if you had that evidence in hand when you go to the lawyers, you will probably be in a much better bargaining position than you would be taking in code that clearly fits a more commercially oriented license.
it is not that hard, some pointers go when college is in session travel to towns with colleges stay with friends, sometimes met that night, sleep on their floor, whatever, its cheap. sometimes they are beautiful, sometimes they are ugly, but always make sure its free, you have a good travel story, it should be free.
In any given place, there is more than enough to see within 200 miles, so just choose 2-3 weeks each in 4 or 5 east coast cities
hit the lakes from cleveland to chicago, buses work there that will take 2 weeks tops take the river south from chicago to memphis to the big easy. hit the big easy at the 'right time' get a free ride to whereever, prolly texas, austin that is.
from austin see how you can get to either the desert or the mountains, i suggest the desert, cause you hit Las Vegas, and las vegas to california is a cheap bus ticket.
you'll probably be in socal, do what you have to do, mexico is right there, then head north along the coast, bum it as much as possible, its easy, be friendly, talk to people, you'll go far, when you get to washington its time to head east, the train is the easiest, and it will give you the best view of the mountains and then the great nothings of the planes. you'll land back in chicago on the train, that'll work.
the g4 with altivec core has significant applications in protein folding and large scale vector processesing operations in biotech and elsewhere. If you install this system headless on ufs, you basically have the ultimate scientific clustering system, especially with its built in connectivity.
more or less, the question is not who the computer belongs to, but who the information in the computer belongs to. the answer traditionally, in academia, has been the professor.
actually it is unclear that they can do 'anything they want with it'... University-Faculty relations are not like employer-employee relations. Faculty have a different status than employees. That combined that if an employer entrusts a machine to a person for use without stipulating that the machine is for personal or private use, makes it very unclear as to whether or not the data on the machine belongs to the university and can be searched. It is actually quite clear that certain parts of the data on the machine do not belong to the university, but are the intellectual property of the professor even though the university provides the computer to develop that intellectual property.
personal here includes student papers, student-professor communications, etc. How would you like it if the police found out that you had written a paper extolling the virtues of a joining a hacker community or that you used grandiose amounts of bandwidth chatting on slashdot, possibly stating things that were outside of the university usage policy? hmm, no, i think this one is just wrong, universities aren't normal employers, they aren't business, they are special for a wide variety of reasons.
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theory:
synchronize not just does the user tree files like mail, but the desktop file, that would be nifty.
ok, people, you seem to be far away from your thinking apparatus.
compression takes data, applies an algorythm to it to generate new data that is representation of the whole.
contrary to that, this transforms the data to an algorythm that simulates the whole.
it is a minor point of order, but one worth thinking about because it is theoretically different.
this is also not distributed, it is point to point, I don't know where the submitter got the distributed model from, I suspect he pulled it out the air, but this is very clearly not that. It requires a machine at each end of the point2point.
however, logically, all data that is not random, can be represented by equations that are smaller than the data. However, the real load exists in the generation of the equations from the data, and not the reconstruction of the data itself, so for me this seems to be quite a possible project, though i suppose it will take quite a bit optimization.
one other thing, the article does not say that it uses a standardized technique, and it would be interesting if they did not use standard vector analysis or the like. If they used vectors, then this could just reduce to a system of file conversion from one standard to another. I think it would be far more interesting to be what it says it is supposed to be a file conversion to mathematical simulation of the file.
the problem, of course, is that there are no higher degrees in gaming, there are at best degrees in related fields. Prof. Aarseth is widely known for working on establishing an academic discipline from which people could get graduate degrees in computer games.
There are several of these classes already in existence. you may want to check out david silver's resource center for cyberculture studies http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs . The core text I would imagine as Ceruzzi's "The History of Modern Computing" another great classic book is Susan Leigh Star's "The Cultures of Computing" of course if you want to go for the more popular read, then Hackers. I haven't read "The Universal History of Computing" yet, but it does cover a broader basis.
some other sites of interest are the IEEE annals of the history of computing: http://computer.org
Virginia Tech and the NSF's history of computing: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html
to get another audience on this you may want to ask you question on or join http://aoir.org the association of internet researchers
My own work and teaching is centered more around the Internet, but it seems to me you want to look at the earliest foundation of computing, such as the origin of information theory, which is quite interesting in itself.
Jeremy
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
http://www.cddc.vt.edu
It should be noted that all universities had the option to pay for the service or to let advertising pay for the service. From what i recall, 3 universities are paying out of pocket, the rest are using advertising.
There is at least one site that lists some places looking for people with computer and programming talents who are willing to help. Beyond this, if you are of the liberal midset you can usually volunteer at your local PIRG, public interest research group. The site with general listings is: www.idealist.org
It matters little that they may take their code out of distribution because they have made a proof of concept, anyone with a copy of their code can now see what they have done, make a parallel process, and redistribute gpl if they want. There is no reason for these two gentlement to take any more heat, they did the important part of the work, exposed what needed, and now programmers at large can either take up the flag or not at their leisure.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect that much of this is the increase in bureaucracy at all levels that has happened since 1980. Universities gained increased oversight needs, which required increased bureaucratic skills by scientists, creating a system in which some of the best 'scientists' are not basically grant writers who do little to no science at all and have a team of undergraduate and graduate students do the work. This slows things down because one of the driving forces of science is theory generation, which is best had in the field by the experimenter... So when we started valuing bureaucratic needs over scientific needs things changed. And mode 2 science over mode 1 science is also an issue... in that change also around the late 80s early 90s, science no longer had to serve science itself, but all science must serve commercial interests. When that happens, you derailed scientific production as you can rightly imagine because a whole new set of priorities shifted and added new bureaucracies.
here is a thought,
take their money for the labor, sign the non-compete (make sure it is in perpetuity) wait two years, release the code.
There is not a court in the land that will let an in perpetuity non-compete clause stand. Contracts have to have a termination date, a renewal date, or related clause that let's you opt out. california already threw out unreasonable non-competes.
they sue you, you counter-sue for restraint of trade, you win.
talk to a good lawyer.
Well it is clear that the U.S. needs to have physically trained, fit workforce.... so we can draft them and send them to fight, having anything other than an ideology of winning in such situations is just foolhardy.
boxes and wires always is more stable than code, it is underwritten by a much more significant infrastructure, whereas code's infrastructure is much more ephemeral.
filson 258 laptop bag, that's what i've been using. it is indestructible, and i tend to destroy things. it is heavy, and it is stylish, if you like that style, which is leather and heavy cotton duck that is oil treated. it takes a while to break it in, but once it fits you, you'll have it for life.
then why didn't apple pay for it? it is supposed to be for research, i think we just need to see that it is actually used for research. does anyone know how many other clusters virginia tech currently has on campus?
what are they doing with it? we all here the happy talk that it could be used for this and that, but are they. just how many people in the world are actually doing research that requires a system like this? on average how many free cycles is this computer wasting daily? will it ever be fully utilized? by whom and for what?
let us ponder for a moment these questions of supply and demand.
the more that i think about this, the more this seems very much like a boondoggle. I don't begrudge its creators their innovation, but i do question the usefulness of that innovation, but the more that i think about it, this investment seems somewhat misguided until we actually see people using it and see the real outcomes of that research.
you can get a cheaper ipod at audible if you join their service, i highly recommend going this route. it gives you quite a bit of interesting content for a little money each month.
it doesn't appear as if Roland has any point about spam or blacklists, but that his article is primarily about an isp using bad practices and thus causing him hassles. If people would take the time to read and understand what he claims occured, it seems to me that he had issues with any access, which isn't a spam blacklist, it is probably a route drop or universal block, and that can happen for many more reasons than spam.
in any case, i don't think this has anything to do with spam, nor does it speak poorly about blacklists. in fact, properly used, blacklists are very effective against spam and form a vital part of the anti-spam toolbox as any filter system does.
didn't anyone tell palm what it means to palm one?
jimmy, go palm one of those palms.....
well, just a thought, chances are significant that there is likely some code in any given project that is actually or obviously derivative of code that was gpl'd. if you can show that, then you can argue that the whole of the code should be gpl'd much easier. if you had that evidence in hand when you go to the lawyers, you will probably be in a much better bargaining position than you would be taking in code that clearly fits a more commercially oriented license.
it is not that hard, some pointers
go when college is in session
travel to towns with colleges
stay with friends, sometimes met that night, sleep on their floor, whatever, its cheap. sometimes they are beautiful, sometimes they are ugly, but always make sure its free, you have a good travel story, it should be free.
In any given place, there is more than enough to see within 200 miles, so just choose 2-3 weeks each in 4 or 5 east coast cities
hit the lakes from cleveland to chicago, buses work there
that will take 2 weeks tops
take the river south from chicago to memphis to the big easy. hit the big easy at the 'right time' get a free ride to whereever, prolly texas, austin that is.
from austin see how you can get to either the desert or the mountains, i suggest the desert, cause you hit Las Vegas, and las vegas to california is a cheap bus ticket.
you'll probably be in socal, do what you have to do, mexico is right there, then head north along the coast, bum it as much as possible, its easy, be friendly, talk to people, you'll go far, when you get to washington its time to head east, the train is the easiest, and it will give you the best view of the mountains and then the great nothings of the planes. you'll land back in chicago on the train, that'll work.
i did rub-con last year, it was quite interesting in a wide variety of ways http://www.rubi-con.org . check it out
the g4 with altivec core has significant applications in protein folding and large scale vector processesing operations in biotech and elsewhere. If you install this system headless on ufs, you basically have the ultimate scientific clustering system, especially with its built in connectivity.
more or less, the question is not who the computer belongs to, but who the information in the computer belongs to. the answer traditionally, in academia, has been the professor.
actually it is unclear that they can do 'anything they want with it'... University-Faculty relations are not like employer-employee relations. Faculty have a different status than employees. That combined that if an employer entrusts a machine to a person for use without stipulating that the machine is for personal or private use, makes it very unclear as to whether or not the data on the machine belongs to the university and can be searched. It is actually quite clear that certain parts of the data on the machine do not belong to the university, but are the intellectual property of the professor even though the university provides the computer to develop that intellectual property.
personal here includes student papers, student-professor communications, etc. How would you like it if the police found out that you had written a paper extolling the virtues of a joining a hacker community or that you used grandiose amounts of bandwidth chatting on slashdot, possibly stating things that were outside of the university usage policy? hmm, no, i think this one is just wrong, universities aren't normal employers, they aren't business, they are special for a wide variety of reasons.
theory:
synchronize not just does the user tree files like mail, but the desktop file, that would be nifty.
ok, people, you seem to be far away from your thinking apparatus.
compression takes data, applies an algorythm to it to generate new data that is representation of the whole.
contrary to that, this transforms the data to an algorythm that simulates the whole.
it is a minor point of order, but one worth thinking about because it is theoretically different.
this is also not distributed, it is point to point, I don't know where the submitter got the distributed model from, I suspect he pulled it out the air, but this is very clearly not that. It requires a machine at each end of the point2point.
however, logically, all data that is not random, can be represented by equations that are smaller than the data. However, the real load exists in the generation of the equations from the data, and not the reconstruction of the data itself, so for me this seems to be quite a possible project, though i suppose it will take quite a bit optimization.
one other thing, the article does not say that it uses a standardized technique, and it would be interesting if they did not use standard vector analysis or the like. If they used vectors, then this could just reduce to a system of file conversion from one standard to another. I think it would be far more interesting to be what it says it is supposed to be a file conversion to mathematical simulation of the file.
the problem, of course, is that there are no higher degrees in gaming, there are at best degrees in related fields. Prof. Aarseth is widely known for working on establishing an academic discipline from which people could get graduate degrees in computer games.
1 indybox 3 penguin computing. all 4 are on the internet. comparably, i've put 6 sunboxes running solaris and 2 apple boxes and 1 winders box.
some other sites of interest are the IEEE annals of the history of computing: http://computer.org
Virginia Tech and the NSF's history of computing: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html
to get another audience on this you may want to ask you question on or join http://aoir.org the association of internet researchers
My own work and teaching is centered more around the Internet, but it seems to me you want to look at the earliest foundation of computing, such as the origin of information theory, which is quite interesting in itself.
Jeremy
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
http://www.cddc.vt.edu
It should be noted that all universities had the option to pay for the service or to let advertising pay for the service. From what i recall, 3 universities are paying out of pocket, the rest are using advertising.
There is at least one site that lists some places looking for people with computer and programming talents who are willing to help. Beyond this, if you are of the liberal midset you can usually volunteer at your local PIRG, public interest research group. The site with general listings is: www.idealist.org
It matters little that they may take their code out of distribution because they have made a proof of concept, anyone with a copy of their code can now see what they have done, make a parallel process, and redistribute gpl if they want. There is no reason for these two gentlement to take any more heat, they did the important part of the work, exposed what needed, and now programmers at large can either take up the flag or not at their leisure.