Of course Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. are not in the list. Those are software and computer engineering companies. This list is for places to work in IT, which is not the same as engineering. IT is about system administration, tech support, and having your life sucked out of you. Engineering is about designing features, implementing products, and having your life sucked out of you.
Of course it's for the US only. ComputerWorld is a US publication. Slashdot is a US website. If you want something for your own country, why are you even reading the articles posted here? Go to one appropriate for your own country. Use some common sense. That's like me reading a Japanese publication about best IT companies and expecting it to cover US companies.
Nokia and Symbian does not have the existing mindshare of iPhone, nor does it have the emerging growth of Android. I don't want to learn Yet Another SDK on top of the year I've spent learning Objective-C/iPhone SDK and the six months I've spent learning the Android SDK.
Apple just posted a 90% year-over-year profit increase in their best non-Christmas quarter ever. iPhone sales increased 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock price reached an all-time high today. Of course, these amazing results are without Flash on the iPhone. People (including myself) are enjoying native apps which were written in Objective-C. I don't think any consumer cares about seeing Flash on the iPhone anymore.
Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now
This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.
I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computerbook used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.
NO. I am mean that DIVX and DivX;-) are completely unrelated. The latter is a separate company (based on a codec) and is actually making intentional mockery of the former. Go read the wikipedia articles that I included. Your example of Westinghouse is fallacious; at the very least, the name Westinghouse today is ostensibly related to the Westinghouse of old with the entire name kept intact and in good faith. To extend the DIVX and DivX;-) situation to Westinghouse, it would be like the difference between an older brand Westinghouse and a new brand "W3st1nghaus L:0L". See what I did there? I put in some lolcode for you kids to understand.
Like any young kid, you are confusing DIVX (Digital Video Express self-destructing video discs) from Circuit City with "DivX:-)" the codec and codec company. They are completely unrelated. In fact, the "DivX;-)" name has a winky emoticon to signify that it's mocking the DIVX name.
I see a lot of you twenty-somethings online these days. Whenever an old-timer like me (and I'm in my 30s) says that DIVX sucked, you folks immediately spout "but but but DivX plays fine on my computer." Impressive.
One definition of the Internet is that it's a collection of nodes running TCP/IP (where IP is the Internet Protocol at the networking layer). By that definition, the Internet started on January 1, 1983 (the "red letter day"), when all nodes on the Arpanet had to switch to TCP/IP (many were running NCP prior to that).
The article is incorrect in stating that the Hamiltonian Path problem concerns finding the shortest path. This is not right. The HP problem simply asks whether or not a path exists that goes through every vertex exactly once. The TSP is concerned with finding the shortest *cycle* that goes through every vertex exactly once (except for the starting and ending vertex, which must be the same). If you want to be precise, TSP asks if there is a Hamiltonian Cycle that has length less than some constant k (since they are all decision problems).
Now, the solution that the authors devise is interesting. It appears to be nothing more than a stochastic algorithm that hopefully converges upon the solution. It is the real-genetic analogue of a Genetic Algorithm, which is well-known in the algorithms/complexity community as being a computer simulation of genetic evolution. The authors' approach is neat, but let's see if they can scale up to 500 vertices.
If you started programming as a hobby, you need feedback to see if you are proceeding correctly. Take a couple of community college classes. Usually the instructors are experienced software engineers who are teaching on the side.
One of the most ignorant postings I've seen yet
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This has to be one of the most ignorant postings I've seen on Slashdot, ever. Good job, eldavojohn.
1. Kodachrome being discontinue is not related to "the death of film." Kodachrome was long supplanted by Fujichrome Velvia as the professional colour-positive film back in the 1990s.
2. Polaroid was not phased out "a long time ago." The company only announced it was getting ending production in February 2008.
No, the Wikipedia article does not say Velvia was discontinued. It says that the original type of Velvia (RVP) was discontinued. However, new lines of Velvia are still going strong. In fact, Velvia and Provia are typically still the film of choice among professionals still shooting film.
I agree, this was an extremely ignorant question. Even more amazing are the replies (e.g. "we just need a big, old-fashioned war" to fund research, "The government exists to pave roads"). Have these folks never been to college and graduate school? Have they never heard of the National Science Foundation? DARPA? National Institute of Health? The Department of Energy? NASA? Who do you think is paying for the Space Shuttle, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and several thousand grad student salaries?
The misinformation you're trying to pass off as sound findings is a bit more egregious than what's typical here.
First, your overall conclusion is based on a single query and observation.
Second, your observation is completely wrong. You state that you think the Bing result for "The Dark Knight" is horrible because it doesn't show accurate breadth. You say that Yahoo's result is better because its "more" feature lets you explore things not directly related to the movie but are closely tied. You further say that you don't particularly like the "more" UI.
The breadth results are built right into the main results page. They have already categorised all the results for you. The Dark Knight Trailer. The Dark Knight Review. The Dark Knight cast. The Dark Knight poster. The Dark Knight soundtrack. Videos related Dark Knight. These are subjectively even better than Yahoo's "more" results, plus Yahoo does not show video results, plus you don't have to press a "more" link.
Please, I'm just asking you to pay attention next time.
If you didn't want the advertisements, why didn't you just PAY money to get a hosted service? Oh, that's right, you're a cheap hypocrite bastard. You go screw yourself.
This is a timely article. I'm actually looking for a new messenger bag. Can anyone lend a hand? I'm looking for the following:
Over-the-shoulder messenger bag
Not leather
Must have a handle at the top of the bag in addition to a shoulder strap
Must have large zippered external pockets in addition to the main compartment. I like to keep small maps, snacks, and other stuff in external pockets when I'm travelling
Personally, I'd welcome the day when main-stream media outlets die and the only news you get comes from people like you and me
The absolute cluelessness of this statement is both infuriating as well as disheartening. I for one do not want well-trained reporters replaced by web monkeys voicing their opinions on everything. Have you ever worked as a reporter? I have. Good reporters are taught objectivity, investigative reporting methods, and clear writing skills. Do you want that replaced by morons who can't spell "they're" and "their" correctly? Or who offer opinions as facts?
Google has prevented me from using Yahoo!, Ask, etc. in the same vein that Microsoft prevented me from using other web browsers.
Does Google somehow physically stop me from using other search engines? No. Did Microsoft physically stop me from downloading and using other browsers? No.
Does Google very closely bundle their search engine with Google Docs, YouTube, Android, etc.? Yes. Did Microsoft very closely bundle IE with Windows? Yes.
Is Google being punished for doing the same exact same thing Microsoft was found guilty of in US vs. Microsoft in 1999? No.
Are you referring to US vs. Microsoft in 1998-1999? That was with regard to Internet Explorer, not the Windows OS. Microsoft lost, and they are paying their due penalty.
Google, on the other hand, has a much larger monopoly not just on search advertising but on information availability. Your bitter dislike of Microsoft is blinding you apparently; you'd rather fight over small fries like what browser you want use rather than fight over where you can find information and who controls it.
don't complain about Microsoft then
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I use Microsoft Windows for searches, but I could easily switch to MacOS, Linux or even Solaris.
Until Microsoft starts doing things to stop people using other operating systems, there's no problem. If people object to the dominance of Microsoft Windows, they must either campaign for users to move to other operating systems, or create a better operating system and gain marketshare.
For fulltime jobs, check salary.com and
glassdoor.com for good salary information. For salary.com, you can enter in a job title (e.g. software engineer II) and zip code; the salary range results are pretty accurate. When you move to take a fulltime job, be sure to check the cost-of-living adjustment calculator there too.
If you are looking for an internship, then I recommend you not be so concerned with money. The goal of an internship is get real-world experience and do a good enough job so the manager will remember you well enough to write a letter of recommendation when you need it later. You will have the rest of your life to worry about making money. I would also recommend you get as many summer internships before you graduate as possible with a mix of big-name and small companies (where presumably you'll have more responsibilities at the smaller companies).
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Of course Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. are not in the list. Those are software and computer engineering companies. This list is for places to work in IT, which is not the same as engineering. IT is about system administration, tech support, and having your life sucked out of you. Engineering is about designing features, implementing products, and having your life sucked out of you.
Of course it's for the US only. ComputerWorld is a US publication. Slashdot is a US website. If you want something for your own country, why are you even reading the articles posted here? Go to one appropriate for your own country. Use some common sense. That's like me reading a Japanese publication about best IT companies and expecting it to cover US companies.
Nokia and Symbian does not have the existing mindshare of iPhone, nor does it have the emerging growth of Android. I don't want to learn Yet Another SDK on top of the year I've spent learning Objective-C/iPhone SDK and the six months I've spent learning the Android SDK.
Apple just posted a 90% year-over-year profit increase in their best non-Christmas quarter ever. iPhone sales increased 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock price reached an all-time high today. Of course, these amazing results are without Flash on the iPhone. People (including myself) are enjoying native apps which were written in Objective-C. I don't think any consumer cares about seeing Flash on the iPhone anymore.
Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.
I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.
NO. I am mean that DIVX and DivX ;-) are completely unrelated. The latter is a separate company (based on a codec) and is actually making intentional mockery of the former. Go read the wikipedia articles that I included. Your example of Westinghouse is fallacious; at the very least, the name Westinghouse today is ostensibly related to the Westinghouse of old with the entire name kept intact and in good faith. To extend the DIVX and DivX ;-) situation to Westinghouse, it would be like the difference between an older brand Westinghouse and a new brand "W3st1nghaus L:0L". See what I did there? I put in some lolcode for you kids to understand.
Like any young kid, you are confusing DIVX (Digital Video Express self-destructing video discs) from Circuit City with "DivX :-)" the codec and codec company. They are completely unrelated. In fact, the "DivX ;-)" name has a winky emoticon to signify that it's mocking the DIVX name.
I see a lot of you twenty-somethings online these days. Whenever an old-timer like me (and I'm in my 30s) says that DIVX sucked, you folks immediately spout "but but but DivX plays fine on my computer." Impressive.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
One definition of the Internet is that it's a collection of nodes running TCP/IP (where IP is the Internet Protocol at the networking layer). By that definition, the Internet started on January 1, 1983 (the "red letter day"), when all nodes on the Arpanet had to switch to TCP/IP (many were running NCP prior to that).
The article is incorrect in stating that the Hamiltonian Path problem concerns finding the shortest path. This is not right. The HP problem simply asks whether or not a path exists that goes through every vertex exactly once. The TSP is concerned with finding the shortest *cycle* that goes through every vertex exactly once (except for the starting and ending vertex, which must be the same). If you want to be precise, TSP asks if there is a Hamiltonian Cycle that has length less than some constant k (since they are all decision problems). Now, the solution that the authors devise is interesting. It appears to be nothing more than a stochastic algorithm that hopefully converges upon the solution. It is the real-genetic analogue of a Genetic Algorithm, which is well-known in the algorithms/complexity community as being a computer simulation of genetic evolution. The authors' approach is neat, but let's see if they can scale up to 500 vertices.
If you're 30-something, you rely on email.
If you're in your 20s, you use IM
If you're 13 like me, it's all Twitter, all the time. Bonus: I have no need to receive packages because I shoplift everything.
If you started programming as a hobby, you need feedback to see if you are proceeding correctly. Take a couple of community college classes. Usually the instructors are experienced software engineers who are teaching on the side.
This has to be one of the most ignorant postings I've seen on Slashdot, ever. Good job, eldavojohn. 1. Kodachrome being discontinue is not related to "the death of film." Kodachrome was long supplanted by Fujichrome Velvia as the professional colour-positive film back in the 1990s. 2. Polaroid was not phased out "a long time ago." The company only announced it was getting ending production in February 2008.
No, the Wikipedia article does not say Velvia was discontinued. It says that the original type of Velvia (RVP) was discontinued. However, new lines of Velvia are still going strong. In fact, Velvia and Provia are typically still the film of choice among professionals still shooting film.
I agree, this was an extremely ignorant question. Even more amazing are the replies (e.g. "we just need a big, old-fashioned war" to fund research, "The government exists to pave roads"). Have these folks never been to college and graduate school? Have they never heard of the National Science Foundation? DARPA? National Institute of Health? The Department of Energy? NASA? Who do you think is paying for the Space Shuttle, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and several thousand grad student salaries?
The misinformation you're trying to pass off as sound findings is a bit more egregious than what's typical here.
First, your overall conclusion is based on a single query and observation.
Second, your observation is completely wrong. You state that you think the Bing result for "The Dark Knight" is horrible because it doesn't show accurate breadth. You say that Yahoo's result is better because its "more" feature lets you explore things not directly related to the movie but are closely tied. You further say that you don't particularly like the "more" UI.
Now, look at Bing's result. http://www.bing.com/search?q=dark+knight&go=&form=QBLH
The breadth results are built right into the main results page. They have already categorised all the results for you. The Dark Knight Trailer. The Dark Knight Review. The Dark Knight cast. The Dark Knight poster. The Dark Knight soundtrack. Videos related Dark Knight. These are subjectively even better than Yahoo's "more" results, plus Yahoo does not show video results, plus you don't have to press a "more" link.
Please, I'm just asking you to pay attention next time.
If you didn't want the advertisements, why didn't you just PAY money to get a hosted service? Oh, that's right, you're a cheap hypocrite bastard. You go screw yourself.
Well it's about time! We can rejoice, my FOSS brothers.
This is a timely article. I'm actually looking for a new messenger bag. Can anyone lend a hand? I'm looking for the following:
Personally, I'd welcome the day when main-stream media outlets die and the only news you get comes from people like you and me
The absolute cluelessness of this statement is both infuriating as well as disheartening. I for one do not want well-trained reporters replaced by web monkeys voicing their opinions on everything. Have you ever worked as a reporter? I have. Good reporters are taught objectivity, investigative reporting methods, and clear writing skills. Do you want that replaced by morons who can't spell "they're" and "their" correctly? Or who offer opinions as facts?
Google has prevented me from using Yahoo!, Ask, etc. in the same vein that Microsoft prevented me from using other web browsers.
Does Google somehow physically stop me from using other search engines? No. Did Microsoft physically stop me from downloading and using other browsers? No.
Does Google very closely bundle their search engine with Google Docs, YouTube, Android, etc.? Yes. Did Microsoft very closely bundle IE with Windows? Yes.
Is Google being punished for doing the same exact same thing Microsoft was found guilty of in US vs. Microsoft in 1999? No.
Are you referring to US vs. Microsoft in 1998-1999? That was with regard to Internet Explorer, not the Windows OS. Microsoft lost, and they are paying their due penalty.
Google, on the other hand, has a much larger monopoly not just on search advertising but on information availability. Your bitter dislike of Microsoft is blinding you apparently; you'd rather fight over small fries like what browser you want use rather than fight over where you can find information and who controls it.
I use Microsoft Windows for searches, but I could easily switch to MacOS, Linux or even Solaris.
Until Microsoft starts doing things to stop people using other operating systems, there's no problem. If people object to the dominance of Microsoft Windows, they must either campaign for users to move to other operating systems, or create a better operating system and gain marketshare.
For fulltime jobs, check salary.com and glassdoor.com for good salary information. For salary.com, you can enter in a job title (e.g. software engineer II) and zip code; the salary range results are pretty accurate. When you move to take a fulltime job, be sure to check the cost-of-living adjustment calculator there too.
If you are looking for an internship, then I recommend you not be so concerned with money. The goal of an internship is get real-world experience and do a good enough job so the manager will remember you well enough to write a letter of recommendation when you need it later. You will have the rest of your life to worry about making money. I would also recommend you get as many summer internships before you graduate as possible with a mix of big-name and small companies (where presumably you'll have more responsibilities at the smaller companies).