I hate feeding trolls, but you should be made aware that many Hawaii residents leave for West Coast (or beyond) schools. Many more than you may assume.
I went to Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and knew no less than four Hawaii residents who wound up in the middle of the Palouse studying Computer Science. The only other state that beat them out in people that I met (besides Washington, of course) was Alaska.
Just my experience, and real numbers may vary, but I didn't think I'd be meeting that many folks, I was expecting more from Idaho and Montana.
Even if this is the case, which sounds plausible... So what?
Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that if multi-core has less performance in super computing than single-core... Companies will continue to manufacture specialized single-core processors for supercomputing.
I know this is an unpopular sentiment on/., but I agree with you 100% on the HTML/PHP thing.
PHP is well and good, and can be well done. But let's face it, when random IT guy with no computer science background wrote your timecard site in hacked-together PHP, it's NASTY to even look at.
Which... is why I like the ASP.net separation of markup and logic.
I always have, it just made more sense than putting them both into a blender and hitting "Puree."
Realistically, that wouldn't happen though. The series' events are compressed through advances that will likely take much longer to achieve, or may very well be in the realm of science fiction.
I enjoyed the series because it offered a (mostly) grounded view of the initial colonization, but after a point, you have to realize that it's not only speculation, but fiction.
I agree. While I can understand that some people may dislike it, I think it's a fine and justifiable change.
I also understand why offering a reversion option is not always feasible.
Finally, of course large, unannounced changes will break some widgets. But within a week or two, I'm sure the majority of things will be working again.
In other words: settle down, chill out. Change happens.
I hope this serves people well. If my hardware setup were different, I'd be installing this tonight!
I'm still waiting for a UPnP media server that runs on my Ubuntu box so I may watch my video library on my Xbox 360 with real-time transcoding.
TVersity works on my Windows XP box, but that's big and noisy.
uShare doesn't do real-time transcoding,
Fuppes seems to be impossible to configure correctly,
MediaTomb doesn't support the 360,
I'm waiting on a fork of Fuppes called Fuppex to announce a working revision.
If anyone knows of other options, please let me know.
I want to like C++, heck, it was the first language I learned.
But after so many hours of memory leaks and pointer-induced errors... My friend had mentioned at one point there was going to be transparent garbage collection in the C++0x standard.
Unfortunately... looks like it's tabled for now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Transparent_garbage_collection
Oh well.
I was involved with a program through my University that put us in contact with engineers who were also entrepreneurs.
We spent a week in the Silicon Valley area catch up with Alum who had gone on to become VPs of engineering at startups, or presidents of companies based on their work.
One of them was a man who was Product Manager for the Kindle at Lab 126 in Cupertino.
He talked with us for a while, basically hinting at us very strongly at what the kindle was, and showing us some prototypes that eliminated any doubt as to the devices nature.
He also had his staff talk to us. One man, who had worked closly with Bezos said this (paraphrased):
"Jeff HATES taxes. The reason that Amazon has made as much money as it has is because Jeff carefully played the game to avoid paying as many taxes as possible. Lab 126 is a wholly owned subsidiary, because if it wasn't, every California resident would have to pay sales tax on Amazon.com."
And that was for a research lab that was actively developing a new product for direct sales from Amazon.com.
Somehow, avoiding sales tax for warehouses doesn't surprise me.
Funny, for me, FF2 actually became less stable as it aged. Was probably extentsions or something similar, but my stability returned when I switched to FF3 release candidates.
Anyway, stick with what works for you, no one _should_ blame you for that.
Seconded. I received my CS degree in May, and I am doing DBA / Web-Dev for a small business currently.
"IT" to me is admin and maintenance work, which seems extremely boring to me.
I'd rather be MAKING things than configuring software packages.
My Junior-year software design course at University issued Mythical Man-Month, and I was skeptical at first, reading about the development of OS/360. How could this possibly relate to modern development practices we were learning about? Agile, eXtreme Programming, etc.
The more I read though, the more I was floored by how well Brooks had nailed the problem, and how we still have yet to find a "universal" solution to the problems presented. Progress has been made, of course, and methods may work better with one product than another, but there's obviously still a pain to be relieved if authors are penning new thoughts and methods.
In the meantime, I'll pick this one up, as I'm very interested to see any new or evolved thoughts on the matter.
The more I read about government oversight of operating systems, the more FOSS software I install...
"America who isn't paranoid must be crazy" -- Robert Anton Wilson
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I hate feeding trolls, but you should be made aware that many Hawaii residents leave for West Coast (or beyond) schools. Many more than you may assume.
I went to Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and knew no less than four Hawaii residents who wound up in the middle of the Palouse studying Computer Science. The only other state that beat them out in people that I met (besides Washington, of course) was Alaska.
Just my experience, and real numbers may vary, but I didn't think I'd be meeting that many folks, I was expecting more from Idaho and Montana.
Even if this is the case, which sounds plausible... So what?
Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that if multi-core has less performance in super computing than single-core... Companies will continue to manufacture specialized single-core processors for supercomputing.
I know this is an unpopular sentiment on /., but I agree with you 100% on the HTML/PHP thing.
PHP is well and good, and can be well done. But let's face it, when random IT guy with no computer science background wrote your timecard site in hacked-together PHP, it's NASTY to even look at.
Which... is why I like the ASP.net separation of markup and logic. I always have, it just made more sense than putting them both into a blender and hitting "Puree."
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Realistically, that wouldn't happen though. The series' events are compressed through advances that will likely take much longer to achieve, or may very well be in the realm of science fiction. I enjoyed the series because it offered a (mostly) grounded view of the initial colonization, but after a point, you have to realize that it's not only speculation, but fiction.
Then let them do it. But sooner or later an accountant in Redmond is going to step up and say that they can't keep doing it.
I agree. While I can understand that some people may dislike it, I think it's a fine and justifiable change.
I also understand why offering a reversion option is not always feasible.
Finally, of course large, unannounced changes will break some widgets. But within a week or two, I'm sure the majority of things will be working again.
In other words: settle down, chill out. Change happens.
I hope this serves people well. If my hardware setup were different, I'd be installing this tonight!
I'm still waiting for a UPnP media server that runs on my Ubuntu box so I may watch my video library on my Xbox 360 with real-time transcoding. TVersity works on my Windows XP box, but that's big and noisy.
uShare doesn't do real-time transcoding,
Fuppes seems to be impossible to configure correctly,
MediaTomb doesn't support the 360,
I'm waiting on a fork of Fuppes called Fuppex to announce a working revision. If anyone knows of other options, please let me know.
I want to like C++, heck, it was the first language I learned. But after so many hours of memory leaks and pointer-induced errors... My friend had mentioned at one point there was going to be transparent garbage collection in the C++0x standard. Unfortunately... looks like it's tabled for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Transparent_garbage_collection Oh well.
Funny, while the pilots ejected, it looks like there were already some errors in the code.
I was involved with a program through my University that put us in contact with engineers who were also entrepreneurs. We spent a week in the Silicon Valley area catch up with Alum who had gone on to become VPs of engineering at startups, or presidents of companies based on their work. One of them was a man who was Product Manager for the Kindle at Lab 126 in Cupertino.
He talked with us for a while, basically hinting at us very strongly at what the kindle was, and showing us some prototypes that eliminated any doubt as to the devices nature. He also had his staff talk to us. One man, who had worked closly with Bezos said this (paraphrased):
"Jeff HATES taxes. The reason that Amazon has made as much money as it has is because Jeff carefully played the game to avoid paying as many taxes as possible. Lab 126 is a wholly owned subsidiary, because if it wasn't, every California resident would have to pay sales tax on Amazon.com."
And that was for a research lab that was actively developing a new product for direct sales from Amazon.com. Somehow, avoiding sales tax for warehouses doesn't surprise me.
Funny, for me, FF2 actually became less stable as it aged. Was probably extentsions or something similar, but my stability returned when I switched to FF3 release candidates. Anyway, stick with what works for you, no one _should_ blame you for that.
Seconded. I received my CS degree in May, and I am doing DBA / Web-Dev for a small business currently. "IT" to me is admin and maintenance work, which seems extremely boring to me. I'd rather be MAKING things than configuring software packages.
My first thought is transparent aluminum from Star Trek IV. Only to discover we're closer than I'd think...
My Junior-year software design course at University issued Mythical Man-Month, and I was skeptical at first, reading about the development of OS/360. How could this possibly relate to modern development practices we were learning about? Agile, eXtreme Programming, etc. The more I read though, the more I was floored by how well Brooks had nailed the problem, and how we still have yet to find a "universal" solution to the problems presented. Progress has been made, of course, and methods may work better with one product than another, but there's obviously still a pain to be relieved if authors are penning new thoughts and methods. In the meantime, I'll pick this one up, as I'm very interested to see any new or evolved thoughts on the matter.
The more I read about government oversight of operating systems, the more FOSS software I install... "America who isn't paranoid must be crazy" -- Robert Anton Wilson
If you notice though, it still works with URLs! What a surprise!
And after we do that? We're going to have to find a replacement. So let's find a replacement.
Are you sure it wasn't RC1? http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/hardy-updates/firefox-3.0
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