"It now looks as though the Milky Way is the biggest galaxy in the local Universe, bigger even than Andromeda. It was thought until just a few months ago that it was the other way around"
Might this conclusion be a little premature? They measured the mass of Milky Way using a new method and found it was bigger than they thought. But, have they measured the mass Andromeda using the same methods? Perhaps Andromeda is also bigger than previously thought and still bigger than the Milky Way.
Women don't like working in an industry that is almost entirely men. Men don't like working in an industry that is almost entire men.
Thus, getting more women into technology means that more people of both sexes will find this kind of career attractive. And isn't there always someone complaining that we don't graduate enough engineers*? Aren't there daily complaints here that management doesn't understand technology? Maybe they would if more actually studied technology.
*Of course, others would say that if needed more engineers why are so many of the ones we have un/underemployed. But it is curious that most of the female engineers that I know are Chinese. Do the Chinese have a better sex balance in technology fields? Might that something do with them graduating more engineers?
I was told that NAND is Turing-complete by someone smarter than I. I realized that NAND itself has no program flow, thus it can't be turing complete all by itself.
It is possible to build any logic circuit using nothing but NAND gates. That includes processors and even entire computers.
It is also true that area and speed are generally interchangeable in logic design. One can do some rather amazing tasks with really small circuits so long as your are not in any hurry to see the results.
However, I submit that the smallest "touring complete" processor is at least 3 NAND gates. 2 nand gates = 1 SR flop, the smallest storage element buildable from NAND 1 nand for computation.
With only 1 bit, it's well short of the infinite storage requirement. But then, all constructable devices fail that one.
5 or more years before analog broadcasts end, no more analog only sets can be sold. 2 years from the drop dead date, only pure digital sets are sold.
That way, most sets convert to digital through the natural replacement cycle. Further, new purchasers, who are generally more affluent, bear the brunt of the broadcast switch over.
You realize that unless you actually ask each of those students what their citizenship is, you are making assumptions based on their ethnicity (i.e. physical appearance). There do happen to be a lot of non-Caucasian Americans in America.
Of course, but I will give the OP credit for actually talking to them. College age citizens, even naturalized, are easily distinguised from their foreign counterparts as soon as they open their mouths.
People who spend thier childhood and teen years in the States pick up the accent and culture. Those who naturalize later in life are harder to distguish as they tend to hold onto to their linquistic and cultural heritage/baggage.
First of all, once you've had your first job, no one really gives a crap where you went to school. They care about what quality of work you did at your last job. They care that you *did* go to school. That's about it.
Which makes it all the more critical that your first job be a good one. It sets the tone for the rest of your career. If your first job doesn't impress than you will have work against the tide to get a second job that will impress.
And how do you get a good first job? Well, a good start is to graduate from a good school that is known to be a good school by the people who have the power to give your a good first job. Your chances are not helped if the first thing that comes to the hiring manager's mind when he see's your school's name is "Wasn't that program shut down?".
In good times, a graduating from a known good school may mean a better first job. In hard times, not graduating from a known good school may mean no first job.
As much as we geeks may not want to believe it, perception matters.
I, personally, don't find $0.99/song to be a reasonable price. If I wanted to buy an entire album, we're still talking largely the same cost as had I gone to the store to buy it, and they can't claim retail markup, or cost of CD production or cases or inserts or any of that is driving the cost up.
Ala cart is always more expensive than a bundle. What you see in record stores is a bundle price for the whole album, not a total if each song's price. You can't buy single songs that way. If you could, it would cost more than buying a whole album as a unit.
The solution would seem to be album pricing for online music. Buy the whole album. Get it for less than if you bought the songs separately. I'm not really into online music. Do any of the vendors offer album pricing?
My home news/mail/web server is tri-processor Sparc 20. One dual processor hypersparc 120 board and a second single processor board of the same type. Asside from parallel makes it is pretty rare to get all 3 processors crunching at the same time, but it works fine. Uptime is mostly limited by hardware upgrades and power failures.
Since when? The first hard drive I owned was a Quantum 105 Prodrive. 64K cache for a 100MB disk. A comparable size cache for the Maxtor would be over 128MB. The 16MB cache it actually has isn't huge. It's puny. It's just a little less puny than the cache's the other cheapskates puts on their drives.
Please come out with a larger, slower drive for those masses of us who want to store very large quantities of data but don't care so much about 7,200 RPM or large cache sizes and whatnot.
A *fast* drive is 15-20K RPM.
Technology marches on and what used to be considdered fast is now slow.
I grew up in rural Southern Missouri. Family still lives there. Nearest "town" has 200 people. There is no DSL there. There is no cable. Most cell sites are still analog. Even 56K modems don't work. About all you could do for "broadband" is satelite. That's sort of OK for web browsing but the latency makes connecting remote to fix problems seems like a stretch.
In short, I don't think true rural sourceing works at all.
I think, dispite the article's title, they are really talking about "small town" sourcing. Small cities outside major metro areas with 20K-100K people. That might actually work but it's not rural.
Google didn't want them because 1) they slurp bandwidth and B) they can't be tracked for content and $) because they don't fit the Google "no evil" culture.
Sort of. When Google started, it was a graduate research project. At that time, the commercial search engines were inudated with graphical ads and were quite slow because of it. Google didn't have any ads and, as largely because of that, was much more responsive. A lot of people really liked that. Google remained ad free long after it became a company, largely, I think, to avoid annoying their users. Revenue came from "private" applications, not from the Internet search engine. Eventually, Google wanted to gain revenue directly from Internet search. Banner ads would lose them users in the short run and valuable PR in the long run. Text ads were an ingenious and, non-obivious solution. Would advertizers get results? Would users still be annoyed? The rest is history.
My relevent dimesions are 32, 36, and 36. Those are waist, inseam, and sleave length measured in inches. It is near impossible to find clothing that fits, even at big and tall shops. Actually, big and tall shops are much more consistant. They never carry anything that fits.
Long ago, I mostly gave up. I could find and buy short sleave shirts and jeans without major effort so that's what I wore. More recently, I am finding that I can't even find jeans without a multi day cross town search. After the last such search, I found two pairs at the largest of several GAP stores in my metro area. I bought them both. After I left the store, they once again had nothing in my size.
Some say the Internet is to blame. Brick and morter clothing shops think they can avoid the expense of carrying a full range of sizes but telling odd size people to buy online. Never mind that fit can not be verified through a web browser. Whatever the reason, it takes all the fun away. It is hard to get excited about fashion when even the basics are denied.
Does the script have to run fully on the unsecured box? If not, then you may be able to break it into two pieces. Run the user interface locally have it call a second script on a secure machine. This may be a simple as ssh or as complex as a full blow client server app depending on your needs. The principle is to perform all "interesting" processing on a remote machine that is secure.
As I understand it, Clear Logic reverse engineered the bitstream format, allowing them to retarget the placed, routed, FPGA design to an ASIC.
Altera has their own ASIC conversion business. I'm sure they would rather not have Clear Logic poaching their FPGA customers.
To put it in software-speak: It is as if Microsoft created a compiler that produces object code in a trade secret format that can only be decoded and run under Windows. Then another company reverse engineers the object code format and produces a translater allowing the code to run under Wine.
How does Joe Sixpack back up 500Gb? That's an awful lot of digital pics & videos.
You have it all backwards. Don't worry about how to backup a 500GB disk. The huge, relatively slow disk *is* the backup medium. Put it in a USB/firewire chasis and it's much faster and more cost effective than any tape system.
The primary storage medium is a RAID made up of smaller, faster disks.
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Anonymous Coward said: (the real osu) is oklahoma state university, you barbaraous heathens
Yeah, if I were to trumpet Oklahoma State, I would post anonymously, too.
Science progresses when well thought out hypothothies based on a good data are replaced by more inciteful reasoning based on more complete data. Lamarck wasn't guilty of faulty reasoning. He just didn't have a complete enough data set.
But the article at hand, isn't talking about that kind of "wrong". He is talking about conclusions that can not be supported by the data presented. Either the reasoning is faulty or the data collection methods are so faulty that no meaningful conclusions can be drawn.
When a theory is proven wrong in the scientific sense, it is a good thing. We learn something new and that be the basis for further developments. But if a theory is proven "wrong" in the mechanical sense, we have no new insights, just a relief from further time wasting.
Oh absolutely. If they're used boxes, I'm pretty sure they're considered fair game. At least a reasonable person would think so.
I would think so too, but it turns out, UPS isn't reasonable. I tried to ship a package UPS ground in an obviously used, UPS 2nd day box. The refused to take it. They said I had to send it 2nd day. I took it to Fedex. They shipped it without questions and for less money than UPS would have.
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"It now looks as though the Milky Way is the biggest galaxy in the local Universe, bigger even than Andromeda. It was thought until just a few months ago that it was the other way around"
Might this conclusion be a little premature? They measured the mass of Milky Way using a new method and found it was bigger than they thought. But, have they measured the mass Andromeda using the same methods? Perhaps Andromeda is also bigger than previously thought and still bigger than the Milky Way.
Women don't like working in an industry that is almost entirely men.
Men don't like working in an industry that is almost entire men.
Thus, getting more women into technology means that more people of both sexes will find this kind of career attractive. And isn't there always someone complaining that we don't graduate enough engineers*? Aren't there daily complaints here that management doesn't understand technology? Maybe they would if more actually studied technology.
*Of course, others would say that if needed more engineers why are so many of the ones we have un/underemployed. But it is curious that most of the female engineers that I know are Chinese. Do the Chinese have a better sex balance in technology fields? Might that something do with them graduating more engineers?
I was told that NAND is Turing-complete by someone smarter than I. I realized that NAND itself has no program flow, thus it can't be turing complete all by itself.
It is possible to build any logic circuit using nothing but NAND gates. That includes processors and even entire computers.
It is also true that area and speed are generally interchangeable in logic design. One can do some rather amazing tasks with really small circuits so long as your are not in any hurry to see the results.
However, I submit that the smallest "touring complete" processor is at least 3 NAND gates.
2 nand gates = 1 SR flop, the smallest storage element buildable from NAND
1 nand for computation.
With only 1 bit, it's well short of the infinite storage requirement. But then, all constructable devices fail that one.
Or a different sort of phased:
5 or more years before analog broadcasts end, no more analog only sets can be sold.
2 years from the drop dead date, only pure digital sets are sold.
That way, most sets convert to digital through the natural replacement cycle. Further, new purchasers, who are generally more affluent, bear the brunt of the broadcast switch over.
we have put together a water cooling solution that will handle anything the Xbox 360 can throw at it and literally knock your socks off.
Thanks, but I prefer cooling systems that do not explode or otherwise interact with the users clothing in a violent manner.
Though, I must admit, a device that can disrobe the user does have potential for porn.....
You realize that unless you actually ask each of those students what their citizenship is, you are making assumptions based on their ethnicity (i.e. physical appearance). There do happen to be a lot of non-Caucasian Americans in America.
Of course, but I will give the OP credit for actually talking to them. College age citizens, even naturalized, are easily distinguised from their foreign counterparts as soon as they open their mouths.
People who spend thier childhood and teen years in the States pick up the accent and culture. Those who naturalize later in life are harder to distguish as they tend to hold onto to their linquistic and cultural heritage/baggage.
First of all, once you've had your first job, no one really gives a crap where you went to school. They care about what quality of work you did at your last job. They care that you *did* go to school. That's about it.
Which makes it all the more critical that your first job be a good one. It sets the tone for the rest of your career. If your first job doesn't impress than you will have work against the tide to get a second job that will impress.
And how do you get a good first job? Well, a good start is to graduate from a good school that is known to be a good school by the people who have the power to give your a good first job. Your chances are not helped if the first thing that comes to the hiring manager's mind when he see's your school's name is "Wasn't that program shut down?".
In good times, a graduating from a known good school may mean a better first job. In hard times, not graduating from a known good school may mean no first job.
As much as we geeks may not want to believe it, perception matters.
No, but listening on port 80 constitutes permission for me to make requests of your server.
So, does that mean that listening on port 25 constitutes permission to send you spam?
I, personally, don't find $0.99/song to be a reasonable price. If I wanted to buy an entire album, we're still talking largely the same cost as had I gone to the store to buy it, and they can't claim retail markup, or cost of CD production or cases or inserts or any of that is driving the cost up.
Ala cart is always more expensive than a bundle. What you see in record stores is a bundle price for the whole album, not a total if each song's price. You can't buy single songs that way. If you could, it would cost more than buying a whole album as a unit.
The solution would seem to be album pricing for online music. Buy the whole album. Get it for less than if you bought the songs separately. I'm not really into online music. Do any of the vendors offer album pricing?
My home news/mail/web server is tri-processor Sparc 20. One dual processor hypersparc 120 board and a second single processor board of the same type. Asside from parallel makes it is pretty rare to get all 3 processors crunching at the same time, but it works fine. Uptime is mostly limited by hardware upgrades and power failures.
Since when? The first hard drive I owned was a Quantum 105 Prodrive. 64K cache for a 100MB disk.
A comparable size cache for the Maxtor would be over 128MB. The 16MB cache it actually has isn't huge. It's puny. It's just a little less puny than the cache's the other cheapskates puts on their drives.
Please come out with a larger, slower drive for those masses of us who want to store very large quantities of data but don't care so much about 7,200 RPM or large cache sizes and whatnot.
A *fast* drive is 15-20K RPM.
Technology marches on and what used to be considdered fast is now slow.
I grew up in rural Southern Missouri. Family still lives there. Nearest "town" has 200 people. There is no DSL there. There is no cable. Most cell sites are still analog. Even 56K modems don't work. About all you could do for "broadband" is satelite. That's sort of OK for web browsing but the latency makes connecting remote to fix problems seems like a stretch.
In short, I don't think true rural sourceing works at all.
I think, dispite the article's title, they are really talking about "small town" sourcing. Small cities outside major metro areas with 20K-100K people. That might actually work but it's not rural.
Google didn't want them because 1) they slurp bandwidth and B) they can't be tracked for content and $) because they don't fit the Google "no evil" culture.
Sort of. When Google started, it was a graduate research project. At that time, the commercial search engines were inudated with graphical ads and were quite slow because of it. Google didn't have any ads and, as largely because of that, was much more responsive. A lot of people really liked that. Google remained ad free long after it became a company, largely, I think, to avoid annoying their users. Revenue came from "private" applications, not from the Internet search engine. Eventually, Google wanted to gain revenue directly from Internet search. Banner ads would lose them users in the short run and valuable PR in the long run. Text ads were an ingenious and, non-obivious solution. Would advertizers get results? Would users still be annoyed? The rest is history.
Or better yet, buy something else than jeans.
The alternatives are even less available.
Outdoor-cargo-type pants (the ones you'll find at your local outdoor shop)
*Snicker* Get real. "Outdoor" clothing is usually sized S, M, L, often XL, and ocassionaly Longs. They don't even try to fit non-average people.
If you aren't the average size.
My relevent dimesions are 32, 36, and 36. Those are waist, inseam, and sleave length measured in inches. It is near impossible to find clothing that fits, even at big and tall shops. Actually, big and tall shops are much more consistant. They never carry anything that fits.
Long ago, I mostly gave up. I could find and buy short sleave shirts and jeans without major effort so that's what I wore. More recently, I am finding that I can't even find jeans without a multi day cross town search. After the last such search, I found two pairs at the largest of several GAP stores in my metro area. I bought them both. After I left the store, they once again had nothing in my size.
Some say the Internet is to blame. Brick and morter clothing shops think they can avoid the expense of carrying a full range of sizes but telling odd size people to buy online. Never mind that fit can not be verified through a web browser. Whatever the reason, it takes all the fun away. It is hard to get excited about fashion when even the basics are denied.
Does the script have to run fully on the unsecured box? If not, then you may be able to break it into two pieces. Run the user interface locally have it call a second script on a secure machine. This may be a simple as ssh or as complex as a full blow client server app depending on your needs. The principle is to perform all "interesting" processing on a remote machine that is secure.
5th time in two weeks
It's cases like these where I wish the moderation "reason" could be used seperately from
the value. +1 Redundant seems to apply to the above post.
None of the above.
As I understand it, Clear Logic reverse engineered the bitstream format, allowing them to retarget the placed, routed, FPGA design to an ASIC.
Altera has their own ASIC conversion business. I'm sure they would rather not have Clear Logic poaching their FPGA customers.
To put it in software-speak: It is as if Microsoft created a compiler that produces object code in a trade secret format that can only be decoded and run under Windows. Then another company reverse engineers the object code format and produces a translater allowing the code to run under Wine.
How does Joe Sixpack back up 500Gb? That's an awful lot of digital pics & videos.
You have it all backwards. Don't worry about how to backup a 500GB disk. The huge, relatively slow disk *is* the backup medium. Put it in a USB/firewire chasis and it's much faster and more cost effective than any tape system.
The primary storage medium is a RAID made up of smaller, faster disks.
Anonymous Coward said:
(the real osu) is oklahoma state university, you barbaraous heathens
Yeah, if I were to trumpet Oklahoma State, I would post anonymously, too.
AFAIK, the best solar cells available are plant cells
Far from it. Photosyntheis is only 3-6% efficient.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7241e/w7241e05.htm
By contrast, commercially available solar cells are between 10 and 35% efficient.
Science progresses when well thought out hypothothies based on a good data are replaced by more inciteful reasoning based on more complete data. Lamarck wasn't guilty of faulty reasoning. He just didn't have a complete enough data set.
But the article at hand, isn't talking about that kind of "wrong". He is talking about conclusions that can not be supported by the data presented. Either the reasoning is faulty or the data collection methods are so faulty that no meaningful conclusions can be drawn.
When a theory is proven wrong in the scientific sense, it is a good thing. We learn something new and that be the basis for further developments. But if a theory is proven "wrong" in the mechanical sense, we have no new insights, just a relief from further time wasting.
"the bar is oriented at about a 45-degree angle relative to the main plane of the galaxy"
I'm pretty sure that this means "Do not enter" according to international standards.
Well, that explains why there doesn't seem to be anyone else around. I wonder when the powers that be will come around to kick out the squaters? (us)
Oh absolutely. If they're used boxes, I'm pretty sure they're considered fair game. At least a reasonable person would think so.
I would think so too, but it turns out, UPS isn't reasonable. I tried to ship a package UPS ground in an obviously used, UPS 2nd day box. The refused to take it. They said I had to send it 2nd day. I took it to Fedex. They shipped it without questions and for less money than UPS would have.